Chapter 495: Styx's Anomaly

When it comes to the abyss, people often think of endless, suffocating horrors, extremely harsh and absurd environments, dangerous and manic demons, the famous Abyss Plains and the seemingly never-ending bloody battlefields.

Because it is the most terrifying lower plane of Corell, home to demons dedicated to death and destruction, and one of the homes of chaotic evil spirits.

But in reality, the bottomless abyss is a collection of all the concepts of ugliness, evil, and chaos that is reflected through infinite levels, countless variations, and finally boils down to the extreme of brutality.

And the bloody battlefield leading to Bato's Hell Aphners is not always fighting, but the frequency of local wars is just outrageous.

Some bards, when peddling stories of abyssal adventures that catch the wind and shadows, often say that the bottomless abyss has 666 layers, and I don't know who first came up with this statement.

But in fact, the real number of layers is far more than that, and it is theoretically infinitely large, which is far more terrifying than what can be encompassed by traditional cognition.

Except for some knowledgeable scholars or plane travelers who have actually gone to the abyss to explore and can return safely, few people know that in fact, the Abyss Plains in the mouths of the natives of the main material plane are called β€”β€”β€”

Pazunia.

It is only famous for the Abyss Plain or the Palace of the Thousand and One Chambers.

It was a windswept wasteland, jagged mountains of stone looming under the shadow of hordes of winged demons, and for endless years, an oppressive red sun had bathed the entire dimension in scorching heat and harsh sunlight, and the occasional dark cloud obscured the plains, hiding potential dangers, and huge craters scattered throughout the level that plunged into the deeper horrors.

Among them, a shocking crack in Pazunia is particularly conspicuous, which is called the β€”β€”β€”Great Abyss" by the abyssal demons.

It is rumored that during the Demon Age of Obiris, most of the original demon inhabitants of the Bottomless Abyss chose to stay in the Abyss Plains and then secretly investigate the portal pit leading to the lower levels.

Some demons, however, prefer a simpler and cruder approach, instigating an 'orchestrated' magical project:

Attempt to dig a tunnel deep into the surface of the bottomless abyss.

The result was an unprecedentedly terrible collapse...

The catastrophe shook the abyss, and the twelve Obiris Lords who were the initiators all burped.

But as the smoke dissipated, a cavern-like crack that seemed to extend infinitely downwards was revealed.

As the demons explored this huge and vast rift, they found countless natural spatial cracks scattered across its overhanging and steep rock walls.

They are natural portals, and each leads to a different level of the Abyss, except that some of the 'gates' are two-way, and some are one-way tickets, with lava cremation or glacial burial, so scurrying through these doors is tantamount to suicide without a map of the Great Abyss.

Maps marking the Great Abyss and journals of numerous portals are commonly found in the markets of Grazt and the fortress of Pazunia.

Well, according to the blood and tears of countless demons and plane travelers, the latter is much more reliable than the demon-like pit of the former, but none of them are entirely correct.

After all, it is produced by the devil, and the degree of reliability can be seen, and it is at your own risk.

But even as they were, the Obiris demons still loved the portals of the Great Abyss more than the ones scattered across the surface of Pazunia, with broken bridges and abandoned towers spanning the Great Rift and clinging to its cliffs, symbolizing the ancient colonization of the Obiris demons here.

Since this vertical tunnel is believed to be infinitely extended, most Plane Travelers classify it as a separate level of the Bottomless Abyss, and call this area the Bottomless Abyss Level 4 β€”β€”β€” Great Abyss.

Although the Obirys Demon had once made an agreement on the use of the Great Abyss, the Tanari Demon could not tolerate such a cooperation.

Certain Demon Lords, notably the Transfiguration Lady Altina Shi, have long claimed that the many extensions of the Great Abyss are their domain due to the fact that her steel fortress is located next to this vertical tunnel on the edge of the rift in Pazunia, but the infinite depth of this level makes such a claim useless at all, well, maybe even a simple demon egg is more useful than this.

These competing demon lords tend to send their subordinates to guard specific portals rather than the vast areas they focus on, but in any case, many demons with a chaotic nature can't control their foolish hands from attacking other demons.

Therefore, this level has become another vast and boundless battlefield, and the greatest danger of walking here comes from the high-altitude projectiles overheadβ€”β€”β€” broken rock fragments that fell during battle, the corpses of fallen demons, and of course, the unlucky ones thrown down by other demons.

Don't underestimate the threat of falling objects here, due to the depth of space and the gravitational chaos between the portals, gravitational acceleration and extreme uniform velocity simply do not apply here.

It may be that after a long drop in luck, the speed of a falling object will be comparable to that of space junk in the orbit of the planet.

A demon's head that has not yet cooled is likely to smash the explosive effect of the main battle tank shell, and Mr. Newton can't help but open the coffin when he sees it.

What not many living demons know at this time is that a human spellcaster has quietly taken root in some dark cavity of the abyss with his lover and a special group of people.

And ten years have passed since this stay...

They were the same Calvin and his party who quietly smuggled into the abyss through the portal according to Levi's arrangement.

This was originally the place where the Abyssal Tentacles were first discovered, but as Calvin's Heavenly Kingdom Set became more and more popular, and even after being transferred to other planes several times by some illegal smugglers, the Abyssal Tentacles at this level were almost captured and wiped out, and they could only rely on regular hunting and food delivery to keep a pitiful remnant planted.

And after forty-six years of capture, these abyss tentacles that originally made the demons talk about it gradually began to fear humanoid creatures.

The widespread extinction of the Abyssal Tentacles made this cavity layer an excellent choice for stationing in the Abyss.

This hollow environment is somewhat similar to the dark regions of the main material world, and although it is dimly lit, it is relatively rich in moss, poisonous vines, and some shade-loving abyssal creatures.

So whether it's the Calvins themselves, who are humans, or Alley who is a demon, or her mount, the red dragon Huenda, or the more fragile Cavins rats, it's relatively easy to adapt.

But even so, in the first year, most of the Cavins who had been stationed here with Calvin had died for some reason.

Some died from eating poisonous vegetation, some from falling into deep pits, and some from falling objects while scavenging.

But in detail, most of them... Dying from the erosion of the abyss can also be interpreted as the abyssal version of 'unadaptable'...

Just like the famous Tanari demons, except for the first batch of Tanari demons that were transformed into the evil of some Orbilius on mortal souls after being chaotic, almost all subsequent Tanari demons were formed after evil souls or evil thoughts were polluted by the abyss.

They will metamorphose into demon larvae, which is the initial stage of demons, and is also the demon's favorite food, and finally gradually metamorphoses into the lowest level of cowardice, rose worms, etc., through killing and devouring each other.

Compared with the fragile soul, the alien traveler is relatively much higher for this subtle evil erosion, and will only appear in a short period of time irritability, irritability, suspicion, suspicion and other psychological negative conditions, but after a long time, it is also easy to degenerate.

Maybe it's because the Cavins rat was originally a chaotic creature that leaned towards the neutral camp, and it had been baptized by Calvin's 'Heavenly Dafa is good', so it has a high resistance on the spiritual level.

Most of them died from the alienation of their bodies, but according to Calvin's observations, most of the surviving Cavins rats showed hair loss, baldness, sharpened teeth and claws, and significantly became more adapted to the abyssal environment.

In that very early time, Calvin also had no time to care, after confirming that there was no source of threat at the level of this cavity, Calvin took out the humanoid construct that Levi jokingly called the 'Platinum Star', and spent nearly ten months, using the "Meditation and Prayer Method" to finally successfully split the evil personality that was 'polluted' by the negative beliefs of the Cavins rat from his soul hypnosis, and stuffed it into the construct with a suppressor and elemental crystal nucleus.

At that moment, Calvin, who was lying on his back on the bed of the armored vehicle with a pale face, silently glanced at his wife, who was holding his hand tightly and with an excited and complicated expression.

There is a sense of absurdity that the identities of himself and Vina are reversed, and then the pregnancy is finally born in October.

What's even more absurd is that less than ten minutes after he 'gave birth', he had to fight with the 'bear child' he had just born...

It's just that he and Vina can't do it!

If it weren't for Alley, who went out to walk the red dragon but was still not used to eating the specialties of the abyss, and came back with a meal, I'm afraid that he Calvin would have become the first spellcaster to be killed by 'himself'.

Both he and Levi made a fatal mistake of common sense.

Since it is the self of the other personality who shares the memories, then since he knows the control method of the constructor suppressor, then the other self naturally knows...

Fortunately, Calvin and Vina were both qualified scholar-type mages, and after Vina's transformation and debugging, Calvin was finally able to fully control the structure.

After consulting with Vina, Calvin finally referred to the evil 'self' as β€”β€”β€”

Darwin...

Meaning... Evolve.

It also represents Calvin's high expectations for those Cavins rat men.

And these Cavins rat people did not live up to his and Levi's expectations, although the initial water and soil adaptation greatly reduced their rat members, but the remaining Cavins rat people under the leadership of Cavinnis and other rat leaders, still firmly carried out his initial order:

That is, in this layer of the lair valley that originally belonged to the abyssal tentacles, a stone cliff sentry was built with stone barriers, and a patrol sentry was organized.

With their current strength, it is basically easy to solve some cowardly demons, demons, latent demons, and quarces that have strayed into them with an absolute local numerical advantage.

In the face of Tyrants, Cunning Demons, and Fire Demons, Cavennis and other nezumi leaders may suffer heavy casualties in the absence of nezumi leaders.

Once you encounter a succubus or a spider hunter or above, only Cavinnis, Kuito, and Trist can solve it in person.

If you are unfortunate enough to encounter such powerful beings as the Flo Demon, the Blood Lion Demon, the Berserker Demon, the Enchanted Demon, and the Soul Judgment Demon, you can only rely on Alley, Huenda, and even him and Vina to save the day.

After successfully separating Darwin, Calvin no longer suppressed himself, and stepped into his own legendary destiny with the path of a psionic sorcerer.

At the same time, the 'Darwin' in the body of the construct broke through the legendary gate with the blessing of the faith of a large number of rat people.

However, due to the lack of knowledge and rituals related to igniting a divine fire to become a demigod, 'Darwin' can still only be regarded as a legend, and it is still a relatively watery kind.

Because of the path of the Cavins Rat's belief in the gods, 'Darwin' failed to awaken Calvin's psionic spellcasting expertise as a psionic sorcerer.

This meant that he was neither a demigod capable of wielding some of his powers, nor a legendary psionic sorcerer, or even any knowledge of warriors.

Everything can only be started from scratch.

However, that day also meant that two new legends were born under Levi at the same time:

Calvin and Darwin.

They are two sides of the same coin, good and evil coexist.

When the news reached Levi's ears, it was said that the laughter of the Silver Dragon Lord echoed throughout Minastiris for a long time.

jokingly said that Zelandia has since become an extra pope like Zachar.

Calvin certainly didn't know the Sanctuary lore from the Blue Star, nor did he know the horror of a certain generation that was once ruled by the Red and White Gemini Saga Lightspeed Fist and the extradimensional space.

But even Calvin, who already has the power of three legends, still did not choose to venture, because in the great abyss where the demon lords gathered, the legend is just a preliminary possession of the capital of abyss travel.

In the past ten years, the Skaven people have used the methods of the dark regions to grow mushrooms and crop seeds brought from Zeellandia in this hidden cavity formation, but unfortunately, all the other crops have withered except for the abnormal mushroom fields.

In addition to this, one of the most things the Calvins did was to have the Cavins rats salvage the souls in the River Styx.

They are souls that have drifted down the River Styx after death in the material realm and have not yet been fully assimilated by the bottomless abyss, and have become invokers called souls.

The invoker has pale skin, cruel claws, sharp teeth, loose hair, pale eyes, and most disgustingly, maggots can be seen wriggling through the swollen flesh of the soul.

Those 'maggots' are the physical manifestations of the will of the abyss, and once these maggots have devoured the nutrients of the soul, they will break out of their bodies and become demonic larvae that can be seen everywhere in the abyss.

And what Calvin told the Cavins rats to do was to fish the spirits out of the River Styx, remove all the maggots inside, and send them to him.

He wanted to see if he could use his psionic powers to reawaken his dead personality... Even if it's only partial.

But unfortunately, so far, he has failed.

But one day in the tenth year, he suddenly found that the Cavins rat man had brought back fewer and fewer spirits.

It immediately dawned on him that it wasn't the Cavins rats who were lazy.

But... The upper reaches of the River Styx...

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