After giving their firm promise that they would definitely find a way to break the village’s curse, Yoshua Brave and his group bid farewell to the villagers and left the village, continuing on their journey.
What they didn’t know was that just two days after they left, two priests from the Bright Holy Court arrived. Using “purging heresy” as justification, they slaughtered nearly all the villagers. Only one child survived because he happened to run out of the village. That child later disappeared as well—no one knew where he went. But when he eventually resurfaced, he shocked the entire continent.
After several days of training, everyone had already adapted to the heavy weights they carried, and their pace began to increase. The three mages improved especially quickly. That day, Lanqi ev
