Chapter 24: The Nature of Ghosts
The old capital.
It is an underground city of a vast world beneath the surface, which used to be part of Hell, but was later abandoned due to the Hell's Miniaturization Project.
Nowadays, this city is inhabited by a variety of underground monsters, the most representative of which is the oni clan, and the residents of the old capital drink and enjoy life every day, and rarely interact with the earthly world.
At the same time, because the inhuman aliens living in the old capital are mainly ghost clans, they are also called ghost capitals, and the ghost clans also bear the responsibility of suppressing the evil spirits underground.
The scale of this subterranean city is so large that from a distance it looks like almost any of the most prosperous human cities on the ground, and perhaps the details are not exquisite, but the city made entirely of boulders is more majestic than any city on the ground.
But after all, this is a part of what was once hell, so it feels like a combination of majestic and eerie.
To be exact, it's a perfect blend of grandeur and mystery.
Especially when you see the megalithic city that can be compared to a pyramid underground, the inhabitants who come and go have human appearances, but also have different characteristics, this sense of impact is probably even more impressive.
It's like a world starting from scratch.,The male protagonist opened his eyes for the first time and stood in a town in another world.,Looking at the passers-by in front of him, there are many strange races.,That's the feeling.。
However, probably because a certain king of Yama Luo had just come once, the old capital was not as lively as usual at this moment.
The ghost clan who had been drinking forever, as well as other underground monsters, were all gone at this time, and the whole city seemed lonely and deserted.
People are afraid, and dogs are hiding when they see dogs, and they are probably talking about the Lord of the Four Seasons Yingji......
However, after King Yama left, the monsters who were worried about being caught preaching slowly returned to the old capital. Although there is still a feeling of apprehension more or less, after seeing that other people are coming back one after another, it is basically a relief.
For them, the true meaning of life is to drink and have fun, fight and make trouble...... You can't just stop them from enjoying life because of the routine preaching of that one who came over.
In fact, there were times in the past when they didn't have time to run, and they were caught by Lord Enma and preached, at most, they were superficially submissive and didn't dare to say a word.
And when the Enma turned to leave, he immediately acted as if nothing had happened, and continued to drink and have fun, fight, and make trouble......
In other words, it is criticism and acceptance, and the thinking is the same.
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"Why haven't the grown-ups come back yet?" Although the city is gradually returning to a bit of activity, it is still very deserted compared to before, so some youkai asked worriedly.
Even the bosses haven't come back, does it mean that it's not safe, and that chief referee may kill a horse pistol at any time?!
"I don't know, but Lord Hoshikuma-sama is supposed to be back, and Ibuki-sama seems to be saying that he wants to see if Shiki-sama is really gone......," a ghost clan with a broken horn on his forehead replied casually.
"Like, don't worry, maybe you'll be able to see the adults soon...... Belch? I think I really saw it? ”
Someone else just echoed and said, but the second half of the words came to an abrupt end, and he just stared at the sky blankly, his eyes were a little confused, thinking that he had seen it wrong.
The other youkai quickly noticed that something was wrong, looked up, and then unconsciously opened their mouths wide. And their behavior also attracted other yokai to come out into the streets of the old capital and continue to repeat the above process.
Their expressions were all confused, because they saw an extremely shocking scene-
A red light pierced the sky, illuminating the gray "sky", dragging a long tail flame that pierced the sky like a meteorite, and rushed straight down towards the old capital below with an unimaginably terrifying sound.
Even the most ordinary monster beast has a pure physical fitness that is more than several times higher than that of a man in the prime of life, let alone a monster of a higher level. The inhuman aliens who can live in the old capital are naturally not many monsters who are difficult to even speak.
With their equally inhuman eyesight or other perceptual abilities, they were able to clearly capture the essence of the "meteorite" in an instant, and it was simply two "people" suppressing each other, falling heavily towards a corner of the city at a speed not inferior to that of an asteroid.
Because of the speed, there was a scorching ultra-high pressure and ultra-dense wall of gas around both of them, just like a huge meteorite violently rubbing and burning in the atmosphere.
“……”
“……”
The guys on the ground were just stunned for a while, and then they dispersed very tacitly, and they didn't even make a sound of exclamation.
It seems that fights and brawls here are just the norm, even if the current scene is much more intense than the previous fights, they don't make a fuss at all.
With a deafening roar, and a terrifying movement that shook the mountains, a mushroom cloud rose directly from a corner of the old capital.
A violent shock wave followed, and the nearby buildings were directly swept away, and everything within a radius of several hundred meters was directly overturned and blown away, turning into dust that rushed into the air.
Fortunately, the residents of the old capital ran fast, and basically evacuated out of the safe range, even if some of them couldn't run fast, at least they didn't bear the brunt of it, and there was no danger to their lives if they were affected - either monsters or ghosts, after all, rough skin and thick flesh were just ordinary basic specialties.
The ground shook violently, and the shock wave like a huge typhoon could be felt from thousands of meters away, and the terrifying wave was no less powerful than a grenade exploding.
Mu Xiu did not deliberately show mercy to his subordinates because the "enemy" he fought with was a little girl like a young girl. At the moment when he smashed to the ground, he pressed Ibuki Sanka faster with his backhand, cushioning the other party as the first meat pad to land.
But even so, the next moment he felt a violent shock that almost made his whole body fall apart, and he almost didn't have a mouthful of blood spurting out.
Rumble!
A huge explosion came after this, and at the same moment, Mu Xiu took advantage of the reaction force of pressing down Ibuki Suika into the air, and fell lightly more than ten meters away, he felt his body slightly numb, and immediately grinned.
The dust around them was thick and rose into the sky, obscuring the view.
But he could still perceive that this was an underground city, maybe the old capital - it was really in the opposite direction, it seemed that the Grim Reaper was an idiot with a sense of direction, pointing himself the wrong way?
"I entered the city smoothly, but unfortunately the way is not very good......"
sighed a sentence about the twists and turns now, Mu Xiu immediately reined in his mood and turned around, just as a long-horned Lori screamed excitedly, and crashed into his arms, and the two scuffled together.
Although he was not injured, the violent shock just now did have an impact, and Mu Xiu was unilaterally suppressed as expected.
Meticulous control can allow Mu Xiu to use a point of strength as a percentage of strength, and the offense and defense can be increased by a hundred times, but this is a "increase" after all, not a "foundation"-
For example, if his musculature strength is at the level of a normal person of 100 points, he will be able to exert a hundred times the strength of a normal person, and in the same way, the defense aspect is also to use the subtle level of control to instantly calculate all the details of the opponent's attack method and resolve it with the best means.
This is the essence of a hundredfold increase in offense and defense, but if it is directly hit, the defense aspect is a relatively weak shortcoming of the fourth order, because the strength of the muscle tissue itself is still a hundred points.
It's one thing to defuse damage and indirectly increase defense, but defense itself doesn't change substantially.
For example, if Mu Xiu really didn't take any measures, let alone just fell from that height at the speed of a meteorite, as long as he fell directly from the top of the twenty floors, he would inevitably be seriously injured.
After all, the "foundation" of his physical fitness has not even broken through a thousand points, there are no safety measures, and if he doesn't think about defusing the impact, it is possible to fall to his death directly...... Uh, well, cell-level resilience is not estimated to die.
Of course, he will definitely not do nothing, the moment he just landed, he not only strengthened his body to a strength far beyond steel by manipulating the cells, but also used a series of abilities such as magnetic field and domineering to buffer.
Hole cards such as Psychic Light Defense are also always ready to be triggered as soon as the situation is critical.
Otherwise, just like that, he'd have to be all over the place, not just almost vomiting blood.
"Interesting, I appreciate you more and more!" Ibuki Senka let out a heroic laugh that didn't match her childish and crisp voice.
This ghost king Lori was indeed not angry because of Mu Xiu's ungentlemanly behavior just now, on the contrary, she became even more excited. For the bold ghost clan, what I like most is to compete with others, whether it is fighting or drinking, as long as it is something that can distinguish the winner from the loser.
Bold personality and advocating strength.
It will have great respect and affection for powerful opponents, great appreciation for those who are not strong but courageous, and no mercy for those who are cowardly and cunning...... This is the nature of ghosts.
The two fists, one large and one small, slammed directly into each other in less than a hundredth of a second, and the direct and violent collision once again created a shockwave-like wind. The ground was lifted by the storm like torn pieces of paper, and the high-pressure air wall was pushed out in an instant, shattering and blowing the ruins around it again.
As if he had been hit head-on by a train, Mu Xiu ploughed a scorched black friction mark on the ground that was tens of meters long.
A huge crater appeared in the original place like a meteorite impact, and the strange force Lori stood still in place.
The fundamental gap is too great, even if it can be increased by a hundred times, the strength of Mu Xiu and this ghost king is still much inferior. Although the other party only has the appearance of a little girl, he is a big ghost who can really pull out the mountain and smash the sky with all his might.
And the impact just now didn't have any impact on the other party, you can imagine how high the opponent's basic attributes are, unless Mu Xiu can take the subtle level one step further, or simply strengthen the basic attributes to increase the number of bases, otherwise it is really difficult to have any chance of winning in such a battle.
And yet—
Seeing the ghost king Lori laughing wildly and raising her fist and striding over, Mu Xiu could only go against the violent torrent and meet it with a sharp and sharp edge.
It's already come to this point.,There's no good choice except for the direct front.,Otherwise, it will only make the ghost clan very disgusted.。
The sound of dense bombardment sounded in the air, and the pure collision of the speed that could not be seen by the afterimage and the terrifying power of the extreme, overturned this destroyed place again, and the huge wave of air exploded like a huge typhoon, and the distortion of the air was almost comparable to the explosion of space.
"Lord Xingxiong, don't you have to worry about this?"
"Hehe, why bother?"
In the distance, a woman with long blond hair, red eyes, and shackles and chains on her wrists and ankles smiled slightly. Her eyes twinkled with a playful look, and she replied nonchalantly with a wine glass in one hand.
"Isn't this great, I usually watch you fight every day, it's boring."