Chapter 1249 Warrior's Curse
The sun has just risen at this moment, it is morning... the most vibrant time of the day.
People are dressed and on their way to work, already at work, or just hanging out and chatting with others.
From the first circle to the second, vendors were shouting and preparing their goods - many of them were mobile, and their "shops" were actually carts, and some even had a simple bed on their carts.
Men, women, and children gathered around their carts, waiting for food or drinks to be produced. Often, further away, there were slaves in simple clothing, sitting or surrounding them, eagerly waiting for something.
By the third ring road, the streets suddenly became much cleaner.
Not only were there no more vendors pushing carts, but there were also no more slaves sitting on the ground. There were fewer people on the street, and the shops on both sides of the street looked more upscale and luxurious.
But in the next moment, a wave of ripples that were almost visible to the naked eye suddenly passed by his feet.
Many fragile pottery pieces in the second circle burst almost simultaneously, and people felt unstable under their feet. Some people suddenly fell to the ground, and some cars and signs collapsed as a result. The first circle just suddenly shook violently, the water surface shook violently, and the winnowing baskets containing food and ingredients were overturned.
However, the disaster suffered by the more noble third ring suddenly increased several times.
The earth churned, like a glass of milk thickly coated in chocolate powder, gently shaking, revealing a deeper layer of gravel. The barriers within many shops flickered, and people stumbled as they walked. Trees within the city swayed and collapsed, and fragile buildings crumbled.
There was no confusion or crying - those who could come here were all strong people from the outside world, the lowest was at the fourth energy level, and there were many fifth energy level strong people.
In an instant, all kinds of paths were filled with brilliance.
The solidified yet shattered barrier, the solidified yet broken earth... chanting spells, strangely lit rituals, and even the roar of a giant dragon.
With everyone's joint efforts, the shaking earth quickly returned to calm.
Only from directly above could one clearly see the aftermath of Haena's attack—a twisted, tattered mess of debris, as if gnawed by a dog, lay within her reach. It essentially covered the Right Master of Ceremonies' residence, but failed to spread further outward.
“So… so fast…?!”
At this moment, it was only more than a minute since Haina launched that attack.
She was stunned. In Haina's understanding, even if the Third Circle didn't collapse or shatter due to her furious attack, it would at least fall into complete chaos. People would cry, fear, flee, die... She even felt guilty about it.
This is also the reason why Haina rarely uses the power of Tao.
She was vaguely aware of her own power, but she didn't dare to bear the consequences of using it. Although she was already a top-tier fighter in the world, she was unwilling to admit it, still hoping to maintain her previous interpersonal relationships.
It's like a very fat cat that stubbornly wants to get into the cardboard box it grew up in.
While Haina felt apprehensive and fearful of her own power, she also possessed a strong sense of pride and a touch of arrogance.
She truly knows the extent of her devastation, and how many others she has surpassed. Because of this, her gentleness and humility conceal a subtle arrogance. It's a sense of complacency and reassurance that, while I'm being polite to you, I can destroy you at any moment.
But now...
She actually used this power, but didn't get the results she imagined.
On one hand, this made her feel relieved and at ease... but on the other hand, Haina felt a sense of emptiness and loss, and even a bit of caution, or even timidity, that came with adapting to the path. "Lily, let's go quickly. They'll soon discover the problem here."
"Leave? You should leave. The master is waiting for you to come back. You've been away for too long. Have you run into any trouble?"
Lily just said calmly: "But there's no need to rush. We can also see their reaction first."
"because……"
Haina shrank her neck, feeling a little guilty.
——She had actually found the position of the right master of ceremonies a long time ago, but he was sleeping.
If she aimed directly at killing the opponent, the process might not even take two hours. A fragile ritualist, caught off guard, could be effectively killed by a warrior of the same level—even one who had possessed the Golden Path attribute bestowed by the Pillar God—if they could close in within three seconds.
However, this was Haena's first revenge...she wanted a more ceremonial approach. Perhaps it was because of the confidence and arrogance that came with newly acquired power, but she wanted to confront the opponent face to face and then judge him righteously, rather than resorting to sneak attacks or assassinations.
Therefore, Haina waited patiently until the other party got up.
She even replayed his every move during the promotion ceremony in her mind - how he approached and deceived her with a kind and reliable smile, and how she brought him into the shelter she had painstakingly built as a teammate.
Over a long period of time, Haina and the refugees she collected with great effort have built trust and established friendships.
But when she smiled and introduced this hard-earned "teammate" to the refugees and children, she might have subconsciously thought that these promoted people who came from the same world as her had a "more equal" relationship.
From that time on, people started disappearing in the shelter. It wasn't until the tenth person that Haena finally discovered the missing person.
The baker didn't simply kill them. He also patiently tortured them, causing them to experience extreme emotional fluctuations, allowing these civilians to be efficiently transformed into ritual materials... He even used magic to skin alive a person in front of Haena, the person Haena had originally rescued.
It was the excitement at that time that made Haina truly realize that she had walked out of the campus and entered this cruel and extraordinary society.
In a sense, the baker was Haena's true mentor. Her excellent grades earned her the protection of her mentors at school. During her internship, she met Aiwass and Sherlock, earning the friendship of these "future bigwigs," which made her life smooth sailing. In reality, she had never truly entered the workplace, nor had she faced superhuman criminals more powerful and cunning than herself, nor had she even killed anyone.
It was from that time that Haina began to lose her innocence.
Perhaps rather than judging the other person's sins, she wanted to judge her foolish and naive self. Haina sometimes thought so.
Because she really couldn't refute every word the baker said - she was really stupid to trust others during the promotion ceremony; it took her so long to realize something was wrong. If she was outside, she would have died long ago.
Because of this, Haina rehearsed the lines in her mind many times.
Just like the passionate lines in knight novels, justice refutes the other party's hypocritical and lying words one by one, leaving the other party speechless and making a just judgment.
…But when Haina killed his guards and the real quarrel began, she realized a problem.
She couldn't win the argument with the other side.
She couldn't even confidently refute the baker's every word—the promotion ceremony was indeed a sham, and the Transcendents should seize every opportunity to become stronger. Just like an audience member shouldn't mistake a villain in a play for a bad guy... Even if the baker was indeed a very bad person, there seemed to be something wrong with her motives for causing trouble for him.
In the end, she smashed the opponent into a pulp with her shield, completing her revenge with incredible ease - she even stepped into the Holy Spring City for this revenge, and was about to face Tiansi.
This emptiness, this sense of nothingness... made Haina feel that her "hatred" seemed a little ridiculous. It was as if she was really narrow-minded, and that the killing in the virtual game had caused her to leave the real world behind.
Could it be that she was wrong?
But she clearly felt that something was wrong... She clearly believed that the other party was wrong, but she just couldn't refute the other party's sophistry.
Haina felt as if her brain had turned into a mess.
She didn't know if it was a curse from the highest heaven, but she felt that the further she advanced in her warrior career, the duller her once brilliant mind became. She used to be able to come up with answers instantly, but now her mind was working more and more slowly, and she even had trouble answering middle school questions.
(End of this chapter)
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