Chapter 24 The Bottom of Suffering
Nai Yu whispered: "You have already sold your soul and dignity, why don't you sell it thoroughly? ”
Io was angry, but his momentum was a little weaker: "I...... I don't value those!"
Nai You suddenly smiled: "I value it, then you don't want to rob me." ”
In the face of Nayu's beautiful and mysterious smile, the battle priest showed a creepy expression and exclaimed, "You...... You're laughing again!"
"Laughing is nothing, I can do more for the sake of the sacrifice. Nayu said lightly.
The battle priest's brows furrowed, and for the first time he felt the shape severe.
After Richard's words, there is indeed another sentence that says that for ordinary people, faith is the flame that warms the soul and is indispensable. Faith, but not blind obedience, that's what these two sentences are all about.
The followers of the gods of this plane are basically fanatics, and wherever the sword of the gods is pointed, they will rush in whichever direction. After the arrival of the Age of Norland's Great Faith, the composition of believers also changed as the interdimensional gods led by the dragons of eternity and time joined the order of faith. In the age of the Great Faith, the most famous quote was that of St. Martin: "When the sword of God is pointed at the devil, it is my lord." And when the sword of God is pointed at my family, it is no longer God. ”
Faith is a point of no return, and once shaken, it is difficult to turn back. Richard was actually trying to persuade them to abandon all faith and concentrate on studying the Divine Order from a completely neutral point of view.
Eventually, Richard and the group of punishers came to an agreement.
In fact, Ptolemy and others had long since given up their belief in the god of courage, and they just found it difficult for them to accept the role of breaking away from the divine order and standing above the gods. It's a role beyond imagination and takes time to get used to. Richard was looking forward to them, whether it was Ptolemy, Bruno, or other old men, they were all once high figures in the entire divine order, far above mortals, and belonged to people who could touch the glory of the kingdom of God. The fact that they are still alive now proves their former strength. They were the people who knew God best in all mortal lives, and therefore it was perhaps the most appropriate group of people to study the Pharo Order.
Richard walked out of the hut and beckoned to the people gathered inside and outside: "Prepare more clothes! The weather outside isn't as mild as it is here. ”
"How shall we go?" asked Ptolemy.
Richard said, "I've got special mounts for you, they're not comfortable, maybe uncomfortable, but they're fast enough to get you to your destination." This is not a place we can stay for long. ”
As Richard spoke, hundreds of worker bees flew over and crawled in front of the survivors.
"Indeed...... It's not very comfortable. Ptolemy said. Then he climbed on the back of a worker bee first, and the two tentacles that had been used for orientation rolled back and wrapped around Ptolemy's body, holding him in place. Then the worker bee flapped its wings and flew up, leading seven or eight worker bees to fly into the distance in an instant.
"Can I do it the other way. An old man asked. Then his waist was wrapped around his tentacles, and he was lifted into the sky by worker bees with arthropods. He yelled, "No, let's do what we just did! Let me go, you bedbug!!"
The terrible cry went all the way away, and the swarm of worker bees flew up, planted the survivors of the black valley, and flew towards the bloodstained land.
Watching them go away, Richard said to Quicksand and the others, "Let's go to the Hall of Pain and have a look, it seems that we have found something nice down there." ”
At this moment, the hall of pain has been reduced by a third, and the upper part is densely crawled with worker bees, dismantling the black bricks one by one, and every time they accumulate a few pieces, they will bite them and fly to the star chrysalis floating in the air, and put the black bricks into the belly of the star chrysalis. More black bricks could not be put down, so they could only be temporarily piled on the ground. The Wall of Weeping had collapsed, and the floating faces on the door were writhing trying to escape from the two stone walls that had imprisoned them, but no soul could escape, and even if the Wall of Weeping had broken, they were still trapped in it, unable to free themselves.
When passing through the wall of weeping, Nayu stepped directly on those faces, her combat boots seemed to have magical power, and a series of ripples would ripple when they landed, and all faces within the range would appear more painful, they would bite the people next to them, and even twist their faces in pain!
Seeing Richard's gaze, Naiyu explained, "They all think they are souls, but they are not. They are all part of God's iniquity, playthings for its amusement. ”
Nayu was an expert in this regard, so Richard didn't say anything, but continued to go to the Hall of Pain.
A large number of worker bees came and went around them, and when they crawled out of the hall of pain, they were all clutching dirt or rocks. When Richard stood inside the door, he was faced with a large pit tens of meters deep, and the incessant digging of the worker bees had dug all the bottom of the hall, revealing a pool deep in the ground. The water in the pool is all dark black, constantly emitting a pale black mist. Inside the pool, a large skeleton floated, resembling the lower half of some kind of giant beast. It was a mountain-like skeleton, although it was only half a section, it was also nearly a hundred meters long! The bones had complex and dense lines, like beautiful decorations, an indescribable power emanating from the bones endlessly, and then absorbed by the black pool, and finally turned into a cloud of black gas, penetrating into the earth. At this moment, the bottom of the Hall of Pain was already filled with a pale black mist, which was exactly what Richard felt in the land of the Black Valley.
This skeleton, this black pool, is the source of the Black Valley and the gods.
"This is ......" Richard, although he is knowledgeable, has not yet reached the level of omniscience.
"Waste some divine grace!" Quicksand stepped forward, took out the Book of Time, and aimed it at the skeleton in the black pool at the bottom of the pit, and several pale golden rays shone on it. The power of time poured down like water, but the graphics and words outlined on the Book of Time were unusually slow. Quicksand's face was slightly happy, and the more divine grace consumed, the higher the value of this thing.
Eventually, a divine text appeared in the Book of Time, and there was an unusually sketchy stick figure. This painting has only a few brushstrokes, but it is very expressive, and the ferocious aura is blowing in the face.
Quicksand raised his head and said, "This is the remains of a star beast! It should be one of the three star beasts that invaded the Faro plane back then. The pool is called the Source of *, and its function is to absorb the power from the bones of the Star Beasts and transform it into the power of darkness and pain. ”
"Wait, I think I've heard of this. Richard pondered for a moment, then said, "If it's old enough, it's probably going to have the essence of pain in it! ”
"We have to find a way to get that skeleton out first, otherwise there will be a second god in the Black Valley sooner or later. ”
Richard nodded, and a command in his consciousness went out, and a large number of worker bees flew into the source of *. As soon as they came into contact with the black water, white smoke erupted from the shells of the worker bees, and they let out a shrill chirp, not because of pain, but because of danger. But worker bees are neither afraid of pain nor of death, and their only consciousness is to try to complete the command.
A large number of worker bees pounced on the source of *, and the huge skeleton began to move, slowly being lifted up from the black water. As soon as it left the water, more worker bees pounced, grabbed the skeleton, and began to flutter its wings, so that the skeleton slowly rose into the air.
The star chrysalis landed on the ground from the sky, first spitting out all the black bricks in its abdomen, and then hanging down its tentacles to wrap around half of the star beast's bones, and with great difficulty lifted the skeleton, which was even larger than itself, and slowly rose into the air. The star chrysalis is slow, but it can rise all the way to a height of thousands of meters, and at this altitude, it is almost uninterceptable.
However, Richard was a little uneasy, and sent two hundred Feathered Serpents to escort him, including a hundred Lightning Feathered Serpents.
The star chrysalis and the escorted feathered serpent slowly disappeared into the clouds, and Richard felt a little relieved. This skeleton is incomparably valuable, it can draw energy from the void on its own, and emit it. That alone is enough to drive people crazy. Having it is like having an inexhaustible source of magic at all times. Its combination with the Pool of * has created such a vast black valley, and even supported the growth of a god.
Richard had even begun to think about future ways to use the skeleton. It can be combined with the Hive to supply the Hive with a never-ending supply of energy, thus increasing the number of combat units that the Hive can create per day, and it can also be used by the Hive to parse, thus opening the door for the Hive to resolve legendary Behemoths. But how much resolution can be reached is another matter. Richard can also learn the patterns on the bones and the flow of magic, which is a natural concentrating magic array, which is much more powerful than Richard's Well of the Stars. Even Richard could go one step further and try to parse the power of the rules on the bones, and it seemed that a few hundred thousand more days of analysis would be able to master a new rule. In terms of mastering the rules, Richard's wisdom and true talent can be described as extremely powerful, of course, there is a prerequisite for being strong, that is, with Richard's current level, he may need to live hundreds or even tens of millions of years to master many rules.
Eventually, Richard could even design an entirely new construct based on the rules he had learned from the skeletons of the Star Beasts. Such a build, if it simulates the rules, then it is a fifth-order build. If the power of rules is fused into the structure...... There has never been such a build-up in Norland. As far as Richard knew, such a construction was only an unfinished semi-finished product, the dark blue aria on Su Helen's body.
* Suddenly there was a surge in the source, and a mass of worker bees crawled out. The worker bees on the periphery fell to their deaths as soon as they came out of the water, revealing the three worker bees wrapped in the innermost part, each with an arm-sized, dark black crystal in its jaws.
Essence of Pain!