Black Mist

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

The Black Mist emerges from Hals and can spread across the ground like a viscous liquid or rise to fill an area 14 115.

• It darkens snow and earth; the ground can remain black after the mist disperses 14.
• Within the Black Mist World, its moonlight is dim and cold, and buildings are only vaguely visible through the haze 134.

Abilities & Skills

Lost Land

Hals uses the mist as an eighth-soul-ring domain that alters conditions for living beings and souls 14.

• Suppresses living beings while amplifying the dead and souls. With little Soul Power, Hals initially spreads it no farther than roughly 100 meters 14.
• Can leave the ground blackened after the visible mist disappears; Hals does not establish how long this effect lasts 14.
• Weakens targets to different degrees: students collapse under it, while Song Gongran can exert only a little over half his strength. The Green-Robed Elder instead appears more spirited 115.
• Can be checked or scattered: Qian Xunji’s golden light repels its advance, and the White-Haired Evil Ghost clears a portion with a powerful strike 66 82.

Concealment and Movement

• Hals disappears into the mist and projects his voice from different directions, disorienting opponents 55 82.
• He can dissolve into a wisp of mist and reform elsewhere 61 159.
• He shapes it into a canopy that blocks the Death Dragon’s breath and a foothold beneath his feet on water 59 60.

Soul and Undead Support

• Undead Servants destroyed while fighting in the mist can reform and attack again, though their auras weaken 61.
• Hals draws souls into the mist rather than storing them in his Soul-Guiding Lantern 123.
• A Mist Maiden, described by Hals as a strange lifeform born within the Black Mist, can condense from it 157 158.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Nork Town: Hals engulfs the three chiefs in mist, obscures their vision and turns their confrontation into a deadly game. Afterward, the mist disperses to reveal the bodies left on the field 55 56 59.
• Black Mist World: Hals uses the mist to bring others into its inner world and later channels power into that world, changing its environment 99 125 134.
• Shadow Isles: The mist forms a black gown for Bibi Dong, then parts as she and Hals walk through the isles. Hals also draws a Mist Maiden from it for her to meet 156 157 158.

Trivia

• Hals questions whether the Black Mist would also strengthen him while he is in his Martial Soul True Body, but does not test the idea in that scene 14.
• In a glacial crevasse, an opposing force confines his normally spreading mist to a one-meter radius while it drains his Soul Power 61.