Chapter 68 (1/2)

Chapter 68: Feed the Roc Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

For Gu Shenwei, staying in Pyrowork Acadehtmarish experience Gu Shenwei doubted whether he had ht choice Ever sinceapprentices were taken away by their killerkillers and volunteered to be servants in West Castle

The only solace for him was that he had an opportunity to return to Giant Rock Cliff, where Nameless Swordbook was hidden

There were numerous killer apprentices in East Castle As it was impossible to let them have contests on the same day, Pyrowork Academy held several martial arts contests almost every day

The martial arts contest was held in an unusual form All the apprentices had to wear masks The overseer would randomly choose a room which simulated various environments, such as an alley, the wilderness, a bedroom, and a tavern Two apprentices would enter the room from different doors Without any rules, they would iht until one of them fell

There were rules for apprentices’ advancement: If one defeated his opponents in 12 consecutive months, he would become a probationary killer If one killed his opponents with a strike in 6 successive tests, he would be qualified to be a real killer

This was an endless and cruel killing game Few apprentices could becoers were soft-hearted If they were allowed to attack once more, they would kill their opponents without any hesitation, regardless of whether their opponents were their friends or not However, it was difficult for thele strike Those apprentices, who held the desire to kill while entering the room, often found that they were always a step away fro their opponents when they struck a bloith all their strength

Those ere slightly injured could continue the game while the seriously injured would be carried to Firewood Yard in West Castle To Gu Shenwei’s shock, lots of apprentices believed that the injured would receive medical treatment in Firewood Yard He really wanted to tell them the truth “Firewood Yard wasn’t a clinic, but a place for the dead”

No one would listen to him He still had no friends, just like the time when he was in West Castle

The apprentices ere killed with a single strike not only beca stone for other killer apprentices, but they also received a sort of strange honor of being thrown off Reincarnation Cliff

This was the task Gu Shenas assigned to do in Pyrowork Academy

Usually, the overseers with the yellow-belt were responsible for this work Now that they had the rened them to do it

The first person Gu Shenwei carried out was a 12-year-old child The boy ht be become a scary killer after several years, but noas just a corpse His only wound was a gash from his forehead to his shoulder, with his mask split in half His skull could be seen

The corpse was carried by Gu Shenwei and his partner When they were close to Reincarnation Cliff, Gu Shenwei spoke to his partner behind him “I can do it alone It’s inconvenient for us to walk on these steps together You can just take the stretcher back”

The fearful teenager nodded He carried the stretcher under his arratitude

Gu Shenwei carried the corpse on his shoulder, but he did not follow the path to Reincarnation Cliff He walked to the nearby Giant Rock Cliff

The place was once the twin’s territory, but noas discarded by theiant rocs were killed The filthy, broken net was spread out here and there, mixed with the books and wooden sabers

Gu Shenwei put down the corpse and found Na

He had already becos in the swordbook, but he still greedily browsed through it one more time Then he pulled it close to his chest and intended to carefully study it when he was alone in Pyrowork Acade from it

He held the corpse and wanted to throw it off Giant Rock Cliff At this moht be the skinny nestling who’s fond of eating and pecking”

It had been alht about what happened to the helpless nestling without its parents He immediately felt ashaiant rocs and he had let the nestling survive alone under the cliff The nestling could not understand what had happened

Gu Shenwei ily The voice could not be that of the nestling Supre because they would die of it The sound ination

However, Gu Shenwei could not get rid of the sense of guilt He held the corpse to the place where he had fallen off After confir the position, he threw the corpse down and let it fell as close as possible to the precipice

The o of the corpse, he recalled some of the words in Death Scripture, whereupon he recited it in a low voice

“The soul rises to the Ninth Heaven, and the spirit falls to the Ninth Abyss The living suffer in grief, and the dead settle in peace”

Was the nestling alive? He did not know

Would the corpse accurately fall into the nest? He did not know

Could the giant roc eat the dead? He did not know

He harbored the sense of guilt and hoped that, by doing so, he would e that he had caused