Chapter 329 The Philosopher's Trap

Zhe Ren tried to move forward, feeling his body getting weaker and weaker.

She gasped and coughed up bloody phlegm, and put down the package in her hand almost exhausted.

She couldn't hold it anymore.

Her fingers were white. This thing was too heavy for her.

In this simple package, it was the fragments of the Hatter's body - the ritual materials she had finally obtained.

In this ritual, the Hatter became a strong young man. The philosopher made a deal with him with the information he had obtained, explained the fact that his teammates could not be found, and expressed his willingness to team up with the other party.

With the help of the "Hatter", the philosopher, who had just escaped from the private room and was still weak, was able to enter the secret passage smoothly. She could hardly stand up at the time, and was almost lifted up and stuffed into the secret passage by the Hatter.

After both of them entered the secret passage, when the philosopher took a breath, he immediately attacked and killed him with a spell.

——There is no other reason, but she urgently needs to heal her body and restore her physical strength.

There is no priest in this ceremony, and even if there is, it is difficult to kidnap the other party to heal herself. Although the Hatter is willing to cooperate with him now, if he continues to show such powerlessness, the other party may directly kill him.

It is better to strike first.

Although as a wizard of the Path of Wisdom, the philosopher has no recovery ability. But fortunately, as long as you know how to operate, even if you don’t surpass the level of the path, you can still hold some simple rituals.

And the human corpse with magic power is a wonderful ritual material--

Sure enough, I really don’t have any talent for the Path of Wisdom. The philosopher laughed at himself.

After spending so many years and using so many resources, the Path of Wisdom has just touched the third energy level.

The core principles of the Path of Wisdom are mystery, selfishness, and rationality. Guarding secrets, maintaining neutrality, and maintaining rationality, a wise man who is alone, beyond the times, and not understood by everyone--

The philosopher is confident that he can complete the first two points, but the third point is difficult to do. Because she is always prone to anger.

She wanted to work part-time on the Path of Wisdom because she felt that she could easily lose her mind. So she hoped to use this most rational path to make up for her shortcomings.

Perhaps it was the influence of the Transcendent Path, or it could be the corruption of her rationality by the contracted demon. When she encountered any pain or frustration, she did not think of "keeping silent without explanation or ignoring" or "disdaining it with disdain", but immediately wanted to take action to make the other party pay the price.

Because she just couldn't help it.

——She is so powerful!

She has a high status, abundant wealth, and a smart and capable heir. She is an old noble who has been passed down for hundreds of years, a powerful noble, and a general with military merits. No one will not give herself a face.

But the requirement of the Path of Wisdom is to smile at the doubts and hostility of fools. On the road of pursuing truth, those disputes and quarrels are just a meaningless waste of time.

The feeling of being high above, overlooking all living beings, and being uninterested in worldly affairs from the heart, the philosopher can never grasp it.

She gave herself this code name when she was promoted to the Path of Wisdom, and it was also to remind herself to stay rational and think more about everything.

As a result, she not only became a weak girl... but was also insulted and bullied by such an old man!

—— If this was a promotion ceremony to the Path of Transcendence, she might have resonated with the Path now.

But this was a promotion ceremony to the Path of Wisdom. As a result, she was not only furious and felt dizzy, black in front of her eyes, and weak in her hands and feet, but also felt that the probability of casting spells was constantly decreasing.

In the end, in this promotion ceremony to the Path of Wisdom, she still used the ceremony of the Path of Transcendence...

Manually dismembering a corpse is very tiring, and it is a technical job, and it takes a long time.

Her current physical condition could not support her to manually dismember the body of the "Hatter", so the philosopher directly consumed a little more mana and quickly arranged the "decomposition ceremony" to quickly disassemble the other party's body into pieces of materials that could be carried with her.

Afterwards, she used the remains of the Hatter to perform the first "vitality regeneration ceremony" to replenish her first physical strength.

After that, she used the other party's clothes as a package and packed the materials separately.

She didn't want to conflict with others at this time. Because she only had a little mana left, and it was possible to fall into a coma if the mana was completely exhausted.

Compared with those promoted people who used the bodies of young men, she would definitely not be able to beat them if she didn't use her extraordinary abilities.

So after consideration, the philosopher chose to use two-thirds of the materials left by the hatter to set traps.

She walked all the way and set them all the way. Because there were not many materials on hand, it was impossible to set too aggressive traps.

Considering the possibility of entering the secret passage together, it was possible to be awakened by companions if she set a sleeping trap directly. So the philosopher finally chose the de-energizing ritual.

It was a curse ritual that would make people's limbs weak and difficult to move.

If the other party was a temporary teammate, then the person who stepped on the trap might be killed by others suddenly; and if they were companions who could not be abandoned, they would choose to help, carry, etc. to act with the other party, or simply stay and try to remove the curse.

Either way, it would buy her a lot of time.

After being trapped once, they will probably become more cautious. They may even prepare a curse countermeasure.

So the second ritual arranged by the philosopher is a "strong acid arrow" ritual made of bile, gastric juice and blood.

When the other party walks into a long and narrow corridor with nothing in it, when they have walked two-thirds of the way and gradually become less vigilant, a strong acid arrow will fly from the front. This first-level ritual may not kill a person directly, but it can cause great pain and weaken the other party's ability to move and fight.

After that, the philosopher dismantled the hatter's spine and liver, and arranged a phantom wall that can block the light source, with several runes on it. They may think they have reached a dead end and think it is a trap and turn around and leave; or they may try to investigate the wall without giving up. And the philosopher arranged a tripwire under this light-blocking wall to trigger the stinger trap behind the wall.

When someone tries to get close to investigate the wall, they will be stabbed by the poisonous sting behind the wall. In order to allow male ascendants who may be taller to be hit, she specially lowered the height of the text so that the other party would have to lower their heads to see clearly in this dim light source. And the sting after she adjusted it will pierce the other party's eyes.

--These three ritual traps can at least reduce the number of people, right?

The philosopher thought.

Counting the dead forge and the hatter, plus myself...

If three more people are removed, basically there will be no many people chasing after them.

And the first debilitating ritual was to remind his companions-even though he suddenly couldn't find them, the philosopher still kindly left them clues. Seeing the ritual traps, he should think that the traps in front are his own, so he should be a little more careful.

She didn't have much materials left.

Originally, she wanted to replenish her physical strength when she ran out of energy.

But now she suddenly began to hesitate.

--Because the philosopher was not sure whether the end of this secret passage needed to be opened.

If it was a password or a riddle, it would be fine. Through the development of intelligence through the path of wisdom, he could still figure it out quickly. But if it was a password or even a spell rune that she didn't know, then she could only force it open through the ceremony.

And every time a material was used before, it might cause the subsequent door to be unable to open without this material.

"... There is only one corpse, which is not enough."

The philosopher gritted his teeth and thought it was better to save some more.

He would not restore himself.

Originally, she thought that if the New Moon Ritual could not be completed, she would just find a place to hide. Even if she couldn't pass the level, she would not be punished as long as she was still alive.

... But after she endured that kind of experience, she suddenly felt that it would be a big loss if she didn't pass the level.

But at this moment.

She suddenly felt a cold malice-the philosopher picked up a package from the ground without hesitation and threw it in one direction.

"Eat their hearts and chew their livers, and command you with the powerful blood of youth! Show up to them, drunken bull!"

She chanted loudly at the same time.

The heart and liver in the package caught fire, and then the flames suddenly grew larger with a strong smell of alcohol.

It was like wrapping a bull with straw soaked in alcohol and lighting it with fire - the golden red flames surged. In this narrow space, a flame shadow like a bull flashed in the direction she pointed.

But what made her heart sink was that she didn't hear any screams.

"- Are you... Alai?"

Only a cold and hoarse voice sounded.

Like a rag, the black robe was shaken open in the air, and there was no living person inside.