Chapter 335 (1/2)

Chapter 335: Undead Emperor (Part 1)

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav

What were the undead? If someone asked such a question, everyone would have their own answer

“Undying villains, destroyers of Order, and existences that should be cleansed by the Holy Light” This was the standard answer given by the Church of Holy Light This was also what the ht was the prevailing religion

“Miraculous creations that can be created under certain conditions These existences have co lifeforms Two main conditions are required to fory, and the second is a soul shard…”

This would be a e’s standard answer They would talk about the fundamental theories of what an undead was, and if you asked an undead ht even discuss the various undead species and specifics

“I like the tery’ The first undead didn’t have a shred of negative energy at all: they were noble, unyielding spirits”

As the first-ever undead, Ayer had previously mentioned to me that the first undead were all naturally born They were heroes unwilling to die and leave the world Yet their resolute, undying wills allowed them to resist the Cycle of Reincarnation and walk out of their own graves, transforendary “natural undead”

The soul was the universal source Any person powerful enough to use only their soul to resist the Cycle of Reincarnation would be an incredible figure Such a person eneration

The undead that came after the natural undead were a lower-rank product that originated fro research on the creation of heroic spirits In order to make these undead, which weren’t on the level of the heroic spirits, inated froative energy earned itself a special nainally a power from the Chaos Abyss, whose natural traits were bloodthirst, insanity, and chaos Even a wise arch into a lich, affected by loneliness and the invasion of negative energy As for low-level undead who y, they were nothingmachines filled with a thirst for blood

Now that I’ve talked about how y known as the power of death, I should probably talk about positive energy and negative energy

Positive and negative energy were the two y, and they countered and even resisted each other Positive energy were of ht and the power of nature Many upper planes’ angels and God Envoys would instinctively kno to use such a power They were called positive energy because not only were they aligned with the concept of Order, but they were also al; for exaht could cure injuries

Opposite to positive was negative energy Mostly due to the rise of the undead and undead y was now the equivalent of undead and the power of death This was a power har who came into contact with it However, this was the most important nourishment of all for the undead The true nature of the Undead Planes was siathered

For a nor thisrays, curses, intelligence-lowering spells, and other such attack ies only needed you to kno to imitate the model for the spell You only needed to create a specific type of negative energy and toss it out in a specialized fashi+on to attack your eney was the foundation of the undead as well as their nourishy would be far too insufficient for an undead reat ay As a es was to stop researching about the undead and to focus, instead, on becoy curses

It y curses were very powerful against the living yet were nothing but healing spells when used on the undead Were life and undeath truly that much in opposition to each other?

Perhaps this was only a natural phenoes, similar to how rain would only fall from dark clouds I, on the other hand, was quite interested in researching more about such topics like “Why do clouds for individual entered undeath, their body and even their soul would remain the same Did the difference between life and undeath lie only in whether they wereby the power of life or by the power of death? Were life and undeath representations of two diametrically opposite methods of existence?

Then as it that er than when they were living, while the undead were typically weaker than when they were alive? Developing one’s potential was so truly important Just what happened to one’s potential when one transfor hinges on the soul!”

When I was at my most crazy, I had conducted an equally crazy experile detail of the process one underhen they transformed into an undead Hundreds and hundreds of times I performed this experie conclusion

Back in inal world of Earth, there existed a theory that clairaraht of one’s soul Unlike Earth, however, this world really did have the provable existence of souls, as well as undead ic which could return a soul to its physical body… My conclusion was that after one transforht, but what they regained was definitely lower than 21 grainal body will bring back anywhere fro death it is unavoidable for your soul to shatter—you’ll lose a very tiny portion at the very minimum ”

After that, I conducted a series of life into undeath experiments with the help of my mortal enemies This included experiments that would si the living to howl in incredible pain as they directly turned into undead Yet I was still able to le undead individual’s soul would lose part of its weight—this fact was invariant

Was there anythat people lost part of their souls upon turning into undead? Heh heh! For any e was quite literally power It was all in how you used your knowledge

Not only did I obtain firsthand information on the transformation of one’s soul, I also coincidentally discovered that the lower an undead’s level was, the less their soul weighed when it returned to their body Typically only three to five grams of their soul remained Most of their soul shards naturally dissipated, while this so-called negative energy seemed to fill in the rest of the blanks

“In that case, I hypothesize that the more complete the soul is for an undead, the ht be that it’s the reverse The level of the undead determines how much of their soul and wisdom they can retain”

This type of research result doubtlessly matched what everyone already knew, that low-level undead were stupid while high-level undead were capable of retaining their intelligence and even memories from when they were alive However, just this result alone wasn’t enough to satisfyrather vicious

Fine then, the me at that time was indeed rather insane Otherwise, I wouldn’t have kidnapped two of the God of Holy Light’s heroic spirits to perform various experiments on them [2] 2

I dissected the two heroic spirits and extracted their souls before storing other souls in their vessels I tested if their bodies were capable of helping low-level undead retain more of their soul, placed the heroic spirits’ souls in other vessels, and so on By the time the two heroic spirits’ souls becaether, I had obtained enough experi data was quite astonishi+ng Heroic spirits had shockingly high nurara Saint-ranked individuals, I confir individuals had souls that weighed 21 grae even with a difference in power level In that case, it could only mean that when a soul transforht Since a decrease in the soul’s weight ht represent some sort of evolution or ascendancy?

The heroic spirits’ spiritual bodies were clearly much better than typical souls in all areas Just their souls alone had natural ic resistance, and they could increase the power level limit of whatever physical body they were in They could even switch between various physical bodies without worrying about their souls shattering… Fine then, I really did go overboard back in the day In the end, I turned those incredibly heroic spirits’ souls into nothing but spare parts

Now then In the end, I was left with this thought: If I was able to increase the soul’s weight, would I be able to create “undead” that were even stronger than heroic spirits?

And so, I confirmed my prerequisites and experimental method… Since heroic spirits were typically the result of an ordinary soul’s ascension, then what exactly happened during the process of ascension? What made a heroic spirit become a heroic spirit?

Was it that only the venerated that completed heroic deeds would be chosen by the Gods to becoht I was no theologist, I was a scien—er—a h experi as crazy as this could still become concrete experieted some famous heroes and used various cruel methods, plots, sometimes even direct colorious peak in their lives The first two hundred-ish only provided h-quality undead subordinates, while 219, a priest, truly succeeded in becole step of the process by which he became a heroic spirit

Sacrifice When he was pushed to despair by the brink, he ignited his own soul in order to protect his coht cut off the undead that were attacking his group, and at that nition? A noble spirit? No, no, no I es would never believe in such sayings Only sufficient evidence and samples e would accept as the concrete truth behind those false sayings

“The resolution and mindset to sacrifice hi, should be ‘Powerful eh to interfere with the world…’ I never expected for it to actually be the sah I received a result, I was a fastidious researcher who naturally wanted more than one sa to die just like this!” “I still have things I want to do!” “Is ic to forcefully inject such powerful thoughts into each of my experimental subjects so that they would be filled with powerful eht that I would be able to artificially create heroic spirits