Wasteland Echoer

"Wisdom?" Wright said with a smile:

"Yes~ It is indeed a rare blessing for lower creatures."

"It is even more of a painful torture. We in Khitan have an old saying, 'A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure.' It is precisely because the puffed-bristled lizard has low intelligence that they once became the target of human hunting." Hoshino Shouta turned his gaze to Adaroni and smiled:

"Let's talk about this bottle of 'Dragon Scale Powder', Adaroni. If you really want to restore your bloodline as soon as possible, or even regain a body that belongs to the dragon race, you need to keep using it."

"I'll keep using it," Adaloni quickly assured.

"The 'persistence' I mentioned is not the ordinary 'persistence in use', but the use of 'Dragon Scale Powder' must not be interrupted 'under any circumstances' until you can truly feel the dragon blood hidden in the dark depths of the spiritual sea, ready to burst out." Hoshino Shota saw that Adaroni's face was full of doubts, and his brows were wrinkled like dry wall skin, so he simply explained further:

"When using 'Dragon Scale Powder', the dragons sometimes fall into hallucinations, lose themselves in the imagination of becoming dragons, and fall into a surging dream of joy, happiness, and passion, unable to extricate themselves. Once they stop using 'Dragon Scale Powder', they will quickly fall into emptiness, pain, and illness, just like a hot body falling into the cold deep sea, until their spirit and cognition collapse together."

"So, what you call 'persistent use' is actually 'addiction', right? The side effects of 'addiction' force me to sink deeper into the 'powder' until I can reactivate my dragon bloodline. In this way, I will naturally get rid of hallucinations and dreams, right?" Yada Luo Ni snorted coldly:

"That is to say, as long as I use it for the first time, during this period of time, I will become your puppet and be controlled by you, right?"

"Your analysis is not without reason." Hoshino Shouta admitted generously:

"Any benefit has a cost, any gain has to be paid, and any power... has a price. I can assure you that during the period when you activate your bloodline, there will be no shortage of 'Dragon Scale Powder', and I, the [Singer], will play dragon music for you every day to ensure that you do not feel most of the side effects.

"But you have to do something for me. This is a deal, a win-win deal that is not a zero-sum game. As a sign of sincerity, I am willing to tell you the deep secrets of the 'Khitan Reese Ring' for free."

"So, what do you want me to do?" Adaloni asked quite bluntly.

Hoshino Shouta was stunned at first, then the corners of his mouth rose, revealing the joy that he could hardly suppress in his heart, and said softly:

"I want you to assassinate Shaneva, the current governor of the city of Novayask."

"What??"

Before Adaloni could make a statement, Wright and Fu Bing could not help but exclaimed:

"Are you crazy, Hoshino Shouta?"

"I'm not crazy, nor am I talking nonsense. Before making this decision, I went to the dark city wall and chanted the 'Song Chapter' to the gods. After I came back, I performed a formal Bagua divination according to the Taoist rituals." Hoshino Shota said, pulling open the tool bench, and with a harsh "creaking" sound, he took out a piece of unclean paper covered with black oil and red blood, and handed it to "Fu Bing".

"Why are there so many obscure ancient Khitanese characters on it? I..." "Fu Bing" scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said:

"Although I know a little about oriental languages, you know that there is still a big difference between the ancient Khitan-Lis language and the current standard Khitan-Lis language. Even if I know every hieroglyph, I can't understand them when they are combined together."

"I can understand it." Wright took the paper and read it carefully.

Although the text was a little crooked, it was obviously copied by someone who was not familiar with oriental characters. However, when he was in Chekavsk, Wright discovered that the characters of the Flame Empire were almost the same as those of the Foodie Empire in the previous world, with only slight differences.

Since the Foodie Empire was his motherland in the previous world, his Chinese grades had always been the best in the class, and reading ancient Chinese and classical Chinese was no problem at all. If he could read all these texts completely and translate them well, Hoshino Shota would surely look upon him with a higher regard, and it would also be more conducive to shaping his image as the so-called "evil god".

Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how powerful you are. What’s most important is to make others think you are powerful!

Moreover, the identity of [Orderer] and the title of "Echoer" are not enough to attract the attention of the "Federal Committee", "Order Council" and those with magical power and professions, even extraordinary people. If one can decipher the mysterious art of oriental divination, perhaps one can establish a connection with oriental gods in the spiritual realm and find the possibility of breaking through the order.

If he could get in touch with some more ordinal monsters and become a demigod or a true ordinal god sooner, he might have a chance to end the wasteland world and become the only "echo" of the "Age of Stars".

Before seeing these familiar Khitan Reese characters, Wright had indeed not thought so much about his future. After all, he had been imprisoned by the "Resurrection God" in the "Red Fantasy Ruins" filled with "ancient power" and "death" for thirty years. In the pain and internal friction, people cannot make plans for the future.

And now, it seems that a broken line in the spiritual realm has finally been repaired, and Wright's ambition has begun to sprout rapidly.

This series of thinking activities lasted for ten minutes before Wright pretended to take a long breath and relaxed his brows, as if he had just gone through an extremely active brainstorming session. He took a breath and read:

"The Great Accumulation of Mountains and Sky, the Great Accumulation hexagram. This is the 26th hexagram of the Eastern Divination, and it is indeed a very auspicious sign. It is beneficial to be steadfast, and it is auspicious not to eat at home, and it is beneficial to cross a large river. Here... there seem to be only these few sentences, and the other words should be the dialect of the Yanhuo Empire, which I don't quite recognize."

"Oh? No wonder people call you the 'evil god', Wright. As expected, you have something amazing to offer." Hoshino Shouta praised.

"The rest of the text is a specific explanation of each line, using the language of our Dongying Province. As you know, we are a barbaric land. If the Yanhuo Empire had not launched a comprehensive expedition against us during the reign of Emperor Taizong Shangwen, we would not have been able to appreciate such a profound oriental civilization." A sense of pride rose on Hoshino Shouta's face, and he said:

"To facilitate use, the writing system of Dongying Province is a combination of letters and pictograms, but the real Khitan language does not have letters. This is a kind of 'ancient progress'. However, Wright, since you can read the Khitan language above, can you translate it?"

"Of course." Wright handed the paper back to Shota Hoshino and translated it based on his short memory:

"The Daxu hexagram is good for divination, and it is good for continuing what you are doing. You can accomplish things without eating your own food. This is an auspicious sign. Moreover, it is good for doing things that cross large rivers."

"That's right. So, Wright, since the ancient Eastern civilization has predicted such an auspicious result for me, then I cannot go against the will of the gods and immortals. As you know, divination using magic power is often the most effective. Moreover, as long as the divination result appears, no matter how many times it is performed, the result will be the same for the same thing." Hoshino Shouta lowered his head slightly, his eyes turned upward, revealing a sinister but cute expression, and said with a weird smile:

"In other words, the gods have abandoned Shaneva. If Shaneva was just a woman who coveted the power of men and tried to take the lead in counterattacking the 'Lost Ones' after the fall of the Western Federation Council, it would be understandable. But she has neither the means and determination of Vasily nor the strength and courage to integrate the Federation. She just wants to obtain technological props to control people's hearts and minds, so as to enslave others."

Shota Hoshino slowly walked in front of Wright and the other two. He first flipped his body backwards with force, in an extremely abnormal and twisted posture. With a "crunching" sound of broken bones, he stood strangely with his head facing up in a twisted posture, with his arms and legs crossed.

Then, his heart emitted bursts of blue light that symbolized the Lost Ones. After spitting out a stream of burning liquid that burned through the simple wooden floor, his throat emitted the ethereal, overlapping sounds that belonged to the monster:

"Shaneva is sacrificing humans and the Lost, just like Vasily did. Only, she is more cruel. In the First Era, the Middle Empire once had a popular 'Dragon and Bana' sacrificial ritual that combined Eastern and Western cultures.

"This ritual requires lizard blood as a tool for the continued operation of magic power, and it also requires the body to be relatively broken to gain the approval of the gods. In previous rituals, either the whole body was sacrificed, or the person was converted into an energy body like in the 'Old Fireworks' before being sacrificed. However, Shaneva's ritual requires the body to be dismembered first, and then connected with silk threads made from fish bodies. Then, a high concentration of magic power potion is used to maintain the life and consciousness of the sacrificer."

"This is indeed very cruel," Adaroni commented, biting his lip.

"Then, for seven days, a piece of the body is sacrificed to the gods every day. Every time a piece is sacrificed, a pattern of a red spider lily will appear on the altar on the ground, connecting the human world, the underworld and the gods. When the last piece is completely sacrificed, the red spider lily on the altar will turn into a dragon pattern." Hoshino Shouta continued:

"As long as we gather 10,800 dragon patterns, we can obtain enough energy to activate the 'Wei Ming'. Without the help of the 'Yao Guang Evolution Platform', we can directly find the 'Source Image Pillar' and open the 'Mind Control Panel'."

"Stop talking." Adaroni interrupted Hoshino Shouta rudely, "I promise you... to assassinate Shaneva."