The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 779

The jailer was unpredictable. It has to be said that Black Rob hadn't encountered anything related to the Dark Hell in his daily life for a while, but he didn't expect to have his old grudges brought up in this Blacklight Swamp.

The key point is that he is very familiar with the generation mechanism of the prison guards and eccentrics. In a sense, they are like plants that dislike light and prefer shade, and are also quite sensitive to temperature and humidity. It is not easy to satisfy their preferences and make them willing to stay in a certain place.

This Blacklight Swamp, at least from a cursory observation, does not seem to possess the conditions to attract the jailers and elves.

Otherwise, Black Rob would have become familiar with the environment and would have been surprised that such a large area, which might contain remnants of the Dark Hell, had not been discovered when he sent Executioner to search for remnants of the Dark Hell three years ago.

Now, he naturally wanted to know what the key factor was that could keep the jailer and the charlatan here.

As for himself, the Throne of Fear has been integrated into the Old Days God Kingdom warship. Whether he takes back these former tools or not doesn't really matter. Although his God Kingdom system has many tools, it has not reserved this type of role.

Compared to the Dark Hell, the present-day Ancient God Kingdom is more exclusive and private, a composite tool centered on serving him and with a certain factional bias.

The Dark Hell, on the other hand, is a public instrument of justice used by the heavens to select the best for jobs at the top level, while the middle and bottom levels are sent to labor camps to atone for their sins.

Similar to the demons used by the alchemy giant S Company back then, their core demon souls are all the best of their respective eras, either heroes or villains. Their souls are powerful, and their consciousness and personality also encompass many excellent qualities.

This means that even in today's era of increasingly severe demagicization, where the cost-effectiveness (high energy consumption, poor effect) has significantly decreased due to the suppression of world laws, these beings still have value.

For example, it can be used as a sample collection terminal for a large database of personality templates for simulated soul puppets.

Personality and temperament are very complex concepts.

It does not exist in isolation.

In his early years, Black Robo also thought about 'keeping the essence and discarding the dross', and thus 'assembled' several awesome Plus personality templates as the basic models for the soul puppet.

However, in actual use, he later discovered that the essence and the dross are often like two sides of a coin; if one side is missing, the other side is difficult to preserve for a long time.

If we only use the general personality type, that is, the masses, as a comparison point, then improving one's strengths by 30% or 50%, such as being calm and patient in the face of adversity, is not difficult.

But that's not enough to meet Black Rob's needs. Whenever he comes ashore from the River of Time, he usually has to deal with major events that can save the world from collapse. There are brutal battles one after another. Soldiers who are only slightly stronger than ordinary people are equivalent to veterans on the battlefield or the personal guards of border generals. They are not enough!
However, if one wants to further enhance the overall strength of the pseudo-soul from the perspective of consciousness and personality, it will increasingly involve the issues of contradictions and mutual coexistence of opposites and unity.

Furthermore, the strength of the soul is also closely related to the consciousness and personality.

If one's consciousness and personality are weak, even if one provides a vast amount of soul power, it cannot be effectively utilized.

It can even have a reverse effect on consciousness and personality, causing them to become rapidly distorted. This distortion is comparable to the corrosive effect of extreme wealth and unrestricted material supply on people's hearts, and can also be compared to how extreme power leads to extreme corruption.

Therefore, in the field of artificial souls (pseudo-souls), Blackrobo has both theory and practice, and has already made significant progress.

For this reason, although many of the demon souls were heinous villains who deserved to die a hundred times over, their consciousness, personality and temperament still have great reference value. There are specialized AIs that interpret their behavior and thought logic and then conduct various tests.

This was once the middle level of the dark hell, or rather, the elite level.

The lower classes, like the cunning and unscrupulous prison guards, are not representative in this way. They do have their merits, but like mineral veins of mediocre quality—insufficient in quantity and generally of average quality—they are, for someone like Black Robb who tends to analyze things from a purely profit-driven perspective, of average caliber and not worth the effort.

Just like now, he could certainly use the remaining power of the King of Fear to recruit these jailers and spies, but in the eyes of those with ulterior motives, this would be a huge loophole.

For example, Parus. If the God of Night is indeed Parus, then this man was once the King of Destruction of the Dark Hell. Perhaps the fact that so many jailers and eeries gathered in the Blacklight Swamp was deliberately arranged by him.

Once he takes them under his wing, Parus can immediately expose his true colors and conduct extensive testing, which will likely reveal most of his deceptive schemes.

It's not just that the other party has a "keen nose" or that his plan has many loopholes; it's that in the realm of the extraordinary, he's not the only one who believes that "suspicion is enough."

In particular, without an arbitrator, there is no need to produce sufficient and convincing evidence to satisfy the arbitrators, including the jury.

If I say yes, then yes; if I say no, then so be it.
The key to expressing such a method and attitude of discernment is not about the truth, but about the capital for willfulness and the gains and losses of interests.

In this context, it is already dangerous enough to arouse suspicion in the other party.

There are limits to skepticism; one can be willful, but that doesn't mean one can act recklessly.

Mild suspicion is not a big problem.

After all, the person involved will have various internal struggles and doubts, wondering if they are being too suspicious, especially when they have something to ask for.

It's like an illegal mining operation where the boss's main goal is for the miners to mine for him. However, in order to find potential moles and collect evidence of his wrongdoing, he has to memorize complicated new authentication passwords every day. If they can't memorize them, they are hanged. This will inevitably cause panic among the miners and affect the mining output.

Moreover, the Night God's control over the underground races cannot reach the level of control that the black mine boss has over the miners.

This is no longer simply a question of whether or not there is the power to achieve deep control over the underground tribes, but rather a practical problem of "strict control leads to stagnation, while lax control leads to chaos."

To grow a business, the initiative of every value creator is indispensable.

From this perspective, it's clear that NoxGo secretly provides technical support and leverages various resources to drive traffic, while also secretly taking a cut, and acting as the largest logistics provider for resource transactions between the underground and the surface... This strategy is undoubtedly successful.

One of the costs they have to pay is that they cannot interfere too much or too deeply with the production and lives of the underground tribes.

That's why it's said that while one may have the right to be capricious, one cannot act recklessly. Simple suspicions will not trigger the Night God's madness.

This is the balance that Black Robb has been trying to strike.

This includes the Grey Orc Lota showing off his muscles to gain real benefits, causing trouble but controlling the scale and popularity, feeling it was getting a bit too heated, so he changed accounts.

The same goes for the Highland Dwarfs of Barto; they can show off. After all, the current state of the Underworld allows for the emergence of a few exceptionally talented individuals every few years, which isn't particularly strange.

But some landmines are best avoided. Touching them will set off alarm bells.

'Whoosh!' Barto imbued the pair of weapons in his hands with runic power.

Fire on the axe, ice on the hammer. This kind of pattern is uncommon for rune dwarves, but commonplace for mountain dwarves.

Many people mistakenly believe that the mountain dwarves, who were the first to invent runes and were extremely skilled in forging, were naturally compatible with water and fire.

But if we really have to say that mountain dwarves have this talent, it's in their affinity for the concept of 'temperature'.

With a grasp of the laws of temperature, one can freely switch between cold and hot; ice and fire are merely its manifestations.

Barto's role is that of a mountain dwarf who impersonates a rune dwarf (a local dwarf clan, a branch of the cave dwarves), so his abilities and characteristics must closely match the character design.

With these enchanted weapons, coupled with the warrior's powerful combat abilities, the rabble roaming the Blacklight Swamp was naturally no match for him.

Without the aid of a special environment or magical artifacts, the prison guards and cunning individuals are not particularly powerful in combat.

Of course, the most crucial factor was the lack of coordination. They couldn't form battle formations like in the past, otherwise even if Barto could win, he couldn't fight them head-on.

Because there are many pitfalls within the army formation of Dark Hell, if you don't take advantage of them, you will be severely beaten. If you take advantage of them or repeatedly see through them, it means you have a good understanding of them, which is equivalent to exposing yourself.

This is much simpler now; just kill the enemies blocking the way normally. You can collect clues gradually; there's no need to be too deliberate.

Further into the Blacklight Swamp, they encountered a new evil, the Tentacle Monster.

Judging from its tentacled shape that suddenly emerges from the water, it gives the impression that its true form must be at least an octopus-like sea monster capable of capsizing or dragging a medium-sized fishing boat (12-24 meters) into the water.

But if you really think that way, you can only say that stereotypes are harmful.

This tentacle monster is a very typical deformity, like an ordinary person with an arm thicker and longer than a leg. And it possesses the ability to multiply this arm when needed!
Therefore, the Tentacle Monster's main body is a lump the size of a washbasin, plus seven other tentacles that are proportional to its body size.

The body and its seven tentacles, like the tuberous taproot and the other seven main roots, are deeply embedded in the soil beneath the silt, providing sufficient support for the unusually large 'hunting tentacles' to swing powerfully.

In other words, this bizarre hunting method involves launching sudden and continuous attacks on targets identified as prey that pass through the range of its hunting tentacles, killing them, and then slowly gnawing on them.

Of course, if that were all, Black Rob wouldn't have paid much attention to the Tentacle Monster. After all, the ecology of the underground world is very different from that of the surface world. There are many strange and bizarre life forms. In addition, the dark power of the underground world is more abundant, and the distortion of the Heavenly Dao is more prominent. It's not a big deal if the evil creatures look strange and bizarre.

The key point is that Black Rob detected a trace of the Great Old Ones during the process of structuring the Tentacle Monster.

It's not authentic, but it's clearly leaning in that direction and has achieved some good results.

For example, it is said that dragons are lustful and have nine sons, each of whom is different.

If we compare the dreadnoughts, the outermost creatures of the Great Old Ones, to dragons, then the tentacled monsters can barely be considered as a kind of descendant who possesses their bloodline but is utterly worthless.

When Black Rob faced this situation, his first thought was that the Night Gods would organize people to seize the Chaotic Stairway's research results on abominations.

Previously, he thought that Night God would just sit back and reap the benefits.

Now, he feels that it's more about learning from others.

Imagine that Parus was also a participant in the entire event of the Gates of Hell five thousand years ago.

In particular, the original form of that monstrous evil god was the divine body of Parus back then.

In other words, even if Parus did not witness firsthand Black Rob awakening the bloodline of the Great Old Ones through the distorted power of the Gates of Hell (a bloodline initiated more by the soul, or rather, from a cognitive perspective; it is a multiverse-level information contagion where anyone with a clear understanding of the concept can become a member under special conditions), there was still plenty of time afterward to slowly deduce part of the truth.

The same applies to the gods. Even if the secrets of heaven were obscured at the time, and it was difficult to trace back the events using prophetic spells afterward, there were still traces to explore and deduce.

Heroborg believes that Parus probably started this research project around that time.

After all, Parus was a meticulous and extremely patient strongman. He would not be satisfied with his current achievements, but would instead make multiple plans and try to collect various resources to help him improve.

It's important to understand that while the Lord of Destruction may have a decent reputation, from another perspective, he's essentially serving a sentence in a different kind of labor camp.

Therefore, assuming that Night God is Parus, then there would be much more reason for him to intervene in the secret research project on the Chaotic Staircase. He would not take the research results as a standard, but rather use them as a reference to improve his own research on the project.

From this perspective, the underground world is indeed more suitable for the study of necromantic creatures than the surface.

In particular, Parus, as a primordial spirit, has witnessed higher levels of civilized society, unlike the native creatures whose vision is limited to the highest level of wisdom and civilization reached in this world.

To put it more bluntly, Parus should know how to use scientific methods to facilitate the success of extraordinary research. This specifically includes project breakdown and the three-step process of scientific experimentation: setting up the research topic, standardizing procedures, and recording and summarizing findings…

With more time available, the Night God Society's research on abominations could be conducted more discreetly and discreetly. Unlike the Chaotic Staircase, which directly undertakes a complex and seemingly impressive project but is actually all show and no substance.

Heroborg believes that even after meticulously analyzing their research, it's difficult for them to clearly define which specific aspects they fully understand and control.

This is the difference between having scientific research methods and being able to implement them.

"The prison guards are cunning, and this is an old research project. It seems that Parus's suspicion that the World Guardian and the King of Fear were one and the same person was long ago. All of this is an attempt to merge technologies, create resonance, and gain unexpected benefits?"

Black Rob thought to himself.

Although he had not yet awakened the bloodline of the Great Old Ones when he collaborated with the God of Nature to design and build the Dark Hell, but only possessed a special version of the original blood vampire technology system, don't forget that his superior, Black Robo, was a true Great Old One.

Although his rank was not as high as his later one, his mastery of the old branch's technical system was comprehensive and solid; he had integrated and mastered it, forging his own path.

It was this very being that gave him the dark technology system of the original blood vampire, which was not surprising at all, as it incorporated the technology of the Great Old Ones.

Therefore, Parus is more likely to succeed in obtaining the Old Ones system by coming into contact with the original blood vampire techniques, because the foundation of all laws is extremely similar, and as long as the style and approach are grasped, the probability of success will greatly increase.

Black Rob pondered that if that were the case, destroying the Night God Society would probably have to be a priority.

Because the possibility that Parus has found the right path has greatly increased, and the truth of what he thought Parus wanted to become a god is probably more complicated. Parus does not want to become a god, but wants to completely break away from this world through the strange path of becoming an old branch, so as to win himself a broader stage to display his talents and a promising future!
(End of this chapter)