early morning.
A secluded and deserted suburb of Columbus.
Beside a river with crystal floating ice floes.
The nail-headed high priest waved slightly to Aurora, who was dressed in black leather. Invisible suction force exploded, and wisps of red mist flew into his palm.
The power of hell begins to shift.
Aurora's bloody hands grew smooth red skin, and her leather clothes, torture tools, and many inhuman features on her body faded away.
Half a minute later.
The red mist was drained away.
Aurora White blinked her long eyelashes and woke up from her coma with a soft hum.
"William, Adam? Am I in a 'thought cage', are you all an illusion?"
"This is not an illusion." William took off a coat and put it on his wife's warm body and hugged him tightly. He turned and looked at Dean gratefully. "Mr. Kenny reached an agreement with the high priest and terminated your contract. Now you and I They are all cursers."
"The torture has stopped." Adam opened his hands and hugged his parents tightly. "The nightmare of hell is over. Our family will never be separated again!"
Dean looked at the three people hugging each other and crying, nodded slightly, and turned his eyes to the high priest opposite, with a ray of psychedelic light shooting out of his pupils.
It was his turn to make good on his promise.
The fantasy abyss has been cooled down!
The high priest was shocked, and pictures of the past flooded into his mind. He slowly closed his eyes unconsciously, and stood there motionless like a wax figure.
Emotions of joy, confusion, pain, and numbness flashed across his pale and cold face, as if he was watching a movie with ups and downs of plot alone.
For a whole minute, Dean abided by the agreement and watched without taking any action.
The high priest woke up from the memory of the past, wiped a tear from the corner of his eye, and murmured a name in an imperceptible voice, "Elliot Spencer...Spencer..."
His eyes were as sentimental as an artist's for a moment.
But the next second, the brilliance of humanity faded away, and he returned to his indifferent and arrogant demeanor. He turned to Frankie Kurus, who was paralyzed in a wheelchair as if he had a stroke with his eyes wide open behind him, and pressed his shoulders with steel-clamp-like hands. ,
“Man, can’t wait for the journey to hell to begin?”
"Uh huh... no... wu wu..." Frankie's eyes were red with excitement, but he couldn't speak. He could only move his neck crazily to express his true feelings.
"Just be happy. Don't worry, the fun that goes straight to the soul is yet to come. The hell train will leave soon." The high priest looked at William's family and said, "Restore the Mourning Box."
William and Adam quickly picked up the deformed Rubik's Cube in their arms and played with it.
Click click click…
The spindle's Rubik's Cube returned to a cube inch by inch, and a large yellow arc was released from the slit, wrapping around the high priest and Frankie beside him like a snake.
"Sir Kenny, we will meet again, and I hope we can reach a fair deal by then."
The high priest's expectant words floated across the river.
The next second, the two figures split into dazzling purple lightning and flew into the Rubik's Cube.
The power of hell was swept away.
This world is sunny and sunny, birds and animals are chirping in the woods, and clear rivers flow quietly. Everything is so beautiful and peaceful.
"breathe…"
William's family let out a long sigh of relief at the same time, with disbelief flashing on their faces.
The high priest of hell who had tortured them for twenty years just left?
"The matter is solved perfectly. Nailhead will never take the initiative to trouble you again, unless you foolishly open the mourning box to summon him." Dean saw the worries of the three of them, and gently took the mystery boxes from their hands and collected them in fantasy. Space, "What are your plans next?"
"Future plans?"
William touched Aurora's nose affectionately and held her in his arms, "In a legal sense, Aurora has been dead for 20 years, and I also died in a fire half a year ago... We no longer have a formal identity, Columbus is sure Can’t stay any longer.”
"The United States is so big, where can't we go?" Adam showed an open-minded smile on his thin face, patting the black handbag containing gold bars and a beautiful knife on the snow beside him, "We have money, and we don't need to follow the rules in the rest of our lives. The earth is fixed in one place, we travel all over the world!”
"That's a good idea." Dean glanced at the three of them and nodded, "You have two curse disciples and one curse disciple bloodline. Together they are a powerful source of supernatural beings. If you stay in one place for too long, the supernatural will gather together. Law came to the door quickly."
"No matter what the law of convergence is," William said with firm eyes, "death can't separate our family."
"Yes." Aurora enthusiastically hugged her husband's neck and kissed the corner of his mouth, "After twenty long years and endless torture in hell, I now understand that family is the most important thing in this world."
"So when will you give me another brother and sister?" Adam joked, "Let the house be lively."
"Us?" William slapped his son on the chest with a straight face, "It's your turn, you brat, to work hard and find a compatible woman to get married as soon as possible, so that Aurora and I can have grandchildren!"
"Why are you getting married? I was emotionally hurt. I'm sorry for my ex-girlfriend. I haven't recovered from the previous period."
Dean looked at this heartwarming scene and grinned, "Are you still studying Baphomet and Leviathan?"
"Of course, that is a lifelong career..." William and his wife exchanged glances and nodded, "As a curse disciple, if you want to survive for a long time, you must pay attention to these two biggest threats at all times."
"Then let me introduce you to the first stop of the next journey." Dean took out a pen and paper from the space and wrote down the contact information of "Professor Aiden Tanner" and the address of "Alamo University of New Mexico" , "When you go to find him, just say that Dean introduced him."
It turns out that Mr. Kenny’s real name is Dean?
The three of them looked astonished.
"We are already curse disciples," Adam hesitated, "How about in-depth contact with ordinary people?"
Dean smiled and opened his mouth to reveal two fangs, spitting out a bright red forked snake letter, "Aiden is not an ordinary person, he is a supernatural creature like me and you."
"Moreover, we heterogeneous people have jointly established a loose mutual aid organization and attracted allies with good personalities."
Dean picked up a pebble and threw it into the river, watching it disappear from sight as it floated endlessly. "There are no mandatory obligations. The only rule is that you are not allowed to kill innocent people indiscriminately or harm ordinary people at will. Any allies who encounter Difficulties and troubles, other members lend a helping hand.”
William's family looked at each other with joy on their faces, "This sounds good."
As curse practitioners who have struggled alone in the world for decades, they long for companions deep in their hearts.
"Then you agreed?"
"We will remember your great kindness to our family for the rest of our lives," William said with a serious face. "If you have any instructions, just say it. As long as it is not too crazy, we will carry it out meticulously."
Adam looked deeply at Dean and emphasized, "You took a huge risk by negotiating with the high priest of hell for us. We will never be able to repay the favor we owe you in our lifetime."
Aurora nodded and hugged her husband and son tightly, looking at Dean with deep gratitude in her eyes. As a former hell monk, she deeply understood the horror of the high priest, and this man forcefully removed her from his palm. Take it back.
Their strength is beyond imagination, and they never force themselves on weaklings like them.
It would be completely stupid not to hug such a thick golden thigh.
"There's no need to say it so seriously." Dean said, "As soon as you investigate any new information about Leviathan and Baphomet, especially information about the Serent Rune, notify me immediately. By the way, William , write me a letter of introduction, and then I plan to go to Maine to find Mrs. Carmody who studied Baphomet."
"No problem," William helped his wife stand up and took the initiative to mention, "In fact, I have left some general research materials in the library of the state university. I can get them for you if you are interested."
"That's just a good way to relieve boredom on the road."
"By the way, Dean," Adam couldn't help but ask, "How are you going to deal with Professor Otis?"
Dean thought of the bald man with a broomstick beard. This guy carried his own serpent order and could never betray him. There was no need to think twice.
"He went back to State College and continued to help me with my séance research."
After all, seances are not just a form of summoning hell cursers, some can also summon beings from other dimensions.
Maybe it will come in handy in the future.
"Okay, it's all over. Let's go back." Dean turned his head and looked at the silhouettes of tall buildings in the distance. "Have a day off and we'll set off together tomorrow morning."
…
A superpower war broke out in Columbus. Thousands of people witnessed supernatural events. The landmark Saarinen Building and several nearby buildings were destroyed into rubble.
There is no doubt that such a huge movement will definitely alert the Special Operations Department, and they have probably sent personnel to start a large-scale cleanup operation.
Dean no longer looked for trouble in the past, and just found a motel in the suburbs far away from the city to stay.
Wearing a bath towel around her waist, she looked into the bathroom mirror.
He is 1.83 meters tall, with 8-pack abdominal muscles like a knife, sharp-edged deltoid muscles, rugged unicorn arms, and a tight and powerful inverted triangle.
Muscles are tight and toned without being too bulky.
A handsome face with thick eyebrows and starry eyes. After entering 1982, some stubble barely grew on his chin, giving his face a hint of masculinity.
He grinned, his fine white teeth seemed to be shining, he was sunny and handsome.
In a smile.
The psychological pressure created by the previous cruel instruments of hell, the bloody scenes of torture, and the monks' curious costumes has slightly weakened.
"You're so full," Qiantan jumped out of the sink and flew onto Dean's shoulders. The copper plate folded his body inward and stretched. "This battle between you and the high priest will provide you with more strength and emotion." The last time we faced the Potala Spider, there were more people, and the progress of skill concentration has reached 15%."
Dean took a handful of ice water from the faucet and rubbed his cheeks, looking surprised, "I remember you originally said that it takes tens or hundreds of years to condense skills?"
"You can't blame me, Master. I didn't expect that supernatural events and extraordinary creatures would appear around you so frequently. The Potala Spider Man, the Nail-headed High Priest, are at least the fifth-level peak existences." The sixteen eyes of Yiantan flashed. With a proud look on his face, he said, "What a happy trouble."
"oops!"
Dean slapped it into the sink and drank a lot of water.
"I have a question. Although I haven't been in contact with the high priest for a long time," Dean applied some toothpaste and brushed his teeth, "but I feel that he is not completely obedient to Leviathan? His last warning to me made me feel that Betraying Leviathan."
"That's not surprising. Leviathan, a lord of hell, is different from ordinary gods in attracting believers to seek refuge and believe in." Qian Tan floated comfortably in the pool and spit out bubbles, "He directly uses divine power to violently transform the chosen ones. Those who deprive them of their humanity and memories of the past, leaving only the cruelty, pain, and torture."
"Once the human side of the chosen one begins to revive, resistance will naturally arise."
"Then maybe you will really cooperate with the high priest again in the future?"
…
Between washes.
Dean's System of Mental Engagement, Examining the Gains, "The Secret Study of William White":
You track down William White and find his son Adam, learning from Adam that William didn't really die in the fire.
You go to Ohio State University and find out clues about the séance and the pentagram from Professor Otis.
Following the information provided by the tattoo on the back of Adam's neck, you found the horror house built in the amusement park modeled after the "Leviathan Hell", as well as the clues left by William, and discovered William's secret - using séances to make human beings Experience a journey through hell, reincarnate from the dead, and save his terminally ill wife Aurora.
You found Frankie, the rich man who kidnapped William in an attempt to be reborn, and summoned William the Curse and Aurora the Hell Monk in his building.
You learn from Aurora that the Hell Monk's return to humanity can only be achieved through Leviathan's spokesperson, the High Priest Nailhead.
After experiencing a spiritual torture, William and his son opened the box of mourning and summoned Nailhead.
You had a huge fight with Nailhead when the negotiation went bad, killed three of his followers, and used the Illusion Abyss to influence his mind. Finally, you convinced Nailhead and agreed to significantly increase the progress of the transaction.
Nailhead removes Aurora's identity as a Hell Monk, allowing the family of three to reunite as Cursers and improve their progress.
…
The event progress has reached 175%.
Withdraw rewards.
Experience value +180, personal level lvlv7 (320→500/1100)
Based on completion, you can choose two from the following special rewards, and one of them will be greatly improved.
A. Specialty - Curse, transformed into a humanoid creature with a trace of Leviathan hell blood, mastering abilities such as blood draining, skin grafting, etc.
B. Expertise - Hell Monk, transformed into a dependent of Leviathan, may be granted according to status: immortality, summoning hell torture instruments, teleportation, invisibility, mind control, dream control, material and energy control, gravity manipulation, time and space distortion, etc. Powerful ability. After transformation, your will attribute will be increased by 30%.
Your emotions and humanity will be greatly suppressed.
The senses of pain and pleasure will be radically reversed.
C. Feat upgrade: Your existing feat "Cursed Body" is upgraded to "Master of Suffering":
In addition to absorbing your own accumulated resentment, unwillingness, pain, despair, and various negative emotions, you can also absorb the pain, fear, despair and other negative emotions of other supernatural creatures and convert them into free attribute points (no matter how many ordinary creatures there are, they cannot be converted) .
The stronger the target's mental and willpower attributes, the more attributes you gain from his suffering.
D. Super power - Gravity manipulation: consume energy to create a special field and adjust the gravity experienced by the target in a small range.
Improve this ability and slightly increase will and mental attributes.
Note: Low levels can only affect the gravity experienced by oneself.
Note: Low levels cannot change the target mass or adjust the gravitational constant.
Significantly increase rewards.
E. Super power - mind control: Use your will to forcibly subdue the target and make it obey your words. A will determination is required.
Improve this ability and slightly increase the will attribute.
F. 2 free attribute points.
…
"The rewards this time are not as good as the last time I dealt with the Potala Spider Man. The supernatural hunter didn't gain much attributes either, maybe because my attributes are too strong."
"There is no point of divinity."
But after a brief thought, Dean understood that the high priest was subordinate to Leviathan, and the divinity drawn from faith and desire naturally belonged to Leviathan.
In addition, from the system's dazzling ability description of the Hell Monk's specialty, Dean deduced that the high priest's true level should be stronger than the Potala Spider Man, a level 6 creature that could easily destroy a city.
But after entering the human world, he was greatly suppressed, causing his strength to drop rapidly to peak level 5, which was similar to his own.
Many powerful abilities cannot be used.
"Otherwise, the outcome of my battle with Nailhead is undecided."
"We should not take any future contact lightly."
As for the selection of rewards, Dean first eliminated the three options A, B, and F of the alienated body and attribute points as usual, and chose from CDE.
"Lock C."
Nowadays, all of Dean's own attributes are not low. It is more difficult to absorb attributes through killing supernatural hunters.
So he needs an additional way to obtain attributes.
The former cursed body could only absorb his own negative emotions and convert them into attribute points, but the efficiency was extremely low, and only 0.5 attributes were converted in total.
But this upgrade can draw attributes from the negative emotions of other supernatural creatures.
The efficiency is greatly improved, which is suitable as a supplementary approach.
"First use the Illusion Abyss skill to induce the target's negative emotions, and then use the Lord of Suffering to absorb attributes. This set is simply crazy, but I like it."
And the description clearly states that attributes cannot be drawn from ordinary creatures such as ordinary people.
Dean doesn't have to worry about being blinded by power and creating mass panic among ordinary people to harvest emotions.
"I just don't know how efficient the transformation of pain is. I need a supernatural creature to experiment with it."
Dean suddenly looked down at the shallow water floating in the sink, happily blowing bubbles.
The latter suddenly froze, clearly feeling the malice and joking in it, his big eyes twitching, "Master, don't, don't look at me like that, I'm scared."
Dean shook his head and smiled, "I'll let you go this time."
"The next step is to choose among DE."
"Option E, mind control, overlaps with the Serpent Order to a certain extent and is excluded."
"D. Gravity control. Low levels can only be used on oneself. Adjusting gravity slightly does not see much use for the time being..."
Even if Dean doubled the gravity he endured ten times, it would still be insignificant compared to the hundreds of tons of force he could explode.
"But as the level gets higher, maybe you can upgrade gravity control to gravity control and create anti-gravity fields and black holes? Well, the potential is endless. In the later stages, it may be as good as your skills."
"It's decided, C, D."
…
Expertise Cursed Body is upgraded to Master of Suffering.
Acquire skills - Gravity Manipulation lv0.
…
Dean checked his status one last time.
Personal level: lv7(500/1100)
Attributes:
Physical fitness: 25.3
Strength: 23.3
Sensitivity: 21.5
Perception: 22.5→23
Spirit: 26.8
Will: 26
Skill: 9/10→10/10
Skill lv1(2→6/200)
Shooting lv5 (45/700)
Fighting lv5(470→530/700)
Fantasy Abyss lv1 (2→14/200)
Call of the Underworld lv0 (38→50/100)
Domain·Shadow of the Past lv4(440→485/500)
Red Dragon Meditation lv3 (105→117/400)
Domain·Simultaneous lv3(32→36/300)
Fantasy space lv1.
Gravity manipulation lv0 (0/100)
Feats: Iron Man (intermediate), Supernatural Hunter (intermediate), Lord of Suffering (replaces Cursed Body), Mirror Shield, Omen, Blacksmith, Lightning Reflexes.
System abilities: God's perspective lv6, Limbo shuttle lv2
Event: Eighty-two percent blood.
"Go back to Hawkins... and come back tomorrow morning," Dean took off his towel, looked at the shallows and ordered, "Help me guard the William family next door."
"As you command, Master."
The next second, Dean casually opened a node, wandered through the void, and slipped back to Catherine's bedroom.
(End of chapter)
