Chapter 48 (2/2)

“For Lord Negary!” the Crowmen roared in his frenzy. When he recounted what he knew about Negary, he couldn’t help but recall his figure and the scene in which Negary offered him his hand, and this time, he couldn’t endure the impulse.

Since the Knight of Divine Grace already had his sword drawn to look out for any tricks this Crowmen might pull, when the Crowmen suddenly lunged at him, he instinctively slashed downward at him.

Without bones to protect the inside of his body, the Crowmen’s body was easily cut in half. The intense pain made him regain his senses as his tears, snot and blood were mixed together. He desperately used what remained of his strength to crawl towards the direction of the forbidden zone’s great tree.

“Lord Negary, I don’t want to die yet, I still have room to grow further, save me, Lord Negary!!

〖 No, you are already ripe! 〗a voice suddenly resounded in the Crowmen’s head: 〖 As you are right now, your will to live has become the strongest it will ever be! 〗

“Lord Negary!” the Crowmen was still begging for his life up until the very last moment, but he couldn’t escape death and his life simply ended. The pitch-like [Black Crow] germs slowly dripped down from his palm, seeped into the ground and flowed towards Negary.

“This is…” the three people there saw everything that took place in fright. A man who wished for nothing but to live, just by recalling Negary, had decided to make a suicidal attack right in front of their eyes. The shadow of the entity called Negary inside their hearts subconsciously grew bigger.

“Let me take this knight back to be tended to” the personal guard lowered his head and said with a trembling voice, feeling extreme shame. He was truly frightful, at this point, he could already faintly feel the ominous air all over this operation. Volunteering to take Rivers back to be healed was nothing but a different kind of fleeing.

“You don’t have to feel ashamed, everyone else would feel the same” Chris smiled bitterly. After adventuring for so long, he had already seen all kinds of people, and after witnessing Negary’s eerie terror with their own eyes, anyone would’ve made the same decision. To ask others to throw away their lives for the sake of their perceived justice isn’t actually justice, that is only taking their morals hostage.

Looking on as the guard carried Rivers away, Chris sighed, at this point, they only had 10 people left. Since they had eliminated two Crowmen, not counting the Bizarre Scales that were running free, from the line up they showed earlier today, the other side still had at least 4 Crowmen and 3 Bizarre Scales.

I wonder how the battle of the others and the people from Royas went.

“Let’s go, we need to help the others as well. We can’t afford to lose anyone else, and we’re only a bit away from reaching Negary” Chris told the Knight of Divine Grace. The two of them quickly moved through the darkness and headed for the other groups.

…

Sitting on top of his throne of bones, Negary currently had his chin resting on top of his hand and a joyful smile on his face. This smile was similar to those of farmers whose crops had grown big and strong just in time for their harvest.

Suddenly, Negary lifted his head and looked forward, someone was quickly moving forward on the path paved with bones.

〖 So you’re finally here. Come, show me just how good you really are, hak hak hak! 〗