Standing in front of them was a majestic mountain, the summit of which reached into the sky.

Clouds and mist surround it.

The entire peak has a volcanic appearance, like a flat cylinder, and is thickly covered with dense green vegetation.

Kane and the others stood at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the mountain peak in front of them.

At the foot of the mountain, at this time, there were dense spirits everywhere around them, and they felt that there was already a gathering place of human beings in front of them.

However, Kane had probed slightly, and there was not a trace of human footprints on the entire mountain.

There has never been a sign of human survival, and this is truly off the beaten track.

But even in the area where the foot of the mountain has not had time to climb the mountain, there are already so many spirits.

There are no more spirits around the gathering place of man.

"Your goal is at the top of this mountain?"

Kane asked, looking at Umberto next to him.

Umberto's expression was also a little surprised, and he stood at the foot of the mountain and looked at his surroundings, looking at the summit of this mountain.

Hearing Kane's question, he nodded vigorously.

"My instincts did lead me to the top of the mountain, which should be Hachime."

Judging by his expression, he seemed to recognize the mountain.

"You know? Or have you ever been to this mountain? ”

Umberto shook his head at Kane's question.

Looking at the mountain, he said, "I know that this mountain is very famous in our circles, especially after the world was shattered.

But I've never been to this mountain, you know, we don't have a sense of direction, and we can't be here unless there's what we need or what needs us. ”

Then he began to tell the story based on what he knew from memory.

"Hutchime Mountain is probably the most famous area around here, especially after the world was shattered."

"In the records, Mount Hachime is also known as the Nest of Spirits, where almost all spirits can be seen, even the very rare spirits, which are difficult to see in the outside world."

As he spoke, he pointed to a ring-like spirit floating around beside him.

"This is the first time I've seen this spirit, and I've seen it in books before."

"So even now, when the world is broken and almost all the spirits are gathered around the gathering place of the human race, there are still spirits gathered here."

With that, Umberto turned his head and stared at the few people.

"It also means that it can be dangerous."

Then he stared at the eyes of several people looking at them, and turned his head helplessly.

"Well, no matter how dangerous it is, it can't be dangerous for you."

With that, he went straight to the top of the mountain.

Kane: They shrugged their shoulders and followed.

"I have to say that there are indeed a lot of spirits here."

Claire looked around and said, they had just started walking from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside.

The spirits around him had already begun to increase, and almost the entire tree was filled with all kinds of small but glowing creatures.

Kane: They had passed through several gathering places, and they had never seen a single gathering place with such a density of spirits around it.

However, at this time, the part that is just at the foot of the mountain has such a density.

They continue to climb upwards.

Perhaps the density of spirits has reached a certain limit, and even if they make it all the way to the mountainside, the number of spirits does not necessarily increase, but there are many larger spirits.

Previously, most of the spirits were probably the size of the thumb, or at most the size of the index finger.

And now all kinds of fist-sized spirits will appear around them from time to time.

According to Umberto, the strength of the spirit is directly proportional to his size.

The spirits around there are all relatively powerful.

As you go up the mountainside, the road becomes steeper.

In order to keep their speed of travel, Kane waved his hand directly, and directly created a gentle slope to crawl in the popular place.

In this way, mountaineering becomes a hill climbing.

The surrounding spirits have completely become the size of fists, and even the size of a skull can be seen from time to time.

The higher they go, the stronger their spiritual strength becomes, and it seems that the closer they get to the top, the better they can live.

It can already be felt that these spirits seem to have a certain amount of wisdom and are no longer acting on instinct.

Kane: As they passed by, they could feel the spirits watching them as if they had eyes.

Of course, they just watched like this, and didn't do anything drastic.

"It's the first time I've been here, so I didn't expect it to be like this."

Umberto looked at the situation around him and couldn't help but say.

Because of the special nature of the spiritual doctor, even if this place is very famous and desirable, he has never been there.

These powerful spirits made him want to stop and study, but there were too many of them.

And by feeling, these spirits shouldn't be so quiet for him to study, so forget it.

Thinking of this, Umberto suddenly squatted down, opened the wooden box behind him, and took out a relatively old looking book from the bottom floor.

Then he took out his homemade charcoal pen and began to write and draw on it.

As he walked, he observed the spirits around him, and then flipped through the books, adding a stroke here and drawing there.

Seeing this, Kane walked from behind.

Each page of the book is painted with different spirits, and the drawings are still very easy to recognize, mainly because these spirits are relatively simple, as if simple lines are randomly combined.

It seems to be more perfunctory.

At the bottom of the painting are various introductions.

Self-made Spiritual Guide?

And now Umberto is taking advantage of the rare opportunity to supplement the patterns on the scroll.

After a few glances, Kane looked away with disinterest.

It's not that he's not interested, it's that he now has a more elaborate electronic illustrated book.

Because the yoyo under his feet is constantly scanning the surrounding situation.

Technology changes lives.

Bang!

As they approached the summit, a slender white silk flew from the side and struck the dirt in front of them.

A huge crater was directly punched out of the stone ground in front of him, and the mud and sand splashed around him.

Faced with this situation, they stopped.

"Looks like there's something that doesn't want us to continue climbing."

Looking at the pothole not far away, Kane said with a smile.

"It's the guardian of this mountain, I've heard others say that it seems that even the mountainside began to be unable to walk."

Umberto said from the side.

At this time, Lombe scratched the beard on his chin and walked directly to the front of the team.

Seeing this, Kane just smiled and followed.

Umberto opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed his mouth and followed.

Shout!

The white cloth ribbon flew over again, extremely fast, but still did not aim at Lombe to strike, but hit straight in front of Lombe, maybe only a meter or two away from him.

Once again, a stone pit had been carved out of the ground, and the pit was surrounded by a thin layer of hoarfrost.

It made them feel a cold breath around them, a bit like a cold winter wind.

Lombe looked at the last warning in front of him, and then continued without hesitation.

When Lombe stepped forward again, Bai Aya didn't spare his hand this time, and slammed directly into Kane's body.

There was a sound of breaking through the air.

With a crisp sound.

It's like a cloth belt, hit on top of steel, and has no effect.

Lombey's body didn't shake for a moment, and even the hoarfrost that came with the attack didn't have any effect on his body.

There was no point in this attack.

Lombe still doesn't stop.

The white satin began to grow from one to several, and then even to a dozen, and flew from all around, striking at Lumbe's body.

It's as if you want to win by quantity.

However, as if he didn't feel it, Lombe continued to walk forward.

From time to time, he reached out and grabbed the place where he was hit.

"It's a little itchy."

At this moment, Kane waved his hand, and the transparent shroud shrouded them, and all the white satin was blocked out.

To be honest, if they keep attacking Lombe like this, it will affect their vision a bit.

Seeing this, the white satin stopped attacking.

Then, right in front of them, a spirit condensed.

A humanoid spirit about 1.5 meters tall began to condense.

Eventually, as the changes began, the facial features began to appear, until they completely transformed into a human form.

She became a little girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in some kind of religious clothing, and her black hair was draped all the way to her waist.

The delicate face is expressionless and the eyes are empty.

Staring at them with a numb, empty expression.

"Stop, stop, stop......"

The voice was hollow without any ups and downs, and kept repeating the words that had stopped.

Kane looked at the situation, turned his head to look at Umberto, and asked, "Is there such a spirit?" Can you become human? ”

Umberto shook his head: "There are so many spirits in the world, I can't know them all, only those related to people will affect people, I may know better." ”

"That looks like it's going to be forced to break in."

Kane shrugged helplessly.

Hearing this, Longbei stopped grinding and walked directly towards the peak, completely ignoring the girl in front of him.

Seeing that these people in front of her completely ignored her words, the girl also closed her mouth, and then turned into clouds of light and dispersed.

The whole mountain began to shake.

"Why do these spirits always like to do things like earthquakes?"

Kane said helplessly, then stomped his foot, and the entire mountain immediately stopped shaking.

In this way, they made it all the way to the summit without hindrance.

Nothing happened along the way, trying to stop them.

It seems that these spirits have given up and want to stop their thoughts.

When they came to the top of the mountain.

The entire summit of the mountain is hollowed out in the middle in the shape of a bowl, and the middle part is like a volcanic vent.

But there was a relatively large amount of magic coming from below, and of course this was relative to Umberto.

"It should be down there."

Umberto pointed to the place where the depression had gone.

"I think so."

At this time, a dense crowd of spirits appeared around them, and these spirits gathered together.

A giant 10-meter-tall creature resembling a giant appeared in front of them.

The whole shape seems to be made of condensed light clusters.

(End of chapter)