Chapter 2314: Holiness
Runeland, one of the few places that gives people the impression of being in the void, the former Blessed Isles, now called the Shadow Isles. This land was once a beautiful island, but it was completely transformed by a devastating magical disaster.
The Blessed Isles were once full of gardens, libraries, schools, and lecture halls. There is no army here, because the white mist surrounding the island will make blind travelers lose their way.
More than a thousand years ago, an unprecedented magical disaster tore the barrier between the material and spiritual realms apart, causing the two to merge and destroy all life in an instant.
Now, the Black Mist lingers on the island all the time, and the land itself is polluted and corrupted by evil magic. If any living creature comes to the island, its vitality will gradually fade, and then attract the undead who are never satisfied and predatory.
Those souls who die in the Black Mist will be cursed to live forever in this land full of sorrow. What's more terrifying is that the power of Shadow Island is getting stronger every year, and the undead souls are expanding their invasion range, harvesting the hopes and souls of the living throughout the Rune Land.
After completing some pre-tasks, a petite figure with bandages wrapped around her body landed on this dangerous island. Before landing on the island, I also saw fishermen from some small islands around. They thought that the invasion range of the black fog was small during the day and they were still ignorantly fishing on the sea, not knowing that the sea was full of dangers.
Lomi didn't kindly remind them of their thoughts, but walked into the ghost fog that enveloped the sea in front of him. This was a mixture of ghosts on one island after another. It can be seen that this group of foggy ghosts is composed of countless individual souls.
Once an army fell here, and then the spirits of the chariot soldiers in it combined with the spirits of sharks in the sea to form a special hybrid spirit, the shark chariot, but unlike other spirits, the shark chariot can sneak in the sea without following the movement of the black fog.
There are also some evil spirits that twist into the appearance of various animals to become nightmares for the living. A butcher stands out in this ghost fog, to be precise, a ghost butcher with a pig's head and a human body.
He is tall, with a ferocious head like a wild boar, his eyes flashing with a faint blue light, like two cold stars in the abyss, a cruel smile on the corners of his mouth, sharp and yellow fangs, and dripping with strange mucus from time to time.
His body is covered with rough gray skin, covered with traces of time and scars left by battles. Under the skin, the muscles are as hard as steel, and each piece highlights its extraordinary strength. The limbs are thick, and sharp black claws grow on the fingertips, which can tear the prey in an instant, leaving shocking wounds.
This guy moves with heavy and powerful steps, and every step seems to step on the heartstrings of the prey, causing tremors. Holding a huge butcher knife, the blade is covered with dried blood and stains, and the air is filled with a suffocating smell of blood.
It was wearing a worn leather apron, which was covered with dried blood and stains, as if it had just walked out of a slaughterhouse. Romi saw through the essence of this ghost at a glance. He was a butcher in his lifetime. After being swallowed by the black fog, his soul was twisted. When he was reshaped into an evil spirit by witchcraft, his form was formed by food, and he became a pig-man butcher.
Romi walked in the ghost mist and didn't care about these ghosts at all. In her eyes, these were very low-level spirits. Low-level spirits are those that have lost consciousness. Only part of their thoughts remain in their spirit consciousness to prompt them to move. Under normal circumstances, they are just walking corpses. She doesn't like these "garbage" at all.
The low-level spirits of Shadow Island even have huge restrictions on going out. If they are weaker, they can only appear during the Soul-Eating Night and cannot be seen at other times.
As a professional undead contractor, Romi is fully capable of cultivating these spirits into stronger undead, but the input of resources is not proportional to the benefits. The potential of these low-level spirits is too low.
She came to Shadow Island to perform the mission. On the one hand, her main quest required her to come here, and on the other hand, Shadow Island, a place full of undead, was naturally very suitable for her. It was just right to find two undead contracts with great potential here and train them in Paradise. These cannon fodder undeads did not meet the requirements at all. They did not need to be heroes in the game, but they had to have names anyway.
The Kingdom of Kamavia, which was the former kingdom of Viego, and the fundamental reason why the Blessed Light Island became Shadow Island was the destructive magic disaster formed by the interaction between the spiritual magic "Soul Fusion Curse" attached to the holy sword "Holiness" of the Kingdom of Kamavia and the Fountain of Life of the Blessed Light Island, also known as the "Ruin Curse".
The holy sword of the Kingdom of Kamavia is the final goal of Lomi's main quest. This holy sword was summoned in the Hall of Ancestors, a unique soul realm similar to the Hall of Valor where the royal family of Kamavia went after their death.
Then, the nature of this "Holiness" is obvious. It is undoubtedly a weapon made in the soul realm and condensed by soul energy.
In the background story, the special effect of the holy sword "Holiness" is not aimed at the body, but at the soul, that is, the characteristic of absorbing or even taking the soul.
The Soul Fusion Curse in the Curse of Ruin comes from the energy weapon of Holiness, so the core characteristic of Holiness is "Soul Fusion", which simply means binding the soul.
After passing the "holiness" trial, Viego, who became the holder of "holiness", had his soul bound to holiness, which allowed him to summon "holiness" from the soul realm at any time to kill the enemy, and by killing the enemy and absorbing the enemy's soul, he could continuously enhance "holiness", which was the benign effect of "soul fusion".
And the souls of those killed by Viego with "holiness" would be permanently bound to "holiness" after being absorbed, and they would never be freed unless the holder of "holiness" died, which was the malignant effect of "soul fusion".
After "holiness" pierced Viego's body, the effect of "soul fusion" occurred unprecedentedly on its holder, and Viego's soul and vitality were absorbed and bound by "holiness".
Originally, Viego's death could eventually release this bondage, but because they were in the Fountain of Life, the characteristics of the Fountain of Life that gave vitality allowed Viego to recover from the brink of death.
This is what the original story background says: "The sword and water destroyed and restored him in an endless cycle of pain."
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If the Fountain of Life in the Blessed Light Island only has the spring water of resurrection magic, then Viego may only cycle between life and death. However, there is an incredible thing in the Fountain of Life, that is, the rune. The core of the outbreak of the Rune War, the terrifying thing that almost destroyed the world of Rune Land, has extremely powerful and unstable energy.
The Holy Mist that originally guarded the Blessed Light Island for thousands of years, after its source, the Fountain of Life, underwent a drastic change, it also unexpectedly mutated and became the black fog that most people in Rune Land are familiar with and feared now.
Romi, who stepped into the Shadow Island, could naturally see that the black fog here was not that simple. However, her purpose was not to study the black fog. If she wanted to get the holy sword of holiness, she had to get rid of Viego who was attached to holiness, which meant that she had to be an enemy of the Shadow Island. For the Shadow Island, Romi was an uninvited guest.
I rode my bike out, and it took me more than an hour to get to my destination. It took me another hour to get home after dinner. As a result, the chain of the bike fell off on the way, and it fell off twice. Fortunately, I was able to install the chain myself, otherwise it would be a headache.
I got home at almost nine o'clock in the evening. My hands and feet were very sore. I originally planned to take a leave, but I'll just write two chapters. The strengthening "props" of Shuque were originally written at the end, but I brought it up to the front to talk about it.