After walking out of the woods, Li Ke looked at the rising sun in a trance. He clearly remembered that it was only afternoon when he entered the woods. However, it felt like only a few hours had passed in the outside world, but an entire night had passed in the outside world. The guards who walked out with him also felt the same as him, which was why their eyes revealed even more fear.
"Look!!"
When Li Ke and the others walked out of the forest completely, a guard who felt a chill on his back suddenly pointed behind them and shouted. When everyone turned around, except for Li Ke, the rest were too frightened to speak. Some of them even fell to the ground. Because at the place where they just left, a scarecrow holding a scythe suddenly appeared. On its head, which was made of a gunny sack, hung a 'warm' smile. There were also countless crows perched on his stiff arm. When everyone looked over, these crows cried out strangely and flew up, as if the scarecrow was waving at them. Before Li Ke could do anything, the scarecrow with all the crows flying away fell apart and shattered into a cloud of grayish-white mist and a large piece of clothing.
But this wasn't the end of the fear because several guards were horrified to discover that among the remaining fragments of the scarecrow, there were the clothes of the dead soldiers!
This discovery made them tremble all over. This meant that even if they died, they couldn't escape from this terrifying monster. Their souls would fall into the hands of this monster after it killed them, and it would continue to toy with them and make them into those terrifying scarecrows!
And this scarecrow appeared to tell them that 'they couldn't escape'!
This hero who suddenly appeared couldn't kill the monster! They were happy for nothing!
They immediately fell into greater fear and collapsed. Combined with the legend of Fedetich, they immediately understood that they couldn't escape. It was useless no matter where they fled. Instead, they would implicate more people, so they had to either defeat the monster or die here. Because if they died here and didn't let more people know about Fedetich, they might be able to reduce the number of casualties.
But knowing was one thing, the great fear still made them lose control. Some of them knelt on the ground, while others waved their weapons and shouted at the forest. There were also some who began to pray to the gods they believed in for protection and courage, just like the guide before them.
"Look, the wills of the mortals around you have been crushed."
Yatox's voice rang out as a result.
"You did use your anger to repel it once, but what about the next time? It has completely awakened and has begun to use fear to reconstruct its body. Only after all the people it has targeted are dead will it continue to be forgotten by this world and fall into a deep slumber. "
Yatox's voice didn't carry ridicule, which was rare, but a dignified tone.
"It will take the initiative to create fear and use it to strengthen itself. You can't maintain such a mentality forever. You have to know that the fear of these mortals will rapidly increase its power. "
Yatox's words were interrupted by Li Ke who was hugging Karina.
"So you know how to deal with it?"
Yatox was silent for a while, but he immediately spoke in a mocking tone.
"Of course, we'll kill everyone here, and then we'll kill it. As long as the number of people who 'know' about it and fear it is reduced to a certain extent, and these people can eliminate it again and again, then it will slowly enter a deep sleep. "
His intention was very simple. He wanted Li Ke to kill everyone here. To be precise, he wanted to kill everyone related to this matter. Then, he would use the power that he could use to deal with the current Fedritch to kill this monster and make it fall into a deep sleep again.
"There should be another way."
Li Ke didn't believe that there was only one way.
"Ha, you have to understand, this is a guy that can represent fear to a certain extent. You don't understand what you are going to face. As long as more and more people fear it, it will kill more and more people, and it will become stronger and stronger, until even you and I can't deal with it! Do you understand? It can become stronger from the fear in everyone's hearts! "
Yatox didn't intend to let Li Ke die here. In fact, he also refused to admit that he might fall into darkness forever. But he didn't intend to let Li Ke know, nor did he intend to let anyone know. So he just persuaded Li Ke, and suppressed the urge to take away Li Ke's body and kill that bastard into a deep sleep again.
"What about courage?"
Li Ke found another way from Yatox's words.
"Fear naturally needs to be defeated with courage, right? If its power comes from the fear of others, then if those who fear it no longer fear it, will it still be so powerful? "
But Yatox poured a bucket of cold water on Li Ke.
"Ha! You don't think its power will disappear because of this, do you? If these people really no longer fear it, then it won't become stronger, but its power won't decline either. Not to mention that it will find its own prey and torture it … And are you serious? Do you want these people to regain their courage? "
Yatox's words were full of ridicule, and Li Ke looked at the soldiers who showed fear and fell silent. It was really difficult for him to say 'yes' because he had seen this kind of behavior many times. These people had completely lost their courage. If it was in the arena, he wouldn't even need a second to kill them!
"Of course I can't, but others can."
Li Ke looked at Karina, who had fallen asleep in his arms, and thought for a long time. In the end, he sighed. After all, it was not much more difficult to make this poor woman regain her courage and fighting spirit than to make the soldiers regain their courage and dare to wave their swords at Federtic. So his best choice was to inform the people who were more symbolic of the country and let these people summon up the courage of these people.
Otherwise, it might really be like what Yatox said. If the people who feared it died, then the fear would naturally cease to exist.
Such an ending was not what he wanted.
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