189 Wanted Poster (1/2)

The consciousness of the bandit disappeared just after hearing Yale's words. Yale had been trying to use Soul-search with some distance instead of direct contact, but the effect was even better than before; he guessed that the fact his hatred for that bandit had increased influences the harming power of Soul-search.

Soul Skills were extremely difficult to control, and emotions could influence them easily, so when Yale used Soul-search with a higher murder intent than before, the bandit virtually died instantly although his body was technically alive.

Yale didn't have a good control of it, but as Liye said, harming a soul was far easier than healing it, so even if Yale didn't execute Soul-search perfectly due to hatred, the skill was just deadlier than it should be.

After all, although Soul-search could cause damage to the soul, that wasn't its purpose, someone who controlled it perfectly would be able to obtain all the memories from the target without him noticing. Of course, that was only if the one who used soul-search had that intention, eradicating the soul in the process was also possible.

Although it may seem good powering Soul-search with emotions to turn it deadlier, it wasn't good at all. If the emotion were hatred, then it would just harm the opponent, but if the one who cast Soul-search hesitated when using it, the skill might fail and rebound.

Using it influenced for emotions would only work well when the caster was someone capable of killing any kind of opponent without the slightest doubt.

Yale wasn't a demon who could kill everyone he met without hesitation, but he didn't have any compassion for his enemies, so it worked well in that situation. However, he would rather learn to control it perfectly and chose how the skill should act more than let his emotions control it.

Yale didn't kill the living corpse who was lying powerless in the ground; he wanted to use it to understand better the effects of the poison on the Poison Claw. Although it didn't have a proper soul, the body was still from someone at the Apprentice Rank, so it was a good sample.

Wyba just resumed her training after Yale ended with those two bandits, she had been alerted by their voice and aura, but in the end, they weren't strong enough to be a threat for them.

Wyba alone was enough to kill them, but Yale wanted to obtain information from their souls, so he acted before Wyba had time to attack them; Yale knew that she also wanted to vent her anger.

The bandits died due to the extreme damage to their souls, but at least they had avoided the shame of being beaten up by the little girl they wanted to kidnap.

”Big bro, you should have left one to me.”

Yale just smiled wryly in reply, so much time without speaking and the first she said was such a thing; Yale understood that Wyba had been affected by Aiwai's problem far more than him.

”I needed to obtain information from them, so I need to attack them personally. I obtained a good piece of information that will help me to reach the Practitioner Rank. I understand that you want to vent your anger, but you mustn't forget your true objective.”

Wyba just nodded, she knew that she would never reach the Practitioner Rank if Yale didn't reach it first, so a chance to improve Yale's strength was indeed worth of losing the chance to vent her anger. However, she still needed to beat someone like those bandits to be able to relax a bit.

Yale obtained information that would help him to reach the master stage in swordsmanship and although that wasn't directly increasing his level of power, completing the sub-quests were also vital to be able to see Aiwai again.

After all, the true requirement for the Storage Space upgrade was completing the third main quest and not just reach the Practitioner Rank.

Three days later that bandit finally died by Yale's sword, which cursed the remnants of his soul.

Yale had already finished experimenting with the poison; the poison lasted three hours without any healing and weakened the body of the bandit a lot, although it didn't affect to the power level like the poison the eldest prince had given to Paku previously.

After roughly three days all trace of poison was erased from the bandit's body, but Yale guessed that with just a day of rest, it should be possible battling with at least ninety percent of the full strength. Thus, the true usefulness was just for a day as in the other two days; the poison remnants weren't that harmful.

A day of weakening was already enough for a battle, but that time was only on someone like that bandit who was far weaker than his true level due to having forgotten training his body; Yale didn't expect that someone with a stronger body would have the same reaction towards the poison.