Chapter 17: Cursed Blood—Cain!
The ancient Arcana family!
A handsome young man with silver-blue hair is sneaking into the family's most mysterious family library.
The boy is the best child of the Arcana family, he is only 16 years old, but his fighting ability has surpassed that of all the children who have the right to inherit!
His people are proud of him!
But the nature of the teenager is always full of reverence, curiosity, and desire to explore more secrets of the future!
The reason why his family is so powerful and has dominated this land for many years is because of the "miracle power" of the ancient family!
The elders of the family are always secretive about the power of miracles, but they repeatedly preach that the power of miracles is the noblest power of the family!
Only the inheritor is entitled to inherit the power of miracles, and have insight into all its secrets!
The selection of the inheritors of the power of miracles for each generation is the most meaningful ritual for the family!
In the family, all the young children will be selected, and only those who are selected will be eligible to enter the final succession ceremony!
And the teenager, Cain. Arcana is the inheritor of the miracle power that everyone in this family has tacitly agreed to in their hearts!
With his exquisite martial arts and superior combat effectiveness, he threw out the second place, Luna. Arcana, his own sister, several streets.
And the eighteen-year-old family selection and inheritance ceremony is just a formality.
Everyone already knew the result of this had taken shape, but there were still many ambitious Arcana boys who were unwilling to surrender the throne of their successor and the power of miracles to Cain, and practiced hard day and night.
Cain has long been curious about the power of miracles.
What exactly is the power of miracles?
Is it a book?
Is it a masterful set of skills?
Or a specific item, such as a sword?
Nothing.
Cain tried everything he could to find out the secret, but found nothing.
It is said that after the succession ceremony of the previous generation, the selected successors disappear, and at the same time, the other candidates who participated in the selection and succession ceremony disappear.
And the whole family was not surprised by this ending at all, as if this ending was something they had expected a long time ago.
Luna is Kain's own sister and the closest person he is to in the world!
Fearing that Luna would disappear after the selection ceremony, he is determined to seek the secret that the family is trying to hide.
Ever since he was a child, Kain's parents never gave him the care and love that his parents should have, except for urging him to practice fighting.
Only Luna is different, she truly loves this brother, is proud of Cain's brother, and cares about him everywhere.
A stubborn and excellent boy who not only wants to find out what the miraculous power he may inherit in the future is, but also wants to know all the secrets of the inheritance ceremony.
From the mouths of some of the elders in the family, Cain picked up some unusual information. It is rumored that after each generation of succession ceremony, all the candidates who participated in the ceremony will disappear without a trace.
But his family has a mysterious power, whether it is a foreigner who dares to challenge the authority of the family, or a foreigner who is-for-tat, he will die violently the next day. This huge family, standing on this land, has never collapsed for thousands of years!
Could this be the power of the legendary "miracle power"?
Where exactly did those vanished candidates go? And where did that successor go? What did he do after inheriting the power of miracles?
Cain's mind was full of questions about the "power of miracles".
The people in their own family are either extremely strict-mouthed, or they really don't know anything.
The more this happened, the more Kain realized that the whole family was probably hiding some huge secret!
There's only one place where Cain's great mystery can be solved, and that's the family library.
The family library records the legend of the creator god thousands of years ago, how his family rose, and the evolution of the family over the years.
Only a few elders of the family are allowed to enter the family library, and other clansmen will be punished with capital punishment if they trespass without permission!
The capital punishment of the Arcana family is not death, but sacrifice!
The glory of the House of Arcana is represented by a sacrificial tower in front of the family library, at least twenty men high, carved with disgusting reliefs depicting all kinds of inhuman torture against the will of the family.
And the most severe capital punishment is to break the limbs of this person, gouge out his eyes, prick his ears, cut off his tongue, tie him to the top of a tower, and accept the natural punishment of heaven and earth!
Scorching sun, wind and frost, rain and snow, extreme cold.
Every day, skilled men come to heal the man tied to the pillar and make sure he does not die of disease.
The person tied to the torture stake cannot survive and cannot die, and in the silent and colorless world, he bears loneliness and pain until death.
Few people would take this kind of risk to go to the family library to peep into the family's secrets, and Kain naturally knew what would happen if he was caught trespassing into the library, but the biggest feature of Kain's personality was that as long as he was interested in something, he would never give up if he didn't figure it out thoroughly!
Cain is a typical perfectionist who strives for perfection in whatever he does, and will never allow anything ambiguous in his life.
Especially when it comes to things that are closely related to the future and destiny.
Perfectionism has long been Cain's unique ability, and it has become the author of the tragedy in his life.
In the past, in order to be able to cut a perfect knife, he practiced a move thousands of times, and even Kain's teacher came to persuade him, saying that he had done it to the extreme. But Cain didn't think so, this was not the angle and strength he wanted, a simple move, he practiced for ten days, and finally completely mastered the key secret!
In this way, the young Kain, under the compulsion of his perfectionist spirit, practiced all the swordsmanship in the family to the point of perfection, and he can be regarded as the first person in the Arcana family who has never been seen before or since.
But as Kain's abilities grew, he found himself more and more unusual!
He will lose consciousness for a long time inexplicably, and when he regains consciousness, he will do something that he is unconscious!
And as he grew older and his strength increased, his temper became more and more eccentric, more and more aggressive and bloodthirsty!
This series of events made Cain want to get a glimpse of the huge secrets hidden by the family!
Silent Night!
Cain sneaks up in the family garden and heads straight for the family library.
A large red moon was hidden behind thick clouds, making Cain's figure even more indistinct in the night.
The tortured people carved on the towering torture pillar are silently watching this young man like a stalker in the night!