Lord of the Witches

"You mean, Merlin didn't die, he took the initiative to jump into the Doomsday Volcano... he fell on the first night?"

The last sentence uttered from Amanda's mouth obviously exceeded Tang Qi's expectations.

He guessed Merlin's final ending, nothing more than death or degeneration, but he did not expect that the way Merlin degenerated would be so strange.

Yes, it's just weird.

According to Amanda's description, Merlin is the most powerful wizard among these uncontaminated creatures. He is proficient in transfiguration and prophecy. He can even break through the forest of ignorance and the dark plain. It exists formidably, but it can't even pass the level of living corpses.

This is enough to prove Merlin's strength from the side. Although the rules of the world are different, if converted, Merlin is at least equivalent to a "legendary" wizard in the mysterious side.

Such a powerful existence would choose to kill itself after there is no hope, and take the initiative to degenerate?

Almost immediately, some new conjectures arose in Tang Qi's mind, and there was no evidence, but his intuition had always been inexplicable and accurate.

But soon, he shook his head.

Temporarily suppress these thoughts, to verify the conjecture, the prerequisite is to see Merlin first, even if it is "Merlin" after the fall.

"The problem now is how to pass through the dark plain?"

If the opponent is an existence similar to "ignorant living corpse", Tang Qi will choose to go all the way.

But obviously, the monster called "Desire Embodiment" was different from all the weirdness he had encountered before.

But avoiding is not the way.

Tang Qi no longer cared about the topic related to Merlin, but looked at Amanda, and asked seriously: "Tell me, all the monsters in the dark plain that you know, including the information about the deer that eats."

Amanda, at this time, did have an extraordinary trust in Tang Qi.

Without any hesitation, he opened his mouth and spit out all the "weird" information he knew. It was not as much as imagined, and it was a little weird. Amanda even only knew a name.

Of course, at least Tang Qi had a certain understanding of that cold, dead plain.

The black embers, scorching wind and dust finally fell silent again, and the burned "Forest of Ignorance" was slowly returning to its original appearance.

The "foreign body" that appeared because of Tang Qi was being swallowed by nothingness.

It's just that in his perception, although the forest is recovering, those living corpses have not appeared.

"It seems that it will take some time for him to restore the living corpse."

Tang Qi's attention quickly returned to the plain outside the forest because of the scenery in his eyes.

Amanda, still in his arms.

The two looked at each other, and Tang Qi said calmly, "Are you ready?"

There was a hint of worry in the girl's eyes, but she was also very different from the girl who had never experienced many hardships in the real world, especially knowing when and what to do.

Amanda nodded, and then slowly closed her eyes under Tang Qi's gaze.

At this time, a dead branch under Tang Qi's feet was crushed, and his figure leaped, flashing, and appeared on the edge of the forest of ignorance again.

The moment it landed, in Tang Qi's eyes, the magic power of the furnace surged out.

Judgment!

The scorching, majestic projection of the sun appeared in his pupils.

For the first time, he activated this skill not for attack, but for defense.

"According to what Merlin said, as long as you don't officially step into the dark plain, but stand at the junction of the forest of ignorance and the plain, even if you face the strange embodiment of desire, there is a certain chance that you won't be confused... plus the trial , perhaps enough for me to complete the preliminary detection."

"As for the risks taken, on the mysterious side, there has never been a zero-risk event."

As he thought about it, Tang Qi's eyes, apart from the projection of the sun, reflected a silent, gloomy, lifeless, boundless plain filled with thin mist and indescribable light.

Not long ago, the "eating deer" that terrified Amanda disappeared.

Tang Qi was not surprised. There were a large number of "embodiments of desire" in the plain. They would not always stay in one place, but wandered around.

He talked to Amanda, and it took a long time, and it was normal for the deer to leave.

But at this time, Tang Qi showed no sign of withdrawing the "trial".

Instead, continue to maintain it, waiting for the next "embodiment" to appear, according to Merlin's information, it won't be too long.

Any breath of life is an irresistible temptation for the embodiment of desire.

As long as one is around, it will definitely come.

And according to the rules in the dark plain, if one embodiment selects its prey, the other embodiments will stop and wait.

Time began to pass bit by bit, just when Tang Qi clearly felt the magic power in his body was depleted.

Suddenly, Tang Qi's eyes widened suddenly, and the flames became more and more turbulent.

Ahead, there was still the old dead tree, a figure even weirder than the "Deer of Food", flying towards Tang Qi and Amanda from the depths of the thin mist, stirring the light.

Weird that can fly?

This idea just popped up in Tang Qi's mind.

In the next second, he saw the fog parting, a bat-like creature with weird and terrifying details.

Its body is almost indistinguishable from that of a "human being", with four limbs, a head and a torso, except that the underside of the arms is connected to the underside of the ribs, a layer of membranous wings spread out, and the gaps on the wings vaguely form a twisted screaming human Face.

Its thighs were bright red, without skin covering them, and there were no teeth in them. It kept a "laughing" mouth, densely arranged.

On the chest, there were two lumps of rotten flesh, which were spilling juice for unknown reasons into the air.

Its head is also covered with a "mask", like an exaggerated, distorted, laughing clown.

When it breaks through the mist and descends on the dead tree.

On its back, a wriggling "tail" covered with black hair was raised, and at the tip, a layer of skin was rolled up, and inside was a black and red eyeball.

A brand new "look at each other" is about to happen.

But at this moment, Tang Qi smiled suddenly, closed his eyes suddenly, and jumped back, returning to the forest of ignorance just like facing the "deer of food" before.

Landing, Amanda felt the movement and opened her eyes again.

"It's the Smiling Bat!"

Seeing the confusion in Amanda's eyes, Tang Qi immediately answered.

He had already learned from the girl the information about some of the "embodiments of desire" that appeared in the plain. After comparing the scene just now, he found out the name of the monster that was even weirder than the "Deer of Food".

In the catalog provided by Merlin, the Smiling Bat is indeed more terrifying than the Eating Deer.

That's right, although there are countless "desires" wandering in the plain.

But these monsters are also divided into strong and weak, but compared to the mysterious side, they are not so strict.

The basis for Merlin to distinguish the degree of danger for them is not only his own perception, but also some phenomena he observed when passing through the plain, such as: when the screeching bat flew by, the deer of food kept its head raised. head will hang down.

Knowing this, Tang Qi quickly came up with a simple and crude plan.

He didn't want to use Merlin's information to cross the plains. What he really wanted to rely on was the fragments of information captured by his "special ability".

This means, he needs to look directly at the monster long enough.

One or two seconds, or even longer.

And this time is enough time for the monsters to "look at each other" with Tang Qi. At that time, he is capturing information fragments, and the monsters may launch an attack directly.

Although Tang Qi doesn't think that these desires can be embodied and can crush the "judgment" to solve himself, it should be known that the projection that needs to crush the Lord of the Furnace, although it is diluted by unknown billions of times, the thigh is the thigh.

But in order not to overturn, Tang Qi still decided to pick a soft persimmon.

Using himself as a bait, waiting for the most fragile desire in the "Merlin Catalogue" to appear.

Tang Qi continued to feed Amanda the secret medicine, while calmly saying: "Wait another half an hour!"

Half an hour later, Tang Qi turned around again.

After staying at the junction for about ten seconds, he closed his eyes again, and returned to the forest before staring at the newly appeared "embodiment".

As soon as Amanda opened her eyes, Tang Qi said:

"This time, it's the fish of rotten love."

After another half hour, a figure flashed back to the forest.

Amanda, who was determined to follow Tang Qi on the adventure, opened her eyes and saw a wry smile on the corner of Tang Qi's mouth: "Well, luck is still not very good, this time it is a runaway porpoise."

...

In the dead forest, Tang Qi set off again.

At this time, in his perception, there was not much magic power left in the furnace.

You can also carry out another "bait" operation, and no matter whether you succeed or not, you must return to the forest and meditate to recover.

He came here to find another path to get rid of his dependence on the lineage of "Forge Wizard".

Before that, he was very dependent on the power of the furnace wizard.

In the blink of an eye, Tang Qi hugged Amanda, and once again stood at the junction of the forest of ignorance and the dark plain. The embodiment called "The Eyeless Snake" that was lured over before had disappeared as expected. After many decoy operations, he has figured out the "endurance limit" of these incarnations.

Incomparably smooth, "Judgment" was cast.

Just when Tang Qi thought that he would have to wait another ten seconds.

A strange omen emerged, and Tang Qi turned his head violently and looked in another direction.

Within the thin mist, a group of shadows was walking out of the mist without a sound.

This time, it did not select the dead tree area.

It seemed to be a more cunning monster. It seemed to have observed Tang Qi and wanted to make a "sneak attack" from the side.

But it doesn't seem to know that its body is ridiculously large compared to other embodiments.

When the huge body broke through the mist without a sound and came into Tang Qi's eyes.

For the first time, Tang Qi did not retreat.

Although in my mind, alarm bells were ringing.

But at this moment, Tang Qi turned around abruptly, facing the monster, without closing his eyes, and returned to the forest of ignorance.

Instead, let the magic power of the melting furnace in the eyes burn wildly, projecting an unprecedented reality, and the eyes are completely focused on it, and they don't care at all. This is an extremely dangerous and crazy "gaze".

ps: I failed to lift the ban, and I was so stupid that my mentality collapsed. I wanted to ask for leave for a while, but I couldn't stop updating after thinking about it, so I insisted on updating. Sorry for the delay.