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Chapter 110: Shadow Ghost_1

Chapter 110: Chapter 110: Shadow Ghost_1

"Give it back to me!!!"

Gao Ziming’s petrification barely lasted a second before it was undone. With eyes filled with bloodshot veins, he caught sight of the box flying away in mid-air and appeared to rally as if death was imminent. He seemed frantic to charge at Mu You again.

However, Mu You was not about to give him any chance. As he waved his wand, three zombies rushed toward Gao Ziming. After they clamped onto him, they erupted in a series of bone-crunching, manic noises and then exploded.

The Explosion Zombie is, as its name suggests, truly terrifying due to its final detonation attack, causing up to 400 points of damage within a three-meter radius!

Even if this damage was reduced by 50% due to rank buff, it would still amount to 200 points. Three zombies exploding together would, therefore, mean a whopping total of 600 points of damage!

Gao Ziming, whose life was already hanging by a thread, could not withstand such an impact. With his life point hitting zero in the explosion, he fell to the ground with a grudge, completely silent.

Mu You ran over to check and upon confirming his death, he took the space pouch that hung at his waist.

He had clearly seen earlier that this man had stored all the spoils he had looted along the way in this pouch.

However, when Mu You tried to pick up the magic wand dropped by the man in the black suit, he watched as the wand, like the wizard’s hat the fat man dropped earlier, turned into specks of light dust and disappeared.

Instead, a dark blue crystal emerged from the man’s eye and fell into the rainwater.

Mu You picked up the crystal for a quick glance.

It was a very regular, prism-shaped crystal, only the size of a fingernail, and was icy cold to the touch. Nothing special could be seen from it at first.

However, Mu You felt a presence from this crystal similar to that of his Time Pocket Watch.

"Could this also be a relic?"

Mu You pondered, but had no time to examine it closely.

He pocketed the crystal and the space pouch, made sure there were no other magical items on Gao’s body, and hurriedly ran back to Vivian.

At this moment, Vivian was still standing over the black box in the rain, guarding it. Clearly, the box was no ordinary item.

Mu You put the Canary back into his pocket, then picked up the black box and the parchment from the ground.

He decided to leave the scroll for now and focused on the box.

When Mu You held up the box, he could vaguely see a cloud of drifting black fog sealed inside. It seemed to be alive, struggling and hitting against the box from the inside, only to be repelled back by the barrier formed by the box.

"What is this?" Mu You asked Vivian.

"It’s a Shadow Ghost." Vivian replied, dissipating the rainwater that had soaked her with magic.

"Shadow Ghost? A ghost?"

"Not a ghost. Strictly speaking, a Shadow Ghost isn’t a life form, nor a physical entity, but a concentration of negative emotions. When a wizard suffers physical or psychological trauma over an extended period, and the negative emotions accumulate to extreme levels, in a bid to escape from the trauma and pain, there’s a very small chance that they can shunt these negative emotions into their own shadow, thereby transforming the shadow into a Shadow Ghost."

"Since it is a pure collective of malice, the Shadow Ghost lacks thought and consciousness, only pure violence and desire for destruction. After being born, it will detach from its host and roam the world, assaulting everything and everyone except its original host." Vivian explained.

Taken aback, Mu You subconsciously said: "Isn’t that a Dementor?"

"What?" Now it was Vivian’s turn to be puzzled.

Mu You quickly explained the concept of Dementors from the Harry Potter universe, a unique existence that is neither alive nor dead, and a product of extreme emotions. It seemed similar to what she had just described.

After listening, Vivian pondered, then shook her head: "There are similarities, but it’s not the same. Each Shadow Ghost possesses extremely potent destructive power. Once released, it will immediately detach from its host, taking its host’s shadow with it, possess another person, and then control that person to cause even more severe destruction, until the host’s body dies. They will then leave and seek the next host."

"How strong...is this thing?" Mu You asked after a moment of thought.

"Its power equals that of the Human Forbiddance Spell, except it’s a curse without time limitation. Before being sealed, it can wreak havoc non-stop, since there have been examples of a single Shadow Ghost obliterating an entire country."

"Hiss..."

Mu You gasped. He had just witnessed the power of the forbidden scroll ripped open by the man in black. Players below level ten had no chance to fight back under that spell. And that was just a neutered version.

How terrifying must this thing be then, comparable to an incessant forbidden curse?

No wonder Vivian had stepped in just now to stop the man in black from opening the box. If he had really released this thing, not just the three of them, the entire K City would probably have been flattened!

Vivian looked at the pattern of the black box again and said, "This sealing box, the pattern on it is the symbol of the ’Undead Society’. It should be a shadow ghost made by the Undead Society."

"Can something like this be artificially made?" Mu You was surprised.

"Yes, as long as there are enough test subjects, creating sufficiently cruel conditions and maintaining it for a long enough time, even the smallest probability can happen."

Vivian said three ’sufficiently, but the cruelty hidden in these words was incredibly terrifying.

"So, this ’Undead Society’ is a power that specializes in manufacturing and selling shadow ghosts?"

Mu You asked oddly, "Is such a power allowed to exist in your Star Spirit World?"

"In mainstream empires, of course not. But the Undead Society belongs to the Cook Islands, a chaos land in the east of the Lan Ai’er Empire across the sea." Vivian replied.

Foreign power, huh... Wait a moment!

Mu You was startled after hearing her description.

The geographical positions of the two worlds corresponded everywhere. The Lan Ai’er Empire in Vivian’s words roughly corresponded to their Celestial Dynasty in the Star Spirit World.

To the east of their country, across the sea... Didn’t that just point to the two small countries on the east?

Mu You frowned at the black box in his hand.

Therefore, even if this box was circulated to Earth, it should have first appeared in those two countries. But now this box was circulated from the hands of the Illuminati...

Thinking about the names of the two parties involved, Illuminati, Undead Society...

The implications of this information is quite profound!

After some thought, Mu You vaguely understood everything.

No wonder when Gao Ziming wanted to hand this box to the bureau, those seven people reacted so nervously.

For the Illuminati, this was indeed something that couldn’t be revealed!

Therefore, they had to do everything they could to repossess this item and eliminate all who knew about it.

At the same time, Mu You also figured out the reason why the man in black ran to the seaside: this guy seemed to be ready to simply dive into the sea, swim across, find the body of the shadow ghost on the other side, and completely control the power of this shadow ghost!

Thinking of this, Mu You exhaled and looked at the black box in his hand.

Once the implications of this object were confirmed, it had to be dealt with very cautiously!

There’s no need to think about it, the Illuminati would definitely come to K City soon, desperately looking into this matter, maybe someone was already rushing this way, and he needed to erase all traces of himself as quickly as possible.

Four people had died here. The other three were easy to deal with, after they exploded, their bones had turned into powder and were taken by the waves into the sea, becoming fish food and leaving no traces.

As for the last one...

If you’re going to put on a show, make it complete!

Mu You walked to the front of the man in black, waving his wand, and the man in black suddenly stood up again like a zombie, swaying from side to side.