Chapter 62 62. Mysterious Ritual

At the entrance to the fifth floor, the mage stumbled into the stairs.

He looks very miserable now.

He was only wearing underwear, his robe and hat were missing, his staff and even the two rings on his hands were missing.

As soon as he came in, he knelt on the ground in despair.

“Actually…”

“It was actually snatched away by Puji!!!”

When the conflict broke out in the cave, I was the only one who saw it, standing at the back - a faint light flashed on the woman's sleeve.

In an instant, he connected the dots between Jini's previous abnormal behavior.

However, the battle has already begun. Even if he jumps out and makes a guess now, who will believe it?

Would those temporary teammates who were confused by the trick believe him?

Or will the group of adventurers he doesn't even know believe him?

More importantly, he saw Jini turn around and smile at him.

Without much hesitation, he quickly made a decision - sell!

Anyway, it was just a temporary team, and he was unwilling to take risks after only a few days of friendship.

Besides, it’s all the fault of those fools who were bewitched by women.

Up to this point, the wizard felt that there was nothing wrong with his choice.

The mistake was that he was in too much of a hurry to run away and didn't think to take one of the monster corpses that Wells was carrying before leaving.

As a result, they were blocked by a group of people and were not allowed to leave.

I tried to force my way in, but I only managed to kill two before I was caught by the tentacles.

He knew that these Pujis were not weak, but he didn't expect them to be so powerful. At that time, he thought he was going to die.

Unexpectedly, the Pujis were so magnanimous that they just stripped him naked and let him go.

Really...

“Damn it! Wuuwu…”

What the wizard didn't know was that he was already lucky.

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Ralph's scream not far away didn't last long and then stopped.

Although because of what happened along the way, Wells did not have a good impression of the captain.

But when I think about my current situation, it’s hard not to feel sympathetic towards the other party.

After a while, a figure pushed aside the mushrooms and walked over under the fluorescent light.

"Jinnie?"

Jinny glanced at him and smiled apologetically:

"Are you awake? Was that Ralph's voice?

Sorry, I'm actually not very good at the coma technique, and I didn't expect that he would wake up halfway.

Don't worry, I will give you a coma spell in a moment, I guarantee it won't hurt."

After saying that, Jinny tried hard to drag the tied-up Wells out. Due to her lack of strength, sweat dripped from her forehead.

Wells felt that his brain was not fully understanding what Jini was saying.

He just felt that the current Jinni was very different from the one he remembered.

There was no sweet smile, but instead there was a kind of...sincerity?

Wells didn't know why he felt this way.

But he realized one thing: he was probably going to be killed.

Wells, who was dragged out, saw Ralph and his dwarf teammates.

There was no blood on the two men's bodies. They just lay on the ground with peaceful expressions, and their chests didn't even move.

Wells wanted to struggle, but he had no strength left, not to mention he was tied up, so he could only try to beg for mercy.

"Ji...Jini, we have no grudges against each other, please let me go!

I swear I won't tell anyone anything. I can even testify for you that they both died from monster attacks!

You don't have to kill me. I still have savings in the Adventurer's Guild and I can give them all to you!

I...I..."

Wells couldn't continue because he found that Jini didn't waver at all. She just dragged him silently towards an unknown ritual circle ahead.

"Evil... cult?"

After placing Wells on the ritual array, Jinny replaced the eight cracked magic crystals around it with new ones one by one.

Then he gently lifted Wells from behind and let him lean on his arms.

Wells' head sank into something soft, but now he couldn't muster any interest at all.

Despair and fear made him curse.

Jinny ignored him and just held the little bell in front of Wells and shook it gently.

It was as if he really saw the ripples, and even though Wells was unwilling, his eyelids gradually drooped.

Before he fell into a coma, Wells heard Jinny whispering softly, like she was telling him a bedtime story:

"The silver light cleanses the soul, and the ritual solidifies into a journey home. There is no need to worry, no need to be afraid. Nevrela will hold you in her arms and remove the shackles of the earthly world..."

Wells fell into a deep sleep. Under Jinny's control, the ritual array glowed with silver light, and the magic crystals around it shattered one by one.

Lin Jun, who had been observing them, saw the magical scene for the third time.

On Wells's panel, the skills disappeared one by one, as if someone was erasing them with the backspace key.

When the last skill disappeared, Wells, who was still at full health, just disappeared from the panel.

Or rather, just died like that.

After finishing everything, Jinny kissed Wells' forehead, who looked peaceful, and then dragged him aside.

Then he bent down and cleaned away all traces of the ceremony.

Then he just left without taking any of the three people's belongings.

After she left, several Pujis emerged from the mushroom forest.

They picked up all the unwanted things on the ground - the equipment of the three people, a pile of monster corpses in the cave that had not been replaced in time, and a dog that died of bleeding.

I couldn't understand what the woman was mumbling.

But the whole ceremony looked quite realistic.

So... have these people really lost all their skills?

Driven by curiosity, Lin Jun didn't care about wasting magic power and directly controlled the mycelium to speed up the decomposition of several people.

[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]

[Plundering Skill: Human Common Language LV2→LV3]

[Plundering Skill: Bite LV5→LV6]

Um?

Bite?

Oh, the dog's body is mixed in there too...

Apart from that, there is nothing.

The skill was really deleted!

How can this be?

This is no longer an ordinary evil ritual!

From now on, that woman is not welcome on the fifth floor!

But there are so many strange and bizarre things in this world.

After stuffing the recovered A-grade magic crystal back into Fatty's stomach, Lin Jun went to find Puji, who sealed the pornographic book.

Puji has been completely petrified, but there is a tiny crack left on the outside.

Under Lin Jun's order, the pornographic book was spit out from the crack.

After finally seeing the light of day again, it immediately began to show its loyalty.

[You finally let me out!]

[I will definitely be able to help you!]

[Please don’t lock me up again, it’s too dark]

Um……

Do you feel like you can understand one or two more words?

I'm not sure, I'll come back and check when I reach level 4.

[? ? ? ]

After testing the reading ability, Lin Jun stuffed the pornographic book back into the gap.

What comes next is the big thing.

…

In the mushroom forest, Xiao Hei is playing with mushrooms.

He jumped up, kicked the mushroom tree in half, and then stomped it to pieces from top to bottom.

Lin Jun was so shocked by this that this was the third one today...

"Xiao Hei, do you want to go out and play?"

"think!"

When Xiao Hei heard that he could finally go out, he stopped immediately.

The two black-scaled feet stomped back and forth excitedly, crushing the mushrooms on the ground even more.

"Go back and have some sleep first. I'll let you out when you wake up."

When he heard that he had to go to bed first, the scales on Xiao Hei's face suddenly squeezed into a lump.

After Lin Jun's repeated assurances, he was coaxed back.

The hallucinogenic spores continued to pour in, and after giving Dylan 14 times the amount, a hallucinogenic coma state appeared on Xiao Hei's panel.

After ensuring that she would not suddenly jump up and move around, Lin Jun began to mobilize the energy stored in the entire five layers of mycelium.

If someone turns on magic perception now, they will see that the magic in the entire fifth-layer fungal carpet is disappearing like the tide, and is continuously gathering into the mushroom forest.

To equip Xiao Hei with [Mimicry LV4], the cost is much greater than that of Dylan...

(End of this chapter)