The man had already suffered from Mu You’s black magic three times before, guessing that Mu You might have a method that could impact his spell’s success rate. So, using black magic again was a desperate move, as this was his only chance to survive. He had no option but to take a gamble.
Unfortunately, his gamble was destined to fail from the start.
Mu You hit the rewind button on his watch, waiting for the man to lose control.
After rewinding more than fifty times, he finally received the message he was waiting for.
[Time passage, the thief rushes at you once more, black light emerging from the dagger in his hand. However, the black light seemed unable to solidify this time.]
[An anomaly occurred in the flow of the enemy’s natural magic power, explosive black magical power burst open within his body. You see massive sucker-like tumors start to surge on the thief’s body, rapidly expanding.]
[The thief loses his balance and falls to the ground before reaching you. His body churns with a dark aura, his mouth agape in a silent wail, reaching out to you as if begging for help. If you chose to use the Heart of the Forest Spirit, you still have a chance to save his life. Your choice...]
[Save him]or[Ignore him].
Of course, Mu You wouldn’t intervene now. After being saved, the first thing the man would do wasn’t expressing gratitude but continuing the attack on Mu You.
[You ignored his plea for help, watching impassively as the thief was slowly engulfed by the dark aura until there was no sign of life left.]
[With the death of the thief, black magic continues to devour his body, causing it to decompose and disappear bit by bit. You choose...]
[You take out the Heart of the Forest Spirit. The core deep within, now a sullen black, activates immediately. Waves of dark energy are drawn out from the body of the deceased and absorbed into the core...]
[The signs of loss of control on the surface of the body vanish quickly, swiftly returning to its original form.]
[The contamination level of the Heart of the Forest Spirit increases by 0.0001%, the total now 99.8133%.]
Ever since he obtained the Heart of the Forest Spirit, there hadn’t been a decrease in the contamination levels; it had only increased...
Mu You shook his head; he couldn’t rush this. It was a significant feat and would require a sufficient amount of time to deal with. For the moment, he needed to focus on immediate matters.
[You spot a familiar cross symbol on the right arm of the body. It’s the same symbol you had to display when you joined the Black Magic Fandom Association.]
The new message surprised Mu You; this man had a mark of the Black Magic Fandom Association?
But considering this man had the ability to use black magic without any adverse effect, it was reasonable for him to join the Black Magic Fandom Association. After all, apart from their secret technique association, the Black Magic Fandom Association was the only other place where one could easily acquire black magic.
[You search the body and find an assassin’s dagger x1, a forest cloak x1, fireproof gloves x1, thief’s skin x1.]
Given his previous deaths, most of his equipment had already been broken. Now, the rest of his items exploded out all at once. Unfortunately, there were no valuable items. Besides the thief’s mask and the Hunger Gem, the highest-ranked item was only of green fine quality.
What’s left was the most important item, the skin.
[Thief: A thief’s advancement skin. Can send a theft letter of appointment to an unbound item within a thousand meters range. The appointment time should be between 1 to 24 hours, and the theft time is half an hour. The appointed item cannot be moved, teleported, bound, or stored in a space-type tool. Moreover, if the owner of the item is killed during the theft time, the item will be 100% dropped. Until the last appointment is completed or timed out, a new letter of appointment cannot be sent.
When the owner dies, a random treasure will be 100% dropped.]
Being guaranteed to drop the item of your choosing is no doubt a powerful effect of the skin. However, it’s somewhat superfluous for Mu You, as he could already use the pocket watch to secure a particular piece of equipment.
For him, the greatest value of this skin was the locking effect of the letter of appointment, which prevented the opponent from transferring the item in advance.
In addition, this specific thief mask needed this skin to be activated.
Mu You immediately picked up the skin and the cultist skin, of course, was abandoned.
The only purpose for the cultist skin was the Black Magic Fandom Association marker. Now that he had a superior alternative, this skin was utterly useless. Plus, considering its weak attributes, there was no need for the vampire to devour it. That would just be an unnecessary curse for the vampire.
[You’ve abandoned the Cultist skin. You’ve absorbed the Thief skin.]
Now that he had retrieved the skin, Mu You immediately put it on and tested the thief mask.
[You activated the Thief Mask, and four decoys appear in front of you.]
[Decoy: It appears identical to you and shares your vision. It has no attack or spell-casting capabilities, receives doubled damage and lasts for 10 hours.]
The attributes of this decoy were similar to those of an ordinary wooden clone. It had no attack capabilities, and it was easy for others to see through it. Its only advantage was its extended period of existence.
That said, he didn’t expect to rely on this clone for fighting. As the name ’decoy’ suggested, its primary function was for self-protection.
Mu You then took out the Gloves of the Saint Thief to test.
Unfortunately, the imagined effortless compatibility didn’t happen. It seemed that the thief and the Saint Thief, being advanced skins of the thief class, had clear restrictions on equipment usage. For the gloves to be used, he would need to find a ’Degradation Stone’ to downgrade them.