Chapter 218: Fifth Tier, Hungry Ghost Shara

Kamiyu was on the front-line defensive wall, sniping at the distant mine while continuously harvesting Enhancement Points. Deep within the Fear Emperor Tree, Men San, the Fourth-Tier Ability User who had been frightened away by Kamiyu earlier, was now having an audience with Hungry Ghost Shara—a Fifth-Tier Ability User bearing the title of “One of the Four Great Guardians of the Divine Tree.”

A handsome man with long gray hair, looking every bit like a protagonist, sat absentmindedly on a thick tree branch. He was bare-chested, wearing only black armor on his lower body, and was casually taking large bites of a Fear Emperor Divine Tree fruit. After just a few mouthfuls, he tossed the remaining core aside.

This man was the Fifth-Tier Ability User—Hungry Ghost Shara.

Men San, the Fourth-Tier Ability User, knelt on the ground with both knees. Seeing the fruit in Hungry Ghost Shara’s hand—a fruit condensed from the lives of 300,000 people—he was inwardly shocked. “Such a precious fruit! For us Fourth-Tier Ability Users, even a single bite could greatly enhance our strength, pushing us to Half-Step Fifth Tier. Yet Lord Shara doesn’t treasure it at all?”

Noticing Men San’s drooling expression, Hungry Ghost Shara asked indifferently, “Want some?”

Men San could hardly believe it. His eyes widened in delight as he exclaimed, “Yes, I want some! Thank you, Lord Shara!”

With that, Men San stood up and stepped forward, reaching toward the ground beneath Hungry Ghost Shara’s feet to pick up the remaining half of the Life Crystal Fruit.

But in the next moment, a loud “CRACK!” echoed.

Before Men San could take half a step, everything below his neck was instantly flattened by an “invisible force.”

“Who told you to stand up?” Shara’s handsome face instantly darkened, his expression shifting unpredictably.

“This lowly one dares not!” Men San quickly began restoring his body.

The closer one was to the Fear Emperor Tree, the heavier the terrifying aura—and the more beneficial it was for Ability Users. Men San’s recovery ability was greatly enhanced, and he restored himself in no time.

Men San thought to himself, “This unpredictable man is truly unfathomable. Is he just toying with me?”

But then another “CRACK!” sounded, and Men San was crushed from the neck down once again.

This time, he could see it slightly more clearly: a massive green tentacle had smashed him flat at incredible speed.

“Did I allow you to recover?” Hungry Ghost Shara’s voice was as grating as a dead eunuch’s.

Men San finally understood—Shara was deliberately tormenting him, punishing him. The so-called offer of half a Life Crystal Fruit was entirely fake.

“Spare me! I beg you, Lord Shara, spare me! This lowly one knows he was wrong!” The same Men San who had acted arrogantly and invincible before Kamiyu now cowered like a dead dog in the face of even greater strength.

“Do you know what mistake you made?” Hungry Ghost Shara, who had once been a noble’s concubine in Dragon Roar City of the Bopomo Kingdom before being assigned to work at the Security Office, was all too familiar with this kind of procedure.

Upon hearing this, Men San was so terrified he couldn’t hold back his urine, which burst out in a torrential flow.

Hungry Ghost Shara frowned, about to erupt in anger, but Men San’s next words “stunned” him.

Without caring whether it was right or wrong to say it, Men San vividly described, “Lord Shara, an extraordinary person has arrived on the Players’ side. Her name is Kamiyu, and she’s a woman.”

“Since this woman arrived in our Dragon Roar City, she has successively eliminated the third-tier Bald Tiger, the fourth-tier Qian Long, and Hou Ao—all with a single shot each.”

“By the way, her primary weapon is a sniper rifle. Anyone hit by a shot from her rifle either loses an arm or a leg.”

Hungry Ghost Shara showed no interest: “To other fifth-tier ability users, third-tier ability users are mere ants. But I’m different—even fourth-tier ability users are like ants to me. So, what does it matter to me if a few ants die?”

Arrogant, utterly arrogant.

This was because Hungry Ghost Shara was the “Head of the Four Great Guardians of the Fear Emperor Divine Tree,” the most powerful ability user in Dragon Roar City, at the half-step sixth tier. The number of people he had sacrificed in blood rituals was nearly ten million.

Did Dragon Roar City have that many people? Of course not, but other cities, counties, towns, and villages did. Now that the Fear Emperor Tree had grown again, unlocking the Fear Emperor’s previous bewitchment ability, any human who wasn’t a player would feel an urge to worship upon seeing the tree’s likeness.

The Fear Emperor was bewitching all living beings, making them sacrifice themselves for its ambition to revive.

Men San was fanning the flames, urging Hungry Ghost Shara to go fight Kamiyu. In his twisted mind, he even spoke as if siding with Kamiyu: “So you think you can mess with me, huh? So you think we’re just ants, huh? Why don’t you hurry up and go die? What if you’re fifth-tier? That woman’s strength is no less than fifth-tier.”

But seeing that Hungry Ghost Shara wasn’t taking the bait, Men San grew anxious.

His mind raced as he kept thinking of more persuasive tactics to get Hungry Ghost Shara to personally step in. Unfortunately, this Shara wasn’t like other ability users—he was more unpredictable and harder to read.

Men San had no choice but to resort to the oldest trick in the book—provocation: “Even if I die here, I must say one more thing: Lord Hungry Ghost Shara, you are no match for this woman named Kamiyu. You will be killed by her.”

“Oh?” Hungry Ghost Shara finally showed interest.

“What if I kill her?” Hungry Ghost Shara played along with Men San’s words.

Men San instinctively replied, “Then I will personally commit suicide, throw myself into the Life Orchard, transform into a Life Crystal Fruit, and become a meal on your plate.”

Provocation combined with a bet on his own life—all purely to make Hungry Ghost Shara attack Kamiyu. This time, Men San’s stakes were high.

“Now that’s interesting. I don’t understand you ants, fighting back and forth just for pride. I never do anything without benefit,” Hungry Ghost Shara stood up, saying with keen interest, “I’ll go eat that woman, then come back and eat you.”

At that moment, Men San saw the aura erupting from Hungry Ghost Shara and was so frightened he even forgot to heal his body, because he saw hundreds of faintly visible tentacles behind Hungry Ghost Shara, each ending in a “palm” the size of a small cart.

It was these palms that, at incredible speed, had flattened Men San twice earlier.

“Tell me what else is impressive about her. Killing a fourth-tier with one shot—I can do that too.” Hungry Ghost Shara cautiously looked toward the distant Sanctuary; he had long since noticed the battle there.

Men San was overjoyed. Hungry Ghost Shara had taken the bait. Now he could take revenge on Hungry Ghost Shara. As the strongest fourth-tier ability user, as long as a fifth-tier position opened up, Lord Fear Emperor would promote him.

Men San looked at the half-eaten apple on the ground.

Ability Users cannot be treated as normal people; they even eat their own kind, and stabbing their own allies in the back is nothing out of the ordinary.

Afterward, Men San deliberately misrepresented Kamiyu’s Skill, intentionally downplaying its strength, all with the aim of making Hungry Ghost Shara underestimate Kamiyu.