What is called a sorcerer’s least desired enemy?
Facing the spiritual entities’ relentless blocking, Ivan and Doug had a deep understanding of this in that moment.
“Take your filthy hands off!”
“Let go of the great being!”
“Merge with Wafting Scent Castle, and you may live forever.”
The surrounding spiritual entities continuously repeated a few sentences, their voices sharp and piercing, like some kind of chanting ritual, making the hallucinogenic power around them increasingly brutal with signs of distorting reality.
Under Ivan and Doug’s counterattack, spiritual entities were occasionally annihilated.
However, the spiritual entities’ obstruction was exceptionally frenzied, preventing the duo from escaping the entanglement or leaving the vicinity of the ancient castle ruins, although the exit was already in sight.
Meanwhile, the power emitted by the spiritual entities jammer was continuously weakening, and more cracks were appearing on it.
“You go first, I’ll cover the rear.”
Seeing how difficult the spiritual entities were, Doug made a decision and casually threw the jammer to him.
This made Ivan flinch, surprised that this guy was actually a man of sentiment.
“I disagree, I’m not used to others covering the rear for me.”
“You have the Life and Death Cocoon on you, I can easily rush out if you go first.”
“Less talking, let’s go together, get ready to sprint out, explode!”
Before Doug could say anything else, Ivan threw the jammer forward, and with a low shout, the jammer exploded with a loud boom, suddenly increasing the annihilation force, pulling surrounding spiritual entities into it and turning them to ashes in the blink of an eye.
The effect was surprisingly good!
Ture to its reputation as a nemesis to spiritual entities, a gap appeared in the encirclement of spiritual entities.
With Ivan’s prompt, prepared, one sat astride the bird transformed from the Silkworm Queen, and the other jumped onto the Shadow Tigon, rushing out of the gap like arrows released from the bow.
In an instant, they burst out of the surrounding circle, out of the ancient castle ruins, and onto the shadowy path among the trees.
“Don’t let them escape!”
“Drop our belongings!”
Their chasers were relentless spiritual entities, and from their vengeful faces, it was clear that they would not let this matter rest.
With all the spiritual entities gathered in the castle, the path ahead was clear, without other entities jumping out to block them.
This was naturally a stroke of luck, Ivan was ready to explode the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearl as well, but it wasn’t needed.
Just as they thought they could smoothly make their escape, influenced by some force, the moonlight that filtered through the sky was blocked by suddenly appearing dark clouds, and the path ahead suddenly turned hazy, as if separated by a thin layer of water film.
“Charge, break through!”
The area around the castle was similar to a sub-space, previously under Doug’s guidance, they cleverly sneaked into it, but now the sub-space passage was closing and was being continuously fortified and sealed.
The best choice for them was to muster all their strength and break out.
Without exception, due to their extraordinary encounters, both the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon possessed some space energy, coupled with Ivan’s substantial knowledge in space, moving forward wasn’t blindly charging.
Together, they ruptured the water film.
The scene outside became clear again, and what they saw was already the area outside the deserted town.
“Go!”
Without any hesitation, they allowed the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon to keep moving forward, to escape the increasingly near multitude of spiritual entities behind them.
Without disappointing them, the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon each carried them out of the sub-space, leaving a crowd of pursuing spiritual entities trailing behind.
The spiritual entities did not give up, continually exuding grey smoke from their bodies as they followed the two men in rushing out, their strength visibly weakening rapidly.
When Ivan and Doug looked back, they witnessed firsthand the disintegration of five spiritual entities amidst the gray smoke.
The remaining spiritual entities finally realized the futility and retreated hatefully back to the limits of the old castle, glaring at the two men through the air, especially at Ivan, who had taken the Life and Death Cocoon.
“Sorcerer Ivan, you did well just now.”
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“You weren’t too bad yourself.”
The two men successfully escaped from the old castle to the outside world, feeling pleased and viewing each other more favorably.
This is a person worth befriending.
“Sorcerer Ivan, when you get back, refine it into a Secret Method Body Double as quickly as possible, otherwise I’m afraid they might come out looking for you,” joked Doug.
“I wasn’t afraid of them inside, and I’m even less worried now that we’re outside,” Ivan replied with a laugh.
“That’s true, now that we’ve left the old castle, it’s questionable whether they can even survive.”
Despite such remarks, the tenacity of the spiritual entities left a deep impression on both men who had now picked up a bit of curse essence. Fortunately, it was not deep and could be dispelled with some effort.
“Sorcerer Doug, thanks for your help this time.”
“Just helping each other out; it’s a pity I didn’t get as much out of it as when you helped me last time.”
Doug had come to repay a favor, and having done so, his obligation was now fulfilled.
Soon after, Doug suggested parting ways. His destination was not East Capital; thus, he took the Shadow Tigon and left decisively.
Ivan glanced at the spiritual entities that despised him to the bone. After meeting up with the swamp ant, he too quickly moved away from the old castle, leaving only the mad figures within.
A few days later, Ivan hurriedly returned to East Capital East Blade City and resumed his place at Rapid Wood Tower.
“Ah, three out of nine are gone; I’ll just have to find a way to refine new ones.”
On the way, he had already cleansed the curse essence that clung to his body and continued to clear the curse on the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearl after his return, which was in a more severe condition.
Under the erosion of the curse, three of the Windy Fire Beads were damaged beyond repair.
Of the nine Black Magic Wind Fire Pearls, one large and eight small, which originally formed a complete set, the core Windy Fire Bead was still intact, but missing three pearls, the effect that could be produced was greatly diminished.
The situation was not optimistic, which made him consider the idea of remaking the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearls.
Remaking required materials, which Ivan needed to find – a matter that could not be hurried.
At that moment, a familiar feeling descended, causing him to review his knowledge of curses over and over again, gaining a more detailed understanding.
[Curse Skill Experience Point +20]
[Curse Skill: lv4 (4/1000)]
His attention was drawn to the change on the Academic Prodigy panel. Indeed, his Curse Skill had advanced to level 4, earning him both a Small Light of Wisdom and a Light of Great Wisdom.
Subsequently, Ivan took out the stored Life and Death Cocoon.
The most urgent task was to transform this artifact into his Secret Technique Body Double, otherwise, it would be a joke if those spiritual entities actually came knocking.
Sorcerers had a shallow understanding of spiritual entities, and he was no different, so such an event was within the realm of possibility.
“The Life and Death Cocoon is certainly upper-class material, but turning it directly into a body double is too wasteful. If the cultivation method is wrong, its potential could be greatly reduced, so caution is required.”
“Better to first search for information on the Life and Death Cocoon, to see if I can find even a scrap of text on the correct cultivation method.”
Ivan pondered for a while and thought of three possible sources of information: purchasing information, the Enchanters Guild, or the Vernon Millennium Archive.
After considering, he directly ruled out the first option; given the nature of the other party, they were likely to guess something and then sell the information at a high price.
Many members of the Five Leaves Spear practice the Body Double Secret Method, and if such information were leaked, it would be a greater loss than gain.