Demon Hunter and His Cabin
Chapter 304 - Chapter 304 Chapter 304 The Truth

Chapter 304: Chapter 304: The Truth Chapter 304: Chapter 304: The Truth At night, the graveyard.

Bright torches illuminated the surroundings.

In the valley, stood towering black trees, their black leaves rustling in the night wind.

Peaceful Spirit Tree.

The faith of the Dryad clan, every Dryad at birth would have an elder from their family personally plant a Peaceful Spirit Tree for them in the cemetery.

Every year on their birthday, they would hold a grand ceremony, where the clan members had to nourish the Peaceful Spirit Tree planted that year with their own blood.

Beyond that, they also needed to connect their life essence with the planted Peaceful Spirit Tree through the corresponding Array rituals.

As they grew older, the planted Peaceful Spirit Trees became lush and added rings yearly, until the end of their lives.

On the day of death, their interconnected Peaceful Spirit Technique would also perish, and the Dryads’ bodies would be placed in the graveyard.

After the corresponding rituals, the clan would carve a notch into the Peaceful Spirit Tree of that year and place the deceased Dryad’s body inside the Peaceful Spirit Wood.

Hence, the two would become one.

This process was known among Dryads as “the Spirit Wood union,” regarded as the most sacred ritual apart from birth.

Lorry’s head had been battered beyond recognition, and to prevent discomfort, the elders in the clan stripped off a piece of bark from his planted Peaceful Spirit Tomb and crafted it into a mask to cover Lorry’s mangled skull.

The sky became even more overcast, and the other villagers gradually left the graveyard, leaving behind a tall figure in the gloomy woods.

Swish swish swish.

The night wind stirs the leaves, friction whistling, with only the sporadic light from the torches in the darkness.

“Lorry.”

The man patted the coffin and tears streamed down his face, but just then, he noticed the coffin beneath him starting to tremble.

Opening his eyes, under the firelight, Lorry, who had lain in the coffin, began to shake violently, and then he suddenly sat up!

Thump!

“Lorry…”

The mask slid from his face, exposing Lorry’s twisted and shattered skull. He leaned on the edge of the coffin and slowly stood up.

“Gurgle gurgle!”

A deep growl emanated from Lorry’s stomach.

At the same time, a terrifying oppressive force enveloped the entire space, and the man collapsed to the ground, struggling several times, but he couldn’t manage to get up due to terror.

“Lorry, I’m your brother.”

“I am your brother!”

The man retreated in horror.

“Brother…”

“Tsk tsk, what a considerate brother.”

A pale green face emerged from the darkness of the trees.

It was Yolinger.

He stood behind a Peaceful Spirit Tree in the distance, pinching a black leaf, the back of which was inscribed with a silver pattern.

“What are you doing here?”

“Was it you, did you do all this?”

“What have you done to Lorry?”

“He’s already dead, do you still have to desecrate his body?”

Yolinger did not answer, only stood quietly behind the Peaceful Spirit Tree, watching the figure in the distance.

“Keep quiet.”

Meanwhile, behind another Peaceful Spirit Tree, Roger silently covered Goway’s mouth.

Her tender lips against his palm, the warm breath from her nose was tickling Roger’s hand, and he leaned in a bit closer to whisper in Goway’s ear.

“Things aren’t so simple, let’s keep watching.”

Goway struggled, but could not overpower Roger’s strong arms. She huffed through her nose, ceasing her struggle and staring wide-eyed at the scene unfolding below.

Regardless of forbidden grounds, and that men and women shall not enter, Roger still remembered how Henrik once said that, to fulfill a mission, certain measures were sometimes necessary.

After a long silence, Yolinger spoke again.

“Lorry was killed by you, wasn’t he?”

“Are you insane?”

The man struggled to his feet, bellowing angrily.

“I’m his brother, and he was my only sibling, how could I possibly harm him?”

“Rocky…”

Yolinger’s face darkened, “Do you know how much Lorry adored you?”

“He revered you because you were like a father in his eyes.”

Yolinger’s features became twisted.

“Even though he knew that you dishonored his fiancee!”

The moment Yolinger’s words dropped, not only Rocky under the tree but also Roger and Goway were stunned into silence by the explosive news!

“What… what are you saying?”

Rocky’s face turned frantic, his words came out in stutters.

“Afraid to admit it, dear Rocky?”

Yulinger spread his arms, “See this scar on my palm?”

“That day Lorry and I went up the mountain, we did encounter a wild beast, but the moment he was tackled, he didn’t struggle at all, betrayed by his dearest brother.”

“Such pain surpassed all else.”

“At that moment, Lorry only wanted to die.”

Every word that escaped from Yolinger’s mouth was like a dagger, piercing the distant Rocky.

“That night of the festivity, Lorry and Erin were both so drunk they were unconscious, but what you didn’t know was that Lorry had woken up and was watching right beside you while you were indulging in that vile act.”

“He couldn’t move, couldn’t make a sound, and what’s more, his respect for you, his love for you, left him at a loss.”

Yolinger’s voice suddenly rose.

“He was a useless coward–when Eileen told him she was pregnant, all he could do was force a smile, even chose to escape, to end his own life!”

“What’s even more pathetic is that from beginning to end Eileen thought the man who possessed her was Lorry.”

Yolinger unwrapped the bandage on his hand.

“I got these wounds on my hands while trying to save him from the beast.”

The panic on Rocky’s face vanished, replaced by a cold indifference, and he slowly stood upright.

“No more pretending?”

Yolinger said with a sneer.

“There is no one else around, there’s no need to keep up the act.”

Rocky looked at Yolinger.

“So is everything about the so-called Sword in the Stone, about the so-called curse, all fabricated by you and Lorry?”

Up in the tree, Roger and Goway exchanged glances, both seeing the surprise in each other’s eyes, especially Goway. From the moment they met, Roger had sensed a deep prejudice from this girl.

It was just that Goway’s prejudice was wrapped up in ordinary civility, not so sharp-edged, but after coming to this village, her magnanimity towards the Dryad species and blind trust surprised Roger all the more.

Compared to Roger, she was evidently more shocked.

Yolinger did not answer Rocky’s question, but continued on his own:

“On the way back, we saw a sword stuck in a stone.”

“I told Lorry to go pull out that sword and then kill that beastly brother of his.”

“Lorry took heavy steps toward it.”

Yolinger sighed, “But he failed, he couldn’t pull out the sword, he told me it was fate.”

“He accepted such a fate.”

As he was speaking, Yolinger, who had been hiding behind the Peaceful Spirit Tree, suddenly stepped out, his eyes turning pitch black, and the parts of his body below his neck turned to resemble tree bark.

Murder was on the horizon.

“But I don’t accept it!”