The instant he pulled it out, a system notification sounded:
"Ding. Obtained Sacrificial Ritual (dagger)." "Item type: special." "Item description: this dagger is soaked in the blood of willing sacrifices, whoever they may be." "Warning: this item can be taken out of the current examination. Choose carefully."
A special item?
Sacrificial Ritual?
The six of them stared straight at the dagger in Ye Lin's hand, and their eyes began to sting.
What a sharp dagger-even its pommel had a blade. The bloody aura emanating from it carried an ancient, savage quality. For a moment, they seemed to see a masked tribal priest in the distant past, standing on a raised platform with his back to the setting sun. He raised the dagger high in both hands, then plunged it into the heart of a willing sacrifice.
"Can be taken out? But we have to choose carefully?"
Ye Lin raised an eyebrow, surprised despite himself.
This was his first encounter with a special item like this. Judging by the warning, there was probably something wrong with the dagger's origins.
But what concerned him more was the description the system had given.
"Soaked in the blood of willing sacrifices, whoever they may be..."
The line seemed rather useless, almost redundant. But after giving it a little thought, Ye Lin realized it could mean something else.
Whoever they may be sounded almost like a rule.
"Ye Lin, maybe this dagger can kill ghosts?"
"The system would never casually use a description like 'whoever they may be'!"
Li Tianyang's heart jolted. The dagger's purpose seemed all too clear, and he immediately wondered whether it was the key to breaking out of their predicament. Perhaps their earlier theory about the Mysterious and Subtle had been right, too. They simply hadn't been able