Chapter 169: Beast Spirit Sorcerer
Opening the letter, the person who had written it was Han Yanshuo.
The contents mainly stated that the Han Family, together with other forces, had already restrained the Qi Family. However, the Alliance’s official forces inside the base had now intervened, so both sides had temporarily fallen into a stalemate.
After briefly introducing the current situation of the Qi and Han families, Han Yanshuo then explained the reason for writing this letter.
The Qi Family had four elders, one family head, and with Qi Lingxuan included, there should have been six Professional Beast Tamers in total.
The reason only five were currently accounted for was because the Qi Family’s Third Elder, Qi Chenyu, had once led the Qi Family’s Hunting Corps into the wilderness to hunt Ferocious Beasts and encountered a Ferocious Beast whose strength was comparable to that of a high-level Professional Rank.
In that accident, although the Hunting Corps provided assistance, Qi Chenyu’s Phantasmal Beast still died in the wilderness, while Qi Chenyu himself was seriously injured and rescued back to the Qinghui Base.
Although Phantasmal Tamers were unlike Beast Knights who shared honor and ruin with their own beasts, the spiritual backlash caused by the death of a Phantasmal Beast inflicted far more severe damage than during the apprentice stage.
Qi Chenyu not only dropped back down to the level of an Apprentice Beast Tamer, but his spirit was also severely damaged, leaving him in a prolonged coma.
One month ago, Qi Chenyu finally awakened from the coma, and the Qi Family was preparing to gather resources to help him recover his strength.
Among these resources, the most crucial one was a high-tier Calming Spirit Potion.
This type of potion could pacify turbulent Spiritual Power while also healing severe spiritual injuries.
However, among high-tier potions, the Calming Spirit Potion was extremely difficult to refine, and the required resources were exceptionally precious. Although the five major powers within the Qinghui Base possessed such potions, they would never sell this life-saving medicine to the Qi Family.
Now, the Qi Family had received news that this high-tier potion would appear at an auction in the Yunhai Base one month later.
Han Yanshuo requested that Zhou Ming help bid for the Calming Spirit Potion. The source crystals required for the auction would be provided by the Han Family. If the bidding failed, Zhou Ming was to intercept and kill the Qi Family members participating in the auction, with the source crystals used for the auction taken as his reward.
“Interesting. The Han Family is treating me like an assassin.”
Putting down the letter in his hand, Zhou Ming immediately opened the suitcase beside him, and dazzling golden source crystals came into view.
Besides that, there was also a file.
“No wonder the suitcase was so heavy—there are five thousand source crystal coins.”
At the beginning of this year, the Alliance Academy of Sciences had invented a special liquid. After being soaked in it, source crystals could become extremely soft for a short period of time.
Thus, the Alliance standardized source crystals into source crystal coins, each weighing ten grams.
Five thousand source crystal coins meant fifty kilograms of source crystals. This was the total amount of source crystals the Han Family was allowed to purchase from the Alliance within one year.
“It seems the Han Family is really going all out for revenge.”
Looking at the source crystal coins before him, Zhou Ming decided to make a trip to the Yunhai Base and act according to the actual situation when the time came.
Moreover, among the spoils in his possession, aside from equipment that was difficult to dispose of, third-tier spiritual materials such as Earthcore Fire Stone could be placed directly at the auction.
Setting aside the Han Family’s request for the moment, Zhou Ming began flipping through the files inside the suitcase.
Currently, there were four professions within the Alliance that could advance to Legendary Saint: Phantasmal Tamer, Shepherd, Beast Knight, and Beast Spirit Sorcerer.
Among these four professions, information regarding Beast Spirit Sorcerers was extremely scarce. Zhou Ming had not even been able to purchase detailed intelligence from the Black Market.
It was precisely because information about Beast Spirit Sorcerers was so mysterious that, driven by curiosity, he had asked the Han Family to help collect relevant materials.
As Zhou Ming turned the pages of the file, information about Beast Spirit Sorcerers gradually took shape in his mind.
During the Doomsday Era, as the existence of Spiritual Power was confirmed, the idea of controlling extraordinary power through Beast Taming began to take root. Among this, a small number of researchers in survivor bases turned their attention to the soul.
Their goal was not only to control powerful extraordinary forces, but also to obtain longer lifespans through this path.
In one such base, after accidentally acquiring necromantic knowledge recorded by an alien race, they ultimately pioneered the path of the Beast Spirit Sorcerer.
For an apprentice to advance into a Beast Spirit Sorcerer, one had to rely on a class advancement ritual and special materials, transforming the flesh and blood of their beast into nourishment to give birth to a Beast Spirit that existed solely as a spiritual entity.
Relying on Beast Spirits, Beast Spirit Sorcerers could cast spiritual spells, create illusions, manipulate dreams, and hypnotize ordinary creatures.
The transcendent class advancement of a Beast Spirit Sorcerer was the Bone Mage. Through a class advancement ritual combined with their Beast Spirit, they transformed themselves into undead beings, gaining mastery over necromantic spells and the ability to create ghosts, skeleton monsters, and other undead creatures.
The legendary class advancement of a Bone Mage was the Undead Overlord, though the files contained very little information about this advancement.
It was only known that this profession had become a calamity-level existence.
Because of the extreme danger posed by this profession—capable of manufacturing large-scale disasters to harvest human souls superior even to those of Ferocious Beasts—the Alliance began sealing off this profession from the moment it was established.
However, for the Beast Spirit Sorcerer path to be perfected all the way to the Undead Overlord, it was evident that someone had already advanced to Legendary Saint through this profession.
Yet, when facing several Legendary Saints of other professions within the Alliance, the Legendary Saint who had advanced into an Undead Overlord could only retreat into the lightless underground world of Blue Star.
Back when Dimensional Rifts first appeared and the Blue Star world began to undergo mutations, some underground caverns were also affected by the rifts and started to change.
These caverns gradually formed semi-independent spaces. If surface detection showed a cave occupying only ten kilometers, its interior might actually span hundreds or even thousands of kilometers.
Under the influence of spatial energy emitted by the Dimensional Rifts, these caverns were almost unaffected by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Their sturdiness was sufficient to allow Transcendent Beast Tamers to fight freely within them.
After that Legendary Saint entered the underground world, he further relied on his formidable strength to link several massive underground cavern worlds together, ultimately forming an underground world that occupied one-third the size of the Alliance’s territory.
Within this underground world, Beast Tamers of the Beast Spirit Sorcerer system held absolute dominance, while most of the others were heinous criminals wanted by the Alliance.
Faced with this situation, several Legendary Saints within the Alliance did not choose to exterminate them completely. After all, the other side was still part of Blue Star’s human strength.
Moreover, the underground world’s environment was complex, and its spatial sturdiness might not be able to withstand combat between Legendary Saints. No one wished to end up with mutual destruction.
Under this shared tacit understanding, the underground world came under the control of that Legendary Saint, while the Alliance began sealing off information related to Beast Spirit Sorcerers.
Nevertheless, since the Beast Spirit Sorcerer system was ultimately capable of advancing to Legendary Saint, the most basic information—under the control of the underground world—continued to circulate within the Alliance.
Generally, only those who advanced to Professional Beast Tamer would obtain detailed information, as Professional Beast Tamers could no longer casually change their profession.
“So that’s how it is.”
After understanding the intelligence regarding Beast Spirit Sorcerers, Zhou Ming finally realized why he had been unable to purchase related information.
“I wonder what kind of scenery necromantic power involving the soul would present. I hope I’ll have a chance to see it for myself.”
Knowing that the legendary undead creatures truly existed, Zhou Ming’s interest was further piqued.