Soul Trigger

Chapter 304 City Hall (I)

Everything is changing rapidly.

The other two evil spirit followers hanging on the vanguard captain had also pierced their wrists into his body, and a layer of black ice spread out instantly.

The vanguard captain roared and grabbed one of the evil spirit followers, but he couldn't pull it off because the black ice had frozen it to one of his shoulders.

He could only settle for the next best thing and punch him in the face.

But the evil spirit follower just raised his head high, and countless cracks appeared on the black ice armor and helmet, which were repaired in an instant, and then he turned around and slashed at his neck.

He immediately let out a roar and used the same trick again. The spiritual circuits in his body lit up, and his eyes were burning with rising white spiritual essence under the BUFF of the Lightless One.

But a knight's greatsword had already fallen from the sky, slashing into his shoulder blade and tearing almost to his lower body -

"Do not!!!!"

As he screamed in anger, the blood that splattered all over the sky froze into ice chips on the ground. His entire body was enveloped by the rising spiritual fire and quickly turned into an ice sculpture, which was torn into pieces by the knight's sword.

A burst of spiritual fire burst out, spanning the entire room.

The remaining few lawless pioneers also quickly turned into black ice sculptures and were torn into pieces amid screams.

bass--

Ji Li took back the second spare sword in his hand:

"It's really exciting. It seems that I don't need to do it myself."

As the vanguard captain died, the beneficial effect of spiritual essence recovery quickly disappeared.

Sensing that there was not much spiritual essence left in his body, Ji Li couldn't help but frown under his mask:

"My spiritual essence is almost exhausted... If I can't find a way to break through the rules or restore my spiritual essence, it will be useless to level up here."

He thought about it and asked Faceless Bone to collect the remaining equipment and props from the lawless pioneers.

He walked up to the captain of the outlaw vanguard who was already lying on the ground and grabbed his long knife.

At this moment, the red crystal began to vibrate:
[Main story chapter 1: Raise fortifications - Mission completed.]

[I have restored the basic defense network of the Demon King's Castle, and regained the authority and ability to monitor the entire Demon King's Castle, but there is still a long way to go before I can regain control of the Demon King's Castle.]

[Main storyline chapter 2: Recapture the inner city.]

[There are still many lawless vanguards in the inner city. I need to restore the rule of the inner city before more lawless troops arrive.]

[Trigger the main mission: Retake the City Hall]

[I realized that my spiritual essence cannot last long under the malice of the world, and I must find a way to obtain spiritual essence. ]

[If I can regain control of the City Hall, I can reopen the city construction system of the Demon King's Castle. This is not only an important step to accumulate a large army and destroy the world, but also because I can regain control of the City Hall, I can build the "Extraction Room". ]

[Although the extraction room can no longer build spiritual essence crystals or restore spiritual essence for me, it can keep the existing demon army full of spiritual essence, and then find other ways. ]

[Task Reward: Open the city construction system and discover an external feature. ]

"It is really convenient to explore the rules. If this ability to collect world information can be used in the real world, it will be very easy to reach the level of ascension again..."

Obviously, the red crystal's hint pointed out a way for Ji Li to solve the spiritual essence problem, and the watch did not come to cause trouble at this time.

However, characteristics are used to obtain different rewards through one’s own characteristics, so what are explicit characteristics?
While Ji Li was thinking, he sensed fluctuations coming from the soul trigger.

He discovered that the spiritual essence in his body had added a new direction to flow. As he urged the spiritual essence to flow into it, the vision in front of him appeared above the inner city of the Demon King's Castle, which was exactly the vision of the magic eye above the "surveillance tower".

It seems that after turning on the surveillance tower, Ji Li has been able to monitor the inner city and even some areas outside the inner city through the magic eye at any time.

But it seems that due to the limitations of spiritual techniques or the rules of the spiritual prison, the vision logic of the magic eye is different from that of the human eye.

Going further away, it's not that the vision is unclear or blurry, but it's completely dark.

At this moment in the inner city, he could see groups of "adventurers" with "Outlaw Vanguard" on their heads moving around in the inner city.

A considerable number of people were attracted by the situation in the surveillance tower and were heading here.

"…Looks like we have to get rid of these little rats along the way."

These so-called adventurers are obviously the souls of people who were sucked into this spiritual hell.

These "outlaws" should be a force established by the human spirits that were sucked into this "virtual game world" generated under the rules of the Spirit Prison.

Based on his experience and observation of killing a dozen criminals along the way, many of these people were wearing gang uniforms. Although they were not just one gang, Ji Li could basically see that these people were awakened criminals in the black industry.

The Lingbo Prison broke out in the northwest region, and the black market criminals that he cleared out in large numbers are now mostly concentrated in the northwest region. He is not surprised to be sucked in here.

Another piece of information revealed by this is that in addition to these black market criminals, other forces affected by this incident may have also formed corresponding forces in this world.

One is the Secret Rite Society, a medium-sized society that we saw on the helicopter before, one is the West City Mutual Aid Society that is active in the northwest region, there is also the Northwest Branch of the Special Management Bureau, the Trackers, and even others.

Among these people, there should be "Lord" templates similar to himself.

At this moment, the perspective of his magic eye paused slightly, and he saw an extremely magnificent Gothic building with a yellow-green flag on it that was completely inconsistent with its style. It should belong to the criminals.

Behind those intricately shaped windows, you can see shadowy figures:
[I found the City Hall.] [Trigger the main mission: Destroy the vanguard army that occupied the City Hall]

[I found that in addition to the Vanguard troops filling the inner city, the City Hall was also occupied by the Vanguard troops. ]

[Quest Reward: Obtain ten Demon King Army summoning slots]

"It's no use giving me a summoning slot now. Anyway, let's go to the City Hall first..."

At this moment, the teleportation array on the ground lit up. Ji Li turned around suddenly and saw three lawless vanguards appear in the surveillance tower.

Noticing the ice-sculptured corpse fragments all over the ground, and the four evil spirit followers and an evil spirit commander who turned around instantly to meet their gazes, all of them had frozen expressions.

Ji Li's voice was full of laughter:
"Thank you for the gifts of nature."

Heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the surveillance tower.

……

"Damn it... I was killed by that bastard!"

The light of the teleportation array lit up, and a strong man with the title of [Outlaw Vanguard Captain] walked out of it, but the previous Lv.10 had become Lv.6.
This death caused him to drop 4 levels, which was lower than before he reached Lv.10.

If he drops back to Lv5, his title of [Vanguard Captain] will be stripped.

"...Didn't the world announcement say that the Demon King is very weak now? Not only did he open the protective shield, but he also sent them back one by one?"

Next to the teleportation array, "players" wearing various equipment characteristic of criminals were coming and going, and there were some simple stalls set up everywhere.

Judging from the environment, this is the territory of the Demon King's Castle. It is a very lively medium-sized camp.

The one who spoke was a skinny monkey, dressed in armor, with a name [Outlaw Quartermaster: Lv.12] on his head.

"Shit... I don't know how this could happen. He was clearly the last player to enter..."

The vanguard captain spat:
"But now we have the advantage. The demon king mentioned by the system when we entered the Lingbo Prison has finally appeared.

This is the base of our Outlaws Alliance. As long as we kill the Demon King first, we can become the Lightless Ones and leave this place completely. Screw the fucking Special Management Bureau..."

"Maybe it's not that simple." The quartermaster shrugged: "According to the intelligence from the main city, several other forces have also begun to rush here.

But our main force is on the way. If we had known this would happen, we should have asked those "architects" to build a giant teleportation array instead of wasting time building a main city...

Do these guys really think they are here to play games?"

"Why bother with all that... As long as I can get out and become a Lightless One, that's all that matters."

The vanguard captain cursed casually:

"Where is the support I requested earlier?"

"Unfortunately, the vanguard captain of the City Hall has taken away the only rare profession that has arrived so far."

"Xibaer...why?"

"He's only level 15. If you want to get more resources from the city lord, you have to level up more." The quartermaster stretched lazily.

"Don't worry. The power level of the 'Demon King' is currently at the bottom of the list. As long as we kill him in a blitzkrieg, the others won't be able to get anything out of it... Where are you going?"

"Of course it's the City Hall. If I can't kill the devil, can't I just follow the level 15 to get revenge?"

……

The inner city of the Demon King's Castle.

Four evil spirit followers and an evil spirit commander flew through the ups and downs of the inner city's buildings, and screams continued to be heard from them -

"...Didn't he just come into being not long ago?! How could he have a level 7 soldier!?"

Before he could finish his words, a black ice sword fell from the sky, splitting an outlaw vanguard in half in an instant. His body, which was frozen in an instant, fell to the ground in pieces on both sides, and the contents of his backpack were scattered all over the ground.

A vanguard squad of outlaws continued to retreat towards the city hall.

Two of the crossbowmen were hurriedly shooting and cursing.

At the front are a Lv.7 large shield warrior and a Lv.6 dual swordsman.

At this moment, the road ahead of them was filled with tombstones of dead "players", and the Spirit Fire Squad was approaching rapidly -

"coming!"

The big shield warrior roared, and dense spiritual circuits lit up on his body. He was also at level seven. Although he was a little scared in his heart, judging from the data on paper, he was not afraid of the Demon King's army at all.

For black market criminals, there are not many ways for them to acquire spiritual skills and resources, so the most common way is to have spiritual circuits tattooed on the body.

The awakened group among them are mostly magic addicts, and the "skills" they obtain under the rules of this spiritual prison are naturally selected and strengthened from their existing abilities during the upgrade process.

The huge shield gave people a strong sense of solidity, but as the figure burning with powerful spiritual fire rushed over, the entire huge shield instantly turned into black ice and shattered:
"……how come?!"

The large shield soldier suddenly threw away his large shield, his face full of disbelief:
"...This guy out there is definitely not a simple person! Get out of here quickly!!!"

(End of this chapter)