Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 340 Legend
"It is said that in the ruins of that ancient battlefield, people would occasionally see ghost warriors in armor appearing..."

"real or fake?"

On the forest path, while they were bored, Seiji Ishizaki and Ena Kamiyama talked about some local legends they had known in advance.

There was nothing surprising about the content, it was nothing more than things like ghosts and gods. These things were not very common in various places, but they were everywhere. The vast majority of the 'gods' among the eight million gods were similar to these mountain spirits and monsters.

It's just that Seiji Ishizaki's narration is so vivid, and the mountain path they are walking on now is very consistent with the atmosphere of this story, so it's easy for people to feel involved.

Kamiyama Ena was also obviously immersed in it. The ghost warrior was wandering in the moonlit forest. The old and dilapidated but still majestic and terrifying ghost-faced warrior armor was wrapped around the skeleton with phosphorescent flames flickering in its eye sockets.

It wanders aimlessly, driven by an obsession from who knows how many hundreds of years ago, and is only occasionally seen by witnesses. In the ruins of this ancient battlefield where most traces have been destroyed, it may be the last trace.

"If a living person encounters it, the armored ghost warrior will regard you as an enemy it once had on the battlefield, and then kill you with the broken blade. The locals have been told this legend since childhood. As soon as night falls, no one will go into the mountains and forests.

It is said that some people have found dead wild boars in the forest, with wounds on their bodies that could only be left by swords, but there are no such blades in the mountain villages here..."

Seeing that Kamiyama Ena looked a little unconvinced when she heard this, Ishizaki Seiji casually gave out a piece of evidence.

"The wild boar incident did happen. It was said that the villagers panicked and called the police. Photos of the wild boar carcass were also published in local newspapers. Later, the police organized a team to search the mountains, but they could not find any traces.

The only human settlement in that area is that village. The people there are just ordinary farmers. Their ancestors may have been low-level soldiers such as foot soldiers, but after the sword hunting order, many of them became farmers and no longer qualified to carry swords.

Today, there is no chance to hold a knife, and there is no sword-fighting dojo in this mountain village. A wild boar that died by being hacked or beheaded with a sword is very strange in this village where the only sharp weapons in the house are kitchen knives, hatchets and other farm tools.

When she heard that there was evidence such as photos in the newspaper, Kamiyama Ena was already a little surprised and doubtful. After hearing what Ishizaki Seiji said next, she also thought along this line of thought.

There can't be sharp weapons like swords in the mountain villages, because for the villagers, it would be better to sell them for money, and keeping them might bring about fatal disasters. If they really need weapons for self-defense, wouldn't a pitchfork be quite useful?

It is even more impossible for these villagers to still have swords and weapons in modern times. Most of the magical weapons have additional meanings attached to them, and those weapons handed down from ancient times will only become corrupt and dull.

And even if we put all of this aside, there is still one important reason: Who can easily kill an adult wild boar with a slender weapon more than one meter long?

A wild beast weighing hundreds of kilograms, untamed and full of ambitions?
Even experienced hunters have to use traps and other methods to hunt this thing. In modern times, there have even been cases where people used iron sand guns to shoot wild boars but did not cause serious injuries to them, but instead stimulated their ferocity.

I think this is also the reason why the police organized people to search the mountain. There is one, or possibly multiple, unknown dangers. If he can kill a wild boar with a cold weapon, how difficult would it be for him to kill other people?

In other words, there are no wild animals such as tigers, wolves, and bears in this area, otherwise the death of a tiger would be even more shocking.

Ena Kamiyama used her mobile phone to search the local news media. After searching for a while, she finally found the news and the photo mentioned by Seiji Ishizaki. Of course, this was the content prepared in advance by the program team. Otherwise, the strange news in such a small place would at most be a ripple in the ocean, leaving no obvious traces.

"Hey! Really, this wild boar is this big!"

Kamiyama Ena showed the news to the camera from her perspective. The program team might even thoughtfully add text and pictures later. There is nothing much to say about the picture. It is the wild boar killed by a sword that Ishizaki Seiji mentioned.

Most of the surprise that Kamiyama Ena expressed at this moment was not acted, but a genuine expression of her true feelings, because the wild boar corpse in the photo was indeed very large. Compared with the person standing next to it, this guy probably weighed about 400 pounds, a real huge and ferocious beast.

And with its ferocious fangs, it was foreseeable that any flesh and blood body would not be able to withstand such piercing force under the charge of its huge body. However, in dramatic contrast to this, the wild boar lay on the ground already a corpse.

The fatal wound on the wild boar is still clear in the photo. It can be seen that it is a cut caused by some sharp weapon. However, Kamiyama Ena is not a professional appraiser and cannot determine by herself what weapon caused the injury.

"real or fake……"

"Hurry up and get to the village before dark, otherwise..."

When the beautiful girl was immersed in her own imaginative emotions, Seiji Ishizaki lowered his voice and brought out his 100% acting skills, mixing the gloomy and twisted emotions into his short words.

For other people, this performance might not be a big deal and at most would give them goosebumps, but it woke up the somewhat cute and adorable Ena Kamiyama, who crossed her arms with a look of fear.

"Uncle Qingsi, let's go quickly. If we run into a ghost warrior, it will definitely eat someone as delicate as me first."

Ishizaki Seiji smiled, and then felt like something was wrong, but Kamiyama Ena had already taken the lead and walked forward, so he could only follow.

"Ena, were you just trying to say I'm old in a roundabout way?!"

"Hey, no way."

Fortunately, there were no accidents on the road. The only wild animals they saw were rabbits or something that appeared briefly and disappeared into the forest with a whoosh, only causing Kamiyama Ena to scream a few times.

Then there were small animals such as birds and insects. Even the snakes that are common in the mountains and forests were rarely seen.

The program crew reserved plenty of time for them. They set out in the morning. The village was actually very close from where they started, and there was no complicated terrain. The nearby mountains were actually low mountains, so they could reach their destination before dark. After completing some scenes on the way for later editing, they also completed a simple picnic program on the way, and finally arrived at the village at around 3 pm.

A barely wide dirt road leads directly into the village. It does not seem as simple as imagined. Dozens or even hundreds of households are scattered across this crisscrossing land, and there are buffaloes working hard in the farmlands nearby.

"Huh? What are the people in the village doing?"

Kamiyama Ena saw some villagers who seemed to be told something by some people who came hurriedly. Then they put down their not-so-busy farm work and followed the newcomers into the village impatiently.

"Uncle, what are you going to do? What happened in the village?"

The stopped farm man looked up and saw a beautiful girl whom he had only seen on TV in the past. Such a person could only be an outsider. After a brief surprise, the honest man told him the story about the other outsider.

"I heard that there was a stranger from outside who killed a wild boar by himself and carried it here. Now everyone is going over to join in the fun."

After saying this, the man left in a hurry. Kamiyama Ena and Ishizaki Seiji looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

Did they hear correctly? Although the middle-aged man's accent was a bit heavy, it was not so heavy that it was hard to understand. He was saying that a man who came from outside like them had killed a wild boar and carried it back to the village?
Go check it out!
People are born with curiosity. When they suddenly hear such an interesting thing, they have to take a look, both from a personal psychological perspective and for the sake of the show's effect.

So the two of them, together with the program crew members following behind them, followed the villagers into the village. Since this was chosen as the filming location, it was certainly impossible for the program crew to do nothing.

In fact, the program crew had already communicated with the village long before. After all, if they were going to shoot the program here, they had to discuss it with others.

The relatively simple villagers are relatively friendly to these people. If they just want to shoot something here, they will give them money for accommodation and food. They may even have a chance to appear on TV. It is a cost-effective deal no matter how you look at it.

Soon, the program crew, led by several villagers, arrived at the home of their village chief. The outsider who killed the wild boar alone was here. Amid the crowd, the excited Kamiyama Ena finally saw the dead wild boar.

At first glance, the wild boar was not as big as imagined. It was about the size of an ordinary larger domestic pig, the kind that could be caught by hunters in traps. It was not as shocking as the 400-pound wild boar in the photo in the news.

But it is impossible for a creature to be killed by humans with bare hands. You may not be able to catch up with this thing when it runs in the mountains and forests. With its thick fur, the only damage a human can do to it is probably using teeth or attacking its soft parts such as eyeballs.

But if you want to kill it...

This possibility became even smaller especially when Ena Kamiyama saw the person who seemed to be the culprit. She saw at a glance that person who did not belong to this village.

After all, the other person's pink hair, clothing style, body details and temperament don't seem like someone who was born and raised here.

The most important thing is that the other person doesn’t look much older than me. No, he may even be younger than me, probably around the age of a high school student or a college student.

……

Yuji Itadori smiled embarrassedly amid the villagers' shocked compliments. Without roads and auxiliary supervision, there was no way to take him to the village, so Itadori simply chose to walk through the mountains and forests as it would be faster.

Then he encountered a wild boar on the way. It stands to reason that there are now very few traces of such wild beasts in areas near human life. This may just be an occasional example, and he happened to encounter Japanese knotweed.

If Yuji Itadori had turned around and walked away from such a distance, nothing would have happened, but Itadori was very curious about seeing the wild boar with his own eyes, and he tried to get closer to see it more clearly.

This angered the wild boar, which had a low IQ and a bad temper, and it chose to attack the guy in front of it. The consequences can be imagined.

Before he awakened his cursed power, Yuji's terrifying physical fitness might have allowed him to wrestle with this ordinary wild boar, not to mention Yuji who had already stepped into the world of curse.

He quickly knocked the wild boar down, but as a wild animal, it kept struggling and it didn't stop. Yuji didn't have any tools to tie it up, so when he knocked it out, he accidentally used too much force... and killed it.

In desperation, Tiger Stick had to carry the wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms to his destination, which caused the villagers to be stunned and more and more people gathered to watch.

"I was just defending myself, I think it should be alright..."

While still in high spirits, Tiger Stick saw a group of incompatible fellows emerging from the crowd of villagers. With such appearance and tools, who were these people...

"Hello, we are the production team of the program "Strange Stories". May we interview you about this wild boar..."

Yuji didn't really listen to what was said next. A question popped up in his mind: He came here to investigate the curse here and exorcise the possible cursed spirits. These people... are here to film a show?

He had also heard of this program, which has been very popular recently and has attracted a huge number of viewers. He was not afraid of being on TV and being watched by countless people.

But... the existence of these people won't interfere with his mission this time, right?

(End of this chapter)