602 Actually, I wasn’t trying to act cool (1/2)

'They saw me!'

Seiji was quite surprised about this.

He had been watching these two individuals for quite a while without them noticing. Seiji thus assumed that he was an unnoticeable presence here.

He never expected that the robe-wearing girl would suddenly notice him, followed by the armored boy seeing him as well.

”Who… are you?”

Seiji was about to answer this question.

But, before he could say anything, his vision darkened and his consciousness went hazy once again… He then saw everything clear up around him as his consciousness instantly returned.

Once again, he was in the previous Forest Palace. The environment was the same as the last time.

Shika and Hisashi were now by his side, proving that this was indeed Kazuko's Domain.

Hisashi was looking all around this mystical dimension that he had entered for the first time. It was obvious that he was rather nervous.

Shika had a calm expression.

'Judging by how they seem, neither of them saw what I did just now,' Seiji thought to himself.

Was it all just a hallucination?

'If I'm the only one who saw a hallucination, I should have been standing here in a daze. That should have gotten Shika and Hisashi's attention.'

Since they didn't say that anything was wrong with him, that meant they had all just entered the Domain together so they didn't notice anything wrong.

In that case, that was no hallucination. At the very least, it couldn't possibly be an ordinary hallucination.

What exactly was what he saw, then? A scene from another world? Were Spirit Worlds actually other worlds? Or were Spirit Worlds the projections of other worlds?

Seiji thought about his own experience traveling through Soul World. He felt that this was quite similar but also different—he wasn't experiencing someone else's life. Instead, this time he was an observer.

”Demons are coming,” Kazuko's voice sounded.

Black mist appeared and speedily formed into three black wolves.

He decided to think about this later and focus on the battle first.

Hisashi gathered electricity on his hand and shot out an arc of thunder. He accurately hit the first black wolf that rushed over!

The black wolf immediately stopped while pouncing in midair and crashed onto the ground, with dark-red mist escaping from its body.

Shika unsheathed her sword and killed the second, while Seiji then slew the third wolf.

These two wolves also transformed into mist. Part of the mist floated towards Hisashi and was absorbed into his body!

As Seiji expected, defeating and devouring spiritual creatures was indeed the basic method by which the Awakened could strengthen themselves.

Hisashi shot more thunder at the first black wolf that collapsed on the ground. Every time it struggled to get up, it immediately stopped moving again whenever electricity hit it… perhaps it had entered a type of paralysis status. The way its movements jerked seemed almost comical.

After receiving the fourth thunder attack, this pitiful spiritual monster's structure finally collapsed as it completely vaporized into mist.

”Go over to that mist,” Seiji told Hisashi.

Hisashi did as was asked and swiftly walked up to the mist. Hist body immediately absorbed most of the mist.

”How do you feel?”

”I feel as if something within me became slightly more solid.”

”Try to absorb more mist from now on… evidently, your ability to absorb the mist is limited by physical distance, so pay attention yourself,” Seiji informed him.

Hisashi nodded.

Additional black wolves started appearing.

Seiji and Shika dealt with them easily.

Hisashi fought carefully from behind Seiji and Shika. He used thunder as a ranged attack and smashed his thunder-enchanted shield into any wolves that got close to him.

Any black wolves that approached him would be instantly electrified and paralyzed by his thunder magic. It was no trouble for Hisashi to deal with one wolf in close combat range at a time.

To use a game analogy, two high-level players were helping a novice thunder mage player who also knew a shield bash attack to level up.

After Hisashi absorbed a large amount of mist, he felt something deep within him beginning to heat up. He mentioned that he felt his strength obviously increasing.

Back when he was practicing in his mafia group's dojo, he would begin to feel fatigue after releasing seven or eight bolts of thunder. But now, he wasn't tired even after sending out countless thunderbolts. In fact, he felt like it was becoming easier and easier to use his ability!

Hisashi felt that it was really nice.