Chapter 257: A Completely Transformed Stingham (1/2)

Chapter 257: A Completely Transformed Stingham

No one moved to pull the zombie-like existence off Stingham.

“Teacher Rui, what is this thing?”

Rinloran furrowed his brows as he observed the scene before him. He could feel the violent arcane energy fluctuations pulsing from the armored zombie-like existence as it hugged Stingham. It was undoubtedly more powerful than Stingham.

“It is very strange. I’m afraid our Holy Dawn Academy doesn’t have any records of anything like it.”

Rui concentrated as he too observed the armored zombie-like existence. As he slowly extended his hand, a faint light emerged from his palm and descended over Stingham.

A loud pop rang through the room as a yellow light abruptly flashed atop the armored zombie-like existence’s body and the faint light was completely torn apart.

“It is indeed a defensive artifact.”

A look of shock emerged within Rui’s eyes as he continued, “So peculiar… it seems like someone’s materialization, yet it is able to be used by another person without a problem.”

“So it’s like Stingham has received an external defensive materialization?” Jano and Christine simultaneously exclaimed as they exchanged glances.

“Indeed. It should be using a portion of the arcane particles within Stingham’s body every time it is activated, but because of how strong it is, the defensive abilities it demonstrates is greater than anything Stingham can accomplish himself by using an arcane skill.” Rui nodded as he continued, “It’s appearance makes me believe that it is an external arcane energy armor or something similar.”

“I don’t want this arcane energy armor or whatever! Just hurry up and get this thing off me!”

“Why are you talking about appearances?! This is very clearly a zombie hugging my body!”

Stingham began screaming even more miserably than earlier.

“Can you not disperse it yourself?” Rui perplexedly asked as he looked at Stingham.

“It’s like its grown over my body. There’s no way for me to disperse it like a materialization,” Stingham replied as if he was on the verge of crying. “If I could get rid of it, then why would I be shouting for you all to help me?”

“What a peculiar thing. I’m afraid there might not be anything like this even amongst all the Kingdom of Eiche’s academies. But it truly is a great gift from the Black Witch. It will be able to help you block many attacks,” Rui comforted.

“What? Never seen before? I can’t get it off? I don’t want it! I don’t want something so ugly and terrifying hugging me!” Stingham wailed as he heard Rui’s words.

Rinloran immediately gloated over Stingham’s misery.

Other people might consider this thing an incredible stroke of luck, but for someone like Stingham who was so narcissistic and caring about beauty, this was a terrible stroke of disaster.

“It’s your own fault for picking first. But in all honesty, this zombie really suits you. Its face is so terrifying and fierce. If you walk around with it on the street, I’m sure you will be able to shock all of the lovely young maidens to tears,” Rinloran deliberately mocked.

“I hate you Rinloran!” Stingham despairingly wailed as he closed his eyes. He didn’t dare look at the armored zombie-like creature latched onto him any longer.

The waxy zombie-like existence was just too realistic as it tightly wound around Stingham’s body like a vengeful spirit. Its head was perfectly positioned right over his right shoulder, making it so that Stingham was just barely able to see the existence’s horrifying eyes if he ever so slightly moved his head.

“What? This thing is so powerful, yet you don’t want it? All of us wish for it, but it has already been taken away by you.” Rinloran unhappily sighed as he continued, “Your luck is just too good, and your actions were just too fast for us.”

“Rinloran, you bastard! I’m going to kill you and then kill myself!”

“Okay. Then when people see you at your funeral, there will be two corpses, you and the zombie still clutching your body. What a wonderful sight it will be.”

“You…!”

“What happened. Why is there such a loud commotion?”

Just as Stingham was shouting threats and everything was falling apart, Ayrin’s excited voice rang in from outside.

“Whoa, how come there is this thing on your body now?!”

“What is that thing on your body?”

Ayrin and Stingham simultaneously shouted.

“That’s?”

Everyone else was similarly stunned.

As Ayrin stood in the doorway, a dark purple ball of light silently floated in midair by his body.

The ball of light was about the size of two fists put together and a perfect sphere. A crystallic glow emanated from its surface. From a distance, it looked exactly like a floating crystal ball. But as one looked closer, one would discover that its surface was covered with thin, lightning-like arcs of pulsing light which gave off an extremely profound and powerful feeling.

“This is the shadow ball from Death’s Energy: Shadow Ball of course!”