Bang!

The explosion consumes Nok.

Nock didn't struggle, he closed his eyes and waited quietly for death.

There was no fear on his face, some were relieved and then a faint smile.

……

I don't know how long it has been.

Waiting for his death, Nock suddenly found that he did not feel the impact or pain of the explosion on his body.

He snapped his eyes open.

Wrong!

The dazzling sunlight shone into his eyes, and he couldn't help but close his eyes again.

The breeze is blowing, and it is the mischievous greeting of the autumn girl.

The feeling of warmth on the body is greeted by the sun.

"I'm not dead!"

Nock excitedly opened his eyes again and looked around frantically.

Where there is a dead forest, where there is an explosion and the king of dead trees!

Yes, but the grass beneath Nok's feet turned into a scorched earth.

and a trail of lines remaining on the grass.

Nock carefully observed the traces on the ground, and couldn't help but exclaim in connection with what he had just encountered.

"Magic Array!"

Nock grimaced, looking at the remaining formations on the ground.

Although his knowledge of the magic array was only on paper.

But what he had just experienced, he couldn't think of anything else other than that caused by the magic illusion array.

Also, there is something wrong with his performance in the illusion.

How could he sacrifice his lifespan in exchange for the opportunity to activate the divine magic.

He's not without hole cards!

Could it be that the Dead Tree King in the illusion made him feel desperate, so he broke the jar and broke it?

Wrong.

Nock casually pressed his hand on his waist and touched the hole card hidden on his waist through his coat.

This is the confidence that he dares to go out alone, the hole cards are not used, how can he exchange his life for the opportunity to launch the divine magic because his divine power is exhausted.

Nock secretly mobilizes the divine power in his body (note 1).

He found that his divine power was full, and the consumption of the previous night had long since recovered.

Therefore, he did not use his divine power at all.

Was that experience in the illusion really his experience?

Nock looked back in the direction of Cred behind him.

At this time, the village of "Cred" was no longer visible.

Nock just discovered the anomaly of "Cred", and he had this illusion experience.

Was it a warning, or was it an accident?

Nock thought back to the lamp full of strange emotions, and hesitated to look back.

Although he accepted Sherlock's commission and promised to help him investigate the truth about Ford's disappearance.

But if it was to cost Nock's life, Nock was unwilling.

Nock began to reflect on himself.

I remembered how apprehensive Father John used to be every time he went out.

It turned out that he was sitting in the well and watching the sky, underestimating the danger in the wild.

Also, how could England, as the royal city of the Lionheart Kingdom, be in real danger.

It is estimated that those monsters wandering in the dark are just "little guys" who were deliberately put into the royal city by the kingdom in order to cultivate the sense of crisis of the people.

Nock confronted the crisis.

It seems that the experience of the past year has given him a false impression of his own strength.

I thought I was invincible in the world.

Nock reflected on himself and began to think about what to do next.

Whether to return to the city, or to bypass Cred and continue to the original destination of the "Land of Wisdom".

"If I were Ford, would I let go of the anomaly inside and not be curious when I passed by Cred?"

"That's not right! Ford was in a hurry, indicating that he had important business to attend to. If there is something important on him, then he cannot be distracted by other things, but concentrate on hurrying. ”

"It's a pity that I didn't first investigate the whereabouts of Ford's carriage in the city that day. If Ford hadn't been hiding his tracks, then it was likely that he had come all the way and strayed into Cred and was trapped inside. ”

"But if he hides his tracks, he will definitely avoid villages like Cred and bypass them on small roads."

"But the question now is whether his destination is the village of Kored or the land of wisdom!"

Nock crouched on the grass with a little headache, letting the sun crawl over his back.

"No, no!"

Nock scratched his head frantically, and the analysis that was originally full of confidence at home was completely overturned after encountering the "accident" in front of him.

"There must be some detail that I overlooked."

"Ford is just an ordinary rich businessman, and there is no need to go through a lot of trouble to deal with him."

"As long as you find a sparsely populated place, whether you want to kidnap him or kill him, it's easy."

"But the question is, who's going to do it to him?"

"Faith! The letter! ”

"Damn, if only I could know the contents of the letter, the problem would be solved!"

Thinking of this, Nock immediately gave up his intention to move on.

Whether it's the weird "Cred" or the "Wisdom Town" with a lot of institutions.

None of them are what he can snoop on now.

It would be better to go back to the city and investigate the contents of the letter that Ford had received that day.

Perhaps, Ford didn't take the letter with him, but left it at home.

Even if you don't find the letter, the person who sent it can always find it, right?

The letter was given to Ford by the Holmes housekeeper.

Then the butler must have seen the messenger.

Find the person who sent the letter, and I'm afraid I don't know who sent the letter?

Nock came back to life with full blood.

He slapped the grass clippings off his body, and turned to rush back to England.

It's just that as soon as Nock lifted his foot, his face hesitated again.

He was not reconciled.

Yes.

Nock was unwilling to let himself run back after encountering a setback.

Although he went back to the city to investigate under the banner of investigating letters.

But Nock knew very well that he was afraid and made excuses for his timidity!

This is not what he wants!

He didn't want to live like Father John!

Nock is grateful for Father John's teaching and help.

But he definitely didn't want to live like Father John.

is obviously powerful, but he still let a group of members of the Cult of Nature God frame them again and again, and finally sink into the wreckage and die.

"Forgive me for my selfishness, O Holy Lord."

Nock suddenly fell to his knees and prayed in the direction of England.

"I can't live in a nest, for the sake of the children, for the sake of the monastery, and for myself, please forgive me for my selfishness. Amen! ”

Nock stood up again, but with a look of determination on his face.

He still chose the direction of "Cred" and walked there.

He had to see what the weirdness in "Cred" was!

Now that the sun is blazing, it is the time when all evil forces are at their weakest.

Nock had to take a look at what was really going on with "Cred" before he was willing.

He couldn't have been scared off by a lantern without finding anything!

Nock crossed his hands on his hips, and ran towards "Cred" without knowing why he was afraid.

One glance, just one glance!

Nock must see what flaws will be revealed in the weirdness of "Cred" under the scorching sun!

Even if he would attract the strange attack of "Cred" for this, Nock would not hesitate to do it!

Nock was calm on the surface, but his hands on his waist had firmly grasped the hole cards hidden in his waist.

This is a weapon that even the demons of hell can repel it, and Nok doesn't believe it, the weirdness of the mortal world can be even more difficult than the demons of hell!

Soon, Nock saw the silhouette of "Cred" from a distance.

Only, as Nock kept advancing.

The decisiveness on Nock's face turned to astonishment.

At a distance of nearly 100 meters from "Cred", Nock slowly stopped.

He didn't move on, and there was no need to move forward.

Where else is there "Cred"!

The village in front of me has long since been reduced to ruins.

In the vegetable fields around the village, there are still any vegetables.

Some are just rotting leaves and dry land, which have flown in the vegetable fields uninvited, swarms of flies.

The village that Nock had seen in the morning was now in ruins covered with scorched earth.

These are the traces left by the fire after it burned.

There was no smoke from the ruins, and it was clear that the village had not burned down for some time.

"That's not right! If the village burned down, then what happened to the village I saw in the morning! ”

Nok woke up, grabbed the weapon at his waist, and cautiously approached the ruins of the village.

Standing at the entrance of the village, Nock looked at the scene in front of him, even standing in the scorching sun, his hands and feet were cold.

The buildings in the village were burned to charcoal.

At first glance, it seems like just an ordinary fire.

But in Nock's eyes, it was enough to make his scalp tingle!

I saw the shadows hidden under the ruins.

The twisted souls that were bubbling black were struggling, but they couldn't help the ruins of the buildings pressed on their bodies.

They wailed silently, but they couldn't make any sound.

There are no less than a hundred such undead in Nock's eyes!

This is still the entrance of the village!

Nock endured the discomfort, lifted his trembling legs, and stepped into the ruined village.

Airplanes!

With Nock's intrusion, the undead, who were originally quite peaceful under the scorching sun, suddenly boiled.

One by one, they struggled to get out of the rubble, but when they touched the sunlight, they were forced back by the intense burning, and instinctively burrowed back into the rubble to avoid the sunlight.

But they "watched" at Nock who entered the village with their empty eye sockets, and if their gaze could tear a person apart, Nok would have died a million times by this time.

Nock was careful to avoid each pile of ruins, lest he be haunted by the ghosts beneath the ruins.

"It's!"

Nock was suddenly caught by a pile of planks on the ruins.

He strode forward and leaned forward.

On a charred wooden board, half of the Sherlock Holmes family emblem could be faintly seen.

Could this be the wreck of Ford Holmes' carriage?

Nock glanced at the souls hidden beneath the wreckage.

This is not the ghost of Ford Holmes.

But Nock recognized it anyway.

This was Ford Holmes' servant, and Nock had seen him once, on the day Ford Holmes visited him with a "thank you".

This man was right next to Ford Holmes.

Unexpectedly, he has become an undead, so it seems that Ford Holmes is only afraid that he will be more than lucky.

It's a pity that looking at it, it is already the same as the villagers in the village, and it is covered in black gas.

This is a sign of a resentful spirit.

A village of resentful spirits!

If Nok had really come to this village in the morning, he would have been torn to pieces by this group of resentful spirits!

Where is there a chance to fall into some illusions!

Nock smiled wryly with a scared face: "It seems that I have fallen into a hallucination from the beginning. I didn't arrive at Cred at all, but I was trapped halfway through! ”

"It's just that the other party didn't expect me to retreat from the difficulty, but would take advantage of the daytime to kill and come back."

"It's so ruthless! slaughtered a village, and even laid a fantasy to cover up the truth. ”

"Wasting so much effort, really just to hide the whereabouts of Ford Holmes?"

Nock looked back in the direction of England and muttered, "Not necessarily! ”

[Note 1: The so-called divine power is actually just called differently.] It's all a manifestation of magic. The book sets up that the world is composed of water, fire, wind, earth, light, darkness, and space. Derived elements include ice, thunder, wood, poison and other alien elements. These will be explained in detail later when the Mage's Guild officially appears. Lords can think of Nok as a light mage who practices light magic. It's just that I secretly learned a little bit of other basic spells without being taught. 】