To be honest, the metal staff Murphy got was rather oddly shaped.

At least from the eyes of Tracy, the psionic master, this thing is very different from all the styles that are or have been popular in the past across the continent.

It's hardly even a real staff.

Compared to the classic medium of psyker casting, this thing is more like some kind of strange engineering work that has been assembled and shaped in a halfling's machine factory.

The long metal pole is lined with seven special devices that I don't know what they are for from end to end, three of which have been activated, the thing at the top looks like an "antenna" wrapped around an electromagnetic circle, the third module slowly rotates on the main metal pole like a positioning device, and the fifth module that was torn and broken just now is the "switch".

Together, these three activated modules form a special device, perhaps this is why this "metal staff" can open the astral rift in an instant without warning?

Murphy didn't know if his guess was right, and he was still busy combing through the text prompts that had just jumped into his field of vision:

"Administrator Alpha has access to [DATA EXPUNGED] leftover items. The identification and analysis of items in the database search and matching is completed, and the noun explanation is ready!

The specific properties of this item are as follows:

Name: The Creator's Legacy: Vientiane

Specific classification: self-service multi-functional information storage and reading and personal psionic security devices

Quality: Miracle Creation

Traits: Multiple Forms, Psionic Adaptation, Never Wear

Weapon Effects:

One. Astral Guide Staff Form:

By activating the first, third, and fifth modules, the dimensional search, phase indication and follow-up operations of the astral plane can be realized.

In this form, the user can ignore dimensional obstacles and send the designated target to the specified coordinates of the astral plane while consuming the device's built-in energy, and perform safe or unguaranteed teleportation.

You can also send yourself into the astral plane and preset the landing point and return coordinates.

Prompt!

The safety of teleportation in this form depends on the "Creation Engine" maintaining the spatial rules of the Astral Plane, and it is not recommended that users rush to send themselves into the Astral Plane because the "Creation Engine" has been damaged.

Prompt!

After performing the teleportation operation in this form, the Vientiane Device will enter the energy storage state, and the number of times it can be used is 2 times/24 hours.

Prompt!

In this form, the teleportation operation requires the internal energy of the Vientiane device, and the energy module is currently close to exhaustion, so please find a charging device immediately to recharge the device.

Two. Self-defense forms in the material realm:

By activating the fourth and sixth modules, the Vientiane device can be reorganized into an attack form, which can adjust the shape of the device according to the user's preset stance, but since the weapon is classified as a 'self-defense device', the fixed weapon type is a ranged weapon.

In this form, the user can manipulate the Vientiane Device to accurately snipe and suppress the target, and use the user's psionic pool as an ammo compartment to launch psionic projectiles with different destructive effects.

In this form, the Vientiane Device will have effects such as [Obstacle Penetration], [Aiming Lock], and [Breath Masking], and if necessary, the Vientiane Device can perform automatic defense and cruise fire.

Prompt!

The current Vientiane device records ranged weapons in the following forms:

Regular: Revolver form.

Regular: Assault/Precision Energy Rifle form.

Advanced: Stationary, Autonomous Sentry Turret form.

Advanced: Semi-stationary Magnetic Field Cannon form. [This form needs to be supported by extended software data packages, and is not available for the time being].

Advanced God Scepter Form [This form requires physical hardware support and is not available at the moment].

Ultimate Conventional Star Destroyer Cannon Form [This form requires the support of the Creator Energy Table, Armillary Navigator, and other advanced physical hardware, and is not available at the moment].

Three. Information storage and reading form:

By activating the seventh module, the Vientiane device can be put into its own working form.

In this form, the Vientiane device will be bound to the administrator system and can be used as a starting "key" to access all data desks left behind by [DATA EXPUNGED].

In this mode, once the access is successful, the Vientiane device will automatically obtain the modification permissions of the Creator Data Desk and the Creator Unit for the Administrator Alpha.

Prompt!

Activating this feature requires the Administrator's Alpha to complete psionic binding to the Vientiane Device, which requires DNA reading and consciousness binding in an undestroyed Creator facility.

Four. Explore Forms:

The Vientiane Device has a built-in memory combination core, which can be continuously combined with seven modules to achieve a variety of personal security functions, and can also be used to achieve more complex functions by finding different components in the various creation units left behind by [DATA EXPUNGED].

Prompt!

The advanced and auto-upgrade features of the Vientiane device are currently locked.

Administrator Alpha is requested to retrieve the matching "Armillary" device as soon as possible to complete the unlocking of permissions, so as to ensure that the Administrator has the most basic personal self-protection ability on the dangerous battlefield against the enemies of the Creator.

Prompt!

The last time the "Armillary" device returns to the coordinates is the inside of the "Creator's Legacy: Eye of the Overseer" device, which needs to be disassembled and reused.

Requirements: The Astral Guide Cane form requires the user to have a certain understanding of the astral knowledge, and the use of other forms requires binding administrator permissions.

Maker: [DATA EXPUNGED] Creation Sequence Number 2

Item Description:

[Congratulations on finding an 'Alpha Legacy', you see, I told you before, I left you some "good things" to help you better fulfill your duties as an administrator.

But when you get them, it doesn't just mean you've got your own cheats, it's also that you're officially on your way to confront my enemies.

I know it's hard!

But I also know it's hard for you.

I can't say too much in this reserved message, but I guess the cute critters of the astral plane will tell you the forgotten truth in my place, if they are all alive and well when you wake up.

But be careful!

The mind of the beast is always elusive, and I mean, they don't all have to be your friends when you're not strong enough.

-

Data Deletion.

】

"What you left me looks like a dick, and it actually is, but the problem is that it's already in the hands of the gnolls, and the gnolls stole it from the cultists. Doesn't that mean that all the things you should have left me have been snatched away by the cultists?

Depend on!

You're really unqualified as a creator. ”

Murphy held this miracle creature called "Vientiane", and he complained fiercely and activated a module device on the staff under the gaze of Tracey next to him, allowing it to achieve a super magical "form change" in Murphy's hands.

It was a scene that Tracey had never seen before.

All the parts on the metal staff moved together in a combination that followed a sense of precision mechanics, and in a matter of seconds, it went from a metal staff more than a meter long to a black cube metal box the size of Murphy's half a palm.

Murphy then took a silk thread out of the psionic bag and strung it around his wrist.

It's like a very special ornament.

"So, what the hell is this?"

Tracy asked in a cautious tone:

"How do you know what to do with it? You just said that this is the key left by the Creator? So, the shadow of the subspace that gave you mysterious power before is actually the Creator? ”

"I don't know how to explain it to you, but maybe the truth is what you say."

Murphy glanced at the mysterious corridor leading to the mountain in front of him, and he took a few steps forward to step into it, but got a hint on the character card:

[Due to the theft of the internal collections, the management office of the swamp ecological protection and exhibition area is currently in a state of 'martial law and rectification', and all visitors are suspended! The purge will end in 72 hours. 】

"I can't get in, and it will take three days for this place to reopen."

Murphy turned back to Tracey and said:

"It seems that the Flesh Rip did bring something 'illegally' out of the Land of Creation, and I have reason enough to suspect that the guy may have actually found the legendary 'Bone King's Vault'.

But I can't understand why the Lord of the Biting Bones has anything to do with the Land of Creation, hidden in the depths of the swamp.

Could it be that the Lord of the Biters also holds some of the Creator's secrets? ”

"Perhaps, the rise of the Bone Biting King is a mystery."

Tracey shook her head and said:

"No one knows the origin of the Biting Bone King or its true identity, but I'm more curious about whether there really are Creator ruins in the Filthy Swamp? I thought that kind of place was only available in the Land of Origin.

When I was hiding there to learn the mysteries of death, I also tried to sneak into the Songhai people's temple of creation in the middle of the desert, only to be nearly killed by their solar ship.

But what surprised me even more was why the Creator would choose a vampire to embody His majesty? Shouldn't we choose the Songhai people who claim to be the 'most favored children of the Creator'? ”

"Perhaps, the Songhai people are not the beloved heirs of the Creator as they claim."

Murphy looked at the Vientiane device hanging from his wrist, he narrowed his eyes and whispered:

"Maybe the relationship between the vampire and the creator is closer than the Songhai people to the legendary god. Tris, we'll have to come here again in three days.

It's just you and me!

Just the two of us.

I have a hunch that we can find something pretty amazing in this artifact, and now is not the time to see it again. ”

"If that's what the Creator left you, Murphy, then I shouldn't have come."

Tracey shook her head and said:

"I believe that the power of the Creator must have left some kind of system of discernment, and that I may get you in trouble if I follow you."

"If He won't let you in, then I won't either."

Murphy shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Don't be afraid, Trace, maybe the Creator in your eyes is really just an ordinary person. I mean, he or they may be powerful enough to change the world, but their personalities are no different from normal people.

Well, this kind of humanization is really reassuring.

Let's go.

Let's go back to Plague first.

We still need to clean up the mess, and if nothing else, the golden bones will have to be handled properly by a psionic master like you.

I'm really not at ease with handing it over to someone else. ”

——

"Whew, whew"

A low wheezing echoed in the corners of a barren red earth.

The Gnoll Warlock Rip Flesh had just treated his severed hand with herbs he had found nearby, and the damn magic sword slash made his wound not heal in a short time, and he had to stop the bleeding in this crude way.

But physical pain is nothing compared to spiritual satisfaction.

Tearing the flesh is painful though.

But it would maintain a very different brow and smile than its usual grim stance, even if it lost the metal staff that allowed it to enter the Land of Creation.

"I got it!"

Once again, it touched the irregularly shaped thing in its bag behind it.

The old gnoll blossomed with joy in his heart.

It climbed up to the top with its bone staff to discern its surroundings and direction, and after confirming that this was a barren mountain, the flesh ripped a sigh of relief.

Very good!

From here, head all the way to the southeast, and only need to cross a few lines of defense formed by the Knights of the Blood Alliance and their servant army to return to the Gnoll's sphere of influence.

You've already retrieved the Gnoll's Civilization Slate, which means it can shape a second Biting King with its own hands!

Yes.

Ripperflesh has fully understood the source of the Bone King's power, and it already knows how to properly lead a plate of scattered gnolls to rise again.

"What the lord of the hunt, what twilight is fake! Only the power of the Creator can help the Gnolls reshape the world and establish a dynasty for all ages! ”

Toring the flesh and enduring the pain, he summoned a death horse from the plane of Hades and galloped towards his destination, and it immediately thought:

"I must go back this time and begin to preach the majesty of the Creator, I must make my fellow citizens understand the truth, the glory of the Creator has never left this world, and those foolish Songhai people are by no means the only people who are favored.

Yes!

Just get the right way!

All it takes is to take the relics of creation in the swamp in one fell swoop in the Black Calamity, and I will show my poor foolish brethren the ways and means to immortality and greatness.

The gods of the astral realm are not worthy of worship at all, and only the Creator is our ultimate destination. ”

Obviously, the torn flesh of the gnoll relic, who went to the Land of Creation and brought back the Jackal Relic, had been completely conquered by the power of the Creator during his short "pilgrimage", and this former pestilence had become the Creator's most loyal "licking dog".

But it should not be ridiculed for its ignorance, after all, flesh-tearing is one of the few beings in this era who has truly seen the majesty of the Creator.

If this is placed in the old religious system, how can you be rated as a "saint" by tearing flesh.

However, the Flesh Rip that escaped death from Tracey's hands had bad luck.

It had already conceived several plans to cross the Knights' defenses in the Barren Mountains from the outlying places, and on the way it had made contact with the Gnoll Clans of the Mossy Valley, asking them to immediately send their elites to meet them and welcome them back.

But before it could actually reach the defensive line, it ran into real big trouble.

"Whoa!"

A low, terrifying roar rang out from the bare ground nearby, waking up Tear Flesh, who was thinking about a major issue.

It grabbed the reins of the death horse and looked around in disbelief.

Why does this strange roar sound so familiar? I think I've heard it somewhere! And why does the undead creature like the death war horse under his crotch tremble?

Did something scare it?

A few seconds later, Tear Meat saw a behemoth suddenly rush out of the wasteland at the end of his vision.

The creature had a black scaly body and sturdy hooves, terrifying claws and a ferocious flaming tail, and the most terrifying thing was that the creature had three heads, and six eyes of phosphorus fire were already staring at the old jackal from different directions.

"The Three-Headed Dog of Hades?!"

The moment of tearing the flesh was shocked.

How can you encounter two legendary creatures in a row in one day? Is this so-called most mysterious life on the continent now rotten on the streets? And why did the three-headed dog of Hades appear near the Barren Mountain?

This thing is also a high-grade product in the Hades plane, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for it to appear in the material world beyond the barrier of the plane!

"Ahhh The three-headed dog I summoned is out of control, and several hapless blood-dreaded vampires have been eaten by it, and I'll have to find a way to get it to spit them out.

No wonder my mentor hasn't let me pass, my theory really has loopholes.

Get out of the way!

You idiot."

A high-pitched, hoarse voice sounded from the three-headed dog's head, and it was only then that he found that there was a strangely dressed woman with bandages all over her body lying on the head of the wild thing.

Tearing Flesh vaguely remembered that the Dusk Servants had told him to dress like this when he was teaching him about taboos. Is this the Moonlight Priest?

The death priest of the Songhai people actually appeared near the barren mountain not far away?

What the hell is this?

A series of events overwhelmed the tired flesh-ripping brain, but in reality, even if it reacted, it was useless, because the three-headed dog of Hades had noticed it.

The huge monster entered the "void" in the next second, as if it was leaving only a pale silhouette on the ground, and then in a swift and swift posture that was not at all in harmony with the huge size, it burst out from the shadow of the flesh-tearing and its dead warhorse, and three bloody mouths aimed at it from three directions, and green phosphorus fire of destruction gushed out.

In just an instant, the poor torn flesh was ignited in the body and soul, and it was in pain.

It knows why the Three-Headed Dog of Hades is attacking it!

In the legend of Hades, this monster is a beast that specializes in monitoring the souls of the dead at the end of the road of the dead to set foot on the road to rest, and the flesh tearing summons too many dead to return to the world illegally, and this alone is enough to make it full of disgust by the "Hades Traffic Police".

To be precise, the reason why the mysterious girl's three-headed dog is out of control is precisely because it smells the smell of approaching torn meat from a distance, so it comes to "precise law enforcement".

"Ahh You're a cultist? Good! Well dead! ”

The girl dressed as a mummy lying on the head of the three-headed dog also found a clue at this moment, she screamed and jumped off the head of the three-headed dog that had become docile again, and kicked and tore the still burning shell of the flesh.

As a result, this kick opened the bag tied to the torn flesh, causing the contents to fall out.

The girl blinked at the mummy's eyes, and curiously bent down to take the irregular stone slab in her hand.

After careful identification, she exclaimed:

"Ah, the Slate of Civilization! O glory to the Creator! The first time I went far away, I picked up a miracle artifact! Ha, Nefitali, you're amazing! Now no one dares to say that you are unlucky, and the teacher will definitely be proud of you!

But this thing can't be seen by the cunning and greedy vampire pirates, or they'll steal or trick it from me.

Ah, my watery brain is no match for them in this regard. ”

(End of chapter)