028. The Earthly Python
Talos did not offer Bill the opportunity to trade Goddess Clam Pearl or Mermaid's Eyes, and was on the excuse that he needed a break and quickly returned to the room.
Talos, who spends most of his time on martial arts training every day, certainly would not feel tired after watching a battle. The actual reason is that his soul fire has swelled a little after absorbing the soul of the goddess clam.
This is really new. Talos thought that soul fire has always refined souls and absorbed faith, and this is the first time that such a non-magic thing has happened.
"Maybe it's because the Goddess Clam's strength is too high!" After comparing the strength of himself and the Goddess Clam, Talos came to this conclusion.
Although the goddess clam was easily subdued by Lucia, her strength was two levels higher than Talos, and it was the first third-level soul absorbed since the soul fire was ignited!
Just now, another person on the Garon stood in Lucia's position, and he would definitely return to the embrace of the Ocean Goddess when the goddess clam released its first illusion.
The Talos snake plate was on the ground, handing over the weight of the body to the tail, closing his eyes, and immersing his spirit in the soul fire.
In the void, the red soul fire was refining a silver-gray shadow as obvious as fog, which was the soul of the goddess clam who was as strong as the third level.
Every time the soul is refined, the red soul fire will grow faintly, bursting out with even more dazzling flames.
When Talos focused and tried his best, the soul of the goddess clam disappeared in a scream like a crying baby.
"Master Talos, freshly baked goddess clam soup." A few minutes later, Alexa came to Talos' room with a huge bowl.
"Did you make the goddess clams into soup?" Talos said in surprise.
For a moment, the young Naga had the illusion that she was a great devil.
Although the lighthouse jellyfish and mantis cigars were eaten by him in the past, and the soul was refined by soul fire, and the utilization rate was as high as 100%, the goddess clam was considered a high-level intelligent creature, but now it has become a large bowl of soup to serve on the dining table, and the contrast between them made Talos feel strange.
"I promise to be much more delicious than any other land-based soup."
Alesha didn't know what Talos thought, so she thoughtfully handed him a spoon and recommended: "If this bowl of soup is put in the Golden Empire and sold publicly, it will cost at least 200 gold coins."
"No one can eat the thick soup of the third-level goddess clam. Thank you for your blessing. Everyone on the Garon tonight will get a little."
200 gold coins?
Talos immediately took the spoon and scooped up a spoon from the big bowl. He saw a little clam meat floating in the milky white soup, which was particularly tempting.
——This is the first time Talos has drunk soup after he awakened his memory, which is a food that only appears in land civilization.
"It smells so good! Very fresh! Great!"
After taking a bite, Talos threw all the worries behind him. In less than five minutes, the young Naga poured all the soup into her stomach.
"I knew you would love it." Alesha packed the tableware and told Talos another news, "After all, this is a delicious cooked for you by the way, two ladies Caroline and Mitag."
"Ahem... Where is the pearl of the goddess clam?" Talos stopped his aftertaste of the delicious soup and asked.
Alesha took out a pearl bigger than the fist of an adult man from the ring of space, handed it to Talos, and left with a chuckling and twisted his tail.
Talos held the pearl, and the hint of embarrassment on his face was quickly replaced by surprise, because the whole pearl gave him a very delicious feeling like the high nightmare curse on the gold coins.
"Must, soul, pearl, my utilization rate is too high."
Talos muttered like this on his mouth, but his body was very honest and sucked at the pearl, and a strong fragrance suddenly penetrated his heart and was somewhat similar to the thick soup just now.
As a fog that was hard to see in the naked eye was sucked by Talos, the energy accumulated from several consecutive meals today caused a mutated soul fire.
At first, a black dot appeared in the center of the soul fire, and then spread, turning into several black mists, rising up very gently, and finally gathered together and turned into a small snake that was pitch black all over, tangled around the soul fire.
The first impression this snake gave Talos was extremely contradictory:
The soul fire is only the size of a fist, so the black snake wrapped around it is also very small, only the thickness of a little finger, and is less than one foot long, which looks very harmless.
But when the black snake composed of mist swung its tail and wrapped around the soul fire, it seemed to entangle the whole world, with a kind of cruelty to swallow the sky and the earth.
Small and huge, harmless and cruel, two kinds of auras that form a sharp contrast and contrast appear on it at the same time.
"The manifestation and incarnation of [gluttony] among the seven original desires!"
As the owner of the soul fire, Talos knew its origin the moment the black snake was formed. It was not receiving information from the soul fire, but it was a bit like suddenly remembering a memory that was forgotten to a corner of the brain a long time ago.
This black snake, which symbolizes the gluttony among the seven original desires, is still only a juvenile body. It is formed by the precipitation of desires accumulated in the process of refining the soul, absorbing faith, and strengthening the soul fire.
As the origin of desire accumulates and grows, it will eventually grow into a terrifying mortal python.
"The python in the world represents the origin of gluttony, and is troubled by hunger all day long, and feeds on the world."
However, before the black snake grew into a giant python in the world to devour the world, its target was only one - Talos' soul fire.
Of course, it is when the origin of desire counterattacks.
Together with the information of the zodiac python, Talos also knows another very important information, the time of the second counterattack.
At the moment when the giant python was born in the world, young Naga felt that his spirit, will and soul fire had become an infinitely huge ancient tree. There was a black snake gnawing at the root of the ancient tree, constantly making rustling sounds of eroding the roots of the tree.
When the roots of the tree are eaten up and the ancient tree is rotten, the second counterattack from gluttony comes.
Fortunately, as long as the young Naga's will is strong and firm enough, the roots of the ancient tree can become hard enough. The difficulty of the black snake gnawing on the tree roots increases, and the speed naturally decreases.
This is a battle between the will of the mind and the origin of desire. Will is Talos' weapon, and the mind is the battlefield between both sides.
"Since that's the case, once I advance to the second level, I immediately choose Iron Will as my first combat expertise! However, this is a bit of a cure for symptoms but not the root cause. The key is to get my own temple and faith, and peel off the gluttony from my body as soon as possible."
"I need to get gold coins or secrets from the mad girl Juana, heretic Jacob, and Bill needs to use this to advance to the third level to become bishop. Once successful, he will immediately go to explore the lower plane where the fight is located."
PS:
1. Seven Deadly Sins = Seven Demon Gods = Seven Snakes.
2. Originally, the mortal python Yamgard was entangled in the world, and the black dragon Niedhog was devouring the world tree. One was synthesized here.
Chapter completed!