Outside the deserted village, the black land continues to spread outward.
On the black soil, spots of dried blood emerged, looking as good as new.
"Sir...are we really going in?"
Outside, there was a faint sound of horse hooves. Sitting on the horse, Thor smiled bitterly and asked Athir.
"This is already the outer edge of the forbidden area. There is no sign of life around. If we go in further, we might run into some weird things."
With a wry smile on his face, he looked at Athir and advised: "If you need anything, you can just send someone back to explore. There is no need to risk going to the forbidden area yourself."
This is what he really thinks.
During this period of time, they have gained a very deep understanding of Athir's military strength.
Even those terrifying monsters that were powerful enough to destroy a small army could not withstand a few moves at the hands of Athir.
This kind of force is shocking in this world. Even a knowledgeable person like Thor couldn't help but feel excited after seeing it.
With such power, you can live well anywhere, so why take risks in those forbidden areas?
"If you don't want to go in, just wait for me outside."
Listening to Thor's words, Athir looked at them and said without changing his expression.
"That's... okay."
After hesitating for a moment, Thor finally nodded without saying anything more.
"Let's stop here."
After a while, they arrived at a certain place and Athir spoke, motioning for others to stop here before continuing to walk inside.
Behind him, looking at Athir's back, Thor felt a little hesitant.
There is a forbidden area ahead. In such a dangerous place, if you dare to follow Athir in, you may be able to gain some favor from him.
But the danger of the forbidden land also needs to be considered. Although the force that Athir has shown during this period is amazing, if he really encounters those terrifying monsters, it may be very dangerous and he may not be able to take care of them. In the end, they may be defeated.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and said to the follower beside him, "Let's wait here. Remember not to run around."
On the side, listening to his words, the others nodded silently.
In front, Athir's figure walked slowly.
He walked all the way to the gate of the village ahead, then stopped and looked ahead silently.
At this time, in front of us are the ruins of a village.
There was dust and blood everywhere, like a former battlefield that had been silent here for hundreds of years.
"High-energy radiation detected..." The mechanical voice of the chip sounded in my mind.
Hearing the prompt from the chip in his mind, Atier's heart moved slightly, and he strode in.
As you walked in, you could smell a faint smell of blood coming from a distance, vaguely discernible yet very clear.
Smelling the smell, Athir didn't react at all and continued walking forward calmly.
At some point, things around me started to change.
A little noisy sound appeared in the originally quiet and terrifying ruins.
Hearing these sounds, Athir was slightly stunned and turned around to look forward.
The surrounding scene began to change.
On top of the original ruins, houses are rising from the ground, and they all look quite old.
In various places in the village, villagers were constantly walking around, doing their own things, and looked very busy.
But what was strange was that standing in the village, the villagers seemed not to have seen Athir. They were all doing their own things and no one paid any attention to him.
Standing among the crowd, Athir had a strange feeling of being isolated from the whole world.
Hehehehe...
The sound of children laughing in the distance attracted Athir's attention.
He looked towards the end of the village, where several children were chasing and playing, occasionally making crisp laughter, which was very lovely.
They ran towards Athir quickly with laughter, seemingly not noticing Athir standing in front of them at all.
"ah!"
With a crisp collision sound, a little boy suddenly bumped into Athir and fell directly to the ground, making a noise.
Falling to the ground, the boy shook his head, as if he didn't understand why he fell, so he raised his head and looked forward.
"Brother...you bumped into me."
As if he had discovered something, the boy frowned as he looked at Athir standing in front of him, and spoke in a very aggrieved tone.
As the boy spoke, the world around him suddenly returned to silence.
Staring quietly at the little boy in front of him, Athir's face was calm and he didn't react at all.
At some point, figures began to gather around him.
Those were the villagers in the village. They were standing around Athir at this moment. Each of the different faces had a wooden and indifferent look, staring at him blankly.
"Hallucination?"
Feeling everything around him, this thought flashed through Athir's mind.
Before I could do anything, the scene around me changed again.
Drops of black and red blood kept flowing down. Under Athir's gaze, blood marks and wounds appeared on the faces of the surrounding villagers, covering their entire faces, making them look bloody and mangled.
And in front of him, the boy's skin began to disappear, leaving only bloody flesh.
He stood there, howling in pain, looking horrible.
The ignition energy particles quickly gathered and condensed into a fireball with a violent aura in front of Athir, smashing into the boy hard.
Ah!
A sharp wail was heard.
Under Athir's gaze, the fireball in front of him passed over the boy's bloody body and slammed heavily into the ground, creating a two-meter-wide fire pit.
The next moment, the scene suddenly changed, and the originally quiet environment became noisy again.
Athir turned around and looked around.
Behind him, the bloody figures had disappeared. In the houses in the distance, villagers who looked like ordinary people were busy with their work, and it seemed so natural.
Hehehehe...
The sound of children laughing and playing could be heard again up ahead.
Under Athir's gaze, several children in front of him ran towards here playfully. One of the boys ran straight towards Athir, just like last time.
But this time, when the opponent was about to hit him, Atier slightly tilted his body and directly avoided the opponent's figure and was not touched by the opponent.
The child ran away laughing, and his figure gradually disappeared in the village.
But the next moment, Athir's eyes narrowed.
In front of him, a burst of laughter sounded again, and several children ran towards here quickly, with no changes from before.
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"Half an hour has passed, you still haven't come out?"
A few hundred meters outside the village, on a bare piece of land, Thor and his companions stood quietly, looking at the village vaguely visible in the distance, their faces somewhat solemn.
"My lord, will that knight..."
At one side, a black-robed guard looked into the distance with a serious expression on his face, and spoke cryptically.
Listening to his words, the surroundings fell into silence for a moment, with only the sound of the whistling breeze passing by the ears.
"Let's wait another half an hour."
Looking at the existence in the distance, Thor said solemnly: "If the Knight has not appeared in half an hour, we will retreat and continue to wait at a farther place."
"Yes!" Several people around responded.
"Ah!" A cry of surprise suddenly rang out.
"What's wrong?" The faces of several people around suddenly tightened. They reflexively touched their weapons and then looked in the direction where the sound came from.
"Blood...so much blood..."
To their side, Ariel looked at her side in fear.
Behind her, there was a small pit filled with dark red blood, from which a foul stench continued to emanate.
There was some dry grass covering the small pit, so they had not discovered it before and only saw it now.
After looking at each other, Thor and the others' expressions suddenly became solemn.
At the side, a black-robed guard drew the long sword at his waist and slowly walked towards the small pit.
He approached the place cautiously, and when he was at a certain distance, he did not go forward, but directly used a knife to pick out the hay on top, revealing the covered scene.
It was a pit more than two meters wide, looked very deep, and was completely covered with black and red blood.
And above the blood, a hideous human head quietly emerged, every inch of skin was bloody, and a pair of blood-red eyes were filled with resentment, frozen at the moment before death.
If you look closely, you can see that the head is not too big. It should be a child's. Moreover, the skin on the surface has been peeled off, which looks very scary.
"Damn it…"
Seeing this scene, the faces of several people present looked a little unhappy.
Standing in place, the black-robed guard who stepped forward gritted his teeth and moved forward directly with the long sword in his hand.
With a slight sound, the horrible human head was taken out from the blood and rolled straight onto the black ground.
"call···"
Looking at this scene, Thor breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart loosened: "It's okay, it's just a head, it's nothing."
Standing around him, the other men in black robes secretly breathed a sigh of relief and were no longer as nervous as before.
Living in this world, for people like them, they have seen at least eight hundred dead bodies if not a thousand, so a skinned head is nothing.
As long as it is not as strange as a corpse, but just a dead body, no matter how scary it is, it will not scare them.
Even the young girl Ariel, who had seen corpses more than once or twice because she had been scavenging in the wild for many years, just turned pale when she saw the human head, and did not react much.
They didn't care about this episode.
However, what they did not notice was that in the original blood hole, as the human head left its original place, ripples were emerging.
A bloody arm slowly stretched out from the blood.
(End of this chapter)