Volume 2 Chapter 187 The Eve of the Carnival
In the blink of an eye, autumn finally came to an end in the bleak world, and then winter came, and the heavy snow closed the territory again.
White snowflakes fell with the howling cold wind, covering everything on the ground, and the whole world seemed to fall into a state of semi-stagnant burnout.
Thor hadn't spoken to anyone for almost the entire winter, his long hair covering his eyes and his thick beard covering his mouth, he looked like a homeless weirdo wandering around.
I lost three more teeth, and sometimes my breath leaked a little, and it was not easy to eat. The nails of his hands and feet have all fallen off, but since he doesn't feel pain, Thor doesn't care too much, after all, there aren't many places where men need nails.
In addition, he also noticed signs of local ulceration in some parts of his body, and there was no pain at all, except for pus from time to time and an unpleasant smell.
Fortunately, the bitter cold of winter inhibited the spread of the smell so well that he didn't dislike himself so much.
It had been a long time since Thor had thought about living or anything like that, he just watched in silence, every subtle or obvious change in his body, feeling his withering in silence.
Saul had a tough winter, arguably the coldest winter of his life. What sets him apart from others is that he has to fight not only the cold, but also his own curse.
In the autumn, he was still too optimistic, he thought that his curse was only from the active desire to kill with blood, and returned to the passive state of high fever and hot and cold, only to know later that this time it was a two-way outbreak.
The two-way burst meant that every day the curse would be in two states at the same time, sometimes he would have a high fever and drink blood, or he would have a splitting headache while slaughtering living creatures.
It's really interesting!
Sometimes the cold in the curse hits, and then the cold of the harsh winter, the taste is really drunk, and it makes him have the illusion of standing in the ice and snow with nowhere to escape.
As for the dream about the skull wall, no commissions ever came again, to be exact, Thor never dreamed of that repetition again. So he knew that the curse in his body was irrepressible, and his time was running out.
For the rest of the day, he had to seize every ounce of time to prepare for his final revenge.
If you think about it, I'm sorry for my mentor, the nameless old man had painstakingly advised him when he was teaching his sword skills.
"I don't know where the hatred in your heart comes from, but I hope you don't waste the rest of your life on that. ”
But looking back now, my life full of cobwebs seems to have been living for revenge.
The long period of curse torture has made Thor murderous and irritable, and he is in an involuntary irritability all day long. Sometimes wielding his sword and drinking blood, he would occasionally wonder if this was a curse, or was it his own nature?
Winter is never a good season for adventure, but there are still some people who are busy, like Saul.
This winter, Thor has been frequently entering the secret realm to face all kinds of monsters, so as to accelerate his own acquisition and absorption of demon souls, and prepare for himself to enter the third order.
Since you want revenge, if you can have a little more strength, you may be able to drink an extra cup of blood.
As for the object of his revenge, Thor is also a little distressed by this, because it is a bit funny to say, and his revenge target is too broad.
Strictly speaking, the entire Dark Cross is his enemy. But Thor knows that those mercenaries who collect money to do things are just dogs in the system, and even if they kill the current one, there will always be new dogs.
What's more, even if they lined up to let themselves kill, that huge number, even if their swords were blunt, they might not be able to kill them all.
It is obviously pointless to take the initiative to chase the dog bite, and if you want to do it, you have to kill the dog's owner.
Later, Thor suddenly realized that in fact, the Dark Cross may not have any real masters, their nature is half official and half mercenary, but on the surface, they are still serving the Dark Council.
And the real helmsman of the Dark Council is the three elders with more than twenty-four seats.
The three elders formed the Cabinet, but the Cabinet did not serve anyone, and there was no Pope or King standing at the apex of their heads, but the banner of the Lord of Darkness.
He might be able to narrow down the target of his hatred to the few people who gave the order, that is, the three old things in the cabinet. But the difficulty is too great, whether it is personal strength or influence, the two sides are far different from each other at several levels.
And even if Lady Luck is on her side and she can really get away with it, the person who was caught in the end will definitely say that he is just doing things according to the system, and Saul even guessed his defense.
On the other hand, Saul is also very clear that once a system has been operated for many years and has its own context and operating rules, then no one in the system is indispensable.
Even if you cut off the head of the snake temporarily, it will soon grow a new one, and then everything will continue to be the same.
So in the final analysis, the system of the Dark Council, which arbitrarily judges the lives of others, is his worst enemy.
As long as you're in the South, whoever you are, whether you've committed evil or not, as long as I think you deserve to die, that's enough, that's the disgusting thing about this system.
There are probably two ways to fight an ancient system that has been in existence for countless years.
Either you are strong enough personally, and then you can support a force of the same size as the opponent and crush it from the front. Either you find a way to get in, become a part of the system, and then subtly corrupt and split it from within.
Unfortunately, both methods will take a long time and operation, and this is what Thor is lacking the most at the moment, and his time is running out.
Thinking of the girl who fled death with her weak, badly wounded body, and remembering the vow she made at Lucia's grave, Thor was ready to use his last life to do something really big.
There wasn't much one person could do, and time was short, so Thor could only position himself as an assassin.
Since the leafy system is currently powerless to fight against itself, it is natural to kill a few people of real value, and it is better to paralyze the system temporarily.
But this is just an optimistic idea after all, those old monsters of the seventh and eighth orders are so strong that they may not have a chance to get close to them, let alone assassinate, it is not something that can be obtained casually by rushing to the door with a bag of poison.
And in terms of results, Thor is not very satisfied, after all, those old things who have lived for hundreds of years have strictly lived enough, and even if they are lucky enough to kill them, it will be at best a ride for them.
So in response to his hatred that he has nowhere to place, Thor recently has a new idea, which is to start with their juniors.
After reading so many old stories of the decline and fall of the family, Thor knows very well that the future of a family will always lie in the young people, so he must find a way to dig out their roots.
And in the face of the younger generation, that is also the only place where he can reach out at present, so Thor can only wait in the dark, trying to find a suitable opportunity.
Without the support of the younger generations, in a few years, those prominent families will only have the only way to collapse and dissolve after all.
Even if some of them are fertile and can reproduce, what does it matter?
When they die and live with the light, before their new descendants grow up to be able to take charge on their own, this gap in between is enough for other predators who want to be superior and profiting to seize the opportunity to clean them up on their behalf.
Thor was ready to wait until he was ready, and then seize the opportunity to kill indiscriminately. Since they want a devil, then they become devils, and since they have already said it, they must do something that the devil should do.
So this winter, Thor did not stay in the territory of Vocestan, but advanced while hunting and accumulating strength, and came to the Baikalt territory adjacent to the main city of Odrenza.
It's close to the main city, and it's crowded with people, and even if the cold winter envelops the entire territory, there is no sign of desertion.
Thor first went to the bazaar to sweep up a wave of soul crystals to speed up his progress, while also purchasing a few things that might help his plans later.
Now money doesn't mean much to Thor anymore, he has been using the space ring to trade all the way, and all the money in his hands is about twelve dragon's eyes when converted into dragon's eye gems.
In a prosperous place like Odrenza, twelve dragon's eyes are not a lot of money, only nearly a thousand gold coins, but they should still be enough to do something.
As for the main city of Odrenza, Thor also sneaked in once to ask for some information he needed.
After all, his current revenge was just a plan.
Although he had some vague ideas, the specific time and place, and how to implement it still needed detailed deployment, so he had to enter the main city of Odrenna in advance to set up the battlefield.
It's not easy to stir up trouble in Odrenza, but Thor has an advantage that no one else has, because his plan has no chance of failing, and perhaps he doesn't need to care about the outcome of failure.
Because Thor didn't even think about leaving his plan alive, he would earn one more for every one he killed.
Therefore, their final closing ceremony must be lively, crazy, and let them see how the devil walks in the world.
After some inquiry, Thor's plan finally took shape.
The venue for the revelry was chosen at the Izheim School of Magic, the largest in Odrensa, where it is said that the best descendants of almost all the families in Odrenza would send them to study, as if they were not worthy of being a human being if they could not graduate from there.
In order to infiltrate the academy and carry out his plan, Thor must first obtain a fake identity, which is another problem. It is certainly impossible for one person to run the entire plan without negligence, but fortunately, Saul is not very demanding.
As the Guru said, a warrior should die in battle.