Chapter 57 - 57: 57, Kill the phantom army, level up to 11 1
The ghosts in the woods didn’t know it was Su Yu who had killed their companions.
They could sense Su Yu’s presence and the blooming spiritual energy around him, and just like sharks sniffing blood in the water, they rushed out from the woods.
One, two, three…
In no time, a total of 18 ghosts emerges!
Suddenly, the sky above the forest was clouded by black mist.
The starving ghosts pounced on Su Yu.
Eating Su Yu, who was full of spiritual energy, was much more beneficial than eating an entire flock of ordinary people, and no ghost wanted to miss this opportunity!
Moreover. there was a crimson-colored ghost measuring 2.5 meters in length following the 18 ghosts. It tightly stared at Su Yu with its red eyes, transforming into a crimson light curtain, and pounced on him from the side.
“Not good! Miscalculated!”
Su Yu’s face underwent a dramatic change.
According to the news reports from the previous world, there were only eight ghosts!
How did it suddenly become 19?
And among them, there’s a red first-order ghost, how is that possible?!
The Skuru people classified the ghosts into seven tiers – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and, violet according to the principle of “light dispersion”.
The red ones were the first-order ghosts.
If Su Yu knew there was a first-order ghost leading a team of 19 ghosts here, he wouldn’t dare to approach them even under threat of death, considering his cautious nature.
But now…
“That’s not right!” Su Yu pondered: “In my memory, the Skuru hadn’t manufactured any first-order ghost during the first week following the drastic change in the previous world. Why is it that on the third day in this world, there’s one already? Did something go wrong?”
However, Su Yu didn’t have time to ponder these things.
After using the Flash Skill to avoid the ghosts’ encirclement, Su Yu started counterattacking them.
A huge bolt of lightning flew from Su Yu’s hand and connected to six of the ghosts.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
The six ghosts didn’t even have time to react before they exploded into six clouds of black fog.
After Su Yu’s [Flash Chain] had leveled up, it could attack six targets at once, instead of four.
Thus, with just one move, he instantly killed six zero-tier ghosts!
The surrounding ghosts were stunned, they hadn’t expected Su Yu’s spell power to be so great!
However, they only paused for a brief moment, before rushing at Su Yu again.
Thick black fog heavily surrounded Su Yu.
“[Frost Shield] ! ”
Solid ice crystals enveloped Su Yu protecting him against the external attacks of the ghosts.
The ghosts’ attacks hit the [Frost Shield], only creating cracking noises but unable to harm Su Yu at all.
Seeing this, the blood-red ghost brought its hands together and started casting a spell.
A blood-colored beam shot from its fingertips and connected to Su Yu.
At the same time, Su Yu felt a rush of overwhelming drowsiness, so strong that he almost closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Greatly alarmed, Su Yu bit down hard on his lips.
The smell of fresh blood filled his mouth and along with the intense pain, it helped him regain full consciousness.
“[Earth Stab]!”
A tremendous stalagmite shot up from under the red ghost, causing it to fly up into the sky, interrupting its hypnotic beam.
The [Earth Stab] was a zero-tier Earth spell with low damage, but it could knock back enemies with great control effects.
After leveling up to epic quality, the red ghost not only fell back to the ground but also entered a [Dizziness] state for 1 second, losing all its combat power.
Su Yu perfectly understood the strategy of “capturing the ringleader first to catch the followers.’
While the red ghost was restrained, he used [Frost Nova] to freeze the surrounding zero-tier ghosts, performed his final Flash Skill to escape the encirclement, and then continuously launched [Lightning Bolts] at the red ghost’s body.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Lightning as thick as a baby’s arm was continually released from Su Yu’s hands.
The red ghost’s defense wasn’t high; three [Lightning Bolts] coupled with the damage from [Earth Stab], turned its body into a cloud of blood.
The other ghosts were dumbfounded at this sight, not expecting their boss to be defeated so easily!
After escaping the control of [Frost Nova], they stopped attacking Su Yu and began to flee in all directions.
Of course, Su Yu wouldn’t let them go.
[Flash Chain], [Lightning Bolt] released consecutively, none of the ghosts could escape Su Yu’s range, all being killed!
What seemed to be a one sided battle was turned around by Su Yu, and it was the ghosts who ended up being crushed.
“That was close! That was really a near miss! If I had fallen asleep earlier, I would have been done for.’
After killing all the ghosts, Su Yu heaved a sigh of relief and revealed a bitter smile: “It’s a good thing I have so many powerful skills; otherwise, it would have been hard to deal with these ghosts… But then again, why are there so many ghosts here? It’s not like this in my past life!” Looking at his mana, it has dropped to less than a third.
“I’ll have to be more careful next time.
Su Yu shook his head and sat cross-legged on the ground, beginning to absorb the spiritual energy released by the dead ghosts.
“Ding! You have killed a [Soul Controlling Ghost Iv8] and gained 640 points of experience.”
“Ding! You have killed a [Revival Ghost IV9] and gained 810 points of experience.”
“Ding! You have killed a [Hypnotizing Ghost IV13] and gained 1600 points of experience.”
“Ding! Congratulations, your level has increased to 11.”
After absorbing the burst out spiritual energy, Su Yu storms around his body, reaching level 11!
This saved him at least two hours of game leveling time.
Of course, saving time is secondary.
Being able to save over four hundred fresh lives from the hands of the ghosts, he felt it was worth more than anything!
“However, this kind of thing will still happen in every corner of the world. I can save some people, but many more will still die in the mouth of ghosts.”
“Unless… I can make the ‘Ghost Searching Ruler’ in advance?”
“Hehe, how is that possible?”
Su Yu shook his head and put this unrealistic idea behind him.
The “Ghost Searching Ruler” was a major weapon used by the government in his previous life to deal with ghosts.
Wherever the “Ghost Searching Ruler” went, the ghosts were wiped out like cutting melons and vegetables.
But the production of the “Ghost Searching Ruler” at least requires the aid of a small scale spiritual spring eye.
Even in his past life, it wasn’t until 8 months later when the Huaxia Nation had spare no effort to snatch back the first small scale spiritual spring eye from the Skuru and developed the “Ghost Searching Ruler” , which effectively contained the number of ghosts nationwide.
“The ‘Ghost Searching Ruler’ is not hopeful in the short term, I can only hope that the government can detect the harm of the ghosts early.”
Su Yu stood up, dusted off the dirt on his body and walked towards where the red ghost had died.
“Now let me see what happened? How could a first-order ghost appear so early?”
Su Yu activated his magic and began to search for memory fragments of the red ghost.
After the second level, the Priest class will learn a signature skill called [Mental Theft] which can search for memory fragments of ghosts to know the whole process of their creation.
The Mage class also has a similar spell called [Soul Search] which can achieve a similar effect.
Su Yu does not know [Soul Search], but he did in his previous life!
He still remembers a lot of the principles of the [Soul Search] spell.
Although he can’t know the complete process of ghost production like in his previous life, he can still retrieve some key information. Su Yu closed his eyes and started to cast the spell.
5 minutes later, the soul search ended.
But at this moment, Su Yu’s face changed dramatically, he blurted out in disbelief: “Fuck! Is this real or fake?!”