Chapter 32: Underworld (first update for April monthly pass)
Chapter 770 Underworld (First update for April monthly ticket)
As Lumian's figure disappeared in front of the crystal skull, the human skulls that already had numerous cracks suddenly lost their support.
They shattered suddenly, falling with the shadows from high in the sky, and the grass-covered wilderness split into pieces.
Osetto's "other world" collapsed toward the similarly cracked crystal skull, and everything located here silently turned into dust.
The undead spirits dissipated, the light disappeared, and the darkness of nothingness swallowed everything up.
After an unknown amount of time, a little soft light shone in this absolute darkness, illuminating a desolate, dim, pale, almost solid wilderness.
In the middle of the wilderness is the holy and quiet Lake Darsh.
Wearing a gloomy black dress and holding four heads, the headless lady quickly sketched beside the lake, quietly staring at the transparent water without any ripples.
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As soon as he passively passed through the bronze gate, Lumian felt that he was being looked at by countless eyes, and his body became colder and paralyzed.
At the same time, arms stretched out from nowhere and grabbed his head, neck, chest, abdomen and legs.
Some of them have dull skin and long white teeth, some of their flesh is so rotten that it falls off, and insects of the same high degree of decay are slowly crawling in the ulcers. Some of them have no skin, and some only have illusory spirit bodies...
What they have in common is that they all bring a cold that can freeze the soul.
The golden mask painted with white or black paint on Lumian's face glowed with a weak and pure light, and the arms that tried to reach out first stopped and then retracted.
The eyes that were watching him in the depths of darkness also withdrew their gaze.
Lumian regained his thoughts and awareness of his body.
He discovered that there was a deep pit below with no bottom or edges.
The edge of the pit is composed of layers of blurry worlds that surround the pit and continue downward until the end of sight.
These fuzzy worlds were stacked up in confusion. Lumian couldn't see clearly what was inside. He only knew that each of them was wider than the Star Plateau, and the sights he looked at before all originated from the bottom of the deep pit. It seemed that
In the endless darkness.
Lumian fell suddenly and fell into one of the fuzzy worlds in just the blink of an eye.
He miraculously stood on a wilderness of exposed gray-white rocks, surrounded by piles of white skeletons, which were densely packed and extended to different distances.
At this moment, these skeletons are still, as if sleeping in time.
Is this the underworld? I wonder where the part of the body with the "abscessed hand" is? Lumian looked around and muttered silently to himself.
Realizing that this was an opportunity to enter the underworld, he took the initiative to help, using the golden mask of the Eggers family and the seal of the "Underworld Man" to open the bronze door in the crystal skull.
The problem now is that the underworld is much vaster than he expected, and he has no idea where to start.
Similarly, the rotten baby sent in by Oceto has no idea where it went and what it wanted to do.
Perhaps we can rely on the contract I signed with the "Abscess Broken Hand" to find it. It is essentially integrated with the rest of its body and has a mystical connection. To some extent, the contract I signed with it is also equivalent to
The rest of its body was signed... Lumian quickly came up with an idea and said in a cold and hoarse voice:
"'Knight of the Sword,' have you come in too?"
"Yes." "Knight of the Sword" Maric's voice became a little fainter.
He paused and said:
"One of my companions also came in."
Lumian nodded:
"Why don't you come out?
"You are in the state of resentful souls now, so you don't have to worry about dying instantly in the underworld."
They are considered undead creatures, why are they afraid of anything special about the underworld?
"Knight of Swords" responded:
"But we are still living creatures in essence. If we stay in the underworld as a resentful spirit for a long time, we will not be able to transform back into human beings and will exist in the form of resentful evil spirits forever.
"And with the help of your body, we can be temporarily immune to the influence of the underworld and come out again at the critical moment."
"Is that so..." Lumian looked up at the pale and dim sky, "I can't wear this Eggers family mask for too long. We only have about three hours."
While speaking, Lumian tried to activate without using the black mark on his right shoulder, which was the "spiritual world travel" from the "Abscess Severed Hand".
With the help of this mark, he faintly felt something calling him at the end of the wilderness on the right.
Is that the part of the body of the "abscessed hand" in the underworld? Just as Lumian had this thought, he saw a figure emerging in front of him.
It was a young woman with a very delicate appearance but an unusually pale face. Her eyes were blue and deep, without any emotional ups and downs. Her long pale golden hair was tied into a slightly serious bun, with a hanging crown on top.
Wearing a soft hat of fine checkered black gauze, she is wearing a complicated and exquisite black Gothic palace dress.
Is this the temperance demigod who possessed me before? Lumian recalled the two blurry figures he saw with the help of crystal ice.
One of them is exactly the same as the lady in front of me!
The temperance demigod floated in the air, turned slowly in a circle, then pointed in a direction and nodded to Lumian.
The place she was pointing to was the end of the wilderness on the right.
"You mean where the rotten child born prematurely in Oceto is probably?" Lumian asked in confirmation.
The lady wearing a black bonnet nodded slightly in affirmation.
She immediately disappeared into the air, and Lumian felt another layer of coldness in his body.
They are all in that direction...coincidence? No, it's not a coincidence, it's more likely that something in that direction attracted them... Lumian turned his body sideways and was about to be "teleported" to the edge of his sight.
As soon as his figure became transparent, pale palms came from nowhere and pressed against his body surface, grabbing his arms.
Lumian experienced the feeling of paralysis all over his body again, and his soul seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force.
This time, the faint light emitted by the golden mask had no effect.
Lumian tried to ignite a blazing flame to dispel the cold, stiffness and paralysis, but his whole body was suppressed by invisible terror, trembling, and it was difficult to respond effectively.
When he regained consciousness and reason, he found that he was still standing in the same place, but all the white skeletons in the surrounding area had stood up, surrounding him layer by layer, as if to protect him.
At the same time, Lumian heard the voice of "Knight of the Sword" Maric:
"After you put on the mask of the Eggers family and become a pure undead creature, you will also have all the characteristics of the undead creature. One of the characteristics is that you will be suppressed by high-ranking people in the 'God of Death' path, and it will be difficult to have the idea of resistance.
Both body and mind are willing to accept slavery.
"In comparison, those of us who are not pure and can switch states freely will be much less affected."
Is this why I couldn't resist just now? I wonder if the "Sword of Courage" can counteract this effect. In theory, it should be possible... Lumian suddenly realized:
"Did you just save me?"
"Knight of the Sword" did not continue this topic, and instead reminded Lumian:
"Currently, it seems that you can 'teleport' but not 'teleport' in the underworld. That seems to be considered a blasphemy against the 'God of Death' and will attract punishment from the underworld."
According to the occult knowledge mentioned by Ms. "Magician", the underworld comes from the spiritual world, and it is normal to be able to "teleport", but "teleport" is too blasphemous to the "God of Death", isn't it too hierarchical? This is in line with the "God of Death"
"The suppression of low-ranking people by high-ranking people... Lumian thought for a few seconds and bent his back slightly.
A blazing white flame spear flew out immediately, illuminating the pale and dim sky, and threw it towards the end of the wilderness.
As the blazing white and red trajectory disappeared inch by inch, Lumian's incarnation of the flame spear was thrown out continuously, rushing on the road at the fastest speed currently possible.
During this process, he noticed that the wilderness had a downward angle. The destination of him and the "Knight of the Sword", the temperance demigod, was at the bottom of the "hillside".
After a while, the blazing white fire light scattered around, and Lumian's figure wearing a thick jacket fell to the ground.
In front of him was an illusory black river so wide that he could not see the other side.
The river comes from the edge of the sky and flows to the end of the sky, silently and extremely quiet.
"Is this the River Styx?" Lumian asked about the temperance demigod in his body.
The one who answered him was still "Knight of the Sword" Maric:
"It should be that it penetrates every layer of the underworld, and crossing it is equivalent to entering the depths of the underworld.
"If you hadn't stopped just now and flew above it, you would have fallen directly into the river and no one could have rescued you."
Fortunately, the "teleportation" encounter just now reminded me to stop for a moment when encountering a potentially problematic environment... Lumian looked around and saw withered blood flowers blooming in the wilderness, and the blood
There are many corpses, skeletons and shadows hidden among the flowers.
"How to cross the river?" Lumian felt that part of the lost body of "Abscessed Hand" was on the other side of the Styx.
As soon as he finished speaking, before the "Knight of the Sword" could reply, a dilapidated and extremely gloomy dark boat suddenly appeared on the dark and illusory river.
Standing on the boat was a figure with many debris hanging on it. It rowed a long oar and drove the boat to the front of the Lumian side and stopped at the edge of the river.
Lumian looked intently and saw that the "Boatman" was a highly decomposed male corpse. Many parts of his body were exposed. His eyes seemed to have been gouged out, leaving only thick blood vessels wrapped around them and yellow pus flowing.
Liquid void.
"Take this boat?" Lumian asked in a lowered voice about the temperance member in his body.
"Knight of the Sword" Maric replied in an ethereal but solemn voice:
"This is the only way.
"But you should be careful with the 'Boatman'. Changes have occurred in the underworld, and there may be problems with it."