Boom!Boom!Boom...

With a thought in his mind, except for those who were on a reconnaissance mission in the distance and couldn't come back in a short period of time, the twenty seagulls that followed the team's actions above their heads quickly pounced.

Waving its wings, it launched a carpet search centered on the camp.

With the ability to be spiritualized, even the smallest tree holes, stone crevices, and even solid interiors are not spared, which are usually impossible to hide.

After being a wizard for so long, Evan has long since adjusted his worldview. What is impossible for ordinary people is very possible, even commonplace, in the otherworld.

"My lord, there's another thing that's very strange.

Until we did the count, the first people on guard didn't notice that they were missing a single person.

Even after the remaining eleven men complete the change of guard, it is the same after lining up in the open field. ”

Following Aven, Baldwin continued to report to him on what he was currently having.

"What's even more bizarre is that even though it was known that one person was missing in the end, none of them had any impression of the missing person.

The identification of the missing persons was determined only by re-examining the number of remaining soldiers from the three sources. ”

At present, there are 24 ordinary members in the camp, 24 members of the navy, 50 pirates, and 20 members of the Arawak tribe.

It was determined by elimination that one of the two Arawaks on the first shift was missing.

But looking back, even his people can't remember his name, appearance, relationships, etc., as if there has never been such a person in the world.

After listening to Baldwin's words, Evan had already silently made a conclusion in his heart.

"This condition is likely to be a cognitive bias that is severely affected by the brain, and to a very deep degree. ”

It was clear that some kind of supernatural force was involved, and it could not have been a beast attack caused by the negligence of seabirds.

Qiang –

Standing in front of the tent, Aven unsheathed his sword, warily scanning the darkness around the camp.

Even if the combination of a peak knight and a formal wizard is definitely not weak, but in the face of all kinds of weird extraordinary abilities, not to mention Aven, even a big knight may overturn.

The enemy's intelligence is unknown, and if you are not careful, you will definitely not live long!

"Baldwin, go and call everyone up, focus on our sight, and don't be left alone in case of accidents. ”

"Yes, sir!"

The other side.

While the seagulls were searching, the first and second rounds of personnel in charge of night duty were gathered, and their knives were unsheathed and bullets loaded, ready to deal with unknown enemies who did not know where to hide.

"Hey, Tom, what the hell is there in this woods? Even a severed hand, a broken foot, and a bloody mess is better than disappearing silently!

I don't even know who the enemy is, or even if it's a person, it's really a bit crazy. ”

Camp edge.

A young pirate wields a well-tended musket.

While constantly scanning the rainforest in the darkness that has become dead and silent, he chats with his companions and tries to give himself courage.

Even if they were all within the light of the campfire, they still couldn't control the apprehension in their hearts, which was an instinctive reaction to the unknown.

"Who knows, though we haven't been in the New World for long, we haven't been on land for long. But I have heard that there are animists in the New World, and that there are many natural spirits and ghosts.

I've heard that these goblins like the most, young people with fine skin and tender flesh like you, Jack.

Maybe the one we encountered today is an invisible ghost that can't be seen or touched!

"Goblins?!"

The pirate, named Tom, turned his head to look at Jack, a young man next to him who was slightly stiff, and smiled very evilly, as if he was very happy with his companion's reaction.

However, in the eyes of the young pirate Jack, Tom's smiling face against the flickering bonfire was as eerie as his story.

It was as if a biting wind was blowing through the forest.

Woo –

The young man touched the back of his neck uncomfortably, and his hair was inexplicable.

Soon, the rest of the team were regrouped in the open space on the edge of the camp.

"Report to your Excellency! I've confirmed that there's really only one person missing. ”

Trample.. Trample.. Trample..

Evan paced in front of the queue, and the careful search of the seabirds just now was also fruitless.

Judging from past encounters, there are currently two most likely scenarios: the hidden and the lack of a sense of existence.

It was as if the attackers had attacked the Arawak and his presence at the same time, erasing him from the world, both physically and cognitively.

"Milan, try to go back and see where the attackers went?

If we don't get him out, we don't want to complete our mission in peace, as long as we stay here, anyone may be in danger. ”

"Good!"

The Sentinel's defense network is planned in advance, whether you can remember that person or not, but excluding the location of other people, it is easy to find the last location of the original Arawak.

Milan took out the pure crystal ball he carried with him and held it in his palm, and his own spirituality spread out to resonate with the crystal ball.

A spell sounded like a whisper to an unknown being.

regr——

After the last syllable that seemed to penetrate time, a white wave of light spread out from the crystal ball.

He saw that under a tree not far from him, a phantasmal figure of a young man wearing a blade of grass camouflage suit and deerskin pants slowly appeared.

【Sorcery: Retrospective Vision】

Then the light and shadow flew by, and no one could see what was going on there except Milan.

And the expression on Milan's face became more and more solemn, and suddenly shouted:

"He's not gone, he's still among us, he's an evil spirit!

Ai Wen, who had a tacit understanding with Milan, did not hesitate to throw two bottles of high-concentration No. 2 holy water above his head. The Activation Aura swept out, shattering it and turning it into a fluttering golden mist that spread to the bodies of everyone present.

Zila-

A roasting sound instantly attracted everyone's attention, and they looked at a pirate at the edge of the camp.

"What's wrong with you, Jack?"

Tom, who had just been telling ghost stories and scared his companions, looked at the green smoke that suddenly rose from his "timid" companion, and his face was stunned for a moment.

And then... Dodge and fly away!

If you are stupid, you will go up to check it out defenselessly, and the most elite pirate who has survived until now must have the corresponding survival wisdom.

"Look at his body!"

And when the anomaly really appeared, the others finally noticed the incongruity and weirdness of the young pirate named Jack.

It turned out that the head still belonged to the white pirate, but from the neck down it had become a swarthy Anuma man who was as strong as an iron tower.

The young head on his neck spun around as if he hadn't noticed his abnormality at all.

It wasn't until he looked down and saw his dark body that he let out a terrible exclamation with horror on his face:

"Ah——!h

Suddenly, the bone rolled off his shoulder and fell to the ground without a sound.

The swarthy body, which had lost its head, took a big step and was about to rush into the dark rainforest.

"Don't try to escape!"

Where would Aivan, who had been prepared, let him escape calmly.

demo——

In the sound of a needle-pricked spell.

On the slender and snowy cold front in Aiwen's hand, there was already a layer of light blue electric light dancing and shining.

【Official Sorcery: Demonic Weapon!】

A step has come behind the headless spirit.

Laugh at!

The soaring sharp blue electric light easily dismantled the evil spirit.

Fluttering Ridge –

Immediately afterward, twenty seagulls with a wingspan of nearly two meters "spiritualized" and turned into clusters of bird-shaped white light that swarmed upward, using the powerful power of demonized creatures to tear apart the stumps of evil spirits in an instant.

Sting!

Even though the headless evil spirits with strange abilities can easily kill ordinary people, they have almost no power to resist in the hands of Aven.

Only the "dust of evil spirits" that was left in the air was put away by Evan in a crystal bottle.

Although it is no longer of much use to him, it is more for Anqi, who has reached the late stage of apprenticeship with the help of the "Essence Fruit".

And after the death of the evil spirit, in the dark grass not far from the camp, a stiff indigenous corpse was immediately found by the sharp-eyed team members.

Until this time.

Of the two Arawak guides behind Aven, the older Xenaro had time to let out an exclamation:

"That's 'Headless Ghost' Aida!"

"Ghosts?!"

Evan raised his eyebrows, a thin paper-like ghost would have such a perverted level of ability?

Astral monsters are similar to transcendentals, and they also have their own ranks:

In addition to being scary, ordinary ghosts cannot be killed even by the weakest ordinary people. For a formal knight with a strong physical life force field like a furnace, a strong blow may be able to blow out the ghost.

At the level of resentful spirits, it can already affect the spirits of weak-willed people, causing all kinds of accidental murders, such as falling off cliffs, falling into pools...

And evil spirits are already completely irresistible to mortals, with many unreasonable abilities, such as killing with thoughts, cursing, possession, immunity to physical damage... Some of them also have a variety of special abilities.

Among them, the most powerful evil spirits have become immortal!

"That's right, the former headless Aida is indeed a ghost, a ghost that will quietly dissipate when you don't know it. ”

Xenaro stepped forward and explained.

Reputedly....

Aida was a slave from the Southern Continent who worked on a sugar cane plantation because of an affair with the mistress of Syrius. After being discovered, he fled from the plantation, but was caught by his pursuers nearby and beheaded on the spot!

The head was brought back for business, and the body was discarded here.

The result was a terrifying ghost, which was named "Headless Ghost" Aida according to the custom of the Atrians.

Although it is a well-known legend in this area, I have never heard of anyone killed by him.

On the contrary, there was a hunter walking in the rainforest at night, and when he looked back, he saw an incident of a headless man hiding behind him.

And Zinaro, who has been attacking the Cyrius for a long time in this area, has encountered this ghost before, and has not been harmed in the slightest.

But for some unknown reason, Aida suddenly transformed into an evil spirit with strange abilities!

Evan guessed.

Maybe it was because of the initial experience of being hunted down as a fugitive slave that he tried his best to hide himself, and finally gave birth to the ability to replace the sense of existence like a foul.

Some are similar to the abilities of the original "Demon Disciple", but they are even more domineering, not only do they have no sense of existence, but the people he killed also lose their sense of existence.

If you take off the other person's head and wear it around your neck, you can also gain a sense of the other person's presence.

In other words, in the eyes of others, even if the head and body are not in harmony at all, they will be regarded as the original owner of the head without hindrance.

Even the head didn't know it was dead.

Finally, after listening to his description, Ai Wen's face was solemn:

"What's going on? Even if the concentration of magic in the New World is easier to create spirits. But under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be so many inexplicable enhancements of spirits, right?"

From the evil spirit Pocatello who lost his son, to the Yucatan tribe with the remnants of "evil spirit dust", to today's head-changing evil spirit.

The inexplicable increase and enhancement of spirits made Evan realize that something unusual might be happening on this continent.

"By the way, Milan! Go back and ask your Huron princess if there are any oddities in the New World. ”

"Weird, the last time she came to the governor of Donglunzhi, it seems that there was something wrong with the tribe, so I'll go back and ask again. ”

This incident was only an episode, and although two personnel had already been lost before the action was taken, it was only a small setback in front of the gold of Syrius!