Chapter 504 - The Mouse that was Tricked

Still, Han Wu didn’t mind having an Umbral Mouse as a unit because of its powerful unique ability. It could run through darkness and appear elsewhere.

When it nodded, Han Wu smiled.

Inwardly, he thought that the Umbral Mouse wasn’t as difficult to catch as the legends stated. However, in reality, the Umbral Mouse was simply afraid of Han Wu’s terrifying might.

After all, if Han Wu had eight Sage life forms instead of Earthsunder life forms, it would’ve escaped, not been forced to sign a Spiritual Blood Contract.

A thread of faith soon connected him and the Umbral Mouse.

This allowed Han Wu to listen to its thoughts. It was much easier to communicate that way. With the Spiritual Blood Contract, the Umbral Mouse could no longer run away.

It sighed despondently. Han Wu poked its body.

“Stop touching me there!” the Umbral Mouse snapped telepathically.

Unexpectedly, its voice was feminine. The Umbral Mouse was a girl!

Han Wu, chuckling, said that he wouldn’t do it again.

The Umbral Mouse rolled its eyes and ignored him.

Han Wu then asked it for information about the Dueling Lands, and the Umbral Mouse explained what it knew.

This huge piece of land didn’t originally belong to the Dueling God King, but actually belonged to the Umbral Mouse’s old home. The God King had invaded its civilization and assimilated it into his divine realm.

The Gods that didn’t worship him were sealed into statues and placed in shrines. The Umbral Mouse had also been sealed off as a Dark God.

Han Wu gained a better understanding of the place but still had many questions.

For instance, the Umbral Mouse was tiny and weak, so why was it sealed?

The Umbral Mouse didn’t want to say, but Han Wu eventually forced it to.

Having stolen the Divine Ego of the real Dark Goddess, it had been mistakenly assumed to be the Dark God and ended up sealed. While sealed, it had tried to absorb the knowledge and power in the Darkness Ego, but barely grew stronger due to its lack of talent.

In the end, it didn’t learn any skill and only gained extreme affinity with darkness. That was the reason it could merge with the Darkness Ego and become a true Dark God. However, even then, it was too weak to fight and could only escape if it encountered a foe.

Han Wu couldn’t help but laugh when he heard the story. The Umbral Mouse had experienced something strange. His instincts told him that the Dark Goddess had intentionally allowed it to steal her Divine Ego so it would be sealed instead of her.

When he told the Umbral Mouse his theory, it vehemently denied it. Then, as it slowly mulled over its past, it recalled the exceptional ease with which it had stolen the Divine Ego in the first place.

Its fur stood up on end at the realization that Han Wu was likely right. The Dark Goddess had intentionally allowed it to steal the Divine Ego so it would be sealed off in her stead!

“That bitch! How dare she trick me! The pain I felt...” The Umbral Mouse’s cries echoed through Han Wu’s mind.

Han Wu tried valiantly to endure the laughter threatening to burst out of him, but ultimately failed.

Furious, the Umbral Mouse angrily scratched Han Wu’s chest with its tiny paws and shrieked inconsolably, “You’re all bad people! I want to ignore you now.”

Han Wu, finally getting a hold of his laughter, pushed it away with his finger. “Alright, stop getting mad. I won’t laugh anymore, alright?”

The Umbral Mouse scoffed. The anger of a girl was not so easily assuaged.

“Do you want to seek revenge?” Han Wu asked.

The Umbral Mouse perked up. The Dark Goddess had tricked it into being sealed away for years. How could it not want revenge?

Unfortunately, after all this time, there was no way for it to know where the Dark Goddess was now. It didn’t even know if she was still in this land. Moreover, even if it found her, there was little it could do. It was weak and only excelled at escaping. Its attacks were pitifully ineffective.

There was simply no way it could get revenge on the Dark Goddess. It was more likely that the Dark Goddess would actually end up capturing it and extracting her Divine Ego from it. If that happened, it would be left with nothing.

The Umbral Mouse’s thoughts were all transmitted into Han Wu’s mind, and he smiled at its rationality.

“I am your owner,” he assured. “I can avenge you.”

The Umbral Mouse glanced at him with beady eyes. It then raised a paw. “Alright, can we swear on it?”

Han Wu stared at the small paw, then touched it with the tip of his finger. The Umbral Mouse, anger appeased, explained its abilities.

After a brief introduction, Han Wu learned that the Umbral Mouse was not only an escape artist but also excelled at supporting skills based on darkness, so he requested that it use them on his units.

Soon, all his units were empowered by 20%. His points rose to 1050 billion—still insufficient for first place.

Crouching Dragon’s points had since climbed to 1240 billion, likely on account of encountering some good fortune. But Han Wu wasn’t worried at all. After all, there were still 318 candidates on the board. They were still early into the game.

Fortunately, with the Divine Ego: Dark as the Umbral Mouse’s power source, the buff would last until the end of the match.

Han Wu had plenty of time to improve his units. With that goal in mind, he expanded the search radius for his units to find more shrines or escaped foreign Gods.