Chapter 364: A Different Place of Trials
When Leo and his party were ready, they walked towards the Giant's Gate, just like the people of the White Order before them.
When he came to the Giant's Gate, Leo immediately felt a strong suction force coming from the door, pulling him inside, he did not resist, let this force pull him through the door, after experiencing a sense of weightlessness, he felt the weight again, but the scene around him had changed, and he came to a place that was both familiar and strange to him, the place where everything ended.
"How did you get here?" Leo frowned as he watched the ashes fall from the sky. Before, he thought that the so-called trial place for entering the Black City was in a certain city area of the Black City, but what he didn't expect was to come to the end of everything.
"Something is wrong!" But Leo's face quickly changed, and he took out the necklace that the female leader had given him before, felt the spiritual energy fluctuations in it, and tried the chip attached to the back of his ear, and found that both things were out of order, and he could not feel the location of the elder of the White Order through the necklace, nor could he contact others through the chip. If it's not that the distance between them is too far away and it's beyond the scope of the two items, it's that he is not personally in the trial area of the Black City.
Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but take out the phalanx of the ash butterfly he had obtained earlier, and saw that at this moment, this phalange was emitting bursts of subtle light, as if he was sending some signal.
It's just that there is no Ash Butterfly in the place where everything ends now, he is not in the ruins of the sea full of the ruins of a lost civilization, but in a strange-looking jungle.
The jungle was shrouded in an endless gray mist, there were no shrubs in the jungle, only a shallow layer of weeds that looked like they were carved out of stone, and countless trees that resembled banyan trees were scattered everywhere you could see, and if you looked closely, you would see that the trunks of these banyan trees had a human face with their eyes closed.
Leo wasn't in a hurry to get out of here, because he knew very well that if he walked around blindly here, it would probably make things worse, and all he had to do now was identify his position and find the direction to leave.
Alice didn't tell Leo how to pass the trial, and maybe they didn't know it themselves, which made Leo have no idea how to get out of here, but it was clear that in this forest, there was something that didn't want to see Leo standing like this.
There was a rustling sound around me, and it felt like there were a lot of reptiles approaching.
When Leo heard the strange noise, he immediately turned the twins into cross-swords, and at the same time, he took out a few previously made runes and mechanical traps from the storage space and arranged them in the right places.
It didn't take long for some spiders to crawl out of the gray fog, and it was not correct to say that they were spiders, because the bodies of these spiders were all heads with their faces facing up, and these heads contained both human heads, monster heads, and many of the heads of alien races that Leo knew.
The human-headed spider that rushed out of the gray mist had no intention of stopping, and rushed directly towards Leo, but the mechanical traps and rune traps arranged by Leo's sight around him all played a role, especially the soul bonfire rune trap, which directly ignited all the nearby insects like firewood, and these ignited monsters would quickly turn into ashes, and provide stronger power to the soul bonfire rune trap, increasing the power and range of the trap.
Compared to the Soul Campfire Rune Trap, the effect of other traps is obviously much weaker, especially the mechanical trap, although the trap shrapnel can easily tear those human-headed spiders, but after the human-headed spider is torn, the split limbs will turn into two smaller human-headed spiders in a short period of time, and continue to attack Leo.
Facing these human-headed spiders, Leo quickly swung the cross sword in his hand, slicing each approaching spider into two pieces, and slowly leaned towards the location of the Soul Bonfire Rune Trap.
Perhaps because of the special power of the Twins, all of the human-headed spiders cut by the Twins Cross Sword were undoubtedly unable to split into two smaller instances like their counterparts split by mechanical traps, but remained in a sliced shape, and did not die, let alone recover.
Although there are a lot of these head spiders, it may be difficult for ordinary people to survive in the spider tide, but Leo's own physical fitness and cross sword swordsmanship after several evolutions are enough to deal with such an attack, even if they fight for a few days and nights, they can hold on, and now with the assistance of the soul bonfire rune trap, these head spiders have no possibility of regeneration, making the so-called crisis in front of them extremely easy.
Although the human-headed spider is ferocious, it is not really endless, and after the situation has been stalemate for about ten minutes, the follow-up human-headed spiders gradually decreased, and finally all disappeared. In addition to the human-headed spiders that had been burned to ashes by the Soul Bonfire Rune Trap, all that remained were the remains of the spiders that had been cut in half by Leo and had not yet died.
At this time, Leo found that after burning a large number of human-headed spiders, there were changes in the soul bonfire rune trap that had not been seen before, and he did not know about it, only to see that in the soul bonfire rune trap, in addition to condensing some soul crystals, there was also an extra flame that only spiritual vision could see.
Leo didn't feel the danger in the flames, so he tried to reach over and touch it, and found that although his body did not feel the temperature of the flames, his soul felt a warmth that could not be described in words.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but he felt that his soul seemed to have undergone some changes under the effect of this warm feeling.
In the past, Leo always felt that his emotions, thoughts, and other mental things were a little uncontrollable, taking curiosity as an example, and Alice's cooperation, if it was decided according to Leo's nature, he would not agree to this cooperation without knowing the whole picture of the matter and collecting enough information, but he did not make a rational decision to refuse to cooperate, but was driven by curiosity and agreed to cooperate without hesitation, which is obviously contrary to Leo's cyborg character.
Now Leo felt that his original uncontrollable emotions seemed to have become a lot more docile after he came into contact with the flames, he was still thinking about whether he should take this opportunity to explore the secrets of the end of everything a moment ago, but now he has begun to rationally want to leave here as soon as possible and return to the black city, before and after are completely different attitudes.
It's just that maintaining this flame requires soul crystals around the soul campfire, and it consumes a lot, and soon there are only a few fist-sized soul crystals left.
Although Leo wanted to keep the flames going, the soul crystals also had an effect on him, and they could also be used to arrange new soul campfire runes if necessary, so he could only dispel the soul campfire rune trap, pick up the soul crystals on the ground, and receive them in the storage space.
Just as Leo was checking how many rune traps could be used in the storage space and the materials used to make the rune traps, the crystal magic book that had been stored in the storage space and had not been touched suddenly shone with bursts of light, and it was the soul crystals that had just been sent to the storage space that caused the abnormality.
It's just that Leo is a little puzzled that he used to put the soul crystals produced by the soul bonfire in the storage space, but the crystallization magic book did not show any abnormality, and now the same item makes it resonate, so the reason for this kind of agricultural name is probably not only the soul crystal stone, but the surrounding environment should also be one of the reasons.
To confirm his suspicions, Leo took the Crystal Magic Book and a Soul Crystal out of the storage space, placed them on his left and right hands, and then tried to touch each other.
The moment the two items touched each other, a burst of intense white light immediately shone on the surface of the crystallized magic book, but soon the white light disappeared, along with the soul crystal.
If it were an ordinary person, he might think that the mutation caused by the crystallized magic book was just a white light, but Leo, who had extraordinary observation powers, discovered that there was something in the white light, so he tried to call the flashback function in the language chip behind his ear to recall the temporary memory of the moment generated by the white light just now, so as to discover what was hidden in the white light.
"Soul gun. Leo sorted out the contents and found that it was a kind of witchcraft that he had never heard of before, and he directly attacked the soul, and no matter how calm he was, he couldn't help but show a surprised expression on his face.
Because he remembered that all the witchcraft books he had read did not contain a kind of witchcraft that could be used to attack spirits directly. For example, the Soul Bonfire Rune is only a passive attack on the soul, and it must only be a soul, like a living person, it cannot be effective at all.
But the soul gun is different, this witchcraft can directly kill the soul, whether the soul is in the body of a living creature or not, and it can be cast instantaneously like the witcher's magic seal, and only requires a little spiritual energy.
This means that if he faces some powerful physical beings, he also has attack methods to deal with these powerful existences, and even fight back.
In the excitement, Leo tried his best to calm down, and carefully looked at the method of casting the soul gun, but after reading it, he felt a little disappointed, because he found that there must be a prerequisite for casting the soul gun, that is, soul crystals, otherwise, to cast this witchcraft, he needs to provide the special power needed to cast the soul gun at the cost of his own soul.
Although it is mentioned in the relevant content that casting the soul gun with one's own soul does not exceed the limit of the soul, it will not cause damage to the caster, at most, there will be mental exhaustion after casting the spell, and you only need to rest for a few days to recover the original state.
But Leo couldn't believe these claims, because after all, it involved the soul, and any witchcraft that affected the soul could not really be harmless, at least from all the books he had seen about witchcraft and the occult.
In addition, Leo also found that there seems to be room for subsequent evolution of this witchcraft, because at the end of the witchcraft description, there is a sentence that may have been left by the old man of the crystal, mentioning that the strength of the soul determines the essence of the soul gun, and the quality of the soul crystal determines the power of the soul gun.
If Leo guessed correctly, the strength of the previous soul should refer to the caster's soul strength, or it can be said to be the caster's psionic level, as long as the psionic's level is high enough, then the soul gun cast will also become different.
As for the soul crystals, this reminded Leo of the two parasite mutant Veren heroes he encountered in the White City, who had left different soul crystals after being burned by the soul campfire rune.
Thinking of this, Leo also felt the preciousness of the soul crystals, and couldn't help but regret a little regret that he had burned so many soul crystals with the flames created by the soul bonfire rune just now, and if he kept those soul crystals, he would have a lot more means to fight the enemy.
"Why don't you stay here any longer?" a thought popped into Leo's mind, but at the same time as this thought was generated, his instinct warned him that if he continued to stay, he might encounter unexpected trouble.
Although Leo felt that it would be more beneficial for him to continue to stay here for a while and attract some human-headed spiders to create soul crystals, he also believed in his instinctive feelings, because when the psionics evolved to the fifth level, they already had some perceptions similar to premonitions, especially when it was related to their own safety, this premonition became more and more intense, and in the Earth Federation, no psyker would ignore this crisis perception, because anyone who ignored the crisis perception would eventually encounter all kinds of accidents.
Leo chose to follow his instinctive perception, made a quick gesture to the battlefield, and then no longer relied on rational judgment, but with vague perception judgment, he chose the direction that made him feel most relaxed, and walked into the gray mist, walking through the jungle full of various strange trees.
Just like in the jungle outside, there are all kinds of dangers hidden in the jungle here, in addition to the human-headed spider seen before, there are also all kinds of strange-shaped monsters, such as a large snake with a head completely bone, Leo spent a little effort to kill this giant snake whose strength is comparable to that of a fifth-level psionics.
It's just that like the jungle, there are also a lot of resources here, because all the monsters he solves will turn into ashes after death, and there will always be some things left in the ashes, some are psionic substances that can be used to make various wizard strange objects and rune traps, and some are soul crystals, all in all, his storage space has been replenished with a lot of psionic materials, and there is no need to worry about materials in a short period of time.
Through the timing function of the chip behind the ear, Leo walked for about four hours, and the surrounding jungle remained unchanged, but the ground had changed somewhat, from the weedy and dirt floor of the primitive jungle to a relatively flat ground, which looked like there were many traces of manual trampling, and then found some bricks and stones laid on the ground, and he realized that he should have come to the edge of the jungle, and was about to see the remains of a lost civilization.