The process of exchanging gold for currency went smoothly.
Regardless of the country, there were private merchants who bought gold.
Although many private merchants Rosen encountered, seeing that he was so young, a foreigner, and dealing in tens of millions of Japanese yen worth of gold, they tried various tricks, including but not limited to, mugging him, deliberately lowering the purchase price, and tampering with the scales.
When he encountered these people, Rosen directly used his Authority to make them submit, and then erased their memories of being controlled afterwards.
After several transactions, Rosen obtained tens of billions of Japanese yen in cash, as well as hundreds of millions of Japanese yen in electronic currency.
After acquiring enough funds for the time being, he planned to return and spend time with his lovely dependents.
However, at this moment.
"Hmm?"
Rosen emerged from a gold shop and looked at the dimly lit street.
The faint 07 sunlight shone on the straight road, and the slanting sun cast Rosen's well-proportioned figure in a straight silhouette.
He had no intention of admiring his "beauty," but rather squinted his eyes and looked towards the other side of the road.
Under the dim daylight, viscous darkness moved with the wind.
A dark figure emerged from the shadows and stepped into the light.
Appearing from the darkness was a specter.
Its limbs were as withered and thin as dead branches, its height roughly that of an average adult. Unlike those masterless specters, the specter's green eyes stared fixedly at the girls a few meters ahead.
Its gaunt legs, seemingly on the verge of snapping at any moment, began to move forward.
Its arms stretched out.
Seemingly slow, the distance of several meters was closed almost instantly.
Following closely behind the girl's steps, its hands were about to touch her.
This scene caused Rosen to narrow his eyes slightly.
Generally speaking, ordinary specters cannot touch human bodies.
Only some specters with deep resentment will actively touch humans, but their purpose is to extract something.
Under normal circumstances, they cannot directly harm humans, but they can absorb human essence, causing backaches, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and gradual decline.
However, even among these types of specters, from Rosen's current perspective, their numbers are not many.
But the specter before him was different.
As if sensing something, the specter, originally intending to harm the girl, suddenly stopped.
Its ghostly green eyes twisted a hundred and eighty degrees in an instant, looking at Rosen, its pupils widening as it scrutinized this human.
Rosen could see obvious changes in expression on its face.
Although subtle, they certainly existed?
"A specter with intelligence?"
Rosen muttered to himself, suddenly intrigued.
And the specter, seeing that Rosen could see it, did not trigger its killing mechanism immediately, but instead fell into brief contemplation.
The contemplation ended.
The specter strode towards Rosen.
Although it didn't know why Rosen could see it, killing all witnesses was an undeniable fact.
Moreover, it had sensed a slight difference from normal humans within Rosen's body.
Having only recently awakened, it didn't yet have a body to control.
Then... it's decided, it's you.
The width of two lanes and a non-motorized vehicle lane was quickly crossed by the specter.
The specter stared viciously at the prey before it.
However, unlike in the past, this prey did not panic and scream like those it had killed before, but instead raised an eyebrow.
"Deliberately concealing their presence to lure the specter to gather for their training, which instead led to me being targeted?"
There was no trace of fear on the prey's face.
Instead, a smile appeared.
A very bright smile.
Just as the specter was about to seize this physical body, the prey before it suddenly 'changed'.
Not a change in physical form, but a shift in temperament.
Looking at him again, the specter was visibly startled.
Its eyes burned like torches, golden shadows flickered around the prey, and a circular halo seemed to be faintly visible behind him.
The specter's ghostly green pupils constricted instantly.
It, which had never experienced emotions other than sadistic pleasure, felt intense fear.
Its lower body transformed into a black shadow, fleeing wildly through the air.
"Trying to escape?"
Rosen didn't even need to chase.
His eyes shot out an invisible ray of essence.
The distance of ten meters was covered in an instant, melting the specter upon impact and completely dissipating it amidst beast-like howls.
The place where the specter collapsed was precisely the path the two girls had been following.
One of them seemed to hear some kind of roar from the void.
While the other clearly saw the scene of a terrifying monster collapsing before her eyes.
"Youxi-sama?"
Seeing her young mistress suddenly stop moving, Jun Dao Ling Nai's face showed a strange expression.
Zhoufang Youxi.