"Rumble!"
Rampaging lightning charged in like a herd of wild horses, instantly drowning out the Vicious Ghost's crying and laughter. The eerie distortion that had been building immediately stopped.
Jiang Qiao's gaze remained steady, but the thunderbolts he unleashed grew ever more violent.
Faced with the bizarre changes before him, an ordinary person might well have switched from offense to defense, proceeding cautiously because they could not fathom what was happening and feared a sudden attack.
There was nothing wrong with that.
You only had one life.
When facing evil spirits, staying rational and playing it safe was not necessarily a bad thing most of the time.
Simply avoiding mistakes.
Sometimes, that was a choice too.
But.
For a top-tier Awakened like Jiang Qiao, one glance was enough to tell that the Vicious Ghost was still gathering its strength. So he chose without hesitation to attack without defending, forcibly breaking its rhythm!
As it turned out.
His judgment was correct.
Under the frenzied bombardment of lightning, the Vicious Ghost had no choice but to defend itself, immediately halting the supernatural power it had been steadily accumulating.
However.
Although the surroundings stopped changing.
They did not return to normal. They had merely been frozen in place.
"Die!"
Jiang Qiao knew the Vicious Ghost still had strength to spare.
"Boom!"
The lightning changed again.
It became towering waves on a vast lake, surging in every direction and covering the entire stretch of ground. Within those waves appeared densely packed, twisted runes.
Rumble!
The Vicious Ghost, forced onto the defensive by the relentless bombardment.
Suddenly felt the ground soften beneath its feet.
Electric arcs spread underground, having already seeped unnoticed into every inch of soil.
And those twisted runes.
Were none other than "Mason"!
With Mason's uncanny ability at work, the Vicious Ghost