Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

Zero sighed at the immense effort made to save his little life, and then watched as Wen Yu pushed three already Level 5 Ancient Demons over, signaling that Zero could leave.

Only then did Zero finally breathe a sigh of relief. He looked at the calm and cold faces of the three brand new Soul Creations, gave Wen Yu a slight bow, and then turned to walk toward the entrance opened by the Mountain Kui.

Behind him, Number 1, Number 2, and Number 3 followed closely.

...

”Number 1, Number 2, Number 3?”

Walking within the Mountain Kui, Zero could sense the life aura behind him, identical to a normal Level 5 Ancient Demon, and asked in an inquisitive tone.

”Present.”

Number 1’s calm voice sounded.

”Hmm...”

Zero walked and pondered before saying, ”From now on, you are my Praetorian Guard. By rule, you should call me Master.”

”Understood, Master.”

The three Ancient Demons responded meticulously, their tone unusually earnest.

”Also, do any of you know anything about the Demon Realm? We need to coordinate our statements to avoid any slip-ups on common knowledge when the time comes.”

Zero’s tone was serious. He seemed ready to thoroughly carry out the ”task” Wen Yu left him... But when it comes to matters of attitude and loyalty, those things shift as fast as the weather in June! Such a momentary attitude shouldn’t be taken seriously.

”Master, our minds have already been filled by the Master with complete memories. Regarding common knowledge, there won’t be any issues with us!”

Number 2’s reply was extremely firm, while Zero ”surprisingly” turned his head: ”Wen Yu can even manipulate memories?”

The three Ancient Demons exchanged glances, and Number 1 gently nudged Zero: ”Master, these are not matters you should be concerned with...”

”Tsk.”

Zero silently spat, thinking that these three were still loyal. Suddenly, a furious roar interrupted Zero’s train of thought!

”Zero! You bastard have the audacity to betray...”

”Crash...”

An explosion interrupted the furious roar ahead, followed by a child’s tender voice from the distant darkness.

”Shut up. You’re a prisoner, don’t be a nuisance, or I’ll tear your mouth apart.”

”You...”

Zero watched as Faceless, in Tang Haofei’s state, leisurely walked up beside him. Behind him was a large net woven from lightning. Inside the net, Koray’s body squirmed continuously like a salted fish.

”Lord Faceless.”

The three Ancient Demons behind Zero bowed respectfully to Faceless, who merely nodded expressionlessly before looking at Zero.

”You’re the second mole?”

Zero’s eyes widened...

Second...

That’s a lot of information...

Faceless seemed unaware of the slip in his own words and just muttered about why he couldn’t be involved in something so interesting, then yanked the lightning net hard again.

The sound of sizzling and the scent of roasting meat emanated from Koray’s body, and as Zero watched Koray’s miserable state, his eye twitched twice, then he turned around.

”Let’s move quickly. Koray’s finished, and the reverse portal for the Demon Realm’s Gate should be nearly ready.”

...

”Boss, I’m back.”

Faceless walked into the Soul Experiment Lab with Koray in tow, looking quite ecstatic, clearly having had a good time outside.

Wen Yu smiled and nodded, then looked at Koray behind Faceless: ”Didn’t I tell you to kill him? Why bring him back?”

Faceless didn’t answer Wen Yu’s question directly. Instead, Victor, beside Wen Yu, licked his claws and said, ”I told them to do it.”

”Oh?”

Wen Yu looked at Victor with interested eyes.

Victor hesitated for a while before finally explaining, ”Well, Boss, this guy’s skill system is somewhat similar to mine... and since you can extract skills, I also lack Limit Breakthrough Level abilities...”

Victor’s voice became softer and softer, but Wen Yu generally understood the situation—Victor was eyeing the Limit Breaking Abilities of Cyclops and Star and wanted to fill this gap in himself with Koray, who surely possessed Limit Breakthrough Level skills.

Upon hearing Victor’s words, Wen Yu chuckled and shook his head: ”Actually, I was planning to do that myself.”

With that, Wen Yu stepped forward and took a detailed look at Koray in the lightning net, his gaze as if appraising some kind of merchandise.

The strange and terrifying gaze prompted Koray to roar again, but with another yank on the lightning net by Faceless, it quickly turned into a scream.

”The reason for having Cyclops and Faceless kill Koray was my fear of miscalculating Koray’s power. After all, capturing alive and killing are worlds apart. Capturing alive or not isn’t that important; as long as you can collect his residual Soul Power, I can use the Soul Abiogenetic Creation Skill to try extracting his skills.”

”Hmm, there’s a Soul Puppet right next to the battlefield.”

Seeing Victor’s spirits lifted, Wen Yu felt the need to pour cold water on Victor.

”I said ’try,’ right? It’s really just an attempt. I’ve done some research on skill extraction and modification, but it’s quite challenging...”

”In fact, I’ve conducted many experiments in this area over this period, and the success rate for skill extraction is less than ten percent...”

Upon hearing this probability, Victor wasn’t too discouraged: ”Ten percent isn’t too bad!”

”What I meant is there’s a ten percent chance of extracting a skill, not a ten percent chance of extracting a specific skill...”

”And I’ve never extracted above S-class skills!”

Victor’s expression subtly changed...

”The reason I didn’t tell you is that the probability is truly low, like a lottery. I tried extracting Siegle’s skills a while ago but couldn’t get anything out. As skill levels increase, the difficulty spikes, so you’d better be prepared.”

”Okay.”

Victor nodded lightly, having understood why Wen Yu hadn’t revealed the true reason for killing Koray to his soul pets like him.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Rather than telling them beforehand and risking failure, it was better to surprise his soul pets if the extraction succeeded!

After figuring this out, Victor’s peripheral vision caught a green glow.

In Wen Yu’s right hand, the Almighty Demon Vine had already stretched out, piercing through Koray’s heart like an arrow. Under the control of the lightning net, Koray’s ability to transform into wind didn’t work at all, and a horrific sound of suction followed.

Koray’s body visibly shriveled as the Blood and Flesh Essence was rapidly digested and decomposed by the Almighty Demon Vine, turning into Wen Yu’s nourishment—a not insignificant boost, considering the nourishment from a Level 6 Limit Breakthrough Level Demon Fiend.

Once Koray completely lost his life aura, Wen Yu sensed the enhancement in his body’s attributes and Soul Strength, nodding with satisfaction, then reached out his right hand again.

The invisible residual Soul Energy in the air all surged into Wen Yu’s palm, leaving not a trace of the Level 6 Limit Breakthrough Level Demon Fiend, ”consumed” entirely by Wen Yu.

Then Wen Yu closed his eyes.

...

According to the Soul Abiogenetic Creation Skill, the ”unusable Soul Energy” contains the memories and skill information of a biological organism before death.

Skills, the most crucial existence under the professionist system, appear as light spheres surrounding the Soul Body once learned by a professionist—these were what Wen Yu had seen.

When a living organism dies, these skill light spheres shatter and intermingle with the Soul, drifting away. Since they are not part of the Soul, they can only turn into ”unusable Soul Energy.”

The Soul Abiogenetic Creation Skill specializes in handling this aspect!

Before the Soul Energy transforms into Creation Energy, Wen Yu forcibly interrupted this process. Then, the chaotic Soul Energy, including memories, emotions, skill information, etc., was rapidly decomposed—this process consumes Creation Energy, but not much.

Unnecessary things like emotions were filtered by Wen Yu, converted into Creation Energy to fill himself, while the memories were retained by Wen Yu for future reference—Koray’s memories surely had some value!

Finally, only the soul energy belonging to skills was left behind.

And this, is the most complex and challenging process!