Chapter 268: "Evolution"

Regardless of what the rest of Van En looked like, and the rest of the city, Shoge himself was in another round of trouble.

The magical beasts of the past who had no power but didn't know how to use it were a far cry from the children of the Abyss who relied on their own wisdom to effectively use various means and actively exploited their own advantages.

For a few moments, Sugg even felt like he wasn't fighting against some lost magical creation, but against a strange army.

With the outbreak of magical mutations, the immense power and knowledge accumulated in the heirs of the Abyss finally ushered in an important transformation.

For them, the changes that occur at night symbolize the imminent crisis, but at the same time, the turbulent magic also opens the door to a new world for these defective products who are constantly learning and growing.

The "mountains" covered in hard carapaces that can destroy fragile structures at night are just the beginning.

Soon, the same desperate scenes that Shug had experienced in the sewers of the city of Salem reappeared, and this time they were more violent and more difficult to deal with.

A large number of instructions were conveyed outwards from the will of the children of the abyss, and at the same time, countless knowledge and memories that had been classified and sorted out by the will of the subject were distributed, so a clearer division of labor began to appear.

Xiug originally wanted to use his magical ability to break through from the front again, but when Xiug rode the Running Rat Snik under the cover of Karon's Touch and many fire magics, the Descendants of the Abyss finally brought some small mutation shocks to Xiug.

This time, the person who uttered the strange emotion of "times have changed" became Xiuge himself.

God knows what the main will of the children of the abyss has pulled out from the mountains of memories and knowledge, perhaps they have succeeded in finding some memories belonging to the soldiers and mages who accompany the army in Salem, or maybe they have succeeded in gathering all the content and knowledge related to battles and wars, in short, these "mud" who only knew that they had only relied on their own strength and numerical superiority to rush forward in vain and completely submerged their cultivation in the past, this time they showed extremely amazing discipline and division of labor.

In the face of the rampaging rats that ran like steel chariots, they first built an extremely solid defensive line, and the descendants who made up this pitch-black wall were deprived of all offensive abilities, and a large amount of pitch-black slime was quickly consumed, and directly formed an extremely solid line, which looked like the carapace on the touch of Shog Karon.

The children of the Abyss, who were supposed to shrink and disappear quickly under the scorching flames of magic, became resilient this time, and although the black carapace that formed the line of defense still could not stop the spread of the flames, Shug could no longer carve out an escape path for himself through a series of fire magic as he had done in the past.

What surprised Xiuge even more was the resistance of these Abyss Descendants to the Mirror Emissary Mist.

The anomaly seems to not only make them "smart", but also gradually move them out of the ranks of "broken creations".

Ever since Xiuge mastered the Mirror Emissary Mist, he has been using them to hunt the Descendants of the Abyss, and in the face of the orthodox power of the Abyss Court, the mutilated nature of the Descendants makes it impossible for them to struggle in the face of the Mist, but now it is different, when the Snik, who was coiled up and down in the thick mist, crashed into the obstacle that stood in the way, the slime that should have been shattered on the spot in front of the Mirror Emissary Mist, and the slime that was snatched into the essence of the Abyss began to self-destruct under the forced order of the consciousness of the huge race.

Yes, they would rather completely abandon some of their strength in the process of stopping Shogg's advance, rather than let Shog succeed in taking half of it.

In desperation, Xiuge could only choose to change direction and break through from other passages in Rowe Square, but at this moment, an even more shocking scene appeared to him - a road that was originally relatively smooth was filled with many pitch-black slime individuals in an instant, they basically maintained their human form, but part of their bodies took on the form of other creatures.

Then Xiuge felt a violent tremor of magical power.

As a spellcaster, he was already familiar with this change, which was the normal situation when the magic power was actively invoked and the magic model began to be built, but now, it was not Xiuge who was building the magic model, but the children of the Abyss who tried to get in the way.

The worst that Shug had ever foreseen finally came to them, and not only did they begin to imitate and use the complex tactics, but they also took possession of the power that the inhabitants of Van had relied on for so long.

Xiuge's reaction was still fast, and at the stage when these dense figures were still building magic models, a magic book page was torn off by him from the book, and with the infusion of magic power and the wave of Calon's touch, the "Resonance Dance" that was enough to terminate the magic construction in a large range was sent to the center of the crowd, and with the effect of this magic, the magic power that had already shown a regular situation was instantly disrupted, and the bodies of the children of the abyss were also defeated and deformed in the violent mental impact.

But their bodies are a mass of slime.

The individuals responsible for casting spells are only a small part of the group.

Seeing that more human forms began to reorganize, Xiuge immediately burst out of his strength, accompanied by a roar of "Hound Fang", the court hound that had been restless for a long time rushed out of the groove of the ground that "evaporated" out of thin air, as a professional hunter, the hound can no longer regard the target in front of him as a boring prey, it shuttles through the collapsed slime like a phantom, and countless newly reconstituted heir human forms are easily defeated by it, and the unique power of the hound, It directly deprives the mucus of its life force, so that it can no longer reassemble.

At the same time, a large number of Calron's touches swept out under the manipulation of Shuge, and sharp scythes and long and short swords swept through the line like a storm, just like the scenes of the ancient heroes of Van En - powerful sword-wielding mages rushed into the enemy crowd and wiped out all enemies with pleasing swordsmanship and strange magic.

In the midst of the chaos, the children of the abyss, whose magic has been recondensed, have successfully constructed.

These figures are hidden in the buildings on both sides of the street, and they use the buildings as their cover and launch unexpected attacks.

There are not a few mages who have been devoured by the children of the abyss, these victims are mainly concentrated in the actions of the law committee at the beginning of the disaster and several subsequent branches of the legal committee, but in the end, they are devoured and completely "digested", but there are many stream-level mages and ordinary mage apprentices, which makes the magic mastered by the children of the abyss relatively common and average.

Acid, fireballs, electric light, and blades and arrows made of magic power flew towards Xiuge from different directions, and the original normal magic power had become a dream state for the members of the Abyss History Society in the Black Sun Society under the transformation and distortion of the Abyss Descendants themselves, so these mutant magic composed of abyss magic dragged countless oppressive dark trajectories in the air, and surrounded by them, Xiuge even felt that the temperature around him was dropping sharply.

"It seems that magic and magic are not our exclusive tools, nor are they the authority given to the inhabitants of Van by the goddess Mel...... At least, she wasn't going to protect the monsters. ”

Xiuge sighed in his heart, and then the Touch of Calron, which had been spreading outward, quickly retracted, and several layers of temporary cover were built beside him, and after the violent shock and the destruction of multiple layers of protective magic, the magic bombardment of the first batch of heirs was over, and the Running Rat had already carried Xiug through the most densely populated area of the enemy group.

There was no more troublesome roadblocks ahead, so the Running Rat once again burst out of its true speed, and Xiuge also took the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, but before he could calm down, the speed in the metal disc suddenly increased, and under the influence of instinct and intuition, Xiuge directly used the magic connection to take over Snicky's movements, and then the agile three-tailed giant rat suddenly changed direction, jumping out with Xiuge at an extremely awkward angle.

Almost at the same moment, a loud roar was heard at the end of the street, and then, a bright fire erupted from where Snick had just stood, and a violent shockwave swept in, violently flying the running rat carrying Xiuge, and the two layers of protective magic that Xiuge had temporarily constructed were torn apart in an instant.

Relying on his quick reflexes, Xiuge completely turned his body into a humanoid mist at the moment of the magic explosion, and although the sweeping impact caused him to lose a lot of his magic power, it failed to cause direct damage to his body after all.

"What's that?"

However, Xiuge, who had escaped the catastrophe, had a buzzing in his head, and he cursed silently, only to see that at the end of the street, an astonishing mass of two stories tall of the Abyss Descendants was slowly wriggling.

Its body was now wrapped around an old crystalline cannon that had been dismantled from nowhere, but the metal pedestal that was supposed to be equipped with magic crystals to stimulate magic rituals and provide power had now been replaced by a constantly flowing body of an heir, and next to the barrel of this cannon that had been successfully combined with living creatures by some unknown principle, there was constant humanoid activity made of slime, and under the terrifying gaze of Xiuge, they actually cooperated to "move" a crystalline cannonball stored inside the slimeand loaded into the cannon.

What Xiuge didn't know was that in the past period of time, as the Descendants of the Abyss continued to absorb and learn the memories of their victims, they not only succeeded in understanding human emotions, but also further perceived the source of these emotions.

And in these memories, the series of shelling that was once launched by Waterl's army, and the traces of shells that kept flying in the sky, were so vivid.

Weapons, magic, tools......

When it comes to how to make themselves perfect, the Descendants of the Abyss are more than willing to make any possible attempt.

Xiuge never imagined that he would be able to withstand the shelling in the city of Selen, let alone that the initiator of the shelling would be a cloud of abyssal slime that had gathered.

The new crystalline cannonballs were ready, and the surface of the ugly pitch-black slime appeared with fine magic patterns, which were the magic circuits they extracted from the memories of the victims, and as the magic worked, a considerable part of the slime's life force was permanently consumed in the heavy weapon fixed in the heir group, followed by a roar, and the classic but powerful crystallized cannonballs smashed into the middle of the street, and the violent explosion and magic light and shadow tore everything around.

They also seemed to wrap up the Xiuge that was stunned in place.

……

The sound of cannons in the city of Salem turned into a strange and long muffled sound after passing through the barrier of the ritual field.

The people who were busy in the premises of the Emergency Committee looked up in amazement, it was now a truce, and there should not have been a sound of shelling, but after looking at it for a while, they could not find any noticeable traces in the sky, so they lowered their heads and returned to their work.

Compared to the busyness of other places, the laboratory where Wei Lin had stayed before seemed extraordinarily quiet.

The occasional person who enters and exits the laboratory is fully armed, wearing protective magic secret instruments, wearing the highest standard magic metal helmet on his face, which is enough to cover his entire head, and wearing heavy magic fabric lab coats on his body, all of which have only one function, and that is to isolate magic.

Inside the lab, all the beds that had been placed here had been removed, replaced by one metal magic container after another.

The inside of the container was soaked in a large amount of alchemy liquid.

Several high-level magicians stood in the laboratory, looking at these bodies that were soaked in alchemical potions and seemed to retain a certain amount of vitality, but they couldn't say a word.

These new figures in the tank are not the third group of volunteers who entered the rift at all, they are the resident mages who have stayed in the rift camp and are responsible for monitoring the secret ritual and the situation of the rift.

Even the senior scholars within the Law Committee did not expect that with the outbreak of magic power anomalies, the strange power that originally existed only under the cracks actually came to the surface completely, and overnight, the spellcasters who remained in the camp were all wiped out, and the more abundant the magic power, the higher the degree of crystallization.

Now, among the jars in front of them, there were even two river valley-level mages and a sword-wielding hermit.

The faithful faith in the goddess Mel did not save them.

(End of chapter)