Heroes' Prison

Chapter 520 - 510 War Soul Advancement

Huang Yi was very much looking forward to the War Soul advancement because his War Soul was the only Perfect War Soul in the entire world. Not only were all nine layers of attack filled, but the seventh, eighth, and ninth layers of both defense and health were also activated, with all three mysteries unlocked. Advancement would undoubtedly make his War Soul even stronger.

After leaving the teleportation circle, Huang Yi quickly found the Warrior Hall in Tiantai City and approached a War Soul Awakener, explaining his purpose.

"A Heaven-Sent Man like you is going to advance your War Soul? Could you be the God of Slaughter who was the first to break through to Level 100?" The War Soul Awakener was an old man who seemed a bit taken aback when he heard Huang Yi’s purpose.

"Yes!" Huang Yi nodded his head. After all, he and Miyamoto Musashi were the only two players in the entire world capable of advancing their War Souls, and his first to reach Level 100 had even been announced by a system prompt, so it wasn’t surprising the old man could guess his identity.

"To advance the War Soul of the God of Slaughter is destined to be one of the proudest things I’ve done in my life," the old man said with a slight smile, then asked, "Do you understand the details of War Soul advancement?"

"I only have a superficial understanding, please explain it in detail to me," Huang Yi shook his head, ready to listen attentively.

"The essence of a War Soul lies in a single word: ’soul’," the old man got straight to the point and explained, "Before the War Soul advancement, the War Soul is actually dead, lacking a ’soul’. After each layer is enhanced, it’s not given any further attention and can’t adapt flexibly. But War Soul advancement means bringing a War Soul to life, endowing it with a true ’soul’."

As he said this, the old man glanced at Huang Yi and continued, "What you understand as a War Soul now is simply something that gives you three types of attributes: life, attack, and defense. These three attributes are not rich enough, but War Soul advancement means you’ll gain a more diverse and detailed set of bonus attributes. For example, with an Attack War Soul, you can give it extra attribute boosts like attack speed, critical hit rate, critical hit effect, and so on. For Defense War Souls, you can grant additional attributes like resistance, evasion value, reflect damage, and more. For Life War Souls, you can add attributes such as bloodsuck, health point recovery rate, etc. These detailed attributes can be flexibly changed at any time."

"How exactly is this done?" Huang Yi, now roughly understanding the benefits of War Soul advancement, asked.

"After War Soul advancement, each layer of War Soul you previously enhanced can absorb a Soul Spirit. This Soul Spirit can be any kind of creature, but it must be at least a leader at Holy Domain level. After absorbing a Soul Spirit, that layer of War Soul comes alive, and this Soul Spirit will bring additional attributes, which are the attributes it specialized in during life. The stronger the Soul Spirit, the higher the additional attributes," the old man explained.

"Give me an example." The old man said, raising a finger, "Before the War Soul advancement, the first layer of your Attack War Soul has only one attribute, increasing your attack power by 2%. But if you absorb a Soul Spirit with high attack speed into this layer, then the first layer of your Attack War Soul additionally has the attribute of increasing attack speed. If the Soul Spirit excels in critical hit rate, then the additional attribute might be increased critical hit rate. What additional attributes are added entirely depends on what your Soul Spirit is good at. And the level of the additional attributes depends entirely on the strength of the Soul Spirit. If your Soul Spirit is from the Primary Holy Domain, the additional attribute might be 1%, but if the Soul Spirit you absorb is from the Intermediate Holy Domain, the additional attribute might reach 2%."

"Furthermore, four points need attention," the old man added. "First, each War Soul can only absorb a corresponding Soul Spirit. For example, your Life War Soul can only absorb a Soul Spirit of the life type, and not an attack type, unless it is the rare Omnipotent Soul Spirit, which excels in life, attack, and defense. Secondly, mysteries can also be enhanced with Soul Spirits. As the world’s only Perfect Battle Souler with all three mysteries unlocked, you had better find three more Soul Spirits for your mysteries. Third, Soul Spirits can be changed. If you find a stronger Soul Spirit, you can replace the existing one at any time. Finally, the strong souls used as your Soul Spirits can be either dead or alive. If it’s dead, then it’s just a simple matter of absorbing its soul. If it’s alive, then there’s an additional feature: you can form a contract with it to become your Contract Partner, summoning it to assist you in battle. Of course, as you are not of the Hunter Class, you can only summon one Contract Partner to battle at a time."

"I understand!" Huang Yi nodded. War Soul advancement was not complicated after all; it simply involved using Soul Spirits to add a variety of additional attributes to every layer of the War Soul, with different spirits providing different attributes.

"Help me advance my War Soul," Huang Yi said, unable to wait any longer.

"Alright!" The old man said with a greedy smile, cracking his fingers as he carefully calculated, "The charge for War Soul advancement is calculated by layer. The first layer is one thousand Gold Coins, the second layer two thousand Gold Coins, the third layer three thousand Gold Coins, and so forth. Your Attack War Soul has layers one to nine, so here it’s 45,000 Gold Coins. Your Life War Soul’s activated layers are the seventh, eighth, and ninth, for a total of 24,000 Gold Coins, and your Defense War Soul is also 24,000 Gold Coins. Additionally, each mystery is 50,000 Gold Coins, and since you have all three mysteries activated, that’s 150,000 Gold Coins. So the total charge for your War Soul advancement is 243,000 Gold Coins!"

Upon finishing, the old man turned his radiant smiling face towards Huang Yi, revealing two yellow teeth. It seemed as if he hadn’t opened his shop for three years, but once he did, he earned enough for the next three years.

"Here are 250,000 Gold Coins, no need for change," Huang Yi said. His current net worth was over a billion Gold Coins, hence such a meager sum was less than a hair to him. He straightforwardly took out 25 Diamond Coins and generously handed them over.

The old man’s eyes lit up as he flattered, "The God of Slaughter is truly generous. I’ll start your War Soul advancement immediately!"

After saying this, he placed his withered left hand on Huang Yi’s forehead, closed his eyes, and adopted a solemn expression, softly chanting a strange and haunting melody.

Huang Yi suddenly felt streams of bizarre energy flowing from the old man’s arm into his body, spreading to his limbs.

One minute later, he finally received a System Prompt —

"[System Prompt]: All your War Soul layers have advanced. Current Soul Spirit count: 0."

With that, Huang Yi’s War Soul advancement was completed. This power increase would only manifest in the future and was not yet apparent. His immediate priority was to collect some Soul Spirits; with 15 War Soul layers and three mysteries, he needed to gather a total of 18 Soul Spirits.

Among these, the criminals in the Heroes’ Prison were undoubtedly very suitable candidates; however, there was no way they would willingly become Huang Yi’s soul spirits. A soul spirit’s status was even lower than that of a Territory Guardian, with no freedom at all, essentially turning into Huang Yi’s contract pets. Moreover, these criminals were a non-renewable resource; losing one meant one less to utilize, and Huang Yi needed to preserve them for other purposes.

Next, Huang Yi went to the Tower of Pantheons to try absorbing soul spirits.

He teleported to the 101st floor’s solo mode, which was a square filled with swordsmen practicing their swordplay, all uniformly at Level 100. Huang Yi directly mounted the Two-Headed Lin and charged toward the group of swordsmen.

The Tower of Pantheons was a secret realm where the monsters inside were somewhat special, mass-produced by the Pantheons with low intelligence. The Level 100 minions here, although their ranks were of the Holy Domain, paled in comparison to the Holy Domain warriors of the outside world; in that world, each Holy Domain warrior belonged to a boss level, with no minions or elite monsters.

In the Tower of Pantheons, however, there was still a hierarchy of common monsters, elite monsters, and bosses. The swarming swordsmen that Huang Yi was now facing were common monsters, whose power was far from the terror of a boss.

"Scorched Earth!"

"End of the World!"

"Storm of Thunder Clouds!"

"Judgment!"

Huang Yi released four super wide-area group attack skills in one breath, inflicting massive damage on all the minions within range. He unleashed all the power he had gained this evening without reservation!

Among them, the effect of Judgment saw the most significant increase!

Huang Yi had just evolved into a Mutated Half-Beastman, possessing a talent that increased his disease and poison damage by an extra 20%. Now in his Beast King Form, the effect was halved, but still provided a 10% boost, significantly enhancing the damage of his Plague Rune.

Soon, all the minions in the area fell, turning into his Experience Points. The Tower of Pantheons truly was the essential place for level grinding, where even after reaching the Holy Domain Rank, one could still level up quickly.

It wasn’t long before Huang Yi faced the first boss, the leader of these swordsmen, at Level 101, much stronger than those minions. As an NPC of the boss level, his strength could not be mentioned in the same breath as that of common monsters, and only he could be called a true Holy Domain warrior, while the minions were not.

"You have disturbed my rest," the Swordsman Leader pointed his sword toward Huang Yi from afar and spoke his line indifferently.

The response was a solid Ice Arrow shot from the Two-Headed Lin, which hit the boss squarely, covering his body with a layer of ice crystals and significantly slowing his movements.

Huang Yi spurred the Two-Headed Lin forward swiftly and delivered a Heavy Judgment with a vigorous smash!

"Boom!" Huang Yi’s Attack Power, now reaching over 1600 Holy Domain Points, poured down in such an enormous amount that the Swordsman Boss was immediately sent flying, landing dozens of meters away on the ground, dragging a long bloodstain behind until finally coming to a stop.

The two of them were both Primary Holy Domain Warriors, but Huang Yi was clearly much more powerful!

The boss soon got up, sword in hand, and charged bravely toward Huang Yi!

"Forced Execution—Pursuit!" Spending five times the Rage, Huang Yi, together with his mount, executed the "Pursuit" skill and became a phantom, charging towards the boss...

Thus, Huang Yi fought the boss for several minutes and, relying on his strong attribute suppression, successfully killed the boss!

This would be his first soul spirit! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Starting Point (qidian.com) to cast your Recommendation Tickets, and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)