"Yes.
I want you to let Austin go.
Please don't make things difficult for him,"
Henrik replied, nodding quickly.
"Let him go? I have great admiration for this young man.
You should too. Can't you see that he is much more talented than you were?
If he stays here, there is a chance he will be more helpful to me than you ever could be,"
the man wearing white responded,
smiling widely.
For people that didn't know about his background, there was no reason to suspect that such a gentle
man with a bright smile could create so many ghosts and destroy countless races and forces. Once, a
long time ago, he had been a terrible man that scared creatures on purpose. All it took was the mention
of his name.
"Besides, you are a human being too. You've been all alone for all these years. Don't you want another
human being to keep you company?
That's why I want him to stay here. You need companionship,"
the man added.
"I don't need anyone to accompany me.
I think you should let him go.
Don't do anything to harm him,"
Henrik responded, shaking his head.
The man didn't say anything more. He locked his eyes on Henrik and Austin, and remained in silence
for a long time.
Finally, he uttered,
"I'm sorry. I don't agree with you.
I will make him stay here.
And I think you can figure out my true reasoning."
Henrik looked at the ground.
"Of course I know.
Austin may not be able to hurt you now but the mind power he currently has
scares you.
Mind power is your greatest nemesis.
As long as a creature possesses enough of it, they can kill you.
You don't want the young man's mind power to grow stronger because one day, he will finally be strong
enough to deal with you.
Am I right?"
Henrik said with a sneer.
"Yes, you are.
I can't risk letting him go,"
the man wearing white answered.
'I see!
He is too afraid of my mind power to let me run free.
Mind power is his greatest weakness!'
Austin thought, trying to contain his newfound excitement. After a lot of thinking, he finally understood
why the man wearing white wanted to imprison him.
'Hold on.
The mental energy is what he fears most!'
Austin smiled faintly.
He had known that the mind power was the nemesis of the ghost race all along.
Could it be that...
Austin stared at the man wearing white with some confusion in his eyes.
"Young man, it looks like you have realized something.
You're right. This man is a true member of the ghost race!
All the other members of the ghost race are avatars that have been created by him.
In other words, there is only one member of the ghost race, and that is him.
All the ghosts you fought before were his avatars.
But the mind power is still their true enemy.
If you have enough mind power, you can kill him.
And if you succeed in killing him, the ghost race will be exterminated,"
Henrik explained, smiling knowingly at Austin.
"What? He is the
only member of the ghost race?
The rest were all his avatars?"
Austin couldn't believe what he had heard. They had all seemed so real at the time.
He had thought that the man wearing white was a member of the ghost race, maybe even a very
powerful one or even a king of the ghost race. That was why he looked so handsome.
It turned out that the man was the only member of the ghost race.
It was not what Austin had been expecting.
"What Henrik says is all true.
The members of the ghost race you killed are all my avatars.
None of them has impacted me in any way.
Killing them was a pointless act. You'll find that all of them have been resurrected.
In fact, I can create endless avatars if I want to.
Look!"
the man wearing white admitted, smiling devilishly.
Then, he swiftly waved his hand.
Before Austin's eyes, more illusory, ferocious figures condensed and
transformed into ghosts, filling the hell all around them.
Austin was shocked to find that they were the ones he had just killed!
It only took him a second to recognize their auras.
"It turns out that all the time and energy I spent fighting them were in vain."
As he watched the avatars constantly emerge, Austin felt helpless. He shook his head and wore a bitter
smile on his face.
After only moments,
the hell was filled with creatures from the ghost race and they were all constantly screaming.
Only at that time, Austin understood that they weren't real. They were all the man's avatars.
The man wearing white was the real, one and only member of the ghost race!
"Let me help. I can distract him while you
find a way out of here.
There is still some hope.
Whether you can escape or not depends on your own luck.
If you can't escape, you will become one of his avatars, just like I am,"
Henrik told Austin through his spiritual sense.
"What?
You are also one of his avatars?
You are also a member of the ghost race?"
Austin spat out in shock, spinning to face Henrik.
"That's right.
His methods are beyond your imagination.
You won't be able to defeat him until you improve your mind power.
You have the best chance of killing him.
Therefore, I don't want you to stay here.
Please promise me that when you feel like your mind power is strong enough to deal with him, you will
come back and kill him, avenging me and Beth,"
Henrik said, looking at Austin with pleading eyes.
"Is the story between you and Beth true?"
Austin couldn't help but ask.
"Of course it's true.
Every word in my story was true.
You even saw Beth's body,"
Henrik replied.
"Now I get it! My spiritual sense told me that Beth is a human corpse.
It's all true!"
Now Austin knew why Henrik was trying to save him.
He wanted him to come back and avenge him and Beth!
It seemed that Henrik still had his own consciousness and wanted to take revenge even though he was
under the man's control.
"Don't worry. If I can escape, I will come back and kill him in the future,"
Austin responded.
"All right.
Please go,"
Henrik said.
"Okay."
Austin nodded so fast that the man couldn't see it. Then, he took out six teleportation runes and
activated them at the same time.
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