313: Chapter 313 Fourth-Order Human Face Balloon

Nie Ning raised his hand to collect the storage tool into his bag, then released the Human-Faced Balloon to devour the corpse.

As the room filled with gray mist, the Human-Faced Balloon officially stepped into the ranks of Tier 4.

Feeling his Spiritual Power being interfered with by the gray mist, Nie Ning looked at the Human-Faced Balloon with a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

'The mental interference after crossing into Tier 4 is indeed much stronger.'

Although it had only promoted to Tier 4, the intensity of the gray mist's interference had increased several times over.

If it continued to improve like this, he might actually lose control over the Human-Faced Balloon one day.

After a brief moment of thought, Nie Ning shook his head slightly, dismissing the idea of destroying the Human-Faced Balloon.

Having the Human-Faced Balloon around was convenient; it could be used as a cover and was also a helper with decent strength.

While the Jerky Bear Head was stronger, its very strength made it inconvenient to use casually, as any discovery could lead to immense trouble.

This was not alarmist talk.

The power of a Wizard was beyond doubt.

If someone discovered the unique nature of the Jerky Bear Head, it could very well be exploited by those with ulterior motives.

The consequences of letting the Jerky Bear Head loose would be ten thousand times more severe than those of the Human-Faced Balloon.

With the Human-Faced Balloon present, he could even sacrifice it at a critical moment to distract others.

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After resealing the Human-Faced Balloon, Nie Ning did not search the house.

After all, his goal was to kill while disguised as a Corruptor; rummaging through the room would only arouse suspicion.

Besides, since he was just a broke Wizard, it didn't matter much whether he searched or not; he doubted Baudis had anything valuable anyway.

Subsequently, Nie Ning took advantage of the absence of witnesses to quickly leave Baudis's house.

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Nie Ning did not go straight home.

To prevent any further complications, Nie Ning turned and headed toward a small mountain ravine.

Calling it a small ravine, it was actually the hollowed-out center of a small mountain.

No one lived within a one-mile radius, and the mountain was surrounded by a large number of green plants.

This place was precisely a stronghold of the Serrated Society.

Back when he killed Vimos, he had asked Saya about this place and had even considered whether to wipe them all out.

However, the mass slaughter of high-tier Transcendents would cause trouble.

Since no one had come looking for trouble with him, Nie Ning had abandoned that idea.

But now it seemed that some troubles should indeed be dealt with as early as possible.

Nie Ning flew over the depression, where a Wizard Tower stood, with several reinforced concrete buildings nearby.

At this time, lights flickered faintly below, but Nie Ning showed a look of confusion.

When he came last time, he could still sense the elemental concentration nearby, proving that a formation should exist here.

But this time, he didn't find anything amiss.

'Is the formation turned off, or was it replaced with a more powerful one?'

After a brief thought, Nie Ning took out the sealing box for the Human-Faced Balloon.

As the gray mist spread throughout the entire mountain depression, someone instantly sensed the presence of a Corruptor, and over ten Transcendents stepped out of the buildings.

The strength of the Transcendents who came out was not high, ranging from apprentices to Tier 3, but the two Tier 4 Transcendents were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing this, Nie Ning began to hesitate.

If he acted now, he might alert the enemy, and killing those two Tier 4 Transcendents might not be so easy.

But if he didn't act, now that he had already released the Corruptor, other Transcendents might come here to defend and investigate.

Once word of a Corruptor appearing here leaked out, it would be very troublesome to handle.

"In that case, I'll kill the guards here first; at least for a short time, those two Tier 4s shouldn't have time to trouble me."

With this in mind, Nie Ning looked at the sealing box in his hand.

Several blood-colored tentacles extended from the pitch-black sealing box, followed by the Flesh Spider leaping out and falling downward like a free-falling body.

'Bang!'

With a dull thud, the ground cracked, and the Flesh Spider smashed into a pool of bloody pulp.

The Transcendents in the depression heard the sound and began to approach the location of the bloody pulp.

"What is this?"

One Transcendent looked at the bloody pulp on the ground in confusion.

"Be careful, there might be dan—"

Before the other Transcendent could finish, several blood-colored tentacles shot out from the bloody pulp, dragging the three nearest Transcendents into it.

"Die!"

A Transcendent who had just entered the bloody pulp area saw this and immediately began attacking the pulp with wizardry.

Now that the Human-Faced Balloon had reached Tier 4, any creature below Tier 4 would find it difficult to contend with.

Even its Tier 4 Transcendent self-healing ability was something even Nie Ning could not compare to.

This was a Corruptor; its numerical strength in certain aspects had already far exceeded the limits of living beings.

Under the bombardment of the Tier 3 Wizard's spells, the blood-colored meat pulp splashed everywhere, and its intense corrosiveness burned small holes through the surrounding buildings.

Just as the Tier 3 Wizard thought the attack was effective, the splashed meat pulp turned into fist-sized spiderlings.

In an instant, one scream after another echoed continuously from within the gray mist.

Hearing these screams, the Tier 3 Wizard who had attacked was filled with terror, staring at the writhing meat pulp before him with dread.

Under the gaze of the Tier 3 Wizard, the bloody pulp began to gather and rise, turning into a three-meter-tall Flesh Spider.

Sensing the aura of the Corruptor, the Tier 3 Wizard felt his limbs go cold, as if his very soul had received a massive shock.

Combined with the surrounding miserable screams, merely by staring at the Flesh Spider in front of him, the Tier 3 Wizard's face slowly began to twist and deform.

Following that, the flesh on his face seemed to melt, and bean-sized red lumps bulged on the surface of his body.

As the small red lumps burst, tiny blood-colored tentacles extended from within, fluttering in the wind like hair.

Seeing this from the air, Nie Ning could not help but frown slightly.

'It has already reached this level...'

His resistance to Power of Corruption was extremely high, and since he rarely used such large-scale corrupting gray mist, he usually couldn't intuitively feel the prowess of the Human-Faced Balloon.

But that didn't mean the Human-Faced Balloon was weak; it was just a bit less impressive compared to the Jerky Bear Head.

As the Human-Faced Balloon's strength reached Tier 4, it once again revealed a unique ability different from Transcendent self-healing.

The gray mist could not only isolate Spiritual Power but also enhance the strength of the Human-Faced Balloon, and the infection effect of the Power of Corruption would also be significantly increased.

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Now, an ordinary Transcendent would accelerate the infection speed of the Power of Corruption just by staring at the Human-Faced Balloon.

Of course, in Nie Ning's view, the Human-Faced Balloon had not yet reached the strength to rapidly infect a Tier 3 Transcendent.

It was mainly because that Tier 3 Wizard had likely just promoted recently, and his mental state had collapsed, leading to such an unbelievable transformation.

Under normal circumstances, to achieve such an effect, a Tier 3 Transcendent would need to stay in the gray mist for at least half an hour.

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