Above The Sky
Chapter 629 - 629 596 Let me correct the sins committed by humans!

629: Chapter 596: Let me correct the sins committed by humans!

(8000, 2nd update) 629: Chapter 596: Let me correct the sins committed by humans!

(8000, 2nd update) King of the Dead Adalbert, although clad in rather thick Armored Clothing, was actually quite frail in stature.

Even if his face was unclear, one could tell from the shape of his face that he was essentially a delicate researcher.

Just like the memories that spilled throughout the Subspace Labyrinth.

The power of the King bestowed upon him a dignified and indifferent temperament.

The man now was the Labyrinth King, the true final enemy for all those trapped in this place.

But Ian was well aware that beneath the shell of the King of the Dead, there still lay the gentle and kind person who considered most things with good intentions.

“You want to know the truth…

Then I will tell you,”

So, turning his head, the King of the Dead looked towards the lab that still maintained the strange black shield and said slowly to Ian, “Let me tell you what the King of the Dead Project truly represents.”

“It represents a new kind of Fourth Power Level, and even Fifth Power Level Inheritance that can be stabilized, manufactured artificially, and even mass-produced.”

“And the cost is, the soul of a nation borne by one person.”

It was clear that the King of the Dead intended to surprise Ian with these words.

However, Ian was embarrassingly unsurprised.

His greatest reaction was to nod in understanding, “Just as I thought, it seems I guessed correctly.”

Yes, Ian had anticipated this.

Since having received the power of the King of the Dead, he had been puzzled by this peculiar Inheritance.

Rather than saying it strengthened himself using Lost Souls, it was indeed the Lost Souls strengthening the host, making the host protect their Inheritance.

He didn’t mean to say that Terra was a lousy place full of scumbags, but even on Earth, selfishness would never be in short supply.

Shouldn’t this kind of Inheritance be more like ‘Lost Souls are my shield; one Lost Soul is an additional life for me’?

But surprisingly, it was not!

Hence, from that moment, Ian began to connect the information he had previously acquired, attempting to link it with the Retrospective Vision and the information known from Adalbert’s memories.

——It had begun years ago, when the Avak Domain started the implementation of ‘Artificial Soul Attachment Brain’ amidst a form of Plague.

——In other words, everyone in the Avak Domain possessed a soul, which could even be finely adjusted through an Attached Brain.

——This bypassed the moral complexities that Adalbert ignored in his memories, allowing the creation of souls that could resonate with each other, even forming some kind of Spirit Substance construction!

If Artificial Souls are seen as an Origin Structure, then the overlapping of hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions of souls, would be sufficient to build up a system sophisticated and vast enough to possess multiple functions and quite durable for Sublimation.

To unify ‘consensus’ using an extreme ’emotion’ or ‘goal’…

For example, ‘Revenge’.

Or ‘Rest’.

Thus, the power of the Third Power Level could emerge.

Of course, this alone was not enough…

Millions are actually too few.

Although it sounds like a lot, considering the complexity of the circuits and structures on electronic components, and comparing it with the Origin Structure that is many times more complex than average electronic components, one can tell that millions are really too few.

Especially since the millions of souls are composed through Attached Brain-formed Spirit Structure…

the strength is simply not high.

Therefore, the ‘King of the Dead’ is needed.

A linchpin is required—a person with sufficient strength, potential, and conviction, resonating with the souls, to achieve this miraculous elevation.

Furthermore, if one desires to become even stronger, reaching the Fourth Power Level would require souls in the billions.

As for the Fifth Power Level…

at the very least, a peak Fourth Power Level powerhouse using the souls and convictions of billions of beings is necessary to ascend to the Fifth Power Level…

In other words…

“The Duke of Solin.

Only he!”

Ian suddenly remembered, in the Dao Path of the Swarm, how the Sorin Duchy managed to gain independence, and how his own Swarm seemed to crush the entire Sorin Duchy as if entering an uninhabited land…

He suddenly felt a shudder, “No way?

This madman, the disciple of Yinaiga from those years, didn’t really go through with it, did he?!”

“The reason why the Swarm felt as though entering unclaimed territory…

was it really because the Sorin Duchy had become a fully formed Dead Domain…

a dominion of Undead?!”

“Did he slaughter everyone in the entire Grand Duchy?!”

That, however, was not the case.

Ian realized that even with many years of preparation, it would have been impossible to completely generalize the Attached Brain in The Grand Duchy.

So, there were still some people within the Duchy, which gave the impression to his Swarmed self of being puzzled but not paying too much attention—the concept of few people to consume versus none at all was different, so the Swarmed self didn’t notice much difference.

——All clues, including those of the Prophet’s future, connected!

Thus, under the startled gaze of the King of the Dead, Ian pondered and even articulated his guess as if suddenly realizing, “So you mean to say, from the beginning, the plan was to kill all the people, then embrace their souls, protecting them within oneself.”

“To engrave the memories and souls of all beings upon oneself, to raise the Monarch’s strength to a level surpassing all natural disasters and destruction, and then for the Monarch to break through all dangers and obstacles, marching towards the future…”

For this, Ian had a simple judgment: “Typical of the Terra People.

They could come up with such a sick idea, and indeed they made it happen.”