Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 3 There is nothing wrong with the elderly who like to play a little bit of literature, right?
Kraft's grandfather, the first generation nobleman of the family, was named Mark Wood, or he could be called Old Wood.

Of course, when old Wood was as young as Kraft is now, he didn't have that last name.At that time he was just a strong boy from the country, and his main job was to open people on the battlefield.

Due to his extraordinary talent, although Old Wood had not received much training, he still showed excellent professional ability.When others struggled to open one, he opened four or five without blinking.

With such an outstanding performance, he started from wearing a pair of trousers to open a ladle, gradually developed to wear a leather armor to open a ladle, and finally became a person who wears a full body armor and holds a two-handed sword to open a ladle.Recalling this glorious time, Old Wood would pat his knee excitedly every time.

Similar to the development in most stories, Old Wood was appreciated by a big man after half his life in the army, and won the current baron title and a small fiefdom in his hometown.

With success and fame and the recurrence of an old knee injury, he chose to return to his hometown of Wood Town, and took the place name as his family's surname, and began to plan the construction of his own castle on the hill behind the town.

It seems that the first half of Old Wood's life exhausted all the luck of the family. During the 30 years when the castle was gradually built, first Old Wood's wife died of the plague, and the priest's prayers failed to save her life; His son Wood Jr. died on the battlefield, and Kraft's mother died in childbirth.

Old Wood himself and grandson Kraft Wood remained in the entire family line. The newly built castle was shrouded in invisible clouds, and a curse-like cold atmosphere permeated every corner inside and outside the stone wall.

Perhaps the so-called gods of the church felt that such a fate was too harsh on Old Wood, but Kraft did not suffer the same misfortune.

On the contrary, he grew up healthy and healthy until he was ten years old within the stone walls of the castle, without the slightest chance of being exposed to danger, and even the swords played in gym class were unsharp (this is already the maximum security measure in Old Wood's concept).

Old Wood, who was already full of gray hair, breathed a sigh of relief and began to learn from the pain. He planned to give his grandson some skills other than two-handed swords and windmills, at least not to have nothing to do in the future except open a ladle.

So the scholar Anderson was invited by Old Wood himself from Wendeng Harbor College, and began to teach Kraft the reading and writing of the local language, as well as cursive, poetry and other content that Old Wood thought might be more "elegant".

Facts have proved that the old man’s choice is correct. Kraft has changed from a child whose mind is full of imitating the glory days of his grandfather to a child who can sit quietly in the study—at least with some traditional and effective persuasion from his grandfather After that is like this.

After finding a new development direction for Kraft, Old Wood can finally devote himself to some of his hobbies and enjoy his old age.

Speaking of which, this hobby is quite special, mainly after the end of the war, it slowly emerged. It has developed from an extremely small group to now, and it can only be regarded as a small group hobby. It is mainly popular among young and educated aristocratic groups and some scholars. .

It used to be called occultism, but now it is also called abnormal phenomena; the church denounced it as heresy, while naive materialist scholars generally believed that it was an undiscovered principle of the operation of nature.

To put it simply, some messy, uncommon, and unexplainable things can barely be counted, including but not limited to fire and light in the hands.

Logically speaking, the audience of this hobby is completely incompatible with semi-literate old experts like Old Wood.

But others are just guessing, and Old Wood met him when he was young.In the middle of the night, a group of mysterious people in black robes with fire and light in their hands and painted faces suddenly jumped out, and they could wipe fire and light on their swords. Old Wood's scooping team paid a lot of casualties to give them all After opening the ladle, he injured his own knee.

According to my description, it was rubbed by the light when I kicked one, and the whole knee pad was completely distorted and smashed like an indescribable part kicked by a boot, and a small piece of metal was embedded in the knee.

As a pragmatist, Old Wood didn't quite approve of the chaplain's interpretation of these things as pagan tricks.Although the corpses and belongings of these people were burned according to the priest's instructions, the curiosity and longing in my heart could not be burned.

From collecting all kinds of amulets when he was young, to the strange objects all over the castle now, Old Wood's interest in unknown powers has never diminished.After losing too many family members, I plunged into the hobby of collecting these things. It's hard to say whether there is any meaning of escapism.

And when it comes to Mr. Anderson, this is an old anomaly enthusiast.Back then at Wendeng Port College, he was a well-known fan of abnormal phenomenon research, but because the circle was too small, there were not many people to talk to.

I hit it off with Old Wood, who came to Wendeng Port to find a teacher for Kraft. In the words of the alien soul, it can be described as Boya meeting Zhong Ziqi, high mountains and flowing waters meeting bosom friends, and establishing a relationship that transcends age and cultural differences. , A friendship that transcends status and status.

With Anderson, Old Wood's collection expanded from objects to all kinds of forbidden books and old books. The inventory of the secret library in the castle may have far surpassed the level of ordinary heretics, reaching the level of the Church Inquisition. To the extent of a glance.

But let alone Wood Town, even Wendeng Port is regarded as a rural boundary. The church’s control over this entire area is limited to the Wendeng Port Church and the square full of seagulls at the entrance. Cleaning up the bird droppings is considered a local responsibility. People are diligent.

As long as there are no pagans who believe in flying octopus faces in the local area, no one cares about pagans feeding seagulls in the square.That's probably why Mr. Fireman came here before.

Considering that there is no church in the town, Old Wood can hold two stone-carved rune eyeballs as handles when he is walking. Some people have to praise the design style of this thing is really bold, and it is indeed an object used by Master Wood.

After learning that a legendary "spellcaster" came to Wendeng Port, Kraft, who just wanted to go for a stroll in Wendeng Port, was arrested and told a lot of confusing things, and he rode in a daze. The fastest horse in town set off.

It is not the first time that similar things have happened since he was a child. Kraft walked and walked all the way with the mentality that his grandfather was happy. Save trouble.

But as the saying goes, everyone has come, and it’s impossible not to bring something to grandpa.After visiting Mr. Anderson's colleagues back then, they learned that a village dug up "heretic things". The two of them were just looking for something to deal with the business, so they rushed over under the heavy snow—tonight Maybe the villagers handed things over to the church for "purification".

It's a pity that when they got to the place, the two discovered that things were not what they thought.That thing is now in the vacant wheat field outside the village, and the excavated part is as tall as a person, roughly a black stone prism with patterns.

It's weird enough, but obviously it can't be put in the hand, and it can't be done by two people and two horses.Reluctantly, Kraft planned to ask his cousin to take the letter back first, and it would be best if he could call a carriage for him from Wendeng Port on the way back.

(End of this chapter)