Chapter 439 Set things right
Stepping over the corpse of the steel war horse, Mu You continued to move forward.
After walking through a dark corridor, an upward staircase appeared in front of it.
"It finally looks like a tower..." Mu You heaved a sigh of relief.
Just as he was about to step up the steps to the second floor, a faint blue light and shadow suddenly struck beside him, like a carriage pulled by some kind of wild beast, which arrived first, and he rushed up the steps first, disappearing into the darkness above middle.
"What?" Mu You looked at the stairs in surprise. The light and shadow flashed so fast that he didn't even have a chance to see clearly.
"finally found you!"
Right at this moment, a familiar voice sounded behind Mu You.
Mu You looked back subconsciously, and there was nothing behind him, and the voice seemed to come from the walls in all directions.
"Don't be nervous, it's me!" The voice came out again, and this time Mu You could be sure that it was the voice of a troubadour.
"The Djinn?"
"It's me." The bard's voice said.
"What's the situation? Where are you? Where are Pocket Toad and Coke?" Mu You asked hurriedly.
"As you can see, this passage is the test scene designed by the pen of order for the testers, but this is only the first floor, and there are many floors up. You must go through all the floors and reach the top of the tower to be able to See the magic pen..."
The voice of the troubadour said: "As for me and your pet, after entering the tower, we are trapped in different spaces and cannot see each other, but we are safe, so you don't have to worry."
"In addition, I contacted you briefly by consuming the lamp oil in the magic lamp. I'm afraid I won't last long. I'll try to keep the story short."
Hearing that Coke and Frog were fine, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again, "What do I need to do next?"
"The same as what you did just now, continue to use the pen of order to solve all the monsters along the way, and familiarize yourself with the rules of order in the battle, and keep killing until you reach the top of the tower..." said the troubadour.
"How many floors are on the top of the tower?"
"have no idea."
"have no idea?"
"The original lighthouse only had fifty floors, but it has been transformed beyond recognition by the pen of order. I can't be sure how many floors there are now..."
"What was that light and shadow rushing past just now?" Mu You asked.
"It's Caesar."
"Caesar? He can also participate in this trial?" Mu You was surprised. Doesn't it mean that the pen of order is repelling Caesar? How could he be allowed to participate in the trial?
"The Pen of Order only designed the trial scene, but it cannot designate the trial participants. All humans who enter from outside the tower will automatically be qualified for the trial." The voice said.
"That is to say, I must reach the top of the tower before Caesar?"
"Yes, moreover, Caesar used to have a magic pen for a while, his understanding and application of the law of order is far superior to yours now, whether you can overtake him in the future depends on how quickly you comprehend the law of order... "
What the troubadour said immediately gave Mu You a sense of urgency. Not to mention competitors in this trial, there is still an opponent whose foundation is far superior to his...
"Don't worry, the flow rate of time here is different from that of the outside world. Even if you stay here for a year, you only need a few breaths in the outside world. You have enough time to pass the level..."
The troubadour spoke again, and his voice began to become intermittent: "Besides, I can't follow you to the next floor, and you can only rely on yourself... Remember, the magic pen in your hand is your strongest weapon... With this The pen is here, theoretically you can do anything here... master the fastest speed... the method of killing the enemy with it..."
The sound stopped abruptly.
Mu You waited for a while, but the bard's voice never sounded again, it seems that the contact has been cut off.
Mu You exhaled, looked at the stairs ahead, and stepped up.
"Snapped!"
Looking like a ladder that doesn't reach the top, the climbing process is short and scary.
As soon as he took a step, Mu You came to a new passage.
There are still bluestone walls on both sides, and the road behind is still blocked. Everything is almost the same as the previous floor.
The only difference is the monster in front.
Accompanied by the sound of gears rattling, two mechanical spiders covered in iron quickly climbed up from the walls on both sides, each of which was more than two meters long.
"Are there two this time..."
Mu You frowned. Dealing with two monsters at the same time will definitely increase the difficulty greatly.
Fortunately, the weaknesses of these two monsters have also been magnified.
Mu You clenched the brush, and from the perspective of order, the disharmonious points in the two spiders became two locations: the lower abdomen and the joint of the left forelimb.
"Hiss!"
While watching, one of the two spiders neighed, raised its front claws, and flew towards him.
Mu You hurriedly rolled and dodged on the spot, and then took advantage of the gap between the two spiders to get up and fight back.
What he is worried about now is not whether he can deal with these two spiders, but how to deal with them without aggravating the injury. There is no other way to do this. Without backtracking, he can only be as careful as possible.
With one stroke, Mu You accurately stabbed the irregular rune under the spider's back abdomen, like a sharp blade, piercing the rune directly, turning into dust and dissipating.
But what he didn't expect was that the spider that had been stabbed at the 'weak point' screamed wildly, turned red all over, and rushed towards him at an even faster speed.
Mu You dodged in a hurry, but still underestimated the speed of the spider after it went berserk. He was bitten on his left arm, and his left hand was directly bitten off by the spider.
Fortunately, the left arm was broken, but Mu You didn't feel much pain, just a tingling sensation in the joint of the left arm.
At the same time, in mid-air, the spider's angry neighing sounded in his ears.
Mu You hurriedly jumped up, ready to meet the next more violent attack of the two spiders.
However, when he got up to take a closer look, he realized that two spiders in the distance were actually entangled and biting each other.
"Huh?"
Mu You was taken aback for a moment, but soon realized something.
It seems that the 'weak point' hit just now didn't fail. While the spider became berserk, it also seemed to become indiscriminate between itself and the enemy!
good chance!
Mu You's eyes lit up, and he rushed forward immediately, taking advantage of the gap between the two spiders' scuffling, sneaking around to make up for the knife, and stabbing him from time to time.
Under his intentional check and balance, the injuries on the two spiders increased evenly, and the speed became slower and slower.
It took another half an hour before Mu You finally dragged the two spiders to death.
As the two steel spiders crashed to the ground, a staircase appeared again at the end of the passage ahead.
Mu You didn't rush over, but looked at his missing left arm, feeling a little helpless.
This is only the second floor, and he lost an arm directly. The difficulty of this trial is a bit unimaginable.
The most important thing is that he is now a mortal body, and he has no capital to be injured at all.
Mu You was thinking about how to pass the level with only one hand, and suddenly noticed that the two mechanical spiders that had just died in the distance, from the perspective of runes, the order runes in their bodies did not completely stop circulating like dead objects. There is still a small part that is still functioning in normal rotation.
Mu You hurried forward, carefully cut open the bodies of the two spiders with a brush, and took out the two wriggling rune clusters inside completely.
From the perspective of reality, these two pieces are just two lumps of ordinary monster meat, which have nothing to do with life, but from the perspective of order, these two pieces of meat seem to be alive.
Could it be...
Mu You thought for a while, and tried to bring the two pieces of meat closer to his missing left arm.
The next thing that surprised him happened: the two **** of runes squirmed and spliced to his joints, and after a while of deformation, they turned into his left arm.
Mu You looked at the regrown left arm in front of his eyes, and tried to shake his left hand. As a result, everything was as usual, without any discomfort at all, and he even felt stronger than before.
The only change is from the perspective of order.
Originally, all the runes on Mu You's body were blue and white as a whole, but now, on his newly grown left arm, all the runes composed of them are in eye-catching red.
Not only that, even a small part of the runes at the joint where it joined the left forearm was dyed red.
"What effect will this thing have?"
Mu You frowned, unable to figure it out for a moment.
He is completely ignorant of the law of order now, and has no idea what the color of the rune means.
The lamp **** said before that this space is the world of order created by the pen of order. In theory, he can do anything with the pen in his hand, including repairing his body and killing all enemies easily. The premise is that he must first master the rules of order and the meaning of each rune.
Mu You recalled the process of killing three monsters before. On the first horse, he hit a 'hook'-shaped rune, which caused the horse's left forefoot to be injured; It is a vertical rune, which caused the spider to go berserk. Obviously, these two runes are directly related to these two results.
However, this refers to a single rune. If different runes are connected together, they may have different meanings. The entire rune system of order is like a brand new language, and now he needs to learn this language without any guidance or reference, which will inevitably require a lot of attempts.
Mu You nostalgic for his pocket watch again. If he has the ability to trace back, he can now try and make infinite trials and errors to test out the meaning of these runes one by one...
Mu You shook his head, no matter what, now that he has finally mastered the method of recovering from the injury, he has less worries.
Moreover, just for this trial, he doesn't need to fully master the 'language' of order runes, he just needs to test out some common killing methods, and then use these methods to kill all the way through the level.
After stepping over the corpses of two spiders, Mu You continued to step up the three stairs.
With a flash of light and shadow, Mu You appeared in the passage on the third floor.
"Ka Ka..."
As soon as he entered the third floor, Mu You heard the sound of orderly footsteps coming from the front.
Looking up, the monsters that came out of the darkness this time were three full-body armored infantrymen, walking with shields and halberds in their hands, but the inside of the helmets was empty and there was no entity at all. These were just three sets of moving 'iron armor'.
"There are really three on the third floor..." Mu You nodded. From this point of view, the number of monsters on each floor is equal to the corresponding number of floors.
After seeing Mu You, the three armored infantry immediately raised their halberds, erected their shields, took a defensive posture, and approached him step by step, with uniform movements.
Mu You didn't waste time either. Holding the brush tightly, he took the initiative to charge up, and began to charge and beat the three of them violently, trying to test the effect of each rune in exchange for injuries.
…
A few minutes later, all three armored men fell to the ground.
"Destroying the 'Chuan'-shaped character can slow down the monster... The combination of 'Di' and 'Hook' can disable the left forelimb..."
Mu You recited the new law he had just discovered, stepped forward to cut open the three armored corpses with a brush, took out three groups of runes, and spliced them on his incomplete body.
As expected, all the wounds healed immediately after fusing the new order runes. However, those healed parts turned red again, and more red runes spread into his body.
Mu You ignored it directly, even if the red rune really had any influence, he couldn't control it now, it was his only means of recovery at present.
After three consecutive battles, Mu You already had an idea of how to deal with the next monster in the tower.
Next, Mu You began to climb layer by layer.
Fourth floor...
The fifth floor...
…
All the way up, there are more and more enemies, and their strength is getting stronger.
Mu You used the injury test rules again and again, and then used the order taken from the monster's body after killing the monster to repair his body damage.
As time went by, Mu You gradually forgot to count the floors, and also forgot to count the number of kills. In short, if there was an enemy in front of him, he would kill one.
And every time he defeats an enemy, he will master one more rule of killing the enemy.
As he mastered more and more rules, it became easier for him to kill the enemy, but at the same time, the red order rune in his body was also rapidly spreading.
Mu You instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't stop.
Before he himself noticed, he had gradually sunk into the feeling of easily destroying the enemy with the pen of order.
This inconspicuous writing brush is more powerful than all the powers he possessed before. It can cut through the most solid shield without any effort, and then destroy the order in the enemy's body.
But, not enough!
His mastery of the rules of order is far behind the speed of floor promotion.
As the floors continue to go up, the enemies become stronger and stronger, and the resistance that Mu You encounters becomes stronger and stronger until he can no longer advance an inch.
Up to the passage on a certain floor, Mu You couldn't count which floor it was. In short, poisonous snakes spit out their letters and surrounded him.
Mu You had already slaughtered the poisonous snake rushing towards him as fast as possible, but he still kept losing sight of the other. The poisonous snake jumped up from various tricky angles, clung to him, and bit him, constantly tearing off his flesh and blood.
The bone-deep pain suddenly surged like a tide, and the toxin entered his body. Mu You only felt blurred vision and chaotic consciousness.
The voices of poisonous snakes uttering letters around them seemed to be elongated infinitely like a tape recorder with no power, and the scenery in front of them was constantly distorted and moved away.
Mu You felt that his spirit and soul were completely separated, and the long-standing hatred and anger in his heart were drawn out. There seemed to be a picture in front of him. It was two years ago, on the day his parents had a car accident. In the morgue, I saw the cold, mutilated remains of my parents...
At the same time, the poisonous snakes around him seemed to have turned into ghosts, like life-threatening impermanence, constantly entangled him, laughing wildly in his ear: You will be the next one to go to hell!
"Damn you!"
Suddenly, Mu You's eyes turned red, and he burst out of strength from somewhere. He reached out and grabbed a snake in front of his neck, brought it to his mouth, and bit it down.
The poisonous snake suffered from pain, struggled frantically, and bit his left eye, biting off his eyeball.
Mu You didn't notice it, he crumpled the killed poisonous snake into a ball, roughly stuffed it into his missing left eye, and the left eye instantly recovered.
Mu You immediately grabbed another one, continued to tear and bite, and then stuffed it into the incomplete part of his body...
As he continued to kill poisonous snakes and repair his body, the red order runes in Mu You's body became more and more dense, like a person just fished out of a pool of blood.
At some point, Mu You finally cleaned up all the poisonous snakes on this floor.
However, his eyes were already red-eyed, and he didn't stop at all. He grinned and went straight to the next floor.
"Not enough, not enough! I need more order!"
Running to the next floor, Mu You rushed straight into the dense crowd of monsters ahead, and began to kill.
After the madness just now, he simply gave up the troublesome practice of trying the rune rules one by one, and chose to destroy directly instead!
Since the pen in his hand can modify all the rules, he doesn’t have to worry about the good and the bad. He destroys them all at once, and then stuffs the remaining order into his body and fuses it into his own power. This is the fastest way to improve!
As more and more chaos and order mixed into his body, Mu You gradually felt that he became infinitely powerful, and his every move was as fast as lightning, and those monsters also became extremely slow in his eyes.
kill! kill! kill!
Mu You's eyes were red, and he had already lost all his sanity. He ran through the narrow passage like a meat grinder, and none of the monsters on both sides could survive a round under his hands.
"Power, need more power!"
"Destroy, destroy, destroy everything!"
"The power of order is destruction!"
Viscous blood, desperate wailing, kept bursting around him, Mu You didn't notice it, just kept tearing apart the monsters, and reassembling them into a part of himself.
At this moment, the runes on his body were already red like blood, and a large amount of red order was still spreading deeper into him, constantly occupying, eroding, and getting closer to his heart.
However, as the red order got closer and closer to the center, the speed of spreading began to slow down rapidly, until the small part of the core in the middle finally couldn't advance an inch, and that small core was like a sea of blood churning. No matter how swaying a small boat is, it will never capsize.
This is an extremely weird feeling, which makes Mu You, who is in a frenzy, feel an indescribable awkwardness. It's like standing in front of a bungee jumping cliff, obviously the whole person is suspended in the air, but there is a rope connected to his back inexplicably, pulling him back desperately, preventing him from taking that last step.
This weird feeling drove Muyou crazy. He tore off a lot of hair manically, and roared to get rid of the rope, gain complete freedom, sink into the world of order, and experience the power that really only belongs to the gods. .
As he struggled desperately, after an unknown period of time, he finally broke free from the shackles, and the boat in the sea of blood capsized quietly.
The last white rune in the body is gradually turning red...
"Boom!"
At this moment, the back of the head was suddenly hit by something.
With just this, the distorted illusions and lines around him, as well as all the chaotic voices in his ears, dissipated in an instant.
Mu You opened his eyes in a daze, and found that he was sitting cross-legged on a piece of green grass, in front of him was a crucible that was blowing black smoke, and the gentle breeze brought the fragrance of grass leaves and soil into his nose.
"...Concentrate, calm down, don't be greedy for success, the necessary qualities for a potion master...I just can't remember how many times I said it..." A familiar nagging voice came from his shoulder.
This scene is very familiar to him: when he was studying potions before, whenever he made a mistake, Vivienne would always peck the back of his head like a woodpecker, saying that he would knock open his elm head to see what was stuffed inside. what rubbish...
"Vivian?"
Mu You woke up suddenly, and took a closer look.
The surroundings were dim, and all the green grass and green land disappeared. He still stayed in that narrow corridor, and there was no one around.
Mu You was a little dazed, the hostility on his body gradually dissipated, and when he looked down, he was suddenly taken aback.
At this moment, under his feet, there are dense monster corpses all over, almost bleeding into a river.
But what is more terrifying is himself.
Now he has long since lost his human form, and his body is covered with various monster organs, such as snake heads, crab claws, fish scales, spider legs... He has completely turned into a bloated and deformed five- to six-meter-tall sarcoma-like monster.
From the perspective of order, his whole body is completely filled with scarlet and chaotic order runes, leaving only a small amount of cleanliness in the deepest part of the heart.
"What have I done..."
Mu You broke out in a cold sweat. Just now, he was completely dominated by the idea of killing and tyranny, and fell into the power brought by order.
The trace of white runes in his heart represents his remaining sanity, if it wasn't for Vivienne's reminder at the last moment...
Wait, Vivian?
Mu You hurriedly turned his head and looked around, the entire passage was empty, only him standing alive, where did Vivian come from?
Besides, when he entered the God Realm, Vivian had already been left by Lin Xue's side, so it was impossible for him to appear here.
Mu You looked around, and finally looked at the brush in his hand.
"So, were you reminding me just now..."
At the moment around him, the only thing that could wake him up is this pen.
Facing his inquiry, the brush in his hand remained motionless, like a dead object.
Mu You breathed out, didn't ask any more questions, put away the brush, turned around and circled around, and counted the monster corpses on the ground.
The result surprised him: there were actually 182 monster corpses!
In other words, he has reached the 182nd floor!
Although the lamp **** said before that this place has been transformed by the magic pen, even if it is a transformation, can it transform a hundred and eighty floors?
Looking at the densely packed corpses under his feet, Mu You suddenly had a premonition: Even if he continued to kill, there would only be endless levels and monsters behind, and there would be no end at all.
Just now, he was able to kill here in one breath, which shows that he has fully mastered the method of breaking the rules with the magic pen.
However, this usage is wrong.
His state just now can almost be described as obsessed, completely on the wrong path.
That is to say, the voice of the troubadour told him that the information was wrong. This time, the test is not to let him use the power of order to kill.
"By the way, that voice at that time was really a troubadour?"
After going through the adventure just now, Mu You suddenly began to doubt this.
Thinking of this, he simply sat down and began to recall everything he had just experienced.
Fortunately, although he just entered a state of rage, every scene he experienced on the way remained in his memory like a brand.
Mu You started from the first floor, recalling all his processes of destroying the runes of order.
And the more he recalled, the more sweat broke out on his forehead.
It was only then that he realized what kind of wire rope he was walking on the whole time just now, and he was only one step away from falling into the abyss at any time.
It wasn't until he recalled all the memories that Mu You heaved a long sigh of relief, and suddenly realized: the God of Order is not the one who destroys and modifies the order, but the one who protects it!
The power of order, of course, includes the power to destroy order, but every time it destroys, it will cause a certain "deviation value" of itself, that is, the red rune. If the deviation value is too high, it will go crazy like he did just now. Lost in the power of order, lose yourself.
This is still in the virtual illusion scene. If it is in reality, the deviation value will accumulate faster. Those who are not strong-willed may fall after a few abuses of order!
Thinking of this, Mu You has already thought of Caesar's situation.
Perhaps, the original vision of the lamp **** was not wrong. Caesar was also a truly good-hearted monarch. His first wish to turn the desert into an oasis was out of sincerity, hoping to improve the living environment of the people.
It's just that after getting the magic pen, he quickly took the wrong path and fell into the power of order. The appearance is still the same, but the inside has been reduced to a slave to destruction and killing.
And the voice of the troubadour just now should have been pretended by Caesar. After this guy entered the lighthouse, he used the power of the lamp **** to control part of the authority. Maybe he knew that he had no ability to pass the test, so he misled him through sound transmission. Trying in vain to drag him, a competitor, into the water.
If it wasn't for his firm heart, and at the same time, the pen of order couldn't see it in the end, and he helped him, which made him recover.
Thinking of this, Mu You heaved a sigh of relief, picked up the pen of order, and cut on himself.
A series of pieces of monster rune meat were cut off by him and discarded. It wasn't until all the chaotic order was expelled from the body that Mu You discovered that his body was riddled with holes and out of shape.
But it doesn't matter, the real power of order is not destruction and destruction, but restoration, it is to set things right and restore all disorder to its original state. When he fully grasps the power of order, even if there is only a speck of dust left, he can restore it at any time.
The real content of this test is not for him to kill monsters with the pen of order, but for him to restore the disordered order in those monsters and master the rules of order in the process.
In other words, this is actually not a test at all, but an opportunity to teach him the laws of order.
(end of this chapter)