For Thousands of Years, My Weakest Brother Has Become a Demon King

   Chapter 5 Genius and Stagger

The    altar is dedicated to the goddess of the starving lady Camilla.

   It was a morbid female statue made of colorful and bright fungi. From a distance, it looked like a rotten tumor, or something else uncomfortable.

   But if you look closely, you can feel a certain evil beauty from it.

   "I have two pieces of debris that lost contact in that ruin."

   Sitting under the altar, the monster who had been staring at the statue of the goddess suddenly said.

   It was a monster as fat as Roshan. It held a rusty short knife in its hand, and on its head grew twisted and tangled horns like dead branches. Its stature is very tall, and it is much taller than ordinary adult men just sitting. Its shape is deformed, strange sarcomas proliferate all over its body, and its skin is covered with traces of festering and corruption.

   "Would you like to take a look?"

   answered by a man in a gray cloak, seated on the other side of the altar, holding a lead-colored staff.

   His physique is considered to be strong, but compared with the monster next to him, it makes people feel very thin.

"No need, the best time for the anchoring ceremony is coming soon. As long as the contract of this body is completely anchored in the depths of your soul, my range of action does not need to be restricted by this altar. At that time, here are the Not being discovered by the outside world will not affect our next actions."

   The monster with the rusty knife answered in a dull voice.

   "It's okay to take the people from the town down the mountain before leaving."

   "Don't be too ostentatious, ringworm."

   The man in gray robe spoke to remind him.

"Even if the church in Blackwater Province is a few levels weaker than the rest of the empire, if there is too much movement, it will still attract the Sealed Temple to investigate, and it will affect your and my master's plans. Don't even think about it. profit."

   "To say swagger..."

   Probably dissatisfied with the attitude of the other party, the monster named White Ringworm narrowed his eyes.

"That would not be more ostentatious than selling the relic map of the Mourning Mountains to the students of Offa University. Although it is said that the ceremony requires fresh sacrifices, but in the name of archaeology, the students of the noble college are tricked into as sacrifices, Aren't you afraid that the parent of a missing child hires a high-level team of adventurers to search the mountain? Or are you still brooding about your expulsion from Offa University, David Orbis."

   To that monster's provocation, the gray-robed man named David Orbis just answered without emotion.

"Most of the students in the archaeology department study healing and shadow spells, which are more suitable for the blood of sacrifice you need. Compared with the adventurer team, they are more stupid, more deceitful, and easier to deal with, that's all. ."

  White ringworm grinned just as he was about to continue to say something, when the expression on his face suddenly changed.

   "The barrier I set up outside the Scar of Sorrow was destroyed?"

   "Really?"

  David's expression also changed slightly.

  White ringworm closed his eyes and sensed it, then nodded.

   "That's right, it was broken from one click, and it's crashing now."

   "Is the point of destruction of the barrier coming from the direction of that ruin?"

  David asked in a deep voice.

   "Yes, but the method used by the other party is very primitive. He did not use a cracking technique, but destroyed it with pure magic power."

   Hearing this, David's originally solemn expression softened a little.

   If you directly use the flow of mana to destroy the enchantment, there is a high probability that the opponent is a novice—or he doesn’t know how to use precious mana sparingly, or he doesn’t know the art of enchantment destruction at all.

  A lost explorer? Or another deceived archaeological team?

   But no matter who it is, he will not relax his guard because of this. He has been preparing for this ceremony for more than a year. No matter how small the hidden danger is, he cannot be careless.

   "Then don't wait for the best time for the ceremony, just start anchoring, don't make any extras."

  White ringworm nodded its fat head in agreement, and then it stood up and chanted the obscure moon-level incantation.

The power spread with the incantation uttered by the white ringworm, and all the trees around the altar were twisted by an invisible giant force, and the broken branches and leaves were scattered all over the ground, but if you look closely, you will find those broken branches and leaves. The bright-colored strains began to grow continuously, and the slender hyphae continued to extend from it, and the morbid life became extremely prosperous around here.

  …

   Zhou Mu, who was observing the situation of the altar, felt that someone was pulling him. He turned his head and Liliana was looking at him with a pale face.

   "Let's go first, before they find out."

"why?"

   Zhou Mu asked suspiciously.

   "I know who the one in the grey robe is. That's not a character that can be dealt with alone. Let's go down the mountain and find the church people together."

   "So who is that person?"

   Zhou Mu was a little curious.

"David Orbis, he was also a student of Offa University in Blackwater Province. At the age of eighteen, he won the seventh-order title in the two fields of Summoning Department and Shadow Department, and is known as the nearly five The most promising genius in the field of masters and even legends in ten years."

   "Is he your senior?"

   Liliana shook her head vigorously.

"He was expelled from the academy two years ago on suspicion of researching forbidden spells. At that time, the academy also contacted the Holy Spirit Church to imprison him as a heretic mage. As a result, he fought directly with the executor who came to arrest him, half the dormitory building. They were all bombed to rubble, and the entire team of elite executors failed to leave him behind."

The   Executor is a mage killer specially trained by the Holy Spirit Church to deal with the threat of mage. He can fight against a whole team of executioners and escape, his ability is evident.

   "It is said that the church sent people to search his home afterwards, and found a large number of human organs used for primitive secret rituals in the basement, as well as the bones of many deformed monsters."

   Here, Liliana almost said to Zhou Mu in a pleading tone.

   "Even if you don't mention the moon monster beside him, a heretic mage with at least seventh-order strength is really not an existence that you and I can deal with alone."

   Liliana's tone revealed sincerity, and Zhou Mu was also thinking about her words.

  What is the strength of the seventh rank, Zhou Mu is not very clear. The Mage has never been rated in the game "Lost Watcher" - I think this should be the standard that he was messed with by someone or an organization in the thousand years he was away.

   But the master and legendary fields mentioned by Liliana are indeed the reference used in the game to evaluate the power of a spell.

  Apprentice, Expert, Master, Legendary, Dominion.

  Each spell will have an entry indicating its rarity. Although in terms of gameplay, it is not that the higher the rarity, the stronger it is, but the original intention of the game's planning team is to design it like this.

   Not doing that is the problem of the balance group.

   If you analyze it like this, the subtext of "probable to reach the master level" is to be able to use expert level spells.

   But does that count as genius?

   So compared to the grey-robed man who was Liliana's enemy, Zhou Mu paid more attention to the moon monster who was singing the incantation.

   Judging from the appearance of the other party, that is also his old acquaintance.

   Staggering Demon.

   Zhou Mu was very impressed by this monster.

   He remembered that when he was attacking Lady Hungry and Rot's Moon Realm dungeon "Lake of Entropy", this thing was always tormenting.

  The level of the staggering demon is about 60-80. In design, it completely abandons the power of physical and magic attacks, and fully builds up blood volume and life recovery speed. The blood bull elite monster.

   Of course, if it was just a blood bull monster with low attack and high defense, Zhou Mu would not give a tormenting evaluation.

The most disgusting thing about   Stagger Demon is that it will gain an aura that continuously applies abnormal status after being injured. The more HP drops, the stronger the effect of this aura.

   is not very threatening, but the degree of disgust is full.

  Whenever encountering a large-scale encounter, the enemy's configuration, whenever a staggering demon is mixed in as a meat shield, will make the battle difficult by several grades.

   But then again, if it's just summoned alone, then the Staggering Demon is just a stake for measuring damage.

   And the stake to test the damage is exactly what Zhou Mu needs most right now.

  Thinking of this, he pushed aside the branches that covered him and walked out.

   Liliana behind him was startled by his behavior, and the Staggering Demon and the man named David in gray robes also cast their gazes over at the same time.

"you…"

   The sudden action of the man in front of her made Liliana's mind a mess. She didn't know for a while whether she should run or blame him for his death-seeking behavior, but Zhou Mu turned around and patted her on the shoulder.

   "Don't worry, didn't I say it before. Let's get rid of the source of the problem first."

   His words reminded Liliana of her archaeological team and the people who were desperately trying to cover her from running.

"but…"

   "Oh, I almost forgot."

   Zhou Mu took off a simple sunbird pendant from his neck and put it in Liliana's hand.

   "The air here is going to be bad for a while, you put this on."

  Liliana subconsciously took the quaint pendant, and the moment it touched her skin, a warm current began to flow in her blood.

   Enchanted pendant?

   But she had never heard of an enchanted pendant that could have such an obvious effect without wearing it.

   When she came back to her senses, the man had already walked about twenty steps away from the altar.

  David Orbis stood up holding the lead-colored staff. He looked back at the white ringworm who was about to complete the ritual behind him, and then looked at the man with white hair and silver eyes.

   "Fortunate to meet, unknown magic caster."

   he said very politely.

   "Fortunately to meet, that genius of what university, and the staggering demon behind you."

   (end of this chapter)