Badge in Azure

Chapter 761: A Skeleton’s Loyalty (Part 1)

Chapter 761: A Skeleton’s Loyalty (Part 1)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

This grade-9 sorcerer of Cloudflow was stronger than expected. A grade-9 singular attack combined with a restorative spell could probably deal the most complicated damage among spells below grade-9. Light explosion of darkness was especially lethal towards death mages.

Most sorcerers were able to interchange between elements even if they did not possess similar skill sets to Saleen. To be able to change dark elements into light elements required incredible skill, powerful mental strength, and an impressive control of elements.

Death mages were very sensitive towards elements, even without magic chords. Dark elements, in particular, were what death creatures were most fond of. When the dark elements congregated together, they had already developed an affinity of elements with the death creatures. This was also why the subsequent light explosion was especially deadly.

It was like a piece of metal that had hardened after being put through a very low temperature, it would explode from within if it was suddenly exposed to a very high temperature.

The areas of the mechanical soul’s body that had been hit by the light explosion of darkness were all falling to pieces. A thickness of at least an inch of metal and bones were rotten and the mechanical soul screamed in pain. He was cursing at the winged skeleton while shouting, “Damned human! Even so, now they have already...”

Suddenly, there was a sound made by elements in the cave. Two crystallizations of dark elements formed and collapsed from within.

“Soldier! Give me more spirits!” the mechanical soul changed his tone immediately. The human was attacking non-stop. There was a limit to his immortality. If light explosion of darkness persisted, he would be killed sooner or later. Without the ability to resist, the human would be able to seal him up and torture him or turn him into some sort of equipment.

The winged skeleton hid himself within the mechanical soul’s body. The first wave of light explosion of darkness did not hit him but as a grade-8 spirit of the dead, he could sense the power of the attack. At that point in time, he would agree to any of the mechanical soul’s requests. It was not possible to summon spirits then, so he could only feed the mechanical soul with those that he had carried along with him.

It was a painful decision to make as the spirits that he had brought along with him were quite powerful. Fortunately, all the spirits that possessed intelligence were at bone castle. If he was forced to feed the mechanical soul with those spirits, the winged skeleton would vomit blood even if he was just a pile of bones.

The four dark elements were completely congregated together and they collapsed from within. The third wave of attack had begun. There was nowhere for mechanical soul to escape to in the space. Defense spells were not his strength as he usually did not have to care too much about normal attacks. Light explosion of darkness had decomposed away the ancient metal mechanic parts on his body, leaving holes everywhere.

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While hiding in the mechanical soul’s body, the winged skeleton kept trying to use death spells to fill up the holes while feeding the mechanical soul with his spirits at the same time.

The mechanical soul was repairing himself and trying to open up a hole in the rocks to escape simultaneously. Now, he was afraid even without the winged skeleton threatening him. The human’s attacks would only grow stronger each time.

As a creature with intelligence, the mechanical soul was aware of the things that were fearful about humans and that was the desire for knowledge. If he was caught, the human sorcerer would definitely dismantle him into the most basic elemental unit due to the desire for knowledge. Not even his soul would be left alone.

Thousands of soul flames had been devoured by the golden flames of the mechanical soul along with the blood and flesh of the spirits of the dead. If not for the consecutive waves of light explosion of darkness, the mechanical soul could already have turned into a massive creature of at least twenty yards in height and one-hundred yards in width.

Pain!

The mechanical soul no longer had the strength to scold the winged skeleton. The dark elements silently shrunk, then expanded, then transformed into light elements. Even his golden-colored soul flame felt pain.

The mechanical soul never knew pain since he was born, but at that moment, he was in so much pain that he wanted to roll on the ground. His six mechanical legs sunk deeply into the rock. The metal drill was still desperately trying to open up a hole. The only problem was that he was having to use up too much energy for it. Ever since the light explosion appeared, at least half of the drill had been decomposed.

“Soldier, you must kill that fellow and turn him into a spirit of the dead for me to consume!” Another ten gigantic drills appeared out of mechanical soul’s chest and drilled at the stone wall. The spirit strength that the winged skeleton had given him was being used up rapidly.

“Shut up!” the winged skeleton raged. If he was able to kill the grade-9 mage, he would never have to unleash the mechanical soul in the first place. Once this thing grew, it would be difficult to control. If he was unable to restrict the mechanical soul himself, not even the tens of thousands of people in the bone castle would be able to do it.

The mechanical soul pushed its six legs deep into the ground as half of his head was already in the midst of the rock. Even so, the posterior half of his brain was still decomposed by the light explosion. Sixteen crystallizations of dark elements shrunk and expanded and released the power of light elements simultaneously. Half of the mechanical soul had already vanished as a result.

The winged skeleton quickly unleashed a giant metal shield. By human definitions, this metal shield could not be defined as a weapon. After being thrown out, it stood erect on the ground and was more than a yard in thickness and more than five yards tall. This was a metal steel rock that he had been studying. After turning it into a shield, he had wanted to use it to summon a grade-8 spirit of the dead as a form of weaponry.

Now, the fifth wave of light explosion of darkness immediately turned this shield into dust.

Outside of the rock that was dozens of yards thick, the control that the grade-9 sorcerer reigned over his powers remained the same. Almost all the attacks were aimed at the mechanical soul and only a few missed. As a result, the attacks expanded the space in the rock cave by more than two times.

As the winged skeleton was throwing the shield, his left hand was hit by the light explosion and it disappeared just like that. His bones were harder than ordinary grade-9 spirits of the dead and should be difficult to destroy. Being able to amplify the magnitude of the attacks by five times had allowed the grade-9 spell to nullify the difference in grades.

Thirty-two crystallizations of dark elements appeared in the cave and began to collapse inwards.

The winged skeleton screamed and took out the precious soul flame that he had obtained from Judikaka’s brain. He swallowed it without hesitation. The spirit king’s soul flame went straight to his brain, enveloping the winged skeleton’s silver soul flame and was about to devour it.

Thirty-two light explosions of darkness occurred at the same time. The mechanical soul was also screaming as he shrunk the golden soul flame into a small dot. Spirit runes that were more than a yard long appeared on the outside and were spinning violently.

Although it was a bit rushed, the final wave of light explosion of darkness still turned everything in the space into dust. Only two things remained; the mechanical soul’s head and a cluster of soul flame that was silvery red in color.

The winged skeleton could feel the light elements infiltrating his soul flame. Judikaka’s soul flame was being cleansed by a powerful force before integrating with the winged skeleton’s soul flame. In that instant, countless memories were taken away and erased by the light explosion of darkness. A square-shaped symbol flew up from within Judikaka’s soul flame and shone in the air.

This symbol let out a low sigh, as if it had just realized that Judikaka had been completely destroyed.

Outside of the rock, the six grade-9 magic nuclei broke into pieces in the magic array underneath the grade-9 sorcerer. They were then carried away by the water current before turning into dust.

The sorcerer was stunned for a moment, but regained his composure quickly. The final wave of attack consisted of sixty-four crystallizations of light explosion of dark elements. The benefit of the final attack was not meant to be high. It would be difficult to complete by using only six grade-9 magic nuclei.

Even so, the grade-9 sorcerer did not think that the death mage trapped in the rock would be able to survive.

The attack was like a perfect magic experiment. Hopefully, Agares would compensate him the six grade-9 magic nuclei that he has used up. At that thought, the sorcerer moved his fingers up and brought down hundreds of streams of water. They cut off everything in the magic array and instantly destroyed the grade-9 magic array.

This was a skill unique only to him and he intended to keep it that way.

After that, the sorcerer split open the lake and flew straight up to the surface. Water pressure of a depth of close to two-hundred yards was nothing to him.

The grade-8 sorcerer was waiting on the surface. When he saw the sorcerer appear, he asked, “Grand Master, how is it?”

“They should be dead. Bring people down and open up the rock to see what is left. Bring back anything that has yet to be destroyed.” With that, the grade-9 sorcerer flew back to the harbor.

He did not believe that anything would be able to survive his attack in such a small space. Leaving behind the grade-8 sorcerer should be more than enough.

Inside the rock cave, the sixty-four crystallizations of dark elements did not collapse within. Instead, they dove straight into the winged skeleton’s soul flame. Judikaka’s soul flame was penetrated by the crystallizations of dark elements. The square-shaped symbol pounced forward, wanting to merge with the winged skeleton’s soul flame.

The winged skeleton knew that things were not looking good. He was using whatever remaining strength he had to move those sixty-four crystallizations of dark elements. They were held in position by the symbol before exploding suddenly. The symbol was an object without intelligence, a rule pattern left behind by Shanglan.

As the sixty-four crystallizations collapsed violently, the symbol changed direction and enclosed them completely.

The winged skeleton could sense a terrifying force within the symbol. It was now in a spherical shape and was expanding and contracting again and again. It was as if Judikaka’s memories, which should have been completely erased, had now reappeared in the winged skeleton’s soul flame.

Such powerful inheriting ability! The winged skeleton had no idea where this symbol came from, nor who exactly Shanglan was. He only knew that this name belonged to the person that left this symbol behind. If this symbol entered the soul flame, he would lose his freedom forever and could even implicate Saleen.

He would not let that happen!

Instantly, the winged skeleton understood a little about the ability to interchange between the expansion and contraction of elements. He used his mental strength to control the remnants of elements within the space, including his own soul flame, and injected them into his own core. That was the source of his spirit strength.

“No!” the mechanical soul was pretending to be dead all that while. When he saw the winged skeleton doing everything he could to burn up everything, he knew that he would definitely be implicated. He had no idea why the winged skeleton was doing what he did. Perhaps the winged skeleton had gone crazy and just wanted to finish him off once and for all. The mechanical soul was truly afraid now. Why? Why was that skeleton giving up the chance of living on eternally? Could he be trying to protect the safety of the death dimension? What had that got to do with a skeleton?!