Chapter 224: Synthetic reinforcent (2)
Yong-ho, who put down the item description catalog of the Dungeon Market, saw the black dirge on the decoration table. With the black evil energy blowing out like smoke, it looked like a magic sword. He felt like he would be cursed just by putting his hand on it.
He picked up the second description catalog.
[- Defective product -]
[Category: Undead]
[Detailed Category: Lich]
[It is a Lich created by using the grand wizard from an alien world as the material at the Dungeon Market.]
[In general, it is common to use ‘alive’ for the production of a Lich. Even those who have beco Lich themselves prepare rituals in their lifeti.]
[There was a low chance of success because the grand wizard from the alien world was already dead when he was found. ]
[Thanks to the accumulated know-how of the Dungeon Market, the grand wizard’s body was successfully revived as a Lich, even though he had been already dead.]
[But, unfortunately, the Lich, who was born like that, did not have a proper ego.]
[Although he was born with powerful magic and so necromancing magic, it is impossible to operate him properly because he does not have an ego.]
It was not a prototype this ti. It was a spirit that Sitri specially saved from a warehouse where defective products were piled up.
A huge skeleton, almost the size of Skull, was hanging next to the black dirge. Like the black dirge, it was blowing out a black evil energy, but it looked emaciated and wobbly. Even when its eyes were supposed to glare, they were just sparkling dimly.
It was a defective product that could not be sold because it had no ego.
However, there was no better material for Yong-ho than this.
“Okay, let’s buy this.”
Yong-ho did not agonize which of the Lich and black dirge he would rge with Skull, for he had a much more efficient third option.
Synthetic reinforcent.
It was different from general synthetic evolution.
Combining sothing called an ‘item’ and sothing called a spirit, so it could be strengthened through synthetic evolution.
This kind of synthetic reinforcent was possible only once for Yong-ho’s subordinate spirits. However, it did not require evolution EXP.
Green light flashed in Yong-ho’s eyes and the green flas also arose from his arms.
His subordinate spirits, who were watching inside an empty room in the corner of the 5th floor, gulped while holding their breath. He finally put his hand on the black dirge and Lich’s shoulder. Then he activated the power of evolution!
There was a trendous light created.
No, it was not light, but darkness. The light that emitted montarily blurred his vision, creating a darkness in which he could see nothing.
He felt his mana was sucked in in an instant. About half of the powerful mana he released from his six horns was consud at once in the process.
The darkness was cleared again. Yong-ho urgently received the dungeon’s reserve mana from Lucia. Slowly stepping back, he looked at the newly born Lich through synthetic reinforcent. The Lich had already changed on the surface. His hazy eyes and drooping posture were still there, but his body itself turned more combative. He looked very sharp perhaps as a result of rging with the sword.
Black evil energy raged. Combined with the Lich’s powerful mana, the curse of the black dirge beca more powerful.
Yong-ho gulped at the spectacular scene. Instead of stepping back, he turned around and looked at Skull.
“Skull.”
The curse of the black dirge was stronger than expected. The Lich, who had no ego at all, was rather free from the curse, but Skull, who had a free will, was not.
What if Skull was defeated by the curse of the black dirge?
“Skull Skull.”
Skull spoke. He stepped forward with his purple eyes glaring sharply. Yong-ho could not understand what he was saying, but he understood it. Instead of worrying, he trusted Skull.
Skull stood by the Lich. Yong-ho saw the purple smoke rising up from Skull engulfing the Lich.
Yong-ho caught his breath. He felt his subordinate spirits behind his back were extrely tense, swallowing.
“Skullkull.”
Skull laughed. Yong-ho laughed along and soon stepped forward. He put his hand on Skull’s sturdy shoulder.
Ti for synthetic evolution.
Yong-ho clenched his teeth. He poured out more mana than before. The Lich threw out a black evil spirit, with his mouth wide open, as if he was screaming, and Skull fird up his determination by bringing out purple flas fiercely.
Once again, the light rose in Yong-ho’s eyes, and the light gave birth to darkness.
With his mana being exhausted, Yong-ho felt sothing different. He sensed a completely different power from it when he combined and reinforced the Lich and the black dirge.
Mammon’s Godly Energy.
A purple light, close to black, emitted from the magic field on his left arm. It wasn’t what Yong-ho intended. The death sealed inside the magic field or the power of Baphot arose by itself.
No one explained it. But Yong-ho understood it.
Mammon’s 12 Spirits.
They made the zodiacal signs their motif.
It was a succession of 12 signs of the zodiac. Right at this mont, Baphot’s death determined his successor.
A purple light, almost black, filled the room. It beca more and more purple than black, and at one point, it emitted an intense light before disappearing.
It happened only for a few seconds. However, Yong-ho could never forget those monts.
Catalina opened her mouth before she knew it and flapped her ears and tail.
Kaiwan made a rather silly smile. Eligos and Ophelia blinked again and again, while Tigrius uttered exclamation quietly.
His subordinate spirits felt each other through Yong-ho.
Yong-ho understood the man more directly who was standing right before his eyes.
The growth of his subordinate spirits soon triggered their master—Yong-ho’s—growth.
Then it spread to all of the other spirits.
The six horns towering over Yong-ho’s head shuddered. Other spirits also quickly erected their horns, keenly realizing that one of them had reached a whole new level.
It wasn’t sothing like the Death Knight.
It couldn’t be compared to anything like the Lich.
It was called Brunani No Life King.
King of the Undead.
Violet light was burning from the inside of Skull’s empty eyes.
“Skull Skull”
***
The energy of death was raging violently. It was powerful enough to overwhelm mana and cause dread and fear onto the living.
Yong-ho and his subordinate spirits knew this energy of death. They had experienced the real energy of death, which was qualitatively different from the power emitted by the Bone Dragon or other undead.
Capricorn, Baphot, the demon of slaughter.
He was one of Mammon’s 12 Spirits as well as the incarnation of death from another world.
Soone swallowed, so did Yong-ho.
He looked at Skull with a tense expression.
His body got a little bigger. The Lich’s sharp look, who was rged with the black dirge, was reflected in him.
The glaring eyes located between the skulls wrapped in purple flas were gentle.
Instead of flashing for a mont, they were flas that seed to burn forever.
“Skull?”
Yong-ho carefully called him. He was worried a little bit that he might have been swallowed up by the black dirge.
His subordinate spirits also concentrated. Their connection with him was in full swing.
Skull replied, “Skull Skull. Skullkull.”
His voice was the sa, mixed with laughter this ti. There was a very brief silence in the room, and soon, they all smiled.
Yong-ho sighed a breath of relief.
It was Skull. Although he succeeded Baphot’s death and took the power of the Lich and the demon sword to surpass the Death Knight and Lich, his essence remained unchanged.
‘He is still the sa Skull that I know.’
Yong-ho was glad to confirm it, but he felt a bit sad because he expected Skull would be able to speak properly.
“Wait a minute. Did you say Skull Skull?”
Yong-ho blinked. Catalina, who was in a good mood, flapping her ears and tail, looked at Skull, startled as if she realized sothing suddenly.
Kaiwan opened her mouth, “Didn’t he make a noise that was different from usual? What I an is... ‘Skull Skull.’”
Skull said it again, and Yong-ho’s subordinate spirits were surprised again.
Obviously, Skull was saying ‘Skull Skull,’ but Yong-ho could understand its aning. Apart from him saying Skull Skull, Yong-ho felt like so sort of its aning was conveyed directly into his head.
It was as if Skull said sothing like, ‘Why are you so surprised? I am still the sa as usual.’
When Yong-ho and his subordinate spirits were embarrassed again, Skull was also embarrassed this ti.
Skull tilted his head slightly and spoke again, “Skullkull?”
Was he saying ‘Master’?
“Oh my God,” Yong-ho uttered admiration.
Tigrius said, with a twinkle in his eyes, “It’s a powerful telepathy. As a result of synthetic reinforcent of the Lich, he seems to have realized the sorcery, naly his innate magical power.”
“Sorcery?”
“It refers to magic that is emitted by relying on one’s will and innate strength without arithtic calculations. It’s similar to a supernatural power or the way you control the flas.”
Yong-ho has also studied magic several tis since he ca to the demon world, so he knew what Tigrius was referring to as “arithtic” magic.
‘Oh, I see.’
He couldn’t imagine how Skull used magic while calculating arithtically. It was much more like him to just use his supernatural power by instinct.
“Skull, do you know what kind of magic you can use?”
At Yong-ho’s question, Skull flashed his eyes as if blinking.
After a little pause, he answered, “Skull Skull. Skull.”
He seed to reply, ‘I don’t know yet... But I think I know what I can do.’
A purple fla arose from Skull’s right hand. The fla soon turned into lightning, and Yong-ho realized that it was a lightning bolt with the energy of death.
It was the lightning magic that Skull acquired when he beca a Magic Knight.
Skull handled lightning freely just like Yong-ho handled flas. Skull scattered the flas into the air and created a new fla.
Again, the fla had the energy of death this ti, but it was different from the one a while ago. The lightning earlier was the power to kill the living, but this one was the power to resurrect the dead.
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