Indeed, it was all just stray thoughts.
"Actually, luring it to the Forbidden Land of Life might not be a bad strategy?"
"If only I'd known, I wouldn't have come. Sigh, now I'm done for..."
"This life has turned out to be pretty interesting. I never expected to meet someone like this."
Lu Cang sensed countless stray thoughts stirring in the other person's mind.
The thoughts had indeed flashed by in an instant.
Yet they had also been imprinted in his mind with startling clarity.
The ritual was the real deal after all.
He'd bet right...
This was one of the few times he'd taken a huge gamble since coming to this otherworld.
Lu Cang just felt that if he didn't take a chance this time,
he had no idea how many more times he'd have to gamble later.
"Mm..."
Lu Cang patted Ansu on the shoulder. "From now on, we're friends."
A faint smile appeared on Ansu's mummy-like face. "I'd be delighted."
Lu Cang considered it for a moment.
A thought crossed his mind—
Whoosh!
Ansu's soul vanished.
Inside Lu Cang's mindscape, a soul appeared, gaunt as a dried corpse yet remarkably muscular.
For every Level 5 class, promotion came with a class mastery ability related to the mindscape.
The Level 5 Death Priest's mindscape mastery was called "Soul Shrine." It allowed certain rituals to be set up directly within the mindscape and take effect in the outside world.
In practice, though, this ability was more useful in battle.
When you were in the middle of a fight and couldn't spare a moment,
but still needed to perform some kind of ritual.
In fact, it might be best suited to the Promotion Ritual... From then on, the ritual could be fully set up inside the mindscape.
Even in a