My Adventure Diary of Reincarnating as a Bad Woman

The light ball is a bait maintained by the mud monster. When the mud monster dies, the light source will go out.

Soon, the last light went out, and the cave was once again completely dark. Noita shook his head and listened to the movement in the darkness.

The noise she made while fighting was quite loud and might have attracted the guards.

Fortunately, the cave was quiet and no one came.

It seems that the situation on the front line is critical and the defense at the bottom of the cave has been neglected.

Without hesitation, Noita continued to charge. She remembered that there was an upward mountain path not far behind the mud monster.

It turned out that Noita's memory was correct. She quickly found the mountain path and soon found a tunnel carved into the cliff after climbing up the path.

She pushed open the tightly closed wooden door, and the long-lost firelight illuminated her face.

The torches on both sides of the tunnel burned quietly. Noita walked in and did not see a single cultist. Perhaps they had all been transferred to the front line to fill the gap.

She stopped to catch her breath and quickly flipped through the log to check her findings.

[…You defeated the Mud Monster Synthesis Beast and gained 600 experience points] x7

[You encountered your first battle since awakening. Eight mud monsters, a formidable foe, were assembled. However, you cleverly exploited the monsters' habits and defeated them one by one. It was a thrilling battle.]

[Mastered the skill "Swordsmanship Mastery", learned "Basic Swordsmanship", current swordsmanship level 4.]

[Swordsmanship Mastery: The experience required to level up your swordsmanship skills is reduced.]

[Basic Swordsmanship lv4: Basic sword fighting skills.]

[Resonance degree of the battle path increased↑]

[Please obtain higher resonance to unlock the profession. 】

Noita gained a total of 4800 experience points in this battle, but she couldn't spend the experience points all at once. Her resonance with the Tao was too low, so she couldn't unlock her profession and had no place to spend her experience points. However, basic swordsmanship did not require experience points to level up, so she could reach the maximum level by fighting a few battles honestly.

Useless things.

Noita sighed. In the game, one had to resonate with the Tao to unlock extraordinary professions, but in reality, she had to improve her resonance to unlock the profession.

After a minor complaint about the log being of little use, Noita went deeper into the cultists' lair.

The layered rock caves have a three-dimensional network structure as a whole, with tunnels connecting various caves in all directions. Usually, there are countless servants walking through the tunnels to serve senior believers.

But now there are no people in many tunnels. Most of them are assigned to the main tunnels to move property or build temporary fortifications.

Occasionally, when he encountered a servant, Noita could detect it early and deal with them without making any noise.

Through the captured servants, Noita learned the approximate location of the key cave and the information that senior believers were stepping up the transfer of property and preparing for a strategic retreat.

After eliminating a few patrolling cultists and gaining 1,300 experience points sporadically, Noita arrived outside the cave known as the Flesh Shaping Pool.

She lay in the deserted tunnel, observing the cave scene.

This is an irregular cave of several hundred square meters in size. In the center of the cave is a seven-eyed red pool. More than a dozen rooms are carved into the walls. The rooms and the red pool are inlaid with red crystals. Two-thirds of the ground is occupied by complex and mysterious patterns. The majestic magic power flows along the patterns, making the crystals shine with an ominous evil red light.

This is a grand conversion ceremony.

Servants and androids threw huge amounts of meat into the room and the red pool. Senior believers acted as hosts to maintain the ceremony, shaping the flesh and blood into monsters through a series of complex spells.

A steady stream of synthetic beasts crawled out of the blood pools and rooms, and rushed to the front line aggressively at the orders of the cultists.

The girl's eyes scanned the cave, her target being the flesh-shaping stone and the flesh-shaping red liquid.

The Flesh-Shaping Stone is that red crystal. It is a special magic stone that can evoke the power of the Path of Cups. It can activate and transform things into living beings. Professionals who have been immersed in this for a long time can even use it to enlighten all things and create a living world.

Noita needs it.

The body of an artificial human is destined to be short-lived, and she needs the help of the Flesh-Shaping Stone to transform herself into a human being as defined by the gods, rather than a human-like artificial human.

Noita lay dormant on the ground, observing the tunnels used by the androids to transport meat.

She retreated silently and turned into a fork in the road, intending to go around the roads where androids had walked, hijack one of them, and sneak in disguised as one of them.

However, she underestimated the complexity of the tunnel. The layered rock caverns had almost been turned into a maze by the Cult of Bloodlust. The difficulty of finding a specific path among the intricate roads was beyond her imagination.

Even if they took the risk of capturing a few servants, they would not be able to tell which path the android was taking.

This made Noita a little anxious.

Bad decision! She spent too much time trying to find the way.

It would be great if he was still a legendary character in the game, he would just have to kill without any scruples, there wouldn't be so many twists and turns.

Sulking, Noita quickened her pace to search for the tunnel. Perhaps the strong emotions triggered a resonance, and the log suddenly showed a highlighted option.

You are lost.

Legend has it that the oracle singer can hear everything from the waves and never get lost. We can temporarily borrow this power and know the way forward from fate.

[Do you want to spend 2000 experience points to obtain "Revelation of Destiny" (10 minutes)]

I was wrong, it turns out that logs are still useful.

Noita's anger turned into joy, and she paid the experience points without hesitation.

[You have obtained "Revelation of Destiny"]

A three-dimensional map appeared in the center of Noita's vision.

Chapter 3 Tracker

The 3D map shows all nearby tunnels and highlights a route that a android has passed through.

Guided by the map, Noita quickly found a lone android carrying monster meat on a trailer. Noita decisively attacked the other party and took off her robe and put it on.

Noita now uses the body of an android. As long as she changes her torn clothes, hides her sword in the pile of monster meat, and maintains a wooden expression, basically no one can distinguish her from the group of androids.

The plan went smoothly, but when she dragged the supplies to the meat-shaping pool, the scene she saw was indeed completely different from before.

Death passed through the cave silently, and everyone, from senior believers to servants, turned into ice sculptures, without exception.

The flesh-shaping stone was smashed to pieces, and a thick layer of frost formed on the ground and the surface of the unused monster meat. No synthetic beast could crawl out of the room and the red pool to fill the gap on the front line.

The materials, venue and host were all destroyed during Noita's absence, and there was absolutely no possibility of reconstructing the ceremony in a short period of time.

This cave has been destroyed and completely turned into an ice cave like a cold storage.

Seeing this scene, Noita instinctively wanted to run away, but some creepy intuition made her stop running.

Don't panic.

The consciousness honed through countless high-intensity battles allowed her to remain calm, and she quickly pulled out the silver sword from the pile of flesh and became alert.

She had seen similar scenes before.

That was a long time ago. Lengyuan and Dark Moon Land had minor frictions as usual. Noita cooperated with a group of Quiet Forest Shadows to hunt down the dark creatures that sneaked into Dark Moon Land. At that time, she saw the battlefield after the Quiet Forest Shadows passed by.

Frost is everywhere, life is gone, like a winter wind destroying everything.

It is 70% similar to this place.

The Shadow of the Quiet Forest is always invisible and silent. Those who are targeted by them are often unaware of their arrival until a sharp blade pierces their throat.

Noita spun his sword smoothly, then stepped into the meat-shaping pool in the starting position of Legion Swordsmanship and observed the environment.

The ice sculpture of the senior cultist in the center of the cave maintained a distressed expression, which meant that he was unaware of the attack before his death. The cultists around him who were assisting in the ritual were also unaware of what had happened. They died almost at the same time.

The servants who were a little further away had confused expressions on their faces when they died, while the servants who were even further away had expressions of fear. Their bodies were well preserved, like lifelike ice sculptures, showing all kinds of appearances before death.

The farther away from the center the servants were, the more time they had to react, but they were still killed before they could run far.

The estimated time of death was no more than ten seconds.

The battlefield was not cleaned up completely, because the Shadow of Quiet Forest was responsible for beheading the commander, and there were still enemies to be eliminated in the depths of the cave, so they did not waste too much time cleaning the battlefield. They only performed the ritual to make it harmless and then went to the depths of the cave, leaving this place for later generations to deal with.

[Several figures from the Quiet Forest walked across the flesh-shaping pool. They arrived carrying death with them, their figures stealthy and traceless, their swords slicing through iron like mud. They would annihilate all evil enemies and clear away obstacles for their comrades.]

【The will of winter has passed through here, please remain silent.】

[Winter Path Resonance Increases↑]

It is indeed the Shadow of the Quiet Forest, but it was not in the original copy. The Shadow of the Quiet Forest will not officially appear in the game until the next expansion pack.

However, Noita had already prepared himself mentally for the fact that "the experience in the game cannot be fully applied to reality."

Just a little surprise.

She quietly gathered the shards of flesh-shaping stone and the red fluid, which, even frozen and shattered, were still potent enough for use in small flesh-shaping rituals.

It’s a pity that the large flesh-shaping stone that served as the core of the ceremony was dug away by the Shadow of the Quiet Forest.

Soon, Noita collected the remaining flesh from various rooms and the bottom of the pool. She turned her attention to the log. Due to her decisive action, there were still two minutes left for the revelation, but without the reinforcement of this source of troops, the defeat on the front line was inevitable.

There is less time available.

By referring to the map, Noita chose an inconspicuous tunnel and entered. After running for five minutes, she found a well-camouflaged earthen door at the end. She risked her life to break into the room behind the door.

There was another person in the room. He stared at Noita who broke in with his mouth wide open. Just as he was about to scream, he was knocked unconscious by Noita's palm.

This is a hidden road. The person hiding in the room is called Frank. Although he is also a member of the Bloodlust Cult, his sins are not serious. He was deceived into a pyramid scheme organization, but did not do too many bad things because of the pull of his conscience.

He has a side quest, but Noita doesn't have time to do it, so just leave it here and wait for the Wind Raven Guard to deal with it.

Noita rummaged through the drawers in the simple room and finally found an old ritual book in the pile of books under the bed.

【Celestial Cup Ceremony】

[An ancient classic, an ancient ritual book compiled by the first leader of the Dawn of Life, records the words and deeds of Miaoletian's activities in the mortal world and many ancient rituals to worship Miaoletian. This book has stood through the ages and its documentary value is immeasurable.

An unknown force prevents it from decaying over time, so it can still be read.

For those who possess this book, the ritual process for directing towards the Heaven of Joy will be simplified, the ritual will be faster, and the success rate will be increased.

【Using this book will make it easier to attract Miao Letian's attention.】

[The resonance of the Path of the Cup increases↑]

The ritual player's artifact - the Book of Ceremony is obtained.

The Ritual Book significantly simplifies the Path of the Cup ritual process, reducing the required materials and making it easier to trigger the Path's Echoes. Players describe it as speeding up the ritual's initiation, optimizing it from a Junkbot-like initiation speed to a spectator's.

Noita quickly found a clean room that was hidden enough, got a wooden barrel, poured the flesh-shaping stone and red liquid into it, and carefully carved the inscriptions, prayers, and alchemical patterns that symbolized the flesh-shaping ceremony.

Compared to the rituals of the Bloodlust Cult, the ritual depicted by Noita is extremely simple, but with the ritual book in hand, the flesh-shaping ritual will be successful.

"We pray to the Great Mother, the Goddess of the Source, the Goddess of Infinite Life, the Goddess of Protection and Love, to throw our bodies into the Source and interpret all things with this body..."

A pleasant prayer was sung, and Noita stared at the wooden barrel. A soft red light rose from the outer array pattern, and the barrel was filled with red liquid from the outside to the inside. The wooden barrel and the flesh-shaping stone gradually disappeared, leaving only a clear ochre-red spring on the ground.

You have performed the flesh-shaping ritual to transform yourself, and the Path of the Cup has responded.

[Flesh Shaping Ritual: The birth of life is a miracle. We reproduce this miracle, and from the grinding of pain, we bring down the wildfire that tears at the world.]

The ritual began to work as expected.

Noita smiled relaxedly and took out the identity card of the Wind Crow Guard she met on the bottom floor from her arms.

The Wind Raven Guard's identity cards come in sets of two, two fingers wide and one finger long, made of cast iron, with a layer of cut-resistant colloid wrapped around the edges.

The guard's name is engraved on it: Leah.

Still a girl.

It just so happens that once I escape, I can use this identity to pass some levels.

Putting the ID card aside, Noita threw away the rest of the debris and prepared to take off her clothes and enter the ceremony.

Suddenly, a bone-chilling chill came over her neck, causing a slight numbness and pain.

You are only one step away from success, but the followers of Winter are stalking you. An invincible enemy is thrusting its blade towards you, and your life hangs by a thread!

"No matter who you are, if you take one more step forward, you will die."

Ruxue's icy warning appeared along with the sword and the diary.

Chapter 4 Warrior

Winter symbolizes disappearance, remembrance, stagnation, silence and ending.

When the cold sword was placed at her neck, Noita felt a genuine fear and horror of the desperate situation for a moment, but after hearing the words of the Shadow of Quiet Forest, she breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense muscles slowly relaxed.

You should know that the Shadows of the Quiet Forest are all silent killers and will never talk to their enemies, but when they are willing to talk to you, it means you are not on the death list.

This is generally the case.