Chapter 1086: Hidden Conditions

Inside Bovar Penglai, where flames were burning fiercely, the smile on Lu Mian's face gradually converged.

His brow suddenly bulged, blood color oozed out, and the neutral color of his appearance faded quickly.

That bulge shrank back, squirming around Lu Mian's forehead and face, walking quickly, finally sinking slowly, passing through his neck, shoulders, and arms, and coming to his right hand, merging with the mutated "Blood Emperor" residual aura and "War Bishop" gift power through the pitch-black "pinhole", still covered by the pale skin brought by the "Netherworld Daoist" seal.

That "pinhole" therefore expanded a little, the pitch-black inside deep, dead, and silent, as if brewing some kind of violence.

Lu Mian then breathed slowly, put the cyan-tinged purple, hole-filled crystal pillar together with the purple flame feathers, iron bone crystals, etc., into a mirror, and placed it in the "Traveler's Bag".

This was a temporary sealing measure.

Plop, a drop of rainwater fell on Lu Mian's hand, bringing a wet feeling.

One drop, two drops, three drops... more and more raindrops, faster and faster, soon turning into a sudden rain.

Affected by the rising gas caused by large-scale burning and the residual "Weather Warlock" power, the sky over Bovar Penglai and the surrounding sea area became dim, producing large patches of gloomy clouds, and rain poured down with a splash.

Lu Mian didn't dodge, nor did he block, letting the rainwater soak his hood, his hair, his face, his clothes.

Falling and falling, the rainwater became cold, condensing into ice crystals and snowflakes.

White goose-feather snow drifted in Bovar Penglai, mighty and vast, just like the far south.

It didn't take long for the scorched mud, completely collapsed bricks and stones, and other destruction marks to be completely covered by white snow.

Lu Mian's body was covered in frost and ice.

He finally recovered. The help of high-level beings is not so easy to borrow. Even if this wasn't actively stimulated by him, but brought by that purple giant bird, it was the same.

The frost fell off, and Lu Mian's hood and black robe dried quickly.

He pressed his hand to his chest, thanked Mr. 'Fool' for His gaze, and then cast his gaze toward the sky.

Outside the dancing snowflakes, Lu Mian saw Ms. "The Magician" who was ready to provide help at any time.

This great writer's expression was quite complicated, just like seeing herself who was lacking various high-level materials and forced to improve quickly at the beginning.

However, she could stop, take a long rest, and consider whether to advance to Sequence 1 later, but Lu Mian couldn't. He himself and those forces pushing him to walk here wouldn't allow him to stop.

After Lu Mian nodded in greeting, he "teleported" back to the luxury villa in Trier.

Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna were pacing and waiting in the living room, and Ludwig was enjoying a double-layer cream cake.

"Done?" Fu Lan Ka looked at Lu Mian and asked happily.

"An 'item' that cannot reveal its complete mythical creature form, nothing to be afraid of. If it really wants to use its full strength, I'll call for help," Lu Mian said with a smile.

"Why not call for help directly?" Yu Jianna couldn't understand.

Lu Mian thought for a while and said:

"'Hunter' pathway extraordinarys need courage and guts the further they go to high sequences. I skipped the 'Iron and Blood Knight' and 'War Bishop' sequences, without the bonus brought by corresponding extraordinary characteristics, so I can't retreat more and more. I need to face difficulties directly and challenge myself.

"This might be the condition hidden in my advancement to 'Weather Warlock', or rather, a hidden, additional ritual."

Yu Jianna suddenly had an epiphany:

"For normal advancement, extraordinarys who have reached Sequence 3 along the 'Hunter' pathway step by step, this isn't necessary. The previous sequences have already given corresponding improvements, but a Sequence 3 witch wants to jump over, so she must not shrink back and be full of courage?"

"Looking at it this way, for high sequences, wanting to jump pathways, more or less there are hidden conditions. The problem stems from the lack of previous sequences..." Fu Lan Ka also suddenly realized.

Then, she asked Lu Mian with a smile:

"Did you rely on the special nature of the Bovar Penglai telegraph office to defeat that purple phoenix, no, purple giant bird?"

"You actually guessed it?" Lu Mian raised his eyebrows and looked at Fu Lan Ka.

Fu Lan Ka laughed:

"What abilities and items do you have that we don't know?

"Analyze it a little and you can draw a conclusion: relying on the 'Book of Revelation' and the characteristics of the 'Ageless Witch' can only let you delay for a period of time, seeing if you can hold on until the purple giant bird recognizes your strength. It's unlikely to have a chance of winning, and your performance just now was clearly obtaining the final victory.

"Relying on yourself won't work, and you didn't ask for help, so it can only be using environmental conditions."

"In terms of combat, you still have a certain talent." Lu Mian praised with a smile.

He told the battle process, focusing on the key points. The core idea was that under the premise that the target could not reveal its complete mythical creature form, he used the witch pathway's life-saving ability to guide the other party to attack the Bovar Penglai telegraph office as much as possible, and delayed time until the abnormality was stimulated.

Yu Jianna listened quietly and asked:

"In that case, the core auxiliary materials are also available. Are you planning to advance recently?"

Lu Mian's "Ageless" potion was completely digested not long after he drank it, with the help of Aurora's special nature.

"Otherwise?" Lu Mian understood the worries of Yu Jianna and Fu Lan Ka and said with a smile, "Not to mention resurrecting Aurora, do you think that if I suppress it and don't advance, Alista Tudor's preparations won't erupt? That will come when the apocalypse is near, the situation becomes chaotic, and Mr. 'Fool' and other orthodox gods have no time to take care of it. They might control me and force me to advance.

"If I don't advance, I have to advance!"

Lu Mian's gaze swept across Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna, paused, and said:

"Since that's the case, it's better to advance now while the situation is relatively stable and Mr. 'Fool's' awakening degree has deepened a bit, without external interference.

"With the status and power of an angel, when I encounter Alista Tudor's arrangements in the future, at least I can struggle a bit, support for a bit longer, and maybe that can wait for help."

Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna were just expressing their own worries, not wanting to stop Lu Mian from becoming an angel.

Seeing that Lu Mian had thought very clearly and his analysis of pros and cons had no problems, they both nodded, urging Lu Mian to arrange the ritual, pray to Mr. 'Fool', and ask this great existence to help crush the extraordinary characteristic and remove the Alista Tudor spirit imprint inside.

Although this might not necessarily cause any impact on the subsequent arrangements of that "Blood Emperor", reducing a little hidden danger is a little.

Lu Mian didn't delay, busy in a room specially vacated for holding rituals and praying to Mr. 'Fool'.

After he dripped essential oil, offered holy food to please the gods, and completed the prayer, the purple crystal pillar placed on the altar was suddenly wrapped in the obscure gloom surging from the candle flame, disintegrating rapidly, returning to light spots of different colors such as purple, cyan, white, red, etc.

Amidst the sinking and re-gathering of these light spots, strands of crazy aura steamed upward in that piece of gloom, sometimes condensing into twisted faces, sometimes making terrifying roars, until they dissipated completely.

The re-condensed purple crystal pillar looked purer.

"Praise you, Mr. 'Fool'!" Lu Mian pressed his hand to his chest and bowed.

After he put away that "Weather Warlock" extraordinary characteristic and lifted the "Wall of Spirituality", Fu Lan Ka asked with concern:

"How do you plan to complete the ritual?"

"I have my own clever plan." Lu Mian responded with a smile.

Yu Jianna asked curiously:

"A method summarized from the books you've read in the past few months?"

Lu Mian touched his face and laughed at himself:

"I originally planned to do so, and had a corresponding plan, but after considering all my extraordinary abilities, I found that the 'Ageless Witch' who was once a 'Reaper' has simpler and better processing means.

"Perhaps, the truth of the two calamity pathways is to jump back and forth repeatedly to get close to the existence at the very top, so people who jump around can take shortcuts in the ritual to a certain extent."

"What method?" Fu Lan Ka asked curiously.

Lu Mian laughed:

"I'll tell you when I succeed. If I say it now, and fail later, wouldn't I be laughed at by you for a lifetime?"

"Do you think you won't be laughed at if it's like this now?" Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna asked in unison.

On this topic, the three of them teased each other for a while.

The laughter gradually faded, and Yu Jianna asked:

"When are you holding the ritual?"

Lu Mian answered with a smile:

"Collect the remaining materials first, and then, wait for a typhoon or hurricane."

Countries on the east coast of the Northern Continent are used to calling that kind of extreme weather a hurricane, while Intis people, influenced by Emperor Roselle, often call it a typhoon.

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In thunderstorm weather.

Residents staying in their rooms saw a silver-white lightning bolt strike the top of a tree, bringing the people hiding from the rain under the tree to the ground.

Rumble, rumble, rumble, one lightning bolt after another raged. Even people in safe places trembled with fear.

After a while, some residents saw a figure appear next to the charred and smoking tree.

The figure was wearing a black robe and a hood, like a witch in a legend.

She plucked a blackened branch, letting drops of dark red blood fly out from the body of the dead person.

It really is a witch! The residents who witnessed this scene were so scared that they retreated from the window area.

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Southern Hagati Kingdom.

This year's first snow arrived in an exaggerated form, causing many livestock to die and many people's snow piles in front of their houses to block the door.

People fighting the bitter cold in the house suddenly saw a hooded, black-robed, suspected witch figure walking on the white snow, coming to the bottom of the bridge.

There was a homeless person who had been frozen to death for dozens of minutes.

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The drought brought by high temperatures caused many humans to dehydrate, some unfortunately died, and were dragged to the side of the street.

A tall woman dressed as a wizard wearing a hood walked slowly over and stopped in front of a corpse that had just died not long ago.

The people around were so scared that they retreated one after another.

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Feysac Kingdom, coast of the Violent Sea.

Many experienced fishermen and captains began to let their ships return to the port.

The distant sky didn't know when it had become gloomy, and sea waves surged one after another.

The wind has started.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1087 =====