Chapter 492
Chapter 492 - 472: Colluding in Disgrace
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"I won’t resurrect the Beast God, He has mutated, but I can’t tell the believers that...."
"I will kill those Red Sand Thieves, eliminate those Blasphemers, and lift the curse from myself."
"Lure that Blasphemer who broke into the mechanism room out, and kill him...."
Marian t. Dora stands in the corner, whispering these three sentences over and over again.
This is not because she has gone mad, on the contrary, she is quite sensible, and her condition is rather good.
This is just her way of dealing with the curse.
Bane’s bird fork bone is the name of this Rule-Level item, but perhaps the phrase "third time’s the charm" is a more fitting description of its abilities.
Unlike the teapot, this is an offensive taboo item.
Once cursed by it, your memory becomes increasingly blurry, and you quickly forget the important matters at hand...It’s a weird situation where the more urgently you try to deal with something, the easier it is to forget what you are doing.
The most frightening thing is not forgetting itself, but not knowing what you have forgotten...This randomness of brain cramps is like mishap killer and suicidally capable.
For example, if you forget your opponent, your spell, the approaching killer, your limits during the curse attack, a single moment of carelessness could be fatal.
But there is a limit to this curse.
"Third time’s the charm" is its limit. The one who is cursed can repeatedly recall three things in his mind, and remember them so that they won’t be forgotten.
These three things, or three sentences, must have logical connections. Still, even so, with the increase of sentences and content, there is still a chance of forgetting parts of them.
The three sentences Marian keeps repeating now are her top three priorities....Especially the first one, she can’t even imagine what she might do if she were to forget it.
She’s in no condition to go to the battlefield in her present state. Given her special identity, it was only natural for her to be placed at the back and give Meow a chance to communicate.
After swallowing the letter, Marian begins to think.
In the end, she gave up the last task, namely "to somehow lure the Blasphemer out of the God’s tomb," and noted a new one.
"My daughter is here, she’s awake, and we have a collaboration..."
After giving the return letter to the "Messenger", she once again falls into seemingly neurotic mumbling.
In this state, not to mention the followers of the Beast God, she didn’t even trust herself.
The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility... the bigger the threat. The things she held in her hands could easily blow everyone up. This bizarre curse was really helpless.
This was also the reason why the Beast God’s followers were currently attacking the Red Sand Thieves. In their view, it was those bastards who cursed the Great Priest, which led the ceremony into trouble and also resulted in the "Black and White Bear Intruder" breaking in.
Now, only by killing them can they save the Great Priest and continue the ceremony.
On the other hand, for some unknown reason, the Evil Bone thieves had gone mad, also attacking the Red Sand Thieves like crazy... This directly resulted in only six black thieves being left.
The three forces are still entangled underground, the Beast God’s followers have the advantage in terms of geographical and overall combat power, the Evil Bone thieves have a clear logistical advantage, and their injured can recover quickly. The few leaders of the Red Sand Thieves are quite powerful and currently have no trouble defending themselves.
As for the demons? Except for a few that were too strong and were still ravaging the corridors, most of them had already been turned into chunks of meat by the two factions of thieves who were starving mad.
As for whether eating such mutated things would lead to future problems... When people are desperate for food, they don’t think too much about it.
Finally, as the number of Red Sand Thieves decreased, the strongest few could no longer sit still.
𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"Evil Bone, respond, let’s do this together, and split the dividends equally."
Outside the storeroom, they took the initiative to approach the Evil Bone thieves, trying to negotiate a truce.
"Fine, but you’ll need to give me that treasure of yours as collateral. After we deal with those nuisances, we’ll split the loot and I’ll return it to you."
Their insincere proclamation, however, made the Red Sand Thieves consider seriously.
"Next....."
A roar of fury, a blood-red bone embedded with red sand was hurled in.
The turbulence on it was extremely clear, which undoubtedly indicated that it was a heavily contaminated taboo item.
The bone smashed straight onto the ground; amongst the crowd of the Evil Bone, surprisingly, no one dared to catch it.
Evil Bone himself stepped forward, he slowly approached the forked bone with some puzzlement.
Are they willing to accept these terms? Have these guys gone mad, or have they been driven to the limit?
"This is our sincerity! We deal with the beastmen together, and then we share the dividends."
Killing intentions danced in Evil Bone’s eyes. He somewhat wanted to back out, but recalling the reputation that the other party had established through massacres, he hesitated a bit.
"Captain Rute? Alright, since you are so sincere, we shall collaborate properly, and split the dividends fifty-fifty afterward."
Even in the end, he agreed. Now the biggest threat always comes from those beastmen who appeared unexpectedly.
Besides, didn’t the other party give this treasure to him? Ha! Wasn’t this his trump card? This weapon has a notorious reputation; many strongmen have fallen because of it.
Touched by the red-colored forked bone, he instinctively perceived it and then.....
"Eh? Why can’t it be used? You’re bluffing me!"
"Hehe, Boss of Evil Bone Gang, we’ve already used it to curse the strongest opponent for you. Once you kill her, you can use it again."
This cursed item can only curse one target at a time, and cannot switch mid-way unless the cursed person is already dead, or if the curser touches the fork bone and removes the curse themselves.
And as the cost of being cursed, the cursed person can always sense the location of this bone... This was the fundamental reason why the Red Sand Thief was pursued and beaten fiercely.
Now, the Red Sand Thief ... Captain Rute, was tantamount to using a useless time bomb, binding the other party to his ship.
Fight it out and share the dividends? Return this item of treasure? Impossible even to think of it, it will certainly be "survival of the fittest," with the winner taking it all.
As for now, it’s just safekeeping, and by the way, it attracts the hatred of those weird beastmen.
But now, even though he’s extremely angry, Evil Bone has calmed down and agreed to cooperate.
"How do we fight it? They have a lot of people."
The two parties colluded and immediately hit it off, but this also meant that neither party was willing to play the vanguard role and be the labor force this time.
"That thing, isn’t it wreaking havoc around us? We can lure it over there...."
Unmistakably, Captain Rute was well-prepared. He pointed to one direction directly, which had long become a forbidden area, and a massive trouble was squatting inside.
A few tens of minutes later, a massive snake crawled out following a blast, a loud noise.
Its nap was interrupted, and it was furious in an instant. The disturber even dared to wander in front of it... It ignored the struggling beastman who was bound tightly.
It swallowed the prey before it in one bite, then set its sights on the next target... A black beastman was speeding towards the distance.
The giant snake slowly moved forward, seemingly slow but actually fast, and its massive body filled the passageway, leaving bizarre slime wherever it went.
Following its path, two groups of bandits quickly followed. They were the main force of the attack.
The target of this group of people was the focus of this journey—the heavily guarded region of God’s tomb, where the Beast God’s Great Priest was located.
What they didn’t know was that when they tried to completely eliminate this great enemy, more and more dangerous enemies were quietly arriving on the lower level at this moment.
— End of Chapter 492 —