Chapter 255: The Eleventh Summon
The time had finally come!
Zich stood beneath the pouring black rain, his gaze passing over the wet black soil beneath his feet and settling on the silent tombstones ahead.
The ten tombstones closest to him belonged to the summons that had already formed contracts with him: Slimy, Blood Leech, Silverback Ape Grunt, Iron, five Undead Skeleton Soldiers, and Tiamant, who was still sleeping in the depths of the graveyard.
Beyond them stood the sixty uncontracted tombstones he had accumulated both inside the secret golden realm and Myriad Beast Mountain.
Those tombstones varied in height and color. Some were still wrapped in blood energy that had yet to dissipate, some continuously released poisonous mist, while others occasionally emitted low beastly growls even after they had already transformed into tombstones.
Zich did not begin the fusion. Instead, he silently called out in his mind.
[Status.]
A translucent panel visible only to him immediately unfolded within the curtain of rain.
[Name: Zich Grave]
[Race: Human]
[Profession: SSS Grade Spirit Summoner]
[Level: 20]
[Health: 300]
[Mana: 670]
[Strength: 57]
[Agility: 67]
[Constitution: 45]
[Intelligence: 67]
[Free Attribute Points: 10]
[Current Tombstone Slots: 70/70]
[Current Summons:
Slimy Lv.10
Blood Leech Lv.11
Silverback Ape Grunt Lv.9
Iron Lv.14
Undead Skeleton Soldiers ×5 Lv.1
Tiamant Lv.12]
[Skills:
Blood Arc Lv.2
Super Soldier Lv.1
Shadow Blink Lv.2
Spirit Flame Lv.1
Spirit Exchange, Epic Grade]
[Resistance: Enhanced Minor Necromantic Resistance]
All seventy slots were already occupied.
This was the result of Zich barely resting during his remaining days in Myriad Beast Mountain as he continuously hunted monsters and searched for suitable soul materials.
He raised his right hand, and a sphere of dark golden light appeared in his palm.
The Myriad Beast Origin Core.
This treasure, obtained from the Myriad Beast Burial Ground, contained an extraordinarily vast amount of beast origin power. It was the true reason Zich dared to fuse sixty tombstones at once.
If he simply forced sixty completely different soul materials together, the resulting creature would most likely be nothing more than an irrational monster incapable of even maintaining its own form.
However, the Myriad Beast Origin Core could give those conflicting beast powers a common center.
[Myriad Beast Origin Core]
[Description: A special fusion material containing concentrated beast origin power. When used as the core of a fusion, it suppresses conflicts between different beast soul materials and allows them to merge around a single stable center. Consumed upon use.]
Zich’s gaze passed over the sixty tombstones one by one.
The most conspicuous among them was the special soul material belonging to the Devouring Bone Giant.
Next came the soul orb of the Three Headed Blood Python, the soul left behind by Kane’s Golden Armored Lion, the Rock Armored Rhino, the Storm Eagle, the Saw Wing Venom Scorpion, and the Grave Miasma Crocodile.
In addition to those, there were also human soul materials left behind by Kane, Adrian, and the other players who had died inside the third ancient beast altar.
The remaining tombstones came from monsters Zich had hunted and collected throughout different regions of Myriad Beast Mountain.
Zich pressed the Myriad Beast Origin Core against the black soil beneath his feet before extending his consciousness toward the sixty uncontracted tombstones.
[Special fusion material detected: Myriad Beast Origin Core.]
[Ding! Do you wish to fuse the spirits to create a new summon or absorb for stat points?]
"Fuse," Zich said without hesitation.
Boom!
The moment he spoke, the entire graveyard suddenly trembled.
All the tombstones lit up simultaneously. Black, blood red, dark green, grayish white, and golden lights intertwined as they rose through the torrential rain. The rainwater that had originally been falling toward the ground seemed to be drawn by some invisible force, twisting in midair to form an enormous vortex that covered an area several hundred meters wide.
The first tombstone shattered, followed by the second.
Within only a few seconds, all sixty tombstones shattered one after another, and soul phantoms surged into the sky from within the broken stone monuments.
An enormous monster assembled from countless bones was the first to appear under the downpour of rain. It opened its fleshless jaws as though attempting to swallow every surrounding soul into its stomach.
The Three Headed Blood Python appeared immediately afterward. Its three hideous serpent heads hissed simultaneously as the neck bones that had been severed countless times repeatedly regrew within the blood red light.
The Golden Armored Lion raised its head and roared as power resembling golden armor rapidly covered its soul phantom.
The Storm Eagle spread its wings, instantly tearing apart the black curtain of rain with violent winds.
The Rock Armored Rhino lowered its head and charged forward, the Saw Wing Venom Scorpion raised its venom dripping stinger, while the Grave Miasma Crocodile opened its enormous jaws shrouded in grayish green mist.
More monstrous phantoms surged in from every direction.
Several human souls were also mixed among those enormous beastly figures.
Kane’s soul still carried disbelief and unwillingness, while Adrian’s face retained the venomous resentment he had displayed before his death. As for the other players who had died inside the third altar, they could only be swept into the increasingly enormous soul vortex under the graveyard’s power.
Every soul was struggling. Every power wanted to devour the other materials and become the main body of this fusion.
For a moment, the entire graveyard was filled with deafening roars.
Zich stood before the vortex, his expression completely unchanged.
He had already anticipated this situation.
These materials came from different races, and there were even human souls mixed among them. It was impossible for them to complete the fusion on their own.
Just as the soul vortex was about to spiral completely out of control, the Myriad Beast Origin Core resting on the black soil finally moved.
Buzz!
A dark golden pillar of light shot into the sky.
The ancient and oppressive might contained within the core instantly enveloped the entire graveyard. The beast souls that had been tearing into one another simultaneously froze. Even the phantoms of the Devouring Bone Giant and the Three Headed Blood Python were forcibly dragged toward the dark golden pillar of light.
Under the suppression of the Myriad Beast Origin Core, they were gradually dismantled into the purest forms of soul and bloodline power.
The massive body of the Devouring Bone Giant was the first to disintegrate, transforming into countless black bones that gradually constructed an enormous and sturdy main body.
The Golden Armored Lion’s soul fused into it, and black and golden bone armor rapidly grew across the surface of its lion shaped body.
The Three Headed Blood Python’s three heads were stretched and twisted amid agonized hisses before finally settling on the creature’s central neck and both sides.
The Storm Eagle’s wings unfurled from its back.
The Saw Wing Venom Scorpion’s tail transformed into a massive scorpion tail covered in bone spikes.
The soul powers of the Rock Armored Rhino, Grave Miasma Crocodile, and the remaining monsters were continuously compressed, filling the unstable sections within the body.
As for the human souls, they were also completely torn apart beneath the graveyard’s power, transforming into wisps of grayish white light that fused into the newborn monster’s soul flame.
Zich could clearly feel that his graveyard was consuming power at an unprecedented rate.
The black rain grew increasingly violent, while the entire sky seemed to be pressing downward. The place where the sixty tombstones had once stood had already transformed into a crater more than a hundred meters wide, and at the center of that crater, an entirely new tombstone was slowly rising.