Chapter 10: Heru
Mu Yan stabilized his body, lightly stepped under his feet, and rushed out more than five meters away. Although the wind elemental wings behind him could not help him fly, they could greatly speed up his journey, making him as light as a swallow.
"Shamu, time." He meditated in his heart.
"On April 5, 599 in the Foggy calendar, at 4:47 p.m., there are 235 days left before the Styx 'barrage'."
"Points Progress and Destination Navigation."
"Your current points: 45/100, 55 points left to be a level 5 mercenary. Currently Accepted: 10 Soul Eater Cores, current progress 0/10. There are still 24 kilometers to go to the destination of Rotten Wood Beach, and it will arrive at the current speed for 15 minutes, and the remaining magic is expected to be less than 40%."
After listening to the report from the database, Mu Yan slowed down.
"And now?"
"Arriving in 25 minutes at the current speed, less than 30% of the mana is expected to remain."
“…… Can't you just be smarter and tell me the most reasonable speed? ”
"The keyword 'intelligence' has been detected, suspected of being sarcastic about this database, and it will be on standby for five minutes to show anger."
“……”
So he had to speed up.
……
This was his fourth month in Heru.
The massive memories from those resentful souls were stored, sorted, and filtered in the database, and the remaining content finally helped him have a comprehensive and intuitive understanding of Heru, a world that was far more clear and grand than he imagined in Chinese.
The inhabitants of Heru are divided into two types, one is the aborigines, and the other is the high-quality souls salvaged from the River Styx.
Let's start with the former.
There is such a myth among the aborigines. Heru is the land of death, the destination of the dead, the paradise established by the goddess Hela, and she is this world.
The land and mountains are the musculoskeletal of Hela, and the River Styx is the blood of Hela, whether it is Heru or other worlds, the souls of all the dead will return to the River Styx, let the river wash away, and finally merge into Neverheim, becoming the most primitive soul energy, feeding back to this world.
The elements that permeate the air are the breath exhaled by Hela, which is alive, lively, and free to combine and evolve all the time, and is therefore far more complex than the four elements of Lokan's dead silence.
For example, in addition to water, fire, earth, and wood, wind, light, darkness, thunder, etc., can be obtained directly in Heru without the need for basic elements to be compounded.
For example, if the air in Lokan only contains nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, etc., then Heru not only has these, but also nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, water vapor, ammonia, etc., and it is also harmless to the human body.
This also corroborates what Lancelot said, Heru is full of surging elements.
Therefore, the Heru aborigines, who are immersed in the surging elements and soul energy, are born with a very high elemental affinity, and they control the elements as simply and casually as drinking water and eating, and they do not need to use complex magic nets, they can do whatever they want, which is convenient and fast.
In Lokan, everyone shares a piece of web surfing, whether you are GG or MM, everything has to go through the procedure: send out the application, pay the magic, get permission, and then use the dead silence element planned by the magic net to build a spell, and then throw it out, there is no conflict at all, it is nothing more than the advantage of the fast hand, and the loss of the slow hand.
But in Heru, there is not so much harmony between the casters, and the "law of the jungle" is particularly evident here.
On the same side of heaven and earth, there are so many elements, if you want to use it, I will also use it, and there will definitely be disputes between them. What's more, when the two fight, it is not magic fighting each other at all, but an elemental tug-of-war. You control ten units of the elements to aggregate into a spell to attack me, I control ninety percent of them with my backhand, you control it back, I take it back, the elements in the two of the annihilation of the annihilation, the escape of the escape, and finally completely dissipated, the magic power of the two is also consumed a lot, in order to prevent being mended by the knife, I can only suppress the will to fight and say, "Your Excellency is skilled, the green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, we will have a period later", and then it was over.
Of course, these are only a few cases.
In addition to these, the aborigines of Heru are no different from the Luokan races, and for now, Mu Yan has not been exposed to other races other than humans, and their skin is even paler because they can't get strong light for a long time.
Since there are aborigines, there are outsiders, and the outsiders of Heru are the high-quality souls salvaged from the River Styx.
As we said earlier, the souls of the dead will soak and wash in the river Styx, and although most will eventually melt, there will always be some individuals who are strong-willed, or have obsessions and beliefs, who survive.
So in the port of Geoor, at the mouth of the River Styx, the natives built a gilded crystal barrage, which was raised every hundred years for a month, raising the water level of the entire River Styx, so that they could sail their boats to fish for quality souls.
They will shape the flesh of these souls, and in order to preserve their skills and specialties during their lifetime, the memories of these souls will not be erased, but will be branded as a symbol of slavery. Only individuals with strong resistance and excessive free will will be completely erased from their memories and become dull spirit servants, who can only engage in mechanical and repetitive work.
Occasionally, there have been incidents of tamed outsiders rebelling again and successfully escaping, but this is only a very small number after all, and the aggressive Heru people have not stopped fishing once a hundred years because of choking and waste food, but they feel that this is a touch of embellishment in boring life, and will write poems and biographies for the rebels, and sing them everywhere to encourage more outsiders to take the initiative to erase the brand, resist them, and then tear them to pieces excitedly.
Unlike the "mercy" towards outsiders, their attitude towards the "soul snatchers" is extremely decisive.
Since the Heru people regarded the souls in the River Styx as their own private property, they naturally could not tolerate the recklessness of the necromancers. As a result, the latter was given the name of "soul snatcher", like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouted and beat it. Fortunately, the water level of the River Styx is usually low, and the water of the river is highly poisonous to the aborigines, so they are reluctant to take the risk of going down the river, so they can only watch from afar, but once a soul snatcher accidentally lands on the shore, they will be immediately besieged.
The souls of the living are especially conspicuous here, and Mu Yan was caught in Niverheim in the first place. God knows how Lancelot had traveled all over the land part of Heru in the first place.
One thing that surprised him was that there were no gods in this world except Hela, and the Heru people had no so-called faith, and even for Hela, they only had reverence.
This is a free world, there are no high gods, only naked predators, without any disguise, and even the qualification to go down the river during the fishing season is decided with fists.
The source of the River Styx is shrouded in fog, winding from northwest to southeast, not every place is suitable for boats, and it is recognized that the best place is the Nashar basin, which is more than a thousand miles long, the river is smooth, the water is vast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the water level is raised to say that the Nashar Inland Sea is high. As a result, it was firmly controlled by the Michao from the port of Guior, who only allowed the boats that paid the money to be launched, and those who did not have to pay for tickets, and were not merciful to stowaways and fare evaders.
As for the people who went into the water without permission in other river basins, the powerful Michao people respected this kind of "warriors" who were not afraid of death, if they could come back alive.
There are many small forces that will hire powerful mercenaries to escort them in order to survive in the cracks, after all, the Chaoren themselves say that "they will maintain good order on the ship" is not credible at all, who knows if they will deliberately create one or two "accidents"? As long as the aborigines of Heru are thrown into the River Styx, they will melt faster than a snowball in boiling water, and it is not too much to say that there are no bones left.
It is now the year 599 of the Misty Calendar, and about 7 months later, it will be the "fishing season" that will start again after a hundred years, and in order to save Amacer, who was thrown down by Xia Mu, Mu Yan must find a way to get a ticket. And the fastest way he could think of at the moment was to become a level 6 mercenary, so that he could be eligible to be hired.
This is also the task he is working on right now.