Chapter 55 'Monster' vs. Monster!

Sean entered the real world from the weird kingdom.

If he had learned about the Weird Kingdom slowly from the real world, he would have felt extremely desperate the moment he knew the truth. But now Xiao En has gradually accepted it all. He had prepared for the worst from the beginning, and now it seems like he has rebounded from the bottom.

His ability to withstand pressure was already well-prepared from the beginning, so when he found out that he might turn into a monster one day, he was not surprised at all. (All the souls from other worlds are like this, those who can't accept it die. Naturally, they won't lose control. It's a very scary thing for souls from other worlds to lose control.)
The huge sense of disappointment that other extraordinary people feel is completely the opposite for Xiao En.

Because to him, the weird country is not that bad. He has already accepted the worst part in advance, so now he thinks, hey, in such a fucked up world, there is actually a pretty good real country.

This is not very good.

In this huge sense of disparity, Xiao En formed his own rational anchor. For him, coming into contact with strange beings was no big deal. He had seen the most desperate and terrifying truth of the world, so conventional strange events could not shake his rationality at all, and his rational anchor remained motionless.

In Xiao En's understanding, dealing with strange events is just about killing monsters and leveling up, but these monsters have some bugs and are a difficult challenge.

This change in mentality means that Sean possesses rationality and willpower far beyond that of other extraordinary people.

Of course, understanding the world as a game is also a terrifying perception. (It’s even more terrifying for monsters.)
In the afternoon.

Gemma also came to the crime scene. She brought some ritual props and also found some useful clues from ancient books on aristocratic heraldry.

"The Craswell family."

"Their family crest is quite similar to this one. They are one of the old noble families in the Dagon region."

Jima handed a thick ancient book to Xiao En and said, "However, this family disappeared more than a hundred years ago. It is said that it was due to a blood curse, and all the direct heirs died."

"They were once one of the guardian families of the Dagon region."

Dagon region?
Xiao En's expression was solemn and he nodded silently.

How to describe that place? It is not as peaceful as Dorne. It is a bit like a no man's land in the real world. There is no very strong order to maintain it. It is also the place with the most wild extraordinary people. Xiao En did not find out the specific reason, but that area is often related to the dormant ancient indescribable.

In the Archaic tongue – “Dagon means Dagon.”

Those extraordinary people who know what "Dagon" represents can understand why that area is always in turmoil.

"To protect the family?" Xiao En flipped through his memories.

The history of the Guardian Family is quite long and it is difficult to explain it in a few words. It can only be said that the unknown people who ended the Dark Age that year were not only "foreigners" from the Earth, but also powerful people from other worlds who entered the Weird Kingdom.

In comparison, they were much more powerful at the time because some of them were non-human mythological races, such as high elves, demons, angels, dragons, and so on.

However, humanity's desperate counterattack to end the Dark Age was led by "outsiders".

This is where the Guardian family originated.

Compared with other kingdoms in the real world, the Kingdom of Dorne is the legitimate successor of the "foreigners", because from the tampered history, we can know that they call themselves the "legitimate successors of the ancient Roman Empire". The cultural landscape of some places in the real world is completely different from here, and the technology tree of the Kingdom of Dorne does not represent the technology tree of other places in the real world.

The reason is very simple. What is inherited here is the civilization and knowledge of the Earth, but other places in the real world, some places, have inherited the knowledge of other worlds.

After the knowledge of the weird kingdom was revitalized, humans inherited the knowledge from another world.

"To some extent, the people of Dorne are all descendants of humans who survived under the protection of 'outsiders.' They are half-Earthlings in spirit."

"As for the Dagon region, it is said that it originated from a powerful demon, a soul from another world that descended."

Sean didn't know information that was too old, and he was not qualified to read the collections in the deepest part of Lady Hecate's labyrinth library.

inside the room.

Gemma began to help Sean arrange the ceremony.

Compared to Xiao En, she lacks a good teacher, so the mysterious knowledge she has mastered is not as comprehensive as Xiao En's, and is basically acquired through channels in the real world. However, she also has her own advantages, that is, she has much more experience than Xiao En, and as a wizard who relies on her own promotion, she has her own unique understanding of the world.

As long as this understanding and cognition does not come into huge conflict with the truth of the world, there should be no problem in Jima's future promotion.

"In fact, people with flexible moral bottom lines are more likely to accept reality."

A spooky ritual was set up in the room.

What Xiao En prepared this time was not a regular spiritual ritual, but a blood sacrifice ritual from the Dark Ages. This ritual was more powerful and had a bit of coercion and intimidation, but it was more difficult to control, and the backlash of the ritual itself could easily erode a little bit of rationality.

Normally, spellcasters would not use the 'Dark Ritual' frequently, because they would easily become contaminated if used too much.

Sean lit a cluster of torches.

Behind him, Jima silently took a step back, while Benjamin tightly grasped the black umbrella in his hand, ready to take action at any time. He was the most powerful fighter in the group, and his flowing light could directly harm any strange spirits.

Xiao En lit the yew wood offered in the ceremony and placed the incense made from datura flowers on the altar. Then he left a mark of a three-way intersection on the mysterious mark of the ceremony.

This is just in case. I leave a teacher's mark here. If I accidentally summon an old guy who I can't defeat, I can ask for help.

However, these unexpectedly summoned spirit creatures are not very difficult to deal with, because the big guys in the spirit world will not respond to the summoning ceremony for no reason. According to the evaluation of the old times, the challenge level is about five.

The four sides of the ritual were inscribed with runes in an ancient secret language.

They represent the road, the underworld, the night, ghosts and witchcraft (magic) respectively.

As Sean lit a piece of yew wood, the burning flame suddenly changed, from the original bright flame to a cluster of faint blue will-o'-the-wisp. In the diffused faint incense, the rune engravings around the altar began to emit spiritual light one after another, and finally the swaying faint blue flame flickered, as if calling for something.

All rituals borrow power from the outside world.

Sean currently does not have the ability to borrow the power of the world's laws, so his rituals are directed to the name of only one existence, that is, his teacher - Ms. Hecate.

In fact, he didn't need to praise the honorific name when starting the ceremony, but since there were outsiders present, Xiao En still had to show some respect.

"The three-phase goddess who controls opportunities..."

"The Queen of the Underworld... The Queen of Ghosts... The Magical Goddess of Hell..."

"A mysterious lady who is silent in the dark night!..."

"You are the protector of roads and gates! ... You are the ruler of Hades and ghosts! ..."

As Sean chanted in a whisper, the blue will-o'-the-wisp fire in front of him suddenly began to glow, and inexplicable changes occurred in the rising flames, which meant that a certain existence had taken the time to respond to Sean's ritual.

Ritual spells.

It is a bit like the Western psychics and the Eastern spirit writing in previous lives. They mainly rely on external forces and have no response from any specific existence. Sometimes they are just a decoration.

now.

Naturally, the others looked at this scene in shock, because Sean's ceremony was activated too quickly.

Sometimes the ceremony is like this: 'The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable'.

Some indescribable existences can be connected at any time, but the problem is that you must first be able to withstand their spiritual whispers. Ms. Hecate responded to Sean's ritual and told him to shut up and stop talking nonsense.

The teacher doesn't like it.

Then, in the flickering flames, the noble emblem in the center of the altar was suddenly anchored by spirituality. As the medium for the entire ritual summons, Sean glanced at the others, took out a dagger, carefully cut his index finger, and a drop of blood fell on the noble emblem.

Since it is a blood sacrifice ceremony, it naturally requires some blood.

He is your own teacher, so just show your appreciation.

Xiao En's goal is to fish with his own blood. He has a huge attraction to all the false and indescribable things.

Above the ceremony.

As the last medium was activated, a vortex-shaped space rift invisible to the naked eye emerged. In the dark curtain torn by the space vortex, pairs of strange eyes emerged from the dark void.

From Xiao En's perspective, he could only see hundreds of pairs of eyes suddenly appearing in front of him. These were all peeping eyes from the spirit world. Any ritual related to the spirit world had better be covered by a big boss, or he himself was a big boss, otherwise, these rituals would attract pairs of eyes in the void and darkness.

The curtain of night covered everything.

This is the status of Lady Hecate, she is the demigod of the path of death, possessing the authority of "beyond the divine eye". Even the old days could not easily spy on everything she concealed.

A chilly aura emerged.

As the flame in the ritual suddenly went out, a pale hand stretched out from the torn space crack. Unable to contain its desire for blood sacrifice, it rushed over from other parts of the real world without even waiting for the second stage of the summoning ritual.

Those spiritual monsters that enter the real world often hide in places where even ghosts can't find them.

Their minds have been distorted. They are not beings of high status and basically act on instinct. They are the product of being completely assimilated by the laws.

An extreme feeling of regret emerged!

There was a trace of pain on Jima's face, as if some long-buried memories deep in her heart were awakened, and some regretful things were being recalled frantically. At the same time, because of the emotional resonance, in her immense regret, she even had an urge to "commit suicide".

——Emotional resonance.

As soon as this monster from the spirit world appeared, he shared his deepest regret with everyone present.

"Master, he killed his beloved."

Under the negative emotion of immense regret, knowledge also began to stir, whispering, and knowledge liked negative emotions because it conformed to the laws of the world.

“He’s out of control.”

"He accidentally killed the person he most wanted to protect."

The knowledge gradually became excited and whispered. They had resonated with the emotions and glimpsed into the inner world of this horrible monster.

-- Joe Craswell.

Knowledge knows his name, but he is now just an evil spirit trapped in the spirit world, becoming increasingly twisted in endless regret, and eventually obliterating all his mind and spirituality, completely becoming a member of the monstrous creatures.

Xiao En watched all this with an expressionless face.

Benjamin was slightly affected, but at most he just frowned. The captain's will was extremely strong.

This is not a good place for Hank, he will be affected more seriously.

In the crack in the spirit world opened by the ritual, a hideous, hollow head was held in the hand and emerged along with an outstretched pale hand. A gust of cold wind blew in the room, and a hunched figure slowly crawled out from the mist of the spirit world.

Sean saw an ugly monster that looked like "half a human".

Really only half a person.

It had no complete lower body, having been severed from the waist by a sharp weapon, with its dragging intestines oozing muddy inky mucus. Its bald neck was the result of a horrific wound that had healed, and its head had long been chopped off. It was a bit like the legendary Headless Horseman, but it had no mount of its own. It had lost its glory and everything it had been protecting.

Its soul exiles itself in endless regret.

Even the head he was holding in his hand was not his own, but belonged to the unfortunate guy who had committed suicide before.

It doesn't even have its own head.

The hollow head emitted a faint light, and only two bloody holes remained of its eyes. Its tongue had been pulled out, and its hair was wrapped into a rope, like a lantern, illuminating everything nearby.

The auras of reality and the spirit world overlap, and a light mist permeates the room.

Invisible objects that are invisible to the naked eye reveal a vague outline. Many things that are invisible in the real world can be seen in the spiritual world.

——The headless lantern bearer [unspeakable illusion] [evil spirit].

A strange monster that is said to originate from horror folk tales. It is born in the distortion of the spiritual world reflecting reality. Their symbol is a lantern made of a head, most of the time it is someone else's head, and occasionally they will hold up their own head if they can find their own head.

In the spirit world, they are lower-level guides. If you follow them, you can easily find a dead end, which means you will end up in the territory of some indescribable terrifying existence.

There was a thin mist.

The human head held in the hand suddenly revealed an expression of fear.

After crawling out of the crack in the spirit world and entering the room, it seemed to sense something unusual and became a little restless. It wanted to escape back!
The two pale hands that had just stretched out wanted to retract and stuff half of the body back into the gap in the spiritual world.

It felt a sense of inexplicable terror!
——The invisible hand!
But it was too late. Xiao En took action immediately. Two dark invisible hands stretched out from his back. The ghostly black hands grabbed the other's intestines and dragged him into the room along with the head in its hand.

Do not!
Don't come over here!

The monster's screams echoed throughout the room. It couldn't speak, but it could express itself with emotions.

It's a pity it's too late.

Behind Sean, the tall Jima immediately completed the spell. She seemed like an evil old witch, and the reflection behind her was distorted.

The moment she raised her hand, two black tentacles emerged from her shoulder blades and wrapped around her broad shoulders. These two strange flesh tentacles shot out like whips, attached with a trace of obscure negative energy, and instantly wrapped around the body of the twisted monster, dragging the remaining half of its body out of the crack bit by bit.

——Evil Black Tentacles (Ring 3).

These black tentacles are about five meters long and covered with strange suction cups. They are visible to the naked eye and are summoned flesh and blood. After the spell is completed, they directly parasitize on Jima's shoulders and merge with the flesh and blood. They can be commanded by mind to attack all enemies within range.

The headless lantern man let out a series of terrified screams!

In the eyes of monsters, extraordinary people are also monsters. They are not afraid of mortals, but they are afraid of these "human-shaped monsters".

Xiao En stretched out two invisible black ghost hands from behind, and two five-meter-long black suction tentacles directly emerged from Jima's shoulders. In comparison, in the eyes of others, the monster with only half a body holding a head lantern was not as "scary" as it was at the beginning.

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(End of this chapter)