Chapter 166: Awakening.

“Humans degenerating into Watchdogs is a very painful thing, whether for friends or for oneself.”

Callisto suddenly spoke. She stared calmly outside the room, and the tears in her eyes rolled down again.

“Because of the World Tree’s punishment?”

Xiao Fen couldn’t help but ask. Although the degeneration sounded painful, the process also made Xiao Fen curious.

“There was once such a saying that in the Trial World, if one could complete some special missions, one could obtain abilities that Yggdrasil could not bestow, but this also meant betraying Yggdrasil and suffering Yggdrasil’s punishment.”

Pausing, Callisto continued: “Do you remember those notes?”

Xiao Fen subconsciously recited along with Callisto: “Only equip under the gaze of Yggdrasil, only use in environments permitted by Yggdrasil.”

Callisto nodded and said: “Some people can complete some additional tasks granted by these abilities. For those who finish these tasks, Yggdrasil will stop punishing them, and they will become Awakened who have betrayed.”

Awakened who have betrayed?!

No term could make Xiao Fen’s spirit more excited than this. That Jack back then, as a Traitor, was actually able to fight with Farrah, and was even unaffected by the World Tree’s intervention. Xiao Fen had been puzzled by this matter for a long time, and now he finally understood the reason.

Callisto continued: “The reason I know this is because our race is the most likely to become Hell Watchdogs, so I can roughly understand the appearance and possible factors of Hell Dogs through some knowledge within the race.”

Xiao Fen asked: “The Pal you mentioned is also of your race?”

“We are the same kind, but not the same race. Palin, don’t ask too much. You will naturally know these things when you become an Awakened. All Trialists have seeds buried by Yggdrasil. Because of these seeds, Yggdrasil can let Trialists upgrade and let Trialists master Skills. However, the less we know about these things, the better.”

As Callisto said this, she took a few steps back. The scene that had been blocking Xiao Fen’s eyes was finally fully revealed.

In the blood pool outside illuminated by moonlight, a huge creature was roaring at the sky.

Its body was about the same size as a Garm, with a head that looked like a white tiger, except its eyes appeared more slender. In the middle of its forehead, there was a bloody crack, and inside the crack, an eye was constantly looking around.

This creature’s entire body was covered in pure white fur. In the moonlight, this fur emitted a faint glow, looking like countless tears constantly falling around this creature.

After a few dozen seconds, a large amount of black mist began to appear on the blood pool. This mist was incredibly dense, and the moonlight could not penetrate it at all.

It looked like these rising mists were like invisible big hands, constantly lifting the moonlight, rising to a height of about two Zhang, directly completely submerging that huge creature outside.

Before that huge creature was completely submerged, Xiao Fen faintly saw that on both sides of the creature, a person was standing.

This person was looking into the room in panic, seemingly shouting something, but these shouts were shrouded by the creature’s long roar and could not reach Xiao Fen’s ears at all.

“Save me!”

Xiao Fen could roughly understand what this person was shouting.

However, at a time like this, no one could save him. From the moment he was controlled by the person outside named Pal, the outcome was already destined.

And now, the Black Mist that had submerged that giant creature was rapidly spreading into the room. From within this Black Mist, Xiao Fen vaguely saw a large number of eyes. What these eyes possessed was nothing but bloodthirst.

“Fall back!”

Xiao Fen ordered in a low voice: “Retreat to my side. I guarantee your absolute safety for two hours. During this time, you had better come up with a solution.”

“You? Two hours?”

Callisto was somewhat skeptical of Xiao Fen’s order, but Xiao Fen’s next action directly silenced the sarcasm this female Trialist was preparing to throw out.

Xiao Fen opened his leather bag. The pile of keys, still shining brilliantly even in the darkness, looked particularly dazzling. Callisto, seeing so many keys for the first time, was somewhat dumbfounded; she said nothing and ran directly to Xiao Fen’s side.

“What do you need me to do?”

Lycaon behaved more calmly. He retreated a few steps, stood in another direction away from Xiao Fen, and spoke with his back turned to Xiao Fen.

Xiao Fen rubbed his nose. After the heavy armor was canceled, Lycaon had not put on new clothes, but the light in the room at that time was not sufficient, so it was not seen very clearly.

And now, although the room was even dimmer, the naked Lycaon was closer to Xiao Fen, and at this moment, he happened to have his back turned to Xiao Fen. This suddenly made Xiao Fen think of that joke about Wukong and Tang Seng.

“Help me block all ranged attacks. I cannot move my body while creating the Magic Array.”

“I only knew you were a decent Gene Controller; I didn’t know you were also a guy from the Energy Control system.”

As Lycaon spoke, a large number of Bone Spurs began to emerge on his left arm. Accompanying these Bone Spurs, a Bone Shield that looked very lethal finally took shape. According to the old rules, a layer of metal coating would soon appear on this Bone Shield.

At the same time, in Lycaon’s hand, that terrible Double-edged Axe appeared at some unknown point.

At this moment, the Black Mist outside the door had already spread into the room.

There was no gloomy wind, no weeping sounds, no lightning and thunder. This mist spread quietly, and in a short time, it completely blocked the door of the entire room.

From now on, no one could enter this room, and no one could rush out.

Xiao Fen did not even think; he immediately summoned Lux’s Gratitude.

Above his head, a huge white Web suddenly appeared. The rustling sound even made the spreading mist pause for a moment. Although Xiao Fen’s head was a bit dizzy, he could clearly see that in the Black Mist, some eyes emitting light were staring at the Web above, seemingly hesitating.

However, once they entered this room, it did not matter whether they hesitated or not. Targeted by a high-level Web, these Hell Creatures in the darkness instead became the prey.

With a “hiss”, a rope fell past the tip of Callisto’s nose and slammed onto the ground. On this rope, a Monster the size of a cat but with sharp claws and terrible teeth was struggling desperately, letting out a desperate roar before death. After a few seconds, this Monster died painfully in front of Callisto’s eyes, then turned into a cluster of particles and dissipated.

“This is a super-rank Magic Array, Palin. Your secrets are truly beyond my expectations.”

Callisto spoke thus, and her eyes quickly shifted to other places.

More and more monsters were discovered by the ropes and killed. At the same time, there were already at least three key crystals on the ground, and clearly, in the coming time, these crystals would continue to increase.

“You are a rich man, an absolute rich man. To you, a Healing Potion isn’t worth 5000 Gene Points at all. You were deceiving me.”

Xiao Fen forced a smile and replied: “We are even.”

Just then, from the Black Mist outside the room, a bolt of lightning suddenly shot out through the air and struck towards Xiao Fen.

Lycaon had not participated in the bickering between Xiao Fen and Callisto. He had already detected the anomaly contained within that lightning. When the lightning appeared, Lycaon stepped forward and suddenly blocked the front with the giant shield in his hand.

Attracted by the metal, the lightning, which was originally some distance away from this shield, turned midway and fiercely struck the shield. In that instant, the entire room seemed to light up.

The huge electric current made Lycaon’s whole body shine like a light bulb in an instant. A smell of burning leather appeared in this room and began to spread.

Lycaon, who was physically strong, seemed to have an innate weakness against this kind of Energy impact. He let out a huge roar during this lightning strike, sounding very painful.

However, this roar did not last long. Lycaon suddenly turned sideways and threw the giant axe in his hand towards the direction where the lightning came from, like a Spartan warrior.

The sound of the giant axe cutting through the air had not yet completely stopped when a dull neighing sound suddenly rose. Subsequently, the continuous electric current in the air was cut off. Lycaon swayed and almost fell to one knee on the ground.

At the same time, Callisto, standing beside Xiao Fen, had already made her move.

Under her feet, a huge circle suddenly appeared. This circle was inscribed with a large number of elegant characters. It looked like a Magic Array, but it was somewhat different.

The characters rotated continuously in this circle. Every time it rotated one circle, a character would automatically jump out and float beside Callisto. In just a few seconds, there were already more than ten characters emitting a pale blue glow in front of Callisto.

“My race is not good at using Energy system abilities, or rather, my race is not skilled in Magic, and even finds it difficult to use Magic, but the seeds of Yggdrasil changed all this.”

Callisto brushed her hair and spoke to Xiao Fen nonchalantly.

The characters in front of her had already begun to deform and eventually became one floating small shield after another. These shields moved towards Lycaon’s direction and, during the movement, blocked two more heat energy shockwaves rushing towards Xiao Fen.

Xiao Fen did not know why Callisto was making these unnecessary explanations. These things seemed not to need to be spoken out at all. What a Trialist could or could not do was not important to Xiao Fen.

He turned his head to look at Callisto and was just about to say something when he suddenly saw that in Callisto’s eyes, teardrops were still faintly rolling.