Chapter 184: Chapter 184: Summoning the Legendary Tier!
Chapter 184: Chapter 184: Summoning the Legendary Tier!
"Do you have any other choice but to help us in the first place?" Spirit Queen Felona did not agree with Eren's unspoken demand. "If you don't help us, you will also die here. Isn't that correct?"
She only needed his help with breaking the Jar. After that, it was her fight. She didn't believe that he could defeat the Necromancer without their help. He couldn't leave this place without their help either.
He was stuck here with them. If they died, he was going to die as well. And if he died, they were going to die. Both of them needed each other to survive. It wasn't a situation where one had the upper hand.
The Necromancer had lived for a long time. He wasn't just a Necromancer but an Undead Necromancer, with magic strength beyond any ordinary necromancer.
Eren was surprised that even in this situation, Felona could think so calmly.
"He might be strong, but he's not the one to defeat me," he answered. "If it was another Necromancer, it might have been different, but with him... I am more than capable of taking him down myself."
"If you don't like this, then I can simply return to being a spectator. He hates you people the most, so I'm sure he would take his sweet time tormenting you all."
"You are lying. How can you defeat him?" Felona asked in disbelief. Even if Eren had a few unknown treasures, it should have been impossible for him to kill that Lich.
There was quite a lot of difference in their strength, especially since the Lich could switch his body with others to survive any attack. Even her own attack didn't land on him.
"Even if you don't believe me, does that change anything? I might die, and I might not." Eren shrugged in response. "But you will definitely die."
Felona clenched her fist, feeling as if her back was against a wall.
Even if she might survive this attack, how many Spirits were going to be killed? Was she going to be the Spirit Queen under whom her entire race was going to disappear?
Felona looked at the Spirit Warriors who had fallen on the ground. The Spirits who had escaped couldn't go too far either. One after another, they were all going to be killed if she didn't do anything.
"I can't hand over the fate of my entire species in your hands. I... I can't make decisions for them." The Spirit Queen said with clenched teeth.
"In that case, I will-"
Eren slowly started stepping back, but he froze in place when he saw the Spirit Queen fall on her knees instead.
The Queen of Spirits... The strongest Spirit was on her knees in front of a man. To save her people, she was even willing to swallow her pride and go down on her knees in front of a mere human.
For a Spirit, their pride was everything. But the Spirit Queen was sacrificing that pride instead of giving Eren control of the entire realm and the lives of her people.
Under normal conditions, Eren would have listened to her. Even he wasn't so heartless to ignore this. Unfortunately, he also had no choice in the matter.
If he helped her now, there was no chance to complete the system option. Could he really give up on his future just for the sake of a stranger?
His hands were behind his back so the Spirit Queen couldn't see her clenched fists.
He simply kept stepping back, his body soon rising in the air as he prepared to leave.
"Even if you are going so far, I can't do anything about this."
He started rising in the air, going farther and farther from her. The Spirit Queen sat on the ground, her hand on the soil as she watched Eren leave.
She wasn't crying, but her eyes were still filled with helplessness over her weakness. She raised her head, watching the Magic Circle being completed already.
She looked at her daughters and the face of other spirits, who were about to pay for the sin of the first generation spirits.
"Fine! It all belongs to you! We all belong to you! Our life and death, it's all in your hands! Please help my people!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
Eren just needed her to say the words to complete the option. He didn't even know if she was going to stick to her words in the future. The Spirits were said to be unable to lie, but he couldn't trust that.
Still, he only cared about his system and not the authenticity of her words.
However, to her surprise, something strange happened in the next moment.
A blood red screen appeared in front of his eyes, flickering with traces of black.
[You have completed the first option]
[The Words of Spirit Queen have been verified. Consent has been taken, which can't be retrieved]
"Consent can't be retrieved?" Looking at the words, Eren remembered the night when he first entered the shady site of Celestial Novels.
It all started with this one sentence, to which he had given consent, not thinking much. After so long, these words appeared again, but not for him.
Blood red shackles came out from the system screen, that only Eren could see. The shackles flew straight to the Spirit Queen and the other spirits, entering their bodies and entrapping their hearts.
Not just the Spirits on the second island, but the Spirits in every island in the entire realm were tied to these shackles without even realizing.
The Spirit Queen's words were taken as consent for her entire species.
[Congratulations on completing the first subjugation]
[You have been rewarded with one random summon]
[You have been rewarded with a guardian spirit. You can summon her at any moment]
"My legendary tier reward," Eren looked at the system screen, his lips curving up to form a smile.
He was shocked to see the chains come out of his system screen, but the reward completely changed his thoughts.
He had finally received what he wanted the most... His first Legendary Tier Reward.
Although he didn't need anyone's help to stop the Necromancer, because he already knew that person's weakness, but this was just the perfect time to test his new reward.
"Come out..." He raised his left hand, behind which a contracted mark had appeared.