Chapter 194: Demon Books

Leo, who was already ready, officially entered this broken city full of twisted buildings, but at the same time as entering the city, he was worried that the spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual network would touch something bad, so he did not use the spiritual network to check the surrounding situation, but only relied on the auxiliary brain system to record the terrain to adjust the walking route.

However, he soon discovered that the parabrain system was also redundant in recording the terrain, and as Charles Ronco had previously said, the terrain here was disordered and chaotic.

In the previous moment, Leo observed the surrounding terrain recorded with the naked eye, and when he walked in the city, he found that the terrain had changed, even if he just turned around, the buildings, roads, and so on in front of him would be different from before he turned around.

The only fixed bearing sign is the striking black sun overhead, like the Earth's North Star.

Faced with this situation, Leo did not have the idea of looking for a shortcut, but followed the experience left by his predecessors, using the black sun as a directional sign, and walked straight ahead.

As he walked, Leo repeatedly ventured into the buildings lining the streets to see if he could find some information about the city.

However, instead of finding the information he was looking for, he found some books left over from civilizations related to the city.

As recorded in the materials, each layer of the world in the Great Library is the last knowledge base of the fallen civilization, and you can find civilization books related to the current world everywhere here.

When Leo entered the first building, he found the books of this civilization, which were completely different from books in the regular sense, they were all demon heads. The heads of these demons are all strangely shaped, the only thing in common is that they all have horns, and each revealed represents all the knowledge that this head has before its death, and the more horns revealed and larger, the more knowledge contained in the skull.

Reading the knowledge inside these skulls is also very simple, just reach out and touch the Dao head, and then use your own spiritual energy to activate the hidden power in the skull, then the person who touches it will be able to obtain all the knowledge recorded in the skull. Moreover, this knowledge is not transmitted to the toucher in words and language, but allows the toucher to know the content of the knowledge directly, as if he knew it in the first place.

It's a pity that this demonic knowledge is either some confusing information, or some recipes and the like, such as how that creature cooks deliciously, etc., and more of some simple killing intent. If it weren't for the parabrain system to isolate these killing thoughts, I'm afraid Leo would have been affected by it, and he would either become irritable and murderous, or he would have become a killing madman altogether.

For Leo, the only thing that could be useful was a demon skull. This demon skull is less distorted than the other skulls, and looks more like a human skull overall, except that the eye sockets, nostrils, and mouth are much larger than the human skull, and the difference from other skulls is that this skull has a Turing root symbol engraved on its forehead.

Leo found a total of three of these demon heads, each of which passed on different knowledge to him, two of which were memories of a war, in which Leo could only see the whole world shrouded in various demons, and the demon to which the head belonged could only swing the flame weapon in his hand and frantically kill everything around him, including his companions.

Although this simple killing memory has already had some adverse effects on Leo's mind, the killing instinct contained in the memory is well integrated into Leo's body, allowing him to obtain a psionic talent that can be summarized by the auxiliary brain system.

The role of this ability seems to overlap somewhat with the will to fight in the psionic talent, which is the ability to quickly master and master any skill related to killing. But if you think about it carefully, you can find that there are some complementary points, because the will to fight is only for cold weapons and hot weapons, and has no effect on supernatural forces such as witchcraft, but the killing instinct is different, and all the abilities related to killing are included in it, and witchcraft such as berserk runes and air hammers are no exception.

In addition to accidentally gaining a psionic talent, one of the remaining demon heads also brought Leo an important message, which was a ball of flame. Leo didn't know what this flame was or what it was, but he knew from the information that it was important to survive in the ruined capital when darkness came.

Although the knowledge transmitted by the demon head is not dangerous in itself, the process of transmission is dangerous, and this danger cannot be detected by ordinary people, only Leo can see from his personal data interface that when he receives knowledge from the head, his will daily value is slowly decreasing, and the item detection results given by the auxiliary brain system are a series of question marks and garbled characters.

In addition, these demon skulls are very hard, it is difficult to destroy them, and the only way to destroy the heads is to turn the twins into sacrificial knife mode, but Leo did not destroy all the heads he saw, but only picked out a few long horns in the shape of a dagger from the skulls he found, and cut off the long horns to act as daggers.

Leo wasted his time and energy doing these things because he had discovered that these heads had a strong conductive effect on psionic energy, and that psionic energy could be injected into them with little to no loss of time and could be transmitted directly to the other end.

Leo's own psionic skills may not be able to use this kind of psionic conduction, but some of the witchcraft he masters, especially some enchanted witchcraft, such as sharp arts, berserk runes and other witchcraft, can be used on this demonic material.

Just like now, he cuts off the demon's horns and acts as a dagger, and when necessary, he uses enchantment or attack sorcery on the horned dagger, not only can it be successfully cast, but also because of the special effect of the twin fists, the effect of the witchcraft will be increased to varying degrees.

Along the way, Leo counted through the auxiliary brain system that he had been walking in the city for more than nine hours, and according to his travel speed, he had walked at least hundreds of miles, but from the perspective of the black sun and shadows above his head, he was more like standing still for nine hours.

It's just that Leo knows very well that in this world, you can't judge your position by light and shadow, location and other information, and the only reliable thing is the energy activity around you. Although there is no fixed constant, Leo is able to clearly understand that the energy activity around him has at least doubled compared to the beginning, which shows that his current position is different from before.

"Huh!" said Leo as he passed an arch-like building, when he suddenly felt something pass him, but he was very sure that there was no living thing around him.

"Activate Psiness!" With no abnormalities visible to the naked eye, Leo ordered the vice-brains to activate the psionic skills.

At the moment when the vision was activated, a vague white figure appeared in front of him, and he saw this figure constantly walking through the arch, as if it was playing a three-dimensional effect on a loop.

"Black-robed wizard Riese?" Although the white figure was very blurry, Leo could still tell from several main features of his body and the details of his clothing that this white figure should be the black-robed wizard Risser.

The parabrain system quickly analyzed what was causing the situation and passed it on to Leo. After seeing the answer, Leo couldn't help but say to himself, "Is this an overlapping parallel plane?"

According to the Vicebrain's analysis, this situation is due to the overlapping planes where the city is located, which means that although Leo and the others entered this demon library from the entrance to the ruined capital, the plane world they are in is not the same.

The attentive Leo also found from the plane image projected by the black-robed wizard Riser that his condition did not seem to be very good, judging from his movements, he looked very flustered, as if he was running away from something, and he was also injured.

Unable to get more useful information from this image, Leo continued to walk towards the dark sun, not knowing if it was because the appearance of the image represented a signal of some kind of change in the rules of the world, after walking a distance, he found that the sky had become a little darker, and the sulfur gas around him had become stronger, the energy had become chaotic, and the dust on the ground had decreased.

At this moment, Leo suddenly saw a flash of fire appear in front of him, and this fire reminded him of a message he had obtained from the demon's head, so he quickly walked towards the firelight, and at the same time held the two long-horned daggers in his hands, ready to deal with possible attacks.

The flash of fire came from a ruined building, the roof of which had been destroyed, leaving only a few walls, but oddly the style of the building was very different from the other twisted buildings around it. This building is more like the kind of religious building in the world of Velon, the walls are all made of large rocks, and the surface is carved with reliefs, even if the reliefs are now worn out so that they can't see the original appearance clearly, but from some small details, it can still be seen that these should have been some religious reliefs.

Leo was about to climb over the broken wall, but somehow he felt a sense of danger in the middle of the process, thinking that if he did so, he would cause something bad.

So, according to the normal method, he put his hand on the bronze door that he didn't know if it could be pushed open, and pressed slightly.

The two bronze gates, which should have been very heavy, were unusually light, and it took Leo almost no effort to push them open and step into the building.

It was only at the moment of stepping into the building that Leo suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong with him, because under normal circumstances, the remaining walls and bronze doors should be able to block the fire inside the building, and it is impossible for people outside to see the fire here. But the fact that he was sure that the fire was in the building from the beginning to the end, and completely ignored common sense such as the walls blocking the view, which was a strange situation.

However, after feeling a little confused, Leo put the matter aside for the time being, because the situation in front of him was what he needed to pay attention to.

I saw that the interior of this building was very empty, judging from the remaining traces, it should have been a very grand church-like building at first, and there should have been a statue of the god standing there on the front of the bronze gate, but now the statue has turned into a pile of rubble, and only a pair of feet of the statue can maintain the general appearance.

In the center of the church, a huge golden container with a dark golden flame burning, and around the container sat three old women dressed as nuns.

What really caught Leo's attention was the nun clothes on the three old women, he knew this kind of nun clothes, they were all the grandmother clothes of the Lord of the Sky Church in the world of Veron, and this kind of dress was of a high level, with his knowledge of the Lord of the Sky Church, only the Holy Lady of the Church was qualified to wear this costume.

But Leo remembered that since the first industrial reform in the world of Velen appeared and the Church of the Lord of the Sky was merged into the Orthodox Church, the Church of the Lord of the Sky had abolished the position of Holy Lady, and this special set of grandmother clothes was naturally sealed in the warehouse.

Now there are three old women dressed in the same holy maiden costumes in the weird world of the waste capital, sitting around a mysterious brazier, which makes people feel an inexplicable sense of weirdness.

Leo tightened the horned dagger in his hand and walked towards the three old women with their heads bowed.

Just as Leo was about to walk to the container, one of the old women suddenly raised his head, looked at Leo, and said, "Is there anyone here again?" It smells so strange, it's a living person, but it smells of a dead person. ”

The other old woman also raised her head to look at Leo at this time, and said, "Is he ashes?"

The last old woman also raised her head, looked at Leo, and said in a slightly disappointed tone, "He's not ashes. ”

I saw that the three old women in front of me looked exactly the same, their faces were also full of wrinkles, and their eyes were all left with only eye sockets, without eyeballs, and they looked similar to three ordinary blind old women.

However, Leo didn't care about the appearance of the three of them at the moment, but about the language used by the three of them, all of them spoke Gamore, but the pronunciation of the language they used was slightly different from the Gamorite pronunciation he had learned from the old man Rembrandt. Although the difference is not very big, but after saying it, it gives people a completely different feeling, in comparison, the Gamoree language used by the three old ladies makes people feel very mysterious and noble, while the Gamoree language that Leo himself learned is like a common saying in the market, and the opinion is immediate.

Although he was facing three old women who seemed to have difficulty moving, and the three old women did not have any spiritual energy fluctuations, let alone danger, Leo still did not put down the weapons in his hands, but after he stopped, he saluted the three old women according to the etiquette of the Lord of the Sky Church, and said in the Gamoree language he knew: "Leo Traveler, I have seen three elders. ”

"Priest!" Hearing Leo's words, the three old women all showed surprised expressions, and said in unison, "My lord's priest?"