Chapter 145: Purple Moon Village
Purple Moon Village, a small village located on the northwest border of the Eastern Continent, bordered by the barbarians in the north and the orcs in the west, is the most frontier village on the human continent.
After rushing for nearly half a month, Caris and the others finally arrived at their destination, this small village that was already panicked, but compared to the first few people, there are now two little ones added to the team.
Beth and Betty of the White Cat Clan, two very likable kitten girls, are very well-behaved and sensible, take the initiative to help build camps and collect firewood, and they are also very hard-working, which makes Carris, who was determined to take them in at the beginning, feel very satisfied.
"Teacher, it's almost here, right?"
Jialisi glanced at the big map, the name marked on it was already Purple Moon Village, and it was not the kind of green mark of the safe point, but a red mark like a copy, thinking that coming here should be the destination where she and the others were coming.
"Well, that's right, this is Purple Moon Village." Clarie nodded, and then began to continue to speak seriously: "The ominous magical aura here is stronger than half a month ago, it seems that things have worsened, let's hurry up and take a look, I hope we can still be saved." β
"Carolyn, what do you think?"
Carris nodded, then turned to Caroline, who was in a daze. After all, if it was the undead, she, a disciple of the Lich, should be able to roughly sense something special.
"Hmm... This breath... Weird ......" Caroline frowned, as if she wasn't quite sure: "It's not like a pure undead aura, but... Like a mixed breath? β
"Mixed?"
Caris blinked, "What's that?" β
"I can't say, it's not like a necromancer's doing, it's like a lich in comparison, um... Or maybe it's a little closer, the Death Knight or something. Or rather, it's a bit like the remnants of a demon..."
Caroline was trying to sort out the words that Carris could understand and explain them to her.
"Oh, that's it." Caris was also a little surprised: "I thought there was something wrong with my senses, there seems to be a demonic aura here, but it has faded to the point that I can't feel it." β
"If it's a lich or a death knight, then it's a big problem, maybe we'll meet someone from the Holy See."
Clarry said with a frown.
"It's okay, just kill it." Caris said a little indifferently, after all, with her current strength, even if she was to take on the four-winged archangel alone. She also has the confidence to beat the other side with a full head, so it is inevitable that she will be a little proud in her words. This is also quite normal.
After all, no matter what Grace says, she also has part of the bloodline of the arrogant demon king Lucifer.
"Okay, let's go check it out."
Clarion glanced at Carris, who was surprisingly not lecturing her. Instead, he nodded, as if acquiescing to her behavior.
"Hmm." Everyone nodded, and then drove the lizard-wagon towards the small village ahead.
And when they actually entered the village, it was not only Caroline and ClarΓ©. Even Caris was slightly stunned, this is a real forbidden area of life...... All the trees withered and died, and the soil on the ground was dry and hard. It turned into a gray-green with a desperate atmosphere, there was no water in the water tank, the pit in the ground, and there was no water in the well, the elements in the air were constantly disordered, and the occasional dead corpse on the side of the road was also dry as if there was no water at all, and the dark and hollow eyes looked helplessly ahead.
Even small insects such as flies, which should have been, are now gone.
A mirror image of purgatory on earth.
"The curse is worse than half a month ago......"
Clarrie frowned, and anyone could see the solemnity and worry in his expression.
"There won't be living people in such a dead place, right?" Beth, who was a little frightened, asked weakly.
"Nope." X2
Caroline and Carris shook their heads at the same time.
"Here, here, and here, there are still some people in these rooms." Carris stretched out her hand and pointed to some thatched huts, a few faint white names in them could still be seen, thinking that there should be someone who stubbornly did not hang up, compared to Caroline's perception of the breath of life, Carys looked at the name through the wall more clearly......
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"Huh?"
Just as Justis was about to say something, she suddenly felt a strange feeling of nausea coming over her, making her shake unconsciously, and it seemed that not only herself, Caroline, Betty, and even Clarie had the same reaction, but only Mi Noel, who was sitting on her shoulder, seemed to have no reaction.
"What's going on?" Caris frowned slightly, and it could be seen that this was a debuff, a so-called negative status.
"It's this curse, and everyone who sets foot in this area will be infected with this curse, and finally slowly weaken and die of exhaustion."
Probably seeing the fear of the two kitten girls, Clarley spoke again and comforted: "But don't worry, we are not aborigines, as long as outsiders leave this place, they will slowly recover." β
"I'll see."
As she spoke, she opened the status bar and looked at her status, only to see that on the negative side, a debuff called Exhaustion was hanging there, and then the duration was refreshed to 16 seconds.
Depletion: When the living strayed into the realm of the dead, you will gradually age until your life is exhausted, reducing your HP by a certain amount per second.
"?" Caris was stunned for a moment, and then quickly looked at her HP, which was indeed dropping 10 drops per second, but according to Caris's blood regeneration rate, this blood loss was a joke, so she didn't care about herself, and instead glanced at the blood loss speed of others.
Caroline and Clarrie both lost 5 points a second, and the blood recovery speed could still keep up, while Beth and Betty couldn't, and in just a short time, the two little guys lost more than 100 blood, and even their ears drooped, looking very sluggish.
THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS MINOR, WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A DEBUFF ON ......
"What, Minor, you hurry up and bring the two of them back to the mirror world, and they will be finished later."
Callis said, reaching out to make an ice mirror.
"Huh? People know~" Mi Noel didn't ask so much, just nodded briefly, and then turned back into the mirror, and then, the mirror turned into a whirlpool door, and under the instructions of Caris, the two little ones walked in very well-behaved.
And it turns out that after arriving in the mirror world, the blood of the two little guys is indeed not falling, but slowly rising.
And then, a large Minol pounced out of the mirror, this time not the size of a palm, but changed into the original Lori-like, Caris wiped her face, which is probably because the mirror is relatively large......
But that's it, and you can't get her back.
"Carris, let's go find some alive first, while it's still daytime." Seeing that everything was in order, Claret opened her mouth and gave instructions to Carris.
"Oh, good."
Grace nodded, and then took Caroline and Minore and walked with Claret to a small house nearby.
Once inside, Grace's attention was drawn to the guy on the bed...
It was a thin old man with a withered face, his skin was covered with folds as if it had lost moisture, his sunken eye sockets and eyes that had begun to lose moisture, and he was lying flat on the bed at the moment, and if it weren't for the faint rise and fall of his chest, it would have been almost impossible for the Clarets to determine whether this guy was still alive or not.
"This old man's vitality is quite tenacious..."
Caris touched her chin, "Do you want to try to save it?" β
"No, if I'm not mistaken, he should have been a middle-aged strong man half a month ago, right, do you think the clothes he wears are not very generous for his figure?" Clarion shook her head, then pointed to the dry old man's clothes on the bed, and asked Caris rhetorically.
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Caris was silent for a moment, apparently ignoring this little thing.
"But let's try, Carris, and get some water." Clarlie sighed, looking at the guy in front of him who was still in the prime of life half a month ago, he was even older than himself at this moment, and he must not have a good feeling in his heart.
"Oh, good."
Carris nodded, casually got a piece of ice and stuffed it into the gourd, and then melted the ice with the fire element, got most of the water element of the gourd, and then handed it over.
Clarlie took the water hyacinth, and then slowly helped the dry old man on the bed up, and fed him water, and after the old man came into contact with the water, his cloudy and somewhat dry eyes finally rolled, and then subconsciously opened his mouth wide, and he drank up half of the gourd's water.
"There is surprisingly little water here, so they basically end up dying of bizarre dehydration, one by one becoming dry corpses, waking up as undead in the middle of the night, and then sucking the blood of the living, this kind of undead I have never seen before, but if they are still alive, given enough water, it will slow them down the speed at which they become blood-sucking dried corpses, but even so, they will eventually die of old age."
After feeding the old man in bed with water, Claret got back to her feet and explained the nature of the curse to Carlis and Caroline.
"I've heard Mr. Rich say this in the past." Caroline thought for a moment and spoke to Claret and Carris.
"Oh? What is it? β
Caris was immediately interested.
"Curse ...... heart," Caroline muttered for a moment, then silently pronounced a name. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )