Chapter 31: The Soul Furnace?
(Hmm.) The book begins to be written manually. The plot line of the Succubus Queen, which was forced to be cut for some reason, will be updated regularly on the public WeChat account. The outside of the fan is intertwined with the main plot.,A small number of plots in the future feel like a big jump.,The content actually appears outside the fan.。 The first side will be updated this Wednesday, and the plot line of the Succubus Queen and the Fallen Witch will have a separate volume. You can see it after you pay attention to the public WeChat account. )——
The wind is howling.
The closer he got to the ruins of death, the more Sauron felt the chaotic energy that enveloped the air.
Casting spells in the Eastern Kingdom has high concentration requirements, and if the casting concentration ability is not enough, there may be a phenomenon of spell backlash. Sauron's vision saw the exposed part of the Reaper's Ruins, and before he could get close to the entrance to the Reaper's Ruins, he felt a wave of chaotic magical energy emerge from the depths of the ground. According to the map notes, this place has been overrun by a powerful lich who studies chaos magic, and the ruins of the Grim Reaper have always been shrouded in a stream of magical energy.
Lich.
This monster, which stands almost at the very top of undead life, is quite difficult to deal with!
Under normal circumstances, few adventurers would be willing to face them, because even if the lich is killed, these terrible undead will be resurrected in ten days if their life boxes are not destroyed. Even powerful as a god is not easy to face when facing a lich, and many prophetic spells cannot find the location of the life box. Unless it's some god with special powers, it's hard for someone to kill a lich right away.
Sauron is one of the gods who wield special powers.
Because he has a very powerful realm, the [Killing Domain], any god who holds the realm of death can directly destroy their souls when killing the lich, and then turn their life-saving life box into a useless waste. Because of this, some of the lichs serve the gods who hold the realm of death. There are few lichs who would take the initiative to provoke the gods who master the relevant fields.
The Lich seeks the mystery of death.
Although it has a huge power that is unimaginable to mortals, in fact, the lich is still a long way from the gods, and there have been many demigods and lichs in history, but only one has been able to successfully become a god so far.
That's the Lich God, Visharon (Weak Divine Power)!
This fortunate lich god was originally a member of the ancient red-robed wizards, but he was later guided by the Lord of the Storm in his research, and was promoted to the god by his powerful divine powers.
But.
The Lord of the Storm was only planning to build a divine system, and needed a divine servant who could be used by him to drive and oppress. For this reason, the Lich God was forced to seek cooperation and alliance with the Mage God. As a result, the Lich God successfully established a relationship with the Goddess of Magic, thus escaping the Storm Lord's revenge. This guy belongs to the wall grass inside the gods. While climbing the relationship with the [Mage God] to get closer to the Goddess of Magic, while trying to curry favor with the [Lord of the Storm] and win his forgiveness, and then secretly courting the [Night Lady] in exchange for more life-saving chips.
To this day, he worries that the Lord of the Storm will take back the power he has given him.
(Note: The God of Mages has been supporting the Goddess of Magic for a long time, and he was originally the most powerful mortal mage, having defeated the God of Prophecy in a years-long battle and imprisoned the god in a staff.) Later he served the goddess of magic. And from the second generation of the goddess of magic to the gods, as one of the important gods of the goddess of magic. )
The Lich God has a tense relationship with most of the Grim Reapers, and is seen by many Grim Reapers as potential enemies who may be involved in the Priesthood of Death.
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Airplanes.
There was an eerie tremor from the depths of the earth, which gradually subsided.
A powerful lich remains inside the Reaper's Ruins. Sauron didn't need to guess what he was trying to do, and it was definitely a force related to the [Death] realm.
It's been here for decades, and it's hard to stay so long near the desert of death shrouded in chaotic energy if it hadn't been discovered. You know, the environment here is not suitable for magical experiments. If there is a half-percent chance of failure in a magic experiment anywhere else, it is at least 90% or more here. The chaotic energy from outside has affected everything, and the violent radiation of the Death Desert has formed a local tidal surge.
Death Field.
As one of the gods who holds the realm of killing. Sauron is almost certain for this power!
- "Shadow hiding! ”
Sauron's figure had escaped into the darkness, and he was now facing the top lich of the undead creatures, so even Sauron, as a god, did not dare to be careless.
Moreover!
This lich has been entrenched here for decades, and if there is any power left by the Grim Reaper, the enemy is no longer a simple lich.
Sauron suspects that the other party may have advanced to become a demigod lich!
- "Remove the trap!" ”
The entrance to the Reaper's ruins was beneath the dunes, and before Sauron could get close to it, he spotted a guard trap on the perimeter.
As the god of half-elves and wanderers, such a trap was not enough for Sauron, and he easily disarmed the three trigger traps on the periphery.
- "Shadow Jump!" ”
The phase movement of the interdimensional plane helped Sauron avoid the first mechanism inside, which was too cumbersome to contact and had to destroy the structure of the wall surface, which could easily alarm the lich deep underground, so it was easier to use the shadow plane to travel through.
- "Dimensional Movement!" ”
Once inside, the Reaper's Ruins were dark, the undead didn't need light, and the Lich didn't have lighting tools here.
Opposite.
For decades, it had laid hundreds of traps outside, one triggered almost every three steps.
With a glance of Sauron, he found at least five trigger traps with [Finger of Death] and [Dissociation].
"!"
"This lich is really ruthless!"
Sauron paused slightly at the turnaround and muttered, "If a team of legendary adventurers came over, I might have to hang up a few of them on that road just now." ”
"All of them are spells that trigger the Instant Judgment!"
"If you don't resist a little exemption, even a legendary professional will burp instantly!"
Instant death trap.
This kind of trap must be feared even if the legendary wanderer comes to dismantle, because the loiterer's immunity is not enough, and if the trap is not removed, it may be killed instantly.
Passed through the 'death passage' set up by the lich. The number of traps began to decrease dramatically.
However, there are more advanced alert devices.
If it weren't for Sauron's status as a god, I don't know when the device would have alerted the lich below. It's no wonder that no one has thought of crusading against it for so long, and it is estimated that there are not many professionals in the Eastern Kingdom who can pass the first half of the journey.
"What is this?"
After passing through the passage, Sauron's eyes suddenly became clear, it was a large hall, surrounded by broken marble columns, part of the hall had collapsed, and there was a large amount of quicksand piled up there. The wall near the right is covered with reliefs carved with hideous undead creatures that look like wars in the underworld. and the Grim Reaper's squire wielding a giant scythe.
"Sure enough, it's the temple of death!"
"It still looks like the Grim Reaper of the evil camp."
The Grim Reaper rarely has a good camp, and the current [King of the Dead] is only a neutral camp, you must know that he was a good warrior when he was a mortal, and after taking over the gods, he was forced to transform into a neutral camp. Although the doctrine of the King of the Dead is somewhat biased towards goodness, more often than not, it maintains the neutral nature of the Death Realm.
"The Grim Reaper of the evil camp?"
"Seems like there are only a few of them, right?"
The reliefs on the walls gave Sauron a clue as to which the temple belonged to the Grim Reaper, and the scope was suddenly much narrower.
"Is it still the temple of the King of Bones?"
Sauron carefully observed the surroundings and muttered, "The scale of this temple should belong to the scope of the Giant Temple, and the gods who can afford to build such a large temple. At least they are all Grim Reapers, who have medium divine power or above. ”
"So that's the case."
"There are very few qualified candidates, [King of Bones], [God of Murder], [God of Death] - Naraku, [God of Killing], [God of Tyranny] ......"
"The god of murder can be ruled out."
"After He was sealed away from madness, the church basically disappeared, and the temple was almost destroyed."
"After all, his main enemy is the King of the Dead."
"[Grim Reaper] - Naraku is still alive. If it were His temple, it would not have been abandoned, and it could have been largely ruled out. ”
"[God of Killing] don't think about it."
"He has too many enemies to keep such a large temple."
"Then the biggest possibility is the [King of Bones] and the [God of Tyranny]."
The King of Bones is Mirkor.
The second generation of the Grim Reaper, after his fall, Cranvo took over the priesthood of death. The God of Tyranny is the predecessor of the Dreaddemon God. After being replaced by the Dreaded Demon God, he also disappeared into history.
This temple has the most to do with the two of them.
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Sauron walks through the passage on the first floor.
With the short staircase, a little light began to appear in front of me.
Sauron's vision saw some strange golems, dressed in black metal armor. Stand motionless in the corner.
"Skeleton guards?"
Sauron's eyes swept to see the bone shelf beneath the armor, which was a skeleton guard challenging level 12, a life made of high-level undead, most of whom were powerful warriors in their lifetimes.
"Looks like the temple of the King of Bones."
Sauron walked around from the side, and after entering the second level of the Reaper's Ruins, some undead guards began to appear in front of him, along with eerie cauldrons at intervals.
The cauldron was filled with a dark green liquid, and from time to time translucent spirits would emerge from it.
"Death boiler?"
"Is anyone extracting soul essence here?"
This strange boiler Sauron has seen in the past in the temple of [Death]-Naraku, it can extract the essence of the soul in a simple way, roughly similar to the way of raising Gu, put a bunch of low-quality souls into it and boil, and finally you can get a high-quality soul, or a fragment of soul purification.
Refining the soul can only be done in the temple of the god of death.
There are thirteen boilers in total.
Nearby there were undead guards, and the passages on the side were covered with bones, some of which would enter the pile of bones, and after a few moments, a skeleton warrior crawled out.
"it!"
"It's all turned into a necromantic production line!"
Sauron saw through the mist ahead a portal from which a rich power of death emanated, connecting somewhere in the underworld, and the ruins of this temple had established a passage to the underworld.
"So many souls?"
"Could it be that there's a [Soul Furnace] down there?"
At this moment, Sauron seemed to think of something, his face changed slightly, and he muttered, "Wouldn't this be the place where the team of adventurers found the [Thousand Soul Head] after the Sage Catastrophe ended?" ”
In a flash!
A little memory flashed through Sauron's mind.
About three months after the end of the Sage Havoc, a team of Legendary-level adventurers explored the Desert of Death in the Eastern Realm.
They swept through three underground ruins in a row in the Desert of Death.
One of the toughest battles was in the second Death Relic, where they encountered the Demigod Lich and the Thousand Soul Heads.
Eventually, they discovered the Soul Forge left behind by a fallen Reaper.
Of course.
I'm afraid that the real discovery is more than this, but the information released by people must be the most basic information, and basically I won't tell everyone how much benefit I have obtained.
"If it's really here!"
"I'm afraid you'll have to be careful! Looks like a little prep work! ”
Sauron stopped.
The average class level of this group of adventurers in memory is around level 22, and they belong to the top veterans who have experienced the high-intensity battles of the Sage Havoc, and they all killed three people when they swept through the area, and finally killed the demigod lich and the thousand soul heads. Although Sauron is now a god-level combat power, he does not have much advantage over a team of legendary adventurers.
If you don't take it seriously, you really risk capsizing in the gutter.
"Demigod Lich."
"The challenge level is level 21, master the legendary spell [Time Stop], this can deal with other legendary professions, but it has no effect on yourself."
"In addition to this, there are the legendary spells Wishing Technique, the Otherworldly Gate, and the Banshee's Howl, among others."
"Looks like we need to summon a demon avatar to help in the fight."
"Thousand Soul Heads."
"The challenge level is level 20, mastering the fear aura, necromancy spells, domination spells, etc., half-spirit creatures, composed of a large number of twisted souls, are a kind of monster that is very difficult to kill."
"It's a bit of a hassle! ……”
Sauron's brow furrowed, and his figure stopped somewhere, lost in thought.
Two legendary monsters that challenge the ranks.
Even from the point of view of the gods, it is a very troublesome enemy!
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(PS: 2-in-1 chapter.) (To be continued.) )