Chapter 55 ‘Monster’ versus monster!
Shaun enters the real world from the kingdom of weirdness.
If he had slowly learned about the Kingdom of Weirdness from the real world, he would probably have felt extremely desperate the moment he knew the truth. But now Xiao En has actually gradually accepted all of this. He had prepared for the worst from the beginning, but now he actually has the intention of rebounding from the bottom of the sea.
His ability to withstand stress has been laid out from the beginning, so when he discovered that he might one day become a monster, he was not surprised at all. (This is true for all alien souls. Those who cannot accept it will die. Naturally, they will not lose control. It is a very scary thing for an alien soul to lose control.)
The huge gap in the hearts of other extraordinary people , in Xiao En’s case it’s completely the opposite.
Because to him, the weird country is not that bad, and he has accepted the worst part in advance, so now he thinks, hey, in such a fucked up world, there is actually a pretty good realistic country.
Isn’t that nice.
In this inverse sense of huge gap, Xiao En has formed his own rational anchor. For him, contact with strange existences is not a problem. He has seen the most desperate and terrifying things. The truth of the world, so regular weird events, cannot shake his rationality at all, and his rational anchor remains motionless.
In Xiao En's opinion, dealing with strange events is to fight monsters and upgrade them. However, these monsters have a few bugs and are a difficult challenge.
This change in mentality means that Xiao En has a rationality and will that far exceeds that of other extraordinary beings.
Of course, understanding the world as a game is also a terrible realization. (More scary for monsters.)
Afternoon time.
Gemma also came to the scene of the crime. She brought some ritual props and also dug out some useful clues from ancient books on noble heraldry.
"The Craswell family."
"Their family coat of arms is relatively similar to this, and they are one of the old nobles in the Dagon region."
Gemma handed a thick ancient book to Xiao En and said: "However, this family disappeared more than a hundred years ago. It is said that due to the curse of blood, all the direct heirs died."
< br>"They were once one of the guardian families of the Dagon region."
Dagon region?
Xiao En’s expression was solemn and he nodded silently.
How should I describe that place? It is not as peaceful as the Dorne area. It is a bit like a no-no-no zone in the real world. There is no very strong order maintenance. It is also the place with the most wild extraordinary people. Xiao En didn't find out the specific reason, but that area is often related to the ancient and unspeakable sleeping place.
In ancient language - "Dagon means Dagon."
Extraordinary people who know what 'Dagon' represents can understand why that area is always in turmoil.
"Protect the family?" Xiao En looked through his memory.
The guardian family has a long history. It is difficult to explain clearly in a few words. I can only say that the unknown people who ended the Dark Age were not only the 'outsiders' from the earth, but also other worlds that entered the weird kingdom. The strong one.
In comparison, they were more powerful at that time, because some of them were non-human mythical races, such as high elves, demons, angels, dragons, etc.
However, mankind’s Jedi counterattack to end the Dark Age was led by ‘outsiders’.
The origin of the guardian family is here.
Compared with other countries in the real world, the Kingdom of Dorne can be regarded as the orthodox inheritance of the ‘outsiders’, because it can be seen from the tampered history that they claim to be the ‘orthodox successors of the ancient Roman Empire’. However, the humanistic features of some places in the real world are completely different from here, and the technology tree of the Kingdom of Dorne does not represent the technology trees of other places in the real world.
The reason is very simple. What we inherit here is the civilization and knowledge of the earth, but in other places in the real world, some places inherit the knowledge of other worlds.
After the knowledge of the weird kingdom was activated, humans passed on the knowledge of another world.
"To a certain extent, the people of the Kingdom of Dorne are all descendants of humans who survived under the protection of 'outsiders'. They are half-Earth people spiritually."
"In the Dagon region, the legendary origin It was a soul from another world that descended upon a powerful demon. "
Xiao En didn't know the information that was too far away. He was not qualified to read the collections in the deepest part of Ms. Hecate's labyrinth library.
Inside the room.
Gemma began to assist Xiao En in arranging the ceremony.
Compared with Xiao En, she lacks a good teacher, so the mysterious knowledge she masters is actually not as comprehensive as Xiao En's. It is basically obtained through channels in the real world. However, she also has her own advantages, that is, she has much more experience than Xiao En. Wizards who rely on their own promotion have their own unique understanding of the world.
As long as this understanding does not conflict greatly with the truth of the world, there should be no problem with Gemma's subsequent promotion.
“In fact, people with flexible moral bottom lines are more likely to accept reality.”
A ghostly ceremony was completed in the room.
What Xiao En prepared this time was not a conventional psychic ritual, but a blood sacrifice ritual from the Dark Age. This ritual is more powerful and a little coercive and coercive, but it requires The difficulty is higher, and the backlash of the ritual itself can easily erode a little bit of rationality.
Under normal circumstances, spellcasters do not use 'dark rituals' frequently because they are easily contaminated if they use it too much.
Shawn lit a bunch of torches.
Behind him, Gemma took a step back silently, while Benjamin clenched the black umbrella in his hand, always ready to take action. He was the most powerful in the group, and the streamer could directly hurt him. Any spiritual body is weird.
Xiao En lit the yew wood enshrined in the ceremony and placed the incense made from datura flowers on the altar. Then he left a three-way intersection on the mysterious carvings of the ceremony. imprint.
This is just in case, leave a mark of the teacher here. If you accidentally summon an old guy who can't be beaten, you can call for help.
But such unexpectedly summoned spiritual creatures are not difficult to deal with, because the bosses of the spiritual world will not respond to the summoning ritual without any trouble. Using the evaluation of the old times, the challenge level is about five.
The four sides of the ceremony were imprinted with runes in ancient secret languages.
They represent the road, the underworld, the night, ghosts and witchcraft (magic) respectively.
As Xiao En lit a section of yew wood, the flame suddenly changed, from the original bright flame to a blue will-o'-the-wisp, amidst the diffuse light smoke. In the incense, the rune seals around the altar began to emit spiritual light one after another, and finally the swaying blue flame flickered on and off, as if calling for something.
Rituals all borrow power from the outside world.
Xiao En does not yet have the ability to borrow the power of the world's laws, so his ritual points to the honorable name of only one existence, and that is his teacher-Ms. Hecate.
In fact, he did not need to praise the honorable name at all during the initiation ceremony, but now that there were outsiders present, Xiao En still had to be a little more thoughtful.
"The three-phase goddess of opportunity..."
"Queen of Hades...Queen of ghosts...Goddess of magic in hell..."
"In the dark night The silent mysterious lady..."
"You are the protector of roads and portals!...You are the ruler of the underworld and ghosts!..."
In Xiao En's whispering chant, the blue light ignited in front of his eyes. The will-o'-the-wisp suddenly began to shine, and there were inexplicable changes in the rising flames, which meant that a certain being had taken the time to respond to Xiao En's ritual.
Ritual Spells.
It is a bit like the spiritual mediums in the West and the Fuji in the East in previous lives. They mainly borrowed power from the outside world and did not respond to specific existence. Sometimes it was just a decoration.
At this moment.
Others naturally looked at this scene with shock on their faces, because Xiao En's ritual started too quickly.
The ritual is sometimes - 'The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable'.
Some indescribable existences can be connected at any time, but the problem is that you must first be able to withstand his spiritual whispers. Lady Hecate responded to Sean's ritual and asked him to shut up and stop reading those words that are and are not.
The teacher doesn’t like it.
Then, in the swaying flames, the noble crest in the center of the altar was suddenly anchored by spirituality. As the medium for the summoning of the entire ritual, Xiao En glanced at the others, took out a dagger, and carefully opened his index finger. , a drop of blood fell on the noble coat of arms.
Since it is a blood sacrifice ceremony, it is natural to bring some blood.
As long as you are your own teacher, it is enough.
Xiao En’s purpose is to fish with his own blood, and he has a huge attraction to all false and indescribable things.
Above the ceremony.
As the last medium was activated, a swirling space crack invisible to the naked eye emerged. In the dark curtain torn apart by the space vortex, pairs of weird eyes emerged from the dark void.
From Xiao En's perspective, he could only see hundreds of pairs of eyes suddenly appearing in front of him. These are all peeks from the spirit world. Any ritual related to the spirit world had better be covered by a big boss, otherwise you are a big boss. Otherwise, these rituals will destroy those in the void and darkness. Both eyes are attracted.
The curtain of night obscures everything.
This is the persona of Ms. Hecate. She is a demigod on the path of death. She has the power of "unreachable by the eyes of gods". Even the old days cannot easily peek into everything she covers.
A cold breath emerged.
As the flames in the ceremony suddenly extinguished, a big pale hand stretched out from the torn space rift. It couldn't hold back its desire for blood sacrifice. It couldn't even wait for the second stage of the summoning ceremony, and it had already left reality. The rest of the world caught up.
Those spiritual monsters that enter the real world often hide in places where no ghost can find them.
Their minds have been distorted. They are not high-level existences. They basically rely on instinct to act. They are products of being completely assimilated by the law.
An extreme feeling of regret emerged!
There was a trace of pain on Gemma's expression, as if some memories deep in her heart that had been dusty for a long time were awakened, and some regretful things were being recalled crazily. At the same time, because of the emotional resonance, she was incomparable. In her remorse, she even had an impulse to commit suicide.
——Emotional resonance.
As soon as this monster from the spirit world appeared, he shared the immense regret deep in his heart with everyone present.
"Master, he killed his beloved."
Under the negative emotions of extreme regret, knowledge also began to become restless. They whispered, knowledge likes negative emotions. Because this is in line with the laws of the world.
“He lost control.”
"He accidentally killed the person he wanted to protect the most."
Knowledge gradually became excited, whispering, they had resonated with the emotions, and glimpsed into the inner world of this terrible monster.
—— Joe Craswell.
Knowledge knows his name, but now he is just an evil spirit trapped in the spiritual world, becoming increasingly distorted in boundless regret, and finally wiped out all the mind and spirituality, completely becoming a strange creature a member of.
Xiao En watched all this expressionlessly.
Benjamin was slightly affected, but at most he frowned. The captain's will was extremely tenacious.
This is not the place for Hank, he will be affected more seriously.
In the crack in the spiritual world opened by the ceremony, a ferocious and hollow head was held in the hand. With the extended pale hand, a gust of wind blew in the room, and a rickety figure appeared in the mist of the spiritual world. The figure slowly climbed out.
Xiao En saw an ugly monster that looked like a 'half-man'.
Really only half a person.
It did not have a complete lower body. It was severed from the waist with a sharp weapon. The dragged intestines flowed with turbid ink mucus. The bare neck was a horrific wound that had healed. The head had already been chopped off. It looked a bit like The legendary headless horseman, but it does not have its own mount, it has lost its glory and everything it protects.
Its soul exiles itself in endless regret.
Even the head in his hand was not his own, but belonged to the unlucky guy who committed suicide before.
It doesn’t even have its own head.
This hollow head emits a faint gleam, with only two bloody holes left in the eyes. The tongue has been pulled out, and the hair is twisted into a rope, as if it is holding a lantern, illuminating everything nearby. .
The atmosphere of reality and the spiritual world overlapped, and a faint mist filled the room.
The invisible things that are invisible to the naked eye show a vague outline. Many invisible things in the real world can be seen in the spiritual world.
——Headless Lantern Man [Unspeakable Falsehood] [Evil Spirit].
A kind of weird monster that is said to originate from horror folklore stories, twisted and born in the reality reflected in the spiritual world. Their symbol is a lantern made of a head. In most cases, it is Other people's heads, and occasionally their own, if they can find their own.
In the spirit world, they are the lower level guides. If you follow them, you can easily find a dead end, that is, deliver goods to your door and enter the territory of some indescribable terrifying existence.
The mist is thick.
The human head in his hand suddenly showed a look of fear.
After crawling out of the gap in the spirit world and entering the room, it seemed to notice something abnormal and actually seemed a little restless. It wanted to escape back!
The two big pale hands that had just been stretched out wanted to retract and stuff half of the body back into the gap in the spiritual world.
It felt a trace of inexplicable terror!
——The invisible hand!
But it was already too late at this time. Xiao En immediately made a move. Two dark invisible hands stretched out from his back. The ghostly black hands grabbed the opponent's intestines, and with them The head it held in its hand was dragged into the room with force.
No!
Don’t come over here!
The monster's screams echoed throughout the room. It cannot speak, but it can express itself with emotions.
Unfortunately it's too late.
Behind Xiao En, the tall Gemma immediately completed the spell. She seemed to be an evil old hag, and the reflection behind her was distorted.
The moment she raised her hand, two black tentacles emerged from her shoulder blades and wrapped around her broad shoulders. These two weird flesh and blood tentacles shot out like whips , with a trace of obscure negative energy attached, it instantly wrapped around the twisted monster's body, dragging its only half of the body out of the crack bit by bit.
——Black tentacles of evil thoughts (3 rings).
The length of these black tentacles is about five meters, and the surface is covered with weird suckers. They are visible to the naked eye and are the summoned flesh and blood of the entity. After the spell is completed, they directly parasitize on Jima's shoulders and merge with the flesh and blood. In one body, you can command it to attack all enemies within range with your thoughts.
The headless lantern man let out bursts of terrified screams!
In the eyes of monsters, extraordinary people are also monsters. They will not be afraid of mortals, but they will be afraid of these 'humanoid monsters'.
Xiao En stretched out two black invisible ghost hands from behind, and two five-meter-long black suction cup tentacles drilled directly out of Gemma's shoulders. In comparison, in the eyes of others, that Carrying a skull lantern, the half-body monster is not as scary as it was at first.
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(End of this chapter)