Chapter 1252: Forging The Strongest...(7)

Chapter 1252: Forging The Strongest...(7)



Skullius and the phantoms tried a lot of tinkering, tunkering, and tonkering. It didn't work. The Fruit of World Myths wouldn't budge.

They wound around, reversed their logic, sought perspectives inside and outside the box, but all of it yielded nothing.

They simply couldn't pry anything out of the Fruit of World Myths. What was presented by the guidance field was all they had to work with. They could not make the flower-shaped mark edify their expertise in manipulating [Evil Darkness] and [Just Light] at all.

A crippling silence ensued.

Skullius would have shaken his head and thrown his hands out in resignation.

"There's nothing we can do about this then?" he said.

"Apparently not," a thought phantom replied with the same degree of sullenness Skullius had.

There was another pause.

"Well, we do have another option," another of the phantoms said.

Everyone else perked up.

"What?" Skullius asked, a little hopeful.

"We could try checking the WILLS for clues."

"..."

"No."

"No."

"Flesh, no."

He was forced to shut up and complete yet another schematic which needed 100,000 Creeds to fulfil before adding it to the seed. After this, his phantoms finally turned towards his Territories.

Skullius was excited about what they had in mind for these.

"Even if we've thrown the idea of forging more Phantasmic Retainers to chance, I believe we can make do with the one we are currently able to create - the Noboboyama," a phantom said. "Now, the Noboboyama can only hold two Seeds of the Fruit of World Myths at a time. I believe that should be plenty for what we need. It can act as a sufficient carrier, don't you think?"

"No. These two Territories aren't simple. I doubt even three Seeds of the Fruit of World Myths would qualify as equals to Aphotic Catacomb of the Daemon, much less Purified Cadaver's

Impartial Felicity."

"Alright. Then what's the compromise?"

"Hold on!" Skullius suddenly butted in. "You... You mean to tell me you want the Phantasmic Retainers to hold our Territories?"

"Well, yeah," a phantom said matter-of-factly. "If we can make the Retainers hold our Territories, we can have them exert the Primary, Secondary and even Tertiary effects of the Territories outside them, like they do with the Seeds of the Fruit of World Myths."

Skullius was stunned.

"That's just like how I apply Purified Cadaver's Impartial Felicity's powers; having some of its effects apply outside rather than inside. That's genius!"

"Indeed, we know. It would cost us a lot less to cast, especially with Purified Cadaver's Felicity. Its drain on reserves is still something to be studied. Besides that, if we can contain these Territories in their dormant states long enough, we'll get access to their Tertiary effects. Eventually."

Skullius found himself nodding furiously - in consciousness.

This was quite the idea.

Even his Fulgardt-possessed self had had to work around the fact that he didn't have a Tertiary assault function to his Territory. There were no shortcuts to creating it. The living things that naturally grew within the Territory determined the nature of the attack.

So far, Skullius remembered seeing only two individuals with such advanced Territories: Azila, the Great Mane Mountain Ape, and Rayn. The latter was on a completely different level though. There was an entire city of full-grown humanoid beings in his Territory. "Well, since we might have a capacity problem depending on how the result of the merge

comes to pass, I might have a solution," a phantom said.

The other phantoms and Skullius pricked their hypothetical ears.

"Fractional Territory Expulsion. How does that sound?"