Chapter 496: The Death of the Blinding Ghost
No matter how you look at it...
Having Ling Zhan face an Earth Ghost General alone was bound to be extremely difficult.
So Zhou Xue'er had to come directly to support Ling Zhan after destroying the city's defense system.
However.
When she led the entire squad back to the massive, grand hall.
The first thing she saw was the Blinding Ghost kneeling within a compressed space, being endlessly burned by roaring flames, screaming in agony!
"This..."
Zhou Xue'er was stunned!
Along with the other team members, completely dumbfounded!
What was going on?
The new captain, who had parachuted in, was single-handedly imprisoning an Earth Ghost General — one known as the hardest to kill — and burning it repeatedly with flames?
The key point was that the Blinding Ghost seemed entirely unable to escape from that spatial prison!
No matter what talent light flickered from its body, no matter what spatial abilities it used, it just couldn't break free from the space cage!
What did this mean?
It meant that this spatial cage had an extremely high priority level!
Higher than all of the Blinding Ghost's life-saving talents!
And more than that...
It also meant that the Non-specialist Captain's attributes must be at least on par with the Blinding Ghost!
Otherwise, the Blinding Ghost would have easily used its attribute advantage to break free of the spatial cage.
"Vice-Captain Zhou, am I seeing things?"
"I must be dreaming! A 65-level Non-specialist trapping and roasting an 87-level Blinding Ghost?!"
"If it weren't classified, I'd definitely be filming this scene with my phone and posting it online!"
"I'm convinced... totally convinced!"
"..."
Initially, all the squad members who had followed Zhou Xue'er to destroy the defense system were deeply worried about Ling Zhan. But now, their feelings were far more complicated.
They could never have imagined this result!
They had thought that no matter how monstrous this Non-specialist Captain was, he'd surely be struggling against the 87-level Earth Ghost General.
But it turned out the situation was completely reversed!
They watched as the Blinding Ghost lost life after life, with eyes vanishing one by one.
Then they turned to Ling Zhan, standing there with an indifferent expression, even yawning out of boredom. No one dared to say anything at this point.
"You're back? Task completed?"
At that moment.
Ling Zhan couldn't be bothered with the Blinding Ghost, still struggling in the sea of flames.
Unless a Sky Ghost General appeared to save it, otherwise...
Today, this ghost was destined to die.
"Reporting, Captain! The mission to destroy the control center is complete!"
Zhou Xue'er reported, standing at attention.
The rest of the team members couldn't help but straighten up as well.
"Good."
"With the defense system of Liuli City down, it's like a tiger without teeth. In about an hour, the United Forces will surely take it back."
Ling Zhan nodded calmly.
This air-drop decapitation mission had been completed without any surprises.
Hearing that, the team members all breathed a sigh of relief.
Honestly...
When they first heard they were assigned this mission, they were terrified.
Not scared of the battlefield.
After all, as senior members, they had been through plenty of battles and survived this long because they had both courage and strength.
What they were afraid of...
Was being led by a 65-level Non-specialist Captain.
Back then, they had thought this mission would fail miserably, and they might even lose their lives.
Because of this.
Quite a few of them had complained, grumbling about the upper ranks' decision.
But now looking back...
It was only thanks to this new Captain that they not only survived but also completed the mission perfectly, shutting down the defense system of Liuli City.
Keep in mind, the defense system wasn't just about keeping other armies from storming the city.
It also provided powerful buffs to the Ghost Slaves.
Under the defense system's aura enhancements...
Even ordinary Ghost Slaves could fight with twice their usual strength.
This made things much harder for the ground forces.
But now that the defense system had been destroyed, the Ghost Slaves outside who had been enjoying the defense buffs would suddenly weaken.
And then the combined armies would wipe them out.
"Captain Ling, what about this...?"
Zhou Xue'er glanced at the Blinding Ghost, which had fallen into the flames again, and couldn't help but ask.
She naturally wanted to know why Ling Zhan could so easily suppress the Blinding Ghost.
"Nothing much. This Blinding Ghost is just hard to kill, so I trapped it and kept burning it with fire. This little ghost doesn't really have much combat power."
"It probably got its Earth Ghost General title by being clever and cautious."
"It killed and stole a lot of eyes, which is why it grew so powerful."
Ling Zhan explained calmly.
The Blinding Ghost.
It really was just a minor ghost.
At least in Ling Zhan's eyes, that's all it was.
And...
The Blinding Ghost didn't have many eyes at first.
Back then, its combat power was probably only slightly better than a normal profession-holder.
But after accumulating eyes, it became incredibly hard to kill.
Without his "Space Domination" talent.
The cautious Blinding Ghost would have likely found a way to escape the moment it saw Ling Zhan.
Indeed, it was overly cautious!
If it had been any other Earth Ghost General, seeing a 65-level Non-specialist, especially one standing alone.
They would've rushed in and torn him apart without a second thought.
Only the Blinding Ghost.
Cowardly and cautious.
While reflecting on this.
They saw the Blinding Ghost, now trapped in the spatial prison, fall to its knees for the last time. It didn't revive again, and its flesh gradually melted away in the intense heat of the flames.
Hmm...
It seems the ghost died sooner than Ling Zhan expected.
It knew it would eventually be burned to death, so it had struggled, burning through many of its eyes and talents.
But in the end...
The eyes were wasted, and it couldn't escape.
Now.
The Blinding Ghost, which had lived for 200 years, had officially perished at Ling Zhan's hands.
Burned alive.
Ding!
[You have successfully slain the 87-level Earth Ghost General 'Blinding Ghost'!]
[Congratulations! You've gained 1 million experience points!]
[A large amount of experience has been stored in your experience bar, available for use anytime.]
At that moment.
The level-up notification arrived as expected.