Old Chuck was tightly tied to the chair. His whole body was constantly shaking, and the skin and flesh of his hands and feet were torn by the rope. He continued to struggle, and his eyes turned from red to dark red. Blood flowed down his cheeks from his eye sockets, and his teeth were constantly gritting with a sizzling sound.
"Why … You have everything … You have women … You have families … You have children …
"I … I have nothing … I have nothing … I don't want to … be a tomb keeper …"
"I'm so hungry, so hungry, I want to eat you … I want to eat …"
Old Chuck's eyes were unfocused, and he was talking unconsciously. These words might have been hidden in his heart, but he didn't dare to say them out loud because he was timid. Now that his consciousness had dissipated, all that was left was his memory and his affected instincts.
Tucker bandaged his wound and pointed at Old Chuck in horror and panic. "What's wrong with him? Is he crazy? What the hell is going on? "
Edward checked Old Chuck's body and lifted Old Chuck's trouser leg. He immediately found bite marks on his calf. There was a row of clear teeth marks at the place where he had been bitten. The edges were black and turned outwards. It was very disgusting.
Edward answered Tucker's question without looking back, "He's dead!"
Tucker pointed at Old Chuck, who was still moving and drooling at everyone around him. "How is that possible? He … isn't he still alive?"
Edward shook his head. "This is just an illusion. He's dead. Although there's nothing wrong with him on the surface, his body is in a strange state between life and death. His breathing and heartbeat can still be maintained, but he shouldn't be alive. I can feel that he's dead."
"Why is there such a strange situation? What kind of witchcraft is this? I've never heard of it or seen it before. Is it a new witchcraft? "
Edward was confused. He was a student of the Wizard Tower, the second-generation master of the tower, and the official student of Frank, the founder of Blood Wizards. The Wizard Tower had the largest library and knowledge base in Maria's World, and the most comprehensive witchcraft inheritance in the entire Alen Continent. If he couldn't see the origin and inheritance of this witchcraft, there were probably only a few people in the world who could.
Edward grabbed Tucker's palm and said, "It's useless to bandage it. The poison has spread to your body through the wound."
Tucker suddenly jumped up. "What?"
He looked at Edward with a pair of panicked eyes. "You … You mean … I'm poisoned?"
Edward nodded and spread his hands. "Isn't it obvious?"
Tucker swallowed and looked at Edward. "What will happen?"
Edward gestured to Old Chuck with his mouth. Everyone immediately looked at Old Chuck, who had turned into a ghoul. Tucker saw his Adam's apple tremble, and the sound of him swallowing his saliva could be heard clearly.
Tucker knelt in front of Edward. "No, Mr. Edward, I don't want to become like this. I don't want to become such a monster. Please save me, save me. I'll do anything you want."
Edward frowned and glanced at Old Chuck. "Although I haven't figured out what kind of monster it is, judging from the wound and what he said before, Old Chuck was bitten about six or seven days ago. This means that we have less than a week."
"The main target of this poison should not be living people. You can see that after Old Chuck died, the poison became more active and quickly spread to the whole body. Old Chuck did not show any abnormalities before."
Tucker immediately said, "Then how did Old Jock die?"
"Although it is not completely targeted at living people, it is still highly toxic. It is still irresistible to ordinary people. I need to draw Old Chuck's blood. You also need to help me investigate some things, including the identity of the body sent here, the place of death, and various other information. How many bodies have gone missing …"
Edward took advantage of this opportunity to get the city guards to serve him. He mobilized all their power to serve his needs and arrangements. He had no one to rely on in Babus, and the wizard tower had no power base here. The gathering point of the wizards in the Kingdom of Mara was very far from here. At present, he could only rely on himself.
At night, in Edward's temporary residence, Edward used the wizard's experimental equipment to analyze Old Chuck's blood. Viruses were different from cells. For wizards, this was a very novel topic. They were parasitic organic species that lived between living and non-living things. They were neither living nor non-living things.
Through the mechanism of infection, these simple organisms could use the host's cell system to self-replicate, but they could not grow and replicate independently. Viruses could infect almost all living things with a cellular structure.
Edward could observe that Old Chuck's blood was infected with some kind of virus. Its infection mechanism was only for the dead, and it spread very quickly. If the host was not dead, the infection mechanism would not be activated. However, even if this infection mechanism was not activated, the poison would still enter the blood after being bitten, and it would still be very easy to die.
Moreover, the form of the virus cells was somewhat similar to the form of mythical cells. This made Edward conclude that the source of this virus must have come from a wizard. Wizards who could transplant extraordinary blood were rare on the Alen Continent. Most of them were recorded in the wizard tower.
"Is it the person I met before?" Edward immediately thought of the two mysterious people he had met during the day.
Edward had no way to kill this virus, but he could find a way to remove it from the bodies of living people before it spread. Edward was now sure that there were more than one or two people in the entire city of Babus who had been infected with this virus. If he didn't act fast enough, he was afraid that everyone in the city of Babus would turn into monsters like Old Chuck.
Edward was very anxious, so he conducted a variety of experiments on the ghoul virus overnight. Finally, he found some targeted methods to develop a potion that could remove the virus from the infected people who had not yet spread the virus.
This kind of highly concentrated work went on for an entire night. Edward felt a little dizzy. He stood up, only to find that the test tube of the antidote he had just concocted had been taken down from the long shelf on the table by a slender hand.
"Well done, very talented wizard. It only took him such a short time to develop an antidote. Although it's still a little rough, it's enough for use."
Edward, who was at the side, was taken aback. He didn't know how long this person had been by his side, but he didn't notice any traces of this person. Moreover, it seemed that this person had been by his side for a long time. If this person were to make a move earlier, he probably wouldn't even know how he died. Thinking of this, Edward immediately felt cold sweat on his back.
Edward fell to the ground the moment he found the man. He slapped the ground with his palm. The stone bricks immediately disintegrated like sand, then reassembled into stone spears that shot towards the man. Edward didn't even look at the result, as he turned around and ran out of the door.
Lu Zhiyu swiped his fingers in the air and saw the stone spears disappear into thin air. Then, from the surrounding and the walls of the house, all the stone structures quickly disintegrated and condensed into giant palms that quickly grabbed Edward. The palms formed by layers of stone slammed Edward against the wall.
"I give up, I give up, I give up!"
Edward screamed in fear. Lu Zhiyu, who was about to give him a little punishment, immediately stopped. "You're not bad. You're as fast as lightning, and you're as fast as a rabbit when you run for your life. You're not bad at all when you beg for mercy."
Edward was pressed against the wall by layers of stone palms. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I didn't recognize you, did I? You suddenly appeared in front of me, so I must have been shocked. "
Lu Zhiyu looked at Edward jokingly and asked, "You know who I am?"
Edward immediately said, "I transplanted the bloodline of the Earth Bear, which allows me to control the transformation of soil, rocks, and dust. This kind of transplanting bloodline power has just been developed, and I'm the only one who can do it. Even my teacher, Frank Kelermo, can't do it. There's only one person who can use extraordinary witchcraft at will, and he's so powerful. He's the founder of the wizard tower, the Great Sage Anthony. My teacher, Frank, was your student. I've heard him talk about your appearance, but I didn't recognize you before."
Edward had never thought that he would meet the mysterious Great Sage here. He was the origin of wizards, and it was said that his power was close to that of God. Although he looked very calm, sweat was still dripping from Edward's forehead.
Lu Zhiyu took a chair and sat in front of Edward. Edward was slammed against the wall like a prisoner, unable to move. He looked at Lu Zhiyu awkwardly, but he didn't dare to beg him to let him go.
"I was passing through the Kingdom of Mara, so your teacher, Frank, asked me to take care of you. I didn't expect you to accept your teacher's task and set off a month ago. You're so late."
Edward immediately said, "That's because I heard news about my senior, Adonis,. So, when I went to investigate, I was delayed for a long time."
Lu Zhiyu's eyes flashed. "Adonis,? The other student that Frank expelled from the wizard tower? Are you familiar with him? "
Edward nodded. "I found out that he appeared in the Duchy of Creer. I followed him all the way, but I couldn't find any trace of him. Although he was expelled from the wizard tower by my teacher, and my teacher was very angry about his behavior, Frank still cares about him. I hope that I can persuade him to return to the wizard tower."
Lu Zhiyu laughed. "The forbidden area of the Duchy of Creel, the lower layer of the Barren Plains of the North, used to be the base camp of Levis. The Owl Knights were also born there. In a sense, the existence of the Owl Knights is similar to the ghouls you saw before."
Edward frowned. "Ghouls? Is that what the monsters were called? That's really appropriate! Mr. Anthony, what happened in the city of Babus? Do you know anything about this? "
As Edward spoke, he looked at Lu Zhiyu hesitantly. He was worried that Lu Zhiyu was behind all this. Lu Zhiyu looked at Edward and said, "I know a little, but this is a task given to you by your teacher. It's also a trial. I'm not going to help you, and I'm leaving the Kingdom of Mara after dawn. So, you can forget about asking for my help."
Edward immediately became dejected. Lu Zhiyu smiled and said, "But it's not impossible for me to provide you with some information."
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