The last time I was able to successfully produce [Dagon], there was a bit of luck mixed into it.
At that time, Li Ming didn't understand the card making rules of this world thoroughly enough, and he didn't make enough preparations before starting to make cards. Fortunately, relying on the bonus brought by his first card making and creating a perfect system, he could barely reach the level of purple cards.
threshold.
If he had failed to succeed at that time, he might have been greeted by the collapse of his spiritual sea, and he might even have attracted the attention of the Blood Brotherhood of Ensul and lost his life in vain.
Memories of the past emerged in Li Ming's mind, and he shook his head mockingly, saying goodbye to the fear in his heart.
In order to make this Innsmouth, he has done many tests related to scene cards.
During this period of time when the sea of spirit gradually filled up, Li Ming's ink sketches were changed again and again, and the Innsmouth card surface was also painted again and again.
Coupled with the help of the surrounding scenes, he is confident to recreate one of the most famous scenes in the Cthulhu mythology, the seaside dead town in Essex County in "The Haze over Innsmouth"
come out.
As a famous check-in holy place in the Cthulhu mythology, Innsmouth often appears in various stories, and investigators basically come in droves.
Speaking of which, Li Ming remembered that "Celephasis" also seemed to mention a town called Innsmouth, but its location was not in Essex County but in New England.
Many scientists at the time had their own opinions on this statement. The more mainstream view was that Lord Luo later moved Innsmouth from New England to Essex County.
But Li Ming still prefers another, more idealistic statement - Innsmouth is not a specific place, it can appear anywhere, in any sea town that is willing to trade its soul with the fish monster.
After his thoughts calmed down a bit, Li Ming withdrew a small part of the spiritual sea at his feet and placed it in front of him. A fluorescent blank card appeared on his chest.
In the previous experiment, there was a risk that the sea of spirit would almost collapse after being named the fourth word, but this time...
I don’t know why, but Li Ming felt that he would be able to successfully create the card.
Even though he was in the sea of spirits, he could still smell the salty smell coming from the surrounding sea breeze, and there were even water droplets falling on Li Ming's body.
Li Ming took a deep breath and began to write down——
Yin... Si... Mao... Si!
Sure enough, compared to the previous understatement, Li Ming could clearly feel the difficulty when making Innsmouth. Sweat beads continued to seep and slide from his forehead, and the turbulent sea of spirit swayed crazily.
A dazzling and soul-shaking beam of light burst out from Li Ming's body.
The huge spiritual power not only affected Li Ming's spiritual sea, but even in the real world, a dark green light could be seen cutting through the clouds along the tip of the monolith, emerging over the seaside town of the deep divers.
A lush dark green ominous sea fog appeared.
But at this time, Li Ming couldn't feel this. He let out a low breathing sound, as if a huge force of gravity was pressing down on him. Li Ming tried his best to keep his spiritual sea from collapsing.
Fortunately, the surrounding deep divers, strange underground towns, and the huge monolith seemed to be able to help Li Ming stabilize his spiritual sea. The cracks that should have appeared did not appear around Li Ming's spiritual sea.
After finally writing the four words [Innsmouth], Li Ming finally let out a sigh of relief as he looked at the four words with faint fluorescence.
OK...the first step is completed!
Next, draw the card face!
Li Ming had repeatedly drawn at least a hundred drawings of Innsmouth before, and he was already familiar with it. He only needed to draw what was in his mind "according to the book" on the card surface.
For many people, it is very difficult to combine the card name, card face and card's story, but for Li Ming, it is easy.
At this moment, the sea of spirit is constantly dissipating, and a steady stream of spiritual power turns into a stream of light and pours into [Innsmouth] where the card is being drawn. Li Ming did not see anything strange until he finished.
Very good... the naming and card drawing steps have been completed, and now comes the last step, which is also the most critical step.
Li Ming took a deep breath and mentally poured the words that came into his mind into the blank card in front of him bit by bit.
[In ordinary people's perception, Innsmouth is a small settlement built on the edge of the port. A long time ago, it was mainly engaged in shipbuilding and fishing. However, it was not until after a certain war that a very influential
The captain discovered isolated islands offshore, which gradually evolved into today's Innsmouth.]
[The Kanak people on that island seem to be 'trading' with some kind of creature under the sea. They sacrifice children and virgins to the gods under the sea to pray for various favors in exchange for them.
Endless fish and gold.]
[But later the captain discovered that the Kanak people are not actually human beings. They all have the blood of those underwater creatures. Their appearance will gradually become the same as fish monsters, and eventually they will completely transform into 'deep divers', and this is also
The captain was completely thrown into the abyss.】
[A large number of fish flocked to the port, but the young people in the town still disappeared mysteriously. The townspeople of Innsmouth also began to slowly become deformed and ugly until they finally disappeared completely on the land, but the captain's wife and daughter...
Wearing jewelry like gold.】
[A man once went to Innsmouth to celebrate his coming of age. He heard with his own ears the low conversation of some inhuman voice coming and going at the door, and saw with his own eyes a large group of strange people with lanterns in their hands, like a dead town.
Ordinary Innsmouth came alive at this moment...]
[He fled Innsmouth like crazy, but he could not escape his nightmare. Everything that happened in Innsmouth went over and over in his mind; he saw Shoggoth in his dream.
, saw the Deep Ones, saw R'lyeh, saw Cthulhu, and saw the "Dagon Secret Order" believed by the townspeople of Innsmouth.]
[Finally, one morning, tortured by nightmares and on the verge of collapse, he looked in the mirror, and what appeared in it was a face that only Innsmouth people could have...]
After filling in the background story, Li Ming let out a long breath and realized that the spiritual sea at his feet was almost on the verge of being completely exhausted.
But fortunately, the last sentence has been filled in.
The cards floating around Li Ming are [Misty Ghost Fog (Purple)], [Corroding Street Wall (Purple)], [Evil Water Dead Town (Purple)], [Half-Fish Vendor (Blue)], [Dirty Water Stream]
(blue)】……
The three purple cards suddenly turned into a stream of purple light, and all rushed towards the named [Innsmouth].
When the light dissipated, Li Ming reached out and took [Innsmouth] in his hand.
And he was already sweating profusely.
"Huh...it's finally done." Li Ming let out a long breath and almost fell down on the monolith from exhaustion.
But fortunately it's completed.
No, I finally came here and had to eat grilled fish.
The grilled fish here is really delicious.
At this moment, a deep diver with only half its head exposed swam over and looked at Li Ming with its big bulging eyes.