Chapter 274: Undead Covenant

Ace experimented with other organisms and finally confirmed that whether it was ordinary humans, Divine Descendant Heroes, or the residual souls of monster, they would all gradually evolve into soul fire and become new undeqd in a negative energy environment.

“The so-called undead—undying creatures, actually do not possess the essence of life. They are immortal but cannot be self-sufficient. They must absorb the soul fire of other undead, or kill the living and absorb their residual souls to continue existing.

“Residual souls can be transformed into soul fire, and soul fire entering a skeleton can become a complete undead. From this, I can boldly speculate that undead can be manufactured!

“As long as the environment where the recently deceased are transformed into undead is simulated, undead transformation can be realized in the Material Plane.”

Ace recorded the phased conclusions of his experiment in his grimore and set about preparing for the undead transformation experiment.

This was not difficult. The key lay in creating a negative energy environment, and the relevant runes were ready-made in the Soul Sanctuary.

Inside the soul sanctuary, Ace controlled the foundational 2-Ring Spell model “True-Illusion Dream” and derived its important component— “Element.”

He arranged and combined the runes related to negative energy within it, creating a new 2-Ring Spell—”Negative Energy Zone Spell.”

It created a negative energy environment covering a radius of five hundred meters, possessing multiple effects such as death, toxins, and negative energy states. This spell could inflict multiple negative effects on creatures within the range, such as poisoning, negative energy transformation, and life drain.

Once a life was killed in this environment, it would be directly transformed into an undead. Generally, a level 1 life would be difficult to kill in this environment, but a dead level 1 life could be transformed into an undead here.

“This spell can only create undeqd, but it cannot control them. As a combat spell, it is a semi-finished product.”

In the Salia Jungle, Ace watched as undead climbed up one by one.

They walked unconsciously, relying on instinct to fight and devour each other’s soul fire.

Ever since meditating at the dawn, Ace had discovered that kind of warm and bright power, within it hid a terrifying power— purification.

The sun in Ace’s soul sanctuary shone, and warm, dazzling light burst from his eyes, instantly annihilating all the Undead present. A derivative spell of the True-Illusion Dream, the 2-Ring Spell—Solar Flare.

At this moment, Ace felt the powerful inclusivity and variability of the True-Illusion Dream. As long as a rune structure was fused into this spell, it was no longer a simple rune structure, but a spell model capable of multiple derivations and mutations.

Of course, unfused spells could not be created from nothing. A 2-ring spell model must be linked to the dream core via a fusion rune, though 1-ring and 0-ring spell models could pass through.

“The greatest advantage of the True-Illusion Dream is its inclusivity. In this dream world (the Mental Imagery World Embryo ) that almost completely covers the Soul Sanctuary , as long as a new spell model is linked to the dream core, new abilities and changes can be added to the True-Illusion Dream.

“Perhaps one day, this dream can truly be partially projected into reality, or even overwrite part of reality!”

As Ace sighed with emotion, he tugged at the cowlick on top of his head.

He needed an undead transformation spell with good practical combat effects, so he had to establish a Master-Servant Covenant or a Mutual Benefit Covenant with the undead. The Master-Servant Covenant was used to drive subordinates, while the Mutual Benefit Covenant included two parts— non-aggression and sacrifice.

The Master-Servant Covenant did not require giving the contracted creature any sacrifice and drove them to act for free; the Mutual Benefit Covenant required establishing a non-aggression pact and giving a certain sacrifice. The Mutual Benefit Covenant could drive more powerful creatures, including undead, of course.

The corresponding runes for the 1-Ring Spell Model of the Master-Servant Covenant and Mutual Benefit Covenant were ready-made. Ace quickly deduced the corresponding spell model using the True-Illusion Dream.

However, the contract-related runes at the 2-Ring Spell level could not be achieved overnight. Although the Spirit of the Book had recorded traces of the great source, possessing contract-type runes far exceeding the Level 1 runes level, such runes needed to be further degraded into level 1 runes before Ace could use them.

It took about three months for Ace to degrade the relevant runes and construct a 2-Ring Spell Model—”Contract Spell.”

This spell could establish a Master-Servant Covenant with existences no stronger than himself, and a Mutual Benefit Covenant with existences not exceeding Level 2 Life. The Mutual Benefit Covenant required the other party to accept the sacrifice.

Ace replicated the multi-layered “Contract Spell” into the already dreamified soul sanctuary. As soon as the spell entered the dream world, it was like a blazing star, emitting light and heat, seemingly organizing everything in the dream world.

The true spirit descended into the dream world, triggering the hidden gate of light and darkness in the sky, and pulling out the True-Illusion Dream Spell Model.

The true spirit linked the spell model of the contract spell with the True-Illusion Dream Spell Model. The moment the link and fusion were successful, the entire dream world changed instantly.

It seemed that some invisible restriction and constraint had entered this time. The entire world tended towards orderly operation. Ace watched the changes of the four seasons, realizing the entire dream world, and slowly exited the Soul Sanctuary and opening his eyes.

“So the so-called covenant is order in the dream world. The contract spell in the real world is the law of order in the dream world.

“Extending this logic, light and dark transform into sun and moon here. Various 1-Ring and 0-Ring Spell models, and even runes, transform into the multitude of stars. Earth, fire, wind, and water element spell evolve into the world here. It is precisely the spell models reverse-transforming into false domains, rules, and even laws in the dream world..

“Although false, one day falsehood can be refined into truth. These false domains, rules, and even laws may not necessarily fail to become real.”

It was clearly just an experiment on the undead transformation spell and undead Contract Spell, yet Ace realized the profundity of the dream world constructed by the True-Illusion Dream within the Soul Sanctuary. This path had a glorious future!

Research on the undead continued. This state of existence could be said to be undying. Although there were major drawbacks, it was still undying—perhaps a shortcut to eternity.

“The reason why an undead is not the same existence as the living being before death is due to the disappearance of the true spirit. Then can I assume that if I find every way to preserve the true spirit, would this undead be equivalent to who they were in life?

“Having the same true spirit, the same external soul (transformed into soul fire), and the same body (transformed into a skeleton)—is this form still a person?

“If so, is this an alternative form of immortality?

“If we have immortality, does it mean we have infinite time to pursue truth?”

Ace recorded his questions one after another in his grimore. This might be a shortcut, or it might be a wrong path.

But no one could know without trying it.

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