Chapter 417: Holy Sword of Virtue
Ace couldn’t help but squint his eyes. The holy light was too dazzling, turning his vision within the Eye of Truth into a vast expanse of white. It was so pure and holy, carrying humanity’s most beautiful hopes.
The holy light gradually softened from its blinding brilliance and finally disappeared, leaving only the skeleton burning with raging holy flames walking slowly towards him.
Strange to say, although it was a raging holy flame, it could not harm the beating heart. The moment the holy flame touched the heart, an even stronger flame erupted instead.
The skeleton held high the ordinary knight’s longsword in his hand. The holy flames burned on the longsword, actually gradually sanctifying it.
In Ace’s vision, as the flames burned, the material of that ordinary longsword gradually changed, transforming from ordinary material into material of Level 2 Wonder quality.
‘Humility, Honesty, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Sacrifice, Honor, Loyalty’
Three-dimensional runes of the eight virtues poured into the longsword. Eight different lights of virtue flickered alternately on the longsword, gradually merging into one. The light of virtue erupted from the longsword, then dimmed, seeming to turn into an ordinary longsword again.
But that longsword was not ordinary at all in Ace’s eyes. The faint supernatural patterns on the longsword indicated that its material was completely different. The runes of the eight virtues inscribed on the blade were leaping ceaselessly, gradually tending towards unity.
The layered runes in Ace’s eyes rotated to the extreme, constantly analyzing the mysterious virtue runes. Inside his mental imagery dream world, eight kinds of mimicry mental power were gradually born and began to imitate the eight virtue runes in the longsword, constructing mimicry virtue runes.
The Skeleton Knight raised the longsword slowly. The eight virtues merged into a complex three-dimensional virtue rune, which was actually gradually dyed with a layer of gold.
Ace’s eyes widened, and he said somewhat incredulously, “Eight different Level 2 virtue runes forming a brand-new composite virtue rune is actually the golden rune of the Path of Virtue. This ordinary longsword has turned into a Golden Wonder just like that?”
Inside the mental imagery dream world, the eight mimicry virtue runes tried to converge like Ancestar’s longsword but ultimately failed, seeming to lack some key fusing agent.
Ace observed carefully and finally whispered, “No matter how I mimic, I don’t have the spirit of a knight, nor do I have the creed of virtue. Of course, I can’t fuse the eight virtue runes. However, there might be a way. Perhaps through suggestion…”
Ace stopped talking. Ancestar’s state seemed to have reached a critical moment. He stood up completely, seemingly shouting something loudly. In the extremely distant south, a horse neigh seemed to resound through the sky.
The holy flames all over the Skeleton Knight Ancestar burned fiercely, seemingly reaching an agreement with something. That was the fluctuation of the soul, the continuation of faith.
In the deep pit of Mount Baal, a skeletal horse crawled out. It raised its skeletal wings, holy light slowly emerged on its body, and holy flames also began to burn fiercely.
In an extremely short time, holy flame soul fire was born in its skeleton. The skeletal pegasus flapped its burning wings, soaring into the sky. After circling a few times, it flew towards the north.
Ace perceived with some disbelief. The skeletal pegasus approaching rapidly like a meteor had already broken the sound barrier. At such speed, unless Ace used the Golden Spell Blink Teleportation, he simply couldn’t match it.
The holy flames on Ancestar gradually extinguished. His skeleton became crystal clear and golden. Clearly an ominous corpse, yet it was so holy, so warm.
Arno and the others downstairs couldn’t sit still anymore. They ran up to the door on the second floor with heavy steps, only to find it sealed by a barrier. Unless they forced their way in, they couldn’t enter.
Standing on a silver mechanical disc, Betty stamped her foot lightly and said, “Wait a little longer. Such light, such a warm feeling, it is definitely the Holy Light of Virtue. Ancestar’s transformation ritual has very likely succeeded.”
Bayen frowned slightly and questioned, “As far as I know, whether it is Lich transformation or Skeleton Knight transformation, they are all based on negative energy, forming a strange phenomenon of undeath. Negative energy has various negative effects such as gloom, death, curse, and madness. It is too strange for the Holy Light of Virtue to appear.”
Paulina said calmly, “The appearance of this situation shows that our understanding of negative energy and the Holy Light of Virtue is not enough. We must conduct more research to possibly find the reason for this paradoxical phenomenon.”
While everyone was discussing, Ancestar’s state gradually stabilized. Ace cast the Golden Stoneskin spell on himself with caution and said to Ancestar, “How do you feel now? Is your thinking confused or changed by madness? Do you hear inexplicable whispers?”
Ancestar faced Ace with his two eye sockets burning with holy flames. His mouth opened and closed with creaking sounds, but there was no sound.
Ace slapped his forehead and said apologetically to Ancestar, “You can’t vocalize directly right now. I’ll teach you to control sound runes. You can use spell-like effects to make sounds.”
After speaking, Ace extended his slender right hand. A dreamlike bubble of knowledge was born at his fingertip. Ancestar tilted his head and gently extended his left hand. His finger bone touched Ace’s slender index finger.
That dreamlike bubble climbed up along the finger bone and soon entered the holy flame soul fire inside Ancestar’s skull, swallowed by the soul fire.
Ancestar adjusted his state. Runes related to sound appeared on his jawbone and teeth. A very dry voice was heard.
“My current mental state should be relatively stable. I don’t hear whispers, nor do I feel madness. The creed of Compassion is right in this beating heart; it guards my spirit.”
Ancestar’s voice gradually changed from dry to normal, just slightly hoarse. He continued, “The reason I can exist is because of undeath, but this does not conflict with the Holy Light of Virtue. As long as the heart yearns for light, even in the abyss, it is light.”
Ace couldn’t understand this state at all. In his view, Ancestar, composed of negative energy but filled with the Holy Light of Virtue, was simply an incredible monster.
“There are always some things in this world that cannot be observed intuitively, but this is also the charm of the world. Perhaps one day, we can understand the reason for your condition. Perhaps we can let the holy light spread more brilliance.”
Ace’s eyes flickered. Inside the mental imagery dream world, the mimicry of eight virtues formed a ring, slowly hanging high in the sky.
Although it couldn’t form a complete Holy Light of Virtue, creating a mimicry halo similar to the Holy Light of Virtue was possible. Holy light had strong lethality against creatures of the Abyss, Hell, and the Reflection World. Having one more such spell brought only benefits and no harm.
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