Chapter 7: Tai Chi Sword Frame, Variation Crystal Nucleus(1/2)
When Shi Yinghu took off the ring from the boy's finger, accepted the task, and returned to the original address or ruins of the Puston family, the fire had long been extinguished.
According to subsequent investigations, the ancestors of the Puston family were originally a powerful demon hunter. They lived here in their later years and formed the prosperous Puston family.
Although the demon hunter's profession inheritance was not a necromancer but a druid, because he had a very good relationship with a high-level necromancer in the Ancient Snake Castle, he was not rejected, but received a lot of care.
However, people will grow old and die.
After the death of the ancestor of the Puston family, no qualified demon hunter appeared in the family for three consecutive generations.
In this world, children with poor qualifications will not only have limited future achievements, but even if they are barely trained, they will have a high chance of dying in the fight with dark creatures in the future. Therefore, families with certain conditions will often evaluate their qualifications before raising offspring to become demon hunters.
One generation is old-fashioned, and two generations are nothing to do. When Amos Puston and Aru Puston immediately reap the old-fashioned capital, the entire family is basically unsustainable, especially the previous two generations of the family are not a good-for-nothing lamp. By the third generation, the Puston family was left with this lonely mansion and an old nanny.
"I thought you would go to the cathedral first and then return here. I ordered everyone not to move. The ruins of the Puston family were well preserved on the spot. Since you have returned, we will leave."
When Shi Yinghu returned here, the village chief Dylank came up and said this.
"That's really a trouble for you, the village chief." Shi Yinghu bowed his head politely and responded politely.
Being able to control a group of villagers to stay here and not empty it requires strong prestige and control. Being unable to live up to family members has always been a traditional custom in many poor and remote areas.
"It's not particularly troublesome. Amos Puston is a withdrawn boy and has always been eager to revive his family. Some people in the village saw him performing dark rituals in the wild and cemetery, so no one dared to go in. If you come and deal with it, we can actually feel more at ease." Shi Yinghu was polite, and Dylank also leaned over and said in response.
"Dark Ritual? Has anyone seen Amos?Pston secretly held a dark ceremony? Can I meet?"
"Of course, I have already complained to Snake Castle for this matter, but Snake Castle has never responded to this matter. Well, you also know that although the big man no longer pays attention to the Pston family, the management is still very concerned." As he said this, Dylank recruited several villagers.
The villagers Dylank recruited were all honest people who didn't know how to lie at first glance. In their description, they all discovered that Amos Puston was secretly held a dark ceremony in different times and places under accidents.
Listening to their description, Shi Yinghu could basically determine that they did not lie. It seems that Mr. Amos Puston, for a long time, was addicted to the dark rituals and could not extricate himself.
By summoning the powerful will of the lower plane through the dark ritual, it is not a difficult path. There are many characters in history who can gain powerful power and even take advantage of it without losing money. On Earth, there are people who can win one in tens of millions of lottery jackpots, let alone such things.
But because of this extremely rare exception, later generations have attracted to hold dark rituals one after another, hoping that they can become that exception: this makes people very doubt whether the few exceptions in history are the powerful will of the lower plane and the temptation intentionally released.
The villagers said that Shi Yinghu recorded it, and then found an ink to ask them to press their handprints, expressing their willingness to be responsible for what they said.
After completing these processes, Dylank took the villagers away. He invited Shi Yinghu to live in his house, but Shi Yinghu politely refused. After watching the villagers go away, Shi Yinghu turned around, and then he walked into the abandoned house that was burned into gray and black by the fire.
"The entire logical chain is completely understandable. The powerless and desperate last noble son handed over his soul to the dark, and was eventually retaliated by the darkness and turned into a werewolf and killed his younger brother..." Shi Yinghu looked up at the abandoned house burned by the fire. After a moment, he began to conduct a carpet-style search.
This mansion was established at the peak of the Puston family, so it covers a large area. However, as the family became weaker and less able to afford servants, the living area became increasingly narrow, and many of the artifacts in the house were sold one after another.
Once again, I returned to the room where I was sneaked up before. The whole room was burned, and the walls on all sides were densely surrounded, as if they were once covered with blood, especially the bed of Aru Puston, which was already burned to the point of being twisted.
Shi Yinghu turned around for a while, knocked on the wall from time to time, and then he went to the larger room next to him, which was the room of his brother Amos Puston. It was obvious that he was a book lover who loved reading. There was no longer much furniture in the entire mansion. There was also a bookcase and a desk in his room.
Because the climate in this area is relatively humid, the house has not completely collapsed, and many things inside are still left with some residues, and the same is true for books in the bookcase. Shi Yinghu walked over and took them out to read them.
Just as Dylank, the village chief of Derek, said, Amos Puston was clearly full of desire to revive the family. This can be seen from the books he read, either about professionals or about family management. After reading the books in the bookcase from beginning to end, Shi Yinghu turned to his desk again. However, this time, Shi Yinghu found a truly forbidden book among the several burnt and broken books stacked on his desk: "The Whisper of the Dark".
Two-thirds of the book were burned, but it still retained one-third of the incompleteness, and the pages were filled with tender handwriting.
"Is Amos Puston the knowledge of darkness obtained from this book?" After reading one of the dark rituals: outline the six-pointed star array, place two equally spaced white candles between the magic runes, and then fill the star array diagram with the blood of the sacrifice, chanting the spell. The content recorded here is the blood sacrifice of the living person.
"It's clear that all the evidence is as solid as a mountain, and I have to make sure it is a matter of fear that I have insufficient evidence and I don't believe it." With such a whisper of unknown significance, Shi Yinghu turned around and left Amos Puston's room, returned to his brother's room and fell on the bed, intending to get together here for the last night.
Although someone had just died here and had just burned into a abandoned house, as a demon hunter, there was not so much room for pickiness. It was a good thing to have a place to block the wind, and Shi Yinghu was also very adaptable.
However, just after lying for a while, Shi Yinghu suddenly opened his eyes again. He stood up and turned around and knocked on the bed beneath him. Shi Yinghu had a very keen sense of power. He vaguely felt that the feedback from the moment he fell just now was not right when his body hit the bed.
After pounding his fist a few times and determining something was wrong, Shi Yinghu picked up the steel sword, used the sword and sheath as a hammer, and used force to hit the wooden bed. After a few bangs, the wooden bed was smashed, and below it was a secret small box.
Shi Yinghu took out the small box and violently opened it. He saw a bottle of white ointment, an exquisite dagger, twenty-one gold coins, and a wallet book.
"Hidden very deeply." Shi Yinghu took out the dagger, put the gold coins in his own wallet, and then took out his wallet to start reading.
This is actually Amos Puston's notes.
Shi Yinghu made a general look at the contents before, and then passed by, because it was really just a simple diary, but when he turned to the last few chapters of the date, Shi Yinghu found something very interesting:
April 17, Yin.
On this day, I performed the fifth dark ritual in the cemetery... I don't know whether to say it's lucky or unfortunate, but I failed again, with no effect. Without real dark scriptures, I could not complete the real dark ritual with my shallow research.
--Amos Puston
(Wait, April 17? Today is June 12.) Looking at this diary, Shi Yinghu took out the book "Dark Whisper" he carried with him. Looking at the dense handwriting on it, although the notes on the two books were almost exactly the same, the content seemed to have a big conflict. Computer::/
"Dark Whisper" is dark and obscure, and even Shi Yinghu has to read it carefully. Amos Puston finished the whole article in less than two months? And he successfully cast the spell directly?
May 2nd, Yin.
That’s great, so good, Alu passed the qualification test, Alu passed the qualification test. The family’s revitalization finally has hope again!
--Amos Puston
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Through Amos Puston's diary, Shi Yinghu learned that the dagger in the wooden box was called "Whisper" and was the magic weapon left by the first ancestor of the family. The bottle of oil was "Nether Sword Oil". Applied on the weapon, it can cause damage to the Necrotic creatures.
In the past, the high-end equipment left by the powerful Druid was of course not just these, but the profession-limited and too powerful were basically sold out. Now only this whisper with a particularly versatility and this bottle of undead sword oil. Sword oil is like wine. As long as it is sealed well, it will not last for a period of time and it will be as effective as sealing for a hundred years.
"Did the treasure-level magic equipment be detected, will the pre-consumption of 20 points of experience be used for identification?"
"yes!"
After the adaptability of the Shenwu system was adjusted to the hunter system, it actually had additional functions of pre-consumption and equipment identification. The 20 points of experience were not too much. Shi Yinghu chose to confirm without hesitation. With the golden red light flashing in the palm of his hand, a faint blue magic rune floated on the covered dagger:
Whisper dagger (treasure-level equipment), steel weapon, +1 to 5 lightning damage, +65% damage to undead creatures, a pretty good backup weapon.
The next day, after Shi Yinghu woke up, he continued his itinerary and headed to the fifth stop of the "Ancient Snake Castle Patrol Mission", the lost cathedral.
No matter what, the task must be completed, and now I may not have the ability to pull out the mastermind behind the scenes. But Shi Yinghu kept this matter in his heart and regarded it as a matter. He has always refused to easily receive benefits from others, but once he received benefits from others, he would have to pay back several times or ten times.
Of course, the benefit here means that it cannot be an exchange of interests or malicious use.
This time, it took about five days to pass the wailing mine again to reach the lost cathedral that was once prosperous but now it has been completely abandoned.
Although today the grass and trees grow, the vines flourish.
But even so, the prosperity here can still be vaguely seen. A large number of believers gather, worship and pray devoutly, and then put the money they earned to the atonement box: what's interesting is that the abandoned cathedral will eventually become a breeding place for monsters and dead spirits.
Before he could enter the cathedral, Shi Yinghu had already seen several skeletons walking in the blue sky and sun. In the distance, a skeleton archer shot an arrow, and was swept away by Shi Yinghu's sword. As long as the power and speed could keep up, with Shi Yinghu's will and skills, machine gun bullets could be cut down one by one, let alone such soft bone arrows.
When he noticed the arrival of the living, several bone frames holding weapons surrounded him calmly. Shi Yinghu did not waste his magic power and used the damage to deepen. Instead, he ran over with the silver sword in his hand. The two swords first broke a bone frame, and then quickly formed a seal with his left hand to wake up the bone frame again.
The Skeleton Warrior One summoned this time was like the bone rack just now, holding a big axe, with its sharing attention, Shi Yinghu was even more like a fish in water. He cut several wild undead spirits one after another with Skeleton Warrior One as the center, ran for several steps, then jumped up, and threw out a dagger. The dagger was nailed to the skeleton archer at a high place. As the current spread, the skeleton archer was shattered directly.
Although the steel-type magic weapons cannot cause extreme damage to these lower creatures like silver-type magic weapons, the accompanying magic damage is real and not reduced at all.
"Kill the Skeleton Warrior and gain experience 5.8."
"Kill the Skeleton Warrior and gain experience 5.9."
"Kill the Skeleton Warrior and gain experience 4.2."
"Kill the Skeleton Archer and gain experience 7.6."
"Deduct 20 points of pre-expendable experience."
Ignoring the experience prompts popping up from time to time, Shi Yinghu kicked open the half-closed door of the cathedral.
After a moment of shouting, a fireball and lightning ball flew out from inside. Shi Yinghu pulled out the steel sword he was carrying and threw it out. With a bang, most of the lightning balls and fireballs exploded. The magic hunting steel sword rotated with electric current and stabbed it on the stone ground with a few "clang" sounds. The remaining two fireballs were avoided by Shi Yinghu.
Immediately afterwards, a group of small monsters with sheep's horns ran out of the shadow of the cathedral: demonized goblins, whose combat power is far higher than that of goblins, cowardly but cruel little monsters. The elites among them have the ability to cast magic.
Although Shi Yinghu is a necromancer, in fact, he is a physical attacker. Combined with Shi Yinghu's martial arts skills, even the most ordinary person can transform into a killing weapon. What's more, after the power attribute reaches 20 points (15 power attribute plus 5 equipment bonus), Shi Yinghu's paper power data has reached nearly twice that of ordinary humans.
Flexible sword light, flying sword jumps like a projectile assassination.
Facing the shadow in front of him, a large number of red and blue demonized goblins surged out. Shi Yinghu did not retreat, but instead followed the sword like fighting a dragon, gathering all his strength on the sword tip. As long as he was stabbed and pulled by the silver sword point, the demonized goblins that were only half a human high were broken instantly, as if they exploded.
Not only did Shi Yinghu not retreat, he chose to charge in the opposite direction and rushed into the shadows in the church, refusing to give the casting monsters in the shadows the chance to continue casting spells calmly.
Shi Yinghu took the lead with a sword, and Skeleton Warrior No. 1, holding a big axe, followed closely, and shared a lot of pressure.
At the same time, the skeletons are revived. In fact, the skeletons that are revived are different. Some skeleton warriors hold swords and shields, and such offensive and defense balance is even too aggressive. Some skeleton warriors hold bone sickles in their hands, which are high attacks and high speeds, and are most effective in attacking. However, the skeleton warriors summoned by Shi Yinghu this time are rare to hold the big skull axe, with extreme attacks and stop until death.
If a high-level necromancer is used with the skeleton resurrection spells with great skill, then he can even control this choice, just like summoning a skeleton mage. Some necromancers can control the skeleton mage's fire, ice, poison, and electric element selection. However, the spell level of the skeleton resurrection is lower, and the control difficulty is higher.
He rushed into the shadow of the cathedral, Shi Yinghu jumped into the wooden box with a silver sword in his hand. There were two crimson demonized goblins behind the wooden box.
They are much larger than ordinary demonized goblins and have the ability to cast spells, but in fact they are not elite monsters. They are more suitable to call them demonized goblins, because in addition to having the ability to cast spells, demonized goblins are not necessarily much stronger than demonized goblins.
Shi Yinghu swung his arm and stabbed him on the throat of the demonized goblin, making a very deep hole. The next moment, he made a mistake and picked out the sword with force and slashed it horizontally on the neck of the demonized goblin. Shi Yinghu's martial arts skills allowed him to exert every point of his strength to the extreme effect, and the sharpness and restraint effect of the silver magic hunting sword.
puff!
Blood gushed out, and the head soared into the sky and then fell to the ground.
However, at this moment, in the distance, in the shadows deep in the cathedral, a low growl suddenly came.
This sound cannot be heard by the ears at all, but it is average in essence and can cause impact and damage to the soul and spirit of a person.
Shi Yinghu was extremely agile and knew that although his soul was strong, he was in a serious state of injury. If he was really rushed to this attack, it would be bad for chain damage. Therefore, he immediately calmed down and rolled out with his left hand and his sleeves.
In this process, a skeleton with fishy red eyes walked out of the darkness. Its body was no different from an ordinary skeleton. Its bones showed a texture like steel and rocks. At the same time, there were no weapons on its hands, but it turned into two hammer heads that looked like hand hammers. These two rectangular hand hammers have the true steel texture, and they are probably not slightly lower than the absolute hardness of the steel hammers.
Strategically speaking, although Shi Yinghu killed two demonized goblins one after another, he probably lost it because although he had a chance to get it, he directly attracted the elite mutant monsters in the innermost area. Shi Yinghu just looked at his form and knew that this would definitely not be an easy opponent to deal with.
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As the cathedral's boss finally broke out, monsters in the shadows around rushed out one after another. Of course, there are no need to say more about demonized goblins and demonized goblins. There are also cripple monsters. However, although their strength is relatively stronger, their speed is not as fast as that of demonized goblins, so they are blocked behind and cannot rush up for a while.
To be continued...