The Boss King actually disguised himself as a novice village chief?!
Chapter 580 - 455 Consumption_2

Chapter 580: Chapter 455 Consumption_2

The voices interwove swiftly, dimming from a blinding gold until they seemed like a brand that finally settled on Lind’s heart. As it pulsed with his heartbeat, it was placed within the third throb.

That was the imprint of a curse, rooted deep within Lind’s heartbeat.

His heart suddenly began to lose control, racing wildly as his blood also began to circulate faster, uncontrollably. But soon, the second heartbeat came into play, drawing upon the power of the curse from the Abyss.

Then the first heartbeat powerfully came online, easily suppressing the second and third heartbeats.

The wailing within his mind finally ceased, and Lind’s thoughts quieted.

He looked toward the ghosts in front of him, "We now have 100 years of cooperation."

"For your loyalty!"

ghosts knelt halfway, spewing supernatural ghostly golden flames from their mouths, turning the dusky sky even murkier, and then one by one, they vanished into golden mists.

It was as if the terror and the ghosts were merely confetti released during a festival.

"They are all hiding in another dimension," Tione said.

Lind couldn’t sense the presence of those ghosts. However, since he had signed a contract related to the curse, he believed the other party wouldn’t betray their oath lightly.

"Let’s go."

Their destination was Stone Beast Fort.

Walking on the road, Lind learned about the situation of the Mechanical God Cult. The Cult had completely disintegrated, and its knowledgeable believers had long since split into over a dozen schools, with complex relationships between them.

Yet, the members of the Mechanical God Cult were scarce, which meant that real conflicts were few. Those with close relations interacted more, and those with poor relations simply ignored each other until death.

Nur stayed in Magic Land, seeking more knowledge alongside his companion, who had already been disassembled by Lind.

Lind was not interested in the knowledge Nur spoke of. He found that the Hong School, to which Nur belonged, seemed to enjoy treasure hunting and liked to search for secrets based on ancient legends or fragmented treasure maps.

Most of the time, their efforts would come to nothing, but occasionally they would succeed once, as they did this time.

Those boring or interesting gossips, weren’t they also "treasure maps"? Another qualified task for an Undead NPC.

Lind took out the map. He hadn’t expected that he’d hardly left when he had already gathered a formidable force.

Although the ghosts had chosen to curse him as a way of contracting through the allure of Tione, Tione was his fiancée—what was hers was his.

Having captured her affections, wasn’t his charm even higher?

"There’s a city ahead, seems to be a mixed-race one," Lind said, looking at "White Bear City" marked on the map.

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White Bear City, a neutral city-state inhabited by multiple races, was not particularly grand in its architecture, but it saw a large transient population—estimated at about thirty to fifty thousand people per day—and was full of merchant convoys.

It once occupied the middle passage from Lionheart Fort to Stone Beast Fort, serving as a midway resting station. But as it grew more popular over time, White Bear City transformed into a city-state. Merchants passing through with goods couldn’t help but do business, and where there was money to be made, people would quickly gather.

At that moment, Lind was shopping. He had earned quite a bit of money from the Undead, each able to scrape thousands or even tens of thousands of Beast Fangs. Aside from the money Lind had spent to help the Undead-led Newbie Village develop, he still had over fifty million Beast Fangs on hand.

Released, it would be a mountain of Beast Fangs.

With money in hand, Lind didn’t blink an eye when spending it. The armor on his body was quite ordinary. Although Nur could help make Mechanical God Cult armor, Lind wasn’t keen on the gear-equipped armaments; he just needed enough defensive power, without the fancy extra features.

Then, there were weapons. Not only did Lind need an upgrade, but William also needed to replace his weaponry, with both of them being high-users of arms.

"This is a weapon once left by a Beast King." The weapon merchant had his own shop and was currently introducing a weapon to Lind—a greatsword made entirely of bone that didn’t seem sharp but was wrapped in a faint current of electricity.

Seeing Lind appeared interested, the merchant suddenly grasped the sword and demonstrated it then and there, creating flashes of lightning with his swings.

"How much?" Lind felt the weapon was very interesting; the greatsword seemed to be made from the thigh bone of a beast capable of emitting Thunder, rugged yet aesthetically pleasing, with a barbaric beauty.

"3000!"

Lind took the sword and tried swinging it a couple of times, only to find that the weapon emitted an electric arc with less than First Circle power during the swing. It would surely be a big disadvantage in a real fight.

"It’s just a toy," Lind shook his head, putting the sword back down, "Do you have anything better?"

Half an hour later.

"Take care!" The weapons merchant waved farewell to Lind enthusiastically.

The weapons were almost completely swept clean, earning the merchant at least 50,000 Beast Fangs; he truly made a killing.

"You need this kind of thing?" A head emerged from Lind’s black cloak. It was the Beastmaster, showing strong dissatisfaction with Lind’s recent shopping spree.

Weapons that could only unleash First Circle power, even with a three-sword style, were useless and sheerly decorative waste.

"I’m going to modify them." Lind had just been cursed by a Ghost and wanted to pick a few with potentially suitable attributes, perhaps to enhance them through the curse, giving the weapons an unusual edge.

"You think I don’t want to buy?" Lind sighed. "Many good things aren’t available even if you can afford them."

What followed was the main event. Lind needed to kit himself out with a proper set of armor. His previous armor was all show and no substance, often leaving him bare-chested or even bare-bottomed mid-battle.

"Didn’t expect to find Magic Scrolls?" Lind, looking at the vendor selling scrolls, remembered the scroll on the waist of the God of Giants.

Alas, it was so near yet so far before, so he could only make a note of it, hoping for the Undead to come back so he could revisit his fate with the Magic Scrolls.

As he examined the scrolls, he found the recorded content quite interesting, outlining attack methods often used by the Beastmaster, like Claw Attack, Beast Roar, Tail Whip, and others.

With money burning a hole in his pocket, Lind decided to buy the whole lot.

"I’m flaunting my wealth so openly, I wonder if anyone would dare to rob me." He would be quite disappointed if they didn’t.

Suddenly, something caught Lind’s attention.

It was a black creature resembling a fat maggot, motionless like a long strip of black stone.

"What’s this?"

"A very strange bug," the seller, a Demi-human with golden skin, covered in gold dust and with an aristocratic tone, explained.

However, his power was nothing to write home about, only Second Circle.

"How is it strange?"

"My pet unexpectedly mated with it, and then gave birth to several ugly puppies."

"Puppies? Can I see them?" Lind asked, intrigued.

Even the Beastmaster hidden in the cloak was curious, seemingly having never encountered such a peculiar breeding-capable creature.

"I’ve killed them, but I still have some images." The seller took out a scroll, tapped a few points on it, and images rapidly appeared.

Lind watched with envy.

He was finally seeing the "advanced" side of the Magic Land. The Beast Sacrificial Ground he previously experienced could be considered "rural," and the Lionheart King and the Corrupt King could probably only be described as close to urban-rural fringe areas.

Within the pattern, there was a streamlined black dog with no eyes, but with an extended, serpent-like, giraffe-like neck, and a conical head. Its mouth parted to reveal sawtooth-like teeth.

"This doesn’t seem like a creature native to the Magic World."

Lind had good reason for such thoughts; it didn’t look like anything good.

"That’s right, it’s something from the Foreign Lands," said the seller.

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