Chapter 162 Byers Moonlight Sword (three-in-one)
Time is like the wind, blowing through winter and spring.
The desk calendar quickly flipped and it was the end of May in the solar calendar year 4419.
In the past half year, the circus has not changed much.
Maggie went out with Robert and his wife, and came back only a handful of times, especially in the past two months, there was almost no news.
The plague outside the city has become more and more severe, and the outer city has even been under martial law.
Through news from newspapers and other channels, Chen Lun learned that more terrifying epidemics had appeared in surrounding towns and villages.
Many people seem to have become the "puppet" of the plague, turning into terrible monsters and crazy people.
The plague called "Red Dance" has reached the point where people are talking about it and has become a wave of panic.
It is not spread through rats and mosquitoes like the Black Death and Yellow Fever, but in a way that no one knows, people are infected inexplicably, and then it breaks out... No one knows who will be infected next, I don’t know how to cure the sick.
This unknown is the most frightening thing.
People suffering from the "Red Dance" plague will dance tirelessly and fall into a state of extreme agitation. They will have an uncontrollable desire to commit violence and a desire for killing and chaos.
According to what is currently known, the disease is also fatal and can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
Because this epidemic has swept across a large area, it has already triggered a response from the empire. The public security station dispatched police officers to guard the city, and a large number of soldiers were dispersed to various places where the plague occurred to suppress and maintain order.
But the effect is not good.
The number of dead soldiers was unknown. In order to prevent the spread of the plague, their corpses were often not sent back and had to be burned on the spot together with the corpses of the local residents.
The causes of death were complex. Some were infected with the plague, while others were killed by rioting mobs. In short, the morale of the troops who went to various places to control the plague was low, and there were even defections.
They would rather deal with clear enemies and powerful enemies than face invisible diseases and creepy sick people.
The weather is getting hotter and the earth is getting hot.
Pedestrians were in a hurry on the road, and when the carriage was driving, the coachman rang his bell impatiently to drive away people who might block the road.
Ding bell...
Chen Lun came out of the foil fighting club again.
He lowered the brim of his hat, walked quickly to the carriage parked on the roadside, and climbed directly into the carriage.
"Go back."
"Yes, Mr. Jack."
The coachman responded briefly, shouted to the horses, and snapped the reins.
Tap tap tap tap......
Chen Lun sat in the carriage and gently touched the silver cane in his hand.
Kaka...!
After a burst of transformation, the cane turned into a silver sword, straight and slender, lying quietly in his hand. His fingers slowly rubbed the sword blade, and a strong urge to swing the sword emerged.
"Swordsmanship..."
Chen Lun murmured these two words.
During this time, he would often take time to go to the foil fighting club and have a relationship with the Black Knight Byersla. But for the most part, Biles wasn't there.
Chen Lun would try his best to communicate with him whenever he could meet him. Thanks to his journey through the [Moon Faction] sequence in his previous life, he could have a pleasant chat with Byers on related topics.
Even sometimes, a few simple words can inspire Byers.
More than half a year of hard work paid off, and Chen Lun finally raised Byers' favorability level to "close". At the same time, I also learned two skills from Byers!
Two extraordinary sword skills, active skills!
【Byers Swift Sword LVMAX】
Skill description: The extraordinary sword skill created by the Moonlight Black Knight Baierswolf can cover the sword body with the power of death and cut out a high-speed and light cold sword light.
This skill is similar to "Send Wave". After spending 4 skill points to upgrade it, each sword energy is equivalent to a slash, and it also comes with the power of death, which is quite good.
The only regret is that due to the different sequence paths, when Chen Lun releases this sword skill, it will consume more and the effect will be slightly inferior to the original version.
But he is already very satisfied. After all, there is an additional offensive method, and this method should originally belong to the mid-sequence stage, but now he has mastered it in advance.
【Byers Moonlight Sword LVMAX】
Skill description: The extraordinary sword skill created by the Moonlight Black Knight Byerswolf can prepare the power of death on the sword, and finally produce a gorgeous sword light that is as stunning and deadly as moonlight.
This skill also invests 4 skill points, maxing it out.
The effect is somewhat similar to that of a charged sword, the longer it lasts, the more powerful it becomes. But it has a limit. It takes about one minute to fully charge, and its intensity is about five times that of the lowest setting.
Like [Biles Swift Sword], it was discounted by Chen Lun because of its different sequence, but it cannot be denied that it is a powerful special move.
Chen Lun happened to lack such a special skill.
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Return to Jack Manor.
Chen Lun found that the lobby on the first floor of the villa was empty.
He was not surprised because the entire team had been basically busy during this period.
Noah and Golov went out to complete the commission, Connie was busy working in the warehouse, and Floy was mostly catching up on sleep in her room.
‘It’s almost...the open beta will be in two days. ’
A trace of expectation flashed in Chen Lun's eyes.
After such a long period of preparation, it is almost ready, and we can finally warmly welcome the players.
He went straight upstairs to his room.
Taking off his coat and hat, he sat down on the sofa, leaned back and closed his eyes.
A circle of green fluorescence slowly appeared between the eyebrows - this was the [Jingzhe] bookmark.
In half a year, Chen Lun spent some time figuring out a way to put it into his body. In this way, you no longer have to hold it with your hands when using it, and the concealment will be much higher.
There was a bang, and white light suddenly appeared.
Chen Lun opened his eyes and found that he had arrived in fairyland.
He walked straight to the door of the lake house and glanced at the vine. The branches above were already blooming.
The changes in this extraordinary vine confirmed the previous conjecture. It is the number of cabins found that determines its growth progress.
Because in the past six months, Chen Lun entered the wonderland many times. Taking the "Forest No. 1" wooden house as the starting point, he conducted in-depth exploration in the left and right directions and discovered two more wooden houses.
One of them has been "occupied" by him and named "Forest No. 2". In this wooden house, he once again harvested the handwriting left by Philip, which recorded a quarter of the extraordinary knowledge of [Destiny Faction Sequence 7-Magician].
Adding this up, he now possesses half of the extraordinary knowledge about [Magicians], and he is one step closer to meeting the prerequisites for promotion.
‘Let’s go to ‘Forest No. 1’. ’
Chen Lun closed his eyes and communicated with the wooden house in the dark forest in his mind.
The next moment, he felt the air around him fluctuate.
‘Sure enough, it’s like a save point, quite convenient. ’
Opening his eyes, Chen Lun chuckled, opened the door and walked out.
The gray trees were shadowy, and black smoke began to fill up behind a few trees.
‘It’s the polluting creature ‘Lumberjack’ near Forest No. 1. It’s a waste of time to be held back. Let’s go quickly. ’
After Chen Lun glanced at it, before the woodcutter showed up, he took steps and started running towards the left.
"Forest No. 2" is on the right and has been explored by him. Next, he plans to occupy the wooden house on the left before the open beta.
I ran all the way for about ten minutes without encountering any danger.
But he didn't let down his guard because of this. After all, every trip to Wonderland is a different adventure.
boom!
A loud noise suddenly came from the side.
Chen Lun turned around and saw a "wild boar" the size of a carriage carriage rushing towards him.
There is a rectangular white bone plate on its forehead, and a ferocious human face can be vaguely seen on it. Two arm-long fangs grow on the lower gums, standing upright like two spears.
On its back sat a "monkey" wearing a bone mask, holding a basket woven with vines.
call!
Chen Lun dodged sideways and passed by the rampaging "wild boar".
At the same time, he kicked it hard on its side and abdomen.
Bang! !
Zhizhi——! !
The huge beast actually let out a sharp scream like a rodent, then lost its balance, staggered to one side, and almost fell over on its belly.
Chen Lun took the opportunity to release the [Life-Seeing Eye] towards it to observe its information.
‘Are these polluted creatures that can’t communicate again, the bone-faced monkey and its pet? The strength is almost equal to the extraordinary level of [Sequence 8]...'
The monkey called twice and threw two colorful fruits from the basket. The big pig underneath him opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, swallowing the fruit like a chameleon rolling its tongue.
The big pig squeaked excitedly and charged towards Chen Lun again, its two scarlet eyes filled with madness.
Kaka... clang!
Chen Lun flicked the silver cane and transformed into a silver sword.
‘Swiss Sword…’
He suddenly raised his hand, and the silver sword swung out a cold light. The lavender arc-shaped sword energy flashed out instantly and slashed at the big pig's face.
Pfft——!
Blood spattered, the big pig squeaked, a deep sword mark appeared on its face, and half of its nose was cut off.
The power of death attached to the sword energy made the flesh and blood at the wound appear a decaying black color. Big Pig's momentum stagnated slightly, and he seemed a little weaker.
Bang! !
In its madness, it bumped into Chen Lun.
But the latter already had various coping methods in his mind. This was the full level [Knight Swordsmanship] at work.
Chen Lun slapped the bone plate on the big pig's forehead with one hand, jumped into the air, landed on its back, and struck the monkey hard with his sword on the head!
Zhizhi! !
The monkey screamed in fear, but had no time to dodge.
Silver light flashed across, its head and half of its body were split open by a sword, and the tiny pieces inside its body exploded with the red mist in the sky.
Chen Lun landed smoothly, turned around and saw that the big pig had rushed far away, the monkey corpse on its back rolled to the ground, and the colorful wild fruits in its fruit basket were scattered all over the ground.
The big pig directly opened its mouth and swallowed the fruits together with the monkey's body, and then a drastic change occurred.
The injuries on its face recovered rapidly, and its body began to swell and turn red. A vague silhouette of a monkey appeared on the bone plate of its forehead.
'The name changed and it's now 'Bone Rat and Its Food'? ’
Chen Lun's eyes were filled with mist and he raised his eyebrows.
‘Interesting…’
call out! Phew! !
He waved the silver sword in his hand and fired three lavender arc-shaped sword energy in succession.
Byers Swift Sword!
Buzz! !
The bone-plate rat was startled, and immediately lowered its head suddenly. There were loud clang sounds, and there were three deep sword marks on the bone plate of its forehead, and even cracks spread.
If it weren't for this bone plate, its head would have been lifted open by the sword energy.
Phew! !
Two more striking sword auras struck, and before the Bone Plate Rat had time to react, one of its fangs was broken off, countless bone fragments flew into the air, and one of its forelimbs was cut open.
Chen Lun seemed to feel something, and looked at the silver sword in his hand in surprise.
‘The sword energy seems to have been strengthened a little bit... is it my imagination? ’
With the attitude of giving it a try, he continued to slash out with his sword.
Buzz! !
The lavender arc-shaped sword light, which was three-thirds thicker than before, flew straight and diagonally.
Zhizhi!
The Bone Rat was not afraid of death and rushed towards Chen Lun covered in blood.
But in the process, it collided with the thick sword energy first, and the bone plate on its forehead finally broke off, and half of its head disappeared.
Boom! !
The huge body fell forward and slid a certain distance due to inertia, raising countless dust and sand, and finally knocked down a big tree.
'Sure enough, the sword energy has been strengthened inexplicably...'
Chen Lun was secretly puzzled.
Amidst the rumbling sound, he took out a yellow potion and drank it.
This is the result Maggie brought back two months ago.
【Extraordinary Potion-Thirst Potion】
Item description: A recovery medicine developed by a heretic pharmacist. It is a yellow potion mixed with ancient techniques and materials.
Item effect: Can restore physical strength to a small extent, and increase the physical recovery speed within thirty minutes. Warning: Do not take it again within one hour, otherwise the upper limit of physical strength will be reduced.
‘Maggie’s stamina potion has finally been successfully developed... and the effect is pretty good. ’
Chen Lun threw the empty bottle away casually, burped, and then frowned slightly.
‘But the taste is really hard to describe...’
[Kill the polluted creature "Bone Plate Rat and its Food" and obtain 3000 experience points, extraordinary material "Weird Bone Particles" (natural faction) and low-sequence pure matter*1]
Boom! !
As the trees fell, a giant palm shot up from the sky.
Bang! !
The earth trembled, and sand suddenly flew all over the sky.
Chen Lun was about to run away, but then a picture from the past flashed through his mind, which was a few words recorded on the title page of "Philip's Adventures in Wonderland".
"——I found that there, my extraordinary power was affected, sometimes getting stronger and sometimes weaker. When it is strong, it can even explode with power beyond its own sequence, but when it is weak, it is worse than ordinary people...
If I use one word to describe it, I think ‘absurd’ is the most appropriate word. ”
He understood a little bit why the sword energy he just slashed was amplified - this was because of the weird phenomenon in the fairyland.
‘In this case, maybe...’
Chen Lun clenched the silver sword in his hand and slowly raised it.
Buzz!
The shiny blade of the silver sword began to emit a hazy lavender light, and it kept spitting out countless flickering light spots.
boom! !
Chen Lun suddenly kicked the big tree next to him, making a loud noise, and the latter slowly fell down with a rumbling sound.
The giant arm in the sky that was about to retreat suddenly struck in his direction.
Boom! !
The ground shook violently, and a huge crater exploded in the empty space! Countless sand and rocks were raised, and nearby trees swayed violently, as if they were about to fall down at any time.
Buzz—!
Chen Lun maintained the moonlight sword light, and the lavender light on the silver sword became more and more dazzling.
He always used his peripheral vision to observe the big hand that covered the sky and the sun, so as not to trigger "contaminated witnessing" by looking directly, which would lead to sanity deduction.
Whenever the giant arm was about to retract and leave, Chen Lun raised his leg and kicked down a tree to attract its attention again.
Woohoo! !
The "Desolation Giant" seemed to be angered, and its repeated provocations greatly increased the intensity of its attacks.
A gust of wind pressure hit, and a giant palm covered with weird berries came over.
The strength and accuracy of this palm were greatly improved, and Chen Lun's [Spiritual Intuition] gave a strong warning!
Boom! !
Chen Lun relied on his high dexterity attribute to dodge to the side.
Although he avoided it in time, the close shock wave still hit him. Dense stones were spitting out like shotguns, colliding with the dark golden scales, making a crackling sound.
He felt the pain everywhere in his body and let out a sigh of relief.
‘Too powerful...’
Chen Lun's eyes were fierce, and he held the handle of the staff with both hands. On the silver sword, the lavender light was glowing, which was already extremely dazzling.
'But it would be a pity not to take advantage of the increase to test it out...'
He raised his silver sword high and swung it down violently.
"Moonlight!!"
Buzz—! !
[Byers Moonlight Sword] detonates and releases!
A several-meter-long arc-shaped light purple sword light flashed as brilliantly as starlight and flew straight towards the giant hand in the air!
During this process, Jianmang received an invisible increase and once again surged by 70% to 80%.
boom!
Onji——! !
A strange cry of pain came from the sky, spreading throughout the forest in this area. Countless birds that have never been seen before flap their wings and fly away to places out of sight.
A huge severed palm, sprinkled with hot blood, fell from the sky.
With a roar, the broken palm was still squirming on the ground like a fallen elephant, with thick purple-black blood spreading all over the ground.
After a few breaths, it stopped struggling.
[Obtain the extraordinary material "Desolation Berry" (Natural Faction)*1! 】
Chen Lun received the prompt box and felt happy.
‘Is this the weird fruit growing on the palm of that giant? It is definitely a higher-grade extraordinary material! ’
he thought.
Thanks to my recent mastery of high-killing skills such as [Byers Moonlight Sword], and my chance encounter with the bizarre extraordinary amplification phenomenon in Wonderland. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to harm this extremely powerful pollution giant.
Boom!
The sky suddenly turned dark.
Chen Lun's [Spiritual Intuition] once again warned wildly!
A giant head with disheveled hair slowly poked down from the sky upside down.
Among the "hairs" made of vines, two rotten fruits covered with maggots were its "eyes", looking directly at Chen Lun.
'run! ! ’
Chen Lun shouted in his heart.
He ran as hard as he could in the direction he had planned, with strong wind and howling coming from behind his head.
call!
Bang——! !
A huge force came from my back, as well as a sharp pain, and my whole body felt like it was falling apart.
Chen Lun activated the "big snake form" in time. After being slapped, he curled up into a ball and flew some distance on the ground. The scales are used to resist collision and friction, reducing most injuries.
With a bang, he knocked down another tree. He immediately jumped up, quickly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and ran forward suddenly.
A glistening green light emerged from his chest, and the [Jingzhe] bookmark was releasing life force to heal him.
After escaping for a certain distance, the roar and tremors behind him gradually faded away.
Chen Lun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the "Desolation Giant" had been thrown away by him and could not catch up for the time being.
‘Now that we’re all here, let’s see if we can all work together and go directly to the cabin. ’
He thought to himself and increased his speed.
After feeling the sanity value in Maggie's statue, there is still 1100+ left. The accumulation in the past six months has not increased much, because every time I buy a book, it is a huge consumption.
Not only is it used to offset time consumption, but also occasional injury recovery and activation of gloves, etc., all require sanity points.
Chen Lun is too poor, and he is now eager for players to "fund" him, "donate" for him, and "crowdfund" for him.
I ran like this for more than twenty minutes.
He suddenly saw a corner of a familiar wooden house through the gap in the dense forest.
But there was constant roaring around, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight huge bone-faced rats rushed out, with a bone-faced monkey sitting on their backs each.
Zhizhi...zhizhizhi...!
The screams continued, and it seemed that more companions were coming towards this direction.
‘There are strong enemies wandering around every wooden house...’
Chen Lun sighed with emotion.
With a flick of his hand, he took out two bottles of purple potion from the blood poem ring and threw them forward.
Bang!
The medicine bottle exploded on its own, and two plumes of purple smoke came out.
This is the poison bottle obtained from Maggie, called "Psychedelic Poison".
The bone plate rats fell into a bit of confusion. They seemed to be overly excited after smelling the poisonous smoke and were running around. The bone-faced monkeys on their backs were not much better. They took out the wild fruits in the fruit basket and threw them at each other.
Chen Lun took the opportunity to take out a [Black Pattern Cufflink] and pinned it on his sleeve. Then he took out the bottle of [Restin's Perfume] and sprayed it on himself twice.
Poof...
Black smoke enveloped Chen Lun, and an elegant and complex ocean fragrance penetrated into his nose.
Chen Lun felt his head dazzle and he felt a little sleepy.
Fortunately, his own poison resistance was high enough and he quickly returned to normal.
When the purple smoke dissipated, the dozen or so huge bone-plate rats that had gathered around discovered with confusion that the strange upright creature from before had disappeared.
The monkeys on their backs were also chirping and slapping the big pigs sitting on their backs manically.
‘There is no direct sunlight in the forest, and the light is quite dim, which is just suitable for hiding cufflinks... In addition, perfume also has the effect of reducing the sense of presence. Rounding it off, doesn’t this mean that it is invisible? ’
Chen Lun thought to himself.
He held his breath and walked carelessly among the dozens of giant beasts, trying not to make any noise.
A bone rat's nose twitched, as if it smelled something.
Soon its crazy eyes flashed with confusion, and then its eyelids began to droop.
Within a few seconds, the monkey on its back also lay down and fell asleep.
The other bone-plate rats and bone-faced monkeys noticed something was wrong and immediately began to move away, but they did not leave completely, but lingered nearby.
Chen Lun ignored them, walked straight to the door of the wooden house, and pushed gently.
Creak...
The wooden door opened and Chen Lun walked in.
The decoration and furnishings inside still looked familiar. Chen Lun came to the table and saw a small box on it.
The box was covered with colorful graffiti, and there was a scrawled smiley face on it.
It's Philip's style.
Chen Lun stretched out his hand and approached the box, wanting to pick it up and take a closer look.
Bang! !
There was a loud bang.
The box suddenly exploded, and countless colorful shreds of paper flew.
A red thing connected to the spring flew out of the box and hit Chen Lun's face.
Chen Lun frowned slightly, his [Spiritual Intuition] did not warn him, he just raised his cane to block it in front of him.
"Surprise! Hee hee hee! Giggle!"
The "lips" were about half the size of a palm and looked like two sausages stacked together. They were connected to springs and swayed back and forth in front of Chen Lun.
It opens and closes up and down, speaks human words, and laughs.
Just when Chen Lun was confused, it continued:
"Hey my friend, glad you found another 'snippet'..."
The voice was clearly that of a young male, with a brisk and energetic tone.
"The gift left to you here is a piece of knowledge, oh, very rare knowledge... We call it the 'extraordinary law of the mysterious field'!"
The spring twisted, the "flaming red lips" opened and closed, spitting out a series of strange tones that didn't sound like language at first.
[You discovered [Secret Law of the Mysterious Domain (Part 2)] and gained 10,000 experience points! 】
[The law of extraordinary entropy increase (incomplete): ... extraordinary characteristics will not be destroyed, they will only be transferred from one carrier to another, they will not decrease, they will only increase...]
‘Extraordinary immortality…’
Chen Lun understood clearly in his mind.
No wonder that after the death of extraordinary people, their spirituality will turn into strange objects. After the death of extraordinary creatures, extraordinary materials will be left behind... and even after the magic objects collapse, they will decompose into mysterious substances.
The mysterious substance, as the most basic characteristic manifestation unit, cannot be damaged.
‘Extraordinary entropy increases, it does not decrease or destroy, it will only continue to increase...Public beta...players...'
Chen Lun frowned.
At this moment, he seemed to see some fragments of the future.
Earthquakes, sinkholes, tsunamis, wars and all kinds of terrible disasters... There is no way to recharge the 800 monthly ticket for the time being. I'm very sorry, but I won't miss it, and I will definitely make up for it in the future~
(End of chapter)