With the beam skeleton now dead their souls began to rise out of their bones. Valna reached out her hand and the souls flew towards her. Valna felt a hand touch her shoulder which scared her causing her to instinctively jump in the opposite direction.

“Let your guard down did huh. Give me one of those souls and send rest along with the bones to the back home. I’ll use them to make weapons and armor for you next time.” said Zero who was still covered in darkness making him appear as a shadowy silhouette.

“Why do you look like that?” asked Valna

“Don’t worry too much about it I’m experimenting with my abilities a bit. I’ll also want a soul from one of those red skeletons.” explained Zero as he disappeared back into the ground after grabbing a soul.

Valna released a black fog that blanketed the souls and bones. The fog then receded after covering all the souls and bones and when the fog was gone so were the souls and bones.

Valna crafted another magic circle and with a wave of her hand, a light breeze blew towards the red skeletons. When the light breeze reached the skeleton it disappeared and a shockwave explosion occurred. The shockwave explosion decimated the red skeletons who had raised their shield up to defend against the fairies. With the skeletons now knocked to the ground, the fairies had an easy time picking them off.

With the red skeletons dead Valna pulled 1 soul into her hand while releasing the fog to absorb the rest of the souls and the bodies. After her fog dissipated she released the soul which was drawn to a Zero who appeared out of the shadows.

“That was quite impressive. What was that?” asked Zero

“A vacuum arrow made of compressed air.” answered Valna

“So have you gotten used to your new body?” asked Zero as he dropped the soul into his shadow which absorbed it.

The fairies flew down and circled around Valna now that the threat was gone. Zero looked at the fairies and asked, “Are they alive or are they just non-living creatures made of magic?”

“They’re actually living creatures who I summoned to assist me.” answered Valna

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“Hmm.” said Zero as he rubbed his chin thinking of an idea while smiling. He then peered into the fairies and saw what he was looking for. These fairies did have souls so he could summon and harvest some fairy souls in the future.

Zero then turned away and began walking to the next area. As they walked they meet with another horde of enemies this one being composed of the Lilith which were higher ranked succubi and Erinys like what Valna used to be. The Lilith were identical to succubi with the exception that they had a white color scheme as opposed to the red for a succubus. The Erinys wore identical armor that Valna wore but they all looked different.

However, rather than fight the 2 the monsters all bowed down before Zero and Valna. Zero waved his hand and created a portal and ordered the monster to enter.

“I’m surprised the Erinys bowed down to you.” said Zero

“Why wouldn’t they? The divine follow hierarchy same as demons. The weak follow the commands of the strong.” retorted Valna

“So ultimately there’s no difference between the 2 forces. Anyways we’ve wasted enough time here let’s go. The next area should be the last one before we reach the boss.” said Zero as he proceeded to the next area.

The next area was identical to the previous ones except it was filled with final guards and shadow knights.

“I’ll take care of these.” said Zero as he stepped towards the knights.

“Sure, I don’t really care.” said Valna as she yawned.

Zero walked towards the armored knights and they opened a path for him to walk until he reached the center and was surrounded by the armor knights. A final guard charged at Zero and slashed down trying to cut Zero in half but Zero caught the blade as if it were nothing. Zero held the blade tight as he kicked the knight away forcing it to release the blade. The knight flew back at an impossible speed and crashed into other knights cause a few to be knocked over.

With a blade in hand, Zero motioned for the knights to attack which they obliged by all charging at him. Zero watched as the knights slowly charged at him. From his perspective, they were slow and weak which showed him how much he’d improved since his first fight against them.

Want to finish this up quickly Zero activated his time-stop ability freezing the knights and the fairies but leaving Valna untouched. Zero summoned Death’s shadow and together charged at the frozen knight bisecting and defeating them in a matter of minutes. Deactivating his ability the defeated knights collapsed to the ground releasing their souls. Zero snapped his finger creating multiple portals the sucked up the armor, weapons, and souls of the knights.

“You didn’t need to stop time for weaklings like them. You could have easily defeated them without it so why did you do that?” asked Valna

“Most powerful enemies here are immune to time stopping so I don’t get to use it much. I wanted to use it for a bit and it saves me time and stamina.” answered Zero

A giant door was at the end of the pathway. Valna looked and asked, “So that’s where the thing we need to kill resides?”

“Yes, it’s behind that door. I’ll start preparing now so guard me as I consume some souls.” said Zero as he produced the souls from his shadow.

“Alright but don’t waste too much time.” said Valna

Zero sat down on the ground and ordered the system to begin consuming the 2 souls.

BEAM SKELETON SOUL & BLOOD SKELETON KNIGHT SOUL CONSUMED

CONFIRMED

USER STAT INCREASED

STAT INCREASE STRENGTH: +3,100, SPEED: +2,154, MAGIC ENERGY: +200,000, VITALITY: +300,000

SOUL RANK INCREASED FROM C TO C+

SKILLS: CURSING INDUCEMENT, PHANTASM LORDSHIP, SKELETAL LORDSHIP, PHANTASM MANIPULATION, BONE MANIPULATION, UNDEAD CONVERSION, PHOTOKINESIS GAINED

PASSIVE SKILLS: INFINITE STAMINA, PAIN SUPPRESSION, TEMPERATURE IMMUNITY GAINED

SKILLS PHANTASM LORDSHIP & SKELETAL LORDSHIP MERGED INTO SKILL DARK ENTITY LORDSHIP (VAMPIRE, REAPER, DEMON)

SKILLS CURSING INDUCEMENT, PHANTASM MANIPULATION, BONE MANIPULATION MERGED INTO SKILL DEATH MAGIC

SKILL UNDEAD CONVERSION MERGED INTO SKILL CONVERSION RESURRECTION

PASSIVE SKILLS INFINITE STAMINA, PAIN SUPPRESSION, TEMPERATURE IMMUNITY MERGED INTO SKILL ABSOLUTE CONDITION