“An existence that can naturally ignore and surpass the limits of life, reaching the level of Transcendence…?”
Even Shien Buztout was shocked upon hearing the High Priest’s words.
If such an existence could truly be created, it would be incredibly heaven-defying.
Until now, besides the few at the apex of the God and Demon Races, only Heroes throughout history had successfully surpassed the limits of life and reached Transcendence.
In the countless years of Omnipotence’s history, there were perhaps only a dozen or so Transcendent Level beings.
Among them, the Three Goddesses, the Six Demon Lords, and beings like the Goddess of Justice and the Strongest Evil God were all inherently transcendent.
Only a very limited number of Heroes, through their own efforts and growth, successfully surpassed the limits of life and reached Transcendence.
Therefore, an existence that could naturally ignore and surpass the limits of life would be a “miracle of birth,” comparable to the Three Goddesses and the Six Demon Lords.
Such an existence had never been born in the countless years of Omnipotence’s history, and this necromancer actually wanted to create one?
Shien was truly shocked.
However, a hypothesis was just a hypothesis. Whether such a heaven-defying existence could truly be created was still unknown.
The conditions for creating a Greater Spirit were undoubtedly harsh.
First, it required a massive amount of “materials.”
These “materials” referred to a combination of vast death energy and magic power – [Soul Essence].
[Soul Essence] was the fundamental ingredient for creating a Greater Spirit. To create one, a large amount of this material was needed.
And each [Soul Essence] required an immense amount of death energy and magic power to be refined.
To put it in concrete terms, creating one [Soul Essence] required the life force of at least a hundred people, refined into death energy, and all the magic power from a small magic power source.
Even then, the refining process could fail, with only about a fifty percent success rate.
And to create a Greater Spirit, at least tens of thousands of [Soul Essence] were needed.
What did this mean?
It meant that the High Priest needed to drain the life force of at least millions of people, refine an immense amount of death energy, and find tens of thousands of small magic power sources to meet the basic requirements for creating a Greater Spirit.
This didn’t even account for failed refining attempts.
So, how harsh the conditions were was self-evident.
Furthermore, the High Priest could no longer recklessly extract death energy from living beings, lest she attract the attention of Anima, the Goddess of Life. She could only do this secretly, increasing the difficulty even further.
And just preparing the “materials” was already so troublesome, not to mention the other conditions.
For example, even with sufficient [Soul Essence] as materials, creating a Greater Spirit still required a vessel.
A vessel to withstand the transformation of [Soul Essence] and become the foundation of a Greater Spirit.
In other words, the High Priest needed a person.
This person had to be able to withstand the transformation of [Soul Essence], so there were also strict requirements.
First, the vessel couldn’t be a demon or a god, because they had terrible compatibility with [Soul Essence]. Only humans, who were “artificially created” like Greater Spirits, had good compatibility. Therefore, even elves born from nature were excluded.
Second, the vessel couldn’t be the High Priest herself, because she was an undead creature, between life and non-life, and her undead body was a collection of vast death energy. If [Soul Essence] was added, not only would the ratio of death energy and magic power within the [Soul Essence] be disrupted, but it might also go berserk.
Third, what the vessel needed to withstand the transformation of [Soul Essence] wasn’t a strong body or immense power, but a spirit that could resonate with [Soul Essence].
Such a spirit, since it could resonate with [Soul Essence], which was refined from vast death energy and magic power, naturally wouldn’t be positive energy.
In short, the vessel needed to possess extremely strong negative emotions, strong enough to resonate with [Soul Essence].
Only then could they withstand the transformation of [Soul Essence] and gradually become a Greater Spirit.
For the past thousand years, the High Priest had secretly searched the world, quietly collecting death energy and magic power to refine [Soul Essence] as materials, while also searching for a suitable vessel.
Unfortunately, the High Priest searched for countless people, but almost no one met the conditions. Either their negative emotions weren’t strong enough, or even if they were, they didn’t resonate with [Soul Essence].
It seemed that [Soul Essence] required negative emotions that were compatible with its nature, not just sufficiently strong negative emotions.
There were many types of negative emotions, and not all of them were suitable for resonating with [Soul Essence].
After many experiments, the High Priest discovered that negative emotions like hatred, unwillingness, and anger born from love were the most likely to resonate with [Soul Essence].
And the stronger the love that caused these negative emotions, the more likely it was for [Soul Essence] to react.
Therefore, a thousand years ago, the High Priest finally found a suitable vessel, allowing it to successfully withstand the transformation of [Soul Essence] and gradually become a Greater Spirit.
Unfortunately, although that successful case, which made the High Priest ecstatic, continuously increased its power thanks to the characteristics of a Greater Spirit, even reaching Limit Level, it was stuck at the last step, unable to surpass it no matter what.
The High Priest hadn’t figured out what the problem was, but the Greater Spirit went berserk, not only breaking free from her control but even turning against her, causing her a thousand years of regret and humiliation.
But for her obsession, to achieve her goal, the High Priest endured and began planning to create a new Greater Spirit.
Once she successfully created a Greater Spirit and had it reach Transcendence, the High Priest would discard her undead body, her soul invading the Greater Spirit, taking it over and becoming a supreme being comparable to the Three Goddesses and the Six Demon Lords.
For this purpose, the High Priest struggled for another thousand years, until she met Limgir, this young master of a duke’s family consumed by intense anger, hatred, and unwillingness due to unrequited love, finally finding a second suitable vessel.
Therefore, the High Priest tempted Limgir, intensifying the love and hate in his heart while having him accept the transformation of [Soul Essence].
Just now, it was because of Shien’s provocation that Limgiro’s negative emotions erupted, successfully resonating with [Soul Essence] and transforming into a Greater Spirit.
The High Priest was naturally ecstatic about the birth of this second Greater Spirit after a thousand years.