Chapter 195: Herscher (1/2)

Calvin spread out his Predator Senses and he instantly knew just how many monsters were trailing him from behind. There were 203 monsters chasing after him and most of them were Corpse Eaters.

The Specters only accounted for less than a quarter of the monsters chasing after him, but it was understandable since more often than not, Specters were bound to the location where they died.

Speaking of being location-bound. If Freya was indeed the owner of that crying voice, then she should not be able to leave the village center.

But if that was the case, then what was up with the deformed man story about the tainted water?

The riverside was a few hundred meters away from the village center. If she was indeed location-bound Specter, then she should not be able to leave the village center. Hence, she shouldn't be able to influence the water of the village and taint it.

Could it be that...

Calvin's pupils constricted.

The Sinister Heart? Shit, those bastards... So, they really are planning on creating an army of the undead! That is why they purposely tainted the water source of the village and made the villagers drink that tainted water! It's to bind those villagers to them after death! Calvin's eyebrows scrunched. How unscrupulous! I will never let them go!

He had already decided back then, that he would definitely cleanse this village from the top to its roots.

The discovery that he had made only further reinforced his opinion as Calvin seemed to have momentarily forgotten his exhaustion.

But then another crazy theory came to his mind.

If Freya who had become the deformed man's wife had turned into such a vicious monster of resentment. I wonder what had happened to his previous wives? I don't believe that the deformed man just killed them outright. I don't think that he's that kind. Calvin thought hard and long before he repeatedly blinked his eyes and exclaimed.

Yes, that's right...

The deformed man couldn't possibly be that kind.

In other words, he must've transformed his previous wives into monsters like what he had done to Freya.

But in that case, where were those women? How come I haven't encountered them, yet?

There was only a single explanation that Calvin could find to his question.

It was either the deformed man really did kill them outright.

Or...

He was their trump card.

”That's it!” Calvin found it more believable that the deformed man would keep his previous wives as trump cards instead of bestowing upon them the mercy of death.

However, if they were indeed transformed by the deformed man as monsters.

Where were they located?

Could it be that they are in the ancestral house behind the village center's wooden platform where that basement full of monsters was located?

No...

Calvin shook his head.

Most monsters were territorial creatures after all. If a Specter discovered that a Corpse Eater was living under the same roof as her, then she would definitely fight that Corpse Eater to the bitter end.

The women also couldn't stay close to the Sinister Heart, since the Sinister Heart had a fatal attraction to Specters. In fact, that was the reason why the deformed man didn't seem to be worried that the fusion between the Sinister Heart and the evil being inside Freya would fail.

He was confident that it would succeed since no Specter created from resentment could possibly endure such an attractive treat.

But of course, once the sinister being fused with the Sinister Heart.

She would forever be a slave under the deformed man.

But did that even matter when the resentment within the woman seemed to be resentment against all life? Calvin could only imagine just what kind of injustice did the evil being from within Freya had experienced when she was still alive.

Calvin shook his head and brought his head back to the current problem.

Where are the deformed man's previous wives?

They must be in here somewhere...

Calvin's mind ran on overclock as he thought about places that the deformed man would find suitable to hide his trump cards. It must be a familiar place to him and that he must also know that place like the back of his hand. Speaking of a place that suited these factors. There was indeed a single location that aligned with these requirements and that was...

The deformed man's house!

Calvin was quick to react as he took a right turn to the next junction.

There it is!

His eyes gleamed when he discovered a house that looked more extravagant than the other houses. This was understandable since the person who had lived in this house was an honorable guest of the Village of Tulog. Indeed, this was that young man's house. Precisely, this was the deformed man's residence.

”Aspect Transformation...”

”Polearm.”

”Expand!”

Calvin summoned his golden quill and it transformed into a polearm.