Chapter 284: Chapter 283: Frantic Chase

What’s considered a sorcerer’s least desired enemy to face?

As they dealt with the multilayered interceptions by the spiritual bodies, Ivan and Doug deeply understood that in this moment.

“Get your filthy hands off!”

“Release that great being!”

“Become one with the Wafting Scent Castle, and you shall live forever in this world.”

The surrounding spiritual bodies continually repeated a few phrases. Their voices were shrill and piercing, resembling some sort of chant or sacrificial words, making the illusionary power around them increasingly strong, showing signs of distorting reality.

In the counterattacks by Ivan and Doug, spiritual bodies were annihilated from time to time.

However, the spiritual bodies’ blockades were insanely aggressive, preventing the two from shaking off their entanglement and unable to leave the scope of the ancient castle ruins. Fortunately, the exit was already in sight.

But the power emitted by the spiritual entities jammer continued to weaken, and more cracks appeared on it.

“You go first, I’ll cover the rear.”

Seeing how troubling the spiritual bodies were, Doug made a decision and casually tossed the spiritual entities jammer into his hands.

This caused Ivan to pause, surprised that this guy actually had a streak of sentimentality.

“I don’t agree, I’m not used to having someone cover for me.”

“You have the Life and Death Cocoon on you; if you charge out, it’ll be much easier for me.”

“Cut the chatter. Let’s go together, get ready to speed up and break out, explode!”

Not waiting for Doug to say anything further, Ivan tossed the spiritual entities jammer forward, and with a low shout, the jammer exploded with a rumbling sound. The eradicating power suddenly intensified, dragging nearby spiritual bodies into it and grinding them to ash in the blink of an eye.

The effect was surprisingly good!

Truly the bane of spiritual bodies, a gap appeared in their encirclement.

Prepared by Ivan’s warning, the two sat on the back of the bird transformed from the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon, respectively, and shot out of the gap like arrows released from a bowstring.

In an instant, the two rushed out of the encirclement, out of the range of the ancient castle ruins, and onto the secluded forest path.

“Don’t even think about escaping!”

“Return what belongs to us!”

There was relentless pursuit from the spiritual bodies behind them, and from their spiteful faces, it was clear they wouldn’t let this matter rest easily.

Since the spiritual bodies had all converged on the castle, the path ahead was clear, and no other spiritual bodies jumped out to block them.

Naturally, this was a stroke of good fortune; Ivan had initially planned to explode the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearl as well, but it turned out to be unnecessary.

Just as the two thought they could rush out smoothly, affected by some force, the moonlight that was shining down from the sky became obscured by dark clouds that had appeared at some unknown time. The path ahead suddenly became blurry, as if separated by a thin layer of water film.

“Charge, break through!”

The area where the castle stood was somewhat like a sub-space. Previously under Doug’s guidance, they had sneaked into it with ease, but now the sub-space passage was closing and being continuously strengthened and sealed.

Their best choice was to charge forward without hesitation.

Exceptionally, both the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon possessed some space energy abilities due to special circumstances, and with Ivan, who had considerable knowledge of the spatial realm, charging forward was not a blind act.

Together, they shattered the water film.

The scenery outside became clear once again; what they saw was already the outskirts of a deserted town.

“Go!”

The two didn’t hesitate in the least, allowing the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon to keep moving forward to shed the increasingly close multitude of spiritual bodies behind them.

To their satisfaction, the Silkworm Queen and the Shadow Tigon each carried them out of the sub-space, leaving the crowd of pursuing spiritual bodies far behind.

The spiritual entities still didn’t give up; however, as they followed the two men in their escape, a gray smoke continuously billowed from their bodies, and their strength clearly rapidly waned. When Ivan and Doug looked back, they witnessed with their own eyes the disintegration of five spiritual entities amidst the gray smoke.

The other spiritual entities finally came to their senses, realizing it was too late to do anything. They bitterly retreated back to the domain of the ancient castle, shooting daggers at the two men with their eyes from afar, particularly at Ivan, who had taken the Life and Death Cocoon.

“Sorcerer Ivan, that was beautifully done just now.”

“You did pretty well yourself.”

Both men had managed to escape from the ancient castle unscathed, their moods uplifted as they exchanged mutually pleasing glances.

This was a man worth befriending.

“Sorcerer Ivan, make sure to refine it into a body double as soon as you get back, otherwise I’m afraid they’ll come crawling after you,” Doug joked.

“If I wasn’t afraid of them inside, I’m even less worried now that we’re out,” laughed Ivan in response.

“That’s true, once outside the castle, whether they can even survive or not is an issue.”

Despite saying so, the difficulty in dealing with the spiritual entities had left a deep impression on both men; right now, they were both tainted with a hint of curse essence, but luckily it wasn’t deep and could be expelled with some effort.

“Sorcerer Doug, thanks a lot for this time.”

“It was mutual assistance, though I regret not having as much to gain as when I last helped you.”

Doug had come to repay a favor, and with the matter concluded, the debt was repaid.

After a while, Doug took his leave; his destination differed from the East Capital, and along with his Shadow Tigon, he left straightforwardly.

Ivan glanced at the spiritual entities that hated him to the bone, met up with the swamp ants, and also quickly distanced himself from the castle, leaving only the frenzied figures within.

Several days later, Ivan hurried back to East Capital East Blade City, returning to Rapid Wood Tower.

“Sigh, three out of nine, I can only think of ways to refine them anew.”

On the journey, he had already cleansed the curse essence that had stained himself; after returning, he continued to rid the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearl of its curse, which was in a much worse state.

Due to the erosion of the curse, three of the Windy Fire Beads became irreparable.

There were nine Black Magic Wind Fire Pearls, one large and eight small, forming a complete set; now, although the core bead was unharmed, the absence of three beads greatly reduced their effectiveness.

The situation didn’t look optimistic, and he couldn’t help but entertain the idea of re-refining the Black Magic Wind Fire Pearls.

Refining them anew required materials, and Ivan would need to search for these, which couldn’t be rushed.

At that moment, a familiar sensation descended upon him, prompting him to review his knowledge on curses over and over again, leading to a more meticulous understanding.

[Curse Skill Experience Point +20]

[Curse Skill: lv4(4/1000)]

His attention fell upon the changes within his Academic Prodigy panel; as expected, his Curse Skill was promoted to a level 4 subject, granting him both a Small Light of Wisdom and a Light of Great Wisdom.

Afterward, Ivan took out the sealed Life and Death Cocoon.

The immediate priority was to transform this object into his Secret Method Body Double; otherwise, if those spiritual entities actually knocked on his door, that would be a ridiculous situation.

Sorcerers weren’t well-acquainted with spiritual entities, and of course, he was no different; such incidents were indeed possible.

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“The Life and Death Cocoon is certainly upper class material, but it would be too wasteful to directly transform it into a body double. If cultivated improperly, its potential could even be diminished; one must be cautious.”

“Why not first search for information on the Life and Death Cocoon, to see if I can find even a snippet of knowledge regarding the correct cultivation methods.”

After pondering for a moment, Ivan thought of three possible ways to obtain such information: purchasing relevant information from someone, visiting the Enchanters Guild, or looking into the Vernon Millennium Archive.

After some thought, he directly dismissed the first option, knowing the other party’s nature, they would likely guess something and then sell the related information at a high price.

The members of the Five Leaves Spear often practiced the Body Double Secret Method; if word got out, it would be more loss than gain.