...
On the battle stage, Vay was constantly being ambushed, each time the ghostly shadow retreated after a hit, never lingered in battle, and didn’t covet handholds.
Initially, Vay managed to withstand it, but as attacks became frequent, his petrified form was dismantled, and he struggled.
On one hand, he needed to ward off bacterial invasion, on the other, he had to grapple with the ghostly shadow, stretched too thin, repeatedly falling into the ghostly shadow’s grasp.
Vay now was beaten, bloodied all over.
But up till now, he hasn’t lost yet. This means the ghostly shadow did not attack Vay with pheromone methods.
Hence, the pheromone transmutation water Vay drank was basically in vain.
However, under the battle stage, as Kaier continuously reviewed the battle fragments, finally, among countless fragments, he found a point that felt off.
Vay previously suddenly created a stone pillar, which was a weird point.
Yet looking at subsequent reactions, Vay seemed to be avoiding an attack from behind.
Although from Kaier’s perspective, there was no one behind Vay at that time, the real battle was still based on Vay’s feelings.
Creating a stone pillar wasn’t the most peculiar, the strangest was that the ghostly shadow indeed appeared. But surprisingly, the ghostly shadow emerged from the shadow of the stone pillar.
This was very odd.
When did the ghostly shadow sneak into the shadow of the stone pillar? Additionally, why did he leave from the shadow of the stone pillar? And did it transform into a physical form?
When these doubts made Kaier feel uneasy, a scene emerged once again in his mind.
—Vay stood atop the stone pillar, the ghostly shadow emerged from the stone pillar’s shadow.
This scene, previously Kaier’s bewilderment lay in the ghostly shadow’s motives. But revisiting it, he found a blind spot.
When Vay stood atop the stone pillar, his shadow was actually connected to the stone pillar’s shadow!
In other words, the ghostly shadow leaving from the stone pillar’s shadow, was equivalent to leaving from Vay’s shadow!
The ghostly shadow is a Shadow Series apprentice, and what Shadow Series excels at most is causing damage to the True Body via shadows.
From this single detail, it’s essentially confirmed how Vay was tricked.
Vay coughing blood is definitely related to this!
Moreover, in the battle stage, the ghostly shadow is the opponent, the enemy. He can’t be so benevolent as to cause just one harm to Vay.
Since he successfully sneaked into Vay’s shadow, he surely did something unknowable to Vay at the time.
Vay’s current predicament, could it have been caused back then?