"Did we win?" asked the barbecue master.

"Be quiet. Aaron gestured to him quietly.

Li Benzheng was holding a piece of charcoal and drawing something.

The barbecue master leaned in in confusion and found that in the middle of the crowd was a doll with his daughter's soul trapped.

The doll is placed on a circular wooden board with many elaborate black lines drawn on it, and Li Ben adds symbols and words between the lines to form a circle.

"Dolls don't keep your daughter's soul for long, and over time she may turn into something else, I've carved a small dementor circle on the board, and before you can find a suitable container, you need to free your daughter from the doll for at least two hours a day. Li Ben said.

"I'll be here for a while, teaching you about soul preservation and transfer. ”

After Li Ben completed the magic circle, he drove it, and black mist poured out of the circular plank, and Winnie's soul stood up from the puppet, draped in a veil of mist, and it was not real.

"You can try to communicate with her. "Lee Ben tips the barbecue master.

But when the father came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.

He put his hand into the fog ring, and after a while, the fog girl gently placed her small hand on the man's big hand, and the slightest coldness came through the warm palm. The heart that the barbecue master has been hanging has let go.

He looked at Li Ben and said, "Thank you." ”

Lee Ben said to Winnie, "I'll put you back first." ”

The girl nodded, and he lifted the circle, and the fog cleared, and the mist disappeared with him.

Li Ben handed over the planks and puppets to the barbecue master, and then walked to the villagers watching in the distance, and Aaron and five other young people followed.

A villager stood up and asked Leeben, "Master, are they really dead?" He was the first to lead Leeben to meet Terina.

This is the main concern of all the villagers.

During the day, Li Ben and the monsters fought a lot of movements, from the manor to the settlement, everyone knew that something big was happening, and everyone chose to hide obediently in the house and not come out.

It wasn't until after that earth-shattering explosion that the outside world returned to its daily tranquility and the monster was no longer visible, and people came out again.

In the five young people's running to tell each other, the villagers have a general understanding of what happened.

It wasn't until the afternoon, when no one had come out of the burial ground for a long time, that Aaron went alone to check on it, got the latest information from Lee's office, and brought the death news of Terina and the others to everyone in the village.

But the villagers were still in disbelief.

The shepherds of the swamp pastures and the protectors of the flocks ended their decade-long reign.

Now, people are confronted with the person who started this seismic change and question him.

Li Ben replied calmly: "Terina, Boris, Freddy, they have indeed left this world, and I can still stand here is the best proof." ”

Plager asked again, "What are you going to do after you kill them?"

Li Ben scanned the crowd and did not see the joy of liberation after liberation in the eyes of the villagers, but the confusion about the future.

He replied, "After a while, I'll get out of here." ”

Upon hearing this answer, someone immediately shouted, "You killed our protector, and you plan to leave like this?"

Someone then chimed in: "Without the people who can fight monsters and chaos, how can you let us live?"

Hearing these words, Li Ben said the answer he had already thought of: "During the time I stay, anyone who wants to become a Chaos Hunter, I will provide them with specific guidance, and I will also try my best to write the knowledge I have into a book and leave it to you." You need a new prophet. ”

This was something he had anticipated in his previous investigations. Because in this world, "free or dead" does not work. The blind pursuit of freedom will not end with sacrificing some people and liberating the rest.

but to bring all people to eternal silence. Human beings have no freedom of life, only the liberation of death.

Therefore, the people of the village will panic and even resent Li Ben because of Terina's death.

If it weren't for the strength of Limben's ability to kill the monsters, or for the hope that he would be able to take on the responsibility of protecting him after he was done, the villagers would have attacked him and tied him to a pillar of fire and burned him alive.

After knowing Li Ben's plan, there began to be some whispered discussions in the crowd. Although most people are still a little dissatisfied, the current situation is always better for him to leave without hesitation.

"Any more questions?" asked Lee.

Plager stood sideways, and the crowd naturally split into two groups, opening a path for him.

Li Ben walked out, and the barbecue master and Aaron followed him, and when they were far away, the crowd had dispersed.

On the way, Li Ben said to the people around him: "I'm going to find something in Terina's manor now, you can come and call me if you have anything." ”

"Understood. Aaron replied.

Coming to the manor, Li Ben found that after the death of Jielina and the others, the chaos erosion in this area had a downward trend.

This wasn't necessarily a good thing, his instincts told him that the reason why this swamp was able to stay uncorrupted by chaos for ten years must be inextricably linked to this manor.

Li Ben stepped on the creaky wooden ladder and ascended to the second floor of the wooden house, and found many strange objects in Terina's house, and these items began to dissipate with the chaotic energy on them with the death of their owner.

Of course, there are some fixed things, such as a quill.

None of this was what he wanted most.

After rummaging through the room, Lee finally found the ancient wizard's notebook in a hidden compartment on the floor, which contained some of Terina's own research tips. One of them is a translation of the words and phrases corresponding to the unknown text on the wizard's notes.

After reading through the night, Li Ben understood the origin of the wizard's notes and the general content of what was written on them.

The Sorcerer's Note originated from an ancient sorcerer named Arab Khan, who was 1,000 years after the Great Apocalypse.

If Li Ben remembered correctly, it was also the time period when humans discovered evidence of the existence of the ancient gods.

This wizard is not well known in history, but what he has studied is astonishing.

The people of that era were actively exploring ways to re-establish human civilization, and Arab Khan's research was based on this.

However, since it was known that it was possible to ask the gods for power, most of the shamans and scholars of that era studied how to communicate with the gods, the rituals of sacrifice, the construction of the magic system, how to use the power of the gods, the costs and gains, and so on.

But Arab Khan stretched out his hand to something far and deeper, the unknown.

The contents of the notes, written in unknown characters, contain the existence of many ancient gods, as well as the rituals and incantations that seek their strength.

There is only one way to gain power, and that is to become their dependant or servant, like Terina and Boris.

Freddy, on the other hand, is a combination of multiple Chaos Hunters through mystical rituals and special medicines, a synthetic monster called "Shogoth", a slave creature once driven by the ancient gods.

In Terina's account, she communicated with the Old Gods in order to stabilize the tribe and no longer suffer from the torments of chaos, and obtained the corresponding means.

Asking the villagers to dig rivers, pave roads in the village, and disperse settlements is to create a large magic circle, transfer all the chaotic energy to the area of the manor where they are located, and then feed back to the ancient gods from the inside of the manor. Terina herself is the core of presiding over this ritual and formation, so her death will lead to the failure of the entire circle.

The power of the ancient gods is far more powerful than that of the human gods, and as soon as Terina and the others receive the gods, they can become beings with fifth-level chaotic energy, and according to the records, this is only the lowest level.

As the research deepened, Arab Khan's mental state became more and more insane, and he was on the verge of collapse.

In the second half of the wizard's notes, there are often some graffiti of unknown meaning, and the text used in the narrative is no longer as neat and logical as before, and Terina's research experience is quite distressed by this, and the last few pages cannot be translated into effective information at all.

Only at the very end are written these two sentences:

All beings are ants, and they will return.

When he returns, the world is over.

It's almost a curse, and everyone who studies the problems of the Old Gods will end up going mad to death, or completely degenerate into a demon of aliens.

Li Ben was not sure what would happen if he really delved deeper, and he felt the chaos contained in the note.

What he wanted was a clue about how to lift the chaos buried deep in his soul, not how to degrade himself.

"Is there really no other way than to communicate with the ancient gods?" Without finding the information in hope, Li Ben reluctantly sealed all these books tightly and put them in a bag.

It was already dawn and sunlight was pouring into the room through the window.

Li Ben saw Plager standing at the gate of the manor, and he didn't know how long he waited, and he didn't call himself.

So he went out and asked Plager, "Is there anything wrong?"

"I want to be the prophet of this village. He stared straight at Li Ben and said.

Plager's actions were somewhat unexpected by Leeben, because judging from his earlier performance, he should have been a natural one, and he did not expect that he would take the initiative to assume the role of prophet.

"That's not going to be easy, you try to become a Chaos Hunter first. Lee Ben reminded him.

"I know, so I'm coming to you. ”

"What are you thinking? Become the ruler of this place?"

"I just don't want to put the safety of the village in the hands of a group of young people and a kind father, which will only make the people who have been stable for a long time miserable," said Prager. ”

"How many people want to become Chaos Hunters?" asked Lee.

"There are a lot of them now, but I think you also know that most people are motivated by curiosity and a thirst for power, and once they see the horrors of failed trials and the inhuman form of becoming hunters, there are very few who are really willing to stay. ”

"Looks like you know those?"

"Boris is my brother. ”

"I see... Don't you have any intention of avenging him? He was killed by my own hands. ”

"If he was still human, I would, but he is no longer the first person he ate, because the first person he ate was our mother, so I should thank you. ”

Li Ben didn't know how to answer, so he could only divert the topic and say, "Let's go to the village, you can gather those who want to become chaos hunters, and I will teach them the first lesson." ”