Whispering Poems

Chapter 3210: Priest of the Snow Mountain

At this moment, Xia De was also looking at the priest in front of him who could briefly connect the soul with the snow-capped mountains with a little surprise. At this moment, on Xia De's outstretched right hand, fiery red cracks spread from the back of the hand to the arm, but the dense cracks only extended to the elbow and then disappeared.

The coldness of the snow-capped mountains was completely melted by the afterglow of the first fire, and the power of the earth represented by the mountains was completely unable to shake the soul of Xia De, who had once devoured part of the essence of the earth. Although Xia De did not dare to say that he was the earth, the earth was indeed a part of him.

Even the blessing power bestowed by the God of Winter [Winter Girl] was revealed at this moment. The snowflakes floating in the night sky, which had turned deep blue at some point, danced for Shade at this moment. The running cold wind made a terrifying whistling sound in the mountains, as if the wind and snow had collided violently with the mountains.

Only the two people at the moment could hear the loud bang, and after the whistling sound appeared, Elder Harald was even more surprised to find that it seemed that the snow mountain took the initiative to accept this strange young man after the collision.

He immediately loosened his hand from Xia De, and was forced to withdraw from the state of connection with the snow mountain. After taking two steps back, he dropped the long staff with his left hand and grasped Xia De's right hand, which had been burned.

The elders of the tribesmen at the foot of the snow-capped mountains looked at the young man in disbelief:

"What kind of fire is this? No, I feel the power of the season. Are you from the Arctic Ice Cap? Are you from the Winter Choir? How can your soul be so powerful?"

"Although I have had encounters with them before, I am not from the Icefields, nor am I a believer of the goddess who controls winter."

Xia De denied it, and then reiterated:
"I really came here to look for the magic sword. I heard the news in the city that someone was attacked on the snowy mountain, so I came here to look for it."

Since Shad had already proven that he was qualified to stay on the mountain, Elder Harald did not mention sending Shad down the mountain. He hesitated for a moment:
"You are talking about what happened half a month ago. After hearing the news, I went to the scene of the attack, but there were no clues left there for us to trace. Half a month is enough time for all traces of the time to disappear. Young man, although I can take you to see the scene again, you'd better not hold too high hopes."

Although he was not directly burned by the First Fire, the burn marks on his hands could not be easily removed. Xia De reached out to treat him, but the old man in the robe shook his head, took off the talisman hanging on his chest and pressed it on the palm of his right hand. He was using the power of this snow mountain again.

Shade continued:
"Even if the traces from that time have disappeared, there should be other clues. The person who was attacked on the mountain was a famous local black market potion merchant. His friends said that he has not appeared since the end of the year. Today I went to several places where he had stayed, and only arrived at the snowy mountain in the evening."

Xia De thought of the note under the herb hut, where the potion merchant said he was looking for someone to help him. Since he often went up the mountain to collect herbs, it was impossible for him not to know the tribesmen at the foot of the snow-capped mountains:
"That potion merchant isn't with you, is he?"

"This"

Elder Harald nodded:

"I know the person you are talking about. He is a very skilled pharmacist and has a very good relationship with us. He is not in my village, but in another village at the foot of the mountain, but not far from here.

He went to the foot of the mountain to seek help three days ago, and has been in a coma ever since. If you don't mind missing dinner, I can take you to see him."

"Can't you cure him?"

"We haven't found a suitable method yet, so we can only plan to maintain his current condition and wait until All Souls' Day to use a ritual to help him expel the poison and curse. The power of the relic that hurt him is extremely terrifying. If we can't determine what the relic is and then treat it according to its characteristics, ordinary herbs and potions may not be effective."

His hands had returned to normal in the icy blue light of the spell, and after bending down to pick up his staff, he motioned for Shade to follow him down the mountain. He also had many questions to ask Shade, a powerful ring sorcerer from a foreign land. Although he had met people who could resist the power of the snow mountain before, the only one who was accepted by the snow mountain was the young man in front of him.

Xia De followed him and continued to ask curiously:

"Come to think of it, Elder Harald, did you come down from the mountain also because of the magic sword?"

"No, it's about All Souls' Day. The snow is really too heavy this year. I want to take advantage of the good weather today to go to the route we will take during All Souls' Day to see what the situation is like. This kind of road is no problem for ring sorcerers like us to walk, but the young people in the tribe are ordinary people."

The Fatu people form villages in "tribes". Nearby villages often belong to the same tribe, and different tribes are closely connected with each other due to various marriage relationships.

The villages at the foot of the snow-capped mountains are of course different from those in the plains. Most of the villages here are built at the end of rugged mountain roads. They are built in the form of "villages" with fortress-like outer walls, and different functional areas are built in an orderly manner inside the villages due to the high and low terrain.

Elder Harald told Shade that this was the traditional architectural style of their houses. Before people from the Old World arrived on the island, the village was built to defend against attacks from wild animals and other tribes. After people from the Old World gradually migrated here, it was built to deal with outsiders who tried to encroach on the snow-capped mountains.

In today's era, such behavior seems to have no meaning. After all, the Principality of Lagersen has introduced laws to protect the rights of the Fatu people. However, the people in these snow mountain tribes believe that war will come sooner or later, and peace is the least likely thing to last:

"I heard that two principalities in the Old World have already started fighting over trade routes. I think a full-scale war will soon come. I just hope that the people in the Old World will not spread the flames of war to this island."

The two walked very fast down the mountain, and even jumped down the mountain for some unnecessary distances. But even so, when they arrived at the village called "Holt Village", it was almost seven o'clock in the evening.

The lights in the village at the foot of the snow-capped mountains were as conspicuous as torches in the long snowy night. The gate of the village had been closed, but the elderly man shouted twice at the top of his lungs, and the guards opened the gate.

Judging from the sound, this is not a gate made of capstan and ropes, but an automated gate powered by steam and pulley levers. It seems that these indigenous people at the foot of the snow-capped mountains are not just blindly sticking to tradition.

"Where is Elder Yulsa from the village? And is the man from the city who came to ask for help after the end-of-year festival still here?"

"They were all in the arena behind the village. Something went wrong in the evening."

Everyone in the village knew Elder Harald, who was traveling with Shade, and they respected him very much.

As for the "Elder Yulsa", Xia De originally thought that even if the other party was not at the eleventh ring level, his level should not be very low. But when the two came to the arena between the village and the cliff, Xia De discovered that the elder of the village was actually only a second-ring warlock.

"That's right, it's not that easy for a high-level sorcerer to appear."

The old man was standing outside the arena which was surrounded by a simple fence and had a hardened ground. He looked worriedly at the figure in the arena who seemed to be fighting against the air and snowflakes alone in the dark.

Of course there were no street lights in the village. The only lighting here came from the torches in the hands of Elder Yulsa and the two young men beside him.

After Shade and the other arrived, Elder Harald exchanged a few words with the gray-haired elder of the village. Shade saw that the man in the arena had completely lost his mind, but because he had lost his mind and his IQ was not high enough, he was trapped here by a simple illusion.

The other party should be the "potion merchant" that Shad was looking for. His body shape was exactly the same as Mr. Mortis's description, and the strange runes that appeared on his skin when he was dancing wildly were consistent with the description in his medical notes that he left in the basement of the herbal hut.

Although Shade didn't know the specific origins of those black runes, he was sure that they were not the blasphemous runes of the demons:
"Is it really just a relic?"

Elder Yulsa explained to the two worriedly:
"He suddenly woke up in the evening. I thought his condition had improved, but he started attacking people around him as soon as he got up. Fortunately, he was able to consciously suppress his strength, so he didn't cast a spell, but just punched around. I planned to use illusion to let him consume his energy here for a while, and he will definitely faint again after a while.

Then I'll feed him some sedative herbs, and I should be able to control him."

"I'll go check on him. You guys stay outside and watch him. Don't let him get away."

Shad then said, and Elder Harald nodded to the old man of the village. As the latter revoked the illusion, Shad took a step forward and appeared directly in front of the "potion merchant" in the middle of the arena.

The merchant, whose body was covered with black runes, also noticed Shade's appearance at this moment. He immediately punched Shade's face, but Shade grabbed his hand again.

Even if a mid-ring warlock is affected by the power of the relic, his physical strength alone cannot defeat Shade.

After trying a few times, he found that he could not pull his hand out of Shade's palm, so he hit Shade with his left hand as well. However, in the process of swinging his fist, a black sword blade suddenly shot out from the back of his left hand. However, Shade, who was prepared, dodged it by just turning sideways, and then kicked the potion merchant to the ground.

"A sword blade grows out of the back of my hand. What is this?"