Chapter 216 Harvey's Life of Deception

William Harvey's life can be summed up in one word: miserable.

Harvey was an abandoned baby from birth. Although he was picked up and raised by someone, it was not out of kindness, but he was used as livestock. There were more than a dozen abandoned babies who grew up with Harvey, but he was the only one who survived.

Harvey didn't kill the old bastard by his own ability, but because he drank himself to death.

Harvey was locked in a cage, and he took off all his clothes to make a rope, and hooked the key from the old beast's body, so he survived. Unfortunately, his speed was still a little slow, so no other children survived.

It seemed that from here on, Harvey embarked on a bumpy road, and the reason he survived was mainly because of luck, not because he was smarter than others.

After escaping from the cage of human traffickers, what follows is a long journey of wandering.

Harvey didn't know how he survived. He grew up until he was twelve years old by begging and stealing. Then he secretly hid in a monastery and pretended to believe in God.

Harvey thought he was going to meet a good person. The pastor was really kind to him. He not only provided him with food and clothing, but also taught him to read.

Harvey was very studious and studied word by word very seriously until he began to have nightmares about the demon with two baboon heads.

Harvey knew he had been tricked again.

The monastery was a fake, and the teachings Harvey saw were actually the Hymns of Demogorgon.

If you think about it carefully, this monastery is full of weirdness, with believers who only go in but never leave, warehouses with strange smells, and crows always circling over the monastery.

Harvey always realized the deception of others later, but it was not too late. Harvey pretended not to know and deceived the priest, then fled from the monastery.

However, Harvey didn't know that the devil had become inseparable from him.

While wandering in the wild, he occasionally thought about the words he had learned and wrote his name in the soil.

Harvey didn't know that the language the pastor taught him was not the common language on the continent, but the language of the devil.

A group of bloodthirsty gnolls were attracted by this name full of evil magic and almost ate him till nothing was left.

At the most critical moment, evil energy gathered in Harvey's palm and blew the nearest werewolf into pieces.

At that time, Harvey was sixteen years old. He cast his first spell, which was an explosion of magical energy filled with evil aura. Only a sorcerer blessed by the evil lord could cast such a spell.

After so many years of adventure, Harvey understood what a warlock meant, so he knew he was doomed. He didn't know how he was targeted by this demon just because he had recited a few evil prayers praising Demogorgon.

Humans who are targeted by demons will have a miserable end, let alone this demon prince.

That night, Harvey dreamed of Demogorgon again.

But perhaps because he had experienced too many deadly crises, Harvey was able to remain calm when he dreamed of Demogorgon again. He even wanted to talk to the demon prince to see if he could let him go.

But all he got in return was the Demon Prince's merciless ridicule, and double ridicule from two heads.

Next, Harvey had to work as a sorcerer for a while.

Although he was not happy about it, Harvey had to admit that the time he spent as a sorcerer was the easiest in his life.

Power can bring wealth, and wealth can solve most problems. When Harvey was a sorcerer, he had enough food and clothes, and he could also relearn the language, which allowed him to learn a lot of knowledge.

Harvey once thought that this was not bad, much better than his previous life like a stray dog.

But Harvey was always unwilling to accept it. Was he going to become a pile of rotten meat falling into hell? It would be better to die at birth, at least he could save himself from so much torture in the middle.

Few people can maintain this level of unwillingness under the influence of Demogorgon.

Of course, there are few people who can get Demogorgon to take a second look at them just by saying a few prayers.

Xavi is a special man, so once he made up his mind to get rid of Demogorgon, he devoted himself to it.

Harvey's plan was to give up the power of a sorcerer and let someone use the spell of forgetfulness to cleanse all memories of Demogorgon.

However, it was difficult to find a wizard who could cast the spell of forgetfulness. It took him a long time before he met an old wizard with a kind face who said he was willing to help him.

Then, Harvey was deceived again.

This seemingly easy-going old wizard is actually a necromancer. Not all necromancers are bad, but the proportion of good people among them is pitifully small.

Harvey is a sorcerer who is favored by Demogorgon. He is such a good material that it would be easy to create him into a high-level undead.

The necromancer also saw this and wanted to trick Harvey into serving as material for him.

Harvey has a high talent for spellcasting, much stronger than Amber, but he is far inferior to Amber when it comes to understanding people's hearts.

He was just lucky.

When the necromancer was preparing the ritual, Harvey picked up a book and read it. It was an introduction to necromancy. Then, Harvey found something wrong. The ritual prepared by the old man had nothing to do with forgetfulness.

The necromancer never expected that someone could see through his disguised high-level undead transformation ritual just by looking at the introductory guide to necromancy. Harvey just lacked systematic education, so he only had a vague understanding of many things, but as long as he was given the relevant introductory knowledge, Harvey could always see the essence of the spell at a glance and then draw inferences from it.

Harvey knew that he had been deceived again and was about to run away, but he found that the wizard tower had been closed long ago and he could not escape unless he could kill the necromancer.

Take advantage of his inattention and give him a burst of magic energy?

That probably wouldn't work. Harvey knew very well that he was no match for this necromancer.

No matter how smart he is, it takes time to accumulate magic power, and it takes time to practice spellcasting. Harvey is far inferior to this old man.

In order not to attract the old man's attention, Harvey could only continue to pretend to read. And this time, as if it was destined, he got a beginner's guide to the prophecy wizard, written by the King of Elden.

He had been wandering for many years and had never seen a prophet, or even heard of one. But Harvey was fascinated by the book. The power of fate was mysterious and powerful, and the description in the book was profound and profound.

Harvey didn't know how long he read, but when he closed the book, he took control of his destiny.

A die of fate appeared in his palm, and then Harvey threw the die of fate at the necromancer.

The power of fate was invisible, not even blowing the old man's hair, but the next second, the necromancer accidentally stepped on a pool of greasy stuff. It was human fat that had not been completely cleaned in time, and because of the filth, it blended into the ground and could not be seen at all.

The necromancer lost his balance and bumped into the potion cabinet next to him.

There was a series of crisp sounds of glass, and medicines of various uses were shattered, causing him to shriek in pain with smoke all over his body.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

This was not fatal, as the necromancer always had some means of saving his life, but Harvey appeared in time and slit his throat with a knife.

The necromancer thought Harvey was here to help him up, but he didn't expect that this kid was here to stab him. Silent casting is a very advanced spellcasting technique, and this poor necromancer hasn't mastered it yet. All the magic props on his body need to be activated with incantations. Harvey's knife has cut off his retreat.

After the first stab in the throat, there were another stab in the heart, one in the liver, and one in the eye that went straight into the brain.

The necromancer was killed like this. As soon as his soul emerged, Harvey grabbed a bottle of potion and poured it over, completely destroying even his soul.

A die of fate allowed Harvey to kill the powerful necromancer and successfully escape from the wizard tower.

I don’t know if it’s because those who survive a disaster will be blessed in the future, but ever since Harvey left the Mage Tower, Demogorgon seemed to have disappeared from his life.

You won't have to dream about that two-headed baboon anymore, nor will you accidentally explode something with magic power.

The evil energies were completely eliminated from his body, and Harvey was transformed from a sorcerer into a prophecy wizard. Although he could only be regarded as an apprentice, his life was completely changed.

Harvey began to travel around the continent again, this time he was only eighteen years old.

This time, he learned to be smart. When he encountered uncertain things, he would do divination first. He finally experienced what it meant to go smoothly. In many cases, he didn't need to detect lies. He could tell whether what others said was true or false just by intuition.

This made Harvey feel like he was at the pinnacle of his life. When he was at the peak of his career, he came to the City of Alchemy, a place that claimed that knowledge was supreme, and wanted to learn more.

Then, he met the "King Elden" in the Alchemy City.

Harvey sighed. His life was always full of ups and downs, and he was almost used to it.

Harvey had been captured so many times in his life that he lived a peaceful life in Ambersu's castle, and then confirmed the other party's identity from Ambersu's collection of books.

Regardless of whether the other party did it unintentionally or not, Amber's Beginner's Guide to Prophecy Mage did indeed change Harvey's life.

Harvey has complicated feelings towards Amber. Perhaps because he was once a sorcerer, he does not discriminate against liches too much. Instead, he feels somewhat grateful to them.

Harvey once thought about expressing his gratitude to Amber, but this teacher was too, too... The only adjective Harvey could think of was "greedy".

After traveling for so many years and visiting so many places, Harvey can be considered knowledgeable, but he has never seen a lich who likes money so much.

Amber's desire for money was so strong that Harvey didn't know how to communicate with him. Perhaps nothing he said would be more useful than the gold coins in his pocket. Unless Harvey could take out millions of gold coins to give to this teacher, perhaps he would feel grateful in his heart.

When Amber took out his life box, Harvey was touched for a while, thinking that this might be the mutual attraction between prophecy mages. However, after leaving the castle and entering the desert, Harvey gradually figured it out.

The phylactery in his hand must be a fake.

Given Amber's character, he shouldn't be given a life box.

I was a young man who had lacked love since childhood, but I was so touched that I didn’t realize there was anything wrong. It was not until several days after he left that I realized it.

Amber's level of prophecy mage far exceeded Harvey's, which blinded his intuition. If Harvey relied on himself to figure it out, it would take him only a few days to figure it out.

But even though he figured it out, Harvey still tried very hard to keep the life box safe. What if he guessed wrong? What if Amber gave him the real one for safekeeping? Even if it was only a tiny possibility, Harvey didn't want to mess it up.

Because Amber was his first teacher, even if he used him, he never lied to him. Amber always told Harvey what he was going to do. This kind of frankness, which could not even be called goodwill, was a rare sunshine in Harvey's life experience, as he had always been deceived.

Therefore, people’s childhood should not be too miserable, otherwise they will be easily abducted.

This is true for Harvey and Naomi as well.

Carrying Amber's life box, Harvey traveled a long distance to the desert, hoping to avoid the impending chaos in the Alchemy City.

Unexpectedly, the Alchemy City was gone, and all the people who came from the Alchemy City became the focus of attention.

(End of this chapter)