After the meeting, Ahes prepared to return to his room.
On the way back, Ahes felt unwell again, as if he had returned to the state of being poisoned.
"What's going on? I obviously didn't eat anything." Ahes thought while holding on to the wall, breathing heavily. He looked around and after confirming that no one was around, Ahes sat down slowly.
Come down.
"Something's wrong, someone must have poisoned me, but it was without my knowledge." Ahes felt his throat felt salty, and a stream of blood flowed down the corner of Ahes' mouth.
On the other side, in Rey's room, Rey is sitting in front of the table thinking about how to kill Ahes.
At this time, the phone on the bedside table rang. Rui Yi hesitated and picked up the phone.
"Good evening, Ray Gardner."
"Store manager, what's the matter?" Ruiyi asked after identifying the voice.
"I have used the [Book of Curses] to completely erode Ahes' life. Now you go find him and get rid of him." The store manager said.
"[Book of Curses]? You, did you use that thing? Didn't you say you would pay a heavy price?"
"Ah, that price is not worth mentioning for taking the head of Ahs Gardner." The store manager said, there were a large number of corpses lying behind him, and a black figure was crawling.
On top of the corpse.
"Have you thought about making a deal with the [Lord of the Curse]?"
"Of course, let's get rid of him as soon as possible. I'm worried that his contract will backfire and take away the effects of the curse."
"I see."
Ray put down the phone and walked out of the room.
As soon as he left the room and entered the corridor, Rui Yi felt a cold breath coming from the other side of the corridor.
"Is this the effect of the [Book of Curses]? It's really terrifying." Rui Yi took a deep breath and walked towards the source of the cold aura.
After walking for a while, when turning a corner, Rui Yi saw Ahes staggering towards this side step by step.
Rui frowned.
Even if the cursed book requires the sacrifice of other people's lives, it can't take down this guy in one go.
"Hey, Miss Rui Yi." Ahes stopped and looked at Rui Yi and said. Rui Yi then saw that Ahes's eyes were red and bleeding was coming from all her orifices.
"What's wrong with you?" Rui Yi asked.
"Haha, I just got angry. It's none of your business. Leave quickly."
"You don't look like you're angry."
"Does it look like it? Is it necessary?" Ahs glanced at Ruiyi and sat on the ground again, "Give me a step to get down. You don't have to worry about anything now, just leave."
Rui Yi was silent for a moment, then suddenly took out a short knife from his arms and stabbed Ahes in the neck. As a result, Fog Man immediately jumped down from the ceiling and blocked the fatal blow.
"Rei Yi, I guess you haven't read that book yet, or you have no intention of reading it at all." Ahes was not surprised by Rei Yi's attack, but said to himself.
Rui Yi did not answer, but continued to take out the short knife from his pocket. Kirito rushed forward to fight with Rui Yi again. Rui Yi was so fast that Kirito couldn't touch her at all.
"I thought you were an orc at first, but now it seems that you are a half-orc. After all, orcs cannot sign contracts. You must have used the contract to approach me with this maid's body."
"It turns out you already knew this." Rui Yi said while avoiding the attack from the Mist Kaiker.
"You probably thought I wasn't poisoned during breakfast. In fact, I was poisoned, but I recovered quickly. You are the only one who can poison breakfast. Of course, I didn't think about it at first. After all,
The time for a killer to kill has not passed yet. Last time I saw you, I thought you were an orc, and orcs cannot use contracts at all. But I checked in the library that day and found that in addition to orcs, there are also species called half-orcs.
, this species is a mixture of humans and orcs. Although it has the characteristics of orcs, it is essentially human and can use contracts, so I was thinking that you are probably a half-orc." As he spoke, Ahes held on to the wall.
Slowly stood up.
At this time, Mist Man had been knocked to the ground by Rey and turned into dust. Ahs thought for a while and found that the Book of Mist was now in CD state. It seemed that Mist Man would need to cool down for a while after being defeated.
"Now, do you have anything else to say?" Rei asked.
Ahes did not speak, but took off his gloves.
"Do you want to fight to the death with the Book of Ashes? It's useless. It's absolutely impossible for you to touch me in your current state." Rei glanced at Ahs's hand and said.
"It seems that I am going to die from this today. If I had known, I would have dealt with Rui Yi directly from the moment I suspected her, instead of thinking that if I killed her wrongly, I would alert the snake." Ahs thought with a sigh.
Just when Ruiyi was about to charge forward again, she suddenly stopped. Ahes was stunned for a moment. When he turned around, a black green mist suddenly came in like a tide. Ahes was startled, but he was already there.
There was no time to escape, so he could only protect his head with his arms. However, the black mist ignored Ahes, but bypassed Ahes and attacked Ruiyi. Ruiyi did not dare to delay, so he directly broke the window and jumped.
When he went out, the black mist seemed to be alive and flew down after Ruiyi.
"Are you okay, Mr. Ahes?" A man walked out of the shadows. Ahes looked up and found that it was Isaiah.
"Is that your contract? I thought that as a king, you didn't have a contract and only relied on others to protect you." Ahes sat on the ground again and said with a sigh of relief.
"That is the [Book of Black Mist], a forbidden book. Don't worry, as long as I lock the target, the black mist will track the target until death." Isaiah patted Ahs on the shoulder and said.
"Ah, that's best." Ahs said and gradually closed his eyes.
Opening his eyes again, Ahes found himself on the bed in the bedroom.
"It seems I'm not dead, that's great." Ahes touched his chest and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming his heartbeat.
Isaiah walked in at this time, and before Ahes could say anything, Isaiah threw a small bag over.
"What is this?"
"Open it and take a look." Isaiah said while sitting on the sofa nearby.
Ahes tilted his head and opened the sack, only to find a skull inside.
"Oh my God, what is this!" Ahes was shocked and threw the sack with the skull out.
"The killer's head was corroded and only the bones were left when I arrived. Didn't I bring it to you for you to see?" Isaiah lit the cigarette and said,
"But I suspect that the killer is not dead. The contract book she used is undoubtedly the soul-changing book. Even if I kill her body, her soul will return to her original body. It's a pity.
, I didn't find her original body, it seems she has run away." Isaiah said, "Let's not talk about that for now, the war with Yipur has already started, and we have done what you said."
"It's so quiet here, it's a bit eerie." In the distance, at the border of the Kingdom of Helworth, soldiers from the Kingdom of Ypres had just crossed the sea and were riding horses on the road.
In the past few days, the first batch of soldiers heading to the Kingdom of Helworth suddenly stopped moving for some reason. According to the intelligence before their disappearance, Helworth did not set up any defenses on the sea, and there was not even a shadow of a soldier.
Didn't see it.
This made the Kingdom of Ypres think that the Kingdom of Helworth no longer wanted to fight, but the disappearance of those troops made the Kingdom of Ypres feel a little strange. The Kingdom of Helworth was weaker than the Kingdom of Ypres in terms of contract and military strength.
, there should be no reason for those troops to disappear en masse within one day.
Even after entering the Kingdom of Helworth, the Yipur soldiers still did not see the soldiers of Helworth defending. The terrain here is very vast and flat, and there should be no place for people to ambush.
When the leading soldier was riding forward to attack, something suddenly fell from the sky and landed right next to him. He immediately stopped and looked down.
It's a bird.
The bird didn't know why, its whole body was twitching violently, and white foam kept flowing out of the corner of its mouth.
Before the soldier could react, a soldier suddenly trembled and pointed forward.
"General, look..." he said.
The soldier looked up and saw something dark on the ground not far away. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was the corpses of various animals. No, not just animals. He also saw many human corpses there.
The corpses, they were wearing the clothes of Ypres soldiers, they were clearly the soldiers who had lost contact a few days ago!
"Get off the horse!" the soldier shouted, jumping off the horse first and rushing into the corpses.
After checking, there were no external injuries on those people's bodies. Judging from their death conditions, they should have died from poisoning.
"Could it be poisonous gas?" The soldier subconsciously covered his nose, but soon he felt that there seemed to be no special smell in the air. Even if it was colorless and odorless poisonous gas, he should have been poisoned for such a long time.
, so he let go of his hand.
"Retreat first and report back." The soldier said. He felt his arm was itchy. He patted it hard and found that it was a flea.
This is normal, after all, there are so many corpses here, and it is not surprising that there are many insects and fleas.
They rode towards the Kingdom of Ypres. They didn't know it yet, but they had brought back a god of death called the Black Death.