Chapter 809: Forgotten
They ca out from the temple and saw several tribal warriors waiting with their horses outside. It was more than 10 kiloters from the tribal village to the temple, so they had to have traveled on horses.
It seed that Gezer had told these tribal warriors about the goddess looking for a foreigner. Hence they ca so hurriedly.
Hessiana stepped out. “Take us to et the guy,” she said.
They returned to Fire tribe and ca to a yurt on the fringe of the village. Several soldiers and warriors seed to be guarding a man in the yurt. The man was wearing a linen robe that did not look like his, and he was restless. He was pacing back and forth under the watch of the soldiers. The man was Baptiste who had disappeared earlier.
His state of mind was very different from the last ti they t him. He seed to be quite unsettled this ti.
Baptiste was shocked when they entered the yurt. He quickly scanned them, and he was cautious as well as confused. A holy blade warrior of Fire tribe ca behind Vivian explaining to her the situation where they captured this foreigner. “Our night patrol squadron found this person on the nearby wasteland. He was naked, wandering around aimlessly as if he wasn’t in a clear state of mind. He injured two of our n with his magic, but the great warrior arrived in ti and subdued him.”
“Did you hit your head when you fell?” Hessiana frowned as she looked at Baptiste. Never did she expect to capture the wizard this way. She could not believe the cunning fellow had fallen into the hands of the indigenous warrior! “Baptiste, you look like shit now!”
Baptiste stared at Hessiana cautiously. “Who are you? How do you know my na?”
“Huh?” Lily was wide-eyed. “Don’t pretend that you don’t know us! Did you not use us like a battery before? Now you tell us you have forgotten?”
Still, on his guard, Baptiste replied with a calm and adulterated voice, “I don’t know who you are, but I do have a lot of enemies. If you want to kill , do it! But don’t expect I will divulge anything!”
Hao Ren was stunned. He looked at Vivian and forced a smile. “He has got amnesia? I can’t believe it cos out this way.”
Vivian looked at Baptiste carefully, but could not tell if he was faking it or indeed had lost his mory. She pointed at the MDT sprawling on Hao Ren’s shoulder. “Isn’t this guy having a polygraph function? Test it out.”
“I just happened to have installed such an app, okay? Please don’t confuse with a lie detector!” The MDT scoffed and then hovered over Baptiste’s head. “Hello, nerd. What is your na?”
“Baptiste.”
“Do you know these people in front of you?”
“No impression.”
“Well, that is true. This guy has lost his mory.”
They were stunned that Baptiste had lost his mory!
“A powerful wizard lost his mory simply because he fell from above?” Nangong Sanba looked at the others with a big question mark on his face. “This is unbelievable!”
At this ti, Gezer suddenly cut in. “He doesn’t have any external injury.”
No external injury. That ant Baptiste did not lose his mory by falling.
Vivian circled Baptiste two tis and suddenly asked, “Do you still rember why you are coming here?”
“Why should I tell you that?” Baptiste looked back and sneered at Vivian. “I might have lost my mory, but I am not stupid.”
“If you are not stupid, then cooperate.” Kassandra stepped out and pointed to all the people in the yurt. “There is only one of you; we are many…”
Baptiste stood upright, unperturbed. “So that’s what you got? Please try again!”
Kassandra was silent for a mont. She then pointed to the burly male soldiers. “Customarily, they are gays.”
Baptiste said nothing, as if not amused.
“And there are five hundred of them outside; people and horses.”
Baptiste’s face instantly turned green.
Hao Ren pulled Hessiana to a side and said, “What’s wrong with your people? Has she been talking like this all this while?”
“Well, at least when I rescued her from the street, she was half dead,” said Hessiana, shaking Hao Ren’s hand off hers. “And, don’t touch ! We aren’t that friendly.”
Baptiste’s expression changed a couple of tis. He caught his breath. “I am here looking for soone.”
Kassandra nodded with satisfaction. “Well, looks like you haven’t lost your entire mory. So tell us, are you looking for a witch nad Beatrice?”
Baptiste was stunned and confused but did not seem to fake it. “Beatrice? Who is that? It sounds familiar.”
Nangong Sanba raised his eyebrows. “You forgot about the most crucial part?”
Vivian shook her head. “No really. Maybe it’s sothing else.”
She had been observing Baptiste quietly from the start. She sensed the energy in him and was unsure whether he was human or a phantom. Now, she finally figured it out. “Did you guy not notice that he has grown back his arm?”
“Arm?” Hao Ren was stunned. It suddenly crossed his mind. Now he rembered that earlier, Lily had severed Baptiste’s arm, but the wizard standing here had all his limbs perfectly intact.
“When he jumped into the abyssal portal, I saw the space storm smashing him into pieces. The soldiers who found him said that he was wandering in the wilderness, naked. So I suspect that…”
While saying, Vivian put her hand on Baptiste’s shoulder. The next mont, a bright light filled everyone’s vision.
Powerful magic rushed into Baptiste’s body that was extrely weak now. An electric light shrouded him, and in an instance of thunder and lightning, the wizard turned into a charred corpse.
But, this charred corpse, which appeared dead, did not fall but stood wobbly. The ashes slowly disappeared as if the body was absorbing it. Just as when they t Baptiste for the first ti where he re-agglutinated from ashes and char back into a human, he rose from the dead.
The mont the resurrected wizard opened his eyes he almost fell to the ground, as he was still frail. He looked at the stranger in front of him with horror and quickly braced himself for battle. His voice was full of confusion. “Who are you people?” he asked.
Vivian gestured at Hao Ren so that he would not say anything. She turned to look at the wizard. “You jumped into Inferno. Let ask you: what are you doing here?”
Baptiste shook his head and replied in a way as if he was sleep talking, “Is this Inferno? I rember I co looking for soone…”
“Do you know who Beatrice is?”
“Beatrice?” Baptiste’s eyebrows knit together. “I have no impression of the na.”
“He has a magic core in his body. This magic core gives him the ability to resurrect indefinitely. He must have made this modification to himself to cross the gate to Inferno.” Vivian finally answered all the mysteries.” But there’s a problem to this resurrection process; he has lost his mory.”
Lily widened her eyes. “So?”
“So he has forgotten everything about himself from the beginning. All he knows is that he cos to Inferno looking for soone.” Again, Vivian let out a sigh. “He doesn’t even rember the na of the person he is looking for.”
Hao Ren could not believe it. “Since when this happened?”
“Since we first saw him when he ca out from the ashes, he was already a wraith. He had forgotten everything,” Vivian said, shaking her head in disappointnt. “In the beginning, we only knew that this wizard was hell-bent on going to the second level of Inferno, but he never ntioned why in the manuscripts. Perhaps he has been like this since a few hundred years ago. We should forget about him; we wouldn’t be able to get any more information from him.”
Baptiste listened indifferently to their conversation about himself as if the discussion did not concern him. He did not even rember that he was a captive. Sitting down calmly and wondering why his robe had burn marks, he then sank into his empty mories.
Lily poked the wizard with her claws cautiously. “Do you rember who you are?”
“My na is Baptiste. I am an apprentice wizard.”
“What are you doing here?”
“I’m looking for soone.”
“Who are you looking for?”
“I don’t know…”
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