Novels online

Chapter 260

Darr's body was quickly wriggling, after devouring a certain number of Gluttonous Demon Ghosts, his appearance was slowly becoming closer to that of a Gluttonous Demon Ghost. However, this didn't mean that his mutation had stabilized. His body became even more deformed, his chaotic thoughts were constantly affecting him.

His grey body seemed to be made from a combination of flesh and internal organs, a few rib-like bone spikes could pierce through the flesh at any moment, and a few green eyeballs could be seen opening between the folds of his muscles.

A large amount of mana was being transferred through his flesh, but Darr didn't have much knowledge regarding this, so even though he had accumulated so much mana, he could only store it in various parts of his body like a Gluttonous Demon Ghost without being able to use it.

I can't go on, if this continues, I'll be completely assimilated and turn into a deformed Gluttonous Demon Ghost. Darr managed to maintain his last bit of rationality, a large number of grey patterns had now appeared on his head, but surprisingly, there was also a hint of emerald green among them.

As an elf that had been abandoned by the will of the Moon Tree, their elven bloodline had already been crippled, leaving only their greed for mana. However, under his unstable mutation and the guidance of Chromie's corrosive blood, Darr managed to regain a portion of his elven bloodline.

If not for his unstable mutation, Darr could have been called a half-elf just like Chromie.

I need to repair the linking substance between my soul and life as soon as possible and stabilize the Gear. Darr was currently suffering unspeakably. The Gear was still turning, breaking the balance of his bloodline and causing a new round of mutation.

His body was currently a complete mess, if he didn't suppress the Gear soon, his body would soon collapse and turn into a puddle of pus. At that time, the linking substance between his soul and life would instead be taken by the Gear and used to repair the Gear.

During this time, it wasn't as if Darr hadn't experimented with Gluttonous Demon Ghosts to kill them and obtain their linking substance, but all of his attempts had failed without exception.

The linking substance would quickly dissipate. Its nature was closer to the soul, but also different from the soul. After a living being died, it would automatically break apart, some would even mix with vitality to form a different kind of vitality.

Darr had a certain understanding of such things. After all, this thing was the main research target of Negri. Psychokinesis was the product of the research on the balance of the soul structure, and the research results of the linking object were obtained by another person, the magnate that Darr had previously sought refuge with.

As Negri's experimental subject, she obtained abilities related to the soul. Because she could absorb the link between the soul and life, she obtained the ability to separate her soul from her body.

While they were stealing the Gear, the animals that constantly attacked them were actually Fye and Luo's means. They were able to pull out the souls of the animals, then control those animals through their souls. When necessary, they could stimulate the souls and cause the animals to enter a berserk state, releasing all of their life restraints.

In fact, it was said that the Overlord was even able to strengthen a person's link, eventually transferring the person's soul into the body. It was also because of this that she managed to transform from Negri's experimental subject into one of the Overlords of the Hermit Order in just three short years.

After all, certain types of magic required a certain kind of physique to learn, and there were many people who didn't want to turn into monsters due to their old age, so taking over a younger, more suitable body was the best choice.

What Darr had relied on before, although it seemed like he was relying on the Overlord, they were actually working together, and Darr didn't obtain any related abilities. If he had known that the Gear was related to this, he would have paid a higher price to obtain the soul vessel.

Now that he was in such a predicament, leaving the underground ruins was already extremely difficult, and with his current appearance, he didn't have enough time to go up to the surface and obtain the related items.

I can only try to find a solution from the elves. The elves of this city had all evolved into Gluttonous Demon Ghosts, the once prosperous elven civilization had collapsed, but their accumulated knowledge still remained.

After discovering this ruin, Darr had searched for information regarding the elves. Although most of it was incomplete, Darr still managed to obtain some information.

The elven civilization relied on the Moon Tree's Mother Tree, the Well of the Moon, to utilize a large amount of mana. The core of their faith was the Moon Tree, followed by the three elven Lord Gods and their Pantheons.

A portion of the elves would be buried under the Moon Tree's roots after their deaths. While their True Spirits had already gone to where they should go, their souls would also remain, residing within their bodies and falling into a deep slumber.

For that reason, the area beneath the Moon Tree was also known as the Graveyard of Heroic Spirits, where they could stand up at any time and fight for the Moon Tree. Of course, the Graveyard of Heroic Spirits had now become the Unrepenting Abyss, and the heroic spirits had been reduced to fighting demons, forced to fight without rest.

From this, one could easily understand one thing. The elven race had quite a bit of research regarding souls, and their achievements weren't low at all. Perhaps, one of them was related to the linking item.

"It's in the middle of the Mother Tree …" Darr's experiment of stripping the Gluttonous Demon Ghost's link was not entirely fruitless. At least he managed to obtain some information from an older Gluttonous Demon Ghost.

Among the withered Mother Tree, there was a special 'kindred'. He had moved many things back to the Mother Tree and set up many traps around it, preventing the Gluttonous Demon Ghosts from getting close to the Mother Tree.

One of the many things Pernod had done in his thousands of years of solitude was to collect all the valuable items in the city.

For instance, all kinds of books.

"This is the place." Pernod walked in front of them, standing on top of the Mother Tree's trunk and pushed open a wooden door. The inside of the tree trunk had been hollowed out, the wooden texture combined with the rows of bookshelves inside gave the entire tree hollow a unique appearance.

Chromie entered the space with a wooden stick. Judging from the echoes, the space wasn't small, but he was blind and couldn't see his surroundings at all.

Pernod passed through row after row of bookshelves before finally stopping in front of one of them. He took out an intricate silver box and opened it to reveal a leaf that looked like an emerald.

"This is it, the method to learn the Mana Eye, as well as the only spell a Magi-breaker has" Pernod casually tossed the leaf to Chromie behind him and told him: "Use your heart to sense what's on it. If you succeed, you'll instantly learn everything about the Mana Eye "Pernod casually tossed the leaf to Chromie behind him:" Use your heart to sense what's on it, if you succeed, you'll instantly learn everything about the Mana Eye "

"Only after you've learned all the relevant knowledge will I give you the key items needed to cultivate the Mana Eye, then I'll tell you how to leave this place through the warp gate. At that point, you can leave whenever you want" Pernod's voice sounded especially tired and old.