Global Mutation: Opening with Swallowing a Black Mamba-Chapter 454 - 455: Mysterious Mask! Obtaining an S-Tier Combat Puppet!
Gu Qijue originally planned to kill Xing Kuang and his companions.
As he was about to act, he changed his mind.
He looked at Xing Kuang and his group and said, "I can give you a chance to live, go attack the Heaven-Fighting Race’s base."
When they heard the first half of Gu Qijue’s sentence, everyone thought they could really survive.
But upon hearing the second half, they understood that Gu Qijue was just making things difficult for them.
These people were not even enough to fill the teeth of the Heaven-Fighting Race.
Moreover, the Heaven-Fighting Race deeply hated the Wanderers. If their hatred for the Creatures of Ten Thousand Races was a ten, their hatred for them was a hundred.
Without Xing Kuang and his group’s input, Gu Qijue already knew their decision.
Thus, his figure once again turned into black smoke and disappeared, as another D-Tier Wanderer’s head vanished from his neck.
"Run!" Xing Kuang immediately shouted, wasting no time, instructing everyone to escape together.
As Xing Kuang fled, his spiritual power kept watch over the rear.
The group scattered and fled, knowing Gu Qijue couldn’t possibly chase all of them at once.
Although Gu Qijue was powerful, he was only one person, after all!
In escaping this time, he planned to inform the Heaven-Fighting Race about the situation at this castle.
No matter how strong Gu Qijue was, once the Heaven-Fighting Race struck, he would be at a dead end!
However, Xing Kuang soon witnessed an extremely terrifying scene!
Gu Qijue’s figure once again turned into black smoke.
Unlike before, this time Gu Qijue became a billowing black smoke enveloping the entire battlefield!
Many Wanderers, who were madly escaping a moment ago, suddenly became rigid as if this life had ended, collapsing one by one.
Their lives had already drifted away with the wind.
Their spirit bodies became part of the Undead Legion.
Xing Kuang was terrified to the core, recognizing this as an immensely vast and terrifying domain.
Inside this domain, life could be taken at any given moment.
Xing Kuang wanted to rush out of the domain quickly, but an unprecedented sense of weakness rapidly besieged him.
His eyelids grew heavier and his body more fatigued and weak, longing for a good sleep.
Then, like the other Wanderers, he entered a rigid state and died instantly.
Upon the battlefield, vast necromantic energy swept across.
Under Gu Qijue’s control, his undead legion charged out eagerly to absorb the necromantic energy, enhancing themselves.
Some Wanderers’ undead did not collapse but transformed into necromantic energy instead.
They, too, alongside the other undead, greedily absorbed the necromantic energy, allowing themselves to grow robustly. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
After swiftly resolving the battle, Gu Qijue mused internally:
"Although the Spirit Race Avatar lacks the singular combat prowess of the main body, it can still effortlessly crush the insignificant."
There were many D-Tier Wanderers on the battlefield moments ago who, under his domain of death, rapidly lost life and then rigidly perished.
Having dealt with these insignificant ones, Gu Qijue spotted a special item.
It was a black mask, frantically devouring the surrounding necromantic energy at the moment.
"Come!" Gu Qijue beckoned with his hand, causing the black mask to fly towards him from a short distance away.
His spiritual power probed into the black mask to investigate the situation.
Upon careful examination with spiritual power, Gu Qijue found that it was a rather cumbersome treasure artifact.
The name of this treasure artifact was the Mysterious Mask.
The Mysterious Mask’s function is to turn a living being into a puppet of the mask holder.
The Mysterious Mask grants the puppet mysterious power, making it unprecedentedly powerful.
But the method to awaken the puppet is by having the mysterious puppet eliminate the mask holder.
The mask holder, as they near death, can issue a command to the mysterious puppet.
Once the mysterious puppet completes the command, it enters an endless cycle of slaughter.
Until the Mysterious Mask’s charging is complete or the mysterious puppet is destroyed.
At first, Gu Qijue thought this item was useless as the cost of using it was sacrificing oneself.
But he quickly realized that while others might not use it, he could!
He could use the Holy Lion Secret Scroll to create an avatar, sacrifice it to activate the mask, and then reconstruct the avatar, with the mask following his instructions a hundred percent.
In this way, he would have an immensely powerful assistant.
With this thought, Gu Qijue immediately took action.
He first used the Holy Lion Secret Scroll to create a very ordinary Water Spirit Avatar to test his theory.
The Water Spirit Avatar was a humanoid creature composed of water elemental energy.
After creating the Water Spirit Avatar, Gu Qijue had the mask worn by the Asura Undead.
Once the Asura Undead wore the mask, it instantly erupted with terrifying S-Tier power, emanating an incredibly mysterious and sinister aura.
"Snap!" Gu Qijue snapped his fingers, beginning the sacrifice of the Water Spirit Avatar.
The Water Spirit Avatar controlled the mysterious puppet to end itself while giving it a command.
"My command is that as long as I am alive, you must follow my orders completely!"
The moment the Water Spirit Avatar finished speaking, it turned into a wisp of black smoke, devoured by the mysterious puppet.
Upon the mask holder’s death, the mysterious puppet fully awakened.
The command issued by the Water Spirit Avatar was to follow its orders.
But since the Water Spirit Avatar is already dead, that command no longer exists.
The mysterious puppet’s pitch-black eyes instantly turned blood-red, ready to indulge in a slaughter spree.
"Buzz——"
Who would have thought, at that moment, Gu Qijue used the Holy Lion Secret Scroll to reshape the Water Spirit Avatar.
Once created, an avatar leaves a template behind.
As soon as the avatar dies, it can be reshaped using the template to recreate an identical avatar.
The Holy Lion Secret Scroll indeed wasn’t joking!
The Holy Lion Secret Scroll reconstructed the Water Spirit Avatar, and it indeed could perfectly control the mysterious puppet as the holder of the Mysterious Mask.
Instantly, a grin spread across Gu Qijue’s face, which he could barely hide.
This time, he hit the jackpot, easily acquiring a powerful S-Tier Cosmic Level assistant.
While it would be challenging to sweep through the Heaven-Fighting Race’s base, for the mysterious puppet, this task posed little difficulty.
However, the resurrection of the Water Spirit Avatar turned the mysterious puppet’s blood-red eyes back to pitch-black.
Its initially terrifying S-Tier Peak aura relaxed to S-Tier Initial level.
This made Gu Qijue realize that, if necessary, he could sacrifice the Water Spirit Avatar to issue commands to the mysterious puppet and drive it into a frenzy!
Vivian and the Dog-headed Undead came to Gu Qijue’s side, looking at him with great apprehension.
The Dog-headed Undead was fine, possessing only battle intelligence with no other wisdom or emotions.
Vivian, on the other hand, had a face even sadder than crying, terrified that Gu Qijue might hand her a Mysterious Mask, turning her into a mysterious puppet like the Asura Undead.
Seeing through her thoughts, Gu Qijue casually reassured, "The Asura Undead has no emotions and intelligence beyond combat, making it a combat puppet."
"You possess all emotions and complete intelligence, a special form of life, so I won’t do this to you."
