NABC Chapter 866: Tahm Kench
Chapter 866: Tahm Kench
Chapter 866: Tam Kench
Standing behind Ji Xing and listening to the clear footsteps coming up the stairs, Trist's body and expression were extremely stiff, and he did not respond to Graves's doubts.
No, this is not possible.
The subtle connection with cards is his innate talent. After traveling all over the country over the years, he has gained a better understanding of this talent - a magical ability that is born with him.
There are indeed two types of mages in Rune Continent. One type is born with unique magical abilities that grow with experience and training, and the other type is those who master them through systematic learning.
Oh, if we force a classification, perhaps there is another type of people who gain magical abilities through the influence of certain magical items or magical creatures.
As the former, he had seen many similar situations, but had never met someone with the same magic as him.
The 200 Hexcoins in his arms and Ji Xing's meaningful "tuition" made him have exaggerated guesses. Even though he repeatedly told himself it was impossible, he still couldn't let it go.
Just... after playing cards for two hours, he already learned how to tell fortunes with my cards?!
He now only hoped that the person coming up the stairs was not the real Miss Fortune, and when the ordinary-looking female figure appeared, he indeed breathed a sigh of relief.
Rumor has it that Miss Fortune is famous for her beauty that can make people lose their vigilance. Although he has never seen her, she should not be so ordinary!
At this time, he heard Ji Xing say, "The disguise skills are good. You have talented people on board."
"I just picked up a girl and haven't figured out her background yet." Sarah smiled warmly, "And you saw through her at a glance? Welcome to Bilgewater, Sai... Um, you brought two men with you?"
"No, they came to me to collect the bounty." Ji Xing said, "Your current base is a mansion on the cliff mountain in the east?"
Sarah narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the two people behind Ji Xing who were a little nervous, and said, "I was wondering why they looked familiar, Graves? Have you been released from prison? And Drizzt... these two guys are pretty famous in Bilgewater."
"Excuse me, Miss Fortune, you are the famous one." Drizzt smiled stiffly.
Really Miss Fortune?!
How is this done? !
The fingertips of his right hand hidden in his sleeve were constantly flipping a card. Every time he flipped it, the color of the card would change in the order of blue, red, and gold. However, whenever he was particularly nervous, the order would be messed up.
The colors are a mess now.
Graves's hand also touched the barrel of the shotgun in his arms and observed Drizzt's expression.
At this time, Ji Xing took out two Hextech gold bills with a face value of 100 from his pocket and handed them to the two people along with a stamped bounty ticket.
"Since it has been verified, the bounty should be settled. This time it will be based on the gold coin value exchange rate. This is two hundred, and you can get fifty with this receipt. You should know the specific process better than me."
"I……"
"Take it. We'll see each other again if we're lucky." Ji Xing smiled and said, "If you go to Piltover, you can find me at the Philos family. My real name is Seville. Even if I'm not here, the Gray Lady will make sure you're properly accommodated first."
"…Seville? The universal capsule?!"
"Well, leave this deck of cards to me as a souvenir and keepsake." Ji Xing cut the cards in his hand and turned sideways to see the guest off.
Drizzt no longer wanted to stay. With a stiff smile, he walked out of the room with Graves, bowed slightly to Sarah and went downstairs quickly.
It was not until they were far away from the Bauhinia Inn that Trist let out a long breath. For a moment, he felt that his whole body was wet with sweat.
He had never experienced such tension before!
"Tobias, what just happened? That guy..." Graves was completely confused. He felt that something was wrong but he didn't know what was wrong.
"Idiot, he said he was Seville, the Seville who invented the universal capsule, the Seville who killed Gangplank together with Miss Fortune!"
"You bastard..." Graves subconsciously retorted after being scolded, frowning and muttering: "The scientist who invented the universal capsule? Will he come to Bilgewater in person? That Gray Lady of Piltover is willing to do so? Isn't she afraid..."
"There's nothing to be afraid of him. Can't you see that he's much more than just a scientist? Anyone who wants to attack him is probably seeking his own death!" said Trist.
Considering the cause and effect, it was probably a wizard, and a wizard who was able to master my card magic in just two hours!
Drizzt even had a terrifying guess in his mind: what exactly was the "secret weapon" that destroyed the Abyss? Was it really a weapon?
"...He invited us to Philos. Could it be that he wanted to recruit both of us?"
"Perhaps." Drizzt replied in a low voice, "But I don't want to see him again at all."
Never want to see you again!
……
In the hostel room, Sarah naturally noticed the unnaturalness and even panic of Trist and Graves, but this was normal.
They are just two notorious liars. How could they possibly get the upper hand in Seville?
She sat down on the sofa without any hesitation and said, "I didn't expect you to come. I am so relieved."
"Are you in a bad mood recently?" Ji Xing asked.
"Not bad." Sarah spread her hands. "The bastards on the island are not a big problem. I just don't want to become another Gangplank. I'll play with them more and the problem will be solved in a year or two. But now we are facing a bigger problem."
She looked at Ji Xing and said, "I want to apologize to you first. My purpose in inviting you to Bilgewater was not pure. Sewell, have you heard of...'The Haunting'?"
"Well, I heard you and Raven talking about this word after we separated last time." Ji Xing replied.
Sarah's expression froze for a moment, and after two seconds she showed a helpless smile: "You really are..."
You always do surprising things and say surprising things in a calm manner. So the "conspiracy" between Raven and me is just a joke in your eyes?!
"Okay, that's easier to explain." She was also single, so she changed the subject directly and said, "A few hundred miles south of Bilgewater, there is an island called 'Shadow Isle'.
It is a forbidden place for the living and a gathering place for the dead. The only thing to be thankful for is that the dead can only move in the black fog on the island. That is why the Shadow Isles is not known to many people.
The Haunting is a special day every year in the Shadow Isles. The black fog on the island will continue to expand outward, and the range of action of the undead will also increase. Bilgewater, which is close to the Shadow Isles, will bear the brunt and will be attacked by some undead. "
Undead? Interesting.
What made Ji Xing accept Miss Fortune's invitation was not friendship or anything else, but the word "soul" in Soul-haunting Night.
Compared to the body that can only accumulate strength bit by bit to improve itself, Ji Xing's soul is always very special when invading the world.
According to normal development, as a human being, it would be difficult for him to reach the level of the Star-Forging Dragon King, the strongest creature naturally born and raised in the Alliance Universe. Only by finding a way to mobilize the power of the soul can his improvement be almost limitless.
"Come to think of it, I haven't tried necromancy in so many worlds, right? If the Impure World Reincarnation in the Naruto world doesn't count..."
He looked at Sarah and motioned for her to continue.
"It was Gangplank who led Bilgewater to resist the Haunting Night before, and this can barely be considered the only good thing he did." Sarah said: "Of course, his method was simple and crude, just letting the pirates who defected to him serve as cannon fodder to survive the night when the dark fog expanded.
I have to do better than Gangplank, but the Harrowing is too close this time, so I want to ask you for help, Sewell."
“How close is too close?”
"Within half a month, maybe tomorrow?" Sarah said, "The spreading speed of the black fog is different every time, and the Soul-Eating Night is not a precise date."
Ji Xing nodded and quickly switched the cards in his hand. Sarah couldn't help but look over.
"By the way, you've been playing with this deck of cards since we met. You got it from Drizzt, right? Any questions?"
"Drizzt has mastered a kind of magic."
Sarah was stunned: "Him? Magic?!"
"Card magic." Ji Xing said, "Before you came, I played Death Wheel with him for two hours and lost 200 gold coins to him. Because every card is faintly attached with the magic power he unconsciously releases, giving him guidance."
"Then you still..."
"Every one of them, including the ones I hold in my hand." Ji Xing smiled and said, "To a wizard of my level, it's like he is breaking down and demonstrating to me how his magic works."
Sarah's expression gradually became strange.
"So... the notorious swindler was fooled by you? He fooled magic? His card magic has other uses besides gambling?"
At the same time, Ji Xing stopped cutting the cards, slowly pulled out three cards from the deck and arranged them on the table in front of him, saying, "It can also be used for divination. Wait here for me for a while. Since I came to Bilgewater, I feel like something is staring at me, and it's even staring at me. I'll go see what it's staring at, and then come back to find you."
A breeze blew, and his body floated up lightly and flew out of the window.
Sarah was stunned. Was she being stared at by something? After thinking for a few seconds, she shook her head repeatedly. Was she fooled by that girl? I was inexplicably reminded of Nautilus?
By the way, knowing magic is really convenient.
……
The result given by the divination card was that the opponent's position could change drastically at any time, so Ji Xing, who was controlling the wind, used all his strength. He seemed to have really turned into a gust of wind, and ordinary people couldn't even see his afterimage. Only when he blew past them would they suddenly scream in surprise.
After walking through three blocks in a few seconds, a slightly dirty waterway appeared in front of him.
The strong wind turned into armor that enveloped him. He drained the water and soon saw a natural underwater cave. It seemed to be protected by some force and would not be submerged in water.
Just as he was about to enter the cave, a dark red, unknown, thick object suddenly stretched out from the cave and stabbed towards Ji Xing!
Ji Xing put his hands together, and the wind element on his body exploded, switching to thunder in a second! The blazing plasma instantly evaporated the surroundings and the river water, illuminating Ji Xing's figure and the object in front of him!
Upon closer inspection, it was actually an extremely huge tongue, with a slight fishy smell hidden in the river water, and the power contained in it was like a mountain pushing and crashing!
Ji Xing knew the other party's identity at once. His clasped hands, covered with plasma spheres, collided violently with the giant tongue.
A huge shock wave exploded, and the unevaporated river water leaped up in unison. The land within a radius of ten miles shook and trembled, the cave collapsed, and the terrain of this river ditch underwent a tremendous change!
Ji Xingfei retreated several dozen meters, and after landing, he stepped his right foot into the rolling mud. The mud and sand obeyed his command and took shape in an orderly manner.
A muddy arch was connected in the chaos, with Ji Xing standing at one end and...
A fat catfish? It was as fat as a ball, but it was wearing a top hat as if it was proud of itself, which made it look even more ridiculous. Its big mouth was wider than its body, and its tongue was almost hanging down to the ground.
The King of the River, Tahm Kench!
Because of its size, it has a special name in Piltover - Two Coats.
It is a demon of desire that feeds on human desires. It always likes to cultivate its food itself, infinitely deceiving and amplifying the target's desires.
Ji Xing probably knew why it kept looking at him, but he still asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
"You are not human." Tam looked at Ji Xing with an ugly and greedy smile, but his voice was like a gentle gentleman.
"What are you talking about?" Ji Xing frowned.
"You have no desires, or you only have the most basic instinctive desires, which are bland and boring. I have only seen the same situation in a few Protoss... Oh, are you the incarnation of a certain Protoss? It doesn't seem like it..." Tam whispered.
Ji Xing waved his hand to interrupt: "Look for the reason yourself, okay? Is it because you are not good enough that you don't feel desire from me? Or is my desire so strong that you can't distinguish it?"
Tam flicked his big tongue with interest: "What is that?"
The biggest desire is to upgrade the alliance world to six stars and obtain the power of the Supreme King. If this cannot be achieved, just increase the power to the maximum and then bring back the benefits. No matter which one, it does not belong to Tam's "jurisdiction"!
“Guess.” Ji Xing just replied, “Stop staring at me. I’m not interested in you.”
But I am very interested in you. Tam chuckled twice before saying, "Okay. Bilgewater has been really lively lately. First came a guy full of desires but knowing exactly what he wants, and then came you who have no desires. It just so happens that you are both equally powerful mages. Interesting, interesting."
Oh? Ji Xing looked at it, ended this brief exchange, and rode the wind back again.
Tam rolled up his big tongue and stroked the tip of his tongue with his two short hands. Hmm, it felt a little numb.
Ji Xing, who floated back to the hostel, also rubbed his wrist, with a look of deep thought on his face.
Sarah was surprised: "So fast?"
"Well, I can't kill it, and I can't cooperate with that thing. It's a waste of time to talk more." Ji Xing sat back on the sofa and started cutting the cards quickly again.
"Unkillable? That thing?" Sarah's expression changed. "Hey, is it really the deep-sea titan Nautilus?"
"Nautilus? Oh no, it's Tahm Kench, the demon of desire."
"...Ahem!" Sarah, who was relieved by the first half of the sentence, almost spit it out: "Two coats? That thing is not a horror story?!"
"Wherever there is a legend, there is always a trace to follow."
Two coats? A Nautilus? That's just two of the four horror stories of Bilgewater Harbor! Sarah, a half-native, never knew the water in Bilgewater was so deep?
Ji Xing slowly laid out the three cards in front of him and frowned. He couldn't figure it out. Was Tam making it up or was he good at keeping secrets?
Before me, was there really a mage with the same strength as me in Bilgewater? Although he was not sure about his current strength in the entire Rune Continent, Ji Xing was confident that he should occupy a very high position among ordinary people.
Forget it...just believe half of what the devil says.
Let’s do the serious stuff first.
He shuffled and cut the cards again, pulled out three divination cards, looked up and said, "In two days, the black fog should spread to Bilgewater in two days."
Miss Fortune came back to her senses.
“Two days…?”
(End of this chapter)