Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1385 - Chapter 1385 Chapter 946 If We Cant Push We Run Away

Chapter 1385: Chapter 946: If We Can’t Push, We Run Away Chapter 1385: Chapter 946: If We Can’t Push, We Run Away Originally armored with purple-gold bones, now coated with a thick layer of Black Crystal, the Monarch appeared much sturdier, clearly a tough nut to crack.

The Monarch forcefully arched his body, and mighty purple flames soared up, burning fiercely before suddenly extinguishing.

Yet despite the flames dying down, the fluctuations emanating from the Monarch grew even more potent and steady, akin to molten lava flowing underground, accumulating force about to erupt.

After a while, the Monarch began to move, kicking his legs and swinging his arms, then suddenly lunged forward, crashing into the rocky end of the cave.

Boom! A huge noise echoed as the ground shook, and rocks and dust flew all around, unsettled for a long time.

At the cave end, where the rocks were originally solid, now lay shattered debris, as if Vaguli had stuffed several Magic Eggs and detonated them all at once.

From the pile of rocks, the Monarch emerged, stomping his foot powerfully, shaking all the dust off his skeletal frame.

Hopping back, the Monarch stated contentedly, “Very hard, almost no different from a Black Crystal Body, the only flaw being the joints. The inner sides need to move, so they cannot be crystallized; otherwise, it would truly be indistinguishable from a Black Crystal Body.”

Negris responded sardonically, “Could you give a warning before you act? It’s all dusty, trying to choke someone alive?”

“Too excited, I forgot. I’ll let you know next time, alright, get ready,” the Monarch said.

Negris paused, “What do you mean ready? Ready for wha–” before he could finish, the Monarch took off again, this time crashing into the side of the cave.

Another wave of rocks and dust scattered, now he understood what to be prepared for.

After several repetitions, the Monarch returned, holding his arm bone, the inner side of the joint still purple-gold, but the outer side covered in black crystal.

This inner side could not be crystallized because it needed to move, thus becoming the frame’s weak point, the first to dislocate under excessive load, yet the Monarch was still very pleased, “Not bad, very hard, and I have a feeling, Ange, that you’ve found a method to breakthrough from Mourning to Black Crystal.”

Ange cocked his head while Negris asked, “What do you mean? A method for breakthrough? Can others use it too?”

“Yes, Lock Feiti can use it, ah, and there’s Harvey, right? Mourning Skeletons can try this method too,” the Monarch explained:

“From my experience with several breakthroughs, for Golden Skeletons to transition to Mourning, it requires building a massive Soul Network with a large number of subjects contributing Soul Energy. The key to breaking into Black Crystal involves the Power of Chaos, which is those speckles of power inside Black Crystal.”

“But how can one obtain the Power of Chaos? My first breakthrough happened after conquering all the Planes and establishing a huge Soul Network. Once when I was quite bored, as I tapped my fingers, tapping away, I suddenly produced a tiny bit of Black Crystal, about the size of a pinhole.”

“It was this tiny piece of Black Crystal that opened new levels for me; put in silver coin terms, it raised my Energy Level. I pressed Soul Energy into the Black Crystal, converting it into the Power of Chaos, and then used it to assault the neighboring bones. It took about nine thousand years to complete the transformation into a full Black Crystal Body.”

Negris was stunned, taking a while before meekly responding, “Took that long, huh? Enough for an old tree to die.”

“What has an old tree got to do with it? It could live for a hundred thousand years; nine thousand years isn’t enough for it to die once,” the Monarch said, clearly unaware of the ‘God of Life dying soon’ gag, puzzledly.

Negris didn’t bother to explain, instead turning to ask, “And now?”

“The hardest part is that bit of Black Crystal. Now Locke and the rest don’t have to grope anymore, just plate it with a layer, then desperately convert the Soul Energy into Chaotic Power, and also…” At this point, the Monarch pressed down in front of him with both hands, and a dazzling light immediately shone between his palms, like a small sun.

Ange, who had long been squatting in the corner laying moss over broken stones as a base to plant the Tree of the Dead and holy mushrooms, couldn’t help but raise his head to look over, wasn’t this his Grasp of Divine Light?

When in the Chaos Plane, Ange could already use Black Stone to extract Ancient Godlight, then seal it with Frozen Space, and later evolved to directly extracting it using the Power of Chaos. And now the Monarch could extract it empty-handed?

No, it’s also extracted using the Power of Chaos. There is only one word difference between Power of Chaos and Chaotic Power, but they are completely different forces.

Chaotic Power is the most primal state of all thoughts and souls in the Void.

While the Power of Chaos, is the most original state of Ancient Godlight, it is the ultimate force where all matter and energy return to nothingness.

Now, the Chaos Stone is a kind of Crystal Stone that stores this ‘return to nothingness’ force. Ange doesn’t understand its principle, but it doesn’t hinder him from releasing the Power of Chaos within.

So now, the Monarch has also mastered the Power of Chaos.

“When Ange plated the Black Crystal, he also plated some of the Chaos Stone onto me, and now I can sense the Power of Chaos,” the Monarch said, releasing his hands and the spot of bright light quickly disappeared.

Being able to sense it is enough, as for how to use it, he watched how Ange used it, and roughly knows the principle.

“Is this alright? Won’t the two powers conflict?” Negris asked.

The Monarch nodded, “Yes, but it’s not difficult to resolve. I treat the plating as Soul Armor, not tempering it, just using it as armor, and convert the Chaotic Power to hit the body itself. As for the Power of Chaos, just force it out of the body.”

While speaking, the Monarch pressed down again, then complained: “Chaos and confusion, the names are too similar, it gets me all confused. Maybe we should rename them to make it clearer.”

“The Power of Chaos is just what we casually call it. If you find it confusing, just call it by its scientific name, which is Entropy. Just call it Entropy,” Negris casually mentioned.

The Monarch mentally repeated it a couple of times, reluctantly said: “Forget it, let’s still call it the Power of Chaos, it rolls off the tongue.”

“You can call it whatever you want, just don’t mix them up. And don’t waste it, come on.” Negris directed Silver Coin to bring everyone to the location of the Energy Tower, and said: “Come, try if your Power of Chaos can activate the Energy Tower. If it doesn’t work, we’ll just run away, as our hand has already been revealed.”

Silver Coin quickly waved his hands: “Not at all, it’s just revealing one of our cards in advance, we still have our last card, so there’s no need to run.”

“What last card?” Negris was surprised, “How come I don’t know?”

“The Chaos Tree cannot distribute a new seedling without the elder’s blessing; that’s our last card. The Friel Empire didn’t buy the farm for those hundred plus Chaos Trees, but for the entire cultivation technology, that is our real trump card,” Silver Coin explained.

“Right.”

“Right my ass, is this the time for that?” the Monarch roared, “Negris, you actually want me to be the laborer? To push the cart?”

This would make him Old Wang pushing the cart!

“Then will you push it or not? The Chaos Stone has been used by you, if we cannot push it, we’ll just run away,” Negris said righteously.