Chapter 466: Finally, Home In Sight
Northern summoned, lastly, Shei, one of the creatures that the Chaos Prince had created. "This time, I am going to join all three properties together."
Northern let out a creepy smile.
"I do hope that with the property of my clone, you'll gain a human body and face. It doesn't necessarily have to look like mine."
Northern shrugged and waved his hand for the experiment to begin.
Immediately, he signaled, and a thick vortex of void enveloped all three bodies and began to swivel violently.
The flames that burned in front of Northern grew viciously higher, giving off a more ferocious ambiance.
Northern gripped the handle of the chair, as even the pressure of the Void flame was
incredibly intense for him.
Of course, it didn't pose any significant harm, but its winds alone threatened to sweep him off his seat.
The raucous wind and flames persisted for a couple of minutes, with Northern intently watching.
Finally, the end came.
The flames dispersed suddenly with a blast of wind. Floating in the air, and slowly coming down, was a lithe, tall frame with ivory skin and lean muscles, and lustrous dark, overflowing hair.
Northern, elated, and with eyes sparkling, extended his hands in a hurry and made the body stop mid-air, levitating.
He walked through the flames and came up close to the body.
The face was stunning and beautiful, pale and small like his, but there was a different shade of nonchalance to this one compared to his own.
If he could be considered cold and indifferent, this one could be considered warm and indifferent.
It strangely reminded him of a particular somebody.
"...Sura."
There was this oblivious warmheartedness that Sura had despite being a wicked piece of shit. Of course, all of it was a facade.
But the fact that the feeling was there became unsettling to Northern.
He shook his head to drive the thoughts away and prolonged his gaze on the creature.
Several seconds later...
"Why is it not waking anyway?" Northern frowned inquisitively.
[Notice]
[You have created a new void summon]
[However, you have not established special talent 'Link' with the creature]
[Hence, the Void is putting the creature under a temporary slumber until Link is established]
Northern raised a brow. "Wait, what?"
Hurriedly, he summoned the panel of the new talent.
Talent name: [Link]
Talent Class: [S]
Description: [Due to the presence of a high-profile soul, a special ability inherent to your cloning talent has become a singularity]
Talent Ability: [Establish Link], [Evolve Link], [Delete Link]
Northern frowned in confusion. "So some entity just came around and made the fact that I could link with clones I create a talent of its own? Now, now, isn't that amazing?"
He spoke lightly of it, but inwardly he was growing mad with caution and worry.
Northern inspected the talent ability in silence.
Establish Link: [Create a line of consciousness between you and a Soul. To establish a link costs 1,000 talent fragments.]
Evolve Link: [Promote the link between you and a soul to the next level. This ability unlocks new link features. To evolve a link costs 1,000 talent fragments regardless of how strong the linked soul is.]
Delete Link: [Permanently erase an existing link. To delete a link costs nothing.]
Northern groaned in pain. He closed his eyes blankly for a second, cursing at the system in his head.
"You just won't evade any chance to rob me of talent fragments, will you?"
He sighed and looked down for a moment.
At this point, Northern couldn't help but feel like the system itself was trying to slow down his growth.
Now, whether for good reasons or bad reasons, Northern couldn't tell.
But the moment it became obvious that it acted not in his interest, Northern was ready to employ a full-force plan to separate himself from the system, even if it meant dying.
He sighed and looked at the floating body one more time.
Then he waved his hand. As he did, stone carved out of the ground, grew to form a coffin, and its top slowly opened.
Northern watched the body gently settle into the coffin, after which he exhaled again and left the Limitless Void.
What he saw the moment he appeared in the surface world shocked him quite awfully.
He widened his eyes as he appeared on the deck of the ship.
"Uhhh?" His mouth fell open.
"Your Highness? Where have you been?!" Jeci shouted as he appeared on the deck.
She was positioned to one side of the deck, her spear shooting downwards and shattering the heads of the creatures that desperately climbed up the ship.
While Night Terror and Black Mamba were inside the sea, wreaking havoc among the sea of monsters that swarmed towards them from all directions.
Night Terror momentarily would jump out of the water to catch his breath, while Black Mamba had permanently adapted to the water and didn't even need to breathe air.
Northern stared blankly for a couple of seconds, seriously shocked.
"How? How?" His mind raced with the question, in broken words.
The sea was filled with so many monsters that they crowded the surface.
In their eyes, he could see an annoyingly familiar madness, a bloodthirstiness that seemed to
have abandoned all forms of reason.
Northern frowned, paled, and was devastated.
"No no no. Don't tell me..." His lips muttered.
The creatures dove towards them with even more wickedness and desperation. Night Terror and Black Mamba tried, but the monsters were too much, from shark-like monsters with vicious teeth to four-legged beasts with webbed feet and jagged fangs. All different shades of monsters that dwelled in the sea were obsessed with their ship.
A parade to crush it at all costs.
Northern stared at all of them, then his eyes widened again as he raised them up.
Behind the disaster surrounding him was a backdrop of a black, tall metallic wall, embedded
in the distant clouds, and slowly becoming visible.
This caused his eyes to shine with hope.
"I'm home!"
He swiftly turned to Jeci. "Jeci, go into the ship, now!"
Jeci, who was busy shooting her spears like she was a master fisherman, looked at Northern
with a puzzled expression.
Then frowned a second later.
"Your Highness, please, at least I can-"
Before she finished her statement, Northern snapped his fingers, and the entire ship suddenly disappeared, leaving a large portion of the water surface vacant.
Northern grinned as he fell into the water. Then he raised both hands in jubilation and kicked
his legs nonchalantly in the water.
"Come at me, all of you!"