Chapter 69 Silk Puppet
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Monoz knew he couldn't give the Soul Seizers enough time, otherwise the probability of his high-level soul skills being stolen would continue to increase... As long as he tried enough times, even the smallest probability could become a reality.
He looked at Scarface, a longbow appearing in his hand, accompanied by an earthy-yellow halo, and his sixth soul ring lit up.
Seeing his actions, Scarface tilted his head back slightly, his face slightly to the side, squinting at him, revealing a disdainful smile.
It reached out a hand, its five fingers clenched in a void, and dark red light flowed on its hand.
Monoz's soul ring dimmed, turning gray and white, without any light, and he was horrified to discover that his sixth soul skill had disappeared!
"Be careful, this guy stole my sixth soul skill!" he shouted to warn.
"Hoo!" "Hoo!"
The surrounding Soul Seizers let out excited howls, pounding the ground with their hands, seemingly cheering for their leader.
Scarface did not launch an attack immediately, but instead spread out its palms forward, making an inviting gesture towards Amon.
This made Walter, who wanted to attack, reveal an interested expression, quietly watching the show from the sidelines.
Seeing that Amon was unmoved, Scarface pointed at him, first patting his left arm, then patting his right arm.
Then, he also pointed to a female Soul Seizer in the group, waving his hand generously.
Walter had a strange smile on his face and said to Amon, "Left and right arms... beauty... is it recruiting you?"
"I guess so." Amon raised his right hand, paused slightly, then pinched his eye socket before lowering it.
He probably already guessed what was going on.
Monoz had said that he was able to escape the Soul Seizers' encirclement because his sixth soul skill was still usable, which meant that the previous Soul Seizers could not easily steal his sixth soul skill.
But Scarface's performance just now showed that it could easily do this.
If Scarface didn't deliberately let Monoz escape before, then something must have strengthened Scarface's stealing ability!
Amon knew that there were two main factors for the Soul Seizers to successfully steal soul skills: one was the Soul Seizer's own age, and the other was the level and strength of the target soul skill.
He speculated that there was also a hidden factor, which was the Soul Seizer's understanding of the target soul skill!
Amon guessed in his heart: "The reason why Scarface was able to easily steal Monoz's sixth soul skill is probably because it stole my third soul skill, 'Cryptologist'.
"This allows it to predict Monoz's soul skill in advance, and understand some of its effects and loopholes... so the probability of successful theft is greatly increased.
"It realizes the importance of my soul skill to it and doesn't want to let it go, but because the stolen skills have a time limit, and it can't kill me, it wants me to be its subordinate."
"Heh... how interesting." A smile appeared on the corner of Amon's mouth.
Seeing that Amon was unmoved, Scarface, unable to lure him, resorted to coercion. It roared at Amon, revealing sharp fangs, making its already ferocious face even more fierce.
"Mr. Walter, are you just going to watch like this?" Amon asked.
Walter had a smirk on his face: "Aren't I waiting for your choice?"
Amon shrugged, "Do you think I would choose to gain a 30,000-year soul ring or become a red-haired orangutan's subordinate?"
Scarface felt Amon's contempt for himself, and his eyes were burning with anger. He looked at Walter, knowing that he was the strongest of the four people on the opposite side, and killing intent overflowed.
It threw a "Deception" at Walter and kept "Insight" activated. Then, it reached out and grabbed in Walter's direction, but stole nothing.
This made Scarface a little confused. It looked at its palm blankly, not understanding why its ever-successful talent skill would fail.
Even if the target of the theft was a human stronger than itself, it should be able to steal some low-level soul skills. It was the first time that it had stolen nothing like this.
Walter attacked, white light flowing in his hand, and strands of silk gathered, quickly slashing forward.
Scarface nimbly jumped back, dodging the attack. Where it had been standing, a deep, knife-cut mark appeared on the ground.
After several more attempts, Scarface realized that it could not steal Walter's soul skills no matter what. It untied the bone whip wrapped around its body, flicked it twice, and looked at its opponent warily.
Walter chuckled, and endless strands of silk poured out from behind him, gathering into sixteen sharp, spider-leg-like spears.
The spears twisted and turned like venomous snakes, and then shot towards Scarface one after another.
After dodging several attacks, it suddenly realized in horror that it couldn't move. Countless dense threads were wrapped around it, restricting its movements.
Then, three spears made of silk pierced its body. As blood flowed out, Scarface's consciousness gradually blurred.
The soul skill stolen from Amon returned, and he immediately materialized his soul power, condensing a bullet, and then used "Air Bomb" to propel the bullet towards Scarface's head.
This was a technique that combined the materialization of soul power with "Air Bullet". With a material bullet head, it was more lethal than a simple "Air Bullet".
However, the attack range was limited, because once the materialized soul power left Amon's body, it would revert to ordinary soul power in a short time, losing its "physical" properties.
Scarface's head exploded like a watermelon, and red blood and white jelly-like objects splattered everywhere.
Seeing their leader die, the remaining Soul Seizers let out terrified howls, fleeing in panic into the distance.
Walter's body suddenly disintegrated into strands of silk, and then disappeared.
From beginning to end, what had been acting with Amon and the others was just one of Walter's silk puppets. His real body was still a kilometer away!
This was also why Scarface's use of "Deception" and "Theft" had no effect.
After all, the silk puppet had no mind to be delayed, and no soul skills to be stolen.
It had even chosen the wrong target, so naturally it couldn't play a role.
After killing the Soul Seizer leader, Walter's main body rushed over at an extremely fast speed, nodding at Amon with a smile.
A black soul ring slowly floated from Scarface's corpse, the black halo was not dazzling, but it was so striking that even the black-clothed youth and Monoz who led the way couldn't take their eyes off it.
A hint of envy and desire flashed in their eyes. A 30,000-year soul ring was something that even the Soul Emperor Monoz didn't have!
Seeing the desire in their hearts, Walter smiled and said, "Do your job well, accumulate enough merit, and I can also take action for you."
"Thank you, sir," the black-clothed youth and Monoz said in unison.
Looking at the soul ring that had a faint connection with him, a smile appeared on Amon's face.
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