Lord of Mysterious Wizard

Chapter 75: Chapter 75 Power of Pain

“Black Blade”

Tang Qi read out the name of the item he had purchased for a full fifteen hundred Divine Graces from the gathering at Blue Bear Park—an illegal artifact made from the rib bone of Jeffrey Hegg, one of the most notorious serial killers.

Tang Qi found the rough, primitive design convincing.

The trade of serial killer-related items was, in fact, a mature industry chain that began with the capture of each serial killer. Despite repeated denunciations by the police, this did not deter the daring black market merchants.

After all, it was a highly profitable business with little risk.

This Bone Blade was likely obtained after some merchant sent people to directly excavate Hegg’s grave, choosing the hardest rib to craft this Small Knife. As for the whereabouts of the rest of the skeleton, who knows? Who cares?

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By chance, a Curio was born.

In a century when the Mysterious Side was diminished to the extreme, most Curios came to be in this manner and often existed in a special State, requiring someone with Extraordinary Knowledge to decipher. However, for Tang Qi, there was no need to have so much knowledge; the method to decode it appeared in his mind at that moment.

What Tang Qi needed to do now was wait.

He placed the Bone Blade on the workbench and gently sat down, taking out the Mysterious Hair Tie and slowly combing through it.

Time passed quickly, ticking away with the “click-clack, click-clack” of the wall clock.

Uninterrupted, Tang Qi worked with high efficiency. Before the hands of the clock pointed to midnight, he had already liberated two young girls, who appeared to be ordinary civilians with common clothes but were both beautiful. The two blond girls gave Tang Qi a cheeky smile before gradually dissipating.

At the same time, the wall clock chimed a significantly louder sound.

Midnight had arrived.

Tang Qi swiftly stuffed the hair knot into his pocket and abruptly grasped the Black Blade with both hands.

Suppressing the nauseating discomfort in his heart, he silently invoked:

“Jeffrey Hegg!”

“Jeffrey… Hegg!”

“Jeff-ery Hegg!”

Three times, with a different intonation each time, Tang Qi felt some resistance as though something was trying to stop him from pronouncing that name.

But when he broke through the resistance and finished reciting the name three times,

the Bone Blade in his hand suddenly became slick, the yellowed blade streaked with lines of blood, rapidly turning the entire Small Knife blood-red, then spreading along Tang Qi’s palm toward his whole body.

Buzz!

Tang Qi’s vision was suddenly pulled into a blood-red World as he saw a motel, streets, dark alleys, luxurious villas, and the restrooms of gas stations… All scenes became stained with blood, with twisted souls wailing, begging for mercy, and cursing…

These were Memory Fragments, the visions of all those who had been tortured by Jeffrey Hegg.

The revolting sensation mingled with a released sense of relief, like numerous red tentacles, attempted to wrap around Tang Qi’s Mind.

A magnetic, seductive voice whispered in Tang Qi’s ear: “Fun, isn’t it? Beautiful, right? Don’t you also want to personally feel it, to experience it? Such a wonderful World, you are the Sovereign, you are their king, you…”

“Your blathering is truly excessive!”

The abrupt retort spit out by Tang Qi stunned the Floating vague silhouette on the workbench.

This was a gaunt man, with black curly hair, high cheekbones, and deeply sunken eye sockets. His blue eyes were not clear but twisted with Madness, a bloodthirsty look that sent shivers down one’s spine.

A faint ghost light converged into a special image.

[Extraordinary Creature: The resentful spirit of Jeffrey Hegg.]

[State: Complete.]

[Information Fragment One: Legendary serial killer Jeffrey Hegg’s soul, a psychopath who tortured and killed nearly a hundred people. He did so to gain the power of demons, but after his deed was complete, the promising demon was already banished back to a different plane. He felt deceived, thus he became a resentful spirit.]

[Information Fragment Two: Acknowledge his legend, and Bone Blade will become a powerful weapon; kill it, and Bone Blade will undergo unknown transformations.]

“My favorite thing is the unknown surprise.”

While muttering this, Tang Qi’s choice was self-evident.

Jeffrey Hegg’s resentful spirit was still pondering why this human was immune to his enchantment when suddenly, a terrifying sense of danger filled its mind. It instinctively looked up, just in time to see a palm wrapped in golden light flames.

“Boom!”

“Ah~”

The scream lasted less than a second.

The Melting Furnace Power’s restraint against entities like resentful spirits and evil spirits was beyond imagination.

Tang Qi watched with his own eyes as the soul of a legendary serial killer turned to ashes in his hand. Then, a “Black Mud”-like substance burst out from the Bone Blade he was holding in his other hand, as if it wanted to quickly escape from the blade into an unknown world.

That Black Mud was viscous and filthy. Seeing it invoked a sense of revulsion and discomfort that was more than tenfold worse than before.

As the Black Mud was about to flee, nearly a hundred white light points flew out from the Bone Blade, entwining and forcefully dragging it back.

The Bone Blade underwent a transformation.

Still rough in appearance, but the once yellowish blade began to turn white as church stones, with a black line running through the center.

Unlike before, a new image converged beneath Tang Qi’s eyes.

[Curios: Black Blade’s Resentment.]

[Quality: Excellent.]

[Information Fragment One: You killed Hegg’s soul, and in its dying moments, filled with resentment towards you, it released all its demonic energy. But without its control, the delicate balance within the Bone Blade was disrupted, and now it has become a weapon leaning towards order and justice.]

[Information Fragment Two: Its Extraordinary Power—Power of Pain; any evil creature that is cut or killed by it will suffer extreme pain and die wailing.]

“I like this name!”

Tang Qi, holding the renewed Bone Blade, said with a smile.

For him, from the beginning, there was only one way to decrypt this weapon.

And the conclusion was very satisfying.

He had obtained new Fuel, and at the same time, a satisfying close-combat weapon.

“The Power of Pain sounds… interesting.”

“It’s about time.”

After uttering this, Tang Qi glanced at the completely darkened sky.

Without any further delay, he quickly prepared Blood Python One, bullets, and Sea Demon’s Tears, then changed into a set of black clothes, similar to the kind with many pockets for carrying various items.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, he quickly left the brick building, followed the secluded tree-lined paths within the campus in a very “anxious” manner and sneakily ran out of the school area. It looked as if he was eagerly responding to a friend’s invitation to go out and enjoy an exciting nightlife.

In a normal high school, this scene would not likely occur. @@novelbin@@

But this is Thorny High School, where such scenes are all too common, groups of students scaling the walls to leave is not strange at all.

However, just as this “eager” high school student’s figure left the campus and entered a gloomy street in one swift moment.

“Buzz”

Without any warning, his body abruptly disintegrated into a mist of gray fog, naturally blending into the night and shadows.