The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 413 - 281: The Ancient God Returns

Chapter 413: Chapter 281: The Ancient God Returns

Rod’s eyes widened suddenly.

The initial strength of this star is 20,000?

To think that his total soul strength is only 28,005, which is the combined strength of six stars.

This one is almost catching up with the six of them.

Is this the powerful star hidden in the remote depths of the Soul Wilderness?

Joy surged in Rod’s heart.

Once the soul strength surged, all his spiritual energy indicators would skyrocket.

His spiritual power level was about to jump again!

Hahaha!

I’m finally no longer a small pond that runs dry at a single gulp!

The shallowness of his spiritual energy had always been Rod’s biggest problem; his overwhelmingly strong combat methods meant he always encountered people with far greater spiritual energy at his level.

Typical fifth-level combatants are at the seventh level of spiritual energy.

At the level of third-level combatants, they commonly have ninth or tenth-level spiritual energy.

Strong monsters generally have tenth or eleventh-level spiritual energy.

Yet Rod’s spiritual power level is only five, and he is five to six levels behind his enemies in every battle, making it hard even to breathe smoothly.

If he didn’t have various special methods emerging one after another, victory would be impossible.

But now it’s different.

The initial strength of this star is so high that future enhancements will surely be even greater.

He was about to shed the label of weak spiritual energy.

In the current state where "Awakening" could not be used at will, this was tremendously significant for him.

The feeling of his body not being easily drained must be great.

Rod was extremely excited and continued to read on.

After two instances of quantification, the Dream Realm had unlocked more functions, and he could now directly see the requirements for the star to advance to the next level.

"’Star Shuttle’ state, advancing from Weak Burning to Limit Burning, position advancing from Dull Fire to Fiery Fire, requires 3 pieces of Soul Firewood, 10 million Souls Without Spirit."

When Rod saw this line, he could hardly believe his eyes.

The Book of Knowledge had said that the demands for a mighty star would be higher.

He was well aware of this, but he didn’t expect it to be to this extent.

For the first time, Rod saw a star that needed 3 pieces of Soul Firewood, where advancing one level needed 10 million Souls Without Spirit.

He had cleared most of the monsters in Star Town, and he had only a little over 8 million souls.

Rod did a quick mental calculation, and the ratio of star strength to souls had reached an astonishing 1 to 500.

Know that even the most unfavorable "Spirit Elegy" was less than 1 to 200.

Damn.

I thought I had enough souls before, but now it seems far from enough.

But Rod didn’t want to give up.

He still had over a thousand of the most complete souls, most of which were the souls of fierce-level monsters. If he sacrificed them all, it should be about enough for his level upgrade.

Rod quickly returned to the Dream Realm and went to the Soul Altar.

On one side of the altar was the crystal wall, dim and full of souls.

With a thought from Rod, a soul flew into his hand.

It was like a large swirling mass of gray fog, the most complete soul, not the Soul Fire he had before.

Rod raised his hand, and suddenly the soul was sliced by an invisible force; the gray fog dissipated, and the smoke vanished.

A wisp of grayness flew into the obelisk.

Soul Without Spirit +1518.

A large, semi-transparent, soft substance fell into the palm of his hand.

points of Spirituality.

Some black, fluffy stuff fell to the ground.

This was Soul Residue, the remnant of a strong soul after a sacrifice, not very useful, but the Book of Knowledge was fond of consuming them, claiming they are beneficial for the soul.

His luck wasn’t great this time. If he were luckier, he might have obtained some Soul Trait objects—parts of a soul related to its characteristic and bearing the trajectory of laws.

According to the Book of Knowledge, the main use of Soul Traits is to create Spiritual Objects or Puppets.

But Rod currently didn’t have any such creations.

He accelerated the sacrifice.

Soon, the vast majority of the souls within the crystal wall had been sacrificed.

Rod amassed a total of 1.93 million Souls Without Spirit; his total soul count finally broke through 10 million.

He also gained over 90,000 points of Spirituality, a mountain-sized pile of Soul Residue, but the Book of Knowledge had already eaten about half of it.

During Rod’s soul sacrifice, it watched and consumed the remnants.

In addition, there were 17 pieces of Soul Traits.

Only 17 emerged from over a thousand souls, a remarkably low probability.

The crystal wall became crystal clear again, with a single soul remaining inside.

That was the soul of "Thief King Mites," which Rod had forgotten for a long while.

He obtained this soul during the mission to change the direction of the Dark Tide and had been pressed under the crystal wall for a long time.

Rod had intended to sacrifice it, but seeing its special name and having enough souls, he put it back.

Perhaps it would be of some use in the future.

With the souls in hand, it was time for the Soul Firewood.

If there were no Soul Firewood, the power of the star would rapidly fade.

This was also one of the reasons why Rod, in the absence of Divinity, had chosen not to ignite the stars.

From this aspect, the stars and the Guardian Fire actually have much in common; Fires need Fuel Element, while stars need souls, and fires need Fire Kindling, while stars need Soul Firewood.

There might really be a connection between them.

While Rod contemplated this, he took out 30 precious points of Divinity from the obelisk.

Every 10 points of Divinity made one piece, which could be used to create one piece of Soul Firewood.

The other materials had already been prepared (including the souls) and were stored away.

Rod lit the stone platform, took out the materials, and fashioned three pieces of Soul Firewood.

Rod looked at these three bundles of intertwined dry twigs in his hands and felt an immense pang of regret.

This was 30 points of Divinity after all.

The Divinity he had worked so hard to obtain had dropped back to double digits.