Chapter 14: Dark Emotions; Mysterious Light Spot!

Translator: Simple MTL  Editor: Simple MTL

If he could absorb these dark elemental particles, he could even complete this mission.

Would there be any unexpected surprises?

Caruso did not know, but he was looking forward to it!

“It should be here!”

A few minutes later, Caruso arrived at the edge of the Dark Forest.

After arriving here, he faintly noticed that this place was unusual.

Because, after he muttered to himself for a while, he sat down cross-legged.

Then, he used the meditation mage that Grandpa Cass handed over to him and began his meditation.

Caruso, who sat down cross-legged, almost in the blink of an eye, entered a meditative state.

The meditative state was a very mysterious situation.

Some people said that this was the entrance test for mages.

Some people said that this was the world of communication with magic.

Some people even said that the world that meditation entered was actually the essence of the world.

And no matter what, meditation was a very fateful thing.

If one didn’t know how to meditate, then that person would lose the qualification to be a mage.

Of course, this had nothing to do with Caruso, because he was a genius. A super terrifying genius.

If an ordinary genius wanted to enter the state of meditation, they would need at least a few minutes to prepare.

Those super-geniuses would need at least a few seconds to write their lyrics.

But for Caruso, meditation was like breathing. He only needed to close his eyes and he would be able to enter this state.

When he entered this state and opened his eyes again, he found himself in the world of meditation.

After arriving in this world, his surroundings were still gray. He could not see anything clearly. Everything was empty.

However, a second later, with Caruso as the center, waves of terrifying dark elemental particles erupted from the surroundings.

When these particles appeared out of thin air, Caruso panicked.

He didn’t say that he saw anything. Instead, he discovered that there were simply too many dark elemental particles around him.

There were so many of them that there was no end to them.

Very quickly, these dark elemental particles seemed to have found their owner as they charged towards Caruso one by one.

It was as if there was something on Caruso that attracted them.

In the blink of an eye, it entered his body.

“Ding-dong! Player successfully absorbs dark particles. Dark-type skill experience +1.”

“Ding-dong! Player successfully absorbs dark particles. Dark-type skill experience +1.”

“Ding-dong! Player successfully absorbs dark particles. Dark-type skill experience +1.”

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In just a breath’s time, he had successfully absorbed over a hundred dark particles as if they were free.

After he absorbed them, these elemental particles turned into special elemental experience points and became a pile of data.

Similarly, when he absorbed these dark particles, Caruso’s mental state also underwent a huge change.

If it was said that the absorption of fire elemental particles would make him feel scorching heat.

The absorption of water elemental particles would make him feel moist.

If the absorption of ice elemental particles would make him feel cold…

Then, when he absorbed the darkness elemental particles, he felt a wave of emptiness and helplessness.

This feeling was as if he had received a huge blow, causing him to lose all hope and everything in his life.

Emptiness!

Fear!

Sadness!

Fear!

Madness!

Excitement!

Negative emotions erupted one after another as the particles grew.

At this moment, Caruso was sitting on a rock in the forest.

He would occasionally laugh and, after a while, he would cover his face and cry. His entire body would tremble and, at other times, he would let out a roar and fight with the uncle in front of him.

And all of this, he did not know.

All of this was due to the fluctuations in his spiritual world, which caused his body to emit a series of reactions.

However, just as his state of mind reached its limit of pessimism and despair. Suddenly, in the depths of the darkness, he saw a ray of light. The light was not strong, but it smiled like a firefly. However, it was this ray of light that smiled like a firefly… it actually became his life-saving straw. In an instant, it was like a clear spring of magic that rushed from the soles of his feet all the way to his mess. In an instant, he woke up.

“No!”

“This is not me!”

“This is not the real me!”

But because of extreme fear, the moment he woke up, he began to talk to himself.

Just now, he felt that he had gone crazy in the outside world, which was why he was so excited when he woke up.

One had to know that in the real world, he was completely different from the current him.

“Is this the reason why it is forbidden to practice dark magic?”

A few seconds later, in the mind of Caruso, who was gradually coming back to his senses, he continued to ask.

“Wait, when my project was absorbing it, I clearly felt an indescribable warmth. And what was that light spot?”

However, when he was guessing the reason for the dark magic’s restriction, he suddenly remembered the light spot that was like a life-saving straw when he was almost swallowed by the darkness.

How could such a strange light spot appear in the spiritual domain that was swallowed by darkness?

This doesn’t make sense at all!

After many thoughts, a system notification sounded.

“Ding-dong! Player has obtained 17,413 experience points for dark elemental skills!”

“Ding-dong! Since the host has not learned any dark elemental skills, the experience points can not be used.”

After receiving this message, Caruso did not bother with it. Instead, he focused on his previous question.

Why did light appear in the darkness?

What was the reason for all of this?

This question was like a fishbone in his throat. If he did not understand it, he would not be able to swallow it.

“That’s not right. There must be something I overlooked!”

After a long time, Caruso was unable to clear his doubts.

Under such circumstances, he shook his head and looked at the darker area in the distance. His hands were tightly clenched together.

He wanted to break this mystery.

With this thought in mind, he quickly entered the depths of the Dark Forest.

“Ding-dong! A large amount of dark magic elemental particles have been discovered here. Do you wish to enter a meditative state?”

After walking into the Dark Forest for less than five minutes—as the surrounding dark rooms became denser—the system’s notification sounded.

Hearing the system’s notification, Caruso did not waste any time.

He sat down cross-legged again and began to meditate.

After entering the meditative state in an instant, Caruso felt that this time in his meditation world, it was unexpectedly cold.

The surrounding was no longer the appearance of general elemental particles, but as if there were pairs of eyes staring at him.

Fear, panic, emptiness, fear, all kinds of negative emotions once again attached themselves to his body.

“There’s definitely something wrong with this!”

After these emotions surged into his heart, Caruso immediately gritted his teeth and insisted.

He knew that what he was doing was extremely dangerous, but as long as he could get past this hurdle, his benefits would be a huge surprise.

“It’s coming, it’s coming!”

An hour later, after experiencing another bout of extreme fear, just as he couldn’t hold on any longer…

Suddenly, the same spot of light appeared.

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