Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 2316: Styx’s thinking is a bit weird
The corner of Hill's mouth twitched violently.

In fact, his expression is always quite light. Even if the corner of his mouth twitches, he will retract it almost instantly because of his personality.

So, you can imagine how speechless he is now.

Sure enough, the longer an old guy lives, the more he acts like a naughty boy.

The Styx diverted his attention just to prevent him from seeing the City of Death that he had rebuilt!

But with such a big commotion, how could Hill not notice it?

He's not deaf.

It is conceivable that Minghe just wanted to avoid seeing the moment when he made a move...the rest was just a matter of covering one's ears and stealing the bell.

Anyway, given Hill's character, he wouldn't expose anyone's shortcomings in person.

Hill looked at the new City of Death silently... and deeply suspected that Minghe had just gone to William to ask for the blueprints.

The time is so short, it shouldn't be enough for him to find the undead to issue the mission, right?
Moreover, he was very familiar with this map, as it was the place where he had lost his way, lost his life, and committed suicide when he was a child... an undead city called Undercity.

On the circle in the middle is a tall, mysterious bone tower covered with patterns.

Four arch bridges extend from this circular area, leading to a circular passage filled with light gates.

Under the arch bridge is a deep pit.

The outside of the circular passage is a wall covered with arches...both above and below the bridge.

The undead walked out of these light gates leading to various parts of the world, and were then preliminarily judged by the magic circle on the passage under their feet.

The wicked are thrown into the pit below, then sucked into an archway for a second sorting.

The outer ring below leads to the punishment areas of mountains of swords and seas of fire.

The outer ring above is a residential area where neutral souls who want to stay in the City of Death and become residents can settle down.

Even the trading area is marked.

However, it seems that there is also a part of the area above that is for those debt-ridden souls in the neutral camp.

However, the punishment was lighter, more like solitary confinement.

But those pale cubicles also look quite uncomfortable.

Staying in a small dark room for too long will drive you crazy.

Even if the soul is less sensitive to the passage of time, it would still be very uncomfortable to stay in that kind of place for a long time.

Hill recalled the simple and crude punishment measures of the Styx before, and then looked at the already mature building in front of him... He totally didn't believe that this was something created by the Styx himself.

If he really had the ability to achieve this level, even if he planned to create a simplified mode first, he would not play it like that.

Hill pondered for a moment… If the alternative city of death that William prepared actually included an Undercity, then how was Trahill going to build it?
He had a vague idea in mind, but he felt that it was not possible... Even if he became a god and could dig out all the memories since his birth from his mind, William would not be able to remember so much, right?

Did he deal with Ironforge before... Well, this is consistent with William's personality.

Just by remembering Undercity and Ironforge, Hill can actually be understood.

After all, no matter which side they are on, these two cities are a great pain in their hearts... If you are on your side, you will get lost and fall into the river and be poisoned to death, or fall into the fire and be burned to death, and then, if you go to the other side to launch a sneak attack, the result will be the same.

Tsk, forget it...Hill still thinks William is not normal.

He studied civil engineering, but he didn't even bother to memorize the city map in the game!

"It seems like there's some kind of ritual going on at the Black Mystery Tower."

Although he knew that Hill understood everything, as long as Hill didn't say anything, Minghe could pretend that what happened just now had never happened.

He happily told Hill: 'They want to hand over control of the Soul Tower to a mortal, but that mortal does not have enough mental strength.

So, they seem to want to weaken the tower spirit... Very interesting, that kind of tower spirit with self-awareness is rare, why do they want to dismantle it?

Humans are really weird.

I have only seen mages who carried out massacres just to create a soul crystal that can be used as a tower spirit.'

Hill could only smile in response to Minghe's sigh.

What could he say?

Perhaps for other mages, it is a good thing for the Soul Tower to have a tower spirit that is intelligent enough and knows how to find work for itself.

But to Root, it was just cruelty.

His teacher would probably rather fall into a deep sleep.

Moreover, didn’t Minghe already know that the tower spirit was almost having a mental breakdown?

Even if he still planned to be the tower spirit, he would have to sleep for a long time to recover.

The controllers of the Soul Tower are all his disciples. How could they let their own master's soul be destroyed just for convenience?

It is estimated that the ceremony they are performing now is more to pass on the memory of soul spells in Teacher Rutte's mind to Felice.

This practice consumes a huge amount of soul power.

Even for Felice, it would be very difficult... Although this knowledge would be locked up layer by layer until his spiritual sea could bear it, just receiving it would probably push his spiritual power to the limit.

However, as long as he persists, this will allow his spiritual sea to expand to the maximum extent.

It just so happens that the tower spirit's soul power has dropped to the lowest level, and Felice's spiritual sea has grown to the highest level... maybe a balance point will appear, allowing the two of them to sign a contract.

Of course, this is based on the premise that at that moment, Rutt directly severed his connection with the Soul Tower.

But Hill never doubted this.

Ruth is still able to stay sober now, Hill admires him very much.

Over the years, he paid a huge price to finally get to where he is today. He even brought huge losses to the Xia Tower, causing it to completely fall from the altar.

Even though he was able to win in part because of a lucky encounter with Hill.

But, if Root had not insisted and had a bottom line, he would not have been able to touch Hill.

Moreover, according to the direction of this world, even if Hill had not arrived, Root should have been able to cause some damage to the Tower of Xia... Of course, the Tower of Black Mystery would not be as complete as it is now.

It is estimated that more than half of Rutt's students will be lost.

Hmm...the conspirator at the Tower of Despair might really be able to inherit the Tower of Souls.

Hill sighed: "I think someone is coming from the Black Mystery Tower again."

This time, Ruth is expected to come in person.

But this time, he is definitely on the same side as the undead.

"I don't know what's going on at the Tower of Despair." Hill murmured.

This time, Minghe didn't answer... He didn't care about these mortal affairs at all.

He actually only had a vague understanding of what was going on in the Black Mystery Tower, and that was because the Black Mystery Tower originally belonged to him, otherwise Styx would never have taken over a mortal's magic tower.
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"Hill? Hill!"

William's call brought the dazed Hill back to the hall.

Hill shook his head and looked at William curiously with his big lake green eyes: "What's wrong?"

"River Styx..." William spoke ambiguously.

"He built a ring-shaped city, and the initial test showed no problems." Hill smiled and answered seriously, "However, no undead outside the evil camp have entered yet, so we don't know if it is completely okay."

William showed a satisfied smile: "Hehe~ It's actually been repaired!"

Hill blinked. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Nothing~" William's tone was a little excited, "I just want to see the City of Death in this world.

Unfortunately, the Styx is unwilling to invite me in."

Hill was stunned for a moment, then slowly explained: "Gilbert is not strong enough. Once a powerful god like you enters the newly built City of Death, you can snatch a part of the sovereignty from him. The Styx will definitely not agree."

Do you really think that if Jergal can completely control the Styx, he will still be afraid of AO?
Although he was born quite early, unfortunately, not as early as Shar and Selûne.

And AO has lived for so long, how could he not know the rules of the Styx?

Therefore, with the power of Shar and Selûne, AO even allowed moonlight to shine into the River Styx... Otherwise, how could the three gods of death created by Jergal come into contact with AO without his own knowledge?
Isn’t it because the River Styx actually has a shadow under the moonlight!
Of course, it is precisely because of these shadows that both the Abyss and the Nine Hells can open dimensional gates in the Styx River Basin of Toril, which the City of Death cannot control... and then rush directly into Toril through these gates.

Jergal will not help guard these doors, nor will he kill the demons and devils that come out of these doors.

The City of Death only allows demons to enter and tempt souls, and does not allow demons to appear. This is obviously a thing that happened after the God of Death took office.

These are all complementary things.

Styx himself would not make such a mistake.

Hill was able to go because he was incompatible with the City of Death, and because of that the Underworld Tree of Trahil was related to the River Styx.

The moment Hill could see the specific structure of the City of Death clearly, he figured it out.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful he was or how good his eyesight was, it would be impossible for him to jump over the bone tower and see the structure of the entire city clearly.

When others, including gods, look there from the outside, they usually only see a tower of bones in black shadows.

Unless you walk into the City of Death, you won’t be able to see the scene in the black shadows.

But Hill can.

Then, not only did Styx know that he could do it, he wasn't surprised at all.

After thinking about it for a while, Hill knew what had happened... The death of the Trasil Underworld Tree should be blamed on him.

Hill, in fact, did not want this to happen.

As cool as it sounds...the city of death was built out of trees that belonged to him.

But, what’s the point of him, a son of nature who advocates life, being associated with the River Styx?

There is no benefit at all!

Also, is this really a good thing?
What kind of thinking did Minghe have that made him feel it was appropriate to build the City of Death on someone else's big tree?

After all, he was the one who summoned the tree.

(End of this chapter)