Only by seeing the specific attributes of this knife with your own eyes can you understand how powerful it is, and guess how terrifying its original power in its heyday should be.

It is said that sometime at the beginning of the Second Age, a High Elf researcher discovered the Ebony Blade while searching for Tamriel's artifact, believing it to be an ancient Arcavia blade and taking it away for study.

Mephalah's whispers then corrupted his mind, and he eventually snatched the souls of his students and colleagues, throwing them into the hands of demons to be tortured for eternity. To ensure that his wife suffered the most terrible pain, he tore her soul to shreds.

It would take hundreds of years for a group of dreadnoughts to sweep the horrific tomb, cleanse it of the demons and the undead, release the tormented souls, and restore the wife's soul to its original state.

Then something happened, and his wife's soul took the Ebony Blade and established a connection with the Whispering Demon God.

Mephala tried to corrupt her mind once again and bewitch her soul, but she firmly refused, and at the cost of her own soul, she cast a curse on the terrible magic knife so that it could not stay with anyone for long, in order to save the souls of those who might be bewitched by it.

After that, a lot of pretty terrible things happened in a row-

For example, in the series of events that caused turmoil in the west, the whispers of the Ebony Blade were hidden behind history......

For example, during the Third Age, the warriors of Sirodil called out to Mephala and provoked two great families in a certain place to kill each other, and only one of them survived, and finally the warrior was rewarded with the Ebony Blade......

For example, at some point in the current Fourth Age, the Ebony Blade fell into the hands of the lord of Snowman, who threw the blade into the Sky Forge, attempting to destroy it. However, no amount of fierce flame could melt it, but instead extinguished the flames of the furnace.

According to the original trajectory of fate, the blade later fell into the hands of the Dragonborn, but after being isolated for so long, the weapon has lost too much power. Mephala then taught the Dragonborn to nourish the Demon Blade with the "blood of deception" from the murder of those close to them.

It was precisely because he had so much information that Xia Ran was afraid of this knife, no matter how Mephala showed his sincerity, showing that he did not intend to corrupt his soul through this knife-

After all, a normal, alive lost person is valuable, if something goes wrong, accidentally kills or loses the identity of the lost, and finally cannot leave this mission world and return to the white space......

So what's the use of Mephalah? Although he has a bad taste, he is still very able to restrain his bad taste when it comes to the crucial issue of life and death related to his own existence.

It wasn't just him, but the other gods probably did the same, and their tolerance was beyond imagination in the face of the possibility of transcending the god's dreams and truly controlling their own destiny......

It's just that the truth is this, if Xia Ran wants to say that he is not worried at all, it must be impossible.

Glancing at the shining ruby ring on his hand, Xia Ran first took a deep breath, and then closed his eyes, allowing himself to no longer have that kind of confrontational psychology, and instead concentrate on listening and sensing this magic knife.

Of course, not being psychologically confrontational doesn't mean that he is not mentally vigilant, and if he senses something wrong, he will definitely throw this thing into the inventory as soon as possible to cut off contact.

The whispers of the Ebony Blade resounded in his consciousness, instilling him with evil knowledge and a strange force trying to erode his mind, but the Fire Ring Naya's resistance to domination was so strong that it was easily immune to this negative influence.

Xia Ran patiently listened carefully, after all, it is not possible to be impatient, this knife is not a radio after all, and there are no buttons for him to tune the frequency.

After a long moment, he seemed to sense something, and looked up in a certain direction.

……

……

Half an hour passed.

Xia Ran found a bottomless crack in the mountain stream, and he didn't know how deep it was or where it led, and if ordinary people didn't have professional technical equipment and team support, it would be impossible for them to think about going down to find out.

If one doesn't get it right, the little life will have to be thrown in it-

In the ordinary world, he was shipwrecked in the expedition and couldn't find his way back alive. In this magical world, it is very likely to be a thrilling horror plot in which you encounter alien creatures in the underground world and are finally divided and eaten.

However, Xia Ran didn't feel anything, his current attributes and skills, coupled with a piece of equipment, couldn't be more professional.

So he didn't think much about it at all, but blessed himself with a spell, and jumped straight down, but his body didn't fall straight down, and then fell all over the ground in the depths of the ground.

It's like a leaf, a feather falling from the sky......

As a lawyer, Xia Ran can't teleport yet, and he can't even fly, but he has to master the levitation technique and the like, so as not to be killed by the terrain or something, which is funny.

The figure fell at a not-so-fast pace, through the crack, and gently landed in the dark depths of the earth, he stretched out his index finger in the air a little, and a light source appeared on his fingertips, shining to dispel the darkness around him.

At the bottom of the crevasse, there wasn't much snow, but there was the sound of running water, and a trickling stream seemed to flow not far away...... With the help of the light, Xia Ran picked up the magic knife and listened carefully for a moment, and then walked in the direction where the sound of flowing water came from.

There is indeed a larger space in the depths of this crack, and you can enter the interior of the mountain or the underground by going down the flowing water, which is a darker and more secluded underground space, and I don't know what kind of secrets are buried and what kind of dangers there are.

Mepharah's ruined altar may be in the deepest part, the shrine that used to be another of his magical artifacts, and although it is unknown why the ruins sank deep underground, it was true.

Just like many plots in Xianxia, the genius earth treasure will always exude energy to attract some fierce beasts to guard the surroundings, and the power of a demon artifact is hard to imagine what it will attract, maybe there are any monsters in the deepest underground.

Xia Ran explored the deeper crack along the stream, and found that he was almost like entering some other planet, and the passage in front of him became more and more open, no longer narrow, just a crack, and the steep mountain walls on both sides were overgrown with plants.

It was a strange plant that had never been seen before, resembling some kind of fungus, but it was fluorescent. There are also some spiral-shaped single leaves, which look more like living animals, and when Xia Ran walks past them, they will immediately shrink back, like mimosas.

The further you go, the more it looks like a colorful alien biosphere, and many plants are emitting fluorescence, and you don't even need lighting spells.

And he also noticed some traces of animals, and he was sneaky, watching himself in the darkness in the distance, with a little curiosity and more malice......

While strengthening his psychic shield, he whispered something and uttered a few mysterious and inexplicable syllables:

“Laas-Yah-Nir——！！”

"Aura Whisper" is a very special dragon roar that does not require the user to let out a loud roar, but can only speak softly. It only takes a whisper to see all the vitality at a glance.

Because the "sound" will attract the surrounding aura, causing it to radiate in all directions, passing through all obstacles, like ripples on the surface of the water. And no matter what you encounter on the way, it will be reflected back like an echo.

Just like the supernormal echolocation method that bats have, after emitting ultrasonic waves, bats can determine the position and distance of surrounding objects according to their emission after hitting various objects...... Probably like this, this dragon roar is also able to determine the surrounding environment through breath feedback.

In the game, it seems to be used to see enemies in unexplored maps through walls, and the role is limited, and it is very chicken, but after really using it once, Xia Ran found that this ability is very useful-

As long as he whispered a word, the aura around him instantly radiated and diffused, and then he was able to receive the feedback information, and his superb intelligence attributes could also comprehensively process and filter this information in an instant, and build a three-dimensional map within a range of several kilometers in his mind.

It was as if it was projected in his mind, and it was very detailed, including the intricacies of the terrain passages, the growth environment of animals and plants, and almost all the details were everything, and it was not just a simple revelation of the existence of the surrounding vitality.

It can be said to be very easy to use, the only drawback is that this is not a real-time dynamic map projection, every time Xia Ran uses the "Aura Whisper", he will get a map information about a certain area around him.

But it was fixed, and perhaps the moment he used his ability, he detected the edge of the passage a few kilometers away in front of him, and there was no danger, but it was very likely that after the ability ended, some terrible creature walked in......

- That's what he doesn't know.

If you want to refresh the map once, you have to use this dragon roar once, which will cost you a lot.

Xia Ran quickly sorted out the surrounding terrain through his new abilities, grasped his current situation, and knew how many things were eyeing him in the darkness in the distance.

But it didn't matter, his intuition was not forewarning, and the aura of those things was not enough for him to keep in his eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that he was in the middle of the mountain, underground, the surrounding space and environment were limited, and he was worried that a mountain would collapse and crush him to death, he would have already set off a storm with flames and burned it directly.

However, at the moment, he could no longer use such a brutal method, he thought as he pressed his right hand on the hilt of the magic knife at his waist.

Then, as if he had thought of something, Xia Ran was slightly stunned, and then lowered his head to look at his palm that naturally held the hilt of the knife, and frowned - why did his movements be so natural? Aren't you a magician?

Well, it must be the power of this magic knife itself, it can directly strengthen his skills in mastering long-bladed weapons, as long as he carries it on his body, he will naturally become a master of swordsmanship in the true sense.

Naturally, I had more experience and skills in using swords in my mind, and I had mastered countless skilled swordsmanship......

This change is very natural, not to stiffly strengthen his skills, but also to load the experience condensed by the owners of this magic knife for generations, making him like a person who has been immersed in this path for countless years.

That's right, that's what it looks like.

Xia Ran suddenly found a reason, and suddenly felt a lot more at ease, after all, he was still a magician with pure blood and specializing in magic techniques......

In the next moment, the sword flashed, the ebony blade was already unsheathed, and the magician directly struck with a sideways step, as if the unpredictable prophet met a black shadow that was roaring rapidly!

Just like the Juhe knife drawing technique, he used the arc of the knife to create an instantaneous terrifying explosive force, and the sword in his hand was as fast as lightning, and he unexpectedly swung out an unparalleled slash!

No matter what the swift creature that rushed out of the darkness and suddenly attacked was, it just happened to hit the blade's slashing line head-on!

One hit is a kill!