Chapter 302 – Death is like the wind, always with you.

“There is no scent of the living.”

“Is it the undead? No, it shouldn’t be.”

“The resurrected dead will lose their memories and sanity from before they were born, and even if they manage to retain them, they will lose that emotional warmth, not to mention protecting ordinary people.”

“Then ……”

“Is it a controlled puppet?”

“The alchemical product of a sorcerer?”

“Strength-wise, it should be at the level of a medium sorcerer’s apprentice.”

Day and night in the wizarding world are not divided.

The sky was covered with a gloomy deathly aura, and neither the brilliant daylight nor the crimson moonlight could penetrate the dark gloom.

Only a few times.

It took a hurricane such as the one set off by the bone dragon last time to briefly stir up a void.

So that the sun and the moon will return to the light of the distant past.

Splat–

Splat–

“G.I. Joe left.

It claimed that there were still villages that were suffering and that, as agents of justice, they must go to the rescue as soon as possible.

In the sticky darkness, the brave man sets out on his journey alone, his rusty armor and longsword with many gaping holes adding a bit of sadness to the slump.

Scarlet carrion was trampled.

Pale bones were trampled.

Looking at a back like that, the Xu system fell into deep thought.

“Although it doesn’t have the power of a brave man, this power of righteous action has a few shades of a brave man.”

“Obviously not really human ……”

The Hsu system lamented.

He wondered what kind of living individual was inside that fine steel armor.

But not normal living people, to be sure.

According to the usual human thinking, this is heresy and belongs to the category of deviants that must be removed, but herein lies the grotesqueness of reality, where beings seen as deviants are constantly rescuing humanity.

Whether it’s a set program.

Or is there another target.

This act of kindness is all real.

“The so-called destiny is so marvelous.”

“When a fake brave person performs the righteous act of a true brave person, then the truth becomes unimportant.”

Gale force winds raise dust and sand.

Xu System spread his hands, and there were sparse bone fragments that fell onto his palms, rough in texture and rolling along the lines of his palms.

He went into the village and town to resupply his supplies, as originally planned.

Then leave again.

Due to the influence of that “brave man”, there were no more undead near the village, and Xu was ready to travel further into the realm to obtain enough soul fire for cultivation.

First Ring Sorcery – Undead Summoning.

First Ring Sorcery – Skeletal Reorganization.

First Ring Sorcery – Bone Reduction.

Intense soul power surged, calling out to communicate with the endless underworld and constructing a brand new featherless bone bird with a strand of soul fire as its core.

It bent its head.

Let the Xu system ascend to its head.

Carrying the Xu system, he flew to an even more distant region.

On the way, the ghostly cold wind blew fiercely, but it was blocked by an invisible barrier.

The Xu system’s eyes gazed calmly as the dark dome churned and swept, dropping dark green raindrops from time to time, corroding deep into the pitted earth.

This is a world that has been eroded to an extreme depth.

Maybe it won’t take long.

Even before ending the simulation.

It would be completely assimilated into the underworld.

Absorbed into one of the countless realms of souls reduced to the Underworld.

“The good thing is, life will find its own way out, and even the purely living can survive in the Endless Underworld.”

“It’s just that a drastic change in heaven and earth like that is ultimately too dangerous for ordinary people.”

“The undead of the Underworld can be much more terrifying than the undead apocalypse of the Wizarding World.”

The Xu system stared at the sky for a long time.

Flipping his wrist, he removed a rudimentary topographical map.

It was information he had exchanged with a few sorcerer apprentices while living in the small town, and it recorded, in part, the locations of sorcerer organizations and human kingdoms.

The next target for the Hsu system.

It is the Kingdom of Ahoka, which is known as the “Land of the Lions” and has a four-ringed wizard’s tower.

“Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some information that’s useful enough.”

“Conditions permitting, my future sorcerer’s tower can also be set up in the Kingdom of A’oka, as long as it allows me to study souls in peace.”

A quick glance over the topographic map.

The Xu system took it into its arms.

Prepare to continue to find gatherings of the more undead and send them back to their old home in the Underworld as you travel.

“I, for one, just have a good heart and can’t see them homeless.”

……

[Death is like the wind, always with you]

[Leaden gray skies, perennial drops of horrible rain, corrupting your mount at every turn]

[Good thing, you have plenty of bone material and enough soul fire reserves to do a seamless repair of the bone bird and keep it flying at high speed for a long time]

[While flying, you’ll be studying more wizarding techniques.]

[Life, Shapeshifting, Soul, Elemental, Bloodline, Alchemy, Curse ……]

[Despite the resemblance to the magic system, the transcendentalists of the wizarding world have taken very different paths]

[Possibility of deducing all phenomena based on the soul]

[The purpose, the significance, is to climb to the pinnacle of legend, to become an immortal seven-ringed wizard]

[Each ring of promotion means a sublimation of the soul’s essence, a proof of moving to a higher level]

[Drilling for knowledge, searching for truth, transcending the shackles of the soul]

[This is the path of the sorcerer, to control the truth with his soul and to modify it.]

[You marvel at this]

[Addicted to studying, unable to stop]

[Ding–]

[In the Soul Collector trigger, you gained the soul fire of an inferior undead creature and rescued a long-lost soul, who expressed his gratitude to you and disappeared into the endless underworld.]

[You are struck with the feeling that you need to work harder to do more good deeds]

You’ve doubled the rate at which you kill undead.

……

The simulation went well.

On the way to the Kingdom of AOCA.

The Hsu system walks around.

At times, he delves into the sorcerer’s arts and crafts that the real world brings to the table, and at other times, he goes down himself and harvests the soulfire of many undead creatures.

The weakest of them can even be handled by ordinary people.

The strongest, an elven archer who inherited some of his strength from his life and was covered in a rotten, fishy stench.

“Skillful and precise archery.”

“Comes with a soul battle technique.”

“Skeletons with no self-will possess such strength, so it is evident that they were strong in life,” Xu System lowered his palms, and in front of him was the bone slag that had been blasted to pieces.

The dark blue soul fire flickered and instinctively disappeared into the endless underworld.

But until then.

There was an invisible force forcibly dividing it.

It caused some of the soul flames to jump and fall into the palm of Xu System’s hand.

System Xu didn’t absorb it right away, he felt that such a powerful soul possessed more uses.

For example, investing in soul experiments and exploring the mysteries of life and death.

Or maybe put in a jutsu golem to act as one of the guards.

Wizard’s Tower.

It is the ultimate base for wizards to delve into truth, develop spells, and produce reserves of resources.

The Sorcerer’s Tower of the Legendary Sorcerer, moreover, has the supreme power of dimensional invasion, single-handedly rivaling a complete civilization.

Rightfully so.

Such a behemoth couldn’t have just the manipulator himself.

Appropriate guards and aids are necessary.

“I hope that there will be more harvests to follow”, Xu System slowly clenched his palms as the dark blue soulfire was stored separately.

Just about to leave.

The Scrying Technique, however, revealed an unexpected figure.

The steel-armored “Brave One” was wandering around the limit range of the detection technique, looking left and right, as if searching for something.