Chapter 956: Next Assignment (1/2)

The maze opened. The maze that trapped the strongest of this realm and some other realms nearby opened.

When it was opened, only two people remained alive.

The Saber Monarch and the third family head. But they didn't come out of the valley. Instead, Sam went into the valley to do something.

As soon as he landed, he started collecting the dead bodies of people and brought them all towards the center of the valley, where The Saber Monarch is currently sitting along with the third family head.

Sam called Specter out and both of them started performing a large ritual of soul necromancy.

After Sam laid out an inscribed formation, he walked to the Saber monarch and the Third family head and gestured them to go inside the formation.

And then the ritual started.

Both Specter and Sam carefully carried out the ritual to link the soul of the third family head to the Saber Monarch. The Link they are establishing is one of the servants and the master. This is actually one of the Soul Necromancer tricks, where he marks and creates a forced link with one of the souls of people who are still alive.

He might not be able to kill that person directly, but he can at least control them about some fundamental things and make them stay loyal and if by any chance the marked person is dead, the soul wouldn't vanish into nothingness.

Instead, it uses the soul realm as a means to travel and reaches the master's location directly and becomes a servant soul undead.

The advantage of this is that the souls would be in their purest and strongest form.

The disadvantage is the ritual itself. If not for the Presence of Specter, Sam wouldn't have dared to perform the ritual on himself or to even perform at all, much less performing it on another person which is ten times more difficult.

Even with his vampire bloodline activated, Sam is not exactly sure that he would be able to do it. But with Specter it is a whole different story as he is a complete natural at the soul necromancy.

And this natural talent was bound to be put to good use.

After the ritual is completed and forcefully linking the souls, the Saber Monarch stepped back and after going above and beyond to stop him from using his new power to play with this family head, Sam started drawing another circle and this time, it is much larger and more complicated.

The Specter separated itself from the maze formation and entered this formation circle directly and within no time it started glowing. Sam threw the family head into this circle and then threw the dead bodies of all the Peak-stage Pre-transcendent stage cultivators into the circle one by one.

After that, he started channeling his dark elemental energy and mental energy into the formation circle letting the specter do the rest.

The dark energy casts a gloom all over the valley and it almost seemed like night has arrived earlier. It felt like they are walking through a haunted cemetery.

As the spectators watched the spectacles, the souls slowly appeared out of the dead bodies. They are coming so slowly that it made the whole scene much eerier.

After the souls were completely extracted, the soul from the third family head even though he is already alive was forcefully extracted outside as he screamed on top of his lungs.

”AHHHHHHHHHHH…”

Not caring about his pain, the specter continued with the ritual. One after another each soul extracted from the dead bodies was forcefully attached to the soul of the third family head.

The ritual is so painful that this might be the first time that he ever wished to be passed out so that he wouldn't be feeling any pain.

But some wishes are just that, wishes. They don't mean anything more and anything less.

If it was pure physical pain, he would have surely passed out, but the pain is to his soul so he cannot pass out even if he wanted to.

It took an hour to finish the ritual. Even five elemental King and the Saber Monarch felt extremely sorry for this guy. It was that torturous just to watch, one could only imagine the pain of the one who is inside.

After the ritual was over, the family head passed out. But Sam didn't let him rest, he woke him up and said.

”There are around fifteen strong souls that you could access to any time. Try and see if you can get them out.”

The family head nodded and closed his eyes, he could indeed feel a few extra presences in his sea of consciousness.

He tried to access these presences and the souls came out. They are the souls of the comrades who he fought together for the past few days. He was stunned for a second.