Chapter 432: Ceremony: The Misfortune of Breaking the Fate
The location of Blood Butterfly Valley is not far to the south of Nata County.
Nata County is in the northwest corner of the Kingdom of Noah. On the map, it is about ten o'clock.
Leaving Nata County and heading south over the Velen Mountain, you will find a village.
The villagers living here are not the same as the lawless gangsters in Nata County.
This is already a city close to the edge of civilization... While it is inaccessible, it also means that many cursed materials are easy to obtain. Many merchants who sell cursed materials will occasionally come here to exchange some materials with the villagers.
Some distance further east from here is the Black Tower of Zedi.
Many wizards from the Black Tower in the Zeland will also come here to exchange daily necessities with the villagers.
——In fact, the village itself is a ceremony.
Because going south from Velen Mountain, directly opposite is the entrance to Blood Butterfly Valley.
Zedi Black Tower uses the "vitality and civilization" of the village itself as the hub of the barrier, sealing off the Blood Butterfly Valley to prevent any blood butterflies from breaking the barrier and leaving.
As long as you are bitten by a blood butterfly, you will get a strange disease that cannot be cured and can also be transmitted - as long as you are injured, you will bleed, just like hemophilia... and once their blood leaves the body, it will become a new one
Blood butterfly.
It is necessary to use a powerful bishop-level magic to dispel the curse, or simply replace the blood in the whole body for treatment... Simply taking medicine or using healing magic and rituals are completely useless.
At best, the wound can only be restored to a healthy level. If it is injured again, it will return to its previous state.
And if these blood butterflies are killed, they will immediately regenerate in the Blood Butterfly Valley; their number will always remain at one hundred and seventy-eight. If new ones are added, the number initially born will also decrease.
Therefore, Zedi Black Tower sealed off the entire Blood Butterfly Valley - blocking both ends with landslides, and using a barrier to seal the top. Then it killed all the blood butterflies outside... and the blood butterflies were reborn.
Into the prison.
A disaster was thus averted.
This barrier does not only have a "blocking" effect.
There is no shortage of stupid and bad villains in the world... For such an important barrier, it is natural to consider how to prevent them from breaking through from the outside.
The solution that Zedi Black Tower came up with was to use the nameless village at the foot of Velen Mountain to cover the entrance to Blood Butterfly Valley.
They used a large-scale ritual called "The Disaster of Broken Fate".
This ritual is actually a curse - roughly speaking, its effect is to make someone never see their lover, or some key item. This is achieved by letting them pass each other on the street.
, or even if they are back to back, they will never be able to find the vicious effect of the other party.
Through this effect, the wizards of the Zedi Black Tower set "Party A" in this curse ritual to the people in the entire nameless village, and set Party B to the barrier above the Blood Butterfly Valley.
Then the wizards of the Zedi Black Tower asked the villagers to warmly entertain the guests and built a large number of spare houses for the villagers and tourists to live.
Through the connection of curses, a wonderful effect is formed.
Anyone who goes forward from this village, or prepares to return to the village after exploring - that is to say, anyone who uses this "village" as a foothold or entry and exit point will be cut off from the barrier above the Blood Butterfly Valley.
"fate".
They couldn't see the barrier, and the barrier itself blocked everything inside the Blood Butterfly Valley. And to the south of the Blood Butterfly Valley was the endless poisonous swamp...the only entrance was in this nameless village.
This caused everyone who heard the legend to explore the "Blood Butterfly Valley" in the mountains to the west from this unknown village.
But they couldn't see anything.
Therefore, Blood Butterfly Valley has become a "legendary" place.
Many people even doubt whether it really exists...because many explorers have not found its true location.
The core of "Ritual: Disaster of Broken Fate" is kept by the Master of Hugo Tower. Only he can undo this ritual and expose the Blood Butterfly Valley.
The reason why the former "Bloody Hands Brothers" went on a killing spree in Nata County left behind the legend of "Bloody Hands on the Window".
In fact, they were trying to find the Blood Butterfly Valley...but ultimately failed to find it.
——But now, this ritual has been broken.
Annan took a deep breath.
He was standing among the ruins of this nameless village.
Yes, wreckage.
The house had been completely burned, and bodies were scattered everywhere.
The vast majority of them were adults - holding farm tools, bows and arrows and shotguns, and died in the streets.
You can tell at a glance.
Those are traces of spells left by extraordinary beings.
Some people seemed to have been blown away by something invisible. The bones in their faces and chests collapsed and deformed, and their entire bodies were embedded in the burning wall;
Some people were penetrated by a row of solid black thorns protruding from the ground, and fell crookedly on the thorns. The blood solidified on the thorns, making them show a distinctive reddish-brown color under the sunlight;
Some people were drowned on dry flat ground, some were burned to ashes out of thin air, some dried up like firewood, and some seemed to fall from high altitude...
It looks like many wizards have passed here.
But Annan knew... these were all done by Nicholas II.
Most of the experimental subjects on his side were old people, women and children, and only about six or seven were adult men.
It was probably during the "capture" stage that villagers with fighting abilities - such as butchers, blacksmiths and hunters, resisted his capture and were killed too many by his spells.
The remaining people were so frightened that they were locked in a cage by Nicholas and dragged into the Blood Butterfly Valley.
Nicholas obviously realized the essence of this ceremony.
But he didn't have the courage to go straight to the Zedi Black Tower like a spirit-carrying monk to confront the owner of the Hugo Tower.
Or it may be that the Spirit-bearing Monk died in the Black Tower of Zedi, making him afraid to repeat his behavior again.
And Nicholas has been silent for so long, obviously he has figured out another way to solve the "disaster of broken ties".
Since this is a ritual to shield one’s destiny through this nameless village...
He simply killed or kidnapped all the villagers, leaving no one in the village, and destroyed and burned all the properties, residences and fields - conceptually, so that the village would no longer exist.
——But Annan knew that if Nicholas II really wanted to go to Blood Butterfly Valley, he would not need such a complicated method at all.
He is a gold-level transcendent, and he also controls many fallen people.
Now that he has researched that the shielding method of Blood Butterfly Valley is "Ritual: Disaster of Broken Fate", he can directly climb over the entire mountain range - from the rugged mountains, it takes half a month to climb to Blood Butterfly Valley
.Those insects, snakes and ferocious beasts that can easily kill ordinary people cannot hurt him at all.