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#352 - Chapter 352: Wheels and Scramble
“Continue upgrading!”
As Wu Wei's War Vision ability improved, his ambition also swelled.
Because he discovered that the War Vision ability, after continuous upgrades, could be considered a true divine skill.
With the mindset that the more he upgraded, the stronger he would become, his mentality unknowingly became more greedy.
He yearned to see a more detailed world!
He yearned to use this powerful Lord ability to change his previous war strategies.
So, Wu Wei once again chose to exchange for a Lord skill.
As expected, under the “favor” of the Abyss Mother, Wu Wei successfully turned the so-called randomness into “targeted” randomness.
The familiar enhancement options appeared once again before Wu Wei.
However, this time, Wu Wei was destined not to get his wish.
Because a shackle that binds mortals disrupted this upgrade process.
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“Upgrade!”
After Wu Wei pressed the upgrade button, he happily watched as the originally terrifying, but now extremely pleasing, black coagulation completely enveloped him.
Then came the all-too-familiar process of eye destruction and rebirth.
However, after Wu Wei's eyes shed blood, the reborn eyeballs did not show any changes.
Moreover, even the Heavenly Dao System sent Wu Wei himself a new notification.
[Your Lord skill enhancement failed!]
[Please reselect your upgrade options!]
“What's going on?”
Wu Wei, who had finally gotten used to this kind of pain, said in confusion.
Not believing it, he once again chose to upgrade.
However, this second attempt still failed.
[Your Lord skill enhancement failed!]
[Please reselect your upgrade options!]
[....]
Apart from pain, Wu Wei gained nothing.
And more importantly, it wasn't just this time that he failed.
Wu Wei's subsequent attempts all failed without exception.
“Hey, hey, is there a BUG?”
“Wake up!”
Wu Wei frowned and said to the black and red vortex above the sky.
“Don't fail to evolve again, okay? Eye destruction is painful no matter how you look at it.”
After speaking, Wu Wei tried again.
And the Infinite Abyss, helplessly, used an extremely obscure way to inform Wu Wei of the real reason for the upgrade failure.
“Success? Wait, this is... damn it!”
As the black coagulation was about to recede, Wu Wei felt that he had once again... grown new eyes, and this time the eyes were exactly the further War Vision he had been craving.
But when he opened his eyes, the things that appeared before him caused his eyeballs to explode directly.
“Ah!”
Wu Wei couldn't help but cry out in pain.
However, the pain from his eye sockets was not even one ten-thousandth of the pain in his brain.
And the reason why he was in so much pain was because at that instant, he had finally seen the essence of this world, at least a part of the essence.
Souls!
And the most core part of the soul, the Sea of Souls!
The moment Wu Wei, a mortal, saw the souls and the Sea of Souls clearly, his newly acquired eyes instantly exploded.
But it was too late.
Because from the moment Wu Wei saw these Seas of Souls, a pollution originating from the dark side of the Sea of Minds had already found him!
Just like the fallen angel Liz once said, some knowledge and existence are harmful even just to know.
And the Sea of Minds is one of these existences.
And it is worth mentioning that the “position” of the Sea of Minds in the conventional reality universe is far higher than that of gods!
Therefore, the trauma Wu Wei suffered this time from gazing at the Sea of Minds was much more severe than the last time he “saw” the Goddess of Life.
But fortunately, this kind of pollution from the Sea of Minds can be shielded.
Those dark coagulations easily helped Wu Wei block those pollutions while also helping Wu Wei repair his eyes.
And Wu Wei, at the instant his eyes were repaired, immediately broke free from the dark coagulation and knelt painfully on the ground.
At this time, he had lost the ability to see souls clearly.
“Huff... huff....”
“Damn it, that really hurts!”
Bean-sized beads of sweat kept dripping from Wu Wei's head.
And his body couldn't help but tremble.
“I was a little too greedy.”
“I almost forgot that the truth of the world is not something you can see just because you want to.”
“But I really didn't expect.....”
Wu Wei stood up from the ground, panting heavily as he spoke.
“Even something like the soul cannot be viewed casually.”
“I really don't know how those mages who have the ability to manipulate souls resist these pollutions.”
In fact, this question is easy to answer.
Because those soul mages simply cannot come into contact with these pollutions!
That's right.
Although many existences, including soul mages, can touch, transform, or even utilize souls, that is the most they can do.
Because they are different from Wu Wei.
Their seemingly powerful abilities only come from their utilization of the superficial rules of the soul.
It's like how primitive people can still create wheels even though they don't understand mathematics and geometry.
They achieve the purpose of manipulating souls by relying on this primitive and simple method.
In this case, let alone the Sea of Souls, they cannot even understand the essence of the soul.
Even the necromantic druid, who is a master of souls, is the same.
He is also a member of the primitive people.
But Wu Wei is different.
As a different kind of primitive person, he may not even understand what a wheel is.
But he can directly understand the mathematical and geometric principles hidden behind the wheel.
This is a very fortunate thing.
But also...
This is destined to be a very unfortunate thing.
Because this ability is bound to be envied.
Envy from the gods!
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However, just as Wu Wei's upgrade process encountered “trouble,” the troll Titus's upgrade process was unusually smooth.
Because when he surrendered to the Abyss Sect, his soul was contested.
Contested by the evil gods of the Abyss!
Dozens of evil gods of the Abyss who cooperated with the Abyss Sect were willing to pay a great price for his soul!