Chapter 85 Divination! Amon's crazy plan - the bottomless abyss!

the next day.

After paying the price of three deaths, Sean finally figured out the general situation nearby.

After killing the Eye Demon yesterday, he thought he was quite strong, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face early the next morning. The enemies of the Weird Kingdom had no martial ethics at all, and being stronger or weaker had no effect on the final outcome.

Everything Sean encountered here had some resemblance to modern warfare.

The first death occurred on the edge of the swamp.

Sean had planned to go invisible to investigate the surroundings, to see what was around the swamp, and to look for berries, because he didn't have many healing items. But he underestimated the lizardmen's ability to detect and listen. Even when he was invisible, the enemy discovered Sean's tracks, locked onto his approximate location, and finally found him while he was invisible.

call out.

A hidden arrow hit Xiao En, and half of his body was paralyzed in an instant. He didn't have time to do much to respond, and the enemy rushed up with a knife and cut off Xiao En's head without hesitation. The action was quite quick and neat, and it was definitely not the first time he cut off someone's head.

Sean was poisoned.

The monster had no moral principles and used poison and sneak attacks. Xiao En, who had just escaped from the death replay, killed the opponent without hesitation. The process of counterattack can basically be skipped because he now has many means of attack. After adding an "energy deflection force field" in advance, the arrow could not hit him. The following battle was very easy. Compared with the fight against the Eye Demon, Xiao En did not use all his trump cards.

This was the first death, and Sean had a rough idea of ​​the situation at the edge of the swamp.

Then came the second death. He was killed on the edge of the forest. The one who killed Sean was a monster he called "Crow Man", because it was a feathered humanoid creature with a face like a weird crow and three eyes. It was said that it was once an owlman, one of the legendary inhuman races, and was later distorted into various monsters by the old times.

All of the non-human races in Weird Country are basically twisted.

This death was the most dangerous.

Because Xiao En was almost killed by the enemy twice, if he died the second time, he would probably be finished.

Those crowmen were even more cunning than the lizardmen, because their blowgun darts were more poisonous and they had the ability to fly short distances. Xiao En felt something was wrong throughout the battle, as if he was being watched all the time. It was not until he died in the enemy's sneak attack that he discovered that the crowmen actually had pets. There were birds in the sky staring at him and locking onto his specific location.

It was still an unethical sneak attack!

From the fight to death, Xiao En played almost all his cards, and finally died under the enemy's claws due to poisoning.

In the end, he relied on his ability of death replay to predict the enemy's position in advance. He used a dimensional jump followed by explosive fire to blast the enemy out, thus resolving the battle. Finally, he shot a strong acid arrow to explode the three-eyed crow man's head.

The other party is a spellcaster, possibly an illusionist.

Although the enemy this time is not as powerful as the Eye Demon, the battle is more dangerous than yesterday. Crowmen are easier to kill than Lizardmen, but their means of attack are more vicious.

The battles in the weird kingdom were not the traditional battles that Xiao En knew. There was basically no back-and-forth slashing and magic. The outcome of the entire battle was just a few minutes, and sometimes it was decided in less than thirty seconds.

"When the difference in strength between the two parties is not big, it is very important to detect and discover the enemy's traces in advance!"

This is Sean's new understanding of combat.

The difference in strength does not completely affect the outcome of the battle, unless it is a crushing situation where the difference in strength is too great. Otherwise, all the battles here are similar to modern warfare, and discovering the enemy is the first factor, because whoever has the first-hand information has the initiative to attack.

It just so happens that the initiative of attack is the key to life and death!
Relying on the power of guns and strong firepower, Xiao En can basically kill the enemy in seconds if he takes the initiative. The enemies can also basically kill Xiao En in seconds by relying on their familiarity with the environment and various vicious means of attack. Even if they cannot kill him in seconds, they will almost certainly die after being poisoned.

When Xiao En fights with them, he either remains unharmed or dies.

If you are poisoned by the enemy's sneak attack, it will be difficult to win the next battle.

"Damn it!"

"Where did they find the poison?"

"There must be an easily accessible source of poison nearby, otherwise every creature wouldn't have poisoned their weapons!"

Xiao En held the Crow Man's strange blowgun in his hand. This thing was very difficult to defend against. The flying needles fired were very thin and long, like some kind of hard pine needles. He could only rely on the energy deflection force field to block a wave. Fortunately, the Crow Man's physical fitness was not as good as the Lizard Man. As long as Xiao En locked the target in advance, he would almost kill it in seconds.

As for the last death, there is nothing much to say. I encountered an enemy that I couldn’t defeat.

Xiao En's enemy is a strange house that moves by itself. It looks a bit like a witch's evil hut. It is not clear what it is. After he got close to it, he died inexplicably. In the end, he didn't even dare to investigate and directly fled from the strange hut in the forest. (Specific pictures are at the end of the chapter.)
Conventional firearms would definitely be useless against this monster anyway. It didn't look like an enemy he could handle right now.

Eye Demon Lair.

Xiao En was sorting out his morning's haul. There were a lot of miscellaneous items, including several rare items, but there weren't many he could use.

"The Lizardmen's rare equipment and dropped items are too repetitive."

“I rarely see anything new.”

What Xiao En got from the lizardmen today was the survival amulet. He now had half a dozen of them in his hand, but he didn't need so many. He could only keep them until he returned to Abyss City and sell them at a low price. The other equipment was basically the same. Even the relics dropped by the lizardmen were highly homogenized, and they were basically extraordinary relics from the Ranger Path.

"Is it because the living environment in the poisonous swamp is too harsh?"

"There are very few warriors, mostly rangers and hunters, and their equipment is similar." Xiao En guessed secretly.

There was basically nothing much to say about the harvest from the Lizardmen. No new stuff dropped, unless Sean encountered some rare elite monster, such as a rare spellcaster or something.

Today's main harvest is from the Crowmen in the Black Forest.

——Communication technique.

A 0-ring trick, a magical version of secret telepathy, which Loris had used on Sean before. But during their first conversation, both of them were mentally suggested and didn't realize anything, so they just had a normal conversation.

This was not dropped by the Crow Man, but by the crow it controlled. The extraordinary relic is a dark feather.

"It can probably maintain secret voice transmission at a distance of 50 meters."

"Can talk to five or six targets at the same time."

This trick has low consumption, is very convenient to use, and has great effects. The sound transmission in the martial arts novels of the previous life is a level 0 trick here. If you have this ability early, it will be much more convenient to fight. There are really few extraordinary relics in the real world. Logically, there should be many relics flowing into reality, but I don’t know why they are not popularized. Xiao En’s understanding of the weird kingdom is still not enough. Even in the real world, he is only slightly familiar with the city of Dorne.

——Illusionary sound technique, secret mark.

These were two level 0 tricks, both found from small relics, and Xiao En refined them easily.

"It seems that the Crow Man's talent tends to be a spellcaster!" Xiao En was a little surprised.

He used his Explosive Fire spell to blast out three Crow Men, killed two with a burst of gunfire, and the last one was shot in the head with a strong acid arrow. He found a lot of good things on their bodies.

There are more spellcasters among the Crowmen. Although they are not very powerful, they know many spells, which is a greater improvement for Xiao En.

Arcane Mark is a regular level 0 cantrip that has many uses and can be used as a mark.

——Magic Alert (1st level spell)!

After finding this thing among the Crow Man's spoils, Sean was immediately cheered up.

"Finally found something useful."

This is a spell alarm that can set up a magic alarm within a range of hundreds of meters. Once an enemy approaches, it will alarm Sean and wake him up directly from his sleep.

With this thing, he doesn't have to worry about being sneaked up on and attacked while he's resting.

The three Crowmen dropped a lot of good stuff, and they also had several extraordinary relics that they had collected and not digested. Xiao En refined all that he could. Crowmen and Lizardmen should also hunt each other, because a Lizardman bone amulet was found on the Crowman's body.

——Feather Fall, Electric Claw, and Colorful Jet.

These are all very practical first-level spells. It seems that the spells they can drop are all related to their own abilities. After Xiao En extracted them all in one breath, he replenished a lot of his low-level spells.

“Knowledge becomes alive.”

Xiao En felt that the knowledge in his brain was becoming more and more active, as if it was about to reach a critical point, which meant that the door to the knowledge field was slowly opening a crack. If you want to access the knowledge field, you must endure more pollution and madness. Other wizards probably won't learn so many spells at once.

After dealing with most of it, Sean took out the last extraordinary relic.

A Crow Man's Brain!

He discovered that there was no such thing as a spell book in the Weird Kingdom. If a spell book dropped after killing an enemy, it was most likely a supernatural relic condensed from the enemy's brain. This was the brain of a Crow Man illusionist, and also the most difficult opponent.

- The cunning of the fox and the wisdom of the owl (2nd-level spell).

Xiao En hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to extract the Crow Man's brain because he felt that his rationality could still hold up. After two days of life-and-death struggles, he felt that as he slowly got used to death, his rationality became more stable.

"This spell can temporarily increase the intelligence of the recipient and strengthen all intellectual ability judgments." Knowledge cheered.

One increases intelligence, the other increases perception.

These two spells are blessing spells. No wonder Xiao En found himself being stared at by the enemy. Maybe this guy's temporary perception is higher than his.

Sean tried it.

The effect of the spell blessing is very strong, especially the fox's cunning ability, which instantly raised his intelligence to an amazing level. The feeling is hard to describe in words. It is a bit like the sage time in the previous life. The learning efficiency is amazing. (Temporary intelligence 24 points.)
As for the enhancement of perception, his inspiration was already very high, and it became even stronger after the blessing, but because of his clairvoyance, it was not that obvious.

——Divination (3rd-level spell).

Xiao En learned his first real prophecy spell from the Crowman, but low-level prophecy spells were not very useful. He could only predict good and bad luck through divination, but could not peek into the future. The truly powerful prophecy spells can see what has happened in the past and what may happen in the future.

Out of curiosity.

Sean took out the walking stick that Lady Hecate left for him, the strange object called "Three-Way Crossroads". He had never used it before because he didn't know how to cast prophecy spells.

A slight fluctuation of magical power trembled.

As Xiao En threw the strange cane, the original magic power began to stir, as if invisible opportunities were stirred, and the direction of the prophecy changed. "Teacher! Guide me in a direction that will bring good luck!"

Xiao En recited his most powerful spell!
He would not completely believe everything Eamon said, and Ms. Hecate had always been very nice to him. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but Sean always felt that Ms. Hecate was trapped in the labyrinth library because he rarely saw Ms. Hecate outside the labyrinth library.

It's a bit like a god trapped in his own kingdom.

Hey.

The cane that Sean threw out began to vibrate. Divination is usually used to predict good or bad luck, but this strange object at the fork in the road seems to have enhanced the effect of divination.

It can point in three directions: one for good luck, one for bad luck, and one that is neither good nor bad.

"When using prophecy, you must remember that you can pray for good luck occasionally, but you cannot always ask for good luck to favor you."

"Sometimes you even have to actively seek out bad luck."

"Because only in this way can you ensure that your next prophecy will be more accurate." Lady Hecate's teachings came to mind.

Chance is uncertain.

Good luck and bad luck are equal. It's okay to be unlucky occasionally, as long as good luck favors you at the critical moment.

Beginners often cling to good luck, but veterans prefer ordinary bad luck.

“It’s a balance of chance.”

Xiao En needs the blessing of good luck now. Once he returns to a safe place, no matter what kind of bad luck comes to him, even if he suddenly falls on the road, or his wallet is stolen inexplicably, etc. He really cannot do without good luck in this hellhole. Even the slightest bit of bad luck will not do.

Falling at the fork in the road.

It pointed Sean in a direction, which was on the edge of the Black Forest, on a small hill close to the plain, specifically the northeast.

"Will that direction bring me good luck?"

"teacher."

"I'll leave it to you this time!"

Xiao En was very pious at this moment.

He packed up his things, took the stone blind barbarians with him, and prepared to go in the direction indicated by the fork in the road.

These grim brutes are his younger brothers, but of course they cannot be relied upon at critical moments, because due to their low intelligence, they are easy to control and can understand some simple commands. They are roughly equivalent to level 1 barbarians, but they have not inherited the complete supernatural essence. Even if they are born with the level of humanoid monsters, they cannot go berserk. If you want them to be promoted, you must feed them supernatural relics. Xiao En is definitely not that well-off at the moment, and he does not plan to train them.

If things get out of control, he will have to clean up the mess himself.

This was a rather risky attempt, as it was Sean's first time using divination, but he decided to try his luck, mainly because he believed in the power of Lady Hecate.

The rare item she gave must be useful. The butcher gave Xiao En such an important high-level rare item. It doesn't make sense that the teacher, as a demigod of death, would give Xiao En a useless and junk rare item.

"Goddess of luck, love me again."

Xiao En commanded the stoneblind barbarians to clear the way ahead, while he himself was ready to enter invisible mode at any time.

The caster always puts survival first.

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Purgatory City.

This is one of the seven witch king cities in the weird kingdom, and it is also a chaotic place that is as powerful and evil as the Abyss City.

Amon's figure slowly walked into a magnificent palace.

At the top of the palace was a female figure with an extremely charming and beautiful appearance. She was lying lazily on the luxurious throne, with a blood-red tattoo on her exposed white arm. On both sides of the palace stood many extremely powerful demon guards, some of whom were even alien souls from the Shura Purgatory.

"Amon! What a rare guest!" The charming woman on the throne stood up and welcomed him.

Amon smiled, ignoring the woman's enchanting beauty, and said calmly: "I came to borrow something from you."

The charming woman raised her eyebrows when she heard this and said, "Borrow what? I heard that you just went to Thousand Faces Valley recently."

Amon said politely: "I would like to borrow your [Crown of Mind] for a while."

The seductive woman frowned, stared at Amon in front of her and said, "Crown of Mind? What do you want it for? Is there anyone under your command who wants to be promoted to the Destiny of the Path of Mind? Or, is there anyone who wants to be promoted across paths?"

Aamon's smile faded, and he said calmly, "You don't need to ask more questions. Lend it? Or not?"

The entire palace was in deathly silence.

Suddenly, the charming woman chuckled and said, "Lend it. Of course. The Lord of the Abyss has asked for it, so how can I not lend it?"

"but."

"You also have to answer a question for me first and solve some of my recent doubts."

Eamon frowned slightly and asked, "What's the problem?"

The charming woman stood up curiously and looked down at Eamon in front of her. This condescending attitude seemed to prove her strength, but Eamon was unmoved. She whispered: "What are you going to do by disrupting the real world?"

"Just to cause them some trouble?"

Eamon said calmly, "Of course not, I did it to open the door."

Open the door?
The charming woman asked doubtfully, "Open the door? There is no way they will agree to that. Too many people will die. Those old bones may not have the courage to give it a try."

Amon smiled and said, "There is a saying in the East: 'If you raise a price, you can bargain on the spot.'"

"Besides, who said I was going to open the door to the real world?"

The seductive woman was stunned when she heard this, and asked in disbelief: "Then which door are you going to open?"

Amon uttered four words calmly: "Bottomless Abyss!!!"

It was like a loud thunderclap.

The charming woman was stunned on the spot, and said in disbelief: "Bottomless abyss? Impossible! The entrance has been closed long ago."

Eamon said calmly: "How do you know it won't work if you don't try?"

"The ancient elves can open a portal to the distant universe, why can't we open a portal to the Abyss?"

"Those demons should be tired of fighting the [Blood Battle in the Abyss] every day."

"Even if we tear a crack in the gray fog, they will swarm in, which will be a good opportunity for the indescribable people in the weird kingdom to have some fun."

The charming woman stared at Eamon in front of her, as if she was judging whether what he said was true or false.

After a long time, she said slowly: "If you really want to do this, count me in."

Eamon nodded and said, "The plan has just begun."

"I am still missing the most important key, and that key is in the hands of a very important person."

"No one can get the third Portkey without his help."

The charming woman asked in a serious tone, "Are you really sure you can open the [Gate to Another World] a second time?"

Amon said calmly: "It may be difficult in other places, but there are great opportunities in the Abyss. It is a place of extreme chaos, leading to all possibilities!"

"I am the promoted Lord of the Abyss."

"As long as the conditions of the ritual are met, I can call for the 'Will of the Abyss' to descend!"

"It will be of interest to the Weird Country."

The seductive woman seemed surprised by Amon's crazy idea and murmured, "Aren't you afraid that the will of the abyss will also be twisted into its old self?"

Amon said calmly: "That is the will of the abyss, not some random god from another world."

"If it could be so easily distorted, there would be no Abyss."

"Besides."

"You don't think those old ones are crazier than the will of the abyss? You underestimate the power of the Abyss!"

"The souls of other worlds have their own way of solving problems."

“Those natives are too weak.”

The charming woman seemed to be convinced by Eamon in front of her. She gently raised a white finger, and soon a banshee maid brought her a completely sealed blood box.

Eamon took it and said very politely, "Thank you."

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(End of this chapter)