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Chapter 932 - 481 Raven Rules and the Heretic_2

Chapter 932: Chapter 481 Raven Rules and the Heretic_2

"But once discovered, I could only retreat, and the heretic’s Law poses a strong threat to me, one I must absolutely not trigger," Ivita thought.

This was nearly the most powerful Law he had ever encountered.

The broken Raven Rules paled in comparison to this Law.

Ivita used a Transforming Spell to disguise himself as a refugee and blended into the crowd. The Raven People, being nomadic by origin, had physical features that differed slightly from those of traditional farming peoples. These refugees were now fleeing frantically, as if something was chasing them.

Ivita looked back and saw a very strange-looking monster. It was completely bald, with a head four to five times the size of a normal human’s, yet its body was almost similar to that of a human’s, except it was almost naked.

Its hands had degenerated into sharp claws, and its feet had also turned into claws. Moreover, its huge, deformed head seemed to contain a beating heart, pulsing eerily.

It kept chasing the fleeing Raven People refugees, covering its head with its hands and stretching out its arms to plead with the refugees, "Save me, save me, I’m human too, just like you all are."

"My head hurts so much. It feels like there are countless birds screeching inside my head. Ah, it hurts so much."

"You all stop, just stop! Roar~"

A wave of psychic force emanated from him.

Ivita, hearing of the refugees, cried out, calling him a Madman.

Ivita understood that this person must have been closely linked with the Raven Rules during the era when they were intact, which had been a benefit and an advantage.

But when the Raven Rules were nearly half-destroyed and the Raven mental network had been destroyed and contaminated, the uncontrollable mental network twisted this person, causing mutations in his body and also endowed him with a unique psychic ability.

"Save me, you bastards, none of you are helping me, you’re all too selfish, I’m going to kill all of you, no one wants to help me, I will ..."

Ivita was very interested in his psychic ability and now stood in front of him. "Do you need someone to help you? I am willing to help."

The Madman covered his head, widened his eyes, looking at Ivita who had transformed into a young Raven person by using the Transforming Spell, who was now cloaked in animal fur and had a naive appearance.

"You...you...are willing to help me?"

"Such a good samaritan, I didn’t expect there to be someone like you, I’m so touched, let me hug you."

Ivita, without changing his expression, twisted the Madman’s claws, joking, "This claw, this way of hugging, if you were to hug a normal young Raven person, wouldn’t they instantly die?"

The Madman looked at his claws, all twisted by Ivita’s hand, somewhat dazed.

Ivita then pointed a finger at his head, and immediately began examining him, "So it is, I said he’s still a living person, there could still be hope. It turns out it’s the heretics who intentionally destroyed the normal circulation of Raven Rules among people, causing the Law to remain within this guy’s mind, unable to connect outwardly, incessantly circulating internally in the Raven Rules, driving this naturally resonance-capable young man insane, and others like him too."

Ivita looked towards the distant Doomsday Volcano. "I need to approach the Doomsday Volcano without drawing the attention of the heretics and their Law; I must be silent. But I guess the Frankish people might have left some forces near the Doomsday Volcano, not really against me, but mainly against Jalen. Well, consider yourself lucky, helping you is like helping myself. I need to repair some of Raven Rules, so the heretics don’t have the energy to bother me."

Behind Ivita, the Two Souls Three Realms appeared, and the Twilight Realm enveloped the Madman. Centered on him, it opened the thoughts and ideas within his Starlight Body’s heart, linking the thought channels to the group of refugees who had just escaped.

Ivita created a mind network repairer, similar to a spreading disease; as long as these refugees appeared around other Raven People refugees, their minds would reconnect under the influence of Ivita’s magical power.

The Raven Rules Council temporarily recovered from it.

Ivita realized that he was able to do this primarily because the carriers of the Law—the Raven People—had not been ethnically exterminated by the heretics.

Therefore, it seemed that the Raven Rules had only momentarily errored and were not yet at their absolute end.

The heretics must have been intending to absorb the Raven Rules, not to eradicate them.

Moreover, on the land of the Raven Kingdom, there were also rebels hiding in the hills and mountains; these people were the last hope for the Raven Rules to avoid being devoured.

In Raven Valley, the actual locale of the Raven Rules, which was surrounded by heretic soldiers who liked to wrap cloth around their heads and sport big beards, a heretic priest said to the noble Emil among the heretics, "Lord Iron Sword Emil, we’ve found that the Raven Rules, which we almost completely destroyed, have undergone some unusual changes. The ravens in the Raven Valley are slowly coming back to life."

"This must be the work of some evil resistance organization from those Raven People hiding in the mountains. I suggest we deploy troops immediately to spread the teachings of the Lord of All Beasts!"

Upon hearing this, Iron Sword Emil, too, was inflamed with religious fervor. "If it wasn’t to let the Raven People voluntarily embrace our Lord, I would have killed them all already. Those devils in the mountains, still daring to resist. Immediately mobilize all available forces, including the patrol units, to search the deep mountains!"

"You priests, also tell the Raven People, we hold the scriptures in our left hand and the curved sword in our right. They can either choose the scriptures of our left hand and become our brothers, or choose the curved sword of our right and become our enemies; the choice is theirs. As long as they join us in worshipping the Lord of All Beasts, there will be no discrimination. Everyone will be brothers, no head tax needed, no threat of being sold into slavery, no fear of being bullied by foreigners!"

The heretic priest also sighed, "It is precisely because we adhere to our teachings and never bully our own brothers and sisters that our faith grows ever stronger."

"Moreover, we welcome all brothers and sisters willing to worship the Lord of All Beasts, regardless of their background or who they were before. That is the breadth of our embrace."

...

In the wilderness, Ivita noticed that the physical anomaly on the surface of the Madman’s body had begun to restore to normal. His head had reduced to half its size, and his sanity was also returning.

The touched Madman looked towards Ivita. "I am Dave, a carpenter from the village. My friend, you truly are the best friend, nothing like those deceitful people who run away upon seeing me."

Ivita nodded slightly, unafraid of the man’s still clumsy appearance. "Those people are merely scared. They don’t know your true nature, so naturally, they run upon seeing you. We need to be more tolerant of others."

"Of course, they have completely misunderstood you, Mr. Dave. You can call me Ivita. I am about to go to Doomsday Volcano, and you can come with me."

Having this guy with him should help conceal his own identity.

Dave touched his head, feeling that something was off, but he only cared for a moment before focusing his attention on Ivita. "Ivita, just calling me Dave is fine. I come from a poor family, and being addressed as mister doesn’t feel right to me."

"But Doomsday Volcano is very dangerous. That volcano erupts daily, spewing toxic gases and magma, and no one ever wishes to approach it. Even the ravens warn us not to go near that volcano, and the areas... near it are all wastelands, completely unusable."

Ivita nodded, knowing that the Raven Kingdom was nestled within a giant basin surrounded by mountains, rich in land resources. Unfortunately, Doomsday Volcano made much of the kingdom’s land unusable, indirectly causing the kingdom’s national power to weaken, its population to dwindle, and making it vulnerable to invasions.