Standing outside a wooden house, Adil walked down the steps and looked at Sol standing in front of him and asked casually.
"Yes, I have confirmed it again and again."
Looking at Adil, Thor had a wry smile on his face: "They say that since you can't escape the curse sooner or later, it is better to sleep peacefully in your own ancestral altar than to die in a foreign land."
After hearing this, Adil's expression remained unchanged and he nodded slightly.
It is easy to understand why these survivors made this decision.
In the past, there was a barrier outside the village, and these people might have been lucky and thought they could survive by relying on the barrier.
But the scene last night easily woke them up from their luck and forced them to face reality.
Without the protection of the barrier, within a few months at most, these people will be cursed and die outside sooner or later.
Rather than die in a foreign country like this, it is better to give it a try and maybe there is still some hope.
After all, with a powerful wizard like Adil here, he might be able to solve the leaked seal.
On the other hand, Adil actually does not reject these people's decisions.
Immediately go to Thor's hometown. These people in front of you are also descendants of ancient wizards. They are pure Crasu people. They know more or less something about that place. At the very least, they can serve as guides, which is not without any value.
At the same spot, Adil looked at Thor, and after chatting with him for a few words, he walked away, preparing to return to his house to rest.
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One morning more than ten days later, in the vast wilderness, a group of people appeared, marching into the distance.
In the team, Thor was riding a black horse, looking into the distance constantly, and was patrolling around.
Because vegetation cannot grow on the black soil, the surrounding land looks desolate, with no life in sight.
In such a flat environment with nothing to hide it, it is very difficult to hide.
Walking at the front of the team, Sol was riding a horse when he suddenly felt a black shadow passing by.
He subconsciously followed his line of sight and happened to see a short figure with a bare upper body and dark skin running quickly from a distance.
"Are they local indigenous people?"
Looking at the figure running fast in the distance, this thought flashed through Sol's mind.
After a while, he turned back and walked towards the carriage behind.
"Lord Adier, we will be arriving soon!"
Riding on the side of the carriage, he shouted to the carriage window.
"Are you there?"
Listening to the shouts outside the carriage, Adil opened his eyes and shook off the deduction data in his mind.
He reached out to open the window and looked out at the scenery.
Compared with when we first moved forward, some people have begun to appear here. Although it is still very desolate in Adil's view, there are at least some traces of life.
Even without chip detection, through the moon elf's keen sensing ability, Adil could clearly feel that the breath of life that began to appear around him should belong to the indigenous people living nearby.
"Eh..."
It seemed that he had discovered an abnormal situation in life, and Adil was suddenly a little surprised.
In his keen sense, there seemed to be a spiritual imprint in the distance, which vaguely resonated with his spiritual power, giving it a sense of familiarity.
In just a moment, Adil remembered that the source of this feeling belonged to the old indigenous man who had been imprinted with a spiritual mark by him, but now he sensed it again.
"Is it a coincidence, or is it?"
Adil raised his head and whispered to himself, with some inexplicable meaning in his eyes.
Before, although he had a spiritual mark placed on the other party, he didn't pay too much attention to it.
Being able to be sensed by him without him paying special attention meant that the distance between the two parties was very close at this time.
And as time continues to pass, under Adier's induction, the distance between the two sides is constantly shortening.
"Sir, we are here." Sol's voice suddenly came from outside the carriage.
Listening to the sound, Adil stood up and walked out of the carriage.
Outside the carriage, several people were ready. At this time, they were all standing behind Thor, quietly waiting for Adir's order.
Standing where he was, Adil raised his head and looked into the distance.
In the distance, a huge palace is standing. It looks very huge, but a little old, and there is a sense of historical accumulation.
Looking at this somewhat dilapidated palace, Adil felt many auras, including curses and the power of blood in Thor's body.
But compared with what Adil had seen before, the two forces in the palace in front of him were unprecedentedly powerful, and Adil could treat each one with caution when taken out alone.
"Let's go in."
Looking at the palace in the distance, Adil was silent for a while, and then he spoke.
After listening to his words, everyone present nodded silently.
To be able to come here with Adil, these people present are undoubtedly mentally prepared for the worst. Even Yana, a mother at this time, took out a handful while holding her child.
Purple scimitar.
As a descendant of an ancient wizard, she is not a weak girl with no physical strength. Compared to ordinary people, she can easily defeat a strong man with her physical fitness.
Especially after Adil carved a bloodline mark for her, the bloodline power in her body increased again. Although she is still not as good as Thor in combat, I'm afraid it won't be much worse.
"Before I leave, I want to ask you one more question."
Standing in the center, looking at Yana who was wearing leather armor and fully armed in front of him, Adil spoke again: "Forget it about you and Thor, just bring Solana in, is that really okay?"
"This ruins is very dangerous. Even I cannot guarantee her safety."
He looked at Sol and said calmly.
"It doesn't matter."
Listening to Adil's words, Sol and Yana looked at each other, and then couldn't help but shake their heads: "If we will die in our hometown this time, then we also hope to be able to go through this journey with our children."
"Besides, there are some things in this palace that this child needs to inherit."
Sol paused and spoke again: "We don't want the inheritance left by our ancestors to disappear completely, and we also hope that this child's future will be smoother."
After hearing this, Adil did not continue to speak, but turned to look ahead, and then rode a horse directly.
"Let's go."
After riding on the horse, he looked at the people around him and shouted.
The people around him nodded silently, mounted their horses, and drove ahead to lead the way for Adil.
After walking for a long distance, some figures began to appear in front of us.
Those were some indigenous villages. They were stationed outside the palace and built several camps.
After seeing the arrival of Adil and his party, these natives were startled at first, and then quickly began to gather.
"Who?" A voice sounded in the distance, with a bit of coldness and some fluctuations in mental power.
In Adil's sight, in the distant village, surrounded by many natives, an old man with dark skin and a thin body was slowly walking out, followed by two other middle-aged natives.
Standing there, when he saw the old man, the spiritual power in Adil's body trembled slightly, resonating with the spiritual imprint he had set.
The old man in front of him was the native Adil met back then, but he didn't expect to meet him in this way.
"Lord Adier..." A voice sounded from the side.
Beside Thor, looking at the natives appearing in the distance, a Krasu frowned and reminded Adil in a low voice: "This is the snake witch, who has been chasing us for the past few years and is very powerful.
"
"You are..."
In the distance, the skinny old native man led people to the front. When he saw Thor next to Adil, his expression suddenly changed. He looked a little excited but also a little confused: "It's you!!"
"Get out of the way and let us in!"
In front of Adil, looking at the old man in the distance, Sol's face was cold and his words contained no emotion.
"Let you in?"
After listening to Sol's words, the indigenous old man suddenly smiled: "I was just about to take the initiative to find you, but I didn't expect that you took the initiative to come over."
"If you want to go in, of course there is no problem."
His face gradually became cold, but his eyes were a little excited: "Lie down on the altar and sacrifice to the snake god!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a faint light suddenly lit up around him, causing many of the natives present to feel confused and their body movements to become even slower.
The next moment, a silver force field suddenly erupted, knocking away all the natives running around.
At some point, Adil's figure instantly appeared behind the old native man and stretched out a hand.
"you!!"
When he noticed the figure suddenly appearing behind him, the old native man was horrified and was about to speak.
A strong hand directly held his neck, blocking everything he wanted to say. The powerful force made him feel suffocated. His original strength seemed to have disappeared. His whole body was completely unable to lift his energy and was tightly restrained.
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"Where does all this nonsense come from..."
Lifting the other person up with one hand, Adil felt a little impatient when looking at the person in front of him. He stretched out his other hand and placed it on the other person's forehead.
"Originally, I wanted to experiment slowly, but now it seems that I have to be a little more rough first."
This thought flashed through his mind, and under the touch of Adil's spiritual power, the consciousness of the man in front of him was forcibly opened by him to search for the memories in it.
As a formal wizard, after reaching the transformation stage, there are special spells and techniques that can be used to observe other people's memories. However, the side effects are too great. Not only is the operation complicated, but if you are not careful, it is easy to make the other party a fool, causing various side effects.
However, in the current situation, when he was about to enter the ruins, Adil was too lazy to waste any more time and simply checked the other party's memory directly.
Suddenly, under the link of mental power, a large number of memory fragments rushed towards Adil, and together they formed a picture.
It was a huge black snake statue. In front of the statue, corpses were placed neatly, and the flesh and blood inside were slowly evaporating and blending into the statue below.
The less it blends in, the more lifelike the statue of the black snake looks, as if it is a living creature.
"Great Snake God! Please grant me your blessing." An old voice kept ringing from all around, mumbling a lot of prayers.
The owner of that voice is exactly the owner of this memory, that is, the object of memory that Adil is checking at this time.
As the sound continued to sound, in the fragments of memory, a layer of black scales gradually appeared on the old man's body, and the strength and aura of his body seemed to have increased a lot.
"Sacrifice..."
Silently observing this scene in his memory, Adil subconsciously frowned, seeming to think of something.
Before I had time to think too much, an extreme sense of danger suddenly emerged from my heart.
A dark space covered the place, and in the space, a faint moonlight lit up.
That was the light radiating from Adil's body. At this time, the darkness was driven away, and the original scene was completely revealed.
A huge black snake appeared in front of him. Just like what he had seen before in his memory, most of its body was made of stone. Only a pair of scarlet snake eyes were very smart, and there was endless evil and strangeness in them.
Frightening power.
Watching this scene quietly, Adil kept his face calm and somewhat understood the current situation.
"In that native's memory, there is the essence of the curse, which is the power of this black snake. I had already been hit by it when I just checked the other person's memory!"
Looking at the black snake in front of him, a realization arose in his heart.
Then the next moment, wisps of black energy continued to spread, and a kind of power spread here, gradually spreading towards Adil, but was resisted by the faint moonlight shrouding Adil's body.
boom!!
A violent explosion suddenly sounded, bringing with it a terrible mental blow.
The surrounding scene began to change and became what it was at the beginning.
Standing there, Adier gasped for breath and felt a severe sense of mental exhaustion.
After probably recovering for a while, he lowered his head and looked in front of him.
At his feet, the former indigenous old man had turned into a corpse. He collapsed directly from the previous mental stimulation, with the previous expression of horror on his face.
"I was still careless. If I had the protection of the Emerald Mark this time, I'm afraid the price I would have to pay would not be as high as it is now."
He shook his head and stood there, thinking about the scene just now, and couldn't help but feel a little frightened.
The mind of the native in front of him has been sealed. No matter who wants to peek into his memory, the seal will bite him back.
There is no doubt that the seal was left by the body of the curse. Adil was unable to notice it for a moment, but almost fell into it.
If there were no accidents, Adil would have paid a heavy price for that attack just now. Only at the last moment, the power of the emerald mark on Adil's forehead appeared again, blocking the final backlash of the seal, and Adil was unable to do so.
Injuried.
"Although the process is a bit thrilling, I can probably guess your identity..."
Standing there, putting down the corpse in his hands, Adil turned around, looked at the ruins in front of him and muttered to himself.