NOVPUB"Sky chess, a single move can through heaven into turmoil"
The lady opposite King yunas commented casually with a smile on her face.
Back in sky Palace, no one would dare Challange him so casually in the game of sky chess.
Sky chess was not your ordinary chess game that common folk were use to. Instead of 16 pieces per person, this one had 40. Giving it a totally of 80 pieces completely eclipsing the 32 on a normal chess board.
"Here!!" King yunas moved a piece forward with thrill. He saw an opening in his mind in the split second between him playing his next move and giving up.
"Are you sure about that move?" the lady asked mockingly
This move was the stupidest move she could think of. Probably she thought too highly of this Yunas because of his power level...
"Ahhh? Did I make a mistake?" Yunas scratched his chin in confusion. His previous move was the best one he could think of at the moment, but if she was saying it was a bad move then...
"Hmmm, its to be expected. After all, you aren’t that well versed in the circle codex" the lady from the sky temple shurrgd then streched her hand forward to make a move.
—fuuuuuuuuu
A gust of wind picked up in the pavilion and pushed all the pieces to the floor on front of the marquee.
"Hmmm, I see" Yunas stood up immediately and nodded his head. At that moment he turned to the marquee and said
"Let’s go"
He had lost, and was bleeding from his left nostril, the lady was just too good.
Soon the king and marquee left the pavilion leaving only the lady and the sky chess board.
"We are going to have to make a move sooner or later"
While she sat in silence, the voice of a young man resounded next to her as her student appeared right beside her.
"I know, but I would like to see how far he has gone in his magic formation path" the lady responded as she looked blankly into the sky before them.
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"Are you dumb? Why would it be like that? Fuck!!! Who gave you all you have? Are you a fraud?"
Inside of Badur’s gates, the sorcerer berated Leon like a four year old child. Teaching Leon the way of the sorcerer and the concepts that guided the path was a pain in the ass.
"Uhhhhh" Leon looked blankly at the sorcerer’s annoyed face. He was only asking questions? Was there a need for him to berat him as such?
"Shit!! Are you dumb ?" The sorcerer doubled down, he was clearly feeling superior at the moment considering their teacher student relationship at the moment.
"There’s nothing in our contract that says I can’t make your remaining days in this dungeon a living hell. I hope you know that " Leon grew tired of the berating and threatened. He didn’t know what had gotten into the sorcerer’s head, but he wouldn’t take it laying down.
"Hmmm," realising that he had gone a bit too far the sorcerer stopped his berating and explained the concepts to Leon slowly once again.
He had tasted Leon’s torture methods and honestly would rather not go through It once again.
After some time passed Leon nodded and made his way out of Badur’s Gate with a serious look on his face.
Honestly he would rather not go through this method if he had the options. It was just too excruciating and dangerous, but he would risk it, after all it stated in the contract that the sorcerer couldn’t intentionally do him harm.
So he believed it was relatively safe.
"An alter of summons" Leon took off the flower shaped necklace from his neck and dangled it before Lilians body.
The process of consuming souls was different for those who were just beginning and those who were already veterans at it.
For beginner they needed to pick their first source with utmost meticulousness so as to get the best outcomes.
For example, the alter was supposed to be a treasure or herlom that was held a significantly importance to the first victim. Without it there was no way to summon the soul.
Leon only got to know the importance of this necklace he has picked randomly when he viewed the memories of Lilian. Luckily he had picked it up.
"True name, Lilian. Mage of miracle I summon thy soul to participate in this ritual. A ritual of true essences , a ritual of the soul. Come forth!!! So your soul will finally be united with its true purpose....."
Leon started a long chant that first sounded like gibberish, but soon evolved to a magical and ancient summons that could shake the soul of whomsoever heard it.
A language so old that not even the mage of miracle couldn’t understand if she heard it.
But her soul understood it.
So it responded with a slight shake and tussle that made the expression of the mage to contort.
She was in a deep sleep but she wasn’t dead. Leon needed to be more careful not to wake up this monsterous being.
"Next step" Leon said with a frown. The summons alone was not enough to call Forth the soul of lilian, Leon had to present a safe and attractive environment for this to happen.
"Good thing I am always stocked with herbs" Leon said to himself before pulling out a few herbs and ornaments. Even the sorcerer was shocked when Leon said he had all these herbs in stock.
These herbs were insanely rare and one would need to transverse the whole of eldoria to be able to find them. Luckily Leon met most of them in the faystone mansion.
The mystery of how these herbs and special creatures got to the faystone mansion was still there. But who wad Leon to question madam fate when she offered him opportunities.
"Come!!! Come and meet your fate.....come and be whole" Leon Pronounced after producing all the preparations he had.
Naturally this process could be made much easier if Leon had other things but what he had was enough for him.
From a slight rattle to a violent shake the soul of Lilian began moving. There was no rational to its decision to leave its physical body.
But the soul had its own primitive nature, without the rational of the mind and body to stop it, it would respond to external stimuli forgetting whether it meat harm to it.
—WOOSH
before Leon’s very eyes, the soul of lilian emerged from her body slowly and hovered over her bed.
"Come forth and accept your fate!!! Come forth and be whole!!" Seeing this scene Leon became absolutely thrilled.
It was working, all he needed to do now was swallow her soul and not only would he gain the essence of the purple heart eternal flower, he could also successfully gain the ability to consume and manipulate souls giving him another layer of power.
"Ahhhhhh"
While Leon daydreamed about the benefits that would come from his new found powers and elongated life a screech of the likes he had never seen before resounded in the hall as the soul of lilian rushed into Leon’s body through his mouth.
"Hm?" Leon was momentarily stunned with widened eyes. It went in voluntarily? This wasn’t normal right ?
"Shit!!!" Leon immediately winced in pain as he felt his soul and body ache. The soul was trying to take over his body?
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!" Leon screamed In pain and struggle. He had never felt this weak and powerless before, except for when his soul was extracted. This was a massive error on Leon’s part, he was too careless and didn’t think this all the way through.
if the soul was really trying to overtake him then it was really bad..
"No....that’s not it," after a few seconds of painfully turning around on the floor trying to figure a way out of this Leon started understanding that this was not the case.
The soul of lilian wasn’t actively trying to take over, it was still In its dormant stage.....the real reason this was happening was because Leon was too weak.
He had tried to consume the soul of a level 5 mage with no prior training in the path of soul energy manipulation.
[Ding!!!!
Host is at the step of life and death.
Requesting permission to scan system archives for solution.
]
The system resounded in Leon’s ear.
There was a protocol Leon placed in the system to save him if he were to ever face something like this. Tne system had its uses at the end of the day.
"Permission granted under supervision of admin"
Leon gritted his teeth and spoke. Even at deaths door he want to still keep the system in check.
[Ding!!!
Processing....
Processing.....
Compiling.....
Half solution found: filtered down version of soul will be stored in alter for future absorption using forbidden grade X Spell.
Guardian angle.
Permission to proceed
]
The system resounded.
"Permission granted"
Unable to bear the pain any longer Leon gave the system permission before going unconscious
A little while later, the ethereal figure of a young lady in a white dress with lifeless eyes appeared behind Leon looking over him
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