Chapter 197: True Soul Body

Chapter 197: True Soul Body

“Fate!”

As the dragged-out, difficult ancient Hermes word echoed, the area where Klein and the Spirit World Plunderer stood suddenly dimmed.

It was an almost imperceptible change, like a cloud happening to drift across the sky without pausing for even an instant.

Yet when that illusion-like shadow vanished in the next breath, the “invisible person” wrapped in a semi-transparent white robe was already frozen in place. Beneath the surface of its clothing, uncontrollable traces bulged outward, like insects writhing beneath fabric—sluggish, slow, and labored.

Opposite it, clarity had completely returned to Klein’s eyes. Beneath the shadow of the triple crown, the flesh buds on his face had disappeared.

The scene now looked as though the Spirit World Plunderer had not been the one controlling Klein’s Spirit Body Threads and nearing success, but rather that Klein had been controlling the Spirit World Plunderer’s Spirit Body Threads and was about to turn it into his marionette!

The Luck Stealer charm had swapped their fates!

This high-level charm, made from a Worm of Time, could steal the target’s subsequent fate and graft one’s own short-term future onto them, thereby completing the exchange.

And so, Klein and the Spirit World Plunderer instantly traded circumstances. One had gone from death back to life, while the other had fallen in an instant from victory within reach into absolute desperation.

After confirming that the Spirit World Plunderer was intelligent, extremely difficult to deal with, and far from easy to hunt, Klein had begun performing a retreat. He had seemed reckless, but in truth, he had deliberately allowed himself, step by step, to fall under the Spirit World Plunderer’s control, luring it out while remaining ready to use the Luck Stealer charm at the crucial moment.

In that way, however ruthless the Spirit World Plunderer was toward its enemy, its own situation would become just as hopeless!

Of course, if the Luck Stealer charm failed to take effect, or if the Spirit World Plunderer’s main soul did not appear and it instead relied on some other method to control the situation, Klein still had one last means of preserving himself: he could directly end the summoning and return above the gray fog, using the loss of two marionettes and several mystical items to ensure his own safety.

He had no time to marvel at the incredible power of the Luck Stealer charm, nor at how terrifying angels of the Marauder pathway truly were. Before the exchange of fate ended, Klein raised the Sea God Scepter in his hand without the slightest hesitation.

His deep blue papal vestments unfurled in the wind. The golden triple crown reflected interwoven rays of blue-green and silver-white light. In an instant, bolt after bolt of lightning burst from the top of the white bone scepter, weaving into a sphere before crashing down upon the Spirit World Plunderer!

Silver-white brilliance flared, drowning the target and bleaching the surroundings into a sheet of whiteness.

Once, twice, three times—Klein continuously drove those terrifying spherical bolts of lightning, sparing none of his spirituality.

At last, he heard a roar that seemed to come from the depths of the soul itself and instinctively sensed that his target had broken apart and collapsed.

Only then did Klein lower Sea God Scepter and watch the silver-white lightning scatter thread by thread.

At that moment, his entire spirit body had become quite illusory. Even with the Tyrant’s support, he no longer seemed entirely real.

As the lightning disappeared, the “invisible person” in the semi-transparent white robe once more appeared before Klein’s eyes.

Flickering points of dim and bright light shone out from within. The Spirit World Plunderer’s entire being suddenly split apart, turning into countless illusory bubbles that shattered one after another.

The “Tyrant” had succeeded in the hunt.

Just then, a violent tremor suddenly came from…