Book of the Otherworld

Chapter 155 Shadow Symbiosis
Shadow magic is a unique magic that manipulates shadows and darkness, and it is also a very dangerous magic, whether it is for the enemy or the caster.

In those places where the light cannot reach, there is a substance called shadow energy. This kind of energy is both powerful and fragile, ubiquitous, and difficult to touch. Few people understand shadow energy, even absolutely. Most humans are unaware of its existence.

However, shadow energy does exist, just like flames can make people feel hot, and electric current can make people feel numb. When human beings are surrounded by darkness, they often feel inexplicable fear. This is probably the effect of shadow energy, and shadow magic It is a method of manipulating and utilizing shadow energy.

At present, human technology is still unable to effectively detect and control shadow energy. In fact, human beings cannot learn and use shadow magic with their own abilities. They must rely on the help of creatures in the shadow world to control this energy and become a shadow magic. Mage (The title Shadow Mage is not invented by me, but comes from sporadic records in some ancient books. From this point of view, I can barely be regarded as a Shadow Mage.)
Therefore, summoning and enslaving a shadow world creature has become a ritual that every shadow mage must complete.

Although the vast majority of Shadow Realm creatures live in the Shadow Realm, in our world, there are still a small number of Shadow Realm creatures living in the deep underground with few people, or in underground caves that cannot be illuminated by light. However, due to They're so rare they're almost impossible to find.

Fortunately, with the teachings of the Lord of Darkness, we can use the Shadowborn Ritual to summon these unique beings from the Shadow Realm.

Information about this ceremony can be found in another notebook of mine.

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Shadow Summoning Ritual: This ritual can only be performed in the dark night where you can't see your fingers. The following items are required for this ritual.

Obsidian rune stone 12 yuan, see page [-] for details.

There are four obsidian pillars, see page [-] for details.

The floor-to-ceiling mirror is 12 yuan, and the specifications are detailed on the sixth page.

Sealable containers with smooth inner walls that can reflect the impact (preferably silverware or stainless steel products).

Twelve or more prayers (there is no limit to the number, the more the better), and four priests whose spiritual power far exceeds that of ordinary people.

A cold light, a round of fresh corpses, at least twenty gallons of fresh human blood, and. . . . . . . . . . .

The rules of the ceremony are as follows, the rune stones and obsidian pillars are arranged in the following way, the participants of the ceremony stand as shown in the picture, and the blood draws the magic circle as shown in the picture. . . . . . .

The ceremony is divided into three stages, the first stage. . . . . . .

After successfully completing the third stage, a temporary passage to the Shadow Realm can be successfully opened.

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Although there are many types of creatures in the shadow world, there are only two types for the shadow mage, controllable and uncontrollable.

Here we focus on those controllable shadow world creatures.

When these shadow realm creatures come to our world, they will urgently need a host. Shadow realm creatures can attach to any creature (the creature must be large enough) and occupy the creature as a carrier. In the process, A Shadow Plane creature attempts to assimilate and destroy the creature's original will.

If the host's mental power is strong enough, it can resist the assimilation and control of the shadow creature, and even control and enslave the shadow creature.

It should be noted that when a shadow world creature fails to invade, it usually chooses to escape. After the shadow world creature enters the host body, if the host is exposed to strong light, the shadow world creature cannot escape. Therefore, if a shadow mage wants to To control a shadow creature, one should enter the range of light immediately after the shadow creature enters the body, so that there is sufficient time to enslave and control the shadow creature.

Ordinary shadow realm creatures can easily destroy the will of ordinary humans. Therefore, when shadow mages choose the shadow realm creatures to control, they should try to choose those particularly weak shadow realm creatures. To promote its growth, the shadow mage has two options for utilizing the creatures of the shadow realm.

Option 1: Shadow symbiosis, the shadow mage can choose to live with the shadow world creatures. In this mode, the shadow world creatures are like a servant, pet, and parasite. The shadow mage can take the shadow world creatures into his body, use shadow magic, and also Shadowland creatures can be released and driven to perform certain tasks.

Option 2: Assimilation of darkness. The creatures in the shadow world are pure spirits, so they can be assimilated and absorbed by the shadow mage. Therefore, the shadow mage can also completely destroy and eliminate the creatures in the shadow world and absorb them. When a shadow mage completely assimilates a After being a creature of the shadow realm, he has some characteristics of the creature of the shadow realm. From then on, he can formally learn and use shadow magic.

According to my observations of subordinates who have used these two different modes, people who choose darkness assimilation often have some changes in their thinking, which to a certain extent deviates from the normal human category, and their personalities become weird, afraid of light, and like to stay in the dark , sometimes they communicate in a language that I can't understand, it seems that all shadow mages who have undergone dark assimilation have automatically learned this language, and they are also more likely to be controlled by the Lord of Darkness, I doubt they can be compared with The Dark Lords communicate directly, but despite this, I can only allow them to remain in my ranks.

Shadowborn didn't have similar issues, so I ended up going with that mod as well. . . . . . . . .

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Xing Tianyu put down the book in his hand and fell into deep thought.

After more than a month of translation, he has translated all of Victor’s two notebooks into Chinese. This process took him a lot of effort, but everything is worth it. Now, he can follow the two notebooks It is easy to learn shadow magic.

Judging from the information recorded in the book, Victor is still somewhat wary of the Lord of Darkness, he did not completely surrender to the Lord of Darkness, and chose the Shadow Mage route as well as the shadow symbiosis route.

On this point, it is not difficult to see from the state when he communicated with himself, there is indeed nothing abnormal.

So with almost no reason, Xing Tianyu decided to choose shadow symbiosis instead of darkness assimilation.

According to the requirements in the book, first of all, I chose a night, that is, now, the curtains are drawn, so that the outside lights and starlight cannot come in at all, and the room is completely dark. Xing Tianyu couldn't see anything, and in the end, he needed a shadow creature to enslave.

With his current ability, there is no way to carry out the summoning ceremony. Although Victor's notes record a shadow summoning ceremony, Xing Tianyu is currently unable to do it, regardless of the massive amount of materials or the scale of the ceremony. . (When Xing Tianyu saw this, he finally realized the magic of the Book of Other Worlds. He can summon things from various planes just by relying on some spells and patterns. It is not at the same level as the summoning ceremony recorded in this notebook. .)
So he can only use the ready-made shadow world creatures, and the three jars he brought back from the base are now in use.

According to the information recorded in the notes, Victor has led his men to perform many shadow birth ceremonies with other dark priests. Each ceremony will summon a large number of controllable shadow creatures and a small number of uncontrollable creatures. These uncontrollable shadow world creatures are generally captured and locked in containers to be used as biological weapons, while those controllable shadow world creatures will also be caught and locked in containers as a darkening abyss Members of the cult are known as shadow mage consumables.

From this, Xing Tianyu can infer that among the three jars, the silver jar should contain a so-called biological weapon, and it is very likely that it is a monster like the big umbral he encountered in Yequan Town.

And the ones in the two stainless steel tanks should be ordinary controllable shadow creatures, which can be put into the safe by Victor. The strength of the two shadow creatures should not be too weak, but he is very concerned about his spirit. Li is still very confident, as long as it is not a boss-level shadow world creature, it should be possible to deal with it, but when he thinks of those who are controlled by the shadow world creature, he is more or less worried, but now he is not hesitant. When the time comes, he must master this power.

While thinking about it, he turned off the light, and in the dark night, he unscrewed the jar in his hand vigorously.

Immediately, a cloud of black mist that was deeper than the surrounding darkness spewed out, like ink dripping into sea water, a mass with a diameter of one meter. The black mist floated in the air for a while, and then immediately rushed towards him. come over.

Xing Tianyu didn't dodge, he let the black mist get into his body, felt an inexplicable chill spreading in his body, he turned on the light switch suddenly.

Now, the shadow creature is completely trapped inside his body.

The shadow world creature also seemed to sense the terrifying light outside, which made it even more eager to occupy the exorcism shell.

Xing Tianyu stared in front of his eyes, his brain buzzed, he could feel that icy chill was tormenting his body, drilling towards his brain, trying to destroy his will and assimilate his spirit .

Hmph, you are thinking too much.Xing Tianyu said to that will in his mind, closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged, all his mental power was mobilized, and he was fighting with the invisible enemy in his mind.

His power is so strong, more than 700 mental power, far beyond the scope of ordinary people, so that the power in his mind was instantly defeated, and he could feel the will bursting left and right in his sea of ​​consciousness Chong, wanting to find a way out, but his room is now brightly lit by the lights, and the will cannot be separated from his body, but Xing Tianyu chased after the victory, forcing the will into a small corner, as long as With just one thought, he can completely drive that will out of his body.

At this time, in his mind, he could finally feel the emotions of the shadow creature, anger, fear, and—pleading.

Hehe, do you know that you are afraid, so now, surrender to me, he communicates with the shadow creature on the spiritual level, this kind of communication is extremely subtle and precise, without any language, it is completely emotional communication, Xing Tianyu I can feel the entanglement of that will, but in the face of destruction or being enslaved, the biological instinct finally made that will choose the latter.

Xing Tianyu felt relieved, he felt that the shadow creature had completely opened up his defenses to him, and his spirit was like a half-clear picture in front of him, it was a gesture of complete surrender, without No room for betrayal.

Hehe, that's right, you will benefit from following me.

Xing Tianyu felt a touch in the depths of his spirit. He and the shadow world creatures in his body had already produced some subtle connection, as if there was an invisible hand.

After confirming that the ceremony was successful, he turned off the lights.

The creature of the Shadow Plane gushed out of him as a dark cloud, and he felt its presence, soon realizing that his will could control it.

Under the control of Xing Tianyu's mind, this Shadow World creature turned into a kitten, then a puppy, and then a snake, unusually obedient.

Haha, it's really interesting.Xing Tianyu thought, then the next step is to use it to use shadow magic.

return!With one thought in Xing Tianyu, the cloud of black mist returned to his body.

(End of this chapter)