Chapter 274
Standing at the top of the tower, Negri looked at the blue petals fluttering in the wind and shook his head.
He had given Auri a chance. Just like Dahl, there were quite a few female heroes in this city who were praised by the people.
For example, the female knight Horst who donned her husband's armor and went on a crusade against monsters to avenge her husband. Her deeds were widely publicized and became the idol of female warriors in this era.
Or the symbol of the faithful waiting of women, Myst, who waited for the return of her lover until she died.
Not long ago, Negri had given Auri the remnants of their Soul Linking Artifacts.
The reason why Auri took so long to establish a connection was because she didn't have many Merits, which made it difficult for her to anchor history.
But if she fused the two Soul Linking Artifacts, she would be able to obtain even more Merits and quickly become a new soul lifeform. However, at that time, she would become a Valkyrie, a woman who chose to die in battle.
Auri didn't want to become a Valkyrie, so she chose to sacrifice herself so that Chromie would never forget her for the rest of his life.
Auri was a person with a lot of potential, if she was able to walk away from the influence of her emotions, her achievements as a Valkyrie wouldn't be any less.
"A foolish choice" Although Negri said that, his tone wasn't mocking, nor did he have any intention of criticizing. He had always admired people with such persistence. "How unfortunate, it seems that the Heroic Spirit Project will need to find another test subject"
"Sir Negri, everything has been arranged" a black shadow appeared behind him as several Shade Attendants half-knelt on the ground and reported to Negri.
"Oh? Then let's begin "Negri casually replied. After preparing for so long, there was no need to hesitate.
Negri walked towards the inside of the clock tower. There were a large number of magic formations set up inside, which could be considered a display of Negri's Mysticism achievements. Even Eternal Heat would find it difficult to exert his influence through so many magic formations, even if he tried to attack, it would take a while for Negri to react.
Negri's biggest problem before was that he didn't have an [Origin], so he couldn't directly release his [Origin] to improve the quality of his soul, as well as obtain the most important Truths from it.
Just like how Shennai had obtained the principles of impurity from his [Origin], he was able to develop his own path according to these principles.
In the magic information that Negri had collected, the axle ritual had a corresponding effect. Through the axle ritual, the user would slowly move closer to the Evil God, and in the process, the soul would also gradually move closer to the Evil God.
In the end, they would be completely assimilated by the Evil God. Their soul structure, strength, and the principles contained within would gradually approach that of the Evil God. In the end, they would completely become a clone of the Evil God.
In that case, releasing the [Origin] was the same. Releasing the [Origin] step by step meant getting closer and closer to the existence behind the [Origin]. However, their methods were even more brilliant, and what they sought wasn't just a clone.
That was why the process of releasing [Origin] and synchronizing with one's axle would allow one to become more powerful precisely because one would receive the radiation of a greater existence during the process of releasing one's [Origin] or synchronizing with another. This was the easiest path to take, because there was already a template for it.
It was as if they had fallen into a vicious cycle. If they wanted to rise, they had to rely on even more powerful existences. In that case, it would be difficult to avoid being assimilated by those great existences.
If he couldn't come up with a solution, Negri only had two choices left.
The first was to accept an [Origin], learn from it, then push through the old to create his own path. However, the foundation of this path was based on the principles provided by the [Origin], so even if he pushed through the old to create something new, it would most likely be nothing more than working for the existence behind the [Origin].
The other choice was even more troublesome. Principles had always existed, manifesting themselves as knowledge. This was the most superficial summary of Principles that humans had, and the more profound the knowledge, the more Principles they would summarize.
To summarize those Principles bit by bit, then modify one's soul according to those Principles would require a lot of time, and there was a high chance that one would reach a bottleneck or be led astray by certain factors, which was extremely risky.
Neither of these two choices were particularly good, neither of them suited Negri's own needs, and it was because of this that the Gear project was born.
In the Disaster world, Negri had infected a large number of humans through the [Spiritual Inception] germs, then used Disasforce to induce them to release their second stage of [Origin].
Because their souls had also been infected by Negri's soul germs, Negri was able to extract their Soul Essence to reconstruct his own soul, as well as duplicate the soul structure of their abilities.
However, this method was no longer very effective. Firstly, it wasn't suitable for this world, and secondly, Negri's Soul Blood was slowly running out, so this method could easily be countered and become his weakness.
By combining the axle ritual, the existence of the [Origin], the past soul infection method, the power of Impurity, the 'error' property, the world's perspective, and so on, Negri finally came up with a feasible solution.
The first thing he needed to do was to upgrade Soul Blood.
The reason why Negri had been researching the structure of the soul and the Soul Linking Artifact for the past few years was to further strengthen Soul Blood.
Soul Blood could allow Negri's soul to reside within it, then infect the souls of others through the remnant will within it. There was also a connection between them that allowed Negri's soul to continuously transfer.
Soul Blood was nothing but the product of his germs fusing with dragon's blood. The reason why Soul Blood was currently running out was because the connection between Soul Blood and dragon's blood was nothing more than a bloodline connection. With Negri's current abilities, he could easily dispel the interference, let alone enemies that even Negri found troublesome.
Negri's ability to control the germs was due to his own ability, the structure of his soul had great control over these germs as well as their offshoots.
Even after Negri fused his abilities with Lanshan's to strengthen his own abilities, the most he could do was increase the range and precision of his control, which was clearly not enough.
After entering a special secret room, Negri dismissed the Shade Attendants and carefully checked everything in the secret room as well as the things he had prepared to make sure that there weren't any hidden traps here.
After confirming that there were no issues, Negri's soul came out from the Soul Blood and began to change. A large amount of white mist flowed out from his body. Ever since he created Soul Blood to house his soul, he basically didn't need to use white mist anymore, and now, it had once again come into use.
The life force in it was removed, and it gradually turned into pure soul and life link items. He had accumulated a lot of link items over the years.
These linking artifacts fused with Negri's soul and became Negri's Soul Chains.
A large puddle of golden blood floated in the air. This was Soul Blood.
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