Chapter 977: The Beginning of the Shadow
What caused the flames of war to burn from Marvel 199999 to the Great Star Universe where Zhao Wenrui was located was the black vortex.
Since this artifact can give Lucius the ability to summon withered demons from foreign lands, it naturally has the coordinates of foreign lands.
However, the Divine Mirror has not been able to get in touch with the Kree at this stage, and is struggling with the background of being completely sealed by the secret mages of Kama Taj.
As for how it re-emerged from Zhao Wenrui, it can only be said that Godhead, as an old qualified god, still has very unique methods, and the 'Black Vortex' is also extraordinary. On the other hand, there is no free lunch in the world, Zhao Wenrui made a lot of money from the Shenjing by mistake, it seems that he is cheap, and he is indeed cheap, but he leaves a small tail.
You can't complain about this.
The Flame is the entity that endorses Zhao Wenrui's golden finger, at the beginning, Zhao Wenrui ate the fruit in vain and was sour, but later he unexpectedly succeeded, and there was no problem with the Divine Mirror energy that was converted into experience points by the Torch.
If you want to complain, you will blame Kane's negligence, as well as the anticlimactic snake's tail, once the freshness has passed, he has not continued to pay enough attention to the human nature clone as always, so that there is a leak.
The origin of this leak lies in a theory: since the open cosmic energy of the Divine Mirror is very similar to the dark destructive power of the Kane system, then at the same time that he can imitate the impersonation, the power of the Divine Mirror can also imitate the impersonation in reverse. To put it bluntly, the key elements of these two transcendent powers are the same, but they have added and subtracted some auxiliary elements.
Therefore, Zhao Wenrui, who embarked on the path of the Ashes Oath, can be said to be cousins with the extraordinary power he uses and the power of the Divine Mirror, which leaves hidden dangers.
It's just that at present, the Divine Mirror does not have enough time for relevant operations, and Zhao Wenrui's level is too low, and in terms of coordinates, he is not very qualified.
The re-intersection of the two sides is still in the gestation stage.
Zhao Wenrui's 7-ring spell was brewing. With Goldfinger support, he mastered spells much easier than a normal spellcaster. The disadvantage is that without this 'crutch', he has a problem even analyzing spells, let alone learning.
Zhao Wenrui himself also knew that compared to normal spellcasters, he lacked too many lessons and needed to make up, but the situation was pressing, and he could only do it in a hurry.
The 7-ring spell he had newly mastered was called Walk Against the Wind, and unlike what he thought of when he first learned the name of the spell, it was not a spell that made people flick their sleeves and fly away, nor was it like a monster traveling, setting up a gust of black wind to fly, but turned into steam to travel quickly, and even could be used on allies.
This once reminded Zhao Wenrui of such a question, could it be the vampire of folklore, in fact, a druid?
After all, the legendary high-level vampire can turn into fog, can turn into a wolf, and can turn into a bat, and these three are no problem for the druid, how much difference does steam look like to fog?
In addition, the primitive Druids of the Celts are dark, and the wood, bones, and priestly rituals are also relatively bloody, which does not give people a good impression......
The ash oath he was walking on now was also darker, and even the icon of the oak tree, which was at least tall and straight, could be replaced by something else, such as cave plants. Like the dark wood he set, absorbing the power of the moonlight is far more important than the sun......
Of course, these are currently just research topics that Zhao Wenrui wrote down on papyrus, and they do not yet have the conditions to start the project.
However, what he thinks and what he is interested in determines the direction he will take in the future, and it must be said that this direction is not sunny at all.
This also reflects from one side that Zhao Wenrui and even Kane are not sunshine boys themselves, and when the dark forces are slightly seduced, they are often happily tilted. So, did he choose the Dark Force, or did the Dark Force choose him?
This time, with the help of flying against the wind, Zhao Wenrui successfully got out of trouble.
Still, some stories happened along the way. He was confronted with a distorted God's kingdom force field.
This force field was originally very thick like the atmosphere, isolating the interior of the Kingdom of God from the outer plane where it was located, so that even if there was a sword and rain in the outside world, the inside could be full of birds and flowers.
With the fall of God, the force field also changed, the most important being the change in the power attribute.
Where there is positive, there is negative, and what was originally positive has now become negative, and it has become very unfriendly to living beings. This is also the fundamental reason for the loss of san value here, not that the gods can dig a pit and turn the kingdom of the gods into a trap tomb, and the series of changes brought about by its fall.
When Zhao Wenrui crossed this force field, he was hindered, his speed was much slower, and the SAN value fell wildly, he even thought that he would be directly lost in this force field and completely lose himself, but in the end he still got out.
Due to the fact that San's value was lost too much, his spirit was seriously affected, and it was difficult to control the spell, so the Wind Flying did not send him back to the cave directly, but not long after leaving the mountain city range, it became invalid.
Zhao Wenrui calculated at the time, thinking that it was completely dark and there was still more than half an hour, and he still had hope of rushing back to the cave, but due to the low SAN value, whether it was the transformation technique or the elegance of the cat, he could not use it, so he could only retreat and temporarily camp on the edge of the mountain city.
He already knew that outside the mountain city and the mountain city, there were two different districts, and there was the Night King outside the mountain city, but the Night King would not cross the line, probably.
So he camped on the edge of the mountain city, but he did not enter the outskirts of the mountain city as he did on the first night. In this way, if the campfire can't stop the Night King, then he can at least rush into the outskirts of the mountain city.
Of course, the truth is that he took it for granted again, if the campfire can't stop the Night King, he won't have a chance to rush into the outskirts of the mountain city, and he will suffer the first attack within 7 seconds, and he can't stand two hits when his health is full, and he doesn't know how to die.
This world is the world, which is an extraordinary wasteland of the invisible level of elephants, and the wilderness where he settled is more and more badland, with no human population, and even a pitiful lack of animals and plants, which is actually the best proof.
Zhao Wenrui relied on his cautious and prudent way of thinking to choose to survive in this kind of place, which is actually equivalent to choosing a hellish starting difficulty.
In this world where danger is everywhere, it is a mistake to be too stable and unwilling to take risks, just like in the consumption of experience points, the facts have taught him to be a man.
Unfortunately, this lesson has not yet been profound, and he asked him to substitute it into all aspects, thoroughly and comprehensively examine his actions and choices since he crossed over.
So the original plan to live here for a year and a half, accumulate belongings, sharpen skills, and adapt to the environment has not wavered, but has been strengthened again and again due to the investment of experience points, the improvement of level and strength, the subtext: I am much stronger now than before, this time there is no problem, right?
Life delusions.
There will always be problems in life, all kinds of problems......
Zhao Wenrui's new question is how to survive this night.
If there's any good news, you can finally experience the feeling of the SAN value falling below 50, which is about one.
Macroscopically speaking, Zhao Wenrui now felt as if he had died, to a place like the underworld.
The whole world felt to him, like the surface world of Silent Hill. Without color, the whole world is made up of gray, black and white. But everything feels very natural, not that kind of false world.
The world feels very bad, its edge, that is, the end of the line of sight, is always a constant shaking ghost, and the sky is always a whirlwind cloud, flying at high speed, and the ears are full of buzzing sounds, but they are very empty, and they can't tell whether they are far or near. In such an environment, it is easy for emotions to become irritable. Zhao Wenrui suspected that it wouldn't be long before he would go crazy.
But in this state, it is not without bright spots. It allows people to see the world from a different perspective, and has the opportunity to obtain things that are not possible under normal conditions, such as nightmare ingredients or ashes.
Zhao Wenrui is trying to let himself look at this treacherous world from the perspective of a 'discoverer', so as to stabilize the decline of SAN value as much as possible.
Because the drop of SAN value is also an acceleration process, the lower the SAN value, the higher the frequency of floating, sinking and fluttering as indicated by the downward arrow.
Night finally fell, and Zhao Wenrui lit the campfire that had been prepared for a long time.
The firelight formed a circle with a radius of less than 3 meters, and beyond that, the effect of the light quickly disappeared, as if there were invisible monsters in a circle, specially devouring the light, so that the area between darkness and light was extraordinarily short.
The wild wind that howls all day long does not know when it stops, making people feel as if they are drowning in a black abyss, quiet and terrible, but also dark and terrible.
Zhao Wenrui stayed by the campfire, the miserable white campfire did not bring him much warmth, but as long as there was light, it was enough.
Listening to the beeping sound of firewood, he tried to make himself remember some good things.
It's a pity that it's too old, and I've turned it over too many times, so there's no freshness, and it doesn't produce much emotion.
"But it's better than cranky, isn't it?"
He refrained from looking at the data of the SAN value, so as not to worry himself too much, but it was not beautiful.
"There's no better way to do it anyway. The sky will not be a few minutes early because of a few more glances, can you survive before you go crazy, you can only do your best and obey the destiny of heaven. ”
He comforted himself in this slightly negative way, but in fact, it contained a trick of self-deception, what is not seen is unknown, and the unknown is Schrödinger's cat, death and life are all open......
In order to pass the long night, he dug up his previous memories like a cow regurgitating, a little bit of taste. From time to time, he also imagines the future, thinks about it, lists projects, and builds plans.
He flipped out the list of druid's spells, picked out the words word by word, and then imagined what the effect of casting the spell would be, and what spell should be combined to form a linkage routine......
In short, it is to do everything possible to find trouble for yourself and not let your mind be idle.
stayed up like this until the second half of the night, and external interference finally appeared.
First, a shadow suddenly appeared, like an elongated figure in the sunset, very long, but only the body was elongated, and its head was not deformed.
And this head, to put it simply, looks like Medusa, except that it is not snake hair, but branch-like hair, which is reminiscent of some kind of evil crown, such as the crown shape of Thor 3 Hela.
The face of this shadow is not contoured is more abstract, in fact, it is composed of blank space, there is no shadow in those places, but bright, so under the background of the black shadow, the facial features are outlined, a few strokes, but very expressive, and with the swaying of the firelight, the expansion and contraction of the shadow, the facial features are constantly changing, vivid, but weird.
"Seems to be saying something to me? Maybe it's some kind of special curse that will kill you if you hear it? It doesn't look like it's a wooden language, sorry I don't understand......"
I love to ask why, and if I don't have an answer, I try to find a self-consistent statement Zhao Wenrui, who is bold. Because most of the fear of human beings comes from the unknown, and for Zhao Wenrui, there are very few truly unknown.
Therefore, the appearance of the shadow monster not only did not scare him, but made him feel a little better, compared to this level of interaction, the feeling of loneliness that he was the only one left in the world made him more painful and tormented.
The 2D Shadow Monster outfit that only leaves a dynamic picture on the ground can't be compared, so the trick is changed.
Accompanied by eerie, dissonant music, Shadowclaw stretched out unhurriedly.
Seeing this, Zhao Wenrui stood up, he thought that the twisted, demonic, and also 2D claw was aimed at him, but soon found out that it was actually aimed at the campfire.
It was too late, it was too soon, and with Shadowclaw's grip, a handful of ashes exploded, and Shadowclaw vanished, but correspondingly, the campfire was half as hot as it was done.
"!" Zhao Wenrui, who has always been cautious, couldn't help but swear words.
The amount of incendiary material he had was limited, and the amount of fuel in his simple backpack was not enough to last until dawn.
"What should Shadowclaw do?" he thought as he filled in the firewood.
The shadow claw is a two-dimensional state, and he is a three-dimensional state, how to solve the problem of ascending and decreasing dimensions. Zhao Wenrui was completely confused, feeling that this question was too difficult for him.
There is no flash of inspiration, no blessing to the soul, his current consciousness is seriously affected by the negative effects of the low value of san, and the confusion is almost to the extent of high fever and nonsense, and the effective thinking is very reluctant, and there is no way to think carefully.
If you can't even think, you won't even think about the spell, so you will only be reckless.
After a while, when Shadow Claw came again, Zhao Wenrui gritted his teeth and stood between Shadow Claw and the campfire.
When the campfire is extinguished, he can't live, so he can only fight.
Shadow Claw leaned over to the treacherous music, and Zhao Wenrui stepped forward and poked with his walking cane.
It didn't work, Shadow Claw didn't react, and it passed straight through and came at his feet.
Immediately connected with his figure, at that moment, Zhao Wenrui felt a 'boom' in his head, and then his eyes turned black, extremely dizzy, and almost fell.
He instinctively knew that the san value had dropped hard. It's the kind of overrun that goes off, and the number is directly subtracted, rather than the downward arrow enlarged and bolded.
He tried to regain his senses, and then saw that the shadow claw had retracted a large part, as if it had been burned and withdrew its hand.
"Was it a successful follow-up, or was it really hurt?"
Zhao Wenrui couldn't tell which one it was. But he at least knew that since the Shadow Claw had not disappeared, it would not be long before he would probe the Claw again.
With a grit of teeth, Zhao Wenrui said in his heart: "Instead of sitting and waiting to be killed, being grabbed again and again by the recovered shadow claws, it is better to push the cow once." ”
So Zhao Wenrui rushed towards Shadow Claw.
Unexpectedly, it seems that because there is no recovery, this contact, the SAN value of the shadow claw has dropped a lot less.
Zhao Wenrui also noticed a detail, that is, the treacherous music, revealing a taste of injury and horror.
He immediately reacted that this music was probably a different kind of analysis of the anomaly by the brain.
The human body does not have a special organ to respond to this value, but this value is closely related to the soul, consciousness, and spiritual power, so it is still reflected in a different form.
The artistic conception expressed through the music can be judged to a certain extent.
Zhao Wenrui, who consciously grasped more information, became more and more bold, and continued to step on the shadow claw.
Sure enough, the tricky music of the feedback expressed the situation of the other party being further hurt.
Step on it again!
Keep pedaling!
After stepping on a few steps, Zhao Wenrui had already stepped into the darkness.
The tricky music finally ended with a melody that represented the collapse, and Shadow Claw was finished, at least this one was ended by Zhao Wenrui by injuring 1000 enemies and injuring 800 himself.
But then, another voice came to mind. It's like an ensemble of multiple instruments, like the roar of rolling thunder from far and near, and like the roar of some kind of super monster, extraordinarily grandiose, and it is aimed at him alone.
At the moment when he was about to be drowned out by this voice, the state of 'God Me' turned on again, and Zhao Wenrui quickly turned around and flew around, turning his head and rushing back to the bright area. Vaguely, he seemed to see some kind of terrifying claw waving by, and even heard the sound of the wind tearing through the air!
"Night King!
Next, Zhao Wenrui was beside the campfire and was afraid for more than half an hour.
It's all because the SAN value is too low to cast spells, otherwise both the flash spell and the light spell (both are level zero) can effectively extend the light area, and it is carried with you, so it will not be so dangerous.
But then again, if the SAN value is not low enough, you will not be exposed to these weird things at all.
Zhao Wenrui naturally thought of some supernatural sayings circulating in the market in his hometown.
For example, most of those gods and goddesses who claim to be able to worship gods and have a certain reputation are frail and sickly, or have had a serious illness and near-death experience.
In superstitious terms, this kind of person has low fortune, does not have a prosperous life, and is easily possessed by dirty things.
And this is precisely the prerequisite for topping God. On this basis, master certain skills and establish contact with certain yin spirit monsters, and you can invite the gods to come up.
This god is not the Taoist incense god that the god beats, but a demon spirit such as Wong Tai Sin (weasel) and a little fox fairy, and if it is a yin spirit, such as a deceased person who goes on his body in order to interact with his family, this is a more common psychic witch in Europe and the United States.
These statements were just a buzz at the beginning. It can be used in this world, but it seems to fit very well. It must be in a state of obscurity for living beings to have a chance to access the Yin Spirit Realm.
Therefore, from this point of view, if the SAN value is too low, it is not necessarily a bad thing, it depends on whether there is preparation, whether there is technology, whether it is active and voluntary, or passive and helpless.
"The legendary people are not human, ghosts are not ghosts, walking a tightrope is dangerous, but it has a strange charm......"
Zhao Wenrui thought so. In fact, he already had a vague feeling that his ash oath, if he could fuse some laws and objects in the Yin Spirit Realm, would turn on an extremely dangerous, but also extremely powerful path......