My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 232 - 230: Little Ghost Great Seal

Chapter 232: Chapter 230: Little Ghost Great Seal

Yale Harrison was the personal soldier of Owen Bertram and was much more capable than Eric Reed. He had been very cautious throughout the journey, setting ambushes multiple times in case they were followed, and almost exposed the Magpie.

Later on, the Magpie dared not stay too close. Fortunately, Little Ghost’s older brother, Dave, helped track them by hiding in the shadows of the forest.

This unexpectedly helped Dave realize the divine power of "Shadow Leap", which allowed him to jump directly from one shadow to another. However, his current jumping range was limited and could not exceed 60 feet.

But this slowed down Yale Harrison’s pace, and it wasn’t until this morning that they arrived at the "Lion Cave" in the deep mountains, as mentioned by Owen Bertram.

The cave was located on the sunny side of a mountain peak, and today’s weather was excellent, with clear skies and bright sunlight. However, within the three-mile range of the Lion Cave, there was an indescribable damp cold atmosphere — the Magpie felt very uncomfortable, constantly shaking its own feathers. The sensation was like always feeling wet dew on its body, but it could not shake it off no matter how hard it tried.

This peculiar situation alarmed Eric Reed. Through the single eye of the Mechanical Dao Soldier on the Magpie’s head, he saw Yale Harrison move the massive stone blocking the cave entrance, then used a talisman to remove the seal of an Array before finally revealing a thick black iron door inside!

Yale Harrison took out a magical instrument key from his pocket and opened the iron door.

Behind the iron door was pitch darkness, and a strong wave of damp cold air rushed out. The few military officers beside Yale Harrison shivered from the cold and involuntarily stepped back a few steps.

Yale Harrison looked around and pointed at one of the military officers: "You, go get the thing."

The military officer hesitantly looked at the iron door in fear: "Master Harrison, what exactly is inside?"

Yale Harrison’s face turned cold: "Do not ask questions you shouldn’t ask. Go now!"

"This..." The military officer hesitated. The short gun on Yale Harrison’s back flew out with a swoosh, pointing at the military officer’s throat, "Disobey the order, and die without pardon!"

Left with no choice, the military officer entered the iron door and soon came out with an earthenware jar that resembled a pickles container. However, the jar was covered with dark black lines that looked like blood splatters that had dried and turned black over time!

"Hurry up!" Yale Harrison’s face changed.

Everyone protected the military officer holding the jar in the middle and quickly moved forward to the north. After about half a Shichen, the officer’s footsteps became heavier, and he suddenly stopped. His pale face was covered with a spider web of black blood vessels!

Immediately after, his eyes glowed red.

Boom!

A sharp gun light exploded on the military officer, instantly shattering his upper body. The earthenware jar rolled to one side without any damage!

Yale Harrison killed the military officer with one shot, startling everyone else. He immediately threw out a Talisman Fire Starter, and a flame roared, burning the flesh and blood on the ground and the lower half of the officer’s corpse cleanly!

"Ah—" The others were frightened, but Yale Harrison casually pointed to another person: "You, take that thing and keep going!"

"I don’t want to!" The military officer turned to run, but a gun light attacked him, and with a bang, his head was blasted into pieces.

Yale Harrison coldly pointed to another person: "You, come!"

The military officer was almost in tears, but he dared not disobey. Trembling, he continued to carry the earthenware jar. However, after another half a Shichen, he also transformed into that ghastly figure, and Yale Harrison killed him and replaced him with another person!

The lives of these military officers were held by Yale Harrison: "Hurry up, make it to Master Owen as soon as possible, and we can all survive!"

"If you want to escape, there’s only one way out: death!"

However, under the pressure of life and death, even Yale Harrison didn’t notice that the interval between transformations was getting shorter and shorter...

Eric Reed’s face was solemn, guessing what was in the earthenware jar?!

At last, the final military officer was killed by Yale Harrison in the forest. After burning everything clean, he gritted his teeth in preparation to carry the earthenware jar himself...He reached out towards the jar, but suddenly stopped just before touching it.

He finally reacted, checking the time and estimating the distance to his master’s location—he knew he wouldn’t make it in time no matter what.

Struggling between his life and loyalty, he suddenly withdrew his hand and dashed away without looking back, disappearing into the wilderness!

Owen Bertram was dumbfounded: What happened to loyalty unto death?

You were ruthless when killing others, but when it came to yourself, you became timid?

In the forest, a gentle breeze blew, and the earthenware jar quietly lay on the ground, seemingly harmless.

This thing can’t be left out here, thought Owen Bertram, but it is dangerous upon contact—who should retrieve it? As he thought, the corner of Owen’s mouth unconsciously revealed a strange smile.

Eric Reed gasped and asked, "Sir, why are you smiling?"

Eric Reed felt a headache. Yesterday, he spent half a day walking around with Owen Bertram, and today they had to retrace their steps, or else they’d be exposed, right?

But he just wandered around randomly yesterday, trying to retrace their steps was a challenge as he couldn’t remember some parts of the journey.

Moreover, David was impatient, constantly questioning him along the way: This isn’t the way we took yesterday. Eric Reed racked his brains to make up various excuses—it was even more exhausting than climbing a mountain.

As they walked, Owen suddenly laughed. Eric, thinking he had been exposed, hurriedly asked with a guilty conscience.

Owen shook his head: "Nothing, how much farther do we have to go?"

"Almost there, almost there."

...

Yale Harrison fled all the way, vaguely aware of what was in that jar. But there was a sturdy seal on the jar, and whatever was inside shouldn’t have affected the outside world—why couldn’t those military officers last even half a Shichen (2 hours)?

If he had known this, he would’ve brought dozens more men.

Yale realized that after escaping this time, he could only hide his identity thousands of miles away or even... escape from the Wood Dynasty.

But it’s better than losing his life on the spot.

He suddenly stopped, a sense of alarm rising in his heart: It’s too quiet!

He suspiciously glanced around, and suddenly a bird called out, followed by a gust of wind from the side. He rolled away, stabbing his flying spear in mid-roll, only for it to be effortlessly caught by a pair of steel-like giant claws. He could no longer control it himself.

He knelt on the ground, looked up and saw a giant magpie the size of a man, staring at him with pale golden eyes, sizing him up maliciously.

Then, the strange bird stretched its neck and opened its mouth.

A group of ghost soldiers rolled out!

Yale was terrified, his soul scattered. He finally noticed the place he stopped was surrounded by centuries-old trees, with dense foliage above blocking most sunlight, casting a shadow below.

Yale wanted to turn around and leave, but then he saw a small ghost appearing on the strange bird’s neck, with several arms growing out. One of them held a White Bone Seal, shining it towards him, and Yale was instantly immobilized!

The ghost soldiers rolled towards him, and then one of them drifted onto Yale’s body, possessing him.

Yale stiffly turned around, the ghost soldier adapting to his body, gradually becoming more agile, returning to the earthen jar, picked it up and went into the forest.