The Truth of Magic

656 the strange sea

As the three blood-red moons hung high up in the sky, Zhao Xu was already holding that strange painting of the blazing Angel in his hands as he waited for Antonya to arrive in the tower.

After going through that near-death experience in the cave, even though Zhao Xu had Iron Heart and silver Fire, who could create miracles, he still didn’t dare to act rashly.

The abyss was still a forbidden place to him.

even though zhao xu couldn’t detect any traces of the six-armed naga’s aura from the mysterious oil painting, the mysterious gate between worlds that was glowing with blue light still sounded like a call from the abyss, and it made him wary.

zhao xu also used an appraisal spell on it, but the result showed that it was just an ordinary oil painting.

At first glance, the gate between worlds that was clearly suspended in the picture seemed to be a deceptive trick.

“Dong Dong Dong”

As the midnight bell rang, it announced to the entire capital that the ” curfew ” that prohibited wandering had begun. The capital, which was originally bustling with noise and excitement, slowly returned to its former tranquility.

Zhao Xu heard familiar footsteps coming from behind him. He turned around and immediately saw Antonya’s figure appear again.

“It seems that you have gained something?” Antonya asked with a strange look in her eyes.

“I was just about to ask you to appraise it.”

Zhao Xu then handed over the painting in his hand.

“Interesting,”

Antonya was currently wrapped in a milky white wool coat, and there were still some raindrops dripping down from the hem of the coat.

“It has a deeper secret?”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but ask. He couldn’t possibly be so lucky as to be able to find such an extraordinary painting so easily, could he?

Antonya revealed her bright eyes and looked straight at him.

“In fact, I’m also very surprised. I only mentioned the abyssal chapter to you. I didn’t expect you to be related to it so quickly.”

this makes me suspect that it’s a coincidence of fate, or even arranged.

this sentence almost made the hair on zhao xu’s back stand on end. he almost instinctively activated swift burst and threw the painting away.

It was as if the mysterious carvings on the wooden picture frame carried an evil cursed aura, emitting a ferocious roar from the abyss.

“The scroll of the abyss?”

Zhao Xu asked in surprise, but he instantly regained his senses.

no, or is it the replica of the abyssal chapter you mentioned, teacher? Aham’s darkness chapter? ”

As he spoke, he looked at the painting in his hand from several angles. No matter how he looked at it, he couldn’t see the slightest temperament of a divine artifact.

“It seems that you have remembered every word I said to you. Unfortunately, time was a little tight after we separated, so you didn’t have time to go back to the library of legends to browse the materials in this area.”

As she spoke, Antonya placed the oil painting on the stone table in the center of the top floor of the tower. She stared at it for a while before she explained.

Aham is indeed one of the most outstanding candidates in the history of Arthur to study the abyss. He is also one of the few lucky ones who have read the ‘scroll of the abyss’ and not been contaminated and corrupted.

in the end, after he rewrote his memory of the abyssal chapter, it became ‘Aham’s dark chapter’.

” and after thousands of years, although aham, the sage who explored the abyss, has gone missing, the ‘black order’ that carried his will has been passed down. in the hundreds of years when the leader was missing, the disciples of this organization have been constantly expanding and writing ‘volumes’ that record the knowledge of the demons. ”

therefore, in the end, these mysterious scrolls rely on their own power and the power of the abyss to become divine weapons or substandard God weapons. Therefore,’Aham’s volume of darkness’ now refers to this series of abyssal divine artifacts that are extended from the ‘volume of the abyss’. ”

As she spoke, a confused look appeared on Antonya’s face. usually, these divine artifacts are mostly hidden in the bases of the church’s branches or in the hands of well-known members of the organization. It’s very rare for them to be leaked out.

It was only now that Zhao Xu realized that the replica that Antonya and I had casually mentioned back then actually had such a deep secret behind it.

“thus, this painting in my hands is at least a substandard god weapon.” Zhao Xu said emotionally.

“That’s right.” Antonya responded, ” you really do have an affinity with divine weapons. You’ve come across them so many times, but in the end, only a few of them actually end up in your hands.

As soon as she started complaining, Antonya continued to speak seriously.

“zhongxia.”

although Aham’s scroll of darkness is very diverse, with hundreds of chapters, some of which are just scrolls, and some can be bound into a book, don’t underestimate them.

as far as the current recognized research is concerned,’Aham’s volume of darkness’, which records the knowledge of the abyss, demons, and other related subjects, is the only path that can point to the’ volume of the abyss’.

Zhao Xu also nodded as he tried to remember the style of the oil painting.

“Teacher, other than the knowledge records, do these scrolls of darkness have any other special effects or costs?”

“Naturally.”

antonya confirmed, ” these godly items can increase the user’s skill points, and they even have different special powers. they’re divided into lower and higher levels. ”

“However, every time I use the power of the darkness chapter, I will accumulate a probability of summoning a purgatory creature related to it. The secondary is 1%, and the advanced is about 5%. Once a purgatory creature is summoned, they will madly attack the user until they are destroyed and the scroll is obtained.”

the summoning probability of the scroll can only be reset by destroying the purgatory creatures.

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but take a closer look at the painting on the stone table. It was the scroll of darkness.

Could it be that the gate between worlds in the picture was a secondary or advanced power, and once he used it, he might end up facing a purgatory creature?

it must be known that every time it was used, it was a re-roll of the dice to compete in probability.

This was especially so when the probability would definitely reach 100% one day. Not to mention, as long as it exceeded 50%, there would be more than a 50% chance of summoning it every time.

but zhao xu still had his doubts, especially when there were so many volumes of the volume of darkness.

“Teacher, I’m not too worried. However, can the other owners really successfully avoid these purgatory creatures? And if they die, what will happen if the purgatory creatures take the darkness chapter?”

“Well, about this.”

Antonya was currently staring at the three blood moons in the night sky above Yanan. It was rumored that these were all incarnations of the gods.

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“when they were creating the scroll of darkness, the church had taken this into consideration, so every scroll was attached with magic to expel demons. As long as there are any demons born in the abyss within 10 meters, it will automatically accumulate 10% probability of activating teleportation or Otherworld teleportation to leave its current position.”

“And if this escape ability takes effect, the probability of summoning a purgatory creature will also be topped up to 0%.”

“What if a purgatory creature gets it?” Zhao Xu asked in return.

“As long as an abyssal creature obtains the rights to the chapter of darkness, it will lose some of its teleportation abilities and other powers. Any demon that obtains Aham’s volume of darkness will immediately bring it back to the abyss.”

Zhao Xu’s heart was filled with a mix of joy and worry.

This meant that the six-armed Naga wasn’t possessing this painting. Otherwise, it would have already known the secret.

The other party had not activated the painting’s teleportation effect as the darkness scroll, as it was possessed by an illusory body.

The six-armed Naga actually passed by the scroll of darkness that they were also searching for.

Antonya also smiled and said, ” any demon who regains the volume of darkness and brings it back to the abyss will hand it over to their superiors, such as a six-armed Naga or a Balor. if it’s of a sufficiently high level, it might even be a demon prince.”

and because the volume of darkness recorded too many secrets of the abyss, it has always been a thorn in the eyes of the demons. As long as they have the opportunity, they will persist in destroying the artifact.

but no matter how weak Aham’s volume of darkness is, it’s almost indestructible because of the divine weapon. Zhao Xu said, ” is there another way? ”

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of course. There’s a well-known method that won’t fail. You just have to throw it into the well of darkness in the abyss. The chaotic and evil fluid inside will completely destroy the scroll of darkness in an hour.

as she spoke, antonya’s gaze returned to the painting in front of her.

“I have a volume of darkness in my hands, called the ‘volume of darkness’.’Abyssal geographism’. Back then, turkart Noel Aham relied on the records of the’ abyssal scroll ‘to explore the abyss, and then he created the guide to the ever-changing layers.”

the guidebook recorded the geographical information of the many levels of the abyss, including the dangerous and relatively safe places.

as she spoke, antonya took it out from her dimensional bag and said, ” because it teleports me away automatically when i meet a demon, i usually have to seal it up. ”

the abyssal geography book was a large and cumbersome book, and it looked like a navigator’s rudder.

As Antonya spread it open, Zhao Xu noticed that the pages were two meters long and one meter wide, and it was also giving off a very strong moldy smell.

just reading this abyssal geography book is a difficult task. The process of reading will be urgently suppressed by the ritual. if one’s will can’t withstand it, it’s very likely that they’ll become delusional and paranoid, and will no longer be willing to come into contact with the darkness chapter. they’ll even be in a state of fear when they come into contact with it. ”

but if you survive, you will gain a detailed understanding of the abyss.

[ a knowledge (plane) check about the abyss and demons and a survival check in the abyss will have A +10 environment bonus. This effect will last for a whole year after reading it. ]

Zhao Xu understood that this was the typical bonus to a skill from the darkness chapter, so he continued to ask, ” what about secondary and advanced power? ”

“A secondary power that can perform a limited teleportation between worlds. The other was a high-level teleportation once a day. The last high-level power is the gate between worlds ‘demon summoning once a week.”

zhao xu shook his head when he heard this. ” i think the effect is just average. ”

Antonya couldn’t help but laugh. your standards have been raised too high. However, I really don’t recommend using it, because every time I use my strength, I will summon 2-5 soul judges. Once the probability is high, the summoned demon will rebel, and an additional six-armed Naga and 1-4 Berserker demons will be summoned to retrieve the divine artifact.”

at the same time, these demons are summoned here. They have physical bodies, so they can continue to summon and have you face a group of demon reinforcements.

when he heard this, zhao xu was already shaking his head. ” just hearing it makes my head hurt. ”

I feel like these so-called divine weapons don’t live up to their names. They just want to make them indestructible.

At this time, his evaluation of the ‘oil painting’ in his heart had dropped a lot.

Then Antonya put away her ” abyssal geography “. From the way she had casually picked it up, the power hidden in Antonya’s seemingly weak body was also shockingly terrifying.

as for your painting, I really can’t figure out which one it is. After all, I only joined the church for a few years and didn’t know much about it.

As she spoke, Antonya furrowed her brows in deep thought.

“But from my point of view, this painting is more like a teleportation key.”

“Key?”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but think back to the time when he wanted to go to the death demiplane. The giant scythe in his hand was the key, and what he was looking for was the hidden teleportation gate.

generally speaking, mages can easily lose the specific coordinates of the half-plane they manage in the astral world due to a plane storm if they are not strong enough.

therefore, most mages who can use the legendary spell ‘creation’ to create a ‘half BitWall’ will fix the entrance coordinates of the half BitWall in the painting, and then apply the power of the ‘teleportation’ spell on the painting.

so, the drawing in my hand is very likely to point to a certain level of the abyss? ” Zhao Xu muttered to himself.

that’s right. Generally, when we arrive at the abyss, we choose the plain of ten thousand abysses on the fourth level. It is well-known because there are many teleportation gates leading to the abyss, and it is also one of the most frequent passages in the bottomless abyss. It is also the common destination of most travelers who want to go to the infinite level.

“If I were you, I would also suggest you choose this level to teleport. At the very least, it’ll be safer when we land compared to the other levels.”

As she spoke, Antonya raised the painting in her hand and said, ” but since we have this painting now, let’s use it to enter it. At the same time, I’ll let you experience the aura of the ‘scroll of darkness’, so that you’ll be able to recognize it in the future.

In an instant, Antonya activated the power of the oil painting.

The gate between worlds that looked so real in the painting immediately lit up with a bright light and engulfed Antonya.

when the light landed on zhao xu’s body, the blue light suddenly turned black.

Zhao Xu also disappeared.

After experiencing an indescribable jolting and nauseating feeling ...

Zhao Xu was surprised to find that he had appeared on the surface of the ocean with rough waves. He instantly used flight to control his body.

Antonya had already disappeared from his side.

At the same time, a mysterious voice suddenly called out to him from behind.

“R ‘lyeh.”