The Knight of Light plants the sun in the eternal night.

Chapter 96 The Ghost Whip

"The Ghost Whip?" Leo remembered the term, but couldn't recall what it meant. He had retained all of his predecessor's memories, but many were buried deep inside and didn't surface as easily.

Rhodes then explained, "The Shadow Beast leader is able to summon magical beasts and gather small demonic tides because of its soul mutation, which created a ghostly whip. It can use the soul whip to control magical beasts."

Under Rhodes's guidance.

Leo gathered holy light and battle aura in his hands, and before the black mist and blue-purple light on the velociraptor's body dissipated, he reached out and grabbed the velociraptor's head.

There was no physical contact with the body.

He only felt the holy light and battle aura in his hand rapidly dissipate, and at the same time, it was inserted into the velociraptor's head like inserting tofu. With a casual stir, he touched something soft, bouncy, and smooth.

catch.

Pull it outwards.

In an instant, a long, bluish-purple object was pulled out of the velociraptor's head by Leo.

It really does look like a whip.

It is about one meter long, thinner than a little finger, and has a very peculiar texture, like a blue-purple crystal whip, but when held in the hand, it feels like a "tendon", with a substantial fleshy texture.

"Is this the Ghost Whip?" Leo asked.

Rhodes nodded: "Yes, this is the Soul Whip, but it's clearly a small one, much smaller than the 3..."

The soul whip inside a Void Beast is much smaller—but if used to strike someone, an ordinary person wouldn't withstand a single lash.

When the Ghost Whip strikes an ordinary person, it's equivalent to the ordinary person experiencing a Ghost Impact.

Leo, who was a trainee knight, couldn't even withstand the attack of the Shadow once, let alone an ordinary person without supernatural power.

Harrison leaned closer and exclaimed, "My lord, although it's a small soul whip, it's still an important achievement. The Baron has clear records that ten small soul whips or one large soul whip are enough to earn one the title of lord or knight."

As they were talking.

The knights had finished cleaning up the battlefield and made sure all the monsters were dead, so they gathered around.

Upon hearing Harrison's statement that accumulating ten small soul whips was equivalent to the merit of being granted a lord or knight, their eyes lit up.

I wish there could be another mini-demon wave.

Unfortunately, this small soul whip was Leo's trophy, but Leo was already a lord knight and no longer needed it.

He asked, "If this Soul Whip is handed over to the kingdom, will it be considered a meritorious service?"

Harrison shook his head: "I'm not sure, it should count, but I don't know what the kingdom's standards are for calculating war merits. I only know that to be granted a baronship, you need at least fifty large soul whips, and you also need to have made war achievements."

The Soul Whip, or the Demonic Tide, can be considered a battle achievement, but it is not a true battle achievement.

True military achievements, of course, come from going to the battlefield, fighting against the knightly orders of enemy nations, defending the borders, or expanding territory.

"So, Tier 3 Void Beasts will consistently drop large Soul Whips?"

"Yes."

"Ten small soul whips can be used to confer titles of nobility and knighthood, so can one large soul whip also be used to confer titles of nobility and knighthood?"

"Theoretically, that's true, but sir," Pluto coughed, "we shouldn't expect the large soul whip. The knight squad was able to successfully withstand this minor demonic tide entirely thanks to your advance planning. If we had encountered the demonic tide—"

The rest is self-explanatory.

If you encounter a demonic tide, run as far as you can.

Leo felt this deeply because his mother, Mrs. Heather, died in a standard demonic surge.

At the time, I was inspecting a certain manor.

When the Baron led his knights to the rescue, the entire manor had been overrun by monsters, all the serfs were dead, and Lady Heather and her entourage were also dead, leaving only their broken corpses, whose identities could still be vaguely identified.

Thereafter.

The Baron abandoned the idea of ​​rebuilding the manor and instead converted it into a cemetery, where Lady Heysel's grave was built.

Every year, the three siblings, Leo and his sister, would go to the grave to pay their respects.

The monster corpses on the battlefield were carried back by the serfs, and after being counted, there were a total of 107 corpses.

You only need to wait a few hours to retrieve 107 magic crystals.

There is also a Shadow Stone belonging to the Shadow Beast Leader.

"Heavens above! Holy Light has smiled upon you, Leo! You have returned safely, and the knights have returned safely too!" Franken exclaimed in praise. "A terrifying mini-demonic tide has been successfully averted under Leo's leadership!"

The serfs who were working didn't even notice that the battle against the mini-demon tide had already been dealt with.

But seeing truckloads of monster corpses, the serfs remained enthusiastic, chanting Leo's name everywhere.

"Holy Light shines upon Swamp Manor!"

"Praise be to young master Rio! Praise be to the Fluorescent Mushroom family!"

"The Holy Light favors Young Master Leo; Young Master Leo is invincible!"

"My God, this is the first time I've ever seen so many monster corpses! Long live Young Master Leo! The monsters will never dare to come to Swamp Manor again!"

The bodies were piled up on the flat ground in front of the administrative office.

Franken, accompanied by ten newly arrived clerks, was tallying the battle achievements of each knight.

Swamp Manor naturally has its own system for calculating battle merits. Although it cannot bestow knights upon them, it can improve the knights' welfare and benefits based on the accumulation of battle merits, thus benefiting the knights' relatives and descendants.

For example, rewarding farmers with a single stalk of grain, allocating privately owned farmland, and so on.

If they accumulate enough battle merits, the knights can choose to exchange their Dark Knight set for a family heirloom.

Knights and priests under the lord can accumulate battle merits.

The post-war handling was naturally shared by his subordinates, while Leo himself sat in the headquarters, studying the small ghost whip in his hand.

"Should we keep it?"

But he couldn't think of any use for it. He couldn't very well use a small soul whip to whip the serfs. One whip would kill someone, and after a few lashes, the manor would be deserted.

Perhaps it can be used to deal with knights.

However, at this stage, Leo doesn't need to go to the battlefield, much less use this thing to whip the knights in his territory.

"Give it to my father?" he thought. "It's a war merit after all; perhaps it can be exchanged for some gold coins?"

But I always feel like I can't get many gold coins, or that I'd be at a disadvantage if I tried to exchange it for gold coins.

He couldn't help but think, "The kingdom uses Soul Whips to calculate war merits, so what use are these Soul Whips after the king confiscates them? Never mind, I can't figure it out. I'll just go back to the Glowing Fungus Castle and ask my father."

He rolled the Soul Whip into a ball, then returned to Sunflower Castle, put the Soul Whip into a safe, and placed it in his study.

He then sat down and summarized the Knights Squad's battle.

"The secret techniques are very useful, really very useful. Whether it's Heart Steel or Sharp Light Slash, they greatly enhance my combat power. I'm now equivalent to half a Tier 2 Grand Knight." He pondered, "But Sharp Light Slash is not suitable for battle in formation."

In knight squad battles, lances are used more frequently, and longswords are used less often.

"If only I could learn a secret technique related to spears—I wonder if the Sycamore Tree could?"

He thought of the sycamore trees in the Fluorescent Fungus Square.

This is a respectable elder.

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