Chapter 371 Between Shadows

The shadow ball, to put it bluntly, is a juvenile shadow creature. Its intelligence and behavior patterns are similar to those of the juveniles of elemental creatures such as the Fire Spirit and the Thunder Spirit. It basically relies on instinct to grow by devouring shadows. In other words, the shadows of the residents of the Cook Islands that were taken away before were not used to make shadow ghosts, but were all used to feed this thing.

Mu You stretched out his hand and waved, and the shadow ball in the shadow below soon emerged again in the ripples, looked out vigilantly, and after confirming that there was no danger, it jumped onto his palm.

Mu You looked at the black ball in his hand with a strange expression. It was hard to imagine that such a cute little thing would eventually be fed into a hideous monster like the Shadow of the Shadow God.

Of course, the original Shadow God is now completely dead, and the soul crystals have all exploded. This little guy is just a kind of life continuation left after the Shadow God's shadow disappeared, equivalent to the offspring laid before death, similar to the queen ant egg.

That is to say, even if it continues to be fed, it can only be upgraded to level 30 at most. Without the soul crystal, it can no longer break through the bottleneck of level 30.

Moreover, this thing can only devour one shadow a day. In order to feed it, the person behind the scenes hid in the Cook Islands for thousands of years and consumed hundreds of thousands of shadows of people here before and after to cultivate it to the scale of the previous Shadow God. However, Mu You does not have this time, nor is he interested in playing this kind of super long-term cultivation.

But it doesn't matter. Even a level 0 shadow ball is already quite powerful.

Mu You looked at its several ability descriptions.

[Swallowing Shadow: Shadow Ball is the nemesis of shadow creatures. It can separate the shadow and the body of others, and evolve itself by swallowing shadows and shadow ghosts (ineffective for shadow ghosts with self-awareness). It can be swallowed at most once a day. ]

[Shadow Transfer: Shadow Ball can graft ownerless shadows or shadow ghosts to anyone who has lost their shadows. ]

[Shadow Ghost Purification: Shadow Ball can eliminate the hatred and tyranny of shadow ghosts, causing them to degenerate into ordinary shadows (ineffective for shadow ghosts with self-awareness). 】

【Between Shadows: Shadow Ball can create space in any shadow for itself to survive and walk. As a contractor of Shadow Ball, you can borrow its ability to enter Between Shadows at any time. 】

【Shadow Binding: Shadow Ball can control the actions of shadows and shadow ghosts within the sight range. The number of controlled actions depends on the level of Shadow Ball (ineffective for shadow ghosts with self-awareness), and can indirectly bind the actions of the shadow owner by controlling the shadow. 】

The first three of the five abilities are for shadows and shadow ghosts, and are rarely used in daily life.

The real core abilities are undoubtedly Between Shadows and Shadow Binding.

To put it bluntly, Between Shadows is to open up a special space in the shadow that ordinary people cannot see. The little guy who sank into his shadow just now should have used this ability.

The instructions also mentioned that he can borrow this ability.

Mu You tried to connect his spirit to the Shadow Ball.

The next second, the shadow under his feet began to ripple, and his body began to slowly fall into the shadow as if falling into a quagmire.

A few seconds later, Mu You completely sank into the shadow. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a mysterious space.

This space was about three meters high. Under his feet was the land of Dawn City, and three meters above was... Lin Xue's sole?

Mu You was confused. The 'ceiling' above his head was a transparent barrier through which he could directly see all the scenes on the ground.

At this time, Lin Xue was squatting down curiously, observing the ground, as if looking for his traces, and behind Lin Xue was the dark and cloudy night sky.

Obviously, Lin Xue couldn't see him. From her perspective, he suddenly sank into the ground, and only his shadow was left on the ground.

And Mu You's perspective at this time was as if the entire ground had become a one-way glass. He was lying under the ground, observing the outside world through this piece of glass.

Mu You understood a little bit that the so-called shadow between is actually a three-dimensional space forcibly extended on the two-dimensional plane where the shadow is located.

He is actually in a two-dimensional world now, so people on the ground can't see him, but he can observe the scenes on the ground normally.

After coming to his senses, Mu You continued to walk between the shadows, with the shadow ball jumping in front of him to lead the way.

When he moved between the shadows, the shadow he left on the ground also began to move.

Mu You found that although this space was very vast and almost invisible, not all places could be visited.

Many spaces were covered by a black shadow, which was like an airtight wall and could not be passed through, cutting the shadows into pieces. He could only move in areas without black shadows.

Thinking about the layout on the ground, Mu You quickly understood that these black shadow parts were actually the parts of the ground that were illuminated by light and had no shadows.

In other words, he could only move in places with shadows, whether it was the shadow of a person or the shadow of an object or a building.

If there was no shadow in a place, such as a flat ground under the scorching sun, he would not be able to move even if he entered the shadows, because the passages around were blocked.

But if he is in a place full of shadows, this ability is very powerful, and he can appear and disappear without a trace. At the same time, because he is not in the same plane, others cannot detect his existence at all. This is the real deep invisibility!

Mu You immediately thought of a use for this ability: Silent Library!

The mysterious library guarded by Silent Beast, he had to go through a lot of trouble to sneak into it last time. In the battle of wits and courage with Silent Beast and the librarian, he went through many thrilling dangers.

But with the ability of Shadow Between, it will be easy for him to sneak in there now!

After experiencing the effect of Shadow Between, Mu You's figure quickly emerged from the shadow and returned to the ground, continuing to check the ability of Shadow Ball.

Next is the last ability, Shadow Binding, which indirectly binds the other person's body by binding the shadow of others.

Mu You summoned the clone, stood in front, controlled the Shadow Ball to launch Shadow Binding on the clone's shadow, and then tried to move the clone.

As a result, the clone could not move at all. Not only that, as the Shadow Ball changed the state of the shadow on the ground, the clone was forced to follow the shadow and made the same move of raising his hands.

Through the perspective of the clone, Mu You can personally feel how powerful this control is: it can be said that except for the consciousness, the body no longer belongs to him.

Even with the doubled attributes of his current vampire blessing, he cannot break this bondage. So it can be said that creatures below level 30 are basically unable to resist this ability.

This ability is amazing, 100% strong control, and can even make the target do various actions as he wishes, and there is no time limit. As long as it is not released, it will be controlled all the time, and completely become a puppet!

Of course, there are countermeasures.

First of all, this control can only control the body, but cannot control the mind and the flow of energy in the body. If a person can cast spells without a wand and cast spells silently, he can release magic to counterattack even if he is controlled.

Secondly, a level 0 shadow ball can only control one target at a time. Therefore, if there are multiple enemies, even if one is controlled, others can rescue it, such as releasing some light source spells to eliminate the shadow. The shadow bondage controls the body through the shadow. If there is no shadow, this ability will naturally not take effect.

The ability of the shadow ball is complete.

In general, this little guy who is only level 0 now, although he has no direct combat ability, is a very useful auxiliary. Both abilities can play a great role in specific situations.

In addition, Mu You himself has improved.

During the process of the national attack on Shadow God, he was the one with the highest output in the whole game. He fired nearly 500 times with a cannon every ten seconds, with a total output of nearly 500,000!

In the end, in addition to a little divine power, he also gained 5,000 health points, 5,000 reputation, and 640,000+ experience!

With this wave of experience, he directly jumped two levels, from level 17 to level 19.

The current level is: level 19 (157101/655360).

Originally, Mu You planned to use the "Book of Energy" to upgrade to level 20 when he reached level 19.

Unexpectedly, this wave of experience was too outrageous, and at level 19, he actually overflowed with 150,000+ experience.

This made Mu You a little entangled. If he used the Book of Energy now, he would directly waste these 150,000 experience points. What's more, he only had 500,000 experience points left before level 20.

This number was terrifying before, but with the salary of the city lord and the mechanism of a double experience card per day, this experience is no longer out of reach. If the timing is right, it only takes one day to get it!

So Mu You still gave up using the Book of Energy. Now he has learned that there are higher levels above level 30. Moreover, with the soul crystal, the bottleneck is no longer a problem. This thing can be used at level 29 to maximize its effect.

"Let's go, it's time to meet the person behind the scenes." Mu You threw the shadow ball back into the shadow and turned to Lin Xue.

"Yeah." Lin Xue nodded.

Then the two jumped off the sky city one after another and quickly disappeared into the night.

...

While the two were acting silently.

In reality, the heated discussion on the Fool Forum continued.

"What happened to Dawn City? Why is there no news all of a sudden?"

"I don't know. I heard that they were wiped out when they were about to defeat Shadow God..."

"I'm from Dawn City. Shadow God used a big move at the last moment... The question is, why didn't I revive?"

"Same as above. I was waiting to revive after I died and rushed to grab the last move. As a result, it prompted me that I was "waiting for revival" and it would take a day to revive..."

"Isn't it only wild monsters that delay revival? Is this a bug?"

"Me too. I thought it was just me. It turns out that everyone has the same problem. Then I feel relieved!"

"Wait a minute... If everyone is wiped out, then... what about the mission?"

The question of one netizen made the post quiet for a moment.

When everyone thought about this carefully, they all felt a chill on their backs.

Millions of people were wiped out, and the revival was delayed for a day. Wouldn't Dawn City become an empty city within that day?

Without anyone guarding the city, wouldn't Shadow God be able to do whatever he wants?

"At least there's still the Octopus King, so it should be fine, right?"

"Yes, Shadow God is already at the end of his strength, and the Octopus King can just use his strength to defeat Shadow God!"

"Well, I think I saw the Octopus King die here..." At this time, another Dawn City player provided a piece of information.

"What? Are you sure?"

"Please tell me more upstairs!"

"I am the magician who is responsible for watering behind the Octopus King. The text that popped up just before he died was, 'The Octopus King was seriously injured and fell into the sea in a dying state. His vitality was rapidly fading away...'"

"Although it didn't directly say that the Octopus King was dead, this kind of prompt means that he will probably not survive..."

"Damn, isn't that the end?!"

Others were horrified and desperate when they saw the news.

Even the Octopus King was killed instantly! What level is the Shadow God's last big move?

More importantly, once the Octopus King died, Dawn City completely became an empty city, and no one could stop the Shadow God anymore...

Dawn City, is it really going to be destroyed because of this?

Just when countless people were uneasy, suddenly, several prompts popped up in the games of all Dawn City players.

"Shadow of the Shadow God has been killed, killed by Captain Ghost."

"The crisis of Dawn City has been resolved, the mission to protect Dawn City has been completed, the war mode has been cancelled, and all facilities in the city have resumed normal operation."

"The mission reward is being settled..."

...

There is also a series of output data below, such as the contribution list, but no one cares about this at this time. Everyone is looking at the first prompt and has not come back to their senses for a long time.

"Huh? The city lord is not dead?"

"The mission is completed! We should be safe now, right?"

"Of course, the war mode has been cancelled..."

"Damn, I was almost scared to death. Fortunately, the city lord is here, otherwise Dawn City might really fall!"

"No more words, the city lord is awesome!"

"You can always trust Captain Ghost!"

...

After confirming that the news was true, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they were a little surprised at Captain Ghost's strength. You know, even the Octopus King was killed in seconds in the end, but Captain Ghost was able to survive that kind of outbreak, and completed the final harvest alone. What kind of strength is this?

Fortunately, the ghost captain had performed many miraculous performances before. After everyone was surprised, they were not too surprised. After they came to their senses, they began to pay attention to their respective rewards.

Although they were wiped out many times in the process and had to delay their resurrection for one day, compared with the rewards, these efforts were definitely worth it.

In the process of killing the gods, almost all participants received more than 1,000 permanent life rewards. Those with a slightly higher level and a medium or high-level spell basically got 5,000 life, which is equivalent to 50 points of physical life! Most people's original total life was only 2,000 to 3,000 points, which more than doubled!

In short, after this mission, the average life value of the residents of Dawn City directly rose to a higher level.

But the more important gain was breaking through the bottleneck.

According to statistics from a certain website afterwards, a total of more than 15 million people in Dawn City used real experience to cross the bottleneck of level 10 or 15, which made other city players jealous.

Two consecutive major improvements have completely opened up the gap in player strength between Dawn City and other sky cities.

While the players on Earth were discussing heatedly.

On the Cook Islands, Mu You and Lin Xue had already appeared in Graystone Village, at the door of Old Luke's house, where the entrance to the Undead Society was hidden.

The two ignored the old man's angry obstruction and broke into the paper mill.

After entering the door, Mu You went straight to the third row of containers in the north.

He pushed the container open, but the bottom was filled up tightly, with no trace of any entrance.

The other party obviously sealed the entrance in advance, but it didn't matter, Mu You was sure that he could enter the Undead Society from here.

He directly switched to the robot form, carrying a cannon, and after a simple charge, fired a shot at the next one.