Reaper of the Martial World

historical

Book 12: Chapter 100: Secret of Life (3)

“This soul is incredibly simple. So simple in fact that even if the mouse I created earlier had a soul itself, it would be several levels more complex than this.”

“You mean that you can recreate it due to its simplicity.”

Dyon smiled bitterly. “No, even though this is the simplest soul I’ve ever observed in my life, it’s still impossible for me to reconstruct even a fraction of it. I can’t even begin to see how I would start. It’s too tall a mountain to climb.”

“Oh…” Lilith was a bit disappointed. “… Then why were you so excited, were you just messing with me?”

Lilith pouted, looking like a little girl throwing a tantrum. Well, if that little girl was a blood boiling and enticing beauty with flowing white hair.

“You’re burying the lead.” Dyon said with a smile. “This soul is so incredibly simple, yet it can still allow a void beast to count as a life form, a life form that even exists outside the control of the Heavens. What do you think that means?”

Lilith’s eyes widened. She might not have been very interested in such things, but she was still more intelligent than most people. How could she not tell what Dyon meant by now?

“You mean that there’s something special about the body of void beasts that allows them to function with this somewhat generic soul.”

“Bingo.” Dyon said with a smile. “There’s something about their bodies that has lowered the requirements of a soul. How else could such a powerful being have a less complex soul than even a mortal mouse?”

“Bingo?” Lilith blinked in confusion.

“It’s a ga –.” Seeing that Lilith wasn’t going to get it even if he explained, Dyon shook his head and laughed. “Never mind. The important point is that if I can study enough void beasts to find out what these special characteristics are, then it will be much easier to ‘plug and play’ with bodies I create and souls I snatch.

“If I couple these new findings with my Death God Body, then I can create corpse puppets unlike anything anyone has ever seen before, and the burden on my soul will substantially lessen.”

Dyon found the fact that corpse puppets were made of all bone to be too limiting. There were many techniques he could use to compensate for this, most of which he received from Junior’s memories – memories he had no idea he had access to only a portion of – but he found them to be too lacking.

Each of these methods required too much stamina to control. It would limit Dyon to barely a few hundred thousand corpse puppets at best. This might sound like a lot, but for what Dyon wanted to do on the immortal plane, this number was far too lacking.

His soul wasn’t infallible. And this was especially so with him being in states where much of its strength was spent suppressing the imbalanced energies in his body.

But, if he had an army of corpse puppets who had faint soul wisps of their own… Then the burden would no longer fall on his shoulders any longer. If Dyon could accomplish this… The immortal plane would surely be in for quite the tailspin.

However, this was still a big if. Dyon’s talent in his master’s path of alchemy was nothing compared to his talent in traditional array alchemy. It wouldn’t come as easily to him as array alchemy did.

That said, Dyon had a solid foundation and an endless number of void beasts to study. And, he also had one last thing he hadn’t quite realized yet.

The blood sprite would be a great help in accomplishing this goal. However… That also meant that those responsible for creating it just might be one step ahead of Dyon already. In fact, just a single step might not do the truth justice.

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It was several years before the legions of this star segment began to realize that something was off. Numerous reports of floating void beast corpses of the 1^st and 2^nd Tiers were becoming more and more frequent, however no one had come forward to claim merits for them. And, what was maybe even more shocking was the fact that many of these void beasts were taken down with just a single strike!

This culmination of events shocking made this void surge one of the calmest in history. Of course, there were several tragic tales of bubble worlds collapsing, but it was impossible to survive a void surge without these occurrences.

In addition, in such a weak star segment, the appearance of Tier 3 void beasts was already rare enough. For so many lower tier void beasts to inexplicably die, it was like delivering a saving grace to trillions.

At that moment, a clone of Dyon’s, carrying wings of white flames on his back, descended onto Segment 232 once more. Much like on the mortal plane, as long as his white flames were present, the distance limitation of his clones was nullified completely.

He had run out of resources so he felt it was about time that he gathered some more. But this time, he came alone and didn’t hesitate to shroud the entire bubble world in his immortal sense, locking onto the exact scene he wanted to see.

“He’s back. That bastard’s finally back.” A vicious glint rippled through the Earl’s gaze.