I Really Am a Mage

Ultimate light instantly flooded an area five meters around them. Not only did green gas seep out from the black-robed man's body beneath the light, but black gas began continuously leaking out as well.

"Ultimate Light? Damn, Yuhao, your Brother Jie has two ultimate attributes in one martial soul. That talent is insane!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cried out in amazement.

"Is this a Child of Light!?" Unlike Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Electrolux was much calmer. Yet after sensing the intensity of the light Xu Jie had released, he still could not help muttering to himself.

As the Ultimate Light shone down, the green gas seeping from the black-robed man grew increasingly sparse. Once Xu Jie confirmed that he could clear the remaining green Death Aura from his body himself—

The four soul rings on the black-robed man's body began to pulse. The souls he had captured earlier appeared, and he raised the staff in his hand, shouting, "Soul Explosion!!!"

The manifested souls began to swell rapidly.

The gray speck of light in Huo Yuhao's mind exploded once more, gray filling his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness again. At the same time, Electrolux's aged voice rang out within Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness.

"Little bug, lend me a portion of your origin power."

Before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could refuse, Electrolux had already drawn away a small portion of the Spiritual Power Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had sealed within Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness. At the same time, Huo Yuhao's eyes turned gray once again.

Unlike the first time Huo Yuhao's eyes had turned gray, this gray carried an air of ancient vicissitudes, as though it could see through everything in the world.

Even stranger, Huo Yuhao's white soul ring had vanished. In its place, a gray soul ring slowly rose from beneath his feet, while the faint shadow of a figure clad in tattered gray robes appeared behind him.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao gave the black-robed man a suffocating feeling.

"You're an Evil Soul Master too." The black-robed man's shocked voice rang out, but despite his words, his movements did not slow.

"Hmph!" A cold snort came from Huo Yuhao's mouth, and an invisible gray ripple spread out at the same time. Whether it was the black-robed man or the souls on the verge of exploding, all of them seemed to have been paused as the gray ripple spread.

Seeing that the black-robed man had been restrained, Xu Jie withdrew his martial soul and quietly stood where he was, watching events unfold.

"A Dark Wizard who has never learned a single undead spell and only knows how to use his abilities by instinct—letting you wield this staff is truly a waste." An aged voice utterly unsuited to his age came from Huo Yuhao's mouth. Huo Yuhao, his eyes gray, stepped forward and reached out to grasp the Black Gemstone Staff in the black-robed man's hand.

Under the black-robed man's incredulous gaze, Electrolux, possessing Huo Yuhao, gave a light tug. Several cracking sounds rang out, and the four soul rings on the black-robed man's body instantly shattered. The backlash of having his martial soul forcibly torn away knocked him unconscious.

"Oh? It's actually a growth-type soul undead staff." Electrolux looked in surprise at the black crystal staff in his hand, which had begun to slowly turn transparent. Then he said gently to Xu Jie, who was watching from the side, "You're Xu Jie, correct? Lend me your light again."

"Alright." Xu Jie was still stunned by Electrolux's method of tearing away someone else's martial soul with a single move, but upon hearing Electrolux's request, his mouth and hands were clearly faster than his brain.

Ultimate light appeared again. Electrolux raised a hand and pointed, and the invisible rays of light instantly transformed into a stream, all pouring into the black crystal staff in his hand. As the light flowed in, the staff that had been slowly turning transparent gradually became solid again.

The originally grayish-white metal staff was gradually dyed with the gold of light. Even the black crystal atop the staff slowly took on a golden hue. Electrolux stared at the edge of the black crystal that had turned gold, frowned, and pointed at the black-robed man's corpse.

A mass of black gas rose from the corpse and drifted toward the crystal on the staff in Electrolux's hand. The gas entered the crystal, forcing the gold that had seeped into it back toward the staff's handle. The boundary between black and gold finally became clearly defined.

"Alright." Electrolux's voice rang out again, and Xu Jie withdrew his martial soul as well. Electrolux placed the transformed black crystal staff into Xu Jie's hand and said, "You're quite good."

Then a ray of golden light shot from Huo Yuhao's fingertip into Xu Jie's brow. The gray in Huo Yuhao's eyes faded, and Huo Yuhao, suddenly returning to his body, was somewhat unaccustomed to it. If not for Xu Jie's quick reflexes, Huo Yuhao would have planted his face straight into the dirt.

Xu Jie supported Huo Yuhao and sensed the light Electrolux had sent into his brow. Huh! This was Electrolux's First-order Undead Basic Magic—Purification.

So I really am a mage!

After witnessing an entirely new power system, Xu Jie poured Soul Power into the staff in his hand, intending to test it according to the spell circulation routes in his mind. Unfortunately, Electrolux had casually purified the few souls just now.

He looked around but could not find a single test subject.

"Damn it, Yuhao, what are you doing?!" Before Xu Jie could make a move, Huo Yuhao had already released a ball of golden light toward the black-robed man's corpse, startling Xu Jie.

"That corpse moved." Huo Yuhao pointed at the black-robed man's corpse, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"It moved?" Xu Jie looked toward the black-robed man's corpse, then poured Soul Power into the staff in his hand, intending to use Purification as well. Unexpectedly, the moment he poured in Soul Power, the black-robed man's corpse moved again.

No, that wasn't right. Feeling the information sent back by the staff, it seemed he could control the black-robed man's corpse. Once he confirmed that he could control the black-robed man, he hurriedly stopped Huo Yuhao, who was about to cast Purification again.

"Stop, stop, Yuhao. Don't cast it anymore. I'm controlling that." As he spoke, he raised the staff in his hand.

"Brother Jie." Huo Yuhao understood and withdrew his gray soul ring. He seemed to have many things he wanted to say.

"Let's clean up the surroundings first." Xu Jie understood what Huo Yuhao meant. He had plenty he wanted to say as well, but he also knew this was not the time to chat.

He looked at the staff in his hand, poured in Soul Power, and after confirming that he could control the black-robed man's corpse, came up with an idea.

He led Huo Yuhao into the grass at the side and controlled the black-robed man's corpse to clean up the somewhat messy battlefield. After erasing the traces they had left behind—

To avoid raising suspicion, Xu Jie controlled the black-robed man's corpse to hold the corpses of those burly men and start gnawing on them. The sight was truly nauseating.

Fortunately, the disgusting scene did not last long before Zhou Yi appeared within Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.

Huo Yuhao hurriedly used his soul skill to connect with Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi sensed the familiar Soul Power and understood that it was Huo Yuhao's soul skill. She did not resist, allowing Huo Yuhao to share Spiritual Detection with her.

At the same time, Xu Jie, who had roughly figured out the staff's purpose, controlled the black-robed man's corpse to run east, then placed the staff into his Storage Soul Guidance Device.

After putting away the staff, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao "saw" the black-robed man trying to flee and hurriedly tried to rise to pursue him. Through the shared Spiritual Detection, Zhou Yi had learned that Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie were extremely close to the Evil Soul Master.

With a burst of speed, she arrived before Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao. Seeing the two rise, she shouted, "You two stay right where you are. Don't act rashly."