Chapter 58 (1/2)
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
Smick’s figure appeared for a split second before applying the elementary usage of the [School of Light] to apply optical camouflage on his body.
The [School of Light]’s Ultimate Secret Art: Streaming Blade of Light was done through harmonizing oneself infinitely close to the rhythm of light while erasing one’s human rhythms for a split second. Through doing this, the practitioner would turn into light itself and travel to a predetermined destination with the light and perform their attack.
This state of harmonizing oneself infinitely close to the rhythm of light could only be kept up for a split second because otherwise, the human body would shatter. Naturally, as long as the predetermined destination wasn’t wrongly selected, this attack essentially would not miss.
Since Chris used his ultimate Secret Art to restrain Negary, Smick’s attack naturally didn’t miss. The outer layer of germs didn’t contribute at all as defense, his cutlass accurately pierced through everything and into that black blob of flesh in the middle.
When the cutlass pierced through the blob of flesh, some sort of liquid spewed from the wound all over his hand. On closer inspection, he found that it was golden-colored blood that naturally drew Smick’s eyes as if they were the most precious treasure in the world.
Soaked with the golden blood, his cutlass seemed almost alive. Smick had a distinct feeling as he held the cutlass that he would be able to easily kill anybody as long as he had it.
Chris fell to the ground and looked as if he had aged several dozen years at once. His life quickly reached its end without even the time or strength for him to move his head.
A small bit of Life Essence surged forward from his dead body, the [Firewood Links the Fire] technique couldn’t be performed without paying the ultimate price. Chris’ soul also came out together with his Life Essence, the long years of adventuring made it so that his mental fortitude far exceeded those of normal people, even as a remnant soul, he still managed to retain a bit of his rationality.
An abnormal guiding force then appeared on Chris’ remnant soul.
“Am I being guided to Heaven?” Chris had such a faint thought as his soul flew away from the battlefield, through the piles of bones around and finally landed in the hand of a certain person.
The corner of Noah’s mouth raised to reveal a pleased smile: “It seems I’ve found the leader for my Ghostmen soldiers”
A few moments later, Chris felt a surge of intense emotions rush into his remnant soul. These emotions directly struck his psyche without giving him even a moment of rest. These emotions were mostly negative, consisting of hatred, unwillingness, despair, as well as a heavy sense of fear and obedience towards ‘that person’.
“Negary!!” Chris screamed out in despair, but after a long while, he added two more words: “…My Lord!”
Noah looked down at the subservient Chris in his hand and recalled what he had spoken with Lord Negary beforehand.
〖 Did you know, Noah? 〗at the time, Negary still hadn’t gone inside his viral body, or perhaps, he was never in there in the first place. He was hovering by the great tree and looked down at the bones that littered this place: 〖 Humans are an exceedingly fascinating species 〗
〖 They naturally have a fixed mindset about certain things, and find it extremely hard to think outside of this looped chain of thoughts 〗Negary slowly spoke:〖 They choose to ignore certain things and believe only what they think to be the truth 〗
〖 I was also once stuck in this vicious cycle, but why would I limit myself to the mere human form? 〗Negary declared with a smile: 〖 Even when I have yet to reach my limit, I am one, and I am thousands 〗
This wasn’t a world like those in the novels, but rather one that had the Misfortune Characteristic, the situation where the heroes arrived in the exact final moments when the demon king was about to complete his evolution would not happen. And Negary wasn’t foolish enough to wait for them to arrive, in fact, even before Chris’ raid team even made it into the forbidden zone, Negary had already completed his evolution.