The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

When Arnold walked out from the backyard, his clothes were neat and his steps were steady, making it impossible to see that he had ever fought a fierce battle with someone.

Nick, who was guarding outside the courtyard, greeted him, and subconsciously glanced behind the courtyard door.

Seeing this, Anol said, "She's dead. Let someone take her body outside the city and bury it."

"Dead?!" Nick was shocked: "You killed it?!"

Anol glanced at him: "What, there is a problem?!"

"No! No problem!" Nick shook his head quickly and said, "I'll have her body taken outside the city and buried."

"Well, let's go." Anol nodded, and then said: "I'm going back to the manor outside the city first, and I have something to send someone there to find me."

"Okay, sir, walk carefully and slowly." Nick watched him go away respectfully.

Inside the manor castle outside the city.

Before Arnold approached, Orgus was keenly aware of the hostility that had not dissipated from him.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Did you kill someone?"

"Yeah." Anol nodded indifferently.

Olgus looked him up and down, and asked worriedly, "Have you ever been injured?"

Arnold's expression softened slightly, and he said, "Never."

"That's good." Olgus was relieved and didn't ask any further questions.

Arnold didn't say much about it either.

After sitting down across from Olgus, Arnold suddenly asked, "Do you know how to become a god as quickly as possible?"

Olgus was slightly stunned, and remained silent for a long time before answering: "I know."

Arnold immediately asked, "How?"

Orgus said: "Integrating the godhead, a mortal can instantly become a god."

Anol hurriedly asked again: "Then do you know where you can get the godhead?"

Orgus asked without answering, "Do you want to become a god?"

"I think." Arnold admitted frankly, because if he could become a god, the elves would be able to reoccupy the seat of one of the eight major races.At that time, even avenging the tragic death of the elves will be much easier.

Olgus didn't know the inside story, he only thought that he wanted to become a god because he wanted to obtain unparalleled power and a seemingly endless lifespan.

It has to be said that thinking this way, Olgus felt a little disappointed inexplicably. As for the specific disappointment, I am afraid that even he himself is not clear.

In the end, Olgus just looked at him with complicated eyes and asked, "Do you know what it means to become a god?"

Arnold heard something in his words, and couldn't help wondering: "What does it mean?"

Olgus said word by word: "It means that you will be excluded from this world by the laws of this world, and it also means that you will disappear like the gods, leaving only the sleeping ghosts in the world. The legend also means that you will never see any mortal beings you are familiar with, including me."

"Uh... forget it then." He still had a task to complete, if he left this world because of becoming a god, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss.

The shortcut didn't work, and Arnold didn't feel disappointed, so he thought about other ways.

He focused on two things, and asked while thinking: "Speaking of which, you are a god, why haven't you been excluded by the laws of this world?"

Olgus replied frankly without any scruples: "Because before that, I destroyed my godhood."

Anor said in astonishment: "God's divinity should be equivalent to the sea of ​​magic power of human beings, right? Since you have destroyed your divinity, why can you still use your divine power?"

Olgus said: "Because what I use is only the little divine power left in my body after the self-destruction of the godhead, and what I use is less."

What he didn't say was that when those divine powers were exhausted, it would be his death.

If he didn't say it, Arnold would have no way of knowing.

Therefore, Arnold, who knew nothing about it, suddenly realized: "So it is."

This is the end of the topic of becoming a god.

Later, Arnold never said anything about wanting to become a god.

It was not until a long time later that Olgus realized that the reason why Arnold wanted to become a god was not the superficial reasons he thought.

pity……

This is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

Let's talk about the present.

Today's Thorn Ridge has a lot of vendors coming and going, and the speed of news circulation is much faster than before.

In the past, not to mention major events that happened in other countries, the people of Thorn Ridge had no way of knowing.Even the major events that happened in the neighboring territories, the people of Thorn Ridge have no way of knowing.

But now, the citizens of Thorn Ridge are not only familiar with the major events that happened in the neighboring territories, but also the major events that happened in the mainland countries, they can also keep abreast of Ni Ni and talk about them.

As an insignificant servant of the lord's mansion, Buddy's favorite thing to do in his spare time is to go to various taverns and listen to the businessmen who come and go talk about various major events in various countries.

In short, his hobby is listening to gossip.

Sometimes when he heard something interesting, he would even lose his composure to slap the table, or applaud.

On this day, after work was over, Buddy once again found the busiest tavern in the east of the city.

The tavern waiter saw him and brought him a bottle of rum with the lowest price without asking any questions.

Buddy smiled and gave the copper coins, and then while drinking a small wine, he listened carefully to the news that the vendors at the next table were talking about.

At this time, those traders were talking about a nobleman who was robbed in a certain territory in a certain country a few days ago, and his bruised and bruised body was found after he disappeared for several days.

This is the tenth most Buddy has heard in recent times.

Just when he was thinking that this kind of news had appeared too many times and it was no longer new, he suddenly heard another table peddler deliberately lower his voice and say to the person at the same table: "You are from the capital of our Kelan country? Then you have heard of Lister?" Is there a fire in the Duke's mansion?"

The person at the same table also deliberately lowered his voice, and replied: "I have heard of it. And I have not only heard of it, but also seen it with my own eyes."

"So, it's true?"

"That's not true. I saw it with my own eyes. The night the Duke's mansion caught fire, the fire burned half the sky in the capital."

"So it's true that the Duchess of Lister was burned?"

"Hey! Don't mention it! That duchess, what a beauty. When she was rescued that night, she was burnt to death. The healing magic cultivated by the royal family sent by the king at that time Teacher, took turns to treat her, but she didn't completely heal the burns all over her body. When she woke up the next day, because she couldn't accept her ugly appearance, she went crazy, and she hasn't recovered to normal until now. In my opinion , she is definitely not going to get better. The life of the Duchess has been completely ruined by this fire!"

"That's really a pity."

"Isn't it! What a pity!"

When Buddy heard this, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, so that he didn't bother to listen to what those people behind said.

The grievances between the duchess and her lord may not be clear to outsiders, but he, a servant who works in the lord's mansion all day long, is quite clear.

Speaking of which, he also broke into that bedroom that day, and what the lord said at that time is still in my ears.

Buddy didn't know what others thought, anyway, he believed very much that his lord did not tell lies.

So in his opinion, the duchess who intended to frame his lord deserved it even if she was burned to death by that fire.

I have to say that after hearing the news, Buddy felt very happy.

However, apart from being happy, Buddy still had a faint feeling that something seemed wrong.

In order to find out what was wrong, Buddy spent some time trying to find out the name and title of the nobleman who had been in trouble from the people at the table who mentioned the disaster of the nobleman in a certain place.

By the way, he also found out the names of the victims of more than a dozen similar incidents that happened before.

If you don't inquire, you don't know. After inquiring, Buddy was horrified.

Just because the identities of the victims are different, but they all have one thing in common.

The common point is that these victims are all big men who sent people to transport the elves to Thorn City in exchange for the spring of life.

At that time Buddy had personally recorded their identities and names, because he suspected that what he recorded was a list of revenge, Buddy still remembered those names and titles.

Buddy once suspected that if his lord wanted to seek justice for those elves who had suffered inhuman torture, but he never expected, nor dared to imagine, that his lord would really do such a thing.

Moreover, even if he wanted to break his head, he didn't understand how his lord, who seldom walked out of Thorn Ridge, managed to do this.

If Buddy dares to ask Arnold for clarification, then he will understand that it is actually very, very simple to do this step.

Because Arnold will tell him with the facts what it means to be "money can make ghosts turn mills".

It's a pity that Buddy didn't dare to ask, so he would never be able to figure out what price Arnold paid for this step, and how many gold coins he threw into it.

After that day, Buddy couldn't help paying more attention to the various news brought by the past merchants.

This attention has lasted for more than three years.

Three years later, Buddy suddenly discovered that most of the important people whose names he had recorded had died in the past three years.

The few remaining ones who are still alive are either the sword master of a certain country or the god of a certain law. In short, they are all famous, extremely powerful, standing at the top of this continent, and ordinary people can't touch them at all.

After more than three years of shock, Buddy's mentality has already changed unconsciously.

If he was still full of fear and doubts at the beginning, then now he is full of anticipation.

He was looking forward to what kind of astonishing move his lord would make, and even more looking forward to what kind of attitude those people who stood at the top of the continent would fall to the altar.

Buddy sometimes felt that his appearance seemed a little perverted.

But he didn't want to change at all.

His only regret is that he cannot share these discoveries with others.

He was not afraid of being scolded by the lord, but he was afraid that if these things got out, the relatives, friends and even supporters of the deceased would avenge them.

By that time, Thorn Ridge will definitely become the target of public criticism, and he is afraid that he will become a sinner through the ages.

Therefore, Buddy didn't dare to share those discoveries with other people. He kept his mouth shut for three years, and only quietly inquired and watched silently.