Chapter 24: Ghosts
Looking at the hiding place that made him faintly tremble, Luo Lun involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Because he felt that this energy made him very uncomfortable, but it was extremely powerful and could not be ignored.
Just as he was wondering the reason for the generation of this energy, a strange word drawn from the knowledge map suddenly drilled into Luo Ren's mind.
Negative energy!
Usually after the disappearance of a life, that place will produce some negative energy to a greater or lesser extent, which is what others call ghosts.
However, from the perspective of alchemy, the knowledge map divides souls into ghosts and resentful spirits, with ghosts having low energy and resentful spirits having strong energy. In addition, the ghost is infected by the environment, and after evolving, it can be promoted to a spirit that maintains its own form.
The wraith is a hierarchical type of negative energy being.
The power of the resentful spirit, the current Loren simply can't provoke it. In fact, it was the resentful soul that appeared, and Loren didn't know if he could clean up his screen bullet.
According to his conjecture, he felt that after encountering another biological form of this negative energy evolution, he could only escape, and the two were simply the intersection of different worlds in the same time and space.
Luo Lun remembered that there was a node in the knowledge graph called "soul attack", and at first he thought it was a means of attacking ordinary people, such as making the other party have soul shocks, nightmares every night, nervousness, fear, etc.
But now that I think about it, this "soul attack" should also work against negative energy creatures. One attack is enough to make ordinary souls scatter.
He remembered that the magic energy required to hit the "Soul Attack" node was 10 units, which was almost the strength of an intermediate alchemy apprentice. In other words, the current Loren is not able to pose a threat to negative energy creatures.
But at this moment, the huge negative energy made his heart excited, if he could take this negative energy as his own, it would be much faster than absorbing the leyline energy and improving it step by step after storage.
Sometimes, people have to seize this fleeting opportunity. Otherwise, Luo Lun is not sure that he will regret it in the future.
Although he knew that it would not be of much use, he placed an alloy shield on his chest and held the largest pink quartz in his left hand.
Pink quartz has a catalytic effect, but also has a great inclusive quality, which can absorb and store external energy. However, after absorbing external energy, the powder crystal can no longer be used as a catalyst in the future.
In the absence of refining special energy-absorbing crystals, powder crystals are currently the best alternative to energy storage.
With the protection of pink quartz and alloy shield, Loren is still not at ease, so he is already holding a flash thought, ready to activate the primary screen bullet at any time. Even if Loren guessed that the way the screen bullet hit could not destroy the negative energy.
As he got closer and closer to the hiding place of the man in black, Loren could feel the negative energy gradually thickening, and the powerful energy made it impossible for him to keep his calm. Even Luo Lun was guessing that if he got this negative energy, he could rush into the ranks of intermediate alchemy apprentices in one fell swoop.
After coming to a distance of about ten meters from the hiding place, Loren stopped and immediately opened the hidden eye.
The scenery in front of him turned into a hazy state, and a gray ethereal translucent figure appeared in front of him, which was indeed negative energy, and Luo Lun was also sure that this was the ghost of the man in black clothes, and there should be no other dead people nearby.
The ghost was facing away from Loren at the moment, because of the reason shortly after its death, its form was not cohesive enough, and sometimes its body drifted apart and gathered again.
Loren could tell that this was just a ghost, and that it had not yet been promoted to the more powerful negative energy of a resentful spirit. Even it can't even maintain the state of a ghost, and its strength is unimaginably low.
Loren put his mind at ease and took a few steps closer again, at this time the ghost noticed an anomaly nearby, and its fluttering figure slowly turned around, its eyes were half-squinted, and its face was also painful, it should have remained the same as before death.
After seeing its face, Luo Lun was stunned, and remembered the bust of the Polar Night Clan's Kunna posted in the academy. At this moment, he was sure that the man in black was indeed Kunna.
The Polar Night Clan is possessive, united, protective, and ruthless, and a Polar Night Clan who has had a crush on Amelia for a long time must have a grudge against Amelia for suddenly throwing herself into Loren's arms, so it is not surprising that he made a sneak attack on Loren.
What Luo Lun wanted to do at the moment was not to let the other Polar Night Clansmen suspect him.
A newly generated ghost has completely disappeared from its consciousness before death, and of course, it may trigger memories after seeing a specific object or a certain scene. However, at this moment, Quinna was obviously not conscious.
After unconsciously seeing the living approaching, Kunna's ghost immediately attacked in alarm. It opened its fangs, stretched its hands apart, and its ten fingers suddenly became long, thin, and sharp at this moment. The mouth stretched open at an incredible angle, let out a silent scream, and rushed towards Loren.
However, in the process of impact, the unstable ghost body dissipated again.
Loren saw it in his eyes and quickly retreated. He lacked experience in confronting negative energy head-on, and if he hadn't seen Kunna's ghost dissipate and coalesce, he might have turned and fled.
And at this moment, it seems that maybe even if he doesn't know how to "soul attack", he still has the opportunity to fight with this newly formed ghost.
He held the shield in his right hand and lifted Pink Quartz forward with his left hand while silently reading Pink Quartz's catalytic flash.
With a whoosh, when Kunna's ghost was two steps closer to Luo Lun, his entire body seemed to be withdrawn, quickly shrinking, and uncontrollably merged into the powder crystal in Luo Lun's hand.
The pink crystal immediately changed color, turning gray in just a few seconds, and a large number of visible cracks were formed inside the crystal, which instantly spread from the core to the surface of the crystal, and a distorted human face similar to Quinna's appearance appeared in it.
Fortunately, this crystal is the largest pink quartz selected by Luo Lun, even if it is cracked inside, it does not affect the stability of the whole crystal, as long as there is no too much collision in the future, the pink crystal will not be destroyed for the time being.
Luo Lun clearly felt that all the negative energy around him disappeared at this moment, and the powder crystal in his hand suddenly became heavy, as if it was filled with countless heavy metals.
It's done!
At present, he only has this method to absorb and store negative energy, and he is not able to convert the negative energy into the spiritual energy he needs for the time being, and when the time is ripe in the future, Luo Lun will not hesitate to transform it.
Of course, in the future, if he encounters more powerful negative energy, Luo Lun will also absorb and store it, but only if he wins the battle and refines a special energy-absorbing crystal.
Loren returned to the alchemist's hut and placed the pink crystal in the storage room before leaving the woods.
He originally planned to dig up and store all the nearby ores and alchemy plants in the past few days, but in the process of returning to prepare, Loren received a message from his old friend Keygen that this guy's virtual command competition was about to finalize.
Having missed the semi-finals in the early stages, this time Loren no longer has any reason to go and support his best friend.