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Chapter 169 - 157: Information about the Ghost Ship _1

Chapter 169: Chapter 157: Information about the Ghost Ship _1

The Snow Monster emitted a mournful wail, its eyes quickly losing their spark of intelligence and collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

Meanwhile, the Grim Reaper pulled the soul of the Snow Monster, disregarding its struggle, kneaded it into a ball, shoved it directly into its mouth, swallowed it and then vanished into the Reaper’s Scythe with a satisfied laugh.

At the same time, Mu You felt the Array absorbing power from under his feet stopped operating.

In the distance, the part of the soul that was pulled from the young girl, Lin Xue, reemerged from the top of her head, as if drawn by an invisible thread, flying backwards and reentering Lin Xue’s body.

Without the supply of soul and energy, the girl’s face rapidly aged and soon turned back into a white-haired old woman, her body becoming hunched over.

"Grandma..."

As Lin Xue’s soul returned, she came back to her senses and rushed towards the old woman.

Mu You also picked up the ice coffin from the ground and walked over.

The old woman was still standing in place, her eyes blank, and the scythe in her hands had fallen weakly to one side.

Clearly, this was not a real Spell of the Dead Resurrection. Instead, the Soul Points injected by the Reaper’s Scythe temporarily revived the old woman’s body.

Thinking back to how the old woman was able to appear in time to lend a hand, it seemed that she might have predicted a trap waiting on the other side of the door. Her request to be buried here was not just to return to her roots, but also to use the last value of her body to help deal with the threat behind the door, allowing them to control this door without worries.

"Grandma, rest now..."

Lin Xue closed the old woman’s eyes and took away the few Soul Points remaining in the old woman’s body with the scythe.

The body of the old woman instantly lost all support, fell down rigidly, and was caught by Lin Xue who gently put her back into the ice coffin.

"How many points were consumed?" Mu You asked. The seemingly one-sided battle just now came at a high price. At the start of the confrontation, the old woman was able to parry a full-powered strike from the Snow Monster, whereas the end of the battle saw her barely standing. Clearly, the souls she had absorbed from the Scythe were largely depleted, resulting in such a significant drop.

"Initially, the scythe stored 221 Soul Points, all of which were absorbed by Grandma. At the end of the battle, we recovered 51 points. In other words, the battle consumed 170 points..."

"Also, after the Grim Reaper devoured the soul of the Snow Monster, 345 soul points were added. There are now 396 Soul Points remaining in the Scythe." Lin Xue listed all the data in a clear and organized manner.

points...

Mu You took a deep breath. The battle, which lasted only five minutes, consumed as many as 170 points. The rate at which the points were used was daunting.

Of course, having finally slain the Snow Monster, they earned back more than double the Soul Points. Not only did they not lose any, but they even made a profit in terms of Soul Points.

However, the battle took more than just Soul Points, it also exhausted the natural magic power and lifespan of both of them.

Magic power is not a big deal, they could recover it quickly. The real issue is their lifespan.

Mu You looked at the notification in his mind. He had lost ten years of his life to Death throughout the entire process, and Lin Xue, who stood in the magic array beside him, must have had a similar loss.

In other words, the two of them consumed a total of 20 years of their lifespan just to kill this Snow Monster...

Obviously, this ability to resurrect a body can be used as a trump card in critical moments, but it cannot be used as a regular combat method, as their lifespans cannot afford to be wasted this way.

"What do you plan to do?" Mu You looked at Lin Xue.

Now that they have this method of resurrecting the dead for battle, the purpose of Grandma Lin Xue asking her to bring the body to the Star Spirit World is up for discussion. The notion of burial was perhaps just a pretense and her true intention may have been for Lin Xue to carry her remains with her as a means of protection.

"I’m not sure..."

Lin Xue shook her head. As clever as she was, she immediately understood that her grandmother’s true wish was to continue to be active in the other world after death in a different form and to be a force protecting her.

But this way of using the dead was making Lin Xue, who was raised with the concept of ’resting in peace’ feel uneasy. She was unsure about how to deal with this newfound information.

"How about finding a secure place to preserve your grandmother’s body?" Mu You suggested.

"Is there such a place?" Lin Xue was surprised.

"I know a place where you can preserve a body without it decaying."

Naturally, Mu You was referring to the Vampire’s Tomb. The bodies of vampires had been preserved in that chamber for thousands of years, and even kept their vitality. Although this was helped by the Gargoyles, it cannot be denied that it is the best place he could think of to preserve bodies.

He briefly described the characteristics of the Vampire’s Tomb to her. The place was guarded by various level-25 or higher monsters, so its security was definitely top notch.

After hearing this, Lin Xue nodded: "If there’s a place like that, then let’s put Grandma there."

"Okay, I’ll go there right away."

Mu You nodded. There is a Teleportation Array set up in the Vampire’s Tomb, so he just needed to set up another near it to instantly transfer over.

Mu You opened a new backpack, put the ice coffin inside, he then turned to Lin Xue and asked, "What about you? Would you like to come with?"