Greg watched as the ghost was floating above the ground, without any sign to attack him.
"Why doesn't it attack me? Is it waiting for something?", thought Greg without putting his guard down even a bit.
As time went by like this, suddenly the creature pointed at Greg's chest with its razor-sharp bony fingers.
Greg didn't know what this should mean, but a second later his eyes widened.
The ghost appeared before him almost instantly with the desire to touch him.
"Damn!"
While jumping backward by using Alice's wind element, Greg's face was a bit pale.
It wasn't because of shock or fear, but because after the ghost touched his chest, he felt that his connection with his Soul Stone weakened the moment the creature touched him.
"So ghosts destroy their target's soul and in the end use the body as a vessel. Terrifying creatures indeed."
Feeling as his connection stabilized after a while, Greg sighed in relief.
Seeing as the ghost appeared again before him in the hope to touch his body, Greg activated his light element.
In an instant, his body started to shine, while his speed accelerated with each second.
As he was running away, he didn't dare to look away from the ghost. Every time he dodged one of its attempts to touch him, it instantly appeared next to him with another attempt.
When his speed was almost as fast as a bullet, he thought he had the chance to run it down, but to his surprise, the ghost could follow him easily.
It was like his shadow. No matter what he did, it would be always behind his back in the hope to touch his body.
As time went by like this, suddenly he made a small mistake, which resulted in the ghost touching his left arm.
Feeling as his connection with Alice weakened again, he clenched his teeth and accelerated even further. However just like before, no matter how fast he was, he couldn't outrun the creature.
From time to time, the ghost hit his different body parts making his body feel weaker and weaker, while his connection with Alice started to disappear bit by bit.
As a result, his speed started to slow down and his body's shining started to dissipate slowly.
"This is not good. If this goes on I will be done for.", thought Greg as he dodged another attempt from the creature.
After he jumped to the side, the light on his body was so dim that it could hardly be called shining, while his speed slowed down with a huge margin.
As he was thinking for solutions, the ghost appeared before him, leaving him no chance and time to dodge.
"Now I'm really done for."
Thinking that death was around the corner, his Soul Stone in his soul started to tremble, and with a flash, and all of a sudden, a black mask flew out of it, while releasing a white light.
*BAMM!*
Like running into an iron will, the ghost bounced off from the mask's light, and the parts of its body, which touched the light disappeared.
*SCREEEEEECH!!*
With a deafening scream, the ghost screamed toward the sky in pain.
Greg looked at the mask before him and was quite surprised.
"This mask not only can deflect physical attacks, but also spiritual ones? That's amazing! Why didn't I try to use it earlier? I'm such an idiot."
Without further hesitation, he grabbed the demon mask and put it on his face. In an instant, his power surged and the disappearing connection with his Soul Stone healed with each second, making him sigh in relief.
The ghost after stopping screaming toward the sky started to fly toward Greg with insane speed.
Watching this, Greg just stood still and waited for the creature to come close to him and when it was an inch away from him, he commanded the mask to release the same light again as before.
*BAMM!*
Just like before, the creature got bounced off from the white light, while now half of its body was gone.
"Now it's my turn.", said Greg, and using Alice's wind ability he appeared before the ghost and used his mask's power again.
*SCRREEEEEECH!!*
Every time the creature got hit by the light, a small portion of its body disappeared resulting in an easier fight than before.
After seeing as the ghost tried to escape, Greg smiled a bit.
With a sudden move, he appeared behind the creature, and with a stronger light than before made the ghost's half transparent body disappear into thin air.
Knowing that he finally killed the ghost, Greg sighed, but in the next second his face looked confused.
It was because a small white light flew toward him from where he killed the ghost a second ago.
Thinking that it was the ghost in a miniature form, he used the mask's power, but to his surprise, it just slipped through the white light and disappeared into his chest.
Greg looked confused, but in the next second his eyes grew wide in surprise.
'Dimensional Ghost: Bone Ghost'
'Rank: Soul Collector'
'Body Shaper Type: Ghost Bone'
Hearing the information in his head, he was really shocked.
One can get a Soul Creature only after obtaining the zone's core, but he got this one after killing a normal creature, which wasn't the core. Or at least he thinks so it wasn't.
And to make things even more mysterious, the creature's name didn't start with the common Soul title, but with the name of Dimensional, which was the very first time he heard about something like this.
"Should this phenomenon have a connection with the zone breaking maybe?"
Just as he was thinking about ideas of what just happened, he felt a connection appearing between him and the larva he shoots at one of the creatures before.
"Why am I still here? I need to hurry! But how will I kill the other creatures?"
Knowing that the solution was on his face, he touched the mask gently.
"Hmm.. this artifact is too important for me, so it would be a bad thing if others see it that I have it."
As he was thinking, he remembered he just got a body shaping creature a second ago, so without any hesitation, he activated its ability.
***
Joe and the two girls were running toward the city's direction as fast as they could.
After running for almost 15 minutes straight, the city's wall finally could be seen in the distance, which made them incredibly happy.
However, their happiness didn't last long, because of rapid footsteps behind their back.
Joe looked behind and seeing as the creatures from before were closing the distance between them with rapid speed, he stopped and raised his hand.
Mila and Emma seeing Joe's act slowed down and looked confused.
"Joe what are you doing?", shouted Mila, while looking at him.
"We wouldn't be able to reach the city in time, so we have no choice but to fight. Luckily that bony creature is not here and it seems Greg is busy with it, so we have a chance", answered Joe and shot a huge thunderbolt toward the creatures.
*BOOOM!*
The lightning hit one of the creatures, which resulted in its body turning into ash.
Seeing this, Mila and Emma were incredibly happy, but the next second their smiles froze on their faces.
From the ashen corpse, a white ghost floated up, while screaming toward the sky.
Joe saw this and shot another thunderbolt at the ghost, but this time his attack just simply flew through its body without causing any damage.
Knowing that physical attacks can't damage it, the ghost flew with fast speed toward Joe, ready to take his body over.
Joe knew this would happen, so he dodged to the side, but the next second his eyes grew wide because the ghost ignored him and flew toward Mila and Emma.
"Sh*t! Dodge!", shouted Joe, while he raised his hand, but it was already too late to do anything.
Mila saw the incoming danger and fired a fireball toward the ghost, but it was in vain.
*SCREEECH!!*
With a loud shriek, the ghost flew toward Mila and was about to touch her body, when suddenly a blinding light appeared between her and the creature.