The Priestly State of Topa.
This is a new country, located between the Northland Wasteland and the Fire Demon Swamp. It was founded by a group of snake people from the depths of the earth. It was an ancient snake people that began to separate from the ground a thousand and hundreds of years ago. civilization.
Their language, customs and even practice methods are slightly different from those on the ground, but if you listen carefully to their words, you can still feel the ancient charm of thousands of years ago.
This new country had no king, and the priests of the Mother of Snakes held power and ran the country's order.
And its name comes from the name of their Son of Ten Thousand Snakes, who was also the eleventh generation of Ten Thousand Snakes Priests of the City of Divine Relics.
Topa, the former hero of the underground snake people, and later the demon Topa.
now.
He once again became a great presence in the people of this country.
At this moment, groups of snake people came towards this new country. When they passed through the wide canyon and looked at the mountains and cities in the distance, they all exclaimed.
"It's the maze city."
"Here we are."
“The place where the sons of snakes are, the place where the miracles of the Mother of snakes appear.”
They prostrated themselves on the ground devoutly and walked towards the city like a pilgrim.
Because of the existence of the Son of All Snakes, a large number of snake people who still believe in the Mother of All Snakes come here to worship the Temple of All Snakes in the Labyrinth City, enshrining the spokesperson of the Mother of All Snakes in the world.
They lined up to enter the city.
Crowds of people gathered under the temple to pray to their gods.
Looking at the simple temple, although it was a bit crude, it still couldn't stop the believers' excitement, and they all had tears in their eyes.
"The great mother of snakes, our great mother goddess."
"After thousands of years, we finally see your miracles spread across the world again."
A masked snake girl stood in front of the temple, raising her hand and shooting fireworks into the sky.
The priests and attendants of the temple followed the sound and lit bonfires.
Under the temple.
The snake girl danced an ancient sacrificial dance, and ancient music sounded.
They offered sacrifices to the Mother of Snakes and prayed to her for people's faith and devotion to her.
The flames burned brightly, bringing warmth and hope to everyone in the city.
It was only after arriving on the surface that the underground snakes realized that the mother of all snakes had already been forgiven by God and had gone to the kingdom of the Creator.
Everything has long since passed, and the curses and divine punishments they feared and feared have never actually befallen them.
At dusk.
In the sky not far from the Labyrinth City, a god-like being floated above the sea of clouds.
A ball of light could be seen rotating around her body, leaving her floating in the air.
This is a life magic that Yin gradually discovered after entering the third level.
A winged person next to her was waving her wings, it was Matafusi, and she also followed Silver.
It was obvious that they had gone straight to Astrology City before, but after entering the border of the wasteland, Matafusi didn't understand why Yin had to go a long way to get here.
Yin stood on a high place and looked at the city under the Blue Copper Mountain. The reason why it is called the Labyrinth City is because this city is not just on the ground level.
There is also a maze of earth connected below, where some snake people also live and are the priests of this country.
They guard the passage to the next level underground, as well as their sons of snakes.
But at least for now, it seems that most of the underground snake people have gradually become accustomed to the world on the surface, and have also integrated into the country of the snake people on the giant island of Ruhe.
Matavs looked at Yin and vaguely saw the masked priestess in front of the temple.
"Are any of your friends in there?"
Matavs could feel that Yin seemed to be very happy, although this happiness was not shown on Yin's face.
Yin looked at him quietly: "Yes, he is my friend."
Matafusi: "Aren't you going to see them?"
Silver: "No need."
Silver knows.
Firefly can lead the underground snake people to the surface from the endless depths of the earth and establish their own country.
How difficult it was.
She also knows that many people are paying attention to her now, and she has too many troubles and dangers. Many people have reminded her of this.
Maybe Hotaru herself wouldn't care, but Silver didn't want to bring danger to this new country.
Matavs felt a little regretful: "That's it!"
Silver looked at Yingying who was full of energy and vitality in front of the bonfire, and saw that the snake men were no longer lifeless but full of life, so he turned and left.
When they left, Hotaru, who was wearing a mask under the bonfire, seemed to notice something and suddenly raised his head and looked at the other side of the sky.
In the gloomy sky, she seemed to see a black spot in the sky, but it quickly disappeared.
The priest on the side noticed that Yingying was in a daze, so he asked: "Priest of Ten Thousand Snakes?"
Yingying shook her head: "It's okay, let's continue with the festival."
Although she said that, she didn't know why she still turned her head and looked towards the end of the sky.
On the way to her destination, Matafus couldn't help but be curious.
"Yin, can you tell me your story?"
"You can also tell a story about you and your friends. I heard them say that there is a strange world under the giant island of Luhe, a world created by the descendants of the giant god. Yin, you have been there before."
"You and your friends probably met underground."
It was getting dark.
Perhaps it was because Matafus came so far to help her that Silver also rarely spoke more.
Yin started talking when she left Astrology City. Although Yin was not a good storyteller, her plain and concise words showed a lonely and long journey for Matafus.
Layer after layer of endless underground mazes, passages that never end.
The cave is connected to the fluorescent cave, a mysterious and terrifying underground town.
The story of two snake men who wanted to go to the ground but failed in the end, and the story of the snake priest who turned himself into a snake meat workshop in order to save the city.
As for the two girls whose names have similar pronunciations, one led the snake people back to the surface in order to save her own tribe, and the other accepted the inheritance of the ancient power and the mission of the witch and went to the depths of the earth to meet the legendary giant god Ruhe.
Matafos had never heard of such a story, for the man who told it was the protagonist.
She even forgot about the existence around her, and the dark underground world appeared in her mind.
Unknowingly.
The two people have arrived at the location of Astrology City.
At this time, Yin's story was finished, and he turned to tell Matavs.
"Here we are."
Matafosi groaned, then turned her head and looked over.
The Northland Wasteland is very high and the surrounding vegetation is sparse.
But the moon is also exceptionally bright here, and its silvery glow shines on the earth, making the outline of the city in the distance and the surrounding scenery particularly clear.
However.
The city at the end of the sky was dead silent.
Traces of the canals and farmland that were once developed around the area are still there, but they have long been deserted, revealing endless desolation.
Matavs looked at the scene here and thought of the story Yin told just now.
She felt sad, but she looked at Yin with admiration and admiration in her eyes.
"Silver, you are so brave."
She took a deep breath, and something seemed to become crystal clear in her eyes.
"You are much braver than me."
"I will never be able to have the courage like you to face such terrible things."
Matavs looked at Yin, maybe this was the kind of brave and persistent person her great-grandfather said.
Whether it's Yin or the girl named Hotaru.
The story of the two people shocked Matavs very much. It turned out that someone could really do such a thing.
Even, they are of the same generation as him.
Yin said: "That's not brave."
Matafus asked in surprise: "Isn't this brave?"
Silver: "There's just no way out."
Matavs said seriously: "This is courage."
Yin didn't say anything more, but fell to the ground with Matafusi, heading towards Astrology City.
However, the two people have not completely fallen to the ground.
Suddenly there was a harsh buzzing sound in the air: "Buzzing~"
Matavs immediately covered her ears: "What is this?"
On the hillside behind the city, what Matafos had thought was a seated stone statue stood up.
The harsh buzzing sound came from his body, carrying a terrifying gravity field.
The surrounding air seemed to freeze for an instant.
Matafosi was even frightened out of her soul.
Ordinary people can't imagine what a 100-meter-long giant statue looks like when it moves and looks at you. The intimidating force brought by any beast or monster is not enough to compare with it.
When the giant statue stood up, it felt like it was holding up the sky and the earth.
The mountains became dwarfed, the cities were like toys, and people were no more than ants in front of him.
He doesn't even need to use his hands, just blowing a breath to destroy everything around him and crush all living things nearby.
Matafusi was so frightened that she didn't even dare to breathe, but at this time Yin looked at the giant living statue.
"Master Astrologer."
"I'm back."
The living statue still stood, watching Matavs and Silver.
I don't know if he really recognized Yin, or if he just recognized him as the same kind because of the witch aura on his body. At least he didn't do anything directly.
Silver told Matavs: "Stay with me and you must not leave."
Matafosi clung to Yin, wishing she could hang herself on Yin's body as a pendant, and the two of them headed towards the city.
The terror outside the city had just ended, but the terror inside the city had just begun. As soon as Matavs entered, she felt that there seemed to be countless eyes in the darkness paying attention to her.
And there are that kind of terrifying and weird force fields everywhere around you. If you make the slightest mistake, you may be turned into a puddle of rotten flesh by the twisted force field.
What kind of city is this? This is obviously a huge chopping board, grinding plate, or meat mincer.
In the darkness, Matafos saw a large number of statues.
They are located on the streets, in houses, peeking around the corners of alleys.
That's right.
It's snooping.
Because Matafus noticed that the statues were actually moving. Although the movements were pitifully slow, they were indeed moving.
And with their slow movements, the force fields of the entire city continued to move and collide, as if many invisible millstones were grinding against each other.
All kinds of dangers are approaching, and each one is enough to kill a person.
However, Yin's body seemed to have a shield, blocking out all the hidden forces approaching, and also protecting Marta Fusi.
Martafus discovered the truth and couldn't help but said: "They can all move?"
Silver nodded, and then looked at Matavs.
"They were once people from Astrology City and Starlight Ascetic Order. They are all living people."
"Martafus, I want to ask you to come and see why they are like this."
"Is there any way to save them?"
Matavs never imagined that her patients would be such a special group of beings.
Matavs was in an extremely difficult situation. She had only healed living creatures, and it was still unclear whether these moving "stone men" could be called life.
"these people."
"Can they still feel their presence?"
Silver led Matafus to a statue on the street, and then stretched out his hand to touch the statue: "I can feel that their consciousness is still in this statue, but they are trapped. They are suppressed by a force. All the wisdom is gone, and only a little bit of instinct is left.”
Matafus also stepped forward. She used her spiritual power to sense something, but as soon as her spiritual power came into contact, she was ejected away by a force.
Matafosi was very surprised: "What is it? Their bodies seem to have a mysterious power?"
Yin nodded: "It is the power of the blood of life. After my life barrier is opened, your mental power will also be unable to penetrate deep."
Matavs had heard Yin talk about her power before, and now she felt it again.
"No, it should be more than just life blood, because it is somewhat different from your power."
"Why do I feel like there are some fluctuations in my mental power?"
Matavos summoned her own ghost spirit, and a paper angel floated beside her: "Help, scan his body."
After saying that, she looked at Yin again: "Yin, help me suppress its life force field barrier."
The whole process was very long, and it wasn't until the sky slowly turned white that Matafus finished her work.
The paper angels also scattered into the sky and merged into Yin's body.
After the paper angel scanned, Matafosi immediately had some answers. At this time, Matafosi looked extremely surprised and shocked and looked at Yin.
"It's weird."
"They actually have a set of strange organs running in their bodies. They are really a kind of life."
She asked Silver, pointing to the living statue.
"silver!"
"Have you felt it? In addition to the gravity field you mentioned, their bodies are also faintly emitting a strange force, a chaotic force."
"It collided with my mental power, and I felt dizzy."
"And the source of this power seems to come from..."
Matafos looked at the largest living statue: "Come from it."
Matafosi could feel that the source of that distortion power came from the statue, and other living statues were just products contaminated by it.
The power within the body is nothing but the radiation residue of the other party.
Silver nodded.
"Lei told me before that when a huge amount of life blood is integrated into a powerful intelligent species."
"When the two collide, they will form a terrible force."
"Because the two powers of wisdom and life cannot be completely integrated."
"This may be the case in Astrology City, but he has only heard about it and has never really seen it."
Matafus nodded, and it looked like that was the problem.
She thought for a while: "How about drawing out the life blood?"
But as soon as Martafusi said it, she vetoed it. Not to mention the difficulty of extracting such powerful mixed divine blood, even if it was extracted, it would not change the twisted nature of their bodies.
"No, that can only release their trapped spirits. Their bodies have been destroyed and it is impossible to become the same again."
The more Matafos thought about it, the more she felt that there was no way to solve this problem.
"I don't know completely about the situation of life species. I just heard you talk about it."
"However, the intelligent species is composed of body and intelligent consciousness."
"If you want to bring them back to life, you have to turn them into snake people again, an intelligent species."
"It's just that even if we solve the problem of life blood and clean up the pollution on their bodies, we still have to restore their bodies and reshape their consciousness."
"this……"
"This is equivalent to recreating life, even more difficult than recreating life."
Matafosi looked at Yin with a confused look on her face.
"The problem is, before they became like this, most of them were not even powerful people. If they were apostles or third-level superiors, there might still be some opportunities."
"The body is destroyed, the consciousness is polluted, and so many years have passed."
"I want to restore everything to how it was before..."
Matavus finally understood why ordinary gods had no solution to this problem.
Yin listened quietly to Matafosi's words and fell into silence.
Matavs looked at Yin and couldn't help but said: "Are they really still alive like this?"
Silver said: "Yes, they are still alive."
Matafosi wanted to say something else, but after seeing Yin's eyes, she stopped saying anything.
Matafusi saw Silver at this time, and an idea came to her mind.
Perhaps she wanted to comfort Yin, or perhaps she really thought this was a solution, she said excitedly.
"By the way, since it is very difficult to transform back into an intelligent species, can we directly transform into a living species like Ginyou?"
"Didn't you succeed Yin?"
"This is a living example!"
Silver stood in the dead city of living statues and looked at the stars in the sky.
"The only way is to find God."
But the Death Star Titan had already left at this time, and Yin didn't know where the other party was.
Matafosi said: "If I can really see the God of Witch Doctors, I will ask for you."
Silver looked at Matavs and said to her.
"Um."
"if you can."
"If it's forced, then it's not necessary."
Yin stood in the darkness, looking at the living statue beside him: "I will find it myself."
But Matafosi said: "If a person is too polite and always refuses everyone's extended hand, it will be difficult to make friends."
When leaving, Yin sent Matavus far away, and came to the temple behind Astrology City alone.
There, she seemed to be talking to the huge statue.
However, the statue never seemed to respond. Silver was the only one talking to himself from beginning to end.
When Silver came back, he said to Matavs: "Thank you."
Matavs waved her hands repeatedly, a little embarrassed: "I didn't help."
Silver: "You gave me an answer."
Matafusi: "But what I said doesn't seem to be good news."
Silver thought of the story she told about Topa when she was with Hotaru and what the other party said.
"Martafus, it's good to have an answer and an ending."
"Whatever is good."
"It's still bad."
——
When Yin and Matafosi returned to Demon Abyss City.
Ray and Lomir have also prepared everything. They created a tailor-made promotion ceremony for Marta Fusi at the bottom of the moon tower.
Lei arranged the materials, and Lomire even personally arranged this "small" third-level promotion ceremony, for fear of any surprises.
After all, in the world of powerful people, breaking through the realm will always be accompanied by some risks.
As soon as Matafosi and Yin came back, they were brought here.
Entered the moon tower.
Lomir was inspecting the ritual spell formation at the moment. When he saw Matafusi coming back, he asked like an elder caring about the younger one: "He's back."
Matafus stepped forward and shouted: "Uncle Lomir."
Lomir asked her: "How is it?"
Matafosi glanced at Yin behind her and said in a low voice, "I don't know if it helps."
Lomir nodded: "The ceremony has been prepared and will start tomorrow. Are you ready?"
Matavs looked at the ritual spell formation.
She took a deep breath and walked to the center of the ritual circle.
She looked at the ceremony that Uncle Lomir had personally arranged for her, and the image of Grandpa Wus suddenly appeared in her mind. Grandpa Wus had forced himself to break through the third level, and finally died due to rapid exhaustion of his body.
In a sense, this also left a certain shadow in Matafosi's heart.
If Matafosi had been so panicked before, she would have been filled with random thoughts and worries about various problems.
“What if the breakthrough fails?”
"Will you die?"
"Will Uncle Lomire be disappointed?"
"Ah, I'm going to die!"
After returning from Astrology City, what she had just experienced and the stories she heard seemed to give Matavs enough courage.
Both Yin and Yingying are able to face such terrible problems bravely and even defeat them.
What does this little problem of my own mean?
Matafusi stood in the center of the ritual formation, imagining herself breaking through to the third level.
Thinking of Grandpa Wushu looking at himself as a child, he told himself.
"Don't wait until you are as old as me to talk all day long."
"If I had chosen that path at that time."
"I will definitely be different from what I am now, I will definitely be more successful, and I will definitely do great things."
And at this moment, isn't she standing at such a fork in the road?
Then, she raised her head and said with great seriousness and a smile.
"Yes, Uncle Lomir."
"I am ready."
the next day.
Lomire, Lei and Yin all came to watch the ceremony, but Lomire was responsible for presiding over the ceremony, while Lei and Yin stood nearby.
Matafus stood in the center of consciousness and closed her eyes.
Lomir initiated the ceremony, and dense formations and symbols lit up, spreading around and reaching the end.
Rays of light rose up, and the activated spiritual power in Matafosi's body began to change.
The ritual connects to the dream world and leads to the Kingdom of God above the sky.
You can see an illusory shadow appearing behind Matafusi, and then a curse seal slowly condenses out behind it. It is the inheritance of the wind curse seal in the body of ordinary winged people.
Yin felt the wind blowing out of thin air in the room: "Wind."
But Matafusi quickly gave up on the wind, and even expelled this part directly from her body.
Because the power of this curse seal may be suitable for most wingmen, but it is not suitable for a witch doctor.
It is even less suitable for the path she will take in the future.
At this time, the densely packed luminous paper in her body flew out, condensing into a brand new curse seal.
Neither the Snake Man nor the Winged Man can directly communicate with the God's Cup. Today's curse seals are inherited from the ancient gods.
Lomir nodded: "It's the cursed seal of paper, and the spirit of the cursed seal is coming out."
When Matafos made potions before, she used various plants as raw materials to make special paper and blend it into the ghosts and spirits.
When needed, take a piece of paper from the ghost spirit.
After being burned by divine magic and combined with various other materials, witch medicine is created.
The Curse Seal of Paper is a power that is very suitable for Matafus and has been prepared for a long time.
But at this time, the ceremony was not over yet.
Lomir frowned and looked at the sky above the ceremony: "Huh?"
Lei also looked at Matafosi and noticed something unusual, but he also found that it didn't seem to be a bad thing: "Is there another one?"
All I saw was a white light emerging from the entrance to the dream world from above the ceremony, and squeezed into Matafosi's body with a mass of curse seals.
Lei immediately recognized what the curse seal was: "It's the bone curse seal."
Whether it is a paper curse seal or a bone curse seal, they are both very special curse seal powers.
And Lomir also knew that this other curse seal should be an additional gift from the God of Witch Doctors. The God of Witch Doctors was indeed waiting for the birth of a third-level witch doctor as they expected.
The curse seal condensed out.
What followed was a more intense change.
Matafusi's figure floated up, and the blurry shadow that was originally located above the ceremony gradually became clearer and distorted in mid-air.
White bone structures emerged out of thin air in the shadow, filling the interior of the blurry shadow.
"Wow"
Densely packed luminous paper flew out of Matafusi's body, covering and filling the skeleton, like skin.
More paper was folded or cut into filaments.
Transformed into internal organs, intestines, brain, and even hair.
Immediately afterwards, the densely packed luminous paper folded up and turned into feathers. The feathers were stuck up and turned into wings.
at last.
One was supported by bones as a frame, covered with paper and folded into wings, and a strange sky shape of more than 20 meters high made the spirit of the curse seal appear.
This is a huge composite cursed seal spirit.
He looks a bit like Wus when he was young.
The cursed spirit moved, as if it had its own consciousness. At this moment, the cursed spirit had completely merged with the ghost spirit.
Entering the third level, Matafusi's ghost spirit has completely transformed.
It's as if it has truly become a complete life form, a life form with multiple organs.
Instead of just one mouth, one eye, and one face.
Originally, the ghost spirit was an organ hidden in the body of the contractor, but now the Matafosi hidden inside the "Paper Sky Angel" looked more like an organ inside the ghost spirit.
While moving, it suddenly stopped and looked upward, at the entrance to the dream world.
Shout out one byte: "God!"
Lei, Lomir and Silver listened to the voice and could hear two voices overlapping each other, one of which belonged to Matafos.
at the same time.
A wave of power descended on Matafusi.
The tall "Paper Sky Angel" collapsed suddenly, and Matafusi slowly fell from the sky.
She sat on the ground as if asleep.
Lomir stepped forward and found that the ghosts and consciousness in her body were gone, and they had gone to another world along with the ritual.
Silver asked: "What happened to her?"
Ray told Silver: "She went to the Kingdom of God, which belongs to the witch doctor."
