I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 227-1: Thousand Orchid City, Iya Palace’s Palace Master (1)

[The Onmyoji travels alongside you, conversing with you about the arts of incantation as you hurry along the road…]

[In its words, it expressed deep envy of your winged girl shikigami standing behind you. Such a powerful shikigami could no longer be compared to ordinary demons and yokai.]

[You took the opportunity to inquire about the techniques to subdue shikigami…]

[It turned out the shikigami commanded by Onmyoji were divided into two types: demons, and yokai who were remnants of demonic abominations.]

[Subduing and commanding either of these types was not as easy as one might imagine…]

[The conditions for a demon’s birth were exceedingly stringent, so their numbers in the world were extremely scarce. The longer a demon survived to commit evil, the more formidable its strength.]

[Ordinary Onmyoji seldom encountered a demon. Even if they did, it would be the sort that had existed for hundreds or thousands of years, whose power could not be matched. Let alone helping them fulfill their unfulfilled wishes to subdue them as shikigami.]

[Some Onmyoji thus bred malicious thoughts and artificially created demons. The methods were cruel and utterly inhumane. Yet the newly-born demons were often too feeble to be of much use. Only rogue Onmyoji resorted to such means.]

[In comparison, subduing yokai was somewhat easier.]

[As long as they were defeated and suppressed with a sealing talisman of a grade matching their strength, they could be captured. However, fine sealing talismans were difficult to come by, and this method had inherent flaws.][Yokai, being the remnants of demonic abominations that worshipped evil gods, naturally refused to serve humans as shikigami. Once subdued, their consciousness had to be erased before they could be put to use.]

[A yokai without consciousness was like a string puppet, entirely controlled by the Onmyoji. In battle, its power was drastically reduced. If it could still exert half of its original strength, it already meant the Onmyoji’s control skills were exceptional…]

“Looks like becoming the kind of summoner who waves his hand and summons an army of monsters is a bit unrealistic…”

While exchanging incantation knowledge with the Onmyoji along the way, time passed quickly.

From its explanations, Lin Xun also came to understand the nature of the Onmyoji profession.

Compared to a traditional mage, the Onmyoji’s own offensive means were limited, lacking overly powerful damage-dealing skills.

The Onmyoji mainly relied on shikigami attacks and barrier defenses, supplemented by the various buffs of talismans to fight.

“Whether it’s shikigami, barriers, or buff talismans, I’m quite interested in all of them. It’s perfect that I’m heading to Iya Palace to seize a high-level Onmyoji Shell and test the strength of this new profession.”

Lin Xun took a moment to open the inventory and inspect the loot dropped by the boss.

The Asura boss was extremely difficult to challenge, and the items it dropped were likewise extraordinary.

The first was a special spirit essence he hadn’t seen in a long time.

[Asura’s Special Spirit Essence (Special Spirit Essence Item): Using this item grants 300,000 Spirit Essence. Alternatively, when forging Shell equipment (including enhancements, enchantments, and other crafts), this spirit essence can be added to have a certain probability of triggering an awakening effect, generating corresponding extra attributes.]

There was also a Child of Star’s Special Spirit Essence in his inventory, but that spirit essence was of such high quality that the chance of awakening when used on ordinary weapons was far too low.

He estimated that only weapons forged with materials dropped by the Child of Stars would perfectly match the special spirit essence.

Later, he would go to the library to check the compatibility of his current equipment with the Asura’s Special Spirit Essence. If the awakening probability was high, he’d use it immediately. If not… Asura had also dropped a crafting material.

[Asura’s Rosary Beads (Material): A string of prayer beads that hung around Asura’s neck. They were used for praying, chanting, reciting mantras, or spiritual cultivation. The quality of this rosary material is extremely high and of considerable value.]

Asura also dropped a Complete Forging Crystal Chunk capable of upgrading legendary-grade equipment, but unfortunately, Lin Xun still hadn’t found a high-quality Blacksmith Shell…

The remaining two pieces of loot were the most important.

[Core of Extreme Evil (Special Item): From the unknown and mighty evil god, most of its malice has already been expended, yet it has not fully dissipated. The remaining trace of malice has condensed into this pitch-black core. Black miasma coils around it, and merely gazing upon it fills one with endless malevolence.]

[Using this item will allow you to channel the remaining malice within the core to temporarily fuse it with your summoned creatures or special summoned creatures, enabling them to display their respective traits and unleash extraordinarily powerful combat strength!]

[This item is consumable. When used, it can merge up to three summoned creatures.]

“Hm? Wasn’t Asura formed from the fusion of Ishiyama Shrine’s High Priest and the Chief Priest?”

Thinking of how monstrous Asura’s power had been, he realized that even if the malice remaining in the Core of Extreme Evil was limited, as long as he could merge it with a few powerful summons, it would be equivalent to summoning a formidable boss to fight on his behalf.

He began studying the usage rules of the item.

After several tests, he discovered that the summoned creature must be present before the item could be used.

And, perhaps because the Valkyrie was a refined copper construct, this item could not be applied to her.

In other words, unless he could summon two other creatures alongside the Valkyrie, this powerful item was essentially useless.

“Looks like I have no choice but to seize an Onmyoji Shell and gain more shikigami…”

There remained the final piece of loot, an extremely precious legendary-grade item.

[Shifting Sumeru Seed (Legendary-Grade Item): A tiny mustard seed, the dried mature seed of the white mustard plant. This minute seed has been imbued with the immense power of an unknown god, enabling it to transform into the legendary towering mountain Sumeru.]

[This item has two functions.]

[First, carrying this item will automatically resize weapons wielded by the Shell to match the Shell’s scale.]

[Second, when incorporated into forging crafts, this item has a certain probability of upgrading the weapon’s quality, up to legendary grade.]

“Whew…this item is incredible.”

When carried, the item could automatically change the weapon’s size. The Earth Giant and Little Dragonkin were normally restricted by the massive size caused by their transformations and could only use specially tailored exclusive weapons.

With this item, even the standardized weapons obtained during the game could be used while transformed.

Take the recently acquired Epic+ grade weapon Tachi – Uzuki-Kiri, for example. The Earth Giant could wield it effortlessly in its normal state.

But once enlarged, this sharp weapon turned into a tiny toothpick…

The first function could also apply to other Apostles, though transformation-type skills were extremely rare and quite precious.

In the library, Lin Xun had seen all kinds of mass-produced offensive and defensive skill books, but never once had he encountered a skill book for transformations.

Not to mention this legendary item could even be used in forging to enhance weapon quality.

The only limitation was that both of the item’s functions could affect only weapons and not armor.

Time passed unconsciously. Riding at a leisurely pace, the group did not arrive at the fortress city Thousand Orchid until evening.