Chapter Twenty-Five: Unexpected

  Old Karl sighed, suddenly looked up at the sky, and was silent for a while before slowly saying: "That coffin lid is hollow, filled with some special energy to suppress her in the coffin..."

  He paused, and old Karl continued: "She died a long time ago, but before she died, she was cursed with an extremely poisonous curse. Every thirty years, she would wake up once, and only by thoroughly dispersing the black fog on her body could she be made to fall asleep again. Otherwise, she would become violent and kill people at will. And even if the black fog on her body were dispersed and she fell asleep, if she weren't put in a stone coffin and covered with a lid in time, she would wake up again."

  "Who... who is she?" Lin Feng furrowed his brow: "How could she have fallen under such an evil curse?"

  “She…”

  A hint of sadness flashed across Old Karl's eyes, his emotions somewhat subdued, but he still said: "She is my wife."

  Wife and child?

  Lin Feng was shocked and couldn't close his mouth, Old Karl's words had reached this point, Lin Feng fell silent, he saw the sadness in Old Karl's eyes, although he wanted to know why his teacher's wife was cursed by someone, and how Old Karl knew that magic and many other questions, but after all, he had an adult mind, knowing it wasn't the time to ask more questions, so he voluntarily shut his mouth.

  He knew that if Old Karl wanted to tell himself, he would definitely tell himself. If he didn't want to tell himself, then there was no need for him to ask actively and rub salt in his wound.

  Lin Feng has gone through the pain of being betrayed by his girlfriend, so he can deeply understand Old Karl's feelings at this moment. He knows that it's better not to recall such things, even if recalling them won't change the fact that they've already happened. So, let it be buried in his heart as time goes by!

  Let's just forget it!

  As for why he couldn't harm her? Does that even need to be said... Lin Feng changed his perspective and thought about it for a moment, then immediately understood - if it were your wife who had woken up with an evil curse on her body, would you tolerate others attacking her?

  Old Karl saw that Lin Feng didn't ask any further questions, and he couldn't help but look at him with a curious gaze. However, he also wasn't prepared to say anything himself. He let out a sigh, and it seemed like Old Karl had rested enough. He stood up from the ground, patted the yellow dirt off his buttocks, and said to Lin Feng: "Let's head back."

  This sentence was spoken with a hint of helplessness and emotion, Lin Feng heard it in his ears, but didn't say anything, only lightly nodding his head.

  The two of them walked in silence, both seemingly lost in their own memories. When they returned to the house again, Old Karl finally broke the silence: "Young one, you mentioned earlier that you wanted to go out and gain some experience?"

  "Yes, I'm ready to go out and temper myself, to enhance my own strength." Lin Feng also tacitly didn't mention what had just happened.

  Old Karl took a deep breath: "Then where are you going?"

  "I'm preparing to head to the northern tundra and join a peripheral adventure team."

  Lin Feng quickly came up with an answer. He had flipped through some of Old Karl's books and learned that in the northern part of the mainland, deep within the ice fields, lived peaceful elves. However, to reach the forest where the elves resided, one would have to cross the ice fields known as "Hell Nightmare" by adventurers.

  On the icy tundra of hellish nightmares, all sorts of magical beasts roam, and many adventure teams hunt them down to take their magic cores or strip off their hides in exchange for rewards.

  But these people are all a group of people walking on the blade, facing the endless demon beasts and ice fields, they don't even know if their lives will end in the mouth of some demon beast at any moment.

  However, small adventurer teams only dare to circle around the periphery of the ice field, and only some veteran large-scale adventure teams dare to venture deep into the depths of the ice field.

  What Lin Feng said was a peripheral adventure team, referring to a small adventurer team. This type of team is composed of five to ten people, and their goal is only to be active on the periphery of the ice field, hunting some low-level magical beasts in exchange for a small amount of money.

  And there are many small adventure teams like this on the outskirts of the ice field, and even the number of magic beasts is not enough for adventurers to hunt. In such a small team, it should be said that no danger will be encountered.

  So, Lin Feng would entrust this matter to Old Karl with peace of mind. He firmly believed that even though he was still just a child at present, with his third-level magic comprehensive strength, there were many adventure teams willing to recruit him, and some large-scale adventure teams were also very welcoming to the addition of magicians. After all, proud magicians were not only scarce in number, but also received monthly salaries from the empire; how many would come to this perilous Ice Forest?

  But Lin Feng just used this sentence as an excuse, he didn't want to go to that freezing northern place.

  However, contrary to Lin Feng's expectations, Old Karl's next sentence directly exposed Lin Feng's small trick.

  "Hmph, young one, you think you can go to the northern ice fields for training? Don't be ridiculous."

  Old Karl seemed to have forgotten what had just happened, and sneered: "Even if you can reach the level of a third-level magician, do you think you can survive on the outskirts of the ice field? There are more people on the outskirts than beasts, and as soon as they see a living beast, several small adventure teams will rush up! You don't even have a chance to make a move. Moreover, because you are a magician, you will be even more subject to the jealousy of other small adventure teams. They may even sneak into your tent while you are meditating and kill you together with your companions, then take away the magic cores and other things you got from hunting beasts, or they may be killed by another adventure team. Can you understand what I'm saying?"

  Old Karl took a deep breath and concluded: "Hmph, the danger of this peripheral area is not inferior to the depths of the Icefield! Only, what you will face is not high-level magic beasts, but humans! You must understand that humans are even more difficult to deal with than magic beasts! They are even more cunning than magic beasts! Hmph, as I see it, you don't actually want to go to the Hell Nightmare Icefield at all?"

  Obviously, Old Karl did not realize when he said this that he himself was also a part of those cunning humans.

  "Hmm..." Lin Feng was about to explain, but Old Karl leaned forward and sneered: "Little guy, no need to play such a low-level trick in front of me. If I'm not mistaken, you should be going to the Imperial Capital's Paulo Academy to study martial skills, right?"

  "Alright, my teacher, I admit what you said is right..."

  Now, Lin Feng could only admit that his idea had been exposed. Originally, he knew that there were many loopholes in this sentence of his, and the battle just now had also revealed all his strength. He was also relying on his young age to decide to gamble with Old Karl, but unexpectedly, Old Karl had seen through his trick at once and accurately expressed his inner thoughts.

  "Now that you've exposed me, there's no point in hiding anymore."

  Finally, Lin Feng was ready to accept Old Man Karl's angry flames.

  "Little guy, did you think I've become senile? For a whole year now, you've been probing me from all angles for information about Paul College. How could I not know what's on your mind?"

  Old Karl sighed, his face seemingly a bit despondent: "I don't just know this, I also know that in the past year, you've been sneaking out at midnight to chop wood and train your body. Don't be surprised, I've seen it all with my own eyes. And earlier, I could tell that your physical strength is no longer ordinary... However, if you want to go to Paul Academy to learn martial skills, then go ahead, I won't stop you."

  "I..."

  Lin Feng's expression was full of weirdness, his heart was full of shock, he couldn't think that the originally hot-tempered and stubborn Old Karl would be so open-minded this time, and what's more, his tone sounded calm and steady, without any sign of anger.

  For a moment, Lin Feng didn't know what to do either. The carefully prepared words of persuasion in his heart seemed to be completely useless now.

  "Alright, kiddo, don't look at me like that. I'm not the kind of old stubborn you think I am. When I saw your determination when chopping wood back then, I knew it was only a matter of time before you'd ask to leave. Since I couldn't keep you here anyway, why bother forcing you?"

  Old Karl sighed, took out a wooden ring and threw it to Lin Feng: "Take it, this is a space ring. The size of the space inside will increase with your spiritual power. Consider it as my farewell gift! Alright, you can leave now, I want to be alone for a while... Oh, by the way, don't forget to tell your mother tonight, and set off again early tomorrow morning!"

  After saying this, a look of fatigue appeared on Old Karl's face. He waved his hand at Lin Feng and closed his eyes to enter a meditative state.

  Lin Feng sighed and walked out of Old Karl's room with the space ring, still unable to react to Old Karl's "gentle" reaction for a while.

  Standing there for a while, Lin Feng looked again at the door of Old Karl's room which had already been closed, knocked his own head and muttered: "Is this what the old man calls 'favour' to me?"

  ……