Rivers of the Night

Chapter 174: Blooming Heart

Soul lamps were uniquely special items. On the one hand, any Clan worth almost anything would have some, even those too insignificant to be considered minor nobles—Clans that didn't quite have true noble status, but had made their way in the world in other ways.

But, on the other hand, they could scale to shocking degrees.

The vast majority of soul lamps could only work within certain ranges. Because of this limited range, it was hard to tell when or if someone died at all unless they did so within said radius. If an important member of a Clan planned to leave this range, they would often have to take an amplifier of some sort with them.

There were many cases of such members of Clans leaving for too long, causing their soul lamps to extinguish. If they ever returned, they would have to reignite them.

A tier higher than these soul lamps were ones that worked anywhere in the world. In the Nightingale Province, such powerful soul lamps were only available to those with the wealth of Marquis Clans at the very worst. And even for them, they would often only use them on key pieces of their Clan while using normal soul lamps for all the others.

Even at this tier higher, though… such soul lamps could never cross the barrier of a Secret Realm to decide who had died within it and who survived.

However, Patriarch Gian's could.

Unfortunately, that was all that it could do.

Detecting a death in the Secret Realm was already the limitation of this soul lamp, and yet its expense was hundreds, even thousands of times more than that of the tier beneath it.