Chapter 273: The Mystery of Undead Generation
Root runes settled below like meteors, while 0-Ring Spell Models floated above the Root Runes like satellites, and several 1-Ring Spell Models orbited the space like planets.
When the composite Spell Model entered Ace ‘s Soul Sanctuary like a blazing star, it instantly occupied the very center of the Soul Sanctuary.
As this 2-Ring Spell Model took its position, Ace ‘s Soul Sanctuary filled with a multi-colored dream mist. Dreams bred, and the entire Soul Sanctuary was rapidly transformed by the dream, eventually turning into a strange semi-dream state.
After the dream transformation, the Soul Sanctuary turned into a chaotic cloud state. Ace ‘s True Spirit descended, his spirit merging with the true spirit , and the giant opened its eyes.
He reached out a giant hand to touch this composite 2-Ring Spell Model, holding it high to evolve earth, fire, wind, and water.
Earth, fire, wind, and water opened up the dream chaos. Clouds and winds traveled in the sky, rainstorms poured down, and a somewhat illusory ocean gradually appeared. The true spirit giant pointed with the spell model in hand; the ocean roared, a volcano bulged, and scorching magma spewed out, gradually cooling to evolve into a piece of land.
The giant pointed the spell model in his hand toward the sky. Light and dark were born from the spell model, evolving into the sun and moon in the sky.
The root runes and spell models that had originally settled in the soul sanctuary floated up to the sky one after another, creating a sky full of stars in an instant.
The true spirit gazed at the star-filled sky, seemingly feeling something was missing. Touching the meditation method within the spell model, he pointed a finger at the sun and another at the moon in the sky.
The sun and moon vibrated, gradually merging into one, turning into a gate of light and darkness in the center of the sky.
The gate of light and darkness rotated several times before spitting out the sun and moon again.
The wings of soul illusion and simulation flew out from the spell model, creating countless tiny, fragile lives right there. Emerald green grass, stretching jungles, flying birds, and running beasts appeared successively. The largest creature among them could hardly reach the toe of the giant.
The giant tossed the composite spell model into the sky, entering the gate of light and darkness. The spell model and the gate of light and darkness vanished into the starry sky together.
‘Reality and illusion intertwined, completely changing the entire soul sanctuary, giving birth to purely fake dream lives from now on.’
Ace paid no heed to the fake lives derived from the dream illusion. Although they and their world seemed real to the dream lives themselves, a single thought from Ace could cause their world to be born or destroyed.
However, this control was not worth rejoicing over. If one day the dream could truly manifest in reality, even if only locally, that would be something truly worth rejoicing over.
“I name this 2-Ring Spell Model, which lays the cornerstone of my future path, the True-Illusion Dream.”
Just as the true spirit giant spoke these words, the residential house where Ace was hiding erupted with multi-colored light, instantly enveloping the entire small town. An intense mana reaction reverberated.
The ordinary people of the town offered no resistance and were instantly pulled into the True-Illusion Dream, transforming into various tiny dream lives within Ace ‘s dream.
By the next day, Ace had already drifted away. The people of the entire town were recounting their strange encounters, which became a strange tale for a time.
Norton City-State reacted quickly, dispatching a Hero to investigate, but by then Ace had already returned to the castle in the Reflection World.
When seeing Experiment Subject No. 1 again, Ace was quite surprised because Experiment Subject No. 1 had almost completely changed its appearance.
It wore a set of sturdy full-body white bone armor, holding a white bone bastard sword and a white bone kite shield; it was almost a white bone heavy infantryman. Not only that, but twenty-three humanoid skeletons holding white bone short swords and white bone round shields were following Experiment Subject No. 1.
“These guys are like a light infantry,” Ace exclaimed.
Ace carefully observed the connection between them and found that the gray fire inside Experiment Subject No. 1’s skull had turned into a white flame. In Ace ‘s perception observation, No. 1’s strength was already approaching that of a mid-level Wizard Apprentice.
The gray fires of the other twenty-three skeleton light infantry had a mysterious connection with Experiment Subject No. 1, similar to a master-servant covenant.
‘Through constantly killing other undead and devouring other flames, it finally achieved self-sublimation. And after the flame level increased, it gained a new ability—it can choose not to kill the undead, but instead absorb part of the other undead’s flame, concluding a relationship similar to a master-servant convenant.
‘Although it looks like a convenant, it isn’t one. It is purely a relationship of skull flames, perhaps related to the characteristics of negative energy . I will call the skull flame “Undead Soul Fire”, and this soul fire relationship a “Master-Servant Undead Relationship”.’
Ace finally had time to observe the undead. He found that the undead had no true spirit at all; the soul fire replaced it. However, the soul fire could be extinguished and the undead could only kill and devour each other to gain the power of the opponent’s soul fire.
The undead around the castle were weak. Moving further south, the strength of the undead would increase significantly, perhaps related to the population density in the real world.
Over a week, Ace captured dozens of undead with strength at the Advanced Wizard Apprentice level in the south for experiments.
Although the undead were just bones, they were still worth researching. After multiple analyses, Ace finally determined that the secret of the undead lay in the soul fire. As for the bones, while important, as long as the soul fire did not extinguish, the undead could stand up again with a skeletal frame.
And the stronger the soul fire, the higher the intelligence of the undead.
Ace maintained a shadow state in the Reflection World, occasionally changing back to his original state. He found that the captured undead actually rioted; their soul fires revealed a strong craving, as if he had some characteristic tempting them.
The next day, Ace captured several common low-level monster in the real world and brought them into the castle.
The undead showed a similar craving and irritability towards the monster. Ace released the restraint on one undead. The undead rushed into the group of monsters, killed several common low-level monsters, and then used its soul fire to absorb their residual souls.
The true spirit of the monster did not seem to stay here; they were pulled away from the Reflection World by some force.
Ace observed the behavior of the undead with interest. He found that the strength of the undead that absorbed residual souls with soul fire was greatly enhanced, comparable to devouring an undead of the same strength. If this undead’s original soul fire was 1 unit, it was now 2 unit.
“Residual souls and soul fire?”
Ace pondered. A few days later, he brought more monster. This time, however, he didn’t let the undead kill the monster but directly exposed them to the harsh environment of the Reflection World for observation.
The monsters gradually died in this toxic environment. Their souls emerged, and their true spirit were pulled away, leaving behind residual souls and corpses.
In the special environment of negative energy, the corpses rotted rapidly, leaving only white bones. The residual souls slowly evolved into a soul fire, entering the skull of their skeletal remains.
The originally dead skeletons stood up.
Flames jumped in the empty eye sockets.
—a new undead were born.
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