Soul Trigger

Chapter 310 is beginning to take shape
"What the hell is that?! There's no such thing in my 'Outside World'! This is a fantasy world! A pure fantasy world!!"

In the sky garden, the white figure kept roaring in frustration.

"...The Black Goat is indeed an unstable factor. No, I have to change my plan..."

He suddenly clenched his fists, and a flash of white light burst out from behind him:

"A terrible crisis has occurred in the world. The Demon King's army has gained powerful strength from nowhere."

"In order to maintain the balance of the world and allow the ceremony to continue, the True King of the Lightless Ones decided to go down to the mortal world himself and use the power of the world to wipe out this cheater who tipped the balance..."

As he was muttering, a red light suddenly burst out from behind him:
【Negative, serious deviation from the rules.】

"what?!"

His voice suddenly stopped:

“Why?! Even if the Black Goat no longer exists, there are still the top masters of the Southern Branch who can be used as ritual tools. Why…”

【Negative, serious deviation from the rules.】

The red light became stronger and suddenly pressed the white figure to the ground.

The white light covering his body suddenly shattered, revealing the obese figure underneath, who was now sweating profusely:
"Fairy of Light...please tell me why?! Isn't all this for you?! Why..."

Suddenly, a rising white light appeared in the hall that had been occupied by the red light, and a face as white as jade poked out from the white light.

It was a beautiful face that belonged to a goddess. She closed her eyes peacefully, her skin radiated a holy glow, and her red lips were crystal clear:

[Negation, the road of the wheel is ahead, and you cannot deviate from the track. ]

Then everything suddenly disappeared, and the red light rising from the entire hall also stopped for a moment and dimmed, but the scarlet color remained.

The white figure climbed up from the ground with sweat all over his head:

"What do you mean? What on earth does this mean... Why is it not possible? Isn't this her Limbo? Why..."

“Don’t get off track.”

The male voice that had spoken to him before reappeared:
"The immortal spirit is about to enter the Wheel of Reincarnation and must act according to the rules of the Spirit Prison."

"Of course, we see your difficulties. When everything is over, you will get a richer reward than before. Don't forget your desire..."

Hearing this, the white figure let out a long breath and sat back on the throne:
"The wheel..."

"In this case, this is the only option left..."

He pondered, as if he had made up his mind, and while continuing to release new announcements, he painfully peeled off a part of his own white light.

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[Notice to all servers: The Demon King has taken over the Demon King City Hall and has gained unimaginable power. The entire Outer Realm will be shrouded in the shadow of fear! ]

[Cancel the death penalty for participating players. Every time you kill a demon army, you can choose one of three random skills and get three times the experience reward. ]

[Destroy the Demon King City Hall to immediately clear the "Outside World"! ]

"Why are you so anxious..."

Watching the soul-sucking ghost sucking an adventurer into a mummy, Ji Li put down his watch.

The interior of the Soul-sucking Ghost is now a matte black mechanical skeleton, and the outside is armor formed by mechanical tentacles directly wrapped around it.

The style of painting has not changed, but if you look closely, everything is different. The big hole in the chest has turned into a vortex generated by a coil machine.

Perhaps there must be brave men under a huge reward, and there must be many "adventurers" from the outside world rushing here, but at this moment, the "adventurers" in the inner city are trying their best to escape -

22 units of the Demon King's army - now they should be called [Odin's Guard].

With the help of a high-rise turret that could fire 10,000 rounds of ammunition per minute, all the "adventurers" in the inner city were facing a total massacre almost instantly.

From Ji Li's Skynet perspective, he had a panoramic view of every situation in the inner city:
Due to the large area of ​​Demon King's Castle, there are still many "adventurers" active in the inner city at this moment.

Most of them are forces with the title of "outlaws", and occasionally you can see one or two with the prefix "mutual aid association members".

Before Ji Li entered the Lingbo Prison, these people had been hunting the evil creatures roaming around the Demon King's City, or "wild monsters", according to the rules of the virtual game to level up.

After the "Demon King" appeared, more "adventurers" gathered and wanted to hunt down the Demon King, so even if Ji Li killed his way to the City Hall, there were still a lot of "adventurers" in the city at this moment.

At this moment, several teams that intended to sneak into the original throne were directly beaten into pieces by the high-speed rotating kinetic machine guns.

Many adventurers who had come to support the City Hall were attacked by the Soul-sucking Ghost first. A level 15 captain was sucked into a mummy in one encounter.

Considering the future city construction project, Ji Li removed an evil spirit follower and added a soul-sucking ghost to hunt more spiritual essence in order to improve efficiency.

The two evil spirit warlords led their evil spirit followers to roam the city to finish off the "adventurers" who were fleeing.

At this moment, at the exit of the inner city, three teams of adventurers were fleeing rapidly, with fear written all over their faces.

How come the Devil's Castle, which was in a dilapidated state just now, suddenly turned into a futuristic sci-fi metal fortress?
Moreover, the battle for the city hall was still going on a second ago, and countless people were rushing over there to get a piece of the pie.

Who would have thought that the main force would be wiped out in the next second, and the Demon King's army began to track down the "adventurers" all over the city. Each of them not only had strong individual combat capabilities, but also had amazing coordination.

Originally, some people wanted to destroy the surveillance tower, but the surveillance tower had become the center of Skynet, and the entrance was sealed, prohibiting everyone from entering or leaving.

The soul-sucking ghost chasing behind fell to the ground and turned into a black fog mummy.jpg.

At this moment, the adventurer teammate who was rushing towards the inner city gate screamed and received the message of "Complete Death" from the system, and was terrified:
"Didn't they say there would be no experience penalty?!"

"That evil monster is the problem! If he catches you and sucks you dry, you'll be dead!!!"

"You are still talking nonsense when you are about to die! The city gate is right in front of us! Get out now!!!"

However, when they rushed to the inner gate, they saw a desperate scene—

The entire city wall has been completely blocked by a metal blockade. How can it look like a city gate at all?

"How is this going?!"

"Damn it, get out!!!"

Several "adventurers" with specialized mobility mobilized their spiritual essence and displayed their magical powers.

Some were ejected directly towards the high wall, some were floating in the air, and some were running directly on the high wall.

Although the wall is high, it is not impossible to climb.

But in the next moment, the entire high wall suddenly underwent dense modular cracking, and suddenly split and stretched in front of countless people's astonished gazes, and was raised several times higher under the influence of countless metal roots of the World Tree inside.

"What the hell is this?! Transformers?!"

The floater rushed towards it in a panic. Before he could finish his words, a puff of black smoke came and a red light burst out. When he landed on the ground, he had turned into a mummy.

"Shit...if you don't want to die, then run away!"

Countless people suddenly dispersed, and three puffs of black smoke flowed up and down, chasing towards the room where the crowd had dispersed.

In just a few breaths, several screams were heard.

Ji Li, whose spiritual essence was constantly growing, frowned under his visor:
"Although the efficiency of obtaining spiritual essence is considerable, it is still too slow."

At present, this Lingbo Prison has obviously become more and more serious, and it can even be said that it is eager to get rid of itself.

The public frequency has been continuously updating the "Kill the Demon King to Reduce Your Sentence" activity benefits. These small shrimps are easy to deal with now, but soon there will be a large force coming, and it will be faster and faster.

For future considerations, Ji Li did not continue to choose to use machine guns to shoot the "adventurers", because these were all humanoid resource packs.

So he chose to add a soul-sucking ghost and let the soul-sucking ghost hunt for spiritual essence as much as possible.

But in this way, the killing efficiency will be reduced.

Some adventurers apparently discovered Ji Li's intention. After the initial wave of massacres and failed attempts to storm the city gate, they all hid here and there, and some even wanted to jump out of the city walls and leave.

Seeing that there were still many adventurers running around in the inner city on the Skynet map, Ji Li decided that he had to improve efficiency. He needed more Demon King troops...

He opened the city construction system through the new Skynet and locked his eyes on the template blueprint of the [Technology Breeding Pod]:
[Technology Breeding Chamber: Can be constructed. Requires 300 points of decarbonization particles.]

After the city construction system is turned on and the carbon transformation is completed, this thing can be used directly as a building to increase the population limit of Ji Li's summons.

Looking at the decarbonization particles currently displayed as 0, Ji Li directly injected spiritual essence to start the transformation.

Unexpectedly, 200 units of decarbonization particles directly consumed a quarter of his current spiritual essence.

According to the rules of the Lingbin Prison here, as a lord, there is no upper limit to his spiritual essence.

At this moment, he had already absorbed a lot of spiritual essence from the "adventurer" through the soul-sucking ghost, but he still consumed a full quarter of the amount.

The total amount of his spiritual essence at this moment is already 2.5 times the amount when he first entered the Spirit Prison.

"If we go all in, we can only build four at most... so let's just start with two."

Another large amount of spiritual essence was consumed, and the unit amount of decarbonization particles became 400.
Ji Li directly took a picture of the two technological breeding chambers on the Skynet surveillance map. Instantly, he felt a rumbling vibration coming from the ground. …

A broken and scattered team is escaping from a drainage ditch at the bottom of the Demon King's Castle.

In other words, the ditches that were originally used for drainage have now been assimilated by the World Tree and turned into technological buildings filled with mechanical cutting lines.

"That thing is gone...would you like to take a break first?"

Facing the female team member's proposal, the captain, who only had one arm left, gritted his teeth and moved forward:

"No... We have to escape. That guy has surveillance cameras all over the inner city. The reason the Demon King's army isn't coming is because they can't deal with us yet..."

"How could it suddenly become like this... Who is that guy?!"

The female player held her head in some dismay;

"The leader of the alliance has not developed as fast as him with the help of so many cadres! How long has he been dragged into this hell? He has already started to control the buildings!

He is even alone, without the architect profession to help him!"

"Calm down, bitch! We can get out of here... I mean this stupid game, the Hell of the Souls!"

The captain shouted, subconsciously covering his aching shoulder.

There was a piece of black ice sealing his wound, which was cut by the evil spirit commander.

When all the supplies were used up, this actually stopped his bleeding.

"The city hall is out of control, the camp will definitely send out a rescue signal, the leader of the alliance should be here soon!"

“According to the public channel information, even if we cannot escape from the Demon King’s Castle at the moment, the Demon King’s military force is clearly insufficient.

As long as we hold on until the end and don't get killed, when the army arrives, the Demon King won't have time to care about us!"

The female teammate was stunned:
I would rather die than let my friend die. As long as I delay my death as much as possible, I will have a chance to survive until the army arrives!
The other two were also sweating profusely, and one of them wiped his forehead fiercely:
"But what if the Demon King wants to send more troops? Do you know what kind of missions the Demon King will receive?"

The next moment, several people felt a slight rumbling sound coming from the ground, but there was no tremor in the soul trigger, and they were all confused:

"What is that sound?"

The next moment, several people saw the drainage ditch in front of them suddenly disintegrate and open, and thousands of mechanical tentacles emerged from the ground, crushing one of them to death, and the body parts wrapped around him turned into a tall mechanical building.

"Defense facilities?!"

"Damn it, why wasn't it me who was killed!?"

The female team members cried and followed their teammates to escape——

Dying here would be a relief, as long as you are not killed by the soul-sucking ghost!

But followed by a few whooshing sounds and the roar of something exploding, a series of mechanical facilities suddenly fell from the sky in a parabolic trajectory and rumbled down on their way forward.

Several people thought it was just a city defense building, but their expressions became more and more solemn. They quickened their pace and continued to run away from the mechanical facilities that were as tall as a person.

But in the next moment, the dark facility beside the one-armed captain suddenly opened, and a puff of black mist burst out from it, causing his expression to change instantly -

"The Demon King's Army?!"

A violent black fog rushed out and instantly slammed him against the wall. Before he could make any move, it turned him into a mummy with a heart-wrenching scream.

Other dark facilities were opened one by one, and another soul-sucking ghost burst out.

Others emerged as newly generated evil spirit warlords and evil spirit followers and swooped down to control everyone.

A similar scene happened several times in various corners of the Demon King's Castle.

Looking at the inner city perspective where the number of red dots finally began to decrease sharply, and his own spiritual essence was recovering rapidly, Ji Li casually took pictures of two more technological breeding cabins——

Compared to before the purge, only one third of the adventurers in the inner city remained.

This has allowed him to buy six technological breeding chambers, and has also brought the maximum number of his Odin Guards to 82.

After the incarnation of the World Tree projection, there are two forms of summoning Odin's guards.

One is to drill out the mechanical roots of the World Tree from the ground to form a mechanical cultivation container, and his summoned creatures will drill out of it.

Buildings are generated in a similar way.

The other method is to launch the assault capsule directly from the projection of the World Tree. Some adventurers with less luck may even be killed on the spot.

Gradually, the last adventurer was sucked dry by despair under the red light, and all the adventurers in the inner city were completely wiped out.

On the back of Ji Li's hand, the red crystal began to vibrate:——
[Complete the second chapter of the main story: Recapture the Inner City]

[I restored the inner city surveillance, occupied the inner city core, and completely killed all the invaders, regaining control of the entire inner city]

[Now, I have accumulated enough energy and have a basic team. It is time to develop infrastructure and prepare to conquer the entire Demon King's City in one go and announce my existence to the world.]

[Trigger the third main storyline chapter: The Demon King is resurrected——]

[Correction: Triggering the third main storyline chapter: Inorganic Expansion.]

[I am about to take back the entire Demon King's Castle. It will become the first colony of the World Tree Universe Corporation in the "Outside World" and the starting point for Odin's conquest of the world. ]

[Clearing the Inner City: Mission Completed]

[I got a new city construction blueprint: High-density kinetic barrage machine gun-EA08-Carbon-based life tearer]

[Although kinetic bullets are not as good as pulse ammunition, the technology produced by the World Tree will never let me down. I am glad to see it here, old friend. ]
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"...Was I such a talkative person in my previous life?" Ji Li complained in his heart.

There seems to be a personality in this red crystal, but Ji Li knows that it should come from his own deep cognition, or deep subconsciousness.

In addition to borrowing some of the rules of Limbo, it will also express some of its own ideas.

It seems that as the development grows, this situation will become more and more obvious, and these ideas come from the subconscious of "Odin" - Ji Li.

Ji Li, who was still under the World Tree at this moment, glanced at the large number of tombstones around him, ordered the evil spirit followers to clean up the battlefield, and then assigned many city defense posts in the Skynet system.

And directly converted the spiritual essence, and built a high-density kinetic machine gun on the main gate of the inner city.

In front of the evil spirit follower who had just taken up his position, dense mechanized tentacles emerged and quickly assembled into a huge multi-barrel kinetic machine gun. A blue LED light lit up at the connection of the magazine.

As the evil spirit follower grasped the trigger of the machine gun and pressed it lightly, a large barrage of bullets shot a peeping adventurer outside the city into a sieve.

In an instant, adventurers emerged from the shadows of the buildings outside the inner city's blockade wall, and fled away without looking back.

"It can kill instantly. It seems that adventurers around level 15 don't have to worry about it. After being deployed on a large scale, its power cannot be underestimated."

Watching the evil spirit followers in Skynet's surveillance taking down the machine gun and starting to fire wildly at the adventurers outside the city, smashing several adventurers' legs into rotten flesh, he sent a few soul-sucking ghosts out to collect the spoils.

"We can take a breather for now, but the outside world is still keeping an eye on us. This means that a large group of these people may be arriving soon..."

While thinking, Ji Li's attention was once again focused on the urban construction system.

Currently, he has sufficient spiritual essence and has acquired new weapons. He no longer has to worry about basic city defense, but if he wants to expand, he still has to make adequate preparations.

Although the Soul-sucking Ghost is powerful, it is hard to say how it will perform against higher-level adventurers, so in addition to new weapons, it would be best if he could have some new types of soldiers.

Then let's take a look at what these buildings can bring to you...

Ji Li randomly clicked on a building called "Hall of Valor":

[Hall of Valor: The military center of the World Tree, which stores a large amount of prosthetic data. ]

[After the construction is completed, the decarbonized particles can be consumed to build a high-standard armed prosthetic frame under the rules of the Lingbo Prison. ]

[The list is as follows:]

[001: Odin_α Prototype Level]

[002: Odin_β prototype level]

[003: Odin-Customized Basic Type]

[004: Odin_V1]...

...[012: Odin_VK3]

【018: Odin_V4C】…

……

[00A: Haunted by Ghosts-Type I]

The moment he saw the last list, Ji Li's pupils shrank slightly:
If he remembered correctly, this should be...

Something from the founder of the World Tree, a product of the demon god's technological system...

(End of this chapter)