Chapter 194: Boundary (1/2)

Chapter 194: Boundary "You canI would have thought your poouldn't be able to interact with it so easily, considering it isn't fro else here that is from Elduin, is there not?" The

Death Lord turned to Aldrich and tapped the bone of his sternue, his dark purple Phylactery was barely visible, surrounding by his passively generated aura of green energy "Me?" said Aldrich "Yes, oing on to a degree," said the Death Lord "Now then, I a within your Phylactery, yes?"

Aldrich nodded To recap, the Chrysalis was essentially incubating inside of his

Phylactery It did so as an adaptive response to ed themselves to use the resources around thee itself to use it

However, complex manipulation of mana required a functional soul As a result, it had been feeding o not only Aldrich'sit to try and replicate it

The end result would be a being that derived its existence directly from Aldrich

In Fler'Gan's so a child "I do," said Aldrich "I' you were holed up here most of the time" "We are always connected, Death Walker We always have been, from the very moment you became an undead and called upon your Necroazed at Aldrich with an inspecting look "The rows

The Necroion and Cold Rot - all of those hail from me

Necromancy was an old power that predated even athered it into a proper art To use any of its spells is to in part draw froht priest draws frohteous little sparkles

For you to use Necromancy necessitates my existence Thus, I manifested, as if in response to your need

It would seem you are quite literally a 'Nexus' point by which all of us from

Elduin may derive existence

Hence, why I do not want you o in a hurry to die so quickly

If you die, I fear that you, our 'anchor' to this realm, will fade, and ill return to oblivion once more" "This is mainly for my curiosity, but do you remember where you were before you came here?" said Aldrich "Dead, was I not?" said the Death Lord "The is the lastto the hands of worthy heroes

But in the end, that lthy wench of a Goddess was the one to appear, stopping you when I was all but defeated Of course, she was too coward to face me herself

And of course, she had to preach about saving the world before s blow

Gah! Even thinking about the h-,"

The Death Lord clenched her st, snapping her pipe into pieces "Ah, apologies

That was unseemly of me" "I see," said Aldrich It seemed that for people like the Death Lord who had died in the story of Elden World, they remembered up to their deaths For people like

Valera ere still supposed to be alive, they re

There was not enough information for Aldrich to make a conclusion out of, but he kept all this in the back of his head "But as for that thing you are hosting, I a the Mind Eater told you to incubate it within your Phylactery And by keeping the Phylactery close to your being, you kept conditions stable for the creature," said the Death Lord "You would be right about that What he didn't tellI would have to do it I haven't received any signals fro to reach out to it with a mental link doesn't yield much of a response" "Ah, so it is called a Chrysalis? An aptly tting name I shall tell you then: the time is now It is ready to hatch It siy," said the Death Lord "Really? That's all it takes?" said Aldrich "A mana infusion? Even I can do that"

To prove his point, Aldrich swirled his mana around hi patterns "Ies that spend long years learning how to direct the ow of raved into your being," said the Death Lord "But that alone is not enough

The Chrysalis is held within your Phylactery, no? Then you need someone that can unseal it

Granted, the Mind Eater can do so, considering he was the one that crafted it

But what he does not have is the y this creature needs is staggering

Only I with the Necropolis can provide it" "What would the Chrysalis need that y for?" wondered

Aldrich "To forge its soul? I was under the iiven time and exposure to my own soul and mana" "No, no, not that Tell me, Death Walker, you must be familiar with the concept of a Boundary, are you not?"

Aldrich raised a brow in recognition, and the Death Lord smiled "Yes, of course you would," said the Death Lord "Some undead that are attuned ith the ow of spirits may create Boundaries where the owers of death blooest

But powerful undead are all naturally attuned to spirits, to the ow of death

Thus, they all develop Boundaries of their own as a er the undead, the stronger their Boundary, as you can see"