Unfortunately, as time passed, I felt nothing at all. This made me realize that simply drinking the lake water wouldn't solve the curse. My only option now was to visit nearby villages and search for clues.
Beck and the others, seeing that I drank the lake water and didn't die, looked at me as if they had seen a ghost. Their respect for me grew even deeper, and it seemed they now fully believed that I was truly the embodiment of the demon.
When I asked them about the nearest village, they eagerly offered to lead me, wanting to show me their homeland. We began walking east along the shore, and soon, the poisonous red forest behind us disappeared. In front of us, black cliffs started to emerge, and it became clear that most of the Kova Tribe people lived on these cliffs.
At first, I didn'
