“Yes.” Marvin nodded seriously. “Me and William.”
A strange expression appeared on Gwyn’s face, before he ground his teeth and nodded in acquiescence.
He could take the loss. Wealth wasn’t as important as his life.
What’s more, the Dark Side intended to start a war. He needed to report this important information.
He responded to Marvin, “I agree to all your conditions. Now can you take me out of Saruha?”
But how could he have expected Marvin’s odd answer:
“What’s the hurry?”
“We managed to enter an Ancient Gnome vestige with great difficulty. If we leave without plundering the place, it would really be a waste, don’t you think?”
“As for the Pale Hand, rest assured, he won’t follow for now with the [Fire Guardians] blocking him, and then the ensuing [Endless Stairs]… We should have at least twenty minutes.”
Gwyn smiled bitterly. “Didn’t you already get a lot of treasures?”
Marvin ignored his complaint and rushed toward the depths of the room.
Soon, a low tunnel appeared in front of the two.
Marvin checked it for a bit before confirming that there was no danger. He beckoned Gwyn to follow, before crawling in.
If he wasn’t wrong, at the other end of the tunnel would be Saruha’s Residential District!
…
In the depths of Saruha.
On a dark green altar, two tall shadows were kneeling.
A twisted face slowly appeared out of a fire:
“Exterminate…”
“Our old enemy…”
“Punishment… Restore the glory of our Negative Energy Plane.”
The voice from the face was intermittent.
But those two shadows still managed to understand what he meant.
A scene appeared before their eyes. It was Marvin strenuously crawling through the tunnel!
“We brothers will definitely accomplish your order…”
“Respected Sir [Tidomas].”
Chapter 338: Evil Spirit Barrier
Chapter 338: Evil Spirit Barrier
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
A small ladder appeared at the end of the long narrow tunnel.
Marvin struggled to straighten his body and crawled up the ladder. He pushed the rusted manhole cover aside and a strong rotting smell surrounded them.
The Vampire following him couldn’t help but frown upon noticing the smell.
“This is the former Residential District of Saruha’s Gnomes?” Gwyn guessed.
The Vampire was a bit obsessed with cleanliness, so this rotting smell made him feel a bit unwell. He couldn’t help but urge, “We should quickly pass through this place.”
But Marvin shook his head.
“If you want to escape from the Pale Hand, follow me.”
After saying that, Marvin sped up and went toward the depths of the Residential District.
Gwyn frowned but still followed him inside.
Some noise could be heard from time to time inside the otherwise quiet district.
These noises covered up the movements of the Evil Spirits.
They had already received the orders from the Evil Spirit Envoys after the two left the tunnel.
A huge encirclement was slowly taking shape.
…
Within the dense fog, Marvin closed his eyes. He pictured a three-dimensional map of the place in his mind.
Tiny red dots hiding between the cracks of the buildings were looking at him ferociously.
Gwyn followed behind Marvin. He was an outstanding member of the Bright Side, and had extraordinary perception.
“We are surrounded,” he warned in a low voice.
Marvin nodded, a bright smile appearing on his face. “Exactly what I want!”
Gwyn frowned. Since Marvin was this confident, he also wouldn’t be worried about these Evil Spirits.
After all, he could tell that even though there were a lot of Evil Spirits, there weren’t any particularly strong ones among them yet.
With his abilities, even if frightening Tentacle Horrors appeared, he wouldn’t have an issue dodging them easily.
Marvin sped forward because he could feel that the Evil Spirits surrounding them were tightening the encirclement.
The Residential District was split into five areas, which were all occupied by the Evil Spirits. There weren’t any constructs here, only endless waves of Evil Spirits, all under the control of the Evil Spirit Envoys.
And the two Evil Spirit Envoys were residing in the next area, the [Desolate Ancient Altar].
From what Marvin knew, those two Evil Spirit Envoys were unable to leave the Desolate Ancient Altar. Their bodies apparently had fused with it.
To kill Marvin, they could only send their subordinates, or find a way to lead him toward them.
They couldn’t have expected that he would know this, but in fact, their plans were already in Marvin’s grasp.
He knew that ever since he destroyed the Decaying Plateau, his body’s Evil Spirit Enmity had already reached the extremes. This place was Tidomas’ domain, so this Negative Energy Plane Overlord had most likely already discovered Marvin when he entered Saruha.
Diggles’ fall critically hampered the Negative Energy Plane’s attacks on Feinan. All Evil Spirits would hate Marvin to the bone, not to mention Tidomas, who had been on friendly terms with Diggles.
‘He’ll definitely spare nothing to kill me. But knowing my strength, he should also know that these Evil Spirits wouldn’t be able to take me down.’
‘They are simply pressuring me, trying to force me to go toward the Desolate Ancient Altar. Because only there could the two Evil Spirit Envoys could cooperate with the army of Evil Spirits and hopefully get their revenge.’
‘Hehe, well I’m also fine with that…’
Marvin sneered.
He was indeed running toward the Desolate Ancient Altar!
Thus, these Evil Spirits were surprisingly patient with him and due to the guidance from the Evil Spirit Envoys, they didn’t attack.
They even slightly relaxed their formation, leaving a small gap.
And that gap led to the Desolate Ancient Altar.
They believed that with that guy’s perception, he would definitely find the flaw.
But to the surprise of the two Evil Spirit Envoys, Marvin, who had been running in the general direction of the Desolate Ancient Altar this whole time, suddenly stopped in front of a building.
It was a rather large and grandiose building!
Although Saruha had already been abandoned for countless years, the building was still standing.
[McKenzie Theater].
Marvin smiled and went inside!
Gwyn hesitated for a moment before following with his teeth clenched.
…
“He saw through our plan.”
At the Desolate Ancient Altar, an Evil Spirit Envoy was frowning.
The other one sneered back, “What about it? In my opinion, all he did was choose his burial location.”
“He might think that the terrain inside McKenzie Theater will be more suitable for battle … But he doesn’t know that we already have followers inside.”
“Summon [Sleeping Max] and seal the entire theater, hehe… I want to see how the so-called [Hero of Feinan] who destroyed the Decaying Plateau will break through our Evil Spirit Barrier now!”
On the Desolate Ancient Altar, the two figures bowed their heads and began to chant softly.
Power started to slowly pour into Feinan through the altar from the Evil Dragon Cemetery sub-plane of the Negative Energy Plane!
McKenzie Theater was already surrounded by Evil Spirits.
At the order of the Evil Spirit Envoys, all the Evil Spirits went in!
Tentacle Horrors, Evil Spirit Servants, Brain Eating Monsters, Corpse Monsters… All kinds of Evil Spirits rushed through the eight doors of the Theater at the
same time!
In the theater, Gwyn looked at the army of Evil Spirits and repeated with a pale face, “We are surrounded!”
Marvin sped through row after row of seats and stopped in the middle of the stage!
“Indeed.”
“But if not for this, how could we hide from the Pale Hand’s perception?”
All the Evil Spirits pounced toward him at the same time, just as a huge power locked around McKenzie Theater. A light gray barrier formed, wrapped around the theater.
“Evil Spirit Barrier?” Gwyn’s eyes shone in realization.
Under the cover of this barrier, McKenzie Theater was hidden from detection!
All sounds, all traces, everything completely disappeared.
Even if the Pale Hand went all-out to track them down, he probably still wouldn’t be able to find this place. This was a high level Evil Spirit Barrier after all. Gwyn estimated that most Legends wouldn’t be able to see through it.
However…
Even if the Evil Spirit Barrier could stop Sky’s chase, the two were about to face a very harsh challenge!
Countless Evil Spirits rushed up like waves ready to engulf them.
If not for the Theater being so big, these Evil Spirits might be able to just pile together and squeeze them to death!
“What next?”
Unconsciously, Gwyn was getting somewhat used to following Marvin.
Marvin looked toward the closest Evil Spirits and drew two daggers, excitement flashing through his eyes.
“Kill everything!”
____________
E/N: Translator’s birthday today, so don’t forget to stone him.
Chapter 339: Theater Spirit
Chapter 339: Theater Spirit
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
On the stage, faint yellow lights were flickering.
The large curtains were slowly opening as Marvin stood at center stage as if he were doing a rehearsal on the eve of a play.
The puzzled Gwyn hid behind the curtains, watching Marvin with doubt as he faced hundreds of approaching Evil Spirits.
Although these Evil Spirits had rather ordinary strength, the number was overwhelmingly large. Why did Marvin tell him to just stand by and watch?
‘Could it be to show off his strength?’ Gwyn remained perplexed.
As far as he could tell, if he participated, it would only lighten Marvin’s burden.
But it would mean something totally different in Marvin’s eyes.
His purpose when coming to Saruha was very simple, to increase his strength!
And those treasures, such as the [Rosenthal Bracelets] that he managed to get his hands on, were merely a part of the big harvest. The most important part was battle exp!
Marvin already had the Legend Advancement Manual, so as soon as he met the requirements to advance to Ruler of the Night, he could advance to Legend!
But the crucial point was that he was currently lacking experience!
Before, there was a time where Marvin didn’t spare any expense and used battle exp to level his Ranger class to Level 9. For the same reason, Shapeshift Sorcerer was Level 6. This way of distributing experience was in order to increase his strength in the short term, by receiving powerful skills and attributes, but it deviated a bit from the perfect path to becoming Ruler of the Night.
The requirements to advance from Night Walker to Ruler of the Night were clearly written in the Advancement Manual: Ranger Level 8 - Night Walker Level 10.
And Marvin’s Night Walker class was currently barely level 6. He was still so far from Level 10.
For natives, this might be a gap that they wouldn’t be able to break through in their lifetime.
Because the natives of Feinan needed constant training and enlightenment to level up. The geniuses among them might have deeper understanding toward certain classes and thus keep leveling up, but most would train for their whole lives, but stop at a certain level because of their limited talents.
But Marvin was different.
He had the [Essence Absorption System], as Mark 47 called it, and this system let Marvin avoid the bottlenecks of leveling up. As long as he kept killing, he would obtain a steady flow of experience.
In fact, thanks to the system, Marvin never had any worries about leveling.
This time, it could be considered the first instance he had entered specifically to grind for exp.
Saruha was originally known for hosting an enormous amount of Evil Spirits.
Most of the Evil Spirits themselves weren’t worth that much experience. Excluding the few 4th rank powerhouses inside, on average, each Evil Spirit would give Marvin no more than 500 exp!
But it was still a lot overall!
At that time, McKenzie Theater was already clogged up with Evil Spirits. There were at least a thousand of them eyeing Marvin!
Among them, the lowest level Evil Spirits were at the 2nd rank. These were about 70% of the army, while the 3rd ranks made up around 25%.
Only a handful of 4th rank Evil Spirits were mixed in, waiting for chances to seriously harm Marvin.
This was the plan of the two Evil Spirit Envoys to kill Marvin. It consisted of using a large amount of low level Evil Spirits to confuse him, while the real experts hid within, waiting for a chance to surprise him.
But unfortunately, their plan was bound to fail. Marvin had already taken that into account.
Moreover, since they gathered together, Marvin didn’t need to hunt the Evil Spirits one nest at a time!
Facing the ocean Evil Spirits, Marvin still showed unprecedented confidence and killing intent!
He was happy to take advantage of this opportunity to group up the Evil Spirits and farm some exp.
With two daggers in hands, Marvin’s body flashed like lightning.
On the Azure Leafs, #4 Holy Water flickered with a strange luster, emitting the strongest restraining aura against the Evil Spirits!
He could kill the 2nd rank Evil Spirits easily in one slash!
Marvin only needed to rely on his formidable experience and skill to not be locked in a fight with the stronger Evil Spirits, instead just speeding away and shaking them off.
He was doing things very differently now.
16 Constitution greatly increased his stamina. Even if there were almost a thousand Evil Spirits in the theater, Marvin believed he could kill them all.
Since that was the case, why would he need Gwyn to act and snatch his exp?
…
“Woosh!” On the stage, Marvin moved like a ghost, sliding between the gaps among the Evil Spirits.
Facing Brain Eating Monsters, Tentacle Horrors, and other relatively powerful monsters, Marvin would choose to temporarily retreat.
His tactics were very simple. He relied on his powerful Dexterity to roam around the army and get rid of the low level Evil Spirits.
None of the Evil Spirits could catch up to his speed.
Godly Dexterity allowed him to break through all attempts at encirclement before they could form completely. With that as well as his powerful Night Walker skills, he simply wasn’t worried about the Evil Spirits surrounding him.
‘I’ll kill these 2nd rank Evil Spirits first!’ Marvin thought.
The Azure Leafs in Marvin’s hands flashed, and an Evil Spirit died with an anguished wail.
When Marvin started his preparations to advance to Legend, he made proper considerations. He had to save as much battle exp as he could, but where to get battle exp was an issue.
Wantonly killing without reason was definitely out of the question.
And in terms of gathering exp, killing Feinan’s monsters one by one wasn’t actually worth much. Even slaying a Dragon would at most give him 30000 exp or so.
And that was with Clarke’s unique Divine template. The previous Red Dragon gave him 16000 exp.
And to get 10000 exp, Marvin only needed to kill 20 monsters worth 500 exp each.
Thus, to level quic
kly in Feinan with his system, going for quantity over quality was the way.
But, the numerous evil lifeforms such as Devils, Demons, and other monsters weren’t that easy to handle.
The only species Marvin could easily handle massive amounts of at once were Evil Spirits and Ghosts, thanks to his copious stores of Holy Water.
Thus, when he left for the Dead Area of the Pambo Sea, he also thought about hunting some Ghosts to get a bit of exp.
But he hadn’t expected to come across Saruha opening while going through Ruins City, this was pretty convenient.
Since something so helpful appeared, Marvin naturally would not let it go.
“Ha!”
Night Jump!
Marvin’s body flew over the heads of numerous Evil Spirits, avoiding two Brain Eating Monsters while pouncing toward a group of low level Moss Monsters!
That group of Moss Monsters lost any courage they had when they saw Marvin tearing through them and moved back in fright.
The daggers flashed again and that group of Moss Monsters was completely annihilated.
They broke down into essence and merged into Marvin’s body, turning into battle exp!
Seeing his battle exp going up little by little, Marvin was also exceptionally excited.
This was the first time he had farmed so much exp ever since he arrived in Feinan!
He was fired up. Those sinister Evil Spirits were like cute experience packs!
He waved his daggers and kept reaping Evil Spirits!
…
In the Desolate Ancient Altar, the scenes that took place in McKenzie Theater startled and angered the two Evil Spirit Envoys!
Although they already knew that the person able to destroy the Decaying Plateau couldn’t be someone ordinary, when Marvin displayed his outstanding battle skills and physical abilities, they were deeply shocked.
“His speed… Could he already have reached [Godly Dexterity]? Impossible, he should still be only level 18 at most!”
“A Moss Monster died like this? One slash? What are those weapons? Hold on… There is the aura of Holy Water on them.”
“He is more prepared than we are!”
The two brothers discussed with pale faces.
A quarter hour later, half of the Evil Spirits in McKenzie Theater had already been mown down by Marvin!
The Evil Spirit Envoys’ hearts bled!
Night Ranger - Full Series - 735 Chapters Page 199
