Chapter 85 Divination! Eamon's crazy plan - the bottomless abyss!
The next day.
After paying the price of three deaths, Xiao En finally figured out the general situation in the vicinity.
Originally, after he killed the beholder yesterday, he thought he was quite strong, but he didn’t expect that he would be slapped in the face early the next morning. The enemies of the Weird Kingdom are not martial at all. Virtue, being stronger or weaker will not affect the final outcome at all.
Everything Xiao En encountered here has a hint of modern warfare.
The first death occurred at the edge of the swamp.
Xiao En originally planned to become invisible and conduct a good reconnaissance of the nearby environment to see what was around the swamp area, and also to look for berries, because he did not have many healing items. But he underestimated the lizard man's detection and listening ability. Even when he was invisible, there were enemies who discovered Xiao En's traces, locked the approximate location, and finally found him in the invisible state.
Phew.
A concealed sharp arrow struck. Half of Xiao En's body was instantly paralyzed. Before he could do much, the enemy rushed up with a knife and cut off Xiao En's arm without hesitation. head. The action was quite neat and clean, it was definitely not the first time he had cut someone's head off.
Xiao En was poisoned.
A monster without martial arts actually used poison to attack him secretly. Xiao En, who had just escaped from the death flashback, killed the opponent without hesitation. The process of counterattack can basically be skipped, because he now has many attack methods. After adding an 'Energy Deflection Field' in advance, the arrow couldn't hit him. The next battle was very easy. Compared with fighting the beholder, Xiao En didn't even have all his cards to play.
This was the first death, and Xiao En had a rough idea of the situation at the edge of the swamp.
Then there was the second death. He was killed at the edge of the forest. The one who killed Xiao En was a monster that he called the 'Arakkoa' because it was a feathered creature. The humanoid creature has a face that looks like a weird crow and three eyes. It is said that it was once an owl race and one of the legendary non-human races. It was later twisted into various monsters by the old days.
All non-human races in the Weird Realm are basically distorted.
This death is the most dangerous.
Because Xiao En was almost killed by the enemy twice, if he died the second time, he would probably have to really die.
Those arakkoa are even more cunning than the lizardmen because their blow darts are more poisonous and they have the ability to fly short distances. During the whole battle, Xiao En felt something was wrong, as if he was being watched all the time. It wasn't until he died in the enemy's sneak attack that he realized that the arakkoa actually had pets, and there were birds in the sky staring at him. Locked in his specific location.
It’s still a sneak attack without martial ethics!
From the fight to death, Xiao En almost used all his cards, and finally died under the claws of his enemy due to poisoning.
In the end, he relied on the ability of death retrieval to predict the enemy's position in advance. He used a dimensional jump and explosive fire technique to blast the enemy out. This solved the battle. The last strong acid arrow shot and exploded the enemy. The head of a three-eyed arakkoa.
The other person is a spell caster, possibly an illusionist.
Although the enemy this time is not as powerful as the beholders, the danger of fighting is higher than yesterday. The arakkoa are easier to kill than the lizardmen, but their attack methods are more sinister.
The battle in the weird kingdom is not a battle in the traditional sense in Xiao En's perception. There is basically no process of you and me going back and forth to hack and fight spells. The outcome of the entire battle is determined in a few minutes, and sometimes life or death is decided in less than thirty seconds.
“When there is not much difference in strength between each other, it is very important to detect the enemy’s traces in advance!”
This is Xiao En’s new understanding of combat.
The difference in strength does not completely affect the outcome of the battle. Unless it is a crushing situation, the difference in strength between the two is really too big. Otherwise, all battles here will be similar to modern warfare. Finding the enemy is the first element, because whoever has the first-hand information will have the initiative to attack.
It just so happens that the offensive initiative is the key to life and death!
Xiao En relies on the power of firearms. The firepower is very fierce. The first move can basically kill the enemy in an instant. The enemy relies on the familiarity with the environment and various vicious attack methods to basically kill Xiao En in an instant. Even if it is It wouldn't last more than a second, and he would almost certainly die after being poisoned.
When Xiao En fights against them, he will either be uninjured or die.
If you are poisoned by the enemy's sneak attack, it will basically be difficult to win the next battle.
"Damn!"
"Where did they find the poison?"
"There must be an easily accessible source of poison nearby, otherwise not every creature would quench the poison for the weapon!"< br>
In Xiao En's hand, he held the strange blow dart of the arakkoa. This thing is very difficult to prevent. The flying needles it fires are very thin and long, like some kind of hard pine needles. They can only rely on the energy deflection force field. Block a wave. Fortunately, the physical quality of the arakkoa is not as good as that of the lizard people. As long as Xiao En locks his target in advance, he can almost reach his target in seconds.
As for the last death, there is nothing to say. I encountered an enemy that I couldn't defeat.
Xiao En's enemy is a weird house that can move on its own. It looks a bit like a witch's evil cabin. It's not clear what it is. He died a little mysteriously when he got close. In the end, he didn't even dare to investigate. , and directly escaped from the weird hut in the forest. (The specific pictures are at the end of the chapter.)
Anyway, conventional firearms are definitely useless against this monster, and it doesn’t look like an enemy he can deal with now.
Beholder Lair.
Xiao En is sorting out the harvest of the whole morning. There are a lot of miscellaneous things, and there are also several rare items, but there are not many that he can use.
“The lizardmen’s rare equipment and dropped items are too repetitive.”
"It's rare to see new gadgets."
What Xiao En harvested from the lizard people today was the survival talisman. He currently has half a dozen survival talismans in his hand. He doesn't need so many at all, so he can only keep them. Return to Abyss City and sell it at a low price. The other equipment is basically the same. Even the relics dropped by the Lizardmen are highly homogeneous. They are basically extraordinary relics from the Ranger path.
“Is it because the living environment in the poisonous swamp is too harsh?”
“There are only a few warriors, mostly rangers and hunters, and the equipment is similar.” Xiao En guessed secretly.
The harvest from the lizardmen is basically nothing to say, and no new gadgets are dropped, unless Xiao En encounters some rare elite monster, such as a rare spellcaster or something.
Today's key harvest is on the arakkoa side of the black forest.
——Messaging technique.
A 0-level trick, the magical version of voice transmission, Lolis once used it on Xiao En, but when they talked for the first time, both of them were hit by psychic suggestions and both were unconscious. After everything, we just started talking normally.
This was not dropped by the arakkoa, but by the crow it controlled. The extraordinary relic is a dark feather.
“It can probably maintain a distance of 50 meters to transmit sound into the secret.”
"Can talk to five or six targets at the same time."
This trick consumes very little, is very convenient to use, and is very effective. The sound transmission into secrets in the previous martial arts novels is a level 0 trick here. If Having this ability very early makes it much easier to fight. There are really very few extraordinary relics in the real world. Logically speaking, there should be many relics flowing into reality, but I don’t know why they are not popularized. Xiao En still doesn't know enough about the weird country, and even in the real world, he is only slightly familiar with the city of Dorne.
——Phantom Sound Technique, Secret Mark.
There are still two level 0 tricks, both of which were found in small relics, and Xiao En refined them casually.
"It seems that the talent of the arakkoa is biased towards spellcasters!" Xiao En was a little surprised.
He blasted out three arakkoa with a burst of fire, and killed two of them with a burst of gunfire. The last one was hit in the head by a strong acid arrow. He found a lot of good things on them.
The Crow people have more spellcasters. Although they are not strong, they master a lot of spells, which is a greater improvement for Xiao En.
Arcane Mark is a regular level 0 trick with many uses and can be used as a mark.
——Magic Alarm (1st level spell)!
After finding this thing among the arakkoa's trophies, Xiao En suddenly became energetic.
"Finally found something useful."
This is a magic alarm that can set up a magic alarm within a few hundred meters. Once an enemy approaches, it will alert Xiao En and directly wake him up from his sleep. come over.
With this thing, he doesn't have to worry about being sneaked up and attacked while he's resting.
The three arakkoa dropped a lot of good things. They also had several extraordinary relics on their bodies that they had collected but had not digested. Xiao En had refined everything he could. The arakkoa and the lizardmen should also hunt each other, because a lizardman bone amulet was found on the arakkoa's body.
——Feather Falling Technique, Electric Claw, Colorful Jet.
These are all very practical first-level spells. It seems that the spells they can drop are related to their own abilities. After Xiao En extracted them in one breath, he replenished a lot of his low-level spells.
“Knowledge has become more active.”
Xiao En felt that the knowledge in his brain was becoming more and more active, as if it was about to reach a certain critical point, which meant the door to the field of knowledge. A gap is slowly opening. If you want to access the realm of knowledge, you have to endure more pollution and madness. Other wizards probably won't learn so many spells at once.
After dealing with it almost, Xiao En took out the last extraordinary relic.
The brain of an arakkoa!
He discovered that there was no such thing as a spell book in the Weird Kingdom. If a spell book dropped when killing an enemy, it would most likely be an extraordinary relic condensed from the enemy's brain. This is the brain of an arakkoa illusionist, and it is also the most difficult opponent.
——The cunning of the fox and the wisdom of the owl (2nd level spell).
Xiao En hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to extract the brains of the arakkoa, because he felt that his rationality could still be tolerated. After these two days of life and death fighting, he felt that after getting used to death, his rationality Became more stable.
“This spell can temporarily improve the subject’s intelligence and strengthen all intellectual abilities.” Knowledge cheered.
One adds intelligence, the other adds perception.
These two spells are blessing spells. No wonder Xiao En found himself being stared at by the enemy. Maybe this guy's temporary perception was higher than him.
Shawn gave it a try.
The effect of spell blessing is very strong, especially the fox's cunning ability, which suddenly raised his intelligence to an astonishing level. It's hard to describe the feeling in words, it's a bit like a previous life. The efficiency of learning during sage time is astonishing. (Temporary intelligence is 24 points.)
As for the enhancement of perception, his inspiration was already very high, and it became stronger after the blessing, but because of his spiritual vision, it was not so obvious.
——Divination (3rd level spell).
Xiao En learned his first true prophecy spell from the Crow Man, but the low-level prophecy spells were not very easy to use. He could only predict good or bad luck through divination, but could not peek into the future. Really powerful prophecy spells can see what has happened in the past and what may happen in the future.
Out of curiosity.
Xiao En took out the cane that Ms. Hecate left for him, that strange thing called the 'Three Crossings', which he had never used much because he didn't know how to predict spells before. .
A slight fluctuation of mana trembled.
As Xiao En threw this weird cane, the original magic began to stir, as if invisible opportunities were being stirred, and the direction of the prophecy changed. "Teacher! Point me in a direction that will bring good luck!"
Xiao En recited his strongest spell!
He won’t completely believe everything Eamon said. Besides, Ms. Hecate has always been very kind to him. I don’t know if it’s his own illusion. Xiao En always feels that Ms. Hecate is trapped. Inside the Labyrinth Library, because he rarely saw Lady Hecate outside the Labyrinth Library.
It's a bit like a god trapped in his own kingdom.
Da.
The cane thrown by Xiao En began to tremble. Divination usually predicts good and bad luck, but this strange object at the crossroads seemed to enhance the effect of divination.
It can guide three directions, one for good luck, one for bad luck, and one for good or bad.
“When using prophecy, you must keep in mind that you can occasionally pray for good luck, but you cannot always ask for good luck.”
“There are even times when you have to actively seek bad luck. Luck."
"Because only in this way can your predictions be more accurate next time." Ms. Hecate's teachings came to mind.
Luck is uncertain.
Good luck and bad luck are equal. It’s okay to be unlucky once in a while, as long as good luck favors you at the critical moment.
Newbies tend to be obsessed with good luck, but veterans prefer the usual bad luck.
"This is the balance of luck."
Xiao En needs the blessing of good luck now. When he returns to a safe place, bad luck will come no matter how he comes, even if he is walking on the road He fell down suddenly, had his wallet stolen for no apparent reason, etc. He really couldn't do without good luck in this hellish place, and even a little bit of bad luck would not do.
Falling at the three-way intersection.
It pointed a direction toward Xiao En, on the edge of the black forest, on the hills near the plain, specifically in the northeast direction.
"Will that direction bring me good luck?"
"Teacher."
"I'll leave it to you this time!"
Xiao En was very pious at this moment.
He packed his things, took the stone blind barbarians with him, and prepared to go to the direction pointed by the three-way intersection.
These stone blind barbarians are his younger brothers. Of course, they cannot be counted on at critical moments. Because of their low intelligence, the stone blind barbarians are easy to control and can understand some simple commands. They are roughly equivalent to level 1 barbarians, but they do not inherit the complete extraordinary essence. Even if they are born with the level of humanoid monsters, they cannot activate berserk. If you want them to be promoted, you must feed them extraordinary relics. Xiao En definitely doesn't have that much money at the moment, and he doesn't intend to train them.
If it gets out of control, he has to clean up the mess himself.
This is a relatively risky attempt, because it is Xiao En's first time to use divination, but he chose to try his luck, mainly because he believed in Ms. Hecate's strength.
The rare item she gave must be useful. The butcher gave Xiao En such an important high-level rare item. It makes no sense that the teacher, as a demigod of death, would give Xiao En a useless trash rare item.
"Goddess of Luck, love me again."
Xiao En directed the stone blind barbarians to open the way in front, and he himself was ready to enter the invisible state at any time.
The caster always puts life first.
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Purgatory City.
This is one of the seven Witch King cities in the Weird Kingdom. It is also a place of chaos as powerful and evil as Abyss City.
Eamon's figure slowly walked into a magnificent palace.
At the top of the palace, there is an extremely coquettish and beautiful female figure. She is lying lazily on a luxurious throne. Her exposed white arms have a blood-red tattoo on both sides of the palace. There are many extremely powerful evil guards standing there, and some are even souls from other worlds from Shura Purgatory.
"Eamonn! What a rare visitor!" The charming woman on the throne stood up and welcomed him.
Eamon showed a smile, ignoring the woman's alluring beauty, and said calmly: "I came to you to borrow something."
The alluring woman raised her eyebrows when she heard this and said: "What do you want to borrow?" Said you just went to the Valley of Thousand Faces recently."
Eamon said politely: "I want to borrow your [Mind Crown]."
The charming woman frowned and stared. Eamon in front of him said: "The crown of mind? What do you want it for? Does anyone under your command want to be promoted to the destiny of the spiritual path? Or is there anyone who wants to be promoted across paths?"
Eamon's smile faded. , said calmly: "You don't need to ask anymore. To borrow? Or not to borrow?"
There was dead silence in the entire palace.
Suddenly, the charming woman chuckled and said: "Borrow. Of course. The Lord of the Abyss has already spoken, how could he not borrow it?"
"But."
“You also have to answer me a question first, to clear up some of my recent doubts.”
Eamonn frowned slightly and said: “What question?”
The charming woman stood up curiously and looked down at Eamon in front of her. This condescending attitude seemed to be to prove her strength, but Eamon was unmoved. She whispered: "What are you planning to do to disrupt the real world? "
"Just to cause them some trouble?"
Eamon said calmly: "Of course not, I want to open the door."
Open the door?
The charming woman asked doubtfully: "Open the door? They can't agree. Too many people will die. Those old bones may not have the courage to give it a try."
Eamon smiled and said: "There is a saying in the East that 'raise the price and bargain on the spot'."
"Besides, who said I want to open the door to the real world?"
Charming woman Hearing this, he was stunned and said in disbelief: "Then which door are you going to open?"
Eamonn spat out four words: "The bottomless abyss!!!"
It was like a rift. Thunder exploded.
The charming woman froze on the spot and said in disbelief: "Abyss? Impossible! The doorway has been closed for a long time."
Eamonn said calmly: "How will you know if you don't try? "
"The ancient elves can open the portal to the distant universe, why can't we open the portal to the bottomless abyss?"
"Those demons are fighting [bloody battles in the abyss] every day? 】They should be tired of it a long time ago. "
"Even if you open a gap in the gray fog, they can swarm in, just to give the indescribable people in the weird country some fun."
The charming woman stared intently at Eamon in front of her, seemingly trying to determine whether what he said was true or false.
After a long time, she said slowly: "If you really plan to do this, count me in."
Eamonn nodded: "The plan has just begun."
"I am still missing the most important key, and that key belongs to a very important person."
"No one can get the third door key without the help of him."
The charming woman said in a solemn voice: "Are you really sure that you can open the [Gate to Another World] for the second time?"
Eamonn said lightly: "It may be difficult in other places, but the bottomless abyss has a great chance. It is a place of ultimate chaos, leading to all possibilities!”
“I am the promoted Lord of the Abyss.”
“As long as the conditions of the ritual are met, I can shout ‘The Will of the Abyss. 'Come on! ”
“It will be interested in the Kingdom of Weirdness”
The charming woman seemed surprised by Eamon's crazy thoughts and murmured: "Aren't you afraid that the will of the abyss will also be distorted into the old days?"
Eamon said calmly: "That is the will of the abyss, nothing else. The alien spirit of Amao and Agou."
"If it were so easily distorted, there would be no bottomless abyss."
"Besides, you don't. Do you think those old days are crazier than the will of the abyss? You underestimate the power of the bottomless abyss!"
"The soul from another world has a way to solve the problem."
"Those aborigines are too weak."
The charming woman seemed to be convinced by Eamon in front of her, she lightly Gently raising a white finger, a banshee maid soon delivered a completely sealed blood box.
Eamonn stretched out his hand to take it and said very politely: "Thank you."
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(End of this chapter)