The source of the cry for help was the direction Xia De needed to go.
So he quickened his pace, and in the white mist, a colossal figure gradually became clear.
It was at least three meters tall, with a waist thicker than three Xia Des plus a Mia.
Its body was covered in armor made of terrifying human faces pieced together, and its face was covered in dense knife marks as if it had been slashed.
"Evil Spirit!"
The more a soul's appearance deviates from that of a normal person, the more powerful the Evil Spirit becomes.
And the one before him was clearly the most terrifying type of soul in the traditional sense.
This ferocious soul also noticed Xia De.
As it turned, Xia De noticed that it held a spear over five meters long, and impaled on the tip of the spear was a young man in a Delarion Royal Army uniform.
When Xia De and Captain Lades visited the veteran's club, he had learned about the distinctive clothing of different soldiers and officers, so this one should be a corporal.
The cry for help had come from him, and his clothes and skin still had color, and even the blood spurting from his wound had color, indicating that he was a living person.
The other party also noticed Xia De's figure emerging from the white mist, and his right hand tried to reach out towards him, but due to severe injuries, the young corporal couldn't even complete the gesture.
"Is it an Outsider who stumbled into this place?"
Xia De thought to himself, having already stopped.
The tall Evil Spirit that had emerged from the white mist also turned towards him, violently shaking off the living person impaled on its spear tip, and then directly charged towards Xia De.
The momentum of its charge stirred the previously still white mist, but despite such a massive body treading on the ground, not a single sound was made.
"The opponent's weapon is longer than mine."
Xia De made a very rational judgment, crossing his hands in front of his chest to draw the cross-shaped light of the Moonlight, then taking a step back and kicking forward fiercely.
The crossed light flew forward, and the ferocious Evil Spirit swept horizontally with the spear in its hand, destroying the spear completely in exchange for neutralizing the attack.
"Stronger than the knight just now, not just a simple Evil Spirit, but also a derivative of this Level 0 relic?"
Fortunately, Xia De in this state was also stronger than usual.
As the spear shattered, his figure appeared silently above the Evil Spirit's head.
He brought his sword down with both hands, and the Evil Spirit turned and raised its hand to block, then half of its body was cleaved apart by Xia De.
Xia De landed, and the remaining half of the Evil Spirit, with an agility completely unsuited to its form, quickly swung its only remaining left fist towards Xia De's head.
There was no time to raise his sword, so Xia De struck upwards with his right fist, which bore the Mind Crystal Ring:
"Mind Blast!"
The massive Evil Spirit's fist collided with Xia De's right fist, and in a daze, Xia De actually heard a loud "boom~".
But this was not due to the collision of fists; instead, it was the power of Soul Echo, which allowed Xia De to interact with spirits, superimposed with Mind Blast, which actually allowed Xia De to unleash an effect he had never imagined possible in this world at the boundary of life and death.
Starting from the point of contact with Xia De's fist, the massive Evil Spirit gradually dispersed into a pile of white light specks, finally disappearing completely:
"I am just a butcher who likes to slaughter."
After confirming that the opponent had truly disappeared, Xia De quickly ran towards the young corporal who had just been thrown away.
He lay on the side of the street, with a penetrating wound in his abdomen.
Scarlet blood flowed along the ground, quickly assimilating into the grayish-white of this world.
"False Immortality!"
Xia De crouched down, immediately placed his hand on the other's chest, and then suddenly widened his eyes:
"Why isn't the spell working?"
It wasn't that the other party was already dead, so the spell couldn't be used; rather, the spell was completely ineffective on the living person in front of him.
【Mortals are destined to die, and False Immortality is merely a laughable comfort.】 (Chapter 52)
"What? False Immortality can't be used in the Gap?"
【It's too close to death here.】
Without time to discuss further with "her," Xia De softly comforted the corporal, whose eyes were gradually losing their luster, and then took out a wooden tube from his pocket, shaking it a few times to fill it with water.
He tapped the side of the wooden tube with his finger, imbuing the water with the characteristic of Gluttony's Feast.
He sprinkled the water on the young corporal's wound, but such a fatal wound could not be healed by Gluttony's Feast.
Even if the Miracle had extremely strong healing effects due to the Divine Radiance state, this was ultimately just healing.
The corporal struggled to keep his eyes open, looking at Xia De, and his blood-stained hand, with its last ounce of strength, lifted and grabbed Xia De's sleeve, his already somewhat unfocused pupils staring directly at Xia De:
"Are you alive?"
"Yes."
Xia De said.
He couldn't save him; this world would accelerate the process of death.
Without False Immortality, he couldn't save anyone.
False Immortality was truly just a comfort.
"Sir, please, please..."
The corporal's other hand fumbled towards his waist, and Xia De saw a pistol.
"Give this, this to, the First Legion, Windy Path..."
Each time he spoke, his lungs seemed to be expelling all the air:
"Captain Ronald of the Third Company of Red Water Camp."
His eyes looked at Xia De, and Xia De nodded:
"I will."
"Thank you."
A faint voice said, the color in his eyes disappeared, and he died.
"This really is..."
It wasn't that the Outsider had never seen others die, but observing a soul's departure while making direct eye contact with someone after False Immortality became ineffective was a first for him.
The corporal's soul slowly floated out of his body; it was an ordinary soul, unable to make any further response.
He just floated in this Gap, like all the souls here, completely forgetting everything.
If the death of a stranger could truly bring Xia De great emotion, that would be a bit too exaggerated.
But seeing a poor soul who had stumbled between life and death die in front of him still touched Xia De somewhat.
He would deliver that gun to Captain "Ronald," but now the most crucial thing was to find Father Augustus.
After turning the corpse into a toy and carrying it with him, Xia De continued to advance through this grayish-white City that resembled Middelburg but seemed to have some subtle differences, following the guidance of the holy emblem pendant on his chest.
Since he had encountered a living person just now, Xia De could be sure that there were definitely other living people active here.
But he didn't expect that after only ten minutes of walking, he would hear an unusual sound again:
But this time it wasn't a cry for help, but the sound of combat.
Xia De looked up ahead, and in the white mist, red mist was actually spreading, and upon getting a little closer, Xia De heard the sound of bats.
"Hmm."
He stood still, instead putting on his mask, wanting to observe the situation before making a decision.
Unexpectedly, the two parties fighting unconsciously moved closer in his direction.
One side was an Evil Spirit, a transparent, blackish body floating in the air, wearing a tattered white dress, a crown, and with a rotten face, holding an astonishingly long cleaver.
The other side of the battle, if Xia De was not mistaken, was a Vampire, which is the traditional "Vampire."
This was not an evenly matched battle; the Vampire, transformed into a swarm of bats, had to protect a frightened Boy while simultaneously fighting this powerful Evil Spirit.
After Xia De was exposed to the blood mist, he could basically confirm that the Vampire was probably a 5th or 6th Ring術士, because Xenomorph Ring術士 are generally stronger than human Ring術士, so the opponent could be considered equivalent to a human 6th or even 7th Ring術士.
And the Vampire race, considered semi-undead, would not have its power suppressed or enhanced in this strange world, so the power it displayed should only be at this level.
And that Evil Spirit was clearly stronger than the Vampire.
As Xia De was thinking, the Vampire, transformed into a swarm of bats, also discovered Xia De, and a cry for help came from the blood mist:
"Help me!"
It wasn't delarion, it was carson rick, fortunately Xia De understood it.
Xia De took a step back, always keeping himself at the edge of the blood mist.
He couldn't get too close; once he got too close and the Evil Spirit discovered him, it would definitely switch targets.
"Do you know the Blood Spirit School?"
Xia De asked in a deep voice.
The Vampires he had encountered in this world all belonged to the Blood Spirit School, so he wanted to confirm.
"Blood Spirit School? I know, aren't they in the New World?"
The cleaver in the Evil Spirit's hand swung through the air, and large swaths of blade light swept away the bats.
The blood mist was being eroded by the white mist, and the situation was shifting further.
"Are you also from the Blood Spirit School?"
"Oh, I understand, you have a grudge against those idiots from the Blood Spirit School? I'm not! I swear, by my soul, I am absolutely not from the Blood Spirit School! Another clan joined them! I'm just here to save my nephew, I have no ill will."
Xia De didn't speak, but took another step back, but before the Vampire, transformed into a swarm of bats, could call for help again, his figure disappeared into the white mist.
While the tall Evil Spirit in the white dress was distracted by the bats, Xia De appeared behind the Evil Spirit.
But this time he didn't attack with his sword, but simply threw a punch.
However, this punch did not work; two more arms extended from the sides of the Evil Spirit's body, holding another cleaver with both hands, and fiercely chopped towards Xia De's fist.
Although Xia De dared to punch the Evil Spirit, he still didn't dare to touch a cleaver with his bare fist.
His fist opened in the air, then drew a Moonlight that cleaved forward.
Clang!
The hastily swung Moonlight actually caused the cleaver to break.
Noticing that the opponent was multitasking and seemed unable to fully deal with him, Xia De's body crashed forward, scattering the fragments of Moonlight in front of him:
"Moonlight Greatsword!"
The giant sword, shimmering with Moonlight, cut through the arm of the spirit that was swinging in front of it.
Just as he was about to pierce through the opponent's body with a single sword, the Evil Spirit actually twisted its neck 180 degrees, its terrifying, skull-like face directly facing Xia De.
Its mouth opened wide, wider, wider, and then it suddenly bit towards Xia De's head, as if wanting to swallow him whole.
But Xia De had already encountered this move from Darkness; instead of dodging, he reached out and plunged his hand directly into the opponent's mouth:
"Silver Moonlight!"
As dazzling Moonlight shot out from the spirit's facial features, Xia De immediately withdrew his arm and retreated.
In a place with an unknown number of Evil Spirits, he didn't dare to use the Light Spell directly to illuminate the entire City, which is why he had always avoided this move.
But since the opponent had opened its mouth on its own, he had no more qualms.
The soul seemed to freeze in the air; as its head, directly illuminated by the Moonlight, first turned into specks of light, then its entire body turned the color of lime, and then it scattered into a layer of ash on the ground like a sand sculpture:
"I will become, the eternal princess."
