Chapter 524 Chapter 521 Two Halves
It is unimaginable for a private person to own a channel to the Shadow World in today's society. The company will not allow "their exclusive rights" to be stolen by others. Influenced by the Lich Master, Zhuang Xuteng is full of curiosity about the Shadow World. He has always wanted to visit the Lich Master's hometown and even wanted to use the Lich Master's help to pass the so-called Wall of Sighs and surpass the entire progress of the company's exploration team in one fell swoop.
However, Dr. Booker's experience sounded the alarm for him. He must figure out what the doctor was contaminated with, what equipment or skills the company used to discover it, and whether this discovery mechanism exists around him. Only after doing these preparations can he go to the Shadow World with confidence.
Dr. Booker could not answer these questions. He deduced from the interrogator's words that he was contaminated with something and was discovered. There were company spies monitoring this matter, and he saw that guy appear in the ranks of interrogators, and he suddenly realized it.
In Zhuang Xuteng's address book, there is a confirmed member of the company's Shadow World Exploration Team: Hill Lee. The last meeting with her went smoothly, but she is a company employee after all, and it is very dangerous to ask her about this question. Even if she didn't betray Zhuang Xuteng before, it doesn't mean she won't betray him next time, or never.
"Perhaps only the Lich Master can calm her down." Zhuang Xuteng thought.
On the other hand, the "folk method" of finding the Shadow Realm passage combines Shadow Cong technology, modern chemistry, engineering, and the magic of the Silent Divine Dynasty. This combination immediately reminded Zhuang Xuteng of the safety blue. Safety blue is also a combination of technology and magic. The difference between the two is only the magic: one is the magic of the old times, and the other is the magic of the Silent Divine Dynasty.
The Silent Divine Dynasty is the name of the world of the Lich Master in this world. If you want to discuss the magic of the Silent Divine Dynasty, it is best to go directly to the Lich Master. Zhuang Xuteng remembered the contents of the note firmly, and began to meditate after returning home. After a while, he projected himself into the stone pillar hall.
There is a scenery that has not changed for thousands of years, but the Lich Master has become two. Two identical skeletons stood straight at the foot of the throne, motionless, staring at Zhuang Xuteng with their two pairs of black eye sockets.
"Can skeletons still undergo mitosis?" Zhuang Xuteng smiled and waved his hands. His joke obviously didn't work, the lich master ignored him. "I see, do you want me to tell which one is real?"
The two skeletons nodded together - they deliberately didn't speak, and it was very likely that the sound was a flaw. Zhuang Xuteng shrugged with a smile, walked straight around the two skeletons, walked up the steps step by step, and turned around to get his ass on the throne. At this moment, another lich master appeared on the throne, and he blocked the moving path of Zhuang Xuteng's ass with the skeleton's middle finger, ready to pierce it.
Zhuang Xuteng snorted, and his body stopped moving, just out of reach of the finger. "It really appeared, mine... Ouch! You really poked me! Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and dodged..."
"How do you see through advanced invisibility?" The Lich Master placed his hands on the armrests of the throne, clearly not wanting to share the throne with anyone.
Zhuang Xuteng didn't need to answer this question at all. He pointed at the Lich Master's hands and told him the answer. "Those two skeletons look alike! What did you make that thing for?"
"That's my clone. As long as conditions permit, I can use them to go out and have a look." The Lich Master said: "Although I asked you to help me find bone fragments, your progress is too slow. I won't sit idle and do nothing, so I have to advance the work myself. The two clones you saw were made by me using the thief's body."
"The thief's body?" Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and asked: "What did you do?"
"My body fragments are used as souvenirs by some people, and some are used as amulets or superstitious carriers. Their ignorance shocked me, but their shamelessness of not wanting to return the items to their original owners made me very satisfied." The Lich Master pointed to the ground where the fog rolled and said: "I teleported them here. The shameless people accompanied me with death and corpses, and those who were willing to let go, I let them go back without pain and memory."
Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said: "You killed people here, and I didn't know it."
"So what?"
"It's nothing, I'm not yours I am not a person, nor a person who is a victim, so I can't meddle in other people's business. But I want to sort it out: you are in my body, killing people won't have any effect on me, right? "
"A few people dying here will not affect you, it just uses up some of your mana." The Lich Master said: "I have diverted some of the mana you practiced, and the same is true for the shadow energy. These diversions have caused you to have a mana gap, constantly urging you to keep working hard, just like a kind of weight training."
"Use it, this is what we agreed on a long time ago, and I have never regretted it. In previous mercenary operations, I must have killed people who did not deserve death, so I have no reason, no position, and no qualifications to preach to you. As long as we don't have a bad influence on each other, there is no need to interfere in each other's affairs, right?"
The Lich Master nodded and said: "I heard something in your words... What happened? Are you in trouble?"
"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine. I just got a strange thing recently, part of which is said to be the spells of the Silent Divine Dynasty. Silent Divine Dynasty is what we call it here, in fact, it is..."
"...It is actually my hometown - I understand what the Divine Dynasty of Nirvana is. Unfortunately, such a name is all wrong. We are neither Nirvana, nor have we ever had a Divine Dynasty. Remember our true self-proclaimed: Chaofeng The Second Arcane Kingdom.”
Zhuang Xuteng recited it three times and wrote down the name carefully.
The Lich Master waved his hand upon seeing this, as if he regretted bringing up the name. He said: "The name is not easy to remember. It changes every one hundred years and changes with the leaders of the Mage Association. I have had six kingdoms, which means I have been in power for six hundred years. Please tell me about your affairs first! Do you want me to see the magic of the Annihilation Dynasty?"
"Yes, I have this idea." Zhuang Xuteng said: "The news I received said that this spell is related to the shadow world passage. If we can figure out what is going on, it may be possible to open the shadow world passage and enter the shadow world secretly. Eh. , you are not excited at all? Can't you cause some mood swings now that you can go home?"
"I know what kind of emotional reaction I should have, but this 'knowing' is based on my thinking, and my thinking tells me one thing: what you say may not be reliable." The Lich Master sat firmly. In the throne, he drew a circle in the air with one hand and said at the same time: "It's great to be able to go back. It means that I can mobilize my mana to complete work that cannot be done here. But I still need a body, and this has not changed. Directly changing the body means that I have to strengthen it again, and it will take at least a few hundred years to build it..."
Zhuang Xuteng shrugged his shoulders, turned around gracefully, and said, "Since you have no interest, then I will..."
"I never said I was not interested, you can't just slander..."
The turn continued from 180 degrees until it completed a full circle - Zhuang Xuteng's original turning force was such a complete circle. He knew that Master Lich would definitely seize this opportunity. Zhuang Xuteng stretched out his hand and said, "Can you make me paper and pen? Everything is in my head."
"Since you have memorized everything, there is no need for pen and paper. You have your own pillar of wisdom. Put your hand on it and think about it, and it will show your knowledge." Master Lich immediately stood up, as if he was afraid of Zhuang Xuteng As if he had changed his mind, he immediately took him to Shizhu.
Zhuang Xuteng placed his hand on the stone pillar, and recalled Dr. Booker's records in his brain, and presented them to Master Lich. In order to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments caused by omissions, Zhuang Xuteng provided complete records. The Booker version of the methods of searching, opening, controlling, hiding, closing, etc. of the Shadow Realm Channel appears exactly on the Wisdom Stone Pillar.
If skeletons could make expressions, then the Lich Master's face would be very exciting. He had seen the fantastic ideas of people in this world through supercomputing and dormant martial arts, and today he expanded his horizons again. Different cultures, customs and technical ideas have formed completely different ways of thinking and created completely different problem-solving methods.
For the Lich Master, what he saw could be described as "deviant" or "crazy", but after going through a bunch of crazy steps, the whole thing somehow made sense and could be explained. "The feeling this thing gave me...how should I put it...at the beginning, it was like I knew I could get closer to my destination by turning right, but I had to turn left. After that, I added more noodles, more water, more water, more noodles, and did a lot Irrelevant things. After that, turn left, turn left, jump twice...and then we're here."
"At the beginning, walking directly to the right seemed to be getting closer and closer, but in fact it was impossible to go - I know this very well." Master Lich concluded: "Zhuang Xuteng, the person who completed this research is either very lucky. If you are right, you are a master."
"Uh... I'm not sure what kind of person he is. It could be a combination of both. You've seen Dr. Booker, too. It's just that he's using safety blue now. His body and mind are on the verge of collapse, and his death is imminent. "
"He still hides this hand?" Master Lich clenched his fists and said, "I do underestimate him."
"Can you save him?"
Master Lich shook his head and said: "Necromantic spells cannot make other living people immortal. Everyone must use their own spells to obtain the effects that still exist after death. If I take action, I can only turn him into a wraith, and you That ghost state is similar.”
"What a pity. He is in pain now. If he can't hold on, I will give him a treat, which can be regarded as helping him." Zhuang Xuteng waved his hand and said: "Those are all things for later - this thing I gave you , do you understand?"
"I understand it, but I haven't mastered it yet. There are a lot of technologies from your world in it, and I need to slowly understand them. But the so-called spells of the Annihilation Dynasty are not difficult here. In fact, they are like this." The Lich Master came to the next door. Put your palms on the pillar, and the knowledge about magic will be reflected on the pillar, open and open for Zhuang Xuteng to see.
It was a spell that created illusory objects or imitated the effects of other spells, and was classified into the "Shadow·Creation·Conjuration" category. The creation of the spell is about borrowing and repaying, it's just borrowing now and paying back in the future, or I borrow and he pays back. Mixing this spell with shadow technology creates a relatively stable "borrow from this world, return to that world" effect.
Master Lich shook his head slowly and said: "Bukele's idea is too shameless. It can basically be summed up as follows: eat yours, live yours, and use yours. You have to be willing and dignified with your heart and soul, but I only need to Just smile at you.”
Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head. He felt that the Lich Master seemed to be talking about the gods in the history of this world. After the gods left, the mystery of the temple system also collapsed. For a period of time, the analysis of divine arts and the rule of gods was particularly popular. One of the theories is that the gods did not pay anything at all. The so-called divine power is just the spiritual power generated by faith. Such theories have been continuously developed and gradually became the basic management system of the republican government. After the corporate war, the consciousness of society became companies, and the social channel circulation pipeline became the constitutional government. The only thing that has not changed is ordinary people - in the past, they provided faith, and now they provide labor.
However, the gods have left, and the badness of companies and constitutional governments has nothing to do with the Lich Master, so Zhuang Xuteng did not bring up this topic. "It seems like a ridiculous method actually works in the end. This kind of thing is not impossible. Master, do you think this stuff is real? Is it really valuable?"
"It is real and very valuable. It provides a solution that can be used in many problems across two worlds. To put it more vividly: it can improve the efficiency of spell conversion between the two worlds, and also provide new conversion ideas. With this, you should be able to understand its significance."
"It's OK as long as it's valuable, it's not in vain." Zhuang Xuteng's smile exuded a sense of mercenary. He happily snapped his fingers and said, "Can you briefly introduce what this thing is so that I can take it to someone and ask for a price."
"I can tell you, but I strongly oppose you to reveal this thing. Think about it, what kind of people are running cross-world businesses? In their 's management, who else has the courage and ability to operate across the world? If you really want to sell this thing, irrelevant people will not bid, and relevant people are probably fake. Once you say it, you may end up like old man Booker. You are the origin, I can teleport people here, but I can't teleport you out. "
"I helped Booker, and he said that this thing was for me to save my life."
The Lich Master paused for a moment and said, "That makes sense. If the company catches you, this thing is indeed valuable to them, and it may be worth your life. I also think that old man Booker is not the kind of idiot who tries to exchange this thing for money. Well, this reason makes sense, I can tell you in detail, enough to enrich your negotiation strategy for buying life. "
Zhuang Xuteng listened carefully, especially the part involving spells. He planned to go to Dr. Booker after listening to the Lich Master, and ask as much as he could. If the two sides come together and verify each other, wouldn't it be complete?