Chapter 41: FlerGan the Zealot: Youll Also Like (2/2)

But beyond this, Aldrich noticed so that Fler'Gan did not drop his Soul Ordinarily, bosses always dropped their Soul

What changed now?

What Fler'Gan did drop was soame The crimson red orb he held in his hand that was part of his visual design but nothing more than that

Aldrich knelt down and picked the orb up It was the size of baseball, not particularly large, but it was surprisingly heavy On it were inscribed several lines of sigils glowing an eerie green Within, he saw the faint flicker of a familiar white - the flicker of a Soul

Fler'Gan's Soul

That hen Aldrich noticed that he could see the bright green of a Grave Marker inside the orb as well Fler'Gan could be resurrected using thisob

Aldrich started to recall game lore

Mind Eaters like Fler'Gan were obsessed with knowledge and because the pursuit of knowledge was never ending by its nature, they required ihout Elden World and its realms

Mind Eater ie brain shaped, tendril covered super mass known as a Elder Mind spawned Mind Eaters to roarew too weak or old, they returned to the Elder Mind whereupon they would get absorbed

The Mind Eater's knowledge would transfer to the Elder Mind and then their bioet reused to birth another Mind Eater

Mind Eaters ordinarily had undying loyalty to their Elder Minds via mental control, but some broke froered for knowledge and thus still needed long lifespans for this pursuit, and so they sought otherthe a lich was one of thethese Mind Eaters

Fler'Gan was one such Mind Eater that sought to become a lich Hence, his backstory was that he had locked hito become not only a lich, but one also utterly immune to fire to becoht as he stared at the orb in his hand, this was a Phylactery

An object, often an orb, that ai into a Lich

Their flesh bodies rotted away to skeletal fore, these skeletal bodies becaic, death, curses, and,so long as the Phylactery holding the main soul remained intact

In Elden World, the player character Necromancer ca a Lich and actively hunted the theinal Lich known as the Death Lord, one of the evil Gods of Elden World that allied with the Howling Dark to destroy all life

The Death Lord's end goal was to destroy life so that all souls entered into his own Realm of Death where he would rule over all creation infinitely Typical big bad evil God stuff

As a result, the player character's Necroainst the Death Lord as where the Death Lord believed all creation should die and serve him, mortal Necromancers believed the boundary between life and death should be respected and maintained

It was said that part of the ritual to beco a Phylactery, but also co with the Death Lord to take a shard of his power This shard would then fuel the ritual andthe steps to become a Lich

Those that were too illed who faced the Death Lord lost their minds to hih, however, took the Death Lord's shard of power for thehty liches

This was all Aldrich knew of the process to become a Lich How to craft a Phylactery and all the steps in betweenwith the Death Lord were not explained in the game as player characters could not become undead

But…what if Aldrich could find someone that knew all of this? Soh the process

And that soht here in the palm of Aldrich's hand

Aldrich put down the orb and chanted, "Serve"

He felt an iy roared around hiic leave hi him rapidly All of this sacrificed life and reen and crie!" said Valera

"I'm fine," said Aldrich as mana and life continued to drain from him This was far, far more than the 10her leveled than hi a boss type monster, it seemed A continuousthat Aldrich had never been able to raise in the game He was thankful he had saved his ht, but as he felt hi drained second by second, he wondered if he had enough

Eventually, Aldrich reached 10 of his maximum health andhis health and mana He breathed heavily as sweat trickled from his forehead

He looked down at the Phylactery

A green aura enveloped the crimson orb before it rapidly shook and oscillated All of a sudden, a burst of energy blasted outwards in a shockwave, knocking Aldrich back, Valera caught him and kept him on his feet

Green and red particles swirled in front of the Phylactery, for into Fler'Gan's for if Fler'Gan was hostile, especially with his mental insanity, and was ready to take away his individuality or, if needed, dispel hiht Instead, he knelt down and closed his three red eyes in reverence "Your wish isme the eternity I have always searched for"