Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1109: 005 (Long - , Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 1109: Chapter 1109: 005 (Long Chapter, Vote for Monthly Ticket)

A chilly wind blew from the depths of the underground cave, passing through the blurred figure.

He Ao slowly descended the old steps, one by one.

What He Ao descended here with was not his physical body, but a ’projection’ constructed through a special ceremony.

This was a gracious gift of ’Descent Knowledge’ from the Mysterious Shadow.

It is a method that allows one to project their power to a distant location through a special Descending Ceremony.

Of course, apart from requiring a powerful energy supply, the ritual also demands that the descender himself possess a ’High Positional Grade’.

From the Mysticism Knowledge that He Ao knows, projecting a ’projection’ seems to be an act only Divine Beings could achieve.

Naturally, He Ao himself does not possess the positional grade of a Divine Being, and he couldn’t afford the cost for the divine projection of an Angel Tier either.

However, after a careful study of the Descent Knowledge by Mysterious Shadow, He Ao discovered that the ’Descending Ceremony’ included within this knowledge was a highly ’optimized’ version of the ceremony.

Its disadvantage is that it cannot project too much power, with the maximum being B-tier.

The advantage is that the energy consumed is very low.

The entire ceremony structure has undergone energy optimization, allowing it to deliver the most energy with the highest efficiency.

That is to say, to complete a ’descent’ included in these pieces of knowledge, the actual energy consumption is very low.

This should be a Descending Ceremony tailored specifically for Mysterious Shadow.

After all, from those pieces of ’Descent Knowledge’, it itself represents Mysticism, skilled in channeling immense power with fragile strength.

Even if it’s just a B-tier projection, it could leverage its positional grade to move forces close to that of an Angel Tier projection.

And this type of Descending Ceremony is faster, less costly, and in complex situations, it facilitates the arrangement of more intricate ceremonies that can transmit more power.

After figuring this out, He Ao once again opened the ’Mysticism Knowledge’ given to him by Ruoke En.

This knowledge came from those Starlight Silhouettes, and it inevitably contained many pitfalls.

Thus, He Ao could only study it carefully, comparing it with his own Mysticism Knowledge.

In these contaminated pieces of knowledge, He Ao also found the way Ruoke En used the power of the City of Rong Guang to ’Grace’ the members of the Rong Guang Society.

After privately experimenting with this method several times and confirming there were no issues, He Ao compared it with the ’Descent Knowledge’ from the Mysterious Shadow.

Then he discovered the ’special aspect’ of this Descending Ceremony by Mysterious Shadow.

This ceremony itself does not actually require the descender to have a High Positional Grade, as long as there is a strong connection between the high-tier existence targeted by the ceremony and the descender.

That is to say, the Descending Ceremony simply uses that ’Higher Being’ to open a door; as long as there is a close ’relationship’ with that ’Higher Being’, anyone can use that door.

And this ’closeness’ required is a bit high, requiring the Higher Being and descender to be ’almost as one’.

He Ao does not know what Mysterious Shadow originally intended with this ceremony, but he knows that, with this clarification, theoretically anyone possessing high-tier items can use it.

Of course, even so, the requirements of this ceremony are actually not low.

Because the descender must have not only a high-tier item, but also a large amount of power to support the descent.

Ordinary Angels might not even be able to provide such a large amount of power.

Prior to this time, He Ao was unable to use this ceremony.

Because the maid automaton had only positional grade, but no power.

However, after the maid automaton and the City of Rong Guang ’united’, the entire ’New City of Rong Guang’ has become a giant High-tier Extraordinary Item with a vast amount of power.

This enabled He Ao to, to some extent, project his advent like a Divine Being.

Although the power he could ultimately provide was not much, and the projection was only tier ’C’.

But this ’descent’ still bears the characteristics of a divine descent, possessing a certain high positional grade, and as long as someone conducts the ceremony, He Ao can transcend time and space to directly transmit power.

This means that, theoretically, as long as there are ’Believers’, he can be ’omnipresent’.

If he had that much power, and if there was no ’small issue’ with the ritual itself.

The individual properties of the ritual items are not important; what matters is that they are imbued with the power of the City of Rong Guang.

These items themselves are ’strongly directed’ towards the City of Rong Guang, so they do not require complex ritual constructions; arranging them into the shape of ’K’ further targets the destination.

Thus, the real target of this item is the ’K’s City of Rong Guang’, and He Ao uses the power of the City of Rong Guang for his advent.

The key to the problem is that the ritual is also very rudimentary; it needs items imbued with the power of the City of Rong Guang to complete the strong targeting.

He cannot truly draw a pattern and conduct a specific ritual to accomplish the advent.

He Ao does not understand the mysticism of directed rituals; these are needs for true Higher Beings.

Perhaps those Higher Beings naturally understand this during their promotion, just as Transcendents from the Talent Sequences naturally have a rough idea about their new abilities after promotion.

But He Ao is not a true Higher Being, he lacks this knowledge, and no one has taught him.

The City of Rong Guang itself does not have a High Positional Grade, so there is no true ritual pattern that can direct towards the City of Rong Guang.

The maid doll does have a High Positional Grade, but only the grade remains.

So, He Ao could only seek out the previously Divine Descent methods of the City of Rong Guang from those tainted knowledge sources, resulting in a ’half-finished’ ritual.

However, the good news is, this ritual can still be normally used.

He Ao looked down at his blurred palm.

The final ’projection’ power was a bit stronger than he estimated, reaching the level of a strong C-grade, and the energy consumption was also a bit less.

Mysterious Shadow truly was a master of energy management.

However, the power of the City of Rong Guang is not abundant, it couldn’t support his projection for long, he needed to act quickly.

He quickly descended the steps and soon arrived at the subterranean gate.

It was a completely damaged pair of metallic double doors, around which green vines with broad leaves wrapped, resembling climbing vines radiating a faint glow, winding around the door and illuminating the corridor.

Between the vines were blooming pink flowers like peonies.

These vines and flowers bathed the cold, broken metallic door, making it look like the entrance to a garden.

On the side of the door, engraved in the gaps between the vines, were somewhat blurry fonts.

Those were a few First District characters, faintly discernible as,

’Research Institute 196’

He Ao withdrew his gaze from the blurry fonts and looked at those flowers.

The enticing ’attraction’ was emanating from the blooms of these vines.

After that meeting, He Ao specially went looking for Li Cheng again to have him recall more scenes from Research Institute 196.

The scene He Ao now witnessed slightly differed from Li Cheng’s description.

In Li Cheng’s ’description’, the broken door was only half intact and other than a thumb-sized wildflower, no other plants were present; only an adult-strength weasel which he barely managed to kill to enter the door.

He Ao did not know if the eerie ’climbing vine flowers’ before him were what Li Cheng referred to as ’small wildflower’, but clearly, this research facility was far more ’dangerous’ than what Li Cheng had described.

After all, the ’attraction’ these flowers conveyed seemed resistant not just by an ordinary C-grade.

It seems two hundred years can change a lot of things.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and continued forward.

Those brightly blooming flowers seemed to sense the arrival of He Ao, their spreading petals slowly contracted inward, returning to their bud form, and the broad leaves gradually closed, revealing a few skeletal fragments behind the leaves.

Together with the glowing vines, they dimmed down as well.

He Ao directly stepped over the retracting buds and entered the door.

The flower buds remained motionless, as if pretending they did not exist.

Who knows how long it had been, until He Ao’s silhouette completely faded away, those flower buds cautiously bloomed.

Amidst the underground facility, He Ao swiftly passed through a series of doors and corridors following the directions in Li Cheng’s memory.

If these ’200 years’ in the ruins are anything to go by, the structure within the research facility had seen significant transformation.

One passage leading to the first level core in Li Cheng’s memory had been crushed by fallen rubble, causing a collapse where fist-sized ants with human faces lurked within the soil.

He Ao bypassed the collapsed area, arriving at what Li Cheng remembered as a sort of ’labyrinth’.

Li Cheng said it had taken him nearly a day to navigate out of this ’labyrinth’.

But now, in front of He Ao, there were only fallen walls, and no barriers obstructing the passage to the core area.

He Ao quickly crossed this ’Labyrinth Area’ and arrived at the core area remembered by Li Cheng—a spacious circular plaza.

It was on this circular plaza that Li Cheng originally ’picked up’ fragments of the Eye of the World.

Currently, coiled on this plaza was a nearly twenty-meter-long gecko, close to Tier B in strength judging by its energy structure, apparently a Tier B exotic beast.

This gecko was sleeping; upon seeing He Ao approaching, it slightly lifted its eyelid, revealing a glimpse of its blood-red eyes.

Then it slowly closed them again, seemingly drifting back to sleep.

He Ao disregarded its small movements and continued forward.

As He Ao came within five meters of the gecko, it suddenly burst into action, its thick thighs pumped up with layered muscles, it opened its gaping maw, and leaped.

It climbed onto a nearby wall.

Racing towards the highest point in a whiff of smoke.

Leaving behind a bloodily severed tail in its original spot.

This severed tail emitted a strange and twisted temptation, seemingly luring everything nearby to devour it.

In the darkness arose rustling noises. Behind He Ao, those twisted plants and squirming animals seemed to stretch out their bodies, salivating over the severed tail.

However, He Ao calmly passed beside the severed tail, and in the next second, his figure appeared directly on the ceiling, blocking the rapidly escaping gecko.

The gecko, facing He Ao, halted its swift run. It lowered its head, split its lips, baring its ferocious teeth and a blood-red tongue, letting out a thunderous ’buzzing’ sound.

It seemed to be warning He Ao not to block its path, as it was in a hurry to get somewhere— it was powerful!

He Ao calmly watched it and asked, "Which way to the elevator?"

On hearing this, the gecko paused briefly.

It still bore a fierce expression but did not advance further.

At this moment, He Ao thought for a moment, then raised his hand, a slight radiance spilled from his fingertips, and he swiftly drew a glowing elevator diagram.

The gecko, seeing the glowing diagram, seemed to understand He Ao’s meaning, hesitated not a moment, and directly lifted its right front paw, pointing to a corner of the hall.

He Ao looked towards that corner, faintly feeling a very concealed characteristic Qi hidden behind it.

"Thank you."

He Ao lightly nodded.

The next second, his figure vanished instantaneously, appearing before the corner.

Li Cheng told him he found traces suggesting a downward elevator but had searched for a long time without success, advising He Ao to pay a bit of attention.

He Ao had prepared to spend time finding it himself, but he hadn’t expected the local ’resident’ to be so polite.

Holding the notion that the road lay right beneath his nose, he casually asked and got his answer.

Indeed, it saved him quite some time.

He put his hand on a nearby wall, tapping gently, quickly discovering an empty pocket.

The next second, a stream of blood-red brilliance appeared at his fingertips, bursting forth, tearing through that empty pocket.

This ’projection’ is composed of the positional grade of the maid doll and the power of the City of Rong Guang, therefore He Ao could also use the abilities of the three major Angels to some extent, and had a rather sensitive spatial sensing.

A hidden elevator room appeared in front of him.

The door of this elevator had been torn apart, revealing an elevator shaft inside that seemed to lead to the depths of darkness.

He Ao entered the elevator room, walked to the elevator door, and looked down the elevator shaft.

At first glance, the elevator seemed to only have two floors. Under the elevator door in front of He Ao, there was vaguely another elevator door.

Further down, there was only a vague darkness.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at the sign in the elevator room.

It was the text of the First District, ’Level -1’.

He turned back and glanced at the empty hall behind him, the damaged labyrinth, and the darkness behind the labyrinth.

Just two hundred years had been enough to mutate this minus first floor into this state, but why was there seemingly no danger or anomaly when Li Cheng arrived?

How could he, who was an F-grade Transcendent at that time, successfully explore the entire level?

Before he arrived, this floor might have been abandoned for even more than two hundred years.

Unless, something that once suppressed this floor was taken away that time.

While pondering, He Ao stepped into the elevator shaft, carefully inserting his hand into the edge of the shaft and quickly descending.

After his figure disappeared, the gecko that climbed onto the ceiling came down again, it gazed at the human-faced ant that had crawled to the edge of its tail, split its mouth open, and emitted a muffled growl.

Then it raised its claw, smashed the boldly approaching human-faced ant, and with a ’pop’ sound, reconnected its own tail.

Then it shook its tail, found nothing wrong, and without hesitation, climbed up the wall and ran into the depths of darkness.

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In the elevator shaft, He Ao quickly reached the elevator door below.

He looked down, but did not see any more doors below, only a deep, pitch-black darkness, some invisible horror spreading in those dark depths.

The hint left by the One-eyed Shadow was ’five underground levels’; by logic, he should continue downwards.

After a brief thought, he approached the elevator door next to him.

This elevator door also seemed to be damaged, half of the door torn, hanging on the wall, revealing a triangular opening.

He Ao stretched out his hand and pushed open the door.

A silent and deep hall appeared in his field of view.

This side of the elevator room isn’t hidden, is it?

He Ao stepped through the door and entered the deep hall.

At this moment, a thought struck him, and he turned back.

At the top of the elevator door, a few words that were slightly better preserved and still faintly glowing appeared in his vision.

’Level -5’

Boom—

Almost simultaneously, a corpse fell at He Ao’s feet.

It was a man in a lab coat, his body already dried up and turned into a twisted dry corpse, gripping the handle of a knife, thrusting the rusty dagger into his own neck.

The moment this man appeared in his vision, He Ao seemed to see his flesh rapidly becoming plump and full, as he firmly held the beautiful stainless steel dagger and thrust it into his own neck.

Blood stained his lab coat, outlining blood-red characters on the ground.

005.