Besides, setting aside personal preferences that he seem to gain from his gaming perspective, Surya also had reasons for choosing the Panchmukhi Art.
The Ganga Jal is a special item that enhances purification abilities. It's very strong against supernatural entities, but useless if you do not encounter unclean spirits.
Hanuman's shoe is more versatile indeed though. It adds movement speed, making it useful in various situations to run a must for escapingdifficultpredicaments, but its benefits also seem limited.
But the Panchmukhi Art is different.
Although it's a low-powered fragment version, the text clearly implies that this method has the possibility of completion.
In other words, this thing has growth potential and an extremely high upper limit!
If he could learn the complete version of the Panchmukhi Vidya in the future, wouldn't it be thousands of times better than some sacred water or divine shoe?
Then what is there to think about it he just gambled on it thinking of his reading webnovels and playing games and it's over!
[Obtain the incomplete Art of Panchmukhi Art and learn the incomplete Panchmukhi Lightning Art]
After selecting the Panchmukhi Art, a text message popped up on the phone screen once again in dark red but this time with a sacred light from background.
Then, a tattered ancient palm leaf manuscript appeared out of thin air in Surya's hand.
At the same time, there was a strange wonderful feeling surging in his mind, restless and turbulent, and it took a few minutes him to calm down then.
Surya wanted to try to mobilize that strange power hidden within his body.
As this thought came to his mind, his hands naturally formed a hand seal on its own.
A name suddenly appeared in his mind, the hand seal was named Vajra Seal, a type of lightning seal that Surya naturally didn't know how to form before, nor was he familiar with such methods before but now he can wield it like his own arm.
These mystical knowledge seem to inexplicably appeared in his mind after the game prompted him to master the incomplete version of the Panchmukhi Art just like magic.
Crackling——
With the Vajra Seal fully formed in his hand small electric arcs began to be flickered continuously around Surya's fingers.
The effect was comparable to the static electricity generated on a dry winter night when taking off a sweater.
After performing a set of lightning technique for around ten minutes or so, he put his hand on his forehead because he was already feeling a little dizzy from the toll on his body:
"So, the incomplete version of the Panchmukhi Art is just glorified static electricity, right?"
However, his original choice of the fragments of Panchmukhi Art was to bet on its growth potential.
The early stage weakness was not unacceptable to him.
"Speaking of which... after choosing a companion starter item, the game has started now, right?
There should be a tutorial next, right? At least to give me an understanding of the game's mechanics."
A slightly cold evening wind blew over for no reason, and the gulmohar petals fell down in a flurry like crimson rain.
At the same time, there were some sounds mixed in the wind.
"Wuwuwuwu—"
It sounds like that someone crying, after listening for a while he found that it is like a child sobbing in the dark.
"Oh, the game is quite good I think It might be the NPC who's guiding beginners, right?"
Surya thought so and followed the crying sound toward the dim gulmohar grove.
After walking about ten meters from his earlier position, he saw a figure sitting there.
To him it seem to looked like a student.
The area around was covered with gulmohar branches, so he couldn't see clearly.
But he could see a white shirt, navy blue skirt, black shoes, and fair, clean arms.
Standard school uniform of a female student.
"Hello?" Surya called out.
"Giggle, giggle—"
At this moment, the student in the woods suddenly stopped crying and instead let out a sweet laugh like tinkling bells, while quickly rushing toward Surya.
The sudden change caught him completely off guard.
What he saw next made Surya's heart nearly stop.
Because when the student emerged from behind the gulmohar tree, her form fully revealed to him, she wore a neatly tied navy blue tie around her collar, perfectly arranged.
But above the collar... the story is entirely different where the head should be, there was nothing.
Yes, Nothing at all!
At once Surya understood that this thing wasn't an NPC at all, but a monster!
Faced with this supernatural entity, Surya's reaction was commendable to say the least.
He was neither paralyzed by fear nor frozen in shock unlike some people that may not know what to do, but instead he immediately turned around and tried to escape as fast as he can.
But the headless student girl was obviously faster...much faster.
He didn't run far before Surya was knocked to the ground.
The headless student sat on his back, her touch unnaturally cold.
In desperation, Surya hurriedly formed the Vajra hand seal.
The dark blue electric arc exploded instantly!
The headless student on his back was slightly shocked by the sudden electric arc, but did not relax her grip on Surya even a bit, even she knew that if she left him what she will eat today.
After the lightning technique was released, the situation remained exactly the same, without any change.
It's over, I'm going to die!
"Giggle, giggle—"
The headless student laughed cheerfully and used her fair slender hands to tightly strangle Surya's neck.
Due to lack of oxygen and suffocation, his lungs felt like they were about to explode, pain surged through his throat in an instant.
Surya had no way to get this monster off his back or break free from her grasp now. He could only let his consciousness slowly blur...
The phone in his hand fell to the ground at the last moment.
On the originally dark screen, huge red words appeared slowly in that red bloodied word.
[DEAD]