Wilbur coughed twice. "I've still got enough left for something like this."
Ryder's expression darkened. He propped himself up against the nearest rock, using his remaining spiritual energy to deal with his injuries.
Gobo was still thrashing about like a trapped beast. However, Wilbur paid him no heed as he continued inspecting Gobo's body.
"Why did you become like this, Gobo?" Wilbur asked.
Gobo merely roared in response.
Wilbur huffed. "It seems like you no longer have any sense left in you."
A while later, Wilbur was finished inspecting Gobo's condition and walked over to Ryder. "So what's the next step?"
"Destroying him, of course," Ryder said.
Wilbur shrugged. "Okay then."
He then walked up to Gobo, looking at the skull etched onto his chest. "You're from the Skull Cult, huh? Do you know that I've already killed your leader?"
Gobo roared again in response.
Wilbur chuckled. "You could have done anything with your life, and yet you chose to join the Skull Cult. Look what you got out of that."
Wilbur had just about figured that Gobo had acquired an evil cultivation method from the Skull Cult that had caused him to enter a psychotic break. He had then lost his mind and killed everything in sight.
All he had to do was absorb more blood and his strength would increase. However, his conscience would also deteriorate at the same time.
That was the most terrifying part. If he continued down this path any longer, he would become an extremely powerful yet mindless person. It would make him an incredibly dangerous entity to humanity.
Gobo must have still been conscious enough to realize this then and did not remain in the city for long, fleeing straight to the hill.
There were countless wild beasts at the hill that would be more than enough to satiate his thirst for blood. Only time would have told how many other casualties he would have been responsible for if he had not been taken down in time.
Wilbur had wanted to ask if he knew other cultivators from the cult, but it seemed like Gobo would be unable to answer his question.
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