Chapter 2336 Primitive Giant Eye God <TOC> Chapter 2338 Mandevil Family
Translator: SumTLMan
In the endless pursuit of power, and the quest for growth.
Angel saw in the Mirror Wraith a shadow of Mandara from the days within Black Castle. The only regret was that it lacked Mandara’s fortune.
Mandara had been struck by a white light bullet from the Prelude of Reincarnation, which allowed her to regain a semblance of sanity from the chaos. Even if this sanity was mad and bloodthirsty, for a ghost like Mandara, it was still a qualitative improvement.
Relying solely on a blind pursuit of power without the corresponding wisdom to match, even the utilization of one’s own strength would be chaotic and without order. This was the gap between the Mirror Wraith and Mandara.
However, Angel was surprised that the Mirror Wraith had managed to achieve even this much.
Facing a giant special ghost that had become as large as a small hill, even a formal wizard might find it difficult to deal with. Unfortunately for the Mirror Wraith, it encountered Angel.
In the distance.
The Mirror Wraith bent down, its hands plunging directly into the sacrificial altar beneath the ground.
A vast amount of black mist spread out, forming a wall of black fog that completely enveloped the sacrificial altar. The black mist piled higher and higher, as if a Black Mist Tower was being forged on flat ground.
Suddenly——
From within the tower of black fog, the Mirror Wraith extended its huge and terrifying skull, surrounded by thread-like black gas. Opening its massive mouth, it fiercely sucked in the direction where Angel was.
The strong suction force instantly overturned the pitch-black lake water, pulling it into its gaping maw like a surging wave.
Angel, along with the rushing lake water, was ‘swept’ towards the Mirror Wraith’s gaping mouth. However, upon closer inspection, one would notice that the purification field around Angel remained undisturbed, preventing any water vapor from penetrating the field.
As he was about to be drawn into the black fog tower, Angel slowly raised his finger.
A grand energy transformed into a speck of light, bursting forth from his fingertip, heading straight into the mouth of the Mirror Wraith.
After the light entered the Mirror Wraith’s mouth, the suction force continued as if nothing had changed, and Angel continued to be pushed towards the gaping maw.
But just as Angel’s figure was about to disappear into the mouth, the suction force suddenly vanished.
The surrounding lake water, under the pull of gravity, began to fall crazily.
And the Mirror Wraith’s huge skull started emitting beams of light from the inside, as if countless rays of light were piercing into its skull.
Two seconds later, light burst forth, and the skull of the Mirror Wraith stiffened for a few seconds before shattering into wisps of black smoke.
These black smokes were sucked into the dark mist tower behind it, and in a short while, another skull of the Mirror Wraith drilled out from the mist, identical in size and ferocious appearance to the previous one, as if the shattering had been but an illusion.
Angel, however, showed no surprise, merely whispering, “Is this the new power you’ve acquired?”
“The skull simulated by death aura, is this a type of transformation by death aura?” Angel observed the moist traces washed out by the lake water around them: “The degree of interference with the material world is quite significant.”
Before this, the Mirror Wraith had only displayed the ability of mirror space, which is considered a unique ability among Soul Trickery where the soul intervenes.
Besides, the attacks of the Mirror Wraith were instinctual energy transformations, but this time, it simulated a large skull with a massive amount of death aura, interfering with reality through suction power. This clearly wasn’t “soul intervention” but “transformation by death aura.”
Sunny was currently preparing to learn the transformation by death aura, but so far, she had not succeeded. Yet, the Mirror Wraith had acquired this new ability in just a few minutes by devouring.
Moreover, the transformations by death aura usually produce smaller things, such as hair, broken bones, blood pools, etc… To be able to produce such a huge skull upon first learning indicates that this might also be a special Soul Trickery, just like the mirror space, exclusive to special ghost.
Unfortunately, this transformation by death aura ability that the Mirror Wraith had just learned was of a very low level of control.
Creating a huge skull but only using suction to interfere with reality, this level of threat was almost zero for Angel.
And, if it could simulate a skull, it could definitely simulate simpler limbs or other entities such as weapons, ground spikes, or even more lethal beings.
Wouldn’t using huge limbs for combat be better than a skull that can only intimidate? You’re not a flying skull monster, at least those can smash into people with their skulls, and their eyes can create illusions. But for now, the Mirror Wraith’s skull only had suction power, which was limited in terms of lethality.
As Angel silently analyzed and critiqued in his mind, the Mirror Wraith launched another attack with its skull.
However, this time, Angel was closer to the dark mist tower, and instead of using suction, the Mirror Wraith opened its mouth and bit towards him.
Angel dodged the attack with a light flicker of his body, then continued to bombard with basic energy beams.
Each energy beam could annihilate a skull of the Mirror Wraith.
After continuously destroying four or five skulls, the Mirror Wraith finally changed its strategy. While attacking with its skull, it also created several tentacles to constantly interfere with Angel’s movements.
“Not bad, your combat intelligence is improving, but it’s still not enough,” Angel praised, continuing to eliminate the various transformations created by the Mirror Wraith.
Angel could actually target the core, but he didn’t intend to eliminate the Mirror Wraith. Entering the mirror space was mainly for observation, to explore the bottom line of the Mirror Wraith’s abilities, and to expose more of the underlying logic of the mirror space.
In this moment, Angel’s actions were primarily focused on engaging and provoking the Mirror Wraith, aiming to deepen its combat intelligence. This was beneficial for revealing more profound rules within the mirror space.
Of course, playing with fire can easily lead to getting burned. The capabilities of the Mirror Wraith had been stimulated to a terrifying extent, posing a challenge even for formal wizards. The reason Angel dared to continue this risky game was his confidence in——the Prelude of Reincarnation.
Anyone else would have hesitated to take such risks.
After several more minutes of struggle with the Mirror Wraith, Angel noticed that aside from continuously increasing the number of death aura entities, it didn’t employ any other tactics.
This left him slightly disappointed, as he had hoped to see the extent of the new death aura entities acquired by the Mirror Wraith. However, it seemed that further development would require more time.
Nevertheless, Angel’s interest wasn’t in the death aura entities themselves but in the mirror space.
“There’s no need to continue.” After eliminating several writhing tentacles, Angel decided to end the battle.
A golden patterned glimmer flashed under Angel’s feet on the Dark Night Flyover, propelling him into mid-air.
While overlooking the layers of black death mist below, Angel retrieved the Prelude of Reincarnation from his bracelet.
He aimed the barrel towards the towering black mist below.
The Mirror Wraith, hidden within the mist, shuddered as if sensing a natural predator. It looked up into the sky, continuing its shrill screams, but now with a hint of submission in its voice.
If other wizards were present, they would be astonished by this scene. Ghosts lack any form of rationality, driven only by a desire to kill. Even when faced with an entity far more powerful, they would attack without hesitation. Yet, the mere sight of Angel’s gun elicited such a significant reaction from the Mirror Wraith, certainly a rare occurrence.
The reason the Mirror Wraith reacted so strongly to the Prelude of Reincarnation was its firsthand experience of its terror.
Each shot from the Prelude of Reincarnation, even if not directly hitting the Mirror Wraith, showcased its irrational destructiveness, which the Mirror Wraith witnessed.
Angel had no intention of killing the Mirror Wraith; bringing out the Prelude of Reincarnation was meant to drive it away and weaken it.
Repeated exposure to such situations, even for the irrational Mirror Wraith, created a conditioned response to the Prelude of Reincarnation.
Angel’s decision to bring out the Prelude of Reincarnation again was to conclude today’s exploration of the mirror space.
Despite the Mirror Wraith’s continuous howling and retreating, Angel still fired the gun.
Bang——
With the gunshot, invisible ripples began to spread downwards.
All the death aura that came into contact with the ripples retreated, causing the black mist tower standing on the sacrificial altar to collapse.
The Mirror Wraith, hidden within the mist, was also revealed.
Facing the ripples created by the Prelude of Reincarnation, the Mirror Wraith couldn’t even take the time to absorb the dissipating black mist and could only look resentfully at Angel in the sky before starting to retreat.
What Angel did was to leisurely follow the Mirror Wraith, continuously releasing the ripples of the Prelude of Reincarnation.
When the ripples spread throughout the entire mirror space, the Mirror Wraith had no way to retreat and could only return to the cave in reality with resentment.
Back in reality, the Mirror Wraith’s strength suddenly decreased. Even now, with the ability to transform into a creature of death aura, it had no resistance against Angel in the situation where it couldn’t control its powers well.
Easily recapturing the Mirror Wraith into the soul bottle, Angel patted his dust-free coat and turned his head to look at the other side.
Freud, who was in the cave to protect Sunny, was now looking at the soul bottle with a look of astonishment.
Was that giant who just escaped from the mirror the Mirror Wraith?!
What happened in the mirror space? Why did the Mirror Wraith change so much?
Moreover, the aura that the Mirror Wraith emitted after coming out, even Freud felt a moment of palpitation. Before this, Freud was completely dominating the Mirror Wraith, but after today, perhaps the roles of who would be dominated might have to be swapped.
“My lord, was that the Mirror Wraith just now? How did he, how did he…”
Angel: “There was a little accident.”
After putting away the soul bottle, Angel sat down opposite Freud and recounted what had happened in the mirror space.
“…That’s what happened. Although there was a bit of a mishap, the final gain was still quite good.” Angel was quite satisfied with today’s exploration.
Whether it was the new rules of the mirror space or the discovery of the otherworldly creature being worshiped by the farm’s owner, these were all unexpected gains.
Moreover, after the Mirror Wraith’s evolution and acquiring two special abilities, this would be greatly beneficial for the future integration with Tulas.
Freud listened to the entire process with his mouth agape, completely unexpected that Angel would fight a battle with an otherworldly god in the mirror space, and what surprised him even more was that the Mirror Wraith actually devoured the otherworldly god!
The whole process was astonishing.
It took a good while for Freud to calm down: “I didn’t expect that the rural nobles of the Silvercloud Duchy would really dare to worship an otherworldly evil god.”
Angel: “Speaking of that otherworldly creature, do you know its identity?”
Angel condensed a cluster of illusion nodes and presented the giant eye he had seen earlier as an illusion, even displaying the strange oscillation he had sensed at the time to fully restore it.
“This oscillation might be the language of their world, unfortunately, it can’t be deciphered. Have you heard of it?”
Freud scrutinized the colossal eye illusion, sensed the frequency within the illusion, and ultimately shook his head, “It doesn’t match my impression. I’ve studied the Eldritch Gods of the Lovecraftian World before, and this doesn’t resemble them. Its temperament also differs from those of the Lovecraftian Eldritch Gods, so we can essentially rule out the Lovecraftian World.”
The Lovecraftian World harbors a type of Eldritch God that all pan-dimensional races find troublesome and dread. Their power is unfathomable, their influence boundless, and merely knowing their names, even just aliases, could attract their gaze.
Therefore, they are worshiped by a broader range of followers than even the demons of the Abyss.
Initially, Bruen wanted to resurrect an Eldritch God of Lovecraft in the Abyss, but the mere leakage of a hint of its presence nearly led to their annihilation. This shows how terrifying the power of the Lovecraftian Eldritch Gods can be.
Because their power is so immense and horrifying, they are often ranked among the top three in the Wizarding World’s interdimensional sacrificial scrutiny.
They are not ranked first because, unlike the demons of the Abyss, the Lovecraftian Eldritch Gods do not possess a desire to invade. They have no intention of entering other worlds, and even their names are not deliberately spread. The numerous sacrifices are purely the self-indulgence of their followers.
In other words, such “Buddha-like” Eldritch Gods still ranking in the top three sufficiently proves how terrifying their essence is.
“We can also rule out the demons of the Abyss,” Angel added.
“If it’s not the Eldritch Gods of the Lovecraftian World or the demons of the Abyss, could it be… the primitive gods worshipped by the barbarian tribes of other worlds?” Freud speculated, “Dawn Town is a port town, often visited by foreign ships. Perhaps ships from the Feran Continent brought their primitive worship practices.”
The Feran Continent is home to numerous primitive tribes, where worship and sacrifices to outer gods, typically those of barbarian tribal deities, are common.
“That’s indeed a possibility,” Angel said. “But whether it is the case, I’ll find out after I inquire in the Wilderness of Dreams.”
The gods of the barbarian tribes are not uncommon. If that colossal eye truly belongs to a primitive god, consulting other wizards should yield an answer… Conveniently, he was about to meet Nisi and could ask him along the way.
With this topic concluded for the moment, Freud said, “Just now, while you were in the mirror space, Drew transmitted a piece of information to me.”
“Information? About the clues to the cavern?”
Freud nodded, took out a black leather-sealed letter from his bosom, and handed it over.
Chapter 2336 Primitive Giant Eye God <TOC> Chapter 2338 Mandevil Family