They all call me master

North County, under a place covered by ice and snow all year round.

In a hidden tomb, a tallow candle as thick as an arm brought light to the entire tomb, illuminating the demi-lich with a shriveled body and exposed eyeballs and gums.

Anyone who sees this demilich will be horrified.

Not only is the fear inherent in biological instincts, but also the curiosity originating from the depths of the soul.

because--

It's tattooing itself.

With the burning 'soul fire' as the source, it burned the bones and skin of the whole body. When the bones of the whole body began to melt and the skin also began to burn, this demi-lich began to control the 'soul power' with his thoughts, in his own body. The area of ​​skin that burned the most was tattooed.

The mysterious and complex lines are composed of 19.64 million points.

Every stab brings pain to the soul.

But for William, as long as he could return to the young master, this pain was nothing at all.

It itself lives for the young master.

Without the young master, it would be better to be dead.

Now that the young master is waiting for it, why does it have any hesitation?

After 19,640,000 'needle pricks' on the skin, the burning of the 'soul fire' continues, and the burning of the skin continues, but under the burning, the skin that is about to dry up is It became clean and translucent. When the skin was once again attached to the 'face', the melted skull began to reshape, and a middle-aged face with a slightly thin but extremely capable face appeared.

This is not William's original face, but a modified one.

William knew very well that he was returning to the young master, not bringing trouble to the young master.

Therefore, a change in appearance becomes necessary.

Feeling that the face was still slightly stiff, William was not anxious. He took a deep breath, and the sharper 'soul power' began to carve on the skull.

It’s different from the ‘dots’ in previous tattoos.

This time, it seemed to be 'scratching' with a knife.

Stroke again and again.

The dark and shriveled bones gradually became as white as jade, and had a strange sense of vitality. The 'face' that fitted them also became vibrant and vivid.

When the last knife fell, William stopped.

It's not that the pain is unbearable, but that the 'soul power' is consumed too much.

Even if it is a nearly immortal demi-lich, when it comes to transforming the remaining body into a demi-lich in a 'pure way', it cannot be completed at once.

It needs to be done in stages, bit by bit.

But it doesn't feel hard.

Because, when resting, it can miss the young master.

Such longing will become its endless motivation.

Just like before, William's soul beat slowly and began to recover in a way unique to the lich, but the next moment, this slow soul turned into excitement.

because--

‘William, are you there? ’

In the resonance of the soul contract, the young master's voice clearly penetrated into the depths of the demilich's soul.

'At your service at all times, Master. ’

The demilich who was originally lying in the bronze coffin stood up straight and bowed in the direction of Nanlos.

'How are you? ’

The gentle and sincere greeting brought tears to the demilich's eyes, although it had no tears.

‘As your brilliance shines upon me, everything is fine with me, and the transformation of the half-zombie demon is extremely smooth. I think it won’t be long before I can return to you. ’

The demilich answered truthfully.

'That's good! ’

Full of joyful expectations, the demi-lich was so motivated that it wanted to immediately start the transformation into a demi-ghou again, but it held back.

This is the first formal conversation with the young master thousands of miles away.

It must be cherished.

‘William, what do you think about putting other souls into a corpse to act as energy source for ‘Destroying Evil’? ’

Facing the young master's question, the lich was even more delighted.

It's great that even though it's thousands of miles away, it can still help the young master solve his problems.

'Master, you need to use the 'soul extraction technique', 'soul control technique', 'soul absorption technique', and some simple 'corpse refining techniques'...'

The demi-lich began to explain incessantly.

They are all secret techniques based on the advancement of ‘power of death’.

For other people, each of these advanced secret techniques requires countless time and careful attempts, but for Arthur, who has a talent that is not part of this world, such as [Breath of Death], listening to it once is enough. It's all done.

[Soul Extraction Technique: When the corpse is dead for less than 1 hour and the soul has not completely dissipated, you can extract the other party’s soul]

[Soul Control Technique: When faced with extracted souls or undead souls that are ignorant enough to break into your territory, you can use the 'breath of death' to whip them and make them feel the pain that is worse than death. When the pain reaches the extreme, the opponent's will dissipates. , you can control them and make them obey your orders, but you cannot prevent them from dissipating after 6 hours]

[Soul Absorbing Technique: The soul that is about to dissipate will emit unique energy and nourish the space it is in. You can effectively use this energy to nourish the things you like, but you cannot make dead things come alive. Creatures nourished by soul power will be impacted by the soul]

[Corpse Refining Technique: Using the 'breath of death' as ​​one of the core secret techniques for advancement, you can choose corpses that have been dead for no more than 6 hours to be spliced ​​together at will, or repair the original corpse, and when you infuse it with 'soul absorbing' When the energy brought by the spell is used, it can "come alive" for a short time, taking on the posture of a living creature, but it will not change the nature of the deceased.]

…

Arthur looked at the advanced techniques belonging to the 'breath of death' that appeared under [Death Techniques]. According to William's account, except for the [Corpse Refining Technique] which he accidentally collected, the rest of these techniques were [ [Soul Drawing Technique], [Soul Controlling Technique], and [Soul Absorbing Technique] were all discovered by it in the 'Sanke Family'.

‘The Sank family?

Tsk, hunter family?

This is darker and more pure than the dark wizard family! ’

Arthur looked at the three secret arts and roughly guessed what the Sank family wanted to do.

It's nothing more than coveting the "Book of Death" in the hands of old Sank.

The 'Sank family' had already thought of killing Old Sank and directly extracting his soul and interrogating them, but they were too direct and were discovered by Old Sank.

Old Sank came to the rescue very simply.

In fact, if the 'Sank family' is more patient, they won't need this at all. As long as they wait, maybe old Sank will leave everything to them.

pity……

‘Greedy! ’

The young 'psychic medium' sighed like this.

Then, an idea in my mind became clearer.

However, he was not in a hurry.

Instead, he said goodbye to William softly——

‘William, I look forward to your return. ’

‘Okay, Master. ’

The demilich said solemnly.

The originally sluggish 'soul power' rose again at this moment, not to mention being quickly replenished, it also exceeded it by a lot.

Aberrants are terrifying.

Fanatics are terrible.

As for the deformed fanatics, no one can understand what they or they can achieve.

Arthur didn't understand either.

But he will wait patiently and give William appropriate encouragement.

After all, he is the one William believes in!

After sensing that William began to 'brand himself' again through the soul contract, Arthur couldn't help but stretch and stood up from the chair.

My subordinates have all worked so hard.

Of course he had to do something.