harleyscars Chapter 235 The Unkillable Sequence 5
Chapter 235 The Unkillable Sequence 5
Chapter 235 The Unkillable Sequence 5
Raphael ended his conversation with the "original" consciousness and began to use his own spirituality to examine the abilities he had just acquired.
The core ability of "vengeful spirits" is "possession by vengeful spirits".
Raphael had seen Marich use this ability more than once; it involved possessing the target and then inflicting harm on them through self-harm.
To understand how to use this ability in combat, we must talk about the "Wraith" state. After Raphael ascends, he has two forms: a normal human state and a shadowy "Wraith" state.
The "vengeful spirit state" allows free entry and exit from the spirit world and allows one to stay in the spirit world for a long time, spying on the real world.
Raphael tried it out. In the spirit world, people and objects in the real world appeared somewhat blurry and distorted, and even voices sounded different. However, his intuition was absolutely accurate, such as whether the target was dangerous, or whether the person the target was waiting for would pose a danger to him, and so on.
Overall, this is a very covert way of observing targets, because the observation of targets by "vengeful spirits" is not perceptible to those at Sequence 5 and below. Targets can only become aware of the "vengeful spirits" when they are about to launch an attack.
The state of a "normal human" is completely different from that of a normal body. No physical attack can harm Raphael, and even severe brain damage will not endanger his life.
Raphael felt that the extraordinary individuals who followed the "Prisoner" pathway seemed to be going further and further astray on the track of "high defense." Previously, they had skin like steel, which was considered "high defense" in the general sense.
Raphael's skin hasn't been strengthened, but no matter how you attack him with physical attacks, it's useless.
These are the two states of "vengeful spirits." Therefore, the ability of "vengeful spirit possession" is easy to understand. When a "vengeful spirit" possesses a target and harms the target, the "vengeful spirit" will also suffer the same damage.
However, the "Wraith" is more resilient. In a battle of attrition, no Sequence 5 can out-trade the "Wraith".
This is the essence of this ability.
However, Raphael felt that this most important ability was somewhat useless to him.
With "Crawling Hunger," he has a better way to attack, and when facing enemies of the same level, there is no need to trade blows.
Instead of "possessing" someone, it's better to use the power of "vengeful spirits" to approach the target from the spirit world and launch a surprise attack with "harvest," which can definitely inflict serious injury on the opponent in one blow.
Raphael planned to study, when he had time, the tactics for surprise attacks and skirmishes that suited him best.
Thinking of this, he continued to use his spirituality to examine the newly acquired abilities. Generally speaking, the other abilities after advancing to "Wraith" fall into two categories. One category is basically all necromancy-related abilities centered around "Wraith", including "Wraith's Scream", "Wraith's Entanglement", and "Spirit World Travel".
Raphael had also seen Marich use "Wraith Scream," an ability with considerable offensive power, capable of inflicting severe spiritual damage on both extraordinary beings and undead creatures.
"Entanglement of Wraiths" is a control ability that Raphael had longed for. It can summon a large number of undead creatures, fixing the target in place and making their whole body stiff.
As for "spirit world traversal," unlike "travel," it only allows for short-distance travel. It's also not as flexible as "teleportation," which allows for repeated entry and exit from the spirit world. However, it allows one to stay in the spirit world for extended periods without attracting the attention of spirit beings.
Raphael felt the second category of abilities leaned more towards the "witch" path, specifically "Mirror Jump" and "Ice Crystal Arrows."
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The former is well-suited for escaping and ambushes, while the latter is more focused on control abilities.
Although it's not surprising that "vengeful spirits" can travel through mirrors, the concept of a "mirror world" always makes Raphael think of "witches."
Speaking of which, after advancing to "Wraith", there seems to be a qualitative change, though not a huge one. When I was a "living corpse", I didn't have many extraordinary abilities and mainly relied on hand-to-hand combat. But after becoming a "Wraith", I suddenly have many more extraordinary abilities.
Finally, there was one ability that received a significant boost: taking over.
In fact, anyone who is extraordinary, or even someone who is not extraordinary, can perform divination. It's just that those who are extraordinary have stronger spirituality, so the results they get are more accurate.
Within Sequence 9, the divination results from "the next person to be divined" are the most accurate, and there are many methods for doing so. For extraordinary individuals from other paths, the more spiritual their path, the more accurate their divination results will be.
After becoming a "vengeful spirit" and gaining free access to the spirit world, Raphael's divination abilities also improved significantly, roughly equivalent to the level of Sequence 7 to Sequence 6 of the "Diviner" pathway.
Of course, for a "vengeful spirit," divination is not the most important use. After improving his abilities in this area, Raphael's intuition improved by a whole level.
For example, if he had encountered an unfamiliar enemy on the street before, he could only sense the other person's malice. But now, Raphael could instantly know why someone harbored malice towards him even though they didn't know each other.
This ability is essentially similar to the "predicting danger" ability in "Crawling Hunger".
Having clarified all his new abilities, Raphael took a deep breath. He was quite satisfied with the abilities he had gained from this promotion.
However, he was more looking forward to the changes in the "Dark Hut", so after his spirituality was basically subdued, he immediately entered the "Dark Hut".
First, Raphael realized that as long as he entered the Dark Abode in the form of a "vengeful spirit," his "entire body" could enter it.
This is actually a very powerful ability; if you can't defeat the enemy, you can instantly hide in the "Dark Hut".
However, this doesn't mean that this ability is invincible. If Raphael is controlled, he will also be unable to enter the "Dark Hut".
Moreover, under normal circumstances, you will reappear at the same location you entered the "Dark Abode" when you leave.
Raphael appears in the form of an descent unless other believers are praying elsewhere.
This gave Raphael the idea of developing a few followers in the southern continent, so that he could appear in a deceptive way by descending, pretending to be a divine messenger, and swindling people.
As he pondered this, Raphael sat down in his chair.
In an instant, the entire "Dark Abode" trembled, as if only then realizing that the person sitting in the chair had just completed a promotion.
The second owner of the Dark Lodge in the wooden corridor behind opened his long-withered eyes again. He realized that Raphael's connection with the Dark Lodge had deepened. Not only could he mobilize more of the Dark Lodge's power, but he also seemed to have gained some control over the Dark Lodge.
His feeling was right. After Raphael sat down in the chair, he felt that he could change the shape of the "Dark Hut" in the surrounding area.
The difference is that previously, Raphael could only project the power from the "Dark Chamber" into the real world.
Because the power here is so immense, even if he didn't have control over this place, a casual flick of his wrist and its transmission to the real world would be terrifying.
Now, there's no need for that "scratching" motion anymore; just by sitting in the chair, he represents a portion of the "Dark Lodge's" power.
To give a more intuitive example, Raphael previously only managed to summon his own phantom at Sequence 4, but now he's almost at Sequence 3, and has access to many more abilities. Crucially, this isn't the upper limit, but rather that the medium Raphael can currently find can only maintain this level of phantom.