Chapter 94 (2/2)

Sui Xiong nodded and asked, “Is he still staring at you now?”

“Not now, I no longer felt his existence as soon as I walked close to the commercial corp.” Ray thought for a while and said: “I guess…he is afraid, Your Majesty.”

Sui Xiong contemplated for a bit and spread out his soul so he could carefully sense the immediate surroundings. After a while, he finally found some clues. There was a very tiny mark carved on Ray’s soul. It would do no harm to Ray. It was simply a mark which helped others locate Ray’s whereabouts.

When Ray was staying with Sui Xiong, the mark was not activated and didn’t send out any signals. As soon as Ray left Sui Xiong and was not under his protection, the mark was activated and sent out a message showing Ray’s location. Then the man who left this mark on Ray’s soul would know where Ray was. That was why Ray had the feeling he was being spied upon.

Since Sui Xiong didn’t know what this was all about, he didn’t try to activate the mark and instead confronted Ray about it.

“A mark?” Ray pondered for a while, then asked, “Can you tell me when this mark was carved on my soul?”

Sui Xiong examined it for a while with his spiritual sensing, and gave an approximate time. It hadn’t bee too long. It was a month at least, and a year at most.

“Well, I know what is going on now.” Obviously, Ray had some idea about this mark. He compared his guess with Sui Xiong’s examination. “It was left by the Brutal Hunter, or the God of Hunt and Holocaust,” he concluded. “I attacked his temple, maybe it was at that time he left this mark on my soul.”

Not long ago, Ray did business in the west wilderness. He spent almost all his money to bribe an evil organization called Black Axe to help him to fight against the followers of the God of Hunt and Holocaust. Then, he tried to sneak into the temple to steal a crystal hidden in the temple when the two sides were fighting with each other.

Inside that crystal, there was a bit of magical energy left by the God of Life. If Ray managed to get this crystal and examine it carefully, he might be able to have a grasp on Life. It would also lay a solid foundation for him to become a demigod in the near future. If he was lucky enough, he might even be able to become a real God, who was in charge of the priesthood of Life.

Unfortunately, Ray didn’t manage to get the crystal right away, since the cunning managerial personnel were always on alert and ran in a secret tunnel. But Ray couldn’t let them go so easily. He followed them all the way to the big Gobi, killed them all, and got the crystal at last.

It was also at that time he met Sui Xiong. The crystal was confiscated by Sui Xiong, and Ray had become his mount since then. In fact, this all happened quite recently; but Ray felt like it was almost century ago.

During this journey, Ray was having a really tough time. Still, he was also living each day to the fullest. When he gradually reclaimed his childhood dream and realized that he was back on the way to becoming a knight, he was deeply touched.

Just like Sui Xiong had already put before: he felt all the things that happened in the past were already over, while the things happened at the present were ongoing.

Now Ray was confident enough to confront anyone, and dared to fight in the battlefield or go to hell!

If he had still been a sole bandit wandering in the west wildness, and knew that the Brutal Hunter had left a mark on his soul, he would be terrified and run away like a coward. Ray knew that he was sure to be slain by the killers lead by the Brutal Hunter, and there was only one way left for him: killing himself.

Now, although he was still a bit worried, he never even thought of running away.

He had reclaimed peace in his mind again, and was no longer afraid of death!

Sui Xiong would never allow the followers of the God of Hunt and Holocaust to kill Ray. Sui Xiong believed that the God of Hunter and Holocaust himself was pure evil. The God of Hunter and Holocaust’s doctrines claimed that the world was simply a huge hunting ground, and that all creatures were prey. He usually pleased himself by killing as many creatures as possible. Anyone who chose to believe his doctrine was never a good person. Compared with Ray, who had abandoned this depraved way of life and returned to the path of virtue, these followers should be killed!

“I see.” Sui Xiong sneered, and said, “That God’s real body can’t step into the Main Plain, and he could, at most, send a few killers and a messenger. Don’t worry. I’ll back you up!”

“You don’t need to do this. I can just as well defend myself, and this is my business.”

“Nonsense. Don’t forget I have got the crystal, so it’s my business, too” Sui Xiong laughed. “And… to be honest, I have always been curious about other God’s priesthoods.”

“You mean?”

“I feel hungry, and want to eat another oracle,” Sui Xiong laughed. “Last time I gained so much information and energy after eating the oracle of the God of Conspiracy. In fact, I am very much looking forward to tasting the Oracle of the God of Hunt and Holocaust. I hope it will taste good.”

Ray was silent for a while. Then he got down on one knee, put his right hand on his left chest and lowered his head.

“Although I don’t clearly know Your Majesty’s doctrine, and can’t give you my belief, please accept my oath,” Ray said slowly and firmly. “I, Leon Igor, hereby swear to you that I devote Your Majesty my life and soul, I will praise you, fight for you, and never stop being loyal to you. Even if I die!”