Knight, Good Night!

Clutching his stomach, the knight leaned against the hallway wall with exhaustion as he wryly smiled and sighed in despair, "I didn't expect to be played to death like this one day."

Checking his surroundings vigilantly while anticipating the next attack, the knight secretly readied a talisman in his hands. His holy energy was nearly depleted from all the blessings and holy smites he used. Although he tried to conserve his energy, the evil spirit didn't give him any chance to rest.

Hence, he played along with the evil spirit's plan and exhausted his energy. He intended to bank on the arrogance of the spirit once it sees him exhausted and decided to come out to fight him head on. If it dares to come, he is ready.

Suddenly, the knight felt his stomach rumble as he felt something wanting to come out. Feeling his insufficient energy, a sweat rolled down his face as he resisted his urge with his will. He also endured the pain that came along with it as he gritted his teeth while gripping the talisman tighter.

Silence descended in the hallway as the knight firmly held it in. Suddenly, the knight felt his surrounding distort as he saw himself in a bathroom.

"Huh? Why am I in the bathroom?" the knight muttered in confusion as he leaned against the bathroom wall.

Glancing at the toilet nearby, the knight felt his urges kicking in once more, but his instincts was screaming that something was wrong. As he continued to endure his urge and pain, his mind gradually recovered from his confusion as he recalled that he was still confronting an evil spirit!

"Illusion?" the knight muttered as he frowned before he tried to leave the bathroom.

Seeing that the illusion fading away and revealing the hallway, the knight breathed as sigh of relief as he made a connection between the results of his investigations, "Bathroom? Could it be that this evil spirit is a bathroom spirit? Or more precisely, a toilet?"

Recalling the missing toilet, the knight smiled wryly as he muttered, "Who could have thought ..."

Using his long sword as a walking stick, the knight then began to shuffle his way down the hallway to search the apartment room's bathroom. Although he checked before, he didn't examine the toilets carefully. Now, he is just grasping on his final trace of hope.

As he approached apartment 440, the door suddenly opened as a security uniform spirit popped out and attempted to suffocate him by wrapping itself around the exhausted knight's head.

The knight quickly responded by letting go of his sword and using his hand to tug the clothes off his face. Rip! The knight easily tore the uniform apart, but his instincts screamed danger and he dived sideways immediately.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Puff! The knight felt a bullet pierce his sword arm, but he ignored the pain and raised the talisman in his other hand, "Holy light!"

A blinding light exploded from the talisman as it burned to ashes. The knight then watched as the holy light set the evil spirit on fire. However, the knight gritted his teeth in anger and regret as he noticed that the evil spirit disappearing into thin air while leaving its gun behind. Although the evil spirit was gone, but the knight noticed it was not the same evil spirit as the man who opened the door earlier, but a spirit made from toilet paper!

"Damn it, there is more than one evil spirit, and they are under the control of the blood spirit!" the knight grind his teeth in anger, picked up the gun, and pulled out another talisman.

Stepping into apartment 440 and making sure it was clear, the knight activated his talisman, "Holy barrier."

Walls of light extended out from the talisman and formed a small cubic barrier around the knight. The knight breathed a sigh of relief as he sat down to rest, "Damn it, it seems the evil spirit is more cautious than I thought and won't fall for my trick. Now, I should recover as much as possible or I won't last."

Clutching his stomach that was still in pain, the knight sweated as he took out a vial of yellow liquid and chugged it to recover his energy. After recovering enough for a blessing, he blessed himself with mental resistance and finally felt the urges fade away. However, he still had to hold in what formed in his stomach, and he could do nothing for his bullet wound except wrapping it.

Suddenly, the door to apartment 440 opened on its own! Through the thin film of the holy light wall, the knight was shocked to see that the toilet paper spirit was back and with another gun!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Doing his best to dive into the bathroom for cover, the knight gritted his teeth in pain as he felt the bullets lodged into one of his legs and onto his buttock.

"Sh*t!" the knight cursed as he wanted to retaliate, but he noticed that the evil spirit had already left while the door automatically slammed shut.

The knight wryly smiled as he stared at the ceiling in a daze, "Although the holy light barrier can prevent spirits and curses from passing through it, it can't stop bullets nor what is already inside. It seems the evil spirit has control over this room, damn it. So unlucky!"

The knight then weakly stood up while grimacing in pain. Dragging his sword, he blessed himself with strength before smashing open the apartment door and activating another talisman, "Holy light!"

Blinding light spilled out into the hallway as the knight dashed out under its cover with the holy barrier following him. He then smashed the door to apartment 441 and dived inside. He then weakly slumped against the kitchen walls as he determined it to be safe.

"I don't believe that evil spirit has enough power to control the entire floor! Or I would be dead already," the knight speculated, but he still felt despair inside.

Pulling out his cracked cellphone, the knight checked and saw no signal. He knew that he can't get the news out even if he were to die.

"I can only try to bait it out and give my life to finish it off. If I let this danger grow ... it may become humankind's worst enemy in the future," the knight muttered as he resolutely made a plan.

After coming up with a rough plan, the knight watched the holy barrier fade away as he prayed, "May the God of Light bless me."

Although there was no special effects, the knight felt calmer and he resolutely stepped out into the hallway after blessing himself as much as possible.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The knight felt the incoming bullets as he swiftly dashed forward and left afterimages to welcome the bullets. Seeing its bullets missed, the toilet paper spirit didn't continue to fire as he threw his gun into the nearby open door of apartment 444, which was now fully repaired.

The door slammed shut as the knight reached the toilet paper spirit. With a swipe of his long sword, he cut the toilet paper spirit in half; however, it didn't seem to have an effect so the knight could only reluctantly use his sparse holy power to smite the spirit, "Holy smite!"

With a zap, the toilet paper spirit disappeared. The knight frowned a bit and attributed it to spatial powers, but he didn't think too much as he kicked open the door to apartment 444. Leaving a trail of afterimages, he dashed in, but found no spirit nor gun. The knight gritted his teeth in anger as he turned around just in time to see the toilet paper spirit floating pass the doorway.

"Trying to lead me into a trap?" the knight muttered to himself before he sneered before he chased after the spirit, "As long as you are willing to come out, I have no worries!"

Seeing the toilet paper spirit float into apartment 446, the knight kicked open the door there as well. Flashing into the room, the knight used a holy smite on the toilet paper spirit and watched it disappear once more.

Seeing the door repairing itself, the knight confidently stood in the center of the charred living room while vigilantly glanced at his surroundings while saying, "I'm here now, just as you want. Why don't you come out now? I know you can understand me!"

However, what greeted the knight was silence. On the other side in apartment 444, Pro calmly reloaded his gun before he brought it over to the security office where Alice was now hiding with Toi Toi. Glancing back at the knight, Pro inwardly mocked, "Only an idiot will fight a trapped beast. I might as well wait for the arrow at the end of its flight to completely hit its target before I come out to collect the arrow."

While Pro huddled in comfort with Alice, the knight finally noticed that something was wrong when no spirit came to greet him. Sensing his remaining blessing time running out, the knight could only chuckle to himself in despair, "It won't even fight me in the end ... it would rather delay time and wait for my energy to run out ... hahaha! I can't believe that I, Lance Galihad, would fall to such cheap tricks!"

Of course, the knight got no response. The blessings gradually faded away. Feeling his dried up holy energy, the knight sighed sadly as he felt his body gradually weaken due to the blood loss. As his legs weakened, the knight stabbed his long sword into the ground, held it firmly with his hands, and used it to support him to stand firmly.

As the knights vision began to blur a bit, he could hear the door creaking open. He chuckled to himself as he muttered, "Finally here?"

Glancing over, the knight saw an evil spirit formed by toilet papers. His vision cleared up a bit due to an irresistible anger growing inside of him, "Even now! Even now you still don't dare to face me?! Please let me die with the dignity of a true knight!

In response, the toilet paper spirit followed his master's command and silently raised the gun.

Bang!

A hole was accurately opened up on the stationary knight's forehead. Blood mixed it with the knight's tears as the flowed down his face.

The room fell into silence. Resisting the inevitable death, the knight blankly stared up at the ceiling, "Oh almighty lord above, why does thou not respond to your devoted believer's prayer? Have thou truly fallen as the rumors say?"

Drip. A drop of tear stained the knight's long sword with a trail of blood. Proudly standing till the last moment, the knight's empty eyes stared upwards as if searching for salvation, but all signs of life were gone.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

Accompanying the system notification, Pro watched with his domain perception as the proudly standing knight toppled over and his source of power being drained out of him. The knight seemed to age and decay as a drop of rapidly diminishing golden liquid was sucked out of his mouth and absorbed by the domain. All that was left behind was a lonely sword and the cold body of a proud knight whose legend will never be told.

[Host has absorbed the life force from the remains of a living being. Host gained 50 life points.]

[Host has absorbed an owner-less light attribute mysterious origin of yellow rank. Host gained 1500 life points. Host gains new ability .]

[Host has absorbed the soul of the invader. System Library updated with new information.]

"Finally, Mr. Knight, good night and good bye," Pro muttered with absolutely no remorse for his enemy.

Grinning, Pro checked the information for his new ability.

[Light Resistance] A light attribute origin was blended into host's core, doubling host's natural sunlight resistance and giving host an extra 20% resistance to holy light damage.

"Not bad, this means that I now have 20% resistance to holy light damage and natural sunlight probably will only weaken me by a little bit unless I stay within it for a long time," Pro predicted based on his past experiments.

Then, Pro excitedly glanced at his points, "Although I spent 380 points in order to repair my domain and recover little Toi Toi twice, I still earn big time! With the 200 total points harvest from each dead invader plus the 1500 points for absorbing the dissipating mysterious origin and the 230 points resulting from the pain of the invaders, I still have 5600 points! I finally have enough for an upgrade!"

[To upgrade host level, the following requirements must be met.]

[Requirements] Domain size of at least 10 small rooms, 5 medium room, 5000 life points

Seeing that he met the requirements, Pro calmed himself down to prepare himself for the upgrade. Returning his toilet to the bathroom, Pro recovered fully, got rid of all distractions, and gave the command, "Upgrade level!"

Ding!