Chapter 366 CH 351: MY LIBRARY (1)



The monochrome world of black and white was still a great mystery for Adam if he had to be honest about it.

It was a world beyond the boundaries of life— a world where only death existed.

Everywhere he looked, red lines flashed with an eerie glow. He got the feeling that he only needed to touch those red lines to be able to deliver the concept of death on those objects and he would be able to destroy them completely.

Even though he often watched these red lines and thought up the destruction he could bring forth with his powers... this time, however, what took his interest was not the usual powers to bring death to any and all beings in existence.

Rather it was the power to bring the dead and those who left... back to life in the form of undead; beings who were neither dead nor alive, stuck in a constant state of limbo...

He remembered the sensations of using this power quite well.

When he tried to bring back the soul of Hae-Won, he felt his life force slowly strip away from him and vanish into nothingness as it broke away from his body.

It was the price that any and all needed to pay in order to cheat death and even then, all he could do was keep Hae-Won's soul for a very short time in this world before she disintegrated and went back to the land of the souls.

[While I do not have much knowledge about your power, I do know that all Necromancers, as few as they are, all end up becoming a lich. This is the only way for them to reliably grow their forces.]

The living should not meddle with the dead.

Thankfully for Adam, he could cheat Death in many ways and the price, as great as it may be for others, would only cost him just one life of his. One among the infinite was not much of a price to pay. It wasn't even a price, to be frank.

Looking at the immobile bodies of the two dead brothers, he was able to witness the link that bound their bodies and souls.

Unlike the case of Hae-Won, he did not even have to tug their souls back from the gate of beyond that passed over to the land of the souls.

They were still present in the current world, albeit in a different plane of existence than the one the living trod upon.

Bringing his hand forward, Adam touched the two souls and it was then that he saw something interesting transpire before his eyes.

"Hum..."

Adam stopped himself from doing anything further.

He could feel the price that was about to be paid if he tried to bring their soul into the plane of living.

The price seemed to be far far larger than what he had paid for Hae-Won.

'So the strength of the person affects the price, huh...'

It was hard to say if it was the physical strength or the strength of Prana that was within them during their moment of demise.

But it was safe to assume that the more powerful someone was when they were alive, the higher the price would be to bring their souls back from the gates beyond.

Still, that wasn't enough to garner Adam's intrigue.

The moment he touched the two souls, he could feel a certain connection between them, as if they wished to come to him of their own volition.

Something in his body was reacting to their souls, looking inwardly, he realized that it was none other than the chess piece that Eve, or rather the White Queen of Wonderland, had given to him back in the Dreamscape.

Somewhere in the desert, with the illumination of the moon that gently shone in the night sky, a body fully covered in sand and grime twitched ever so slightly.

Adam's eyelids fluttered for a while before his consciousness completely rose from its previous slumber and he came back to himself.

'How long was I out?'

[A little more than ten hours.]

Adam shook his head, still feeling quite dazed due to the previous phenomenon.

He looked up and could indeed see that it was past midnight right now.

"Lesson learned. Don't accept random souls in your body."

He grimaced as he could feel the sand in his hair, on his body, and even in places where sand should absolutely never be in the first place.

'Washing off all this will be a pain in the ass.'

He took a few steps, stumbled a little on each step, but was finally able to stand properly and advance after some adjustments. Even though he had fainted for over ten hours, he did not really feel rested.

It was as if his body had continued to work despite his own comatose state.

"What exactly happened?"

This was the thing he was the most curious about. Did he absorb those souls? Devour them or something completely else?

He opened his domain wide, but there was no difference in terms of the radius or in the perception of his surroundings. He also did not develop more minds and none of his other sensory skills evolved.

Then what?

What changed?

What happened?

[Adam...]

Genesis's voice pulled Adam back from his confused set of thoughts.

'Do you have any clue?'

[You should come and observe the nascent form of your inner world.]

Adam was a little surprised by what Genesis was saying but he did give it a try and what he found there was—

"Damn..."

This was— this was quite an interesting development, to say the least.