Wizard Immortal

Chapter 144

Beyond the desolate village, the black earth continues to spread outwards.

On the black earth, dried bloodstains appeared, looking as fresh as ever.

"Sir...do we really have to go in?"

Outside, the soft sound of horses' hooves could be heard. Sitting on his horse, Thor gave a wry smile and looked at Adir, asking...

"This is already the outer edge of the forbidden area. There are no signs of life around. If we go any further in, we might encounter something strange."

He gave a wry smile and looked at Adir, advising, "If you need anything, you can simply send people to explore it later. There's no need to risk going to the forbidden area yourself."

This is what he truly thinks.

During this period of time, they have gained a very deep understanding of Adir's military strength.

Even those terrifying monsters capable of wiping out a small army couldn't last more than a few moves against Adir.

Such martial prowess is astonishing in this world, and even a well-traveled person like Thor couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement upon seeing it.

With such power, one can live well anywhere, so why risk going to those forbidden areas?

"If you don't want to go in, just wait for me outside."

Hearing Thor's words, Adir's expression remained unchanged as he looked at them and spoke.

"Okay then."

After a moment's hesitation, Thor finally nodded without saying anything more.

That's enough for now.

After a while, they arrived at a certain place. Adir spoke up, signaling the others to stop there before continuing to walk inside.

Behind him, watching Adir's retreating figure, Thor felt a little hesitant.

Ahead lies forbidden territory. In such a dangerous place, if one dares to go in with Adir, one might gain some favor from him.

However, the dangers of the forbidden area also need to be considered. Although Adir has demonstrated astonishing strength recently, if he were to encounter those terrifying and bizarre creatures, it would likely be extremely dangerous, and he might not be able to protect them. In the end, they might even be the ones who perish.

With that thought in mind, he no longer hesitated and looked directly at his attendant beside him, saying, "Let's wait here. Remember not to wander off."

The others listened to his words and nodded silently.

Ahead, Adir's figure slowly walked by.

He walked until he reached the gate of the village ahead before stopping and silently looking ahead.

What lies ahead is the ruins of a village.

Dust and bloodstains were everywhere, like a former battlefield that had been silent for hundreds of years.

"High-energy radiation detected..." The voice of the chip's mechanical components echoed in his mind.

Hearing the notification from the chip in his mind, Adir's heart stirred slightly, and he strode inside.

As you enter, a faint smell of blood wafts from afar, indistinct yet distinct.

Despite the smell, Adir showed no reaction and continued walking forward calmly.

Before I knew it, things started to change.

A few noisy sounds emerged from the once quiet and terrifying ruins.

Hearing these sounds, Adir was slightly stunned, and turned around to look ahead.

The surrounding scenery began to change.

On the original ruins, houses have sprung up, all of which look quite old.

Throughout the village, villagers walked by, each doing their own thing, looking very busy.

Strangely, when he stood in the village, the villagers seemed not to see Adir at all, each going about their own business, and no one paid any attention to him.

Standing among the crowd, Adir had a strange feeling of being isolated from the whole world.

Hehehe...

The sound of children's laughter came from afar, attracting Adir's attention.

He looked towards the end of the village, where several children were chasing and playing, their cheerful laughter ringing out from time to time.

They ran quickly toward Adir, laughing and joking, seemingly oblivious to Adir standing in front of them.

"ah!"

With a crisp thud, a little boy crashed into Adir and fell to the ground with a thud.

Falling to the ground, the boy shook his head, seemingly not understanding why he had fallen, and then looked up ahead.

"Brother...you bumped into me."

Seemingly having discovered something, the boy frowned as he looked at Adir standing in front of him and spoke with a very aggrieved expression.

As soon as the boy spoke, the world around them fell silent again.

Staring silently at the little boy in front of him, Adir's face remained calm, without any reaction.

Before he knew it, figures began to gather around him.

Those were villagers, standing around Adir, their different faces blank and indifferent, staring at him with empty eyes.

"Hallucination?"

As he sensed everything around him, this thought flashed through Adir's mind.

Before I could do anything, the surrounding scenery changed again.

Blackish-red blood continued to flow down, and under Adir's gaze, the faces of the surrounding villagers were covered with bloodstains and wounds, making them look like a bloody mess.

Ahead, the boy's skin began to disappear, leaving only bloody flesh.

He stood there, emitting painful howls, looking utterly terrifying.

A spark of energy particles rapidly gathered, condensing into a fireball with a violent aura in front of Adir, which slammed into the boy.

Ah!

A sharp, mournful cry rang out.

Under Adir's watchful gaze, the fireball swept past the boy's mangled body and slammed into the ground, creating a two-meter-wide crater.

The scene suddenly changed, and the once quiet environment became noisy again.

Adir turned and looked around.

Behind him, the bloodied and mangled figures had disappeared. In the houses in the distance, villagers who looked no different from ordinary people were busy with their own tasks, looking so natural.

Hehehe...

The sound of children's laughter could be heard again ahead.

Under Adir's watchful gaze, several children ran and played towards them. One of the boys, just like last time, charged straight at Adir.

But this time, just as the other party was about to crash into him, Adir slightly shifted his body to the side, dodging the other party's figure and avoiding being touched.

The children ran off laughing and playing, their figures gradually disappearing into the distance.

But the next moment, Adir's eyes narrowed.

Ahead of him, laughter rang out again, and several children ran quickly toward him, unchanged from before.

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"Half an hour has passed, and they still haven't come out?"

Hundreds of meters outside the village, on a barren piece of land, Thor and his companions stood quietly, their faces grave as they looked at the village faintly visible in the distance.

"My lord, would that knight possibly...?"

Beside him, a guard in black robes looked into the distance, his expression equally solemn, and spoke in a cryptic tone.

As he spoke, a moment of silence fell around them, with only the sound of the whistling wind passing by.

"Let's wait another half hour."

Looking at the figure in the distance, Thor said with a solemn expression, "If that knight hasn't appeared by half an hour, we'll retreat and wait in a more distant place."

"Yes!" the people around responded.

"Ah!" A cry of surprise suddenly rang out.

"What's wrong?" The faces of the people around him immediately tightened, and they instinctively reached for their weapons before looking in the direction from which the voice came.

"Blood... so much blood..."

Beside them, Ariel looked at her own side in fear.

Behind her was a small pit filled with dark red blood, emanating a foul stench.

The small pit was covered with some dry grass, so they hadn't noticed it before, and it's only now that they've seen it.

They exchanged glances, and Thor and the others' expressions immediately turned serious.

Beside him, a black-robed guard drew his long sword and slowly walked toward the small pit.

He cautiously approached the area, and after getting to a certain distance, instead of going forward, he used his knife to pick out the dry grass, revealing the covered area.

It was a pit more than two meters wide, and it looked very deep, completely covered with dark red blood.

Above the blood, a hideous human head silently emerged, every inch of its skin dripping with blood, its blood-red eyes filled with resentment, frozen in the moment before death.

Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that the head is not very large, and it should belong to a child. Moreover, the skin on the surface has been peeled off, which looks terrifying.

"Damn it..."

Seeing this, the expressions on the faces of the people present were rather unpleasant.

Standing still, the black-robed guard who had stepped forward gritted his teeth and thrust his long sword forward.

With a slight sound, he pulled the horrific human head out of the blood and rolled it straight onto the black earth.

"call···"

Seeing this scene, Thor breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart eased: "It's nothing, just one head, it's nothing."

The other men in black robes standing around him also breathed a sigh of relief, no longer tense as before.

Living in this world, for people like them, they have seen at least eight hundred, if not a thousand, dead bodies. A mere skinned head is nothing to them.

Unless it's something bizarre like a corpse spirit, just a corpse, no matter how terrifying it is, won't frighten them.

Even Ariel, a young girl who had seen corpses more than once or twice due to her years of scavenging in the wild, only paled slightly upon seeing the human head and did not react much.

They didn't pay any attention to this incident.

However, what they didn't notice was that, in the original blood hole, as the human head left its place, ripples were beginning to appear.

A bloody arm slowly emerged from the blood.

(End of this chapter)