Cataclysm King - #103 - Chapter 103: That old man has two tricks

  Chapter 103 That old man has two tricks

   The battle in the dungeon is getting fiercer.

   Now the beacon tower has been lit, and the fortress war has begun.

  The soldiers haven’t figured out what happened yet, but the faint blue magic light of the beacon tower has shone on everyone.

  Those demons disguised as humans in human skin were illuminated by the light, tearing the human skin one by one, and turning into ferocious demon forms.

  The soldiers finally reacted, and one by one took up weapons and fought fiercely with the demon.

   In a blink of an eye, fierce battles are happening everywhere in the huge fortress.

   Not only in the fortress, but also on the elevators, gondolas, and arrow towers, there are also a large number of demons appearing.

  Because of their early preparations, these demons destroyed all kinds of heavy city defense weapons immediately. While causing casualties to human soldiers, it also brought convenience to the demons under the fortress to attack the city.

   Groups of demons came out from nowhere.

  Climb the wall, ride a hanging basket, fly with wings.

   Various methods launched a general attack on Meteor Eagle Fortress.

  The battle became very intense in an instant.

  Ji Xun ignored the battle in the fortress, he sneaked all the way, and soon came to the deputy commander’s residence.

   Various defensive barriers have been activated here, and the magic key he gave to Master Ronan before obtained the authority, and he went there smoothly.

   Looked at the pointer, there are no monsters in the room.

  The demons are busy attacking the fortress, and no one cares about the residence.

  Ji Xun went straight to the second floor.

   Both the Commander and Deputy Commander have their own separate residences.

   There is a room with a window on the second floor.

  The view here is very good, and you can just see the Wailing Abyss.

   There is a row of bookshelves in the room.

  Looking at the dozens of books on the bookshelf, Qidi did not translate these unknown civilization classics that have nothing to do with the plot.

  But the items displayed are all items that can be brought out of the different-dimensional space.

  Ji Xun is welcome.

  Whether you recognize it or not, you packed it up and stuffed it into the storage ring.

   Only in the learned magician’s dormitory can we find so many books.

  He is very interested in both the knowledge in the classics and the content of civilization in this different-dimensional space.

   Then he also found the hidden magic compartment behind the seventh book on the bookshelf, and opened it to see that there was a magic token inside.

   As he expected, tokens cannot be collected into storage space.

  And the overflowing magic waves are very special, conspicuous like night pearls in the dark.

  Ji Xun only opened it for confirmation, and then closed it again.

  By the way, I also put a few demon horns on my body inside.

   These things are now carrying all kinds of harm and no benefit.

  Anyway, it is an unlimited time-dimension space, so Ji Xun is not in a hurry.

  He searched again, and finally found a manuscript with an animal skin cover from another drawer with a magic mechanism.

  Enlightenment shows the content “Master Ronan’s Demonic Manuscript”.

  Ji Xun didn’t read much, so he put them away together.

   Seeing that there was nothing missing from Master Ronan’s residence, he turned around and jumped from the window, and then jumped towards the commander’s residence next door.

  The second-tier demon is currently fighting with Mage Ronan in the dungeon, and he shouldn’t be able to come back in a short time.

  Ji Xun has the magic enchantment authority of the entire fortress, which also allowed him to sneak into the house smoothly.

  The commander’s room looked very simple, with a strong smell of alcohol.

   Did not read a single book.

   Nothing of value.

  But Ji Xun saw a shiny silver ax on the equipment shelf at a glance.

  【Fortress Commander’s Long Handled Silver Axe】

  Quality: Bright Silver

   Detailed Explanation: Excellent long-handled ax forged from star iron, sharp +3, heavy hit +4, causing an additional 30% damage bonus to demon creatures;

   The monster didn’t take it, because it is not suitable for demons.

   “Hehe, selling money.”

  Ji Xun looked at the attributes and was disappointed.

  After seeing a lot of babies, my vision is also high.

   Mainly there are no special entries.

  The reason why it is of shining silver quality is only because its material [Star Iron] is a rare metal.

  It is still very heavy, and I can’t use it myself.

  Ji Xun spent a valuable Yaoyin Containment Card to contain the axe.

  Thinking that this ax can also sell for a good price.

  Ji Xun wandered around the commander’s residence, but found nothing of value.

  Originally, he wanted to go to the Military Supply Department to see if he could fish in troubled waters.

  But suddenly, the magic fluctuations in the dungeon suddenly subsided.

  Look at this posture, Master Ronan has been killed.

  Ji Xun didn’t dare to wait for the second-order calamity to come out to trouble him, so he climbed all the way along the rock wall and left the fortress.

   Not long after, on the cliff.

   “The eight major demonic commanders should be at least second-level and B-level or above. The three fortresses of disasters should hold at least three or four commanders. According to the combat power of the beast army, no matter what, you have to face several demonic armies.”

  Ji looked for a place to stay, watched the battle at Meteor Eagle Fortress from a distance, thought about it, and then went to watch the show with peace of mind.

   Now the battle has just begun.

  There are more than 100 kilometers of mountains from the Howling Abyss to the Thunder Fortress in the south. The demon army may have just been dispatched from the lair and has not gone far.

  Ji Xun was not in a hurry to find some devil passage.

  He was on the rock wall, took out the “Master Ronan’s Devil’s Manuscript” he had obtained before, and carefully read it.

   This is a plot item recognized by the space.

   must be related to customs clearance.

  Ji Xun opened the manuscript, which contained an incomprehensible ancient text densely recorded.

   This is the text of the Kingdom of Teresa.

  Ji Xun’s eyes quickly scanned the contents of the notes.

   Not only read the enlightened translation content, but also wrote down the original text.

  The contents of the manuscript are all about Master Ronan’s study of demons, which can be roughly divided into several sections, “Encyclopedia of Known Demon Types”, “Research on Low Demonic Language”, and “Demon Totem”.

  Being guarding the border for many years, this mage has a very in-depth study of the culture and habits of demons.

  The above content is even more detailed than Qidi saw.

   Purely an encyclopedia of demons.

   Time is running out, Ji Xun reads quickly.

   I specifically selected some key points to watch.

  It is mainly aimed at monsters, such as “response potions to prevent spider silk from sticking”, “treatment of demon fire burns”, “detoxification methods of various common demon poisons”.

  Fighting demons is indispensable later, learn more about some practical skills, and more self-protection methods.

   A few hours later.

  Ji Xun closed the manuscript, exhaled a long breath, and couldn’t help sighing: “This manuscript can really help a lot.”

  From knowing nothing about demons before, now I have a clear understanding of the habits and weaknesses of dozens of demons.

  Ji Xun felt that this information was even more useful than any equipment.

  Before the [Giant Demon] was thought to be invincible in defense, who would have thought that a section of its tailbone was weaker than an eyeball?

  [Dark Elf] has the ability to collapse into elemental teleportation, but inserting a needle in its collarbone can prevent it from collapsing.

  The chelicerae of spider-like demons are the most fatal weakness of any part.

   There are many, many more.

  There is only one kind of human being, but demons are of all kinds.

  If Ji Xun hadn’t read this manuscript, he might have to risk his life to test those various demons.

   If you are not careful, you will suffer a lot from those weird abilities.

  Now, the confidence is suddenly a lot stronger.

   It can be said that if Ji Xun knew the habits and weaknesses of these demons in advance, even without a scalpel, he would have the means to kill those disaster-level demons he encountered before.

  Ji Xun put away the manuscript and looked at the time.

   More than five hours have passed.

   Glancing at the Meteor Eagle Fortress, there were only a few sporadic traces of battle left inside.

  The monsters near the Howling Abyss are also the most here.

  Before the fortress soldiers were able to repel several waves of attacks by taking advantage of the cliff terrain.

   But as time goes by, there are fewer and fewer living people, more and more demons, and the fall has reached an irreversible ending.

   Counting the time, the demon army is almost far away from the lair.

  Ji Xun didn’t stay on the cliff for long, and quietly climbed down.

   Not far away, he came to the abyss crack.

  Looking at the bottomless cliff in front of him, Ji Xun threw a few stones and tried.

   No echo heard.

   Fortunately, this crack is a normal crack in the earth, and there is no abnormal gravity.

   Ji Xun jumped down and tried it himself. He climbed several hundred meters on the rock wall, but he didn’t come across anything strange.

  In his eyes, this is the best place to get rid of the devil’s pursuit.

  He is going to the devil’s lair now, among other things, he has to find a way out first.

  Besides, since it is the lair of demons, Ji Xun feels that there must be many sentries of all kinds, and it is best not to go on the regular route.

  The difference between a werewolf walking on flat ground and a rock wall is not too big.

  After Ji Xun tried it out, he didn’t walk on the road above, but climbed on the rock wall several hundred meters below the cliff.

   “Desolate Spire” is about 30 kilometers northeast of the fortress.

   next to the crack.

   On the military map he saw before, he had the impression that he saw a place marked by a stone tower.

  Ji Xun climbed the cliff all the way.

   Relying on the compass, he successfully avoided some places with strong demonic atmosphere.

   Not long after, he came to an area filled with cold mist.

   looked at the pointer.

   There are no demon fluctuations either.

  He just climbed from the cliff to the ground.

   Looking at it, there is a white pagoda built of stones not far away.

   This is where dead soldiers were buried.

  The stone tower is the tombstone.

  The old mage didn’t say where the exact coordinates of the entrance of the devil’s lair were, but Ji Xun felt that since the passage was secret, it would definitely not be easy to find.

  But it can satisfy a large number of demons coming from the north of the rift, the place must not be small.

   There is no suspension bridge or other buildings in the abyss, it may be a teleportation array or something, a passage at the magic level.

  So I can only try my luck in this large area nearby.

  Wearing a relic cloak on his body, Ji Xun walked cautiously into the White Tower Forest like a ghost, and searched patiently.

   It didn’t take long, when he was looking at the red-eyed bat hanging on the key intersection in the White Tower Forest.

  He was also certain that the passage must be nearby.

   Bats can’t spot him.

  Ji Xun continued walking in the White Tower Forest.

  Suddenly, a transparent “white sheet” floated in the air.

  The enlightenment shows [ghost polluted by devil’s air]?

   “Ghost?”

  Ji Xun is also the first time to see a spirit monster.

   It doesn’t look threatening.

   Maybe one shot of daylight bombs can solve it?

   But looking at the prefix of the ghost, Ji Xun immediately realized that it was probably the devil’s eyeliner.

  The wisdom of high-level demons is no worse than that of humans, so it is inevitable that some stealth secrets can escape the surveillance of red-eyed bats.

  The perception method of monsters like ghosts is not the naked eye, but the soul level.

   This makes up for the shortcomings of bat eyeliner detection methods.

  The perception range of the ghost is shorter than the vision, and Ji Xun has not been found yet.

  But like a hound that smelled the scent, it gradually drifted over.

   And there are definitely a lot of ghosts in Tallinn.

   If you continue to walk, there is a high probability that you will be discovered.

   “Ghost sentry. It’s really watertight.”

  Ji Xun frowned slightly as he watched.

   Just seeing the ghost appear, he was sure that the secret passage of the devil was nearby.

   But now he is also in a dilemma.

   Avoidance is impossible to avoid completely, and it cannot be eliminated.

  Once the whereabouts are exposed, the stealth plan will fail.

  Alone, he doesn’t have the ability to break into the devil’s lair.

  How to avoid ghosts?

  Ji Xun searched for all the information he knew about ghosts.

   There are many ways to kill monsters, but it is difficult to avoid them.

  Ghosts are perceptions at the level of the soul. Living people have souls, so it is impossible to avoid them.

Sudden!

   There was a flash of inspiration in my mind.

  In Ji Xun’s thoughts, the wretched smiling face of an old man with missing front teeth appeared, and the devilish voice echoed in his ears: bury your head in your crotch, so that most ghosts can’t see it.

   This is what old man Xu, the “dog king” in the previous team, said.

  His theoretical support is that ghosts can perceive the shape of the human soul fire. But if the head is hidden under the crotch, the shape of the human soul fire will become very strange. The ghosts will feel that they are of the same kind and ignore them.

   I don’t know if it’s bragging, but old man Xu said that he used to rely on this method to survive many grievance spaces with a high mortality rate.

   Quan had listened to jokes before, but he didn’t expect to meet him so soon.

   “Would you like to try?”

   Ji Xun thought about it for a while, but he didn’t think of any other better way.

   If you really want to be exposed, just force it.

  At least determine the location first.

  He thought so.

  The ghost not far away has already floated over, and there is no room for thinking about it.

   Ji Xunben is a clown actor, good at all kinds of antics.

  Seeing that the ghost had floated over, he suddenly bowed 180 degrees, and directly hid his head under his crotch.

  The sensory world is turned upside down at once.

  Ji Xun didn’t move, just stood there.

   However, a magical scene appeared.

  It was like a ghost patrolling here just now, as if it lost its target all of a sudden, and drifted away elsewhere.

   And one of them drifted by not far from Ji Xun, but there was nothing unusual about it.

   “Really didn’t find it?”

  Ji Xun also felt a little unbelievable, and a thought came to his mind: “The old man is really a master of hiding, right?”

  He suddenly felt that the wretched old man seemed to be a bit clumsy.

   Being able to live is really a real skill.

  Since it was okay to try, Ji Xun walked all the way to the depths of Tallinn.

  Although the posture of the buttocks on the top is very strange, Ji Xun feels as if he is performing a funny mime without an audience, and finds a little fun instead.

  The deeper you go into Tallinn, the more ghosts there are.

  Ji Xun relied on this funny action to go all the way, and he was completely undetected.

   At a certain moment when he passed through a fog, the surrounding environment suddenly changed!

  「Discover hidden plots, exploration speed +10%」

   “Completed the C-level plot mission ‘Investigate the Devil’s Secret Passage in the Howling Abyss’, combat merit +5000”

   Enlightenment prompts one after another.

   Ji Xun’s pupils shrank suddenly.

  It was only then that I realized that I had come from a barren cemetery to a bustling devil war fortress.

  Great Demon, Imp, Flame Demon, Dark Elf, Giant Demon, Succubus, Hell Spider, Wall of Flesh, Treasure Box Monster.

  I have seen it, or many strange demons that I saw in the manuscripts of Master Ronan before, all appeared in front of my eyes.

  I really sneaked into the devil’s stronghold?

  Ji Xun saw this, and the scalp-numbing excitement flooded into his brain like a tide.

   And judging from the dense footprints on the ground, not long ago, there must have been a huge army of demons who left the base camp.

   “It turned out that the phantom barrier covered the entrance.”

  Ji Xun looked around and suddenly realized.

  He hid behind a rock and watched.

   It is rare to see disaster-level monsters in this war camp, and most of them are coolies.

  They carry engineering equipment, inferior swords, and human corpses transported back from the front line.

   This is the devil’s logistics force.

  As Ji Xun expected, the elite went to the front to attack the fortress.

   Now the devil’s lair is the emptiest time!

  Now that I haven’t been discovered yet, I have to find an opportunity to make a move.

  Ji Xun’s eyes reflected the monster camp in front of him, and his heart was already getting excited.

  The ground camp is only a small part of the devil’s stronghold. Not far away is a cave entrance that glows red and leads to the ground.

  The mouth of the hole is like a big mouth of a demon with bared teeth.

   No need to guess, there must be many crises inside.

   “Tsk tsk.”

  Ji Xun looked at the corners of his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows, but he didn’t have the slightest intention of shrinking back.

  Everyone is here, you must go in and have a look.

  With thoughts in his mind, he followed a few little devils carrying corpses without fear, and walked directly into the hole.

  The further you go into the cave, the wider the passage will be.

  There are torches on the rock wall to illuminate the mine, and all kinds of demons come and go.

   At intervals, you can still see some totem poles of demonic characters.

   Those characters are low-level demonic languages, which are similar to ancient human characters, and they are all simplified and evolved versions of ancient high-level demonic languages.

  Ji Xun had seen it in Master Ronan’s manuscripts before, and the contents on those totem poles probably recorded descriptions related to “space”.

  After he walked for a while, it was almost certain that the so-called “secret passage of the devil” was some kind of space teleportation array.

  The totem poles everywhere in the crypt are the corners of the teleportation array.

  Ji Xun sneaked all the way in stealth, and followed the little devil in very cautiously.

   Looking at the devil pointer from time to time, he deliberately avoided some directions that obviously had drastic value fluctuations.

   All the way is also smooth.

   But as he was walking, Ji Xun’s eyes suddenly froze.

  Because he actually saw a few living humans walking out of the cave?

   “There are still humans in the devil’s lair?”

   Before Ji Xun was surprised,

  Suddenly, I heard those humans whispering a few devilish words.

  He just realized,

   This is not human.

   It’s a demon disguised as a human!

  Master Ronan’s manuscripts have recorded that there is a kind of cunning demon called [Pishtako], they can use human skins to pretend to be humans alive.

   “It turned out that these human corpses were transported back to the base camp for this purpose”

  Ji Xun saw these “human beings”, and always felt that this skin-changing technique looked familiar.

  But the first time I saw these demons walking freely in the cave,

   A bolder idea suddenly popped up in his mind!

   Transformed into a werewolf, sniffing, the demons were completely human.

   Otherwise, it would be impossible to hide it from the people in the fortress.

   After confirming this, a sly smile appeared in Ji Xun’s eyes: “Hey, it’s convenient now.”

   Don’t look at how smooth the infiltration is now, but this is the devil’s lair after all, and the crisis is far more than what you see.

  【Relic·Hidden】Although it can cover up most of the breath, it may not be able to hide it from those demons with a very keen sense of smell, such as high-level hellhounds.

   And Ji Xun is sure that there are definitely means to detect sneak targets in some key places in this base camp.

  In the manuscripts of Master Ronan, there are several types of demons that can perceive hidden targets.

  Like the silk of a **** spider, the song of a howling banshee, the sand of a sand devil

  These methods are all excellent means to restrain the visual stealth.

  If Ji Xun hadn’t read the manuscript before, he might have plunged into it, and then he didn’t know how he was discovered.

  But in fact, even if you know it, the risk is only reduced, but it cannot be eliminated.

  Ji Xun could only be more careful, but still couldn’t avoid the demon perception with special abilities.

   But now it is different.

   Avoid?

No.

No.

  Since you can’t avoid it anyway, let’s play with a bigger one!

  Ji Xun thought of this, and suddenly put away the cloak and all the equipment on his body.

   Just like the previous demons who had just changed their skins, they walked into the cave with their upper body bare.

   Walked in swaggeringly with a human body!

   Those little devils, big devils, etc. have low intelligence.

  Seeing a “person” suddenly appearing behind him, the first reaction would be [Pishtako] with human skin changed, and he didn’t care at all.

  Even if some highly intelligent demons sensed something was wrong, but looking at such a “person” with no abnormal colors at all, they would never have imagined that there were human beings who were bold enough to dare to break into the forbidden area like this.

  Ji Xun relied on this method to make others feel “crazy” when he saw it, and he walked in smoothly all the way!

   I walked cautiously just now, but now I don’t need it at all.

   After walking deep into the cave, I met a few [Howling Banshees] squatting at certain intersections and singing.

  If it really comes in stealth, it will be discovered immediately.

   It was like going through a lot of security checks, and the demons didn’t notice anything unusual at all.

  Ji Xun went all the way.

   Soon, he came to a cave with a strong smell of blood.

  (end of this chapter)