Reincarnated in the Alternate World, I'm A Demonic Lord as Well as a Villager

Chapter 521: Chapter 274: Can Continue Being a Video Tape Ghost, But the Condition Is..._2

"You’re now a spirit, A-Piao, what will happen to the Ghost Tribe if you keep running around?"

"Don’t worry, Shami-sama. I’m going out this time to find my ghost friends. I know a powerful spider ghost, he might join the demon race too. Speaking of the Demon Realm, aside from me, there will definitely be a ghost residing there permanently."

A-Piao understood the meaning behind Shami’s words and explained leisurely.

"Actually, there’s another ghost here besides me."

A-Piao’s voice caused Shami and the two maidens to look around.

"Miss Lina, please take out that black pen."

"Huh?!"

The white-haired girl exclaimed in surprise, quickly took out a black pen from her ring, placed it in her palm, and looked incredulously at A-Piao.

"Come out, Wenli."

There was no sound.

A-Piao Stacy grabbed the pen directly and shook it vigorously.

At that moment, the black pen started to fluctuate, and a small-framed A-Piao appeared with her arms out in front, shrinking her shoulders, looking very timid with twin ponytails.

"Mi-miss Stacy, I’m getting dizzy..."

"Sorry, Wenli is quite timid. She might have sensed danger outside, so she’s been hiding and unwilling to come out."

"So this pen has an A-Piao too! Why couldn’t we summon it out with a curse earlier?"

The elf maiden frowned and looked at the twin ponytail A-Piao.

"Be-because I can’t answer... Answering wrongly and getting caught is quite embarrassing, right..."

The twin ponytail A-Piao lowered her head.

"Do spirits these days have such principles? Even when I don’t know anything during exams, I’ll still write some blessings for the teachers on the answer sheet."

The golden-haired maiden scratched her head.

"How do you usually scare people, Wenli? Even though you’re a ghost, you seem so weak like you could be pushed over at any moment."

The white-haired girl tilted her head curiously.

"No-no, I don’t usually scare people..."

The twin ponytail A-Piao answered softly, head lowered.

"A harmless ghost has no reason to exist!"

The elf maiden quipped.

The next moment, the twin ponytail A-Piao started crying, and the white-haired girl quickly consoled her.

"I met Wenli by chance. She hadn’t scared anyone for almost half a year and was about to lose her spiritual energy. I gave her some energy to help her survive."

A-Piao Stacy explained.

The so-called spiritual energy is a unique energy that the Ghost Tribe uses to sustain their existence.

For a ghost to survive, it must have spiritual energy. The more spiritual energy, the longer a ghost can survive. When spiritual energy disappears, so does the ghost.

The main method for a ghost to gain spiritual energy is by scaring people.

By scaring people, it creates fear. The greater the fear, the more fear-based energy is produced, which is the raw material needed for a ghost’s spiritual energy.

Shami hesitated as he looked at the twin ponytail A-Piao in front of him.

"Are you an adult, Wenli?"

"N-no... But if you count the time after I died, then I’m an adult..."

The twin ponytail A-Piao answered softly, quickly averting her gaze after looking at Shami.

The golden-haired and white-haired girls immediately sensed what was happening, furrowing their brows in alert.

An inexperienced young girl hiding her excitement badly after catching a glimpse of a handsome boy!

Unfortunately, Shami, having experienced so many adult plays, didn’t fancy little girl ghosts anymore.

The golden-haired and white-haired girls both chuckled lightly.

"Even if you’re child labor, I’ll take you in. I’ll slowly nurture you from young to big."

Shami sighed, finally deciding to turn the twin ponytail A-Piao into a demon ghost.

Despite the time constraints, she seemed like a clueless little ghost. With focused training, she might be cultivated into a special forces ghost.

"What do you mean train from young? That kind of talk can only apply to me!"

The elf maiden pointed her finger at herself.

"Lureya is really sensitive to this kind of thing, isn’t she?"

The white-haired girl’s small hand whispered by her mouth.

"I heard that, Lina!"

"P-please take care of me, Brother Shami..."

Ghost Wenli retracted her shoulders timidly.

Shami turned to look at A-Piao Stacy.

Since there’s a ghost in the Demon Realm, Stacy could continue to search for other ghosts outside the Demon Realm, expanding the Ghost Tribe.

But if she left just like that, it seemed like she would be underutilized.

This is a Video Tape A-Piao, the kind that game designers plagiarized—no, borrowed—in the games.

She could continue to be a Video Tape Ghost, but the condition is...

"Since you’ve chosen to continue using the inhabited video tape, while scaring people and finding ghost friends outside the Demon Realm, I’ll modify your tape a bit, add some extra content on it. It might help in times of danger."

"Really? Thank you so much, Shami-sama!"

Shami used magic power to sense the video tape, quickly modified the magic within the tape’s magic stone, adding some extra content.

Testing phase.

Several people began playing the film using a player.

Everything was normal.

The player initially didn’t show any footage, only static. Soon, the image changed to a wilderness scene, and the dried well Stacy crawled out from appeared on the screen.

At this moment, the image cut to lines of narration.

"This film is produced by the Demon Film Company."

"The Demon Film Company, dedicated to making good films, is a conscientious demon enterprise."

"Please do not harm the actors in the film, or you’ll be hunted down by demons."

"Creatures interested in the film industry are welcome to join the Demon Film Company."

The narration text vanished, and the screen returned to the wilderness and the dried well where A-Piao Stacy slowly floated out.

"What kind of protection is this?! It’s totally to satisfy your own selfishness! Don’t insert a recruitment ad at the most crucial moment, Shami! The horror atmosphere is instantly gone!"

The elf maiden clamped her arms around Shami’s neck from behind, gritting her teeth in displeasure.

"This is the first I’ve heard of this company. Even if it’s just a pie, it’s been drawn too early. The company only has a name for now."

The white-haired girl sat cross-legged, offering advice.

"I suggest placing it at the end of the film. If there’s a creature Stacy couldn’t scare to death, their mental endurance might handle the life collapse after knowing the truth."

"Awesome, these lines couldn’t have appeared at a better time! With this disclaimer, life is assured when scaring people!"

Stacy clapped joyfully toward Shami.

"To stay in the demon race, A-Piao didn’t spare any lies, but all Shami did was destroy your meticulously crafted horror tape! And why is Lina already speaking for Shami!"

Shami, despite being strangled painfully, still shouted.

"Lureya, don’t randomly negate a company’s chairman’s creativity! I can agree to put this recruitment ad at the end, but I absolutely refuse to delete it!"

"Ah, you’ve already admitted it’s a recruitment ad? Do whatever you want; I won’t bear the debt with you when it goes bankrupt!"

Although the test phase had some twists, it ended felicitously.

"Today’s demon gains: Demon Ghost ×2 (Pen Ghost Wenli, Video Tape Ghost Stacy)" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"The ordinary creature of the Ghost Tribe has resoundingly resurrected!"

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Esper Kingdom.

Royal Capital.

The King of Esper Kingdom, Delarosa, dressed in a luxurious gown, stood silently at the floor-to-ceiling window at the highest point of the castle, overlooking his Royal Capital.

Behind him, a man with green hair, in damaged armor, knelt down on one knee, his face full of dust.

"What you’re saying is, the special forces of a thousand that I gave you, all have been dispersed?"

"What you’re saying is, you hadn’t even reached Ueldo City, but were ambushed by demons when passing the cemetery Tomb of the Fallen Moon?"

"What you’re saying is, the thousand special forces you led, were defeated by the Skeleton Race and goblins?"

Delarosa slowly turned around, looking menacingly at General of Defense Mason, who was kneeling.

"General Mason, I consider you a General of Defense, why do you treat me like an idiot?"