Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 337: Spirit

The boy’s gaze did not stop darting around, causing Xiao Lin to be unable to see what he was looking at, but he was more or less looking at the center of the lake. Xiao Lin immediately turned around, and under the clear moonlight, the lake was a picture of serenity.

Under the cloudless skies and twin moons, it was very hard for anyone to hide in the large lake. Xiao Lin narrowed his eyes, focusing all his attention on every inch of the lake, but he could not find any points of suspicion. He could not even see any blades of grass moving from the wind.

Just as Xiao Lin was mulling over it, something flashed in his mind, shocking him.

It might not be a person!

The thing he had interacted with the most in the recent days were the undead; how could he have forgotten them during such an important time. He whispered to Lilith, “I suspect there’s an undead spirit nearby. Let me use necromantic meditation to sense it. You be careful.”

Lilith had a shocked expression as well, flicking her wrist forward as her black battle scythe soundlessly appeared in her hand. Qwei must have thought that Lilith wanted to kill him, and he turned around to frantically run away, but Xiao Lin did not bother with him then.

Necromantic meditation and regular meditation were actually quite hard for regular people to enter at the same time, but Xiao Lin had a unique method, which was to enter the meditative state only after activating Miracle. In the meditative universe, the blackhole once again expanded its dark mouth, swallowing every form of energy it could.

The surrounding energies started to distance themselves from it as well, and it was quite easy to notice any energy sources with strange movements in that situation. That proved that the energy did not move on its own will, but rather because it was being controlled. For instance, Lilith who was beside him had energy tightly condensed around her, which was not the slightest bit disturbed by Xiao Lin’s blackhole.

Around a few down meters away, there was a grey mass of burning flames, a lot more intense than the death energies that were naturally around them.

He found it!

It was not impossible to sense it with just necromantic meditation, but using Xiao Lin’s method, it was impossible to get it wrong.

Xiao Lin opened his eyes, rapidly making a judgement. It was around fifty meters away, and the position was right on top of the center of the lake! Following Xiao Lin’s line of sight, Lilith and Ibeiya looked over, but they saw nothing but the empty night sky.

“It might be a spirit,” Lilith hazarded a guess in a low voice.

Ibeiya nodded. “An undead without a physical body has to be a spirit.”

On Planet Norma, every living thing had a soul, but it was not like the myths on Earth, where souls could wander around after they died. That was impossible; souls could not survive for a long time under Planet Norma’s laws.

However, there were no special instances. When a soul had enough power to survive under Planet Norma’s laws, it would become an undead spirit. Undead spirits were still undead. As for how souls turned into spirits, that was not something Xiao Lin knew at that moment.

It was different from other undead beings. Spirits could not be seen with the naked eye, but spirits were basically a dense concentration of death energy. It was easy for those that knew necromantic meditation to sense them. Xiao Lin and Lilith had that ability, while Ibeiya was a dark race, sensitive to death energy, so it was easy for them to sense it.

Qwei was just a very ordinary boy, so scared that he could not even speak. He definitely did not seem like some hidden expert.

How could he see or sense the spirit?!

Xiao Lin thought of that question even in his state of high alert. He raised the Holy Soul Sword, pointing it at Qwei’s direction, but to his disappointment, Qwei’s reaction was not at all different from earlier. He was even more terrified than before. “That-that person is coming. Don’t drag me down…”

Xiao Lin thought for a moment, suddenly asking, “Lilith, do you have any hammer weapons with you?”

Lilith moved her scythe to her left hand, flicking her right hand as a small hammer appeared from her bracelet. She handed it to Xiao Lin.

“How many items are in that bracelet of yours?!” Xiao Lin’s eyes twitched. He actually did not have much hope for it, having not seen Lilith use many hammer type weapons.

“You should ask me what weapons I don’t have!” Lilith winked at him proudly.

“Is this hammer valuable?” Xiao Lin asked.

“I don’t really use it, but it’s a Black Iron-rank weapon.”

“How much is it?”

“Around a few hundred New Dollars.” Lilith was not very certain, she then asked, “Why are you asking this?”

It really was frustrating to compare to others. Xiao Lin could not help but bitterly smile despite the circumstances. He took the battle hammer. With that weapon, everything would be much easier. The cheap price also caused him to let out a breath of relief.

“Holy Light Blessing!”

Xiao Lin raised the hammer high as a vibrant light shot out from the head. Holy Light Blessing was a skill he had learnt in The Final Lands. Other than being able to cure some light wounds, it also dealt quite a bit of damage to the undead. However, Holy Light Blessing was still a basic skill with some drawbacks, such as needing to hit the undead with the face of a hammer.

Xiao Lin did not know of any method of flight, and wanted to try forcing the mysterious spirit over. The easiest way was to do what he was doing: throwing the hammer with the holy light on it. It caused a streak of white to appear in the night sky.

Lilith could only gape, finally understanding why Xiao Lin had asked about the price. She had thought Xiao Lin wanted to buy it, but the brat had actually used it as a consumable item.

“Relax, I’ll compensate you when we get back,” Xiao Lin said confidently. A few hundred New Dollars was no longer a sum he cared about.

The hammer flew halfway toward the lake before sinking into the water, causing ripples to form as the white light began to fade into the darkness.

After a few seconds of silence, just as Xiao Lin had thought that his attack had failed and as he was preparing to ask Lilith for a second hammer, the piercing sound of a woman crying could be heard.