Stepping over the corpse of the steel war horse, Mu You continued to move forward.

After walking through a dark corridor, a staircase appears in one direction.

"It's finally a bit of a tower......" Mu You breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to step up the steps to the second floor, a faint blue light and shadow suddenly hit beside him, like a carriage pulled by some kind of beast, and the latter came first, rushing up the stairs before him, and disappeared into the darkness above.

"What's that?" Mu You looked at the stairs in disbelief. The light and shadow flashed too quickly, and he didn't have a chance to see clearly.

"Finally found you!"

At this moment, a familiar voice sounded behind Mu You.

Mu You subconsciously looked back, there was nothing behind him, and the sound seemed to come from the walls in all directions.

"Don't be nervous, it's me!" The voice came out again, and this time Mu You could be sure that it was the voice of the troubadour.

"The god of lights?"

"It's me." The troubadour's voice said.

"What's going on? Where are you? What about pocket toads and coke? Mu You asked hurriedly.

"As you can see, this passage is the test scene designed by the Pen of Order for the trialists, but this is only the first level, there are many more floors above, and you must pass all the layers to reach the top of the tower to see the magic pen......"

The troubadour's voice said, "As for me and your pet, we were trapped in different spaces after entering the tower, invisible to each other, but we are safe and you don't have to worry." ”

"In addition, I only briefly contacted you by consuming the lamp oil in the magic lamp, I'm afraid I won't last long, I'll try to make a long story short."

Hearing that Coke and Frog were fine, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief and asked again, "What do I need to do next?" ”

"As you did just now, continue to use the Pen of Order to deal with all the monsters in your path, and in battle, familiarize yourself with the rules of Order, and keep killing until you reach the top of the tower......" said the Troubadour.

"How many floors is at the top of the tower?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know?"

"Originally, the lighthouse only had fifty floors, but this place has been transformed beyond recognition by the Pen of Order, and I can't be sure how many floors there are now......"

"What was that light and shadow that rushed past just now?" Mu You asked.

"It's Caesar."

"Caesar? Can he also participate in this trial? Mu You was surprised. Doesn't it mean that the Pen of Order is rejecting Caesar? How could he be allowed to come to the trial?

"The Pen of Order only designed the trial scene, but it could not designate the trial participants, and all humans who enter from outside the tower will automatically be qualified for the trial." The voice said.

"So I have to get to the top of the tower before Caesar?"

"Yes, moreover, Caesar once had a magic pen for a period of time, and his understanding and application of the law of order is far beyond that of you now, and whether you can surpass him in the future depends on how quickly you comprehend the law of order......"

The troubadour's statement suddenly made Mu You feel a sense of urgency, not to mention that there are competitors in this trial, but it is still an opponent whose foundation is far superior to him......

"Don't worry, the speed of time here is different from the outside world, even if you stay here for a year, it will only take a few breaths in the outside world, and you will have enough time to pass the test......"

The troubadour spoke again, his voice beginning to become staccato and "Besides, I can't follow you to the next level, so I'll have to rely on you...... Remember, the magic pen in your hand is your strongest weapon...... With this pen in, you can theoretically do anything here...... Master the ...... as quickly as possible Kill enemies with it...... Method ......"

The sound stopped abruptly.

Mu You waited for a while, but the troubadour's voice never sounded again, and it seemed that the contact had been cut off.

Mu You exhaled, looked at the stairs in front of him, and stepped on it with his feet raised.

"Smack!"

It seems to be a ladder without a top, but the crawling process is short and terrifying.

As soon as he took a step, Mu You came to a new passage.

There are still bluestone walls on both sides, and there is still a blocked road behind him, and everything is almost the same as the previous floor.

The only difference is the monster in front of you.

With the sound of gears rattling, two iron-clad mechanical spiders quickly climbed from the walls on both sides, each more than two meters long.

"It's two ...... this time?"

Mu You frowned, dealing with two monsters at the same time, the difficulty will definitely increase greatly.

Fortunately, the weaknesses of these two monsters are also magnified.

Mu You clenched the brush, and through the perspective of order, the points of disharmony in the two spiders' bodies became two positions: in the joints of the lower abdomen and the left forelimb.

"Shhh

As he observed, one of the two spiders had hissed, raised its front crow, and swooped towards him.

Mu You hurriedly rolled on the spot to dodge, and then took advantage of the gap between the two spiders to immediately get up and fight back.

What he was worried about now was not whether he could solve the two spiders, but how to deal with them without aggravating the injuries, and there was no other way, without backtracking, he could only try to be careful.

Mu You passed over and accurately stabbed the unrounded rune under the spider's back abdomen, like a sharp blade, directly penetrating the rune and dissipating into dust.

But what he didn't expect was that the spider that was stabbed in the 'weak spot' roared wildly, turned red all over, and rushed towards him at a faster speed.

Mu You hurriedly dodged, but he still underestimated the speed of the spider after the rage, he was bitten on his left arm, his left hand was directly bitten off by the spider, and the whole person was knocked out by the huge force more than ten meters away.

Fortunately, his left arm was broken, but Mu You didn't feel much pain, but there was a tingling sensation in the joint of his left arm.

At the same time, in mid-air, the angry hiss of the spider was already ringing in his ears.

Mu You hurriedly jumped up, ready to meet the more violent attack of the next two spiders.

However, when he got up and looked closely, he found that two spiders in the distance were actually entangled together, biting each other.

"Huh?"

Mu You was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized something.

It seems that the 'weakness' that I hit just now is not ineffective, and while that spider is becoming berserk, it seems that it has also become indistinguishable from friend and foe!

Golden opportunity!

Mu You's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed to the front, taking advantage of the scuffle between the two spiders, sneaking around to mend the knife, and stabbing it from time to time.

Under his deliberate counterbalance, the injuries on the two spiders increased evenly, and the speed became slower and slower.

After that, it took nearly half an hour for Mu You to finally drag the two spiders to death completely.

As the two steel spiders fell to the ground with a bang, a staircase appeared again at the end of the passage ahead.

Mu You didn't rush over, but looked at his missing left arm, a little helpless.

This is only the second layer, so he directly lost an arm, and the difficulty of this trial is a little unbelievable.

The most important thing is that he is now a mortal body, and he has no capital to be injured at all.

Mu You was thinking about how to pass the level with only one hand next, and suddenly noticed that the two mechanical spiders that had just died in the distance, from the perspective of runes, the order runes in their bodies did not completely stop circulating like dead things, and a small part of them were still rotating normally.

Mu You hurriedly stepped forward, carefully cut the bodies of the two spiders with a brush, and completely took out the two wriggling rune clusters inside.

From a realistic point of view, these two pieces of meat are just two pieces of ordinary monster meat, which have nothing to do with life at all, but from the perspective of order, these two pieces of meat look like they are alive.

Don't......

Mu You thought for a moment and tried to bring the two pieces of meat closer to his missing left arm.

The next thing that surprised him was that the two runes wriggled on their own, spliced into his joints, and after a burst of deformation, turned into his left arm.

Mu You looked at the regrown left arm in front of him and tried to shake his left hand, but everything was as usual, there was no discomfort at all, and there was even a feeling of being stronger than before.

The only change is from the perspective of order.

Originally, all the runes in Mu You's body were blue and white, but now, all the runes that made up his newly grown left arm were presented as dazzling red.

Not only that, but even the joint that joins the left forearm, a small part of the runes are dyed red.

"What impact will this thing have?"

Mu You frowned, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

He was completely ignorant of the laws of order now, and he didn't understand the meaning of the rune colors.

Theoretically, he can do anything with the pen in his hand, including repairing his body and easily killing all enemies, but the premise of doing this is that he must first master the rules of order and the meaning of each rune.

Mu You recalled the process of killing three monsters before, the first war horse, he hit a 'hook'-shaped rune, which caused the left forefoot of the war horse to be injured, and then when fighting the spider, he hit a vertical rune, which caused the spider to fall into a rage, obviously these two runes are directly related to these two results.

However, this refers to a single rune, and if different runes are connected together, I am afraid that they will have different meanings. The entire rune system of order was like a completely new language, and he now needed to learn this language without any guidance or reference, which would inevitably require a lot of trying.

Mu You misses the pocket watch a little again, if there is a backtracking ability, he can now test the meaning of these runes one by one by infinite trial and error......

Mu You shook his head, no matter what, now that he has finally mastered the way to recover from his injuries, he has a lot less to worry about next.

Moreover, for this trial alone, he doesn't need to fully master the 'language' of order runes, as long as he tests out some general killing methods, and then uses these methods to kill all the way through the level.

Stepping over the corpses of the two spiders, Mu You continued to step up the three stairs.

With a flash of light and shadow, Mu You appeared in the passage on the third floor.

"Click......"

As soon as he entered the third floor, Mu You heard a sound of neat footsteps in front of him.

Looking up, the monsters that came out of the darkness this time were three infantry men in full body iron armor, walking with shields and halberds, but the inside of the helmet was empty, and there was no entity at all, these were just three sets of moving 'iron armor'.

"The third layer is really three ......" Mu You nodded, so it seems that the number of monsters in each layer is equal to the corresponding number of layers.

After seeing Mu You, the three ironclad infantry immediately raised their halberds, erected their shields, put on a defensive posture, and approached him step by step, their movements were uniform.

Mu You didn't delay time, grabbed the brush tightly, took the initiative to rush forward, and began to rush at the three of them, desperately exchanging injuries for injuries to test the effect of each rune.

……

A few minutes later, all three ironclads fell to the ground.

"Destroying the 'Chuan' character can slow down the monster...... and the combination of 'Bu' and 'hook' can cripple the left forelimb ......"

Mu You silently recited the new law he had just discovered, stepped forward and used a brush to cut open the three iron-armored corpses, took out three runes from them, and spliced them on his mutilated body.

As expected, all the injuries healed as if they were fused with the new order runes, but the healing parts turned red again, and the red runes that spread into his body also increased.

Mu You directly ignored it, even if this red rune really had any effect, he couldn't control it now, this was his only means of recovery at the moment.

After three consecutive battles, Mu You already has an idea of how to deal with the next monsters in this tower.

However, it is not enough, he still needs to try more and master more rules.

Next, Mu You began to climb layer by layer.

4th Floor......

Fifth Floor ......

……

All the way up, there are more and more enemies, and the strength is getting stronger and stronger.

Mu You used the rules of injury testing again and again, and then used the order taken out of the monster's body after killing the monster to repair his body damage.

As time went on, Mu You gradually forgot to count the floors, and also forgot to count the number of kills, in short, when an enemy appeared in front of him, he killed one.

And every time he defeats an enemy, he learns one more rule of killing enemies.

As he mastered more and more rules, it became easier for him to kill enemies, but at the same time, the red order rune in his body was also spreading rapidly.

Mu You instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't stop.

Before he even noticed, he had gradually sunk into the feeling of easily destroying his enemies with the pen of order.

This humble brush, but more powerful than all the powers he had before, could effortlessly cut through the strongest shields, and then destroy the order in the enemy's body.

However, it is not enough!

His mastery of the rules of order is far less than the speed at which floors are raised.

As the floor continued to rise, the enemy became stronger and stronger, and the resistance encountered by Mu You became stronger and stronger, until he could no longer advance an inch.

Until the passage of a certain floor, Mu You couldn't count the number of floors here, in short, poisonous snakes spit out letters around him.

Mu You had slaughtered the poisonous snakes that rushed over as fast as possible, but he still often took care of one or the other, and the poisonous snakes jumped from various tricky angles, clinging to him, biting at him, and constantly tearing off his flesh and blood.

The pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow suddenly came like a tide, and the toxins entered the body, and Mu You only felt that his vision was blurred and his consciousness was chaotic.

The sound of the poisonous snakes spitting out letters around them was like a tape recorder without power, and the scenery in front of them was constantly distorting and moving away.

Mu You felt that his spirit and soul had been completely stripped away, and the long-pent-up resentment and anger in his heart were all hooked out, and a picture seemed to appear in front of him, which was two years ago, on the day of his parents' car accident, he saw the cold, mutilated bodies of his parents in the morgue......

At the same time, the poisonous snakes around him seemed to have turned into a terrible ghost, like the impermanence of life, constantly pestering him, laughing wildly in his ear: You are the next one to go to hell!

"Damn it's you!"

Mu You's eyes suddenly turned red, and out of nowhere, he burst out of strength, reached out and grabbed a snake in front of his neck, brought it to his mouth, and bit it down.

The snake suffered from pain, struggled frantically, and bit him on the left eye, biting off his eyeball.

Mu You didn't notice it, he kneaded the poisonous snake that had bitten him into a ball, and roughly stuffed it into his missing left eye, and his left eye instantly recovered to its original state.

Mu You followed up and grabbed another one, continued to tear and bite, and then stuffed it into the mutilated parts of his body......

As he continued to kill poisonous snakes and repair his body, the red order runes in Mu You's body became more and more dense, as if he had just been fished out of the pool of blood.

I don't know when, Mu You finally cleaned up all the poisonous snakes in this layer.

However, he had already killed his red eyes, and he didn't stay at all, and went straight to the next floor with a sly smile.

"Not enough, not enough! I need more order! ”

Rushing to the next floor, Mu You rushed straight into the dense group of monsters in front of him and began to kill.

After the madness just now, he simply gave up the troublesome practice of trying rune rules one by one, and chose to destroy it directly!

Since the pen in his hand can modify all the rules, then he doesn't have to care about the good and the bad, destroy them all, and then stuff the remaining order into his body and fuse it with his own power, this is the fastest way to improve!

As more and more chaotic order mixed into his body, Mu You gradually felt that he had become infinitely powerful, his every move was as fast as lightning, and those monsters became extremely slow in his eyes.

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Mu You's eyes were red, he had lost all his mind, and ran through the narrow passage like a meat grinder, and none of the monsters on either side could survive a round under his hands.

"Strength, more power is needed!"

"Destroy, destroy, destroy everything!"

"The power of order is destruction!"

Sticky blood, desperate wails, constantly burst out around him, Mu You didn't notice it, just kept tearing apart the monster, and then combined it into a part of himself.

At this moment, the runes on his entire body surface were already as red as blood, and a large amount of red order was still spreading deeper into his heart, constantly occupying and eroding, getting closer and closer to his heart.

However, as the red order got closer and closer to the center, the speed of spread began to slow down rapidly, until the small part of the core in the middle finally could not advance an inch, and that small piece of core was like a small boat churning in a sea of blood, no matter how it swayed, it could never capsize.

This is an extremely strange feeling, which makes Mu You in the rage feel an indescribable awkwardness. It's like standing in front of a bungee jumping cliff, obviously the whole person is already suspended in the air, but there is a rope inexplicably connected behind him, pulling him desperately backwards, preventing him from taking that last step.

This strange feeling almost drove Mu You crazy, and he frantically tore off a lot of his hair, roaring angrily to get rid of the rope, gain complete freedom, completely sink into the world of order, and experience the power that truly belongs only to the gods.

And as he struggled desperately, I don't know how long it took, he finally broke free from the shackles, and the boat in the sea of blood quietly capsized.

The last white rune in the body is also gradually turning red......

"Boom!"

At that moment, something suddenly hit the back of the head.

At this moment, the distorted illusions and lines around him, and all the chaotic sounds in his ears, all dissipated in an instant.

Mu You opened his eyes in a trance, and found himself sitting cross-legged on a green grass, in front of him was a crucible with black smoke, and the breeze was blowing, sending the fragrance of grass blades and earth into his nose.

“…… Attentive, calm, and don't be greedy, essential qualities for a potions master...... How many times have I said something, I just can't remember it......" The familiar nagging voice came from his shoulder.

The scene was all too familiar to him: when he was studying Potions, whenever he made a mistake, Vivien would always peck him at the back of the head like a woodpecker, saying that he would knock open his elm head to see what garbage was stuffed inside......

"Vivien?"

Mu You woke up suddenly and looked at it.

It was dark, and all the grass and green space were gone, and he remained in the narrow corridor, empty of the surroundings.

Mu You was a little dazed, the anger on his body gradually dissipated, and when he looked down, he was taken aback.

At this moment, his feet were covered with dense monster corpses, almost bleeding like a river.

But even more terrifying is himself.

Now he is no longer human, and his body is full of the organs of various monsters, snake heads, crab claws, fish scales, spider legs...... It completely turned into a bloated and deformed, five- or six-meter-tall sarcomatous monster.

And from the perspective of order, his whole body was completely filled with scarlet and chaotic order runes, leaving only a small handful of cleanliness in the deepest part of his heart.

"What did I do......

Mu You let out a cold sweat, he was completely dominated by the tyrannical thoughts of killing just now, and he sank into the power brought by order.

The white rune in his heart represented the only sanity he had, if it weren't for Vivien's reminder at the last moment......

Wait, Vivien?

Mu You hurriedly turned his head to look around, the entire passage was empty, only he was a standing living person, where did Vivian come from?

Besides, when he entered the God Realm before, Vivian had already been left by Lin Xue's side by him, so it was impossible for him to appear here.

Mu You looked around and finally looked at the brush in his hand.

"So, you were the one who reminded me......"

Around him at the moment, the only thing that could wake him up was this pen.

In the face of his inquiry, the brush in his hand did not move, like a dead thing.

Mu You exhaled, didn't ask any more, put away the brush, turned around and circled, and counted the monster corpses on the ground.

The result surprised him greatly: there were 182 monster corpses!

In other words, he has come to the 182nd floor!

Although the lamp god said before that this place has been transformed by the magic pen, even if it is transformed, can it be transformed into more than 180 floors?

Looking at the dense corpses under his feet, Mu You suddenly had a hunch: even if he continued to kill, there would only be endless levels and monsters behind, and there would be no end at all.

Just being able to kill here in one go, it shows that he has completely mastered the method of breaking the rules with a magic pen.

However, this usage is not right.

The state he was in just now could almost be described as going mad, and he was completely on the wrong path.

In other words, the troubadour's voice told him that the information was wrong, and this trial was not a test for him to use the power of order to kill.

"By the way, that voice at that time was really a troubadour?"

After experiencing the thrill just now, Mu You suddenly began to doubt this.

Thinking of this, he simply sat down and began to recall and take stock of everything he had just experienced.

Fortunately, although he had just entered a state of rage, every scene he experienced on the way remained in his memory like an imprint.

Mu You started from the first layer, recalling the process of all his runes that destroyed the order.

And the more he recalled, the more sweat broke out on his forehead.

Only then did he realize what kind of tightrope he had been walking on the whole time, and he was only one step away from falling into the abyss at any time.

It wasn't until he recalled all the memories that Mu You breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly realized something: the god of order is not the person who destroys and modifies the order, but the person who guards the order!

The power of order, of course, includes the power to destroy order, but every time it is destroyed, it will produce a certain 'deviation value', that is, a red rune, if the deviation value is too high, it will be like he just did, he will go crazy, get lost in the power of order, and lose himself.

This is still in a virtual illusion scene, if it is in reality, the deviation value will only accumulate faster, and those who are not strong-willed will probably fall after abusing the order a few times!

Thinking of this, Mu You already thought of Caesar's situation.

Perhaps, the vision of the lamp god was not wrong, Caesar was also a true monarch of good character, and his first desire to turn the desert into an oasis was out of sincerity, hoping to improve the living environment of the people.

It's just that, after obtaining the magic pen, he quickly went down the wrong path, falling into the power of order, and the appearance is still the same, but on the inside he has become a slave to destruction and killing.

And the troubadour's voice just now should also be Caesar's disguise, after this guy entered the lighthouse, he used the divine power of the lamp god to grasp part of the authority, perhaps knowing that he did not have the ability to pass the test, so he misled him through the sound transmission, in a vain attempt to pull him into the water, a competitor.

If it weren't for his firm heart, and at the same time, he couldn't look past the pen of order in the end, and helped him, which allowed him to recover.

Thinking of this, Mu You let out a sigh, picked up the pen of order, and cut it on himself.

The pieces of monster rune flesh were cut off by him and discarded, until all the chaotic order was expelled from his body, and Mu You found that his body was already full of holes and was no longer human.

But it doesn't matter, the real power of order is not to destroy and destroy, but to repair, to set things right, to restore all chaos to its original state. When he fully grasps the power of order, even if there is only a speck of dust left, he can return to his original state at any time.

And the real content of this test is not to let him kill monsters with the pen of order, but to let him repair the disordered order in the bodies of those monsters, and master the rules of order in the process.

In other words, it was not a test at all, but an opportunity to teach him the laws of order.

(End of chapter)