Bell

Main building lobby.

During the thirty-minute negotiation.

Throughout the entire process, the farmer played with ' Nails and Wire ', inserting nails soaked in Curse Potion into his body at different points to strengthen his own curse.

"... That's about it. When the time comes, I will send a crowman to the farm to inform you."

"At that time, you only need to follow our team to infiltrate the Hillside Ancient Castle."

Bite!

Bite!

The farmer was still embedding the nails.

Everyone is here waiting for his reply.

Even family members dared not speak at this time, lest they anger the farmer.

Please wait approximately ten minutes.

The farmer had already embedded a whole bucket of cursed nails into the flesh... The atmosphere slowly grew heavy.

At this moment, all members of the Newcomer team were making some movements, more or less, ready to switch to combat mode at any time.

The next second.

The farmer lifted a giant axe with one hand and pointed it in a certain direction from his house.

This behavior startled her mother, Bellin. "Honey... are you sure you want to do this? Tell me your thoughts, and I'll relay them to these young people."

The over three-meter-tall Bellin crawled to her husband and brought her face close to the front of the linen hood.

A strange tongue emerged from the flax and entered Bellin's ear, thus enabling the couple to converse.

After listening.

Bellin arched her back and crawled to Han Dong.

"My husband said that if you can complete the cursed trial in the basement, our family is willing to grant you the request you just made."

After saying that sentence.

Bellin whispered into Han Dong's ear again:

"My youngest daughter, Roxi, seems to really like you! And your ability to calm my husband's rage also meets one of my important criteria for choosing a son-in-law."

It's very dangerous down there! I suggest you don't go down.

If you're willing to be my son-in-law, I can talk to my husband and ask him to handle this matter in a different way.

"No need... Please tell Farmer Murphy that if I meet the requirements, please keep your promise."

"Alas... what a pity for such a promising young man."

The mother, Bellin, stopped trying to dissuade her and quickly crawled toward the spot the axe was pointing to.

Turn the decorations on the wall, and the stone door opens to reveal a secret passage.

The moment the secret passage was exposed, a curse in the form of text immediately spread out along the wall.

This secret passage should lead to the source of the curse.

The reason why the farmer's family could be resurrected in different forms of 'curse' is probably below.

Han Dong didn't hesitate at all and was about to step forward.

Smack

Someone reached out and grabbed Han Dong's wrist.

It wasn't the youngest daughter Roxi... but Mia, who was wearing half a mask.

"Let me go with you."

Han Dong did not answer, but glanced at the farmer.

After all, the farm owner's intention was for Han Dong to go down alone.

As the farmer nodded slightly, Mia immediately smiled and followed closely behind him... This scene made the youngest daughter, Roxi, very unhappy, to the point that several of the Fine Threads on her back snapped.

However, because of the farmer, she didn't dare to make too many moves.

As the two entered the secret passage, the stone door was immediately blocked.

The only way to escape is through the following cursed trial.

When switching to a two-person world.

Mia quickly stepped forward and tightly took Han Dong's arm, feeling happy but also a little worried.

"You're really something... to actually find a way to negotiate with a necromancer whose consciousness has been affected by curses and resentment."

"As long as it's not something that has completely lost consciousness, there's room for communication... Luckily, we have two actors in our team, Demps's performance was even better than I expected."

So, what's your take on this?

The moment the stone gate closed.

Han Dong had fully opened his Lesser Demon Eye to ensure that the curse-like text attached to the wall would not affect him.

Mia also stretched out her long spider legs and opened her own Curse Domain to resist the other curses here.

"This should be the place we discussed before... possibly a high-ranking being who bestowed the curse upon the farmer."

The source of the curse is likely very similar to my own "Spider Curse".

"If there really is a cursed demon imprisoned down here, what should we do?"

Han Dong replied coldly, "I thought you could figure out what's hidden down there just by looking at these verbal curses... Since you can't deduce it, go down and take a look."

Mia immediately pouted after hearing that.

"High-level curses are all presented in 'words,' okay? Even some cursed objects have textual structures inside... Hmph! Do you think everything is as simple as you imagine?"

Han Dong said no more.

At the end of the secret passage, there is a staircase leading downwards.

The basement, accessible via the stairs, resembles a shrine in style.

The walls are painted with all sorts of strange sacrificial patterns.

The intense aura of the curse even condensed into some characters in the air, and sweat dripped from Han Dong's forehead... Once his Seed Energy was exhausted, he would be unable to resist the curse and would be completely invaded.

It was different from what I had expected.

There was neither any cursed life form nor the expected high-ranking being below.

The source of the curse was an object placed on the altar – Dark Gray Metal Bell.

"Is this the source of the curse, the root of the curse bestowed upon the Victoria family? The farmer's so-called test must be that I must be required to control this bell, right?"

After all, if one's own strength is insufficient to fight against the Grand Lord, all plans are just empty talk.

It seems that former Farmer Murphy unearthed this cursed object in a deep pit while managing this Wheat Field District, thus gaining some understanding of the curse.

"Hmm... it should be." Mia stared intently at the bell, her greed barely concealed.

"Mia... you don't need to pretend in front of me."

Someone like you puts their own interests above all else; you wouldn't willingly enter dangerous areas. Isn't this what you want? Go get it.

Han Dong pointed out his purpose so directly.

Mia stopped pretending and simply took off her mask.

Centered on Mia, another Curse Power surged forth.

Numerous Little Spider emerged from the ground within a two-meter radius, completely isolating the curse.

Mia stared at the bell with a somewhat sickly look:

"I never expected to encounter a 'cursed artifact' in a place like this, and it even seems to be of pretty good quality..."

Just as Mia was about to step forward to take it, Han Dong gently pulled her back.

"Let's get this straight, this thing is yours! But you'll be under my complete command for the upcoming training camp."

"Okay... I'm usually very obedient."

Mia underwent a massive transformation some time after the mask was removed.

The fingernails were completely dyed purple and were a full twenty centimeters long.

Snap!

He grabbed the bell.

Ring ring ring...

Then, without Mia making any move.

The bell rang by itself.