Chapter 8: Enlightenment
After a dozen seconds of silent staring at the goats and white rabbits, Crane closed his eyes and flicked the index and middle fingers of his right hand, as if pressing the invisible keys.
Almost a third of the secret puppets collapsed suddenly, losing the feeling of being alive.
Klein's expression suddenly distorted, as if he had been slashed thirty-three times with a giant sword.
The familiar and extreme pain swept through his spirit, causing his body to highlight the less obvious light-colored granulations, each of which seemed to be brewing a transparent worm.
This is the backlash brought about by the killing of thirty-three "spirit worms" at one time.
It took nearly a quarter of an hour for Crane to make a second attempt, killing the other third.
The same pain, the same rest, and the same operation were repeated again, and Crane finally solved the cursed puppets once and for all.
He couldn't do it all at once, as the damage from the simultaneous death of a hundred Spirit Worms was enough to get him close to losing control, and being cursed meant that he couldn't solve the problem directly through the recovery perk.
Of course, this is the level of an "ancient scholar" who has just been promoted, not the performance of an "ancient scholar" who has quickly digested potions.
In fact, if he loses a hundred "Spirit Worms" at a time, Klein will only have more pain, so that there will be no signs of loss of control, and it will not affect the battle, he is just playing it just now, so that his performance is in line with the corresponding positioning.
- At his level, only those who lose more than half of the "Spirit Worms" at the same time may get out of control.
When he completely digests the "Ancient Scholar" potion, nearly five hundred "Spirit Worms" can be relieved by dying at one time, even if all the corresponding extraordinary characteristics are lost and there is no return, he will not drop the personality and level, and he can recover his strength little by little by absorbing the extraordinary characteristics of the "Fortune Teller".
After this was done, Crane stepped out of the half-collapsed tower-like building and went outside to carry a few white rabbits and a goat back in the darkness.
He only now realizes that the darkness of Godforsaken is not as dangerous as Little Sun describes, and most of the monsters are so weak.
No, to be precise, the dangers hidden in the depths of the darkness are no match for the guy named Amon next to me, except for the fact that people evaporate out of thin air...... Crane glanced at the thin man who was sitting near the leather lantern and looked at him with a smile, summoned boiling water and other things from the hole in history, squatted down, and carefully handled the fur and flesh of the white rabbit and goat.
After a lot of busywork, Klein built a bonfire, set up a grill from history, placed a white rabbit on it, and brushed basil, cumin, refined salt, and other things from the spice set, constantly flipping.
At this time, the historical food he had eaten before had long since disappeared because he had not made it, and his body and soul were calling for a desire to replenish it.
A tempting fragrance gradually came out, and Amon twitched his nose slightly and said:
"Do you really want to eat?"
Without waiting for Klein to reply, the "God of Mischief" said to himself:
"Their essence is the flesh of monsters and your 'spirit worm', are you sure you want to eat them?"
"The anamorphic curse at the angelic level cannot be lifted without the confrontation of the same level or the right way, since something looks like a rabbit, smells like a rabbit, and tastes like a rabbit, then it is a rabbit. Crane laughed at himself as he earnestly roasted the rabbit, "And how can I escape from you without being in the best condition? ”
This is called bearing the burden of humiliation! Klein silently added in his heart.
At the same time, he lamented the deformation curse of the "ancient evil thing".
This is many times stronger than the similar curse of Sequence 3 "The Silent Disciple"!
There is almost no upper limit to how long it can last...... Obviously, after ordinary animals become my secret puppets, they can use all my extraordinary abilities through the "Spirit Worm", but the secret puppets who encounter the transformation curse cannot...... This is the curse of the angelic person...... In addition to the confrontation of the same level, you can also try to lift it in the right way, and no curse is absolutely unsolvable, all of them have loopholes...... Hehe, kiss this rabbit and it will turn back into Gelman Sparrow Klein, half self-deprecating and half analytically adjusting his state of mind.
After listening to his answer, Amun, who was wearing monocles, smiled and nodded:
"Good.
This is indeed the realization that should be had. ”
Klein didn't respond and continued his barbecue business.
It didn't take long for him to roast a rabbit and a leg of mutton with the help of his ability to manipulate flames, and while the spices had not disappeared, he took advantage of the sweet iced tea summoned from the pores of history to eat a fragrant mouthful and feel comfortable, which allowed him to effectively alleviate the depression, despair and wandering of being "kidnapped" by Amon.
In the process, Klein occasionally thought about the disgusting appearance of those monsters and the fact that the "Spirit Worm" was equal to himself, but he kept his feelings in check very well.
Filling his stomach and recovering his energy, Crane turned the leftover ingredients around the fire into dry food one by one, posing as if he was saving up food for the rest of his trip.
Watching him make various preparations slowly but methodically, Amon suddenly pushed down his monocle and asked with the corners of his mouth slightly curled:
"Actually, you're stalling for time, trying to lengthen the journey to your true destination, right?"
Klein's movements of his hands stagnated slightly and returned to normal, and he smiled:
"yes, I'm waiting for a helper.
"Guess who it is?"
Amon didn't answer directly, but said with a smile:
"I'm looking forward to it. ”
...... Klein continued his hustle and bustle until he had prepared dry food for three or four meals.
He thought about it, and in front of Amun, he once again put his hand into the void, he failed again and again, tried again and again, and didn't know what he wanted to summon, which seemed to be saying with a gesture whether you have the guts to steal.
Amon looked at it for a few seconds, shook his head with a smile, and slowly stood up and walked to the outside of the half-collapsed tower-like building.
Crane's right hand stopped in mid-air, then retracted and pinched his forehead.
He whispered to himself, full of confusion:
"What did I just want to do......"
In the midst of the recollection, Crane stood up, took the wrapped dry food, and carried the leather lantern, and walked to the back of Amon's side.
One man rounded the hill and entered a river valley.
The water was flowing in the water, but when the dim glow of the lights passed, and when the lightning from high in the sky lit up the area, Crane found that there was no water in the riverbed at all, and the sound he had heard disappeared.
"The river that has been turned into secrecy?" After a moment's deliberation, Crane didn't mind asking Amon a question.
"Yes, it only appears in the darkness without light. Amon bowed his head lightly and replied unconcernedly.
"Can I drink it?" Klein asked.
Amon smiled and said:
"Yes, this was once one of the water sources of a city-state that had been in the dark for sixteen hundred years, and as long as it could take the water away from the riverbed, it could appear where there was light.
"What's next for you is to suggest that I take the lantern and wait next to it, and rehydrate myself in the dark?
"Then, take this opportunity to transform into a state of secrecy?"
Klein smiled slightly awkwardly:
"How could I have done so simple and so easy to think of?"
Amon laughed when he heard this, stroked his monocle and said:
"Sometimes the simplest plan works best, so you can give it a try. ”
Klein neither dared to believe nor disbelieve the words of the top fraudster, fearing that the other party was just talking the opposite.
He could only put the water thing aside and asked instead:
"In the Godforsaken Lands, how many human settlements are there that have not yet been destroyed like Silver City?"
Amon looked ahead, and said with an unchanged expression:
"I know no more than ten.
"In this regard, Silver City is lucky, at least visible and capable of touching the light. ”
This means that Silver City is close enough to the gate of the God's Forsaken Land of the "Giant King's Court" that it does not need to die to reach it, and no matter how many other city-states hold on in the dark, no matter how much they send out exploration teams, they are only struggling in vain, and it is impossible to find an exit?Indeed, from this point of view, Silver is unfortunate and lucky...... It's purely a matter of which side it compares to...... Carrying a leather lantern, Crane began to conceive of a second escape as he walked along the riverbank.
Amon walked beside him, offering him some seemingly reliable methods from time to time, but the actual effect was unknown, acting as if he was schizophrenic and trying his best to destroy the ontology's hope of getting the "Source Castle".
............
In the Silver City in the other direction of the "Giant Royal Court".
Accepting the call of the Chief, Derick Berg took the "Darkless Cross" and went to the top of the Round Tower and entered a large room.
A mysteriously intricate altar has been set up here, with different objects placed in different places, and there are six of them, all of which exude a dangerous aura.
Darik glanced over and saw ordinary silver flutes, masks made of skulls, and the remains of shapeshifters.
"You have the 'No Dark Cross' and you can stay here for a quarter of an hour, but not more than that, or you will die suddenly. Colin Iliad, dressed in a linen shirt and a brown coat, admonished Derrick.
Touched by inspiration, Daerik opened his mouth and asked:
"Your Excellency, is this because of that 'twilight mask'?"
His right hand pointed at the mask made of skulls.
"Yes. Colin bowed his head slightly, "I have prepared the remains of six powerful creatures, all of which I hunted alone or as the main force. ”
Derick suddenly realized:
"Do you still need the blessing of the gods?"
Colin suddenly became silent, and it took more than ten seconds before he opened his mouth and said slowly:
"Yes. ”
After a period of hesitation and struggle, he finally chose the "fool".
At least those mushrooms really gave Silver City hope.
Dyric held back his euphoria, recalled the exchange at the Lower Tarot meeting, and asked the question with a little confusion:
"Why don't you let those two god-level seals give blessings?"
He remembered that the gods, that is, the angels, could meet the needs of the ritual, and it was not necessary for the true gods of sequence 0 to provide blessings, after all, the "silver knight" was only sequence 3.
Colin was silent again, hesitated for a few seconds, and said:
"They don't give blessings. ”
Nine Heavenly God Emperors