The mysterious journey begins with becoming a pirate

After reading the book, Alok put the book into El's pocket, followed her footsteps, and suddenly said:

"I saw your skills. I have a little doubt."

"What?" El asked expressionlessly.

"It's that manipulation technique. It feels a bit evil, like erosion." Alok asked bluntly.

Il turned around and glanced at Alok, and answered directly:

"Absolutely. They all interfere and control others through the sea of ​​mental power. Aren't the mind control skills of witches, psychologists and other professions all like this? Including third-level group manipulation. It's all like this."

"Is that different from erosion?" Alok continued to ask.

"Of course, when I am no longer controlling him, he will return to normal. He will just forget some things." Yi immediately explained.

"What?" Ello looked at Alok with some confusion.

Alok frowned and felt it, and then said: "It's nothing, I just think it goes against freedom."

"But it doesn't violate the changes." El replied with a smile.

"Indeed." Alok also smiled, understanding what Elok meant.

That was El's choice. But this does not displease Elok.

El smiled, pointed to the faint smoke in front of him, and said:

"There is a small town ahead. Let's stay overnight tonight. Prepare to continue our journey tomorrow. Aqiu~~~"

She suddenly covered her red nose and sneezed.

Indeed, I felt a chill as soon as I came out of the Dark Moon Forest and onto the Lister Plain.

It is already winter, and although Lister Plain is located outside the Dark Moon Forest, it still feels like winter. Unlike Dark Moon Forest, I don’t know why it’s always summer.

And Damia has to go further northeast. It's probably late winter there already.

The current temperature is roughly equivalent to the temperature in Nabrister at that time. Although it is not very cold, it does not bring warmth.

It seems that El is not very used to this kind of weather.

It would be even colder if it was flying in the air.

Feeling a little chilly, El could only wrap up his clothes, twitch his nose, and then continued:

"Well~~ I hope the sun will shine tomorrow."

The sky was already a little dark, and Alok nodded gently and comforted: "I will, don't worry."

He smiled and walked on. Prepare to arrive at the town before it gets completely dark.

He lightly patted El on the head, then transformed into a raven and flew towards the town in the distance.

And after El complained, "I'm not a child anymore," he followed Elok's footsteps.

When the two landed at the entrance of the town, they even lifted the transformation spell without any cover at all. A man and a woman appeared in front of the town.

But they stopped moving forward and frowned at the scene in front of them.

The weird atmosphere in the town does not require avoiding people at all.

Only a thin streak of smoke was still rising.

There were no signs of life on the once bustling streets, leaving only garbage and yellow sand on the ground.

Wooden buildings were damaged everywhere. Some roofs were also torn off.

The original tavern at the entrance of the town suffered the worst and was torn apart. Only the exposed tables, chairs and bar counter indicate that it is a bar.

Many houses in the town have been burned to ashes.

Even the raven doesn't want to stay here.

Except for the occasional whistling wind in the air, the silence is like a painting that has lost its color.

Alok and Elok looked at each other and felt a strange atmosphere.

"Is it a war? Or is it extraordinary?" Alok said first.

"War. This is too close to the border," El said.

Alok nodded, feeling that this was more likely, and then said:

"We should go check out that area with the smoke. It looks like that's the only place where there are any living people."

"Be careful, I hope it's not Khebli's army." Ir said cautiously.

"No, if the army wouldn't have only such a small smoke." Alok looked at the smoke curling in the sky and analyzed.

"Then you have to be careful about the extraordinary ones." El said again. She was very troubled by Alok's impetuous and imprudent character.

"I know." Alok rarely refuted.

In fact, it's not that he is imprudent, he is more cautious than anyone else when facing counter-will alone. It's just that if there's an Il around, I'm probably stupid.

He turned on his astral vision and first observed the situation around him, and found that there was indeed no one around.

But he still didn't let down his guard. Perhaps this is the most dangerous situation.

Then, he gave El a sign to move forward, turned into a raven again, and flew over there.

This is the tacit understanding the two developed during their time in the Sunset Mountains. El is also well aware of Elok's advantages in pathfinding and vigilance. Trust him absolutely.

In the distance, Elok saw the smoke rising from the kitchen.

It was a courtyard with firelight flickering inside. But Alok only saw one will body.

He landed on the stone wall that was about to collapse and stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

A girl covered in blood stepped on a pile of corpses. A strange blood-red bonfire burned on the top of the corpse, which seemed to never go out.

It looks like the scene of a strange ceremony.

The girl stood in front of the bonfire on top of the pile of corpses, with an expressionless face, staring straight ahead. Her pupils were dark, reflecting the blood-red flames, like the flames of revenge.

Below the mountain of corpses was blood flowing all over the ground, forming a lake of deep red blood.

On the blood surface of the lake floated the remains of corpses.

The head that was broken into two parts stared with wide eyes.

The palm with the nails lifted up was desperately grasping the other arm.

The face with wide eyes but peeled off the skin stared blankly at Alok's eyes. .

All the corpses were broken and incomplete, only the girl standing on the top of the corpses was intact.

This must be a terrifying ritual of some evil cult.

The air seemed to solidify here, and the whole world was silent. Alok could only hear his own heartbeat.

Damn it.

What is that girl?

Cursed evil thing? Or something more terrifying?

The guy who can't even tell what it is with my astral vision is definitely not a good guy.

Alok was shocked by the terrifying and weird atmosphere at the scene.

She seemed to notice Alok, turned her face and looked directly into Alok's pupils.

At this moment, Alok just wanted to turn his head away from her pupils reflecting the flames. But his stiff neck didn't obey.

He looked at the weird girl, and felt that he was getting closer and closer, closer and closer, and more and more powerless.

Finally, it seemed to enter her pupils.

It was a world of blood. A world of fire.

It was the demon under the ground. Kill all the demons in the town.

Now I don't know whether it is a demon or a girl.

There was only endless anger and regret in her heart.

When the fire was extinguished, the residents died, and the family was torn into pieces, there was only endless revenge and endless hatred in her heart.

This power gathered countless blood on her body, blinded her eyes, and turned her into a warrior as strong as steel.

She cursed every enemy who came to the town. Cursed everyone who blocked her way.

Kill all the living creatures in the town.

But even so, she still couldn't complete her revenge.

For revenge, she can give everything!!

Everyone must die!

Everyone must die!!

Everyone must die!!!

That voice echoed in Alok's heart.

It carried a force, as if it had taken root in Alok's heart.

This trance made him alert quickly, and he reacted in an instant, and urgently used the function of releasing control brought by "Toughness" to instantly release this mind control.

When his consciousness returned again, the scene in front of him refreshed his cognition again.

The body disappeared, the lake of blood disappeared, and the bonfire was just a pile of burning firewood.

There was only a thin and pitiful girl sitting in front of the bonfire, burning a potato, as if she was looking forward to it. How pitiful it could be.

It seemed that everything was an illusion!

But is this an illusion?

No, it's impossible!!