Accompanied by the BGM of “He Is a Pirate”, the black ship swiftly glides across the misty river surface like a ghost.
The panicked captain and crew huddle together, trembling, even though Ye Chui had told them he harboured no ill intentions towards them, yet they still could not dispel the terror surging in their hearts. There was no helping it, although Ye Chui’s ability to summon this black ship was indeed impressive, and he had even rescued quite a few of their drowning comrades, the scene of them just saving that sailor was far too brutal, enough to leave an indelible memory in the minds of many for a lifetime…
Now these brutal fellows were still clustered around that sailor, rummaging through his body.
“We are checking to see if we can find any clues to his identity on him, at least to know who sent him.” Debbie explained the reasonableness of their actions in this way, but next, they seemed even more interested in the sailor’s money pouch.
“Oh my, there is even a gold coin card here, with nearly a hundred gold coins on it, what a nice haul.” Debbie rummaged out a bronze-coloured gold coin card, flipping it over in her hands with a smile.
Ye Chui dangled the sailor’s money pouch up and down in his hand, and it immediately made a crisp clinking sound: “There are still a few gold coins in the pouch, this will count as guild welfare, come on, everyone divide them up.”
Reisha, full of curiosity, looked him up and down: “I wonder if this fellow has any other valuables on him?”
“Guildmaster, I feel like our current behaviour might be a bit excessive, we are not bandits…” Green reminded in a small voice, and by the end he added somewhat uncertainly, “right?”
“This is just the normal procedure for adventurers, the purpose of adventuring is for gold coins, Green, do not have any psychological burden, you will slowly accept it in time.” Debbie immediately patted Green’s shoulder, comforting him in the posture of a seasoned adventurer, and conveniently slipped two gold coins into Green’s hand, then handed a few more to Jacob standing nearby, who wore an expression of self-doubt like “have I joined some shady organisation?”
Immediately after, Debbie smoothly changed the subject with utmost slickness: “I think this sailor is still a bit suspicious, Ye Chui, did you not learn the mental intrusion magic? Can you try intruding into this fellow’s mind to see what his real purpose is?”
Back in the Sword Burial Grounds, Ye Chui had discovered that hacker-themed films could lead to insights into mental and dream magic, and thus he had learned the mental magic [Intrusion], but this spell needed to be used on living people, it had no effect on the dead.
Seeing Ye Chui shake his head, Reisha showed a thoughtful expression: “Perhaps I can give it a try, he has only just died not long ago, his soul should not have dissipated yet, so maybe I can summon his undead…”
If it were the previous Reisha, she could have done this sort of thing very easily, Ye Chui and Debbie had once seen Reisha draw a living person’s soul out for transcendence, but now she was using the Holy Bible, this entirely new power she had yet to fully master, so she could only risk giving it a try.
Ye Chui and Debbie naturally had no objections, and hurriedly made way, Debbie said: “Auntie, it is up to you!”
After the captain and crew saw what Ye Chui and the others were preparing to do, their bodies could not help but tremble: what a brutal bunch this was, after cruelly killing someone, they did not even spare the corpse, not only looting all his money, now they were even preparing to summon the person’s soul out to torment it…
Reisha took out the Bible from her bosom, opened it and began silently reciting a passage from it, using the somewhat tongue-twisting divine language syntax, which sounded very raw, but the meaning was barely comprehensible, accompanied by her recitation, a faint white light descended from the misty sky, enveloping the sailor’s corpse, and thus the sailor’s corpse began to slowly rise, floating in mid-air, believers possess faith power, and faith power can be converted into power through scripture.
This bizarre scene was the first time Ye Chui, Debbie, and the captain and crew had seen it, they watched the floating corpse intently, feeling waves of holy aura emanating from that white beam of light, some with insufficient resolve even could not help but want to kneel down and worship that beam of light.
Then Reisha closed the Bible in her hand, her eyes still fixed on that corpse, and took a deep breath,
“Holy Word: Sacred Rebuke!”
A golden light shot up from the deck beneath the corpse straight into the sky, slamming right into that corpse, piercing through it, and then a phantom identical to the corpse was thrust out just like that…
Thud, the corpse fell onto the deck, while the sailor-like phantom floated unsteadily in mid-air.
Reisha reached up to wipe the sweat from her forehead: “Summoning complete!”
The others all broke into a bit of a sweat as well, this summoning method… so violent.
The floating sailor soul looked somewhat puzzled, as if he could not remember who he was or why he was here, his hollow eyes scanned the surroundings, which thoroughly terrified those captain and crew.
One crew member subconsciously tried to run into the black ship’s cabin, but after pulling open the cabin door, he crashed headfirst into a wall and fell straight back, fainting, the Black Pearl was actually just for show, the cabin and such simply did not exist.
Ye Chui was not seeing an undead for the first time, and felt no fear, he cleared his throat, preparing to have a good chat with this undead, walked up to it, and after confirming the undead’s eyes were on him, spoke: “Lost soul, do you still remember us?”
The undead’s head seemed to tilt, looking at Ye Chui with a thoughtful expression.
“We just tried very hard to save you…” Ye Chui continued.
“Roar,”
Upon hearing Ye Chui say this, the undead instantly flew into a rage, becoming feral and utterly ferocious, from that appearance one could feel his boundless resentment, he opened his translucent hands and lunged at Ye Chui.
Ye Chui let out a “what the hell” and hurriedly used the [Windstride] incantation to retreat backwards.
The undead missed, and did not continue to pursue, he showed a pained expression, bending at the waist, body constantly trembling, mouth emitting one wail after another, Reisha, being more familiar with undead after all, quickly shouted: “Oh no, his resentment is turning him into a vengeful spirit!” As she shouted this, Reisha flipped open the Bible again and began reciting the scripture for transcending souls.
And almost in an instant, the enraged undead rapidly changed his original form: his body swelled by a circle, looking even more terrifying and powerful, his appearance even altered, his mouth became vividly red, curling into a eerie smile, his nose turned red, his skin deathly pale, this appearance… it was practically a clown!
The clown vengeful spirit let out a few hisses from his mouth, and suddenly lunged straight towards Debbie’s direction!
The closest to him was Jacob, and even the captain and crew were relatively nearer to him, yet the one he was now attacking was Debbie.
Debbie was greatly startled, and immediately began summoning her heroic spirit in a fluster, a holy light door coalesced before her, “Tweet tweet,” the Valkyrie that could restrain undead was summoned by Debbie.
However, probably due to being too panicked, what appeared before Debbie was not an adult Valkyrie, but a little girl version of the Valkyrie, only to see the little Valkyrie flapping her tiny wings, gripping a miniature sword and waving it to block in front of the clown vengeful spirit, “Tweet tweet?” She soon realised her current state, and glanced at the snarling clown vengeful spirit, so her calls immediately turned panicked, “Tweet tweet,” she twisted around and swiftly flew behind Debbie, only poking out a little head.
Debbie: “…”
The vengeful spirit instantly pounced in front of Debbie.
Just at that moment, two white chains descended from the sky, swiftly wrapping around the clown vengeful spirit’s body, it was Reisha’s transcendence Holy Word beginning to take effect, when Ye Chui looked towards Reisha, he saw her raising one arm, shouting from her mouth: “Holy Word: Soul Transcendence, Spiral Ascension!”
This was a soul transcendence Holy Word that Ye Chui had personally named.
Thereupon everyone saw the clown vengeful spirit shrieking as his body was rapidly pulled towards the sky, while flying upwards, his body kept spinning, as expected of Spiral Ascension… in the blink of an eye, the clown vengeful spirit’s figure completely dissipated in the air, and everything returned to calm.
Ye Chui walked thoughtfully to the sailor’s corpse.
Green patted his chest while complaining to Ye Chui: “Guildmaster, we should not do things so recklessly in the future, how could that undead possibly discuss things with us calmly?”
“He already revealed a lot of information.” Ye Chui shook his head instead, his eyes looking towards Debbie who was comforting the frightened Tweet Tweet.
Debbie also looked towards Ye Chui.
“What information?” Green asked curiously, and after asking this, he immediately thought of something as well, “Miss Debbie’s Anduin family, their crest seems to be… a clown?”
Ye Chui nodded: “If anyone around me harbours hostility towards me, I can detect it, but from the moment we boarded the ship, I sensed no hostility from this sailor, yet he clearly sabotaged the lifeboat earlier to frame us, this means the one he truly wanted to frame was not me, but someone else, and just now when he turned into a vengeful spirit, the one he chose to attack was Debbie, so his real target was Debbie, and he might very well be from… the Anduin family?”
When an undead turns into a vengeful spirit, its appearance changes, since this sailor became a clown vengeful spirit, it is highly likely he is precisely from the Anduin family that uses a clown as their crest!
As for the hostility towards Debbie, the reason was easy to understand, Debbie widened her eyes: “My juniors do not want me to return to the imperial capital!?”
