Chapter 22 Good News, Bad News

Chapter 22 22. Good news, bad news

Lu Yu soon became unable to speak, and the noise in his mind became louder and louder.

Those shrill screams kept echoing and overlapping, like huge waves, continuously beating Lu Yu's fragile nerves.

At a certain moment, the eyes of this weird summon turned into black bubbles, swelled, and exploded. The green, chilling feeling of hatred only disappeared for a moment, and was replaced by another kind of nauseating fear.

Where the eyes disappeared, irregular mouths emerged one after another under the "surroundings" of flowing mucus. A pair of hands stretched out from those "mouths" and waved gently in the direction of Lu Yu, as if inviting him to move forward. , give him a hug.

The slender tentacles gradually became thicker, like vines that grew wildly after absorbing nutrients.

On each "vine", green "beads" bloom one after another, making the sound of popping bubbles when the viscous slurry is cooked.

Lu Yu felt as if all the strength had been taken away from his body in an instant, and his feet suddenly became weak.

Unsteady on his feet, he fell backwards.

At the same time, a voice sounded in his mind.

"strength…"

"Pay..."

"Contract modification..."

"I can give you..."

"Get out!"

It was the first time that Lu Yu heard Lulutis's powerful voice.

At this moment, in his mind, the summoned creature no longer showed its spherical body.

The rapidly expanding black mucus is very similar to the black carbon that continuously pours out of the beaker during the brown bread experiment. The only difference between the two is... at this moment, the black mucus pouring out of the summoned object's body is like a waterfall.

The newly emerged mucus is also covered with eyes.

After hearing Lulutis' scolding, the expansion of the summoned object tended to stop.

"Lu Yu, wake up and tell him the contract is terminated!"

Lu Yu opened his eyes with difficulty. The expanding summoning object in his mind overlapped with the summoning of a ball in front of him.

Through the spiritual connection between the summoner and the summoned object, he already knew that the scene he just saw was this guy's "weeding plan."

The place where his shapeless body passed was indeed barren...

Lu Yu finally recalled what he was thinking at the last moment of the summoning description in his brief dizziness.

It was his first impression of Lulutis when he first came to this world.

Tasteless.

"contract…"

"termination!"

The body of the summoned object began to become transparent and erratic.

The tentacles that had taken root on the ground retracted into the sphere, and all the eyes closed together.

"Pay..."

"Achieve..."

After it revealed the last character, the summoned object turned into countless light spots and dispersed into the air.

Sudden heart palpitations and collapse knocked Lu Yu down again after just a brief moment. He had no time to take any precautions and collapsed again.

Fortunately, Lulutis was fast and held him up.

"Lulu..." Lu Yu couldn't take a breath and began to breathe heavily.

"I know, this is a normal reaction. He took your magic power as a reward... although the summoners call it a price from their own perspective."

"Now that your magic power has been drained by that monster, you will be extremely exhausted..."

Lu Yu knew that he would fall asleep soon, so he suppressed his exhaustion and called Sigrid, who was stunned.

"Tomorrow... early morning, go to the Adventurer's Guild for evaluation."

"Lulu... Tis, prepare more self-defense things for her."

"We need tools to destroy corpses and eliminate traces... sometimes people... are more terrifying than monsters..."

Lulutis was amused by Lu Yu.

I was exhausted, but I was still thinking about the details of destroying corpses and destroying evidence.

After Lu Yu finished his instructions, his head relaxed and he fell asleep.

By the time Lu Yu woke up again, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

This time, he slept extremely deeply.

He thought that after seeing such a disgusting summoned object, he would have more or less intimate contact with the tentacles in his dream, but he actually dreamed that he was eating tomato beef brisket in his dream...

It seems that beautiful memories have unimaginable power.

"woke up?"

Lulutis happened to walk in the door carrying a large basin of roasted beef.

"If you don't wake up, I'm going to try to shake you awake."

Barbecue is generally very difficult to make unpalatable, unless you don't even notice it's burnt.

Probably because the tentacles can rotate easily and continuously, Lulutis's barbecue looks quite appetizing.

Lu Yu, who had been hungry all day, didn't say much, just picked up a bunch and started eating.

There is really nothing to fault except that the seasoning is too strong and you can hardly taste the original taste of the beef.

It seems that if I am lazy and don't want to cook in the future, I can let Lulutis cook a barbecue instead.

"How is the taste?"

Lu Yu praised it while eating: "It's much better than I thought. As long as you don't make slime magic... um, slime magic potion soup, your craftsmanship is still good."

"You can eat as long as you like... This is the only craft I learned from my family."

"Does your family often eat barbecue?"

"No, it takes a long time to eat it. Maybe that's why the memory is deep." Lulutis said, "Therefore, after I became a magician, I often baked it myself."

Lu Yu continued to eat happily, while Lulutis said to Lu Yu solemnly: "I'm sorry about last night."

"If you mean to ask me to try to summon you immediately after becoming a magician, then there is no need to apologize."

"Actually, I had that thought at the time, and I was also very interested in the conjecture you mentioned."

Lulutis thought this was Lu Yu's relief: "You don't have to step in for me. You are willing to assist me, and me urging you to implement it are two different things."

"Besides, I didn't expect that the summoned object you summoned would be so...powerful?"

Lulutis couldn't find the right words to describe what she saw last night.

Lu Yu found the word for her.

"It's indescribable, right?"

Lulutis tasted the word and accepted it happily.

"I have only seen an existence similar to him in legendary records and some scattered ancient books before, but those descriptions do not match the summoned object last night."

"Not only is it indescribable, it is more like a collection of hatred and fear. The existence itself makes people feel uncomfortable."

Lu Yu was very satisfied with Lulutis' ability to summarize.

Wait a moment...

He originally wanted to ask for more details about the summoning ceremony and try again tonight.

But what did Lulutis just say?

"You just said that you have seen similar things before?"

Lulutis nodded: "The object you summoned last night is very similar to the 'infection spirit' that destroyed the four countries in Mera Continent six hundred years ago, forcing the other countries on the continent to unite to resist."

"Infested spirit?"

"He has many names. The descendants of the Solon Empire, which was founded on the four destroyed kingdoms, call him the Spirit of Infestation."

"The clergy of Silver Maple Holy Theocracy claimed that this was a 'blasphemous filth' in a place where the light of God could not shine."

"The adventurers of the Sligo Empire prefer to call them 'twists'."

"They appeared without any warning, as if they were born from this world overnight."

"Before that, for thousands of years, there were no traces of them in countless magical documents and vast sea of ​​books."

"Their form is not fixed, but the most common description in the records handed down is this sentence."

"A monster that seems to be made of various human bodies incorrectly spliced ​​together, and can only make meaningless howls."

"They can corrode people's minds. As long as they get close and come into contact, countless dirty thoughts will flash through their minds, and negative thoughts will gradually dominate the brains of those who come into contact."

"Long-term exposure will lead to depravity and evil."

"And they will be attracted to intelligent life. Therefore, during that disaster, even dragons, giants, and goblins, races that rarely interact with humans and are even hostile to each other, participated in helping to defeat the enemy."

At first glance, Lu Yu thought that there really was a great Kewei boss in this world.

But after Lulutis' explanation, he found that that was not the case at all.

Lulutis said that the destructive power, filth and evil displayed by Lu Yu's summons last night were beyond the reach of the "infectious spirit".

The core reason why the infestation spirits can cause huge damage is that there was no way to effectively prevent them from attacking humans.

As long as you get close, your thoughts will be infected and you will become crazy. This is the tricky part.

The coalition of humans and other races relied on summoners to drop summons one after another, super-long-distance magic air strikes, and countless adventurers to defend their homes and fight one by one without fear of death to eliminate these monsters.

As long as these monsters can deform, twist, and be indescribable, the coalition of humans and other races will probably win miserably.

The Solon Empire's current situation of temporary peaceful coexistence of multiple races was also established by that battle.

"By the way, I have good news and bad news for you."

When Lu Yu finished hearing both the news, the meat skewers in his hand fell down.

"What, my body can hold very little magic power, so I can't throw fireballs with a summoning ritual?"

Lulutis didn't know why Lu Yu had a special liking for fireballs. Seeing Lu Yu's consideration, she followed his train of thought.

"Don't be excited, don't be excited. The amount of magic you can hold can be gradually increased. Although you are basically weak enough to collapse after a summoning ritual, your absorption of magic is faster than many magicians. This is completely It can be made up for.”

Lu Yu was dizzy. Can it be calculated like this?

For example, if a new magician throws a fireball and it costs half a tube of mana, he will start with a tube of mana. When he runs out of mana, he can only pick up a staff or something else to fight in hand-to-hand combat.

Lulutis said that he can recover very quickly, which means that he can recover mana quickly... but is it useful to recover mana quickly?

Normally, who would be trying so hard to breathe and restore your health? They all want to go up and scatter your ashes!

"Why is this happening?" Lu Yu asked with a sad face.

"If you use the words of an alchemist, it means that the time you have been immersed in an environment rich in magic power is too short."

"Although you have awakened and can successfully gather magic power for your own use, your body still needs some adaptation process."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. When I woke up, I could only throw two or three fireballs. Our starting point was seemingly... not much?"