Chapter 6 (2/2)
“What’s the cause of death?” Dax asked with a serious expression, their village’s hunting party hadn’t suffered such heavy casualties for over a dozen years. The previous time something like this happened was when he had just joined the hunting party. At the time, in order to hunt more prey, the party had entered deep into the wilderness and ran into a Tacre, causing them to abandon the bodies of 4 of their comrades in order to escape.
“I think… either a disease or poison?” one person covered their nose and lifted the dead corpses’ clothes using a cloth, showing a few large black spots on their skin. After some hesitation, he pulled his dagger and cut off a small bit of their skin to see some sort of black and red jelly slowly spilling from the wounds.
At this point, a large crow flew across the sky and cawed like tolling the bell of the dead, causing everyone to feel a chill running down their spines.
“Are we really being watched by Negary, the God of disease and omen!?” someone scowled and commented, then quickly covered his nose and backed away.
“Yesterday it was them who buried Naike after he was pecked to death by crows, and now it was them who died from a disease, it must be Negary, he must be watching…”
“Enough!” Dax loudly cut him off: “We have to leave this place now, but we’ll continue the hunt. Before confirming that we did not contract the disease, we can’t return to the village”
Seeing the distressed hunting party, Dax sighed, if only one person had died, he would be able to use his authority to calm them down. But now, two more people suddenly died from some unknown disease, causing everyone’s minds to veer towards Negary.
The current state of their faith towards the Gods was extremely shallow, but due to these faiths being deeply ingrained in every part of their culture, even if they normally didn’t believe it, when they saw it happening in front of their eyes, it was hard for anyone to dismiss it.
“Very good, the initial ideal state has been achieved” Wang Yuan was hovering not too far away from these people, observing their reactions. Their mental state was now extremely sensitive and weak, the only reason they could appear to remain calm at all was due to Dax giving them a fake sense of security.
“All I need to do now is dispose of this leader. After multiple consecutive blows like this, they will thoroughly break down” this was also the reason why Wang Yuan did not kill the bearded man Dax the night before. People don’t completely break down after a single setback, but rather multiple consecutive blows that leave them a sliver of hope before completely destroying it.
“At that time, they will be completely under my domination, the same way as my crows” Wang Yuan had such a thought while immersed in the joy of manipulating others. It was also this joy that made him realize something very clear, he needed to become stronger, only then could he manipulate even more things and not be manipulated by anything.
“It was because I was weak that I was manipulated and fell as low as I currently am! I have to become even stronger and manipulate even more things, only then will I no longer be manipulated!!!”
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Wang Yuan looked at the slowly rising sun and didn’t hesitate for long before deciding to strike while the iron was hot. If he left them for a bit longer, these people might realize his weak essence, and at that point, it would be extremely difficult to break them.
Under the sunlight, his white mist was quickly dissipating, but Wang Yuan didn’t care too much. Now that he had absorbed the white mist from two dead people, it was enough to support him under the sunlight for a long while.
He couldn’t wait any longer, once he killed Dax, he would be able to dominate this group of people, then use them to dominate their village. At that point, he would have the support of many humans who would provide him with sacrifices. They would continue to provide him with white mist and breed more crows, creating more mutated crows and allow him to manipulate even more things!