Chapter 554 – Rituals of the Barbarians

Chapter 554 – The Barbarian’s Ritual
The monster with the giant head and hands was so scared that the whole thing shrank back behind the door.

When everyone walked in, the monster slammed the door shut.

Saul saw that the monster had a large head and hands, but a small torso and lower limbs, and had to lean on the wall or door to keep itself from collapsing as it cowered behind the door.

“Who are you?” The old man’s voice rang out.

Saul turned around and saw an old man behind the gate on the opposite side of the passage.

His upper body was intact and he was glaring at Saul in a condescending manner.

But his lower half was completely missing from a man-high terra cotta flowerpot.

It was as if it had been planted in the dirt.

“I’m passing by and would like to come in here to rest for the night, is that okay?”

The old man sized up Saul, his speech still hard, “Any referrals?”

“An introducer?” Saul was stunned.

“Without an introducer, you can’t enter! Our settlement is a place with second-ranked great wizards, don’t think of breaking in.”

In such a small settlement, there was even a Second Order?
Saul definitely wouldn’t casually start a conflict with a second rank, and he was hesitating whether or not to not inquire about the information first and directly enter the survivor’s ancient forest to look for it, when another voice rang out beside the old man.

“Let me be his introducer~”

Kismet walked out from behind the gate with a smile on his back.

Sol’s pupils shrunk and he didn’t say anything.

Old man Flowerpot looked at Kismet suspiciously – the latter was emanating the magic power fluctuations of a first-rank wizard.

“Do you really know him?”

Kismet’s smile didn’t diminish, “It’s a surprise to run into him here, but he’s my brother, so how could I not recognize him.”

“Your brother?” Old man Flowerpot looked at Saul suspiciously, then at Kismet, “You don’t look alike at all.”

Kismet walked over and put his hand on Sol’s shoulder, “How dare you discuss the resemblance of wizard brothers? Are you thinking we’re not worthy of a witch body modification?”

“Hmph, well, I won’t ask, you guys go inside.” Old man Flowerpot was obviously too lazy to listen to Kismet’s sophistry, since he said he knew Saul, let’s assume he did.

When the two of them walked out of the walled passageway, Saul plucked away Kismet’s hand, “Didn’t you go to Ethkelper? What are you scheming about by running back?”

Kismet covered her chest with a sad face, “But I heard that my master’s younger brother had arrived in the Masterless Land, so I hurriedly stole over here, thinking to give you the third golden book page that I promised you in the beginning.”

Saul clasped his hands to his chest, “Oh? Then do you know where I live now?”

“Of course, the reputation of the Pure Spirit Wizard Tower is starting to spread in the Land of No Man’s Land yet. In fact, based on the fact that you have gained Clark’s recognition alone, the reputation of the Pure Spirit Wizard Tower has soared yet.” Kismet immediately converted into a smiling face again.

“Heh, you came here to find me when you knew where I was?”

Kismet: “Uh ……”

Thor was about to ask Kismet for the golden pages when suddenly a boy ran towards them.

Seeing that he was about to run in front of Saul, a tall, thin man made a lunge and tackled the boy to the ground.

The boy had a scowl on his face and just as he fell to the ground he tried to elbow the adults behind him.

But at that moment a pair of large rough hands held him down.

The boy looked up and saw the third person and froze, but he didn’t resist anymore.

The man holding down the boy’s arm had a face full of stubble, and looked up and said to the people rushing behind him, “I’m holding him down, hurry!”

Two men with brighter clothes came running behind, they squatted by the boy’s feet, one held down the ankle, the other held a nail and hammer, and without hesitation hammered two deep bloody holes in the bottom of the boy’s feet.

“Ah!!!” The boy looked to be eleven or twelve years old, how could he endure this kind of pain?

He screamed while staring deathly at the stubble man holding down his arm, and within a moment he began to weep.

The boy’s two feet were wrapped in dark yellow bandages by the man behind him, and the man holding down his arms then carried the boy on his shoulders and brought him back.

“Making holes in the soles of your feet? What kind of custom is that?” Kismet laughed, “A barbarian custom.”

At this time, a sorcerer apprentice passed by and heard the words of the two, and just wanted to glare at them, only to realize that it was two first-ranked sorcerers, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended that he didn’t exist.

However, Saul still noticed that apprentice’s reaction, and he stroked his chin, thinking, “It seems that this custom, too, is related to sorcerers.”

He closed his eyes to recall.

Was there a hole in the bottom of the feet of the seven blindfolded men …… he saw before entering this place?
……

The sorcerer’s apprentice named Nick was angry when he heard others refer to the solemn rituals of the settlement as “barbarian customs”.

But he was even more angry that he could only bow his head and pretend he didn’t exist in front of the two wizards!
He had been stuck in the third level apprenticeship for twenty years, and had no hope of being promoted.

But after coming here, he realized that the barrier that prevented him from advancing had actually loosened a little. In his mind, this ceremony was incomparably great!
How could one be allowed to judge it like that?
Although he didn’t have the ability to teach two first rank sorcerers a lesson, he could find someone!
And this person is still the most powerful person in the settlement …… Second Order Sorcerer!
Their Grand Sorcerer, Lord Monte!
So Nick, with indignation and certain unspoken thoughts, took the opportunity of reporting his results to sue here in the Great Witch in passing.

“That’s it, Lord Great Witch.” Nick sat on his knees and didn’t feel ashamed of himself, “Now these wizards out there, enjoying the benefits that you, my lord, have given them, yet they still comment on your lord’s rituals in this way, I see that they really don’t know how to be grateful, and they should be taught a good lesson.”

However, while Nick was chattering on this side, the great wizard on the opposite side who was subjected to his kneeling ceremony did not even look at him.

The Great Wizard Monte was inspecting the wooden frame that was spinning at an even pace on the carbon rack.

There was a man strapped to the wooden frame, also being evenly sizzled as the frame moved.

His skin had taken on a deep reddish, almost blackish hue, but his chest was still rising and falling slightly, and he was obviously still breathing.

At that moment, a flash of white liquid suddenly dripped from his tightly closed eyes.

The Great Witch’s eyes lit up and he immediately reached out to collect the drop of liquid into the bottle at hand.

“The concentration of this is good.” The Great Witch admired it with delight for a moment before turning around again, only to find that the man on the grill was already dead.

“Another one dead.” The Great Witch frowned slightly, before turning his head to Nick, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, “You go and buy a little more slaves this time, it’s a time of high production, and I don’t want something to go wrong with something as simple as a meat nest.”

He didn’t mention the two people that Nick had just complained about in the slightest, clearly not caring at all.

“Yes, my lord.” Nick hurriedly bent down and didn’t dare to say anything more.

After the apprentice retreated, a woman with a big belly came out from the house behind.

The woman was full of redness and smiled down as she stroked her belly.

She walks out and sees the dead man on the grill, a look of disgust in her eyes.

“Ordinary people last too short and have low capacity.”

The Great Witch asked knowingly, “What, do you still want to use apprentices for meat nests?”

The woman bristled, “How is that possible? How different is an apprentice from an ordinary person?”

The implication, surprisingly, was that she wanted to use a wizard as a meat nest.

Although the great sorcerer was a second-order sorcerer, he was still a bit hesitant to take a shot at a full-fledged sorcerer. Once he was discovered by others, he was afraid that he would become a public enemy of the Lordless Lands.

The Great Wizard waved his hand and threw the corpse out of the room, and did not answer the woman’s words.

Although the woman was a bit unhappy, she didn’t dare to be too reckless in the face of a second-order sorcerer.

Her belly moved twice, causing the woman to instantly lose her blood color in pain.

But when the pain passed, she put on her smile again and stroked her belly.

“Another year or two and He will be ready to come.”

The woman looked at her stomach, her eyes burning, but not at all the way a mother would look at her child.

The Great Witch also gazed at the woman’s stomach, but unlike the woman’s reverence, there was a hint of greed in his fiery eyes.

There is still one or two years ……

(End of chapter)