“…… A little off. ”

Four Darkening narrowed his eyes slightly.

He vaguely sensed that something was wrong. Although he is only a fast-acting transcendent, the Four Dark Carvings have more or less reached the Silver Level, and his perception attribute is not low.

It's not as simple as someone stalking you.

After he left the team, he vaguely felt a strange malice. He hadn't gone far before he felt a gradual sensation of discomfort in his body.

If you want to describe it, it's like a cold and fever. But the discomfort came so violently...... In less than a minute, he felt a little shaky and dizzy.

He even felt his chest getting heavier and his breathing became hard and sluggish. The limbs became heavier and heavier, and the nerve pain became more and more intense from the skin all over the body.

…… Wrong.

The four dark moments suddenly reacted and glanced at their status bar.

Health: 85%

After about three or four seconds, that number dropped by 1 percent.

The moment he realized that he was really losing blood, the four dark moments immediately became vigilant.

He stood there and counted quietly.

Ten seconds later, he lost 1% of his blood; Ten seconds later, another 1% dropped.

…… Is it precisely controlled to control the dot that hops every 10 seconds?

Related to the number ten.

This should be the curse of the realm to which the mother moth belongs.

But what is the medium?

Why are you cursing me...... No, this issue is left alone for now.

The four darkened quickly calmed down and began to look around, looking for something related to the number ten.

At the same time, a thought split into his head and began to calculate:

- If you go back at this rate of bleeding, it will start almost five minutes after he leaves the main unit......

Thinking of this, he stopped his steps and began to return the way he came, despite the growing sense of illness.

He did his best to maintain the speed of his movements, to be consistent with the time he had come.

And at the moment when his health dropped to 67%.

Four Dark Carvings clearly saw the anomaly - in a fish tank, a soaked hemp rope was thrown.

And this hemp rope is tied with ten knots.

“…… Knot? ”

Four muttered in a low voice.

He remembered - it seemed that the "knot" could also be used as a medium for curses.

After sharing many ritual theories with Delicious Wind Goose, Si Dark found that this had strange similarities with some ancient ethnic customs on Earth. So he bought some folklore books some time ago to check the information.

The natives of the East Indies believed that "tying a knot" would bind the fetus to the mother's body. This means that she may not be able to give birth and have a difficult birth, or that her body may recover slowly after giving birth. So they believe that neither husband nor wife can "tie the knot" during pregnancy.

In some parts of Southeast Asia, when a woman gives birth, she unties everything that can be untied inside and outside the house - such as braids, shoelaces, cables, and also withdraws the gunpowder from the chamber of the gun, puts down the arrows on the bow, and cannot even sit cross-legged - because cross-legged is also a "knot".

Russians also use nets full of knots against wizards...... This is also the reason why Russian brides wear veils full of knots when they get married. This headnet, full of knots, was believed by the Russians to be resistant to spells.

There are some sorcerers among the Huo people in West Africa, who will curse their enemies by tying knots with straw ropes, and if they can't find the knot and untie it, they will continue to die of illness; The Qur'an also mentions "those who blow on the knots", referring to the shamans who cursed others by tying knots, and even Muhammad was almost killed in this way, but in the end the archangel came and directly helped him find the place where the knot was hidden. The French believe that they can curse others for unhappy marriages by tying knots, so that the young couple can fight...... The specific manifestation is to make men hard.

Although this is a fairly common form of witchcraft, there is no ritual of "tying knots" in all the types of rituals taught by the delicious wind goose in this world.

So the four dark carvings didn't care about this kind of thing at that time.

But when he saw the knot now, it was very unnaturally still in the fish tank—you know, there were still live fish in this fish tank. Such a thick knot is still directly in the fish tank, and the water is directly contaminated.

And the shopkeeper did not react at all and turned a blind eye.

Or, he was in league with his attackers; Either that, or he's been controlled.

So Si Darkeng didn't pay attention to the shopkeeper at all, but directly fished the hemp rope out of the fish tank.

…… How to solve this thing?

Is it to open the knot, or to cut it with a sword, as Alexander did......

Let's be on the safe side.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

At that moment, the shopkeeper wiped his hands with a towel and shouted in a bad tone, "Don't move that rope - put that thing back!" ”

It was a big man with dark skin and a thick body.

His eyes shone brightly brown - a testament to his status as a pure-blood underground.

“…… Oh? ”

The four secretly heard the words, but suddenly settled down a lot.

He thought he might be looking in the wrong direction......

But if you say that, then I'm relieved.

So, without thinking, he reached out and opened the knots one by one. With each knot opening, he felt his body loosen.

"Hey!"

Seeing this, the shopkeeper rushed over to stop him.

But not wait for him to take a few steps forward.

The ground in front of him suddenly exploded—sticky orange flames spurting upwards in bundles.

In a miserable wail, the man was burned to ashes by the raging fire in four or five seconds. Then the flames on the floor gradually dissipated.

- This is the Flame Trap.

One of the Saboteur's proprietal abilities is that it appears to be a thin, cream-colored card that gradually turns black when activated, and is extremely fast when pressed by a heavy object.

Once completely black, it will emit a scorching beam of flame equivalent to the bronze breaking spell of "Jet Flame", which is hot enough to burn people to charcoal; To remove this trap, soak the card with hot blood. Then tear him open before it can be finished.

Otherwise, even if you cut it off with a sword, it will immediately trigger the trap spell.

Before he could rush over, he threw it in front of him with his drooping hands. The moment the man walked over, he immediately triggered the trap—

At this time, the four dark carvings had already opened all the knots.

He suddenly felt lighter, and all the sudden discomfort was gone.

That's really the problem.

Si Darken breathed a sigh of relief, and without thinking, threw the knot into the fire that remained on the corpse.

- Suddenly, a line of blood-red characters with some scribbled handwriting suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, which startled him:

[Severed Curse - Moth's Knot]

The next moment, the rope that had been scorched by the fire suddenly disintegrated into countless gray moths. They flapped their fiery wings and flew into the sky. But they didn't fly far, and one by one they crashed and fell to the ground, turning into piles of ashes.

And the burnt hemp rope, there seems to be something else in it......

Ignoring the passers-by who fled in panic because of the sudden killing of their boss, Si Darken squatted on the ground and waited for the flames to go out and take out the hemp rope.

He peeled off the black ash covering the twine, revealing the thin golden threads inside.

It looked like hair, but it looked like a tiny copper wire......

And when the four dark engravings came into contact with it, the system panel appeared in front of them:

【Young Hair (Residue)】

[Type: Material/Sundries (Blue)]

[Description: The hair of the elderly and the young, treated with a special potion.] Destroyed, but still has usable spells]

[Effect: The wielder will be cursed with "Accelerated Aging"]

[Accelerated Aging: The Holder's aging rate doubles]

…… After being damaged, can you still have blue-level spell materials?

The first reaction of the four dark moments was "shouldn't I burn it with fire", and then a little distressed. But he quickly reacted - the flame was not too hot to burn it down.

It is estimated that the "Moth Knot" was destroyed, and part of the spell was damaged.

…… But he's a player, huh?

He didn't know anyone here at all, so he couldn't have any grudges......

"Who is it...... Kill me with such a big hand? ”