53: Chapter 53 Knowing, and Questioning

And next, things became much simpler.

These Ghouls were only fearless of life and death in consciousness, but their bodies were not truly unafraid of death.

In fact, fire had always been the nemesis of necromantically-attributed bloodline species.

Aside from holy light attacks, fire was almost the best offensive means.

For mortals, dealing with these Ghouls was still somewhat tricky; this kind of undead life that did not fear life and death was a race between the dead and the living.

Generally in worlds with supernatural powers,

attacks were also carried out using methods such as fire, holy water, or lightning.

Of course, the birth of these monsters also required conditions.

As a necromantically-attributed bloodline species, Ghouls often required a large number of corpses of deceased intelligent species.

They were a type of monster that could only be born in places active with evil, necromantic, or dark elemental particles.

And once a Ghoul was successfully born, it could spawn quite a few Walking Corpses.

These Walking Corpses could infect corpses with the mana from the Ghouls, rapidly propagating their own population.

They could also infect and transform living people into Walking Corpses through biting.

After a long time, these Walking Corpses would have a chance to transform into Ghouls.

Therefore, these monsters generally frequented areas near cemeteries or mass graves.

The best way for mortals to deal with them was to cremate the corpses.

But obviously, cremation was not popular among the mortals of the original world in this secret realm space.

Along the way, almost all the corpses Ross saw in the tombs were buried in the earth.

Most of the corpses in the tombs had either been completely devoured or transformed into Walking Corpses.

Even as Ross watched the battle scene, information about monsters like Ghouls constantly surfaced in his mind.

The speed at which he condensed the [Void Magic Flame] in his hands did not slow down at all.

At this time, he already had Edmund acting as a meat shield,

guarding the very front of the battle, his own safety receiving the best protection.

Vera was not idle either; she activated her own bloodline.

At this moment, not only did her pupils turn into vertical yellow slits,

but even her figure changed slightly, and her ears became a bit pointed.

It seemed she had stimulated her awakened Monster Cat bloodline to its utmost.

Being a bloodline resulting from the combination of humans and the Monster Cat race,

Vera herself still possessed the aptitude to become a wizard.

She had good talent toward the path of a transmutation school wizard.

From the perspective of her future, if she pursued the transmutation school wizard faction in the future, it would be extremely promising.

However, wanting to further activate her bloodline and enhance her spiritual power

and learn the related transmutation school knowledge would also require a large expenditure of magic stones.

Looking at Vera's aptitude, it was only ordinary.

But with the blessing of her bloodline, it would be somewhat stronger.

Yet it still couldn't compare to top-tier talents like Ross.

As for her older brother Edmund, he was merely a mediocre Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

Looking at his coping methods at this moment, there were only the [Iron Armor Spell] and [Hand of Magic].

Therefore, Ross judged that these two people's family shouldn't be anything like a wizard family.

Most likely, it was just that their ancestors had become wizards or Wizard Apprentices.

But by the later generations, their family fortunes had probably declined.

Or perhaps they had simply kept a thin Monster Cat bloodline hidden within their bloodline all along.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have thought of taking on some external commissions to earn magic stones.

Even with Edmund, a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, acting as her helper,

it could be foreseen that under the blessing of her bloodline, Vera's strength was no longer at the level of an ordinary Level 3 Wizard Apprentice.

She at least possessed the strength to hold these Ghouls in check.

At this moment, her figure shuttled through the battlefield like a phantom,

luring away the Ghouls that tried to sneak attack Edmund to other places.

And the cooperation of these siblings also gave Ross ample preparation time.

The enhancement of his own spiritual power also significantly drove the enhancement of his mana.

At this moment, Ross was becoming more and more proficient at hand-crafting [Magic Flame].

Streams of firelight were seen shuttling away from Ross's hands.

Then, avoiding Edmund's back and Vera's pitch-black cat-shaped silhouette shuttling through the battlefield,

under Ross's precise control, the scattered [Magic Flame] accurately landed on the bodies of those Ghouls.

Then Ross now had spare capacity, and summoned the [Water Lily Magic Plant].

Then he cast [Hand of Vines], continuously launching individual [Mana Missile]s to deliver finishing blows.

The burning ability of [Magic Flame] was extremely strong, but in order to disperse attacks to all Ghouls as quickly as possible,

Ross inevitably weakened the mana within each cluster of [Magic Flame].

In this way, there was no way to directly burn the Ghouls to death, but it could virtually wipe out the active forces of these Ghouls.

Thinking that these Ghouls could provide abundant spiritual power, Ross couldn't care about the consumption of his own spirit and mana at this moment.

[Hand of Vines]

[Mana Missile]

At this moment, on the battlefield outside the tunnel, firelight splashed everywhere,

along with lotus-seed-shaped bullets piercing into the Ghouls' heart cores and heads.

And these actions of Ross were not sloppy or dragging at all.

Vera and Edmund didn't guess what his purpose was at all.

The two simply thought that Ross was already trying his best to provide offensive power for this squad.

After all, the two of them came in a hurry and didn't know that these monsters would drop spiritual power.

Since the other party had no time to ask, he had no need to explain either.

Right now, the spiritual power dropped by almost all of the remaining 15 Ghouls came onto him.

Then the spiritual power dropped by roughly two Ghouls fell into the bodies of Vera and Edmund respectively.

"That feels so good!"

Ross almost comfortably couldn't help groaning out.

This battle ended within almost a quarter of an hour.

But its degree of danger was not the least bit less.

Fortunately, the enhancement brought to Ross by the spiritual power dropped from the battle was almost leap-like.

A full enhancement of 132 points of spiritual power.

At this moment, Ross's spiritual power had reached around the 982 range.

Just a dozen more points of spiritual power enhancement, and he would break through to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

Even if there were no living things left in this secret realm space and he couldn't improve so fast, as long as he meditated for a few more days, he could try to break through to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

His own spiritual power was already close to 1,000.

And right at this moment, as the spiritual power dropped from the Ghouls was transmitted onto Vera and Edmund,

the two finally understood what those dropped light spots were.

As Vera and Edmund merged into those dropped spiritual power light clusters, the two also felt their spirits lift.

"Ross, honestly speaking, how much has your spiritual power increased?"

Vera seemed to have reacted at this moment, asking Ross somewhat reproachfully.