novelraw Chapter 407-1: Gazing into the Abyss, Star Annihilation Magic Formation (1)
Chapter 407-1: Gazing into the Abyss, Star Annihilation Magic Formation (1)
[You possess the shell of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil!]
[You rest the Scarlet King’s Sword on your shoulder and control the disk beneath your feet to move gradually closer to the cage.]
[The Abyssal Hell Demon keeps howling, furiously striking at the inner wall of the cage, yet it is never able to break through the Starlight Cage.]
[At last, you take the initiative to step into the cage, causing it to roar and lunge straight toward you. That hulking body the size of a hill, compared to your tiny frame, looks terrifying to the extreme.]
With the shell quality and level of Star-Favored, even emptying the mana bar could only deal slight damage to the monster.
That alone was enough to prove that the demon before him was a boss level powerful monster.
Lin Xun decided to go all out and finish this quickly.
[You lift the Scarlet King’s Sword in both hands, holding it level. Wherever the blade points is exactly where the Abyssal Hell Demon is lunging toward you, its colossal shadow already covering your entire body…]
[Weapon special effect: Sinking Shackle activates!]
[Your majestic voice echoes within the Starlight Cage…][Here lies your Judgement!]
[Ancient Destruction Demon is an evil heretic that has betrayed the true Lord!]
[The hulking form lunging at you suddenly sinks. Its formerly violent, swift movement turns incomparably heavy, as if weighed down by some invisible shackles, and the force of its pounce is greatly weakened.]
[You have successfully inflicted the negative status strong Weakness on the enemy!]
[Ancient Destruction Demon feels towering mountains pressing down on its back and limbs. This strange power it has never before experienced makes it suddenly halt its assault. Its dark red giant eyes look at its own savage talons, feeling the weight upon them…]
“Yo, you still dare space out?”
Lin Xun decisively unleashed his strongest skill at the moment.
[Weapon trait: Bloodthirsty Judgement activates!]
[You grip the greatsword’s hilt with both hands and hold it upright before your chest, your gaze fixed on the blade…]
[An endless aura of blood surges and boils out from the blade, spreading across your entire body.]
[In this moment, boundless thoughts of slaughter occupy your mind, flooding your consciousness, and a dense blood red radiance illuminates the entire cage…]
[Ancient Destruction Demon suddenly speaks human words, its voice deafening…]
[Human, your power does not belong to the Radiant Stars or to Omniscient True Knowledge. You are not its enemy!]
[What are you doing! Stop at once!]
[Stop at once! I can let you gaze into the great Abyss!]
[You transform into an exploding blood colored meteor and in an unmatched charge pierce straight through the enemy’s body in an instant!]
[Blood jets and gushes forth. Sonic booms that could shatter eardrums reverberate within the cage, and a gaping, bloody hole has already appeared in the chest of Ancient Destruction Demon.]
[Its enormous body crashes to the ground. Its dark red giant eyes still hold intense unwillingness, then fall completely silent…]
[You have defeated Ancient Destruction Demon. Experience points increase greatly!]
[You have obtained Fading Chunk Spirit Essence of Profound Unfathomability x1]
[You have obtained Claw of Destruction (Material)]
[You have obtained Abyss Horn (Special Item)]
[You look toward the gigantic, mountain like savage corpse…]
[Shell of Ancient Destruction Demon: A high level demon from the depths of the Abyss, possessing extremely powerful strength and wielding terrifying destructive flame power. When the Ancient Destruction Demon grows to its final form, it can even obtain ultimate strength that stands shoulder to shoulder with gods. Compatibility: 76 percent (+65 percent).]
The compatibility with the shell in front of him was insufficient, so he could not possess it.
However, Lin Xun’s attention was not on the shell itself. He looked back at the text, rereading what the destruction demon had just said.
[Human, your power does not belong to the Radiant Stars or to Omniscient True Knowledge. You are not its enemy!]
[…I can let you gaze into the great Abyss!]
“Abyss?”
Lin Xun could not help frowning.
Earlier, in order to skip class without getting hurt, he had always used star magic to bombard bosses from long range.
But when he switched to Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil and used the greatsword’s Blood Sun power, the destruction demon sensed that this power did not come from the radiant stars, nor did it originate from Omniscient True Knowledge, which was why it had said those words to him.
“The Abyss… from the way it said it, this Abyss doesn’t sound like a mere places name… it sounds more like an existence on the same level as the Radiant Stars and Omniscient True Knowledge.”
“Could the Abyss actually be a hidden main god, a hidden oath faction?”
He could not possess the shell before him to read its memories, but there was another way to learn them.
Lin Xun immediately activated the extra skill Ghost Domination.
[The grade of your skill Ghost Domination is too low. You are unable to dominate the target’s remaining soul!]
“Damn it!”
Lin Xun thought carefully. If there really were a hidden main god, the monsters that were its believers should have prefixes in their names, like Who Gazes Upward or Knowledge-Seeking.
Yet he had seen many abyssal monsters and not a single one carried such a prefix.
“If this Abyss really is not a place name, but refers to some existence… then there must be some hidden storyline in it!”
He opened the inventory and checked the items the boss had just dropped.
Ancient Destruction Demon was extremely stingy and had only dropped three rewards.
There was nothing much to say about the first two; they were Spirit Essence and a material. The last drop, however, drew his attention.
[Abyss Horn (Special Item): A rough horn made from a gigantic horn. It carries a strong primitive style and seems not to have been crafted by humans.]
[Blow this horn at a specific location and something you never expected will occur.]
“Tsk, what kind of riddle item is this?”
The item description was full of riddle like flavor. If the Ancient Destruction Demon were still alive, he might have been able to get some clues from it.
As things stood, Lin Xun could only try to find a way from the other demons.
He left this place and went to the remaining three cages still holding demons.
After a round of violent damage output, the remaining three demons also passed away one after another.
But unfortunately, only the Ancient Destruction Demon had been a high level demon capable of speech. The rest were more like primitive beasts with no hint of humanity.
Even after possessing them, he still could not obtain any memories, let alone interrogate them.
After confirming that there were no rewards left behind in the Starlight Cage, Lin Xun used the power bank to fully recharge the Scarlet King’s Sword.
After that, he possessed the shell of Star Radiance Priest and returned to the Polar Star Society branch…
[Teleporting…]
[…]
[…]
[Teleportation successful!]
[You open your eyes and are already in the busy transplant room. Numerous Star Mages are, under the temporary command of the assistant, ceaselessly dissecting and modifying corpses.]
[Seeing you return alone, the assistant cannot help asking you in surprise where Star-Favored has gone.]
[You let out a cold laugh and curse without thinking, asking if that even needs to be asked, idiot. You have already obtained the experimental data and retrieved the Star Demon’s Eyeball Heart from the Star-Favored’s body.]
[The assistant immediately understands that the Star-Favored died in the Starlight Cage and probably became food for the demon.]
[You continue, saying that now that you have retrieved the initial sample, you are going to tell the Starrealm Envoy about this great invention, this enormous surprise…]
[The assistant tells you that the Starrealm Envoy will not return to the branch for at least ten days and that three of the four Star Spirit Envoys have also gone to headquarters together.]
[Priest Lord, it would be better to wait patiently and continue your research to see whether you can reproduce an Eyeball Heart with the same effect.]
[You flare up in anger and shout a reprimand, cursing the damned fool for daring to teach you how to do things.]
[The assistant immediately lowers his head expressionlessly and falls silent.]