Conquer - Chapter 243

Argh, cleaning this up will take a long time. We were called to protect the nearby kingdoms from falling down due to the armies attacking everywhere. It was a pretty tall order seeing how we all split up.

I haven’t found alone for a long time so this is a nice change of pace.

I was scouting the whole area first trying to figure out certain points here and there. I saw some mages gathering some energy. I was just trying to figure out how to approach this.

I then remembered Zieglind’s performance earlier which I’m not that surprised. He did grow strong. Extremely powerful. But I wasn’t surprised in the least.

It just made more… have more goals to achieve. I just don’t want to fall behind. In all of the battles, I haven’t been successfully doing the work that I was intended to do in the first place. That’s why I will take pride in what I do and further hone it.

I won’t be left behind again.

For the past months that we have been training and gathering monsters more and more… I wasn’t just taming them and then caging them. I have been experimenting a lot and I can say that all of it was a perfect success.

I discovered a skill when I leveled up to level 543. “Soul Tap.” Those I’ve killed, I can store their souls in a bottle.

I then went on to Lam to discover what this meant. But all it does is just add the existing characteristics of the monsters into something.

I was pretty disappointed at first but nothing can be done. But then… I tried combining two souls and I’ve created a new species.

Apparently, this is a skill exclusive to the Valkyrie class. The class that I got once I got the gazer form for Zieglind.

They harvest souls to deliver it to the heavens above.

But in my case, I use those souls to further improve myself.

I first tried applying it to a weapon.

Using a goblin soul, I attacked a dummy with a dagger with the goblin soul inside of it and a system message popped up, [Rope stolen from Training Dummy.]

I was amazed seeing how the effects are absolutely amazing. So I tried more and more monsters to use for the weapons.

I asked Ruz and Ruf to make me hundreds of weapons and hundreds of armor so that I can try the effects of the souls of the monsters once I imbue it with the armor.

Orcs gives the enemy hunger and dehydration status for several seconds but it then reverts them to their normal states.

I tried going up a higher level of monsters. First, wraiths, imbued within the weapon, applied a ‘harvest’ effect on the monsters. Once I hit them again, they take extra bonus damage.

So I was pumped up to gather more monsters to use. So I hunted and hunted while also capturing some that I don’t need.

I gathered a large collection of souls until I found the perfect combination for my whole set.

I gathered every Xend material I could get from Lam and all the other ingredients was bought in the sky island. I got Rize to do it for me since she has access to that place.

After forging for a long time… Ruz and Ruf told me that this was their best creation. The ultimate armor they forged and a rarity that was attached…

[Ancient]

The rarest and most powerful rarity out there and these two blacksmiths made it for me. The next thing I had to do was put all of the monster souls inside the weapon.

I put wraith, bonus damage if I continue to attack, mimic, able to transform the weapon into another weapon using the base stats of the said weapon, dragon’s head, I just bought the 10,000 gold dragon in the city far away from here and killed it. It was an elemental dragon which was incredibly powerful. This rock dragon gave invulnerability on my weapon. It won’t be broken and its toughness is unparalleled. And final the final one, banshee’s soul. It ignores all defenses except for barriers and such.

For the armor… It was a beautiful thing made by the both of them. Its a silver colored armor with a combination of red.

Instead of the typical pants, they gave me a skirt. And it looks like a skirt that you see on weddings seeing how large it is. Apparently, it fits me like a princess. I was about to hit the both of them but I couldn’t ignore how well they’ve done for me. So I just accepted it.

I added a bunch of monsters in the whole armor set from tens of monsters and I equipped it.

And the best part of this armor, its a living being. It doesn’t speak or anything but it listens to my commands. “Equip.”

Parts of it flew and then equipped it on myself. And finally, the best thing that Ruz and Ruf made according to them… is the wings.

I couldn’t fly while I was equipping this since I told them about the Gazer form so they tried to make their own. And they succeeded. A feat that they thought were impossible.

The flight speed that they made was slow. Incredibly slow. It was like gliding but not really. But they’re nearing the completion of that. So that’s why I grabbed a wind spirit that we found at the top of the mountains on the east and applied it on the wings and I could fly like I was in Gazer form. Unrestricted, and fast.

I held the sword that they both made me and as I was just thinking of what weapon I’d like, it instantly changed into a scythe.

I held it close to me and rushed to the ground, “Gathering Storm!” A wind magic that gathers everything towards me in full force.

None of them could escape or run away. They were trying to, but the sheer strength of the wind prevented them from doing that. “Giant Slayer!”

My weapon grew considerably large and with just a single swing, I reaped through their bodies like it was nothing.

Several mages on the distance. I wanted to change to bows but I don’t know how to shoot. So I instinctively changed into a javelin in which I threw straight at one of the mages to cancel their casting.

I rushed over to there and grabbed the javelin and changed into a sword and shield, “Taunt!”

I gathered all the attention of the mages. Taunt forces enemies to attack, but they can’t use spells or anything against me for a short period of time that they are taunted.

I took on their attacks head on and I could barely feel a thing. I then notice that my armor was shining. This was due to the effect of the slime. I gain increased regeneration but that’s not all.

The damage I took from the last five seconds, I can give it all back to all the enemies that were around me. And so I did.

Everything around me was knocked back and some died due to the waves. This has a long ability cooldown since it needs to recharge back, but its a safe guard to keep me away from enemies if things go crazy.

Whatever those mages at the points that I’ve seen they’re doing, I’m sure it isn’t good. So I’m going to ignore these monsters and head over to there.

There’s a tough barrier barricading their casting and I was suddenly encased in a transparent cube of barrier.

Using the ability the night stalker monsters gave me, I easily phased through their barriers. I killed them from the inside in which stopped whatever they were doing.

I did the same to the other ones which was pretty easy and I didn’t really do much.

I killed the rest of them and I tried to harvest souls but I couldn’t get anything. It seems that these monsters are… being controlled?

But those mages are humans and some are… elves.

So they were all puppets? It seems that I have to report this.

I travelled back to Izgoy and I saw Rize was there. I was about to go near her until suddenly, arrows were suddenly launched at me. I looked around and saw that Izgoy was surrounded by monsters.

None of this is ours. What’s going on..?

I flew over to Rize and asked her about it but it seems that she had no clue either. I went to Lam next and told him to contact the rest of the group.

I then saw in the distance, Zeraph, Zieglind and Herold fighting off that horde. I was about to go there until Rize stopped me, it seems that they don’t want us to go. Let’s just support them from here.

What is happening right now..?