Chapter 97: Sublimated Extraordinary Sword Skills

After killing two wraiths, a prompt appeared on the panel:

"Kill a Level 1 spiritual creature"

"Obtain 50 points of spiritual essence"

"Kill a Level 1 spiritual creature"

"Obtain 60 points of spiritual essence"

Some slowed down, some restrained, and Luke had the highest attack power among the three and was responsible for getting kills.

The spirit fang turned into a never-ending arc of light, shuttling back and forth above the swamp, just like Yondu's sentinel arrow in "Guardians of the Galaxy", jumping between the ghosts unhindered.

Numbers are meaningless at this time, bullying is invincible! This is [Spirit Fang]!
The ghosts disappeared one after another. Before the black fog of death from the previous one had dissipated, the next one exploded.

No matter whether it is the first or second stage, under the destructive power and penetrating power of [Spirit Fang], there is no difference. Even if the vitality is stronger and it can withstand a blow without falling, it is just that [Spirit Fang] has to go back and forth one more time.

Julius and Liberl, who were standing by, were stunned.

Julius only wanted to make friends with Luke and let him participate in this battle. After all, he and Liberl were both very strong in control and defense, so even if Luke was not strong enough, they were sure to protect him on the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, Luke became the main force at this time, and the two company employees became dispensable auxiliary personnel.

It would have taken the two of them at least half an hour to deal with this number of resentful souls, and there was even a possibility that some of them would rush out of the swamp.

But now, less than ten minutes have passed and these ghosts are almost dead.

At this time, there were only seven or eight resentful souls controlled by Julius left in the swamp. He made a tearing gesture, and the limbs and heads of these resentful souls were instantly torn apart. Their ghost bodies exploded and turned into black smoke and disappeared without a trace.

Ugh?
Dude, want to grab the kill?
However, today's harvest is rich enough, so it doesn't matter.

After all the ghosts died, Liberl took back the Marshland Territory, and Julius sat down, looking around comfortably. It had been a long time since he had completed a mission so quickly and smoothly.

Luke also sat aside to rest. The killing with [Spirit Fang] just now was exciting, but it consumed a lot of energy.

It takes a certain amount of mental strength to manipulate the [Spirit Fang]. Every time you break through the ghost body and complete the kill, there will be a certain amount of additional mental strength consumption.

However, his mental strength is very strong, so it is not a big problem and he can fight for a few more rounds.

Taking advantage of the time, Luke began to count the panel prompts that he had not had time to read just now.

There were 31 Indian ghosts who died at his hands, including 3 second-level leaders and the rest were first-level cannon fodder.

After this battle, Luke gained a total of 1500 spiritual essence points, plus three skills.

【Old Indian】(Proficient)
【Ancient Indian Sacrificial Rituals】(Proficient)

【Indian Fighting Skills】(Proficient)

The first two are basically useless. The ancient Indians are almost extinct. Although the modern Indians share the same blood with them, there are great differences in their living habits and values.

Maybe some deep mountain or old forest still preserves the traditions of these old things, but it is difficult to encounter these people in modern society.

The last fighting technique was quite interesting. Luke sensed the inheritance in it and found that it was basically based on close combat. Many of the force techniques and combat ideas coincided with the [Aztec War Sacrifice Sword Technique], but there were also some differences, such as some small techniques of bare-handed combat and the ideas of fighting multiple enemies, which greatly improved Luke's close combat ability.

After waiting for a while and digesting all the skills he had acquired, Luke stood up and stretched his body, then suggested to Julius, "Why don't we go check out other positions? Maybe they need help."

As a result, Julius sternly rejected his proposal.

"The outer city of Jacksonville on Indian Night is not a good place. The positions under our feet have been reinforced by professional wizards with alchemical arrays, which can suppress evil forces and repel the power of evil gods."

He stomped his foot on the ground, and a faint circular arc of light flashed. The place where the three people were was exactly the center of the arc of light.

"If you go out, who knows what you will encounter. You may have a safe journey, or you may encounter the followers of the evil god, or be teleported to a dangerous different dimension."

"Anyway, it's right to stay here."

Remembering that Luke also had the ability to make extraordinary items, he immediately said, "That wizard is not in Jacksonville now. He went to another city to look for materials. When he comes back, maybe I can introduce him to you."

"Is this also the circle drawn by Sun Wukong?" Luke complained in his heart.

Well, if you’re not allowed to go out, then I won’t go out.

Since I know there might be danger, even though it's just a probability, Luke won't be like the supporting character in a horror movie. I just want to go out and take a look. If I don't go out and take a look, my curiosity will kill me.

Then just stay here and study the use of spiritual essence.

The current total remaining spiritual essence is 1568. You can upgrade one proficiency-level skill to expert, and also upgrade 5 proficiency-level skills to proficiency.

Luke thought about it and decided to start with a simple one.

The first thing to improve is the proficiency level of [Rat Language]. As an instinctive language, the proficiency level of [Rat Language] is barely usable in Florida, but some words are no longer understandable. Once you go to other states, or go a little further, it will easily lose its effect.

And his mastery of rat language should ensure that he can use rats as spies freely across the United States.

After upgrading [Rat Language], the second thing to upgrade is the [Indian Fighting Skills] that I just acquired.

After the upgrade, Luke's close combat experience and muscle flexibility have been further improved.

After improving these two skills, Luke began to make more important choices.

He needs to choose one between the long-range attack skill [Rifle Mastery] and the close combat skill [Aztec War Sword Skills] as his first combat skill to be promoted to the expert level.

After thinking for a moment, he decisively chose swordsmanship.

After all, swordsmanship improves one's actual combat effectiveness, and as for gunmanship, to be honest, the proficiency level is enough.

If you want to improve your long-range firepower, a better way is to change to a more powerful gun rather than improve your marksmanship.

After making the decision, Luke invested his spiritual essence into the Aztec War Blade Technique.

A flash of inspiration appeared on the panel.

"[Aztec War Blade Technique] is improving..."

"[Aztec War Saber Technique] has been upgraded to expert level"

"It is discovered that this skill contains spiritual factors. Transformation in progress."

“[Aztec War Saber Technique] (Expert Level) is transformed into an extraordinary skill.”

“【Aztec War Sacrifice Sword Technique】: A sacrificial sword technique of the Aztec Empire, it contains the power of Quetzalcoatl. The user can communicate with Quetzalcoatl through the spirit, borrow the majesty and power of the god, and control the power of the sky and the sun.” “Power of the Sky: When using 【Aztec War Sacrifice Sword Technique】, you can perform limited low-altitude leaps or flights.”

"Power of the Sun: When using the [Aztec War Saber Technique], you can harness the flames."

what?
Luke never expected that an ordinary fighting skill could be upgraded in essence and become an extraordinary skill.

However, think about the time when dealing with the Wendigo, just a hint of Quetzalcoatl's majesty brought by the chanting was enough to intimidate the third-level monster for a moment. The potential of this skill is indeed very strong.

This wave of combat effectiveness was greatly enhanced. Luke was itching to walk around the position, always wanting to find something to kill.

After walking back and forth for a few circles, he finally suppressed his surging fighting spirit, sat down cross-legged, placed the long sword across his knees, and according to the inheritance of swordsmanship, meditated on the huge feathered serpent coiled in the sky, allowing himself to calm down.

As his meditation progressed, his thoughts seemed to float out of his body, along the huge body of the feathered serpent, and came to the sky, feeling the vastness of the sky.

Just as he was immersed in the image of the feathered serpent, suddenly, a rustling noise attracted his thoughts.

The noise did not exist in the real world, but was more like the sound of the spiritual world, as if a group of people were singing songs of worship.

"The Sun God...Gift...Light"

"Devotion... shelter and freedom..."

Luke felt that the singing was somewhat familiar, and based on his experience in the proficient level of [Ancient Indian Sacrificial Rituals] he had just acquired, he made a preliminary judgment.

This seems to be... the style of Indian sacrifice.

He turned his attention to the place where the singing came from, which seemed to be an illusory world floating in the air. In the center of that world was a rough altar, the bottom of the altar was surrounded by round stones of different sizes, and a "sun column" stood high in the middle. Around the sun column were other trees arranged like a tent, and the trees were hung with feathers and cow skulls, and three white people were tied up.

A group of Indians dressed in ancient costumes were beating hand drums around the totem altar, shouting and singing.

The scenes in the virtual world were getting closer and closer in Luke's eyes, and finally it seemed as if the whole world turned into reality and pressed down on Luke's head like a mountain.

Luke subconsciously closed his eyes and raised his hands to support himself.

After a while, when he opened his eyes, he found himself in another world.

He looked down at himself. No, it was not the white man's body. He seemed to be occupying the body of an Indian.

Have I traveled through time again?

Luke sensed it carefully and found the blind spot.

The body he now occupies is a little strange. It doesn't seem like a real physical body, but more like a soul.

Following an inexplicable connection, he looked back at the ground and saw his own body in the dark. The body was sitting cross-legged in a place where golden light was shining.

That was the position where the alchemy solidified the magic circle.

He had a feeling that as long as he wanted, he could leave this soul at any time and return to his own body in the material world.

Oh, I got it.

He knew in his heart that he had come to the space where the resentful souls of the Indians lived, which was probably the other world.

After checking himself, he found that all the props and extraordinary items were gone. The only difference was the "Bone Tooth Necklace", the original equipment connected to the extraordinary profession. He had one on his physical body, but now he also had an identical one on his soul.

Is this the magic of the origin equipment? Even though the body is not here, it can still appear in this strange place with consciousness.

The reason why he was able to come was probably related to this sacrifice. The natural spirits worshipped by this Indian tribe happened to be the sky and the sun, which were similar to the image of the feathered serpent in the [Aztec War Saber Technique] that Luke mastered, and he happened to be proficient in [Ancient Indian Language] and [Ancient Indian Sacrifice Rituals].

Thus, some mysterious connection made him unconsciously respond to the call of the Indian ghost, come to this altar, and occupy the body of the chief priest.

What surprised him was that these resentful souls in the inner world were not like when they descended into the main world, without consciousness and only knowing how to kill. Except for their erratic bodies, they looked no different from normal humans.

Since the body is still intact in the material world and the consciousness can return at any time, why not explore the inner world?

He calmed down and focused most of his attention on the Indian body.

There is still a big difference between the soul and the flesh and blood body. At least now Luke does not need to adapt and he can directly and completely master this body without any feeling of awkwardness.

Not only that, after losing the constraints of his physical body, his vigorous mental power was like a fish in water in this space that seemed like the other world. It seemed that he could use the power of Quetzalcoatl with just a move of his hands and feet, and fly and control fire at will.

Through the sacrificial ceremony, he entered the other world as the messenger of Quetzalcoatl. His soul at this time not only contained his own spiritual power and the power contained in this body, but also the power of faith condensed in the sacrificial ceremony of these Indian resentful souls.

This power...

Even much higher than the third level.

Feeling the surging energy in his body, a burst of red flames suddenly appeared behind him, then exploded violently and expanded into a pair of huge feathers.

He stood up straight, the majestic aura of the feathered serpent emanating from behind him. Following the language in his memory as if it were an instinct, he looked around at the people who had stopped singing and dancing, and asked, "What is the purpose of praying?"

"The Messenger has arrived."

“The ritual works.”

People were talking at once, and an old man with white hair and feathers on his head walked through the crowd and came to Luke.

He closed his eyes, sensing the fiery and lofty power coming from Luke, then he knelt on the ground devoutly, lowered his head and crawled, saying: "Great Spirit of the Sky and the Sun, we offer a sacrifice to you, praying that you can let our enemies dissipate under your divine power just like the sun dries up dew."

"Under the leadership of the messenger, we will be invincible and victorious in every battle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Indian warrior next to him stood up, swung his knife and beheaded the three white men who were tied up nearby.

After losing their heads, the souls of these white people began to bleed bright red blood like real entities. All of this blood seeped into the simple altar and was absorbed by the "Sun Tree" in the middle of the altar, making its top begin to shine, as if there really was a sun residing on the top of the tree.

The panel then sent a prompt message:

"A sacrificial ritual has been detected..."

"Transmitting the essence of chaotic spirit..."

"Purifying..."

"Received 52 points of spiritual essence."

"Currently, there are 420 points of spiritual essence remaining."

ha?
In addition to killing people, there are other ways to obtain spiritual essence.

(End of this chapter)