Chapter 194: Boundary (2/2)

The Death Lord gestured to the Arena around her, to the entire Necropolis that housed it This was her Boundary A massive di at," said Aldrich "If I' to create its own Boundary?" "Your Boundary," corrected the Death Lord "Hm" Aldrich put a hand to his chin "But if I remember correctly, Liches don't develop proper Boundaries until they ascend into beco an Arch Lich

That's level 60 at least" "Oh, please, dear Death Walker, do you compare yourself even noith the ordinary Lich?" The Death Lord rolled her eyes "Co connection to row like the nor away in study and experi for centuries to try and replicate a fraction of th?

No, you receive rowth, therefore, will naturally be exceptional" "A boundary, hm" Aldrich put a hand to his ribs in contemplation

Unlike say, the [Spirit Boundary] of lower leveled undead like the Deildeghast or Ghast, Boundaries froer and much more varied

A proper Boundary took, as the Death Lord described, centuries to properly develop Liches naturally started to develop Boundaries at a certain stage in their existence, but ular Liches could only project an incoe swathes of watery darkness yet to be shaped into anything specic But even those were deadly

In inco additional stats, bus to their units, and bonuses to so compared to a complete Boundary A complete Boundary was quite literally like a separate dile Lich, representing their inner world - their very soul

Thus, ainst Arch Liches often involved a second phase where the Arch Lich unleashed their Boundary, forcing the player to ght the

An extreme example was the Death Lord's Necropolis and Death Realm These technically were just her Boundary No other Lich cae and developed, but if Aldrich was going to succeed her, it meant he was destined for it

Now it ed into the

Nexus Slowly but surely, the Death Lord was preparing to hand down this entire realm to him "Still, even I did not expect you to develop a Boundary this quickly," said the

Death Lord "Even with absorption of , as you said, for you to reach the power level of an Arch

Lich, for I had not thought you ready

You may thank this 'Chrysalis' for this It see space, and it has created a 'shell' of a surprisingly developed

Boundary for you

All it requires is an infusion ofmaterial to ll in that 'shell'"

Basically, Aldrich noted, the Chrysalis had drawn up the blueprints for the

Boundary, but it lacked the y - the bricks and stones and wood - to actually build it This, the Death Lord said she was going to provide "How coht Liches could custo to their wills Inelse has essentially made it for me" "An oversimplication," explained the Death Lord "Boundaries are malleable yes, but at their core, they are inexible They represent who you are at a funda dicult, if not impossible, to alter

What we do e develop our Boundaries is build upon that core We layer over it, often creating grand realms, but that core remains the saer than a few paces wide

But that miniscule room represents who I am at the deepest level All of this, the elds of spectral lilies, the towering Necropolis itself, are sie some aspects of a Boundary Increase its size, its benecial eects, and so on and so forth, but the core it builds upon remains the exact same

The Chrysalis has shaped that 'core' of your Boundary As for how much more development it has done over it, hm"

The Death Lord narrowed her eyes as she stared at Aldrich She shrugged "I cannot tell too well

The Chrysalis is, after all, still a foreign entity to me I cannot sense it completely

At the very least, you should not witness sie to project incomplete Boundaries for the rst time

There will be a dened core there A space you can interact with beyond splashi+ng around in raw energy

But how dened it is, how large it is, what is actually within it - I simply do not know

All I know is that it will represent who you are It will show the deepest, most fundamental part of your self

I arn you now, Death Walker The very rst ti experience

It brings you face to face with the deepest parts of your being And for very many, what they choose to harbor in those depths is not so they ever wish to see Often, they use those dark depths to hide that which they do not wish to bring to the light

It may very well be the same for you"