Chapter 170: Black Clouds Rise

When: 10/12/23/Place: Tomb of Gavin Rad

One hundred and fifty years ago, Lucy Capella was building a house in his fiefdom when he discovered a strange dagger.

In the same year, forest fires struck the Elwyn Forest, where the fiefdom is located, leaving 13,000 people homeless and more than half of the Capella family killed or injured.

The following year, Lucy committed suicide by drinking sulfuric acid, leaving the family inheritance to his younger brother Giuliano. That same year, Giuliano and his wife disappeared on their way to Stormwind. A sheriff named Kuzan was commissioned by his family to investigate the case on his way, eventually finding Giuliano's carriage at the bottom of the lake. But Kuzan did not find the remains of the Capellas in the lake.

The upright sheriff returned most of the relics to the Capella family, leaving behind the unbladed rusty sword.

Half a month later, Kuzan died violently at home. Pastor Lorenzo, who had come to preside over the funeral, went crazy on the spot. Giovanni, then Archbishop of the Abbey of North County, decided to investigate the matter thoroughly. After three months of investigation, the church finally discovered that this chain of bad luck began with the purple dagger, and Bishop Giovanni performed an exorcism ritual, but after the ritual, the bad luck still spread. First, nine nuns who had participated in the ceremony hanged themselves en masse at the Shining Gold Town Hotel, and then several daring children entered the room where they hanged themselves, and then mysteriously disappeared from the room.

Bishop Giovanni, blessed by the Light, was immune to it, so he decided to keep the sword himself and never let anyone touch it again.

Ten years later, Giovanni died in an illness and passed on his doom to his son, Bishop Cosimo. Since then, the family has changed their surname, and Cosimo's descendants have since called themselves the House of Doom, relying on the divine power of the Holy Light passed down from generation to generation.

The hundred-year inheritance has finally come to an end, and the last owner of the Cursed Sword is Gavinrad, who is the strongest heir to the throne, and his divine power cultivation has reached its peak.

In the first year of the Black Gate, the guardian Medivan teamed up with the evil ancestor Gul'dan to open the dark gate, and the orcs swept through Azeroth, and then launched a massacre of the Stormwind Kingdom.

After hundreds of years of research on evil objects, the Doom family has been able to use the evil qi in the sword freely without being cursed. This sword will talk to people, but only the strong can make her speak.

Yes, there lived a woman in the sword. Her strength is not extraordinary. In the midst of thousands of orcs, Gavin Rad and Lothar fought their way through.

Later, Gavin Rad was transformed by Fao and became one of the five paladins. The greatest achievement of Gavinrad's life was to suppress the curse of the evil sword.

If my understanding of this story is correct, then the sword of the Dark Empire of Saratas must have been left at the bottom of the tomb by Gavinrad. But now that the suppression of the Holy Communion is gone, in order to prevent the demon from harming more people, I must take this responsibility and place the embodiment of doom.

In the distance, the tomb came into view, and at the entrance of the tomb stood a woman dressed in purple, with her back to me, her long black hair cut off at the waist, her hands in front of her chest and abdomen, maintaining a polite movement.

Her robes were tattered and ragged at the corners. Emaciated and barefoot stepped on the cold stone steps. First, two, third, I didn't have time to keep up with her slow steps, and she disappeared before the tomb.

The moment her figure vanished, the warm sunlight turned an annoying golden red, and the boiling black clouds spread across the sky, and at this time, I could only see the road to the tomb, and the rest of the place was no longer visible.

I don't know how long later, I broke into the tomb, and on top of the two coffins sat a woman, one of them was the soul of the troll Hamia, and the other was the witch just now.

The witch made a 'shhh' gesture to me and said faintly, "I hope to catch up later." ”

The woman's eyes were blocked by the front of the sea, and the high bridge of her nose caused the thick hair to split in half in front of her face, and her bruised lips showed a lot of cracks.

Then she said to Hamia, "I will help you get revenge." ”

Hamia: "Are you the Grim Reaper?"

Woman in Black: "I'm not. ”

"Then why are you helping me?"

Woman in Black: "I need your grievances. ”

"But I don't want revenge! I don't want you to do anything bad with my soul. ”

Woman in Black: "Think of your husband, Hamia!"

Hamia: "It's the will of all souls!"

Woman in Black: "All souls don't care about you insignificant. ”

Hamia: "It doesn't matter, the world of the living has nothing to do with me. ”

The black-clothed woman's lips clenched fiercely, and it took a long time before she could hold back a sentence: "Get out! I wish you to meet Priest Luoa soon, otherwise you will linger here forever!"

"Hamia, come in quickly, let my body carry your soul, and let me take you back to Zumashal. ”

Hamia: "Get out of here! I'd rather hesitate forever than pollute my fellow human beings!"

"I'm not a scourge, I'm an enemy of the Scourge legion, or even their henchman. ”

Woman in black: "Don't you two waste your efforts, haven't you read the latest newspapers? Just the day before yesterday, the Scourge Legion, led by Kel'thugad, broke through the double defense line of the Mushroom Forest and Zumashal, and was already in the city. How long do you think the Silver and White Crusaders will last long?Big sister, your hometown is exactly the same as the current Talonjun!"

For the first time, Hamia's soul had an emotional wave, and she roared, "This can't be! Yes... Protection... Her voice grew quieter and quieter the farther back she went, and the final phrase 'All Spirits will protect them' was unspeakable.

"Don't listen to her! The gates of hell are sealed by Ellsberg, and it's not like all souls don't want to help you!"

Woman in Black: "Got it?!Their only help is to send your soul to Hell!"

"It's called the laws of nature!"

Woman in black: "Nature teaches us that only the winner is king!"

"What the hell are you?"

Woman in Black: "I'm your childhood friend!"

"You have my lost memories!?"

Hamia: "Die, both of you!"

"Don't go! Souls are more dangerous than living people! If you leave now, you will be captured by the Scourge psychic!"

Woman in Black: "That's right, if you don't want to be made into an abomination, just stay still, you'll always be safe under my anger!"

Hamia: "By kidnapping me here, you're forcing me to be a part of you of your own volition." In my eyes, you are no different from abomination. With that, she floated out of the grave.

The woman in black spread her hands and complained: "Alas~~! It's all your fault, this deal can't be done." ”

"What kind of evil spirit are you?"

Woman in Black: "I am God." ”

"Which god?"

Woman in Black: "No sect, no faith, I feed only on hatred." ”

"Wild ... Evil gods?"

Woman in Black: "That's understandable. ”

"Did I see you when I was a child?"

Woman in Black: "Of course, I was your best playmate in childhood! Although it was my resentment that brought bad luck to your hometown, but with you, this bad luck will not be so obvious." It's just a bunch of humble cows. ”

"I knew you're in that box!"

Woman in Black: "You can call me the Great Salatas!"

"Why did Gavinrad's saber end up in Talenmir?"

Woman in Black: "Your father is the paladin Lindbergh, and he is close friends with Gavinrad, so Gavinrad gave me to your father for safekeeping." ”

"My father's Holy Light cultivation is not even as good as mine, how can Gavin hand you over to him?"

Woman in Black: "Because the power contained in that bone book is enough to suppress my resentment." ”

"You stunned me, did your resentment release on purpose?"

Saratas: "You've wronged me, it's just the way my soul lives." The more resentment I have received from those around me, the greater my strength. I can devour souls and continue my life indefinitely. Please make no mistake, this devouring act is sanctioned by the Heavenly Temple. I specialize in devouring ghosts, so I can say that I am the scavenger of souls. However, when my resentment is too heavy, I may not be able to suppress the resentment in my body, and they will cause trouble and poison the people around me. ”

"I want to hear your story. ”

Saratas: "But you're not a guardian of myths, so why are you so obsessed with the story?"

"Because I'm going to choose what to do with you through the story. ”

Saratas: "Okay, okay, after all, I have something to ask you ... I am a glorious Old God, but I have been betrayed by the other Old Gods, who have eaten my body and banished my soul. For hundreds of millions of years after their defeat, my soul wandered alone in the world, for I was not a man, much less a god. So there is no hell for me to live in. I've seen the rise of mortals, who are full of feelings, and I've lived by devouring the negativity of people, so I've been floating in such a mess for countless years. But in the process of devouring emotions and resentful souls, I mistakenly ate thousands of people with ideals and ambitions, positive lives, and fraternity, and thus I was 'polluted' by them, and I gradually became something that was both good and evil, and in the end neither evil nor justice could include me, I was just a wandering judge, a vengeful angel walking in the world. Whenever there is a grievance, I will respond to the hatred of the people, and I will avenge the ordinary ghosts of the dead, at the cost of devouring their souls and grievances. The earliest cults of the Light originated thousands of years ago, and they possessed the power of your father to fight evil. But they can't help me, because I can't be classified as evil. Eighteen hundred years ago, the year Ezekiel prophesied to you, discovered me, and felt that my soul state could not be restrained, so he asked the believers to build a weapon to imprison my soul. When I want to judge something, someone has to carry it and persuade it. My first possession was a Night Elf named Astrana, because of power, because of me. She became more and more tyrannical in the fight, so I ate her when she went crazy. Passed down from generation to generation, my journey as a sword ended in the Cathedral of the Sage's Cross, where a group of monks who regarded me as an evil creature sealed me in the Elwyn Forest with their life's magic. You know most about what happens after that. I can see inside you, and since you were a child, I've seen that you're a freak who is an invulnerable thing. I can't find evil in you, and I can't talk about resentment. ”

"Do you know my background?"

Saratas: "Yes, but I can't say, at least not yet." As compensation, I will help you fill in the lost memories. ”

"Until then, tell me the price. ”

Salatas: "Take me away!" is the premise of the negotiation. ”

"All right, but be prepared to be suppressed by my Light. ”

Saratas: "That's nothing, I've developed a good relationship with Gavin Rad before. ”

"Then let's talk about why you killed so many people after the sword you were hiding in was found?"

Saratas: "Who?"

"It starts with Lucy Capela. ”

Saratas: "That guy is a complete hypocrite. In order to get a worker's daughter, he first sent his guards to disguise themselves as robbers and rob her family. After slaughtering the girl's parents, he fights as a hero. So the girl married him, but he was so secretive that the girl discovered his sin hidden under hypocrisy, and wanted to make the whole thing public. Fearing that she would be ruined, Lucy destroyed the girl with sulfuric acid in her bathroom. He did dig me out of the cold ground, but I had to repay me with a grudge for doing such a thing. The girl's soul complained to me, and of course I helped her. I attached my resentment to Lucy's soul and controlled his spirit, making him drink the sulfuric acid that was used to destroy the corpse. Otherwise, do you think that sulfuric acid is something that a marquis should have in his house?"

"Where's his brother?"

Saratas: "His brother was originally a good man, but the mistake was that he married a daughter-in-law from a ruined family. His wife always pleaded with him to get countless gold and silver treasures, so he did a lot of things to bully men and women. He mainly took advantage of legal loopholes to find trouble with ordinary farmers, and finally became a real estate tycoon. This time there were even more souls who complained, and I had the carriage tumble to the bottom of the lake while they were driving to Stormwind to buy something. And then eat their floating corpses and most importantly souls. ”

"Didn't you say it could only devour souls?"

Saratas: "I can devour everything, but all I live on is evil spirits." Since I was willing to sink with them to the bottom of the lake, I was angry and chewed their bones. ”

"What does the sheriff say?"

Saratas: "That had something to do with a man named Staven, and I want you to interpret it yourself." ”

"What about the priest named Lorenzo? he can't be the most evil of all, right?"

Saratas: "He's a trafficker in the guise of a priest, but luckily he doesn't have a life, so I'm just pumping a small part of my grievances into his brain." He went crazy because of it, and I can't blame him. ”

"What about Bishop Giovanni, did he die of illness ten years after the gladius exorcism, has it anything to do with you?"

Saratas: "Don't blame me, he really has a malignant tumor, and every time he removes himself with the light, the remaining cancer cells continue to grow, endlessly. His eventual death amounted to a relief. ”

"What about the nine nuns?"

Saratas: "They use their clerical status to disguise themselves and secretly recruit homeless girls to trade their bodies. You may have seen a few of them, the ones who pulled the cart at the Immortal. ”

"Why didn't you eat their souls?"

Saratas: "My devouring quota is set every year, and Ezekiel dictates that I can only eat fifteen souls per year. So I had no choice but to give those nuns to the underworld lord Lilith. ”

"The last few lives I knew! I don't think you can explain, did those little children commit any crimes?"

Saratas: "Don't be fooled by appearances, some people have heard of a series of tragic events and know that they have something to do with the dagger. There is a group of cultists who call themselves the Kru Demon Cult, in order to perform the sacrifice ceremony, in the room where the nuns committed suicide, and kill the children to worship the [God of Damnation Cthulhu]. Then put the blame on me, who can't speak, so that they can perfectly hide their identity. ”

"Well, I'll look into these things later. Whether your words are true or false remains to be seen. Now, give me back my memories. ”

Saratas: "You're almost figured it out, aren't you?"

"Yes. ”

Saratas: "The Book of Heaven is full of holy words, and it's your companion item, and no one else can actually read it." It was when your father carried you back to Talenmir, and it was the bone book that you had in your swaddling clothes. The Bone Book was originally a Heavenly Thing, and as for why it came to you, I have nothing to say. In the year you were retrieved, Gavinrad received a sign in his sleep that the Child of Prophecy and the Book of Heavenly Bones were in Tarummere, and that the Heavenly Father wanted him to rely on the power and position of the Duke to raise you better. But he was sternly rejected by an old friend, who was your father, Lindbergh. He was an old-fashioned paladin, in his early years, he and Gavinrad belonged to the same Lordaeron Holy Order, but later because of his resolute and upright character, he could not please his superiors, and he was not promoted for a long time, so he resolutely resigned from the post of master chief. Your mother, who was born with atrophied ovaries and was unable to have children, happened to pick you up, so the husband and wife took care of you in every way. In this case, it is impossible for Lindbergh and Elizabeth to hand you over and leave you to be raised by the nobles, even then they have been told that you are the child of prophecy. Gavinrad and your father got into an argument, and in the middle of the argument, your father said something that questioned the other party: 'You may have dreamed of it yourself!' Gavinrad's faith was questioned, and of course he refused to give up, saying that this sword is the embodiment of evil, and if you don't believe it, I will give it to you for safekeeping. Look at how many people are going to die in Talummir this time!, Your father didn't even believe this, and angrily agreed, because he firmly believed that this was all a strange force, and as long as he was there, no ordinary demon would be able to enter Tarummere's realm, let alone a broken sword. Gavinrad was a clergyman, and he didn't want to be careless, but he didn't want to show cowardice after saying cruel things. So he blessed a part of his holy light divine power into a wooden box, and then used the wooden box to suppress my overflowing resentment. After Gavinrad left, your father threw me in the attic to eat dirt, but seven years later, naughty you went up to the attic to play, first read the bone book, which contained divine power that resonated with you, in which all the holy word spells were engraved on your bones, and then the bone book started the self-destruct process. And you didn't give up, and opened the wooden box next to the bone book, and saw it... My true form, and my eyes. With that, she stretched out her withered hands and brushed back the curtain of her hair. I saw the most disgusting picture of my life.

"Eh?!! you ... You'd better cover them. ”

She lowered her head, covered her eyes, and continued, "The child's heart has a natural disgust for my ugliness, and you are trying to destroy me with the holy word technique you just browsed, [Immeasurable Karmic Fire]. But your unskilled Light Technique can only burn down your attic, and it will do me very little. Later, when you told your parents about it, Lindbergh believed what Gavin Rad had said, and wrote to ask Gavin to come to his house and take the strange sword. When Gavinrad arrives at Talenmere, he is surprised to find that his wooden box has been burned, but the Cursed Sword has not. He is even more convinced that you are the child of prophecy, but he really can't resist your father's old fashion, and in the end he can't bring you to live in Lordaeron. The two face off again, and this stalemate happens to be a picture in your memory. ”

"Who cut off my memory?"

Saratas: "That's what I did, and if you knew as a child of prophecy as a child, it would inevitably be a burden on your young mind. ”

"Alright, everything is clear, let's go, you'll always be helpful on my journey, right?"

Saratas: "I am the apostle of the soul and an expert in it. You hold me, you can increase the strength of the soul power spell. Moreover, I can improve myself, not only will the cooperation between us increase, but every time I eat a moldy soul, my sharpness will also increase. However, you don't see me every day. I only appear on the fifteenth day of each month, the night of the full moon. ”

I relied on her guidance to open the mechanism in the tomb, a hidden compartment behind the candle opened, and I took out the rusty purple blade, it had no scabbard, and the whole body was a shining purple, about the length of a forearm, a shorter one would be a dagger, and a longer one would be the same length as a normal sword. It was a regulated double-edged sword, curved to an exaggerated extent, resembling the arc of a crescent moon, with several bulging bulges on the sword.

By the time I picked up the sword, Saratas' true form was gone. I poked the bulge, and it moved weirdly.

", is this an eye?" muttered to himself, and the black fog around me finally dissipated, but I wasn't in the burial chamber. Instead, I was still in our makeshift camp, covered with a long Kalin mantle and a soaked silk scarf on my forehead.

I slowly turned over and tried to sit up, but I was hurt by something under my armpits. When I looked down, it turned out to be the [Sword of the Saratas Dark Empire] in my dream.

I woke up Kiefer, who was dozing off, "What time is it?"

Kiefer: "Mr. Hadley, you're finally awake. We thought you had a bad stomach. ”

"I mean... What time is it?"

Kiefer: "At three o'clock in the afternoon, you've been unconscious for about an hour and a half. ”

"No, what about Karin and Yuna, I agreed with the rest of my companions to meet at Redpass's house before five o'clock. ”

Kiefer: "Miss Yuna and Mr. Redpass just got Mina's signal to go to town to help. ”

"What's the situation?"

Kiefer: "They say Minna seems to have discovered something. ”。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 (Rabbit pen Kang slugging cow)