Chad had followed the compass line straight towards the center of the mist. According to the compass, he was less than a mile away. Unexpectedly, halfway there, he had heard intense sounds of battle from afar. He stopped and listened carefully; most of the sounds were human shouts and cries of battle. This meant that the eerie being they had encountered was very powerful—so powerful that many human awakeners had to gang up on it.
Chad's eyes lit up. A strong eerie being was good. Only high-level eerie beings could drop better resources. The spirit crystals dropped by a third-stage eerie being were definitely much more powerful than those of the first and second stages. Up to that point, Chad had never encountered a more formidable eerie being. Thinking of this, he changed his route, deviating slightly from the original path, and headed straight towards the source of the battle sounds.
His footsteps were light, and he moved gracefully and skillfully with the night wind and moonlight. As soon as he arrived at the destination, a complex and familiar long whistle entered his ears. This sound was very familiar. Chad frowned and pondered for a few seconds. Then he suddenly realized—it was very similar to the long horn blast he had heard as a child near the railway.
"I haven't heard of any subway or trains nearby?" Chad thought, puzzled. Suddenly, two injured awakeners flew over from the horizon and crashed heavily onto the ground. They spat out blood, their faces pale, obviously severely injured. Their uniforms had been burned to an unrecognizable state, their faces covered in black charcoal, and their exposed limbs had many swollen and red burns.
Chad took one look and understood. The eerie being they were attacking was probably a fire-attributed one. "A fire-attributed eerie being…" Chad murmured in his heart, "I wonder which is stronger, it or my Hellfire?" He took a step forward, eager to try his hand against this unfamiliar creature.
"Bro, wait." The two severely injured awakeners lying on the ground suddenly called out to him. Chad turned back in confusion. The two of them struggled to prop themselves up, coughing up blood as they advised him, "You just arrived, right? Please go and call your teammates and more reinforcements. Ahead is a terrifying fourth-stage eerie being, the Leaky Spirit. Its strength is extremely powerful. With our current manpower, we are no match for it…"
After hearing this, Chad's expression remained unchanged. A fourth-stage eerie being would indeed be quite troublesome. Generally speaking, in the second zone, third-stage eerie beings were the mainstream, while fourth-stage ones were rare but still more common than fifth-stage ones. Once a fourth-stage eerie being was encountered, it could still be defeated with crowd tactics and precise coordination. But fifth-stage eerie beings were completely different; encountering one was almost certain death, whether alone or in a small team.
In a short while, the two lying on the ground explained the current situation to Chad. On the battlefield, there were two four-star awakeners and four three-star awakeners. Such an excellent team composition, yet they were still struggling. The main problem was that the fourth-stage creature was tricky—sometimes tangible, sometimes intangible. In its illusory state, it was impossible to touch. The most frustrating part was that the creature's attacks were effective against the awakeners, even when it was intangible.
With such a twisted ability, it left these awakened ones at a loss.
If you're in a phantom state, I can't hit you, yet you can still hit me—how is that fair?
The two severely injured awakened ones were caught off guard. They were struck by the Flame Impact unleashed by the Leaky Spirit after being turned into a phantom, and they ended up falling from the sky here.
Chad listened carefully, and after they finished, he expressed his gratitude. "Thank you." The two awakeners exchanged confused looks. What? Did we just waste our words? This kind of eerie being that could interact while in an intangible state rarely appeared even in the third zone. Upon encountering such a terrifying existence, wasn't the normal reaction to seek help? Why did this reckless young man seem excited instead?
At that moment, the familiar sound like a train whistle echoed again. The two lying on the ground changed their expressions, knowing that the eerie being had turned illusory again. They looked at each other with bitter expressions. "I don't know if our captain and the others can hold on." "If that bro hadn't been so stubborn and gone to get reinforcements just moments ago, it would have been better." "We're lying here, suffering."
Chad finally saw the fourth-stage eerie being through the night. It had two long, curved horns on its head, and its body was fiery red and currently transparent. He understood that this was probably the eerie being's illusory ability. Indeed. Chad also saw the two four-star awakeners and two three-star awakeners, each holding weapons and leaning on their waists, panting heavily. They were all severely injured, with redness, swelling, and blisters covering their bodies. Their clothes were burned and tattered, and their eyes were filled with anxiety and frustration.
The eerie being had turned illusory again. The team could only passively endure the burns but couldn't hit the eerie being. How annoying. Under the horns of the Leaky Spirit, its teapot-like face revealed a grin that was more miserable than crying. Its illusory body drifted towards the group of awakeners, preparing to unleash a powerful attack and burn them all to death in one go.
Swoosh. Swoosh. Two flying swords shot out, passing through the Leaky Spirit's body, piercing through its illusory form. The two four-star awakeners angrily spat on the ground. "Damn it. We can't hit it. How do we fight?" The other two three-star awakeners were even more fearful, gritting their teeth as they watched the approaching fourth-stage eerie being, a sense of despair enveloping the team despite their not-insignificant configuration. Unless something unexpected happened, they would be burned to death by the next wave of attacks.
Already severely burned, they braced for what seemed to be their end, their eyes trembling in despair. They swallowed their saliva, silently awaiting the arrival of death.
Boom.The sound of exploding flames echoed. The faces of the four, who had closed their eyes, trembled, but they endured and didn't move. They thought that it must be the fourth-stage eerie being unleashing its powerful attack, about to burn them to death.
However, after more than ten seconds had passed, the flames continued to rage with intense heat, wave after wave. Even with their eyes closed, they could still feel the impact of the flames. But they were curious—so much time had passed. The eerie being had unleashed wave after wave of powerful attacks; why hadn't they been burned to death yet? One of them couldn't help but open his eyes to see what was happening.
As soon as he opened his eyes, his pupils widened, trembling in shock. He gasped in amazement. "Wow. What the hell. Is this real?" The other three couldn't help but open their eyes after hearing this. Immediately, like the first, their pupils dilated, and their mouths gaped in astonishment.
Within their sight stood a teenage boy, like a god or demon, wearing a flaming robe, surrounded by a sea of towering flames, forcibly pushing back that fourth-stage eerie being. "What? I recognize him." one of them exclaimed. "Isn't he the new guy who arrived yesterday?" "What? That freak who just came up from the first zone?" "Isn't he new?" they wondered in disbelief. "An F-grade can force back a fourth-stage eerie being?"
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