Chapter 50 (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

When Negary said ‘humans’, his tone sounded the same as when people would say ‘bread’, causing the soldiers of Royas to feel a chill run down their spines.

“Attack!” Smick gave the order as his body became blurry and disappeared from sight. Several other people drew their knight’s swords and advanced towards Negary in a formation.

On the Royas soldiers’ uniforms, they had a belt that had various vials around the size of the thumb that carried all sorts of liquid inside.

The Royas soldiers skillfully pulled the vial with a red flowing liquid, threw it to the air and accurately slashed it with their knight’s swords.

The red liquid inside the vial flowed out and soaked the blade of their swords, forming a layer of eerie blood-colored fire that also gave off an ominous feeling.

〖 This power…〗Negary squinted his eyes as he observed the red flames. According to the information he had collected through the years, there were only two main types of supernatural powers in the Royas Kingdom.

The first was the [Respiratory Art] that was held by the aristocrats, while the other was hailed as the country’s ultimate weapons, the Ancestral Spirit Armors. From historical records, there were only about a dozen of these armors in the entirety of the Royas Kingdom, they were mostly normal armors that could be worn, but the key lies in the ‘Ancestral Spirit’ part of the name.

These so-called Ancestral Spirits were the past heroes of the Royas Kingdom. As they become close to death of old age, they would perform a ritual, using their lives as the sacrifice to turn themselves into the existence called Ancestral Spirits.

The craftsmen of the Royas Kingdom would then attach these Ancestral Spirits into a piece of armor. From then on, as long as a person is recognized by the Ancestral Spirit, they would be able to don the armor and obtain reinforcement from the Ancestral Spirit inside.

Each warrior who donned an Ancestral Spirit Armor were powerhouses on the battlefield that could rival a hundred soldiers by themselves.

When he found out about the existence of Ancestral Spirits, Negary was extremely intrigued. As far as he knew currently, after a human died, the True Spirit that represented their Origin would leave this world and leave behind the derived product that is the soul.

The remaining souls would mostly scatter by themselves and become a cluster of Soul Essence that contained their emotions before death as well as a part of their memories. If the corpse was mostly intact and if the soul was strong enough, they might become a remnant soul instead.

Newborn remnant souls are completely mindless, they simply lingered by their corpses and absorbed the Life Essence from the body to maintain their form. When Life Essence ran out and there wasn’t any replenishment, the remnant soul would be exposed to the environment and be scattered into Soul Essence.

In his past life, Negary once heard a certain joke, someone had said that he wasn’t afraid of ghosts, because he would also become a ghost if he was killed by one, how awkward would that be?

But in truth, after Negary killed someone, over half of their Life Essence would be absorbed by him, and if the remaining soul can’t even absorb their own Life Essence, they can’t even become a ghost, let alone a remnant soul. Furthermore, even if they could, a new-born, mindless remnant soul that only just awoke a random power would be nothing but food for a remnant soul that already had time to grow.

Other than that, Negary had never seen a soul left behind by a dead lifeform take any other forms. He did try to keep a True Spirit behind after a life was extinguished, but unfortunately, he had no way to control or restrain a True Spirit.

Since the Royas Kingdom’s Ancestral Spirit ritual seemed to be able to affect the True Spirit, Negary had been interested in learning about it.

But what he was witnessing the Royas soldiers use was a completely new kind of power. The information Negary obtained did mention that after Eldridge united all the forces within his country, he gathered excellent craftsmen and witches to try and create something.