Chapter 329 The Philosopher's Trap
The philosopher tried hard to move forward, but he felt his body becoming weaker and weaker.
She gasped for breath, coughed up sticky phlegm with blood foam, and put down the package in her hand almost exhausted.
I can't lift it anymore.
Her fingers were white from gripping it. This thing was simply too heavy for her.
Inside this simple package were the fragments of the Hatter's body - the ritual materials she had obtained with great difficulty.
During this ceremony, the Hatter transformed into a robust young man. The Philosopher traded the intelligence he had obtained with him, explaining that his teammate was missing and expressing his willingness to team up with him.
With the help of the "Hatter," the philosopher, still weak and powerless after escaping from the private room, was able to successfully enter the secret passage. She could hardly stand up at the time, and was almost lifted up by the Hatter and stuffed into the secret passage.
After both of them entered the secret passage, he waited for the philosopher to catch his breath before immediately using magic to sneak attack and kill him.
——There was no other reason, except that she urgently needed to heal her body and restore her strength.
There was no priest involved in this ceremony, and even if there was, it would be difficult to kidnap someone to heal him. Although the Hatter was willing to cooperate with him now, if he continued to act so powerless, the Hatter might kill him directly.
It’s better to strike first.
Although as a mage of the Path of Wisdom, the philosopher does not have the ability to recover, but fortunately, as long as he knows how to operate, even if he has not surpassed the level of the Path, he can still perform some simple rituals.
And human corpses with magical powers are perfect ritual materials—
As expected, he really didn't have any talent for wisdom, the philosopher said with self-mockery.
After so many years and so many resources, the path of wisdom has just reached the third level.
The core principles of the path of wisdom are mystery, selfishness, and rationality. A wise man who guards secrets, maintains neutrality, and remains rational, alone, beyond his time, and not understood by the public—
The philosopher was confident that she could accomplish the first two points, but the third point was difficult to achieve because she was always prone to anger.
She wanted to pursue the Path of Wisdom part-time because she felt she easily lost her mind, and she hoped to use this most rational path to make up for her shortcomings.
Perhaps it was the influence of the Transcendent Path, or perhaps it was the contracted demon's corruption of her rationality. When she encountered any pain or setback, she didn't think of "remaining silent, ignoring, and ignoring" or "treating it with disdain." Instead, she immediately wanted to take action to make the other party pay the price.
Because she just couldn't help it.
——I am so powerful!
He was a man of high status, abundant wealth, a clever and capable heir, a man of centuries-old aristocracy, a powerful noble, and a general with military achievements. No one would fail to give him face.
But the path of wisdom requires that we should laugh off the doubts and hostility of fools. In the pursuit of truth, those disputes and quarrels are nothing but a meaningless waste of time.
Philosophers can never grasp the feeling of being high above, looking down on all living beings, and being genuinely indifferent to worldly affairs.
She gave herself this code name when she was advancing on the path of wisdom, and it was also to remind herself to stay rational and think more about everything.
As a result, not only did she become a weak girl...but she was also insulted and bullied by such an old man!
——If this was a ceremony of ascension beyond the Tao, she might have resonated with the Tao by now.
But this was a promotion ceremony on the Path of Wisdom. As a result, not only was her fury causing her to feel dizzy, her vision blacking out, and her limbs feeling weak, but she also felt her spellcasting probability was decreasing.
In the end, she used the ritual of the Path of Transcendence in the promotion ceremony of the Path of Wisdom...
Manually dismembering a body is tiring, technical, and time-consuming.
Her current physical condition did not allow her to manually dismember the "Hatter's" body, so the philosopher directly consumed a little more mana and quickly arranged a "decomposition ritual" to quickly disassemble the other party's body into pieces of materials that she could carry with her.
She then used the Hatter's remains to perform her first "Revitalization Ritual" to replenish her physical strength for the first time.
Afterwards, she used the other person's clothes as wrapping and packed the materials separately.
She didn't want to get into conflict with others at this time because she only had a little mana left, and if it was completely exhausted, she would probably fall into a coma.
As for those promoted people who used the bodies of young men, she would definitely not be able to defeat them if she did not use her extraordinary abilities.
So after some consideration, the philosopher decided to use two-thirds of the materials left by the hatter to set the trap.
She walked and set up traps along the way. Because she didn't have much materials, she couldn't set up any very aggressive traps.
Considering the possibility of entering the secret passage together, setting a sleeping trap directly would risk being woken by their companions. Therefore, the philosopher finally chose the de-energizing ritual.
It was a curse ritual that would weaken a person's limbs, making it difficult for them to move.
If the other party is a temporary teammate, then the person who steps on the trap may be suddenly killed by others; if they are companions who cannot be abandoned, then they will choose to support, carry, etc. to act together with the other party, or simply stay and try to lift the curse.
Either way, it would buy her a lot of time.
After falling into a trap once, they would probably become more cautious and might even prepare countermeasures against curses.
Therefore, the second ceremony arranged by the philosopher was a "strong acid arrow" ceremony made with bile, gastric juice and blood.
When the enemy enters a long, narrow, empty corridor, and they are two-thirds of the way through and gradually relax their vigilance, strong acid arrows will fly from the front. This first-level ritual may not kill a person directly, but it can cause great pain and weaken the enemy's ability to move and fight.
The philosopher then removed the Hatter's spine and liver, creating a phantom wall that blocked out light, adorned with several runes. They might believe they had reached a dead end, believing it was a trap and turn away; or they might persist in investigating the wall. Beneath this light-blocking wall, the philosopher placed a tripwire to trigger a poisonous stinger trap.
Anyone who tried to approach the wall to investigate would be pierced by the poisonous stingers on the back. To ensure that even taller male ascendants could be hit, she had lowered the text so that they would have to lower their heads to see clearly in the dim light. The stingers she had adjusted would then pierce their eyes.
——These three ritual traps can at least kill three people, right?
The philosopher thought.
Counting the dead forge and the hatter, plus myself...
If we remove three more people, there won’t be many people chasing us.
Furthermore, the first disabling ritual was intended to serve as a warning to his companions—even though he suddenly couldn't find them, the philosopher still kindly left them clues. If you see a ritual trap, you should assume it was your own trap and be a little more cautious.
She didn't have much material left.
I originally wanted to replenish my energy when I ran out of energy.
But now she suddenly began to hesitate.
——Because the philosopher was not sure whether the door at the end of this secret passage needed to be opened.
If it was a code or a riddle, it would be fine. Through the development of his intelligence through the Path of Wisdom, he could figure it out quickly. But if it was a password she didn't know, or even a spell rune, then she would have to force it open through a ritual.
Every time a piece of material is used, it is possible that the subsequent doors will not be able to be opened due to the lack of this material.
"...There's only one corpse. It's totally not enough."
The philosopher gritted his teeth and decided to save some more money.
Don't give yourself time to recover.
She had originally thought that if she couldn't complete the New Moon Ritual, she could just find a place to hide. Even if she couldn't complete it, as long as she was still alive, she wouldn't be punished.
...But after she had experienced that, she suddenly felt that it would be a great loss if she didn't pass the level.
But at this moment.
She suddenly felt a cold malice—Zhe Ren picked up a package from the ground without hesitation and threw it hard in one direction.
"Eat their hearts and chew their livers, and command you with the mighty blood of youth! Reveal yourself to them, drunken bull!"
She was reciting aloud at the same time.
The heart and liver in the package caught fire, and then the flames suddenly grew larger, accompanied by a strong smell of alcohol.
It was like wrapping a bull with straw soaked in wine and setting it on fire—a golden-red flame surged forth. In this narrow space, a shadow of flame, like that of a bull, flashed in the direction she pointed.
But what made her heart sink was that she did not hear any screams.
"—You are...Alai?"
Only a cold and hoarse voice sounded.
The black robe, like a rag, fluttered in the air, and there was no living person inside.
(End of this chapter)
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