884 Golden Heart Part 1 (1/2)

That time around, there was no resistance on the winged skeleton's part. The refining of the golden zombie had finally been completed. The golden heart harnessed great power and was sending them to every corner of his body. He could finally control his own powers freely. With that heart, he would be able to control any technique like human warriors, instead of relying on brute force in battles.

His spirit battle axe could finally be fully utilized!

The winged skull hesitated for a moment before summoning a jade skeleton to seek out Saleen's aura while he led the ancient warriors towards the right. Absorbing even more soul aura would allow his own heart to grow even more. What a strange evolution that the heart would not turn him into a human!

When the winged skeleton did not discover the traces of the enemy, he became emboldened and would turn the skeletons of magic beasts within a few miles of his path into ashes. The bones of the body that he had put together began to grow darker in color. It was originally the color of jade, but then, it looked like jade that had been discarded by mages for tens of thousands of years.

Amidst the dark colors, new spirit magic patterns were beginning to form. The patterns were extremely similar to those on the golden heart, except that they were finer in detail and formed three-dimensional structures that were interconnected in the bones.

Ancient warriors followed closely behind the winged skeleton while sorting out the materials that had been left behind by the skeletons of the magic beasts. Although these ancient warriors were grade-9 soldiers, they did not even have a single spatial equipment. When they obtained the gigantic whale horn or the scales of some magic beasts, they could only pass them on to the winged skeleton, who would casually open the death dimension to store the items.

The ashes of the skeletons of the magic beasts were sucked into the death dimension by the Underwater Storm that the winged skeleton created. The ashes were high quality materials for death magic.

The winged skeleton was a close-combat spirit of the dead and also a death mage. After absorbing the soul of a death mage and devouring the soul flame of a spirit king, by then, the winged skeleton was extremely familiar with spirit alchemy.

They spent an entire day walking slowly like that when an emptiness suddenly appeared in front of them. All the skeletons of the magic beasts had already been turned into ashes. The winged skeleton stopped and let the jade skeleton go ahead and scout.

Very soon, the jade skeleton returned and reported while bowing. ”Master, it is Nailisi's aura.”

The winged skeleton did not give any orders immediately, so the twenty-four ancient warriors stood upright behind him like puppets and did not make a sound. Soldier assessed his body. Only his feet were still dark gold in color. The rest of the bones in his body had already turned dark green in color. The magic patterns in the bones were no longer shiny and had turned black instead.

That was what a normal skeleton looked like! The winged skeleton grinned and checked the golden heart in his body. When the golden heart was formed again, it did not try to produce flesh and muscles on the body. It instead transformed itself into a state that suited the winged skeleton. Thirty-six golden tubes that looked like blood vessels grew out from the golden heart and latched onto the bones in his chest.

The entire chest cavity was occupied by the golden heart. Between the bones, spirit energy had already merged into a significantly heavy fluid that was slowly flowing within.

The winged skeleton stood there and took out a soul bead from death dimension. It was made from the human soul shards that he had been gathering for a long time. He did not mention it to Saleen. What he did was considered normal in the death dimension but was frowned upon on the Myers Mainland.

The winged skeleton removed the crystal mask and swallowed the soul bead. Once it entered the golden heart, it was quickly broken down into pure energy. The energy within the winged skeleton's body finally achieved a breakthrough from a state of saturation. The dark gold color on his feet faded quickly and was absorbed into the golden heart.

A grand and majestic sound came from the golden heart. It was as if millions of war drums were being played together at the same time. The sound was being contained within the chest cavity of the winged skeleton. He could feel his soul flame burning ferociously. In his eyes, a second color appeared amidst the black flames.

A white flame appeared within the winged skeleton's soul flame. The flames of both colors tangled together as they each tried to devour and repel the other. Finally, the winged skeleton's soul flame became twice as robust and turned into a flame that was between black and white.

Finally… the winged skeleton had become a spirit king!

The winged skeleton could not hide his joy. After becoming a spirit king, his death dimension would expand, and he would also be able to carry more powerful spirits with him. Back then, the Three Kings were able to lead tens of thousands of spirits into battle. The winged skeleton predicted that he would be able to match up against two spirit kings in one go. Besides, he was a creature that was soul-bonded to Saleen so on the Myers Mainland, he would not be restricted by the rule of power.

The rule of soul bonds would override the rule of power.

Spirit Kings might not be grade-10 creatures, but their combat abilities definitely surpassed that of grade-9 spirits of the dead. Even Nailisi's three-faced bone demon form would not be a match for a Spirit King, even though she had already devoured the soul flames of two of the Spirit Kings.

If Nailisi was able to gather all eight types of abilities and fully develop them, then there would be a chance that the powers of the two Spirit Kings could be increased and become her own abilities. Nailisi would never advance and would be stuck at grade-9 otherwise.

The winged skeleton looked towards the Imperial City of the Abyss. He vaguely felt fear, as if there were countless powerful spirits that were even more terrifying than a Spirit King. He could not understand why he felt that way even though he had just evolved.