Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 72

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 72]

“Master seems to be very popular.”

“Of course someone like him… It’s comfortable, it feels like he’s omnipotent, he knows how to show himself, he may be intentional, or he may be so natural. Girls at that age understand What, just seeing such a wonderful person exists, I can’t help but secretly promise, even if he is actually not that good, as long as we can get his seeds, kisses and sweet words, everyone will recognize him.” Lich slowly talked about the past.

“Master Etienne also has shortcomings.”

“Cons, of course, he died of his own shortcomings, and he must have died very painfully. Never mind my tone, unlike you Lomans, the people of the Great Swamp are not taboo to talk about death at all, Etienne’s death is right It was a relief for him, his courage to fear nothing was fatal, and courage brought him too much burden. Wherever he went, it was like bumping in a swamp, with mud on his feet and on his body. Sticking with leaves and thorns, leeches wrapped around his feet, the road became narrower and narrower, and the more he walked, the more he worried about him. In the end, he could no longer walk, and he jumped forward and died.”

“He’s severely demented. He… forgets the past.”

“I heard,” Delich wrapped Ciel’s wound with the animal hide coated with the dressing, and then wrapped it with a tie around his chest. The movement ranged greatly and it was very painful. With careful planning, many demon hunters accumulate fame and money by destroying demons, and then retire early. But Etienne is running around, he keeps telling others a big secret he knows, and he preaches that there is a big threat in Los Angeles. Man, he also wrote to me telling me to be on guard, and now it seems he was right.”

“Big threat?” Ciel’s heart skipped a beat, “Master, does he know anything?”

“That was decades ago,” Delich shook his head. “If there was a real threat, it would have dissipated over the years.”

On the contrary, it has grown continuously over the years.

Charles thought.

“Do you have any clues? Please, Ms. Delicious, this is important to me.”

“…I bothered him at the time, but didn’t pay much attention to it. Etienne only said that the history of this country had been artificially altered, and that the noble council had elected a wrong ruler. I suspect he was talking about your current king, that Eduardo.”

“Your Majesty…” Charles thought of various rumors related to the king. Frederick II “Lucky” was a wise ruler, but in the late period of his reign, he took the initiative to recommend the petty noble Eduardo to the aristocratic parliament Softel was the successor, and the parliament strangely passed the proposal, sending the little-known Eduardo to the throne.

Eduardo’s reign has been long and mysterious. He has reigned for more than 65 years since 411 in the second era and today in 476. He is 89 years old. This is a long reign that has never occurred in Loman history. .

Due to political struggles, foreign invasions and noble wars, the Loman rulers changed frequently, and Eduardo ruled longer than any previous king.

Some people criticized the king’s inaction and let the nobles run their own way, while others praised the king’s cleverness in keeping the whole country away from war.

During the reign of Eduardo, Loman did not suffer serious disasters, nor did he participate in any wars, the farmland and commerce were well developed, and people praised the king.

“It’s good, he hides behind the scenes, quietly maintaining contact with the devil.” Gladiu whispered to Ciel.

“A demon king is ruling Loman, manipulating the council to elect him to the throne.” Ciel shuddered at the thought of this. “Count Rene is still going to the west coast, isn’t he easily corrupted?”

“Ha, that’s why you are such a huge tragedy, the rulers of mankind are not only high and powerful, but also the exact opposite of your position.”

“Why did they do this?”

“I know the tricks of the same kind. Let me test you. Do you want to gain immortality? Never die, or at least live for hundreds of years.”

“think.”

“Do you want to gain great power? It can let you smash nasty people, let you be free from the law, and let you flout all the rules.”

“think.”

“Do you want inexhaustible wealth? Endless money, jewels and jade, sweet food and beautiful women…”

“think.”

“…You idiot, cooperate with me, listen to the orders of the blade demon, these things will be yours, I just need you to let go of your guard. You are really stupid, there are endless hidden things in front of you, the blade demon is very Happy to share everything, but you guy always thinks I’m hiding something.”

“All I know is that if I trust you unconditionally, it’s all over. But you’ve demonstrated that there are certain people who will give allegiance to the devil for immortality, power and wealth,” said Ciel.

After Delicious walked away, he lay down on the sand, his hands and feet spread out naturally, his skin was close to the fine sand, and the touch was very comfortable. When he closed his eyes, the world seemed to be alone, and the surroundings were very quiet. Only the fire that had just been erected crackled and burned.

“Those eternity, power and wealth are nothing compared to the tranquility of this time,” he said to himself.

“This is your ideal! I despise you.” Gladiu indignantly, “As everything is silent, things lose their meaning and you are dead.”

“I am dead,” said Ciel, “failing peacefully on this little sandbar.”

“This is your destiny, you are destined to die somewhere no one knows.”

“how about you?”

“Look, you idiot, you are dead, and you have to ask others ‘what about you?’ – you don’t care what others do, and others don’t care if you live or die.”

“You’re right.” Ciel lay alone on the sand. “There is no mutual concern between people.”

He closed his eyes.

He heard footsteps approaching.

“Are you okay?” Sarah knelt down beside Ciel and stroked Ciel’s shoulder, “I’m worried about you, how is the wound? Does it hurt? Grandma can be rough sometimes.”

“Sarah? I… I’m okay.” Ciel opened her eyes and saw the little witch, she pushed back her long hair, her facial features were very beautiful, she was still young now, and at least she will be more attractive when she matures.

“You are a demon hunter, those people who live in the city, trace the traces of demons everywhere, and solve the dark wizard’s market.” She guessed.

“It’s us. We try hard, try every possibility.” Ciel put his hands behind his head, watching the starry sky dim, the moon infinitely bright, tonight is a silver moon night, and one day a month, the silver moon will move to the gray moon The visibility is very high at night, and you can see the surroundings without a torch or a lantern.

“What kind of possibility?” Sarah asked.

“The possibility of finding a way out of the Jedi arranged by the demons sounds far from us…but I know that somewhere, the demons are plotting something particularly terrible.”

“I guess it’s some sort of world-destroying catastrophe or something.”

“Yes, but it’s amazing.” Ciel and Sarah confided, “Can you understand? Because this matter has nothing to do with everyone, this matter has nothing to do with people’s daily necessities, no matter how it progresses behind the scenes, people It’s business as usual, so there’s no need to worry about it. People don’t care how much the devil has done in hell. Just wait until that day comes, that catastrophe comes…Everyone’s life will be turned upside down, then It’s too late… In the whole world, I guess only a few people know about this big crisis, and so few people are willing to laboriously try to stop it before it takes shape… Trying to stop that dark ending , this feeling…especially lonely.”

“I don’t understand.” Sarah lay down beside Ciel, looking at the stars, “Why didn’t you say it?”

“That’s not like a madman.” Charles saw a star suddenly dimmed, was it true?

Still delusional, “Speaking ambiguous, inconclusive things everywhere, and there is no conclusive evidence, people will just think that I am a liar, hoping to profit from it. Worse, now I suspect that the ruler of the whole country has also Enchanted, this means that I am likely to fight against the entire country, and everyone is more willing to obey the king’s orders.”

“…You sound like you’ve been working hard all the time?” Sarah turned to look at Ciel’s profile, “Resisting a catastrophe alone? It must be very hard.”

“I don’t know where the way out is, so we are a group of people who are trying possibilities. I don’t want demons to destroy the world, I have to find a way to stop these monsters. This is my most primitive idea, it sounds simple, but It’s extremely difficult to do,” Charles explained. “So, Sarah, can you help me?”

“I’m not sure.” Sarah sighed deeply, “Everything has changed. Your ideal is illusory, but it is precious… Yes, although it may be meaningless and ultimately fail, it is still precious.”

Sarah fell silent, as did Ciel.

“I’m going to catch fish, we’ll have something to eat in a while.” She got up and left.

“It’s strange that there are women who are willing to talk to you about your ideals in life.” Gladiu was surprised, “Is she stupid? Only idiots put ideals above reality.”

You are the greatest idealist, thinking about surpassing all other demons.

“Gladius, did you see a star suddenly dimmed in the sky?” Charles thought of what he had seen before, “Is it my illusion?”

“It was destroyed.”

“Destruction? What the hell are stars.”

“Other worlds.”

Chapter 91 The Wizard’s Past

They skewered the fish on the fire and grilled it on the twigs.

Ciel also held one. The fish was scorching in the flames, and the color became darker and fragrant. He couldn’t handle the heat. next mouth.

“Did you catch the fish?” Charles asked Madden.

“I kept saying to myself, I can do it!” Madden shook his head, “I looked at the black sea and thought, what’s so scary about the sea? I’ve traveled so far and faced so many scary things. , what is the sea! Then I brave the sea and cast my net into the deep water!”

“I’ll summon the fish again, and they’ll be in their pockets.” Sarah added while sitting next to her.

“Is witchcraft so powerful? You can communicate with animals…” Ciel was curious, “What is the principle?”

“The answer is to contact all things with your mind, just like your ancestors.” Sarah described seriously.

“What we can do is beyond your imagination.” Delich held a sewing needle and squinted to mend a black underwear.

“You will configure potions, you are a witch of the otter school… Are there other schools in the world? Who invented witchcraft?” Charles asked.

“These are all long stories.” Delicious said leisurely, “The little hunter doesn’t need to listen to such complicated things.”

“Grandma, don’t do this,” Sarah said, then explained to Charles earnestly, “A long time ago, there was a very wise man who went into the depths of the swamp and sat on the edge of a dead tree trunk, I just sat there for a long time.”

“I’ve heard the story.” Madden was delighted.

“The widely circulated story in the swamp, the ancestor who created witchcraft, has brought many changes to the world.” Delicious shook her head with a happy expression.

“Our ancestor just sat in one posture for a long time…for a long time, a long time. In fact, before he entered the swamp, he was determined not to sleep. He meditated on the mountain for seven days, on the beach for five days, and in the cave. He meditated there for three days, so he knew everything about the sky, the sea, and the land. Then, in extreme hunger and poverty, he sat in front of the dead tree trunks in the swamp all day.” Sarah mysteriously recounted.

“So long…then how did he survive?” Ciel was surprised.

“Fool, this is all mythology, it’s not true.” Gladiu sneered.

“He’s dead, in a sense,” Delich said reverently. “That night, the ancestor and the whole swamp became one.”

“Merge together…” Ciel thought thoughtfully.

“That’s what the ancient wizard did.” Sarah sat cross-legged and pretended to be in meditation. “The world he sees is different from ours. He sees everything, he sees through the appearance of the world and finds the truth in it.”

“And that’s the truth…” Ciel couldn’t help but imagine the scene at that time – alone, after an unimaginable ascetic practice, he went deep into the Great Swamp and emptied everything.

“It’s a witch script. The ancestors gave up the physical body to gain the strongest power. He abandoned all of himself to embrace all other things. That is to say, the ancestors saw the ‘the truth of the world’.” Delicious sighed.

“He recorded this principle and left behind 300 shaman characters. From these shaman characters, our civilization was born, our corpse-throwing swamp, and the white swamp known to outsiders. On the interlaced waters, we built Our homeland, we sing hand in hand around the ancestral tree, learning the secrets left on the bark.” Sarah’s tone was reverent.

“Witchcraft…must be magical.” Ciel was thinking about the commonalities between these witchcraft and hunter’s spells.

“It can be used to manipulate everything,” Sarah said mysteriously.

“The descendants have been arguing about the use of the Shaman script.” Delicious stopped his movements and stared at the flames, “Disagreements, conflicts and even wars… Under the ancestral tree, there are people who use swords and weapons, because everyone can’t understand each other, we just Divided into different schools. The otter school is the mildest among them. We do not abuse witchcraft, but only use the power of witch characters to do the most limited things. We focus on collecting and blending potions, drawing lessons for thousands of years and summarizing formulas .”

“Then there is the Toad School. They advocate the use of witchcraft for profit, so once the witchcraft is successful, they will leave the swamp and go to various places to look for opportunities. The only people who stay in the swamp are some merchants and the like.” Sarah explain.

“Like the Draco wizard?” Charr guessed.

“No, that guy Draco is from the White Sandpiper School. The wizards of this school like to do research and exploration, working hard like a sandpiper and a clam shell, trying to find out the secrets behind the witch script, trying to find more than the ancestors. Reasonable. It’s impossible.” Delicious said in a disdainful tone.

“In the end is the Dragon School.” Sarah said, “They have high self-esteem, and wizards from other schools can join and leave freely, but the Dragon School is different. They only select the most talented wizards, and once they join, they will be They are bound by their rules and cannot do whatever they want.”

“Isn’t that very unfree, why would they do this?” Ciel asked.

“It’s because of the congeniality.” Delich frowned, “The Dragon School believes that those who have learned sorcery are superior to others.”

“Ask them where to sign up,” Gladiu said.

“So,” Sarah hugged her knees, “the people of the Dragon School are always very united, they have their own associations, and they are powerful, only recruiting the most powerful and proficient in witchcraft, very arrogant and often bullying There are even people who kill ordinary people and treat them as experimental materials or ‘spell-casting consumables’, and they feel that ordinary people’s lives are not fatal.”

“If a wizard is bewitched by a demon, he will become a dark wizard.” Shire thought about it for a while. Dark wizards always set up secret markets and used the witchcraft they learned to assist their demon masters.

“It’s better to talk less about them.” Delich shook his head, “The dark wizards will hear.”

“I’m a demon hunter, I’m not afraid.” Ciel was bold.

“But we’re not, I’m just an old woman, and Sarah is a little woman.” Delich took Sarah into her arms and fondly stroked her.

“Why are the people of the temple chasing you?” Ciel asked.

Delicious frowned.

“Haven’t I been working hard?” she said resentfully, “Don’t I know that the temple has been not dealing with our swamp people? … I keep in touch with them secretly, and I maintain us on the cliff of White Gorge. I have sent potions to some nobles, and I have sent treasures to people in the temple to help them play tricks. But since Shawar, the bald man, came to power, things have changed.”

“When did he become a high priest?”

“You live in Ash Tree Hall, you should know better than me.” Delicious looked at Ciel strangely.

[End of This Chapter]