Chapter 290: Collecting the Void Stone
Even though he had already had the experience of collecting once, Barrett still felt a little nervous as he approached the strange solid mass, which was countless times darker than the darkness around him.
He had seen firsthand how this thing, called the 'Void Stone', destroyed everything else that came into contact with it.
It was during the first collection that Barrett took a jawless zombie he had caught nearby and drove it towards the Void Stone.
At that time, as the distance between the zombie and the Void Stone slowly approached, Barrett could clearly feel the zombie's soul fire begin to struggle faintly. According to common sense, even if he slashed the controlled zombie and devoured its soul fire, this guy would not resist at all, but at that time, Barrett did feel that the unconscious zombie seemed to be extremely reluctant to approach the strange black solid.
However, in the end, the zombie with the missing jaw still touched the 'Void Stone' under Barrett's strong pressure. The picture after that makes people's hearts palpitate, even though the heart of the barbarian in the form of an undead has been asleep, it is still faintly beating by the process of the zombie's disappearance......
Hey, now is not the time to think about these things. Barrett concentrated, leaving the extraneous images behind. Fortunately, no matter how nervous he was in the form of an undead, his breathing would not be disturbed, and his palms would not sweat. Every movement of the body, driven by the will of the deceased, is extremely firm, like a construct.
In a sense, constructival creatures have a lot of similarities to the undead.
One step, two steps, Barrett got closer and closer to the Void Stone. He felt a tingling in his skin hidden under his armor, as if the nervous tissues that had been sleeping in the deepest dreams jumped out of their sleep and warned him loudly.
Immediately afterward, the two blue fluorescents condensed in his eye sockets began to fade slightly, and Barrett, the death knight, felt his rock-solid will, like a candle flame in the wind, swaying and swaying.
"You know, Mr. Barrett, death is not the end of everything...... "Kreese's friend named Ben Isus" once told him in the Floating City.
Ben Isu was a young mage with many flame patterns on his robes and curly hair on his head, and his sharp eyes made a deep impression on Barrett, as if they could penetrate his heart.
Although the left cuff of Ben Issu's robe was only embroidered with two magical seven-pointed stars, and it seemed that he was just a low-level mage, when talking, this mage inexplicably gave Barrett a sense of omniscience.
"In the eternal and void 'annihilation', even 'death' will disappear. The curly-haired mage explained to him at the time, "Once you touch the 'Void Stone', even the slightest touch of the tip of your fingernail, irreversible annihilation will follow. ”
And when Barrett asked if the so-called 'annihilation' was the end of everything, Master Ben Issu shook his head meaningfully, and then said indifferently, "No, Mr. Barrett, annihilation will only eliminate your existence forever, and most of the means of escape such as resurrection, reincarnation, and stand-ins will lose their effect in front of it, including the 'Lich Box'." But it can't erase your past, and people's memories and praises of you. So, Mr. Barrett, 'forgetting,' that's where it all ends. ”
Well, it's not that hard to do, and many of us who do our adventurers' business have already reached this end. The body paralyzed by alcohol and fear, collapsed on top of some pile of mud or the carcass of a lovely child, screaming, catharsis, and crying, but still unable to find the value of its existence. We've always been like that.
Of course, these moaning words were not what Barrett had in mind.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he gave an embarrassed but polite smile to Ben Issu's quirky and literary answer.
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The body-stinging warning continues, and it gets worse. The pain seemed to be in the ethereal soul rather than in the pale, cold body.
Barrett ignored this and continued forward, the little ghost and skeleton guard behind him staying where they were.
With a distance of about five steps from the pitch-black solid block, Barrett pulled out a hexagonal crystal with many magical runes engraved on the surface of the spatial ring.
The size of the crystal is about the same as that of a small pumpkin, and the runes on the surface continue to shine with a special pattern, round after circle, never stopping.
Barrett clasped the lid on top of the crystal with the fingers of his left hand, but instead of opening it for a moment, he mustered up all his will and took a few steps forward again.
Barrett stopped when he was only an arm's length away from the 'Void Stone' in front of him. He could feel his will gradually blurring, and the image of the solid block slowly distorting and ghosting, but he had experienced it once, and he already knew this situation.
If he could breathe, Barrett would definitely take a deep breath at this time to stabilize his mind. Since he couldn't now, he didn't waste much time.
Our Death Knight from the Wild Road slammed his left hand, and with the slight sound of 'click', he opened the lid on the top of the crystal, which turned out to be a strange jar.
Barrett quickly swept the rune-engraved crystal jar from the bottom to the top of the 'Void Stone', filling it in its entirety. But he was extremely careful not to let the Void Stone touch any part of the crystal jar, but only let it stay in the center of the jar.
Barrett held the crystal jar in her right hand and remained motionless, slowly tightening the lid with her left hand. Then he glanced again at a silver ring on the little finger of his left hand.
The surface of the ring is inlaid with a purple gemstone material without pupils, and this gem eye will blink up and down from time to time, which is quite weird.
When Barrett turned his head to look at the ring, the purple eyes on the ring immediately looked back at him.
"It's up to you. Barrett whispered to the ring. Then, he pointed the ring at the crystal box, and his purple eyes began to gather light.
The light grew brighter and brighter, and after three seconds, a purple curtain of light burst out of his eyes and shone on the hexagonal crystal box. The next moment, the crystal box suddenly disappeared, and the 'Void Stone' also ended up. In the center of the purple eyes on the surface of the ring, there is an extra hexagonal pupil at this time.
Immediately afterward, the surrounding darkness surged up happily towards the place where the Void Stone had disappeared, erasing the last trace of the thing like a tidal wave.
"Very well, the second piece is also collected!" Barrett removed the ring from his little finger and took out a rectangular Mithril box from the spatial ring.
He gently lifted the box, revealing four more purple eye rings. The eyes of the gems writhed, but they looked at Barrett at the same time.
"You, go in. Barrett placed the ring with the pupil in his hand into a fixed position inside the box, "You, come out." He took out a new pupilless ring from the third position and put it on his little finger again.
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