Chapter 150 - Soul Reconnaissance (2/2)

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”Soul Strength of 47?” Aurus could not help but ask the system about Soul Strength after reading up on one of the soul vessels' information. A few seconds later, he found out that Soul Strength was the manifestation of the soul's combat power, equivalent to the Soul Power stat he had, but doubled.

With the system saying that, he could not help but fuse the soul vessels into one once more as he looked at the Soul Power stat he had through the Soul Enchantment System. After making a few speedy calculations in his mind, he realized that that was indeed the case, with each soul vessel after being split having the same portion of Soul Strength within them.

After knowing that, he willed the soul vessel to be split into eight once more, manipulating the soul vessels to transform into soul blades not long after. He then tried to control these eight blades in a way that would allow them to attack with great power in just a single attack, ending up with the idea of having one blade attack after the other, with each blade hitting the same position.

Although he had a feeling that such an attack would allow his soul vessels to show great power, he would have to test it on a dummy that would allow him to see the damage he dealt. Unfortunately, the room he picked right now within the Tower of Seclusion did not have a dummy like that inside.

Putting the offensive portion of the trump card aside, he wondered about how he was going to solve the problem of obtaining information through the soul vessels. To be honest, this was supposed to be the first problem he needed to solve, but due to the spark of inspiration he obtained out of the blue, that was delayed only to pop up right now as he looked at his skill list once again, wondering if there was any skill that could remedy this problem.

It did not take long for Aurus to find a fix for the problem, his sense of vision fixated on [Eye of the Soul], which was the skill that allowed him to see in the first place. Not only did it allow him to see, it even allowed him to see things that could not be normally seen by other Inanimates. He had the thought that since the skill had relations to the soul, would the two fuse into one, allowing him to see the surroundings through the split up soul vessels?

Although he had a feeling that it wouldn't work since [Eye of the Soul] was a passive skill, he tried it anyway.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

With his thoughts commanding the system for [Eye of the Soul] to affect the eight soul vessels that were in front of his field of vision, an intangible energy that seemed to resonate the power of the skill started to circulate throughout Aurus' body, heading towards the eight soul vessels through intangible strands not long after.

Swish! Swish!

A few seconds later, these strands of intangible energy were assimilated by the soul vessels, his current field of vision dimming as it was replaced by eight perspectives not long after. Seeing that he was able to see everything from eight perspectives, he could not help but deem the experiment a success, although he was not sure how he was able to infuse [Eye of the Soul] into the soul vessels.

He then manipulated the soul vessels to move farther away from one another, changing the view that Aurus was able to see. Surprisingly, rather than having eight perspectives like before, the views of every soul vessel connected with one another, stitching each view to form something along the lines of a bird's eye view of the room Aurus was in.

Not long after, he willed the eight soul vessels to come back to him, removing the infused [Eye of the Soul] from each and every soul vessel. He then willed the soul vessels to meld with his body, returning the strength of his soul back to normal. He was quite satisfied with the trump card he made, with the offensive portion of the trump card just being an added bonus.

Just as he was about to head towards one of the rooms within the Tower of Seclusion that contained a dummy, a sudden thought popped up in his mind. This thought in his mind could not help but make his mutter inwardly, ”Why the heck did I not think of that while I was fusing skills?”

”Oh well, better late than never,” Aurus said with a sigh of relief, commanding the system to open up the Skill Fusion screen.

Whoosh!

”System, fuse [Nine Worlds Soul Morphosis] and [Eye of the Soul] together,” he commanded, to which intangible strands of energy headed towards the Skill Fusion screen not long after. These intangible strands transformed into the names of the skills, radiating quite a decent amount of light.

Ding!

'Would you like to fuse these two skills together? The user has two choices, the first choice being that the fused skill would take on the highest grade out of the two skills, costing 5 levels. The second choice would be the opposite, with the skill taking the lowest grade out of the two skills, costing 3 levels instead.'

Since Aurus had gone through something like this before, he did not hesitate to choose the former option, dropping his level down to 10 as the usual process of skill fusion did its work.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Ding!

'Skill Fusion is successful. The hybrid Species skill [Unified Soul Control (Special)] has been created.'

Seeing as the skill fusion was successful, he then activated the skill once more as he said to himself, ”Time to see if there's any improvement.”