The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 157 - 116 Victory Journey

Chapter 157: Chapter 116 Victory Journey

Rod replied with a smile, "It was a misunderstanding to begin with. If I were fragile, how could I clean the drains alone? How dare I hunt down Doomsday believers?"

The expression on Blackfish’s face was somewhat gloomy.

"If you can scout and kill the enemy, then what use am I?"

Rod comforted him, "How could that be? Your badge is very useful."

Blackfish immediately broke into a smile, "That’s right, this is a sensitivity badge made from the ashes of Evil Spirits. Whenever an Evil Spirit is nearby, it will vibrate crazily. Unfortunately, it’s just a crude sensor; it can only alert me that an Evil Spirit is near, but it can’t point out its exact location."

Rod said with a smile, "That’s perfect for working with me, though. Evil Spirits seem to have the ability to instantly teleport; I had just checked that direction, but when I turned my head, it appeared."

"Evil Spirits are pure Spiritual Bodies and can travel freely in the Spirit Realm. Of course, you can’t see them when they enter the Spirit Realm."

"Then how can I see them?"

"Only if your Spirit is also in the Spirit Realm."

"Doesn’t that make Evil Spirits impossible to deal with?"

"How are they impossible to deal with?" Blackfish looked at him in surprise. "The entry and exit of Evil Spirits into the Spirit Realm is instinctual behavior. You don’t think they use it to attack or escape, do you?"

"Uh, they don’t?"

Blackfish held his forehead, "You must be an ape without intelligence, detesting learning and loving only to fight. Every being infected by the Black Fog lacks reason and acts only on instincts imprinted in their Soul. It’s the same with Evil Spirits. They periodically enter the Spirit Realm and periodically return, without reason or purpose. When they are provoked, they will attack you directly. The biggest difficulty we face in dealing with them is that even when they are in the Material World, we can’t see them. Their Spiritual Bodies have a strong ability to conceal themselves, and those with Spiritual Vision under fifty can’t even see a shadow."

"Then how do you fight them?"

"The scouts will give us the position, but the few blind guys in our fortress have poor vision, their spotting is slow and erratic, so I can only protect my entire body with Spiritual Energy and swing my sword wildly."

"Can physical weapons harm Spiritual Bodies?"

"As long as you have Spiritual Energy. Oh, and I still don’t know what it looks like. Describe it for me."

Rod gave a brief but accurate Description of the Evil Spirit.

Blackfish shivered, "That’s terrifying. Good thing I can’t see."

With that, for the next two clock hours, they searched for Evil Spirits on the wasteland while making idle chat.

Searching for Evil Spirits was a matter purely of luck. They followed a set route, and sometimes the Evil Spirits would fly straight at them, sometimes appearing out of thin air.

The sensitivity badge indeed provided a lot of convenience, after all, Rod’s Eye of the Soul couldn’t rotate 360 degrees all day long.

His neck would break.

Rod wasn’t particularly satisfied with this efficiency until, on their return, they had hunted a total of thirty Evil Spirits.

It was Rod who did all the work, while Blackfish simply cheered and shouted from the sidelines.

By the end, Rod didn’t even want to use the Sealing Spirit Bullets; True Silver Bullets could take care of Evil Spirits just as well.

They were such an easy target, it was like they were a gift.

After two hours, although Rod wanted to continue hunting, Blackfish insisted on returning.

Because nightfall was approaching.

This is the darkest time of day, when the Power of Fire is weakest, the power of the Black Fog is strongest, and many monsters buried beneath the Corpse Wasteland become active.

Most dangerous of all, many ancient creatures resting deep within the wasteland become alert.

Armed with the Power of Fire, they could potentially wake these ancient beings.

This was not just incredibly dangerous but could also pose unforeseen threats to nearby human settlements.

"Unforeseen" was something everyone preferred to avoid at all costs.

That’s why in the Dark World outside the Royal City, activity during nighttime is prohibited as a matter of common sense.

Blackfish then realized that this guy was particularly lacking in common sense. He was not just an ordinary intelligence-deprived ape but a superbly intelligence-deprived red-haired ape.

He didn’t even know what an ape was and asked him back if he knew what an ape was.

"Didn’t you have a childhood? Didn’t your mother tell you ’Bright World’ when she lulled you to sleep? You haven’t heard ’The Matter of Apes Growing Red Fur’? Or ’The Little Princess and the Seven Snow White Dwarfs,’ or ’The Illegal Sale of the Incendiary Little Girl’? All these classic fairy tales were the spiritual nourishment of our childhood... You’re truly pitiful."

Blackfish’s words finally made Rod understand why, even though he had mastered many customs and practices, he always felt out of place with them.

It turned out he was missing a childhood.

Fine, I’ll borrow ’Bright World’ to read when I get back.

And I’ll bring along my childhood to show you what ’Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf Fight Ice Snow Month’ looks like.

On the way back, Blackfish kept enlightening Rod with all kinds of common knowledge. The guy was very talkative and in high spirits; today’s hunt was a huge success for him, as they normally couldn’t kill thirty Evil Spirits in a whole day.

And they did it with ease.

After returning to Sword Pass Fortress, this is what he said.

Rod didn’t care much, but the other four squads were very envious, with Anna’s squad having the highest count, having killed only ten.

Anna looked at Blackfish as he proudly showed off his hands full of Evil Spirit ashes and sighed, "Don’t be envious. In his presence, I’m just a Stone Wood Core. It’s just as well he’s somewhat brittle."

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