CH 174

Rode felt as if he had fallen into a furnace, with magma rushing into his body and his soul becoming unbearably hot.

When he came to his senses from the illusion, the skull in front of him had already shattered into pieces.

And on the back of his hand, there were intertwined lines carved.

Various patterns overlapped, making it difficult for Rode to distinguish which ones belonged to the dream.

This was a large fragment of a dream!

Rode instantly realized it and felt a surge of joy in his heart.

It had been a long time since he had found a dream fragment. The chances of finding one were extremely slim, and he had almost given up hope. He didn't expect to dig up a fragment while digging a grave.

The dream was about to have a new function.

Without hesitation, Rode immediately entered the dream.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was countless human souls and three human soul flowers scattered under the obelisk.

And the moment his feet touched the ground, his hand back started to heat up.

A star-shaped pattern lit up, and the lines that composed it began to boil, quickly turning into a beam of light that fell directly under his feet.

In the next moment, the dull-colored land was replaced by pure white marble flooring. Starting from the obelisk, it extended all the way to the front of the cottage, forming a circular plaza with a radius of about two hundred steps.

【Starry Plaza】, observe the trajectory of the stars, strengthen the obelisk, resist the impact of the spirit world.

Rode smiled.

Not bad.

Based on his previous experience, if the obelisk shattered, he would most likely be done for, and even the Resurrection Stone wouldn't be able to save him.

But that wasn't enough, he still needed some more useful things.

Rode quickly walked towards the cottage, and the seventeen-sided shape on the back of his hand lit up, turning into a mist and entering the house.

However, the cottage remained unchanged, with only three items: a stone platform, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair.

Rode walked towards the bookshelf with a hint of confusion. There were still only books of knowledge and books of the past on it. When he arrived in front of the stone platform and lit the candles on it, he finally noticed the changes.

There were many formulas on the stone platform.

【Flesh Puppet】: Summon a flesh puppet to fight for you.

Requires a wooden puppet and a piece of living flesh.

【Flesh Armor】: Cover the whole body with flesh, strengthen defense, and withstand attacks.

Requires a Calus Magic Stone and a piece of living flesh.

【Soul Defense】: Block a fatal injury.

Requires 10,000 soulless souls and 100 pieces of decayed matter (highest quality).

【Calus Thermos Cannon】: An artwork created by the Soul Master Calus, can only be used once.

Requires a ghost shell, a sun crystal, and 10,000 units of spirituality.

【Pioneer of Destruction】: Cursed by the flames of destruction, release the inner potential of life, gain super strength until death.

Requires 80,000 soulless souls, 100 units of black fire essence (highest quality), and 100 pieces of decayed matter (highest quality).

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These five items were the strongest items Rode had obtained besides the 【Resurrection Stone】, and they were all things he desperately needed right now. They could greatly compensate for his shortcomings.

This 【Calus Thermos Cannon】 sounded very powerful. There was nothing that couldn't be solved with a single cannon shot.

If there was, then another shot would do.

【Pioneer of Destruction】 was even more suitable for him. When the critical moment came, he could activate it, kill monsters, and then resurrect.

It was perfect!

【Soul Defense】 and 【Flesh Armor】 were also very useful, they could protect him in times of crisis, and the 【Flesh Puppet】 was a stronger summon than the wooden puppet.

However, except for the 【Flesh Puppet】, he lacked the materials for all the other items.

He could only wait until he returned and ask the medicine witch for help.

Rode sighed and took out a piece of living flesh from his storage, placing it on a wooden puppet. He first made a 【Flesh Puppet】 to test its strength.

The stone platform was quickly completed, and a lump of flesh-like object appeared before his eyes.

It was only about the size of a little finger, and the flesh on it wriggled like a worm, which was somewhat disgusting.

But Rode knew that as long as he inputted spiritual energy, this thing would turn into a puppet for him to fight with.

He wondered how much stronger it would be compared to the wooden puppet.

Rode left the cottage and came to the Soul Altar.

The altar was filled with souls, but most of them were very small, except for one that was slightly larger.

They were mainly low-level monsters hunted when cleaning the sewers, and they had no other use except for sacrifice and making 【Soul Ashes】.

When Rode approached the altar, a childlike pattern lit up on the back of his hand. It boiled and turned into a black gas that flew onto the altar.

When the black gas dissipated, Rode found that all the souls on it had disappeared.

Rode's heart skipped a beat, but the next moment, he saw a crystal wall appear on the altar.

【Wall of Souls】

It has the ability to seal and preserve souls and items, preventing them from decaying, deteriorating, or being damaged or eroded.

Using it on living beings will kill them, and using it on monsters will seal them.

---The crystal wall stood at the edge of the altar, forming a semi-arc shape, towering over two people's height. All the souls flew into the wall.

Rode lightly touched it, and their information appeared in his mind.

【Mist Spirit's Soul】1, 【Curse Werewolf's Soul】11, 【Black Death Beast's Soul】33, 【Plague Rat's Soul】593, 【Maggot Man's Soul】361, 【Toxic Insect's Soul】111, 【Weak Soul】186, 【Soul Fragment】577.

Not bad.

At least I don't have to count anymore.

Rode tried the sealing ability it brought, and found that it required continuous contact with the sealed object. The strange ice crystal would continuously wrap around it until the target was completely sealed inside.

The speed was slow, and it consumed a lot of spiritual energy.

Rode tried to seal a wooden puppet, and the seal ice crystal formed was only the size of a thumb. The consumed spiritual energy made him feel a bit overwhelmed.

It's probably useless.

Rode thought.

The sealing function is redundant for me. The dream itself has a high preservation effect, and the effect of the storage place is even more powerful.

There is no need to seal monsters either. The monsters that can be sealed by me can definitely be killed by me.

So why should I seal them? Keep them as offspring?

Rode left the altar with a slight disappointment and came to the last building - the Evil Ghost Stone Basin.

But there was no information about it on the back of his hand, and the evil ghost was also hiding inside the stone basin without showing itself.

Since spitting out the 【Evil Ghost Stone】 last time, it had been like this.

Rode left the stone basin and wandered in the dream.

But he hadn't discovered any new functions yet, but he found a strange phenomenon. When he was walking towards the depths of the dream, he suddenly found himself walking towards the obelisk from the other side.

After several experiments, Rode was surprised to find that the dream actually had boundaries. With the obelisk as the center, its radius was only about three thousand steps.

At the edge of the dream, he could see boundless mist, extending infinitely far.

The dream seemed to be floating above the mist, just a small independent space.

This made Rode feel very uneasy.

The invasion of the dream and the arrival at the "River of Eternal Death" seemed understandable.

But now was not the time to think about this. Although the tomb didn't seem threatening, he couldn't stay too long.

There was still one last symbol on the back of Rode's hand. It was composed of complex lines and filled with abstract metaphors. It was not clear what it represented.

He jogged along the dream, and finally triggered it in a very remote location.

The symbol turned into a white light and fell to the ground, revealing a large white square. From the feedback information, Rode learned that it was called the 【Eternal Withering Image】.

But there was nothing on the square, and he didn't know what function it had.

From now on, all the symbols on the back of his hand had disappeared.

I'll study them later.

Rode was ready to leave the dream.

He took a last look at the "Evil Ghost Egg". Its injuries seemed to have healed, so Rode cut off another piece.

"Living Flesh" was a special spiritual material, and the size of one portion was fixed. Even if there were more, it would only count as one portion. Therefore, cutting too much was useless, and cutting too little was not enough.

In the past, Rode would just cut it randomly, as long as it wasn't too little.

But now he was very cautious and only cut a standard portion.

After all, "Living Flesh" had become a very important material, and the only output was the "Evil Ghost Egg". Of course, he had to be careful with it. Cutting too much would slow down its recovery, effectively reducing the quantity he could obtain.

Then, Rode made a hand gesture, a sense of weightlessness appeared, and his surroundings became blurry.

Rode closed his eyes, and when the sense of weightlessness ended, he returned to the material world.

He had traveled back and forth countless times and was very skilled.

But this time, something unusual happened. The weightlessness that should have ended in a few seconds continued endlessly, and he felt like he was falling into an abyss.

Rode immediately opened his eyes, and everything around him was pitch black, empty and boundless.

Up, down, left, right, everything was the same.

He was really falling into the dark abyss.

What's going on?

Rode's heart tightened in an instant.

Aren't I in the tomb? Where am I?

He looked around, but even with the Soul Eye, he couldn't see the end.

An indescribable fear surged in his heart. Was this a dark void? Am I really going to fall to the bottom of the abyss?

Suddenly, Rode saw a huge thing. It was an unprecedented giant hand, reaching out from the endless darkness towards him.

Damn it!

Every hair on Rode's body stood up, and he didn't hesitate anymore. He directly activated the 【Spirit Realm Transference】.

In an instant, countless images appeared in his mind.

Rode didn't have time to look closely and randomly chose a place.

In a flash, his vision blurred, and he was lifted into the air, with countless stacked colored blocks rushing towards him.

When he came to his senses, the 【Spirit Realm Transference】 had already ended.

He finally landed on solid ground, and the dizziness caused by the long-lasting weightlessness almost made him fall.Rode took a deep breath, finally calming his heart.

His recent experience was like a nightmare, as if he had truly fallen into an abyss.

Fortunately, he had awakened from the nightmare.

He must ask his teacher about what had happened when he returned. If it weren't for the "Spiritual Realm Travel", his Resurrection Stone would have been wasted.

Rode stood up and looked around.

In the dense black fog, he could see the rolling hills.

The place seemed unfamiliar.

It didn't seem to be near the lighthouse area.

Rode didn't have a star disk, and he couldn't see the sun, stars, or moon in the black fog, making it difficult to determine his direction.

However, most of the monsters wandering around here were Black Death Beasts with giant starfish-like creatures on their heads, indicating that he should still be in the Laiso City area.

The situation wasn't too bad.

Rode thought to himself, randomly chose a direction, and started walking.

After all, he had the Resurrection Stone and wasn't afraid of death.

About an hour later, Rode arrived at the top of a mountain. With the help of the Eye of the Soul, he could see everything within a two-thousand-yard radius.

It was a desolate mountainous area, and apart from the wandering Black Death Beasts, there was nothing else.

After looking around for a while, Rode was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a flash of spiritual energy in the southwest corner.

He immediately turned his gaze and focused his mind. The Eye of the Soul pierced through the black fog, and he saw a group of people fighting fiercely with the Black Death Beasts in the distance.

They looked strong, able to kill a Black Death Beast with a single blow, but they seemed to be seriously injured, their movements hindered, and their spiritual energy weakened.

The number of Black Death Beasts far exceeded them, and the more they fought, the more they appeared. There were seriously injured people in the group, and they were desperately protecting him. They tried to break through several times, but without success.

Rode immediately took out his wooden and flesh puppets, prepared his thunderstones, loaded his spirit-sealing bullets, and rushed towards them.

There was nothing better than encountering one's own kind in the boundless darkness.

As he approached them, Rode shouted, "Hold on! I'm coming to save you!"

At the same time, he also got a clear look at the faces of the group.

They were a group of knights in silver-white armor, identical to the zombie knight he had encountered before.

There were five of them in total, all covered in wounds, their armor damaged, and blood flowing non-stop.

The man lying on the ground, however, was very familiar to Rode.

He was tall, with a long silver beard tied around his waist. Although his eyes were tightly closed, Rode would never forget that familiar face.

The headmaster of Kimberly Academy, the oldest living being in Thalorian, the best and greatest holder of the natural talent for curse magic in history.

Theodore.

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