From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 277: Lich's Phylactery, Skill Upgrade

This [Magic Secret Book of the Archmage] possesses divine skills, and it would be a pity to extract the divine energy.

If I don't extract the divine energy, can I keep this magic secret book?
Lu Heng was not sure about this because Tyrese was also staring at this magic secret book.

After all, it is an S-level treasure, and this mission to bounty the lich was issued by Tyrese, and his purpose may also be this magic secret book.

Tyrese stepped forward and asked, "Do you want to extract the divine energy from the magic secret book now? I can help you."

Lu Heng picked up the lich amulet, handed it back to Terris, and asked, "Can I keep this magic secret book?"

Tyrese shrugged and spread his hands: "To tell you the truth, the original owner of this magic secret book is Augustus. You have heard of him, right? The great arcanist of Quel'dorei."

Lu Heng didn't expect that this magic secret book actually belonged to the great arcanist Augustus. He had never thought of this before.

"You mean, this magic secret book should be returned to Augustus?"

Tyrese shrugged again and replied, “It’s up to you, but if Augustus finds out that you have this magic secret book, he will definitely take it back. As for how he will take it back, I don’t know.

"I can give you a suggestion. If you send this magic secret book back to Augustus, you will definitely get his thanks."

Lu Heng has the Aurora Blade. When fighting, he needs to use the sword and will not use this magic secret book.

If this magic book is to be kept, it should be given to Su Muyu. She is quite suitable for this magic book. The effect of +10 mental power alone is very powerful.

However, if I leave the magic book to Su Muyu, I actually cannot bring this magic book back to Blue Star.

This magic secret book is an item from the world of Quel'dorei. If you want to bring it back to Blue Star, you need to assimilate it with divine energy.

In fact, you can also choose to extract the divine energy, and then return the magic book that has dropped to A-level to Augustus.

This is maximizing benefits.

If we extract divine energy now, we can use it to upgrade the [Wind Walker] skill.

After this skill is upgraded, the control over the wind will be further enhanced, and there is hope to practice the Wind Dragon's Breath Slash.

Just as Lu Heng was thinking about this problem.

Lin Zeyu ran back with a little devil in his hand: "I caught it, this is it."

What he held in his hand was actually the Void Stealer, which looked like a demon spirit from the abyss. It was translucent dark purple in color, and did not have much combat power, but had strong concealment capabilities.

This void thief had been pretending to be dead, but suddenly he opened his eyes, struggled violently, escaped from Lin Zeyu's palm, and released void energy to escape.

Lu Heng was quick-witted and quick-handed. He took a step forward and grabbed the back of its neck with his right hand like lightning.

The void energy released by the Void Thief came to an abrupt stop.

The back of the neck is the weakness of the Void Soul Thief. As long as you pinch this point, it will be unable to move.

"Still want to run?" Lin Zeyu flipped his hand, grabbed the revolver in his hand, pointed it at the back of the Void Thief's head, and prepared to shoot it in the head.

Lu Heng raised his hand to stop him, then pressed the Void Thief to the ground with a "snap" and asked, "Where is the treasure hidden? Tell me!"

"Guji, guji..." The Void Thief made a shrill cry and struggled as if begging for mercy.

Lu Heng didn’t understand what this cry meant, but it didn’t matter. With Lin Zeyu’s demon hunter ability, this thing couldn’t escape.

"You re-mark it, then chop off one of its claws. If it dares to run, just detonate the mark and kill it."

When Lin Zeyu heard this, a grin immediately appeared on his face. He released the Demon Hunter Mark again, then pulled out his dagger and cut off one of its claws.

Lu Heng released the Void Stealer and said, "Take me to the treasure place, or I will detonate the mark and kill you."

The Void Thief, as its name suggests, is good at hiding and stealing.

It will hide the stolen items in a place where no one can find them.

In other words, there will be many treasures in its treasure trove.

The Void Thief made a gurgling sound and began to move towards the foot of the mountain in the south.

After following for about twenty minutes, the Void Thief Soul drilled into a mountain wall.

Lu Heng asked: "Can you still see it?"

"Yes, it didn't run away. There may be a hollow cave in the mountain wall." Lin Zeyu kept staring at the Void Stealing Spirit.

"Okay, I'll go in and take a look." Lu Heng said as he disappeared into the shadows, passed through the mountain wall, and entered a cave.

There was no exit from the cave, and it was completely dark inside. If it weren't for the shadow vision mode, one wouldn't be able to see anything at all.

In the cave, the Void Thief squatted on a pile of messy items, waiting for judgment.

Since its combat power is not strong, the things it steals are not necessarily high-level treasures.

It steals things it likes, which usually contain a small amount of energy.

For example, gems, materials, some D-level and C-level items, accessories, weapons, and small equipment.

This cave has no exit, so there is no oxygen and the air composition is complex.

Lu Heng pulled out the Aurora Blade and swung it towards the thinnest part of the mountain wall, creating a crack in the sword.

Boom!

With a slash of sword, the sword light split the three-meter-thick mountain wall and created a hole.

Lu Heng walked out of the cave, breathed in some fresh air, and said, "Mu Yu, clear the air."

Su Muyu raised his hand and used the ability of [Lord of the Sky] to control the weather, causing a gust of wind to blow away the turbid air in the cave.

Afterwards, the three of them walked into the cave again and, relying on the light provided by the double-headed bird, saw the situation in the cave clearly.

Lin Zeyu walked over, picked up the items on the ground, and said, "D-level gems and C-level accessories, this is pretty good. Was this dug out from the pile of dead bodies? The ring is still on a piece of finger bone."

After finding the treasure trove, Lin Zeyu chuckled, flipped his hand, took out the revolver again, and pointed it at the Void Thief's head.

"Guji, guji..." The Void Thief begged for mercy and pushed all the items in the treasure ground in front of Lin Zeyu.

It seems that it is prepared to exchange these treasures for its life.

"These things of yours are either D-level or C-level, not enough to exchange for your life, so you'd better die. I will just shoot you once, and I guarantee there will be no pain, okay?" Lin Zeyu said as he prepared to shoot.

"Guji, guji..." The Void Thief hurriedly used its remaining claw to draw characters on the ground.

Since the Void Thief does not have a complete language system, it can only make gurgling sounds.

In the abyss world, it has no problem communicating with its own kind, but it is more troublesome to communicate with humans.

None of the three could hear what it was calling out for, so they could only guess that it was begging for mercy.

However, when it was writing on the ground, Lin Zeyu finally understood it.

Because it was written in the Elvish language of Quel'dorei, the three of them had already loaded this language when they were teleported to this world, so they were able to understand it.

When Lin Zeyu saw the meaning of those words, his eyes widened immediately, and he waved behind him and shouted, "Lu Heng, come and see, what he wrote is the life-saving box."

Lu Heng had already seen that the words written by the Void Thief on the ground were exactly the three words "Life Protection Box".

"Do you have a life-saving box here?" Lin Zeyu hurriedly rummaged through the pile of miscellaneous items, trying to see if there was any life-saving box piled here.

Lu Heng made a direct judgment: "The phylactery cannot be here. If it refers to Dionysus's phylactery, if the phylactery is here, Dionysus will definitely be able to sense it and come to take it back."

In other words, what the Void Thief wanted to express was that it knew the location of the life-saving box.

Lu Heng squatted down and said, "Do you know where the life-saving box is?"

"Gurgle, gurgle..." The Void Thief nodded in response.

"Very good, take us to find the life box of Dionysus, and I will spare your life." Lu Heng made a promise to it.

The Void Thief itself has little combat power, and its biggest threat is stealing things.

So there's nothing wrong in saving its life.

"Guji guji..." The Void Thief Spirit immediately flew out, wanting to take the three people to find the life-saving box.

For the Void Thief, it can go to many places that ordinary people cannot reach.

Therefore, it can find treasures that ordinary people cannot find.

In other words, it must have seen Dionysus's phylactery, but because it was afraid of Dionysus, it did not dare to steal it.

After all, the lich is sensitive to the phylactery. If you steal the lich's phylactery without the strength to claim it as your own, you are courting death.

Obviously, the void thief did not dare to steal Dionysus's phylactery, but it knew where it was.

When its life is threatened, it can only exchange this secret for its own life.

The three followed the Void Stealer and continued to move deeper into the Dusk Mountains.

Before leaving, Lu Heng spoke to Tyrese and told him that he could go back to Storm Peaks first. When Tyrese heard that Dionysus's phylactery had been found, his eyes lit up and he insisted on following.

So, a group of four followed the Void Stealer and went deep into the Dusk Mountains.

After walking for nearly a day, the Void Thief arrived at an underground altar.

The altar was built in an underground space and was protected by rune arrays. Even a perceiver could not detect the existence of the altar from the outside.

It was not until the Void Stealer drilled in that Lu Heng and the other two realized there was another layer of space inside.

Lu Heng split the mountain wall and walked into the underground altar.

In the middle of the altar, there is a stone platform.

On the stone platform, a box inlaid with gems was placed upright.

At this moment, the box has been opened, and a trace of evil spirit is flowing out of it.

At another center point of the altar, a skeleton slowly stood up and received the energy from the life-saving box.

This is actually the resurrection ceremony of the lich.

This skeleton was the new body chosen by Dionysus to carry his soul.

The resurrection ceremony is already halfway through. If there is one more day, Dionysus will be able to be resurrected successfully.

The hiding place of his phylactery was indeed secret. If one searched aimlessly in the Dusk Mountains without knowing its exact location, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, there was the Void Stealer leading the way, otherwise it would have been impossible to find it so quickly.

When Lu Heng stepped into the altar, the skeleton that had absorbed the energy from the life-saving box suddenly shook.

Dionysus was currently undergoing a resurrection ritual, and this was when he was at his weakest.

Not to mention Lu Heng, any random person with super powers could pose a huge threat to him.

Lu Heng drew out the Aurora Blade and walked towards the life-saving box.

At this moment.

A shadow emerged from the phylactery, and it was Dionysus.

He threatened, "Get out! Otherwise, I will make you regret everything you have done!"

Lu Heng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you been beaten stupid? I have found your life box, and you still dare to talk to me like this. Now kneel down and beg for mercy, and I might give you a chance to live."

Dionysus's face turned very ugly. He was silent for a long time. Seeing Lu Heng getting closer and closer, he finally said in a negotiating tone: "Let's make a deal."

"How to trade?" Lu Heng didn't mind listening.

"You leave the altar and wait until my resurrection ceremony is over. I can tell you a secret, a secret about Augustus." Dionysus proposed a bargaining chip.

"The secret of Augustus? What's its value?" Lu Heng was indeed a little curious, but the premise was that this secret could be transformed into benefits.

As for why Dionysus knew Augustus' secret?
This is not difficult to explain.

Dionysus was also an arcanist before he was transformed into a lich, and Augustus was the great arcanist of the Quel'dorei.

As an arcanist, he must frequently go in and out of the Arcane Spire, so it is natural that he might discover Augustus's secret.

Dionysus continued, "I guarantee that this secret is of great value, and I can even threaten Augustus to work for you."

Lu Heng became even more curious: "What secret can threaten a great arcanist?"

Even if it is a huge secret, if you want to use it to threaten a great arcanist, you may be blasted into ashes by the arcane before you can even open your mouth.

Dionysus continued to explain: "I guarantee that this secret is the last thing Augustus wants to know, because once this secret is exposed, it will ruin his reputation."

Lu Heng finally became a little interested. If this really was a secret that could bring down the great arcanist, then it could indeed accomplish a lot of things if used well.

In fact, using threats to extort such a secret is the lowest level of means.

Seeing that Lu Heng was interested, Dionysus continued to persuade him, "I guarantee that Augustus will never dare to let this secret leak out. It will ruin his life. As long as you let me complete the resurrection ceremony, I will tell you this secret..."

He hasn't finished speaking yet.

Suddenly a sword light shot in from outside the cave, and a sword stood on Dionysus's life box.

Bang!
The phylactery exploded, and Dionysus' soul roared in anger and unwillingness. He pointed at Teres and wanted to curse, but he could no longer speak.

The life box was destroyed, and his soul quickly dissipated, turning into nothingness and disappearing in a moment.

Lu Heng turned to look at Terris with a puzzled expression on his face.

Just now Dionysus wanted to tell the secret of the great arcanist Augustus, and this secret could bring ruin to Augustus.

But before he could say anything, Tyrese suddenly attacked and destroyed the phylactery.

This action is clearly an attempt to silence someone.

An idea suddenly occurred to Lu Heng's mind: Could it be that Teres knew Augustus' secret and was keeping it for him?

Although I didn't hear what the secret was, since it was Tyrese who did it, I couldn't say anything.

Tyrese walked to the center of the altar, raised his hand and grabbed at the void. Streams of divine energy emanated from the fragments of the life-saving box and were condensed in his palm.

He turned and walked in front of Lu Heng, and said in a voice without any emotion: "Stretch out your hand."

Lu Heng did as he said and stretched out his left palm.

Tyrese placed the collected divine energy of the life-saving box into Lu Heng's palm, then walked out, leaped into the sky, and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Is this considered hush money?
Lu Heng was not very sure, but since there was divine energy, he might as well absorb it first.

[Absorb the divine energy released by Dionysus's phylactery and obtain 1500 points of divine energy.]

The original plan was to extract the divine energy from the magic book after obtaining it, absorb it, and use it to upgrade the [Wind Walker] skill.

Now, there is no need to draw the divine energy from the magic secret book, but to obtain the divine energy from Dionysus’s phylactery.

The divine energy required to upgrade a B-level skill to A-level is exactly 1500 points.

The proficiency of the skill [Wind Walker] was already fully achieved when practicing the Wind Dragon's Breath Slash.

This is a good time to upgrade.

Lu Heng used his talent to open the skill lock of [Wind Walker], and then guided 1500 points of divine energy into the skill slot.

Divine energy and Wind Walker energy merged together to form an energy vortex that rotated faster.

In the energy vortex, energy is constantly compressed and condensed, pushing up energy levels.

After more than ten minutes, the energy level jumped to Level A, and Lu Heng immediately closed the skill lock.

[Skill "Wind Walker" upgraded to "Wind God Step"]

【Wind God Step】

[Skill level: A-level]

[Skill consumption: 10 energy/minute]

[Effect 1: Gain the power to control the wind, running speed +150%. ]

[Effect 2: Charge on the spot for 2 seconds, gather the power of the wind god, burst out a 3x acceleration effect, and launch a straight line stab. At the same time, reduce wind resistance and increase the ability to withstand breaking through the sound barrier. ]

[Effect 3: Gain the power of wind, charge for 2 seconds, gather the power of the wind god, and release a violent tornado.]

When Lu Heng saw the name of the upgraded skill, his eyes lit up.

This skill is upgraded all the way up, and each upgrade route is the best.

What Lu Heng wants most is the [Wind God Step]. This skill can master the power of the Wind God and is of great help in practicing the Wind Dragon's Breath Slash.

With this skill, Lu Heng was confident that he could master the Wind Dragon's Absolute Breath Slash within three days.

After Su Muyu checked the altar, he walked over and asked, "I've checked the surroundings and there's no danger. In the secret room next to the altar, there are some crystal cores and magic items. They should be prepared by Dionysus for the resurrection ceremony. After resurrection, you will have a set of magic equipment to use."

Lin Zeyu held up the Void Stealer and asked, "What should we do with this thing?"

Lu Heng replied casually: "Since you have promised it, let it go."

This kind of void thief poses no threat other than stealing things, so just let it go.

Lin Zeyu threw it away and said, "Let's go. If you dare to steal our things again, you know the consequences."

"Guji, guji..." The Void Stealer called out a few times, then quickly drilled into the void and left.

(End of this chapter)