novelraw #160 - Section 160
#160 - Section 160
Of course, a certain dense man was still immersed in his memories, unaware of a certain bad woman's painstaking efforts.
So, to some extent, this victory didn't yield any extra gains?
The Eternal Night Empress never gives losers a second chance.
After squeezing out the last bit of value from Xia Ti, and confirming that dealing with her wouldn't provoke Roger's displeasure, she directly summoned the Eris Demon Insect.
"How is Afu not dead, and even grown so much?" Xia Ti had her own way of recognizing that this was the very Eris Demon Insect she had used to plot against the Eternal Night Empress.
Normally, due to the Eris Demon Insect's powerful species, its growth rate was extremely slow.
In several hundred years, growing half a centimeter would be considered good.
But now, this cicada appearing behind the Eternal Night Empress was twice the size it was when in Xia Ti's hands.
Its eyes flashed with hostility, clearly recognizing Xia Ti as well. Its translucent body spontaneously generated some strange, bizarre magic patterns, its antennae waving vigilantly, and its body curled up in a battle stance.
It seemed its experience after being captured by Xia Ti wasn't pleasant.
"Because mages really like spending time surfing in its belly," Roger explained.
But to Xia Ti, it was no different from a riddle.
What's surfing? Why would mages actively drill into the inner demon realm?
But the Empress was clearly drawn to another discovery.
She poked the Eris Demon Insect with her finger, and called out with a smile, "Afu? Afu?"
So this little bug even had a name.
The Eris Demon Insect turned its body, looking at her with a lifeless expression, using its actions to show that it didn't like the name.
The Eternal Night Empress nodded understandingly, "Alright, then I'll call you Afu from now on as well."
Zhi——le——
The Eris Demon Insect rubbed its wings, emitting an angry and ear-piercing screech.
I said I didn't like it, can't you understand insect language?
But it didn't dare vent its anger on the Eternal Night Empress, turning its head to look at Xia Ti, and in extreme anger, directly sucked her into the inner demon realm.
Its original inner demon realm had been transformed into a mage camp by the Eternal Night Empress, but because it now had to absorb the active and abundant emotions of mages at all times, Afu's strength grew very rapidly.
Not only did the mage camp expand in area, but there was also some extra space, allowing it to reopen an inner demon realm.
It even learned to use the projections of those mages to make the inner demon realm more realistic than before.
Using the inner demon realm to pry into the information known by Tianming Gou Sheng was a method that the Eternal Night Empress and Roger had discussed long ago, and it was their only option.
Normal methods, I'm afraid, simply couldn't make Xia Ti cooperate.
Such a determined avenger, ordinary punishments, magic, and torture, I'm afraid, couldn't break through her defenses.
Here, they had to thank Xia Ti for sending them the Eris Demon Insect.
You don't want to talk? It doesn't matter, the inner demon realm will naturally present your memories. We'll go see for ourselves, and dig out the treasures inside.
Maybe they could even discover important information that Xia Ti had seen but didn't take seriously.
And they wouldn't have to worry about the truthfulness of the information, or whether she was misleading them.
After all, this was the Eris Demon Insect's only skill, and even the Eternal Night Empress couldn't be exempted.
Now that Afu's strength had doubled, Xia Ti's strength was far inferior to the Eternal Night Empress.
Even with the protection of the God of Knowledge, the possibility of her being immune to the inner demon realm was infinitely close to zero.
Especially in Afu's angry state, the inner demon realm's effects were doubled.
The power of will skills fluctuated very obviously with emotions and state.
The result was that Xia Ti had made full preparations, but she had absolutely no room to resist, and was incorporated into the inner demon realm.
Afu didn't have eyelids, but it landed motionless on the Eternal Night Empress's shoulder, clearly doing its best to deal with Xia Ti.
"Roger, my dear, would you like to watch together?"
"Of course."
Roger nodded as a matter of course.
This might be the plot involved in the expansion pack, or even the next few games. Now that it might be revealed in advance, he was naturally curious about the answer.
What kind of world did the creators create, and why did it feel more and more chilling?
As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated. If he didn't even know the enemy's true goal, then there was no way to deal with it.
Moreover, this was originally his suggestion, and he personally captured the materials, so of course he couldn't miss the first scene.
"Good." The Eternal Night Empress snapped her fingers with a smile, and brought Roger into the inner demon realm together.
……
……
Bright sunshine, prosperous cities, magnificent city walls, majestic palaces, knights clad in golden armor…
This was the good old days, before Ashford Castle turned into a city full of white bones.
"Still the familiar recipe, first construct the most beautiful scene, and then tear it apart with your own hands."
Roger knew at a glance which stage it had developed to.
The Eternal Night Empress gave a stiff, soft hmm.
She was someone who had been tortured like this for several rounds. Although she hadn't left behind any inner demons with Roger's help, and had instead broken through her inner obsessions, the process wasn't pleasant.
At this time, there was a third audience.
Old Josda was wearing a pure white, floor-length dress, revealing his muscular "fragrant shoulders", and was extremely contentedly admiring Xia Ti doing her former dynasty dream of being a princess again.
His inner monologue at this moment was "You're in here too." His psychology was similar to those who had been pricked by Rong Momo's silver needles.
We caused trouble together back then, why did you escape it?
Impossible, impossible, let us accompany each other in prison and squat freely!
Roger knew that Old Josda had been transformed into a random boss in the Endless Tower by the Eternal Night Empress, and was the nightmare of those mages who dared to climb the tower and challenge themselves, with endless routines that tortured them to the point of wishing they were dead.
But he didn't expect that he was already so used to cross-dressing…
Old Josda seemed to notice Roger's gaze, turned his head and gave Roger a flirtatious wink, whistling and saying, "Lord Dio, if you have time, help me design a few beautiful fashions too~"
"This… is see-through!"
Roger knew that Old Josda was joking, but he still felt an uncomfortable surge in his stomach.
In terms of lying flat, this legendary high priest was now a model for working people, right?
At this time, the beautiful era of the Veronica Dynasty ended, and the princess ushered in the moment when the Eternal Night Empress led her troops to break through the city.
Roger and Old Josda subconsciously looked at the Eternal Night Empress, so you were Xia Ti's nightmare!
Look at how scared the child is.
"Are you guys good people?" The Eternal Night Empress asked back jokingly.
After breaking through the city, Afu designed the ending to be that Xia Ti didn't escape successfully. Roger led the Nightwatchers to capture her first, and rewarded her to the surrendered Veronica nobles as a plaything.
And the first noble to bully her had Old Josda's face.
But all three of them became awkward.
So no one could escape, they were all super villains in Xia Ti's heart.
This empire, full of evil people, must all die!
The inner demon realm doesn't completely reproduce real memories. There are many distortions and refractions.
As long as it's something the other party fears, there's no problem in having them all appear together in order to stimulate the concentration.
And obviously Xia Ti was immersed in the beauty, didn't realize that the darkness at the end was fabricated, and lost herself in the pain.
At the same time, deeper memories and subconsciousness were also captured by the Eris Demon Insect.
Immediately, a new inner demon world was constructed, and the scenery seen by the three viewers was also changing.
This time, Xia Ti didn't walk out of the inner demon, but sank deeper into it.
Unfortunately, they didn't encounter any useful information related to the seven gods even after five layers of inner demon worlds.
"This is so troublesome. Are we going to have to wait until she completely collapses and search the bottom of her memories for a needle in a haystack?" The Eternal Night Empress complained dissatisfiedly.
"If she doesn't work, we'll have to break through from Old Josda," Roger changed his thinking and looked at the core believer beside him, whose level was no less than Xia Ti's, but had more qualifications.
Old Josda immediately looked terrified: "The Goddess of War is not good, she's very weak, she doesn't know anything, and I know even less…"
Who in their right mind would want to enter the inner demon realm to be tortured, especially with people watching and commenting…
What's the difference between this and social death?
"Wait, this time it's the Multiverse Gap, the God of Knowledge's divine kingdom!"
Old Josda suddenly called out in surprise.
Xia Ti, my sister, give us some strength. If you give us a clue, I won't have to suffer!
Chapter 140: Six-Winged Angel Capture Plan
This round of the beautiful stage presents Xia Ti entering the Multiverse Gap, feeling the divine might as deep as the abyss and the divine grace as vast as the sea, and her initial experience of hoping to restore Veronica.
She was saved by the God of Knowledge, and obtained a cultivation path suitable for herself. There were countless books available for borrowing, and she could travel through different worlds to cultivate and train. Xia Ti's strength improved rapidly.
Of course, Roger and the other two were not interested in how Xia Ti cultivated. They perked up and concentrated on what was presented in Xia Ti's eyes in the Multiverse Gap.
Living in it as a believer, her experience of the divine kingdom was naturally completely different from what Old Josda saw in his hasty visit.
This divine kingdom of the God of Knowledge can be said to be pitifully small, completely unworthy of his strength as the strongest of the seven gods;
But it can also be said to be infinitely large, a masterpiece showing the God of Knowledge's amazing mastery of the world's underlying rules.
Through Xia Ti's memory, watching her easily travel to different worlds to cultivate and train, the Eternal Night Empress was the first to notice the extraordinary nature of this divine kingdom: "This divine kingdom is directly connected to different planes?"
Old Josda pondered: "When I traveled from the Eternal Night World to the Multiverse Gap, I didn't go through a transition plane."
"Can the Goddess of War do this?" The Eternal Night Empress asked.
"No, she anchors the Conqueror Canyon in the Astral Plane. To reach it from the Prime Material Plane, you need to first go to the Astral Plane, and then jump to the divine kingdom."
"It seems that the God of Knowledge's understanding of planes is not at the same level as the other gods. I'm afraid the area presented by the Multiverse Gap is not just the God of Knowledge's personal hobby."
"Perhaps it's not that he doesn't want to, but that he really can't?"
The two of them were quickly exchanging information while admiring Xia Ti's upgrade path, and even discussed a little consensus.
This completely confused Roger, and the academic world was completely incomprehensible to the scumbag!
These profound magical knowledge involving plane relationships and transmission principles were too profound for a junior mage.
Roger's understanding of teleportation spells was just from one point to another, and it was gone with a biu.
Is there any difference inside these spells? Please speak human language and stop talking in riddles!
"So, what's the problem with the Multiverse Gap?" A certain uneducated salted fish weakly protested.
The Eternal Night Empress was too lazy to answer this common sense-level basic question, but she brought Roger in because he also had a different understanding of the seven gods from ordinary people, and needed his opinion as a reference.
So the Empress glanced at Old Josda, signaling you to give the little friend a lesson.
The muscular moe girl in the long dress, who was usually confined to the spiritual world, lacked someone to chat with the most, so she didn't reject this task at all.
He gave Roger a "charming" smile and patiently explained: "According to the exploration and summary of gods and mages, our multiverse usually needs to go through transition planes for cross-plane transmission, namely the Ethereal Plane, the Astral Plane, and the Shadow Plane, which are also called intermediate planes.
Among them, the Astral Plane connects all planes, and the Ethereal Plane is the transition between the Material Plane and the inner planes such as the Wind Elemental Plane and the Fire Elemental Plane."
"Then are teleportation magic and space doors like this?" Roger asked.
"Yes, even space doors with fixed coordinates usually have to go through the Astral Plane first. It's just that this process is very short, and it's just being teleported by someone. Depending on the level of the caster, the intermediate process may be ignored in perception. Now we have discovered that the special feature of the Multiverse Gap is that it does not need to go through the transfer of transition planes, but it has the characteristics of the Material Plane."
"Maybe it's because it's in the Astral Plane?"
"Even demiplanes born in the Astral Plane will be regarded as Material Planes, unless they are directly connected—that is, demiplanes born from a certain main plane, or two relatively special planes, otherwise they still need to be transferred through the Astral Plane."
After asking some technical details—or should it be called attempts, Roger finally caught up with their thinking.