1045 Godly Faith
The end of the Tekur race changed everything. Michael never counted the number of Tekur slain by his people, but his main body sensed the energy influxes and death energy of trillions of Tekur. And that was only the mass of energy influxes from the Tekur in the Origin Expanse. There were far more Tekur in their lands, which Sylth and others conquered.
They claimed the planets while giving Michael all corpses. The Normie Tekur carcasses were used to nourish the Untamed Jungle, while the Awakened were plundered first. Plundering the Awakened took a while, but it was much faster than Michael had expected since hundred of workers used Plunder Crystals on the Lesser Lifeforms to extract their War Rune storages, Soultrait Symbols, and SoulStar Fragments.
Once everything had been extracted – several weeks were sacrificed in the effort to extract as much as possible – Michael surrendered the plundered corpses to the Untamed Jungle, which had already started expanding to the borders of the first conquered Tekur territory. It would probably take a few months, maybe even a year or two, until all territories that had once been part of the Tekur race would be claimed by the Untamed Jungle, but Michael was not in a rush.
If anything, Michael had much more time to spare than most others.
That was also why he didn't rush when he procured the Faith Soultrait from the Tekur Queen. He'd feared Extraction wouldn't work on a Soultrait like Faith because the droprate for powerful Soultraits like Faith was lower than the norm, but it worked out.
He acquired Faith and altered it slightly to add more perks and remove the Soultrait's downside. After that, Michael didn't waste any time and expanded his Soul Sphere. A new Empty Soul Socket was formed, and Faith fused with it. The Soultrait Symbol was in the inner area of the Main Body's Soul Sphere and was upgraded slowly. It was pushed to 7-Star at once before Michael switched to integrating SoulStar Fragments more slowly.
His victory and defeat decided the fate of the universe. Many did not like this, but even more were praying for Michael's success. That was enough to trigger Faith.
Godly Faith was what Faith transformed after reaching 10-Star. It was now a Godly Soultrait and sounded like one, too. Extraction, on the other hand, didn't sound that impressive. Extraction was the first Soultrait to reach 10-Star. It took a while to upgrade Extraction because he didn't have billions of SoulStar Fragments to spare, but the scarcity of SoulStar Fragments ended with the end of the Tekur race.
Extraction was pushed to 10-Star as his first Soultrait, but its powers didn't skyrocket. At least Michael couldn't perceive a shocking difference anymore. He could only tell that Extraction replenished the Wolf Divinity passively. Michael was having a much easier time tapping into the power of the Wolf Divinity, replenishing it actively much faster than before and unleashing its full power.
That was nice and the greatest benefit, other than the massive boost in all properties of Michael's beings as the Soultrait reached its full potential.
But while Extraction was the first Soultrait to reach 10-Star, it wasn't the last.
His other Soultraits would soon follow suit. After all, he had the SoulStar Fragments of an entire race in his grasp!