Chapter 580: Spiritual Force

Chapter 580: Spiritual Force



The masses of corpses were gathered together and frozen by Ryan, forming a four-cornered wall of sorts to protect them from any sudden attack.

Each of them sat back-to-back with a certain number of cores in front, which were given after they had divided the cores equally.

There was a certain style and technique that was usually employed during essence absorption from soul cores.

And to keep drifters from copying each other's technique, it was advisable that two drifters should back each other when absorbing soul cores.

Of course, they weren't just backing each other. They were sitting in a circle, but each person's back was faced against another in such a way that it was a bit stressful to look at the person beside them—at least not when busy absorbing soul essence from cores.

Even Shin, Ryan, Alystren, Jeci, and Lynus were involved.

Northern and Dante stood above the wall while they watched the others as they absorbed their soul cores.

Silence persisted between the two of them for a while. Then the Lieutenant spoke.

"Why are you not absorbing all the soul cores you've collected?"

Northern was silent for a beat, then he shrugged.

"Soul cores are more expensive and useful when traded."

The Lieutenant raised a brow and looked at Northern. "That's surprisingly low thinking. You do realize that the people you are trading them to are buying them because they want to absorb them."

"Which is good for them. I don't need to absorb soul cores in order to grow."

As Northern said this, Dante's eyes widened; a moment later, he opened his mouth with a small grin.

"So you are one of those?"

Northern narrowed his eyes. "One of what?"

Dante's gaze rested on him for a short while, his eyes scrutinizing all of Northern's features to find any hints of pretense.

He paused for a bit.

"Have you heard of empty rifts?"

Northern looked at him, answering, "I'm not sure, but judging from the name, it's an empty rift?"

"Yes. An empty one. It seems like a ruin more than a rift, but it's totally empty, no monsters at all, however symbolizing the existence of an old civilization. That is where the theory comes that rifts are dimensional fragments of places breaking into our own dimension." Northern would have accepted that notion if he hadn't met Sura and learned better.

These people and their theories were plausible, but he had realized what rifts were from meeting Sura.

Rifts are the line in-between. However, it is very possible that that line in between continues to leak two dimensions now in particular-the world below and the world above-into each

other.

Northern wanted to believe that it was possible for the back door of a rift to lead to the underworld. But where would one find the backdoor?

"Judging by your look, you have heard this before..."

Northern smiled shortly. "Well, being in the dark continent, I heard a lot about what rifts are in our countless attempts to live."

"I see... Ten years ago, an empty rift was found—a ruin that we had never seen even in the history of finding empty rifts. And a purer kind of essence was found. This essence was further termed as Divine essence, hence Divine force. Not much has been discovered about Divine essence since then, and so it has remained as a protected theory."

Northern nodded his head subtly in understanding. He didn't expect that a random conversation like this was going to help him better understand what his ability was.

"I am sincerely grateful," he responded politely.

"Are you?"

Northern stared at the Lieutenant, lingering before he responded, "I am."

"Then do you think you can do me a favor?"

'I darned expected that crap. He knew what he was doing since he opened his mouth and

started talking.'