Curse of the Eye of the Dead

Chapter 177

The formation of the family of conjurers, the original source can be simply summarized as the combination of two special individuals.

Through their union, they passed on their unique bloodline.

Then, those heirs who inherited the bloodline and awakened as sorcerers combined and multiplied separately, so that the special power in the bloodline continued to be transmitted layer by layer. After a certain number of derivations, a cluster with the family as the core was formed.

Then, various external factors such as the favor of the powerful and the economy were added...the family of conjurers gradually took shape in this way.

And the most fundamental thing in all of this is the "blood".

The blood with "special power" is the most critical and indispensable element.

Conjurer is an unfair profession with innate factors accounting for at least [-]% of the upper limit of strength.

If you don't have strength, you can't do this job.

Under the same circumstances, it is inevitable that there will be a class phenomenon in the magic world:

Among the individuals within the major families, those with high artistic talent began to discriminate against those with low talent.

And among the conjurer families...the one that is more powerful and has cultivated stronger sorcerers will despise the less impressive one.

As time went by, some families who were tired of the high death rate of sorcerers and colleagues who targeted each other and even hurt each other began to choose to quit in a certain generation.It's like the Goujuan family who insisted on the policy of "severing the blood of the magician" in modern times.

Another part of the aristocratic family eventually disappeared due to the dilution of the blood.

And the rest of the aristocratic families that have survived for hundreds of years and are still active—all do their best to continue and strengthen their bloodlines.

As for the means...it is nothing more than a combination or marriage between talented people.

But there are always some families who are unlucky: even if they do this, the descendants of the descendants still have blood dilution.

This is the case with the Tsurumi family.

They did carry out marriages between talented people, and they did carry out marriages between strong people, but the offspring became weaker and weaker from generation to generation, and in the end, even ordinary people with no strength accounted for [-]% of the newborns.

The Tsurumi family, which was once formed by chance, began to gradually decline in a certain generation.

If this continues, the Tsurumi family will become an inconspicuous dust in history just like the families that have disappeared and declined in the past hundreds of years.

And the Patriarch who was in power at the time... was unwilling to fall into that situation no matter what.

He was so anxious that he gave up all bottom lines in order to prevent the family that had lasted for hundreds of years from being cut off in his hands.

It was probably because of this kind of paranoia and no bottom line that the Patriarch gritted his teeth and tried hard after he accidentally obtained the ancient document with unknown origin and saw the special formation described above.

then……

In this way, Tsurumi Miku's bloody original sin that lasted for hundreds of years was brewed.

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On that dilapidated document, it was recorded that a special formation was used to increase the birth rate of the offspring of the sorcerer at a "certain price".

In principle, it should be a formation based on "restraint" and "exchange", like a kind of overdraft and self-curse.

——By sacrificing the "Sorcerer", in exchange for the birth rate of the new "Sorcerer".

The range of effect is in the family land of the Tsurumi family.

Therefore, Tsurumi's pregnant women will not leave the clan area throughout their pregnancy.

It was really useful at first.

The birth rate of the Tsurumi family's gifted descendants began to increase at a frequency visible to the naked eye.

But after several years passed... everyone found out that something was wrong.

Although these newborn offspring have spell power and spells, their quality is uneven.

After more than ten or twenty years of observation, they finally came to a conclusion: the continuation of the bloodline obtained through sacrifice is extremely unstable and has a high mutation rate.

And the most important point is: the blood of the Tsurumi family has been distorted by the sacrifice.

Tsurumi's ancestor's technique features were squeezed to the point of disappearing, and all kinds of messy techniques began to appear one after another, and weak and useless techniques took up most of them.

The most important thing is - those valuable new spells produced after mutations cannot be inherited and continued by future generations, but continue to mutate.

For an aristocratic family, this is undoubtedly terrible - they do not have a fixed inheritance of techniques.

Tsurumi once tried to stop the sacrifice.

Then they discovered that after the ceremony stopped, all the next batch of descendants of the family were backlashed.

——No one has the spell, all of them are ordinary people who are sick and weak.

How could this kind of self-curse in exchange for the continuation of the evil path be free of cost?

Every time a sacrifice is made, I don't know how many generations of heirs will be involved before they can pay for their sins and restore the original appearance deep in Tsurumi's blood.

The Tsurumi family cannot face such a future.

So they fell into silence and had to accept the side effects of the sacrifice.

Subsequently, this sacrifice, which is held every 30 years on average, has become a Tsurumi tradition.

It has become an ugly, shady abscess known only to families of a certain status.

In the longer years that followed, they adjusted the effect of the sacrifice as much as possible, and explored the rules of mutation after the sacrifice.

It is also a mutation, and the strength of the mutation produced by the combination of the remaining offspring between the gifted will be higher.

The strength of the sacrificial offering has an impact on the strength of the new offspring and the duration of the sacrificial effect.

The strength of the mother has a greater influence on the offspring than the strength of the father.

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The position of patriarch and patriarch has been passed down from generation to generation, but none of the power-holders of any generation can be determined to cut off the chains of evil and sincerely repay the bad karma of the ancestors.

They only care about hiding it from family members.

Because they couldn't bear the backlash after stopping the sacrifice, and couldn't let the Tsurumi family, which had been passed down for hundreds of years, decline.

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Sachiko was not conceived in the Tsurumi family, and the entire gestation period was not within the scope of the sacrificial ceremony.

She is carefully and steadily taken care of by her loving husband, and she is the child she has out of her own expectation and love.

Whether Uo's technique is a natural variation, or an unnatural variation caused by the residual power in the blood... No one can be sure.

A clan elder who had a vague premonition was more inclined to natural mutation.

He believes that under the environment of the Tsurumi family, it is impossible to give birth to offspring of this strength.

Because, since Tsurumi opened the precedent of sacrifice, the whole family has maintained a balance of neither high nor low.

——As if "karma" is deliberately restricting the development of this family that violates the laws of nature.

And the terrible power possessed by Usheng, who was living outside, obviously broke this balance.

It is not incomprehensible that Tsurumi will be involved in the blood of original sin, and will be treated equally by "cause and effect" as a "violation and abnormality" and given "balancing" measures.

The other clan elders probably also had a premonition more or less—a lot of their uneasiness and guilt when they learned that Uosheng was carrying the sky and the curse came from this.

But at the same time, the dark thoughts suppressed by them at the bottom inevitably emerged.

"The strength of the sacrificial offering has an impact on the strength of the new offspring and the duration of the sacrificial effect."

...Is there a more powerful sacrifice than Uo?

But no one is willing to say this, no one is willing to be the first to say "Let Tsurumi Uso play the final value".

After all, this despicable behavior is so despicable that they themselves know it well.

That child...does his best for the future of the Tsurumi family, has paid so much for the Tsurumi family, and brought unprecedented glory to the Tsurumi family.

Even if it was like a cloud for a short time, at least, let him close his eyes peacefully like this?

——Let him sleep peacefully in the cremation custom passed down from generation to generation by the Tsurumi family. The ashes of the body will be enshrined in the ancestral grave, and the soul will fly freely to the Paradise like a crane.

All the clan elders hesitated on both sides, and then everyone acquiesced to the latter in silence.

Until their colleague...the old man who had an extra suture across his forehead after returning from a business trip broke this default with a smile.

"Let Tsurumi Uo give full play to its final value!"

"He has an extremely large spell power and special spells. If he is used as a sacrifice, the sacrifice that our family must hold every 30 years may be able to delay the deadline, and... get better rewards for the sacrifice. "

"This is all for the Tsurumi family!"

Standing against the old body of the Tsurumi family, the parasite squinted his old and cloudy eyes, and said this to other "colleagues". *1

The hesitation of the wandering clan elders is too fragile, so fragile that as long as a colleague starts and persuades them, they will instantly find an excuse to forgive themselves.

For the family.

——For such a reason, they have probably used it since a hundred years ago, right?

then.

When Uso, who was only 21 years old, was lying on a hospital bed in a daze, his fate was quietly decided by a group of greedy people.

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"When will brother Uno get better?"

The children of the Tsurumi family who often came to the young master's house to play gathered together, muttering worriedly.

They hoped that the other party would get better day and night, but they couldn't get any good news for a long time.

Finally, a child suggested, "Why don't we fold a thousand origami cranes!"

As soon as the proposal came out, it was unanimously approved by the little guys.

This group of little ones often pestered Uosheng to tell stories.

One of the stories says: As long as you can fold 1000 paper cranes, you can make a wish come true.

The children of conjurers who walk with death are generally very precocious.They would not have believed such a fairy tale.

But - this is what Uo told them.

Because it was Uo who said it, it was their favorite young master who said it.

Therefore, these little guys believed unconditionally.

At that time, another child happily commented after listening to the story: "Our surnames are both "Tsurumi"! I want to be a great crane!"

"If a thousand paper cranes can fulfill a wish, then a thousand "Tsurumi" must also be able to become such a remarkable existence?"

A thousand "Tsurumi" is already considered a remarkable number in the sparsely populated magic world.

At that time, Uosheng was stunned for a while, then he couldn't help but bend his eyebrows, showing a very bright smile.

He likes it.

If a thousand "Tsurumi" can work together, they will surely become a remarkable existence.

Beautiful Crane, Noble Crane, Gentle Crane.

——What a beautiful surname it was.

"I'll wait for you to be full-fledged, and wait for you to become great cranes." At that time, Uomo touched the heads of the little guys gently and expectantly, and promised and invited: "When the time comes, come and be a thousand cranes by my side." one of them?"

You can't let Uno break your promise.

He said to wait until we become great cranes.

The children thought about it so seriously, and then turned out a lot of paper in one go.

They spared all their entertainment and free time, and began to devote themselves to the work of origami cranes.

Their attitude is more serious than their spell training.

It wasn't until the last thousand paper cranes were folded that the group of little guys who had worked so hard for a long time showed an extremely joyful and relaxed expression.

——Hope Uno-san gets better soon.

They happily made a wish, and then worked together to carry the thousand paper cranes strung together to the house where Uosu lived.

The leading boy knocked on the door awkwardly, then stood on tiptoe, looking expectantly at Sachiko who opened the door.

"Good day, Mrs. Sachiko, can we go and see Brother Usheng?" The boy said with a slightly flushed cheek, "We folded a thousand paper cranes, and we will surely make Brother Usheng recover from his illness."

Sachiko, who was also haggard and lost a lot of weight since her only son got seriously ill, showed a relieved smile when she heard this.

"Ah, I don't think Uno would mind...Thank you for coming to see him."

There are many, many people who come to visit Uso.

The young people and some middle-aged and elderly people of the Tsurumi family he took care of, the children he took care of, and even some outside magicians... There are many, many.

It can be said that people come to visit almost every day.

Uno has always been very popular.

Since he became seriously ill, almost all relatives and friends are trying to find a cure for him.

"Brother Usheng, you need to get better soon."

"Take good medicine."

The children surrounded the young master's bed, looking at the skinny young man who had completely changed, and urged him strongly and uneasy.

"You said you would wait for us to grow up."

The beautiful long black hair turned yellow and white, and the seriously ill young man tried his best to cheer up and smiled, and replied in a hoarse voice: "Okay, I will work hard to get better."

Uno: "If I break my promise, go to Tiger Jiro and accuse me with him?"

A boy stretched out his hands hesitantly, and lightly grasped Uo's cold hand, "Torajiro won't accuse you with us! Although he used to complain behind your back that you are a big fool, but he is super shuang Target, if other people dare to approve or belittle you, Brother Toranojiro will become super fierce and super yin and yang!"

The other child nodded quickly: "That's right, we don't want to be scolded by him, so young master, don't break your promise and get well soon."

"...It doesn't matter if it's not that fast."

The first and oldest boy was anxiously trying to warm up the young man's cold and skinny hands, "Anyway, anyway... as long as it gets better."

When you get better, tell us stories, play with us, teach us how to fight, praise our progress, and hold us high.

Children in the magic world are generally precocious, and they understand the meaning of death earlier than normal children.

——But because it was Uo who said it, they believed it.

Even after seeing Uogi's current appearance, he still persuaded himself to believe it with red and sour eyes.

"You said you'd work hard to get better."

"So... don't give up."

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*1 The purpose of Rinso parasitizing on the old corpse of the Tsurumi family to induce all this is explained in Chapter 44.