Chapter 790: Phantom Beast’s Ability
Phantom Beast's Ability
Boom!
Spiritual energy tore through the earth as continuous attacks rained down around Eura, shredding an entire area.
A spiritual energy shield appeared in front of the two of them. Lin Ye looked up at the sky, where a man in a jet-black robe hovered hundreds of meters away, launching attacks at them from there.
The man hadn't been there before, which was why Lin Ye hadn't anticipated his attack.
Moreover, the man's attack range was extremely long. Without considering the Parasitism Network, Lin Ye's effective attack range wasn't that long either.
He was still in dinosaur form right now. If he were in his true body, things would be a bit better.
Still, the man's attack power was mediocre—he couldn't break through Lin Ye's spiritual energy shield.
And Lin Ye could create ten layers of such shields in a single second.
"Aren't we running?"
Eura didn't understand why Lin Ye was just standing still.
"Why run? I'm waiting for the enemy to come to me."
Lin Ye had turned the corpse of the parasitic worm into dozens of parasitic rats through Alienation. Those rats had burrowed deep underground.
"What if he doesn't come?"
Eura felt the opponent wouldn't give up the advantage of attack range.
"I'm not waiting for him. He's clearly buying time."
Several parasitic rats emerged from underground, their mouths holding the carcass of a dead high-level spiritual energy creature.
Lin Ye started a fire and began roasting the meat—he really needed to eat something.
The distant man stopped attacking. He hadn't expected Lin Ye to humiliate him like this.
Several figures in jet-black robes suddenly appeared around Eura, but the moment they materialized, they stepped onto the Compound Rune Traps Lin Ye had set up in advance.
They didn't even get a word out before the Compound Rune Traps twisted them into grotesque meat chunks.
Cut, Berserk, Collapse, Alienation, Parasitism.
Type-One Compound Rune Traps combined five runes, triggered in sequence. With Lin Ye's understanding of runes, ordinary enemies couldn't mount any effective resistance—step on them and you're dead.
Cut destroyed the flesh, Berserk affected the mind, Collapse broke the balance, Alienation turned the enemy into materials, and Parasitism turned those materials into parasitic nodes.
With one complete sequence, enemies who stepped into the trap were easily dealt with. Type-One Compound Rune was a rune design with an eco-friendly concept attached.
The distant man had carried and hidden spatial beacons within his attacks, and these people had used those beacons to teleport near Eura.
Lin Ye had sensed the faint spatial fluctuations long ago, so he had set up the Type-One Compound Rune right where he felt the fluctuations.
This was just basic Trap Master protocol.
The distant man tried to escape using spatial displacement, only to find a young girl with short black hair and a light orange dress appearing within his field of vision.
The spatial displacement failed. The man tried to attack Little Guardian, but realized he couldn't use his abilities at all.
"What did you do!? How could contract abilities fail!?"
The man possessed three contract abilities that worked in synergy. With these three abilities, he could seize absolute control in battle and retreat anytime even if he couldn't win.
So this was the first time he had ever encountered such a situation.
"She just took control of your brain, that's all. You can't use your abilities anymore."
A parasitic dinosaur appeared beside the man. Lin Ye's true body was still hundreds of meters away, eating roasted meat—this body here was just an Alienated Body.
When Lin Ye had left that palace, he had released parasitic nodes into the outside world. Although units with purple energy inside them couldn't be parasitized, most creatures in this world didn't have purple energy in their bodies.
These creatures could all become part of the Parasitism Network.
And even if they did have purple energy inside them, they could first become materials, then be turned into part of the Parasitism Network.
The man was lucky—he had found Eura right when Lin Ye was disconnected from the Parasitism Network. Otherwise, he wouldn't have even had the chance to act.
But the distance between the two secret realms wasn't too far. By the time the man set up his spatial beacon, the Parasitism Network had already covered this area.
"Taking control of the brain? Is that your contract ability?"
Cold sweat dripped down the man's head as he kept trying to use his contract abilities, but he simply couldn't.
"I'm a phantom beast deity. I don't need contract abilities. But your abilities are pretty interesting."
Lin Ye didn't need to increase his attack range or learn techniques to hide his position, but he was genuinely interested in that spatial beacon.
"His brain is just using the abilities. The abilities themselves don't seem to be related to him."
Little Guardian appeared beside the Alienated Body, controlling the man to use his spatial beacon ability.
A spatial beacon materialized in front of Lin Ye. He carefully sensed the formation process of the beacon, but this ability was far more complex than he had imagined.
"Looks like I'll have to find that phantom beast and have a chat."
When the ability was triggered, Lin Ye could sense a connection between the man and some existence—a relationship somewhat similar to that between a deity and its believers.
The moment Lin Ye finished speaking, one-third of the man's head exploded.
"Well, looks like that party doesn't want to talk."
Lin Ye said somewhat regretfully.
With the secret realm channel now lost, Lin Ye had no idea where to look for these so-called phantom beasts.
"These people are all members of the Doomsday Gathering. The headquarters of this cult organization should have a lot of phantom beasts."
Little Guardian had gathered some information from these people.
"Where's the headquarters?"
Lin Ye was very interested in those phantom beasts.
"I don't know. Gathering members can only enter the headquarters through teleportation. The headquarters is a completely sealed building—members can't perceive the outside world from inside. And the teleportation is tied to some kind of ability, so there's no fixed location."
The Doomsday Gathering was a fairly tightly-run organization. The headquarters' location was extremely well-hidden.
"Forget it, then. I'll deal with it when I run into them later."
The Alienated Body suddenly turned its head toward the direction of the true body.
"I'd like to have a word with you."
An old man in a jet-black robe appeared across from the roasting pan, kneeling before Lin Ye.
"Want some?"
Lin Ye stabbed a piece of roasted meat and put it in his mouth.
"I dare not. You wish to protect the Witch of Destruction?"
A deep purple energy barrier appeared around the old man's body, blocking Little Guardian's influence on him.
"There's no Witch of Destruction here. She's a contractor of a phantom beast deity."
Lin Ye calmly ate his roasted meat. The effects of Gluttony were intensifying on him—this was the first time he'd encountered such a troublesome Special Ability.
"But some people won't see it that way. And you can't protect her forever."
The old man glanced at Eura, considering whether he could succeed if he acted now.
"Who won't see it that way?"
Lin Ye could go find those people for a chat and catch a few phantom beasts for research along the way.
"The entire kingdom, except for us—everyone is your enemy."
In the end, the old man chose not to make a move.