Chapter 41: 4th soul ring
Soon Liu Erlong and Hansen reached the place where the sounds were coming from.
She signalled Hansen to stop with her hand and both of them quietly hid behind the trees to watch what's going on in front of them .
Currently a crimson coloured bird, which looked like an enlarged version of a peacock with red ruby like eyes was fighting against a gorilla shaped beast.
Hansen only recognized the gorilla shaped beast , it was actually of the same race as Er Ming from the Star Dou forest, a Titan Giant ape. However he didn't know it's specific age. As for the bird shaped soul beast bathed in fire, Hansen had idea. But considering that it was able to evenly fight against and even suppress a Titan giant ape, it was definitely a very rare and powerful soul beast as well.
At this moment Liu Erlong took the initiative to explain to Hansen the knowledge about these soul beasts as a teacher.
" Look Hansen, these soul beasts in front of you are both rare and powerful soul beasts called the Titan Giant ape and the Vermillion Phoenix . Looking at them carefully they should both be around twenty thousand years of age . Their soul ring age is quite suitable for you. "
Liu Erlong said after careful consideration since Hansen also told her superficially about his special physique that he can absorb soul rings of higher age.
Next Liu Erlong explained about the characteristics features of both of the soul beasts to Hansen.
Meanwhile the battle between the soul beasts occuring in front of them was already in a red hot stage.
Suddenly the Vermillion Phoenix fired a flaming beam from his beak one again . However the Titan giant ape wasn't able to dodge it this time around and it happened to hit him in the balls, a well certified weak point of all males, no matter the race .
Seeing this Hansen also unconsciously tightened his legs abruptly. Meanwhile Liu Erlong laughed silently after looking at his reaction.
Back to the battle, after the last attack on his testicles, the Titan Giant Ape let out a roar and ran away while throwing random attacks at the Vermillion Phoenix. Naturally he wasn't in the mood to fight anymore and wanted to lick his wounds first.
But of course the Vermillion Phoenix wouldn't just allow him to run away and tried to follow it. At this time, Liu Erlong decided to make a move. She immediately possessed her martial soul and activated her fifth soul ring before pouncing on the unaware Vermillion Phoenix.
Although the Vermillion Phoenix was a powerful twenty thousand years old soul beast but in front of a powerful Soul sage with top notch martial soul, she couldn't offer much resistance and was soon punched to the ground by Liu Erlong.
" Come on Hansen, do it. "
Afterwards Liu Erlong asked Hansen to make the killing blow.
Hearing this Hansen also came over and summoned his magic wand before activating his second soul skill.
" Sectumsempra! "
Although the soul beasts have greater resistance to sectumsempra compared to human soul masters but the Vermillion Phoenix still couldn't survive the blow as the level difference wasn't big.
( Natural body parts like scales or tough hide of the creature itself doesn't count as armour . So it has higher resistance but the unprecedented cutting power of Sectumsempra is still there. Of course the armours and weapons made out of it will still come under the armor penetration effect. )
Soon a black coloured soul ring floated from its corpse. Seeing this Hansen also didn't dilly dally any longer and immediately sat down cross legged before attracting the soul ring towards him.
Standing on the side , Liu Erlong was still a bit amazed by the destructive power of Hansen's previous attack.
" Is this the power that the second soul skill of a level 40th soul master should have? "
Liu Erlong murmured. But soon she came back to her senses after seeing the black coloured soul ring revolving around Hansen and stood guard for him vigilantly.
For the next forty to fifty minutes, Hansen suffered both physical and mental pressure coming from the soul ring. But thanks to his increased physique and mental power Hansen managed to pass the critical period. Soon he felt the level restrictions breaking apart and his soul power level started shooting up. Meanwhile the remaining soul power from absorbing the soul bones previously also burst out at this time.
Hansen's soul power continued increasing till it reached level 45 before stopping.
At the same time, Hansen heard the much awaited system notification sound.
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Ding! Congratulations host for breaking through to level 45 .
Ding! New soul ring is detected. Host is given another chance to draw a lottery.
Soon a circular lottery wheel appeared in Hansen's brain with different spells arranged in many columns.
After Hansen started the lottery by instructing the system , the lottery started spinning faster and faster. Before it started to slow down after some time.
After spinning for some time, the pointer finally stopped at...
Ding! Congratulations host for getting Phoenix Rebirth. ( Phoenix version )
Phoenix Rebirth =
It is the racial ability of a Phoenix. When they die they explode into ashes and then they get reborn from their own ashes. It is a completely new start for them.
Effects =
* After you die, your body will explode into ashes and then you will be reborn again from it.
* Every time you use it, your level will permanently drop by one.
* You will enter a weak period for the next twenty four hours.
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Subsequently Max looked at his property panel.
Name = Hansen
Age = 12 years
Innate soul = Level 15
power talent
Martial soul = Magic wand
Soul power = level 45
••Soul skills =
1 . Protego (shield)
2. Sectumsempra
(invisible slash)
3 . Apparition ( teleport)
4. Phoenix rebirth
••Soul bones and self made soul skills =
1 . Eight spider lances (Expelliarmus)
2. Fire Dragon God Arm
(Stupefy, Imperius)
3. Ice Dragon God Arm
( Dark mark, Fidelius)
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Seeing his new ability Hansen was instantly overjoyed. Although there were previous indications like the ' Elf's Apparate ' but still he never expected to obtain this ability .
After all, apparition is at least a spell that can be used by human wizards nonetheless. But what about " Phoenix Rebirth " ?
" It seems that there are still some unknown functions of the system that are not known. But anyway I will see it with time. "
Thinking of this Hansen smiled happily and opened his eyes. After standing up, first thing he did was to look if there was any soul bone found this time.
But it seems that luck was not on his side this time. However Hansen didn't get much depressed as he was already very satisfied with his new soul ability.
Because with it alone , he has full forty five lives even at this moment. Not to mention that it will only increase with time. Most importantly he can cultivate the lost soul power again with some time and effort, so it's almost equivalent to unlimited resurrection in a certain sense. Of course there is some exaggeration in this but it's still a powerful ability nevertheless.
At this time, Liu Erlong also came over to congratulate him.
" Congratulations Hansen for advancing to the Soul Sect. "
" Thank you very much dean. "
Hansen also thanked her. But now he was in another dilemma. Currently he wasn't close enough to her to disclose such an important secret to her. That's why he couldn't tell her about the 'Phoenix Rebirth' ability as it's his hole card. Just when he was thinking of what to tell her about his fourth soul ability Liu Erlong interrupted his thoughts.
" Alright then. We will talk about the rest of the details later. First of all we should evacuate from here. It's already been a long time. "
Liu Erlong suggested.
" Hmmm. "
Next both of them left the Sunset Forest at full speed. It was already night time when they arrived at the gate of the Heaven Dou City.
Soon they arrived at the Academy.
" Alright Hansen, it's already pretty late. And you should also be tired after the past few days. So go ahead and rest tonight. We will talk tomorrow. Come to my hut next morning. "
Liu Erlong said after looking at the starry sky.
" Okay dean , as you wish. "
Hansen nodded before he walked in the direction of his residence. Meanwhile Liu Erlong looked at his disappearing back for some time before she also left the place.
" Sigh! What a good and talented boy. "
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