Volume 9: Vampires and Dungeons Chapter 13 Awakening of Virtue
It took less than a minute from discovery to dissolving the zombies to completion.
But it took an hour to wait for the fat man to finish vomiting, then cry and scream with snot and tears, and finally be physically healed by the Holy Light.
This poor fat man was screaming and shouting crazily in the dark underground, banging his head against the stone wall next to him, shouting some messed up words and crying non-stop. He completely met the definition of a mental patient.
This poor man's spirit completely collapsed. The dark and silent oppressive environment, the crazy teammates and tribesmen, the unspeakable family blood and the painful choice, this man with not particularly strong will finally went crazy after witnessing the pale holy light and the magic of compassion. He became a madman who only knew how to cry and scream.
It was difficult to recover from this kind of mental breakdown, because it was caused by extremely terrible continuous stimulation in a short period of time. Even under this kind of fear and madness, he had already shown signs of magic awakening. A layer of red and black despair flashed on his head, stimulating and torturing his mind, causing him to fall into complete madness.
In other words, if this person can't be pulled back, then the mission is completely over. How can this be tolerated? There is no such thing as mission failure. Li Lin felt from the bottom of his heart that it must be the fault of the dissolving ghoul. If it hadn't suddenly popped up, his protector wouldn't have become crazy. However, after the powerful treatment of Li Lin's holy light, it should be said that he was cured, or just a different form of madness. Anyway, Li Lin felt that the state of his protector was a little bit wrong.
But if you think about it carefully, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. New ideas replacing old ideas are always destructive, there is nothing wrong with that.
"But sir, you used your magic to force it back, right? Can you be considered a normal human being if you do that?"
"You're too talkative! As long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, who would know that this guy was once crazy?"
"But I think we can tell by just looking at the back of his head..."
Sally pointed at the back of the fat young man's head, who was standing there with pale magic power constantly pouring into his back. The pale aura was like a crown, and the semicircular arc protected his spirit. However, countless tentacles spread out around the pale holy light, like thorns, constantly rooting from the void to the deepest part of the brain, allowing some kind of gray magic power to irrigate the red and black aura of despair.
The layer of despair was decomposed and devoured by the gray tentacles, and then turned into a part of the fat man's own magic. Li Lin now cut off his magic supply, and his own awakened magic maintained the bleak and pale aura behind his head like a crown of thorns. But for some reason, Li Lin always felt creepy when he looked at the pale aura that continued to spread deep into his brain. He always felt that he might have done something extraordinary again, but he had no idea.
However, it seemed as if he could hear the conversation between Sally and Li Lin. The fat man seemed to be subconsciously adjusting the state of the aura behind his head. The originally irregular spikes and tentacles gradually became standardized, and finally simplified into a semicircular symmetrical shape with upper and lower spikes.
"Oh, it has changed now. It is indeed a thorn..."
Looking at the pale light faintly visible behind the fat man's head, Li Lin nodded with satisfaction.
Those tentacles and darkness slowly curled up in the white light, like the embodiment of virtue. A layer of sacred and inviolable temperament flashed from the fat man.
However, although the fat man now exudes the appearance of a good warrior who has awakened the holy light of virtue and love, Li Lin feels from the bottom of his heart that this guy is probably the same as himself. The so-called halo on his head is more like torture than a halo.
If you think about it carefully, this is the most vicious and terrifying magic born from extreme terror and emptiness and despair. Now it has been forcibly washed by the Holy Light and covered with a layer of skin. I guess that's it. It may go for the better or for the worse. Who knows what the future holds. But in short, my mission has been saved.
"Hey, are you okay? Talk when you wake up."
Looking at the fat young man whose halo behind his head gradually disappeared, Li Lin reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
“…”
Slowly opening his eyes, countless tentacles and shadows flashed across the fat young man's eyes, and then he was shrouded by the virtue of that light.
Just like waking up from a nightmare, the light and shadow in his pupils flashed and disappeared. The fat man suddenly felt his body soften, staggered back two steps, and leaned against the wall.
This action seemed to have exhausted all his energy. He kept gasping at the edge of the wall, looking at the torches inserted beside him and the corpse of the zombie - now a beautiful girl - piled in the corner. The fat man took a deep breath and then exhaled.
"I, I'm still okay now... I feel... better than at any time since I was born..."
With his back against the wall, he looked at his hands and muttered to himself:
"Very good, very good... I finally know the essence of what is bothering me... Magic... Magical magic... So that's what it is... This kind of power is really incredible and worth spending a lot of money to study... No wonder... No wonder..."
"I know that getting new power is a very happy thing, and you are finally not so weird anymore, which is good. So do you think the employment should continue?"
"Employ? Ah, employ, of course the employ must continue..."
The fat man leaned against the wall, constantly sorting out the fragments of his thoughts and then organizing them into smooth sentences.
"I want to rescue my people... Of course, of course I will rescue them. I have the courage, I have the determination, I have the ability, I will rescue them, of course I will rescue them!"
"Okay then, let's keep going."
But I feel like his mental state isn’t very good. Is it an illusion?
Seeing the fat man stand up, adjust his body and immediately follow him, Li Lin quickly put his worries behind him.
Anyway, the mission person is not dead, my mission is still there, and it seems that I really fooled myself, that's enough. Why do I need so much logic?
