Chapter 145: Haunted Cemetery

"Ah, my wallet!"

"Hahaha, Darkness, I told you you got scammed out of your money!"

"Damn it, that Thief, next time I run into her, I'll definitely drag her to the Police Station again."

When it came time to pay the bill after eating the Big Meal, Darkness only then suddenly discovered her wallet still hadn't been returned.

And Eris was the same; after returning to the Heavens, this Goddess only then discovered she was actually still carrying her own Believer's wallet on her person.

"Forget it, just treat it as an offering for helping cast a Blessing!"

The Eris Cult also has a paid service for helping bestow Lucky Blessings, and for her, a Goddess of Luck, to personally cast a Lucky Blessing, it's worth more than a bag of money no matter how you slice it.

This Goddess of Luck obviously didn't know that her Blessing, right after she left on her front foot, was purified by Aqua's sneeze on her back foot.

"Stop minding your flat wallet, now that we've eaten and drunk our fill, we've got to get back to work!"

"It's already evening, what work is there to do?"

Darkness looked at Aqua with some puzzlement.

"It's not any big job, just when we were settling the Quest a moment ago, a small request Luna-san entrusted to us."

"Hm?"

"Tonight we have to patrol the city's Cemetery once; heard someone saw a Ghost nearby."

"Oh, so it's the Cemetery, eh, Ghosts, are we going to see ghosts?"

Darkness exclaimed in shock.

"What are you making such a fuss for, and you call yourself a Crusader!"

"But Ghosts are immune to physical attacks; me, a Crusader who only does physical attacks, being afraid is perfectly normal, right?"

"Give me a break, you don't have a shred of physical attack capability!"

Aqua shot her a disdainful glance, then patted her own Chest.

"Tonight's main Combat Power is me, Aqua-sama, and I'm the High Priest, I have the ability to purify Ghosts; that's why Luna-san asked me. If you're scared, just don't come along."

"Scared, I'm not scared at all!"

Darkness was originally still very scared, but suddenly thinking of the situation of being haunted by a ghost, she suddenly wasn't so scared anymore.

"Ghosts, what are they, are they tasty?"

Broly has no concept of Ghosts, only wants to know if that thing can be eaten and if it tastes good.

"Not something to eat, but a Thought Body left behind after a creature dies..."

Aqua explained, and the party of Three People soon arrived at Axel's large Cemetery area.

The Cemetery at night was very desolate, only some crows serving as atmosphere, cawing once in a while.

"Let me see, hmm, there's quite a lot of Ghosts here."

Aqua isn't afraid of Ghosts; after arriving here, she just tiptoed and looked around.

"Hey hey hey, don't talk to yourself, we can't see anything at all!"

The unknown is what makes people feel Fear; Darkness isn't afraid of Zombies or other Undead with concrete forms, but she's afraid of Ghosts she can't see or touch.

"What a Troublesome thing."

Aqua said as she leaned over, raised her hand and grabbed Darkness's Forehead; who knows what she did, but after letting go, Darkness seemed able to see lots of strange things, and plopped down on the ground shouting "There are ghosts!"

"Isn't that stating the obvious? If there weren't ghosts, what did we come here for?" Aqua looked at this Knight somewhat helplessly, then saw Broly also curiously looking around beside her, and asked, "Broly, you want to see Ghosts too?"

"Mhm."

Broly nodded; after Aqua helped open his eyes, he saw the scene Darkness is seeing now — in this desolate Cemetery, quite a few footless Ghosts were floating about; most looked lost and dejected, but a small portion of Ghosts were looking at them, who had entered the Cemetery, with ill intentions.

Broly felt no Fear, only some Curiosity; he walked up to a Ghost and poked it with his Finger. As expected, his Finger passed through the other's Illusory body, just like poking through a layer of Smoke.

"Ghosts are Consciousness Bodies; conventional physical means cannot touch them."

Aqua said from the side.

"Eh, it's true!"

Broly felt Surprise, and was already swinging his Fist at the Ghost beside him.

And the Ghost, punched through by the little Fist, indeed didn't undergo any change.

Just, the other party seemed to feel a bit displeased.

"Hey, you Little Ghost, aren't you being a bit disrespectful to the dead? Careful I turn into a Wraith and haunt you, kill you!"

Broly was Threatened; he looked at the Ghost before him, and light lit up on his Finger.

With an Energy Beam piercing through the other, the scattered Spirit Body didn't gather again.

The surrounding Ghosts, originally full of Malice toward the living, their Gaze directly turned to Terror.

But before they could prepare to move away from here, a Great Purification from Aqua already shrouded over.

"Lingering souls in the Mortal World, what nonsense are you spouting; since you don't want to go to the afterlife and reincarnate, then I, Aqua-sama, will personally send you to ascend — Purify, Purify, Purify, Salvation, Salvation, Salvation..."

Aqua like a machine gun, fired off Purification spells one after another; things like soothing Ghosts to let them ascend in peace, she doesn't have that kind of leisure to do such things; willing or not, purify first then talk.

"Accept Purification, you Evil Spirits!"

Aqua like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, charged into the Cemetery.

"Ah, we're not Evil Spirits yet!"

The Ghosts in the Cemetery tried to argue, but Aqua had not the slightest intention of listening.

To her, quasi-Undead Ghosts are just Targets that need Purification.

"Strange, what happened outside the Cemetery, why is it so noisy?"

Lich Wiz holding a Soul Guidance Lamp, she hasn't come here for One Week already.

"Maybe grave robbers, Wiz-san, don't mind that, please guide us to rest."

The surrounding Ghosts don't care about outside matters; they only hope they can obtain rest quickly.

"Alright, the Soul Soothing Array is already set up; once Magic Power is injected, it will let everyone rest in peace."

As Wiz spoke, she began injecting Magic Power into the Magic Circle underground, and crimson light rose up just like some Evil Ritual was being conducted.

And as the crimson light shone, the dense Ghosts all around gradually revealed relaxed expressions, yet within this crimson light their Spirit Bodies gradually melted away.

"Hmm, what's this? The Breath of Necromancy!"

Aqua, who was conducting Great Purification unmatched in the Cemetery, was Stunned, then rushed toward the place where the Dead Souls Magic Breath had risen.

By the time Aqua arrived at This Side, what she saw was Wiz maintaining the Magic Circle's Circulation within the crimson Magic Circle.

And at this moment, the Renwulei Breath on Wiz had already Vanished, replaced by the unique icy Breath belonging to the Highest-grade Undead, the Lich.

"So the strange happenings appearing on This Side of the Cemetery were your doing, you Lich; watch me Purify you!"

Aqua shouted loudly.

"Eh?!"

Hearing the commotion, Wiz terminated the Soul Soothing Magic, discovering she seemed to have been Treated As a Bad Guy by someone, and Waved her Hand preparing to Explain something.

But Aqua was quick to act; after finishing her Shout, a beam of Great Purification Smashed over, and a Goddess-rank Great Purification is not so easy to endure.

Even If Wiz Subconsciously put up Defensive Magic, she still let out a Painful groan within the Great Purification's light.

(Chapter End)