The Man's Decree

Berthold glanced around in astonishment at Jared’s multiple shadow clones that were engaging him in battle.

He hadn’t expected a Fourth Level Tribulator to have had such a trick up his sleeve!

“Hmph! Don’t think you’re the only one capable of shadow cloning.”

With a cold huff, Berthold’s dark aura vanished in an instant as the ghost mask he wore began to emanate a luminous glow.

Then, he pulled out a pitch-black token from his chest and crushed it into pieces.

Immediately, the void distorted, and a series of illusory shadows began to emerge. Each figure was cloaked in a long black robe, their faces adorned with ghost masks.

These illusory shadows gradually solidified before arriving next to Berthold. Seeing this, Jared halted the conversation as the Dragonslayer Sword in his hand trembled slightly.

Invisible waves of sword energy began to gather in the sky, with the Dragonslayer Sword radiating a blinding light.

This radiance grew increasingly intense, causing the surrounding void to tremor.

your shadow clones draw energy from your real body, Jared, but mine don’t consume

sinister laugh, Berthold waved his hand grandly and commanded, “Kill

masked

latter’s shadow clones

just a glance, Jared realized that these weren’t Berthold’s shadow clones; rather,

just crushed must have been what summoned

real disciples of the Ghost Mask Sect, it would have been impossible for them to

were already a rare breed. The number of people capable of setting

the Ghost Mask Sect did have

the only plausible explanation was that these ghost-masked robed figures were some sort of demonic souls, and Berthold must have released

released quite a number of demonic souls back then. It seems like the Ghost Mask

Jared retracted his shadow clones. while simultaneously

entire consciousness field

what he was up to. What is he doing, recalling his shadow clones and

it be that he’s using his spiritual sense to examine

of

and unleashed his consciousness field, this meant the demonic souls could invade his body and directly take over his

time, even if Jared didn’t die, he would be reduced to a mindless shell. Dealing with