Chapter 175: The Historian and the Lost Abyss   Chapter 174

  The Volcano City of the Principality of Chiying is the most prosperous city after the Chiying King City.

  The Volcano City is located on the only volcano in the Principality of Blazing Shadow, and the continuously flowing magma contains endless wealth.

  Volcano City supports half of the Principality of Chiying, and this description is absolutely not an exaggeration.

  This world is boundless and its size is unknown. The thickness of the earth's crust is also astonishing. It is naturally more difficult for magma from deep underground to erupt. Usually, any active volcano will turn an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of miles into a sea of ​​fire.

  Without the strength of a demigod, don't even think about getting close to the active volcanoes in this world.

  The volcano in the Principality of Chiying is considered a dead volcano. It is said that the island where the Principality of Chiying is located was formed by the eruption of this volcano in the distant past, so this island has extremely rich mineral resources.

  The volcano city is located in the crater, and from the outside the crater is only a few hundred miles in radius.

  But after entering the crater, you will find that the real space inside is at least tens of thousands of miles in radius.

  This is the true size of the volcano. There are two possibilities for why it looks so small from the outside: either it is sealed by some powerful force, causing the volcano to shrink, or the volcano naturally contains spatial properties and shrinks on its own.

  There are various theories. The World Government must know the truth but has not made it public.

  The World Government's office in the Principality of Blazing Shadow has been hidden in Volcano City for 20,000 years.

  To the World Government, the various kingdoms and principalities are essentially countries within a country.

  As long as it does not violate the laws of the World Government, the Principality of the Blazing Shadow has sufficient autonomy.

  However, the World Government cannot sit idly by, so the offices scattered across various countries are lurking in secret. They are usually responsible for keeping an eye on these countries to see if they violate the laws of the World Government or do anything that is detrimental to the fortune of the human race.

  Since the main focus is surveillance, the strength of the offices in various countries will naturally not be very strong.

  However, Rosen could clearly feel that the person who was looking at him at this moment was definitely Sequence 4.

  This is very abnormal. Normally, Sequence 5 is considered high-end.

  Suddenly a Sequence 4 appeared. The Grand Duke of Blazing Shadow had about this level of strength a few years ago.

  Rosen opened his eyes and instantly flickered to the side. Facing a Sequence 4, his feigned coma was almost impossible to fool.

  The masked assassin looked stunned. Sitting behind the desk opposite him was a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and elegant clothes.

  This person is Jira's boss, who is only Sequence 5 Badu Mendi in Jira's knowledge.

  "It takes a lot of courage to become a hereditary duke."

  Badu put down the pen in his hand and clapped.

  "I am not as brave as you. Even a hereditary duke dares to scheme against you."

  Rosen retorted sarcastically.

  "I'm a historian."

  Badu said confidently, holding up his glasses.

  Rosen's face slightly changed color. The historian of the scientist branch is known as a genius killer.

  Historians become more powerful as they get older, and they are not afraid of young geniuses.

  This is because historians have a way to bind their own time with that of their opponents and then reverse them together. Genius means fast cultivation speed. For a demigod, a genius may be weakened to Sequence 9 after a hundred years of reversal, while the historian's strength may still remain at the level of a demigod.

  That is why historians are known as genius killers, but this ability is not without any weaknesses.

  Geniuses are at a disadvantage against historians because they have a short period of practice, but geniuses usually also have strong luck.

  If a historian wants to temporarily turn back time for a genius, he will have to pay an additional double price depending on the strength of his luck.

  "I have investigated you. You were just a mediocre person in the past..."

  Badu continued confidently, "But since you awakened your spirituality, you have made rapid progress. In less than ten years, you have already reached Sequence 6 and even become a hereditary duke. You must have greater opportunities hidden in you than in Jira."

  "So you're targeting me instead of Jira?"

  Rosen asked unexpectedly.

  "I've been keeping an eye on you since you came back to the Principality of Chiying."

  Badu nodded and said, "But you are a hereditary duke after all. I don't have a suitable reason to kill you. I am not sure I can handle the investigation of the World Government Intelligence Department. So when Jira found me, I thought about it and decided to sacrifice him to get rid of you."

  "How to solve it?"

  Rosen sneered.

  "This one!"

  Badu smiled confidently and said, "You plotted to murder the World Government employee Jira, and then I stopped you and captured you alive. Don't worry, I won't kill you. At most, I will send you to prison for a few years, provided you hand over your chance."

  "It seems you don't dare to kill a hereditary duke."

  Rosen laughed sarcastically.

  "Sometimes, living is harder than dying."

  Badu put away his smile and stood up.

  An hourglass instantly appeared in his left hand, and the sand inside the hourglass began to flow upwards.

  In just a short moment, Badu not only did not become younger because of the time reversal, but his face was full of wrinkles and he could take his last breath at any time.

  The confidence I had just now has completely disappeared, and what is left is only incredible fear.

  Reversing time and age will cause one's own life span to speed up rapidly.

  There is only one possibility, that the life of the person in front of you is not flowing forward but backward.

  To put it simply, the Rosen in front of us is a monster who gets younger as he gets older.

  Rosen directly released the nightmare shackles, instantly binding Badu and sending him into the Void God Prison without any resistance.

  The masked assassin next to him saw that the situation was not good and wanted to escape. However, in the shadow behind him, the self-portrait clone hidden in the void shadow, was already holding a portrait that was recently painted, casting the Death Judgment and wearing the Death Cloak to enter the masked assassin's sea of ​​consciousness.

  The Grim Reaper's scythe harvested spirituality and instantly killed the masked assassin without leaving any survivors.

  Rosen sat in Badu's seat, his face in his hands, lost in thought.

  He was not surprised that Badu would fail, because he was very confident that his luck was stronger than Badu could imagine.

  But in his opinion, after Badu failed to reverse his age, he was still unlikely to be Badu's opponent. Being able to escape was already a remarkable thing. But he never expected that Badu would almost exhaust his lifespan and die of old age.

  Now the trouble is even greater. How can we explain to the World Government that we killed a historian?

  Although it was Badu who plotted against him, it didn't work, right?

  The law is sometimes so annoying, especially since the power behind Badu must be huge.

  Without sufficient identity background, it is not easy to change career to a historian.

  Especially in the eyes of many people, he could become a hereditary duke, and he must have the support of a powerful demigod behind him.

  Badu, however, had no scruples at all. How could he dare to do this if he didn't have any background?

  Rosen sighed. It seemed that if one wanted to avoid being coveted by others, one had to either keep a low profile and not be coveted by others, or fight one's way out and pave a smooth path with blood. It was no wonder that those strong men in history were accompanied by endless killing throughout their lives.

  The power of the Time Tower covered the Void Prison, and the imprisoned Badu began to suffer the torture of being unable to live or die.

  Badu, who was already dying of old age due to unknown injuries, could not endure the torture of the Void God Prison at all.

  So even though people were almost tortured to death, they still couldn't convert Badu into a crazy believer.

  Even Badu's spiritual power could not be weakened to Sequence 6, so Rosen could not control Badu through mind control.

  It is not difficult to kill Sequence 4 Badu in his dying state, but it is impossible to control him.

  Rosen had no choice but to execute Badu in the mysterious study.

  The kind that was completely crushed to ashes, and not even the sentence of death was used to harvest Badu's spirit.

  The reason is simple: killing Badu is not as simple as killing Ford.

  In order to covet the power of the devil, Ford took the initiative to erase all traces, and it was Ford who took action first. Even if the matter was exposed, Ford deserved to be killed. Anyone who wants to rely on Ford to cause trouble for him can only be seeking personal revenge.

  But Badu is different, his position in the World Government is far higher than Ford.

  And the background is even darker. In this case, if someone catches him with evidence of killing Badu, white can sometimes be mistaken for black.

  So Rosen chose to grind Badu to ashes in the mysterious study, making him disappear from the world completely.

  Since the mysterious study is known to isolate everything, even powerful prophecy-like methods cannot confirm whether Badu is dead or alive. The most they can confirm is that Badu is missing and cannot be found.

  It is impossible to confirm that Badu is dead, so it will not be easy for the forces behind Badu to use Badu to attack him.

  Because he was captured secretly by the assassin, no one knew that Rosen had contact with Badu.

  Rosen dropped a few spiritual purification bombs and disappeared in Badu's study. He was teleported back to the Blazing Shadow King City through the void phase of the Fairy Dragon Ball, and then brought Jira to Volcano City again through the teleportation array of the Wizard Tower.

  After the Spirit World Deep Web submitted the mission, it took a long time before a Sequence 6 came to receive Jira.

  Apparently, it was Badu's disappearance that forced the World Government's Merit System to temporarily appoint a deputy to take over the task.

  After Rosen handed over the half-dead Jira, he returned to the Blazing King City without any trouble.

  He has offset the forced conscription with his merits, and he has completed the disciplinary mission.

  In this case, the world government has no right to force him to do anything.

  However, after further investigation, Rosen found that it was difficult for him to practice in peace.

  Because after purchasing relevant information on the Spirit World Deep Web, he discovered that Badu's background was indeed very deep. His family had a titled demigod within five generations, and the family line had not been severed within five generations, so Badu's backer was a Sequence 2.

  If such a being really targeted him, and couldn't attack him openly, couldn't he kill him secretly?

  Rosen felt that it was a bit unsafe to stay in the Blazing Shadow City, and after considering it, he decided to return to the Thunder Empire. Anyway, there was nothing to be nostalgic about in the Blazing Shadow Principality, and the relatively safer Thunder Empire was more suitable for settlement.

  But just as he was about to leave, Volcano City was undergoing a huge change.

  The Volcano City is constantly expanding and getting bigger. To be more precise, the Volcano City that was once sealed and shrunk is now gradually being unsealed and returning to its true size. Soon, the Principality of the Blazing Shadow issued a conscription order in the name of the World Government.

  All extraordinary people are not allowed to leave the Principality of Chiying. As compensation, the merits gained by everyone will be increased tenfold.

  Rosen quickly figured out what was going on through the connections he made in the Blazing King City.

  It turns out that the volcano in Volcano City is said to lead directly to the abyss.

  What flows out of it is not the normal magma from deep in the earth's crust, but the magma from the abyss plane. There is a huge spiritual realm hidden here. The World Government relies on the power of this spiritual realm to suppress this channel.

  There are many abyss passages like this in the human world, and almost all of them are sealed all year round.

  It's not that it cannot be destroyed, but the cost of destroying such a channel is too high.

  Therefore, it is better to seal it. Through the seal, the abyss spirituality in the magma can be filtered, and then in turn, continuous extraordinary resources can be harvested. Now there is a problem with the seal under the volcanic city, and it is not easy to reinforce the seal again.

  The simplest way is to send human extraordinary people into the spiritual realm below the volcanic city.

  Then kill the abyss demons in the spiritual realm. The more you kill, the less pressure there will be on the seal and the easier it will be to strengthen the seal.

  Rosen thought of a possibility. Could it be that the problem with the seal was caused by Badu's disappearance?

  He was wondering why the World Government had to send a historian to Volcano City. Maybe Badu's other duty was to guard the seal and continuously strengthen it. But Badu had just disappeared not long ago. Was the seal so fragile?

  Rosen thought to himself. Badu had quietly become a Sequence 4, but he still chose to stay in Volcano City.

  So could it be that Badu used this sealed abyss passage to gain improper benefits, which caused many problems with the seal in the first place? This time, Badu's disappearance was just the last straw that broke the camel's back.

  This explains why the seal happened to have problems at this moment.

  To be honest, the tenfold merit settlement is quite tempting.

  The merits of the World Government can not only offset the military service on the front line, but their greater value lies in the fact that they can be exchanged for almost all treasures.

  No force possesses more treasures than the World Government, and the World Government possesses almost all of the painter skills he wants.

  As for Badu's demigod backer who was titled within five generations, if you have the ability, you can kill him in the mysterious study.

  As long as this person doesn't take action openly, no matter how many assassins are sent, they will be giving him treasures.

  Rosen packed his luggage and rushed to Volcano City via the wizard tower teleportation array in the Blazing King City, which was now open for free.

  The Volcano City is extremely bustling now. 90% of ordinary people have evacuated and temporarily dispersed to nearby cities.

  But there are always some who are not afraid of death and instead stay and prepare to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

  Hundreds of thousands of extraordinary sequences from the entire Principality of Chiying, almost all of them, from Sequence 9 to Sequence 4, came to Volcano City.

  Those who did not come had other duties and did not come because of the guarantee of Grand Duke Chiying.

  At this time, a demigod sent by the World Government was already investigating the specific circumstances of the seal and the detailed handling plan.

  Unexpectedly, I believe the results of the investigation will be made public soon.

  Badu, who was sent by the World Government to Volcano City, took the initiative to relax the seal and traded with the Abyss Demon to obtain a large amount of extraordinary resources. After becoming Sequence 4, he found it difficult to continue to maintain the seal and caused a disaster, so he fled for fear of crime and his whereabouts are unknown.

  Rosen was shocked when he learned the results of the investigation, which perfectly eliminated him.

  Not surprisingly, the World Government members investigating the seal should be at odds with Badu.

  It's easy to imagine that since there's such a big problem with the seal, the people coming to investigate definitely can't be the forces behind Badu.

  Maybe the ones coming are hostile forces, because it is not so easy to bribe them.

  Of course, this does not mean that hostile forces have the opportunity to frame someone. Perhaps there are neutral forces responsible for coordinating the investigation.

  As a result of the investigation, it was found that Badu had taken the initiative to weaken the seal for the sake of profit. In this case, Badu, who was missing, was naturally considered to have fled for fear of crime, and it was even possible that Badu had fled to the abyss.

  After all, the abyss is shrouded by the eternal will of the abyss, which is a terrifying existence that even the world government cannot do anything about.

  Rosen saw that his troubles were solved inadvertently, and his intuition told him that this was the power of luck.

  The bustle of Volcano City lasted for only a few days before it quieted down because the entrance to the spiritual realm had been opened.

  The first ones to enter were Sequence 4 and Sequence 5, and after several days of bloody battles, everyone returned seriously injured.

  Next came the turns of Sequence 6 and Sequence 7. Rosen also obtained detailed information about the spiritual realm.

  It turns out that this spiritual realm is actually equivalent to a small, inferior abyss.

  So there are seven layers in total, and the top layer can accommodate sequence 3.

  The life in the spiritual realm is not reset and refreshed by the spiritual realm itself, but there is an abyss gap in each layer. It requires human extraordinary people of the corresponding sequence level to kill all the abyss demons in it, and then the demigods of the world government can seal the abyss gap.

  In a sense, this spiritual realm can be regarded as a projection of the abyss.

  It is equivalent to the outpost of the abyss invading various worlds, so the crime that Badu bears is really serious.

  There are more than a hundred Sequence 6s and more than three thousand Sequence 7s. The higher the sequence level, the more drastically the number of people decreases.

  Rosen saw a dozen very old Sequence 6s, each of whom looked very old.

  But he did not underestimate these dozen people. First of all, being able to live to the end of their lifespan is a remarkable thing in itself. Secondly, after a long life, when they have completely given up the idea of ​​becoming Sequence 5, they will break the restriction of learning three acquired skills per sequence level.

  These Sequence 6s who have lived for hundreds or thousands of years at least, each of them probably has mastered no less than ten LV5 perfect skills.

  Even if they were to fight against ordinary Sequence 5s, these people would have an 80 to 90 percent chance of winning.

  Therefore, these people are the main force in hunting the abyss demons this time, and the rest are only responsible for clearing out the monsters.

  At the bottom of the crater, a gate to the abyss tens of meters high suddenly opened.

  After Rosen and other Sequence 6 entered the fourth level, the subsequent Sequence 7s also entered the third level one by one.

  The first thing you feel when you pass through the gate of the abyss is the burning heat.

  Rosen looked around and saw that it was indeed a random delivery and could not be teleported to a specific point.

  The surrounding environment is full of erupting volcanoes and magma. The volcanoes here are of normal size, with a diameter of several thousand meters at most. There is a kind of soft coral-shaped plant living in the rolling magma. These should be lava coral grass that can absorb high temperatures.

  Rosen took out a special thermometer and found that the normal temperature of the surrounding environment was less than 90 degrees.

  For Sequence 6, this temperature should be like a gentle breeze on the face.

  However, he felt extremely hot. Does this mean that the high temperature here can directly affect the spirit?

  This is not mentioned in the information. Not saying this means that abnormal changes have occurred here.

  Rosen activated the Void Shadow Escape and disappeared into the shadows, while at the same time releasing the God-Hunting Demon Eye from his right eye to escape into the shadows.

  Looking around from high in the sky, he soon discovered many dangerous abyss demons.

  There were at least a hundred Sequence 6s within a radius of dozens of miles, including the lava snakes shuttling through the magma, the fire demons absorbing volcanic heat in the volcano, the abyss bone demons running on the flames, and the abyss stone demons flying in the sky in groups.

  However, Rosen did not find any other human traces in this range. This was not the size of the space that the fourth floor should have.

  Moreover, one person has to face so many Sequence 6s. Could he just let them come in and die?

  He activated Lazy Foot and tried to leave this spiritual realm, but Lazy Foot was completely unable to penetrate the surrounding space.

  You have to know that his Lazy Foot can freely travel to the spiritual realms below Sequence 2. The spiritual realm sealed under the volcano is only Sequence 3. Although there is a seal of the World Government outside, even if the Lazy Foot cannot leave, it will not be unable to shake the space.

  Rosen suddenly thought of a possibility, that there might be something wrong with the gate to the abyss he passed through.

  He tried to sense the ancient trees of the noble sequence in the spiritual world at the first moment, but as expected, he couldn't sense them at all.

  This means that the spiritual world does not exist where he is currently.

  "This is the abyss, the real abyss..."

  Rosen spoke the truth that he couldn't even believe.

  At the same time, there was an uproar in front of the Abyss Gate in Volcano City.

  The World Government's special envoy, Sequence 3 Demigod Alvin Kevin, has discovered that all Sequence 6s who entered the Gate of the Abyss have lost contact. No one except the Sequence 0 Abyss Lords of the Abyss can do such a thing under his nose.

  The good news is that through the seal, the power that the Abyss Lord can quietly infiltrate is limited.

  Therefore, the missing Sequence 6 should have been randomly teleported to a certain layer of the abyss.

  The abyss is extremely chaotic. Unless it is an abyss demon god who can control part of the abyss's will, it is difficult for ordinary abyss lords to find the Sequence 6s scattered on different levels, so they do not have to face Sequence 0 directly.

  But the bad news is that it is almost impossible for those Sequence 6 who fall into the abyss to come back.

  Such a big mistake happened this time, I'm afraid the punishment he will receive from the world government will not be light afterwards.

  Rosen tried various means of contact and found that the Lord God's computer was completely unaffected and could log into the Lord God's network and the deep web of the spirit world at will. In addition, the hereditary Duke's star emblem could also connect to the deep web of the spirit world, but the network connection was intermittent.

  Basically, it can be understood that we have gone from gigabit broadband to the old dial-up Internet access.

  If you want to upload a single sentence on the deep web of the spiritual world, there will be a delay of several minutes.

  Fortunately, they were still able to get in touch. Rosen directly logged into the official website of the World Government to inquire about the Abyss Gate of the Blazing Shadow Principality.

  Two hours later, Rosen finally understood what was going on.

  It turned out that the Lord of the Abyss had taken action, so now he could only find a way to return to the main world by himself.

  As compensation, the World Government gave him extremely high merits, and if he could rescue some Sequence 6s, there would be additional merit rewards.

  However, even if a person has merits in the Abyss Plane, he cannot spend them. If he unfortunately dies here, all those merits will be in vain.

  The only good news now is that after being positioned by the Deep Web of the Spirit Realm, he is now on the 99th layer, the outermost layer of the 99 layers of the Abyss. The Star Emblems on the 98th layer cannot receive any signals from the Deep Web of the Spirit Realm.

  (End of this chapter)