“Don’t say I’m a good person, it sounds like you’re cursing me.” Ye Chui said coldly. When he had just arrived in this world, he might indeed have been unable to casually cause someone’s death, but after mixing around for so long, Ye Chui had already become familiar with the rules of this world.
He leaned closer to the Joker Girl: “What exactly are you? And who is that Your Highness the Prince who is connected to you?”
The Joker Girl’s face was deathly pale. She finally realised that she had misjudged Ye Chui and his group from the very beginning, whether in terms of power, or the ruthlessness and decisiveness hidden beneath their silly exterior… But just this alone was not enough to make her submit!
“So you knew about the matter between me and His Highness the Prince? But you don’t know who exactly His Highness the Prince connected to me is! I admit I underestimated your power, but this is Joker Town, this is my territory, you have nowhere to escape!” She said coldly in her mouth. After saying these words, a cave suddenly appeared on the stone wall behind her, and a terrifying roar came from that black hole.
The Joker Girl was a summoner, but the way she summoned heroic spirits seemed different from Debbie’s. She didn’t need a key prop, nor did she have a summoning gate; what appeared was a black hole.
Seeing that black hole, Ye Chui was startled in his heart, and his body quickly retreated backwards. After choking the Joker Girl’s neck, he had been vigilant about any unusual movements from her. In fact, in Ye Chui’s perception, he hadn’t detected any flow of power on the Joker Girl’s body. The summoning black hole behind her had appeared far too suddenly!
Was this a passive release?
Understanding that this was the Joker Girl’s some kind of heroic spirit summoning, and that she wanted to use this heroic spirit to leave here, Ye Chui hesitated no longer. “Boom!” “Boom!” His fingers consecutively cast [Starfire Bombardment], and clumps of blood mist exploded from the Joker Girl’s body.
A series of screams came from the Joker Girl’s mouth.
At the same time, a terrifying beast head emerged from the black hole, its mouth full of ferocious sharp teeth. It poked its head out. Just as Ye Chui was preparing to fight the terrifying heroic spirit monster that followed, he saw the beast head suddenly ferociously open its mouth, and then… it swallowed the Joker Girl in one gulp!
The beast head then quickly retracted into the black hole.
Ye Chui raised his eyebrows. Damn, had she decisively chosen self-destruction like this?
……
On the mountain near Joker Town, in the cave where the Joker Girl had performed that mysterious ritual last night.
There was still an extinguished fire basin in the cave. On a stone platform to one side, a pile of tattered objects was placed respectfully: a Joker mask, a colourful clown performance cane, a ragged Joker colourful costume, and a pair of comically shaped Joker pointed shoes.
The black hole floated in the centre of the cave out of thin air. The terrifying beast head stretched out accompanied by a roar, opened its mouth and vomited. A burst of blood mist was sprayed from its mouth. That blood mist condensed into fresh blood, then the fresh blood condensed together again, constantly fusing and wriggling. Finally, amid a shrill scream, it turned into a woman’s naked body.
That was exactly the Joker Girl. Her limbs were intact, the arm that had been broken by Ye Chui had already healed. Her tall body trembled continuously as she slumped on the ground, as powerless as a newborn baby, breathing heavily in her mouth, greedily devouring the air. It took a good while before she slowly regained her composure, shakily standing up. With a crack, a slit suddenly appeared on the Joker mask on the stone platform.
“This method can only be used one more time…”
The Joker Girl hugged her arms, her voice hoarse as she muttered to herself, she had let her own summoned heroic spirit swallow her, then summoned the heroic spirit out again in this magic circle she had set up in the cave beforehand, and had it spit her out again, thereby escaping danger. This was a very powerful summoner combat method, called heroic spirit reverse summoning.
At her current stage, she could only use the power of the Joker mask to perform this reverse summoning, and each time it required paying a heavy price. After all, ordinary people could not exist in the heroic spirit world; the human body would be torn apart in that world, turning into blood mist… The benefit was that the blood mist would recombine into human form when leaving the heroic spirit world, and the injuries on the body could also be healed as a result. Of course, it was an extremely painful experience.
“I didn’t expect Ye Chui to be so powerful, but in Joker Town, you still won’t be able to escape my grasp…”
……
Ye Chui didn’t know that the Joker Girl wasn’t dead. She had used some powerful summoner skill to escape. He cast his gaze towards the crisscrossing caves in all directions, deeply worried about Debbie. Among these interconnected caves, besides the Joker Girl, there was also a middle-aged Joker with unclear intentions.
He opened the [Browser] again to search for his own name, wanting to confirm Debbie’s safety.
However, the information he searched for this time made Ye Chui’s pupils instantly contract.
“…Is this guy the middle-aged Joker that Ye Chui mentioned? What is he going to do…”
This was an article that had appeared in Debbie’s memory website just a few minutes ago. When Ye Chui opened it, he discovered that the content of the article was about Debbie groping around in the cave. She found a small stream flowing through the mine, and followed the stream forward. A middle-aged Joker suddenly appeared in front of her…
What slightly reassured Ye Chui was that this middle-aged Joker didn’t immediately make a move on Debbie. His reaction instead seemed very friendly, but from his mouth, he could only make muffled “Mmm mmm, mmm mmm” sounds and couldn’t speak.
Now Debbie was confronting this middle-aged Joker.
Following the clues in the article, Ye Chui immediately set off to search. He didn’t know where Debbie was now, but she was beside a small stream. If he followed the stream, he should be able to find her. But Ye Chui soon discovered that the small stream flowing out of the mine had many tributaries inside the mine. Searching along the stream still didn’t know how much time it would take.
After passing several forks, Ye Chui felt that the temperature here seemed to become lower. The flow direction of the small stream also turned downward after a fork. There was a spring eye somewhere above the mine, and the stream water constantly flowed down. Part of it flowed out of the mine, but another part flowed towards the lower part of the mine, which made Ye Chui’s search even more difficult.
“Searching like this doesn’t know how much time it will take. I wonder if I can comprehend some new magic to make finding people more convenient…”
Ye Chui stopped and began to flip through his spellbook.
Previously, he hadn’t paid much attention to those detection magics, because his spellbook map had taken on that role in adventures. But the spellbook map’s map packs could only be unlocked in secret realms like the Bone Burial Ground. On the Castro Continent, there was no way to unlock map packs for areas within. To thoroughly search the countless mine caves here, Ye Chui could only unlock new magics.
And speaking of magics that could be used for scouting paths, the first thing Ye Chui thought of was Sai’s [Super Beast Imitating Drawing] from Naruto. In the anime, there was a scene where he used [Super Beast Imitating Drawing] to draw mice to search for people in Orochimaru’s mansion. However, Ye Chui wasn’t sure what kind of magic [Super Beast Imitating Drawing] would be altered into after choosing to [Comprehend] Sai’s ninjutsu.
Sai’s ninjutsu also required certain drawing skills, and Ye Chui had no talent in that aspect…
“It’s better to see if there are other options. Among all magic attributes, shadow magic is the most suitable for path scouting. It’s best if the film or anime I choose to comprehend is related to dark attributes… For example, vampires?”
Ye Chui began to browse his resource library.
His gaze swept over the titles of those works one by one, pondering the elements designed in these works. When Ye Chui turned a page in the resource library, a poster of the protagonist dissipating into a flock of bats scattering in flight suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and his eyes lit up accordingly!
“If it’s this movie, maybe it can work…”
He immediately chose to spend three thousand points to [Comprehend] this fantasy movie at random!
Reminder: You spent three thousand points to [Comprehend] “Dracula Untold”.
Reminder: You comprehended the clone magic attribute, unlockable spell: Intermediate Clone Magic: [Dark Bats in Multitudes]. You comprehended the life magic attribute, unlockable spells: [Life Drain] [Blood Battle Will]!
Dracula Untold!
This is a movie about vampires. The protagonist in it gains vampire abilities, possessing powerful strength and speed. He can also turn himself into a flock of bats during battle. Of course, as a vampire, he is also cursed by blood, constantly enduring the torment of the desire to suck blood, and fears sunlight.
However, Ye Chui had [Comprehended] so many movies by now, and he had long understood that some elements in the movies would be altered into magic. And magic was just magic; it was a means Ye Chui could use for battle. They couldn’t change Ye Chui’s physique. So when Ye Chui chose to [Comprehend] these magics, he didn’t need to worry about really becoming a vampire.
The result was just as he thought. Through [Comprehending] the movie Dracula Untold, he successfully comprehended two brand new magic attributes: Life Magic Attribute and Clone Magic Attribute (an advanced attribute magic of the shadow system), as well as three unlockable spells.
Ye Chui couldn’t wait and spent another seven hundred points to unlock these three new spells. ([Dark Bats in Multitudes] unlocking cost three hundred points, the other two each required two hundred points.)
[Dark Bats in Multitudes], it allows Ye Chui to turn into a flock of bats. Each bat possesses Ye Chui’s consciousness. The bat flock can disperse, and they can also have emotional connections with each other. Of course, they need to be kept within a certain range. In the movie, the protagonist didn’t show that after turning into a bat flock, the bats could act dispersed, but Ye Chui’s altered spell was lucky enough to be able to do this.
[Life Drain], Ye Chui can absorb others’ life force to restore his own body injuries!
[Blood Battle Will], by burning his own blood to gain short-term physical enhancement and speed enhancement, the side effect is that in this state, it comes with a strong bloodthirsty desire!
After unlocking the new magics, Ye Chui could quickly perceive their effects. He immediately lightly tapped the [Dark Bats in Multitudes] spell application on the spellbook screen. The next moment, Ye Chui’s body “whoosh” turned into clumps of black shadows; those were bats one by one.
This feeling was very peculiar. Ye Chui could perceive his own existence, but his existence was divided into dozens or hundreds of individuals. Each one was him, but each one was not the original him. His vision at this moment also disappeared, replaced by another completely new sense, the bats’ eyes had extremely weak eyesight, but they could scout paths through ultrasound. The bat flock that Ye Chui had transformed into crashed into the stone walls one after another. It took a good while before he felt the usage of this ultrasonic vision.
Following that, those bats scattered in all directions, each delving deep into every cave.
“After turning into bats, I wonder if I can still summon the spellbook now?” At this time, the countless bats suddenly thought. After turning into bat clones, Ye Chui’s iPad spellbook had disappeared.
With this thought, Ye Chui immediately began trying to summon the spellbook. Where his mind went, a miniature pocket-sized iPad spellbook instantly appeared in front of each bat!
No, perhaps that couldn’t be called a pocket-sized iPad spellbook, because… that was clearly an iPod!
It couldn’t be used to watch videos or play games; its only function was one: to play music!
Although Ye Chui’s bats couldn’t see, they could sense the information in the iPod spellbook.
He could sense the spellbook’s music list:
A War Without Honour and Humanity
Pure Land of Bliss
A Man’s Duty is to Strengthen Himself
Arrow of the Crimson Lotus
God of Cookery
He is a Pirate
Rock House Jail
These were exactly the BGM he had unlocked before!
This iPod spellbook could let Ye Chui play BGM?
