Chapter 266 - 160: Massive Merit Points, Purified Soul Crystal

Chapter 266: Chapter 160: Massive Merit Points, Purified Soul Crystal

Pei Ze wasn’t about to let them go. He sneered, and with a grasping motion of his hand, countless droplets of liquid metal automatically converged in his palm, forming a spear wrapped in fine tendrils of lightning.

The next second, the spear shot out like a bolt of electricity, piercing through the chest of a Fourth-Class Priest!

The last remaining Fourth-Class Priest’s soul nearly fled his body in terror. He scrambled to speed up and flee into the distance, but he was still struck by the lightning spear that tore through the air, and he followed his companion to his death.

Seeing Pei Ze’s divine might, felling over a dozen Winter Frost Priests in the blink of an eye, the surrounding Turin People were both horrified and terrified. They no longer dared to provoke this Godslayer, hastily avoiding his position.

The other Wizards exchanged glances, not expecting Pei Ze to be so ferocious even after being injured.

’It’s a good thing a beast like him is an ally,’ they thought. ’Otherwise, we’d be the ones with our scalps tingling in fear.’

After dealing with the dozen or so Winter Frost Priests, Pei Ze didn’t continue to hunt down other enemies. Instead, he looked off into the distance.

The battle between the Divine Body Golem and the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf was reaching its end.

Covered in wounds, the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf could no longer hold out. It was smashed to the ground by the mace of the Divine Body Golem, which had taken the form of Siventam, and was completely incapacitated.

However, the Divine Body Golem didn’t kill the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf. Instead, it lifted the beast up and slung it over its shoulder.

The next moment, the space around it distorted, and its massive body vanished along with the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf.

The defeat and capture of the Silver Frost Disaster Wolf dealt a considerable blow to the Turin People. Their morale visibly plummeted.

Just then, a series of deafening roars suddenly echoed from high above the battlefield.

Pei Ze looked up toward the sound and saw War Fortresses, billowing black smoke, falling from the sky like meteors trailing fiery tails. They crashed onto the ground in the far distance, then exploded into immense balls of flame.

Seeing this, Pei Ze instantly understood.

’The Turin People are about to be defeated!’

Sure enough, after dealing with the Turin People’s War Fortresses, the Wizard Towers turned their aim toward the Turin army below.

Large numbers of Golem Legions were unleashed.

Hundreds of thousands of golems descended from the sky, joining the war.

The addition of these fresh troops instantly changed the situation.

The Turin army, whose morale had already plummeted due to the fall of their War Fortresses, was pushed back relentlessly with the addition of countless golems, and the retreat soon turned into a full-blown rout.

A large number of Noble Infantry threw down their weapons, turned, and fled.

The Sect Knights and Winter Frost Priests wanted to salvage the situation, but they were quickly crushed by the golems.

The scales of victory had tipped completely in Red Maple City’s favor.

The situation on the main battlefield quickly spread to the flanking battlefields on the left and right wings.

This was especially true for the right-wing battlefield where Pei Ze and the others were.

The Turin People there were already on the verge of collapse. How could they possibly hold on after being influenced by the main battlefield?

The war quickly devolved into a one-sided slaughter.

Pei Ze symbolically chased down a few Winter Frost Priests, then slowed down and started slacking off at the rear.

His current condition was far from good; it was better to be cautious.

After all, even beating a drowning dog carried risks. If he provoked some powerful enemy, he didn’t have many trump cards left to deal with it.

Gu Lin, on the other hand, joined the pursuit with an excited look on his face. Opportunities to farm merit points like this didn’t come often.

The war didn’t truly come to a close until the sky began to show a faint yellow at the horizon.

The vast wilderness was littered with shattered corpses—frozen to shards of ice, burned to ash, blown to smithereens, or trampled into paste. Not one in a thousand remained largely intact. They couldn’t even be used to summon zombies or skeletons; at best, they could serve as dinner for Ghouls.

Blood soaked the earth. As far as the eye could see, the field of vision was filled with dark red.

The brutality of the war was plain to see!

The Slave Legions, which had suffered heavy casualties in the war, were now also tasked with cleaning the battlefield. Pei Ze watched from the city wall for a moment before turning and heading back into Red Maple City.

He had earned a great deal of merit points in this war. The next thing he had to consider was how to use them to quickly increase his strength.

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「Star Realm Calendar, Year 14525, June 13th.」

Red Maple City pressed its advantage, its grand army attacking the main camp of the Turin army over eight hundred kilometers away.

The Turin People, who had just suffered a major defeat, didn’t even have time to catch their breath before being hit with another devastating blow.

In this battle, the two Dukes, Snow Wolf and Blue Ice, were killed in action. Over eighty percent of the nobles leading the army also perished.

Grand High Priest Ex was struck down and killed on the spot by Ji Zhang.

At this point, the Winter Frost Sect Country suffered a total collapse. No longer able to resist the Wizards’ invasion, Red Maple City’s army advanced unimpeded, conquering cities and territories along the way. In just five days, they had occupied more than half of the Winter Frost Sect Country’s land.

Red Maple City was filled with celebration.

Nearly every day, battle reports arrived announcing the army’s conquest of another territory.

Even the Free Mages were invigorated by the news.

Of course, even more delighted were the Wizards who had obtained a large amount of merit points in that battle.

And Pei Ze was undoubtedly a cut above the rest.

In that war, he alone had killed over a hundred Winter Frost Priests, including many Fourth and Fifth-Class Priests.

In addition, he had taken down more than twenty Winter Frost Giant Beasts, as well as a large number of Sect Knights and Noble Infantry.

When the final tally was calculated, his earned merit points reached a staggering fifty-two thousand plus.

Forget Level 1 Wizards; even among Second-level Wizards, few could boast a more dazzling combat record.

Carrying his huge sum of merit points, Pei Ze went to the exchange.

Due to the departure of many Free Mages, the flow of people at the exchange was much lighter than before, but the atmosphere was more fervent than ever.

Wizards who had reaped a great harvest in the war gathered together, discussing with beaming smiles what they wanted to exchange their points for.

On the wide walls, the list of exchangeable items was clearly much longer. These were new additions opened up by the army—rare resources that were originally supplied only to internal members.

Pei Ze’s gaze swept quickly over the list, focusing on resources that could increase Spiritual Power or improve Meditation efficiency.

And soon enough, he found his target.

Purified Soul Crystals!

In the eyes of many high-tier beings, the soul is one of the purest forms of energy in the Multiverse.

High-Tier Demons and devils, for example, love to refine the souls of various creatures—especially human souls—into Soul Crystal Stones.

In Hell and the Abyss, Soul Crystal Stones are arguably the most popular hard currency.

In the hands of Wizards, Soul Crystal Stones are also a rare material with a wide range of uses.

For instance, the main material for a golem’s Soul Core is the Soul Crystal Stone.

Of course, Wizards don’t need to refine Soul Crystal Stones from human souls like demons and devils do.

They have an easier and more efficient method: summoning Ghostly Wandering Souls from other planes and refining them into Soul Crystal Stones.

The purity of Soul Crystal Stones refined in this way is no worse than those made from human souls.

It’s worth mentioning that souls are extremely malleable.

Even the soul of an ordinary person has considerable potential. After undergoing certain hardships, it might even radiate a jade-like luster.

Such souls are usually more valuable and can be used to refine higher-quality Soul Crystal Stones.

Therefore, some evil beings love to torture humans to obtain higher-quality souls.

In this regard, demons and devils are still notoriously skilled.

Devils are adept at torturing humans with spiritual pain, applying suffering bit by bit to temper and refine the soul.

Demons, on the other hand, are a bunch of crude craftsmen. They prefer to inflict direct physical pain to obtain souls, the price being that many souls shatter and break in the process.

Thus, devils always have more high-quality Soul Crystal Stones in their possession than demons do!

If this is true for ordinary people, then it goes without saying for the strong.

The spirit, will, and physique of the strong have already been honed and tempered, making their soul strength far greater than that of ordinary people.

After further refinement using special methods, there is a certain chance of forming a high-quality Soul Crystal.

After another round of purification to eliminate the thoughts and emotions contained within the crystal, it becomes an extremely pure Energy Crystal.

This is how a Purified Soul Crystal is formed.

Wizards can absorb the energy within a Purified Soul Crystal during Meditation, converting it into Spiritual Power and increasing their Meditation efficiency.

The lower the rank of the Wizard, the more pronounced the effect.

Even for a Second-level Wizard, a Purified Soul Crystal has a fairly noticeable effect.

For this reason, this item is very popular among Wizards.

However, because they are difficult to produce, the number of Purified Soul Crystals in circulation is extremely small. Most of them are controlled by the Council.

If not for this war, it wouldn’t have been easy for Pei Ze to get his hands on Purified Soul Crystals.

’A single Purified Soul Crystal is worth Twelve Thousand Merit Points... enough to buy two Refined Gold Golems,’ Pei Ze sighed to himself. It was a price that many Second-level Wizards couldn’t afford.

Snapping back to his senses, he didn’t hesitate and exchanged for three of them in one go.