Benjamin eventually gave up on the idea.
At this moment, escaping from the Horli Kingdom is no longer their main task. Scaife's secrets, the ghosts hiding under the abyss... these are worlds that have never been explored before. Besides, taking a detour is definitely much safer than taking an unknown shortcut.
He "drove" the ice ball and flew at the bottom of the abyss for about half an hour. What he saw along the way were countless cracks and ghosts. Occasionally, some creatures would be thrown out of the cracks and become food for nearby ghosts. Scenes like this gradually became common.
"I... how long are we going to stay in this place? Can't we fly out?"
Dick gradually calmed down. However, he still felt an instinctive fear when he looked at those strange spirits flying around, especially the scene where the prey trapped in the illusion was sucked into a mummy by them.
"It's such a pity that I finally found a new world and left like this." Benjamin shrugged and replied.
In such a large ghost settlement, according to common sense, there will be creatures similar to BOSS. He wanted to find out if there was anything like a "ghost lord".
This will be a very important material for the study of undead creatures.
—Yes, it’s time for them to start a new study.
There is basically zero research on undead creatures in the mage world, and there is no such thing as undead magic. Benjamin believes that this may be because human exploration is still too narrow.
Now he has discovered a large colony of undead creatures, which means he has found a stable source of research materials. With the current magic technology, Benjamin may not be able to deal with these spirits, but in the future... these ghost samples will definitely derive a series of brand new systems.
Magic, telekinesis, runes, magic props... How much untapped potential does this world have
And beneath this abyss, there must be more secrets hidden.
However, after searching for a long time, Benjamin found no new undead creatures. Ghosts are the only "creatures" here. They have no autonomous consciousness, and they seem to have no clear emotions and purposes. They always just float in this place, using sound to drag other animals into the illusion, and then rely on instinct to eat.
Therefore, there is no existence similar to the leader among them.
After much deliberation, Benjamin finally decided to leave.
The unknown territory is so vast that it is impossible for him to fully explore it alone. In the future, it will definitely be left to professional explorers to carry out activities. Besides, now the mountains have turned into an abyss, so... what about the world on the other side of the abyss
That was the other half of the continent that was split horizontally!
He had to go and take a look.
Therefore, he could only give up exploring the abyss and prepare to leave. But before leaving, he decided to take something from this place.
"Catch a ghost? Are you overthinking it?" After hearing Benjamin's thoughts, the system said speechlessly, "The main component of their bodies is mental power. Do you have any tools at hand that can trap the spirit body?"
"of course not."
"Then how are you going to catch him?"
Benjamin touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "Well... their intelligence is very low, so I think there will always be some way."
"For example?"
"For example... bait."
Just like that, Benjamin began to fly upwards, and soon flew out of the abyss. Unaffected by hallucinations, the other side of the abyss became clear - a boundless wasteland, and I didn't know what was beyond. But at this moment, Benjamin was in no hurry to go there.
Instead, he returned to the territory of the Hori Kingdom.
"What are you going to do?"
Although he left the abyss, Dick could only fall into confusion and confusion again when he saw Benjamin flying into a forest and starting to hunt various birds crazily.
"If you want to keep any pets, you must prepare their food first." Benjamin threw all the frozen birds into a large sack, turned his head and said, "I plan to get some food for those ghosts. "
Dick's eyes almost popped out: "You...you want to raise those ghosts?"
"You can't just raise one, just catch one and do research on it." Benjamin shrugged and said, "Don't worry, I don't have such a weird habit of raising ghosts."
“…”
Dick was speechless for a moment, probably about to faint from shock.
There are still many birds living in the deserted woods. Benjamin didn't spend much time catching at least several hundred of them alive. Every once in a while, he used elemental commands and treatments to carefully maintain the lives of these little birds. All the birds were packed into a huge ice ball, and he flew them back into the abyss.
On the way back to the abyss, the system couldn't help but complain: "You are really inhumane."
Benjamin replied without changing his face: "Birds are destined to die. Most of them may end up meaninglessly dying in the forest and dying in the mouths of other beasts. But because of me, they will die for the sake of science." Dedicate yourself. I saved them from the ignorant and mediocre bird life, and they should feel honored."
“…”
Suddenly, the system was speechless for a long time. Benjamin nodded expressionlessly, assuming that he was impressed by his great theory and was so moved that he didn't know what to say.
Ten minutes later, two ice balls, one large and one small, carried Benjamin, Dick and the hundreds of them back to the bottom of the abyss.
"What are you going to do?" The system regained its energy at this time and mocked, "You release those birds from the ice ball, and all the ghosts will come up. You are going to take hundreds of ghosts to attack Haven Wright?"
Benjamin shook his head.
"Just watch."
He first controlled the ice puck loaded with birds and separated a small ice ball and a bird inside. Then, he controlled the small ice ball to fly to the outskirts of the ghost colony, and in an instant, the magic was lifted.
At that moment, the little ice ball disappeared, the bird fell into hallucination, and a dozen ghosts nearby also floated past.
So, Benjamin immediately summoned water vapor and held the bird to fly upwards, trying to avoid the ghost's hunting. Facing the moving prey, the ghosts suddenly froze in place, as if they had never seen anyone trapped in hallucinations and able to fly.
When Benjamin saw this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
The intelligence of these ghosts seemed to be a little higher than he imagined.
However, their thinking ability only goes so far. After the bird fell into a hallucination, a kind of spiritual wave emanated from the ghost invisibly, converged on the bird, and then bounced back from it, just like the positioning ultrasonic waves emitted by a bat. This feedback of mental fluctuations stimulates the ghost's instinct, causing them to continue to pounce towards the bird after a brief pause.
And their speed is getting faster and faster as time goes by.
Benjamin was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the ghost that usually floated slowly could actually reach a speed faster than the average mage when hunting.
Seeing that the little bird was about to be wrapped up by those ghosts, he immediately cast a spell and once again condensed a sound-proof ice ball to pull the little bird back from the illusion.
Along with the scene of the bird opening its eyes and flapping its wings, outside the ice ball is a ghost that accelerates halfway but suddenly stops. They floated around the birds but found nothing.
Although the ghosts had no expressions, Benjamin felt that they must be very confused at the moment.