Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 73: "Who Are You?!"

! Holy sh*t!!

Castra felt his heart stop beating for a moment.

With just that one glance, the strange dark energy inside his body, that was previously dormant, suddenly "woke up" and thrashed around violently!

"Ugh!"

A groan slipped out of Castra’s mouth and he staggered, almost falling to the ground.

Lady Fera felt the strange dark energy inside Castra’s body and her eyes widened in disbelief.

"Woof! How come the dark energy in your body is getting more and more active??"

Did someone manipulate the dark energy or something??

"I...don’t know..."

Castra felt his insides slowly burning as the dark energy in his body swam energetically.

When the dark energy approached the light energy in his body, his light energy would dim, and it felt as if someone was pouring a corrosive potion directly in his vein.

"Ugh!"

"Duuuu!"

Master! Master! What’s wrong with you?

Dudu anxiously ran around Castra’s head while screaming, but Castra couldn’t even hear Dudu’s shrieks.

Not to mention Dudu, even Poo looked at Castra with horrified eyes.

[H-host! Your neck— no, your arms and everywhere...]

Strange dark patterns resembling veins, branches and snakes appeared on Castra’s bronze skin, making the skin look like it was about to crack.

Castra didn’t notice his strange appearances, but he knew one thing.

[Those two bastards...]

They did something to him just now!

They must be controlling him or something because how did the dark energy that was docile before, suddenly went into a rampage?

[H-host, are you okay? Are you in pain? Ahhh— what to do?? (⁠｡⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠) ]

Poo paced back and forth in the air as he watched the strange dark veins slowly cover half of Castra’s face.

Castra, who looked like the embodiment of a Sun God, suddenly looked like an eerie being, a...monster.

Poo’s heart dropped to his b*tt.

No, no, if this continues, the host would be turned into a strange dark spirit like the bizarre spirits he saw earlier!

[H-host, let’s ask the angel to purify your dark energy— ]

It was at this time that the bizarre dark spirits, who were only watching the commotions, suddenly rushed towards the spirits!

The elf ancestor was busy protecting his descendant and dodging the water bubble, not noticing one of the two dark spirits pouncing at his back.

SWISH!

The dark spirit swung its claw and the elf ancestor belatedly noticed the sneak attack from behind.

"Huh— "

He was about to turn around to dodge, but the attack was faster than he thought.

SCRATCH!

"Ugggh!"

Another straight, thin wound appeared on the elf ancestor’s back but this time, a strange dark energy seeped into the elf ancestor’s wound.

The elf ancestor only felt his skin burning and the next second, a nauseous feeling swept his entire body.

"KHUK— "

W-what is this??

The elf ancestor’s face turned pale as his entire body felt a strong rejection towards something that was invading his body.

The foreign thing invading his body squirmed against the strong rejection, yet it didn’t easily dissipate.

The elf ancestor felt his body being torn into two— one part was burning hot and one part was freezing cold.

"What...is...this..."

!

"@&@&! (Ancestor!)"

The elf descendant screamed at the sight of his natal spirit’s aura slowly darkening.

As the summoner, he could feel the strange state of his natal spirit and the elf prince felt his heart growing cold.

N-no, no, what’s going on?

Why is his natal spirit turning into something strange?

Is it...corruption?!

The same thing happened to Gem-Mini and Libra-ry.

They were just scratched, but something was changing inside their bodies.

Miria, the only one who wasn’t attacked by the two dark spirits...

Was not an exception.

Maybe because she was the closest to the toilet spirit or what, but as soon as Miria lost consciousness, the dark energy in her body instantly rampaged.

"Uh...uh..."

Miria groaned as her face turned red and strange dark patterns climbed up her neck, slowly spreading to her cheeks and forehead.

Just like Castra, half of her face was covered with the eerie dark pattern.

Ray’s breathing stagnated at the sight of Miria’s strange transformation and his chest tightened until he almost forgot to breathe.

"M-miria?"

No, what is this?

Why is Miria showing signs of being corrupted?

Yes. As a regressor, how could Ray not know about spirit corruption?

He had seen a lot of light spirits turned into dark spirits but since he had lost Miria back then, he didn’t give a damn.

Yet now, after painstakingly saving Miria, she...

She’s corrupted?

"Poop Shoveling Officer— " 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Ray was about to call Castra when he saw Castra’s face full of dark patterns, the same as Miria.

His heart stopped beating for a split second.

What? His summon spirit also got corrupted?

Then the others—

The other spirits showed the same symptoms with various degrees, Castra and Miria showing the worst symptoms.

The other examinees also looked at the spirits who suddenly groaned in pain with bewilderment.

Huh? What’s wrong with those spirits?

The angel examinee was the first to notice the anomaly and immediately flapped his wings, rushing towards Castra.

"@&! #&#&@&@&! (Hey! You’re showing signs of being corrupted!)"

The angel felt like puking at the creepy sensation of the dark energy, but he quickly cupped Castra’s face with his palms and started to sing.

"🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵...."

A warm golden light spread from the angel’s palm and seeped into the dark patterns on Castra’s face, but for Castra, it was as if someone stabbed his face with countless needles.

"Uffffh!!"

Castra subconsciously raised his hand that was holding the Sword of Vengeance, but Lady Fera immediately slapped the back of Castra’s head with her tail.

"Stay still if you don’t want to die, woof!"

Castra didn’t want to die, so he gritted his teeth and endured.

The holy light slowly approached the dark energy buried inside the skin but the moment the light touched the dark energy...

Ray over there suddenly shouted in a sharp voice,

"WHO ARE YOU?!"