Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 176 Spiritual Vision
When old friends meet again, much has changed.

Everyone looked at Yuge walking into the barbecue restaurant with the help of Lily. He still greeted everyone enthusiastically, but the atmosphere at the table fell into silence. All eyes were attracted by the black cloth covering his eyes.

I didn't expect Yuge's condition to be so serious. When we communicated before, he only mentioned that he had hallucinations in his eyes and never said that his vision was seriously damaged.

After a moment, Ivy asked, "How come he can't see it?"

"Until we arrived at Paradise Island, the young master could see it."

Lily said.

?

The sad atmosphere suddenly became a little strange, and Lily had to explain for the young master, "The young master said that there is a sun on this street, and it is hard to look at it directly after a long time."

Everyone understood and turned to look at Ethan, even Ulta was no exception.

However, Ulta did not know the significance of doing so. He felt that given the current atmosphere, if he was the only one who did not do so, it would be a bit out of place.

Ethan adjusted the fluctuation of his magic power and tried to switch to the wind magic, which was currently the weakest and only had a proficiency of Lv2. Then he said, "Take off the black cloth and try it now."

Yug did as he was told doubtfully, and when he opened his eyes again, he was dazzled by the golden light that covered everything. Sitting opposite him was a man as free as the wind. He finally got to see the true faces of his friends whom he had been communicating with on the phone.

A man like the wind.

An iceberg-like woman.

The golden retriever has become a spirit.

and also……

"There is one thing I don't know whether I should say or not."

Yug suddenly frowned and looked at Ulta carefully. He knew that he should not comment on other people's aura. This was against aristocratic etiquette and could easily destroy their precious friendship. However, this friend's symptoms were very serious, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe him as terminally ill.

Since he had the hallucination, he had never seen an octopus face transformed so completely.

"Just tell me."

After spending a long time with Ethan, everyone knows that this sentence is just a cover. Even if you tell him that it is not appropriate to say it, he will eventually find a way to say it. The only difference is whether he says it immediately or wastes a few minutes before saying it.

Ivy was deeply affected by this, so much so that whenever she heard this sentence later, she wanted to throw away all the red tape immediately.

"This gentleman is already very ill. If he is not treated quickly, I am afraid he will go crazy in no time."

"His name is Ulta. Did you observe anything unusual?"

Ethan took the initiative to introduce this octopus-faced friend from the deep sea to Yuge.

"This……"

Yuge hesitated for a long time, and finally lowered his voice and said, "You may not have noticed that his face has completely turned into an octopus."

The atmosphere became even stranger. After a moment, Ivy pointed out, "He originally had an octopus face. All his family members look like this."

She was a little sensitive about her appearance now. The cat-girl just now called her a little carrot-head - she had never been treated so rudely in her life. As the heir to the Margaret family, she looked about six or seven points similar to her aunt, and she and Saint Mary seemed to be carved from the same mold. She was the kind of beautiful girl who did not need to dress up too much to attract everyone's attention.

Therefore, the aesthetic taste of Asians is generally unreliable.

Ethan immediately grasped the point, "You mean, besides Ulta, you have seen other deep-sea people?"

He and Ulta had talked about many topics about the deep-sea clan. By gathering all this knowledge together, they could compile a map of the alien race. Ulta mentioned that since the evil god was sealed, their clan has lived near the cracks in the deep valley. It is conservatively estimated that the deep valley is at least thousands of meters under the sea. In today's world where submarine technology has not yet appeared, it is a restricted area that humans cannot reach.

Because of this, the deep-sea tribe has always lived a primitive and closed life. Urta is the only individual of their generation who has come to the sea surface and interacted with humans.

"Huh? You mean he originally looked like this?"

Yuge also confirmed with the maid, "Lily, do you think he also has an octopus face?"

Lily nodded awkwardly. She always felt that it was impolite to comment on other people's appearance. In Ophira, you can meet all kinds of demi-humans. Most of them have features similar to animals, and no one has ever stipulated that demi-humans cannot have octopus features.

"I see. Then Mr. Ulta should be very healthy. I mean the kind of person who turns into an octopus face."

Yug kept this information hidden in his heart, and even when he was interrogated, he did not reveal the vision he saw to anyone.

The reason for being interrogated was simple. After receiving treatment, his condition improved greatly. However, the diagnostician who prescribed medicine for him went crazy not long after, and was completely crazy. He sneaked into the parliament hall with a gun and seriously injured a member of the parliament who was in the meeting. On the night he was escorted into the interrogation room, the diagnostician committed suicide.

This case has not been solved yet, and what’s worse is that more and more people are experiencing similar situations.

The only one who saw through the truth was a young nobleman named Yuge who looked normal but actually suffered from a serious mental illness. He silently recorded the development pattern of the symptoms, "Initially, black lines appeared on the skin and the pupils turned black. After two or three days, their skin would become extremely dry and begin to peel and shed until it turned blue. In the third stage, their heads would be elongated, their mouths would stick together, and their jaws would be deformed and replaced by wriggling tentacles."

Obviously, no one would believe such a strange phenomenon. Yug knew that the only result of telling others about these discoveries would be that he would be grounded for another week or two and his medication dosage would be increased.

The drugs prescribed by the diagnostician only exacerbated the hallucinations, turning them from intermittent at the beginning into a normal state in life. "Once the transformation is complete, those people are crazy."

However, he did not have sufficient knowledge of medicine or mysticism to see the essence of the phenomenon.

Four crazy people appeared in just a few days, and this incident also attracted attention within the Deep Sea Council.

"This may be some kind of omen. I am more inclined to believe that you have seen the true nature of this world."

Combining the knowledge from his previous life, Ethan analyzed that this was the second time he and Yug met. Before this, he had never performed magic of upgraded fire element in front of Yug. However, before Yug walked into the restaurant, his vision was blocked by the upgraded fire element. In order to prevent the other party from being blinded, he consciously suppressed the magic circuit.

"Unexplained nightmares may be the beginning of a transformation, where your body undergoes a subtle change, and after a month or so, the transformation is complete, and you begin to see things that you couldn't see before."

Ethan felt that Yuger's situation was a bit like those unlucky guys who had lost all their sanity. It just so happened that the evil gods in this world had many things in common with the Cthulhu system. Looking directly at them would drive people crazy. The closer you were to them, the more serious the mental pollution would become. Even the experienced director of the Shelter Bureau, Jacobwell, was driven crazy by the scene that appeared at Level 3.

And level 3 is still many levels away from where Lao Ba’s main body lives.

The heated atmosphere at the table gradually cooled down, and everyone was waiting for Ethan's next words.

"I call this ability 'clairvoyance'. The magicians of the Empire who are proficient in divination use this ability to glimpse a fragment of the future."

Rowena gave Ethan a lot of professional guidance on magic knowledge.

The professional qualities of this great magician are still very strong, but due to her personality, as well as her stinginess and love of taking advantage of others, it is difficult to associate her with those hall-level great magicians in the Astrology Guild in daily life. But in fact, Rowena believes that her ability is no worse than that of the contemporary "polymaths".

"The difference is that you are in a state of clairvoyance all the time." Yug is an optimistic person who can always find the positive side of things. "Oh? Don't you mean that I am better than those magicians who are proficient in divination?"

"This is not a good thing." Ethan had to pour cold water on Yuger. "It's not that high-level fortune tellers can't maintain their clairvoyance all the time, but they know it's very dangerous. Once they see something that can't be seen directly in the clairvoyance state, their eyes will be burned at best, and they will suffer a mental breakdown at worst."

For Yug now, his magic power is also dangerous.

If Yogg were allowed to stay in the light of the ascended fire element for too long, he would probably have his eyes burned through, just like those fortune-tellers mentioned by Rowena who tried to spy on the secrets of the rightful gods through clairvoyance.

But this does not mean that he has become a true god. Instead, when humans raise their magic power to a certain level, they will unconsciously intimidate or even harm the creatures around them.

Ethan could only be thankful that what Yoge saw just now was the holy fire element. If it had been replaced with red ice in Lao Ba's aesthetic style, Yoge might have been standing on the table to perform his talent.

After hearing Ethan's warning, Lily asked anxiously, "So, can the 'clairvoyance' you mentioned be cured?"

Facing Ethan, she unconsciously used honorifics, and there was no longer any disgust in the look she had shown last time when Yuge wasn't paying attention.

Ethan said, "Not yet, but I plan to start researching it soon."

Strictly speaking, in this world, "clairvoyance" is actually a negative state. Seeing too much is often a bad thing, meaning that they are getting closer and closer to madness and death.

"Old Sen, I believe you, but before that I want to confirm one thing with you."

Yuger paused, and asked the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time, "Does the evil god really exist?"

"They exist, but they may not be true gods. They may just be some ancient creatures with a long lifespan."

This is also the purpose of Ethan coming to the Western Continent.

It is said that an evil god is about to awaken, and the moment he awakens, the crisis of world destruction will come again.

Now, through communication with Urta, the giant octopus Lao Ai has temporarily ruled out suspicion. The fable should refer to the evil god sealed in the valley, but the strange thing is that the deep sea clan, who act as "cleaners", did not reveal his name, but simply called it an "evil existence."

Both the residents of the Western Continent and the deep-sea clan seem to be very reluctant to mention the evil god's real name, but it has been several epochs since the world-destroying flood, and the specific reason is no longer known. It has evolved into a subtle tradition followed by everyone.

Yug fell into deep thought.

Not long ago, Tycoon Flor gave almost the same answer as Ethan. He thought again and again, and took out a piece of paper from his inside pocket. There were only two lines scribbled on it:

"The Lophik Consortium visited Ophira."

"They captured the consciousness of an evil god, his name is Kane."

Logically speaking, he must not reveal this information to Lao Sen, an outsider. If any problems arise later, he will become a sinner of the Western Continent. And this is only their second meeting.

But Yug chose to believe his own eyes.

He wanted to believe in the sun that was setting on Ophira.

If the torrent of annihilation is finally coming, perhaps this sun can also guide the people of the Western Continent to a new future.

“This news is important.”

Ethan took the note calmly.

No wonder they couldn’t call the magical Kane. They didn’t expect that after a few days of not seeing him, this guy was kidnapped and taken all the way to the Western Continent.

"You know him?"

Seeing this, Yug asked.

Ethan did not hide it, "We have met several times. Kane is very well-informed, so we all call him Magic Kane."

"He seems to be imprisoned in the underground facility of the Deep Sea Council. I happened to see an unusual vision there, but the security there is tight, so it's not easy to get in."

That was all he could say.

After that, there were some light-hearted topics, and the two sides reached a verbal agreement. Yuge hoped that Ethan would become his attending physician to treat "clairvoyance" and the effects it caused. The benefit of this was that he could bring Ethan into the Deep Sea Council and the Steam Technology Research Institute.

Ethan readily agreed.

It was already afternoon when they returned to the accommodation provided by the Deep Sea Council for the visiting delegation. Although the attending physician was only a cover for entering the Deep Sea Council, Ethan still discussed in detail the cause and process of Yuger's nightmare. He gradually suspected that this phenomenon was similar to the "Glance of Buzatos" that had appeared in his skill panel before.

When beings like Lao Ba focus their attention on a specific human being, they often undergo earth-shaking changes.

The key is, how can he make the evil god in the deep valley interested in him?
"Teacher, what do you think?"

After much thought without any result, he could only seek help from Winter.

He recalled his experience and said that the reason he was noticed by Lao Ba was that he not only blew up the contaminated area, but also dazzled Lao Ba's eyes.

For Lao Ba, who is always worshipped and revered as God, he may have become an "interesting man" in the eyes of others.

"As far as I know, there is no concept of contaminated areas in the Western Continent, let alone a way to enter a contaminated area."

When the terrorist theory didn't work, Ethan was left without a direction.

Huh?
He is obviously a good guy, so why has he been relying more and more on terrorist theories when dealing with the right or wrong gods recently?

Ethan began to reflect, which was not a good sign.

"Why don't you ask Magical Kane?"

Lin Dong brought up what Ethan often said in the imperial capital. In fact, when she heard that Kane was imprisoned somewhere in an underground facility, she became uncontrollably excited, especially when Yuge mentioned key words such as "heavy security" and "difficult to infiltrate", which made her excitement reach its peak.

She came over and held Ethan's hands, "Or else, let's go jailbreak."

Ethan felt the cool touch on his hands and looked at Lin Dong's cheeks which were flushed with excitement.

Now he understood.

His teacher is a terrorist and has corrupted him!

(End of this chapter)