The map of the Ruins of Sorrow was downloaded in advance when entering the Mystery Management Center.

Nearly half of the entire map is in a black unexplored state, and the explored areas are marked with different danger levels with "D~S".

At the top of the map is a small patch of bright red "Forbidden Zone", marked with the words "not explorable" in bold red letters.

In the upper left corner of the map is the words - Total Exploration: 59%, and Current Exploration: 0%.

Lu Yuan looked at it, and the position he was in now was exactly at the entrance point at the bottom of the map.

A large chunk of the top is explored, and most of the unexplored black areas are located in the top half of the map.

"Clean up the cultists in the secret realm, obtain effective information about the secret realm, and collect the corresponding secret realm specialty materials. can be converted into the corresponding degree of exploration, but it will be settled after leaving the secret realm."

Lu Yuan casually clicked on the exploration task bar of "Sorrowful Ruins" and took a look, and found that all the tasks can be roughly divided into these three categories.

"Let's find an unexplored black area first, whether to go deep into the red forbidden area, and then think about it"

Lu Yuan glanced back at the entrance where he came.

I saw that the glowing crack entrance began to fluctuate violently, as if something was about to burrow in from the outside.

Expecting that the group of people from the Secret God Team that I had just seen outside was coming in, Lu Yuan was afraid and didn't want to meet a few people, so he casually confirmed a direction and strode forward.

The area that has been explored is peaceful, and there is no evil in sight of the materials.

The flat earth is bare, without any vegetation, and the ruins of low-rise buildings can occasionally be seen.

The ruins are ancient and rudimentary, reminiscent of the adobe houses in the countryside that have fallen into disrepair.

"It is said that the secret realm is a habitable place created by the ancient evil gods for believers.

To be able to create an independent small world space like this for people to live in, how powerful is the power of the ancient evil gods? ”

Lu Yuan thought silently in his heart as he walked.

The deeper he went into the secret realm, the more he could feel his own insignificance.

This kind of creation-like feat, he had only seen it before.

When a few imaginary words in the book turned into reality, they were truly presented in front of him.

The kind of awe and throbbing of the unknown power from the heart. It's hard to describe in words.

Lu Yuan stopped in a relatively large ruin.

He spread out his aerosolic spiritual power and searched through the ruins, but unfortunately found nothing.

Lu Yuan was not disappointed, after all, this area has already been explored.

Lv3 [Eye of Death], activate!

Lu Yuan suddenly activated his skills, his two eyes turned into pure pitch black, and there was a ray of paleness in the middle, and he looked up at the surroundings.

It was a whimsical attempt.

The feedback he got made Lu Yuan feel a little surprised.

He could clearly see that the dead air that seemed to float randomly in the air was actually like flowing water falling from a high place to a low place, all flowing in a few directions.

He compared the map of the secret realm and chose the direction closest to him.

In the process of rushing there, Lu Yuan also activated the two skills of lv3 [Raven Language] and lv8 [Dead Qi Entanglement].

The mist-like spiritual power quickly radiated out under the activation of the [Raven Language] skill.

It doesn't take long for you to get intensive feedback.

Black dots appeared from the field of vision and quickly converged towards the distance.

As he got closer, Lu Yuan realized that the crows he had summoned this time were a little unusual.

"Dead?"

Lu Yuan casually pulled a crow, and found that the crow summoned from the secret realm was rotten all over, with no flesh and blood, only a few scattered feathers on the body.

The whole body is wrapped in a thick dead air, and the eye sockets are also hollow.

But it can still fly.

Although the consciousness fed back is particularly turbid, it can also provide Lu Yuan with a role in monitoring the surroundings.

He now has 22 points of intelligence, and the detection range of his spiritual power is only less than three hundred meters.

It's much better to have a crow as an eyeliner than to have a half-dead drone on your own.

"Undead Raven"

Lu Yuan let go of the crow in his hand, and the strong death qi gathered from all sides like a tide, wrapping around him.

Like a silent black flame, like a rotten cloak blown by a strong wind.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes, thinking back to the battle he had with the Raven God Sect's strong god envoy Kalofis.

The dead qi around him began to slowly converge behind him, gradually forming two large, barely recognizable black wings.

"Fly!"

Lu Yuan stomped his foot violently and stepped on a large crater on the ground.

The whole person pierced through the air like a sharp arrow, and instantly jumped into the air at a height of dozens of meters.

Then it began to fall.

During the fall, he desperately "flapped" his wings.

But it only slowed down the downward momentum a little, and the whole person still continued to fall uncontrollably.

Ultimately.

"Boom!" stomped on the ground with a thud.

"My body is too dense and weighs many times that of Kalofis.

The strength of the dead air is not enough, and the skills used by the dead air are too rough."

Lu Yuan summed up the reasons for his "failure" and exhaled lightly, but he didn't feel too much frustration.

He entered the ruins of Sorrow this time, originally with the intention of upgrading the level of [Farewell to the Dead (Extraordinary)] and sharpening the [Confession of the Dead] skills.

He kept going, trying to fly with the help of dead air, clumsy but having fun.

Unconsciously, the dead air in front of him became thicker.

Even if you don't open the [Eye of Death], you can see a large black mist condensed by death with the naked eye hanging in front of you.

"Woo-woo-"

Faintly, there seemed to be a mournful cry wafting out of the black fog.

"Click-"

A few undead crows flapped their wings and flew into the black mist under Lu Yuan's control.

Lu Yuan retracted his dead qi, and the [Clothes of Hades] of lv1 quietly appeared on his body, condensing a thin layer of translucent light film, and then slowly walked in step by step.

Map display.

He had now arrived in an unexplored area.

The message from the undead crow was also vague, and it was only vaguely recognizable that it seemed to be an abandoned gathering point.

Like a small village?!

The mist-like spiritual power spread out in the black mist, suppressed by the dead qi, and the detection range was compressed to a range of less than a hundred meters.

The drone carrying the resource pack behind him made a rustling noise similar to the signal being interfered with, and Lu Yuan continued to go deeper with a calm expression.

"Thorn-thorn-"

Suddenly, there was a strange sound ahead.

The sound was like someone dragging something heavy and rough as they walked, rubbing against the ground.

Lu Yuan's eyes flickered, and the [Eye of Death] looked.

In the black mist, he saw a thick mass of humanoid death, which was constantly walking towards him.

No.

Not a lump.

"Thorn-thorn-"

Similar sounds came from far and near in all directions, and there were shadows in the black fog.

Unknown, mysterious, fearful. Follow.

For a moment, Lu Yuan had a sense of déjà vu that he was playing a horror game.

But

"The protagonist of a horror game can only run away, and I can push it."

Lu Yuan sighed softly, and the tension and horror that had been hard to breed in his heart were instantly swept away.

Under the detection of spiritual power, the full picture of the unknown offender in the black fog appeared in front of his eyes.

It is a tall or short, stout figure, and the whole body is tightly wrapped in black and gray cloth.

Each figure had a weapon in his hand.

Steel forks, hoes, sickles

It looks like all of them are the kind of farming tools that are engaged in agricultural production.

Lu Yuan's expression was calm, and the death qi around his body immediately swelled with a roar, and then turned into thick tentacle-like black qi pillars that shot out violently in all directions.

"Boom!"

A pillar of air slammed into a stout, rotten body that was far away from the road.

The latter didn't say a word, and was directly blasted upside down and flew out, flying out seven or eight meters away.

And then

He shook his head and staggered to his feet.

The position on his body that had just been hit by Lu Yuan with his death qi was dented, and the black and gray cloth strip that wrapped the surface of his body shattered.

But with the influx of dead air around them, the depression was raised and flattened, and the broken strips of black-gray cloth were re-woven and condensed.

"Underworld?!"

Lu Yuan recognized at a glance that the black and gray strips of cloth on the other party's body were actually some kind of external manifestation of the [Clothes of the Hades].

couldn't help but whisper: "Damn, even a little monster's skill level is higher than mine... What the hell am I playing? ”

Helpless.

But it still has to go on.

Lu Yuan kept telling himself in his heart - "I'm a mage now, I'm a mage now!" ”

While manipulating the pillar of dead air, he continued to sweep around.

This is the simplest technique for using death qi, and the Raven God Sect priests that Lu Yuan encountered before basically controlled death qi in this way.

Calophis's technique of condensing dead qi and catapulting it out in the shape of a moon blade, he tried it a few times, but it was still very rusty.

However, if you use death gas to attack monsters that are also born from death gas, the decay attribute of death gas itself will have almost no bonus effect.

The death air around this area is extremely strong, and a group of monsters dragging farm tools are like Xiaoqiang, falling down and standing up, falling down and standing up

Lu Yuan played "ping pong" for a long time, and he was stunned that he didn't kill a single monster.

He couldn't hold back

"Boom!"

He stomped his foot and exploded underneath him.

The figure turned into a fierce black shadow and rushed into the black mist.

A strong death aura wrapped around his body and hands like a cloak.

He slapped a monster casually.

Nearly 100 tons of huge force pressed, and the latter immediately exploded with a "bang" and fell apart.

"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”

One at a time.

It didn't take long for all the figures around Lu Yuan to be cleared by him with his bare hands.

He stood there expressionlessly, watching the corpse of the monster beneath his feet decay as quickly as the weather, turning into a puddle of gray sand after losing the support of its dead air.

In the sand, a black-and-gray orb the size of a little finger was revealed.

Lu Yuan's eyes flickered, and he bent down to pick it up.

After searching around, they found a total of more than two dozen similar beads.

Lu Yuan picked up a bead and put it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.

Judging from the style alone, this bead was no different from the kind of red bead he had obtained from the Raven Divine Servant before, but the color was different.

The latter is like a raven's eyeball, and this former. It's like a dead crow's eyeball.

"Can I absorb this?"

Lu Yuan thought about it, but he had already crushed the beads between his fingers in his hand.

The black-gray beads shattered and quickly sanded, and a thick black-gray liquid flowed out of them, seeping into the flesh of Lu Yuan.

Suddenly, prompt messages kept popping up on Lu Yuan's career panel.

On the [Death Dead (Extraordinary)" panel, the class experience and skill experience points of [Dead Entanglement] are also rising.

"It turned out to be the same."

Lu Yuan was overjoyed.

Suddenly, countless shattered and dim images suddenly flooded into his mind.

In a trance, he seemed to be suddenly in a vast field.

The sky in front of you takes on two colors.

Half is blue, and the other half is cloudy and thick black ash.

A huge amount of black mist swept from the other side of the sky like a huge wave and tidal wave, engulfing everything.

An indescribable sense of fear, a sense of despair enveloped his heart.

Uncontrollably, he let out a cry from his mouth - "@#¥%! ”

Then, it was completely overwhelmed by the boundless black mist

"Hum—"

Lu Yuan's body trembled slightly, and he recovered from his trance.

He stood there for a moment.

Then he lowered his head and slowly picked up a farm tool that resembled a steel fork next to the remains of the monster at his feet.

After losing the blessing of death, this farm tool itself is almost decayed.

Lu Yuan carefully examined every part of this farm tool.

Ultimately.

In the place of the handle of the steel fork, he found several eccentric, unfamiliar, crooked characters.

He inexplicably seemed to be able to read the meaning of these characters, and even couldn't help but read them out of his mouth-

"May the Light grant Anskar... Abundance and abundance. ”

(End of chapter)