Fear, panic...... Pondering, fearing......

After a series of mental journeys, Leo slowly calmed down.

The dream world has fought so many times to the death, making his mind much tougher than ordinary people.

Now that it has happened, it is useless to complain.

Instead of complaining, it is better to hurry up and find a solution.

What's more, his current situation is far from the most critical moment.

Although the [Current Status] column of the character panel is marked with "Distortion (Deep Dyeed 1%)", unlike the monsters he has seen in the dream world, Leo does not have any sense of his own mental will being affected.

He carefully recalled everything from the first time he entered the dream world to the present, and everything was done out of his own will or need, and was not disturbed or affected by the will of others.

In other words, the distortion did not have much of an impact on him.

Probably.

It's these eyes, it's a little tricky.

You can't go back to the real world and still have such a pair of scarlet and blood-like eyes.

Wouldn't it be too far-fetched to use contact lenses as an excuse?

Alas, if there is really no way, there is no choice but to do it.

Leo sighed heavily.

He lifted his head and looked in a certain direction.

Next, he was going to conduct a very important experiment, one, an experiment on the effect of distortion on him.

The test site was the small village that he had just observed with a telescope at the end of the roof of the windmill.

Of course, before that, the two remaining small windmill houses need to be scavenged.

Ten minutes later, Leo walked in a north-west direction towards Bourne's Farm.

The two small windmill houses contained only a few moldy grains, and nothing that could cause a reaction from the character panels.

The dilapidated village, let's call it this small village with only broken eaves and broken walls for the time being.

The dilapidated village is about 7 or 800 meters away from Bourne's farm, which is quite close, and perhaps this small village was established by farmers who relied on Bourne's farm for survival a long time ago.

With the telescope in hand, Leo was able to eliminate the interference of the gray fog from a certain distance to his vision, and by observing in advance, he could not worry about a monster suddenly jumping out of the gray fog to attack him, making him travel much faster.

Less than three minutes had passed, and Leo had arrived at the gate of the dilapidated village.

At this distance, even without a telescope, the gray fog was not too thick, and with the naked eye, he could see roughly things within a radius of fifty meters.

Speaking of which, since the [Soul Fire Brightness] reached 3.1, his visual distance in the gray mist was much larger, and he still remembered that his visual distance at the beginning was only a dozen meters.

Standing at the gate of the village, at a glance, three or two farmer monsters carrying farm tools were wandering among the broken eaves.

Leo, who was not in a very good mood, pulled out the long sword at his waist with a "bang", and the dark gray sword body reflected a blurry luster under the light of the blood moon looming in the sky.

After more than ten seconds, Leo, who had vented on the three farmer monsters, breathed a long sigh of relief, and the emotions that had been suppressed were slightly relieved.

Watching the three "broken" corpses dissipate in front of his eyes, Leo looked at the character panel to see how absorbing the souls of the three lowest-level peasant monsters would cause changes in the status bar.

——

【Absorbing Broken Souls (1)*3......】

[Soul Fire Color: Dark Gray]

[Soul Flame Brightness: 3.1]

[Current Status: Healthy, Distorted (1% Darkened)]

[Acquired Skills: Storm Sword Technique (Master 168/300), Royal Sword Skill (Master 105/300)]

——

Absorbed 3 copies of the lowest level "Broken Souls (1)" without any changes in the character panel.

No, the same can't be said either.

In the character "Distortion (1% Darkened)", "1%" flickers slightly, and Leo clicks on "1%".

Suddenly, the "1%" changed and expanded backwards to become "1.01%".

Leo closed his eyes and quietly felt the changes in his body.

It was only a moment later that he opened his eyes, a thoughtful look in them.

The deepening of the degree of distortion erosion did not make him feel anything special, perhaps because the degree of deepening was too low.

The souls of the three Farmer Monsters, the three lowest copies of "Broken Souls (1)", will increase the degree of aberration erosion by 0.01%.

This coincided with a certain idea in Leo's mind.

In his estimation, if he wants to increase the [Soul Fire Brightness] by absorbing "Broken Soul (1)", he will need about 300 copies of "Broken Soul (1)" for every 0.01 increase.

If you say, every 0.01 increase in [Soul Fire Brightness] means that the degree of his aberration erosion is deepened by "1".

Does that mean that when his [Soul Fire Brightness] increases to around 6.0, it will be the time when the erosion level reaches "100%"?

At that time, the degree of distortion erosion will further intensify, and what will become of him after becoming a [deberant]?

After a brief pause, Leo smiled.

[Soul Fire Brightness] 6.0, it's still early......

As the brightness of the soul fire increases, it becomes more and more difficult to improve.

Defeating the Viscount of Evil Fall absorbed a "Missing Soul (1)", which increased his [Soul Fire Brightness] from more than 2 points to 3.1, but Leo had a hunch that if he was allowed to absorb another "Missing Soul (1)" at this time, his [Soul Fire Brightness] would never increase by more than 0.2.

Above and below 3.0, the difficulty of raising is very different.

But on the other hand, for every 0.1 increase, you can feel a noticeable increase.

Before the [Soul Fire Brightness] increased to 6.0, it was the time for him to find the time to curb the erosion of the distortion, and even get rid of the distortion and return to normal.

The only way to find this is to find the alchemist of Jör, Goode Laven.

In the underground laboratory of Bourne Farm, Leo once found the [Goode Laven's manuscript (mutilated)], and a piece of information recorded in it made him pay attention to it.

That is, the Pure-Blood Ritual, and the Soul Purification Ritual, two magical rituals that are said to resist the erosion of aberration.

In the past, the city of Joel was created by pure-blood rituals to fight against aberrations, and even in the end, the lord of the city, Count Alexander, led the pure-blood knights composed of pure-blood knights to launch a crusade against the [deviants] in the northern part of Joel City.

From the current situation of the destruction of Byrne's Farm and the Ninth Church of Marym, it can be inferred that Count Alexander's crusade many years ago should have failed.

But it is undeniable that the pure-blood ritual is indeed able to resist the erosion of aberration.