116: Acquire new skills

The Consultant swore he had never seen an evil omen. After all, something that ugly was generally hard to forget.

The evil omen didn't reply, as if ignoring the Consultant, and said to itself, "Heh heh, you found a rather useless person."

The Consultant frowned, puzzled.

"Hmph, it doesn't matter," the evil omen still didn't acknowledge the Consultant, its gaze fixed on an empty space, its tone chilling, "It won't be long before I descend again!"

As the evil omen spoke, it raised a withered arm, and with a slight flick, pulled a staff resembling deadwood from thin air.

It held the staff in its hand. At this moment, the staff was almost like a sharp blade, and as it moved, the void itself rippled.

"My name is evil omen, the Destroyer of Destiny, the Terminator of All Things, irresistible, unchallengeable, I am... the King of Nothingness!"

As the evil omen uttered these words, a strange aura surged like a tide!

This aura instantly filled the Consultant's entire sea of consciousness, leaving him no ability to resist.

Undoubtedly, this was a fatal move!

But the Consultant had no way to counterattack.

Damn it, was he going to die?

System, System, are you still alive?

The Consultant bombarded the System with calls in his mind, and finally—

[Detected host encountering evil omen prematurely, new skill obtained—Mind Blast.]

[Mind Blast: At the cost of mental energy, deals high explosive damage to all targets with consciousness and sanity, targets cannot resist!]

Upon hearing this, the Consultant didn't even have time to feel joy and immediately spoke:

"Mind Blast!"

This was clearly a skill the System forcibly granted him to save him. As the Consultant whispered, a light eerily similar to the demonic appeared!

A flash of purple ghostly light transformed into rings of light resembling sound waves!

In an instant, the demonic aura, like surging waves, was shattered.

The Consultant's attack landed entirely on the evil omen!

The evil omen's body swayed. On the surface, it seemed unharmed, yet its body was gradually becoming illusory.

"Hmph... a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot!"

The evil omen didn't seem surprised by this. As if it had long anticipated it, it showed no fear, looking at the Consultant with cold eyes and saying in a deep voice:

"Don't rush, we'll meet again soon."

"Everything you do is useless. I will return from the Realm of Nothingness!"

"At that time, the entire world will once again ignite with the fires of destruction..."

The evil omen's voice grew fainter, and at the same time, the Consultant felt control over his body rapidly returning.

Who cares about stopping a chariot, as long as it works!

The Consultant felt his vision gradually brighten and finally let out a sigh of relief. Struggling to open his eyes again, he first looked at his body.

The black curses had not yet disappeared, and Du Ruo and Zuo Dao were looking anxious, discussing something in low voices.

"Should we act? This might be the only way to kill the evil omen!" Du Ruo said with a cold voice, gripping her spear, yet her hand trembled slightly.

Zuo Dao, beside her, shook his head like a rattle-drum. "Isn't that nonsense? That's my brother from another mother and father. If you touch him, I'll fight you to the death!"

"Then what should we do?" Du Ruo pouted, her expression showing that she also couldn't bring herself to do it.

Seeing their dilemma, Black Marsh was quite smug.

It raised its arrogant head and swayed. "Heh heh, just wait for death, you two-legged sheep! Once this boy dies, my master will descend upon the world using his body!"

"At that time..."

The Consultant understood what had happened when he heard this. Without waiting for Black Marsh to finish, he grabbed its head and, with a cold sneer, held it up to his face.

"At that time, what, huh?!"

The Consultant's actions startled both Zuo Dao and Du Ruo.

"Brother, you... you're okay?!"

"Consultant, can you still stay conscious?!"

The Consultant nodded, but his hand didn't stop forcefully tapping Black Marsh's head, turning its 'arrogance' into 'astonishment,' before he spoke:

"I'm fine. That evil omen's divine consciousness has been eliminated by me!"

This statement stunned both of them. Du Ruo asked in disbelief, "Really?"

"Awesome, brother, how did you do it?"

Zuo Dao's eyes were filled with adoration.

Of course, the Consultant couldn't reveal anything about the System, so he said that he had fought the evil omen's divine consciousness for eight hundred rounds in his sea of consciousness.

Fortunately, the Consultant's vivid description didn't arouse any suspicion from the two.

The difficult part now was—

How to explain Wang Song's death to the Bounty Guild?

"Leave the situation here to me."

Du Ruo saw through the Consultant's thoughts and said, "I'm very familiar with the people from the Bounty Guild. I'll explain, and they'll believe me."

With Sister Du's help, the Consultant was clearly spared a troubling matter. "Then I'll trouble Sister Du."

The three left the Bounty Guild building. Before parting ways, Du Ruo called out to the Consultant again, "Oh, right, I'm going to the outer city soon and won't be back for a while. Do you need any more help?"

Since meeting Du Ruo, the Consultant had already troubled her with many things, so he shook his head—

"No more, Sister Du, thank you for your help during this time."

"It's fine," Du Ruo smiled and waved her hand, turning to bid the Consultant farewell, leaving only one sentence, "When I return, I will come to find you myself."

After saying this, she stepped into the night.

Since the Bounty Guild matter was left to Du Ruo, the Consultant and Zuo Dao returned to the academy with ease.

The Consultant did not report this matter to Jiang Cen.

And Yilman hadn't appeared, so the Consultant couldn't tell him about it for a while.

However, because of the evil omen, the Consultant now vaguely sensed that immense changes were about to occur in this world!

To cope with the coming turmoil, the Consultant slightly altered his lazy personality and began actively training his three awakened professions... Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, something else happened.

Snowmelt County.

This was a snow city near the edge of the continent.

It was under frost all year round, so not many people lived there.

It was precisely for this reason that the Oracle in the center of the continent didn't manage this area much.

As time passed, Snowmelt City gradually became a strange city.

All the people living there worshipped a god long forgotten by most.

They called that god—

The evil omen!

The residents of the city believed they had been abandoned by the world, so they placed their faith in the deity named evil omen.

Over time, the evil omen became a pope-like figure.

In the very center of Snowmelt City, the former city hall had now been converted into a church.

Several characters were magically carved above the church—

The Black Goat Church.

The name of this church represented the evil omen they worshipped.

At this moment, many residents of Snowmelt City were gathered in the church.

They huddled together, staring intently at a boy wrapped in animal skin in the very center.