The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Contradictions

“Why do you keep looking at me today?” Karma asked with a smile.

“My lord…” Akali looked at Karma in disbelief, “You just don’t care?”

“What do you care?”

“Those bastards!” Akali almost yelled, but was still held down by Lothar.

Karma said: “Are you talking about the members of the Navoli Brotherhood? They also just want to defend their homeland.”

“Do you think what they are doing seems to be defending Ionia!” Akali was so angry that she didn’t even speak honorifics.

Karma said indifferently, “Resistance will inevitably lead to sacrifices, Akali, you belong to the Kinkou sect, you should understand this truth.”

“I don’t understand!” Akali was going crazy with anger, “I only see those bastards bullying honest people!”

“Akali.” Lothar let out a bit of chill to calm down the restless little girl in her arms.

He looked at Karma: “I’m a foreigner, so I don’t know much about it, but is it an Ionian tradition to just sit back and ignore bullying?”

Karma clenched her hands slightly, her knuckles turned white, but the expression on her face remained unchanged: “Of course not.”

“Then why are you sitting still?”

“Because I can’t make a move.”

“why”

“Because I am Karma.” Karma said, “I am the incarnation of Ionia’s will, and every action I take will greatly affect the land of birth.”

Lothar pouted: “My hometown is a bad land.”

Karma and Akali looked up at Lothar at the same time, not understanding why he suddenly talked about their hometown.

“It may be difficult for you to imagine how miserable life is in my hometown.” Lothar recalled, “There is very little food, and I starve and suffer from cold all day long. In my impression, the days when I have enough food and clothing may be at most once a year.” For two months, if you encounter bad luck, you will have to suffer for a whole year.”

Lothar pinched Akali’s face: “Sweet rice wine, sweet-scented osmanthus cake and other snacks, we don’t have them there. The wines in our place are all strong alcohol, and it’s as if your head will blow up if you drink it, but that’s the only way To warm up. We usually run out of food there quickly because no one knows when the next meal will come. But even living in that environment…”

Lothar looked straight into Karma’s eyes: “Even in such an environment, there is still a very powerful girl who doesn’t see any weak being bullied.”

Karma was silent.

“She will share her own wine, her own food, and raise her own bow when necessary, just to protect the people she wants to protect.” Lothar smiled, “Even a cripple with a broken hand, She accepted it without discrimination.””Enough.” Karma interrupted Lothar suddenly, the emerald light in her eyes flickered, and Akali shrank behind Lothar in fear.

Lothar also looked at Karma unexpectedly. For the first time, he felt obvious magical fluctuations in this woman.

“Ionia has its own rules.” Karma gritted her teeth, “You are a foreigner, so you cannot comment on our traditions at will.”

Lothar felt the violent magic fluctuations on Karma’s body. He knew that Karma was trying to control himself, otherwise, even if it leaked a little bit, it would be enough to burn the store to the ground.

But Lothar didn’t flinch, he just protected Akali and looked at Karma: “I really don’t understand the rules of Ionia, and I really don’t have the right to comment, but… you shouldn’t have the right to control what I do Bar.”

Lothar waved one hand, and the icy wind howled suddenly in the shop.

“What happened!” The members of the Navoli Brotherhood turned pale with shock, “Magic!”

“You have offended the spirit of the land!” The old shopkeeper said overjoyed, “Hurry up and get out!”

“Shut up! Old man!” The leader slapped the old man, but the cold wind completely froze his raised hand.

Karma stared at Lothar, her emerald eyes met with ice blue eyes: “Stop.”

“No.”

“If you don’t stop, I won’t save you again.”

“You are not even willing to save your own people, so why should I believe that you will really save me?”

Karma was dumbfounded.

She put her hands flat on the table, and the double dragon spirit patterns emerged on the table.

Lothar felt his fingers burn, and he laughed: “I’m used to the pain.”

The half of the table on Lothar’s side was completely frozen, and the ice spread along the tabletop towards Karma.

The emerald green dragons swam on the table, and emerald flames spewed out from their mouths, burning away the ice layer.

The cold wind in the store suddenly disappeared, and the members of the fraternity who were covered in ice all froze in place, not knowing what happened.

“This shop is evil! Take the sword refining tax and leave!” The leader ordered loudly.

“Run farther, it will affect you.” Lothar said to Akali.

“I don’t!” Akali hugged Lothar’s back, her teeth chattering, “Come on! Teach them!”

Lothar laughed loudly, and the ice spread forward on the table against the emerald green flames, and the ice layer slowly regained half of the table.

The harsh cold wind blew again in the store, and the members of the fraternity were frozen to the ground below their knees, but the old shopkeepers only felt cold, not frozen.

“Although you can’t control the power in your body,” Karma said, “you can control the power released from your body pretty well.”

The flames in Ssangyong’s mouth became more intense, and the ice layer on the table began to fade away again.

“You completely control all your power,” Lothar said, “but you are still very confused about who should use the power.”

Karma frowned.

“Angry?” Lothar laughed. “This is the first time I see you angry.”

The tug-of-war between Ssangyong and Ice intensified. Akali lay on Lothar’s back, feeling like she was about to freeze into a popsicle.

In the end, Karma was the first to take away Ssangyong.

The confrontation between them was too fierce, and it was about to disturb the spirits of the land here. That was not what Karma wanted to see.

Lothar panted heavily, and the ice on the table slowly disappeared. He supported his head and smiled at Karma: “I won.”

Karma said nothing.

Akali came out tremblingly, saw that the fraternity people in the store were frozen in ice, and regardless of her own face turning blue from the cold, she excitedly rushed to Lothar’s side, and slapped him hard in the face. A kiss: “You are the best!”

“Let’s go, Akali.” Lothar picked up the little girl, “We don’t need this Venerable anymore.”

Akali gave Karma a complicated look. Karma was sitting at the table with a blank expression on her face.

Lothar and Akali walked out of the shop. Karma turned her head and shouted to the old shopkeeper who was still in shock and still waving in front of the ice sculpture, “Check out.”

“Oh… oh oh! Pay the bill!” The old man trotted to Karma’s side and stretched out his fingers, “This is the total.”

Karma directly gave the old man a large silver dollar, got up and left.

“Hey! Guest officer! Give too much, give too much!” The old man hastily shouted to Karma’s back.

“More compensation.” Karma left these words and disappeared at the end of the road.

“Compensation for what?” The old man was puzzled, “”A lot of strange things happened today. ”

He sat down on the nearest stool and put the silver dollars on the table.

Wow.

Under the astonished eyes of the old man, the entire table and all the dishes and chopsticks on it were turned into powder and scattered all over the floor.

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From today onwards, your name is no longer important.

You are the new Karma, you are the soul of Ionia, and you are the bearer of responsibility.

You will exercise restraint, practice, and meditate, and you must remember to keep your identity in mind.

Section 121

You are Karma, defender of Ionian traditions.

Only tradition can never be changed.

——Admonition from the Presbyterian Church of the Hall of Eternal Existence