Goddess Wanhua Mirror

The current situation in the maze should be similar to this, except that the "spider" hiding in the dark is bigger, and there may be more than one of them!

After thinking about it, Lude decided to let Elaine go to the maze, and by the way, bring another female ghost who surrendered before, that is, the one who once possessed the old lady and made her have continuous nightmares for a long time.

This female ghost was also one of Dick's death slaves before, and she belonged to a relatively low-level existence without any special abilities.After Lu De pretended to form an alliance with Dick, the other party conveniently "sent" the ghost to Lu De, and asked her to act as a liaison officer.

It is worth mentioning that this female ghost's real name is Lacey. It is said that she was a noble lady from a certain family in the kingdom before her death, but her surname is unknown.

Dick found Lacey in a cemetery, deprived her of her name with necromantic spells, and took her as a death slave.After giving it to Lude, Dick also gave her real name to Lude, so that she could continue to enslave the female ghost, but after Dick disappeared, Dick returned her real name to the female ghost, leaving her to work under him. On weekdays, I will help Elaine.

In addition, Eleven took the initiative to share her "bed" pendant with Lacey, which seemed to be able to accommodate more than one undead.

After enjoying sleep for a long time, Lacey's condition is getting better day by day. The shriveled and emaciated ghost like starving has become rounder a little bit. If you think about it, after a period of recuperation, maybe you can return to a normal human shape. .

Lude is going to wait for tomorrow and take Eleven and Lacey to the maze in person. The undead can sense each other. If they find the dead slaves that Dick lost, they will find a way to persuade them to surrender. .These high-level death slaves are all powerful mutated undead, each with special abilities.

So he rested for a night, and Lude had a little fun during the day, dealing with the visitors who were still in the town, and then pretended that he would meditate for three days, hide in the basement of the temple, and take the "special subway" to the maze.

Since the maze officially started to "operate" a few months ago, the progress of most adventurers is still stuck on the second floor. The dog brother on the first floor and the dog brother F4 on the second floor have tortured all the adventurers. It is not necessary.Only top experts like the old butler Sarkin or Hamilton can stabilize the Golem.

As soon as he walked through the "employee passage" and entered the maze, Lu De immediately felt something unusual.He had observed gray energy in the maze before, but the total amount was not very large at that time, and he could only see some sporadically.

But this time, the gray energy light clusters have evolved from one or two sporadic ones to wisps of smoke-like things, floating around in the maze passage.

Seeing this, Lude asked Atropos on the side if he could see this gray energy. The elder sister said that she could only feel it, but couldn't see it clearly. Since Lude could accurately say that this energy is gray, That must be clearer than her.

What's interesting is that although Elaine and Lacey can't see this energy, they seem to be nourished by it. They both said that staying in the maze is very comfortable, and there is a cemetery atmosphere.

According to Lude's request, Elaine and Lacey tried to sense whether there were other undead wandering in the maze, especially Lacey, who had been a death slave, knew other colleagues and was familiar with their energy fluctuations.

The two undead stood on the spot and sensed for a while, both said that they did smell a breath of the same kind, but the space in the maze was too large, and they had no way to determine the exact location of each other.

Now that it has been confirmed that there are indeed undead in the maze, the next thing for Lude to do is to find these lonely ghosts.

At this time, the three sisters brought the design drawing of the maze, on which the places where "spiritual events" occurred in the past half a month have been marked with red circles, and there are more than [-] places in the maze. The blue circle is used, and there are about twenty places.

"Haunted places, are they all concentrated in the central area of ​​the fifth floor?"

Looking at the red circle on the map, Lude tapped his finger on the central area of ​​the fifth floor of the maze, and the red circle almost circled around this place.

The fifth floor of the maze is the largest floor in the entire maze. There was originally a huge cave here, which was used by the three sisters to transform it into an underground open world with a radius of ten kilometers. I want to wait for future adventurers After successfully passing through the first four floors to arrive here, and seeing a small world underneath, it will definitely feel quite shocking.

And in the very center of this area, which is also the center of the entire spindle-shaped maze, the three sisters made a demon altar dedicated to Heid Taka, which is also the location of the boss room on the fifth floor, but what kind of BOSS, the three sisters haven't figured it out yet, so it's empty for now.

If Lude is not surprised, there should be some things that don't exist on the design drawings here!

End of this chapter

The fifth floor of the maze is still under construction.This is a natural karst cave that Lachesis accidentally dug through when digging downwards. The interior space is very large, about ten kilometers in length and width, and the maximum vertical height exceeds 300 meters. Many underground rivers converge here, forming several caves. an underground lake.

After a field survey, the three sisters decided to adapt measures to local conditions and transform this place into the fifth floor of the labyrinth, code-named "Small World".

When Lude came over, the ecological environment here had almost been transformed. A large number of luminescent bacteria were planted on the top of the cave to provide lighting for the entire underground world, and many strange plants that even Lude could not name were planted at the bottom.

The eldest sister Atropos told Lude that because there was no sunlight in the cave, they thought of using divine power to create a miniature version of the "little sun" at first, but soon found that with their current power, it was impossible to do so. For advanced things, you can only settle for the next best thing, try to find negative plants in the virtual forest that can grow normally without sunlight, and transplant them to the underground world to build an ecology.

The three sisters mobilized their envoys. It took a long time to find more than a dozen plants and fungi that met their needs. It turned out that these things that don't need sunlight are all long and look like hell. , and either highly toxic or aggressive.

The three sisters used these plants to build a dangerous and terrifying forest in the small world, and also stocked many living creatures such as blood-sucking bats, giant spiders, centipedes, and piranhas, so as to ensure that after adventurers come down, they will not be in danger. It feels so lonely here.

Surrounding Lude, the three sisters unleashed their divine power to disperse the "small animals" that tried to rush up to hunt, and at the same time introduced this "theme park" that could completely kill people.If it was said that they started building the Abyss Labyrinth because of Lude's order to them, it is obvious that they have completely enjoyed it now.

Soon, a group of people came to the devil altar in the center of the fifth floor.Lu De took a long look and recognized that this building refers to the "worm nest (three bases)" in "StarCraft". The shape can be described as highly restored. sense of place.

In addition, Lude noticed that there was a floating gray light ball at the very top of the worm nest, which seemed to be formed by the gathering of the gray energy in the maze.The three sisters can only sense this kind of energy, as far as Lude can see it.

At this time, Lacey, the female ghost who was traveling with her, suddenly wailed, knelt down on the ground and twitched with a painful expression.

"Lacey! What's the matter with you?"

Because only Lude can really see the gray energy, the rest of the people present didn't know what happened to Lacey.In Lude's eyes, Lacey's spiritual body seemed to be spontaneously combusted, continuously spewing out "ash smoke", and then flew straight towards the gray ball on the top of the altar.

This process lasted very short, that is, three to five seconds, and it was over before Lude could do anything.And Lacey's reaction was as if she had been drained, completely limp in Eleven's arms.

Seeing this, Lu De and the three sisters didn't know what to do for a while.The recovery technique is definitely useless, the divine technique can overcome the undead, not only can't save it, but it can also make Lacey walk peacefully, so I can only watch from the sidelines.

But then a miraculous thing happened. Although the drained Lacey looked very weak, her shriveled and shriveled appearance, like a starved ghost, was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and she changed from hideous in a short while. The terrifying female ghost turned into a young and beautiful young woman. If it wasn't for the fact that her body was still in a translucent spirit state, it would be hard for you to believe that this was once a terrifying wraith!

Because of the erasure of memory, although Lacey got her real name back from Lude, she still doesn't know anything about her life. Frail and sickly, he died of illness in his twenties.After death, he turned into an undead and was captured by Dick who digs graves and catches ghosts.

It is embarrassing to say that although Lacey has become an undead, she was not a wraith at the beginning.It was Dick, the necromancer who captured her, and continued to torture her with vicious necromantic spells, forcing her to explode with negative emotions, and forcibly fell into her later appearance. As a result, most of Lacey's memories were erased.

But with only a few remaining memory fragments, Lacey can still be sure that in her short life, she should have lived happily, with parents and relatives who love her, and married and had children with a man she truly loved.

She vaguely remembers snuggling up to her husband after giving birth, holding the crystallization of their love in her arms. No matter how hard she tried to recall, she couldn't remember the faces of her husband and child, but she still remembered the feeling of being surrounded by happiness at that time .

From Lacey's memories, it is not difficult to see that Dick, the necromancer, has committed a lot of crimes before, and the living and the dead have let this shit go by!

Under normal circumstances, turning into a grievance is an irreversible process. When negative emotions and mental pressure continue to accumulate to a certain level, it will inevitably change. There is also a rare case like Eleven, because there is a pendant that can sleep, so she became a few. There is no evil pendant for the century-old undead.

But this magical little pendant can only provide a place for the undead who can't sleep to sleep, and effectively curb the resentment, but it can't make the undead who have already turned into a resentment return immediately, it can only be relieved little by little.As a result, the world is impermanent, and a miracle happened in front of Lu De without warning!

Lacey, who had been reversed, hadn't woken up yet, and couldn't ask questions for a while, but Lude, who had witnessed the whole process with his own eyes, vaguely understood something.Those gray energies that only I could clearly see before, might be the negative emotions that the adventurers were tortured by various traps during the process of exploring the maze. This energy is similar to belief, but it is not the same.

It is worth mentioning that there are descriptions of negative energy in the undead spell book left by Dick.This energy is both a tonic and a slow poison to the undead.It will make the undead stronger, but at the same time, it will also be eroded by this energy, turning into a terrible wraith, and finally falling into madness.

However, the necromancers obviously didn't see the color of this energy "with their own eyes", they only confirmed its existence, so when Lude saw this gray energy for the first time, he didn't think about it .

"Damn it! I didn't inadvertently cultivate demons, did I?"

Having been a priest for several years, Lude has long been familiar with how to create gods, but when he looked back, he was surprised to find that he seemed to have applied similar methods in the process of shaping the "imaginary enemy" of Heid Tarka. process.

If it is said that gods are born in the belief of mortals, no matter whether they worship good or bad, they all symbolize a positive appeal and prayer, then it is not impossible that negative demons will be born from negative emotions.The two can be said to be of the same kind and subspecies of each other.

Thinking of this, Lu De couldn't help but feel a little scared, because the "Heidtaka Miazaki" he created still lacks the last step, which is to establish the image.No one has ever seen what this great demon looks like. Lude only claimed to have fought with him for most of his life, but he never faced this demon directly. The public only knows that Heid Taka has done a lot of evil. There is a lair called "Spiral Abyss", and that's all the information I have.

Looking at the gray ball above the altar and the energy continuously gathering towards it, Lude felt like shooting himself in the foot with a stone, and was not sure how to deal with this thing for a while.

From a purely prudent point of view, the safest strategy is to completely close the spiral abyss, prohibit adventurers from entering, cut off the energy source of the gray ball, and prevent it from continuing to grow.

But Lu De was somewhat curious, wanting to know what this gray ball could finally conceive.The previous experience of "raising" multiple newborn goddesses made Lu De understand one thing, that is, the newly born gods may not be a blank sheet of paper, but their thoughts are actually not complicated, and the three views can be acquired through education. amended.

Just imagine, if Aina had learned from people like Narad from the God of War Cult or Evan Ruth from the Goddess of Four Seasons Cult since she was born, how could she be as simple and kind as she is now?

Therefore, even if the gray ball finally gave birth to a demon from it, Lude can still cultivate him into a demon with positive energy in his heart!

Lude was thinking, when Lacey finally woke up, and Eleven couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief seeing that she had finally turned the corner.As the only undead companion in the temple, Eleven still values ​​Lacey very much.

"Lacey, you scared the hell out of me."

"Sorry, I don't know... This is me?"

After waking up, Lacey quickly noticed the changes in her body, and Atropos even kindly took out a small mirror to take a picture of her.

In the mirror, although Lacey still looked like a bloodless ghost, at least she had recovered her former appearance.But when she saw herself in the mirror, Lacey froze in place as if she had been hit by a hold spell.

In an instant, she felt that she had recovered all her lost memories.

"I, I remembered, I remembered everything!"

It seems that because the accumulated negative emotions were completely emptied by the gray ball, Lacey miraculously lifted the wraith transformation, restored the original pure state, and at the same time retrieved all the lost memories like breaking the seal.

"Absolutely! Maybe this gray ball can be used as a mental trash can!"

Accidentally discovering the magical effect of the gray ball, Lude suddenly understood where the missing Dick and his slaves had gone. Most likely, they had been absorbed by the gray ball as a "big tonic pill".

The three sisters could only vaguely perceive its existence, and felt that this energy would make them feel uncomfortable, but they couldn't directly confirm its ready position through vision like Lude, so there was a "darkness under the lights", I don't know why The thing hangs right above the altar they built with their own hands.

Lu De told the three sisters what he had seen and speculated, and then took out his paintbrush to draw the strange scene he saw in his notebook.The three sisters took the sketch and compared it with the altar many times, but they still couldn't perceive the existence of the gray energy ball.

"What the hell, we can't see that thing at all."

"Probably because your spiritual vision is not enough. You have to find a way and study this stuff."

Standing under the altar and staring for a long time, Lude found that the gray ball was like a range hood, absorbing the gray energy in the maze leisurely.

At this time, Lacey had recovered, and she told Lude that a wave of energy was suddenly sucked by the gray ball just now. Although she was drained, she accidentally established some kind of wonderful connection with that thing. It can't be seen, but at least its existence can be clearly perceived.

Lacey told Lude that at least at this stage, Gray Ball has not yet formed a clear self-awareness, but by establishing a bond with the other party, Lacey can perceive that the other party is "alive", like a greedy little animal, yes Not interested in anything other than absorbing negative energy.

Interestingly, as an undead, Elaine was not sucked by the gray ball. She hardly had any negative energy on her body, and her mental outlook was well preserved, which can be seen from this!

At Luther's request, Lacey tried to communicate with Gray Ball, but the response she received was very subtle.Lacey described the communication between her and Gray Ball as like teasing a cat. She said hello to Gray Ball, and Gray Ball gave an unintelligible "meow", which was simply a response without any information.

It feels weird, but subtle and cute!

But at this moment, the originally calm gray ball suddenly reacted, as if in response to Lacey's greeting to him, a dark hole suddenly appeared on the chaotic surface of the gray ball, and then fell out of it. A humanoid thing.

The three sisters were also taken aback. They couldn't see the gray ball, but they saw a person falling from the top of their heads out of thin air. The eldest sister Atropos had quick eyesight and quick hands, and used her divine power to catch the person smoothly.Lude went up to take a look, and found that it was the necromancer Dick who had been missing for several months. The ugly and deformed face was so recognizable!

After months of not seeing each other, Dick didn't seem to have changed much at first glance, but Rudd quickly noticed that something was wrong.This guy still has the big hole that the old housekeeper poked on him a few months ago, the kind that pierces through the heart, and the front and back are transparent. Logically speaking, with such a serious injury, a normal person would have died long ago.

But the Dick in front of him is indeed not dead, and at the same time he can't be considered alive, but a state between life and death. It seems that Gray Ball deliberately helped him hold his last breath.

Seeing this, Lu De couldn't help hesitating.

Because the more he understands what Dick did in the past, the more Lude can confirm that this is a complete scum, and the crimes he committed, if placed on the other side of the earth, are enough to be shot for 5 minutes.

But the problem now is that if he wants to deal with the Brotherhood of the Black Hand, Lude really needs this scumbag.

End of this chapter

After hesitating again and again, Lude finally decided to give it a try, and healed the half-dead Dick. As a result, the two sets of magical spells had an immediate effect, and Dick really opened his eyes.

Dick, who had just woken up, was obviously not in a good condition. He was lying on the ground with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, like a fish coming ashore.

Looking at Dick lying on the ground twitching, the female ghost Lacey's expression was quite complicated.This damned scum made her restless after death, and tortured her undead self in his hands, and even lost all her memory at one point, turning into a hideous and terrifying wraith, driven by him to harm others .

If Lude hadn't said that this scumbag was still useful, Lacey would have wished to tear him to pieces to vent her hatred.

Thinking of those extremely bad days, some resentment subconsciously sprouted in Lacey's heart, and her face, which had already returned to normal, quickly changed a little, as if there were signs of resentment again. .

Fortunately, at this time, Gray Ball also reacted. It should have sensed that Lacey had generated negative energy again. Without saying a word, he "sucked" again, absorbing the bit of resentment that Lacey had just produced. net.

On the other hand, Lacey only felt that she had a sudden jolt, and her originally excited mood suddenly cooled down, as if she had been forcibly entered into the sage's time. Looking at Dick lying on the ground, although he was still very annoying, he was no longer the same as before. , I have the urge to tear him apart.

Lude saw Lacey's series of reactions before and after. From the time she was about to turn into a resentful spirit, Lude keenly sensed the energy changes in her body, and then saw this ghostly young woman Keren's face, as if about to melt, became more and more terrifying, until the gray ball sucked up the negative energy that had just been generated in her body, and then it returned to normal.

During the whole change process, Lu De was stunned!

The reaction on Lacey made Lude realize that this young ghost woman has not completely lifted the spirit state, but is at a critical point between the undead and the spirit. As long as there is a slight accumulation of negative energy, she can stay in place. Evil fall, and then change back to the previous wraith state, at this time, the gray ball is needed.

At this time, Dick, who was lying on the ground and twitching, suddenly sat up, took a deep breath, finally stopped shaking, and then turned his head to look at Lude.

"Big, Master?"

Seeing that the other party recognized him, Lu De thought that this guy should not have amnesia, but soon Dick noticed his hands, and a surprised expression appeared on his face, and then he hurriedly touched his head and face, showing a little panic.

"No! This is...how, how did I become like this!?"

"It became like this..."

Sensing that the tone of Dick's words just now was a bit wrong, Lude also vaguely realized something, and a strange thought flashed in his mind.

"who are you?"

"I, I'm Tring! Tring Navarro. Master! How did I become such a ghost? Is this a curse!?"

Hearing that "Dick" in front of him claimed to be Tring, Lu Dexin said that he really guessed it right.Although I don't know exactly what happened, it seems that Tring's soul ran into Dick's body.

In a sense, this also explains why when the guards of the Navarro family brought the unconscious Tring to find him, no amount of magic could revive him, because it was a soulless empty body. shell.

Since Tring had never seen the real face of the necromancer Dick under the mask before, after he discovered that he had turned into an ugly deformed person, he subconsciously thought that this was some kind of curse that could make him ugly, and he did not go The soul changes the body to think about it.

Lu De raised his hand to comfort him, let the guy calm down first, and at the same time secretly brewing in his heart, thinking about what kind of story to make up to fool the other party.

"Calm down, Tring, although the old man still doesn't know what happened to you, but believe me, I will definitely help you."

The spiritual comfort and calm and reliable words made Tring calm down a little.He looked around and found that he was in a strange place surrounded by strange plants and behind him stood a creepy building. At first glance, the top of his head looked like a starry sky, but when he looked closely, he found, " There are many sharp stalactites among the "stars".

Tring had never seen such a scene even in his nightmares.

"Master, where are we?"

"This is a labyrinth called the Spiral Abyss. We should be on the fifth floor right now."

"Maze, labyrinth!?"

Hearing Lude talk about the maze, Tring, who had just calmed down for half a minute, immediately panicked again.But what surprised Tring even more was that Master Lude, who had saved him, said that they are now on the fifth floor of the maze!

Tring has seen how pitted the abyss maze is. After all, he was the one who didn't know the depth and insisted on running in to die himself. That damned necromancer took advantage of it and ambushed them when they were in deep trouble. Killed the old housekeeper who could have killed the magician in seconds.