Ch166 - To him, everything about Xue Ling was good (1/2)
12.9 – To him, everything about Xue Ling was good
translator: xiin
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Nighttime in the Demonic Beast Forest was long and terrible. Ivan walked along the forest path at night, not daring to look around, let alone looking back. Although he was told that he would walk out of the forest alive, he was still in a state of extreme terror.
His spirit was tormented to the brink of collapse. Given his extreme ‘Holy Saint’ personality, he was forced to watch on coldly from the side as his fellow students died in front of him, killed by his other classmates’ dirty tricks. In Ivan’s eyes, this forest, this examination, had already changed into something completely different. He fell into a daze and wondered how he had come to this stage.
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Then, that person’s smile would flash before his eyes. It made his hair stand on end in terror, and he would toss and turn, sleepless, pushing forward day and night in order to leave this terrible cage as early as possible.
As long as he stepped out of this place that represented the darkness, light would return to him. His Kent would be there, waiting to see him upon his return.
Ivan staggered along the road leading out of the forest. Beside him were ferocious demonic plants that used vines like weapons, hunting human beings or demonic beasts that crossed into their territory at night. But each and every single one of them avoided the stumbling, tottering Ivan that couldn’t even travel in a fixed line.
Ivan’s way forward was completely safe. When he discovered that no demonic beasts would approach him regardless of whether he was travelling during the day or night, Ivan was kind enough to bring along a healer who had been separated from his companions.
Unfortunately, his benevolence was foolish. The demonic beasts only had orders to avoid him, and it did not mean that they would do the same for the people around him. So the healer who followed Ivan ended up dragged deep into the forest. Ivan chased after him for a long time, but nothing could be done about it, and he could only watch as the man died in front of him.
After that, Ivan stopped trying to bring others out of the forest…
His heart gradually became numb; those feelings he originally had of helping the world slowly disappeared as he fell into sorrow and grief.
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He couldn’t even save himself, let alone others.
When Ivan thought of this, he saw Oliver’s face in his mind again and recalled what it had felt like to see Oliver three days ago. He understood for the first time how betrayal felt, and needed someone to comfort him, but Oliver had cruelly told him that what he was about to experience was far more than just that.
Ivan did not know how Oliver had reached this point. The lovely, cute wolf from his memories had disappeared, and the Oliver he recalled now was as terrible as this forest.
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This was clearly a plot Oliver had directed himself. He must have known early on that those people wanted to poison him, but didn’t warn him, and simply watched as he became isolated and forsaken by his fellow teammates step by step…
Right, he had cursed Oliver so that he could not hurt Kent, and could only take out his revenge on himself. He had originally thought that Oliver would be able to realize that there was more than hate in this world – apart from hate, there was also love. But Oliver had no room for love in his gaze, and all he ever wanted was revenge.
His people had already died, and couldn’t be resurrected. Why did they have to hurt each other like this? Killing his enemies wouldn’t bring his relatives back to life, right? Why couldn’t he put down his hatred and start over again properly…
Xue Ling was unlikely to be able to understand Ivan’s peculiar way of thinking in this life. He did not intend to follow Ivan out of the Demonic Beast Forest. He just told Xi that this man couldn’t die now, and then prepared to make trouble for Kent.
Kent was exempted from the graduation examination by his mother as early as the second day after Ivan entered the forest on the grounds of state affairs and embarked on his way back to the Capital. Even if Ivan came out of the Demonic Beast Forest, he would not be able to immediately meet up with Kent.
Xue Ling gave Ivan an interesting curse. As long as he used his healing skills to help others, the light power in his body would be lost, and would not be recovered through cultivation. For every bit of light power that he lost, his body would similarly become more corroded by ‘Fallen Heaven’.
Originally, Xue Ling wanted to let the Fallen Heaven erode him step by step. Later, he decided that doing it this way would be more interesting; with Ivan’s Holy Saint temperament, he would definitely be willing to use his ability to save others, but saving others meant hurtinghimself. At that time, it would all depend on the choices he made.
Xue Ling wanted to know what point Ivan would reach. Would his body be completely corrupted by Fallen Heaven by the time he saw Kent again, or would he be alright, with the light power in the body still keeping him stable?
A genuine Holy Saint would sacrifice himself to save the world, while those who only acted thus on the surface would hurt others in order to save the world. He didn’t know which way Ivan would ultimately choose to go.
After arranging Ivan’s matters, Xue Ling decided to go to the Capital. He wanted to fulfill the original owner of this body’s wish to take back all the clothing made from Ink Flame Wolf fur.
The Capital was not far away from Leedshire, where the Elder God Academy was located. The Capital was named Buspoka City, and it was the center of the country and the focal point around which all other human cities were located. They lived on this continent where two thirds of the land was dominated by the Demonic Beast Forest, so all the plains seemed to be surrounded by mountains.
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There were two counties between Leedshire and Buspoka City, but because the entire country was not very large, although they were called counties, these places were in fact not very large. If they went by horse, it would only be about a month’s journey; if they travelled using demonic beasts, it would take less than two weeks.
Xue Ling and Xi made this journey on foot.