It is said that farmers used to be able to stab and seriously injure Witcher with a pitchfork.
And now, times have changed, and the common man's weapons are even more powerful, so that even an able-bodied Witcher would be either injured or crippled by a hit from such a gun.
It is not advisable to try out firearms until you have completed the Titan Ritual.
Eleazar raises his hand, not giving that Elder of the Blackwood Village a chance to continue his madness, and a large stream of spirituality is quickly injected into the Mind Ring, followed by a dazzling explosion of purple light that envelops the entire village.
The whispers of the heart ring in one's ears.
"Come out all of you..."
Soon, the villagers, who looked stagnant, walked out one by one with stiff steps.
The dishwasher, the cook, the cleaner, the early morning baby maker, stood neatly before him like a cult scene.
Sharp, transcendent vision slowly swept through the crowd.
"Found ..."
A dull-looking old man with an inverted triangle of purple runes sprouting black mist on his arm.
It was indeed the dark spell curse of the Deer Head Spirit, and that druid hadn't lied to him.
Eleazar sank his gaze and silently pondered a response.
One man was left to watch the markers, and when their side of the hunt was underway, both sides struck at the same time!
Eleazar had no pity for those who threw offerings into the forest.
"Which one is it?" Evelea asked curiously.
"The old man in the center, should be the village chief."
"Glowing and strong, it looks like he's well nourished by the curse."
Being the alternate body of the Deer Head Spirit, that old man's body was well maintained by the dark power.
Evelea pulled out her cannon and aimed it directly at the man.
"Hey!"
Eleazar blushes in surprise and rushes to try and stop it.
But where could he stop the bullets that flew out.
"Bang!"
In the next second, the old man's body flew backwards as if he had been hit by a car, planted heavily on the ground and rolled a few meters away, his limbs convulsed painfully, and black blood slowly flowed out from underneath him, forming a pool of blood.
"He lied, death is clearly painful~"
Eleazar slowly turned his head and looked at the witch with an expressionless face for a long moment before he suddenly reached out and pinched her cheeks, pulling them hard to either side.
The sound of gunfire shook the villagers who had been mesmerized by the spell.
Meanwhile, flocks of crows flew up from the forest in the distance, uncountable beasts roared, and a hiss if nothing else.
"Uh wow ooh la uh ah..."
Eleazar looked away, "What did you say?"
The witch struggled to break free of her clutches and covered her face as she took two steps back.
"I said, so you wouldn't have to agonize over who to let stay, and I can't believe you're bullying me instead of thanking me!"
"Well, then I can't thank you enough."
Fina looked at the two faintly, "We should go, those people are about to wake up."
Eleazar gave the witch a hard stare, then quickly left the village with the two men.
What started out as an infiltration has now become an open and shut invasion.
Approaching the blackwood forest, they saw from afar that the lumberjacks were frantically fleeing from the forest as if they had seen something terrible.
When the men finished evacuating in a panic, the three slowly walked into the forest.
The lumberyard on the edge of the property is in shambles.
Abandoned tools littered the ground, dumped sentry towers, and the wood processing plant was covered in dense branches.
Standing in front of the fence that had been pushed down in pieces, the warlock looked to Witcher.
"On which side?"
Eleazar ignored the cloud of black mist around him, carefully sensing the darkness surging around him.
"It seems like that..."
Fina looked in the direction of his finger and raised her palm, her whole body bursting with red light.
The air around them instantly scorched.Eleazar hastily withdrew from a crimson field of transcendental vision.
"Don't! Wait ..."
"Boom!!!"
A fiery impact instantly lifted everything along the way and went straight through the depths of the forest!
Explosions resounded throughout the forest, and a charred black gully spreading for several kilometers slowly appeared in front of the eyes amidst the burning and collapsed trees on both sides, with ashes flying in the sky.
Eleazar watched the scene dumbfounded, slowly twisting his head.
Fina had angled her face up, waiting for his punishment.
What kind of sin is this...
Eleazar lifted his hand feebly and gave a token tug.
By the time the flames burned out, the forest had gone completely dead.
The deer head spirit, frightened by that spell energy, hid itself completely.
The three searched the forest for a long time...
"Yikes, it's turned into a shivering kitten~"
The witch stood on a jumble of rocks and looked around as if looking out.
"Dark creatures these days are very adept at hiding."
Fina blames the monster that dared to hide for all the faults of having no luck.
Evelea echoed her in a rare moment, "Well, it's true, the Church's solar ladder ceremony is so overbearing that the ones who can't hide have been purified."
The two men sang together and shrugged off the blame for getting nothing out of it.
Eleazar silently releases heat, burning an unassuming bush next to him to ashes.
"Destroying a totem..."
The two women walked curiously and saw a strange wooden frame cobbled together from wood and bone hidden in the grassy ash.
"Is this the totem of the deer-headed spirit transferring its body?"
Eleazar nodded, "Well, just finding and destroying them all will force it out."
The witch looked around, "What a pain in the ass, when will we find it then?"
Fina raised her hand, "No trouble, a fire to burn down the forest will do."
Eleazar glanced back at the two helplessly.
"Stop giving me a hard time..."
"Rhine's letter said that this Deer Head Spirit has probably lived for about 70 years, and based on the once every ten years promotion, it's only 5 totems at the most, so just let me find it in peace and quiet and not cause any more commotion."
In the middle of the conversation, Eleazar found a second totem, "After all, the more traces we leave behind, the easier it is to be exposed..."
"Evelea deserves a lot of credit for that; if the church had come here to investigate afterward, she would have gotten away with it."
Eleazar tries to persuade Fina of this mentality of undecidedness when things go wrong and a fire rush to set things right by using the two men's explicit fights.
"Uh-huh."
The witch at her side had her hands behind her back and looked smug.
Finding a third totem, he was about to destroy it when Eleazar suddenly whipped his head around and grabbed at his side as hard as he could.
But it was still slow, and the witch was swept up by a vine at her feet and disappeared into the forest in an instant.
Fina just watched with her hands clasped lightly.
"Well, I can't leave any more spell trails."
Eleazar: .....
The sounds of ripping flesh and blood coming from the witch's side quickly faded, and with one enemy taken care of, the woods once again returned to silence and the omnipresent darkness of hostility.
Eleazar suddenly turned back to the totem he had just found, and realized it was being quietly rolled up in a branch, ready to be put away.
Fina quickly raised her slender hand and the ground rumbled, followed by a pillar of fire that engulfed her.
"Well, the third totem, destroy..."