Transmigrated as a Ghost

After Retharin had finished checking over Marcus' status, he looked at him with a sharp glint in his eyes.

"You certainly are a rare being, even more so than me or Ardea. I had head that it was possible for those brought over from another world to be any intelligent race, but you are very lucky to have ended up what you are. To think that I would ever meet a great spirit weaker than myself." Retharin said while shaking his head.

He then began scratching his chin with one of his very long claws dragging them threw his glistening feathers.

"Well, I have just completed a very exhilarating fight and am in a pretty good mood, so I suppose that could honor your request and break the tie in the Glenna Reota council. However, you must do something for me first. I want to see just how strong you are. Hit me with everything you have." Retharin said with a fierce expression.

Hearing this Marcus nodded his head immediately, having expected that Retharin would want to do something like this.

In fact, he was pretty lucky that Retharin had just finished an all-out battle, since otherwise it might have ended up being a fight instead of just a test of power.

The only problem was that Marcus' full power required the activation of skills that put a huge strain on him, and pieces of him were scattered between his scythe and the ring he had given to Mrazivý.

Smiling at Retharin and keep up his confident façade, Marcus said, "If you would just give me a moment, I need to make a call so that my fiancé does not freak out."

Not waiting for a response Marcus pulled out his sending stone and called Mrazivý, since he was about to bring her engagement ring back so that he could use his full power.

Yet when Mrazivý picked up, she was out of breath and Marcus heard what sounded like explosions going on around her.

"Ah Marcus what did you need?"

BOOM!

Hearing another loud explosion on the other side of the sending stone, Marcus began to get worried and said, "Mrazivý are you alright? If you need to hang up you can."

Nevertheless, even though it sounded like she was in a warzone, Mrazivý responded and said, "Ah no everything is fine, just in the middle of some training. So, what is it you need? Are you in any trouble?"

Letting out a sigh of relief, Marcus was glad to hear that Mrazivý was not in any danger, and said, "Yeah, I am fine, I am just having a conversation with the guardian of Glenna Reota, and he wanted to see what I could do, so I am going to be calling the ring back to me for a bit. I promise I will give it back as soon as I can."

After Marcus said this there was a long pause on Mrazivý's end for around a minute, until she said, "Okay I understand. I guess it will be good for my training to use only my own power. Just make sure to not hold onto it for too long."

"Thank you Mraz and I promise I will not make a habit of this. Just this time I really need everything I have." Marcus said.

With his conversation with Mrazivý now wrapped up, he ended the call and focused on the fragment of his soul that was fused into the ring he had made for her.

Feeling the connection even over this long distance, he willed this piece of his soul back to him, and the ring appeared on his finger.

Immediately Marcus' aura flared up as he now had most of his soul back.

While Retharin who had been waiting quietly, looked intently at the ring that had just appeared on Marcus' finger.

"I have never seen something like that before. You put a part of your own soul into a ring made of amethros. I cannot tell if you are a genius or just crazy." Retharin said astounded by Marcus.

Still, as he looked at the ring, he could not deny that it was a very powerful item even if he could not tell what all of its properties were.

However, he did pick something up with his acute sense of smell, and said, "Gwyneira! You have used materials from her in that ring."

Realizing this Retharin moved right up to Marcus and yanked his hand right up to his face.

Examining the ring closely he was able to tell that a scale from the dragon that looked over Borealia was indeed incorporated into this ring.

"Fascinating, I did not think she would let go of any piece of herself to anyone other than Boreas. But there is no doubt that you used a scale from her in the making of this ring."

Yet as Retharin examined the ring with interest, Marcus made his hand ethereal and pulled it back away from him.

Then he absorbed the ring back into himself so it was no longer visible, and said, "This is a personal item of mine so I would prefer that you not gawk over it. Yes, I did receive a scale from Gwyneira but that does not matter right now. You wanted to see what I can do so let me hit you with all I have got."

Surprise on his face for a moment seeing the way Marcus talked to him. Retharin soon began to smile, enjoying the tenacity of this half-baked great spirit.

"Yes, you are right. Go ahead and show me what you can do. But if I am not impressed, I will rip that ring out from your form and take it as my own." Retharin said, wanting to make Marcus angry and motivated.

And as he wanted this certainly ticked Marcus off, since this ring not only contain a fragment of his soul but was also a representation of his devotion to Mrazivý.

"Fine if you want to see what I can do. I will show you." Marcus said with fury in his voice.

Jumping back, he brought his scythe back to him as well, disregarding using it a beacon to locate his stash of materials later.

He knew the location pretty well anyway, and he needed hiss scythe to use most of his strongest attacks.

Still, he needed to decided which one to use.

'Yeah, it is going to have to be railgun. It has the most precise power and may be the only thing I have that can hurt him.' Marcus thought after going over which of his finishing moves would be the best.

Pointing his scythe forward and turning it on its side, he activated its formations and it took the form of a crossbow.

'Embodiment of Eclipse, Harmony form'

Next, he used his supreme skill which caused his power to spike.

Continuing the process Marcus cast his iron sphere spell and began sending all of the power his supreme skill offered him into it.

'This won't be enough.'

'Soul Burst.'

'Soul Devour.'

Truly going all out for the first time in quite some time, Marcus unleashed all of his strength even going so far as to use soul devour.

'Eclipse Railgun.'

Firing of his strongest attack, the iron sphere enhanced to the maximum power flew forward at an astounding speed even surprising Retharin.

Before he could react as he had not been on his guard, the iron sphere traveling at Mach Ten pieced into his shoulder and blasted through his body.