Wizard: Start with Biological Transformation to Grind Experience - Chapter 464 - 29: Aging, Youth, and the Curse
Chapter 464: Chapter 29: Aging, Youth, and the Curse
The passage of time, just a few simple words, but for the mortal world, it is very harsh.
Several decades, for Lynch, are merely a tiny part of his long life, yet for ordinary humans, it already constitutes a lifetime for many.
Even those who were once renowned, idolized by countless adventurers, and known as mighty Golden-level adventurers cannot escape the ravages of time.
Many of those of her contemporaries have even stepped down from the stage, moving towards their eternal resting place.
Even for Teresa, time is running out…
Lynch politely replied, “Indeed, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, Lady Teresa.”
“Hehe!”
Teresa laughed, “Still so courteous, like a refined scholar. You should learn from Sirius, being all flamboyant. But right now, it suits you just fine. Now that we’re old, a bit more peace is better.”
Lynch nodded, “You’re right.”
Teresa glanced at Lynch, who looked worn out by travel, and asked curiously, “What? You’re at such an age, and yet you aren’t planning to retire? Or have you been ’cursed’ like Sirius?”
Adventurers do have a retirement system. According to Lynch’s regular updates, the current retirement age for adventurers is around 40.
Adventurers over 40 who are below Bronze Level are basically retired from the frontline.
Resources are, after all, limited and focused on young people who are in their prime years of physical fitness; the returns are definitely greater than investing in older adventurers who have exhausted their potential.
For humans, time is cruel like this; after the age of forty, physical fitness quickly declines. Except for a few who can advance to mid, high Knight levels, the rest are hardly worth investing resources in.
After retirement, the Adventurer Guild arranges relatively easy jobs for adventurers, like investigation, inspection, or data sorting. However, these jobs cannot compare to frontline adventurer remuneration and income levels.
So many adventurers who were previously extravagant can’t stand this difference. Even after retirement, they still find ways to increase their income, such as joining some wild teams or doing personal attribute tasks.
Because of Lynch’s special identity, he couldn’t often show up in front of acquaintances, so he made an excuse for himself, saying that he was on patrol duties, inspecting the conditions of various underground cities for registration.
Lynch said, “Anyway, being idle is just being idle, so finding something to do also helps kill some time.”
“Haha!”
Teresa gave a hearty laugh, “You sure have an open mind about things.”
After a pause, she chuckled, “Speaking of which, in our batch of adventurers, apart from Sirius and a few others, only you and I are left. Why don’t we just stick together, so we have some support.”
Two years ago, in a blizzard, Teresa’s husband, Udis, slipped while out and about, and his health declined ever since, until he passed away not long after.
Lynch shook his head, “Forget it, I’m used to being alone.”
Teresa was really just joking around. In fact, her relationship with Udis was very good. They loved each other for a lifetime, and even though Udis had passed away, she wasn’t going to find someone else for companionship.
The Eye of Death God can clearly see the current state of a person’s soul. In Lynch’s eyes, Teresa’s soul has never brightened again since Udis passed away.
She appears carefree and all smiles, but in reality, it’s just a façade.
In her deep inner heart, she might simply be waiting for the day when time runs out to reunite with her loved one in another world, right?
“Did you tell some cold joke, Leggo? To amuse Lady Teresa so?”
At this moment, a young voice sounded.
A young man walked in, about twenty-something, dressed in a light swordsman’s outfit of red and white, holding a two-handed broadsword in one hand. His every move exuded a sharpness indescribable, as if standing before you was not a person but a sword.
Feiyan City, indeed the entire Fiery Flame Witch Domain’s premier swordsman, one of the few Diamond-level adventurers, the first series, Legendary Knight, known as the Immortal Sword Saint—
Sirius Olay.
Teresa turned her head and smiled, “We were just talking about you.”
Sirius inquired, puzzled, “Me? Talking about what?”
Teresa said, “Envying you, of course. Look at you, still so young, while we two already have trouble just walking.”
Sirius said, “That’s one of the good sides of a ’curse’, I suppose.”
Legend has it that decades ago, while exploring an underground city, Sirius triggered a taboo and suffered a curse within it, and this curse is called ’immortality’.
Thus, all these years, Sirius has maintained his former appearance, never aging.
After a pause, Sirius continued, “Who knows when the harsh side of the curse will unfold before me, and when that happens, I might have a terribly miserable end.”
Teresa was nonchalant, “We’ll deal with that when the time comes.”
“After all, everything is the will of the Light Goddess. We, born into this world, experience life’s hardships, and when we pass away, we simply return to the embrace of the Light Goddess. Live each day to the fullest while we’re alive.”
“Even if we die suddenly, there won’t be any regrets.”
This is where religion shows its benefits. This logic of rebirth and death, written and spread by Lynch, has deeply rooted in people’s hearts, indirectly supporting the stability of Lynch Witch Domain’s order.
Otherwise, those who are reluctant to let time pass, while mastering great power, might produce countless Grants.
“That’s a fool; saying such things to him is useless.”
A clear female voice sounded. A young girl walked in, dressed in a black thief’s outfit, with a crescent-shaped dagger at her waist.
The second member of the Sirius Adventure Group, the Legendary Thief, also a Diamond-level adventurer, Triss.
Triss… hasn’t aged either.
According to legends circulating in Stone Well and official verification, Triss encountered the ’curse’ alongside Sirius while exploring the ruins. Thus, they both gained ’immortality’.
But the real situation…
Lynch’s sight swept over their heads, where the numbers symbolizing life force were exactly the same, without even a second’s difference.
Shared Life Contract.
A Wizard Level spell related to life force, its function is just as the name describes, allowing a wizard to share their life force with another, thereby equally distributing their own life force to the other.
That’s right, the reason Sirius has maintained his youthful state is primarily that Triss has shared her life force with him, and the so-called ’curse’ is actually Triss’s casting of the Shared Life Contract.
As for why this happened… it’s a long story, involving an adventure Sirius embarked on many years ago.
During that adventure, Sirius…
died.
