Chapter 491: The Fantasy World of Lust (Five Thousand)
Ron did not dodge. He did not want to dodge, and there was no way to dodge.
Although the Dragon God above his head was only a projection of the Dragon God and not his real body, that kind of power would make even a master of the Realm of Destruction feel his own insignificance and fragility.
That is incomparable power.
Just as Ron's soul was swallowed by the projection of the Dragon God, Ron could immediately feel that his soul was merging with the projection.
It was a very strange feeling. The projection of the Dragon God seemed to have evolved into some special power, turning into a stream of air and quickly merging into Ron's soul.
Click, click, crunch, crunch...
Ron could clearly hear that his soul was constantly emitting waves of strange sounds.
He could feel that his soul was expanding and growing rapidly.
On the surface of his soul, unusually hard and dense golden scales had even begun to adhere. His hands turned into sharp dragon claws, and his legs turned into sturdy dragon limbs. With rustling sounds, dense dragon scales were spreading on Ron's soul, gradually crawling along the chest to the neck, and then to the chin, face, and forehead.
In a short time, dragon scales had covered Ron's entire body.
There were even two ferocious dragon horns on the top of his head.
Almost every part of his body, except for his eyes, was transformed into a dragon. Even behind him there was a thick and long dragon tail.
There was even a pair of huge, golden dragon wings behind it.
The projection of the Dragon God disappeared completely.
Completely integrated into Ron's body.
Ron could clearly feel that at this moment, there was an unprecedented amount of energy hidden in his soul.
destroy?
No, that is an energy that is countless times higher than the Destruction Realm, and countless levels higher.
Crash.
With the flapping of a pair of dragon wings, Ron's soul floated off the ground and appeared in mid-air. At this moment, in the dense forest, some ragged killers with hideous faces and twisted limbs just appeared.
Because of the attachment of the Dragon God's projection, Ron's soul body became extremely solid, and was not inferior even to his real physical body.
He opened his mouth.
Ang! With the dragon's roar, a breath of dragon instantly spurted out.
The scarlet dragon's breath was like Godzilla's atomic breath. A scarlet beam of light suddenly appeared between the sky and earth in the illusion. The beam of light instantly hit a mountain, and the thousand-meter-high mountain disappeared completely, as if it had never existed.
Then, Ron turned his neck and the red dragon breath swept across, turning everything into dust wherever it went.
The jungle disappeared without a trace, the boulders melted into magma, and the entire killing space completely changed.
As for those ferocious creatures with twisted limbs, hideous faces and evil looks hiding in the mountains and forests, they disappeared the moment the red dragon's breath swept past.
Disgust lingered all around, and flames shot up to a height of dozens of feet.
Death wail? Not happening.
All life turned to ashes in an instant, without even a chance to wail.
Smell of blood?
Does not exist.
There was a slight smell of barbecue in the air.
Not to mention using the smell of blood to stimulate Ron's murderous intent and interfere with Ron's spirit, it actually made Ron feel vaguely hungry.
There was no scarlet fog in the air, but instead thick smoke blocked out the sun.
Ron finally stopped and looked ahead. This world was neatly divided into two layers, with the place where the dragon's breath tore through as the boundary. Even the space was easily cut open by the dragon's breath.
The sea of blood, the giant bone, the whirlpool that devours everything, the conditions for the final and most deadly means that Christian and Arianna mentioned in the killing illusion did not appear at all.
The surrounding environment has gradually begun to change, the mountains are gradually disappearing, and the thick smoke is returning to nothingness.
Ron could feel that the illusion of killing was being broken and he was entering the next level of test.
So, no matter how ingenious the illusion is, there is a common way to break it, and that is... violence.
Absolute violence can drown all illusions.
The surroundings gradually began to distort, and even circles of ripples gradually appeared in front of Ron's eyes. With a buzzing sound, the scene in front of Ron suddenly changed. It was no longer a mountain jungle. After adapting to the surrounding environment, Ron found himself in a huge building.
Looking around, it's quite wide.
The floor was polished to an extremely smooth surface, and it sparkled like a glass mirror under the reflection of the magic stone.
In the empty room, there were round tables and wide, slender wooden racks in the middle. The racks were filled with all kinds of food. The cakes were so beautifully made that people couldn't bear to eat them, as well as fragrant barbecue, greasy steaks, soft and fragrant bread... There were even bottles of wine with a strange dark red luster next to them.
Ron's lips trembled slightly, and he raised his hands to rub his temples on both sides... Strangely enough, although the illusion has changed, Ron's dragon-like state has not faded, and he still maintains the state of a dragon man... So much so that when he wanted to rub his temples, the dragon claws and dragon scales collided, making an extremely harsh friction sound.
That feeling is really terrible.
Apparently, this should be a gluttony illusion.
As for the main body of this illusion, it should be the restaurant of a super luxurious hotel.
Gurgle! Ron had just figured out the situation he was in when his intestines suddenly moved and made a strange sound. At the same time, a strong feeling of hunger instantly reached his mind.
According to Christian and Arianna's experience, this illusion is of a relatively less murderous type... although it is still very torturous.
While in this illusion, the trial-taker will feel an intense hunger, which will grow stronger as the trial-taker stays in the illusion for longer. In front of the trial-taker will be all kinds of delicious food, and the aroma of the food is perfectly simulated by the illusion, constantly tempting the trial-taker.
If you can resist temptation and endure hunger, then you can pass the level successfully after starving here for a few months.
Once you take a bite of food, congratulations, your hunger will increase tenfold or a hundredfold. Your stomach will become a bottomless pit, and you will crave all kinds of delicious food almost madly until your stomach bursts.
The Valkyrie Arianna had experienced all of this before. Although Arianna was stronger than Christian and had a calmer temperament, this Valkyrie had a small flaw, which was that she was greedy.
When she was taking the trial of the seven illusions, she couldn't help but eat a small piece of cake. Then, as if a switch was turned on, she was immersed in the ocean of various delicacies. She grabbed everything she could pick up and stuffed it into her mouth desperately, chewing it with big mouthfuls. She didn't know how long she had been eating or how much she had eaten.
She only knew that when her spirit had almost completely sunk, a gentle voice suddenly sounded in her ears, waking her up from the food hell.
Ron speculated that the gentle voice was most likely from the Star God Selma.
After all, Arianna can be said to be Selma's only believer in the Dusk Continent. Although Selma herself has only been awakened for a short time and her own strength is extremely weak, she still attaches great importance to this only believer.
In short, Arianna escaped from the hell of food, and when she regained consciousness, she was shocked to find that she had eaten everything on at least a dozen shelves, and her stomach had almost turned into a ball.
Arianna had no doubt that if she hadn't been restrained by the armor, her belly would have burst and bled.
It’s just… Ron looked at the so-called delicacies around him, and the expression on his face seemed a little weird.
To be honest, although these foods do look good, they still seem to be a long way from being able to tempt Ron.
The development of cuisine in Dusk Continent is actually quite backward. People here like the original flavor. They don’t like to add too many seasonings to the food, but try to keep the original flavor as much as possible.
There are two main categories of dishes. One is pastries, such as cakes, bread, etc.
One is barbecue.
Still a cake without too much sugar, not too much salt, and no cumin, black pepper, or chili in the roast meat…
To be honest, although these things look quite tempting, in Ron's eyes, they are far less stimulating to Ron's taste buds than any random barbecue at a street stall on Earth.
Although he was very hungry, Ron had no urge to fill his stomach with the food in front of him.
It can be said that among the seven illusions, the gluttony illusion is definitely the least threatening to Ron.
In this situation, Ron just needs to do nothing and hold on for a month or so, and then he will be able to break through the illusion successfully.
But... Ron didn't want to waste too much time in this illusion.
The state of being possessed by the dragon god has not ended. If that is the case, why should we be polite to an illusion? "Ang!"
A dragon roared.
The rolling sound waves instantly swept in all directions in a circular motion, and wherever they went, everything in existence was instantly reduced to dust.
The smooth floor was lifted up layer by layer, and the wooden shelves along with the wine and food on them turned directly into fine dust. Even the entire hotel disappeared in an instant.
Brute force cracking.
Although it is crude, it works.
The second level of illusion ends.
Then, the third illusion appeared in front of Ron.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
This time, it was a huge treasure trove, filled with mountains of gold coins, flashing with crazy light. Behind the gold coins were pieces of top-grade magic stones, each of which was worth thousands of gold coins. Further behind them were various equipment piled together, as well as densely packed books on various esoteric arts.
Legendary weapons and equipment, like this beautiful girl, exude temptation.
This is the illusion of greed.
Once greed arises in a person's heart, once he picks up even a gold coin, the greed in his heart will expand without limit, and then he will live a life of drunkenness and debauchery in mountains of gold and silver until his soul is exhausted.
Although there was not much killing, there was no doubt that the Greedy Illusion was one of the most dangerous places among the seven illusions.
After all, human nature is mostly greedy.
The more powerful a being is, the more greedy it is. Greed is the driving force that supports a life to constantly pursue higher goals.
This is an instinct rooted in the deepest part of every living soul. Without greed, the whole world will lose its vitality.
Ron was the same, he was also greedy... Looking at the things in front of him, Ron's heart was slightly rippled, but only slightly.
He had to admit that the designer of the Seven-Layer Illusion was too lacking in ideas.
gold?
Well, everyone does like gold.
However, Ron's storage ring could no longer hold all the gold coins he had. After all, he had once robbed Holt's 474th generation's treasury.
The amount of gold coins in front of him was indeed astonishing, but how many could it be? Hundreds of thousands, millions? It didn't seem to be much more than the small treasury of Holt 474.
As for the Philosopher's Stone? Oh, come on, he had so many Philosopher's Stones on him that he didn't know what to do with them. Moreover, no matter how bright the Philosopher's Stones were, could they be compared to the nearly ten thousand Dragon Crystals in his storage ring? The best Philosopher's Stones were as dull as sand in front of the Dragon Crystals.
Powerful weapon? To be honest, Ron really didn't think that there was a weapon more powerful than the Eye of the Dragon God among that pile of scrap metal.
Secret technique?
Ron also didn't think that those so-called secret books were more valuable than the Key of Time.
It’s not that Ron is not greedy, it’s just that the things that appear in the greedy illusion are too cheap and can’t even stimulate Ron’s greed.
Ron grinned and exhaled another breath of dragon, directly breaking the illusion.
Next up is the illusion of arrogance.
In this fantasy, Ron became the king of a country and enjoyed the worship of all the people.
He sat arrogantly on the throne, looking down at his subjects with a cold and proud gaze...
King? Ron wasn't interested in this position either.
Power is indeed a good thing, but Ron doesn't like to be in the spotlight. He prefers to manipulate everything in secret.
He has personally promoted Queen Dolores, Queen Lydia is on the way, and Elf Queen Mirabelle is also in the process of being prepared. A mere king does not have much appeal to him.
As for indulging in the arrogance of being a king, that is even more nonsense.
This level of illusion also did not have much impact on Ron.
What follows is the illusion of jealousy and the illusion of laziness.
The Lazy Illusion caused Ron some trouble, but fortunately he managed to pass it safely in the end.
When the sky turned light pink and the whole world was filled with decadent colors, the last illusion finally appeared, the illusion of desire.
I have to admit that for Ron this is indeed the illusion that is most likely to pose a threat to him.
The place presented by the illusion was not any other place, but Ron's small room in the branch of the Church of the Goddess of Dawn in Larnaca City.
Ron has been in Dusk Continent for a long time, but the time when he felt most comfortable was still the short few months in Larnaca City.
At that time, he had Irelia and Cecilia by his side. Although his strength was not that strong, he also had enemies like Herman who made him feel irritated, and he almost died at the hands of Vice Pope Apu, but every day at that time was always extraordinarily fulfilling and comfortable.
The familiar room was exactly the same as Ron remembered.
Perhaps, this layer of illusion was created by digging out the deepest scenes in Ron's memory. Only such a scene could truly touch Ron's soul.
The simplest, direct and effective way to break the illusion of lust is to violently destroy this space with the most powerful force without any hesitation as soon as you enter the illusion.
Otherwise, if you stay in this space for just a few seconds longer, your spirit and consciousness will inevitably be affected by the illusion of lust.
But in reality, it is very difficult to achieve this.
The illusion of lust is the most touching one. It is a scene depicted based on the deepest memories of the trial-taker. Even Ron couldn't help but be stunned when he first saw this familiar room. He failed to destroy the illusion in the first place. Ron's consciousness has gradually begun to be affected.
Unless it was like Ashburn before, this guy's mind was in an extremely crazy state at the time, and no matter what he saw, he would destroy it violently. He could be said to have broken through this level by accident.
But Ron failed to take action in the first place and he had already lost the opportunity.
The room in front of him became clearer and more real, no longer as hazy as before. Ron could clearly see the open window, a dragonfly lying on the glass, and his own coat hanging on the hanger in the room.
The familiar smell and warm feeling made Ron couldn't help but smile.
It is clearly a fantasy world of lust, but unlike the imagined scenes of wine and women, it seems to be developing in the direction of warmth and reality.
The sun outside the window was so strong that Ron could hardly open his eyes. A few rays of light crossed in front of his eyes, making Ron's consciousness a little hazy.
There was a sound of light footsteps behind me.
It seemed like someone was approaching from behind.
Before he could turn around, a pair of lotus-root-like arms had silently reached out from behind and circled Ron's neck. A few green fingers fell on Ron's chest, caressing Ron's skin.
The unique fragrance of the girl, like a thread, quietly penetrated into Ron's nostrils. It smelled quite good. A breeze blew outside the window, and some hair fell on the tip of Ron's nose, making him feel itchy.
"Master, you are awake."
A soft voice sounded in Ron's ears.
It was Cecilia's voice.
Ron could even feel that Cecilia's lips were about to touch his earlobe, and there was a slight warmth in his cochlea.
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