Re: Evolution Online

Kouske trembled. They were supposed to be the overlords of this world after this war! 

They had planned so much. They had plotted so much. They had spent so much. 

They even lied to everyone and systematically lured them here for human sacrifice without their knowledge. They had planned everything to the t, and in the end… this guy just casually killed the monster?

Then what was everything they had painstakingly done worth?

Just how strong was he?

Then another thought floated in his mind. What if the weapon and the weird undead army was not the only thing he had obtained from the game? 

What if he had managed to take every single thing out and bring it to the real world along with him?

Kouske felt his whole world darken. His reality was crumbling all around him. How could something like this be possible? 

That was just a tutorial. Something like that should not be possible. It was not fair. He had started from scratch.

Even the man touted to be blessed by the heavens, the Oracle, was not this powerful. How could this nobody be so strong? 

Was this all because of that single inheritance he had lost back in that necromancer's cave? If he did not lose it, then could he have also become this strong?

Kouske's heart, mind, and body were filled with bitterness like never before. He refused to accept this. In reality, right at this moment, he did not even care about any of this. 

What suffocated him the most was the fact that Liam was now going to live!

While he was going to die, Liam was going to live!

No. This could not happen.

Then something else suddenly popped up in his mind. That's right. There were still the warlocks! He hurriedly signaled them to start chanting the curses again, but this time he pointed at Liam.

However, it was already too late. The very next second, he felt a slight pain, and along with it, his own life force slipped away. He died?

In that last moment, his eyes and heart were filled with regret as he refused to accept this defeat. 

He did not deserve this. He was not the one who was supposed to die here. That was not what should've happened. Then why?

The Oracle's prediction… the power that should have been his… all the thoughts of the past swirled in front of him as he took his final breath, filled with anguish and misery.

"Now… this is the kind of soul that I like… ripe with negative emotions…" Liam grinned devilishly as he used his index finger to hook onto the dead soul and then forged it in an instant.

After all was said and done, Kouske was just a Level 54 being without a mana core, so his soul complied willingly without putting up any fight.

"Welcome to the guild, Kouske." Liam did not bother summoning him as his attention immediately reverted to the other powerful souls in the vicinity.

First, there were the souls of Ison Generals, which he quickly forged one after the other. Then there was the Hive Queen, the star jewel of today's collection, the Level 305 monster.

This creature's soul was an entirely different thing. Liam still simply held onto it and did not dare forge it yet.

Unfortunately, he was not yet at the level where he could casually forge a soul of a level 305 creature. Besides, the soul was no longer stable.

Because the attack he had used just now made the soul completely volatile and violent, not to mention it already belonged to a powerful creature who was beyond his current stage.

As he was thinking about this, Liam suddenly felt a prickle on his skin.

Hmmm? He snapped to look at the bunch of warlocks standing at a distance from him. "You guys…" Liam was speechless. Were they actually activating the skill one more time?!

Liam sneered inwardly and then walked forward, stumbling slightly.

Immediately many people in the warlock unit revealed relaxed expressions as this was a sign that their curse was working.

However, the very next second, these same people froze as Liam grinned in amusement. "Just kidding." He let out a loud maniacal laughter.

He dashed toward the warlock unit while lifting his hand and revealing a black-colored bracelet. 

"Did you really think I would show myself without being prepared for you guys?" He shook his head and laughed.

"This trinket here… do you know what it does… it blocks this kind of curses, debuffs, and restrictions up to three times." 

"I specifically purchased this for someone else but didn't end up using it. Who knew it would come in handy now? Not bad. It's a decent item. At least it did not go to waste."

Three times? Naturally, everyone heard this key term in Liam's words. Some of the warlocks even started chanting once again, hoping to use up all of the three times quickly.

Liam noticed this and once again shook his head. "Tch. Tch. You really should not have done this. I told you to stop, and yet you dared to curse me even after I killed the hive queen?"

"Heh. You guys are the true villains, aren't you? I could understand your decision to follow this idiot and choose to sacrifice some humans to take down this thing here..."

"But there is no explanation for your actions just now." 

Liam's expression turned cold. "You attacked me, knowing there is one more red zone left. If you killed me, then you would have to follow this same method to take care of the last red zone."

"And you didn't care at all about all the lives you have to sacrifice once again to accomplish that goal. Instead, you chose to attack me." 

"Sigh. Well, since you made your decision, don't blame me for being equally ruthless."

"Kill them all!" Liam gave the order to his soul minions without any mercy. 

The minions instantly obeyed him as the ones closest to the warlock unit raced toward them, slaughtering them all in a fraction of a second. 

Liam then casually forged their souls too without wasting a single one.

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Golden ticket bonus chapter~