Pale Emblem

Chapter 131 Soul Absorption

What is the difference between a real abyss demon and a monster?

Few people are qualified to explain this problem. Even the experienced Rhine cannot explain clearly. He has only heard that the Abyss Demon is the source of monsters and possesses unimaginable extraordinary power, but he has never seen a real abyss in reality. demon.

The way the bearded monster appears, its huge size, and its evil one-eyed features are not on the same level as the previous ancestor monsters, and are far beyond them.

Rhine concluded that even if he was in perfect condition, it would be impossible to defeat this super giant monster. It didn't matter whether it was an abyss demon or not. The important thing was that they had just experienced a demon hunt, and Rhine and his three female companions were in poor condition. It was important to find a way to escape now.

There is good news. The bearded monster is huge, has no hands or feet, cannot attack or move, and its newly grown evil one-eye is still staring at Victor and not paying attention to anyone else.

"Run away! Now!"

Rhine yelled, turned around and ran away. The three female witchers ran after him and easily caught up with him, lifting him up and slipping away quickly.

The dragon half-elf who was taking care of his companions would not listen to Rhine's orders at all. Before the witcher could shout for their lives, they had already run away, leaving behind their six unconscious companions without even looking back.

Victor was the last one to run, and he actually looked into the monster's evil eye. Thanks to Harvey's strong pull, he started to move.

Three groups of people ran in three different directions. The dragoons who ran first were the slowest. They had long physical strength but average speed. They wore heavy armor and carried large shields and battle axes. Their running speed was only slightly faster than that of ordinary fourth-level professionals. Victor, who finally escaped, ran the fastest. He put a hand on Harvey's shoulder and used his wind talent to assist him. Harvey ignited the fire in his soul and exerted his strength in the subtleties. With the blessing of Fengxing, it was effortless to escape with Victor. He jumped fifteen or six meters in one step, as if he was flying.

How could the Eternal Sleeper who had just arrived allow Victor to escape under his nose?

The Eternal Sleeper and the God of Eternal Sleep are both honorific names given to it by cult believers. Its true identity is a high lord from hell, and an extremely rare spirit-sucking monster lord.

For reasons that even it was confused about, the high lord was forcefully expelled by the superiors, and finally fled alone to the main material plane for refuge. Now, the status of the high lord has declined and he has become a sixth-level soul-sucking monster elder.

Most of the time, the elder of the spirit-sucking monster hibernates in his secret lair, allowing his numerous descendants to move around freely outside. The attitudes of those sub-bodies toward the Eternal Sleeper include worship, fear, hatred, indifference, and evasion, but these are all meaningless.

The elders of the spirit-sucking monsters don't care about the experiences and thoughts of their descendants. They only wait for them to mature and become corrupt before harvesting their souls.

Today, as usual, it came to harvest the corrupted soul of a mature child body, and by the way, see if the flesh and blood essence accumulated by the child body over the years is enough to create a soul-sucking monster clone.

Unexpectedly, it discovered a super unexpected surprise. A certain half-elf had the soul of the Demon King hidden in his body.

Now, the big surprise has gone far away. The Eternal Sleeper has no time to think about the causes and consequences. He directly uses his best talent and ability, and must keep the "big surprise".

It takes some time for the bearded monster to separate its arms and legs. According to the escape speed of "Big Surprise", it will be difficult to catch up with him.

The Eternal Sleeper decisively transmitted more demonic power, forcibly turning the clone here into a temporary main body, and the main body in the lair temporarily degenerated into a backup clone.

This must be a loss-making business. The bearded monster is not enough to carry the full strength of the Eternal Sleeper, causing its status to temporarily drop to the fifth level, but it is still a high-level demon.

None of the people who escaped saw that the flesh-bearded monster tore a series of holes on its body, and these holes quickly differentiated into flesh and blood tissue similar to fish gills, which were the organs used by the soul-sucking monster to make sounds.

Hundreds of gill-like vocal cords vibrate at the same time, and the sound waves of "buzz", "buzz", and "buzz" converge like waves, centering on the spirit-sucking monster, radiating in all directions.

The sound waves hit the rock wall, reflect and echo, and then merge into a more powerful sound wave, which travels farther and has no dead ends.

All the escapees were overtaken by the sound wave, and their minds were instantly filled with a "buzzing" sound. The sound is getting stronger and stronger, occupying all their mental power, which also means that they cannot effectively control themselves and lose most of their normal functions. First, they become blind, deaf, lose all sense of smell, taste, and touch, and then their limbs are uncoordinated. Unable to move freely.

Some people hugged their heads and huddled up on the ground, while others stuck their fingers into their ears to block the piercing noise.

This is of course in vain, as the noise made by the Eversleeper acts directly on the soul. In fact, it was not damage caused by sound waves, but a spell-like ability - dirty words.

Advanced spirit-absorbing monsters use the noise they emit as a medium to indiscriminately and continuously pollute all living beings within a radius of approximately 1.5 kilometers within the effective propagation range of the noise.

Filthy words impact the victim's soul and contaminate their will, causing the victim to lose consciousness, become paralyzed, coma, or even die.

The intensity of the mental impact of the dirty words is 10 times the spiritual attribute value of the spirit-sucking monster, and is borne by all living beings within the range. The greater the number of victims, the lower the damage of psychic shock. On the contrary, the smaller the number of victims, the higher the damage caused by foul language.

When the spiritual attribute of a living being is higher than the average strength of the mental impact, obscene words are ineffective against it. If the mental attributes are lower than the average, the greater the gap, the higher the damage suffered.

A super-large fifth-level soul-sucking monster has at least 50 points of mental attributes, and the tenfold attribute is 500 points. Assuming that it is shared by 21 people, the average intensity of the mental impact is about 24 points.

Victor currently has 18 points of mental attributes, which is already a very high value considering his size.

Few half-elves have this level of spiritual attributes. The dragon veins or demon half-elves here do not have particularly outstanding mental attributes, at least not more than 24 points.

At this time, they, like Victor, have to bear the mental pollution of dirty words.

Victor only felt a buzzing in his head, all five senses failed, and the wind stopped.

With the help of the modified soul and will side, Harvey gritted his teeth and dragged him forward for a certain distance. In the end, he couldn't resist the mental pollution of the higher demon and lost his mind. After letting go of Victor, he also fell to the ground.

Mental pollution in the form of noise actually brought a lot of torture and pain to Victor. He felt that if he continued like this, he wouldn't even have the energy to think about countermeasures, so he would have to wait for death.

As a result, Victor entered his own mental dream arena, and the tormenting "buzz" and "buzz" sounds finally disappeared.

The Mental Dream Arena is still the same, with eighteen flame towers representing eighteen points of spiritual attributes, but the blazing flames are not as stable as before. Victor saw waves of shadows rushing outside and the flames on the top of the tower swaying back and forth, but they were unable to break through the barrier composed of flames and erode the interior of the arena.

It seems that the devil's supernatural attack will not be able to kill him for a while... Victor breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought that his current state was equivalent to a deep coma, and he had no sense of the outside world, so how could he find out how to save himself? Methods?

The Eternal Sleeper saw that "Big Surprise" waited till the end before falling unconscious, but in the end it still fell under the attack of the filthy words. Only then did it prepare to eat with confidence, starting with the weakest prey.

The huge and evil one-eye turned towards a Deathclaw adventurer, and after staring at him for a moment, a red mist was sucked out of the adventurer's body, like blood mist and flame streamer, flying into the soul-sucking monster's one-eye. During this process, not only did the obscene words not end, but the "buzz, buzz" noise became even stronger.

Soul sucking is the most representative talent of soul-sucking monsters.

When a spirit sucker stares with its evil eye, it has a chance to directly absorb the victim's soul. The weaker the victim's will to resist, the higher the success rate of soul absorption.

In order to increase the success rate of soul-draining, soul-sucking monsters often have to break the victim's will to resist first, for example, by using dirty words on the victim first.

The spirit sucker absorbs the soul fire of its victims, and can only absorb a small part of it to strengthen itself and gradually improve its status. Most of the soul fire will dissipate naturally, and the soul-sucking monster cannot eat it. The soul fire will eventually be absorbed by the will of the plane.

As a result, the spirit flayers have evolved an ability to use soul fire to temporarily enhance spell-like effects.

With each soul absorbed by the Eternal Sleeper, the mental strength of the foul language will be increased additionally, making it easier to contaminate the will side of the remaining victims.

The Eternal Sleeper first absorbs the souls of the weak. Within the scope of its power's influence, the number of people sharing the damage is reduced, and the effect of the dirty words becomes stronger. If the individual's mental attributes are high and the person who is immune to mental pollution does not escape the influence of the dirty words in time, he will eventually be unable to resist the huge increase in mental pollution.

In fact, the Eversleeper kills the weak first before taking down the strong individuals, and can better protect itself. It has also maintained this habit, leaving Victor to enjoy it last, out of necessary caution.

Several Deathclaw adventurers were very weak. It was due to previous injuries that their souls were easily absorbed by the Eternal Sleeper. Their bodies are still alive for the time being, with heartbeats and breathing, but they are just empty shells. Soon, their bodies will die too.

After absorbing the soul fire of six adventurers in a row, the Eternal Sleeper was still not satisfied. It turned its evil one eye and cast its gaze into the dark depths of the cave.

There are four half-elves hiding there, two males and two females. They had all lost consciousness under the impact of the filthy words, which fully met the objective conditions for soul absorption.

Although they are each hidden behind the stalactites, they cannot escape the soul-sucking monster's vision. After absorbing the soul fire of this batch of ordinary half-elves, it will be the turn of the dragon-veined and demon-born half-elves, a total of 4 dragon-veined and 6 demon-born half-elves.

The soul fire of these ten people is considered the main meal. Even if there is no unexpected "big surprise", the eternal sleeper is still satisfied with this meal.

"Decay!" A weak but firm voice came from the top of the cave, and the Eternal Sleeper immediately felt a negative energy full of death, decay, and aging hit him. This is very much like a curse, but the soul-sucking monster that feeds on souls can clearly tell that it is actually an extremely special soul spell.

... trickery!

The Eternal Sleeper immediately stopped his filthy words, mobilized his original evil power, and quickly differentiated into small eyes one after another on the head of this physical body.

Immediately afterwards, it saw a thin half-elf little girl hanging upside down on the top wall of the cave, pointing a finger at itself. It was obvious that the little girl had unleashed the trick just now, and she stood upside down on the roof of the cave as if she were standing on the ground, like a spider.

The tricks and spider-walking abilities all reveal the true identity of the little half-elf girl.

The eternal sleeper was now filled with fear and hatred, and spoke devilish words through his gill-like vocal organs:

"spider!"

Soul-suckers are notorious in both the Abyss and Hell. They parasitize, eat souls, create puppets, and can transfer souls. Their methods are both terrifying and insidious, and difficult to kill. They are called the devil among devils and the devil among devils.

However, the Eternal Sleeper will not forget who drove him out of his territory and had to flee to the mortal world.

He is the Spider Lady, one of the three monarchs of hell!

The Eversleeper no longer remembers the specific process of Ms. Spider chasing him. It has voluntarily lost this part of its memory, fearing that the spider's tricks will track it back through its memory. It spends most of its time dormant in a secret lair, firstly due to the differences in the environment; secondly, to avoid thinking about the Spider Lady and attracting his attention.

Now, what it fears most is coming!

Dirty words are indiscriminate attacks, but they have little effect on Stephanie. She endured and quickly adapted to the noise interference, but found that Maddie and the two silly women were all unconscious, and there was no news from Victor and Harvey after they left. .

In order to save Maddie, who was very caring to her, Stephanie finally came to find the source of the noise and used tricks on the evil bearded monster.

The Art of Decay was already the most powerful means of defeating enemies that Stephanie had mastered. She used all her soul energy without reservation, and after hitting the flesh-bearded monster, she seemed to have successfully interrupted its noise.

Stephanie was so happy that she thought her trick was working. In fact, her trickery is like a small bubble to a very large demon, causing no harm at all.

The Eternal Sleeper was merely frightened. At this moment, its demonic eyes were aimed at Stephanie, and it launched a short and violent soul-sucking attack.

Stephanie's soul was instantly pulled by an external force, and her soul was swaying. She felt like being stung by a poisonous bee. She felt dizzy, her eyes turned white, and she fell from the top of the cave with a loud thud.

The half-elf girl was as weak as an ant, but the Eternal Sleeper did not dare to kill her. Now, it suspects that Ms. Spider is targeting itself again, or is she targeting the soul of the Demon King?

Or did he accidentally meet the spider's beloved?

In any case, Ms. Spider’s web of conspiracy has also been woven into the main material world, and she is undoubtedly exposed!

The Eternal Sleeper must capture the soul of the ancient demon king. Only by gaining the power of the Demon King can we fight against the spider!

Its evil one-eye turned towards Victor, and through the innate ability of soul vision, it could distinguish the half-elf's own soul from the soul fire of the demon king. Of course, its real target will only be the soul fire of the Demon King. As for why the half-elf has the soul of the demon king in his body, and it is pure and flawless soul fire, it has no time to care about this issue now.

Pure soul fire refers to a soul without a will, which means that it is safer to absorb this kind of soul fire. At least you don't have to worry about being counterattacked by the demon king's will and having your body taken away instead.

Having said that, the Eternal Sleeper still has to concentrate and act with caution. After all, it has never tasted soul fire of such a high level. No one is sure what kind of accidents will happen during the process of absorbing souls.

The Eternal Sleeper stopped speaking obscenely, closed all the unused eyes, mobilized all his attention, used his soul vision to repeatedly calibrate the position of the demon king's soul, and slowly but resolutely performed soul absorption on it.

A prism-shaped crystal with dense light and mist suddenly appeared in the void above Victor's body.

The Eternal Sleeper was so excited that the Devil's Eyes shone brightly. After a moment, the prismatic crystal decomposed into four-color runes of yellow, red, blue, and green, swirling around each other, and a dark golden glow rose from the center of the intersection of the four-color runes, drawing a rainbow-like arc. Throw yourself at the spirit flayer.

This time, the Eternal Sleeper did not dare to use his devil's eyes to directly absorb the glow of the dark gold soul fire, and only retained a little bit of the afterglow. Each point of Dark Gold Afterglow represents a point of Soul Fire. It took the Eternal Sleeper almost a quarter of an hour to intercept a little of the dark gold soul fire, and the rest of the soul fire's glow could only dissipate into the void.

If the absorption ratio is converted, it is equivalent to about 80 points of dark gold soul fire escaping every quarter of an hour, of which the Eternal Sleeper can only absorb 1 point.

It is very satisfied with this. The soul fire of the ancient demon king is very precious.

The absorption of soul fire by the origin of the world is an unshakable underlying law. The soul-sucking monsters call this law soul siphoning.

They use the siphon effect to have the ability to absorb souls. It is similar to making a hole in the egg shell first, and then when the egg white and yolk inside flows out on its own, the soul-sucking monster has to hide it from the owner of the egg and secretly taste a little.

Although the Eternal Sleeper can only absorb a very small amount of dark gold soul fire, fortunately, the dark gold soul fire siphoned from the origin of the world is like a long river, endless and endless, and there is no unpredictable danger yet.

The Eternal Sleeper was so happy that he didn't even notice that he was touched by a strong and powerful half-elf professional thug.

This professional thug is an elite thug of the Thieves Guild. He and a dozen of his companions entered the underground caves on the orders of the union leader Anthony, looking for anything of value or clues. As a result, this group of thugs encountered the legendary monster and killed them all. Due to his naturally violent nature and superior strength, he escaped alone and lurked quietly in the dark, paying attention to the development of the situation.

Victor once mistook the lurker for a Deathclaw scout.

Who would have thought that the Eternal Sleeper would come here and speak indiscriminate filthy words when it opened its eyes. The professional thug could not withstand the continuous mental pollution, and finally lost his mind and fell into a coma.

Stephanie interrupted the Eternal Sleeper's spellcasting, and the violent professional thug was the first to wake up with terrifying willpower. Then, he was caught by the king of assassins in the organization and was threatened with death.

The assassin did not allow him to escape and ordered him to attack the spirit sucker.

The half-elf thug sneaked in front of the demon, took a deep breath, and struck the huge bearded monster with an iron fist with a fingertip.

Fury combo, the thug's secret blood ability, is not limited to fists and kicks, and launches continuous strikes against the enemy in one breath. The power of each blow will be increased by about 40%, and the power bonus can reach up to 200%.

The violent professional thug is physically strong, not much worse than a dragon-veined half-elf. His bulging muscles were like tightly twisted bow strings, and his vertebrae were like curved bow blades. His punches were like sharp arrows, making the air explode repeatedly. His sound was astonishing and powerful.

Unfortunately, the size difference between the half-elf thug and the Eversleeper was too big. His furious combo smashed a large piece of flesh to pieces, but for the Eversleeper, who weighed six tons, it was only a minor injury and could be recovered in a moment.

The Eternal Sleeper was furious. How could it allow someone to cause trouble for it at the critical moment when it was absorbing the dark gold soul fire? !

Three bone spur tentacles as thick as the mouth of a bowl suddenly popped out of its round body and shot towards the half-elf thugs like javelins.

The violent half-elf had keen combat intuition. He rolled, jumped, and used all means to dodge the rapid thrusts of the bone spur tentacles, and consciously retreated, trying to keep a sufficient distance. However, the Eternal Sleeper popped out three more bone spur tentacles, using intensive and rapid attacks to completely kill the thug's hope of escaping. In just a few breaths, two bone spur tentacles pierced his chest.

As the tentacles retracted, blood spurted out from the chest of the half-elf thug. He glared fiercely at the demon with a ferocious expression, but still fell down unwillingly, his eyes dimmed and his voice weakened.

When the Eversleeper kills a powerful thug, it's like crushing a small insect casually. Its attention is still on Victor, and the soul absorption has not stopped at all.

At this moment, a thin and slender figure suddenly appeared next to the demon, and casually inserted a dagger into its body.

Compared to the current body shape of the Eternal Sleeper, this dagger was smaller than a sewing needle and could not cause effective damage. However, the assassin's seemingly careless stab hit the demon's node where the evil power was running. The Eversleeper didn't even understand what was happening before the life-draining ability was interrupted.

It was frightened and angry, and quickly opened a circle of small eyes, finding that the person who interrupted it was a half-elf male, but the figure of the other person was quickly fading, and then disappeared.

Is there more than one Spider Beloved here?

The Eversleeper confirmed that Stephanie was still in a deep coma and had not moved, so she couldn't help but feel suspicious.

The chief assassin of the Fallen Leaf City Thieves Guild was a pure-minded person. He wanted to try to kill a demon, so he took action without any other reason. Due to his own special characteristics and excellent stealth and invisibility abilities, no one at the scene, including the Eternal Sleeper, had ever sensed his presence, and even the indiscriminate attacks of obscene words had no effect on him.

The Eternal Sleeper began to consider whether to split some flesh and blood and create a few puppet demons to ensure that the subsequent soul absorption would not be disturbed.

However, the soul siphon effect belongs to the underlying laws of the world and does not end just because the soul-sucking monster stops its powers. In other words, the demon king's soul fire has been absorbed by the will of the world. It is now wasting time to create puppet demons, which is equivalent to wasting extremely precious soul fire.

The demon suddenly changed his mind and paid attention to his real target again. He suddenly discovered that the carrier of the demon king's soul, the weak half-elf male, actually stood up? !

No, to be precise, it's suspended in mid-air!

Four-color runes swirled above his head, and the dark golden soul fire rainbow light in the middle penetrated into the void, as if connected to some indescribable existence.

In the spirit-sucking monster's soul vision, the half-elf seems to be a god-king crowned with the soul of the ancient demon king. At this time, He shed all his earthly disguises and revealed his true face. He was as handsome as the sun in the sky, dazzling and impossible to look directly at.

He opened his eyes, and his dark golden pupils reflected the limp appearance of the Eternal Sleeper. The corners of his mouth raised a playful arc, and he muttered to himself with some emotion:

"What a surprise. I can actually wake up in this way... pay taxes to Tyron Riel? Unfortunately, the price is too high... In this case, let's hurry up and do something."

As soon as he finished speaking, a warm wind blew onto the body of the eternal sleeper.