He laughed.
Apparently, people really did laugh when they were speechless.
"The gap is enormous..."
He sat on the steps, shaking his head helplessly.
And just as his resolve slackened a little, the shadow beneath him seemed to come alive, slowly writhing and twisting...
Wisps of intangible aura emerged from his shadow and slowly began creeping up along his body...
"Lin Yi..."
A faint call sounded beside his ear, like a ghost breathing a gentle breeze against his earlobe.
"Lin Yi..."
The voice kept coming.
"Scram." Lin Yi was unaffected. He merely uttered that single word flatly.
The calling instantly faded, and the distorted shadow returned to normal at once.
Lin Yi stood up from the steps and glanced down at his shadow.
His shadow was perfectly normal.
But under his scrutiny, the normal shadow soon became abnormal. At certain moments, he would find that it had become like a smooth mirror, and beyond that mirror were countless Grinning Angels crowded together, climbing the sheer face of the Cliff.
The dim world was filled with howling winds and torrential rain. Countless Grinning Angels stared at him with wide eyes, like seagulls sheltering on the masts of a ghost ship.
There were far too many... They looked endless, as though he could never kill them all.
As he gazed into his shadow, the Grinning Angels within it smiled at him.
But he was not afraid-at least for now, he had something to rely on.
Because he understood perfectly well that perhaps only beings proficient in using Golden Aura could make the Grinning Angels wary, whereas the Grinning Angels themselves did not fear lamplight.
Judging by his current surroundings, then, there was nothing nearby capable of stopping them from moving. That they still chose to hide in his shadow rather than emerge