Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 63: "Dark Spirit"

The suspicious girl hummed loudly as a ghostly thing appeared right in front of her.

Then, the ghostly, erratic thing thrust towards Castra’s left chest.

At that moment, Castra felt a chill from the approaching ghostly thing.

He couldn’t see whether the ghostly thing was an arm or something, but he could feel the sharpness without even seeing it.

!

Castra wanted to dodge, but the ghostly thing was faster.

No...it was too late!

Not even Dudu had time to poop and not even the Sh*t Luck skill could be activated on time.

Just when Castra braced himself for the pain, Lady Fera snorted and blew a chilly air from her mouth.

"Fwuuuuu~ "

Snowflakes flew towards the ghostly thing and the next moment, the ghostly thing froze as if someone pressed a pause button.

The thing’s sharp arm was exactly an inch away from Castra’s left chest!

Castra shuddered at the sight of the dark thing almost touching his bare skin and hurriedly took a few steps back, staggering with each step.

"Huh?" The suspicious girl tilted her head at the sight of Castra safely retreating behind.

She immediately saw her ghostly thing being frozen on the spot and couldn’t help but stomp her feet.

"Aran! They got me!"

That dog spirit clearly didn’t use any skill, but just a breath made her baby freeze in fear!

"No worries, Himi." Aran waved his hand and another ghostly, erratic thing with no obvious shape rushed towards the group.

This time, the boy didn’t aim for Castra anymore and actually targeted another person—

The spirit with pink hair who was squatting with a boy.

!

Miria and Ray saw a flash of shadow and the next moment, a sharp arm pierced straight at Miria’s stomach.

THRUST!

"Ugh!"

Miria coughed as she looked down in disbelief.

Ray, who was clearly protecting her, also looked down at the strange arm that pierced Miria’s stomach, creating a hole.

Golden blood slowly seeped out of the wound and the strange arm slowly retracted on its own.

SHAAA...

"H-huh...?"

Miria stared blankly at the hole in her stomach as the world suddenly spun around.

Everything became blurry and the belated pain came crashing like a wave.

It....hurts....

"Miria...?"

Ray’s voice trembled as he tried to touch Miria but the female spirit slowly leaned backwards...and fell limply.

Thud!

!

"M-miria!!" Ray plopped to the ground to catch Miria’s body, but his trembling hands accidentally smeared the golden blood that kept pouring out of Miria’s stomach.

With each blood that she shed, Miria body turned transparent bit by bit.

Ray’s pupils quivered and his heart stopped beating for a second.

N-no, no, this is impossible.

"Miria? Miria?" Ray tried to wake up the female spirit, but he’s afraid of shaking her body, so he could only call out softly.

However, Miria remained silent, only breathing weakly, as if she was about to breathe her last breath.

"Mi...Miria..."

Ray’s heart fell to his stomach and a chill rose from his feet straight to his head.

N-no, this can’t be.

Why...what happened?

Why did Miria suddenly get injured?

Did something attack her...

Ray’s mind went blank, but a heavenly voice immediately woke him from his stupor.

"@&@&@&....(Please let me check her...)"

Ray turned around to see the androgynous angel squatting next to him without caring about his pure white clothes getting stained with dirt.

Ray couldn’t understand what the angel meant, but he hurriedly moved aside while pleading with a hoarse voice,

"P-please! Please! Save her!"

The angel started to check Miria’s condition but the others couldn’t pay attention to this side as Aran’s ghostly being started to attack the other spirits one after another.

The ghostly being’s next targets were the twins’ four spirits.

Stab! Stab! Stab!

"Oh wow! What the hell!" Gem-Mini hurriedly dodged the flashing attack while hugging the black koi spirit.

Libra-ry immediately hid deeper in the crowd, bringing the white koi spirit with her.

The female beastman and the orc knight immediately stepped forward and clashed with the erratic figure.

"@-#&@-@-! (What kind of thing is this!)"

"Oink! @&@&@&! (Oink! I don’t know!)"

"@&@! @&@&&@&@&@&@&! (Damn it! Those two bastards are the ones controlling these things!)"

The female beastman glared at Aran and Himi who was watching the show without a care.

Strangely, the five spirit-eating monsters from before were still flying in the air, but none of them approached the two people.

What the hell is going on?!

Castra also gripped his Lloyd and looked at the siege with a furrow.

"Milady, those two things..."

Castra pointed at the frozen ghostly being not far from his place and Lady Fera immediately snorted in displeasure.

"Fuh! They’re dark spirits."

!

Dark spirits!

It was the first time Castra saw a dark spirit since he belonged to the light spirit category.

But something was strange.

"Are all dark spirits...so strange?"

The two ghostly beings didn’t resemble a normal spirit.

If anything, they looked like a strange, erratic shadow with no shape.

Dark spirits were also spirits from the same Spirit World, so they shouldn’t look so different, right?

Lady Fera’s eyes flashed with a cold light and she spoke in a chilling voice.

"Fufu, you have keen eyes. Those spirits...are not normal."

Ah. Another anomaly?

At first, the dungeon evolved, the native monsters became spirit-eating monsters, and now, the examinees’ spirits weren’t normal?

Castra thought that it was because of the dungeon, but Lady Fera had her own suspicion.

Something isn’t right.

She felt a strange vibe from those two spirits.

What is it?

Unfortunately, Lady Fera didn’t have a chance to think deeper because the five monsters who were hovering in the air started to dive into the group one after another.

"SCREEE!!"

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

The dark cave felt even darker as the monsters’ huge body fell from the sky.

The female beastman and the orc knight who had just flung away the ghostly being saw one spirit-eating monster coming towards them— actually towards Castra behind them and they simultaneously raised their swords.

SWOOSH!

CLANGGG!

Two examines fought one monster.

Following the two people, the twins brought their spirits to fight another monster while the elf duo joined hands with the petite mage to block the third monster.

However, the fourth and the fifth monster, one of them being the lead monster...all swooped down towards Castra with their mouths wide open.

"SCREEE!!"