C25 (1/2)

Chapter 25 - The Year Before

”Sure, but you have to come with me.”

”Ah —” I was dumbfounded.

I thought he was going by himself, so why did he ask me to follow him? What's more, I'm not that familiar with the Chen family, so I'm not too familiar with him.

If I go with them, I won't be able to help with my meager abilities.

One day later.

An isolated island with a beautiful environment.

This is the Chen family's ancestral land, and the few of us are currently in this damned place.

I thought of a lot of ways to escape along the way, but I couldn't get away until I reached this damned place.

How sad —

”Are you really sure it's your people?” I whispered to Chen Ye.

It's not my fault that I asked that question. It's just that Chen Ye and the people here don't have any similarities, okay? Everyone here has white hair and even their eyeballs are white.

Furthermore, the people here are generally quite short. I've observed carefully before, the man is around 1.6 meters and the woman is around 1.5 meters. To date, I haven't seen anyone taller than me.

This was too much different from Chen Ye, who was beside him. Chen Ye, this guy, was at least 1.8m.

”We used to be no different from Asians. Let's go, you'll know when the time comes.” Chen Ye did not explain anything to me and instead brought us to a side chamber.

This should be where the Chen family would treat guests.

It was only until someone served tea did Chen Ye begin to explain: Since a thousand years ago, our whole family has turned into this. In the past, we were no different from you, but a thousand years ago, we saved them. He pointed to Chu Yu.

”Ever since we saved him, it is as if we have been cursed by fate. The abilities of our ancestors' Corpsetaker suddenly disappeared, and all of us did not have any Inherent Skills.

See those white-haired people?

As long as it's a bloodline that belongs to our Chen Clan, we won't be able to escape this fate.

”What about you?” I asked unwillingly.

The person beside him couldn't be a foster child, right?

”I was the only exception to this rule for the past thousand years, which was why I was asked to live in the mortal world and search for the fragment of the jade soul, the one who saved me a thousand years ago.

Actually, helping him reconstruct his body and recover his memory is also beneficial to our tribe. As long as we can resolve the issue from a thousand years ago, I feel that this curse might disappear.

Of course, all of this is just the guess of the elders and me, it might not be correct, but at this point, no matter what kind of hope, even if it's very slim, we still have to give it a try, right? ”

”…”

After Chen Ye's words, I fell silent — —

Although I have always been heartless, I am not the kind of person who has no conscience. Those people who were cursed were miserable, the noble Corpsetaker bloodline used to be so powerful, it could even be said that they would scare people off after hearing about it.

Although through the generations of legend, all the capable people have slowly become lonely, no longer as glorious as when they were at their peak …

However, that was because he was lonely for other reasons. Being cursed in such a way made him unable to display his full strength even though he had a Bloodline Inheritance.

In my opinion, this is like someone dying of thirst, and in the desert, I gave you a bottle of water but didn't let you drink it.

How cruel, how sad —