Chapter 2166: Corruption and Dragon Roar

Little Mia lay on the back of the sofa, watching Xia De standing in front of the living room window looking at the square outside. And in the morning light, Xia De casually took a leaf and placed it in front of his right eye. As the golden flowing light entered his eyes along the veins of the leaf, the first strange art mastered was "Corrupt Blood Mist."

"The effect is roughly what I thought, another range-attack strange art."

Strange Art - Corrupt Blood Mist, corresponds to the "Flesh" spiritual rune. Casting requires a very small amount of one's own blood. The blood mist produced has a strong corrosive effect on flesh and bones. In other words, when Xia De needs to deal with corpses in the future, he can directly use this strange art to completely dissolve the corpses.

Of course, since it is a strange art given by the Tree Father, it is naturally impossible to have only the effect of "efficient corpse-dissolving water."

Xia De can produce blood mist in three ways. The simplest is to spray it directly from the mouth, followed by condensing a compressed mist ball in the hand and throwing it to let the mist spread rapidly into a thick fog.

The most complex is for Xia De to use the "right foot stomping the ground" casting method to guide the blood mist to erode the earth and form "smoke columns" within a certain range. And by doing this, Xia De can permanently transform a piece of land into having a constant "Scarlet Corruption" effect, making the earth itself have the ability to corrode and devour flesh.

And once Xia De chooses to use the strange art to transform the land, even he himself cannot restore the earth to its original state by "canceling the spell." After all, his casting effect is "producing blood mist," and the effect of transforming the earth is exerted by the blood mist itself.

Except for a few strange arts and relics mastered by Xia De himself, such as "Earth Power · Healing Aura," there is almost no way to erase "Scarlet Corruption." And whether it is that kind of blood mist or the effect of "Scarlet Corruption," it will not affect Xia De himself. Interestingly, the casting effect of this strange art is related not only to the amount of spirit Xia De uses but also to Xia De's own physical strength.

But more strange arts should be related to soul strength.

"But what is the Tree Father giving me this strange art for? The Tree Father, like the Earth Mother, is a deity who protects nature. Do I look like someone who would actively pollute the earth?"

Xia De didn't understand at all.

【Using strange arts to transform the land cannot be called "polluting the earth." In this era, only the distortion and filth of the earth itself can be called "polluting the earth." Corruption itself is a possibility of the earth's evolution, and nature is not always nourishing flesh.】

"Hmm... actually, for ordinary people, the distortion of the earth and my Scarlet Corruption, there is no difference, right? Speaking of which, the strange arts associated with the 【Flesh】 spiritual rune are already too many without knowing it. Am I very good at this?"

But in any case, at least the effect of this offensive strange art is still quite good. And since the first leaf corresponds to "Corrupt Blood Mist," the second leaf is naturally "Strange Art - Dragon Roar." Xia De, with full curiosity, also placed the second leaf in front of his eyes. After a while, he took off the leaf and revealed a thoughtful expression:

"It seems a bit different from what I thought."

Strange Art - Dragon Roar, when Xia De first used the "Lightless Sea - 5180" time key, it corresponded to the "Echo" spiritual rune, but at this moment it corresponded to the "Dragon" spiritual rune obtained last week. Considering that the power of the latter is indeed more suitable for the strange art, Xia De was not surprised.

It's just that he originally thought the effect of this strange art was to allow him to spray energy from his mouth in human form without transforming into a dragon and without using the "Higgs Dragon Head Stone"... although it sounds very strange, the effect would definitely be very strong. But he didn't expect that after truly mastering it, its effect had nothing to do with Xia De's guess.

The effect of the strange art is quite diverse. First, Xia De, who has mastered the strange art, can control his volume at will from now on. Even without using force, he can make half the city hear him when he speaks... it seems useless, but thinking carefully, it's probably useful.

Secondly, after activating the strange art effect, when Xia De speaks again, it will naturally have a very strong deterrent power, and subconsciously make people unable to help but believe it. If this strange art were displayed in "Dice Story Collection," it would probably add a very high bonus to Xia De's "Persuasion" and "Intimidation" skills.

"So that's it, the persuasion ability is enhanced..."

Xia De activated the strange art and turned from the window to give an order to his own cat:

"Mia, turn into a human."

That cat didn't even pay attention to Xia De.

"It doesn't look like much."

The third effect is to allow Xia De to master the so-called "Sonic Attack." Xia De had seen this effect on the "Deep Sea Evil Entity - Seven-Tailed Player." He only needs to use his mouth to produce sound to form an invisible sonic attack, and the range and target of the attack can be controlled by himself.

For example, with Xia De's current ring-warlock level, he can completely make an ordinary person bleed from seven orifices and become an idiot just by "humming." This is different from mental attacks like "Mind Blast," but purely turning sound into energy... in fact, the essence of sound is the propagation of energy.

If this strange art were in the hands of Miss Bernice or the 【Music Sect】 who might know the whereabouts of Miss Danister's teacher, it would definitely be able to exert a huge effect. Xia De could even imagine a scene where a lady sings loudly and then wipes out a large group of monsters.

But in Xia De's hands, he felt that he would turn this brand-new strange art into a new control-type skill. When fighting human enemies, occasionally coughing or "humming" is hard for the enemy to defend against. And even if this strange art can only cause the opponent to be dizzy for half a second, for Xia De, who has mastered spatial movement, it means a huge change in the war situation.

"First it was time pause, then it was sonic attack. The control-type abilities I've mastered recently are really not few."

Of course, Strange Art - Dragon Roar actually has one last effect, which is to allow Xia De, who is a human, to learn a "Dragon Language Spell" that humans absolutely cannot master by listening. This is very similar to his Strange Art - Music of Sound, both of which can only record one item at a time. But the problem is that Xia De really has nowhere to find valuable "Dragon Language Spells."

The so-called "Dragon Language Spell" is a spellcasting system unique to dragons. This can also be regarded as a talent ability unique to dragons, like the talent of blood-sucking species. Most of the power can be achieved through various strange arts and curse arts, but some unique Dragon Language Spells are quite magical even in the eyes of thirteen-ring warlocks.

Of course, before seeing Fiona again, Xia De should have no chance to record any Dragon Language Spell. As for Miss Elether, Xia De, who witnessed her birth process completely, was quite sure that she was not a dragon at all, so she should not know Dragon Language Spells either.

In short, after packing up the harvest from last night, Xia De said goodbye to Little Mia, who was lying on the back of the sofa in a very leisurely manner, and went to Moon Bay again.

Because the story related to Miss Elether's birth had been concluded in the past time point, Xia De originally thought that as long as he appeared in Moon Bay today, the blue-eyed girl would take the initiative to appear and meet him, and it was even possible that the other party would wait for him directly on St. George's Stone Bridge.

But in fact, even after Xia De walked into the city from St. George's Stone Bridge and walked for two blocks before getting on a carriage, and after the carriage arrived at the Belindell Manor, he walked around the manor three times, he still couldn't see the girl who was half-dragon and half-ship.

While puzzled and worried about whether she had encountered any trouble, he also knew in his heart that although the girl was not a relic like Grace and Helen, she was definitely not weak. Finally, the witch in the manor took the initiative to send a maid to call Xia De into the mansion:

"You arrived at the manor gate an hour ago, why haven't you come in?"

The Countess with a lipid-red birthmark on her brow expressed her confusion:

"I originally asked Matilda to prepare hot tea for you to come over. Now the teapot has been changed three times, but you are still outside. If I hadn't felt that there was no unusual element reaction around my house, I would have thought something happened nearby again."

"Again?"

Xia De noticed this word, and the witch nodded:

"When we attended the banquet on Thursday, wasn't there an unlucky guy who melted into light? Something similar happened last night, and it was not far from here. It wasn't indoors but on the street. Although I wasn't near there, I also saw very dazzling light rising in the distance in the mansion."

Xia De thought of what Miss Danister had said:

"In the past of the Sixth Era, there had also been similar things, but not so frequently."

"Yes, the Church checked the records and confirmed that these two consecutive events are almost the same as those 'melting into light' things in history. At the same time, the corpses of the 'serial headless murder case' that occurred in the city were also re-examined, and it was basically confirmed that those who lost their heads also encountered the same light. However, the Church still suspects that the series of murders is man-made. After all, how could it be so coincidental that only the heads were melted by the light."

Xia De sat on the sofa in the study:

"What is the situation with the deceased on the street last night?"

"I heard this morning that the whole person turned into light, leaving only a part of the shoe sole and hat brim, and even the remains of the corpse were not left. Because the crime scene was under a street lamp, I think the Church probably has to consider whether they should call on people to try not to light the lights at night... It sounds ridiculous, but this is the most effective and direct way to protect themselves. And the excuse is also easy to find—save energy."

The witch also sighed slightly:

"The current era is really different. Darkness has become a shelter for people, but light has become a murderer." ===== CHAPTER 2167 =====