Looking at the introduction of Count Alexander's soul ash in front of him, Leo was silent.

He remembered the demon-eyed greatsword he held in his [Blood Deviant] knight state when he fought him before.

- I clearly wielded a big sword with demon eyes, but after all, I never saw my own direction clearly.

What words of sorrow and despair.

And, friends?

In silence, Leo picked up another transparent glass of light.

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[Mana Polymer Small (None)]: The remnants of the power of the transcendent who activated the magic power after death, after absorption, can increase the upper limit of mana value by 20 points (originally a blood attribute, but later faded into pure mana without attribute through the influence of its owner's soul, which can be absorbed in full), and the mana value is invalid after exceeding 300 points.

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This was the first time that Leo knew that the creatures of the original dream world could actively affect soul ashes and magic polymers before they died.

Although the soul ash is a skill that records the skill of its owner that is firmly imprinted in the depths of the soul even after death, it is more or less worn out due to the death of the physical body.

However, [The Last Watcher] - The Complete Soul Ash of Radhay-Alexander clearly states that "the content is preserved in its entirety".

"Is that your gift to me, Mr. Earl."

"Friend......"

Leo sighed softly, his voice full of indescribable mixed emotions.

Although he and the soul body of Count Alexander, the real meeting time was very short.

But ah, from the time he entered the dream world to the present, everything he has encountered is closely related to this lord of the city of Yor and the patriarch of the Alexander family.

Although I haven't seen him for a long time, I have been friends with God for a long time.

In addition to the two light clusters, the necklace worn by Count Alexander's soul body, the forbidden level holy relic revival pendant, also fell to the ground.

Its crimson chain body had become dull, and the round and flawless pure white gem at the end was now covered with dense cracks.

It has fulfilled its mission.

For countless days and nights, he protected the soul of his master, and now, he can no longer support it.

Leo squatted down, picked up the resurrection pendant that had lost its miracle, and placed it in the palm of his hand.

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【Resurrection Pendant (Damaged, Unusable)】

[The new sprouts of the sacred tree and the gem of faith are the main materials, and for countless days and nights, they have been baptized by the power of faith, and then the holy relics of divine magic have been descended by the goddess of light, containing the last forbidden prayer technique in the world - life revival, as long as the soul remains, even if the body is destroyed, it can be reborn. However, due to the special circumstances of the previous master, the physical regeneration could not be completed, so he could only protect his soul from extinction. 】

[When everything disappears with time, in this gray world, the traces of God will finally disappear. 】

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Wearing the Resurrection Pendant around his waist, this necklace has lost its supernatural and become an ordinary mortal, but in Leo's heart, it has extraordinary significance.

The existence of the Resurrection Pendant symbolizes his friendship with his first friend in the Dream World, the Lord of Yor, Radhay Alexander.

After cleaning up, Leo stood up and glanced at the campfire burning on the small island in the middle of the Blood Lake.

This is the spark that can bring hope to people.

Leo could feel the gray fog around him thinner and thinner under the light of the fire, and the strange feeling in the air was fading.

This means that the distortion polluted environment here is gradually being purified.

Speaking of which, Leo still has many unanswered doubts in his mind.

For example, why did the alchemist Goode Laven risk his own safety to go deep into the northern part of the city? Is the Blood Aberrant the original Abberger? What was the original source of the aberrations in the city of Jor? And so on and so forth.

The demise of Count Alexander was so fast that he didn't have time to say many of his questions.

But he also knows that it is no wonder to the other party.

After lingering in the deformed body for many years, he survived by the blessing of the resurrection of the Holy Fall, and now, the distorted body has died, and he has seen the ruined and ruined city of Yor, and he has seen the end of his younger brothers and sisters all dying in aberration, and his heart is dead.

In the end, he exhausted his strength and gave himself a gift, otherwise, Mr. Earl, he could actually stay in this world for a little longer......

"I'll go with your expectations."

The tip of his right finger brushed over the warm surface of the jewel in the necklace around his waist, and Leo stood up and walked off into the distance.

……

The southern part of the city, inside the tower.

This is the room where he had previously absorbed the soul ashes of the Knight of the Great Bow of Yor, and now he had returned to the old place, naturally to absorb the soul ashes and magic polymers left to him by Mr. Earl.

Looking at the sky outside the openwork window, Leo could feel that with the elimination of the [Blood Abberger], the intensity of the distortion and pollution of the environment in the southern city of Yor City was rapidly decreasing.

However, this did not mean much to Leo.

As a person who is deeply dyed by distortion, distortion pollutes the environment in a general sense, and for him, it is like a breeze blowing on his face.

That is, in the northern part of the city of Yor, the aberration center where the [Blood Abberger] is located, the extremely strong and high-intensity distortion polluted environment will affect him and exacerbate the degree of his aberration erosion.

Of course, as long as the mana is sufficient, isolating oneself from the outside world can effectively mitigate this effect.

According to Mr. Earl, the knights of Joel, who have no magical powers and are just mortals, perform pure-blood rituals in order to be able to fight in an aberrant environment and not become monsters who have lost their minds.

Retracting his gaze, Leo pulled out the Magic Polymer (small) from his bosom.

The magic polymer with no attributes, held in the hand, gives people a feeling of warmth like jade.

Sticking it to the center of his eyebrows, Leo mobilized his spirit to make contact.

In the shallow shimmer, the magic polymer flowed into his body, which was completely different from the last time he absorbed the ice attribute magic polymer, and at this moment, Leo felt as if he was bathed in the warm winter sun, and the whole person was very comfortable.

I don't know how long it took, Leo slowly opened his eyes, looking at the mana in front of him that had increased to 90/200, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Increasing his mana to the upper limit of 200 points made him feel completely different.

Leo opened his palm, allowing the wind attribute magic to converge in his palm.

The cyan light condensed, and soon, a small ball of magic power took shape.

Observing the magic ball in his hand and experiencing it carefully, Leo's eyes flashed with thought.

The maximum of 200 mana points is a threshold.

If the mana below the upper limit of 200 mana is defined as gas, then after reaching the upper limit of 200 mana, the mana undergoes a qualitative change, from gaseous to liquid.

It's just a metaphor, in fact, magic has always been in the form of particles.

The purpose of this metaphor is to contrast the gap between the two.

With the same mana consumption, the transcendent with a maximum of 200 mana points will be more powerful when used.

The transformation of the color of the magic is proof of this.

Unlike experiencing the magic of higher quality in advance with the help of the "Sunlight" explosion, Leo felt it even more deeply when he reached this point.

The essence of magic is the power of miracles born from the soul, and the increase in the upper limit of mana value represents the transformation of the soul's affinity for that attribute.

Leo could clearly feel that the wind between heaven and earth became more intimate to him.

After feeling the change in his magic, Leo took out the soul ash given by Mr. Count.

- [The Last Watcher] - The Complete Soul Ash of Radhay Alexander

Looking at the soul ash in his hand, Leo was silent for a moment, sighed softly, and pressed it to the center of his eyebrows.

A pure white glow blooms from the soul ash.

It turned into wisps of light, flowing into Leo's brain at a gentle and slow speed.

Countless experiences in the cultivation of royal swordsmanship, special techniques, secret powers, etc., appeared in the warm current of warmth, one by one, in his mind, and merged with Leo's memories.

At the same time, before Leo's eyes, the world began to distort and change.

Is there still a memory left in the ashes?

A hint of consternation appeared on Leo's face.

He originally thought that the soul ashes that had been processed by Mr. Earl had no memory fragments.

Now it seems that the memory fragment cannot be removed.

Before he had time to think more, the world in front of him twisted into a vortex, completely engulfing Leo.

……

Darkness, little by little, retreats.

When the light reappeared, Leo found himself in an empty, quaint and rugged training ground.

Here, how can there be a sense of déjà vu?

Doubts appeared in Leo's mind, and in the next second, he remembered where this place was.

In the ashes of the soul of [Viscount Evil] - Anoke Alexander, the first memory fragment happened here.

"Hah!"

A loud shout attracted Leo's attention.

He looked up and saw a young man with a somewhat similar face to Mr. Earl, holding a black iron sword and slashing out.

The sword wind howled, splitting a thick hardwood stake in front of him along the midline, and the great sword came to a halt less than 0.1 centimeters on the ground after slicing the stake neatly.

Mighty and delicate at the same time, lifting weights like light, this is the performance of honing swordsmanship to entering the house.

Figuratively speaking, it is a symbol of the cultivation of royal swordsmanship to the level of the first swordsmanship.

- Anoke Alexander.

Long time no see.

Leo sighed in his heart.

It seems to have been a long time since I killed [Viscount Evil] by myself.

At that time, when he first entered the memory fragment of Soul Ash, he once sighed at the subtlety of Anoke Alexander's sword skills.

But from his current point of view, although the sword skills of Anouk Alexander, who is in a young state, are good, there is still a huge gap between him and the top.

Anoke Alexander's swordsmanship level is converted to the real world, that is, the level of the chief of the Demon Capital Kendo Gym, or the chief of the Demon Capital Kendo Gym who has not been trained by him.

"You're doing a great job, Anoke."

A burly man in a splendid golden sturdy full-body armor was standing on the edge of the training ground, unsparing his praise.

Leo stared at the burly man's back.

Compared with the soul body when they met, Mr. Earl in this period, even if he was just in the back, was full of high spirits, which was completely different from the twilight of the king when he was in the soul body.

Leo watched quietly as Mr. Earl and Arnoke Alexander's conversation ended.

"You have to remember that the essence of royal swordsmanship lies in ......"

"I see, sir."

Familiar memory fragments reappeared in front of his eyes, and thinking of the situation of the two of them later, Leo couldn't help but feel a little complicated.

This is the end of the memory fragment of the evil fallen viscount, but the memory of Mr. Earl is obviously more than that.

When the practice was over, Anoke Alexander left to rest, leaving the Earl alone, standing here.

Suddenly, a figure appeared beside Mr. Earl.

Leo's eyes lit up.

What a speed!

This is an old man with a gray beard.

He was wearing golden armor, even though he was very old, his body was still straight, his face was full of wrinkles, it was the vicissitudes of time that had withered, and in his sharp eyes, the majesty of the lord was still not gone.

Seeing the old man, Mr. Earl bowed respectfully and saluted: "Father." ”

"No need to salute, Radhey, in a short time you will succeed you as head of the Alexander family, and wherever you are, you must hold your head high, and you must not lose the pride of my Alexander family."

"I see." Monsieur Earl nodded solemnly.

After a short silence, the old man turned around and looked at a blue sky: "...... Anoke, although he is also my child, your younger brother, but his talent is insufficient, and before the age of 24, it is impossible to practice the royal swordsmanship to the third realm, and this life is beyond hope. ”

"If you hadn't taught him privately, I wouldn't have agreed to let him learn royal swordsmanship."

Without waiting for the Earl to reply, the old man continued: "My time is running out, you can plan for yourself about Arnoke, there is something I have to tell you." ”

"Father, please speak." Mr. Earl bowed his head slightly.

......The old man was silent for a moment, as if organizing his language: "You also have a younger brother named Cleo, I need you to bring him back, he is currently in the slums of Nancheng District. ”

The Count looked at his father in astonishment.

"Ahem." The old man coughed: "Don't ask too much about the rest, you don't have to recognize him, take care of him, just teach him to practice swordsmanship, by the way, you must not teach him royal swordsmanship." ”

"So be it." After the old man finished speaking, the figure disappeared in place, and the earl saw it in his eyes, feeling that his father had fled in the wilderness.

To this, he only sighed softly.

"Father, your life is really chic."

Leo silently watched everything in front of him.

At this moment, the horizon in front of him began to shape the lake. Leo wasn't surprised by this, he knew that it meant the end of the memory fragment.

The gaze wanders, plunges into darkness, and then blooms into light.

Leo opened his eyes and looked at everything in front of him.

The next second, he blinked a little confusedly.

Familiar ceilings, familiar openwork windows, familiar corners with spider silk.

Me, this is out?

Mr. Earl's soul ashes, only a fragment of memory?

A strong doubt appeared in Leo's mind.

After a moment, he exhaled.

It seems that Mr. Earl's operation before his demise did delete most of the memory fragments in the soul ashes, leaving only those he saw before, which belonged to the parts that could not be erased.

But why is this ordinary scene a memory that cannot be erased by Monsieur Earl, no matter what?

Anoke Alexander, or the Earl's father, the old man with white hair, who of the two, the Earl, could not part with?

Leo didn't know.

But he could guess that those fragments of memories that had been deliberately erased by the Count might have something to do with the root cause of the aberrations that had afflicted the city of York.

It's just that all this fell into the dust forever with the complete death of the earl.

It's hard for outsiders to know.

Shaking his head, Leo stopped pondering.

Today, the city of Yoel has become a dead domain, and all the people who live here have turned into aberrant monsters, so is it really meaningful to investigate the root cause of all this?

He's about to leave here and head to the central holy city of Gaeld to find a solution to the aberration.

Let all that is in the city of Jor, with the passing of all those involved, be buried here.

Packing up his inner emotions, Leo opened the character panel.

Mr. Earl's soul ash has almost completely preserved all his memories of the royal family's swordsmanship.

These memories turned into nutrients, and Leo's royal swordsmanship proficiency rose all the way, and in doing so, he broke through his limits and reached a whole new level.

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[Soul Fire Color: Pure White]

[Soul Flame Brightness: 5.77→6.1]

[Current Status: Weak, distorted (hyperdyed 69.25%→77.5%)]

[Mana Attribute: Wind]

[Mana: 90/200]

[Acquired Skills: Royal Swordsmanship (Grandmaster 1000/3000), Yoel Archery (Master 680/1000), Thousand Flames Swordsmanship (Master 620/1000), Storm Swordsmanship (Mastery 490/500), Sword of Light (Mastery 280/300), Light Spell: Low Tier (Introductory 81/100), Body of Mana (Wind Passive)]

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Royal swordsmanship, break through the master, and reach the realm of the grandmaster!

On the character panel, the words "Royal Swordsmanship" turned into a golden color that was completely different from the color of other skills, and flickered slightly.

Leo tapped his mind on the "Royal Swordsmanship", and suddenly, a character panel prompt that he had never seen before appeared in front of him.

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[[Royal Swordsmanship] Promoted to Grandmaster ......]

[You have obtained the exclusive Grandmaster trait - [Overlord]]