Ch.160 Resentful Spirits, Emerging Ghosts

    These were generally the type of people who say things like ‘Even if I were to be reduced to 2 eyeballs, I will stare you to death’- and genuinely mean it. And as could be expected, they were not normal at all; even before they died and became the aberrations that they were. There had always been something wrong about them, something that wasn’t quite right up in their heads. But do not confuse that for something evil. The desire for revenge in on itself wasn’t necessarily born out of malicious intent, oftentimes it was only a means of self-preservation that prevented one from falling into degeneracy.

    Some people need to know that they weren’t weak; that if they were pushed enough they could turn into wrathful beasts that weren’t to be trifled with, that if it came down to it they were just as fierce as anyone else and were not helpless prey. But then there were the people who decided to take revenge on a person who they perceived to be weak, standing up to them. That... was more in line with the concept of ‘evil’, the sin of pride to be exact.

    Nevertheless, when this desire for revenge was pushed to unbelievable extremes even after death, a Resentful Spirit could be born. No, it was almost certain it would be born. The only time that they couldn’t be conceived was if there was no ambient Magical Energy to facilitate it; that’s why the idea of a ‘ghost’ existing in a Low Tier World was a joke.

    In truth, in most situations a Resentful Spirit wasn’t that much of a worry. Their constitutions were innately imperfect and as a result their lifespans were extremely short. This was because although they had a new ‘body’, it was terribly malformed and impure, which caused it to constantly lose its ‘vitality’.

    This new body of theirs was a Spirit Body, something that was composed of unique energy called Spirit Essence, a type of Soul Energy that was to a Soul what flesh and blood was to a biological body, hence a portion of the name ‘Resentful Spirit’, but not only were most Resentful Spirits spawned with a very sparse amount of it (because of the fact that most Souls didn’t need any other vessel than the physical entity they were residing in, and thus didn’t have a Spirit Essence in the first place), but they also had other harmful essences mixed into their Spirit Bodies that caused them small malfunctions.

    One of these malfunctions was periodic memory loss; over the duration of their short ‘life’ time they would experience bouts of complete memory loss, and would even lose a portion of it permanently before the rest came back. Eventually, they would lose all memories and wouldn’t be too different from the moping Souls in the Reincarnation Cycle. Quite a sad fate. But that was not nearly the end of their problems.

    The most pressing one was that although the conversion of a flesh and blood body to a Resentful Spirit’s Spirit Body was a special phenomenon that formed some of the required Spirit Essence, it was not nearly enough. It was too thin and lacking in quality, and don’t forget the other harmful essences mixed within it that slowly damaged it over time.

    And although they were finally ‘whole’ and no longer needed to syphon Spirit Essence from others, that did not mean that they would stop. They, like any other being with self-awareness, desire more, more and more. More strength, more intelligence and more evolutions.

    And now, they could prey on the living who had complete Souls that they could devour. Although it wasn’t the Soul itself that they wanted, when devoured, all of its energy would be converted into Spirit Energy; which was far more beneficial than the Spirit Energy of a Resentful Spirit.

    With the ability to control when they were seeable and tangible, if they were careful enough and preyed on those that were weaker than them, they would rarely ever face any kind of resistance.

    And in the Eridius World where specialist professions like Ghost Hunters or Spirit Warriors had yet to even be thought about talk less of practised, these Ghosts would eventually grow to be extremely powerful.

    Currently, there were 5 Ghosts that had achieved their second evolution and had become something known as Ghost Lords.

    2 were in the Sea, another 2 were in the North Continent, and the last was in the South Continent; That Ghost had long become a Creature in Green under the banner of Envy and had a larger edge than others of its kind, but not even he was the strongest Ghost in Eridius.

    That title went to the one and only Ghost King on the planet; Bararak from the North.