Published: February 12, 2025
Brother Long is a dark wizard.
This profession holds a very different meaning in the apocalypse.
Just like Park Soo-young’s role as an apostle of light, the dark wizard evokes an uncontrollable envy among people.
The difference lies in the fact that one represents light while the other embodies darkness.
Ye Zhongming is well aware of this profession.
In his previous life, there was a nine-star expert who belonged to this job, and his legend is known to almost every evolver.
What people often discussed was the combat method of this dark wizard, who could create a dark domain over a vast area.
Within this domain, there would be extreme cold, accompanied by extreme poison, dim visibility, and severe mental interference...
It can be said that once someone enters his dark domain, even opponents of the same level have little chance of survival.
However, it is said that this dark domain has a very long cooldown time and typically cannot be used frequently.
Aside from this ability, the most common rumor Ye Zhongming knows about dark wizards is the “consciousness plunder.”
This ability is somewhat similar to the soul searching technique in novels, but it is different.
Soul searching only replicates or plunders the target's memory, directly turning the target's memories into one’s own or making a copy to remember.
Consciousness plunder is far more terrifying; it directly transfers the target's consciousness to the skill user.
After using it, if the target has a strong constitution, they might not die but become an idiot.
For those with slightly weaker constitutions, death is immediate.
Due to its uniqueness, the user will somewhat become the target; everything from the target, including memories, abilities, emotions, etc., will be inherited by the user.
This is very different from the initial memory plunder.
However, the inheritance of consciousness can only last for a short time and will soon disappear, not affecting the user’s own consciousness.
To be honest, this ability is frightening because in front of someone with such power, you have no secrets.
Once someone uses consciousness plunder on you, death isn’t the scariest part; what’s terrifying is that everything about you will be known, even your most secret matters.
Thus, in the previous life, many people were very wary of the dark wizard profession.
Now, encountering such a profession in this life, Ye Zhongming didn’t know whether to consider himself lucky or unlucky.
Unlucky, because he has no good defensive measures against the consciousness plunder ability.
Lucky, however, means that while he cannot prevent it, it doesn’t mean he cannot resist it.
Consciousness plunder belongs to professional skills, and there are no means to prevent it.
If a nine-star dark wizard uses consciousness plunder, probably no one could escape unscathed.
But now it’s different; Brother Long’s evolver level is only at six-star.
Ye Zhongming could see no signs of him having advanced to the middle level of a dark wizard profession—unlike Park Soo-young, who one look at reveals she is definitely not a beginner; this feeling is common among everyone who sees her.
So unless this person has some rare good fortune, or an extraordinary encounter, there’s no way he could have more mental strength than Ye Zhongming.
And the amount of mental strength directly determines the success rate of this skill.
If the user has a larger mental strength than the target, the skill will succeed.
If the mental strengths are similar, it will depend on luck.
If the user's mental strength is less than the target's, then... it will naturally fail and the failure will cause a backlash.
Usually, dark wizards have a natural advantage in mental strength.
Not to mention at the same level, even those who are one level higher are unlikely to surpass them in total mental strength, so they rarely experience failure in consciousness plunder.
Just now, Ye Zhongming noticed someone with a distinct aura of darkness approaching and guessed Brother Long’s profession.