Soul

With snow-white skin, golden long hair draped over her shoulders, and deep black eyes.

The little girl standing behind the bookshelf was wearing a pretty red dress, revealing her delicate toes under the skirt.

In the pitch-black pupils, Raymon even saw his reflection. But this little girl who did not make Raymon feel her breath made his scalp numb.

The little girl stood motionless behind the bookshelf, showing only half of her face. She watched Raymon in the dead silent library for a long time before her body gradually became blurred, as if disappearing into the air, and completely disappeared.

Raymon, who had been breathing with his mouth, coughed violently as if suffocated as soon as he saw the little girl in red disappear. The cold sweat that surged quickly also made him feel the dampness on his back.

With a frightened look behind the entire wooden shelf, Raymon groped behind him to find the doorknob and twisted it gently.

"Creak..."

The crisp sound was as piercing as thunder. But seeing the door opened, Raymon couldn't help showing joy on his face.

Opening the door behind him with his hands, Raymon, who was holding his breath, rushed out immediately.

The sound of the door closing in the corridor once again frightened Raymon. He immediately rushed to Edgar's room with quick steps.

"Can't the great cultivator Edgar have a quiet moment!" But as Raymon passed through the warning energy field, before Raymon waved his fist to knock on the door, Edgar's roar came from inside. "Another bastard dared to disturb the great Edgar. You're dead!"

Behind the suddenly opened door was Edgar with a purple face. But the horrified Raymon immediately told Edgar what had happened in the library.

As Raymon spoke, Edgar's eyes widened. His face also became ugly. After Raymon finished speaking, Edgar's expression became ashen.

Without a word, Edgar, who pursed his lips, rushed to his library. Raymon hurried to follow him.

But Edgar did not enter the library at all. He just quickly released an illumination spell after opening the library door, revealing everything inside the library.

The rather empty library was exactly the same as when Raymon first entered. Even the book he dropped on the ground was still upside down, with no difference from Raymon's last memory.

"It's okay. Next time you see this phenomenon, don't use any magic," Edgar, whose face was also ashen, closed the library door tightly after surveying the entire library at the door. "This annoying thing has appeared again. I need to talk to the dean..."

After explaining, the muttering Edgar immediately ran towards the stairs and disappeared from Raymon's sight.

Raymon's scalp was still numb. He did not dare to stay here any longer. He immediately followed Edgar and quickly ran out of the castle.

But Edgar's speed turned out to be exceptionally fast. When Raymon stood at the gate of the castle, Edgar had disappeared.

Raymon looked at the sparse red mist in his sight, knowing that the time was probably dusk in the surface world. Soon the sparse red mist would become dense and obstruct the sight.

With a frown, Raymon stood at the gate of the castle for a moment. Then he snapped his fingers, and a transparent thing like a mirror immediately appeared in front of him.

Using the magic Void for the first time, Raymon found that there was only the name of Trader Elijah after infusing his spiritual power into it. Raymon immediately sent him a message. "If you're at the Trading Tower, help me find books about ghosts or souls. I'll be right over."

After sending the message, Raymon went to the Trading Tower. Soon, subtle vibrations appeared on his gauntlet. With a snap of his fingers, Raymon immediately received Elijah's reply. "Trading Tower, third floor, but you can't buy these books now."

Elijah's reply made Raymon frown and stop. After hesitating for a moment, he immediately asked the chip to retrieve the monitoring footage from that period.

But there were no abnormalities in the chip's records.

There were no images of the little girl in red or any energy fluctuations. Even the intensity of radiation in the entire library remained unchanged.

"This is definitely not an illusion!" Raymon muttered as he strode towards the Trading Tower again. "If it were an illusion, Edgar wouldn't have lost control like that. And it seems he also knows the little girl exists."

Soon Raymon arrived at the Trading Tower and went directly inside, rushing straight to the third floor. Raymon saw Elijah waiting there.

But as soon as they met, Elijah yelled loudly, "My God, why do you look so bad? Did you really encounter that kind of thing?"

Elijah's loud cry made Raymon's face even uglier. "Why can't I sell such books?"

Scratching his head, Elijah's face became solemn. He did not answer directly but took Raymon to a shop in the corner of the hall and led Raymon to meet the owner of the shop.

Whispering in the owner's ear, Elijah quickly awakened the somewhat sleepy shopkeeper. The shopkeeper's eyes became sharp.

"Books about souls are sold on the fourth floor and above. Did you really see 'her'?" The white-haired shopkeeper asked with a very solemn expression.

With a gloomy face, Raymon glared at Elijah fiercely, then told the shopkeeper what had happened.

"It's really her. Why did she come back again..." The old man frowned and muttered, then pursed his lips and fell into thought.

Hearing the old man's words, Raymon felt even colder on his back. His eyes were fixed on the old man sitting there, waiting.

Elijah, whose face had also turned pale, lost his usual smile and looked frightened.

After waiting for a long time, the old man in the shop finally looked up again and said solemnly, "Come with me."

The old man stood up and took Raymon to the spiral staircase leading to the fourth floor. But Elijah, who wanted to follow, was stopped by the old man.

Following closely behind the old man, as soon as Raymon stepped onto the spiral staircase leading to the upper floors, he felt an inexplicable repulsive force field on the stairs. The steps right in front of him, he couldn't lift his legs to step on!