Chapter 686 Birth of Thought <TOC> Chapter 688 Six Bullets
Translator: SumTLMan
The air around them was like a still pool, and the ripples emanating from the gun’s muzzle broke the tranquility, causing transparent waves to spread out.
The waves expanded in a fan-shaped formation, blocking all escape routes for the half-ghost on the other side.
The half-ghost seemed to know the terror of these ripples, its eyes widening in fear, retreating back to the corner and curling up like a shrimp, begging for mercy like Angel.
This was the first time a ghost recognized the horror of these ripples. Angel thought to himself that in the past, when he used ripples to eradicate ghosts, they were like clueless babies, unafraid of the Prelude of Death’s ripples, and even willingly approached them.
But this half-ghost, having gained wisdom, also understood fear.
Ghosts actually learned to be afraid, Angel guessed that if he told someone, no one would believe it. The reason why wizards don’t like dealing with ghosts is their ignorance and fearlessness, and the difficulty of cleaning them up. Once ghosts have fear, wizards only need to exert their own pressure, and ghosts would be easily cleared away.
The smarter, the more timid, because they understand reverence.
The ripples continued to expand, and even though the half-ghost shrank into the corner, there was no chance of escape, as this was an all-around attack.
Finally, the ripples engulfed the half-ghost’s body…
Angel said he was going to kill it, but in fact, he had another purpose. The ability effect of “Prelude of Death” is actually similar to an infrasound attack. It can release a very low frequency to disrupt the negative energy inside the ghost’s body, causing an imbalance and ultimately achieving the goal of eliminating the ghost.
Now, the male ghost’s body contains more than 7/8 of stable energy and only a small part of chaotic energy. The ripples of the Prelude of Death can only eliminate that part of the chaotic energy.
When 1/8 of the chaotic energy in a ghost’s body is eliminated, it will either be completely destroyed or… the negative energy disappears, transforming from a ghost into a pure soul?
This was Angel’s goal and the fourth stage of his test on the Prelude of Reincarnation.
When the ripples enveloped the half-ghost, a series of screams came from its mouth.
Angel’s eyes flickered slightly. If it were any other ghost, it would have been completely annihilated by the imbalance of energy within the ripples. However, this half-ghost only screamed, and although its soul fluctuated, it still maintained a basic level.
At this moment, gray-black smoke suddenly emerged from the ghost’s mouth. As soon as this smoke came into contact with the ripples outside, it disappeared without a trace.
At the moment when the outside world was monitoring energy data, 233 exclaimed, “This is unbelievable! Master Angel, the negative energy inside him is rapidly vanishing!”
Angel: “Is there any fluctuation in the stable part of the energy?”
233 quickly checked the energy monitoring: “There is a slight fluctuation, but it is not disintegrating like the negative energy.”
Angel nodded, “Keep monitoring and record the data.”
From 233’s observations, the gray-black smoke that had just emerged might be the disintegrating negative energy. The stable energy has not yet shown significant errors. Could this mean that this ghost is transforming into a soul?
The fall of a soul into a ghost has always been considered irreversible in the wizarding world. Could it be rewritten now?
When all the gray-black smoke inside the ghost disappeared, he fell to the ground.
Whether a pure white lotus could bloom from the fallen mud depended on this moment.
Finally, he raised his head amidst gasps for breath.
When Angel’s eyes met his pupils, Angel knew that his experiment had been mostly successful. Because there was no more resentment in his eyes, only bewilderment and surprise.
“Who are you?”
“Archie Turner.” He was somewhat confused, answering Angel’s question awkwardly. However, this was the first time he had answered this question, and from this alone, he already showed a completely different characteristic from before.
Angel continued to ask, asking some ordinary daily questions, trying to find out whether he had truly turned back into a soul and had his original memories.
Angel asked him about his identity, his position, his friends and family, his lover, and so on.
With Archie’s answers, his eyes gradually returned to a clear state, and his answers became smoother. Even while Angel was asking questions, he interjected to ask Angel, “Who are you?”
“I am the one who pulled you out of the dark mud,” Angel said.
Archie looked confused.
However, from the current Q&A, Archie had really regained his memory. He had transformed from a mere ghost into a soul.
“How do you feel now?” Angel asked.
“Better than ever before. The demonic whispers that were always in my ears are gone, and my heart is no longer restless. I feel like I’ve returned to my childhood, and the pressures that weighed on my heart have vanished as well. I feel very relaxed.”
Archie’s answer made Angel curious, and from the tone of his voice, did he experience “demonic whispers” when in a ghostly state?
Archie shook his head: “I don’t know, I just feel that many uncomfortable sounds have disappeared, those voices that kept saying strange things in my ears, all gone.”
“Strange things? What kind of things?” Angel became increasingly curious, even secretly thinking of a research topic in his heart: the study of the environment and mentality during a ghostly state.
“I can’t remember, but I just feel that those voices, old and young, male and female, whispered in my ears, very annoying.” As Archie spoke, he paused: “But now it’s better, I feel so relaxed, so comfortable! Even an unprecedented tranquility and comfort…”
As Archie continued to speak, suddenly, he looked like a mermaid in a fairytale.
Seeing the sunlight, turning into foam.
While muttering about such a wonderful feeling, his eyes slowly closed and he began to ascend… dissipate…
Angel’s eyes widened as he stood up and approached Archie: “Don’t think about it anymore, you’re disappearing, hurry back to reality!”
In the dissipating light, Archie’s figure had become extremely transparent.
Archie opened his eyes and smiled slightly at Angel: “Thank you, I remember you. You pulled me out of the dark swamp, you are my benefactor…”
Archie’s smile was very warm, and his whole person had a 180-degree change from the maliciousness not long ago.
“I think I might be leaving, but I don’t feel sad or sorrowful, I am very happy. At least, I have walked out of the dark predicament, thank you… you.”
With these words, Archie completely disappeared.
Angel stood there, stunned, watching Archie disappear, his eyes becoming darker and darker, and finally clenched his fist, his expression showing impatience.
—Had he failed? Was the price of a ghost transforming into a soul this momentary resurgence?
At this moment, the laboratory door was opened, and a black-robed 233 walked in, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, “Young Master Pat, the energy fluctuations in the laboratory have completely dissipated.”
“I can feel it myself…” I don’t need your reminder.
As Angel spoke, he realized that he seemed to be showing signs of venting his anger, quickly adjusted his emotions, and said to 233: “Show me the energy records.”
233 didn’t notice Angel’s emotional state, nodded, and handed over the record book in his hand.
Angel exhaled a breath of frustration. Three white light bullets, half a month of closed-door experiments, and finally obtained a flawed result, which inevitably made him feel stifled.
The most heart-wrenching thing for him was the three white light bullets, each requiring more than 2,000 ghosts! Having left Black Castle, where could he find so many ghosts?
Angel didn’t want to show his emotions and picked up the record book to take a look.
“From the perspective of the energy coordinate axis, when his soul body glows, the stable energy inside him begins to collapse, and the collapse speed is very fast, until the final demise,” said Angel. “But what is the reason for this?”
Could it be that the true function of the Prelude of Reincarnation is actually just to create an intelligent ghost? To create a ghost antagonist leader?
But this doesn’t make any sense.
If the Prelude of Reincarnation, a half-step mysterious object, has the function of returning the ghost to its original soul form, it would be more in line with the overall theme. At least, it also conforms to the setting of “mysterious” power: overthrowing the existing thinking of the Wizarding World, and ghosts and souls are not irreversible.
But reality did not follow the script he thought.
Although Archie really returned to the soul state, it only existed for less than five minutes before completely dissipating.
Angel couldn’t figure it out, and he always felt that there were some key points that he hadn’t clarified.
Having thought about it for a long time, Angel simply stopped thinking about it.
His understanding scope is still somewhat narrow, and his vision is not broad enough. He just needs to find someone with a high vision to help him figure it out.
Angel plans to seek Sanders’ help. If he doesn’t use his mentor, isn’t that foolish?
Moreover, he had crafted about 150 crystal balls, which could also be handed over to Sanders.
With this in mind, Angel collected all the data and the images from the communicator and went to Sanders’ study.
…
After listening to Angel’s narration, a hint of surprise flashed in Sanders’ eyes.
If it is really as Angel said, even if it only allows the ghost to return to the soul state for five minutes, this is worth studying in depth, because it represents that the consensus of the entire Wizarding World is wrong.
Even if there is a mysterious power involved, the Prelude of Reincarnation is only half-step mysterious and has not truly reached the level of a Mysterious Object. In fact, it still belongs to the ordinary alchemy category.
That is to say, the effect caused by the Prelude of Reincarnation actually falls within the scope of discussion.
“Give me the images and test records to take a look.” Sanders, filled with curiosity, opened the images recorded by Angel.