155.Chapter 155 – Shadow Trial
Chapter 155 – Shadow Trial
Inside the gladiatorial arena spell.
The light flickered and Saberia reappeared.
“You’re finally back!”
Maharaja immediately appeared on his toes.
But Saberia didn’t seem to have come back to her senses.
He was still reeling from seconds ago.
He was spirited, and he told the story of the ancient past.
All around him were faces listening intently, and gazes of awe.
Yet in an instant, he became a prisoner of humiliation.
He remembered his last-minute attempts at compromise, yet the human had no intention of hitching a ride.
Looking at the fist that was close at hand, Saberia for the first time didn’t have any thoughts of fighting back.
It would be better to die.
Unfortunately, even death was a luxury now.
He just stood frozen in place, like a statue.
In this way, Nobita couldn’t lay his hands on him instead.
“Aren’t you going to hide?” He said suspiciously.
He was a mundane man, but not an evil one.
He at least needed a reason to attack his opponent.
Like looking at himself in an underhanded way, talking to himself in an underhanded tone.
Or maybe he actually dared to hide, which was really underhanded.
This time, however, Saberia had no feedback, numb as a tree.
This time Nobita instead of hands and feet up ……
Crap, it shouldn’t be broken by me, right?
“Are you okay?” He asked.
Saberia looked over at him, neither hatred nor contempt in her gaze.
“Can you kill me?”
Nobita froze.
“Isn’t this already the world after death?” He asked rhetorically.
Saberia scowled.
It’s over, it’s really broken ……
Nobita panicked a bit, so he snuck away.
It’s better to build a house.
……
The secret room of the lord’s house.
Chief Sa and Guardian Kite were sleeping, and the skeleton frame was quietly standing on the floor.
Mr. Xia, on the other hand, was not, as Heine was still trying to fix him.
The guy’s structure below his head was basically shattered.
True-powder fractures.
Although his White Bone Repair was also being upgraded, as a skill that wasn’t used very often, this thing simply couldn’t keep up with the rate at which the player’s bones were being upgraded, so the repair was very slow.
Suddenly, Heine had an idea.
He hadn’t had the chance to verify it before – would upgrading immediately restore the status?
As well as what would happen after the skeleton was upgraded to level five?
Although he had been robbed of a boss’s experience by Bey, this battle had given far too much.
For Heine, who had just been promoted to level four, his experience slots were still very short at this point.
It was almost full halfway through the battle, so a portion of it had already been sent to Sa General.
Mr. Xia still had on him the battle experience he had accumulated from Ravan’s gang of half-elves over the past two months, which was also enough for him to upgrade.
“Prepare yourself mentally, I’m going to infuse you with the ‘experience’ I gained from the previous battles.”
He said to Ms. Xia.
The word ‘experience’ was still something he had ‘learned’ from the players.
Mr. Natsu’s head popped up with a “good”.
“According to the observation results of the analyzing spell and Saberia’s words, this promotion might be special, so you have to feel it carefully.”
Saying that, Heine sent her experience over in a brainwave, and then stared intently at Mr. Xia’s Soulfire.
In the next second, he felt the dark shadows around him begin to come alive.
It was as if a calm lake suddenly boiled!
The dark shadows accelerated to merge into Mr. Xia’s soulfire, just like the energy replenishment that his body outside usually performed when he rested in the fish pond!
The good news was that the dark shadows were accelerating to repair his body.
It was like the Shadow Healing that Xiara had used in the first place.
Although it wasn’t what he had imagined as “a flash of gold with full status”, it was still a recovery in the right way.
The bad news was that Mr. Xia had lost contact!
This terrified Heine, who was unable to contact Mr. Xia even with his psychic magic!
The bridge built by the spirits connects the two worlds of white and black.
But the other side of the bridge is empty.
…
Outside the lord’s mansion.
Disturbed by an icy force, Arthur rushes out in his pajamas.
Looking back, half of the Lords’ Mansion was wrapped in a dark purple cloud.
The energy was intensely corrosive, but it didn’t destroy a single brick on the contact surface.
Yet as he attempted to walk into it, he heard a warning.
“Do not approach.”
The warning came from behind him, from Carl Elam, who was in charge of being a private pilot for Heine.
“Do not approach.”
He repeated again, his eyes staring intently at the cloud in front of him.
“What is this thing?” Arthur asked.
Carl shook his head.
He couldn’t answer that either.
Just moments ago, a voice had warned him of this when he had tried to walk into it.
Do not approach. The voice sounded like thousands of people speaking at the same time, not abruptly, but without any emotional fluctuation.
At that moment, a constant stream of servants and guards exited from it one after another.
They all left from it unharmed, as did Arthur.
But after leaving, even if they reached in with a branch, it would be corroded in an instant.
…
“Who are you?”
Mr. Xia asked.
Since the “upgrade” earlier, his connection with Heine had been severed.
But the feeling didn’t change.
It was different from falling into a deep sleep or being communicated with by the bridge spell.
Everything was so normal here that his mind didn’t change.
Only the unfamiliar voice was concerning.
The common language the other used as well.
“Join us.”
The other said again.
“No, who are you sending bar?”
Mr. Xia got a little impatient.
The voice was silent for a few seconds.
“I am eternal darkness, the antithesis of holy light, the embodiment of shadow.”
Mr. Xia thought hard for a round but couldn’t figure out which NPC had such a middle-of-the-road line.
“What am I being asked to join? Are there any benefits?” He asked.
“You’ll be a part of the Shadow and have everything it has to offer.”
Crap, attribute binding!
Mr. Xia said excitedly, “Then can I learn the Shadow Cloak? What about Shadow Shuttle? What about Shadow Step? What about Dark Dance of the Sky?”
“All are possible.”
“For nothing?”
“As long as you’re in.”
“Just like that?”
“Yes, as long as you join us.”
Ms. Xia was instantly alert.
According to the game idea, give an iron sword and you’ll be allowed to fuck beasts, give an enchanted iron sword and you’ll have to kill magical beasts.
When you take some kind of Sword of Valor, then you’ll have to be allowed to fuck the Demon King.
The best reward must be at the end of the copy.
Advance payments are both unlikely to be the best goods and imply danger beyond expectation.
“Then I’m not joining.” He decisively refused.
The next second he refused, he was pulled into a darkness.
It felt much like being pulled into a gladiatorial arena.
A beam of light hit him as if it were a spotlight.
He took in his skeletal body.
Red mask, bare ass, carrying two daggers in his hands.
The shadows were drawn.
But the next second, the shadow suddenly detached itself and burrowed into the darkness beside it.
“Join us, and the shadow will do your bidding.
“Otherwise, it will betray.”
The voice said.
“What do you mean, terrorize me? Do you think your father is scared?”
Mr. Xia snorted and immediately leapt into the darkness next to him.
He wasn’t used to being illuminated by a spotlight either, that shit meant anti-submarine in the game, and thieves shook their heads when they looked at it.
In the darkness, two ghostly figures lurked silently.
Both looking for each other’s position.
Suddenly, both of them started at the same time!
Clang!
The firelight from the daggers meeting lit up the darkness, as well as the two identical skeletons.
Only the other had a black mask, and even his skeleton was gray.
“F*ck, Shadow Trial huh, you’re damn early!?”
Mr. Xia wailed in his heart.
This was the Shadow Trial of the Wanderer Lv40, and after winning it, the Shadow Department’s entire skill level +1.
But he didn’t know anything else at all right now except for a Dark Shadow Strike!
Damn blood loss ah!
With full of speechlessness and indignation, he deftly dodged the high imitation of Dark Shadow Strike and hit the back of his opponent’s neck with a beautiful backhand backstab.
Clank!
It was blocked once again.
And then –
Stagger, sidestep, dodge, counterattack.
As if they were mirror image combat, the sparks of the exchanges kept lighting up.
Meanwhile that voice was still compelling.
“You can’t defeat your strongest self ……
“But by joining us, you will become stronger ……”
“What did you say about your mom!”
Mr. Xia suddenly picked up speed.
The dagger wrapped in dark purple light was like a spiritual snake that bypassed the opponent’s block, tore through the black mask, and viciously stabbed into the gray skeleton’s cranial cavity.
The soul fire extinguished and the bones scattered.
The raucous voice also came to an abrupt end.
(End of chapter)