Chapter 35 The children who barely maintained their sobriety climbed out first.

 They didn't call out to the other children, they left on their own, stumbling back to their respective homes.

 Some of the children who could barely maintain their sobriety heard the knocking sound from above, knowing they were finally safe, they completely relaxed and almost fell to the ground.

 They didn't care to leave and just fell into a deep sleep in the basement.

 The children who could leave on their own came out, and then other adults arrived to take the sleepy children home.

 One by one, the children were taken away by the adults, either carried or held.

 Du Mingna saw Winnie for the first time.

 She had become a mother over the years, with traces of wind and frost between her eyebrows, but still retained the sweetness of her youth.

 Her face was very similar to Dora's, making it clear at a glance that they were mother and daughter.

 Old John carried Dora outside.

 Dora took Dora from Old John's hands, politely greeted Du Mingna, and then left with the child.

 A faint smell of blood drifted in the wind.

 The children were all sent away, and Hausman, with the village guard, and stronger villagers like Daniel, were busy bringing back some weak monsters that had been hunted.

 They set traps and prepared hiding places suitable for hunting with bows and arrows before the monsters arrived, in order to capture more monsters.

 In the past, they would not have had no harvest, but the harvest was not very large, and they needed to take greater risks.

 There were some small windows for ventilation in the high places of the stone houses in the village, and the villagers used to shoot monsters through these windows.

 But it was very difficult.

 This time, with Du Mingna's early warning, they had a great harvest.

 Du Mingna stood in front of the stone house of the first shelter with Old John, sniffing the smell carried by the wind, and using his own perception to roughly understand what the other villagers were busy with.

 Then, he turned his head and looked at Old John.

 "Can we talk now?" About Old John's identity, about the relic of the magic goddess in the Sipu Mountains, about whether Hausman had also heard screams before the monster attack, and whether Hausman had informed Old John...

 Du Mingna had many things he wanted to know.

 Old John stared at Du Mingna.

 He seemed to want to imprint Du Mingna's appearance deep in his memory.

 He slowly raised a bitter arc.

 "Yes, young master.

 Whatever you want to know, as long as I know, I can tell you.

" He spoke very slowly, as if with each additional word, the pressure he had to bear would become heavier.

 He slightly turned aside, raised his hand, and made a gesture for Du Mingna to enter the house.

 "If the young master doesn't mind, please come in and listen to the explanation from this old servant.

" Du Mingna's eyebrows twitched slightly.

 He endured the discomfort and entered the house.

 It was time to have a showdown with Old John, but he felt that Old John's attitude towards him was even more respectful than before.

 He felt that the respect was not directed at him! Old John seemed to be looking through him at another person, at another great presence.

 Not the original body.

 Old John did not suspect that he was a wandering soul from another world, replacing the original body to continue living in this world.

 It should be that Old John had been looking at another person through the original body all along.

 Could it be related to the relic of the magic goddess? Du Mingna's heart beat faster.

 He was nervous and somewhat fearful.

 His fifteenth birthday was approaching.

 Although he was now certain that he could still cultivate even after this time limit, he still hoped to find his direction before that.

 Could what Old John was about to tell him help him dispel some of the fog? He sat quietly.

 Old John was looking at him.

 In those cloudy eyes, there was longing, anticipation, and fanaticism...

 Du Mingna heard Old John's trembling voice.

 "Before this old slave answers the young master's question, may I ask the young master a question? Young master, did you hear any screams later? Screams coming from the Sipu Mountains?" John had brought the conversation to this point, and Du Mingna was not clear about it.

 What John was talking about was the strange scream he heard on the eve of the Warcraft descending the mountain? He nodded slightly.

 "I heard it once in the basement.

" Only that one time, only that one sound.

 Any more, and his mental strength might not hold up.

 Du Mingna finally saw relief on John's face.

 "Then it's correct.

 Young master, please allow me to first tell you about a legend that was circulating among the mages in the Gray Rock Kingdom.

 "At first, only the mages knew about it.

 Later, the mages asked the nobles for help, so nobles of all sizes knew about it.

 Later, the nobles hired mercenary groups...

" What John said was the legend of the relic of the magic goddess that Oak and Du Mingna had mentioned once.

 He described it in more detail than Oak, but there was no major deviation.

 After saying these things, John made a motion of holding a knife in reverse and then leaned to the side in a sliding step.

 After pausing, he turned his head to look at Du Mingna.

 At that moment, John's eyes were full of brilliance.

 "Young master, please allow this old slave to introduce myself to you again.

 My name is John, an assassin of the Shadow Temple.

" After that, John put away the posture of the assassination technique that could be hidden at any time to strike the enemy.

 He stood respectfully with his hands down.

 "The Shadow Temple is not one of the temples under the jurisdiction of the church.

 "Back then, the Shadow Goddess was subordinate to the Magic Goddess.

 "The Magic Goddess fell in the hands of the Seven Legends, and most of the subordinate gods of the Magic Goddess completely left the camp of the Magic Goddess and joined the church.

 "Only a very small number of subordinate gods of the Magic Goddess were unwilling to join the church again no matter what, and were unwilling to abandon their divine power to relearn magic as ordinary people, to explore the path of legends.

 "These deities became the unseen dark gods.

 The Shadow Goddess is one of them.

 Their identities are recognized by the gods, but they cannot openly preach.

 "When I was young, I had a serious illness and almost died.

 Fortunately, a priest of the Shadow Temple happened to pass by and saved my life, bringing me back to the temple to teach me knowledge.

 "I became an assassin of the Shadow Temple, but before I could carry out any assassination missions, I was ordered to infiltrate the Hall family.

 "Our temple's pope said that he foresaw the future and knew that the relic of the Magic Goddess would appear in the Nebu Highlands of the Gray Rock Kingdom.

 "Before the relic of the goddess appeared, the power leaked from the relic would affect the surrounding creatures.

 "For this reason, I came to the Hall family early, in the guise of a servant of the Hall family, to more conveniently investigate information related to the relic of the goddess.

 "I found the Gray Rope Village.

 I found that the people here have more potential than people elsewhere.

 "Others think that the frequent descent of Warcraft is just an opportunity for them to eat Warcraft meat and drink Warcraft blood, making them stronger.

 Their land contains nutrients related to Warcraft, which is why they are so strong.

 "But I believe that it is the effect of the relic of the goddess! "The lingering will of the goddess is watching over this land! "Our pope's prophecy is absolutely correct! "The relic of the goddess will appear in the Nebu Highlands.

 It will only appear in the Nebu Highlands! "The fragment of the goddess armor found by the Fearless Mercenary Group is not the relic of the goddess in that legend at all.

 "Only the unknown treasure still hidden in the Sipu Mountains, not yet found by anyone, is the true relic left by the goddess!" John's expression was too fanatical.

 Du Mingna had to cough twice to remind him.

 John realized his reaction.

 A hint of embarrassment appeared on his face.

 "Sorry, young master.

"I know you want to pursue the path of magic, and you are not interested in the temples of the church.

 But my destiny was given by the Shadow Church, and I grew up in the Shadow Church.

 I have very deep feelings for everything in the temple.

" Old John bowed deeply.

 "Young master, I will try to calmly tell you everything I know.

 "Before the Goddess of Magic began to explore the Great Path of Magic, she also mastered many powers of the Great Paths.

 "She understood nature, she explored the origin and end of life, she tried to enter the world of the undead to observe death...

 so her relics are not only related to magic.

 "Now we can also understand that everything is related to magic.

 "Today's mages have subdivided magic into countless categories.

 Things like water, fire, wind, and so on are trivial, and there are major categories such as natural magic, life magic, and necromancy.

 "Everything the Goddess of Magic explored has been integrated into her Great Path of Magic.

 "But she did not have time to truly integrate everything before she fell.

 "Therefore, her relics contain different powers.

 "According to our Shadow Church's speculation, the relic of the goddess that fell in the Tupo Mountains near the Nebu Plateau is related to the power of 'nature.

' "This natural power can greatly enhance a person's ability to communicate with nature and may also allow one to unconsciously perceive things in distant places.

 "Hausman once possessed this extraordinary perception.

 He did not learn how to use his perception; he could only train, strengthen, and use his perception based on intuition.

 "As he grew older, Hausman's perception became stronger and stronger, until one day, his perception became so strong that it resonated with a demon lord deep in the Tupo Mountains.

 "After that incident, Hausman lost his mysterious perception.

 "During that time, I was still in the Grey Rope Village, and my relationship with Hausman was good.

 "He could not speak of his pain to the villagers; he was afraid they would worry more about him and knew that the villagers could not help him.

 "The members of the Iron Armor Mercenary Group would not show him any mercy either; they would only know that he was completely useless and leave him to fend for himself.

 "I was the only one he could talk to.

 "Therefore, from him, I heard that on that night, he heard three screams in total.

 "The first scream was before the demon attacked.

 He heard a scream, and shortly after, the demons began to descend from the mountain.

 "The second scream was when the first group of demons met the Iron Armor Mercenary Group and were defeated.

 After this scream, more demons rushed down the mountain.

 "The third scream was on the eve of him losing his perception.

 That scream almost shattered his brain, and he made an almost fatal mistake.

 If it weren't for the Iron Armor Mercenary Group's Connor saving his life, he would have died then.

 "After learning about these events, I sneaked into the Tupo Mountains and learned that it was the work of the fifth-order lord 'Screaming Bird' on the edge of the Tupo Mountains.

 "This lord is the strongest demon in the area near the Nebu Plateau on this side of the Tupo Mountains.

 It is only fifth-order, but its combat power is comparable to sixth-order.

 It also seems to be guarding something, and once it dies, what it guards may appear.

 "I dare not act rashly, so I reported to the church first.

 Our pope divined once for me and concluded that I cannot kill the Screaming Bird.

 "But our pope also told me that Hausman may truly have the opportunity to practice in twenty years.

 "It may be a different path of mage practice from the original system, or it may be the path of knight practice...

 "The pope assured me that Hausman would have such an opportunity.

 I also told him so.

" At this point, Old John raised his head and looked into Dumina's eyes.

 "Young master, these are the words I said to Hausman back then."