Michael used the SoulStar Fragnts in his possession to upgrade Spirit Gaze. He would need several thousand more SoulStar Fragnts to finish Spirit Gaze's upgrade to 6-Star, but Michael was slowly getting closer to his goal and making progress. That was good.
Michael shifted his attention back to the research he made before. He was still not 100% certain why so many SoulStar Fragnts dropped from the Healer and Supporter but he had a rough idea. The Tekurs' mories showed quite clearly that both the Healer and Supporter had low-ranked Soultraits and that they required more subjects than the others. They had been in need of 1.5 million more subjects than the other Soldiers since their Soultraits required more Links of Loyalty to accumulate Soul Power!
They possessed as much Soul Power as everyone else but their Links of Loyalty numbered far more – roughly 50%. This percentage was about the sa as the disparity in SoulStar Fragnts Michael obtained from the Supporter and Healer-duo versus the other Tekur. The forr dropped about 700 each and the latter 450 on average.
It was not a perfectly accurate calculation but sothing Michael could take into consideration to make up a theory.
'So the star rating of a Soultrait, the number of their Links of Loyalty, and the total Soul Power they've accumulated play important roles in calculating how many SoulStar Fragnts I can extract with Extraction? Those could be three major factors out of…who knows how many…' Michael tried to co up with so numbers and he felt like he was going sowhere.
Lords usually dropped more SoulStar Fragnts than Awakened. anwhile Awakened with Soultraits of a high star rating usually dropped more than Awakened with lousy Soultraits. And last but not least, the disparity in drops from using Extraction on the Tekur was also an additional factor to consider.
Each of those situations could be researched more in-depth, but Michael did not think that it was necessary. He was quite certain that his theory was correct.
With all corpses stored securely inside his War Rune's storage, Michael continued his journey. He traveled through the empty plains for a good hour until he found a group of humans far to his left.
Michael weaved a little bit of energy into his body with Leviathan Diffusion and charged ahead. Roc Eyes was activated, allowing him to accurately assess the strength and condition of the human group. None of them was injured and they seed strong enough to deal with a few Tekur on their own. As long as they weren't overwheld by the Tekur's Soul Techniques that is.
Even 1-Star Soultraits acquired the power of 5-Star Soultraits in the hands of the Tekur – without the use of Soul Techniques. The mass of millions of Links of Loyalty was enough to achieve that as long as the Awakened were still Lesser Lifeforms.
Once they used their Soul Techniques, the 1-Star Soultrait with the power of a 5-Star Soultrait used up their accumulated Soul Power to put the Soultrait on an equal footing with an Apex Tier-6 Soultrait used by a Peak Tier-3 Lord.
Michael knew a bunch of Awakened with 6-Star Soultraits but none of them could unleash the sa power as the Tekur. Even Kaleb had to use the Legendary Ice Staff and every bit of Frozen Nova's proficiency to battle the Tekur head-on. That was mostly because he was not yet a Tier-3 Lord, but his lack of control of Frozen Nova played a major role as well. After all, low-ranked Soultraits were much easier to control than Soultraits with a higher star rating.
Therefore, the advantage of the Tekur race was even greater.
Michael shook his head to dispel the thoughts that tornted his mind. He reprimanded himself for thinking too much about the Tekur's power. If anything, Michael should be thinking about ways to counter them with more ease than relying on Insert, Extraction, Enhancent, and Roc Eyes.
"Hello, Michael. I didn't expect to see you so soon," A sowhat familiar voice that he couldn't quite recall the owner of, rang out from within the group of humans.
Michael had already seen everyone in the group and recognized Fernando Jochez's voice a second later. He looked at the sowhat familiar young man and nodded his head.
"Hello Fernando," Michael greeted, resulting in a smile in return from Fernando.
'What is with that guy? Didn't he think of as a filthy peasant before?' He wondered, noticing the drastic difference in Fernando's attitude.
"We have yet to encounter any Tekur. It looks like they're either gathering sowhere, or everyone was spread out further than usual. Given the longer period of this year's Flag War, I presu that the dinsion's space must have expanded quite a bit. It will be harder to gather the Alliance mbers, and to find a Dinsional Pillar," Fernando stated in a gentle tone.
Michael raised an eyebrow but didn't comnt on Fernando's attitude. The attitude felt wrong, sowhat forced. But that didn't matter correct now. Michael decided to forward the information he had.
"200 Alliance mbers spawned together in front of a Dinsional Pillar, alongside a dozen Tekur. We killed them but lost roughly 15 mbers on our side. The Dinsional Pillar was destroyed as well. There are only a total of four Pillars departed by now."
"You guys destroyed a pillar already?" Another Descendant asked. He was a Mid Tier-3 Awakened – a perfect example to explain the high mortality rate in the Interdinsional Flag War.
Not only was the Descendant not a Lord anymore, but he was not even at the Peak of the 3rd Tier. In fact, more than 70% of the Alliance mbers participating in the Flag War were not at the Peak of Tier-3. They were still stronger than the vast majority of prodigies in the Tritan Alliance but that didn't an they held an advantage against the Tekur, 90% of whose participants were at the Peak of the 3rd Tier.
'Our strongest prodigies can barely handle a single Soldier of the Tekur race if they're at the Peak of Tier-3 and have a decent mastery of their Inheritance Technique. That's everything but fun.' Michael thought, looking at the Descendant before he answered.
"Yup. Are you guys heading sowhere special? If not, how about teaming up with the other Alliance mbers? They're in that direction," He pointed behind himself, his attention pulled to Fernando.
Fernando was staring at Michael for quite a while now. The color change in Michael's eyes surprised Fernando quite a bit, but it was even more surprising that Michael's presence was completely different compared to before. He felt like…a threat, a force to reckon with.
It was not that Fernando believed Michael would pounce on him and rip him apart at any mont. No. It was rely the fact that Fernando could instinctively tell that he had no chance to win against Michael. A single glance in Michael's eyes was all he needed to understand that clearly.
Michael was on his guard. It was evident that he was ready to jump into battle at any point in their conversation. He wouldn't allow a Tekur to take them by surprise.
At that mont, Fernando felt relieved that Michael was on their side. Even if he was a filthy peasant, Michael was everything but weak.
"We will follow your advice," Fernando said, "If you want to find more groups you should go departed from here. We encountered Killian earlier…but that guy is just crazy. I really don't like to say this out loud since Killian is from the Zeus family, but it might be better if you don't get too close to him. His Soultrait is weird, and his personality is…well let's just leave it at that."
"You don't have to worry about him either. His combat prowess is terrifying. Killian has at least two Legendary Artifacts and his mastery of the Zeus family's Inheritance Technique reached the Enlightennt realm. He is a decade ahead of everyone else to reach that realm in the Zeus family!"
Michael never planned to fight Killian in the first place. He didn't really desire to get too close to that idiot either. His impression of Killian was not really great, after all.
"Alright. I'll leave then. Killian can do whatever he wants. If he can kill so Tekur everyone would benefit from that. That's good, isn't it?" Michael said, weaving energy into his body before kicking the ground. He departed Fernando and his group behind with fast steps.
"Is it just , or is this guy oddly strong despite being rely at the Peak of the 2nd Tier? The energy within him is even purer than my brother's and he might as well have more energy than …" The Mid Tier-3 Descendant from earlier murmured to himself, but everyone around him could hear the young man clearly.
"Well, he has more Soultraits than most people can dream of. I don't understand how he did that but so say that he procured two Soultraits from a Lord Rift. He is a quintuple Awakened with five Soultraits or more in total. Of course, he has more origin energy than others," A female Descendant with short brown hair and thick glasses revealed as she pushed the glasses back up her nose.
Michael was one of the few people she'd researched with all her might, eventually using her Soultrait and even Inheritance Technique to analyze Michael's combat prowess and every single probability related to his Soultraits powers, star rating, and how they might influence Michael's physique, mind, and soul.
"Rebecca. You're usually nuts and one of the few high nobles I loathe, but I kinda began liking you now," Fernando Jochez joked, only to hear the young woman retch and act like she was going to die from vomiting.
"Are you trying to kill with your la attempts at flirting, you disgusting pig? Stay away from !"
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