1218 Absorb 2 (1/2)

Mind Reader who was lying on the ground started twitching and jerking greatly at the same time.

The four women seemed to have a hard time trying to restrain Mind Reader's struggle.

On the other hand, it was a completely different experience for Garen standing by the side.

A huge amount of Mind Reader's Soul Energy gushed into Kong Xinxue's body like a flash flood. Even Garen would be slightly frightened by the impact of such a huge amount of Soul Energy as it had almost reached the limit of how much pain he could endure. This might even cause him to be unable to digest them properly and it would be worse for Kong Xinxue who was just a commoner.

”It's obvious that the cause of the extreme pain is not from the physical body but the direct alteration towards the soul when new energy is added in.” Garen understood fully well how intense the pain was as he had experienced it before in the past. If one were to say the pain from a physical body had an upper limit, then the pain cast upon the soul will never have an upper limit.

Time passed by as the five girls were in the situation for more than ten minutes before things gradually calmed down.

The blood mist had fully entered Kong Xinxue's body.

Thud.

Kong Xinxue fell to the ground as her knees gave in whereas the other four were drenched in sweat as if their physical strength had been robbed away from their bodies.

”A portion of the stress cast upon Kong Xinxue from the Soul Energy has been given towards the rest of them during the extraction process.” Garen could see everything clearly. Garen, unlike the rest who could not see what actually transpired during the process, had his eyes nourished by the Soul Energy. In addition to him achieving the realm of Soul Rings, he could clearly see the changes in the Soul Energy.

The whole ritual ended swiftly.

Nine-Tailed Fox and the rest held Kong Xinxue up. She was fully drenched in sweat from head to toe. Her body's contour was vaguely shown through her drenched shirt.

”This is your reward.” Nine-Tailed Fox took out her communication device.

Garen, too, took out his communication device. Both of them then connected their devices together, validated their passwords and Soul's Core. Nine-Tailed Fox then transferred a hundred thousand contribution points over upon validation.

”This is the ink I have brought along. I still have two bottles left. The original plan was to duplicate two Sacred Sigil at one go but I didn't expect the duplication process to be so exhausting.” Nine-Tailed Fox said tiredly. She then took out another two bottles of blood red ink and passed it to Garen.

”Is Ah Xue going to be fine?” Garen was worried. Despite the fact that they had distanced themselves lately, they were still siblings in this world.

”She's fine. Don't worry about it. Everything went along smoothly as planned.” Nine-Tailed Fox smiled. ”Alright. We have to go now. I'll come back and duplicate the Sacred Sigil another time.”

”Anytime.” Garen smiled as he looked at the five of them being led out by Double-Tailed Scorpion to change their clothes.

He then walked towards Mind Reader as he stared quietly at the Sacred Sigil on his chest.

The original Sacred Sigil was a black sun.

”The process may be complicated towards a commoner but it's child's play for me.” Garen grabbed hold of MInd Reader's neck with just one hand. His hand was big enough to grab hold of Mind Reader's neck as he held it up in mid-air without any effort.

Upon closer inspection towards the Sacred Sigil, Garen realized that this item seemed to be rooted into his skin as there were many weird black lines which spanned towards his shoulders around the black circle.

He reached out his hand to touch it and found out that there was no protrusion at all. It was not something that had grown out of his skin but something which had fused itself with his body instead.

Nine-Tailed Fox's every action had been recorded down by the Energy Machine Imprint and Garen was able to fully replicate each and every step. However, what he wanted was not purely duplication but the theory and analysis behind it.

Garen stood there for a full thirty minutes, holding up Mind Reader by his neck. He came to his senses after Nine-Tailed Fox and the rest left.

”I've understood the basic theory behind it. It's impossible to achieve it without this blood ink. Truly amazing!” Garen could not help but to praise the powerhouse who thought of this solution.

Lighthouse did have many hidden talents.

The structure of Soul Ring was similar to that of a tall building. It was similar to having an additional floor when a Soul Seed was added. The building would be more stable and massive if it had more levels.

However, the key towards the Sacred Sigil's duplication was to make use of the blood ink's quality as an incredibly sharp giant sword to cut off the building's highest level while causing minimal injury towards the Sacred Sigil.

The original Sacred Sigils which the Four Great Cornerstones possessed naturally had their Soul Ring supplied endlessly by the universe. The external source would immediately heal the damage done towards it and they were basically no threat towards any injury.

They would revert back to normal by just reincarnating once if they were fully destroyed.

As he pondered, Garen was very tempted. If he were to able to safely absorb the Soul Energy from the Soul Ring, it would be the best plan for him to obtain a huge amount of Soul Energy within a short amount of time.

He decided to act immediately.

He single-handedly opened up a bottle of blood ink and pressed it on Mind Reader's chest as he started moving it along the black sun's striation. His precision far surpassed that of Nine-Tailed Fox's. Similar to the most precise computer, there was not a single error and even the thickness was completely identical.

The blood ink striation was finished in seconds.