Boom!
The explosion engulfed Nok.
Nok didn't struggle. He closed his eyes and waited quietly for death.
There was no fear on his face, but a slight smile of relief.
…
I don’t know how much time has passed.
Nok, who was waiting for death, suddenly discovered that he did not feel the impact or pain of the explosion.
He opened his eyes suddenly.
Something's wrong!
The dazzling sunlight shone into his eyes, causing him to close his eyes again.
The breeze blows on my face, which is Miss Qiu's naughty greeting.
The warm feeling on my body comes from the sunshine.
"I'm not dead!"
Nok opened his eyes again excitedly and looked around frantically.
Where are the dead trees, where are the explosions and the dead tree king!
What was left was just a piece of scorched grass beneath Nok's feet.
And there are traces of lines left on the grass.
Nok carefully observed the traces on the ground and couldn't help but exclaimed in connection with what he had just experienced.
"Magic array pattern!"
Nok looked at the remaining formation patterns on the ground with a gloomy face.
Although his understanding of the magic circle only stayed on paper.
But what he had just experienced, other than the magic array, he couldn't think of anything else.
Also, there was something wrong with my performance in the fantasy world.
How could Tannock sacrifice his lifespan in exchange for the opportunity to activate divine magic?
It’s not like he doesn’t have a trump card!
Could it be that the Withered Tree King in the fantasy world made him feel desperate, so he broke the jar and threw it?
Something is wrong.
Nok casually put his hand on his waist and touched the trump card hidden in his waist through his coat.
This was the confidence that gave him the courage to venture out alone. He didn't even use his trump cards. How could he trade his lifespan for the opportunity to activate his magic just because his divine power was exhausted?
Nok secretly mobilized the divine power in his body (note 1).
He found that his divine power was full, and the consumption from the previous night had long been recovered.
Therefore, he never used his divine power at all.
Are the experiences in the fantasy really his experiences?
Nok turned back and looked in the direction of Kored behind him.
At this time, the village of "Kred" was no longer visible.
Nok just discovered the anomaly of "Kred" and had this fantasy experience.
Is it a warning or an accident?
Nok recalled the lamp full of strange emotions and hesitated whether to look back.
Although he accepted Sherlock's commission and promised to help him investigate the truth about Ford's disappearance.
But Nok was unwilling to lose his life.
Nok began to reflect on himself.
I remembered how anxious Father John used to be every time he went out.
It turned out that Tannock was sitting in a well and looking at the sky, and underestimated the danger in the wild.
Also, as the royal city of the Lion Heart Kingdom, how could England be in real danger.
It is estimated that those monsters wandering in the darkness are just "little guys" deliberately put into the royal city by the kingdom in order to cultivate a sense of crisis among its people.
Nock faced down his approach to the crisis.
It seemed that his experiences over the past year had given him a false sense of his own strength.
I thought I was invincible.
After Nok reflected on himself, he began to think about what to do next.
Should he return to the city, or bypass Kored and continue towards his other original destination, the "Land of Wisdom".
"If I were Ford, when passing by Korede, would I ignore the anomalies inside and not be curious?"
"No! Ford was in a hurry, which means he had important things to deal with. If there were important things, he would not be distracted by other things and could concentrate on his journey."
"It's a pity that we didn't first investigate the whereabouts of Ford's carriage in the city that day. If Ford didn't hide his whereabouts, then he probably came all the way and accidentally entered the Korede and was trapped inside."
"But if he hides his whereabouts, he will definitely avoid villages like Korede and go around the path."
"But the question now is, is his destination the village of Korede or the land of wisdom!"
Nok squatted on the grass with a headache, letting the sun climb from his back to the top of his head.
"No, no!"
Nok scratched his head frantically. His confident analysis at home was completely overturned after encountering the "accident" in front of him.
"There must be some details that I overlooked."
"Ford is just an ordinary wealthy businessman. There is no need to go to great lengths to deal with him."
"As long as we find a sparsely populated place, it's easy to kidnap him or kill him."
"But the question is, who is going to attack him?"
"Letter! That letter!"
"Damn it, if only I could know the contents of the letter, the problem would be solved!"
When Nok thought of this, he immediately gave up his plan to move forward.
Whether it's the weird "Kred" or the "wisdom town" with many mechanisms.
None of it is something he can spy on now.
It would be better to go back to the city and investigate the contents of the letter Ford received that day.
Maybe Ford didn't take the letter away, but left it at home.
Even if the letter is not found, the person who sent it can always find it, right?
The letter was given to Ford by the butler of the Holmes family.
Then the housekeeper must have seen the person who delivered the letter.
When you find the person who sent the letter, are you still worried that you don’t know who sent the letter?
Nok was resurrected on the spot with full health.
He patted the grass clippings off his body, turned around and rushed back towards the city of England.
However, as soon as Nok raised his feet, he hesitated again on his face.
He was unwilling to give in.
Yes.
Nok was unwilling to run back in despair after encountering setbacks.
Although he returned to the city to investigate under the guise of investigating letters.
But Nok knew very well that he was making excuses for his timidity because of fear!
This is not what he wants!
He doesn't want to live a submissive life like Father John!
Nock is grateful for Father John's teaching and help.
But he definitely didn't want to live like Father John.
Although he was obviously powerful, he was framed again and again by a group of followers of the Natural God Cult, and he eventually became seriously ill and passed away.
"O Holy Lord, please forgive my selfishness."
Knock suddenly fell to his knees and prayed in the direction of England.
"I can't live a useless life. For the sake of the children, the monastery, and myself, please forgive my selfishness. Amen!"
Nok stood up again, with determination on his face.
He still chose the direction of "Kred" and walked hard.
He had to see what the weirdness in "Kred" was!
The scorching sun is now in the sky, which is when all evil forces are at their weakest.
Nok would be willing to take a look at the real situation of "Kred".
He couldn't find anything and be scared away by a lantern!
Nok put his hands on his hips and ran toward "Kred" in fear without knowing why.
One glance, just one glance is enough!
Nok must see what flaws "Kred"'s weirdness will reveal under the scorching sun!
Even if he would attract the strange attack of "Kred" for this, Nok would not hesitate!
Nok looked calm on the surface, but his hands on his waist had already firmly grasped the trump card hidden in his waist.
This is a weapon that can repel even the demons of hell. Nok doesn't believe that the weird things in the world can be more difficult to deal with than the demons of hell!
Soon, Nok saw the outline of "Kred" in the distance.
But, as Knock kept moving forward.
The determination on Nok's face turned into shock.
Nearly a hundred meters away from "Kred", Nok slowly stopped.
He didn't move on, and there was no need to move on.
Where is the "Kred"?
The village in front of me has long been turned into ruins.
There are no vegetables in the vegetable fields around the village.
There are just rotten vegetable leaves and dry land all over the ground, and swarms of flies have been flying uninvited on the vegetable fields.
The village that Nok saw in the morning was now turned into scorched ruins.
This is the trace left behind after the fire burned.
There was no smoke on the ruins, so it was obvious that the village had not burned down for some time.
"No! If the village was burned down, then what happened to the village I saw this morning!"
Nok became alert, grasped the weapon at his waist, and cautiously approached the ruins of the village.
Standing at the entrance of the village, Nok looked at the scene in front of him. Even standing under the scorching sun, his hands and feet felt cold.
The buildings in the village were burned to ashes.
At first glance, it appears to be just an ordinary fire.
But when it fell in Nok's eyes, it was enough to make his scalp tingle!
I saw it hidden in the shadows under the ruins.
The twisted souls covered in black gas were struggling, but they could not escape the ruins of the building that were pressing on them.
They howled silently, but couldn't make any sound.
There are no less than a hundred such undead souls in Nok's eyes!
This is still the entrance to the village!
Nok endured the discomfort, raised his slightly trembling legs, and walked into the ruined village.
Buzz!
With the intrusion of Nok, the undead who had been relatively peaceful under the scorching sun suddenly began to boil.
They struggled to get out from under the ruins one by one, but when they came into contact with the sun, they were violently burned and forced back. They instinctively got back under the ruins to avoid the sun.
But they "watched" Nok who entered the village with their empty eye sockets. If their eyes could tear a person to pieces, Nok would have died tens of millions of times by now.
Nok carefully avoided every pile of ruins to avoid being entangled by the souls under the ruins.
"This is!"
Nok's eyes were suddenly drawn to the wooden planks on a pile of rubble.
He strode forward and leaned forward.
On a burnt wooden board, half of the Holmes family crest can still be vaguely seen.
Could this be the wreckage of Ford Holmes' carriage?
Nok glanced at the dead souls hiding under the wreckage.
This is not the ghost of Ford Holmes.
But Knock recognized it anyway.
This was a servant of Ford Holmes, whom Nook had met once, on the day Ford Holmes visited him with a "thank you gift."
This man is right next to Ford Holmes.
Unexpectedly, he has turned into an undead, so it seems that Ford Holmes is probably in danger.
Unfortunately, looking at it, it looked like the villagers in the village, covered in black air.
This is the sign of a wraith.
A village of resentful spirits!
If Nok had really come to this village in the morning, he would have been torn to pieces by these resentful spirits!
Where is the chance to fall into some illusion!
Nok smiled bitterly with fear on his face: "It seems that I fell into an illusion from the beginning. I didn't reach Korede at all, but was trapped halfway!"
"It's just that the other party didn't expect that I didn't retreat despite the difficulties, but would come back during the day to kill me."
"How cruel! After massacring a village, he actually set up an illusion to cover up the truth."
"Wasting so much effort really just to hide the whereabouts of Ford Holmes?"
Nok looked back in the direction of Ying Lun and murmured: "Not necessarily!"
[Note 1: The so-called divine power is actually just called differently. They are all manifestations of magic. This book posits that the world is composed of elements such as water, fire, wind, earth, light, darkness, and space. Derived elements include ice, thunder, wood, poison and other alien elements. These will be explained in detail later when the Magician Guild officially appears. You can think of Nok as a light mage who practices light magic. It's just that I secretly learned some other basic spells without anyone teaching me. 】
