Transmigrated as a Ghost

After their first day touring the castle, Marcus and Mrazivý spent the next couple of days leisurely going around the castle and viewing what it had to offer.

There were a number of rooms that Mrazivý showed him, from a grand library that had more books than Marcus had seen since coming to this world, to a massive indoor swimming pool.

Yet even as big as the castle and its grounds were, eventually Mrazivý had shown him all that she could.

Of course, there were a couple of places he wanted to go that were off limits like the royal treasury, and the royal archives. Though for the latter Mrazivý was working on getting Marcus permission to enter.

And while Marcus had originally planned to stay only a few days before heading home, Mrazivý had convinced him to wait until after the kingdom's meeting which he would have been attending anyway.

So, to pass the time, they spent their days, reading, playing games, but for the most part training.

Both of them wanted to learn how to control their spiritual energy after Recha had opened their eyes to it, especially Marcus.

He could tell that a whole new world would open up to him as soon as he figured out how to use his spiritual energy and convert it into strength, and he was not wrong.

It only took him four days of practice before like a dam breaking, he was able to wield his spiritual energy.

It was as if he could suddenly control the flow of the wind currents in the sky, and it gave him a deeper understanding of himself.

However, that was not all that happened, since as soon as he was able to use his spiritual energy, he received a number of notifications from the system.

Ding!

'Title acquired, Great Spirit.'

'Integrating moderator syste- error, error. Minimum level requirement not met, locking moderator systems.'

'Spirit Gem (Mythic) detected. Access to skills sealed within unlocked.'

Shock on his face, Marcus did not expect the sudden flood of notification, but he was unable to look into them immediately.

"Agh."

A few instances after the last massage, Marcus felt as if he was soul was on fire, and lava was flowing through his veins.

In fact, this was quite the appropriate analogy as the raw spiritual energy from the mythic spirt gem was being released at a much greater rate and flowing through the spirit energy pathways that Marcus had just discovered.

Luckily the pain did not last long as Marcus' soul used the power to further enrich itself, and he felt as if he was undergoing another qualitive transformation.

"Huh."

Letting out a sigh of relief once the transformation was done, Marcus could immediately tell, that many things were much different then they had been before.

'Ah it is like I have been half asleep this entire time and am finally awake.'

With his newfound power and understanding Marcus tried a few things out that he could not do before.

The first thing he did was to float around, no longer bound by the inputs set by the system. 

With his ability to use his spiritual energy Marcus could now use as much or as little as he wanted to propel himself and move much faster than he had before while ethereal.

After that he resolidified and made only his left hand disappear, now able to use his ability on only part of his form instead of it just being active.

"Heh, heh."

Chuckling Marcus was absolutely ecstatic by his newfound control over his abilities that used spiritual energy.

Before it had been as if he was on a train bound by its tracks, but now it was like he had jumped into a car and could go where desired and as fast or slow as he wanted.

'This opens up a lot more possibilities.' Marcus thought as he summoned his spectral arm, and was able to change its size at will, making it stronger or weaker.

"Status."

Once he had gotten his fill of testing out his new control over his abilities, Marcus decided it was time to check out how his status had changed, since he could already feel an overwhelming difference.

Name: Marcus Ferrous/Irene Geist

Age: 31/20

Race: Unbound Ghost, Great Spirit of Light and Darkness

Titles: Baronetess, Great Spirit

Level: 42

HP: 26590/26590

MP: 13630/13630

STR: 1015 (+162) 

AGL: 972 (+204)

VIT: 869 (+139)

INT: 1175 (+188)

SPR: 1423 (+228)

Stat Points: 0

Skill Points: 7

Supreme Skills: Embodiment of Eclipse, Greatest Potential 

Unique Skills: Personal Status, Soul Devour, Master of Soul and Body, Soul Burst, Embodiment of Light, Embodiment of Darkness, False Status, Deny Destruction

Skills: Large Item Box, High Speed Regeneration Lvl 4, Digging Lvl 3, Fighting Lvl 6, Magic Circulation Lvl 6, Iron Magic Lvl 6, Disassembly Lvl 5, Stealth Lvl 5, Lightning Magic Lvl 5, Creature Appraisal Lvl 5, Fire Magic Lvl 5, Danger Sense Lvl 5, Darkvision Lvl 3, Scythemanship, Superior Lvl 6, Healing Magic Lvl 4, Mana Regeneration Lvl 5, Speed Burst Lvl 5, Mana Body Lvl 5, Powerful Slash Lvl 5, Physical Resistance Lvl 6, Heighten Spells Lvl 5, Forge Lvl 5, Trap Sensing Lvl 3, Dark Magic Lvl 5, Light Magic Lvl 5, Driving Lvl 4, Cooking Lvl 4, Cleaning Lvl 1, Soul Regeneration Lvl 5, Life Sense Lvl 3, Enhanced Vision Lvl 4, Dancing Lvl 3, Mana Barrier Lvl 5, Perforation Strike Lvl 4, Grand Swing Lvl 3, Magic Resistance Lvl 6 (Maxed), Telepathy Lvl 6 (Maxed), Death Dance Lvl 6 (Maxed)

Blessing of Iron, Exalted Blessing of Light, Exalted Blessing of Darkness

Race Abilities: Invisible, Ethereal, Chill Zone, Float, Possession, Undying, Spirit Portal, Summon Spirits, Ruler of Light, Ruler of Darkness, Confer Blessing

Specter Powers: Ghost Sounds, Spectral Arm, Phantom Pressure, Life Drain, Tendrils of Shadows, Spirit Healing 

Looking over his new status, Marcus first noticed his new title of great spirit, and the power it gave him was beyond what he had expected.

'A fifteen percent increase to all stats! It makes my baronetess title look like trash with how good it is.'

Astounded that receiving a title had increased his stats by fifteen percent, Marcus thought he had already reached the height of his excitement, but was soon proved wrong when he discovered his new unique skill.

It was a skill called deny destruction and it allowed him once a year to come back into existence no matter what.

Even if his soul was blasted to nothing, with this skill he would come back within twenty-four hours completely restored.

'Whoever gave me this mythic spirit gem I will have to thank them. To think that it had such a powerful unique skill sealed within it.'

Smiling from ear to ear, Marcus was extremely giddy by his increase in strength and soon went over his skills finding that many of them had leveled up since he last checked, and that he had three new ones.

'I see, magic resistance, telepathy, and death dance are the skills held within the spirit gem. And each one of them is max level but I can still only use them up to six. I have to say that learning to utilize my spiritual energy brought more gains than I thought it would.'

After checking out the details of his skills, Marcus scrolled down to his race abilities that had many new additions.

With full access to his power as a great spirit, he was now able to open a portal to the spirit world and go in and out whenever he wanted, as well as summon any subordinate spirits to his side.

Alas he did not have any spirits that currently served under him, and he was a bit afraid to go to the spirit world after receiving Aerial's warning about other light or darkness spirits wanting to destroy him.

Then there was his ruler of darkness and ruler of light abilities that increased the power of his light and darkness to the maximum, while also making him immune to those elements from anyone who was not also a ruler.

'So, what I can surmise is that only another great spirit of light or darkness can hurt me with either of those elements. Well, maybe there are other races that can get these ruler abilities, so I still need to be wary.'

However, this at least gave him some peace of mind about other spirits hunting him down, since only the respective great spirits should be able to harm him with their main elements.

'Now all that is left is confer blessing.'

Looking over the last of his new race abilities, Marcus' smile quickly turned into a frown.

While his confer blessing ability was powerful, the cost to use it was far too steep for him.

'I have to sacrifice two hundred points from my spirit stat to give someone either the blessing of light or darkness. And all I get in return is some of the experience they earn, and the ability to track their whereabouts.'

Sighing Marcus knew that he would not be touching this ability any time soon. Maybe if he had a spirit stat in the tens of thousands two hundred points would not be a big deal, but right now doing it once would already use up an eighth of his spirit stat points.

Having looked over all of his new skills, and the changes that came with understanding his spiritual energy, Marcus decided to go to the room where Mrazivý was meditating, trying to figure out how to use her own spiritual energy.

He wanted to tell her what had just happened and hopefully give her some of his insights to let her progress faster.