Mystical Journey

In terms of the dream power that only Void Creatures could sense, there was an incomparably immense storm of dream power gathering slowly at the place where the attack just happened.

Garen had long since sent away any related personnel in that area. That was why he was not worried about any accidental casualties.

“Commander, a strange assault took place just now…” Andrew’s hurried projection appeared behind Garen, kneeling on one knee as he spoke hastily. “The two Master Ancient Dragons were attacked by unknown powerhouses, and are currently…”

“Don’t mind that too much,” Garen interrupted him. “I’ve already arranged for this matter properly, just go around that area and settle everything else.”

Andrew fell silent immediately. Looking at Garen’s expression, it was obvious that this was all within his plan. Andrew’s heart gave a jolt, and he did not say any more.

“Yes. Allow me to take my leave.”

After his projection vanished, soon enough Irene’s projection also appeared behind Garen. Garen had given all four Generals a projection communication device that they could use for emergency communications.

“Milord, how should we handle the assault incident? The commotion this time was too obvious, the other lords are already hurrying on their way here,” said Irene with a serious expression.

By the other lords, she meant the higher-ups within the Fortress, such as the other Deputy Commander and the Demonic Behemoth leader.

The White Dragon Mountain was attacked by Level Fifteen powerhouses. It was highly likely that something like that would cause a huge riot, so it was a big deal for the entire Vengeance Fortress as well. That was why they had no choice but to be spurred into action.

“It’s fine, I’ve made the necessary arrangements for this, just tell them that they don’t have to worry.”

Garen said offhandedly.

Irene frowned, but seeing Garen’s calm demeanor, she chose not to say anything as well. With a bow, she vanished from the spot.

Garen looked at the site of the assault quietly.

Over there, a large amount of dream power was gathering into a giant funnel-shaped tornado, the energy forces so terrifying that even regular Demons could vaguely sense it.

Very soon, as time passed, several lights of different colors flew toward the center of the energy tornado. That was the other powerful presences, gone forward to see what was going on. Among them, Garen even saw the Demonic leader and the other Deputy Commander.

Meanwhile, Garen himself watched that enormous tornado quietly.

Soon, a request came from his Willpower Neuroprocessor.

“A powerful guest is requesting entry.”

“Approved.” Garen quickly allowed entry.

Immediately, he saw a wisp of black smoke fly into the Wizard Tower instantly, and in no time at all, it had darted to the eighth floor, where he was. It condensed into a humanoid figure of black smoke behind him.

The figure emitted a faint aura of divinity. It was the Demigod from Proof of Deception who had assaulted and killed the Ancient Dragon earlier.

In his arms, he carried a white and flawless baby girl. The baby girl was wrapped in only a ring of white cloth, and she did not cry. Instead, she looked at Garen with deep and ancient eyes.

“I’ll be relying on you for a period of time, Master Garen,” said the baby girl in a deep voice, speaking in the most standard form of the Void Language.

“It is my honor to be of service to the Deception Demon Master.” Garen smiled slightly, turning around and bowing at her.

As soon as the baby girl was born, her aura had already reached Level Six, as expected of a terrifying being at True Soul Level, who had accepted the sacrifice of two peak Level Fifteen souls.

“Don’t worry, Kunder will protect me at all times within this period of time until I regain my powers to a certain extent. Within this period, I will need you to start Blood Wars and create a large amount of slaughtering so that I may absorb many souls in order to regenerate myself,” said the Deception Demon Master calmly.

“But Lady Vengeance’s side… and the White Dragon Mountain won’t take this lying down,” said Garen, somewhat troubled. “I would suggest that we lay low for now.”

“It’s fine.” The baby girl waved her hand. “The White Dragon Mountain have their own things to worry about, I opened up two Void Crevices there, that’ll keep them busy for a while. Considering your relationship with Lady Vengeance, you should be able to deal with that, right? As long as you don’t fail, so what if you overstep your authority and start some Blood Wars?”

“Since Your Excellency, Lady Deception has considered everything so carefully, I’ve no choice but to agree.” Garen put away his troubled expression. Of course, he knew that she would have everything arranged properly, after all, a Demon Master was not invincible as soon as they descended here either. She needed time to grow, and this growth period would be the time when she was at her weakest. It was only right that she would make all the necessary arrangements.

“As a reward for your help this time, I can help you solve the bottleneck you’ve found yourself at regarding the condensation of your True Soul,” said the Deception Demon Master calmly.

Garen was stunned for a moment and then overjoyed. His Void Original Opus had been stuck at 70% for a long time now, and even potential points could not increase it. If he had the guidance of a true Demon Master at True Soul Level, he would naturally be able to progress much more efficiently.

At first, he was not too pleased about a Demon Master Level descending near him, but right now, he felt as though it was more than worth it.

Over the past period of time, he had been using the Willpower Neuroprocessor to analyze it for quite a while, but he still had no clue, and leveling up felt like it was a long way away. Now, he could finally see some hope.

“In truth, the problem is very simple.” The Deception Demon Master gave a cunning smile. “Your Soul Rings are too weak… In other words, you need a great deal of soul inspiration to condense into Soul Seeds and Soul Rings. It just so happens that I have a method here that can collect the essence of soul inspirations, thereby speeding up your condensation of the Soul Seeds and Soul Rings.”

“Oh? Please enlighten me, Demon Master,” Garen hurriedly asked respectfully.

“Actually, in every soul, there will be some degree of inspiration according to the contract rules, it’s just that some have more than others. Usually, if this inspiration is not accumulated to a certain extent until it undergoes a fundamental change, it won’t be successfully activated, so no one will pay any more attention to it. The ones that people notice are the inspirations of the successful, no one really pays any heed to the failures or those who don’t have the halo of success. But this is an error… My method is able to gather up the countless inspirations and form a complete Soul Seed or Soul Ring, speeding up your level increase progress,” said the Deception Demon Master with a smile.

“A method like this surely comes with a heavy price, right?” asked Garen carefully.

The Demon Master nodded.

“You guessed right, this method needs you to condense soul divinity until your soul reaches the Demigod level at the very least, only then would you be able to prevent the amalgam of soul inspirations from mixing up your own purity level. If you don’t have soul divinity, it would be very easy for the large amounts of impurities to pollute your own Soul Ring, and your gains would be outweighed by your losses. You might even cause your own level to drop.”

“So it still comes back to divinity in the end?” Garen was thoughtful.

“divinity is a very mysterious thing that exists in this world, it is an evolution and fundamental change of the soul, but it’s high and almighty. It has the ability to command all the souls, just like a king, and can even activate the power of a world’s most fundamental laws.” The Deception Demon Master’s words were clearly meant to goad Garen into creating slaughters of his own accord. He needed to condense more Soul Rings, after all, and that would require him to instigate more slaughters. It just happened to coincide with her needs, resulting in a straightforward and honest ploy that Garen had no choice but to follow.

“I understand.” Garen’s way going forward from now on gradually became clear to him.

If he wanted to achieve the True Soul, perhaps it was truly as the Deception Demon Master said.

He needed to first achieve divinity and the Demigod level, then he had to collect a large amount of soul inspiration essence to form even more Soul Seeds and Soul Rings. Only then would he be able to achieve a breakthrough in the Void Original Opus, and eventually reach the True Soul.

“In the very beginning, since the inspiration won’t repeat, it’ll be very easy to condense the Soul Seed. But as it goes on, there will be more repeated inspiration, until finally you reach a day when most of the inspirations you get are only reruns. It will become harder and harder to condense new Soul Seeds and Soul Rings, and that’s when the Demon Lords have to continuously explore new frontiers, accumulating lots of different inspirations, regardless of how long it will take,” the Deception Demon Master continued.

“And right now, you guys have an unprecedented opportunity. This world has many different inspirations from our world, and barely any repetition at all. divinity is also a shortcut to condensing Soul Seeds and Soul Rings. divinity, plus a large amount of soul energy, is actually already equivalent to a high-level Soul Ring. That’s why the more divinity you obtain, if you can complete them, you’d actually also be able to turn them into Soul Rings and Soul Seeds.”

“In other words, I can use divinity to condense Soul Rings, and I can also find soul divinity. Once I’ve reached soul Demigod level, I can slaughter souls at a large-scale and may be able to gain inspiration from it,” Garen concluded.

“That’s right, the former is stealing divinity, it’s a lot more dangerous than you’d think. There are already a lot of powerhouses fighting for divinity, and even some Gods. The latter is much safer, you just have to steal one type of soul divinity. As for the remaining slaughter, perhaps even normal people would be able to provide you with enough inspiration to condense your Soul Seed.” The Deception Demon Master gave him two options, but both also required slaughtering and stealing.

Still, Garen had no other choice right now.

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In the blink of an eye, more than two months have passed.

The Deception Demon Master simply took up residence in the Cold Winter Tower, absorbing many souls and soul cocoons every day. Sometimes, she would even go to the area around the Underworld River, killing and plundering indiscriminately. Thankfully, she did not attract the attention of any powerful beings. After all, she only slaughtered relatively weaker creatures.

Under her constant ushering, Garen also started some small-scale attacks against the Demon Fortress opposite them.

He had five hundred thousand soldiers in his reserve army, and their average was level was above Level Two. There was also the elite team of Wizards, the White Feather. That was enough for him to start a small-scale Blood War in his own.

And within the Wizard Tower, because Garen had his Divine Power Barrier, he officially began analyzing the divinity ahead of schedule.

Firstly, he gathered all the divinity together and merged them into the Pearl of the Temple. Then he isolated the true divinity that he had obtained, researching it with his Willpower Neuroprocessor.

The largest benefit of the Willpower Neuroprocessor was that it could automatically utilize the large amount of information and inspiration from the storage of Garen’s memories, computing and analyzing them.

Garen just needed to input the command and could leave the rest to it. It would automatically carry out the command and analysis.

The divinity he got from Gerdmos was a wisp of divinity regarding decay. It was full of all sorts of inspirations and understanding regarding decay. Even though it was only as large as a strand of hair, it actually managed to contain several tens of thousands of pb worth of information. Even the Willpower Neuroprocessor could not completely finish analyzing the information in it within a short period of time. After all, it was not a mess of nonsense inside, it was all advanced inspirations, such as words and diagrams regarding decay, and even things like personal first-hand experiences.

Since there was so much information there, it was no wonder that becoming a Demigod required centuries at the very least. Some even took up to a thousand years.

Garen put it on his quest list in his mind and glanced at the estimated completion time.

‘Fifty-eight years – sixty years.’

Such a period of time was already god-like to most advanced existences, but Garen was still unsatisfied with it.

And after he added the divinity analysis mission, the energy consumption of his Elemental Pond instantly reached a new level. And this was the true divinity that Gerdmos had analyzed before. If it was a completely disorganized divinity, it would probably take even longer.

Thankfully, the computing speed of the Willpower Neuroprocessor was actually based on the strength of one’s Willpower, and the strength of one’s Willpower had its fundamental roots in the strength of one’s soul.

Since he had no other way, Garen had to choose this method, the slowest way to strengthen his Soul Seed.

That was to hunt for high-energy crystals, such as Soul Cores…

He had also tried ready-made Soul Cores, but they had barely any effect on him anymore. A Level Nine Soul Core could only give Garen one-third of a Soul Seed. Clearly, this was just as the Deception Demon Master said, most of the inspiration inside had repeated and was gradually becoming unable to condense into more Soul Seeds.

But he had obtained a large Soul Seed upgrade from the Suffering Knight back then, so he might still be able to do that now. Maybe if the quantity increased, there might be a slight change in quality.

Besides, those that could condense Soul Cores all tended to be Necromancy creatures. As a result, Garen soon began to make his plans around an Undead settlement nearby.