Chapter 250
Due to the existence of [Origin], the structure of a human's soul was relatively stable, making it difficult for it to produce power similar to interference force. To obtain that power, one had to first release their [Origin] to strengthen their soul, and normally, releasing it once wasn't enough.
Due to the fact that this world was monopolized by the seven Righteous Gods, using the mana of this world to release one's [Origin] would result in a mutation, the one who released it would lose their rationality, which was why this release was known as the awakening of an evil soul.
Without the relevant resources, Negri couldn't help others release their [Origin], and even if he used his own Soul Points to guide it, it wouldn't be worth it.
To better understand a person's soul, this experiment was conducted to break the balance of the soul and guide the power of the soul.
Through numerous experiments, he found that using the power of Impurity to tilt the originally balanced structure of the soul could guide a power similar to interference force. However, this power was extremely rigid, unable to perform illusory transformations, which was why it was known as psychokinesis.
What Darr exchanged for was the psychokinesis awakening surgery. This invisible psychokinesis was capable of manipulating external objects at crucial moments, creating a chain reaction.
Naturally, this act of breaking the balance of the soul would also have side effects. In more serious cases, it would cause the user's personality to change greatly, amplifying a certain emotion, which was called paranoia.
Perhaps Darr's fanatical worship towards Negri was one of these factors as well.
What interested Negri was that after the balance of the soul was broken, to form a new balance, the [Origin] would give birth to the power of the soul, strengthening the soul.
Under the condition of not releasing [Origin], the [Origin] could give birth to a large amount of Soul Points, but unfortunately, there was a limit to it. If one of these factors wasn't handled properly, the soul would collapse.
What troubled Darr the most right now was that after fusing with the Gear, the Gear's power was also fusing with his power, making Darr unable to use psychokinesis.
Other than that, the only ability Darr exchanged for from the Hermit Order was the partial modification of the snake demon, an ability that was similar to an instinctive organ. This ability originated from one of Negri's subordinates, the snake demon Isrig.
This was the first person to join Negary's side, but he wasn't particularly famous in Negary's group. The most interesting thing about him was his Ritual of Snakes. After going through Negary's guidance and optimization, it had greatly improved, allowing it to be modified step by step, such as heat perception or cold-bloodedness.
In the territory of the Sun Shadow church, everyone knew that the knights of the church were most proficient in detecting changes in temperature, as well as using high-temperature attacks.
From a certain perspective, the snake demons were existences that countered the Sun Shadow Knights. Heat perception allowed the modified to sense the Knights' location and their attacks, while the cold-blooded modification allowed them to evade the Sun Shadow Knights' senses.
This was because the cold-blooded modification would cause the modified person to develop a strong sense of drowsiness when the temperature was not high enough. Therefore, Darr only modified the body to sense the temperature in the surroundings.
Therefore, when Chromie approached his stronghold, Darr had already noticed the change in Chromie's body temperature.
"Damn it …" Darr pushed open a concealed wooden door. There was a man-made circular passage that led to a pitch-black unknown land.
After activating the self-destruct mechanism, it wouldn't be long before the passage would collapse due to the mechanism, blocking the enemies behind them.
Darr staggered his way into the passage. He was now regretting fusing with the Gear of Impurity so quickly, but he didn't think that someone would still be able to find this place under his many baits.
The power of the Gear of Impurity was constantly circulating inside his body, harmonizing with his body's condition and slowly forming a new balance.
The environment behind the passage was also revealed to Darr. It was a very old corridor, obviously not one of Darr's own creations.
After he found a hideout in the underground sewers, when he was setting up the mechanism, he noticed that the soil on one side of the mountain wall wasn't quite right. According to his measurements of the soil, he found that there should be a sizable space inside the mountain wall.
After breaking through the mountain wall, he found this corridor that resembled a ruin. Both sides of the corridor were lit by long lamps that seemed to never go out, while the end of the corridor led to an unknown place.
According to the location, this ruin was located underneath Lohr. After completing his initial exploration of the ruin, Darr confirmed that he had discovered something incredible.
Just the area that he had explored was already astonishingly large. He even suspected that his previous exploration was only at the entrance of the ruins. The real ruins had yet to be opened to him.
This was a bit frightening. From the looks of it, even the Sun Shadow church would have a hard time constructing such a large structure underneath Lohr. Furthermore, from the style and age of the ruin, this didn't belong to Lohr at all.
With Darr's meager knowledge of history, he only knew that this place had been ruled by the church for over a thousand years, but he didn't know what kind of organization this place belonged to before that.
In fact, most of the people in Lohr were the same. They didn't know much about the past history, at most, those who were a bit familiar with theology knew that the ruler of this land was a capital of sin, which was liberated by the arrival of God.
It was only after Darr investigated the Hermit Order's internal records that he found out that this ruin most likely belonged to the extinct race — — the elves.
He obtained a few treasures from the ruin, which was also one of the reasons why he was able to rise so quickly, but since he couldn't enter the true ruin, Darr decided to turn this place into a secret escape route.
Following the sound of collapse, the passage he used to enter this place had already collapsed, which meant it wouldn't be so easy for an enemy to enter this place. Darr shook his head and headed to the other side. On the other side, there was a secret passage that led to this place.
On the other side, Chromie's expression was a bit gloomy. He had carefully deciphered the various traps and mechanisms along the way, but as soon as he entered the base, he was thrown into a mess by the explosion. More importantly, the passage to pursue him had also been cut off.
He didn't expect my Spirit Vision ability, and I didn't expect him to be so decisive either. Chromie's expression was a bit unsightly. If he lost that young man, the next time they met, he might have already fused with the Gear, which would further increase the Hermit Order's power, making it even harder for him to rescue Auri's soul.
"Wait a minute …" Chromie suddenly sensed something amiss. He raised his slightly missing finger to see a ring on it, with a prayer inscribed on the inside of the ring: May the moon be with you!
In the past, he had seen his sister wearing this ring, and his father had also kept it well hidden. After his family was destroyed, he kept this ring by his side as a remembrance, but he didn't think that this ring would behave so strangely today.
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