"A 'shell'...?"
"A vessel. Understand?" Boss gave him a long look. "'All who bear an Angel's power shall become an Angel's phantom.'"
"'All who bear an Angel's power shall become an Angel's phantom'..." Lin Yi murmured. His intuition told him there had to be an "Admonition" version of that sentence.
"Wait, Boss, you saw the Wrathful Angel chasing me?" Lin Yi suddenly slapped his forehead in surprise.
"You made so much noise it was hard not to notice," Boss said calmly. "Besides, seeing a Wrathful Angel... isn't exactly difficult."
"Oh... Then what does 'shell' mean? Is it like a game account? The Wrathful Angel can log in, and what the teacher killed was just one of its 'accounts'?"
"A 'game account'?" Boss sounded puzzled. "What's that?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi froze. He had never expected Boss to have never touched a game at all, and a sense of profound respect rose within him. "It means its actual existence is very intangible, and when it needs to, it enters the body of another... person or some other creature, and then that thing becomes a 'Wrathful Angel.' Is that right?"
Boss nodded at that. "You can understand it that way."
"Each Angel Sculpture has its own characteristics. Once a Wrathful Angel is born, it possesses an origin. Whenever it acts, it first hides a small portion of its origin somewhere safe, then controls a false body to do the work."
"For example, if it leaves thirty percent of its origin behind, the false body has seventy percent. If the false body is killed, that seventy percent is lost too, but the remaining thirty percent will still allow it to regenerate. After accumulating more over a period of time, it can restore itself to a hundred percent."
"A Wrathful Angel that barges into the