Clown Town’s nights were utterly terrifying.
But today, because those children had been rescued and returned, before nightfall they had not had time to return home as usual. They still gathered outside the house where Ye Chui and the others were staying, the sound of conversation filled with a light-hearted atmosphere, along with the children’s cries, shouts, and laughter, just like an ordinary night in an ordinary small town.
However, in a certain instant, all the adult men suddenly stiffened and stopped their movements, as if turning into soulless sculptures. Some terrifying force descended upon them, their faces showing expressions of fear, their features twitching, the corners of their mouths curling into dreadful, eerie smiles.
Lessa was the first to notice this. She hurriedly called to her companions to protect those children, thinking that the clown zombies were about to start again.
But this time it seemed different from what they had encountered before. Those town residents did not pounce towards them like the night before; they just stood motionless, and then certain things began to run down from their bodies.
Yes, run down. At first it was like a layer of insubstantial phantom, but soon the phantom coalesced into a body. Yet the body had no rules either; it was like a creature living in a nightmare, the most real reflection of a person’s inner fears. They were grotesque and terrifying, some humanoid, some not belonging to any creature at all. Those bizarre shapes were almost impossible to describe in detail.
Their only unifying feature was fear.
They were all embodiments of fear!
[Summoned Heroic Spirit, Hundred Ghosts Night Parade]!
Liya used the power of the ancestral heroic spirit to control Clown Town. What she wanted to do was not just as simple as turning Clown Town’s residents into clown zombies; she was to manufacture fear from these residents of Clown Town, to nurture dreadful ghosts from their terrors.
Heroic spirits are divided into three types. The first is fantasy creatures, like Debbie’s Xiulu. The second is heroic spirit warriors, who are people who once existed, like Debbie’s Gilga and the clown heroic spirit. Then there are magic beast heroic spirits, like Ye Chui’s black gold flame dragon.
Among these, fantasy creatures, in simple terms, are beings born from imagination. Debbie’s Xiulu was a heroic spirit creature born from Debbie’s imagination. Liya had not undergone systematic summoner training; her summoner talents were all learned through self-exploration and wild methods. So she had never signed contracts with heroic spirits or magic beasts; her summoned heroic spirits were all fantasy creatures, dreadful beings nurtured from her own imagination.
In this aspect, she indeed had extremely powerful talent, excelling in this path. Through her own exploration and borrowing the power of the clown mask, she had gained extremely strong summoning abilities.
Starting from half a year ago, she let terror descend on Clown Town, spreading fear among the over a hundred townsfolk. Using their fear as a hotbed, she cultivated one after another fantasy creature born from fear. This was Liya’s [Hundred Ghosts Night Parade]. Each town resident seemed to turn into a ghost gate, one after another dreadful nightmare ghost crawling down from their bodies, their ferocious forms pouncing towards every flesh-and-blood creature!
Clown Town echoed with wails of ghosts and howls of wolves, making it seem as if it had turned into a terrifying hell.
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“You are abusing the power of a summoner! You are summoning fantasy creatures from the town’s residents; those fantasy creatures will consume their lives!” Debbie quickly understood what Liya had done, her little face turning somewhat pale. Fantasy creatures are born from human imagination, but their existence also requires consuming magic power. Clearly, Liya could not provide magic power for so many fantasy creatures, so the magic power consumed by those fantasy creatures came from the town residents themselves.
Magic power is an energy contained in every person’s body; some people can activate and sense it, while others cannot. For ordinary town residents, that energy was equivalent to their life force.
Old Bart was now outside the house. The ghosts running down from Old Bart’s body were now roaring and pouncing towards Ye Chui and Debbie. Gilga hurriedly turned to defend against those ghosts, while Ye Chui no longer hesitated. He raised his hands and unleashed [Spark Sniper] to blast off the heads of those two black snake heroic spirits. In the moment the black snakes fell, the phantom of a cannon already appeared on his body. Bang! [Second Company Commander’s Italian Cannon] activated, bombarding Liya!
But suddenly a black hole appeared on the ground in front of Liya. A terrifying plant like a man-eating flower drilled out from it and swallowed the incoming bomb in one bite. Boom, the man-eating flower’s mouth-like flower disc instantly swelled, some parts already cracking, but it had blocked this cannon.
Seeing this, Ye Chui immediately prepared to fire the second cannon.
However, suddenly in the air in front of Liya, countless dense black dots appeared. Those black dots were individual caves, combining together like a huge beehive. Then black bee insects about the size of rats crawled out from those black holes, emitting a “buzz buzz buzz” sound, rapidly flying towards Ye Chui and Debbie.
Liya seemed to possess countless various heroic spirits. Her heroic spirits were all fantasy creatures, ugly and evil, born from her evil thoughts.
Ye Chui hurriedly summoned a fire snake to block in front of him. Gilga was also constantly fighting against those approaching ghosts. At the same time, that man-eating flower-like heroic spirit suddenly grew rapidly, black mist filled with corrosive power rapidly spraying out from it. Taking advantage of this gap, Liya’s body suddenly crashed through one wall of the room, her figure rapidly fleeing from here. She knew Ye Chui had instant close-range abilities, so she first used her poison bee heroic spirit to entangle Ye Chui, then used the man-eating flower’s corrosive mist as cover to leave.
The man-eating flower’s corrosive weapon rapidly dissolved everything in the room. The house collapsed with a rumble, accompanied by a “crash” sound. A flock of bats flew out from that house, the house enveloping Debbie’s figure. The bat flock finally landed on a tall house, coalescing into Ye Chui’s figure.
Gilga, accompanied by golden radiance, also quickly jumped out from below, landing beside Ye Chui. Her eyes oddly scrutinised Ye Chui, unable to resist saying, “Your magic is getting stranger and stranger.”
Ye Chui ignored Gilga’s complaint and searched for Liya’s figure, but he could no longer find any trace of her. He looked towards the town’s streets, where ghosts were staggering around everywhere. Old Bart stood stiff in the middle of the street, with more and more ghosts continuously crawling out from him, and rapidly gathering below the house where Ye Chui and Debbie stood.
“Hundred Ghosts Night Parade…” Ye Chui looked at these scenes with some amazement. This Liya was indeed a genius-level figure. This was the first time Ye Chui felt a sense of difficulty. He said to Debbie and Gilga, “We must quickly deal with the Clown Girl. These fantasy creatures are very terrifying, and if this continues, the people in the town won’t survive either.”
“But that guy doesn’t know where she’s run off to!” Debbie said, looking around.
“She’s there.” Ye Chui pointed to a cluster of long-abandoned houses in the town and said, “When she left just now, I released a bat clone to follow her. But there are many fantasy creatures around her. To find her, it seems we must first deal with those fantasy creatures!”
“Some trouble…” Gilga frowned and said, “And that Liya might have some hidden powers she hasn’t used yet.”
When she was first summoned by Debbie, she had cheat-like strength, but as the enemies Ye Chui and Debbie encountered grew stronger, her strength was no longer enough to directly one-shot everyone. Facing these terrifying fantasy creatures, she couldn’t resolve them easily either.
“No problem. As long as we can hold out until midnight, it’ll be fine,” Ye Chui said calmly.
“Why?” Debbie was stunned.
“Because today is Friday.”
“?”
“Never mind that for now.” Ye Chui took a deep breath and said to Gilga, “You protect Debbie next. Liya is using the power of the terror clown. To thoroughly deal with her, it might still need to rely on Debbie. So next, I’ll clear the path ahead. You take Debbie and follow behind me.”
“You? Can you handle it?” Gilga and Debbie both looked at Ye Chui with some doubt. To deal with these seemingly endless ghosts, clearing a path could only mean close combat. Ye Chui’s strongest was magic, not suited for close combat, right?
“Let you see my new magic…”
As Ye Chui spoke, he activated a certain incantation. His body instantly burned with a layer of red flames, his skin became extremely pale, thick black eyeshadow appeared under his eyes, and sharp fangs seemed to grow in his mouth.
“Life magic: [Blood Battle Intent]!”
Life magic can change the human body form in a short time. It can be like Liya turning herself into someone else, or it can grant powerful strength and physique, for example, if Ye Chui [comprehended] the Hulk, he would similarly comprehend life magic and gain the power to transform into the Hulk. And at this moment, under the [Blood Battle Intent] magic, he turned into the vampire progenitor from Dracula Year One, his speed and strength greatly enhanced.
The protagonist in Dracula Year One, after becoming a vampire, single-handedly overturned an entire army. Ye Chui now possessed similar power.
Of course, besides this incantation, let’s add a BGM to boost the buff.
Ye Chui swiped across the iPad screen. For vampire-themed movies and music, Ye Chui wasn’t too familiar, but a related BGM now surged in his mind. This was a rap song called “Name of the Game” from the rock insert in Blade II, a very obscure rap song. Back then, Ye Chui had spent a lot of effort to find this song.
In the upbeat rhythm of the prelude, the male rap began: “listen all you mutha fuckas…”
Just listen to how sensational these lyrics are!
Ye Chui tilted his head, looked down at the ghosts continuously gathering below the house, and immediately felt his blood boiling, his battle spirit high. He took one step forward, his body dropping vertically. When Gilga and Debbie hurriedly looked down, Ye Chui had already landed heroically in three-point stance right in the middle of those ghosts.
Immediately after, one after another grotesquely shaped ghosts were flipped into the air one by one.
Ye Chui felt that he could now single-handedly overturn all the ghosts on this street…
