After the village of Buhe was burned by a fire, the villagers had to temporarily move to the camp where the war wolves were captured. The temporary camps were simpler than those in small villages. Women, children and elderly people could still live in the only few covered tree houses, and young and middle-aged people could only pave the floor on the wet woodland.

Therefore, when Capa led more than 50 candidates to the already crowded camp, even Lucien was a little stunned. He did not expect that the so-called "village" was so simple.

"I am the village chief of Buch Village, Chavez." An old man in his seventies pushed aside the crowd and walked towards Lucien, the most conspicuous among the candidates.

After making a brief introduction, Lucien said that he only borrowed the camp for one night and a small number of hunters. Once the war wolf cubs were captured, the candidates would leave immediately without causing any trouble to the villagers.

Under Chavez's arrangement, the hunters moved out a clearing space to allow the candidates who had been walking for a day to rest.

"Victor is back..." Capa leaned closer: "Victor is back."

"What?!" The old village chief was shocked.

"Just in the candidate group. Look, standing with the young man who was leading the way, he hid in the corner just now."

Following Cappa's finger, Chavez saw a familiar figure in the crowd. Compared to five years ago, not only did he grow taller, but his face was also more handsome. However, the Yin Yan, which could not be hidden between his eyebrows, wiped away the impression left in his childhood in his memory, making him look cold and a sense of existence that cannot be ignored. He is like a lone wolf, lonely and dangerous.

According to the memory of the puppet corpse, Victor quickly took another old man who looked at him with a weird look.

It turned out that he was the village chief who indirectly caused Wood's death...

Thinking of this, the lich pulled the corners of his mouth, and his face, which had always been difficult to express, became murderous because of this action.

"Although I promised my father to take care of you, you'd better not do anything under my nose." Lucien, who was standing beside him, patted Victor's shoulder at the right time, implying that if he did it, he would never sit idly by.

[I remember there is a statute in the Mara Code, killing people to pay for their lives.]

Lucien brows tightly, and his eyes at Chavez were a little more complicated.

If this old man is related to Victor's mother's death, he will really not be able to interfere. In remote villages where the law cannot control, private fights are often the only choice to resolve personal grievances.

[Don't worry, it won't embarrass you. I'll remember my childhood, so you don't have to follow me to see the scenery.] The curve of the corner of your mouth was lengthened, and when you were satisfied, Victor turned around and left.

Busy to take care of the candidates, Lucien could only let Victor disappear from his sight.

"Village Chief, do you want to notify the hunting team?" Capa was a little worried. If Victor came back to take revenge, the elderly, weak, women and children in the village might have been tragically attacked by him.

"It's okay to say it, just keep alert and don't do extra things." Chavez was a little absent-minded, his eyes staring straight into the direction where Victor left.

"But……"

"We owe him, Kapa." The old village chief shook his head repeatedly with a sigh.

Although Leya and her son have caused trouble to the village, it is undeniable that they have actually harmed the villagers. Moreover, Leya's death is inseparable from Buch Village, and it is reasonable for Victor to retaliate with this.

"There was originally a rule for Buhe Village. When villagers threaten the safety of the entire village, others have the right to deal with it." This rule has been formed since the village was formed. The threat from afar caused a small village in a safe place to fall into great panic. For ten consecutive days, a few sheep in the village were killed every time. The hunting team patrolling every night did not even see the shadow of the invaders, let alone be careful of being guarded or captured. In desperation, they had to follow the ancient system.

According to the request of the mysterious invader, he began to alienate Leah, who was not very close to the villagers. Without food and water, the woman who had been bedridden for many years quickly died of illness and hunger. Just when everyone thought that the matter had passed, the invader visited again and threatened to deceive Victor, who was an apprentice in Mivela town, back to Buch. All adult villagers participated in the vote, and the overwhelming number of votes decided to sacrifice individuals to protect most of the people again.

In this way, Chavez wrote the deadly emergency letter.

The villagers who left the village to avoid disaster saw the fire in Yinghong sky. When they rushed back, the tree houses that had lived in several generations were burned completely, which made many people's only guilt disappear without a trace. They cursed Victor and brought bad luck. Since his appearance, Buch Village has never been peaceful.

"Where are you going? Village Chief..." Seeing Chavez who was stunned, he stood up, Kapa was worried that he wanted to meet Victor alone.

No, it's too dangerous. To this day, Victor should know that it was the villagers who betrayed him, and the old village chief went alone, which would inevitably suffer.

"If you want to talk to him...If you are worried, please bring a few people to the back."

Seeing Chavez insisting, Kapa had to call on several villagers who were left behind in the camp to go with him.

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Following the memory, Victor arrived at the ruined village of Buch.

The fire a few days ago turned this originally peaceful village into scorched earth, filling the nearby air with lingering smell of smoke and musty smell.

In the clearings in the forest, a small piece of soil appeared strangely dark brown. I squatted down and touched it with my fingers. The strong resentment has not yet dissipated and is still wandering in the area visited by death.

Victor remembers that this is where it devours the young mage. It is where it steals his memory, and where it returns to the main material world in a complete human posture.

The young man with the same name as him never closed his eyes until his death and his full grief and anger were truly passed on to it as an immortal creature.

The most ruthless imperial family... The poorest common people are better than the duke's illegitimate son. Wood, death is also a kind of relief for you. You can get rid of ugly emotions, get rid of shameful identity, get rid of family affection that you secretly long for but can never get.

"You shouldn't have come back."

The old voice echoed in the woods with sighs, interrupting Victor's contemplation.

Starting with a chilling sneer, the Lich slowly turned around and looked at Chavez who had come all the way.

[Long time no see, village chief.]

Imitating Wood's tone, Victor stood in the charred ruins, his pale and slightly sick figure did not linger at all, but instead gave people a strong sense of depression.

"You shouldn't have come back." Chavez repeated again.

[I remember that Taran's code records that if you don't help you, you will be sentenced to more than two years of detention.]

The old village chief's body trembled slightly, and his steps forward stopped.

[It seems that it is a default.] The tongue stick draws red trajectories in the dim light.

"Victor, you..." Chavez's eyes became terrified after suddenly feeling his breathing was not smooth.

The old man who couldn't tell the difference between alchemy and the mage mistakenly thought that the lich had cast a magic on him, and Kapa, ​​who was hiding in the dark, immediately jumped out with a few villagers after realizing something was wrong. Little did he know that Victor had always known their existence.

With a cold snorting, the lich merged with the darkness around him. When Kapa arrived by Chavez, there was no sign of it on the ruins of the village.

"Village Chief..." Kapa's alert eyes scanned the quiet forest, and there was no other sound except for one or two beast roars coming from afar.

"That child...he...is no longer the original Victor..." As he gasped in a hurry, Chavez felt that something seemed to be blocked in his chest and his eyes could not see clearly.

"Tell the hunting team... cough... don't get close to him easily..." The last few words were speechless, and Cappa had already put his ears to Chavez's mouth, but he couldn't hear clearly what he was saying.

Seeing that the village chief was in a coma, Kapa had no choice but to take him back to the camp. Fortunately, there was a cult of the Light among the group of candidates who could undergo simple treatment.

When Cappa and his party returned with Chavez in a blazing manner, Victor sat by the ignited bonfire with the other candidates and wrote on their diary.

"Knight Lucien, save him!" Capa put the old man in a coma on the soft grass, and the young paladin immediately swept his eyes to the black-robed mage not far away.

"This is..." As soon as Lucien approached, he immediately noticed a strong evil aura.

"In the name of Mara, retreat, evil." The soft holy light shone, and Chavez's breathing, which had always been asthma, calmed down immediately.

"Is that guy doing it?"

The hunting teams in charge of the guards were mostly young people, and Wood was the object of ridicule in his childhood. Even if he became an alchemist apprentice, few people took this title to heart.

"Don't be impulsive!" Holding the hunter eager to try, Kapa repeated the village chief's order: "I just inquired about it. He has become a formal mage, and he is a candidate this time. There should be no conflict in the open or secret."

"Kapa, ​​are you scared?" The village chief's youngest son was most excited.

"William, I'm not afraid of being called a coward by you. But don't forget the hunter's code and never fight against powerful beasts head-on. Besides..." The worried look turned to Lucien, who was still doing treatment. It is not difficult to see from the gorgeous armor and the high-standard emblem patterns that this young invigilator is by no means an ordinary person. If he doesn't do it well, he may backfire.

"What are you afraid of? I don't believe that a knight who believes in the God of Mara will stand on Victor's side. It was his first move!" The young man named William was indignant.

"But... we first refused to save his mother, and... we also lied to him to come back." Seeing Victor using a tongue stick with his own eyes, Capa vaguely guessed that his tongue might have a direct relationship with the last time he returned to the village.

What a shame for a mage whose tongue was cut off.
Chapter completed!