Recap
Lilith was already dead, but she was still clutching Ji Huaizhe’s hair.
He was silent for a moment, then cut off the long hair with a dagger.
The Husky looked at Lilith’s body blankly: “What’s going on? Why did she die? It wasn’t me!”
The Golden Retriever echoed from the side: “The wounds we bit are not fatal. Her death has nothing to do with us.”
There were too many questions in Lilith’s last words. Ji Huaizhe did not hesitate. He took out the tools from his luggage on the spot and quickly drew a soul-summoning formation on the wooden floor.
He knelt down in front of the formation and chanted softly.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t summon Lilith’s evil spirit nor could he summon her soul.
There are only two explanations for this situation.
Lilith’s evil spirit signed a contract with another person and became someone else’s exclusive evil spirit servant.
Or her evil spirit has been eaten by someone else.
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The culprit was dead, and the beastmen had nowhere to vent their anger, so they turned their attention to Ji Huaizhe.
Seeing this, Husky protected Ji Huaizhe and said good things about his friend.
This silly dog is very popular. With his help, the beastmen in the tribe did not accuse Ji Huaizhe any further.
The golden retriever squatted next to the body and asked Ji Huaizhe if he wanted to take it away.
Ji Huaizhe frowned, carried Lilith’s body to the corner, peeled off the pieces of clothing on her corpse, and carefully inspected her wounds.
Although there are many marks left by canine teeth on it and it looks very scary on a superficial level, these injuries are not fatal wounds.
There are too many questions surrounding Lilith’s death.
Chu Shici couldn’t figure it out.
He jumped out of Ji Huaizhe’s pocket and ran to the husky’s feet, patting his buckskin boots.
As soon as the canine beastman looked down and saw the little doll, his tail immediately began to wag excitedly.
Just as he perked up, he caught sight of the dying bunny beastman from the corner of his eyes. He whined twice and his tail drooped again.
Chu Shici raised his head and asked him: “When you first came here, what was Lilith’s state?”
Husky scratched his head and didn’t know how to describe it.
The golden retriever squatted in front of the little doll and thought for a moment: “She seemed to be mentally abnormal. She was muttering about how hungry she was, and shouting for help. She said she felt like she was going crazy with hunger, and she kept scratching her belly. I have never seen anyone behaving weirdly like this before.
I think she might have been so hungry that she attacked the rabbit. I wanted her to calm down first and use the summoning spell to save the rabbit. But she really couldn’t listen to anything anyone said. She just wanted to bite anyone she saw.”
The big white dog came over, lying on the ground and sniffing the voodoo doll curiously, “I was the first to come, and it’s strange to say that when I first arrived, her eyes were red and the whites of her eyes were black. I don’t know what happened. After a while, her eyes turned back to normal.
I asked her why she wanted to eat the rabbit, but she didn’t give a concrete answer at all. She just said she was very hungry. Ah, but I noticed one thing. I was the first to rush over and bite her. Something was wrong with her. Something was very wrong with her. She had the scent of several people.”
After the big white dog finished speaking, he stuck out his tongue and wanted to lick the little doll.
Chu Shici hurriedly hid aside.
Ji Huaizhe walked over to them at some point, and when Chu Shici turned around, he bumped into the man’s high-heeled leather boots. Two pale fingers pinched his little head and lifted him up.
The next second, a prompt of increasing vitality value came from the system background.
[Add 1 point to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 27/100.]
Ji Huaizhe rescued his little doll from the dog’s mouth and turned to look at the big white dog: “What scent was it? Please tell me in detail.”
The big white dog was about to say something when he suddenly put his head in front of Ji Huaizhe.
He smelled it for a few seconds and nodded affirmatively: “It is the scent on you. You have more scent than her. She only has two or three different kinds of scents on her body, while you have at least five different scents on you.”
The other dogs heard this and immediately surrounded Ji Huaizhe.
Husky tilted his head: “Indeed, I smelled it yesterday, but I thought you just spread the scent.”
“You have it and she has it. Could this be a characteristic of you magicians?”
The golden retriever thought for a while and then his eyes lit up: “This is the characteristic of you magicians. I have smelled it before on your principal, vice-principal, and other little magicians who came to visit before. Although the scents are a little different, everyone whom I have seen and smelled, every magician has more or less similar smells.”
Ji Huaizhe’s nose is not as sharp as a dog’s. He couldn’t smell it himself, and neither could Chu Shici.
If it weren’t for these dogs, they wouldn’t have been able to discover it.
Several dogs sniffed for a while and quickly lost interest. They let go of Ji Huaizhe and turned to crowd around the rabbit.
Before Husky left, he casually said to Ji Huaizhe: “You have the strongest smell among them all, and it’s very fresh. It smells a bit like the shadow I took a few bites of this morning.”
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The rabbit’s injury was very strange. Neither the life potion of the beastman priest nor the healing technique used by Ji Huaizhe could heal his wounds.
The beastman priest had no choice but to find some styptic grass and try to help the rabbit stop the bleeding first.
But it had no effect.
In the end, the rabbit died in his mother’s arms due to excessive blood loss.
The female rabbit hugged the body of her child and cried until she almost fainted.
Ji Huaizhe asked the female rabbit for a doll. After smearing it with the blood of the bunny, he tried to use the soul-calling formation to lead the soul of the rabbit into the doll.
There are many evil spirits in the underworld controlled by the goddess of death, as a result, that place is not suitable for weak souls to survive. There is no such thing as reincarnation in this world, so it would be better to force the rabbit’s soul to stay in the human world.
In this way, he can live beside his mother in another form.
Ji Huaizhe tells this to the female rabbit.
Everything was ready, and with a bunch of beastmen watching, he stood in front of the formation and started chanting.
As he chanted, a rich red-coloured mist emerged from the formation.
The rabbit stuffed doll in the center stood up unsteadily. The doll’s head twisted back and forth, and the two eyes made of buttons looked straight at the sorcerer in front of him.
As soon as she saw the rabbit stuffed doll moving, the female rabbit wiped her tears and walked over excitedly: “I am mommy, baby, come to mommy’s arms!”
She had just taken two steps when the sorcerer suddenly stopped her.
Ji Huaizhe looked solemn and said, “The situation is not right.”
He held his wand and pointed at the rabbit doll with a cold expression, “Who are you? I’m not looking for you. What did you do to that child?”
Under the nervous and anxious gaze of everyone, the rabbit doll opened its mouth and a little boy’s voice came out.
“I’m so hungry, mommy. I’m so hungry. Can you give me something to eat? I’m starving to death.”
“So hungry, I’m so hungry!!!”
The female rabbit grabbed Ji Huaizhe’s arm, “That is my child’s voice! Baby, baby! What’s wrong?”
No one answered her. The rabbit doll seemed to be extremely hungry. He cried for his mother and ran towards the female rabbit.
Ji Huaizhe’s face darkened and he swatted the doll away with a wand.
The female rabbit was eager to protect her baby, but before she could make a move, she was held back by the husky and golden retriever.
The golden retriever bared his fangs and looked at the rabbit doll warily, “He smells wrong. He has other smells. It’s very similar to yours, but it’s much lighter.”
Husky yelled irritably, “What the hell is that thing? I’m going to complain to the leader when he comes back!”
Chu Shici was looking sideways at the canine beastman, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a complex emotion flash across the golden retriever’s face after hearing the husky’s words.
He seemed to know something, and Chu Shici felt that the Golden Retriever could be a possible point of breakthrough.
On the other side, Ji Huaizhe held down the rabbit doll with his wand, trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
But no matter what he chanted, the rabbit doll would only cry out that he was hungry.
After death, most creatures will turn into the ordinary undead. Only a small number of those with evil nature have a certain chance of turning into evil spirits.
But it is impossible to become a hungry spirit.
Ji Huaizhe tried to send the soul in the doll back to the underworld, but it didn’t work.
The female rabbit was pale and trembling with tears, “What happened to my child?”
Ji Huaizhe frowned: “I don’t know.”
Before he finished speaking, a shadow suddenly appeared from the body of the rabbit doll.
The shadow rushed to Ji Huaizhe’s feet at an extremely fast speed and slipped into his high-heeled leather boots.
Severe pain instantly spread from his ankle to his whole body. Ji Huaizhe’s face turned pale. He groaned and stabbed the shadow’s body with his wand, nailing him to the ground.
The husky had experience in dealing with shadows. He grabbed the shadow and pulled it out. The big white dog also ran over to help.
With the help of two beastmen, Ji Huaizhe successfully pulled the shadow out of his body.
His leather boots and trousers were not damaged, but his entire right leg hurt terribly, as if someone had torn a piece of flesh off of it.
Just like before, the shadow quickly disappeared into the ground.
Ji Huaizhe lowered his head and stared at the ground.
No matter the shape, appearance, or the fangs in its mouth, this shadow was exactly the same as the shadow that came out of his body before.
Although he didn’t know what the shadow was, it was obvious that the shadow wanted to inhabit his body, just like other shadows.
Like an auditory hallucination, the whispers that had been echoing in his ears became increasingly clear.
Ji Huaizhe felt agitated for no reason.
He pursed his lips tightly, and because of too much force, his pale lips became even more bloodless.
Chu Shici looked at Zhe-ge worriedly.
Noticing the concerned gaze of the little doll, Ji Huaizhe’s frown eased.
He took a deep breath and suppressed the inexplicable emotions in his heart.
Holding the little doll against his face, Ji Huaizhe was silent for a long time, his voice as cold as ever: “It’s okay, don’t worry about me.”
Chu Shici touched the tip of his nose comfortingly.
At the same time, a message pops up in the background of the system.
[Add 1 point to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 28/100.]
Although the vitality value increased, Chu Shici still felt that Zhe-ge was not in the right state.
He kept asking for a long time. Ji Huaizhe looked at him deeply and said softly: “There are people talking to me all the time. It’s very noisy.”
Chu Shici was stunned, “What are they talking about?”
Ji Huaizhe shook his head: “Can’t hear clearly, I can only hear two words clearly.”
“Very hungry?”
“En.”
Chu Shici really suspected that the boss of this world was actually a starving ghost.
He wanted to continue asking, but this was not the place to talk. The other beastmen were still looking at them.
The husky is dumbfounded. He tried to dig up the ground in front of them, but unfortunately he couldn’t find the shadow.
Ji Huaizhe went to check on the rabbit doll. Chu Shici turned around and counted the people present and found that a beastman was missing.
The golden retriever did not come forward. He stood farthest away from the doll, with uneasiness written on his face.
After the shadow disappeared, the soul in the rabbit doll also disappeared.
The female rabbit asked Ji Huaizhe where her son was.
Ji Huaizhe vaguely felt that the situation of the rabbit should be the same as Lilith’s. It seems that he was also devoured by something not long after his death.
Looking at the expectant female rabbit in front of him, Ji Huaizhe lied to her calmly: “The underworld has just recalled him.”
“Can’t he stay with me?”
“No, only evil spirits can stay in the human world. He is very kind and did not become an evil spirit.”
The female rabbit smiled happily, with a cry in her voice: “I heard he was saying he was hungry just now…”
Ji Huaizhe didn’t say anything more, only that there were other rabbit souls in the underworld, and he will be able to find companions there.
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The rabbit is dead, and so is Lilith, the murderer of the little rabbit.
The entire beastmen tribe was immersed in an atmosphere of sadness.
It was almost time for classes to start at the Sorcerer Academy so Ji Huaizhe had to go back quickly.
The husky originally wanted to see him off, but was called by the golden retriever to help them prepare the little rabbit’s burial ceremony.
With all the fuss going on, the Husky was a little out of sorts.
Ji Huaizhe had previously given him a yarn ball, and Husky gave him a small whistle as a return gift.
“If you want to play with me, you can blow the whistle. If I’m nearby, I will howl in response to you. Then we will agree on a place and meet to play Frisbee together.”
After the husky left, the Golden Retriever sent Ji Huaizhe away from the tribe alone.
After walking out of the gate and into the dense forest, Ji Huaizhe stood under the tree and turned to look at the Golden Retriever: “Do you have anything to say to me?”
The blond man nodded, his fluffy tail wagging subconsciously.
He led Ji Huaizhe a few steps into the woods, and after making sure there was no one around, he whispered, “How much do you know about the shadow?”
Ji Huaizhe did not hide anything, “I have only seen it a few times and don’t understand it well.”
“You don’t know where they come from?”
“I’m not sure.”
There was unconcealable fear in Golden Retriever’s eyes, “My grandfather told me that they came from behind the door.”
“They?”
“Well, you should know that the pride of our tribe is the Beast airship. The Beast is a pure-blood gargoyle. It is a gift from the vice principal of your academy to our tribe.”
Ji Huaizhe was stunned.
The golden retriever kept looking around, as if there was something terrible hidden in the woods.
“My grandfather is the leader’s personal guard. He goes wherever the leader goes. He knows a lot about the past of the tribe. He often told me about it when I was a child.”
Chu Shici lay in Zhe-ge’s chest pocket, stretching his head to listen to the golden retriever’s speech.
From his words, he more or less knows where the shadow came from.
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It was about eighty or ninety years ago, before the Hundred Years of Witch Hunting began.
Before his death, the prophecies of the four Children of God left behind by the Wise Man have spread, and all believers are looking for their own Child of God.
The leader has also heard of this prophecy. He knows that they are just a small tribe and the chance of the Child of God appearing in their tribe is pitifully small, but he still has unrealistic expectations.
Golden Retriever’s grandfather said that in order to give the tribe a divine son, the leader recruited fertile beastmen everywhere. In a short period of time, many rabbits, rats, and pigs appeared in the tribe.
The leader ordered the beastmen in the tribe to keep giving birth to babies until they gave birth to a Child of God. Not giving birth is disrespectful to the Beast God and will be punishable by death.
During that time, the beastmen in the tribe became overly enthusiastic, and everyone wanted to be the proud parents of the Child of God.
They are beastmen, not pure beasts so even if they retained some of the characteristics of animals, their way of thinking is more like humans. Therefore, just like in human society, monogamy has always been the norm.
But at that time, in order to have the Child of God, the tribe turned into polyandry.
When Golden Retriever was a puppy, his grandfather told him of a popular tribal chant.
[We work hard to have babies today, all for the sake of a better tomorrow for the tribe. Only by giving birth to the Child of God can we save our enslaved compatriots! Only then can we have a happy and prosperous life like the human race!]
Grandpa Golden Retriever sighed. He said that everyone was crazy at that time. Those who can live and those who cannot live will all be born.
If ten cubs are born, the leader will reward five cows. If twenty cubs are born, ten cows will be rewarded, and so on and so forth.
During that time, there were many more cubs in the tribe, and many beastmen died.
In the end, before the Child of God was born, the tribe could not withstand the pressure.
Too many female beastmen died, and the cubs couldn’t get enough milk. On average, each male beastmen has to raise at least ten little beastmen, and there is simply not enough food to go around.
The beastmen tribe living in the Erya Mountains encountered a natural disaster in this extremely resource-rich place.
When the beastmen tribe was facing annihilation, two young sorcerers came to the tribe.
The sorcerers told the leader that they were believers of the Goddess of Death and were also looking for their own Child of God, and asked the leader if he was willing to cooperate.
Golden Retriever’s grandfather did not have high enough authority to hear the specific contents of their conversation.
All he knew is that the two sorcerers promised that as long as one of them finds the Child of God, that Child of God will be their common Child of God.
The beastmen tribe provides help to the sorcerers in their search for the Child of God. Once the Child of the Goddess of Death successfully dominates the world, they will divide part of the Holy Continent for the beastmen tribe and let the leader establish his own beastmen kingdom.
As for how to help each other, Grandpa Golden Retriever doesn’t know.
But not long after, the leader privately sent out guards and asked them to dig out all the corpses of the recently deceased beastmen.
One full moon night, the leader secretly left the tribe with his guards and the corpses, heading to the Goblin Cave in the east.
Two sorcerers performed a strange ritual inside and sacrificed all of the corpses.
Grandpa Golden Retriever is a warrior. He doesn’t understand magic and was confused throughout the whole process.
At the end of the ceremony, a door with ten human heads carved on it appeared in the Goblin Cave.
The sorcerers asked the guards to wait outside while they pushed the door open and took the leader in.
When the leader came out again, there was a giant gargoyle behind him.
Grandpa Golden Retriever saw that they were not the only ones who came out of the cave. A dark figure followed them out after.
With the help of the sorcerers, the shadow ate all the goblins in the cave. Finally, the shadow got into the body of one of the sorcerers, and one of the human heads on the door suddenly opened his eyes.
Golden Retriever recalled, his body trembling subconsciously, “The leader didn’t allow this to be spread, but my grandfather said that he heard the two sorcerers calling that door the Gate of Hell.
The leader also said that when all the eyes of the stone statue on the door are opened, the beastmen will dominate the Holy Continent and usher in new glory.”
Chu Shici and Ji Huaizhe were stunned.
Gate of Hell?
But isn’t the place under the jurisdiction of the Goddess of Death the underworld?*
*(According to google: hell is a place for the spirits of the damned or the unredeemed dead. The underworld is a place where people go after they die, and is often located beneath the earth.)
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