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"Someone has to face him... As you can see, the people of the Dark Church are standing behind him. The one holding the sickle is very strong. Only a power-type psychic like me can punish her."
Meiya said seriously.
The nuns around sighed and said nothing more. After all, what Mea said was right. These combat nuns who specialized in light magic could not stop Eve's sickle at all.
"Let's go and contact our allies so that we can prepare early."
After finishing the last bottle of wine, Maya and the nuns cleaned up the garbage on the rooftop and then left.
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In the Tower of Death.
After exploring the fifth floor for two days, Holmes finally found a suitable ambush site and successfully killed the killer who ambushed him in the dark while being deprived of his sight.
After defeating the cunning killer, the darkness in front of him dissipated, and a series of quaint stairs appeared before Holmes.
After finding a place to recover his strength and spirit, Holmes walked up the stairs to the sixth floor.
As Holmes took his first step onto the sixth world, before he could stand firmly, a strong wind blew towards his heart.
With Holmes' many years of combat experience, he quickly drew out his Saxon knife and blocked it in front of his chest, barely blocking the sneak attack. However, his arm holding the Saxon knife was numbed by the huge force transmitted from it.
Before Holmes could catch his breath, he saw in the distance a mountain of flesh nearly ten meters long with dozens of tentacles stabbing at him at the same time with strong winds like heavy guns.
Holmes stomped his feet quickly, and the alchemy called gold dust that he learned from Petra, a member of Yiyou, immediately transformed the ground under his feet into a large amount of sand, and then formed a two-meter-thick and extremely dense sand wall in front of him.
The defense of this sand wall formed by gold dust magic is extremely high, and even anti-material sniper rifles or RPGs can be blocked - however, when facing this kind of tentacle, it can only block it for a moment.
This is a genuine king-level mutant, a devourer that was created after devouring many low-level to high-level mutants. It can devour both organic and inorganic matter into its body to strengthen itself. It is also the first king-level mutant that Moyin encountered that year.
Dozens of tentacles broke through the sand wall and continued to pierce Holmes. However, Holmes had already been pierced into his body by the tentacles and rolled away from the tentacles' attack range.
He did not blindly trust the defensive power of the sand wall. It would be best if the sand wall could defend against the tentacles' attacks, but if it could not, it would serve as a visual barrier, preventing the opponent from locking onto his position and then escaping.
After keeping a distance, Holmes quickly observed the surrounding environment and deduced that there was no water source nearby.
In an instant, Holmes deduced Mo Yin's intention.
He is not allowed to use ice magic on this level.
Although it is possible to force the use of ice magic in this environment by relying solely on magic power, the problem is that without water or ice as a medium, the power of the ice magic used by his magic power will be greatly reduced, and it is even questionable whether he can freeze this monster that is like a mountain of flesh.
Although he can learn other members' superpowers through Yiyou, the power is limited. For example, using water or ice magic in the desert will naturally be greatly reduced.
Of course, if he possessed the water or ice godhood, the situation would be completely different. Even if he was in the desert, he could instantly turn the entire desert into the ocean or glacier. This is the power of the law. Unfortunately, he has not mastered the power of the law at this stage. After all, this is just a trick he learned from other members of Yiyou.
If we have to say, as a world-famous legendary detective, his best ability lies in reasoning, and the laws of reasoning will eventually turn into the laws of predicting the future.
If he wants to master the power of laws, he will eventually master the laws of this series, not the water or ice series.
After figuring out Moyin's thoughts, Holmes gave up the idea of using ice magic without hesitation.
At this time, the king-level mutant devourer was already chasing after Holmes rapidly under the influence of a large number of tentacles at the bottom.
Although this king-level mutant is huge in size, supported by its tough and numerous tentacles, its speed is no less than that of a speeding vehicle.
The sand wall previously formed by Holmes' gold dust magic slightly hindered the devourer's steps, and then was swallowed by the big mouth on its body. Then a thin layer of sand precipitated from the body surface. These sands were condensed together by some special liquid, and finally formed a layer of solid sand armor.
"Interesting, can it strengthen itself by devouring inorganic matter? In this way, I can't use gold dust magic to attack it."
Holmes ran quickly in front, looking back to check the status of the Devourer.
Just as he reasoned, the special ability of this king-level mutant is to devour everything. Organic matter can provide it with energy for movement, while inorganic matter strengthens its body. Unless Holmes' damage can accurately destroy its vital core in an instant, it will be infinitely strengthened.
As time goes by, the armor on its body will become thicker and thicker, and most weapons will be ineffective against it.
Holmes, who realized this, did not stop, but continued to use alchemy to transform the concrete floor beneath his feet into gold sand to form sand walls to hinder the Devourer's pursuit.
Faced with these sand walls, the Devourer accepted them all and swallowed them all into its body. At the same time, the armor layer on its body surface became thicker and thicker.
After running for four hours, the Devourer's running speed was less than half of its original speed.
And Holmes also slowed down.
Originally, he wanted to feed Shashuo continuously so that this king-level mutant would eventually lose its ability to move and stand still so that he could find a way to kill it.
But the problem is that although this thing has no reason, it has instincts.
Half an hour ago, he continued to create a sand wall. Although this mutant swallowed it, it analyzed part of the sand out from the back.
Now this thing is rushing around like a small destroyer, there is no point in continuing to run.
Holmes turned around and pounced directly at the King-level Mutated Devourer that had been chasing him for four hours.
Seeing his prey coming to him, the devourer opened his huge mouth and the nearly one hundred tentacles that had transformed from his body formed a big net to cover Holmes, for fear that this cunning prey would escape.
At this moment, Holmes entered the hyperactivity mode copied from Toyama Jinyi. His nerve reflex speed instantly increased thirty times. Under the blessing of the hyperactivity mode, the trajectory of these swift tentacles was almost frozen in his eyes. Then Holmes passed through the tentacle network in an extremely twisted and weird posture and stepped on the sand armor on the surface of the devourer.
Then alchemy was fully activated, and the thick sand armor on the Devourer's body began to compress uncontrollably into its body, destroying the Devourer's cell structure.
The pain of his body collapsing made the Devourer struggle violently, waving his tentacles wildly, but he did not realize that the culprit was standing on the sand armor formed by his body fluids.
A large amount of sand finally burst the body of the devourer, and the devourer whose cell structure was destroyed by the sand also completely lost its vitality.
After seeing the stairs leading to the seventh floor appear, Holmes also wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He didn't perform that series of difficult moves to stand on the Devourer's sand armor just to look cool, but after being covered by the Devourer's mucus, his gold dust magic's control over these sand monsters was greatly reduced, and he could only kill the Devourer in this way by directly touching that part of the sand armor.
Otherwise, he could at best cause these sand armors to collapse, but he would not be able to inject them back into the body of the devourer.
It can be said that only he can use this fighting method. Even Petra, who possesses the superpower of gold sand, cannot control these sand monsters due to the interference of this special mucus. Petra does not have his hyperactive mode to directly touch these sand monsters, so he is the only one who can kill the Devourer in this way.
Holmes found a bench and sat down to rest.
In the past hundred years, he has been strengthening his body through scarlet bullets and various means, but humans have their limits after all. After running wildly for four hours, his physical strength was greatly depleted, not to mention the need to constantly use alchemy to create sand walls.
Each level of this tower of death was constantly taking away his hidden cards.
There was no water on this floor because he had used ice magic when he had previously defeated ten thousand zombies.
Otherwise, as long as the Devourer is tricked into the lake and the ice magic is fully catalyzed, the extremely low temperature can destroy the Devourer's cells and kill the Devourer easily.
Although he had many cards up his sleeve, he had only made it through six floors of the Tower of Death... Were his cards really enough to get through the Tower of Death?
As someone who possesses the ability to almost predict the future, he already has the answer in his mind, but it is not enough.
Then, if it was an ordinary person who entered the Tower of Death, how could Moyin be so confident that he could be promoted to the realm of God when he walked out of the Tower of Death?
During this break, Holmes carefully recalled everything that Moyin had said to him, and then he deduced an answer.
Breaking through one's own limits amidst constant death——
Just like exercise.
Building muscle is not something that can be done overnight, but is a gradual process. There is a level of proficiency in everything you do.
Whether it is shooting, running, fighting, playing the piano, or manufacturing, people from all walks of life can reach a new level through the accumulation of skills.
The main theme of this Tower of Death is to constantly hone one's combat skills in near-death battles, and to fight again and again after repeated failures. As long as one can persist, even an ordinary person can become stronger at a slow pace.
If I had to sum it up in one sentence, then "practice makes perfect" would definitely be the most appropriate one.
When you die and resurrect, those experiences will not be taken away, so you can continue to accumulate experience -
Perhaps, I should put aside for the time being the various abilities I learned from the members of Yiyou, and rely on my own body to climb up step by step.
Because through his reasoning, he has concluded that he cannot pass through the Tower of Death with the superpowers he obtained from the Yiyou members.
If he wanted to reach the last level and face Moyin, he had to temper this body again and gain the strength to make it from the first level to the last level.
Otherwise, when all his cards were revealed, he would be stuck at that level for years or even decades and unable to move forward, because he had used tricks to get through the lower levels that allowed him to train new powers...
"Perhaps, I should experience the taste of death."
Holmes closed his eyes and spoke slowly.
It might take other tower explorers decades to reach this conclusion.
Holmes is worthy of being the one who is best at reasoning. With only six battles, he deduced the way to pass the Tower of Death. Unfortunately, his reasoning ability cannot provide direct help in combat to improve combat power.
At least you have to fight the enemy continuously and obtain intelligence about the enemy before you can deduce how to win.
In fact, Holmes wanted to enter the realm of God, and the Tower of Death was not the best place for him.
The tower of death created by Moyin is more inclined to lead people to the path of becoming gods through killing.
After all, this was his way to becoming a god. Most of the beings in this Tower of Death were beings he had defeated personally, except for beings like Thunder Emperor, Devouring Lord, and Dark Lord, with a huge gap between them when they met.
Of course, he did not lie to Holmes. No matter what means he used, as long as he could pass through the 100 floors of the Tower of Death and defeat him who had the same strength, the tower challenger would be qualified to set foot in the realm of gods.
At worst, you can just find a low-ranking god to peel off a divine power and give it to the tower challenger who has passed the 100th floor to refine it. This will allow him to be promoted to the position of a god.
However, if he can climb up to the end of this tower of death level by level, and even defeat me who has suppressed my strength, then he must have the ability to kill gods. How low is the probability of him becoming a god with this strength?
You know, he had killed gods when he was a demigod. In a sense, he is more troublesome than most of the current gods.
After all, there are not many gods who have killed gods with their own hands. When they reach the realm of gods, most gods will realize that fighting to the death is likely to be taken advantage of by other gods, not to mention how difficult it is to be promoted to a god. Therefore, it is actually very rare for gods to go to war to the death.
After all, the birth of a god might take thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and most of the time they just live in peace with each other.
Of course, not all gods are relatively peaceful. For example, the twelve gods who surrounded and killed Moyin before had a very good relationship with each other in private. Eventually, they gradually joined forces to establish an organization to attack and kill other gods.
It was not until they met Moyin, who had risked his life to become a god, that they were defeated, and their godhood also fell into the hands of Moyin.
Otherwise, it would take Moyin at least half a decade to collect these twelve divine powers.
After recovering, Holmes entered the seventh floor.
What appeared in front of him on this level were not king-level mutants, but three high-level mutants and the Split-Body Girls.
The three slit girls each had two long swords in their hands, and they could even work together to attack Holmes.
Holmes decided not to use the various superpowers copied from the members of Yiyou for the time being and relied only on his own fighting skills. He encountered three body-splitting girls whose physical strength far exceeded that of humans. Naturally, he was chopped into pieces without a doubt.
After completely dying, Holmes' body recovered again in the world of the sixth level. He felt an extremely faint feeling of his body being strengthened, which confirmed his previous reasoning.
So Holmes went up to the seventh floor again with his Saxon knife and repeated the battle.
This seventh floor seemed to be easier to deal with than the king-level mutants on the sixth floor? Mo Yin obviously would not make such a strange arrangement.
But due to insufficient information, Holmes was unable to make any inferences.
It was not until he successfully killed a torn-body girl that the sudden appearance of two high-level mutants made him realize what was going on on this level.
If you can't defeat him on the sixth level, you can just run away, but on the seventh level, if the time exceeds a certain limit, the opponent's reinforcements will arrive.
As the number of targets increases, the difficulty of the battle increases exponentially, not to mention that the physical strength of the higher-level mutants has exceeded the scope of humans. If you want to get through this level without using the superpowers copied from other members of Yiyou, it will obviously take a long time.