Transcendent Dawn

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Within the ice and snow palace, a burst of wild laughter rang out.

“Haha…

It’s finished, finally finished!”

Phil excitedly looked at his new body, which was now covered with a layer of fresh flesh over the original skeleton.

Ritchie held his magic wand and stood aside, seemingly observing the patterns on the ground while muttering to himself, “An ordinary lich transformation may grant a long life, but it also has weaknesses, such as the loss of touch, smell, and taste…

Now, this ‘Perfect Lich Transformation Array’ creates ‘perfect liches’ with bodies just like living people, yet without their fatal weaknesses.”

“Mhm, Ritchie, you’ve done well.”

Phil greedily caressed his new body and donned a black robe.

Even he had to admit that Ritchie indeed had talent, especially when it came to studying necromancy spells.

His crazed zeal was somewhat surprising to him.

“So…

Tutor, as a return for the trade, please tell me the method for summoning the undead from the Netherworld!”

Ritchie asked sincerely, without a change in his expression.

“Sure, I’ll tell you the method right now…”

A sly smile appeared on Phil’s face: “The method is…

there is no method!”

“What?”

Ritchie shuddered as if struck by lightning.

“Haha…

That’s the expression!

Exactly that expression!”

Phil let out a delighted long laugh: “I’ve waited so long just to see your expression at this moment, truly splendid!”

“Once a soul descends to the Netherworld in this world, there’s been no case of summoning it back.

Although I died back then, I immediately used the ‘Lich Transformation Skill,’ which actually meant my soul didn’t completely fall into the Netherworld, so…

get it?

Your desire to resurrect your lover from the Netherworld is totally impossible…

Haha…”

He laughed unrestrainedly, venting the negative emotions he had accumulated over the years.

But Ritchie’s expression gradually changed, from utter despair to impassiveness.

This made Phil’s laughter suddenly diminish: “Kid…

aren’t you sad or upset?”

“At least, I’ve found the direction.

Next, all I need to do is find a method to bring back a soul from the Netherworld, and I can resurrect Lindsay!”

Ritchie replied coldly, “Tutor…

you’ve broken the principle of equivalent exchange among magicians, you broke our agreement!”

“Yes, so what?”

Phil waved his hand, and a shard of ice materialized in his palm, tossed away carelessly.

Thwack!

The ice shard pierced Ritchie’s chest, with an ice tip protruding from his back.

“Hmm?”

Phil’s face grew concerned as he looked at Ritchie, who didn’t bleed a drop, “Lich transformation?”

“I’ve already tested the experiment of the perfect lich on myself!”

Ritchie extended his hand, and a circle of pale blue frost appeared in his palm, “Blizzard!”

Bang!

An orb of ice crystals appeared and exploded in front of Phil, tearing his body to pieces.@@novelbin@@

But the next moment, the torn body ‘glued’ itself back together, with five fingers clutching a long spear.

A new round of fierce battle erupted.

Time passed, unknown how long.

Within the ice and snow palace, Phil’s coarse laughter emerged, “Hee hee…

Are we two undying beasts ready to fight here till the end of time?”

“For a lich, if the ‘Soul Device’ isn’t destroyed, it won’t truly die…” Ritchie said expressionlessly, “I certainly know that…

which is why…”

In his palm, an ancient bronze ring emerged, twinkling with a layer of magic glow.

“No…”

Seeing this, Phil let out a roar of extreme horror: “How did you find…

it?”

This was the ring he received when he became a Knight’s Attendant, very meaningful as a keepsake, so Phil had made it his own Soul Device.

But unexpectedly, it ended up in Ritchie’s hands.

“Goodbye…”

Ritchie exerted force with his right hand, and destructive magic fell upon the ring.

Crack!

A crack appeared on the surface of the ring, followed by a mass of spiderweb-like patterns, and finally, it exploded into pieces amidst the brilliance of the magic.

“No…”

Pieces of flesh fell off Phil’s body, eventually revealing his true skeletal form.

And the fire of his spirit within his eye sockets extinguished at a rapid pace.

Outside the palace, each ‘Corpse Demon’ he had created lost the blue in their eyes, falling down like wheat being reaped, some directly exploding into icy fragments.

“A Lich has absolute control over its subordinate Corpse Demons; once it dies, its subordinates will also perish…”

Ritchie watched this scene with his expression continually changing.

Then, step by step, he moved forward, kicked aside Phil’s remnants, sat on the Ice Throne, his expression bewildered, “Lindsay…

even if it means making the entire continent my enemy, I must resurrect you.”

…

“Poor little guy…”

Watching the spectacle, Su Lu curled his lip: “He must be out of his mind by now.

Already obsessed, and with the Lich Transformation Ritual, he turned into a being of negative energy.

Too much negative emotion accumulated, and another goes mad…”

“As for Phil…

well, dead is dead…

I only ensured you could have another chance to start over, but I did not guarantee that you could become Divine, even if you were once the True God of Flames!”

“However, this batch of True Spirit Imprints does have good potential, excellent labor for building the world…”

Su Lu’s gaze shifted to the Netherworld.

Normally, with the Soul Device destroyed, the Spiritual Body should have completely perished.

But under His slightest care, plus being the reincarnation of a True God, a sliver of the True Spirit Imprint remained very resilient.

It had fallen into the Netherworld, awaiting the start of a new cycle of life.

“The Lich King has been replaced, but it seems the result is much the same…”

Su Lu shook his head almost speechless.

The test from the North Territory has never been about strength for Ilya, but about the soul and choice.

…

In the year 21 of the Nesser Magic Empire’s chronology.

The ‘Plague of Death’ broke out!

A horde of ghouls, along with an army of the dead, advanced southward from the North Territory.

This was a war between the living and the undead.

But strangely, they received help from some beastmen mages of the North Territory.

The conflict between beastmen and humans erupted in that moment!

The Tiger People re-established the Beastmen Kingdom, with the army of the dead as the vanguard, boldly advancing southward, striking at human territories.

That same year.

The ‘Brilliant’ Floating City also arrived at the North Territory.

Facing the rebellion in the North Territory, Ilya did not mobilize a single soldier; she relied solely on her power as a level six magic tutor and cast Forbidden Curses.

Several assaults annihilated over four hundred thousand undead legions, with the beastmen suffering heavy casualties and death.

She even fought her way alone to the snow-drifting Palace of the North Pole, right before the Ice Throne!

No one knew exactly what happened in the battle between the Magic King and the Lich King.

It was only known that after that battle, the Lich King vanished completely, and the arctic tundra sank into the ocean, leaving a sea dotted with drifting icebergs…