Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 540 Conjecture
"You may not believe me, since I came to this world, I haven't died once, so I still look like a living person." Derrick smiled.

Rhodes remembered hearing Natalya mention before that as long as he entered the world of the dead, he would be constantly "digested" by the world.

Although Derrick hadn't died, he had started to rot gradually, and now his skin had turned blue.

"Then have you heard them talk about how to return to the world of the living from here?" Michelle asked.

"No, anyway, I heard them say that gods cannot return from this world to the world of living people, and I don't know if ordinary people have a chance.

By the way, the two of you obviously didn't die, how did you come into this world? " Derrick asked back.

"It's a long story, we teleported in, do you know where there is a shelter built by God nearby?" Rhodes asked.

"I suggest you don't go to the shelter. You are not believers of those gods. If you enter the shelter established by it, you will definitely be placed on the front line of the battle.

And if there are more dead gathered in one place, the more and stronger wandering spirits will come to them every time night and day alternate.

Not only will you not be protected there, but it will be even more dangerous for you to go there. You might as well stay with me and be safe. "Derrick said.

"It's okay, we're just asking how to go back, and we don't intend to stay there," Rhodes said.

He had heard Natalya talk about this before. At that time, they encountered many living corpses in the ruins. Natalya took out a book written by a necromancer to read.

Rhodes had some doubts about the contents of that book before, but after Derrick's confirmation, he didn't expect that there was basically nothing wrong with that book.

"It's still very dangerous. If you encounter an evil god, you will go through countless slaughters until you become wandering spirits in the end.

Forget it, I don't think I can stop you, if I were you, I would definitely find a way to go back, you can try to look in that direction, I heard that there seems to be a shelter there, and it doesn't seem to be an evil god . "Derrick said, pointing in one direction.

"Thank you, if we encounter an evil god, we will have a way to deal with it." Rhode thanked.

"It's not that easy, maybe you have eliminated cultists and even incarnations of evil gods before, but they are too different from the real evil gods.

I heard that the evil gods will not shelter their believers, but roam the world, killing all the dead who have not yet turned into wandering spirits, even gods, absorbing their power to strengthen themselves.

Even if your strength reaches extraordinary, or even the fifth level, you still cannot compete with them. "Derrick said.

"Thank you for reminding us, we are leaving now." Rhodes nodded.

He took out a few knight novels from Al's luggage and handed them to Derrick: "You don't need most of the living things, so I'll give you some knight novels to pass the time."

"This is exactly what I need." Derrick accepted the knight novel with a happy face.

Afterwards, Rhodes led Misail towards the direction Derrick pointed earlier.

"Also, I forgot to remind you just now. Before the night comes, try to stay near the campfire. There may be horrors that you can't imagine in the darkness." Derrick reminded loudly while looking at the backs of the two of them leaving.

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Not far from the high ground, the two encountered a large group of wandering spirits.

This time Misel made a move before Rhodes, several golden lights flashed like sharp swords, and this large group of wandering souls were cut into several pieces.

But they were not completely dead. The broken limbs and torso could still move on the ground, and even a few heads rolled towards the two with their mouths wide open, as if preparing to bite them.

"Why can't my magic spell kill them?" Michelle looked in front of him in disbelief.

Rhodes kicked a wriggling broken arm off the ground casually, and after thinking about it, he said, "Try another kind of magic."

Michel nodded, and a pure white and holy flame emerged beside her.

She let out a soft drink, and pure white flames spewed forward.

The living corpses that had been cut into pieces on the ground were burning one after another, and some of the living corpses were still howling like beasts.

It didn't take long for them to be reduced to ashes under the burning of pure white flames.

"This spell wasn't like this before." Michelle frowned as he stared at the ashes in front of him, "It used to be a golden flame."

"Maybe this is what the Lord of Radiance stole from Vulcan." Rhodes said his thoughts after thinking for a while.

While the two continued to move forward, Rhodes began to analyze all the information he knew and make guesses.

He learned from Natalya that the world of the dead is actually the digestive system of the real world.

The flesh of dead creatures will rot in the real world, undergoing material and energy cycles.

The soul is drawn by the rules of the world and is drawn into the world of the dead.

Every soul in the world of the dead is being digested all the time, and the cycle of day and night in Derrick's mouth can be compared to the peristalsis of the intestines, speeding up the process of digestion and absorption.

Those irrational, living corpses known as "wandering souls" were the last dregs of digestion.

The author of the book in Natalya's hand, the necromancer who had entered the world of the dead many times, believed that the existence of wandering spirits was due to the rules of the world itself.

He believes that rather than absorbing the remaining negligible power of the wandering soul, the world is more willing to let the wandering soul become a tool to assist itself in digestion and absorption, and accelerate the loss of soul energy and humanity of other intelligent creatures.

Rhodes disagreed with him.

There is no eating in the world, so there is no excretion. The world they are in now should be a closed loop.

Things like "wandering souls" will appear, indicating that there is a problem with the digestive system of the world.

The constant decrease in the concentration of mana in the real world is a concrete manifestation of this problem.

If this problem is not solved, the world will continue to develop as it is now, and there will definitely be problems.

The world of the dead has accumulated more and more wandering souls, and the concentration of magic power in the real world is getting lower and lower.

When there is no magic power in the real world, this effect may be reflected in the birth of new life, whether it is human beings or other creatures, the birth rate will decrease until no new life is born...

At that time, the remaining creatures will continue to fight for survival, in order to save the flesh and soul of each other so that they can live longer in this hopeless world.

The most powerful creature ever to be born will then be born, but what awaits it will end alone with the world...

Someone should have thought of this a long time ago, and the bonfires in the world of the dead were established because of this.

The wandering spirits are killed, and they will be revived again after the next alternation of day and night.

The only way to kill them is to throw them into a bonfire.

wrong!

Rhodes suddenly remembered that the last time he accidentally entered the world of the dead, Marquis Marquis' son and the few sane living corpses could temporarily kill the wandering soul with ordinary swords, but just now Michel's spell cut the wandering soul into pieces. Became fragments, but those fragments are still able to move.

This should happen in the real world, not in the world of the dead.

According to the author of that book, the real world does not have the unique digestion rules of the dead world, so living corpses and wandering spirits cannot die even if they are turned into pieces in the real world.

In the world of the dead, due to the existence of digestion rules, even a wandering soul will die temporarily if its body is cut off.

Although it will be resurrected, it will not be resurrected until the next reincarnation.

So what happened just now?

Is it affected by the aura of our two living beings, or is the rule of the world of the dead gradually becoming invalid?

"We're almost there, and there should be a shelter built by a false god in front of us." Misaier said, pointing to a hill at the end of his field of vision.

The hills are full of wandering spirits with rotting bodies and old weapons, which are more spectacular than the zombie siege in the movie...

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(End of this chapter)