844 Windfall Gain Part 1 (1/2)

The Mechanical Soul was lucky, as only the Ancient's core magic power furnace was still running. All the other defense mechanisms were no longer working. If every measure for combat on the ship was activated, even gods from the spirit realm would not have been able to have it under control, let alone a mechanical being.

The machine room was not the bottommost room. The bottommost floor was filled with a great number of hermetically sealed rooms, with their insides hollowed out. A great number of hibernating soldiers were stored in those rooms.

The Mechanical Soul's metallic tentacles extended further and further, devouring all machine parts it was able to find and assimilating them.

”Hahahaha! Saleen, just you wait...Arrghhh, oww, oww!!!”, the Mechanical Soul forgot its place and blue electrical sparks jumped from the broken jade deep within its soul flame, electrocuting it and teaching it a lesson.

”Master, your highness, forgive meee...”, the Mechanical Soul's body was so massive that the shock experienced ended up rocking the entire warship.

It was, of course, a given that Saleen had not been watching it all the time. It finally calmed down after spending a good amount of time getting frightened, vowing to itself that it would never speak ill of Saleen behind his back ever again.

The area devoured by the Mechanical Soul got larger and larger, its inherent properties growing stronger and stronger. The quality of ancient alchemic machinery was such that it could hardly be damaged by magic, yet it was nonetheless being assimilated by the Mechanical Soul quickly and without a glitch, turning the materials into spirit metals. The Mechanical Soul then went for all of the hold's metallic parts after it finished devouring all the mechanical parts.

Walls, floors, defensive interlayer, pillars...

There was a total of eighteen floors underneath the vessel armor of the Ancient, and the Mechanical Soul worked its way from the bottommost layer. Storage bays, auxiliary power rooms, and the sealed rooms containing the ancient warriors, began appearing above the power room.

Those things seemed to have been locked up in the Ancient by force during the first dynasty. The ancient warriors had laid there in wait since, waiting for orders from their commanding officers, to fight for the first dynasty.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

The Mechanical Soul dared not even touch the ancient warriors. It simply devoured the outer layers of the rooms they were stored in, wrapping them up and preventing even the slightest bit of air getting in. It continued working its way upward, devouring the entire warship. The Ancient, which was a massive warship of a mile long and three-hundred yards wide, ended up devoured by the Mechanical Soul.

The Mechanical Soul was something capable of growing to the size of mountains on the spirit plane. Devouring one such warship was nowhere near its limit. The largest Mechanical Souls in existence were capable of reaching several thousand yards tall and stretched for thousands of miles. Any spirit passing by would have ended as food for one such mechanical being.

Mechanical Souls were also able to create doubles, creating another copy of themselves using just a wisp of soul flame.

Other spirits did not dare split their soul flames, as doing so would severely damaged their souls. The split flame would not be their other selves; these split flames would, instead, end up as newly reborn independent spirits, which would have attacked their originals, in attempts to meld into one complete flame.

If a spirit was to be devoured by a spirit spawned from their pieces of split flames, said spirit would end up truly dead, disappearing from the spirit plane for good.

The Mechanical Soul's special feature at creating doubles allowed it to slaughter spirits at frightening speeds. It felt its power being restored, as its previous act of creating doubles reduced its level. It now had returned to grade-7.

The golden soul flame with the Mechanical Soul jumped for a bit before expanding by ten times. The Mechanical Soul split ten pieces of flames without a second thought, which turned into ten human shaped puppets. The puppets were all three yards tall each and looked rotund. They began making for each and every corner of the ship after being split from the main body. The three topmost floors were opened up by Cloudflow people and were under their control.

The Mechanical Soul's doubles charged upwards, and two of the doubles tried cursing at Saleen; those two blew up soon after. Their soul flames got blasted into pieces by streaks of blue electrical sparks in them, killing them instantly.

The experiment proved to be a failure, so it left the Mechanical Soul no choice but to take direct control of the puppets. It had them devour the metal puppets of the Cloudflow people. They also devoured each and every piece of magic equipment they were able to find.

As the Mechanical Soul's level rose, so did the number of rooms put under its control. All parts of the ship below the three topmost levels ended up being a part of the Mechanical Soul.

The three topmost floors were almost taken apart entirely by the Cloudflow people, and were installed with rooms of their design. Those places were hardly of any value to the Mechanical Soul. The Mechanical Soul's level eventually stagnated at grade-9. Due to it being a slave of Saleen, it was not able to advance to grade-10. The Mechanical Soul could not help but cursed after discovering the fact, but it did not dare directing those curses at Saleen; they were instead directed at the Cloudflow people. It cursed viciously and repeatedly at the Cloudflow people in the spirit tongue. It had even created hundreds of doubles just for that.

Nailisi and Nicholas had cleaned up the rooms above. The thousands of spirits from the Dragon Skeleton Combat Vessel fought to the very end. There were less than two-hundred of them left when the fight was over.

The Dragon Skeleton Combat Vessel stayed lodged into the deck instead of returning to sea. Several hundreds of the Mechanical Soul's doubles boarded the vessel and bowed before Saleen.

”All of you, follow Soldier from here on out,” Saleen gave the command to the doubles to the winged skeleton, as he did not want the trouble of taking charge of them things. The Mechanical Soul's temperament was akin to a human thug's, which proved incessantly annoying to Saleen.