"I'm Ken Carter."
The old man's voice was low, even a little trembling: "I am... a ceremonial master from Nata County."
Natta County…
Annan frowned slightly.
He had indeed heard the name of the place... This is not a good place.
Nata County is a Viscounty near the western border of Noah. The terrain itself is similar to Roseburg, but the difference is... there is nothing beyond it to the west.
Yes, the westernmost side is the border of Noah's kingdom.
In the past few decades, Nata County has even been completely gnawed away by the gray fog that is gradually inwardly eroding the plains to the west of the city—and a third of the urban area. This degree of erosion will be halved after five years.
At this distance, it is impossible for the enchantment to completely block the penetration of the gray mist.
The dusty curse visible to the naked eye is flying in the city—the whole city is gray during the day, and the sky will turn blood red when it is close to night.
If ordinary people live in such a place, they will easily suffer from chronic diseases within a few years-after all, the water source is very likely to be polluted by the curse. Long-term residence, unclean air and water will greatly weaken the physique of ordinary people.
And those foods exposed to the air will even grow mold within two or three days, and the rotting speed of fresh meat, vegetables and fruits is more than three times that of the inland areas. If you accidentally eat food contaminated by the curse, you may die due to acute infection in a short time.
This directly led to the lord of Nata County deciding to evacuate inland, abandoning the city completely. And when no one was paid, the city guards and the police station quickly withdrew... With the loss of order maintainers, many vicious robberies and murders soon occurred. This directly led to the fact that the caravan no longer went to Natta County - and thus, Silver Lord's church also evacuated.
They put up signs warning passers-by not to proceed. And persuade people in the city to leave as soon as possible.
But obviously... a brand can't stop those illegal transcendents who thirst for power, ordinary people who fanatically pursue transcendence, and criminals who have committed serious crimes and are forced to flee. Even the brand itself was stolen in the first month after it was set up.
In the end, Nata County directly became a completely lawless zone.
The indescribable monsters in the gray mist will even directly enter the city to prey; some superhumans who are eager for power will enter Nata County, live in a place close to the gray mist inside the barrier, and suck the vicious curse in the gray mist—this It will cause their erosion rate to rise sharply, and their temperament will gradually become irritable and dark, but it will also make their strength increase rapidly. At least until the highest level of bronze, there is no difficulty.
And these illegal transcendents have no supervision, so naturally they don't need to abide by the law honestly, and naturally it is impossible to keep a low profile-when they fight, they will lead to a lot of nightmares.
With a large number of uncontrollable nightmares and the erosion of gray fog, demons may be born somewhere at any time.
One can imagine.
There will be no "ordinary people" here at all.
Even if you give up your identity and become a refugee in an inland city... it is far better than living in Nata County.
In fact, in some cities in the interior of Noah, "Natashire people" can completely refer to "vagrants".
This is a bunch of homeless people. Many people have a bad impression of them... because these Natashire people grew up in that harsh environment, and many of them will become gang members such as thieves, liars, and human traffickers. This is exactly what they do.
But in contrast to-
The "supernatural" abilities that are generally kept secret in other places are almost public in Nata County. They unconsciously absorbed a lot of vicious curses, and they could easily become wild transcendents in a certain nightmare—the kind of dangerous transcendents whose erosion rate exceeded 50% at the beginning of their birth.
In order to fight against the extraordinary, the taboo knowledge of becoming a ritual master will also be circulated in Nata County.
The dangers of this technology mean nothing to the Natashires.
Once living in a precarious city, the taboos and dangers of the Ritual Master's knowledge are particularly ridiculous-the same is true for knowledge about blasting and poison.
yes, explosion—
Annan thought of this, and asked:
"Are you from Natashire?"
"Yes, I have been in Natashire for forty years."
"Then why did you leave Natta County?"
"Naturally...to serve my master."
The old man said in a low voice: "I won't say his name. He was the one who took me and my child away from Nata County, and allowed my child to go to school and have a normal job. I owe His life..."
So you still tell me so much now
The corner of Annan's mouth raised slightly, but he didn't say much.
Lord Ken Carter should have realized that.
Annan will use the Silver Lord's magic - there are only two possibilities.
Sir Silver has seen through the rotten man's plot and intends to interfere;
Or, he is in someone's nightmare, and this person in front of him is the Silver Hand of the Silver Lord Church.
Regardless of the possibility, his concealment is actually meaningless.
Because if the priests of Sir Silver have doubts, they can initiate an investigation. And these secrets are impossible to hide from the Church.
As long as Yin Jue checks the account himself, basically any secrets will be discovered by him.
Yinjue can see all types of "transactions" of everyone in the world. And trace back to the transaction time, transaction content and transaction object.
This is why He has no authority over "truths" or "secrets"...but almost nothing can be hidden from Him.
"—So, no matter what the possibility is. Your concealment is meaningless."
Annan smiled and said calmly, "Tell me the truth, don't show off your loyal appearance to me."
Hearing this, Ken smiled bitterly silently.
He sighed and said in a low voice:
"Okay... I've got a showdown. I'll say anything.
"They are holding a ceremony. The name of this ceremony is 'The Feast of the Great Hunt'. It is the domain of the god of murder and conspiracy 'The Tragedy Writer'... The general content of the ceremony is that six people carrying guide stones, Form a 'stage' in a certain banquet, frame a range, and set everyone in it as 'actors'. And use a 'sufficiently grand opening' to sacrifice one person, cause a large-scale chaos to start the ceremony, and curse the period The fate of each 'star'.
"The order of killing is completely random, and is personally selected by the 'tragedy writer'. Each selected person is called the 'person who speaks the lines', and he can temporarily exempt himself from the bad luck only by killing another person, and will' The line 'give it to the next person; or encounter a calamity... this calamity may be fatal.
"And every time a person dies, the next person's bad luck will be even more terrible, or even doubled. Until the 'closing ceremony' sends the 'tragic writer' away. If the 'closing ceremony' cannot be completed, then the ceremony will be regarded as a failure. In the end When an actor dies, all the 'curtain weavers' die in agony."
That's... us.
Ken pointed to himself with a wry smile: "And everyone involved in this project... everyone.
"As for the cost of the ceremony and the reward after it is completed, I don't think you will care about it... because the process of the ceremony itself is their purpose. First start a grand fire and burn one person to death as the opening... this The ceremony is complete."
"… them?"
Annan keenly captured a key word.
Ken nodded slowly, and his voice was very complicated: "But please don't ask, I can't say or write his name. I don't want to participate in this plan... But I have no choice. Because I don't think , They will organize us to start a second fire to 'close the curtain'. The bigger possibility is to let us all die as a way to silence the mouth."
"'him… "
Annan murmured, "Then I know who it is."
Bacheng is the third prince Philip.
Besides him, who else could let the heir of the Crow family take risks
But Ferdinand...
Did he know that he was placed in the position of "possible victim"
Now Annan finally knows... How did those heirs die one after another in a short period of time, but the murderer was never found out!
Their fate had been cursed years ago - but they didn't realize it!
In order to be able to curse them successfully, I am afraid that many people would have died before that.
Annan felt a chill in his heart—
That said, it's not just explosions and fires he's trying to prevent...
This is the first time Annan has come into contact with the power of "fate".
Of course... what it insists on saying is actually not fate.
Judging from the priesthood of this false god—or evil god, he doesn't have the fields of "accident" and "luck" like Miss Luck.
The god of murder and conspiracy... this one is probably "manually" creating bad luck.
"... tell me how to stop this ritual."
Annan's mind was spinning, and he asked slowly.