The hero I support will definitely defeat the devil

"It's now at the Gem level, does that mean it won't be encountered even at the Gem level?"

Lisha asked the question in her mind.

"Yes, you can't encounter it on the Gemstone Steps."

Avenat said so.

"Then Grandpa Ogrin..."

Since there is no chance of meeting him, what's the point of Grandpa Ogrin doing this?

"Do you think that Ogrien has the combat power of gem level now?"

Avenate glanced at Ogrin, who looked like an ordinary old man.

“It doesn’t look like it.”

Although she didn't want to judge a person by his appearance, Ogrien looked so old and shaky that he didn't look like he was fit to fight. Lisha was even afraid that Ogrien would hurt his waist when swinging his sword.

"That's it."

Avenate said, stopping in her tracks.

"Okay, you continue to follow that kid. I can only stop here."

"Ah? Oh!"

When Lisha heard this, she remembered what Avenate had just said and immediately understood the whole thing.

After she passed Avenate in Ogrion, she caught up with Ogrion.

Avenate watched the two men disappear from sight.

"Don't let me down, Ogryn."

......

After following Ogrien for a while, Lisha found that Ogrien seemed to have come back to his senses from some special state, so she couldn't help but step forward and ask.

"Grandpa Ogrien, are you sure you can kill the lone wolf Curtis?"

"Sister Avenate told you everything?"

Ogryn had a faint smile on his face, as if he was on a picnic in the city.

"I do not know."

Ogrin gave his answer.

"what?"

Lisha was stunned.

She never expected this answer.

"Do you know how many years it has been since I last saw this lone wolf?"

Ogryn said calmly.

"How many years?"

Lisha asked subconsciously.

"Sixty-one years."

Ogryn named a number.

For Ogryn, this is three quarters of his life.

"The first time I encountered it, I lost a teammate. At that time, I was full of energy and vigor. I was 18 years old and at the golden level. I was surrounded by the aura of genius. I once thought I was omnipotent."

"But reality poured cold water on me and completely extinguished the fire of arrogance in my heart."

"But even so, I still had a thought in my mind that if I was as strong as that lone wolf, I would not lose, and I would not let my teammates die."

"The second time I encountered it, I lost another teammate. She was the older sister who had always taken good care of me. I actually liked her, but I was too embarrassed to say it out loud at the time, so she never heard me say it until the end."

"At that time, I was mad and wanted to find this lone wolf to avenge my teammates. My last teammate, who was also my best friend, tried to stop me, but I pushed him away. I went to find Curtis alone, and hatred blinded my eyes."

"But when I found Curtis, that was when the nightmare began. Because I couldn't beat it at all. Blinded by hatred, I didn't even think about whether I could beat it or not, and I impulsively ran to find it."

"In the end it was my best friend who saved me, but he also lost his life."

"I regret it, but regret is useless. I was depressed for a while, but I finally pulled myself together with hatred as motivation. But when I wanted to continue to improve my strength, I found something wrong."

"The abnormal loss of life and the abnormal decline of strength have made me the bearer of the curse of disaster."

"I completely collapsed. Every day I just got drunk. What do you mean by becoming a genius professional of the Gold Rank at the age of 18? It's just like being a drunk on the street."

"Many people tried to persuade me, but I rejected them all."

"About a year ago, I don't know what happened, but one night I suddenly woke up and vaguely remembered that my best friend had said that he had a sickly sister."

"The next day, I didn't drink. Instead, I relied on my fragmentary memories to go to a remote town in the empire and found his sister."

"The moment I saw her, I just knelt down beside her and cried."

"But she didn't panic or shout for help. She just gently stroked my hair and let me cry on her knees for a long time."

"Just like he said, Klotis is a mature and steady girl."

"I explained everything to her hoarsely."

“She just listened quietly.”

"After I told her everything, she asked me if her brother had made such a decision on his own terms. I said yes. Then Chlotis had no more questions."

"Later, I started taking care of the disabled Klotis. I completely gave up on improving my strength and stopped thinking about Curtis. I just wanted to take good care of Klotis so that my failed life could do something to help others."

Chapter 337 Carrying

"Then I fell in love with her."

When he said this, a faint smile appeared on Ogryan's face, as if he was recalling the good old days.

"She is a good girl and healed my scarred heart."

"I proposed to her and she said yes."

"We had a wedding, and everyone in the town gave us their blessings that day. Now that I think about it, that was probably the happiest day of my life. Even when I was promoted to the Gold Rank, I was not that happy."

"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I was so excited that I was like a little kid. I couldn't even sleep the whole night."

"Life after marriage is very dull, but I feel the long-lost peace."

"All the hatred and anger seemed to have left me. It was as if I had found a new goal. I wanted to protect Klotis until the end of my life."

"A year later, my wife, Chloë, gave birth to a child for me, a lovely girl."

"When I held her and my daughter in my arms, it felt like I was holding the whole world."

"But happiness is always short-lived."

"It started with my wife being sick and not getting better."

"I invited many priests, and even shamelessly asked my teacher to invite the Archbishop of the Life Church, but none of them could cure Klottis's disease."

"Later, an elf wizard told me that Klotis was not sick, but she was born with a missing soul, which affected her body. Not only could she not become a professional, but her life span would also be greatly shortened."

"If she hadn't given birth to the child, she could have lived for another ten years, but Chlotis was afraid that I would commit suicide after she passed away, so she risked her life to give birth to our child."

"I knew nothing at the time. By the time I knew everything, Klotis had already left me."

"I was devastated, but for the sake of my daughter, I did not commit suicide. Instead, I pulled myself together and wanted to raise her."

Ogryn's pace was unhurried, and so was his tone.

"But I don't seem to deserve happiness. When my daughter started to grow up, I found out...she was also cursed with aging."

"At first I just thought my daughter was growing faster, but when she was two years old and was almost as big as a ten-year-old, I realized that the aging curse I had was passed on to the child."

"When the child was three years old, she was no different from a fifteen-year-old girl, but she had only learned to talk and walk for two years, and her mentality was completely that of a three-year-old child."

"She was lonely because she couldn't play with other kids her own age and she wasn't mentally prepared to play with teenage boys and girls."

"I went crazy looking for ways to save her, but just like what I did to get rid of the curse of disaster, everything was in vain."

"When she was ten, she had already become a fifty-year-old woman, but her mind was still that of a child, and she would still call me daddy sweetly."

"I can't face her. I can't say I can't save you. I can only put on a smile every day and watch my daughter grow old day by day as time goes by."

"The Fountain of Life, the purest healing potion, the blessing of the Church of Life. I tried many methods. Apart from those legendary treasures, I tried everything I could find."

"But I still couldn't stop her from leaving me."

"That day was her fourteenth birthday. She happily celebrated her birthday, and then she stayed on that day forever, with a seventy-year-old face."

As Ogrien spoke, Lisha also became sad.

She thought of her parents.

“At that time, I felt that my life had lost its meaning.”

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.”

“My life seems to be divided into two parts.”

"Before I was eighteen, I seemed to be synonymous with success. I was a talented professional that countless people envied, and a rising star among adventurers."

"After I turned 18, I seemed to have hit rock bottom. I couldn't protect any of my companions, the person I liked, my friends, my wife, or my daughter."

"Heh~ What kind of warrior am I?"

A sigh came from Ogrin's mouth.

Regret and unwillingness flashed in his eyes, but eventually turned into calmness like water.

"I've returned to my decadent days, lying on the floor drunk and waiting to die every day."

"Until one day, the teacher came and woke me up."

"It was then that I realized how powerful the teacher's fist was. His fist was heavier than that of a warrior."

"You don't want to know how badly I was taught a lesson. I can only say that I don't want to recall that time."

“So when I was almost 40 years old, I once again had the idea of becoming stronger.”

"I was thinking at the time, I have to leave something behind in this life, right?"

"Perhaps killing a powerful monster would be a good choice."

"Look at the stories told by the bards. Don't heroes always appear as warriors or wizards who slay monsters?"

“But it’s easier said than done.”

"At that time, because of the aging curse, my body was actually equivalent to more than 200 years old. For a gold-level human warrior, this was already a period of decline from the peak. After all, the average human gold-level warrior only lives for a little over 300 years."

"What's worse is that due to years of not training and giving up on myself, my skills have become rusty and my senses have become dull. I can't even lift the weapon I used before. As a warrior, do you think there is anything more ridiculous than this?"

"So I had to spend a few years reacquainting myself with everything I had learned."

"With this rapidly aging body, I spent ten years recovering my combat power, and another ten years reaching the Gem Level. After that, I spent the next ten years mastering the power of the Gem Level, and the last ten years I spent trying to fight aging."

"It took me forty years to become what I am now."

As he spoke, Ogrin took off his cloak and threw it onto a branch nearby.

As a warrior, Lisha could see the traces of Ogrien's once-tempered body from his aged and unrecognizable body.

But everything disappeared with the passage of time, leaving only this skinny and shriveled body.

Dying is exactly what Ogrien is like now.

He exuded the aura of death that could only be possessed by someone who had one foot halfway into the underworld.

Yuze, who was observing through Lisha's eyes, could no longer even see the glimmer of life in Ogrien's heart.

The flame has gone out, only the residual heat remains.

Chapter 338 Lone Wolf Curtis

"Lone Wolf Curtis, my tragedy stems from it. My life has become unfortunate because of encountering it."

Ogrien moved forward slowly with a staggering step.