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"Yes, now you do have a chance to kill me."

Lin Feng nodded undeniably, and added in his heart: Moreover, you can kill me at any time...

However, Mark suddenly fell silent. He thought quietly for a moment, and suddenly said calmly: "Listen to my story."

Lin Feng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows unexpectedly.

But Mark didn't care about that. He inserted the sword in his hand into the ground, then looked up at the sky, as if he was recalling something. After a long silence, he took a breath and said, "My hometown is in the far north. My father is a mercenary who licks blood on the tip of a knife. When I was very young, he died. After that, I lived with my mother. When I was six years old, my father had accumulated over the years and finally spent all his wealth. My mother remarried to the neighboring village for financial reasons. At that time, I met him."

"He is two years older than me. When I first met, I didn't have a good impression of him. Moreover, I never gave him a good look. Although he didn't seem to care, I still hate him very much because I think he has seized part of his mother's love for me."

Speaking of this, Mark smiled self-deprecatingly: "His father is the best blacksmith in the village. He has endless work every day, so he rarely has time to care about us. At that time, I always disliked him, urinated in the bowl he used to eat, put scorpions and centipedes on the bed where he slept. Moreover, because my talent for cultivation is stronger than that of him, I even beat him up at any time."

"Then he must hate you very much?" Lin Feng suddenly interrupted.

"You're wrong."

A faint smile suddenly appeared on Mark's face: "He doesn't seem to care about these things. Just pretend that they have never happened. He didn't tell his mother or his father... I remember one time, I beat him again. At dinner that day, my mother saw the redness and swollen face on his face and immediately asked him what happened. At that time, my heart was already on my throat, afraid that he would tell me, but he didn't. He didn't look at me, so he told his mother that he had accidentally fallen."

"Since then, your relationship has improved?" Lin Feng interrupted again.

"No."

Mark shook his head: "Since that incident, I have become more and more disgusted by him. Every time I see him, I feel anger in my heart, and then I will rush up and beat him up again, but he doesn't fight back. He just covers his face with his arm, and keeps shouting "Don't hit me in the face." I remember that after the hit him that time, I asked him why he didn't let me slap him in the face. After he got up from the ground, he smiled at me and said something that made me hate him even more."

"What did he say?" Lin Feng asked subconsciously.

"He said, 'If my mother went back and saw a wound on my face, she would definitely ask me what happened. I can't say that she fell down every time, right?" Mark's voice was a little erratic: "At that time, I was stunned immediately after hearing it, and then told him angrily, 'Don't call him mother, you don't have a mother at all, your mother would have died long ago!"

"This is a very hurtful word." Lin Feng's voice was calm.

"good."

Mark nodded and suddenly fell silent, as if he was recalling what happened when he was a child. His eyes flashed a little. After a moment, he sighed and continued to say: "I ran away after saying this, but the disgust towards him in my heart not only did not weaken, but was deeper than before. However, since then, I have never hit him again, but avoided him far away. In the second year after that, his father decided to send us two to the martial arts academy in the town. At that time, I was eleven and he was thirteen."

"For five years in the academy, he has been following me, and I have never even said a word to him. Every time many students ask him who he is, I say he is my personal bodyguard, and he doesn't explain, just chuckled." Mark looked at Lin Feng: "Maybe you don't know that there are very few nobles in the academy in the town, most of whom are civilian children, and they don't have the money to hire a guard at all. So when everyone knows that I can have an escort, they are very envious of me."

Lin Feng didn't say anything this time and looked at Mark quietly.

"My talent is better than him. The competition in the academy in the town is not fierce. It is completely different from the current system of Paul's academy. Because there is no strong competition, we graduated together five years later. At that time, I had already practiced to the level of a third-level warrior, and he was just a first-level warrior."

Speaking of this, Mark took a deep breath and looked up at the sky: "At that time, at the age of sixteen, I had already understood some truths and realized the mistakes I made when I was young, but I was arrogant by nature and never apologized to him. He didn't seem to care. He always stayed by my side like my guard."

Lin Feng fell silent.

"After that, we will participate in the only requirement before graduation together, that is, to hunt a monster of the same level as us with our own abilities, and then retrieve the magic core of the monster and hand it over to the academy, and then we will graduate smoothly."

Mark's voice mixed with a strong sigh: "Many students are just first-level warriors when they graduate, and the magic core of the first-level monster is easy to buy. The academy in the town doesn't care about the way you get the magic core. As long as you hand over the magic core to the academy, you can graduate smoothly. Therefore, most students, including him, bought a first-level magic core from the magic core shop in the town and handed it back to the academy. With the family background at that time, buying a third-level magic core was nothing, but I disdained this way of graduation and insisted on hunting a third-level magic beast in person to prove my strength."

"Could it be... his scar..." Lin Feng suddenly felt aroused in his heart and blurted out subconsciously.

"You're right."

Mark nodded heavily: "I want to go to the north ice field alone, but he insisted on following me, and said that it would not be a burden to me. Moreover, he repeatedly emphasized that he could take care of my daily life and help me cook food during the days of hunting monsters in the ice field. Out of regret and guilt for my childhood, this time, I agreed to his request for the first time, and when he heard me agree, an excited expression immediately appeared on his face."

"So, we two came to the ice field in the north, and on the first day we arrived at the ice field, we were lucky to encounter a third-level monster, "Garden Eater Rat". This monster is petite, quick to move and has extremely strong lethality, but its defense is very weak. With my level three strength, if you attack, you will be sure to kill with one blow!"

A hint of hardship suddenly appeared in Mark's eyes: "I was very excited and rushed up and began to approach it carefully. But he stood aside, with an excited expression on his face, and he didn't dare to breathe. However, I didn't expect that the defense consciousness of the earth-eating rat was too strong! Just as my long sword was just raised, it suddenly turned around, jumped up from the ground, and attacked me on its own initiative."

"And my long sword was raised at that time, and everything below my face was exposed. If it was allowed to attack me, I absolutely believe that my stomach would be opened by it!"

Mark's voice returned to calm again, but his eyes flashed, recalling the past: "I was so scared when I was fighting for the first time. When I saw the earth-eating rat rushing to my eyes, my brain was blank in an instant. At that time, I suddenly felt a pain in my waist, and my body was immediately knocked out. Then, I saw that he had fallen to the ground, and the earth-eating rat's claws were just grabbing his face!"

A trace of heaviness appeared in Lin Feng's eyes.

"The earth-eating rat escaped immediately after attacking, and his face was stained with blood, but he didn't even say a word. He just covered his face and stubbornly shut his mouth, not allowing himself to make a sound."

Mark took a deep breath: "I was frightened and ran over immediately, crying and asked him what to do. He told me not to speak loudly, otherwise it would attract many monsters. Then, I carried him away from the ice field crying. On the way, I asked him for the first time why he was so kind to me, why when I hit him when I was a child, he even spoke for me, why he never explained, all of this is why..."

Speaking of this, Mark paused for a moment and looked at Lin Feng sideways: "Do you know what he said?"

Lin Feng shook his head slowly.
Chapter completed!