Chapter 877: Memory (1/2)

Sam is in the middle of the soul extraction process, but all of a sudden he felt like something hit him.

It was not a physical hit. It is a hit to his soul. He could feel it. At this, he is using his soul to extract her soul out while restraining her mental strength completely.

But suddenly, the restraints of the mental strength seemed to be loosed up for no apparent reason or to be more precise for the reasons he couldn't understand or imagine.

The attack is light, but he halted in his tracks to make sure that nothing dangerous could happen to him in this process. Anything that is involving one's soul is too much danger. In fact, it is dangerous than playing with a spiritual core.

Because there are a lot more ways to heal or even regrow a spiritual core compared to the healing methods for the soul.

Last time, his soul barely got into the shadow realm for a few seconds and he was out cold for two months straight.

Sam started re-examining the runes in the middle of the process. He didn't find any anomalies at the start, but as he examined it again and again, he started finding anomalies.

There is some kind of power that is trying to alter the flow of the energy within the runes to make the part of it which is placing a 'leash' on the soul to loosen up.

Without this supposed 'leash' there is nothing Sam could hold onto to pull the soul out of her body. As the leash was loosened Sam felt his soul shake a bit.

He is getting mild hits continuously which might lead to come accumulated damage.

He focused on retightening the leash and the clash started.

Sam is really surprised and not so surprised at the same time with this clash.

The surprise is that she has this much soul energy and she seemed to have abundant knowledge in the soul necromancy to even try to change the flow of energy. But the not-so-surprising part is about the fact that he expected some resistance from her as she managed to keep some sanity within this Palace of inheritance.

The only confusing part about is, How?

How does she have this much mental energy? Sam has dedicated one-fifth of this total training time to just training mental energy and even when he is on long research retreats, he still kept up with this mental strength training.

Even from the Player's standards, his mental strength at least thrice if not four times higher than an average player.

But here another player managing to put up the struggle with it.

Sam decided to start a full-on war. He is not ready to give up the chance to torture this woman. She would definitely escape if he gave up now and it would be hard to find her again.

And he wouldn't be able to find her in a weaker state than this. Currently, her cultivation level, physical strength, energy reserves, injuries. In all of these aspects, she is worse than him.

He cannot let such a tempting chance go that easily. So he resorted to mental attacks.

He ran the runic formation slighting differently and started extracting memories from the soul, trying to find the deepest darkest memories of her which she didn't want to share, and to avoid her from seeing his secrets, he actively let some of his memories for her to see.

In fact, it is not a precaution, it is more like an attack and it could be said that this act of sending his memories worked better than trying to read hers.

Because Sam sent worst of his memories. Things like the constant physical abuse or the training in the assassin camp to control nausea and increase the tolerance for the human organs, corpses, and even rotten corpses.

He started showing these memories to her and she really was affected.

Her grip over the soul loosened a bit and now not only Sam got more memories, he also got the soul easily.

Right, when he was almost taking her out, he got a faint glimpse of memory which made him halt in his tracks in confusion and when he was to see it in full, suddenly his 'vision' turned black and all he could see is a pair of eyes burning black flames flying around and looking at him with a voice saying.

'Don't you dare.'

Sam lost control and the runic formation was destroyed. Before the backlash could strike, Sam let her body go and the backlash was all directed to her body and the soul which made her spit blood and hold her head tightly in pain.

She instantly gave up and the woman disappeared leaving the black whip behind.

Sam took his whip back and started recovering.