Chapter 72: Death drop

On the evening of this spring day, as the dark clouds dissipated, the blue sky appeared.
A rainbow spanned the entire sacred plain, and between the ruins of the city and the huge fingerprints, countless wizards embraced and cried with joy.
For them, the past scenes are full of drama. They had already given up their hope of life, but they never thought that they really survived.
More than that, the extremely powerful church that was crushing the heart of the entire continent was destroyed in this way.
And what changed the fate of all of them was a mysterious strong man who had never known them before.
Thinking of this, grateful, curious, and awe-inspiring gazes cast their eyes on the back above the holy city.
However, Lin Tuo was not so relaxed at this moment.
...
"call……"
Relying on his body, floating in the air, Lin Tuo frowned and stared at the pile of black ash below. After watching for a long time, he finally let out a sigh of relief and confirmed that the thing was dead.
The power of the laser cannon did not disappoint him, of course, to a large extent, it was also because the defense of the huge Pope was lower than he expected.
Lin Tuo had also worried before that, for fear that the high temperature of the laser cannon would not cause much damage to him, now it seems...
"It just looks bluffing... embroidered pillows."
Tucao in his heart, Lin Tuo looked at the city below, the original prosperous holy city has been completely turned into ruins, buildings have collapsed, the land has been cracked, and there are countless corpses hidden in it.
An apocalyptic scene.
Seeing this, Lin Tuo was silent for a moment, then retracted his gaze, manipulated his body, and let himself land next to the black ash.
Observe carefully, the huge "corpse" of the pope is also very interesting, and there is no huge mountain of corpses.
In fact, most of them are some kind of carbonized black ash. It seems that when they die, they have returned to their normal size, and even the huge "crown" and "scepter" have also returned to normal.
In addition, there is a large amount of ether gathered around it, or, according to this world, it is called "magic power."
"Could it be that this thing escaped after it died?" Lin Tuo was a little surprised. After all, the entire knight army had been crushed to death before, and not too much ether escaped.
Suddenly, Lin Tuo's eyes lit up, and as the cold wind blew away the black ash, a translucent, bizarre energy group that emitted a dull white light was revealed.
It seems to be the "death drop" of the huge pope.
Lin Tuo cautiously observed and repeatedly confirmed that he didn't notice the dangerous aura before cautiously trying to touch it.
At this moment, in his retina, the virtual panel popped up again without warning.
And a familiar line appeared:
【Detected special items, whether to analyze it? 】
"This is..." Lin Tuo's heart moved, this scene is no stranger to him.
Earlier, when he touched the "Secret Seal" in the No. 1 sandbox, in the Daxizhou laboratory, he triggered the hidden function of the derived sand table.
"Sure enough, the ‘thing’ that caused this crisis is similar to the secret seal..."
Feeling the soft touch of this energy between the virtual and the real, Lin Tuo gave an idea in his heart:
"Analyze."
On the virtual panel, a slightly slower progress bar quickly filled up.
[Analysis complete]
At the same time, an analysis report was introduced into Lin Tuo's mind in the form of information flow:
Attribute: Spiritual origin (superior items, life in the spirit world dies and drops. It is suspected to be left by the super life that accompanied the ether from the spirit world into the material world)
Rating: Medium
Condition: intact, no dirt
Ability: After being absorbed, it can consume ether, use itself as the origin, build a certain range of virtual dreams, and pull the target in to exert influence (except for the user, other targets will greatly reduce their psychological defense after entering the dream...)
Negative effect: during use, it will load the caster's own spirit, and feel a certain degree of sleepiness and fatigue, which can be restored through sleep... It is recommended to control the single use time based on your own situation...
Attachment: memory fragments (part of the memory fragments stripped from the source of the derived sand table, readable, no negative effects, automatically cleared after ten hours)
...
[DidiThe host touches two spiritual world items, which meets the authority to unlock some information related to the spiritual world, please read it at an appropriate time]
...
He closed his eyes slightly and read the entire report quickly with consciousness in his mind. Soon, Lin Tuo was surprised to find that another notification popped up on the virtual panel.
"Unlock the relevant part of the spiritual world?" Lin Tuo raised his eyebrows. Through this period of contact, he has slowly figured out some of the rules for evolving the sand table.
Take the mall as an example. The items in the mall are not static, but will automatically change with the ether points owned by Lin Tuo.
For example, before his points were less than 100 points, "Tongyushu" was not listed in the mall.
For another example, before he has less than 1,000 points and did not create a sandbox, he did not list the "creation range".
In other words, if the derivative sand table is a system.
So, many of its internal functions are hidden by default before Lin Tuo meets the relevant conditions of use.
At the moment, this information seems to be part of the "hiding rules."
"Only when I touch two or more spiritual objects, can I unlock related information? Is it a protection mechanism?"
Lin Tuo couldn't help thinking.
Remember, the "Secret Seal" mentioned in the analysis report that its extraordinary power originated from "spirituality", and the "spiritual origin" in the hand directly mentioned that it came from "the death and fall of life in the spirit world." .
In other words, both are related to the mysterious "spiritual world".
Lin Tuo had known for a long time that the ether came from the "spiritual world", but before that, no matter how he asked, the information given by the evolving sand table was extremely limited.
As a result, he always lacked understanding of the "spiritual world".
Unexpectedly, the relevant information was unlocked right now.
However, when Lin Tuo was surprised, he did not choose to read it immediately. Instead, he pressed his patience first and turned his attention to this "spiritual origin" analysis report.
As stated in the report.
This group of energy actually comes with a special extraordinary ability.
It seems... very interesting.
Moreover, its "negative effect" is far lighter than the "Secret Seal".
The key is that this thing seems to be "absorbed" by him!
If the "Secret Seal" is just a consumable that is badly damaged and has unacceptable negative effects.
Then, this group of energy is more like a "skill" falling from the sky.
Let Lin Tuo's heart beat.
However, to be cautious, he also resisted the idea of ​​"absorption" and prepared to wait until he returned to the sand table to figure out what the "spiritual world" was before making a choice.
"En...but these memory fragments can be read now."
If Lin Tuo is right, this should be the so-called "spiritual creature", that is, part of the memory of unknown life possessed by the huge Pope.
It may be possible to get a complete picture of the entire event.
"Open the attachment." With a thought, in the next second, Lin Tuo only felt that segments of "pictures" flashed past his eyes.
The picture presented in the "first perspective" is not very coherent. Some jumps are probably due to memory impairment.
Because it was broadcast in consciousness, Lin Tuo finished reading all the pictures in less than a minute.
Combining the information he knew with a little brain supplement, he finally probably completed the cause and effect.
in short:
The culprit that caused the whole incident was a spiritual creature called "Nightmare".
More than a year ago, it came to the North Continent from the spiritual world. At first, it was muddled. Later, it was pleasantly surprised to find that there are many "delicious foods" in this world.
That is to say, those wizards with talented abilities, and many cultivators who are "inferior" but also "satisfied."
Driven by instinct, it tries to hunt and prey. However, the special nature of spirit creatures makes it difficult for it to affect the material world.
Therefore, after some observation, it went to the holy city "Hayeks" and used its ability to weave dreams and pollute the spirit to try to control the pope and a group of high-level churches.
At first, this was not smooth, especially since the old pope himself was a powerful transcendent, with a strong mental will, extremely difficult to control, and the first attempt to pollute it failed.
However, this is not nothing. The "Nightmare" who is good at perceiving people's hearts quickly spotted the pope's inner desire for life-his life span is already short, and even the strongest in the mainland cannot escape death.
As a result, Nightmare began to try to "cooperate" with the Pope as a at the cost of "giving endless life". Although the latter saw the nature of its "demon", it did not resist the temptation of "immortality" after all.
Once there is a loophole in the spiritual defense, the rest will be easier.
The nightmare persuaded the Pope to secretly capture the "wizard" and devour it in exchange for extra lifespan. In this time, the Pope was gradually contaminated.
Until later, his spirit was completely controlled by the nightmare, and the act of hunting and killing wizards was issued in the name of "Heritage Judgment Order."
In this process, with the help of the Pope's power, the Nightmare has successively polluted a large number of church leaders and controlled the entire Knights Templar.
The next thing... is what Lin Tuo saw.
...
"Huh..." He let out a sigh of relief. When he finished reading, the memory fragments disintegrated and dissipated, leaving only a sigh.
"The story of a high-powered person being lured by the devil step by step to corrupt and degenerate." Lin Tuo smiled bitterly with a complicated expression, and concluded.
And what made Lin Tuo feel most absurd was that by reading the memory of "Nightmare", he already knew that this spiritual creature did not grant others the authority to "eternal life" at all.
The "life" acquired by the pope and the high-level churches is only an illusion fabricated by nightmare, nothing more.
But for this illusion, what was paid was the lives of thousands of innocent wizards.
In the cold wind, Lin Tuo's cloak was hunting.
"It's a sad story," he thought.