Chapter 66: Root Feathers
Like a ghost in the sun, Colley walked through the city of Winter, searching for traces of the cultists, but could not find a suitable candidate.
"It's a special ability of the Tower Path, right? Since those people can perceive divination, they must also have countermeasures. ”
Ke Li was not in a hurry, he casually went to the store and bought two decks of cards, changed into a costume, and began to pretend to be someone from the Tower Pass.
"The Heart of the Tower is calling, and the people I'm looking for are the Discard Master, and his low-level Extraordinaires, who are nearby......" Collia plays with his eyes closed, plus the information provided by Ameta, through the mind and inspiration.
He soon heard what was suspected of being a cultist:
"Sacrifice, supreme sacrifice!"
"Immortal resonance, heart for the Tower!"
"This is our ascending stairs, and every layer of space on the tower is a test of the gods!"
"I thirst for strength, please give me strength, I am your most pious servant......"
Corrie opened his eyes, and he locked on to the remnants of his breath and thoughts, reconfirming the whereabouts of the cultist.
He groped for the route in his memory, came to the cheap vegetable market and stalls, and observed the scattered trajectory of thoughts and breaths.
"Well, these guys bought some pig hearts and cow hearts as sacrificial materials, and other food as a cover for the dinner."
"Most of the materials used are food, avoiding the bones that are easy to arouse alarm, and even all kinds of fruits, what the hell is in the tower, why can even such a mundane common prop be used as a sacrifice?"
With a head full of questions, Ke Li followed the remnants of his thoughts all the way to the cultist's new stronghold.
"White Willow Welfare Society? I used to play here when I was a kid, and these guys really know how to pick a place. ”
Colley stepped into it and followed his breath into the basement, where he saw many black-robed, unrecognizable figures performing rituals.
The basement was dark, except for a circle full of candles in the center of the room.
The cultists used maroon bread and cream to form layers of "red brick" walls.
In the middle of the walls of the ring bread are the various foods of each city, as well as fruits, animal hearts, and brewed wine.
Even if someone from the church came to raid it, these cultists would probably be able to change their tune on the spot, saying that they were grateful to the righteous gods for giving food.
"The Tower of the Divine Realm, we offer you the fruits of the world, and ask you to accept all the concepts and give birth to sweeter and nourishing fruits in the tower, so as to bless your people through the apocalypse......"
"The Infinitely Extended Tower, we sacrifice to you the heart of the beast, asking you to take all the heartbeats and produce a more powerful resonant resonance to resist the whispers of the evil gods of malicious danger......"
Currie watched as the cultists performed their rituals, filling the middle of the wall of jujube bread with food, adding a crown made of gold and inlaid with gems, and then collectively stood up, holding knives and forks in an incomprehensible exchange and kicking dance.
"It's a shame that the Tower Gate wasn't open to me this time......"
"It's so high, how many floors can you see when you look up?"
"I can't see, as soon as I look up, I feel like the world is spinning and I'm about to fall......"
"I feel so light and my skin is so itchy......"
"Can Heart-sama hear us?"
"I don't know, but I have a strange desire to open my mouth, and it feels like something is hanging over my face......"
Corrie watched as a group of cultists jumped around, and he noticed that the food in the middle of the bread wall was actually wilting.
He felt an indescribable suffocating sensation of a strange heartbeat, which gathered from the chests of each cultist and shrouded the altar of food.
"What's going on? Could it be that the tower can really extract the conceptual existence and create a corresponding existence within the tower? ”
"If the concept of food in the human world is taken away, the inside of the tower will become a paradise, and the outside will become the end of the world?"
"What kind of resistance to the end of this is, this is clearly to advance the end of others and delay the end of your own, right?!"
Colley immediately sensed the strangeness of the other party's behavior, and kicked the bagel to pieces, sending apples and grapes flying all over the ground.
In an instant, the fragile connection of this heartbeat was broken.
A cultist clutched his voice and screamed, twitching frantically like a live fish under a knife, and died on the spot after a short time.
To Colli's surprise, the cultists were not frightened, but thought that the man had entered the tower, and celebrated with revelry.
"He's chosen!"
"Has his soul entered the Tower?"
"He must have become a part of the heartbeat, gaining the ability to live forever, this body is useless!"
"Let's go to the Extraordinary One and take a look at the situation......"
At the same time, a ray of light coiled around the food altar caught Kri's attention, causing him to reach out and decipher.
[Plague of the Tower: This is the product of a curse produced when the gods punish arrogant humans and destroy the tower, and it is also an extraordinary trait twisted to the extreme, which can modify the special ability of the reality and spirit world. The towers of all eras have been circulating in reincarnation, repeating destruction and rebirth, and the towers are an unstoppable harbinger of upheaval, which will inevitably emerge regardless of whether the outside world prevents it or not. 】
"The Tower Path is hostile to other gods, and the other gods don't want the Tower to exist, so the Tower of Historical Mythology is destroyed?"
"The card builder, the discard master, and the dealer should correspond to the three sequences of low, medium, and high."
"The faces of the people on the stone wall may know something, if they all belong to the ancient ones of the age, and confirm that the strong man of the Tower Path is dead, the resurrection ritual of the cultist can be explained, and it means to go directly to the dealer ......"
"There is no stronger existence above the high sequence, and the top level of the tower path has been killed?"
"But in the tower with plenty of resources and home advantage, the dealer's strength should always be at its peak, and even if the low-level extraordinary person sneaks into the tower, there should be no way to take him, not to mention that the tower is not yet alive, only divination can sense it."
The light disintegrated and dissipated, and Colley came back to his senses from his speculation.
"Since the Extraordinary Sequence is an inherently hierarchical existence, and there are no more strong people in the Tower Path, the more dealers there are, the stronger the Tower Path should be, why are the discarders in the middle sequence at work, and their promotion path is deliberately stuck?"
"Speaking of this, it seems that the promotion of the Brave Hunting Church to receive potions also needs the approval of the superiors, but that's really the case."
Because of the "resonance of the heart", the question that appeared on the blank card at the beginning was probably done by the dealer.
It seems that the dealer only needs more low and medium sequences to be the base, but does not want more people to become dealers.
"I'm afraid that the tower itself is also a kind of embodied resource, and if one more person divides it, the dealer's resources will be reduced, and the conflict of interest in this may be able to be exploited. If the promotion path of a path is perfectly harmonious, they should not avoid each other......"
"But how big is the difference in strength between the middle and high sequences? If they are all in the same sequence, are the deck abilities and combat skills comparable? ”
After some thought, Colley decided to secretly find Mary, and hinted to Ameta through Mary's message by pretending to be a liaison, and then asked another liaison's attitude towards the dealer through Ameta.
This allows you to test the discarder's position, and if there are more insiders, you can try to break down the opponent from within.
Leaving the secret realm of Ink Winter City, Ke Li woke up to find that there were light filaments around him condensed, gradually forming three feather candy.
It seems to be similar to the means of the Tower Path, to extract some kind of abstract concept and power and embody it into a ready-made entity?
It can't be said that the gem energy summons the Hellblade is also a tectonic entity, and it is not surprising that some of the powers have similarities.
"Maybe my sequence needs to be a little higher to understand what the Gem Realm is all about."
Colly put away the feather candy and fell asleep contentedly.
As Corley fell asleep, the crystal containing the scales emitted a faint glow of flame, and then quietly extinguished.
Let's wait until he wakes up.