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  “There it is. We found one of them, finally…” Vd looked into the distahrough the forest; they had been searg for ten whole minutes and finally found a Silent Dark Spirit.

  It was camoufging itself into the darkness, standing still without moving an inch; however, this creature was often aggressive, creeping into the shadows or backs of people and attag them in plete silence.

  Due to the ck of any hey produced, it was quite hard to find them within this darkness, and special sense skills such as Magise or Vampire Senses were required to deal with them.

  This was one of the many reasons why this entire forest wasn’t visited that much by Pyers, as the Dark Spirit monsters were simply not even worth the effort to defeat…

  Except for Vd and Alitheus, who saw this forest as a great pce to hunt and find new spirit panions; as creepy as they were, they ted as Spirits.

  “It’s pletely standing, huh? Kind of creepy,” said Alitheus. “So what do we do? Will it escape once we hit it?”

  “Most likely, right?” Emerlinda said. “Maybe we o one shot it with a magic arrow?”

  “No, no, acc to the guide I read,” Vd expined. “It said that you have to shoot them with a powerful Light Spell, they’ll be Staggered ohey are hit with the first Light Spell attack they hit. Usually paralyzing them for five seds. We’ll restrain him at that time, and Chris will make a tract, this time with our help, so it doesn’t possess him.”

  “Ooh, I had no idea there were strategy guides for each monster…” Said Emerlinda. “But how trustful is the source?”

  “It came from the unity game wiki page, so I’m assuming it has some truth to it… Well, er way than by trying it out!” Vd said. “Alright, Chris, you shoot a powerful Light Arrow, but not kill it?”

  “I try, yeah,” Chris nodded. “Let me do it.”

  Chris nodded, quickly gathering Heavenly Ki into his hands and shaping it into an arrow through his magic bow, which he noticed might be in need of a new upgrade.

  Then, the arrow of light gained golden and red fmes, overflowing with power, yet Chris kept the Ara levels very low.

  “[Ethereal Golden Moonlight Materialization] + [Fire Spirit Arrow Creation] = {Holy Golden Fme Arrow}”

  FLASH!

  The arrow was fired instantly, bining two powerful Skills into ohe Silent Dark Spirit remained pletely mute as its humanoid, nky body was immediately hit.

  BOOOM!

  “G-Gigick?!”

  The arrow hit the Silent Dark Spirit, as it made some strange, almost inaudible noise before a fsh of light blis many eyes.

  FLAAASH!

  “Gryyaaaergh!”

  It screamed loudly, giving away its presenpletely! At the same time, the light was horrifying for the Dark Spirit, as the monster instantly fell to the ground, paralyzed.

  “Now!”

  After his and, everyone moved almost pletely synized. Camil was the first to act, juring s and several hands out of her psychic powers, which were almost pletely invisible if it weren’t for the outlihat could be seen, which was slightly gray or white.

  Then, Emerlinda used her Spirits to create a small Spiritual Barrier around the Silent Dark Spirit, while it struggled to move while beirained.

  And stly, Vd used Geomand his Ritual Magic together, eling the Red Moonlight to unleash a quicker version of the Formation he had done before.

  FLUOSH!

  These bined powers quickly made the Silent Dark Spirit submit, as Chris touched it with his hand, now covered with Light to not be possessed, and infused his powers into it.

  “You’re now beh our will; there’s two options! Bey tracted Spirit and live or die.”

  “Grrrhhhh…!”

  The Silent Dark Spirit seemed angered, its tless red eyes gring at Chris furiously… However, its darkness was quickly transformed, twisting into sparkles of light.

  Chris quickly used his Spirit Energy, infusing it into the Dark Spirit and eg with these sparkles of bck light!

  FLAAASH!

  A e was instantly formed between him and the Spirit. As Crazy gasped in disbelief, the powerful Silent Dark Spirit was now his third tracted Spirit!

  Ding!

  [You have used the [Spiritual Heart Bond] Skill to successfully create a Bond with a Spirit and turn them into your Spirit Familiar.]

  [The Spirit: [Silent Dark Spirit (Tier 5)] has bee your Spirit Familiar!]

  Chris saw those notifications, feeling pretty happy.

  “It’s done!”

  As he said that, the Silent Dark Spirit was released; it looked around fused but then remained in silence, gng at Chris, awaiting orders.

  “This is nice; I’ve got three now, heheh…”

  Chris giggled as the entire formation came undone while he was admiring his colle of Spirits.

  “Three of them is plenty, I believe; more and you might put a strain on your Spiritual Heart,” said Vd. “Or so I read, is that right, Ermelinda?”

  “Y-Yes, I also have a limit of three Spirits with my Spiritual Heart,” Emerlinda said. “But you’ll unlock more slots for tracts when your Spiritual Heart grows stronger! Anyways, grats on your third Spirit, Chris!”

  “Ah, thanks,” Chris smiled, feeling fulfilled. “Welp, we’ve just done what we came here for, so let’s go bad enjoy a nice, rexing evening with your Vampire mom-”

  “We’re hunting more Dark Spirits until I drink enough blood.” Vd pced his hand on Chris shoulders, topping him before he were to go anywhere. “I helped you—we helped you get two new Spirits, now you do the same for us, right?”

  “Uugh… Okay, yes… fine.” Chris sighed.

  Like that, the party tiheir adventure in this bck forest, rapidly finding a new Silent Dark Spirit, this time, it wasn’t going to be tracted.

  “Shot it down like before,” Vd suggested.

  “Sure~!” Chris wi him.

  BOOOM!

  FLAAASH!

  The explosion of fmes and the blinding light became an incredible bo, catg the monster off-guard and then paralyzing it after dealing some damage.

  After it was done, Vd, Camil, and Emerlinda ganged on it, and if the time limit went out, Chris would use a powerful Heavenly Smite Spell to finish it off!

  BOOOM!

  Like he did just now!

  “G-Gryyeeh…”

  The Silent Dark Spirit let out an agonizing sigh before dying; its entire bleeding corpse, while still fresh, was stored by Vd within his Iory for ter ption.

  “Okay, let’s hunt some more then…”

  Like that, they repeated the same trick ten more times, seg a lot of Dark Spirit corpses and blood!

  A, for some reason, the monsters were being rarer on their route, until…

  “W-What the hell is that?” Chris asked.

  “T-The Dark Spirits, all gathered together…” Emerlinda muttered.

  “This… might be a little trap, perhaps,” Vd smiled half-jokingly.

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