Sect - Book 5, Chapter 40: An Unspeakable Secret 1 (1/2)

Chapter 40: An Unspeakable Secret (1)

“Your name,” Su Chen de Flame Oriole,” the female Harpy replied obediently, her eyes filled with fear

It was impossible for her not to be afraid She was filled with hatred for Su Chen in the beginning, but after all of the experier, hatred, and arrogance had turned into fear

Even the most severe punishment probably wouldn’t have caused her to feel such fear, but Su Chen’s repeated experied to do so

It wasn’t because of the suffering itself, but because of Su Chen’s attitude towards life

In the eyes of a researcher, all of this served asFlame Oriole, this dissection of life down to the bone was eventhan the cruelest torture In Su Chen’s hands, life lost itsThe Harpies were like useless sacks of meat that were labeled and divided by functionality

Life was no longer life It had become just another coly, this kind of research had actuallyFlame Oriole had personally witnessed Su Chen extract those Arcana Technique Fragments from the other Harpies' bodies, preserve them, and even duplicated the Arcana Techniques contained within

This co andto collapse around her

That hy she gazed fearfully at Su Chen now like he was sohtuts to resist?

”Flowing Flame Oriole? Not a bad name” Su Chen muttered

This wasn'tnaious pursuit of beauty Many people viewed theance

However, in Su Chen's eyes, they ant - Harpies were just as vicious when it ca humans

”As you can see, I as Under normal circumstances, you would have suffered the sa everything that you have learned to uess why I haven't done so yet?” Su Chen asked with a s Fla

She trele word

Su Chen frowned ”Knowing how to fear is a good thing, but losing the ability to respond to the situation is quite disastrous Your acting has gone a bit overboard, Miss Harpy This is not the way you should look You cannot deceive me I know you are fearful, but not to the point that you are showing now If you try to lie to ain, I will put you back on the research workbench”

Flowing Flame Oriole froze After some time, she said, ”I don't knohy you haven't killed me Perhaps it's because of you did it for that”

She glanced down at her own body

Su Chen understood what she s, Harpies appeared the saenerally quite attractive as well As such, many humans would be attracted to the Flame Oriole obviously viewed Su Chen as such a person as well

This made him a bit unhappy

He said, ”I'm not that lowly The only reason I haven't killed you is because there is one thing I a Clan to betray us?”

As a Dest the human race was quite special Even if they were the Zhu Clan's enemies, they wouldn’t have been wiped out if they hadn’t been so reckless So what if their mines were emptied out? Couldn’t they just find a new location and set up again? The Zhu Clan had no interest in wiping them out completely, and there was no way that Liaoye Country would allow it to happen anyways

So why had the Rong Clan agreed to betray humanity?

The differences between the races were far ood life even if you coiances over to a different race

Throughout the tens of thousands of years of fighting ast the five races, arhtly betray the human race unless they were pushed to dire straits, especially for a race that was so fundamentally different from them They would be thrust into a completely different kind of society that would make it very hard for the Clan had decided to ally with the extreh the Harpies possessed weak physiques, they were incredibly proud, and all of them looked down on the other races

This was due to Harpy history

Even in the darkest period of tiin Beasts ran raher status than others While the huers were serving as the Beasts’ shepherds, the Harpies were of no food interest to the Origin Beasts due to their thin body sizes and flight agility As such, they were given the task of cleaning the Origin Beasts; even though the Origin Beasts had the ability to clean themselves, they enjoyed this kind of special treat Doushan had meant when he said that “those Harpy birds are like flies around food, and they exploited the Beasts’as if it was their own”

Even so, it was true that they possessed the highest status a this period of tian to develop this prideful, arrogant attitude of theirs

The strong xenophobia expressed by most Harpies made them the least likely to want to rope humans into their side Not evenlike this, let alone a proud De Clan’s actions were truly aand the others as well, but the only answer she could get out of the Clan’s ancestor, Rong Guluo

As for why he, a Thought Manifestation Realm expert half a step into the Ulti like this, no one knew

Usually, clans only existed to serve the person at the very top The Ancestor was the person supporting the entire clan, so their will beca Xiangsheng and the others disagreed with Rong Guluo’s decision, there was no point in voicing their disagree Guluo had run away, this question would perhaps forever re Flame Oriole was sent back to the capital, the E Clan’s forure out why they had chosen to betray everyone However, they were unable to obtain any answers - Flowing Flame’s Oriole mind had been affected by secret technique that would auto out so Su Chen’s question, Flowing Flame Oriole replied, “I don’t really know the answer either”

“I know that Otherwise, they wouldn’t have returned you to me But just because your memories have been wiped doesn’t mean that I can’t find the truth After all, the only memories that have been wiped out are the memories directly related to this incident, not any otherFlame Oriole was stunned “So what?”

“TellFla, soly, “I am a Sanskrit Chanter from the Gentle Voice Nest”

Nests were the internal dividers of Harpy society, akin to Ravager tribes or human countries Sanskrit Chanters possessed a unique status, just like the Soulless or the Bone Diviners did in Ravager culture, and unique abilities Sanskrit Chanters could sing songs that purified a person’s consciousness, sharpening theirtheir consciousness power These songs were specifically used to deal with consciousness attacks They were soed to one of the Harpies’ threeFlame Oriole was a Sanskrit Chanter explained how she was able to nullify Zhu Xianling’s control over her puppet After all, Harpies surpassed huy and understanding of the consciousness, not to reat talent in those aspects