THE MAGIC FROM THE NINE NIRVANAS
"His soul is not bound to the artifacts. It is the reverse. The artifacts found a way to bind with your Malevolent Soul", Emperor Tian explained to me about what happened to my Malevolent Soul.
"So, my crafting managed to arm my Malevolent Slaves with the artifacts?" I asked and my teacher nodded.
"In a way that was what happened, and it is not just arming him with the artifacts, he evolved together with the magic of the artifacts", Tian replied to me and explained.
By accident, I found a way to create magical artifacts that could fuse or merge into my Malevolent Slaves, giving them a physical form and presence and possibly something more.
"The Malevolent Slave was far more useful as an ethereal being than being bored down by these cumbersome artifacts", Ratatouille told us his opinion about the transformation.
"Although an ethereal presence is useful, having a physical presence would enhance the magic of the Malevolent Slaves and allow them to evolve in magic where they couldn't before", Emperor Tian told me his speculation.
"What can you do in this current form, Alpha?" I asked Alpha.
Suddenly, Alpha made a wide swing with his long and wide blade.
A powerful conjuration emerged from his swing causing an energy of laceration that rushed forward. Even rocks and even small hills were easily destroyed by Alpha's lacerating slash.
"Knight's Laceration of Order"
"You don't have to worry about the Phantoms with your golden puppet protecting us, they are as good as Green Legendary beings", Ratatouille told me.
The Knight's Laceration Order was a powerful attack, almost as powerful as the sword beams of the apostles but it wasn't as powerful as my conjured lance.
However, there was something about Alpha's newfound magic that made it far more useful to us now.
"The magic of the Malevolent Slave is not overbearing but his magic is of the right kind that is effective against Phantoms of the Dark Realm", Emperor Tian told me.
"If we have more of these then we are not afraid of the Phantoms anymore", Ratatouille told us smilingly as he approved with a nodding head.
"You are right. If only I have more blades and armor from the fallen knights in this tomb, I can arm more of my Malevolent Slaves with these weapons", I replied to Ratatouille.
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We continued traveling through the desolate and dark terrains of the Tomb of Order. Occasionally, we were spotted by some Phantoms of the Dark Realm, and naturally they came to attack us.
However, the Phantoms who attacked us were quickly dispatched with, by Alpha's blade lacerations. My teacher, the Emperor Tian, quickly absorbed all the magic of the dispensed Phantoms.
The greedy rat on the other hand, wasn't idle but was busy scouring the realm for goodies.
Soon, Ratatouille returned with more broken Blades of Order found on the battlefield.
"Look what I have found", Rataouille told us happily.
"Great more ingredients for my crafting", I replied to him.
Ratatouille frowned immediately upon hearing it. His loot would soon be gone, destroyed as ingredients of my crafting.
Soon, I crafted the broken blades that Ratouille looted together with other materials in my stash.
Not surprisingly, my Malevolent Slaves took turns to be armed by the new equipment. Eventually, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta were fully armed with golden armor and weapons.
With a squadron of powerful knights with Order magic, I started destroying the Phantoms of the Dark Realm easily.
As we ventured into the realm, we were faced with more Phantoms of the Dark realm, but their menace no longer bore upon us because we have the means to deal with them easily now as even dozens of Phantoms were dispatched within a single encounter.
Soon, we've killed hundreds, if not thousands of Phantoms of the Dark Realm in the place.
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"Your Malevolent Souls are quite fascinating. I've never encountered them before in all my travels", Emperor Tian told me about my Malevolent Slaves as he scrutinized them with interest.
"The Malevolent Slaves are not independent souls. They are bound and merged with part of the Dark Angel's soul. They would in time become the Dark Angel's Incarnates", Ratatouille explained to him.
"Incarnates? That is interesting", Emperor Tian told us.
"They are quite useful to me. They can do many chores for me, and they can use my abilities", I added.
"They can be more than just useful slaves", Emperor Tian told me to my surprise.
"What more can they do?" I asked him with anticipation.
Emperor Tian pondered about the matter for a while before he spoke again.
"In my travels I came across a secret technique from the realms of the Nine Nirvana which requires as a precondition to possess puppets that share a soul with me. I never thought that was possible until now, so I never mastered that magic", Emperor Tian explained.
"Nine Nirvana. Isn't that a place of legend. Few had heard about that realm and far fewer would have gone there", Ratatouille added.
Emperor Tian was the master of puppet magic. In my previous life, he commanded an entire army of Terracotta puppets that obeyed him as emperor.
"Shared soul", I uttered and pondered.
"Your situation is different from mine. You already have puppets or incarnates that share your soul which gives you the precondition to master this special skill", Emperor Tian told me and added.
"Really, it must be a strong skill", I replied to my teacher.
"Indeed", he replied to me.
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"We've not seen the Bully after such a long time in this forsaken realm", a knight said to the others.
"Temeros, this realm is vast. It is difficult for us to find each other without our magic compass, it won't be easy to find that bastard Oriese when we were transported to different places when we came in", another replied to him.
"Iketes, that Bastard Oriese is probably dead, killed by the Phantoms of the Dark Realm, hahaha", Lord Temeros replied and laughed.