Chapter 80 79. Toward countless possibilities
“There is a living person here!”
Francois turned over the corpse and found a dying attacker.
Annan and Michael approached the attacker who was turned over by Francois. The poor man's features were covered with pink blood foam, and his chest was sunken. It was obvious that Klein had done it.
"Save me..." the attacker begged angrily to Annan who showed his intolerance: "I know a lot..."
"Who sent you here?" Michael asked him.
"...The Wine Lady."
Michael and Annan looked at each other, and Annan asked in confusion: "Why did the Wine Lady attack me?"
On the verge of The dead attacker spoke slower and slower: "She wants you...to conflict with Al...Meadow...save me...please..."
"Ahem...my Joe..."
He whispered a name that was precious in life, and gradually lost his voice. His sunken chest no longer rose and fell, and his cloudy eyes that had lost their luster reflected the crows on the branches.
This was not the first time that Annan saw dead people, and there were corpses everywhere, but the man's regret and memories before his death still touched him.
This is an insignificant episode in other people's lives, but it is indeed the end of the dead person's life.
"Ashes to ashes...Dust to dust..." Annan whispered softly.
Michael and Klein walked away for the time being. He thought Annan would be depressed for a while, but he didn't expect Annan to follow him soon.
After finishing the sacrifice, Catalina stuffed the ulna from her palm back into her arm, twisted her wrist to reset the ulna, retrieved her sword as if nothing had happened, and cut off the head of the attacker leader.
When Annan picked up the head of the corpse and exposed the neck, she turned to look at the snowy mountains in the distance and asked without looking back: "Isn't the head of the dwarf giant better?"
Kadarina's response came with the terrifying sound of cutting meat:
"This is my trophy."
Michael frowned and looked at Kadarina who was doing a barbaric act. Na said: "You and your trophies are riding in the baron's carriage."
Francois, who was recovering arrows at the edge of the clearing, stopped and shouted: "I have no objection."
"Are those corpses still useful?" Michael asked again.
After receiving the answer, he searched the pockets of the attacker's body according to the mercenary's habits, but not at all like the mage's looting behavior.
It’s just that they don’t have anything valuable, only silver and copper coins at most, and the fireball spell that attacked them is just a magic scroll.
The most valuable thing is the plate armor of the leader of the attackers. Michael asked Catalina to peel it off and throw it into the carriage, and then began to dispose of the body.
Michael took out the cloth bag from his magic robe and sprinkled the crystal powder inside evenly on the bodies of Stephen the dwarf giant and the attacker.
"Desecrate the crystals so that they will not become undead or corrupted."
Michael explained to Annan who was looking at the forest not far away, and then suddenly asked: "You Do you believe it?”
Annan knew that Michael was not referring to the blasphemy crystal but the last information revealed by the attacker.
“I don’t know…”
The attackers saying "the wine lady ordered" may sound like a lame provocation, but they are just a group of people who were deceived and sent to their deaths. They are neither strong nor determined. If they hadn't just dealt with Stephen the dwarf giant and were unprepared, Klein and Katarina would have been able to deal with them.
These attackers have no reason to hide information from the patrons behind them.
Annan prefers that a person who calls herself the wine lady hired them...
"Do you have any suggestions?"
"My suggestion is, no one else Letter." Michael gave Annan the wise mage's advice: "No matter Al...that person, or the wine lady, or me, Fast, or Victor, don't believe it completely." "Why?" br>
“We are not strong enough to get rid of the influence of the outside world. Maybe it is interests, maybe it is coercion... This world is like an ocean, we will always be driven by the eddy involuntarily, and we don’t know when it will hurt you, and Only your own power will not hurt you.”
“I understand.”
After thoroughly handling the area, they returned to the carriage on the roadside.
However, due to the serious injury, Katarina still got into the mage tower carriage. Under the illumination of the magic lamp, Annan could clearly see the hideous wounds all over Katarina's body.
"Your injuries..."
"These are symbols of glory...The great human king is watching me." Katarina's voice trembled. The wound was not even treated, but it was no longer bleeding.
"The King of Men?"
"It's best not to understand."
Michael interrupted Annan's curiosity and simply explained: "They claim that we The world we live in is a bubble. There are many bubbles floating in the void outside the world. Some of them are inhabited by humans, some inhabit alien races, some inhabited by demons and insect swarms, and some bubbles are monsters as big as the world. .”
bubble? Planet?
Annan was a little curious, but Katalina's miserable appearance made him give up asking further.
"Then what is outside the world?"
"It's none of my business." Michael's answer was like the shame of a mage. "The life span of mages who have not become legends will not be much longer than that of ordinary people. Why should I be curious about a scene that I will never see in my lifetime?"
"Don't all mages yearn for deep space?"
"But what if ants go crazy because they see the starry sky in front of them..." Michael said meaningfully.
Back in Breeze City, Francois investigated the identity of the attacker, and soon found clues - following the clues, Francois even locked in on the last name whispered by the dying attacker: Joyner .
They then found Joyner's residence. To avoid attracting attention to their arrival, only Francois and Catarina approached Joyner in disguise.
Ten minutes later, Catalina returned to the carriage.
"She deserves to die..."
"Why?"
"If you are cowardly and cowardly in the face of bullying, it is better to die..."
Annan watched Katarina whisper with hatred and had some suspicions.
Knowing that Francois was about to deal with Joyner, they left the carriage and came to the yard.
Francois’ threatening whispers came faintly from the room:
"Madam, you don't want your husband to know about you and his brother, right?"
"He already knew." Opposite Francois, the bruised woman said numbly: "You think Why did he treat me like this... He forced me to please his brother, but vented his anger on me..."
"Take this bottle of medicine, and as long as your husband takes it, he will obey you. ...You also want to see your husband, who has always ravaged you, being held down by me, right?” Is it true?”
Francois returned outside and caught Annan’s strange gaze.
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course not, Lord King of the North." Francois explained in panic, "That medicine just makes people sleepy."
(End of Chapter)