Chapter 11 The Spirit of Prayer
Dead?Die every ten chapters?How did you die?Could it be related to the goddess's transcendent magic circle?
The remaining power stored in the Hell Soul Crystal was enough to resurrect him, and Yan Rui was not worried. Unlike last time, this time Feiqi's body is "in retreat" in meditation room, and no one will disturb him, so he can not rush to resurrection. And obviously, it is more important to figure out how you ended up in hell and how to prevent this problem from happening again.
After all, the stock in the soul crystal is only enough to resurrect once.
If you want to find the answer, it seems that you have to rely on the help of the sealed people and demons in the mirror. Yan Rui stabilized his emotions, and then slowly walked towards the throne.
As soon as he took a step, Yan Rui felt a difference. His soul body was more condensed than before, and his feet no longer disengaged when they came into contact with the hard ground, only slightly deformed. If it used to be smoke, now it's at least marshmallows. At the same time, his senses became sharper, not only did colors other than red, white, and black appear in his vision, but his ears also picked up two faint breathing sounds.
Looking in the direction of the sound, it turned out to be Feige Hale and the Fork in the Throne Back Sealing Mirror. The two guys were asleep with their heads sideways, their eyes closed, and their breathing sounds. Yan Rui stretched out two fingers and placed them in front of the mirror. It was clear that they weren't really breathing, and the sound was matched.
"You two...... I'm speechless......" Yan Rui sat on the throne full of bladed edges, and then adjusted to a comfortable sitting position. Before he could call the demons in the mirror, they woke up on their own.
Devil: "How did you get here without dying?" Dead man: "How did he become so good in spirit?" Yan Rui: "Why do you still sleep?"
The three guys spoke together, but everyone heard each other.
"I'm not dead?" "Boring!" "Just some kind of exercise." β
It is impossible to talk well at the same time, so Yan Rui waved his fist and made the two guys shut up: "Even if it is a landlord, there are no cards at the same time, you have to come one by one." Let's solve the problem of whether I'm dead or not!"
"You're not dead, you're definitely not dead. The Fork in the Road Demon said with great conviction, "It is a very obvious feature that the death of the skin causes the devil to return to hell, which darkens the gaze of the eyes, and it is clear that you do not behave like this. I thought you would have to come back here after a decade or so you had learned the ritual of opening the passage to hell and summoning demons! What did you do on it?"
Yan Rui briefly described what had happened, and the Fork Demon showed great interest in the Divine Magic Circle of the Ice Peak Fortress. "I've long heard that the western border of the Principality of Aria is fortified by the Church of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder, but I really didn't expect such a magical thing to exist. It's not that I'm alone, it's that as a devil, I really don't dare to go to those fortresses. β
"Why, are you afraid of death? Aren't you bound to this hellish territory, it's just a big deal to come back here after death, why don't you dare?"
The fork in the road demon shook his head: "The devil is also like other creatures in the world, he will die, of course, ordinary methods will not kill us. There are several ways to get rid of a devil. For example, murder in hell: the devil who dies here will assimilate with the hellish plane and cannot be resurrected - but the devil with territory will have more chances, and there will be a chance to be resurrected by losing territory and strength. The second is to grasp the true name of the devil, and then use powerful spells to directly attack the real name and destroy the fundamental core of the devil, so that even if you have a territory, you can't be resurrected. The third is to use opposing forces, such as the so-called good divine power, to attack directly. Oh, don't get me wrong, divine power is not magic, and ordinary human priests can only drive us away at best, not completely destroy them - at least they have to be medium angelic creatures. Finally, there is the Holy Land, the area of concern of the divine powers, which is to the devil what a fire field is to humans. β
"Write it down, maybe I'll take the test later. Yan Rui said to the man in the mirror.
"I don't remember, I can say it twice. The fork in the road demon smiled: "I think it is necessary for the three of us to be honest with each other if we want to cooperate stably for a long time." I know the four million ways to kill humans, the four thousand ways to destroy souls, and tell you the four ways to kill demons, which can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill, or at least a balance, right?"
Yan Rui nodded, and Feige in the mirror still had a wary look on his face - he had been tortured by the devil for so many years, and he would never be convinced.
"So, you've arrived at Icepeak Fortress and started training. What's life like there?"
Yan Rui thought for a moment and replied, "The people here are good, and they will definitely be able to persevere." But if your health could be better, or at least at the level of a normal healthy person, I wouldn't be so tired. β
"You can't blame me entirely, the fork in the road demon is the culprit of everything. β
"No," the fork in the road demon shook his head, and immediately confronted Young Master Hall, "You are the root of everything. You don't want to be a knight, you want a life of easy debauchery, and you summoned me. β
Seeing that the two guys were about to quarrel again, Yan Rui patted the throne: "Stop, this is meaningless!Fork in the road, if you have the energy, you might as well calculate how much the stock of soul crystals has grown! I killed a griffin and poked a geist with a dagger." β
"That's all?" muttered the Fork in the Road Demon, "Even the lowliest devil can do better than you......
The head of the devil in the mirror closed its eyes and reopened them after a while: "There was only a very small increase, and only one growth, which gave off the stench of griffon's breath." What is a geist and where is it?"
Yan Rui also felt strange. When the soul dagger stabbed the geist, it was obvious that there was a warm sensation in the hand, so it must have absorbed the soul energy. The absorbed energy should go directly to the soul crystal, right?
The fork in the road says that this situation is absolutely impossible.
The Hell Throne Room is the root of Yama's resurrection, and it must be thoroughly mastered, and there can be no unsolved mysteries. So Yan Rui thought about it and decided to try to use the Eagle School meditation technique to see if he could find something. According to the old man Kiplin, meditation is the power of the spirit, and the body has only a small auxiliary role in the process. It is able to have the ability to observe the whole area, and it has never relied on something on its face.
Meditation can also be used in hell, only spirits, but with a slight difference. When Yamari's vision changed, the entire room changed, even Fige Hale and the Fork in the Road Demon could see. Starting from the Crystal Throne, the blood red belonging to the devil spreads outward, and the originally dim, black and white hall is soon impregnated with red. Then, the red that covered all the planes began to converge, and if the fire was the same, it added to the burning flames on the walls. Under the gaze of the man and the demon, a torch grew out of thin air from beneath the flames, followed by a metal bracket that held the entire torch in place.
The hall brightened up. It's not the red of hell, it's not just black and white, it's like a real underground cavern. The soil is the color of the soil, the rocks are the rocks, and the rhizomes of unknown plants come to life β it's like a human being.
There are only two differences. Through the Meditation Eagle's Eye Perception, Yan Rui could penetrate the walls to a certain extent. He saw more than a dozen clusters of orange-yellow warm light behind the dirt and rocks, flickering on and off, with the rhythm of a heartbeat.
In addition, he found the geist as he wished. It already has a human form.
The geist should not have been complete, after all, it was only a part of the marshmallow energy that remained in the castle after the last winter. However, after being absorbed by the Soul Dagger and coming to Hell, it did not become nourishment like the griffin soul, but instead broke away from the Soul Crystal Pillar and formed a head, body, and limbs.
The fork in the road demon stared at it, and then it was all surprised: "There is no face, no physical features, and it is still gray and white, this is a prayer person......! How can it be a prajor?"
At the time of death, if a soul has a strong and firm faith, or through the direct intervention of divine power, it will be able to enter the realm of the god to whom the faith is based, and become a resident thereβ"going to heaven after death" and "going to hell after death" is almost the case. The smoother this process is, the more likely it is that the invoke will retain his consciousness, and some particularly powerful souls will even be able to retain their power during life. In the process of sublimating into a suoper, the soul will embody the characteristics of faith, divine power, or corresponding plane, but most of them are still in human form.
The invoker cannot leave the realm of the gods, but they can act on their own and continue to contribute their faith to the gods. And those who come to hell can directly pass the stage of low-level devils and directly become middle-level cadres. Therefore, the invoker is always a more valuable being than a mere soul.
But the situation in front of me feels weird. First of all, there is nothing about this invoker who should belong to hell. He has no claws and sharp teeth, no tail and horns, and no red devil skin. Of course, he doesn't have the wings of an angel, the armor of an Order, or the iridescent aura of Chaos. It has no character, and therefore no tendencies, which is contrary to the principle of the invoker itself.
Moreover, it is in hell and has not been assimilated by hell. Yan Rui does not possess divine powers, nor does he have the ability to expand the realm, and the Devil's territory is only a dilapidated underground hall, so he cannot shelter the Prayer Joiner. When the conjugator comes to the seventh level of hell, it is normal for them to be quickly absorbed into something like nourishment, masonry, and the like. However, the person in front of him is stable and able to walk. The only problem was that it kept walking towards the wall to the left of the throne, constantly banging against the wall.
"Behind the wall in that direction should be the turbulence of space dragged from the Earth. Yan Rui looked at the one person and one demon in the mirror and asked them for advice: "Why don't you dig it up this time and see what is going on?"
The man in the mirror frowned, a little reluctantly. The fork in the road demon nodded violently, his eyes full of curiosity.