Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

"Mortals!" said the faceless god to them, "kneel down and offer your souls!"

Varda was so frightened that he fell off his horse and lay on the ground trembling.Chloe was also very scared. He grabbed the rein and thought to himself: I can't die here, I still have tasks to complete!At this moment, he realized that the horse was grazing with its head down!

Chloe said in his heart: This beast has such a big heart!Can't he see the giant?

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Yes, it is impossible for a horse not to be afraid of this monster, unless he cannot see it.

Ah Nan has been using deception all the time, but I haven't seen him really use any magic that can move the wind and rain. Is he also lying to me this time?

Horses can't see the giant, only we can!This shows that the giant is fake!

"Varda, that's fake!" he shouted. "Let's run!"

As he spoke, he dragged Varda onto the horse, and the two turned their heads and ran west.Behind them came the giant's terrible laugh.Now Varda called out: "Take hold of the amulet, my lord!" and the Vizier freed up a hand to grab the amulet, and in an instant the giants were gone, and they were still galloping across the deserted meadow.The prime minister breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Varda: "Look, it's all fake! Ah Nan can only cheat!"

Then Varda said to him in a thin, strange voice: "That's not certain."

Hearing this voice, Kloin suddenly turned his head, only to see that Varda had disappeared at some point, and the one sitting on his horse instead was Anan Nemendus.

Shocked, Kloin punched the man in the chest with his backhand, pushing him off the horse.Ah Nan fell down like this, he laughed wildly and turned into black dust.Before Chloe could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the devil's voice again.This time, the voice came from under him.

"You can't get rid of me, my lord prime minister!"

Chloe looked around, but couldn't find where the voice came from.Then the voice said, "Here, here!"

He followed the sound source and saw a human face on the back of the horse's neck.

The prime minister yelled in fright and fell off his horse.

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Kloin rolled three times on the ground, and his whole body was about to fall apart.The horse ran away alone again for a long time.

He struggled to get up and touched the letter in his arms to make sure it was intact.Immediately, he drew out the dagger at his waist, and shouted while waving it: "You mysterious ghost! Come out and meet me!"

Ah Nan's laughter came from all directions, and then four rock walls rose up from the grassland, and those four walls surrounded Kloin, forming a prison.Then Ah Nan walked over through the wall and said, "Master Prime Minister, I still have a lot of tricks I can play with you." He snapped his fingers, and seven torture instruments rose from the prison.Each was stained with blood and had a stench.Chloe stared at him and said, "You devil!" Immediately, he slashed at Ah Nan.

Ah Nan didn't dodge or dodge, the blade pierced through his body, but didn't shed a drop of blood.Then he laughed and said, "You're just a mortal."

"You are just an illusion!" Cloin clenched the amulet with his left hand, and everything around him became blurred like a mirage.Ah Nan shook his head and said, "You obstinate old man." After saying that, he turned into dust.

Kloin blinked, and found that everything had returned to the original - the grass, the north wind, and the Favor Mountains in the distance.He walked towards the west, and said aloud: "Devil, is your tricks over?"

"I have a thousand ways to kill you, Chloe? Tali." Ah Nan's voice came from Chloe's hand again. When he lowered his head, he saw a mouth growing on the back of his hand.However, this kind of trick worked once, and then it failed when it was too much. The prime minister put the amulet on the mouth, and his hand immediately returned to its original shape.

After confirming that the amulet can ward off evil spirits, the prime minister became even bolder.He strode towards the west and said, "You can't stop me, devil!"

"Do you think that little thing can save you?"

Ah Nan's voice came from his amulet this time, and when Chloe lowered his head, he saw the amulet turned into a fireball.He exclaimed, and subconsciously threw the amulet far away.However, just before the thing hit the ground, he realized that he had made a fatal mistake.

Then his head started to hurt like ten thousand worms trying to get out of his scalp.Then everything around him became pitch black, and the fear of death enveloped him again.Losing the amulet, he can no longer resist Ah Nan's spells.He lay on the ground and howled in pain, "You devil!" He grabbed the weeds on the ground tightly, "What on earth do you want to do?"

"I need your soul, Mr. Prime Minister." Ah Nan stood in front of him, not sure if it was the real body or an illusion.

"Don't even think about it!" Croin struggled to get up, but Ah Nan stepped on his head, this time he knew that this was not an illusion.

"You have done enough, human, but this world is not worth your hard work. You know, everything is a deception." Ah Nan opened her arms, "From the beginning to the end, you are all living in a deception. Now, as The only person who can break this deception is to use my..."

"Who the hell are you?" Kloin yelled.

Ah Nan bowed to him, and said: "Your Majesty Osh Namendus, one of the three major demon kings of refining demons in your mouth, and a fraudster."

"Is this your real name?"

"As long as you ask, I will tell you." Ah Nan—that is, Osh, he said, "Need I tell you again? Mortal."

Kloin asked: "What do you want my soul for? I'm just an old man dying."

"What I want is the soul of the Prime Minister of the North." He grabbed Chloe's hair and said, "Come out, Chloe? Tali!"

The moment he finished speaking, Chloe felt that he was out of his wits.He felt like he was floating into the sky, but his body remained in place.After three heartbeats—no, he had no heartbeat, his soul was out of his body.He was flying into the sky like gas, but his body was still lying on the spot.

He wanted to shout but couldn't, everything he had was out of control.

"Come, lost soul!"

Osh's voice entwined him like a snake. The next moment, Kloin felt as if he was being sucked into a vortex. His soul was twisted in the air, and finally fell into the glass bottle in the hands of the fraudster.Then, he saw the fraudster's body turned into a puff of black smoke and got into Kloin's body.

"No! Devil, you don't want to take over my body!" He yelled in the bottle, hitting the glass wall with his fist, but it was all to no avail.

Osh's body disappeared, and "Crown" stood up.

The guy first moved his muscles and bones, and his joints made a crashing sound.Then he said, "Hello? Hello? Uh... cough, cough!" He cleared his throat until the voice was no different from the original Chloe.Then he began to stretch his muscles and bones like a young man, and Chloe's decayed body became flexible.Cloin in the bottle watched his other self bouncing around on the grass.

After the preparatory activities, he began to dance.

"Crowne" danced a graceful dance.The old prime minister twirled on tiptoe, stood on one foot, and acted like a 17-year-old young dancer.

The rising sun shines on the vast plain, and the sky is high and the earth is far away. The 60-year-old man poses in a seductive pose, and dances a beautiful and weird dance under the gaze of God-this scene is far from an absurd drama, only a funny soundtrack.

The sad soul in the glass bottle was crying, he didn't know what to do, what to do.I shouldn't have believed him!I shouldn't have brought him to the North!I shouldn't...ah!This devil has ruined me and my country!

At this time, that Chloein stopped dancing, and he said loudly: "Now, I am Chloein Tali, Hand of the King of the North, Iron-Blooded Prime Minister!" He bowed to the empty North, and said , "People of the north, I send my greetings to you!"

The soul hidden in the vial roared, "You liar! Fraudster! Your lies will be exposed sooner or later!"

"No, no, no, no!" The fake Chloe said to the real Chloe, shaking his index finger, "Don't forget, I am a clean and honest gentleman, and I never lie. Now, Chloe? Tali is going to complete his mission!" He took out the wax-sealed letter from his pocket, shook it in his hand, and put it in his pocket.

"No, you can't do this, you can't!" The scream was heartbreaking, but it couldn't penetrate the thin layer of glass.

"World lock, it all started again..." the blond man said to himself, "There is no winner, no victory, only endless chaos and reincarnation."

The fraudster—Osh Nemendus, he let out a pleasant laugh, and that sound turned into a knife, one knife at a time, chopped up the soul in the bottle, and lingered the world.

Chapter 22: The Road to Redemption

Chapter 22: The Road to Redemption

It's getting colder in November.Tang De'en's old bones are a little bit dead.Since that serious illness, he has lost his previous vigor.He could no longer ride a horse, or even walk.

Ramon escorted him to the Black Pine Manor. This trip was not long in his life, but it was particularly difficult.Ramon always told him, "It's not too far from Wild Horse Town to Bear Mountain. It takes ten days to walk, seven days to ride a horse, and one day to fly a carrier pigeon."

That's right, they walked for ten days and rode for seven days, but Tang De'en was in poor health, so they walked for three days and rested seven times in the middle.The old man's body was hot and cold, and he didn't know what illness he had.If this continues, they will not be able to reach their destination when severe winter comes.

But Tang De'en had to go this time, and he had to reach his destination.

The carriage was moving forward on the muddy road. It rained heavily a few days ago, which made the rough road even more difficult.The wheels got stuck in the mud, the horse took one step deeper and one step shallower, and the horseshoes would be worn out in a day.Ramon suggested changing horses immediately in the next village, and everyone agreed.

As they walked, they would ask people on the road what happened to Xiongshan recently.Many people told them, saying: "The King of Bear Mountain is dead!" Others said: "I saw his body, and there is the body of the Earl of Ambleside hanging on Bear Castle!" Ramon saw Haven alive with his own eyes.However, after hearing a lot, the young people in the team began to worry.Ramon explained it all to them, but the team's morale remained low.

This morning they had breakfast in a tavern built on a crossing, run by a nagging woman who kept telling gossip.Among them, the Xiongshan riot and the little trident defeated the northerners the most.The woman said that the current owner of Bear Mountain is a descendant of the sea god, a real god, and that god will lead the people in the bay to beat up the nobles in the north, and swallow the city of Eagle Head with storms and tsunamis.

Obviously this woman has never studied geography or even looked at a map, Tang Deen thought to himself, there is no sea within a hundred miles of Eagle Head City.

Then she said that the Earl of Bear Mountain was dead, and he died very badly. "I heard that he was hung on the city wall, and his intestines flowed out!" The woman's expression was exaggerated, "Who made him resist the descendants of the Sea God? He is a traitor, a traitor from the Gulf!"

These words completely angered them, Ramon picked up the wine bottle and threw it at the woman, Mirsalu overturned the table and ordered the dogs to bite the woman.Tang De'en didn't intend to control the situation this time, everyone needed a place to vent their emotions, not to mention he didn't bother to take care of it.

Eventually people broke down the tavern like robbers and rode off on the road.After venting, people seemed to be in a much better mood, but Tang Deen felt even more worried - obviously, the people of the Sea God Cult had "killed" Haiwen and stigmatized him.This is very bad for him.

Because of this, he wanted to see Haiwen even more, the sooner the better.

"Wild Horse Town is not far from Bear Mountain. It takes ten days to walk, seven days to ride a horse, and one day to fly a carrier pigeon." Ramon said again.

I hope so, the old man thought, only feeling tired and out of breath.He could see things blurry, his body was hot and cold, and he was extremely weak.

He was so tired that he just wanted to sleep well at this moment, and he couldn't even wake up like this.

In the past, he always hoped that he would live a long life, but now he only wanted to complete his mission and redemption as soon as possible.

Author's message:

ps: The epilogue is updated at night to cheat the word count, so you don’t have to wait for the update.But this time I will not ask for leave tomorrow, I will update the episode tomorrow, and start writing the main text of the sixth volume directly.

Capuchin/Cast

list of actors

The following is the statistics of the characters on the scene, which will be introduced from the perspective of five pov characters.

①Haven's perspective.

1 Haven? Ambleside: One of the POV characters, the Earl of Bear Mountain, with a bald head.

2 Smiley Cat: Smiley Ranger, one of the Four Rangers, and Haiwen's personal bodyguard.

3 Hyacinth: Haiwen's second wife, who disappeared while fleeing from Xiongshan, and her life and death are unknown.

4 Violet: Haven's secretary, Mirsalu's godmother; she disappeared while fleeing from Bear Mountain, and her life and death are unknown.

5 Mirsalu: Haiwen's adopted daughter, in order to avoid being hunted down, now fled to Mustang Town together with Tang Deen.

6 Little Hammer: The current chairman of the trade union, he escaped from Bear Mountain with everyone.

7 Myrick: A former student of Tang Deen, a bachelor who is loyal to Haven, is now in Shrimp Bay.

8 Dallow: Once a eunuch, now he is in charge of Haven's financial management.

9 Darithus: Warrior Murphys, whose whereabouts after the Battle of Bear Mountain is unknown.

10 Raya: Chairman of the White Council, one of Haven's supporters.

11 Eros: Laya's secretary, the Merry Sister.

12 Aaron Martin: One of Laya's guards, a reliable veteran.

13 Harrison: One of Laya's guards, a hornless orc.

14 Ramon: Haven's advocate, young bachelor.Now he is the guardian of Shrimp Bay and the Viscount of Mustang.

15 Soyana Dern: Countess of Shrimp Bay, losing weight.

16 Yawen Deen: The younger sister of the countess of Shrimp Bay, she is both talented and beautiful.

17 Nader: Manager Nader, the former butler of Sands Castle, now works for Haven.

18 Casey: Captain of Shrimp Bay Guard.

19 Thurol: Nicknamed Thin Finger, the treasurer of Shrimp Bay.

20 Ratty Dern: A collateral blood relative of the Dern family, who was named the Knight of the Gray Hills.

②Isrit's perspective.

21 Yisruite: Haiwen's wife, who is now studying abroad alone and is pregnant.

22 Zhe Lite: Isrit's mentor, because of conflicts with the academic witches, she left the academy alone and planned to go back to Bear Mountain.

23 Gingko: Yisruite's half-breed orc guard, a stout woman who understands human life.

24 Iguana: Isrit's half-breed orc guard, a vigorous warrior, sensitive and irritable.

25 Madraola: An academic witch who looks like an ordinary woman and can manipulate flowers and vines.

26 Ao Zhuo Lan: The countess of Hummingbird City, a moon-level witch with profound mana.

27 Mrs. Vian: mean old witch.

③Tang Deen's perspective.

28 Tang Deen: A 90-year-old old bachelor with a strong temperament.

29 Bryan: Nicknamed Little Bear, the leader of the Xiongshan garrison, was captured in the guard battle, and his life and death are unknown.

30 Putin: Full name Grilas? Vladimir? Putin, a demon monk with sorcery, and now the leader of Poseidon.

31 Lorelei Heine: Disguised as Tang Deen's wife for a long time, she is actually a descendant of the sea god; a strange creature with a human face and a fish body, possessing powerful magic power.

32 Master Grando: A water witch doctor covered in tattoos, a follower of the sea god.

33 Lauren? Schelde: The old Viscount Pinewood Castle.