Lobotomy: Battle Master's Strongest Knight

When the endless darkness dissipated, Shen Yu found himself in a house.

Yes, he didn't know why he was separated from the little knight, and he returned to his original shape and stood alone in this hut.

Shen Yu took a deep breath and began to observe the surrounding scenery.

The wooden door was closed, its hinges rusted. The room was dimly lit, with a few rays of sunlight peeking through the cracks in the wall, illuminating the disturbing scene.

The rotten and blackened old wooden boards creaked and emitted a musty smell. The wall paint peeled off, revealing the damp and black adobe walls.

Tattered curtains hung on the wall, covered with cobwebs and dust.

There was only the old woman in the room, her face was haggard and she exuded the breath of death.

She seemed to have merged with this cold little house, becoming part of this desolate space. The creaking rocking chair was her only companion, breaking the silence with its creaking rhythm.

The house was cluttered with strange objects, including a broken old clock, tattered boxes and old hyacinth vases.

Spiders were weaving webs in the corners, and vague objects were piled up in the corners. The air was filled with a smell of decay and mildew, mixed with a strange sweet smell.

The whole room was shrouded in a layer of quiet loneliness, isolated from the world, as if forgotten in a corner of time.

Suddenly, the creaking sound of the rocking chair stopped. The old woman slowly turned her head, looked at Shen Yu with empty eyes, and raised the corners of her mouth.

"Honey, do you want to hear a story?"

"Sorry, I don't want to listen." Shen Yu covered his ears tightly and stepped back.

He had read the work log in the game. The old woman knew all the stories on Earth, some of which were not even on Earth... and those stories were enough to melt a person's brain.

But the old woman didn't care. She just spoke slowly in a hoarse voice:

"Under the blue sky, over the vast ocean..."

"You set sail in a black boat covered with a white hull...

“The sky is no longer blue, the ocean is no longer calm, and the fragile boat can hardly withstand the wind and waves…

"You fall into the forgotten end of the world, you are lost in the primordial ocean...

A sad atmosphere spread into Shen Yu's heart, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. It was endless loneliness and sorrow.

At the same time, the EGO Loneliness around Shen Yu's waist turned into black smoke, tightly strangling his waist.

Although I could feel the severe pain in my waist, when I pulled it with my hands, it was like touching smoke.

Seeing that this method was useless, Shen Yu picked up the old clock beside him and smashed it at the other party.

Clang! The old clock hit the old woman's head and broke into pieces, but she continued to tell the story.

Shen Yu gritted his teeth, picked up a wooden box from the ground, and suppressed the loneliness in his heart. He used the skill [Aerial Dash] to leap into the air, and with the help of gravity, he smashed the wooden box on the opponent's head at a very fast speed.

Boom! The wooden box smashed the old woman directly into the floor, and the rocking chair exploded instantly, with fragments flying everywhere, but the story continued to be told.

Shen Yu raised the wooden box and smashed it down again and again, but still couldn't stop the story from being told.

"The broken white shell is too late to repair, and the empty black ship cannot hold up its body...

"Your lungs are filled with seawater, your brain is melted by seawater..."

"You will eventually drown in the first ocean..."

Suddenly, Shen Yu found that he was holding a water-stained oar in his hand. After thinking for a while, he decisively raised the oar and smashed it on the old woman's head.

"I'm sorry, I don't believe in fate. If you say I'm dead, then I'm dead. Wouldn't that be embarrassing for me?"

As time passed, Shen Yu's vision gradually became blurred, he could no longer breathe, and his body staggered, but he still raised the oar and hit the other party again and again.

"Damn, this guy has so much blood." Shen Yu panted and raised the oar above his head with difficulty.

Even if you are about to die, you still have to knock a few more times to vent your anger.

Boom! The whole empty nest suddenly shook violently, and Shen Yu used the oars to support himself so as not to fall. After a simple identification, he found that the impact actually came from above.

Shen Yu raised his head and found that a large number of black spots had appeared on the roof at some point. A drop of black liquid seeped out from the gap and dripped onto the old woman's face.

The words in the old woman's mouth instantly turned into a chaotic noise, and her face seemed to be dripped by molten lava, melting a hole, and the never-ending story came to an end.

As the second impact sounded, the ceiling suddenly exploded, and a dazzling pale light fell, exploding on the floor, tearing apart the rotten wooden boards, and the nothingness from the abyss erupted. Spell - Darkness Descends

When matter filled the void, Shen Yu saw the little knight next to the old woman, with two pairs of empty nostrils (crossed out) and eyes looking at each other.

Shen Yu decisively touched the link and switched his mind to the knight's control perspective to avoid the erosion of "loneliness".

There was a dark hole on the old woman's chest. Her body was shaking and she shouted in a hoarse voice:

"Kid, do you want to hear a story?"

The Knight did not answer, nor could he. He silently jumped up, and slashed the opponent's head with a bone nail, while he used the impact to bounce back. He slashed again and again, staying in the air. -- Hollow Features: Downward slash.

When the Knight completes a chop and rebounds, use the Emperor's Wings to flap and fly high.

Then a large number of pale light spots quickly penetrated into the body of the little knight, and then the speed suddenly increased, even showing a circular outline. When the little knight fell to the same plane as the old woman, he began to spin at high speed, and the bone nails quickly cut into the opponent's body like a knife wheel. ——Sword Skill: Whirlwind Slash

It normally takes a long time to charge up sword skills, but the amulet: "Glory of the Nail Master" can greatly speed up the charging process.

When the whirlwind chop ended, Shen Yu controlled the little knight to chop out a nail, using the recoil to retreat, intending to finish with the spell "Shadow Soul".

The little knight's body was wrapped in the void, and his eyes emitted pale light, transforming into a shadow state. Then a shadow with pale eyes shot out and swallowed the old woman's head.

But the anomaly [Old Woman] is not dead yet. The cross-section eroded by the void is bulging and shrinking, as if something is about to break out of the body.

At this time, the Knight bends down, and pale beams of light rise up from his body, absorbing the energy around him. ——Ability: Gather

Rays of bright light burst out from the old woman's body and penetrated into the body of the young knight.

Shen Yu was surprised to find that the ground under his feet was melting rapidly and was swallowed by the deep darkness. The whole house was like chocolate, melting and scattering in the endless nothingness. Finally, his consciousness also dissipated.

When Shen Yu regained consciousness, he found himself back in the containment room, but there was nothing beside him except the little knight. The old woman disappeared, leaving behind only a pool of liquid that swallowed all light.

At this moment, a message suddenly appeared in Shen Yu's mind:

Gain: [Loneliness]

0-01-12 [Old Woman] Tuning rate 80%

EGO Germination: Customize weapon and armor templates.

EGO shows:

[Dust of Loneliness]: Consumes 30% of the holder's mental value and releases Dust of Loneliness to the target. When the target is entangled by "loneliness", it will receive 6-4 points of mental damage every 6 seconds for 3 seconds and will be unable to move. Cost: No cost for the first use each day, and each subsequent use will psychologically bear months of loneliness.

【Story】: Telling stories that do not belong to this world and melting the brains of the audience.

EGO LIBERATION:

Initial liberation: [Empty Nest Cottage]

持有者消耗X％精神值，召唤出【1－10－12－1】【空巢小屋】将目标封锁持续时间为X/10分钟，封锁时目标每秒承受12－18点精神伤害。代价：心理承受X年孤独。

Fully liberated: Tuning rate 100% unlocked

EGO Awakening:

1. Tuning rate: 112%

2. 0-01-12 [Old Woman] Origin - [Loneliness] (obtained)

After receiving this string of information, Shen Yu was stunned at first and began to doubt the authenticity of the information.

So he pulled out the revolver-shaped EGO weapon loneliness from his waist and began to conceive in his mind.

As Shen Yu thought, the shape of the revolver gradually lengthened and finally turned into a rusty long-handled sickle.

EGO: [Loneliness] Level: THTE Damage Type: Mental

Template: Other

Attack: 3-4, Attack Speed: Fast, Distance: Average

After Shen Yu used it briefly, he found that each attack could only cause 4 levels of mental damage, and it did not have the special attack of ALEPH-level EGO: Da Capo (Return to the Beginning).

However, the damage has finally increased, and EGO's psychological punishment is not carried out immediately, but is settled at midnight of the same day.

"NetEase Cloud Music?" Shen Yu complained, put the "Beggar Edition" back on his back, and thought.

It now seems that using the Knight's Dream Nail to enter the Abnormality World and defeat the opponent can greatly increase the tuning rate.

In addition, the effect of EGO germination is template customization, that is, to increase the tuning rate of the [Spider's Nest], and then obtain the "Silk Thread" necessary for Bumblebee's combat skills, this plan is completely feasible.

However, the disappearance of such a large abnormality is no small matter, and it still needs to be dealt with. So Shen Yu turned to the little knight and said:

"Can you spit out some of the stuff you just swallowed?"

The knight tilted his head and then hunched his body. Soon, two black tears flowed from his nostrils, coughs, and eyes, turning into dust on the ground.

Due to the increase in tuning rate, Shen Yu learned a lot of information about the [Old Woman], and relying on the close connection with the dust on the ground, he decisively began to "pinch people".

As Shen Yu was shaping the "Old Woman", particles of dust fell from his EGO, penetrated his skin, entered his flesh and blood, and finally settled on his heart, covering his "heart" with a layer of gray shell...

Finally, Shen Yu shook his sore hands, looked at the [old woman] who reappeared in the shelter room, and nodded with satisfaction.

The reappeared "Old Woman" has the same physiological reactions as before, and the interaction is normal, which is equivalent to the split of the original body. The only difference is that the production capacity may be a little less.

"Done." Shen Yu left the containment room and called Harvey outside, and went to the Intelligence Department's [Spider's Nest] containment unit together.

After Shen Yu left, the lonely old woman was the only one left in the shelter. At some point, a small wet mark appeared on the rocking chair under her, and then turbid liquid began to seep out of the seat and backrest.

The turbid liquid slowly seeped out from all parts of the chair, flowing down the legs to form sticky puddles, and pale roots suddenly emerged from the cracks in the floor, gradually absorbing the liquid without leaving a trace.

The "old woman" rocked the recliner again and again. Hidden in the creaking sound were tiny sounds, which were the sounds of gurgling water. The ancient river flowed quietly, along the gap cut by the Dream Nail, and came into reality.

In the dead silence and darkness, there was a sharp "crackling" sound, and then a screen lit up, illuminating the lines crawling on the white wall.

The screen flashed, displaying the message:

[█████ has been obtained, condition 2 is met, the first instruction is revised, and the "Seed of Light" script is revised]

The progress bar on the screen slowly climbs up, and the numbers climb one by one:

[1%]

[6%]

......

[Correction completed, "Seed of Light" has been updated to "█ of Light"]

[Tip: If there is no other operation, the record will be deleted within 3 seconds]

【3】

【2】

【1】

【Delete completed】

The screen made a crackling sound, the light went out, and the space fell into darkness again. Above it, the trailer carrying the corpses continued to creak.