Nightmare Light

Chapter 189 Night Wanderer's Advancement

“My lord, if you permit... I can share your burdens.”

As the sound rang out, Lin Wang looked up and saw the Night Wanderer swaying and flying over from a distance. Its enormous skeletal skull inexplicably gave Lin Wang a fawning smile and spoke.

"Can you command those skeletons to part a path?" Lin Wang asked.

"Your subordinate can guide the deceased mortals to the underworld; naturally, you are not an ordinary being..."

"Of course, although my name contains the word 'god,' I am not a true god... Like Lord Huangquan, I am merely a celestial being."

The Night Wanderer circled in mid-air once, then said, "Of course, as your most loyal and powerful follower, my strength is far superior to that of the Lord of the Underworld..."

"Hmph, you dare say that when you were in your prime, Captain!"

The Night Wanderer coughed, not responding to Huang Quan Gong's words, but instead said to Lin Wang, "However, my rank is indeed much lower than Huang Quan Gong's."

"Therefore, if you need your subordinates to share your burdens... you need to do something small, my lord."

"Of course, it's just a very small amount."

After the Night Wanderer finished speaking, he paused in mid-air for a moment, his huge head lowered, occasionally raising it to glance at Lin Wang.

Lin Wang did not immediately answer the Night Wanderer, but instead looked at the Yellow Springs Lord.

The latter snorted coldly and remained silent.

Lin Wang understood. He asked the Night Wanderer, "What do you need me to do?"

The Night Wanderer flew around in the air, looking very excited: "My lord, you only need to say... My lord, I can't say this directly, so I'll write it down for you to read."

As he spoke, the bluish-white aura around the Night Wanderer swirled and danced, condensing into a set of words in front of Lin Wang.

"Is it enough to just read it?" Lin Wang asked the Night Wanderer, while simultaneously sending the content of the calligraphy to the tree fern's server.

Having received affirmation from both of them, Lin Wang had a clear understanding of the situation.

He cleared his throat and began to speak.

"By the decree of Heaven and Earth, I hereby proclaim to you, my celestial spirits!"

"Receive the rites of Xuanhuang and be entrusted with your responsibilities!"

"I hereby command the Night Guardian, ordering him to swiftly traverse the River Styx, command the spirits of the dead, and attain virtue worthy of Heaven!"

"Success!"

A loud booming sound came from the void.

Above the River Styx, in the gray sky, a dark cloud suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The cloud rolled lower and lower, and then a bolt of lightning flashed out from the cloud and fell.

The lightning struck the Night Wanderer.

click!
The Little Yellow Springs Duke snorted coldly, "You're really generous to this guy. Patrolling the River Styx... such an important position, you just gave it to him like that."

"Huh?" Lin Wang didn't understand and turned to look at Xiao Huangquan Gong.

"Patrolling the River Styx is not a job that ordinary minor deities can do. By allowing the Night Wanderer to do this job, you are essentially agreeing to his promotion to a higher celestial rank."

“This Night Wanderer is also cowardly. When it comes down to it, he only dares to ask you for a job, not for a celestial position… But it’s not a difference. The celestial position is vacant now. If he gets this position, it’s equivalent to being granted a title.”

"Now, even mortals have to call him 'Lord of the Night,'" Little Yellow Springs Lord sneered. "If our Lord were here in person, he would not so easily bestow titles upon a mere minor deity."

He was silent for a moment, then shook his head and changed the subject: "But so what? Anyway, He has already... even his inheritance has been taken by you, a living person."

"You seem to know something about... Luo He's whereabouts."

"You're calling my lord by his name now?" Little Yellow Springs Lord snorted. "As His successor, you should know more than I do."

Just as Lin Wang was about to ask another question, the Night Wanderer in the sky underwent a change. After a series of lightning bolts fell, countless bluish-white energies began to converge upon Him.

The aura swirled, coalesced, and enveloped the Night Wanderer.

The enormous head of the Night Wanderer began to change under the lightning, trembling and disintegrating, with pale bone fragments constantly falling off. These falling bone fragments swirled and danced around the Night Wanderer.

Bone fragments continued to condense towards the Night Wanderer, forming a spine below his head, and then condensing into the sternum, scapula, and other types of bones along the spine.

A few minutes later, Lin Wang saw that a body had formed beneath the Night Wanderer's enormous head.

"Meow, how ugly!" The cat girl wagged her tail beside her. "Luckily, mice don't look like this."

"It really is ugly," Shi Xiong said.

“…It is indeed a bit ugly.” Lin Wang’s face twitched.

Before everyone, beneath the enormous head of the Night Wanderer, a thin, long skeletal body, like an elongated stick figure, dangled below His head, swaying in the wind as the Night Wanderer moved.

"My lord! What do you think of my new body?" The Night Wanderer asked excitedly, circling down from the sky and landing in front of everyone.

He hovered less than half a meter above the ground, but with his arms outstretched, he spun around, making a gesture of "showing off his figure".

"Uh..." Lin Wang's mind raced, trying to come up with a word that could "accurately express his meaning, but also be tactful."

Then, before he could figure it out, he heard Little Yellow Springs say, "They just said that your new body is extremely ugly."

"..."

Before Lin Wang could say anything to try and salvage the situation, Little Huangquan Gong added, "I think so too."

"..."

"Sigh." Night Wanderer sighed, "Actually, I also think... well, how can I despise myself? It's just that my ugliness has caused trouble for my lord, and this makes me deeply uneasy."

He said to Lin Wang, "How about I wear a dress? How about a floral dress?"

"Huh?" Lin Wang exclaimed in surprise.

A huge skeletal skull, dressed in a skirt, paraded through the city in the middle of the night, immediately flashed into his mind.

Lin Wang shook his head seriously: "No."

"My lord, I think..."

"No, let's not discuss this anymore." Lin Wang, unusually, seriously stopped Night Wanderer's idea.

Imagine a folk tale about a night-wandering spirit, a guide between life and death, who appears before the deceased wearing a floral dress...

I'm afraid the rate of zombies coming back to life in this world would increase by 50%.

"Alright, I thought..."

The Night Wanderer, with a hint of regret in his voice, flew back into the air: "Then, my lord, from now on, I will command these dead for you..."

"Brother Lin, before you command these dead to clear the way, there is one thing you must do," Shi Xiong interrupted Lin Wang and the Night Wanderer's conversation.

"Ok?"

Shi Xiong walked up to Lin Wang and handed him a scepter: "This is the old woman's scepter. That Holy Army only obeys the holder of this scepter—only with it can you make those priests obediently follow your orders."

Shi Xiong's expression was solemn, and his tone was complex: "This scepter... is probably the most powerful scepter in the world."

"With it, you can command the world's most elite Crusader army—when you return to the mortal realm with this scepter, you will instantly become one of the most powerful people on earth."

However, to his surprise, Lin Wang looked at the scepter for only a second or two, then shook his head at Shi Xiong with complete composure and said with a smile, "You keep it, I don't want it."

(End of this chapter)