Chapter 55: Undead Slaves (1/2)

”My decision isn't going to change no matter what you say,” Elliot said in a calm voice, adamant about keeping the artifact with him.

”As you wish.” Rosy agreed to let him take this broken piece of item. However, she was unable to understand why he took such a thing for a reward.

They were told to show their items to the receptionist of the treasure hall. The receptionist registered the items under their names, signifying that they now own it legally.

They then split up and returned to their assigned living quarters.

Elliot and Theo just entered their rooms when a notification rang out from one of their quantum cards. Turns out, it was Theo's. He looked at the message and a smile formed on his face.

He excused himself and left the room, leaving Elliot to wonder what he was up to.

Though, Elliot's focus soon shifted to the Fruit of Earth and Moons.

”Say, how do I purify this fruit?” Elliot asked in his mind.

<The Champions can use God's Qi to purify this herb. One unit of God's Qi is enough to purge one unit of impurities from the magic herb>

”Great!” Elliot felt excited to find out that God's Qi can even purge impurities from such powerful magic herbs. A herb that is clean of all impurities, not only has no side effects but also improves to become something better.

He took out the fruit from his spatial bracelet and recited the first step he needs to purify it in his mind. First of all, he needs to pour God's Qi into it, so he placed his hands on the fruit and urged God's Qi in his body to come out of his palm and enter the fruit.

However, he hit a wall!

God's Qi wasn't responding to his thought.

It didn't work like his God's matrix!

He didn't know how to push God's Qi out of his body.

”How do I control God's Qi to leave my body?” Elliot asked in his mind, believing that Hope has an answer to his question.

<The Champion needs to learn an energy controlling magic technique for that>

Elliot didn't know where to go to learn such a magic technique.

He believed that the Academy will teach them magic techniques, but he didn't know when.

”Maybe I can ask Nina about it,” Elliot said under his breath, knowing full well that his bet to get such a technique was his childhood friend.

It was too late at night and he didn't know where she lives either. So, he decided to talk about this matter with her tomorrow.

He stored the fruit in his spatial ring and then his focus shifted on creating undead slaves.

”First off, I need to feed it my blood and energy to become its owner.”

Without any sort of hesitation, Elliot sliced open a gash on his palm by using a knife made out of the essence of life. He clutched the ring with a skull on it in his bloodied hand. Surprisingly, the ring released a powerful suction force and absorbed a lot of his blood into it.

<You've lost a considerable amount of blood>

<-5 HP>

<HP: 5/10>

The damned ring quenched its thirst by sucking half the blood in Elliot's body, leaving him exhausted, tired, and at the brink of his consciousness.

”Hope, use the authority of recovery on me.” Elliot's words weren't met with silence and a notification popped up in his mind.

<The Champion will need to pay 80 units of the essence of life to activate the Authority of Recovery to recover to peak conditions. Do you want to?>

Elliot agreed without hesitation.

<-80 units of the Essence of Life>

<Remaining Essence of Life: 1420 units>

<Authority of Recovery is healing you>

As soon as that notification popped up in his mind, Elliot's body brightened up in a golden glow that had a warm and gentle feel to it, and in a few moments, his health points regenerated to ten points.

<You've recovered to peak conditions>

Then, Elliot fed the ring his energy for it to acknowledge him as its owner. Only God's Qi and the essence of life unique to himself could be considered as his energy, but he fed it his life.

He urged the ring to absorb his essence of life and the ring released a mysterious suction force that targeted his essence of life. Golden threads made out of Elliot's essence of life came out of his body, moved towards the ring, and the ring sucked them inside itself.