Chapter 302: Dark Sonata! Awesome Earplugs! Super Gengar! (Please Subscribe)

Hamori City.

Located in the eastern part of the Eizen Continent.

Several dozen li outside Hamori City stands a mountain named 【Gador Mountain】.

Previously, Rotom gathered intelligence suggesting the Dark Sonata might be appearing here.

It is said that intermittent piano sounds occasionally emerge from the local mountains, causing anyone who hears them to briefly lose their senses.

As if their souls were being drawn away.

Inside a dim cave.

Luo Ge strolled through it.

After dealing with the Shadow, he sent it to report to the Goro Corporation.

He came here himself to take a look.

He was very much looking forward to the Dark Sonata.

The empty, deep cave contained no sound whatsoever.

Except for the sound of his footsteps.

Suddenly.

In this pitch-black cave where a normal person could not see their own hand, a series of weeping, mournful piano notes suddenly rang out.

Anyone who heard it would feel a chill run down their spine.

If this were not the Dark Sonata, it might perhaps be rated as an extremely high-class piece of music.

After all, it was a composition created by the Demon King.

It possessed not only unimaginable power but was also exceptionally beautiful and melodious.

Yet no one was willing, nor did anyone wish to enjoy this music.

In an instant.

A thick wave of deathly intent flew in right behind the music.

The pitch-black deathly intent seemed to have form, approaching in the shape of strange, twisted musical notes.

The oppressive pressure brought by this sky full of deathly intent made one's breath catch; merely witnessing this scene made breathing difficult.

Luo Ge's gaze remained calm.

He took out a pair of earplugs.

【Awesome Earplugs】: Can freely adjust the volume of sounds in the surrounding environment.

With this item, he could arbitrarily change the sounds around him, making them louder or softer.

He had obtained this item many years ago while training in that grassland.

It appeared together with the Moon Stone.

Since then, it had never been used, but today it finally had a chance to shine.

Luo Ge adjusted the dial on it, turning the volume down to the lowest point until there was none.

From this moment on, the surroundings fell into complete silence; not a single sound remained, absolutely silent.

It was as if the Silence Fruit ability user Corazon had arrived.

At the same time, the floating deathly intents in the air halted in place as the sound vanished.

Then they began to dissipate at a not-slow pace.

This showed that the 【Awesome Earplugs】 were indeed effective.

Because it erased all sounds in the surroundings, it was also effective against the music of the Dark Sonata.

A figure suddenly leaped out from Luo Ge's shadow, its purple-black body radiating an aura even stronger than the deathly intent.

Gengar opened its blood-red maw toward the suspended deathly intents in the air.

Its pair of crimson eyes flashed with a glint of sharpness; immediately, the sky full of deathly intent twisted together into a vortex.

The interwoven deathly intents flew into Gengar's mouth in a spiral motion.

That endless stream of deathly intent was Gengar's buffet.

During the absorption process, Gengar's experience points continued to rise steadily.

These deathly intents posed no threat anymore.

After all, they were just staying there, beginning to dissipate.

But Gengar did not want to waste them.

The deathly intent of the Dark Sonata was not actually deathly intent; it belonged to a certain type of dark gas.

For Gengar, it would rather trade a large mass of deathly intent for a little of the Dark Sonata's black gas.

It was equivalent to a concentrated version of deathly intent.

"Geng-gui~"

In no time, Gengar had eaten everything clean, patted its belly, and was very satisfied with this "meal."

It could not wait to go and "greet" the chef who made this dish.

Luo Ge and Gengar continued forward.

Normally, the most terrifying aspect of the Dark Sonata lay in its eerie music.

If this music could be blocked, its level of danger would already be reduced by a large margin.

But Luo Ge did not think so.

Luo Ge felt that this Dark Sonata was not that simple.

Moving forward a bit, the human and the beast stepped into an even larger cavern.

Unknown ores on the stone walls emitted a white fluorescent glow, providing a tiny bit of dim light.

The center of the chamber.

There was an extremely bizarre figure!

Even calling it a figure wasn't quite right, because it was simply a strangely-shaped black shadow.

A shadow outlined in black lines, its body covered in snowflake-like patterns that would make one feel dizzy and uncomfortable after staring for too long.

It looked a bit like the static pattern on an old television when it displayed no signal.

And beside that black shadow, there was conspicuously a piano, also outlined in black lines.

The eerie music was coming from there.

It looked like a person in black sitting before a black piano, playing a silent piano in a dark environment.

It had the feel of a mime.

Luo Ge silently watched the Dark Sonata play.

The music it produced had no effect on him whatsoever.

Instead, it became a mob spawner.

Constantly providing Gengar with black qi, which transformed into experience points.

One could tell that Gengar was eating very contentedly.

A while later.

The piano music became exceptionally urgent, like a person walking a tightrope high in the air—tense and thrilling.

The Dark Sonata seemed to realize its disadvantage and prepared to attack them in a different way.

Immediately, the shadows around the Dark Sonata's body kept dispersing, the black shadows on the outer edge rising and falling like sound waves.

The black shadow resembled tree shadows blown by wind, beginning to sway violently, and the piano's music was its mournful wail.

Suddenly, the shadow gathered itself, and the aura of 380 poured out all at once!

Countless death thoughts swayed around its body, exuding a thick aura of darkness, as if capable of devouring everything.

Almost in an instant.

Whoosh—

The black shadow rapidly played the piano, emitting a sharp, piercing melody.

From the piano, arrows as black as ink materialized, faintly gleaming with a chilling light.

These arrows formed from dense death thoughts shot straight toward Luo Ge's neck, aiming to kill him in one strike!