The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Life

“You will forget to breathe, you will forget to love.” Karthus said softly.

Under Ou Chen’s spell, a hideous soul’s expression gradually became calm and dull. He looked around in confusion, and finally walked to the choir of the dead behind Karthus, singing death together with them.

“Hello.” A playful and frivolous voice sounded beside Karthus.

Karthus turned his head to look, and saw a tall dead man walking towards him.

There is no flesh on his face, only a skull burning with will-o’-the-wisps.

He was wearing an extremely old robe. Karthus knew that it was the clothing of the Fuguang Island from thousands of years ago. In the Fuguang Island civilization, a person’s identity can be determined just by looking at the clothes. The clothes on the man’s body showed that he was a prison officer.

He held a sickle with a chain at the end in one hand, and an extremely weird lantern in the other hand, and countless chaotic and painful wailings could be heard coming from the lantern.

“Even across the entire Shadow Isle, I can hear your noise, Thresh.” Karthus said calmly, his attitude towards everyone is the same, and he will not just because the visitor is the most powerful undead on the Shadow Isle One with a slight change.

The only person who can make Karthus unable to face it with such an attitude from the depths of his soul is that boy.

“Don’t be so heartless, young man.” Thresh pretended to be very familiar with Karthus. He walked up to Karthus and wanted to hug his shoulder affectionately, but was gently held by Karthus. Yipiao dodged.

“At least give me, a senior from Shadow Island, some face.” Thresh seemed very sad, “When you first came to the island more than ten years ago, I took care of you, and you…”

“I just remember that you wanted to lock me in your lantern.” Karthus interrupted Thresh without any fluctuation in his tone, “You also said that you would torture me forever.”

“Hehehe, that’s all in the past, I’m very optimistic about you now.” Thresh’s laughter couldn’t tell any sincerity, he lifted his own lantern and showed it to Karthus in a showy way, “No, I just captured a very interesting soul, so I came to share it with you, little friend.”

A dark-skinned woman appeared on the wall of the lantern.

Karthus knew that Thresh loved to torture the souls he captured, and that woman was no exception. Karthus could see Thresh was burning her soul with flames. No one could bear such pain.

But this woman held back, she couldn’t see the outside, she just endured the torture without saying a word, the tenacity of perseverance was something Karthus had only seen in his life.

However, compared to the woman’s perseverance, Karthus paid more attention to her attire – a silver-white battle suit.

“Bright Sentinel” Karthus said.

“That’s right, her name is Senna, and she’s the most difficult light sentinel I’ve ever dealt with.” Thresh smiled sullenly, lightly touching the lantern with bony fingers, looking at Senna like Looking at a funny little animal, “She came with her husband, but unfortunately her husband ran away.”

“You actually let someone go? It really doesn’t look like your style.”

“Hehe, the Bright Sentinel’s weapon is quite troublesome, but I’m not worried about her husband running away. Do you know why?”

Karthus didn’t speak.

“Give me some feedback?” Thresh looked disappointed.

“I’m not interested.” Karthus was telling the truth.

“It’s boring, because her husband will definitely come to save her.” Thresh said earnestly, as if he was really Karthus’ senior, “Our existence will last forever, and we can’t do without our own interests. ”

“My interest is to keep quiet,” Karthus said.

“Compared to you, the noisy little girl next to you is more interesting.” Thresh looked around, “What about the little girl? Where did she go?”

“Go out to play.”

“Oh, with that boy you brought to the island more than ten years ago?”

Karthus looked at Thresh silently. Although this powerful undead had no face, Karthus could still see the teasing look on Thresh’s skull that disgusted him.

“What exactly do you want to do here?” Karthus didn’t want to waste time with Thresh.

“Nothing.” Thresh casually turned the lantern in his hand, and the soul imprisoned inside seemed to feel the pain of an earthquake, and the pain on the face of the dark-skinned woman’s soul also increased, “I just want to Let me ask you, why do you want to see that boy as a treasure?”

“What if I don’t say it?”

“Then I have nothing to do with you. I don’t want to hear your Ouchen spell, but I will know sooner or later anyway.” Thresh shrugged, “You have only been here in Shadow Isle for more than ten years, but I have been here for a thousand years Yes, there are always more ways than you.”

Karthus was silent.

Thresh was bored of waiting, he threw out his scythe and casually dragged the souls of Karthus’ choir into the lantern to torture them.

Karthus didn’t stop Thresh from harvesting the souls of his followers, not because he didn’t want to stop, but because he didn’t care.

“Okay, let me tell you why.” Karthus said.

“That’s great, haha.” Thresh smiled with satisfaction, “What price do I need to pay?”

“No need to.”

“No need to”

“You will soon know that knowing this matter itself is the price.” Karthus turned and floated away.

Thresh laughed twice, and followed Karthus.

Karthus pointed the direction of Thresh to a dilapidated square. Thresh knew that place, and there was a small church in that square. Karthus became an undead there, and no one could control it for thousands of years. The Book of the Dead has become one of the most powerful existences on Shadow Isle in one fell swoop, and even Thresh, who originally wanted to put him in a lantern, had to give up this idea.

Before reaching the square, Thresh smelled a nasty smell.

The taste of life.

“Are you feeding people in your chapel?” Thresh asked.

“Quiet, you’ll know when you arrive,” Karthus said.

along withThe square was getting closer and closer, and Thresh felt a stronger breath of life.

Finally, Thresh followed Karthus to the square.

“This is…the forest” Thresh said uncertainly.

The square in front of him is completely different from the rocky ground he remembered. Now the ground is covered with moss, grass and flowers, and there are countless trees taller than Thresh.

Each of them is thriving, it seems that the black mist of the Shadow Island has no effect on them.

“Don’t tell me that your new hobby is planting trees. It’s really the worst hobby.” Thresh was still joking, but his voice was no longer as relaxed as before.

This is very abnormal. Thresh has never seen such a scene on the Shadow Island for thousands of years. It should be impossible for life to grow here.

“I didn’t plant it, it was the seeds that the big tree scattered here.” Karthus said.

“Ah, that annoying tree.” Thresh knew him, or in other words, no one in the entire Shadow Isle didn’t know that the angry ancient tree was probably older than the entire Shadow Isle, and its vitality was incredible. Even if the black mist failed to kill him, it made him even more angry. Every time he fights on Shadow Island, it can even change the landscape once. There are almost no undead, including Thresh and Karthus, who are willing to face it. Fight it, “I remember he insisted on planting trees and flowers all over the island, but he might survive.”

“Didn’t this survive?”

“The tree might cry when it sees this scene.” Thresh stepped on a flower and crushed it to pieces. “So? Why are the plants here alive?”

“Follow me.” Karthus drifted into the forest and headed straight for the chapel.

Thresh followed Karthus into the chapel, the life force here was already so thick that Thresh was extremely disgusted, he patted Karthus on the back: “Block me with the whole shield or something, it stinks. ”

Karthus did sing Ou Chen’s spell, but it didn’t put a shield on Thresh, but a magic circle appeared on the ground.

More than a dozen ghost hands emerged from the ground, and they lifted a sleeping boy’s body to the ground.

“This is…” Thresh looked at the boy in surprise.

The boy’s body surged with several kinds of magical powers, each of which was full of life.

Frozen rebirth, raging flames, full of blood, and a mysterious, illusory dream.

The boy only breathed out on the ground, and Thresh saw four seasons.

Like a dream, the spring breeze caresses the ground with a little bit of fragrant pollen, and thousands of different flowers bloom on the boy’s body

Then, the blazing fire brought the scorching heat of the summer sun, and the trees quickly rose above the boy.

Immediately afterwards, the rotting and wriggling of flesh and blood replaced the soil and ushered in the growing autumn. The leaves and petals withered away, but the death of their flesh and blood was not death, but the passing of life to the surrounding vegetation.

In the end, the ice and snow covered the harsh winter, and the withered plants were sleeping, waiting for the coming of rebirth.

Thresh only felt one season, and before the next spring breeze came, the cycle of reincarnation came to an abrupt end, and the boy’s body was dragged back into the ground by the ghost’s hands amid Karthus’ incantation.

“Now you understand.” Karthus whispered, “After I pulled his soul away, his body couldn’t control the magic power in his body, so he could only leak it out. I just buried him here, His uncontrollable life force has made this place like this, even the black mist can’t restrain it.”

The will-o’-the-wisp in Thresh’s eye sockets burned even more vigorously: “Can’t it be destroyed?”

“I can’t destroy his physical body.”

“You tried”

“All methods, no matter what, will be reborn.”

“What about mincing the meat and throwing it in different places?”

“I’m not sure what the consequences will be, and it may even change the situation in the entire Shadow Isle.”

Thresh looked around. The boy’s body floated up for just one breath, and the vegetation in the chapel doubled. Even the door that Thresh walked in was blocked by various flower vines.

With a wave of his sickle, Thresh destroyed all the plants around him.

He looked at Karthus’ withered face, and for the first time, his voice was no longer joking: “Who the hell is he?”

Karthus stood quietly, his empty eyes seemed to be looking at nothing, and seemed to be staring at an unreachable distance.

After a long time, Karthus said, “He is life and death.”

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We will all die eventually.

We are born for this.

But both life and death have meaning.

They are inseparable twins.

——Preface to “Book of the Dead”