Apocalypse: Transmigrated with an Overlord System
Chapter 136: Soul Master, Queen of the Forest

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: Soul Master, Queen of the Forest

Soul Master, Queen of the Forest

Before dawn, the fog was like a veil, covering the entire forest. The forest was so quiet that it seemed as if time had stopped, but the smell of blood and the faint sense of oppression in the air were still telling us what kind of thrilling fight this land had just experienced.

In the deepest part of this silent forest, a woman stood quietly on the top of the mountain, her shadow spread out in the moonlight like a black wave. Her red hair was blown by the night wind, and her eyes were like a mirror, condensing the abyss, reflecting the hundreds of powerful souls under her feet.

——She is the Liora who is now standing at the peak of the twelfth level.

The system panel slowly emerged in her mind:

[SYSTEM PANEL]

Name: Liora

Age: 20

Title: Royalty (Former Dynasty Princess)

Class: Survivor (Awakened)

Race: Human

Stats:

Health: 68909 / 82000

Stamina: 78040 / 80000

Strength: 72100 / 80000

Agility: 50000 / 80000

Intelligence: 63200 / 80000

Endurance: 77000 / 80000

Character Progression:

Survival Points: 100,999,990

Level 12 (EXP to next level: 1,670,820 / 2,000,000)

Special Features:

Map: [Base]

Soul Realm: [Unlocked]

[System level: Lv.12]

[Soul Shadow Carrying Limit: 20,000]

[Soul Level: 1st to 15th]

[Number of Crystal Cores Stored: 142,700,023 (320,000 High-Level Crystal Cores)]

Liora looked down at her hands; her palms were slender and steady, and her skin was glowing with a pale golden luster. A month ago, she almost collapsed when facing a level 10 mutant horned tiger, but now, she can tear apart a level 15 mutated beast with her bare hands without even using all her strength.

She sighed softly, "Finally, I’m here."

This month, she has hardly stopped. She fought, hunted, and absorbed souls without sleep, from low-level to high-level, and almost swept through all the mutant beasts that could be found in the entire forest.

Her shadow ability broke through in the soul-devouring again and again. Every time she suppressed the new soul, it was like the edge of burning out the soul, but she persisted.

Now, these originally violent and untamable souls floated quietly around her, like loyal servants, ready to obey her call and command at any time.

"... Not all mutant beasts have become stronger in the past two months." Liora half-squinted her eyes, looked up at the moon in the sky, and whispered to herself.

Since the strange black rain fell, the whole world seemed to be eroded by some kind of power. The mutant beasts and zombies began to evolve rapidly, and their levels grew wildly.

But she had seen with her own eyes the fourteenth-level earth rock rhino with black rock armor all over its body. The battle scars and aura on its body were definitely not formed by a short-term mutation.

"They are like ancient beasts awakened from slumber." She looked deep, "Not new monsters."

In their area, the insects only mutated after the recent rain, and in her opinion, the case for animals should be the same because she never heard them mention mutated animals. But in this misty forest, it looks like this beast has been mutated for a very long time.

This discovery did not scare her but strengthened her determination to stay—otherwise, how could she have improved to such a level in a short time?

She now has a large amount of crystal cores and energy reserves, which is an unimaginable wealth for other survivors, but she knows that it is not these crystal cores that really make her stronger.

Her system upgrades do not rely on crystal cores but on constant fighting with the strong, which in return gave her rewards and strengthened her stats and unlocked a new level.

Even her soul sight does not rely on these crystal cores. It upgraded when she crossed the threshold of holding souls. That’s why she never absorbed these crystal cores even though it would help her increase her physics and strengthen it, because she prefers to strengthen after killing.

——So, she never wastes crystal cores.

She gently put away the system panel, raised her head, and her eyes gradually became complicated.

"... But where should I go next?"

She has patrolled this forest more than a dozen times. She has searched every high ground, every deep valley, every crack and cave that may hide mutated beasts. She only left the low-level ones so they can grow big. Her intention was not to completely erode their generation and leave this forest barren.

But that person, Atlas, seemed to have completely disappeared.

"You’re just going to leave me like this? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll starve to death in this forest?"

She stood on a branch, looking up at the misty forest in the distance, and said with a hint of gnashing teeth, "You don’t even give me a direction; you’re so cruel."

No matter how strong she is, she still can’t leave this misty forest. No matter how long she walks, how far she walks, she will eventually circle back to the same place, as if trapped by some kind of barrier.

She tried to break the formation with soul countless times, tried to explore the way with shadows, and even used the teleportation scroll fragments rewarded by the system, but still couldn’t leave.

"Atlas..." She whispered softly, "You’d better come out quickly, otherwise... I’ll be angry."

After a moment of silence, she suddenly sat on the branch, gently shook her legs, and looked at the blood-red moon in the sky.

"...I wonder if they are doing well outside?"

The faces of her friends appeared in her mind—Chen Wei, who always liked to protect them; Yun Zhou, who cried and shed tears; Liang Zihan, who shouted every day that he wanted to be a hero; and her new friends, who did not think twice before saving them and fought tooth and nail with zombies and mutated insects.

"They, will they be scared..." She smiled softly, and a soft feeling appeared in her heart. "It’s all my fault... I didn’t have time to tell them."

She wanted to tell them all this as soon as she came back, become stronger together, and build a safe place together. But now, she can only hope that one day she can successfully walk out of the forest and stand in front of them again.

"When the time comes... I will tell them in person how powerful I have become."

Her shadow quietly climbed up her shoulders, sticking to her neck like a loyal dog, and she reached out and gently stroked the ink-like black spirit.

"Be good, stay with me for a while." She whispered, "When we find him, we can go home."