Chapter 115. Ragnarök (14) Leveling Up the Intermediate Manipulation Skill

     Ye Mo took out a small wooden boat from the space, which was engraved with various plant patterns. The boat was not large, and the material came from the trees of the elf world, with 80% wood attribute and 20% light attribute.

     The dark attribute belongs to earth, wood restrains earth, and light restrains darkness.

     She shoved the wooden boat into the Gjöll, the Underworld River^[1]River of the Dead: In Norse mythology, this would likely be the river Gjöll, Gjöll originates from the wellspring Hvergelmir in Niflheim, flowing through Ginnungagap, and thence into the worlds of … Continue reading, then used the momentum to leap onto the deck with a steady landing.

     Soon, a chill enveloped her.

     After emerging from the first round of the Doomsday Supermarket dungeon, Ye Mo was no longer afraid of the bitter cold and scorching heat. But on this windless, waveless, snowless, and empty Gjöll, she once again felt a ‘chill,’ a chill that penetrated her bones, as multiple prying gazes came from the river.

     You don’t have to guess what’s in the Gjöll.

     After drinking a small bottle of magic potion to dispel the cold, the coldness in her body gradually dissipated, but the prying eyes did not decrease. Ye Mo prepared heeself mentally first, and then said: “HawkEye, open the view.”

     As soon as the voice fell, she saw that the surrounding environment was no longer just the empty and void underworld. There were many transparent undead floating in the air, and human heads floating in the black river.

     Because the death of gods usually means the soul is scattered, the undead in the river of the underworld are all people from Midgard.

     They must soak in the black river of the underworld with 50% dark energy and 45% water energy every once in a while to absorb the dark energy to ensure that the soul is not dissipated.

     The more colorful the eyes of the undead, the sharper they are, and the more terrifying they look, because they have color on their bodies, and they are getting closer and closer to their appearance before death. When they reach a certain level, their appearance may be no different from that of ordinary people.

     As we all know, death is not very beautiful. Compared with real ghosts, horror movies are still a bit underwhelming.

……

     Ye Mo steered his boat through the Gjöll river, guided by the dwarf’s words. The Land of Ice (Niflheim) was the most tyrannical of the Nine Realms, a place of perpetual ice and imbued with a chilling, 100% ice attribute, shrouded in an eternal, unyielding mist.

     This icy mist seeped into the Underworld (Hel) and the Land of Fire (Muspelheim), even reaching the Midgard. Midgard suffered greatly under Niflheim’s influence, its once vibrant connection to the Underworld and the path of departed souls now corrupted.

     The only direction she can identify is fog. Once she sees fog, she will not get lost. The thicker the ice fog, the closer the Ice Kingdom is. Just follow the fog.

     Soon after setting off, Ye Mo met the ghosts in the Gjöll river.

     Unlike the Undead Gate, low-level ghosts have more black auras all over their bodies, and their emotions are often very violent and single. Their attacks are out of a violent instinct, regardless of friend or foe; mid-level ghosts may have more energy different from the dark system in their souls, and some can also attack with spells, with higher IQs, and their attacks are self-aware.

     The ship could still withstand attacks from low-level undead, and the best weapon to deal with mid-level undead was wooden arrows.

     There is a difference between slaying a monstrous beast and destroying an undead being. Undead lack physical bodies; to truly destroy them, you must extinguish their soul energy. Wood and light attribute energy are most effective against them. Other attacks may suffer a damage reduction ranging from 20% to 120% when facing a soul, with the 120% reduction referring to attacks with dark or negative energy.

     At the same level, undead are more difficult to deal with than monsters, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is to deal with.

     During this period, Ye Mo realized that she had unlocked the D-level 4th-order psychic ability, and when she used the Intermediate Manipulation Technique to mentally invade low-level undead, there would be no more immediate dizziness.

     She cleared the fragmented memories of this undead, which seemed to be a human face. Whether it was hate or love, this undead was thinking about this person in his mind after death.

     Just then, Ye Mo received the notification that two groups of survivors had cleared the level.

 

  【The internal test copy “East Slavic Fort” has ended, and there are 913 survivors left. 】

  【The internal test copy ‘The Beacon Fire Prank’^[2]The story of “烽火戏诸侯” is a well-known historical anecdote in China. It can be translated into English as “Playing with fire beacons to trick the feudal lords” or more … Continue reading has ended, and there are 1113 survivors. 】

    【……】

 

     “……”

     At this time, it had just passed 80 days. It turned out that the previous incident was not an isolated case, and there was still this classification. She, who was originally repulsed by the world of the underworld and the undead, was successfully relieved. It was just entering a ghost nest.

     Compared with plants without thought, Ye Mo felt that the undead were more suitable for her to practice intermediate mental manipulation techniques. 

   【Detected that the mental power attribute has broken through the critical value, mental power attribute +1.】

     Even if the mental strength is not enough to break through, the mental recovery potion refined by the elves will be enough!

…

     In 2 days, Ye Mo can already mentally invade low-level undead for more than 15 minutes. The low-level undeads have been mentally pierced twice in a row, and it is still a bit difficult to control them.

     On the 3rd day, Ye Mo met a high-level undead. Unfortunately, this high-level undead was still an evil spirit. His emotions were no longer out of control and single-minded, and his IQ basically returned to the level before his death.

     Even without HawkEye, high-level undead can make themselves visible, but what he believes to be invisibility is equivalent to nothing to mental power abilities and HawkEye, and he is unaware of this.

     When the high-level undead collided with the wooden arrow, it would still be injured. When he realized that he had been locked by Ye Mo, he chose to attack at close range. The floating speed of this undead was probably 40 times that of human attributes. Sure enough, the soul energy was really light, and it could also use some ice spells.

     After the attack and collision, Ye Mo’s wooden boat was broken in half by this high-level undead, and the high-level undead was also injured.

     After a short period of anxiety, the time was almost up.

     As the high-ranking undead entered a range to attack Ye Mo, what awaited him was the eternal spear Gungnir, the spear of Odin, falling from the sky, along with the corpse of the monstrous wolf Fenrir. At this moment, Ye Mo had overcome her discomfort, rose from the black river, and pierced the high-ranking undead’s heart with a light-attribute sword.

     After stabbing three times, she heard a sound.

 

   【Open side quest 24: Kill high-level undead (1/1), mental power attribute +1, free point attribute +1. 】

 

     The river battle finally ended.

     Due to the appearance of the Eternal Spear Gungnir, all the undead who could escape fled, and those who could not escape were as scared as the high-level undead just now.

     The black river was shallower than the sea of Hel, Fenrir’s size was comparable to Hel, and Gungnir was not small. Ye Mo didn’t need to search for a needle in a haystack, she could easily retrieve it back into her space.

     Then take out the second boat.

     Sitting on the boat, with her boots soaked, Ye Mo consecutively drank three bottles of dark energy dispelling potions. Only then did her body return to a normal temperature. After having some wine and eating some meat, her stomach warmed up, and she felt much better.

     On the 7th day, Ye Mo may have approached the center of the Helgrind. She saw many corpses in the river, including frost giants, protoss giants, hell beasts, fire giants, and mountain giants.

     Due to the strong energy, there are many undead around the battlefield.

     Ye Mo used the Eternal Spear again. It must be said that weapons with a high matching rate with Odin really have a very terrifying power on the undead, and they will reflexively flee.

     Another 10 days passed.

     Ye Mo finally saw the black and gray ice fog on the Black River with the memory fragments of the undead and the  HawkEye. At this time, the system once again had a group of dungeon survivors complete their missions.

 

   【……】

   【Currently, only the survivor “Traveler” is attacking the E-level dungeon. 】

 

     “……”

     Now she is really the only one left in the dungeon world, but Ye Mo will not be surprised by this.

…

     The 10,000 survivors who just came out of the 80-day dungeon were a little surprised to enter the white space. Soon they also heard the information that the chief survivor of the internal test was still conquering the E-level copy.

     The survivors lay in the space, silently receiving their mission evaluations. Many were exchanging for elixirs like Bigu Pills to ensure their basic survival needs. They had finally survived!

     Unlike the second batch of survivors, the first batch of survivors, including Watson and Wang Xue, had stayed in the white space for a full 20 days, and all the Bigu Pills were consumed.

     The survivors’ curiosity about the travelers has been exhausted in twenty days of speculation. They now hope to return to the real world as soon as possible, regardless of whether the chief survivor succeeds or fails.

     Watson and Wang Xue are also a little worried. Maria/Sister Jing is really strong, but it takes her so long to conquer the E-level copy. It seems that this copy is not easy.

     Because there is a concentration of spiritual energy in the white space, Watson borrowed Ye Mo’s tester to discover an interesting phenomenon.

     When they entered the white space 30 days ago, the energy here was a little higher than in the real world. After 20 days, the aura of the white space became a little higher; after 10 days, the aura of the white space became even higher.

     Putting the amplitude data of the test in a table, it is easy to find that the three increases are similar.

     What is the variable?

     Why did it increase suddenly?

     60 days? 20 days? 10 days?

     No, 60 days? 80 days? 90 days?

     Watson made a bold assumption: “The concentration of spiritual energy in the white space is equal to that in the real world. Every time a survivor clears a dungeon, the concentration of spiritual energy in the real world will increase.”

     Wang Xue: “You mean?”

     If that were really the case, what kind of changes would Sister Mo’s E-level dungeon bring to the real world?

     “I hope everything goes well for her.” ×2.

     The above communication between Wang Xue and Watson relies on words, not language, to avoid being heard by other survivors.

     In fact, the white space is quite quiet.

…

     Ye Mo may not be very lucky.

     Even though the Ragnarök is over, Hela, the ruler of the underworld, was once allied with the frost giants. They have a pact, which means there will be some informants among the undead.

     These undead could inform the frost giants in advance, even though this act of informing would mean death for the undead. Due to the magical contract they had already made, they had to do this.

   Therefore, 100.000 from the border of the Ice realm, Ye Mo saw four or five frost giants. They were not afraid of dark energy, and walked directly in the Black River, with only their heads showing.

     Behind the frost giants, there were more than a dozen frost giants at the edge of the Gjöll river, Ye Mo was surrounded by undead who were reporting the news. Whether they were willing or not, they had to pass the information to the frost giants.

     Escape?

     There’s still time.

     However, Ye Mo didn’t do this. Instead, she accelerated the speed of the wooden boat, held a longbow, and set up ten arrows engraved with Runic characters. She faced them and entered the range. Three seconds later.

     Swoosh × 10!