Chapter 385: Chapter 384: Deceiver’s Ring (Two-in-One) Chapter 385: Chapter 384: Deceiver’s Ring (Two-in-One) “Ah—”
The howling cold wind carried an inhuman wail, interspersed with the crackling sound of arcing electricity.
Valery’s body lay in the freshly frozen slush, a gleaming short sword with its ruby on the serpent-patterned hilt flickering, currents roaming along the blade, emitting a soft Holy Light.
Valery’s face, his beard dry and shedding, rapidly withered and cracked, turning to ash little by little in the Holy Light, dissipating in the cold wind.
Along with it, the unspent life force in his body also vanished.
“Damn humans… Ah—”
The ‘Miser’ Jack tried to erge from Valery’s body, but as soon as the black smoke seeped from the surface, ‘the glory of the Karen family’ seed triggered, bursting forth in a strong flare of light again.
In the midst of painful wails, the black smoke retreated back into Valery’s body.
Even with this temporary shelter of a body, it couldn’t last long under the Holy Light.
“Humans… what exactly do you want to do…”
Retracting back, ‘Miser’ Jack, suppressing the fear and anger in his heart, endured the pain and tried to communicate with Shao Zifeng.
Whoosh!
At that mont, turbulent currents raged as Qiuqiu landed behind Shao Zifeng, flapping its fiery dragon wings.
The dark red Scale Armor radiated terrifying heat, rapidly lting the newly frozen ice water, distorting the surrounding air slightly.
Its golden-red pupils flickered with fla as it glanced at Valery on the ground and then stood sowhat disinterestedly, its long tail swinging to and fro.
The lting ice water splashed with the flick of its tail, piquing Qiuqiu’s interest, turning its large head around, eyes unwaveringly fixed on its own tail.
As if ready to pounce and bite it at any mont.
“Yo~”
“Duke, is this the demon that needs Judgent?”
The faun and Lingling drifted down from Qiuqiu, the faun nuzzling Shao Zifeng, then quietly stood aside.
The energetic Lingling, not one to stay still, brightened upon seeing Valery and floated over, wielding her single-handed scepter.
Lingling, about one and a half ters tall, looked petite and cute. Her legs hovered off the ground as the ornate patterned long dress swept stardust around her.
Blinking her sparkling eyes, Lingling curiously poked with the Starlight scepter in her hand.
As soon as the scepter touched Valery’s body, the star elents on it twinkled, the touched area flickering with blue starry particles, quickly eroded by the elental forces.
“Ah—”
‘Miser’ Jack let out a cry of alarm, startling Lingling who drifted back a short distance, patting her flat chest.
After regaining her composure, the annoyed and embarrassed Lingling waved, and a thorny whip encased in starlight instantly appeared in her hand.
Puffing up angrily, she turned towards Valery, raising the glittering starlight whip.
“Realize this, demon! I shall use the starlight to judge your sins.”
Crack, crack, crack!
The gleaming whip of starlight flashed, and the sounds of whipping continued unceasingly, as Valery’s body dissipated even faster under the erosion of starlight.
Shao Zifeng watched Lingling with amusent and didn’t stop her.
After all, girls are concerned about face, especially one like Lingling, a typical teenage girl who needed to cover her embarrassnt with forceful actions.
Moreover, with the erosion by Lingling’s star elents, they made him have nowhere to hide faster.
“Stop hitting… Tell what you want… humans… I think we can have a good talk.”
Under the dual decomposition of Holy Light and star elents, ‘Miser’ Jack watched Valery’s body rapidly disintegrate, growing increasingly anxious.
Waving to make Lingling stop, Shao Zifeng looked at him playfully.
Shao Zifeng didn’t let Qiuqiu violently destroy the corpse mainly because he hadn’t yet decided how to deal with this fellow.
The most prudent thod currently was to use the ability of the ring, but this ability required close contact, and without knowing whether it still had the strength to resist, Shao Zifeng dared not easily touch the opponent.
Moreover, once he used the ring to take it in, it ant that he couldn’t easily use the “Host Spirit” ability on the ring until he found a way to completely subdue the fellow.
Besides that, Shao Zifeng had another idea.
With the dual threats of Lingling and the ‘Karen family’s glory’ short sword, he wanted to try.
“What do we have to talk about?”
Black smoke desperately shrank inside Valery’s broken corpse, which would soon be illuminated by the white light on the short sword.
“Of course there is…of course, whatever your heart desires, I can fulfill it for you,”
‘Miser’ Jack, enduring the tornt of pain, spoke in a beguiling tone.
‘I trust you for nothing.’
Shao Zifeng muttered in his heart, but his face remained unchanged as he said, “Can you really fulfill all my wishes?”
“Of course… As long as you sign a contract with , any wish you have can be fulfilled… Human, don’t you have any desires?”
“Power, wealth, beauty…”
As ‘Miser’ Jack spoke persuasively, Shao Zifeng’s vision beca blurry, filled with bizarre illusions.
Mountains of gold and silver treasures, gracefully contoured beauties, and supre power revered by thousands.
All the worldly glitz and glamor were now tempting the most primal desires deep in his heart.
And that voice was guiding him, as if by simply agreeing in his heart, everything in these illusions would beco his.
“See… this is my power, just sign it… ah—”
A piercing scream erupted.
The enticing vision before him shattered with a crash.
Shao Zifeng jerked all over, breaking out in a cold sweat.
How terrifying.
Just a few words of conversation had almost bewitched him.
If it were not for ‘Miser’ Jack getting too engrossed in deceiving him and forgetting the environnt, being scorched by the Holy Light on the sword, he might have already fallen for it.
More terrifying was that Lingling and its peers hadn’t noticed anything odd about him.
Shao Zifeng’s expression wavered as he looked at the shattered shell on the ground, his initial idea having already failed.
This fellow was really too dangerous.
With the experience just now, he dared not act recklessly again.
As ti passed, Valery’s corpse was about to evaporate completely, and ‘Miser’ Jack inside beca increasingly anxious.
“Human… sir, I feel we can still talk, wasn’t our conversation just now pleasant?”
“As I said, whatever you want… I can help you achieve it.”
“What problems can’t be solved through communication?”
No matter what he said, Shao Zifeng made up his mind not to entertain him anymore, making ‘Miser’ Jack increasingly desperate.
“No… please answer … I beg you to answer .”
Its emotions seed to verge on collapse as Valery’s shell shrank.
However, Shao Zifeng no longer believed it.
Gazing calmly at the remains, Shao Zifeng suddenly spoke, “Actually, I know you.”
‘Miser’ Jack was taken aback, not understanding what Shao Zifeng ant by suddenly saying this, but there was no ti left for it to dwell on these trivial matters.
“Sir…I have an immature idea…”
“‘Miser’ Jack.”
After Shao Zifeng gently uttered this na, the atmosphere seed to freeze.
“Miser Jack, who deceived the devil, Mr., don’t you agree?”
The mont Shao Zifeng spoke its na, the remnants of Valery completely dissipated, leaving only tattered protective suits in the snowlt.
The swirling mist on the ice was firmly nailed to the ground by ‘the glory of the Karen family’.
Under the illumination of the Holy Light, every wisp of smoke burned with a soft white fla, peaceful yet carrying a hint of danger.
The entangling black mist was scorched by the white Holy Light, and with each flicker of the fla, there were screams uncharacteristic of humans.
“What exactly do you want to do—”
The voice of ‘Miser’ Jack intermittently ca from the black mist, much weaker than before, and even the dark cloud had lightened considerably,
giving the impression that it could dissipate at any mont.
But Shao Zifeng remained vigilant, caressing the ring on his finger, his face bearing a harmlessly pleasant smile.
“Don’t rush; I am still willing to make a pact with you.”
His words brought so confusion to “Miser” Jack, sowhat puzzled by what Shao Zifeng was thinking, but it didn’t mind listening to his ideas.
Seeing this, Shao Zifeng’s lips curled up, and suddenly he flung his right hand, causing the mousy-grey ring on his finger to quickly fade in color.
“I want you to beco my slave, forever forbidden to betray or harm .”
As he spoke, he extended his right hand, and the dirty ring on his finger flickered twice, imdiately restraining the rolling black mist with a strange power.
Before it could recover, Shao Zifeng quickly stepped forward, pressing the hand with the ring onto the black mist.
The filthy ring erupted with a strong suction force, and amid ‘Miser’ Jack’s angry curses, the black mist was sucked into the ring.
After absorbing ‘Miser’ Jack, the dirty ring slowly turned a deep black,
featuring orange twisted lines outlining an abstract pumpkin lamp-like ghost face.
Shao Zifeng examined the ring on his finger, sighing with relief in his heart.
The preceding pact was rely a smokescreen; fortunately, it had succeeded in the end.
Suddenly, his expression paused, and he lightly exclaid.
[Na]: Deceiver’s Ring
[Type]: Erald/???
[Attributes]: Ghost, Witch
[Quality]: ★★★★
[Condition]: Intact
[Effects]: Host Spirit: Can encapsulate and nurture one Elental Body/Ghost Body/Illusion Body mutant creature. (1/1)
Spirit Control: An uncontracted Elental Body/Ghost Body/Illusion Body mutant creature will be briefly controlled, with judgent conditions depending on the opponent’s quality and strength; contracted entities will also be affected.
Illusion Body: When the ring encapsulates an Elental Body/Ghost Body/Illusion Body mutant creature, it will automatically neutralize one elental attack for the wearer, with the limit set by the nurtured mutant creature. (Tier 6)
[Additional Ability]: Deceiver: Your words beco more deceptive.
[Description]: This ring harbors an ancient aura and appears to conceal so secrets. It contains the soul of a sly and miserly deceiver, please do not release it lightly.
The change in the ring’s properties caught Shao Zifeng’s attention.
Even though previously, when it had absorbed the Lynx, the ring’s na beca [Lynx Ring], there were no significant changes.
He hadn’t expected that after absorbing ‘Miser’ Jack, an additional skill would appear.
Previously, he had hosted Lingling as well, but at that ti he was preparing to go to the Yundu Region for a competition and hadn’t noticed whether the ring had any additional abilities.
He wondered what attributes these little fellows would have once hosted.
Thinking about this made him sowhat eager to try.
Unfortunately…
Thinking of the last line on the screen, Shao Zifeng had a bit of a headache.
As he had previously envisaged, once he used the ring to host the “miser” Jack, he couldn’t easily release this dangerous character.
And his idea, which was dood to failure before implentation, was to try to force it into signing an agreent.
Unfortunately, the contents of the agreent could only be checked after signing, and he didn’t dare to gamble on it.
Rotating the ring on his right hand with his left fingers, Shao Zifeng couldn’t think of any good solutions for now and could only wait to deal with it later.
“Qiuqiu, shall we go?”
Shao Zifeng turned his head and only then noticed the lynx lying in the snow, huddled and trembling like chaff under the curious gazes of three authoritative figures.
At this mont, the big lynx was confused as it originally wanted to show so coquetry to its master to make him host it in the ring again.
But why were these authoritative figures all here.
Life as a cat is hard!
…
“Alright, I have recorded the wavelengths and properties of the elent.”
In a temporarily set-up tent, Chen Yixing was organizing the instrunts and various data in front of her.
“I will complete the thesis as soon as possible during the rest period,” she said as she turned to look at Shao Zifeng, “As the first discoverer of this elent, you also have the right to na it. Have you thought about what to call it?”
Shao Zifeng looked at the quiet Lingling beside him and rubbed its little head, having to admit that this little guy sotis did have quite a presence.
Lingling quickly shook its head to avoid Shao Zifeng’s hand.
It wouldn’t grow taller.
Shao Zifeng smiled and didn’t mind, softly telling Chen Yixing, “Let’s call it ‘Star.'”
“‘Star Elent’?” Chen Yixing recalled the star-filled sky when releasing the skill, and smiled as she nodded, “That actually fits very well.”
After recording the elent na, Chen Yixing stretched lazily.
“Alright, go get ready, we’re about to depart soon.”
Just as Shao Zifeng was about to get up and take his leave, Chen Yixing suddenly called out to him.
She opened the drawer of the folding desk and took out sothing that looked a bit like an intercom.
“I heard your phone was broken; take this to use for now.”
Shao Zifeng took it and thanked her, then left the tent after opening the flap.
Surveying the uneven valley, Shao Zifeng took a deep breath of the cold air and walked toward the top of the mountain.
At the mountain’s summit, the Dead Tree still stood, only now the entire trunk was encased in thick ice, and the bodies hanging on its branches were frozen together, almost resembling a great crystal tree upon casual glance.
There was a grave mound beneath the tree with a stone stele in front of it.
Shao Zifeng stood quietly under the Dead Tree, took out Valery’s ring from his pocket, and placed it in front of the stele.
Then he turned and left.
The cold wind swiftly buried the ring under the snow.
The stele was inscribed with a few characters.
‘The man from Daxia, Ma Liang.’
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