Chapter 73 - The ‘unfathomable’ Ellis (1/2)
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
Jack’s decapitated head suddenly grew black tentacles and reconnected to his fallen body.
After putting his head back on, Jack moved his neck back and forth a bit, then walked up to Black Three’s body. He was either triggered by Jack’s words to the point of losing his mind, or he simply didn’t want to live anymore. Jack took out a firestarter from his pocket, poured some highly concentrated alcohol on the body, ignited a flame and lit the body on fire.
“Although you couldn’t feel the warmth while you were still alive, at least your body can feel the heat in your death” Jack shook his head helplessly: “What use is there in hating the world? If you wanted something to hate, hate the era”
Jack threw his half-broken dagger away. The reason why he managed to kill Black Three despite his dagger not cutting through him was actually because of the ability of his secondary soul.
The Ghostmen soldiers were Undead who had been implanted with a secondary soul. And these secondary souls were all created from modifying remnant souls. When a remnant soul was separated from its True Spirit, it underwent a process that was similar to an inferior version of the [Origin]’s first stage being released.
For example, Negary awakened his ability to control and live symbiotically with germs at the beginning, due to it being a pseudo-release, the awakened ability would be very weak initially. Negary’s bacterial control only grew gradually stronger as his soul form continued to grow, at the same time being extremely difficult to improve qualitatively. From a fundamental comparison, it couldn’t be compared with Granny Seal’e who had released her [Origin] properly.
Naturally, Negary had continued to mutate and developed his germs to create other abilities, thus infinitely improving his initial ability to what it was today. This was the reason why Granny Seal’e revered Negary so much.
The secondary soul that Jack was implanted with had awakened an ability that Jack named Animosity Manipulation.
Unlike Negary’s ability, the animosity he could control wasn’t what he generated himself, but rather the animosity of others.
When Jack used this ability, as long as others hold animosity or killing intent towards Jack, the killing intent would be collected by his ability, then used to form weapons as he wished. Jack’s broken dagger didn’t even come into contact with Black Three, but the blade of killing intent that grew from it did, which caused serious injury to his mind and even killed him shortly after.
It could be said that the more killing intent or animosity other people held towards Jack, the stronger he would be, and there was no one better than Jack at drawing other people’s animosity.
As the flames flickered, Jack didn’t leave to help the others, nor did he go to the castle to stop the ritual from reaching its completion. Instead, he sat down by the fire lit by the corpse and put his hands out to keep himself warm.
An Undead might gain a practically immortal body, but they would also lose a lot of things at the same time. Since there was a barrier between the soul and the body, his sense of smell was nearly nonexistent, so he didn’t notice how unpleasant the smell of the burning corpse was.
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Dammit, where is this fatty’s weakness?
Black Two continued to press his attacks on Connor Kenway, and left all sorts of wounds on the big fatty’s body, but all of these wounds would heal in the blink of an eye.
The body of an Undead body had no vitals. Since their bodies were composed of germs, as long as the germ tissues that made up their bodies weren’t destroyed in large quantities, they could easily be healed.