Chapter 144: Reaching Further Territories (1/2)

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[Day 95]

It has been four days since everyone evolved or got Dragon Marks, and we had been slowly reaching farther territories that not even Draugann has reached through the commodity of our floating ice fortress.

Benladann's parents have been resting most of the time, although whenever she had tried to speak with them, they would be able to barely whisper her name and then feel too weak to do anything else.

For now, we are nourishing them with our mana, and I am feeding them phantom mass.

What is Phantom Mass? Well, it is something I've discovered that forms around a bare soul when it moves around the world while it has yet to become a monster or an undead or whatever.

This mass forms naturally, and it is an excess of mana accumulated around the surface of a soul.

By grabbing wandering souls, extracting their phantom mass, and accumulating it into a ball, we can use this particular ingredient to nourish weakened souls such as Benladann's parents.

After four days of doing that, her parent's souls seem way bigger and less damaged, but they still require sleep.

I have decided to enchant Benladann's weapons by pouring my blood over them and then creating several runes of Protection and Defense and Magic Defense, making it all even stronger and protecting the souls inside even better.

Runes are easy to make for me now that I am Rank 3, by concentrating mana into a place, a rune pops up, and based on what I desire it to be, it might enhance defense, attack, and so on. And no, I can't do it over people, it won't work, or me either.

I can only make as much before it becomes a strain to the item, so there was a limit.

Meanwhile, I've been practicing Death Attribute Magic while trying to get Null Magic. But it seems that I require to enhance my Mana Core, even more, to get to Null Magic.

According to Draugann, Null Magic is a magic that only those without any magic affinity can use, no element at all either…

It is a special element-less magic, which costs several times the amount of mana that element spells would cost.

For now, I don't have much interest in it, as I've been eating Rank 1 Mana Cores to enhance the cultivation of my death/null mana core, the result? It has reached Upper Sage just now.

My Death Magic had become comparatively stronger as well, although we should get to the basics of its use and what Death Magic truly is in this world.

No, it doesn't make instant death or something, that's not how death magic works.

Death Magic is based on the concept of the attribute of death, if there is a life attribute, there is also a death attribute.

The Life Attribute encompasses the control and nourishment of life and nature. It can help some control plants and tame them, some can learn healing spells, others can learn enchantment spells that enhance the five senses, muscles, and so on, and others can learn the ability to cure diseases.

In this case, Death Attribute does the opposite.