Chapter 297 - The first shot
In the northeast side of the alliance of human clans’ main camp, at the crossing of two rapidly flowing rivers, was an over ten miles in radius alluvial island.
The island was covered in thriving plants and great numbers of water fowls had built their nests on this island. Showering in bright, beautiful starlight, one could see those tiny, fluffy baby birds were tremblingly flapping their small wings and playing with their brothers and sisters, in those huge bird nests that were built in the vast bulrush woods.
In the center of the island there was an area, about a mile in square, were all the bulrushes had been cleaned up, exposing the pure black soil. Seven thatch cabins were built in that area, in a circle, forming a small-scale military campsite. Old bronze oil lamps were lit up in each cabin. Creepy, spooky flames were dancing on those weirdly shaped old bronze lamps, making the entire island look dark, green and scary, as if ghost were living there.
In the middle of the circle formed by the seven cabins, was a small altar, which was built with the bones taken out from the bodies of ten different kinds of wild beasts.
During the daytime, Taisi had made an exquisite, six-feet tall straw doll himself, which now was placed right in the middle of the altar, with a string of black jade slip worn on its neck. Two twisted, ancient style characters were embossed on the jade slip, ‘Ju Xiu’.
Inside the body of the straw doll, where the spine was supposed to be located, there was an exquisitely crafted arrow that was thickly embossed with countless spell symbols, struck straightly and firmly. This arrow was the same one Ju Xiu had used to attack Ji Hao that day on the battlefield. A slight trace of her power was still attached to this arrow, which would form the main medium of the dark curse Taisi was about to cast.
Ji Hao was wearing a long black cloak and crossed his arms in front of his chest while silently watching Taisi’s movements.
“Nailhead Seven Arrows Book…I’ve heard about it in my previous life, but it was a legend…Never thought that I would be able to see the real thing here. This creepy thing even made the stone sword let out screaming-like buzzing sound, it should be a naturally formed treasure as well, even possibly, it was one of those legendary treasures, formed along with this world?”
At the thought of this, Ji Hao couldn’t help but sense a strong wave of numbess from his scalp. During all these years, Taisi and Shaosi had been bullied by quite a lot of people in the Magi Palace, but if people knew that, except those terrifying curses that Taisi could do, they also had been carrying the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book around, with such a legendary powerful treasure, would those idiots of the Southern Wasteland Society and Great Dark Ocean Society still dare to bully them?
“A faint wisp of power will do just fine.”
Taisi was now wearing a weird-looking, black cloak. Both his eyeballs had turned completely dark and the bone cane held in his hand was emitting a high-pitched, weeping-like noise that could make people feel cold and terrible.
“For ordinary dark curses, the exact time of birth of the targeted person is usually required. It would even be better if we could get a wisp of her hair or a drop of her spirit blood, but now, with this Nailhead Seven Arrows Book, the inherited magic treasure of my family, which was powerful enough to twist the fate of an entire clan, we can cast the curse with that faint trace of power. As for the name written on the jade slip, that’s only for convenience,” said Taisi.
Taisi was so excited that he was even trembling the whole time. He then chuckled with a low and creepy voice and said, “Hmmm, let me think about it, how should we let her die? Should we make her suffer more or less? Hm, should we slice her into pieces, s-low-ly, or…knock her down right away? Hm, ah ya ya, too many choices!”
Ji Hao couldn’t help but quiver when looking at Taisi, who now looked like a total psychopath, and said carefully, with a very low voice and a polite tone, “In order to enrage Di Sha and the other army commanders and make them suspect each other at the same time, we can only do it in a relatively cruel way, but over a longer period of time. She can suffer pretty badly, and end up in a quite terrible shape, anyway…”
Taisi turned around and stared at Ji Hao right in the eyes with his pair of purely dark and completely lusterless eyeballs. That pair of emotionless eyes made Ji Hao feel as if someone had poured a bucket of ice into his clothes, and waves of goosebumps immediately rose on his body.
At this moment, Taisi seemed to have completely turned from a human being into another kind of creature. He was now more like some mysterious, dark kind of creature that had existed since the beginning of this world. A creature that had been coexisting with this world all the time, and would live to immortally, isolated and beyond all the other creatures, cold and emotionless.
Even though Ji Hao had always been a brave and fearless person, being stared by Taisi made him feel quite terrible and uncomfortable.
“Hehe, the more cruel and merciless, the better? Ji Hao, we have the same taste regarding this,” said Taisi. He now sounded extremely cold hearted, even inhuman. Excitedly, he turned back around slowly, and opened that black small book and placed it on the altar.
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