Gods, Demons, and Eldritch Horrors: Becoming an Eldritch God
Chapter 24

Slaying them and taking control of the Weird Mirror

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"Die!"

"Die!"

Fixing their eyes on Li Feng, Zhao Le and Li Qianqian roared in unison and lunged at him.

Dense supernatural power swirled around them, multiplying their strength and speed exponentially.

Both of them now far surpassed Li Feng in strength and speed.

With their fearless disregard for death, either one alone could have overwhelmed Li Feng in a fight, let alone both together.

But...

Watching them charge, Li Feng quickly stepped back, and a strand of hair swept toward their necks.

The hair was already too fine to spot easily, especially as it swept through the air at tremendous speed.

Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian noticed nothing. Their eyes fixed on Li Feng, they lunged straight into the strand of hair.

The hair carried hundreds of pounds of force. Combined with the speed and strength of Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian's charge, it was every bit as deadly as a razor-sharp divine weapon.

Slash!

In an instant, the strand swept past.

Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian briefly faltered mid-charge. Then their heads rolled off, their eyes wide with a trace of terror and despair.

What had just happened? How were they already dying?

Their bodies staggered forward a few steps before collapsing. Thick, dark-brown blood slowly trickled from their necks, nothing like the blood of people who had only just died.

Long ago, the dense supernatural power within the mirror space had corrupted them, turning them into Ghost Servants of the Weird Mirror.

Of course, that did not mean all their earlier behavior had been an act.

Perhaps even they had not realized they were no longer human.

Only under special circumstances, when the Weird Mirror controlled them, did they behave like puppets.

Although most people became mindless puppets after being turned into Ghost Servants, there were always exceptions.

The Delivery Ghost and the Chief under Li Feng's control were examples.

Under normal circumstances, they retained their own awareness.

But whenever Li Feng wished, he could instantly take control of their bodies.

During that process, Li Feng could let them know what had happened, or block out or erase their memories of that period.

Likewise, whenever the Weird Mirror stopped controlling Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian, they lost their memories of that period. They still believed they were ordinary people trapped inside and kept trying to find a way out of the mirror space.

The Weird Mirror transmitted their actions and the noises they made to the outside, whether deliberately or otherwise.

That was where the sounds of banging against the wall that Lu Bingyi heard had come from.

The Weird Mirror devoured the fear and other negative emotions Lu Bingyi produced during this process, gradually strengthening itself and expanding the mirror space.

Once that reached a certain point, Lu Bingyi would be dragged into the Mirror Space and slowly transformed into a Ghost Servant.

But before he could be dragged inside, Li Feng had arrived.

After Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian were slain, ripples began spreading through the space outside the bathroom. It collapsed inch by inch from the outer edges.

Sensing this, Li Feng immediately reduced the area covered by his mind fog.

In truth, Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian's deaths had merely been the last straw that caused the space outside the bathroom to collapse.

Li Feng had not kept questioning Zhao Le and the others and inspecting the rooms bit by bit just to make idle conversation.

He had been buying time so his mental power could devour more supernatural power.

Only after most of the mirror space's power had been consumed did the Weird Mirror finally begin resisting on instinct.

Once Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian died, the Weird Mirror no longer had enough supernatural power to maintain the mirror space outside the bathroom, bringing about its final collapse.

Watching the rooms gradually collapse, Li Feng stepped forward and entered the bathroom in an instant. The mind fog filling the rooms quickly contracted as well, squeezing entirely into the tiny bathroom.

The extraordinarily dense mind fog instantly began devouring the surrounding supernatural power several times faster.

For the first time in a while, Li Feng felt an eerie, icy power rapidly spreading through his entire body. His skin could no longer fully convert it or hold it back.

In an instant, his body grew somewhat stiff. His skin twitched and trembled slightly, struggling to resist the invading supernatural power.

Boom!

About a dozen breaths later, a rumble rang out. Li Feng watched the rooms outside the bathroom shudder violently before collapsing and vanishing in an instant.

Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian's bodies also vanished amid a ripple.

At the sight, Li Feng wondered whether their bodies had disappeared along with the collapsing mirror space or had been expelled from it and returned to reality.

But those thoughts only flashed briefly through his mind.

Most of his attention was focused on his own body.

As the space outside the bathroom collapsed, he felt an even greater surge of eerie, icy power assaulting him without end.

All kinds of illusions surfaced in his mind.

Lock!

At Li Feng's mental command, the bedroom door in his mind space abruptly locked. The invading icy supernatural power and the myriad illusions were instantly shut out.

Wisps of power still seeped into the bedroom through the window and the gaps around the door.

But...

Li Feng's soul appeared on the bed, and he pulled the covers over himself.

The next instant, a defensive sealing barrier formed around the entire Bed, finally blocking the invading power completely.

At the same time, the Bedroom, Bed, and other furnishings began continuously devouring the invading power, converting it into pure energy that flowed steadily into Li Feng's soul.

Two breaths later, Li Feng finally felt the icy power of the Paranormal Entity corroding his body rapidly weaken. Dealing with it became easier and easier.

At the same time, a faint connection began to emerge in Li Feng's psychic perception.

Instinctively, Li Feng looked at the mirror on the wall.

He had never stopped corroding the mirror that formed the Paranormal Entity's main body.

At last, after the space outside the bathroom collapsed and the mirror lost most of its power, he had penetrated its interior and established a connection with it.

Moreover, the mirror had no intelligence of its own.

So even with only this initial connection, Li Feng could already control it.

With a thought, ripples quickly spread through the surrounding space. Once everything settled, Li Feng looked outside the bathroom.

An ordinary Living Room, two decapitated bodies...

He had returned to the real world.

Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

But...

Li Feng looked at the mirror on the wall.

Wisps of Paranormal Entity power lingered around it. An eerie gleam occasionally flashed across its surface, sending ripples through it.

Li Feng's reflection kept breaking into an eerie smile.

The Paranormal Entity's main body had yet to be dealt with.

The next instant, wisps of fog rose around Li Feng and swiftly enveloped the mirror on the wall, corroding it further.

Under Li Feng's control, the mind fog inside the mirror space intensified as well.

Attacked from within and without, the Weird Mirror was rapidly corroded. The encroachment gradually reached deeper inside, penetrating its core.

At last, the process was complete, and he gained full control of it.

At the final moment, when he took complete control of the Weird Mirror, Li Feng sensed a flash of light. His brow furrowed slightly, and a shadow crossed his heart.

He had the persistent feeling that he had gotten himself into considerable trouble.

Recalling the ancient residence and wedding scene he had arrived at when devouring the Wedding-Dress Bride, Li Feng grew thoughtful.

Perhaps an even more powerful Paranormal Entity stood behind this Weird Mirror.

By completely usurping its power like this, he had naturally made an enemy of it.

If supernatural entities could easily descend into reality in their true forms, he could never have remained standing here unharmed.

Still, as the saying went, one more debt hardly mattered when you were already buried in them.

He had already offended the Wedding-Dress Bride. One more Paranormal Entity made little difference.

Besides, those entities could not easily descend into reality, could they?

In that case, what did he have to worry about?

Settling his thoughts, Li Feng looked at the mirror before him.

With a thought, he stripped a strand of power from it. It instantly merged into his Mind Space and took the form of an ordinary mirror on the Bedroom's bedside table.

The bathroom mirror had been an ordinary mirror to begin with. It had only become the Weird Mirror after Paranormal Entity power merged into it.

Now that Li Feng had extracted that power, it naturally became an ordinary mirror again.

Only now was this Paranormal Entity incident truly resolved.

He left the bathroom, went to the kitchen on the north side, opened the window, and called down.

"Old Chang, it's resolved. Send people up to take care of the aftermath..."

"Ah, yes, Investigator."

Hearing that Li Feng had resolved the incident, Old Chang was immediately delighted. A smile appeared on his stern face before he turned a serious gaze toward the man beside him.

"Captain Wang, let's go up..."

"Yes, good! Good, good!"

Beside him, the middle-aged man in a public security uniform—Captain Wang—also breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly.

Every time he helped handle a Paranormal Entity case, he was extremely nervous.

If such matters were mishandled, they could trigger a Paranormal Entity incident on an even larger scale.

The nearby Public Security Officers would inevitably be caught up in it. They were, quite literally, the closest to death.

Moreover, he had heard that this time the case was being handled by a trainee Investigator who had only just joined the Investigation Department, making him all the more nervous.

Fortunately, it had finally been resolved with a scare but no disaster.

A short while later, everyone went upstairs and entered the apartment. The first things they saw were the two headless bodies on the floor and the heads lying nearby, their eyes wide open.

They exchanged glances, quickly entered the room, and began cleaning up.

Just then, they also noticed Li Feng emerging from a Bedroom with the Tracking Compass resting in his hand.

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