(C4) Insane Debuff

"The bugs have been taken care of! Time to go back" The hooded figure said to itself with its hoarse voice that make it hard for anyone to guess their gender.

Happily walking away, The figure tear the space before them with a swift slashing motion of their scythe.

Just as their left foot dipped into the tear, a barely audible voice whispered, "--Why?"

Immediately, The figure turns around, Finding a man who was struggling to even open his mouth.

"...." The figure steps out the tear they made as they stare at HuanYing struggling figure.

Subsequently, the figure extended their index finger toward HuanYing, who suddenly felt an inexplicable jolting sensation in his chest.

"What have you done?" HuanYing asked as he rose to his feet, his chest still tingling from the sudden jolt.

"So you're fine...."

"You should have stayed in the ground and fake death, that way you could have escaped" The figure said, annoyed that they almost let a bug slips out their hand.

Without hesitation, the hooded figure brandished their scythe, twirling it around menacingly as they gradually walks toward HuanYing.

"Fear not, for your end shall be swift and painless," they declared.

"Wa-wait a minute, Lets talk this out!!" HuanYing shouted as he felt a powerful energy coming out of the figure that he never notices before.

the energy was invisible yet he could somehow imagine that there were black colored energy that resembles tentacles surrounding the hooded figure.

"Maybe if you could survive this attack" The figure replied while charging immense power onto the scythe.

HuanYing saw a speck of hope from the figures word, he immediately summoned his inventory and took a medium potion.

However even before he could drink it, The hooded figure had finished with charging its attack and swing their scythe towards HuanYing.

Roar!!!

With the powerful swing of thr scythe, a colossal black dragon materialized, soaring towards HuanYing with an open jaw, eager to swallow him whole, All while the dragon continously exude an overwhelming pressure that froze HuanYing in his tracks, rendering him immobile.

In an instant, HuanYing was engulfed by the dragon, causing the health potion in his trembling hand to slip from his grasp and shatter as it reach the ground.

"That should kill him" The hooded figure mutter, confident with the skill that specifically made against human.

While the skill wasn't that powerful against any other being's soul, it's effect on human were devastating.

After a minute the black dragon disappear, leaving behind a humanoid figure....

HuanYing, who supposedly got devour was standing as if nothing had happen, the only difference from before was his darkened face.

"You?!" Shocks filled the hooded figure, While the skill were not even on their top 10 strongest, it was still unbelievable that HuanYing managed to come out unscathed.

On the other hand however, HuanYing couldn't help but lamented on how absurdly cheat like and unfair the opponent skill were, His eyes staring at the notification panel.

[You have been hit with the 'Soul Devouring Dragon' Skill, you lost an expereince... you lost an experience... you lost expereince....]

[Level reduce by 1..... Level reduce by 1, Level, reduce by 1.....]

[Level goes back to 1..... No more experience to reduce.... your soul have been weakened... your soul have been weakened.....]

[Soul at its 100% weakened state, The following debuff have been applied.....]

[ Experiences Gain -100%, Reaction speed -90%, Attributes -99%, Any Damage receive increase by 100%, Movement speed -99%, Hearing, Smelling and other sense weakened by 99% ]

[Debuff will last until the soul had heal by at least 1%]

"Might as well fucking kill me!" The debuffs applied to HuanYing were all insane individually yet he got all of them at once.

"How could you not be injured by that attack?!" The hooded figures shaky voice suddenly pull HuanYing out of his frustration.

"Huh?" HuanYing suddenly realize that something was wrong, his opponent seem to misunderstood his current situation!

"How about it? I managed to stay alive as promised, Can we talk now?" He immediately said, wanting to take advantage of the current misunderstanding.

"....." The figure stayed silent for a minute, wondering whether they should attack again.

"Fine.... Lets have a talk" The figure sigh, removing the mask that cover their face.

As the mask got removed, The face behind it was revealed, It was a woman with silky white hair that compliments her dark chocolate-like skin, coupled with foxy like beautiful green eyes.

HuanYing couldn't help but have his heart gripped by the breathtaking beauty he had just saw.

"You're not a human from this place, right" The woman asked, her voice still rough.

However, HuanYing stay speechless with his attention fully invested on admiring the beauty before him.

"Ehem!" The woman coughed, displeased with HuanYing's attitude.

Immediately HuanYing realized that he had been too rude and He averted his eyes to the side.

As his eyes surveyed the left side of his surrounding, He suddenly saw himself lying on the floor unconscious.

"Eh?" HuanYing saw his body lying in the distance yet he was also standing far away from it.

"There's two of me? No wait--" As HuanYing notice his lying body on the ground, He also realize that his hand were translucent.

"Don't tell me--"

"Hey" The woman suddenly interrupted.

"What are you panicking about? I doubt this is the first time you get out of your body" She said, confirming that his soul were currently out of his body.

"Seriously? They even added a feature like this?" HuanYing thought to himself

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As HuanYing finally calmed down, the two start their chat.

"I been thinking about this.... so I wanted to confirm, Your one of those being that's been devouring souls on the surface, right?"