"The devil destroys all normal life, leaving the world desolate and dead. As a shaman, I will do my best to stop the ambition of darkness." After understanding the truth of the matter, while feeling heavy, a sense of mission also emerged spontaneously.
Mr. Ao feels that in this life, he must do something, not only for himself, but also for himself
Showing his feelings, this is actually not a farewell speech. In this incident, Neo has harvested the incredible treasure of Jianmu, and his original intention of trying to establish some kind of contract with the Bitter Thorn Spirit by saving it has faded.
a lot of
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, the spirit of the Bitter Thorn is just calling for help and has not promised anything. Rather than forcefully asking for it afterwards, Neo would rather see things come naturally.
"Dealing with spirits is like interacting with people. We may hit it off at first sight, and we may live and die together, but in most cases the friendship is light and true. It's better to just let nature take its course and just end it like this." Thinking of this, Neo
He said to Jingliu Manling: "I'm glad I could help you. I think it's time to say goodbye."
"Well...can I be your partner?" Xiao Douding blinked and looked at Neo expectantly.
This is a surprise for Neo. The shaman's spiritual partner is often a contract spirit or a guardian spirit, which can bring some relevant active and passive magical skills to the shaman. Due to the special situation, his initial layout as a shaman
It is particularly grand, and there are many spiritual places for spirits to live in. It is naturally a dream for a spirit as powerful as the thorn willow vine to accompany him.
However, Neo still asked the reason: "Is it a reward for my assistance?"
Xiao Douding shook his head, "I have been with Jianmu for thousands of years. This new fusion is also because of the seal. Following the 'sealing key' is the meaning of my existence."
Neo was stunned. He didn't expect that the reason was such a high-level concept "sealing key!" Neo couldn't help but read out this word. At that moment, he vaguely sensed a bond that transcended worldly power, a seed of divine power.
Obtaining Jianmu is obviously not as simple as it appears so far. If the 'opening of the door to hell' is an event that has a profound impact on the entire world, then from the time he accepted Jianmu, he has actually already
He is in the midst of this huge whirlpool of events. Even if he doesn't do anything, trouble will probably come to him. Of course, it's not just trouble.
"The meaning, the meaning of the seal key, is to re-seal the West Five Points of Hell." Neo looked at the direction of Sols City and said silently in his heart: "The remaining four successors of the West Five Points' divine power seed
We are all separated now, only to gather together in the future..."
"It's a great honor to be your partner. Let me introduce myself. My name is Neo Darkness, a dark werewolf and a level 1 shaman." Neo formally introduced himself to Jingliu Manling.
"I would like to be your partner. My name is Ji. I will never break my promise."
"Never take the initiative to betray!" Neo recounted that the contract was established. In this way, Thorn became Neo's first contracted spirit.
The entire area covered by the roots is concentrating its power on the strange tree in the center of the giant pit, eventually giving birth to a slender new branch with the shape of a lichen, the color of the skin of wild red willows, and the thorns of bitter thorns. In fact, its
The real meaning lies in a ball of energy, spiritual source, and the concentrated life force of the thorn willow vine, which is also the root of the thorn.
In the world of Neo's consciousness, a relatively small but equally steep mountain rises up next to the top of the elements. On the flat top of the mountain, the spiritual source of the thorns and willows turns into a new tree, spreading out.
The main trunk branches and leaves look exactly like another strange tree in the center of a huge pit in the real world, but this one is extremely aura, and there are gossamer-like rays of light drawn from the light of the spectacular building rising into the sky, lingering endlessly.
Of course, these mountains and new branches, like the top of the elements, are the product of an ideology from a certain perspective, a spiritual contract. They represent connections and hubs, and represent that Thorn can get something from Neo.
This kind of long-term help, at the same time, Thorn will also give some feedback to Neo, usually in the form of active and passive skills. Strengthening this connection (cultivation) will be more beneficial to both parties, rather than saying that Thorn has to live in Neo's body.
Maintaining the energy state for a long time is an unnecessary consumption for the spirit. It usually chooses physical objects as its shelter. Thorn's shelter is the slender new branch, which eventually turns into Neo's necklace and exists like
The partnership of Thorn placing his spiritual source in Neo's body and building a 'house' on Neo's body is already a relatively close one, and it feels like entrusting his life and fortune to someone.
Of course, from an objective perspective, the value orientation determines that this combination is actually safe. The reason is very simple. The spiritual source is of great significance to Ling, but to Neo, it is a pure sustenance that cannot be directly absorbed and used.
Just like gold, silver and jewelry are of great use to Neo, but if they are thrown directly to Thorn, Thorn will only feel like a burden.
After Thorn and Neo teamed up, the first thing Neo got was a special summoning skill-'Ayahuasca'. This is the most direct reward that Neo gets for helping Thorn and relieving the pain of the earth.
The ayahuasca has the characteristics of the thorn willow: vine toughness, acupuncture body, powerful sucking. The reward of the earth is that it can freely travel through the shallow soil layer (10 meters). The ayahuasca can suck the energy of the collected corpses.
For Neo's use, it saves Neo the tedious steps of using 'Life Intake' on each of the corpses.
The most common summoning magic of mages is to open a passage to another world, and then bring the summoned object to the world where the wizard is in various forms to complete a certain task or achieve a certain purpose. The summoning characteristics of the shaman are
The summoned object is likely to be an existence that was born after certain conditions were met. Regardless of the ability, this existence is exclusive. At the same time, the shaman also needs to provide a series of conditions including feeding and accommodation.
Ayahuasca is such an existence. It is actually a product of the limited open technical support of the Earth and Neo's own ability characteristics. There may be existences with similar abilities in this world, but it is absolutely impossible.
It will not be exactly the same as the Ayahuasca. This vine is the only one that exists between reality and virtuality, energy and matter. When it was born, Neo added a dark green with red spots on his left wrist.
Vine ring, like a bracelet, but close to the skin
Neo finally understood why in the clan legends, shamans always looked like flashy, jingling trinkets. If nothing else, just carrying such contracted objects was enough to dress themselves up.
A colorful golden pheasant!
After picking up the two swords and the animal bone bow, Neo took one last look before leaving. Regardless of whether there were thorns or not, the future of the thorn willow vine was clearly suspected of 'coming into being'.
With the support of powerful forces and the manipulation of evil thoughts, returning to normal will be a relatively good result, but a bad result will be destruction. The speed of metabolism determines its life cycle, and the peculiarity of mutation has not had time to bear fruit.
Death from exhaustion is also a very common outcome.
White Socks saw the naked Neo and commented: "I like the way you look now!"
After Neo transformed into a human, he put on a leather coat and said: "The role of clothes is not just the red tape of civilization, it is of great practical value, especially when encountering bad weather like now."
White Socks hummed a few times and changed the subject, "The scent of the mountains and jungles on you is more intense, which is good."
"Well, I think so too..." Neo vaguely realized that this was the change that Jianmu had brought to him, his affinity with plants. This talent, coupled with the slight emanation of the power of the earth element, made his temperament look like a mountain and jungle.
characteristics, and it’s not just plants that like mountains and jungles
When they returned to the camp, it was almost 11 o'clock. The team members were all surprised that Neo dressed up and came back naked. Neo neither concealed nor elaborated, but simply said that he went to explore the mutation of Bitter Thorn.
, related to the devil's invasion, the whole Wald village was killed.
The shock wave of green light spread before, and the vast expanse of bitter thorn forest turned into ice bars. The team members had all seen it. Now when they heard it, they naturally related it. However, it was only because of Neo's appropriate point and a little misunderstanding.
, on the contrary, it will not give rise to too bizarre speculations, and this is exactly what Neo wants to see.
Although I slept for more than an hour before lunch, the injury did not completely recover. The feeling of soreness and swelling all over the body was eliminated, replaced by pain. The whole process seemed to be a symptom of excessive exercise. To use a common saying:
"Ha, you've gained muscle!"
This kind of pain is completely within Neo's tolerance. With the afternoon breeze and clear sky, Neo led his team members into the mountains and forests to collect raw materials. One of them was sap and branches used to make rubber. These things are
Another raw material not difficult to find in the Anuel Mountains is resin, which can replace hot melt glue and is a necessity for making shoes.
The raw materials used in the work also include mountain cypress and acanthus, which are small shrubs. The mixture of these two plants can be used for degreasing, plus the smoke water that causes bone softening, that is, the smoke and water from the burning of coal and coke are fully
The fusion product can be used to extract bone glue
In addition, snow mushrooms, cold grass spines, pine needles, and root vegetables are also among the food materials that can be harvested. Walking close to the mountains and forests is because the jungles are full of treasures, which can solve certain food problems.
, it can also enrich food types and help balance nutritional intake.
For those who eat food, there are two additional mountain products, fragrant rock and snow ash root. The fragrant rock is boiled to produce juice, and the snow ash root is chopped and mashed. It is a substitute for food spices. Neo led people to collect them for the purpose of making
blood sausage
At about 5 pm, the harvesting work was completed. Neo and his party returned and harvested two additional snow chickens. Of course, the two snow chickens were definitely more wolves than meat for a 20-year-old man, so they chopped them up and made chicken soup.
Have a taste
"The captain's enemy is really unlucky. After death, everything in his body, except his head, can't be used! The bones are boiled into glue, the blood is made into intestines, and the oil is separated for food, for work and medicine. It's really about drinking blood and eating meat.
Crushing bones and ashes!"
"The reason why the brain is useless is because it can perform meritorious deeds. Otherwise, the brain might have been dried and ground, and the skull would have been boiled, skinned, and painted to be used as a container."
"Well, it's very possible..."
In the camp, the team members were working and chatting. The fragrant smell of the blood sausage cooked in the pot had wafted away. This kind of food was quite unfamiliar to many team members, but they are no longer familiar with it at all.
Do you mind tasting it? In fact, since joining this team, everyone’s appetites have been greatly satisfied. Regardless of the concept of being cautious about food ingredients, Neo has indeed allowed people to experience a lot of delicious food.
Blood sausage is actually a traditional food of the Kexi people. It is usually made of sheep blood, but also pig blood. It uses human and animal blood. This is the first time Neo has tried this, and the result is successful. The fried blood sausage is fragrant! It also attracted attention for this reason.
A mountain bear came, but was annihilated by Neo's team, adding another delicacy to the team that was worth half a month's worth of food.
At about 8 p.m., Borglem and Mach came back with the cart. However, the cart was no longer pulled by four horses, but by six wargs. These wargs were mainly from the capture of soldiers and bandits.
They are domesticated and relatively docile guys, but they still need to eat meat. The migration team wants these meat-eating guys to follow the Gale Team.
"The situation over there with the migration team is not very good..." Before Neo could ask, Borglem had already started to tell.
"Take a rest first, drink some hot water, and let Hagen cook something delicious for you two." Neo comforted the two of them, and went to the original stable and the current wolf house to look at the white socks.
"Man, is there any way to cheer these guys up?"
Bai Sock grinned, "It's difficult, I'm used to being a weakling."
"Well, they will all be under your control anyway. Except when pulling a cart, reins are not popular here."
"No problem, these soft melons are easy to manage..."
The small disturbance caused by the return of Mach and Borglem quickly subsided. The team members' evening work is still making shoes. In general, the team's current mission goal is still based on self-improvement. The weather is cold and snowy.
The road is very humid. Cotton clothing, hats, gloves, and shoes are all the basics. With these ugly but warm big-toe shoes and warm cotton equipment, we can reduce the number of non-combatants as much as possible.
Injury, it can be said, is related to every aspect from life to work to combat.
Neo, Mach, and Borglem are also working hard to get their own big shoes. Although they are behind everyone else, their excellent basic literacy ensures that the three of them can catch up quickly. Neo even catches up from behind and treats him.
In other words, it is not difficult to pierce the thick bottom thread and go online, and it is absolutely accurate and fast.
"The main reason is the lack of items to keep out the cold!" Borglem poked holes with an awl, and at the same time told Neo and everyone about the situation on the migration team's side. "Tures is better, but Mashua's subjects are weak.
, many people held on, and as a result, all kinds of cold diseases were rampant in the team, which greatly affected the speed of travel. There was also a food problem. Bread was not enough for hunger. Without food in the stomach, the body could not warm up. Some people therefore
And died suddenly of organ failure while walking.”
Neo frowned, "With so much human and animal meat, why don't you distribute it as food?"
Bogram sighed and said: "I don't know who spread the news about these human and animal meats. Everyone knows what else is spread in the migration team. 'Man-eating beasts are no different from cannibals, and they cannot be mastered by gods.'"
Favored...', earlier everyone wanted to be materialists, but now they all think that the Lord of God is more reliable. Things have become quite big. Now there is a group of people in the team who call themselves holy sects and claim to eat human and animal flesh.
For the corpse-eaters, they are clamoring to let the cannibals eat the dead. We want to eat food and we want to hunt."
In fact, when it comes to the faith of humans in Emerald, its origin is still in the birth of the devil. The Archangel, who once commanded countless angels, led a group of angels to rebel against the Lord of God and became the devil later. From then on, one statement has been
It has been spread in the world: The God Lord has given up on his followers. Today’s belief system is just relying on a complete set of mechanisms to operate on its own.
With the development of civilization, it has evolved to this day. Especially in the Fury camp where the steam engine triggered the revolution of "magical civilianization", there are people shouting "The Lord of God is dead! God is dead!" It can be seen that the situation has deteriorated.
to what extent
Where there are demons, there are gods, and where there is darkness, there is light. The demons' invasion of the Erdrit territory this time has brought an unforgettable moment to mankind. So some people decided to regain their faith and ask the Lord for forgiveness and salvation. Neo can definitely do this.
I understand that I just chose this time...
There is no difference between cannibals and cannibals, but this statement cannot be refuted, because there are similar provisions in the teachings of the Glorious Holy See. The original meaning is that all intelligent life has the same right to survive... As a result, once they are equal, this is derived.
As a result, a bunch of people are showing their integrity at this time, not using frostbite ointment made from human and animal oil, not eating human and animal flesh, and not using human and animal leather products.
"How can these holy sects who would rather die themselves be so fanatical?" Neo asked.