From the seventh floor of hell to the first floor of hell, there are six layers in the middle. Mathematically, this is a very simple addition and subtraction problem, but from the distance you have to go through, it is definitely a dangerous expedition.
The environments of each level are different, and each has its own danger. If humans are not careful in this place, they will be eroded, hurt, corrupted or died directly, but the devils, as natives, are not much better. The evil of hell treats all creatures equally, and those devils who cannot remain alert and keep improving will be eliminated by hell without exception. There are many ways to eliminate them, and it is common to lower the level, and the punishment for death is relatively small, but sometimes it may be a gift.
Feiqi does not have the first layer of space coordinates, so he cannot use the three barrel magic array to directly transmit it. However, every time Feiqi goes to a place, he can spend time contacting the three barrel magic array in the mortal world, and then he can reversely calculate the coordinates of the hell where he is located. Therefore, he can move forward one after another, and get a certain rest in the middle. However, contacting the three barrel magic array every time is equivalent to creating half a three barrel magic array in a certain place in hell. How to solve the consumption of magic materials? Moreover, these magic arrays remain, which is equivalent to exposing the coordinates of the mortal world. If they are discovered by a dangerous existence in hell, God knows what kind of chaos will be caused later!
So Feiqi needs a portable one that can eliminate traces, preferably a one-time teleporting spell. In this way, when he needs it, he will go back (escape back) directly to the mortal world, and then calculate the space coordinates of the starting point in reverse, and then go back along the original path next time.
"I really didn't expect that I would actually make this thing..."
The most suitable item that Feiqi could think of was the summoning statue. He once saw a nightmare with this thing. With a certain sacrifice, the summoning statue could call the body across the space, and then open a channel to teleport the body's entity over. He could place this statue in the mortal world, preferably on the three barrel magic circle, and then let Shani summon him back regularly.
"From the seventh floor of hell to the first floor? Isn't that equivalent to going through almost all hells? No, this is crazy. Feich, this is crazy." Shani grabbed Feich's arm when she heard Feich's thoughts, and her fingers trembled with excessive force. "You will die. There are countless demons in hell, and you can't defeat them. Even the strongest angels cannot complete such an action!"
"I must be walking in the form of a devil, which will avoid a lot of trouble. And don't I have you? Summon me and I can return to the mortal world safely." Feichi's arms were scratched by Shani, but he did not break free, but took a step forward and pressed her tightly. "With you here, I will definitely come back."
Suddenly, Shani found herself unable to say anything and just wanted to cry. Two tears flowed down her eyes and were then wiped off by two snake hair.
"I don't want to live this life," said Feiqi. "In my current state, I can indeed live, live long and even keep youth forever, but I will not be able to present myself before you with my complete self, which I cannot accept. To carry out this expedition to complete my plan, maybe I can get rid of the influence of the devil, maybe I can still not eliminate the elements of the devil, but I will definitely be myself. At least I can get rid of other devils. At that time, even if some of me are still a devil, I am me."
Shani shook her head: "I don't understand very much, I just don't want you to die."
"I'm not worried about death, I'm only worried about becoming a devil. So, please always wait for me in the mortal world and call me back. I think the last light of hope is not that little bottle, but you." Feiqi hugged Shani for a while, and felt her emotions slowly stabilize, and said, "I will think of a way to strengthen my ability to immune paralysis, so that I can see your face. Moreover, even if I can't see your face in my life, I will be with you, don't worry."
"Why can you always convince me?"
"Because what I said makes sense!" Feiqi chuckled, and then changed the topic: "Now consider the matter of summoning the statue. What about midnight? Have you seen midnight?"
The black ghost cat demon pet suddenly woke up and pricked up his ears, then let out a furry sound, and made a gesture to run. Feiqi waved the cat-teaser, and the earth element bonding quickly activated, and soon tied the midnight firmly.
"What are you doing to catch a cat?" Shani asked, helping Feiqi to untie Midnight from the earth elemental tentacles. Midnight is Feiqi's magic pet. This guy "understands the truth". He never scratches Shani, but he only sticks out his tongue to lick her, but he never is polite to Feiqi. Scratch and bite are all in the whole set. Especially when midnight is furious, only Shani is safe.
"Its soul and I share, and it is best to use it to create a summoning statue."
Shani raised Midnight over her head and avoided Fitch's hands: "No, you can't make Midnight into a statue!"
"Make a statue? Of course not, how is it possible!" Feiqi blinked happily: "Summoning the statue is just a saying. Its essence is a space spell with sacrifice as the core, using the soul to locate it. I only need to set up a magic circle on my body at midnight, so that I don't have to split a part of my soul anymore."
"If you don't need midnight, then you need to divide your soul?" Shani was stunned for a moment, and handed Midnight out without saying a word. The black cat didn't dare to scratch her, but just kept licking it, and it was the kind of licking that put away all the burrs on her tongue, leaving only the most gentle and cute feeling. However, Shani did not hold it, but let Feiqi pull the fur behind Midnight's neck and pull it over.
At midnight, he began to sway his body and wave his claws in the air, and his teeth were exposed.
Shani didn't quite understand why Midnight resisted so much until she saw it the next day: it was half bald. In order to use the magic circle on Midnight, Feiqi shaved off the hair on its body "brutally and bloody", leaving only his head, his four claws and tail were still as fluffy as before, and his torso was thin and bald. Shani just glanced at it, and couldn't help it, and laughed hahahaha.
The black cat staggered to Shani's feet, hugged her with her paws, and put her head on her, looking pitiful. "Okay, I won't laugh at you anymore. It's a bad luck to have a master like this. Oh, hug me!" Shani picked up midnight and didn't put it down for a whole day.
Shani was able to hold the cat all day long, which means that Feiqi's previous experiment at midnight failed. Using spell rune ink to write on the skin, the magic effect produced will quickly fade under the influence of the soul, as if the soul could recognize that a certain function of the body did not belong to him. Therefore, the plan to use spells to tattoo himself was shattered, and in the end the magic matrix is ​​still the best solution. At the beginning, the rune magic track was arranged on the outer layer close to the skin, and inadvertently avoiding failure.
The more you study magic, the more you discover that the soul has various interesting abilities, the more you understand why the devils attach great importance to the soul. However, if you value the soul, the body is still necessary. This is why after a long circle, Feiqi still needs to find a way to solve the problem of the friend enhancement ritual.
After wandering around hell for a long time, Feich found that the solution to the problem was actually around him. He just knocked on a door. Minas Ishir was not the only priest Feich, but also a more qualified one was actually in the magic school. Ers was arrested by Feich to be the school doctor and librarian here. When there were no wounded needed treatment, she read the book and nothing else.
"Ah? Enhancement ceremony? I have never performed an enhancement ceremony. Can it work?" Ersi's face was always red. Although he said it was not okay, he clearly felt eager to try it out.
"Just understand the part of the rune combination, the ceremony is not difficult. It is like presiding a prayer. At most, you can add some of your old skills: performing healing magic. And I can solve the part of the rune. You don't need to worry about this time." Feiqi thought for a while, and then added: "Of course, you'd better learn enhanced ritual runes, which have a certain relationship with magic runes, which is very fun."
"As long as you say yes!" Ersi nodded vigorously: "Will you watch from the side then?"
"Of course." How could Feiqi not coax her quickly when he caught such a free laborer?
The solution to the problem is often very simple, just think about it from another angle. Just like this time, finding Ersi is easier than going to hell, right? So Feiqi changed the angle and found a piece of parchment paper with very good toughness, wrote down the magic circle for summoning the statue on it, and then found Shani and asked her to help sew a piece of clothing.
"I found that I'm a little stupid recently. It's no better to wear spells at midnight than writing them on it?" Feiqi looked at the "funny" black cat and felt very embarrassed: "The first magic equipment I made was a belt, but I actually forgot about it."
Shani used parchment paper as cloth and made a small jacket-like dress for Midnight without being too cut. The black cat was still very resistant, but she still had to wear it in the end. However, after putting on the clothes, Midnight immediately showed a puzzled expression, rolling on the ground, searching around, as if she felt something strange but couldn't find it.
"Stop looking for it, you feel like the soul connection is strengthened. Just get used to it, stupid cat." Feiqi grabbed the cat and put it in Shani's arms: "The method of summoning is very simple. Find 3721 gold coins and put it in front of the cat, and then the spell is: Heaven and earth are spiritual, hurry up and as the law is, sesame seeds open the door."
"What? Do you say it again?" Shani was completely stunned. Her snake hair also said she didn't understand at all, and they all became stiff. Feiqi repeated it several times for her to slowly correct the tone of the spell, so that she could make the spell clearly.
"Wait, I'm going to try!" Shani picked up Midnight: "I'm bringing gold coins, I'll go to the magic circle now. You're moving around here, waiting for me to summon you!"
Hey, I was worried about Feich's journey to hell before, but why did he become so excited now? Feich was a little confused about women's thoughts. He was quietly waiting for Shani to summon herself. Unexpectedly, she ran back in a while and said breathlessly: "What is the door open? I forgot!"
"Sesame!" Feiqi sighed and had to wait again.
Fortunately, this time Shanni did not forget the spell and did not forget to bring twenty-one gold coins. The feeling of being summoned was like hearing someone scream "Get up" in a daze. The outside voice gradually revealed the environment, and responding to the call was like a decision to get up. Feiqi took a deep breath and responded to the call.
The feeling of being summoned was not good, especially the twenty-one gold coins as sacrifices were too shabby, which led to the narrow and long space passage. The whole process was like being dragged by a horse and running ten kilometers on the Gobi Desert. Feiqi did appear in the center of the three barrel magic circle, but he was covered in blood and was terrible.
"It's okay, it's okay! These injuries will be recovered in a while." Feiqi quickly stopped Shani, then reached out to wipe the blood from his face: "Next time, I'll have no problem with ten times of gold coins. I only calculated the minimum number of summoned offerings and should leave more surplus. However, at least the summoning was successful."
"I'm so scared! You're coming out with blood just now, I thought you've lost you!"
"Don't be nervous, I'm still alive after being sucked by the blood demon?" Feiqi comforted Shani for a few words, made her laugh, and quickly took out the paper and wrote a large string of complex spell runes on it.
The summoning was only half successful, and the direction coordinates must be calculated inversely. The calculation is very complicated, but fortunately there is a help from the cat stick. About half an hour later, Feiqi got a set of runes, and then activated the three-barrel magic array, replacing the direction of the teleportation channel that originally searched for the demon with the newly calculated direction.
The magic circle is activated, and the portal surrounded by claws is slowly opened. It is the room where Feiqi was staying before, and it deviates by only about three or four meters. This accuracy is already very satisfactory. Of course, the teleportation distance is relatively close now, and the accuracy will be higher. If it is teleporting to hell, the calculated position may be several hundred or even thousands of meters - but this error is still acceptable for cross-world travel.
Therefore, the biggest problem of the Hell Expedition was solved, so it could start at any time. Feiqi was a little impatient. After all, the fork-way demon was suppressed in his heart for too long, and it was resolved one day earlier and liberated one day earlier. Just as the autumn harvest was over, the immigrants from the Elf Island had to go through a long boat journey before they could arrive, and there was no urgent matter for a while.
Since Feinberg's war caused a certain degree of chaos, even the bandits have left the model leader and have gone to Feinberg, which is easier to succeed. As soon as winter comes, heavy snow makes the wilderness quiet and dangerous, and only people can be seen near roads and villages. Road construction will continue this year, but in order to prepare for immigration, the water conservancy project has stopped. Besides, Eddie, who took the new official, was holding on to those things, and he won't be able to use Fitch for a while.
However, in order to fulfill his responsibilities, Feich went to Didrit and Eddie to ask if there was any important matter. They were curious about why Feich asked this question, and he used "large-scale spell research and experiments" to evade it. Both of them were very supportive of Feich's magic research, but they just urged him to have time to make a few more "refrigerator" magic arrays to preserve food. That magic array played a crucial role in maintaining the quality of potato dough and could definitely be used on other things.
"Winter is coming soon, and the refrigerator is not available. I will remember this when spring comes. But when will our magic and ink workshop be opened? Can't we recruit craftsmen from the teaching staff?"
Diderit smiled slightly: "I have discovered this problem long ago. It is understandable that the craftsmen are unwilling to leave the Holy Trinity Castle, and I cannot force them. However, it is a foregone conclusion that the elves leave the Elf Island, so I specially asked for some talents from the first thousand elves. The elves who can make best-selling products can make the lives of immigrants improve quickly. This reason can easily convince the Elf Council."
"I think it's not just a reasonable reason. It's mainly because of your tough attitude and energetic motivation to convince them!"
"Well, you're right, those have helped a lot. Now I find that the Elf Council is not that difficult to deal with. As long as you can figure out what they want, what you have, I'll have. I learned your habit of smuggling nobles this time, and asked for more craftsmen and druids."
"You did it right!" Feiqi praised. There is nothing better than that Diderit has become a lord who is the only one. Similarly, Eddie performed well in the position of the Treasurer. Feiqi's encouragement to her, especially the words of "Women who work hard will never be worse than men" in the past, which allowed her to build confidence early and grow up quickly.
As others are making progress, Fitch can certainly go to hell with confidence. After opening the three barrels of magic circles, throwing them for the afternoon night, and then saying goodbye to Shani affectionately, Fitch came to the hall of hell.
"What are you going to do, Feich?" Before Feich could sit on the throne, the voice of the fork-way demon came over: "It is a big waste to use your human body to enter hell. And you have not killed the demons recently to accumulate good feelings for hell! Do you really want to occupy my abilities forever and trap me in this small crystal?"
"No, that's not the case." Feiqi held the back of the throne and looked at the misty face of the fork-way demon in the mirror. "I will definitely find a way to get rid of you. The promise of parting ways has not been invalid. I'm not that anxious. Besides, you have been lying to me all the time, and Master Hall is just another face for you. So I decided that I can't always listen to you, and I have to learn knowledge from more channels. So I'm going to go out for a walk and see what other devils have to give me advice."
"Then you will die. Other devils will kill you, or deceive you, making you worse than death."
Feiqi shook his head: "I am a contract demon outside, not a human image that is easy to deceive. What's so scary? And do you think I'm afraid of death? Anyway, there are so many stocks in the soul crystal, enough for me to be resurrected many times. This is the privilege of the devil in the territory, isn't it?"
"You are just a mere example and have no knowledge of dealing with the devil!"
"That's because you didn't tell me! You've hidden too much from me!" Feiqi suddenly got angry and waved his fists at the fork-road demon: "You should start praying now, I don't want anything to happen. Who is the devil praying to? Should I be in hell or the devil king? In short, I will be careful, but if I find that I can't get out of trouble and face a terrible ending, then I will tell the news about the existence of this territory, and maybe I can exchange it for a glimmer of hope. Transactions are a very important order in hell, right?"
"No, you can't reveal your territory, it's just a way out!"
"So, you can start praying." Feichi stopped talking nonsense. He raised a middle finger at the fork demon, then stalked out of the hall of hell with his head raised.
It is enough to complete the work of setting up smoke. Feiqi also did not want this Hell Hall to be discovered, so he buried the entrance and exit. The area where the hall is located is a relatively new ruin. According to the devil's habit, it is impossible for new construction projects to be carried out here within at least a few hundred years.
Looking into the distance, the continuous ruins are endless, until the edge of the void of the horizon. Hell is divided into nine layers, each layer is like a circular platform, overlapping from top to bottom. Outside the platform is empty space, and if you jump out, you will certainly fall to the next level. If this possibility does not happen, then the things that fall out will be completely destroyed and will no longer exist in various senses.
According to the church's epic of the expedition of angels and saints in the expedition to hell, each floor of hell has a direct geographical connection, usually the lowest point of the upper layer and the highest point of the next layer. In other words, finding the highest point and climbing up will definitely reach the upper layer. This connection point will often be towering peaks, towers built by the devil, or thick chains that penetrate the clouds, but without exception they will be very conspicuous. Fitch looks around in all directions and picks the highest mountain that looks like it is moving forward. It towers into the clouds, and its tip disappears into the blood-black sky. At the same location, among the clouds, the foundation of the upper layer is vaguely visible.
Fitch first stayed away from the Throne Hall, and then used the enhancement ceremony to blow up his human body. In the black lightning package, a contract demon reappeared, standing steadily on the land covered with dust and blood stains, with only a contract scroll wrapped around it. This contract demon moved his body slightly, adapted to the new form, and then walked towards the peak step by step.
He brought nothing, did not have a pit sword, nor a teaser. After all, these two things are too inconsistent with the style of hell. Moreover, Feiqi didn't know what dangers he would encounter before, and he still had a chance to be reborn, but the teaser and the pit sword were not good. If the pit sword was lost, it would be lost (the pit sword represents?). The teaser has his own intelligence and ideas, and he can also use emoticons. How can he risk losing it?
Chapter completed!