Beyond the Apocalypse
Chapter 227: Plane Will’s recognition

Chapter 227: Plane Will’s recognition

Vlad internalized all he had learned from sealing the soul of the demon centipede. After a few hours, he turned his eyes toward the next demon Champion and brought out a new parchment with a runic formation.

Two days went on like this, with Vlad sealing the soul of a demon Champion, analyzing the process with the help of the A.I. Chip, improving the runic formation, and trying again until there were no more left.

After finishing with the demon Champions, Vlad took an entire day for analysis and simulations before focusing on the High Champion Abyssal. This time he did not take any ordinary parchment but instead brought the skin of the Level 14 Abyssal Demon corpse from Nagan Mountain along with all sorts of new and extremely precious materials.

Vlad had been using standard and cheap materials because he wanted to ensure his method of soul sealing could be widespread and useful for anyone in his force. However, he had important plans for Huntu, and it was best to enhance the soul integrity percentage as much as possible.

Huntu’s eyes were full of rage and killing intent as he stared at Vlad. He had seen what happened to the others, but unlike the demon Champions, he showed no fear—only brutality. It was clear that the nature of Abyss was much purer in his soul, making it impossible for him to even feel fear.

Vlad did not say a word and simply began to prepare the materials with Jormungandr. It took them nearly two hours and used almost a fifth of all the resources they had amassed in their space rings.

After that, Vlad put everything into his runic pen and began to write the runic formation on the skin of the Level 14 Abyssal Demon. He used the help of the A.I. Chip to ensure that there was not a single flaw and that every runic line burst with power.

Vlad even went ahead and engraved a runic formation on Huntu’s paralyzed body to enhance the chance of success. The runic lines were so small and intricate that most Rank 2 Runic Masters could not even dream of engraving them.

Only after making sure that there was nothing more he could do to improve the power of the soul sealing did Vlad channel his energy into the parchment. It consumed nearly 85% of his energy pool before finally thin and crystalline black tendrils emerged and flashed into Huntu’s body.

The crystalline black tendrils did not blindly charge across Huntu’s body but instead used the runic formation engraved on his body to extend more thoroughly. It was a very slow but much more efficient method, and one only Vlad could use in Terra.

Huntu felt immense and unbearable agony as the tendrils extended through his body, but even then, his eyes did not falter, emanating pure and unrestrained rage and killing intent focused on Vlad. The Depravita of Wrath did not look away, staring directly into the eyes of the High Champion Abyssal as the crystalline tendrils finally reached the soul and began to retract, killing Huntu.

As soon as Huntu’s soul and life force were extracted by the runic formation, a massive burst of Origin Force emerged from the empty shell that was the demon’s corpse. Vlad could not help but smile as the amount of Origin Force that flowed into his body was massive, but then shock appeared in his eyes when he saw how a small wisp of golden force flew to someone else.

Freya’s eyes widened as she saw the tiny wisp of Origin Force flowing into her body. It was small since her contribution to the defeat of the High Champion Abyssal was not overly significant, but size did not matter and pure ecstasy appeared on her face.

She had obtained Origin Force from the death of an alien life form, meaning that the Plane Will finally recognized her as a native member of the world. From now on, every time she killed a demon or angel, she would obtain Origin Force as a reward!

And things did not end there. Since she was the leader of the viking force, the Plane Will would definitely start focusing on them, and it was just a matter of time before they also started obtaining Origin Force from killing aliens.

"Congratulations!" Vlad congratulated the young viking princess, and a wide smile appeared on his face as he was genuinely happy. With the help of Origin Force, her talent and potential would rise even higher.

Freya smiled at Vlad, her eyes full of gratitude. Had it not been for the young man letting her kill all the demons on their journey while he stood close by, there was no way the Plane Will would have recognized her so quickly.

The duo gazed at each other for a few seconds before silently nodding, no need for more words as they carried on.

After congratulating Freya, Vlad finally turned his gaze to the runic formation that now had a rune in the form of a skeletal warrior in the center and unleashed a massive and powerful soul force. He took a deep breath as he sent forward the power of the A.I. Chip and silently waited for the robotic voice.

[Beep! Soul integrity: 88.9%]

"Yes!" Vlad could not help but shout as he heard those words and saw the soul integrity percentage.

His rune master skills had not really reached that level and could only be achieved by expending massive amounts of resources, but that was fine. Vlad had already achieved over 70% soul integrity using mundane and very cheap resources, so the soul-sealing runic formation could be widespread and used by everybody.

Although Vlad was eager to start the next phase of the project, he did not want to be rash and needed to be careful. If he made a mistake, the demon’s soul might shatter and leave him with nothing, so he wanted to work in a place that could improve his chances of success.

"Time to go back home!"