Affinity: Chaos

Chapter 932 In Search Of Sacrifices

ʼWhat seal is he talking about?ʼ Void couldnʼt help but ask.

ʼRemember the War of Gods I spoke of?ʼ Grey asked.

Void nodded.

ʼIt was a battle between humans and another race. After years of fighting, a peerless expert appeared amongst humans. It was said that he almost single-handedly stopped the battle. From the look of things, he only sealed the portal.ʼ Grey explained.

With the portal sealed, no more people from the other race could come into the Aurora Continent, this meant that their opponents will increasingly start to grow weaker with each death.

More than eighty percent of those from the other race was wiped out after the seal was closed, and the other twenty percent had to hide from the world.

Initially, Grey didnʼt know this much information, until he listened to the necromancer speak. This was a piece of shocking news since it was kept hidden. From Greyʼs guess, the top experts all knew about the true story, but they knew if the information was to leak to the public, it would cause unrest.

ʼSo, youʼre saying just as you guys are invading another realm, there are people doing that to you as well?ʼ Void clarified.

ʼPretty much. However, we arenʼt a hundred percent certain if what heʼs saying is true. These people will obviously say it in a way to benefit them. But if the seal truly is weakening, then another is upon us in the coming years.ʼ Greyʼs expression was grave.

A war would be detrimental to humans. Even top experts died, most of the budding youths will most likely die in such a battle. At the moment, he felt even more pressure to grow stronger at a faster pace. If the war started and he wasnʼt even close to the Peak of the world, he would only become one of the cannon fodders.

The necromancer continued speaking, but Grey was unable to learn where their base was. The necromancer also didnʼt know of it, he was taught by an Elemental Sovereign who saw his talent some years back. This Sovereign was the one who gave him all the books concerning the history of necromancy.

Grey signified to him so he could stop talking. It had been over twenty minutes now, and the necromancer still hadnʼt stopped talking. When he saw Greyʼs signal, he stopped immediately.

He didnʼt want to offend this Young Lord who he believed was from another race.

Grey thought for some time and asked for the techniques he had with him.

The necromancer paused, but after some time, he brought out the scrolls that were in his storage ring. There wasnʼt much, only about ten, all of them had the methods of refining and controlling corpses, there were even some that talked about how to improve the strength of a corpse after or during refining.

Grey wasnʼt interested in these as he glanced through, his target was the one that taught the technique on how to mark someone.

To his disappointment, it wasnʼt among them.

ʼItʼs not here.ʼ He shook his head lightly.

ʼWhat to do now?ʼ Void asked.

This necromancer should know the technique since it was something all necromancers know, well, so they thought.

When the necromancer saw Greyʼs expression, he was a little apprehensive and asked, ”My Lord, is something wrong with the techniques?”

”Theyʼre just so-so. Donʼt you have any top tier techniques, these arenʼt even taught to newborns where Iʼm from.” Grey said in disappointment.

His eyes showed that he didnʼt expect their techniques to be so low graded.

When the necromancer heard him say these techniques were low tiers, he was more convinced about Grey.

”My Lord, the thing is, I donʼt have the access to better techniques, I was only given these by my Teacher when he wanted to leave.” He explained with a downcast expression.

”Just these?” Grey raised his brow, he shook his head when he didnʼt get a reply from the necromancer, ”Iʼm disappointed at how low you humans truly are. Even after so long, no top tier technique. Looks like it was a waste of time to teach you all necromancy.”

The necromancer kept his head to the ground, embarrassed with the way Grey was speaking about humans.

ʼYouʼre getting good with your act. He doesnʼt even suspect a thing.ʼ Void was quite impressed at how Grey was handling the whole thing.

”What secret techniques were you taught? Maybe Iʼll see something that might interest me.” Grey asked.

He didnʼt want to go straight, so he had to go through different means.

After almost one hour, he finally lost his patience and asked about the method of marking someone with the guise that his method was a little different and he wanted to see how humans managed to do it.

”My… my Lord, I canʼt do that?” The face of the necromancer was ashen.

How could he show Grey the technique? He would die if he dared to initiate it.

”Why?” Grey pretended as if he didnʼt know that they would die if they wanted to mark an individual.

”Our method is very complex. We arenʼt built the same way, so to mark someone, we have to exchange our lives.” The necromancer explained.

”Huh? Thatʼs a little stupid? Why waste your life just to mark someone? I can do that while sleeping.” Grey replied offhandedly.

He wasnʼt bothered that the necromancer would see through his lies. The necromancer didnʼt know much about those from the other race, so Grey was still very much safe.

”Iʼm sorry My Lord, I will do whatever request you have for me, but this is out of my control.” The necromancer said with a sad look on his face, disappointed he couldnʼt meet up to Greyʼs request.

”Itʼs alright, can you explain to me in detail how it works?” Grey asked.

This was the most important thing, as long as the necromancer could tell him how it works, then he could be able to figure out a thing or two about it on his own.

The necromancer paused for some time, thinking about the procedure.

”Itʼs like this…”

Grey listened to what the man was saying and got a rough idea. Unfortunately, it still wasnʼt enough for him.

If he wanted to lift this mark, then he would need to try some experiments. The mark was created by sacrificing the life force of humans, it was a very taxing issue and took a whole lot. From what Grey could tell, those above the Elemental Sovereign Plane wouldnʼt necessarily die when doing this, but it would take its toll on them. Only those in the Elemental Venerable Plane and below risk losing their lives.

ʼDo you think it will be nice to have such an individual on my side? One one hand, heʼs very useful to me since Iʼll have an informant on the side of the necromancers, but on the other hand, I might risk exposing myself to them?ʼ Grey asked Void who was on his shoulder.

Void thought about it and replied, ʼIt wouldnʼt be bad. From the look of things, he seems pretty respectful. I donʼt know how he was stupid enough to believe you, but itʼs not that bad to have someone on the other side. I believe thereʼs a way other necromancers meet up.ʼ

Grey ingrained the information of how necromancers marked people. To try this, he would need to use the same method, sacrificing life force in return for it. This was the only way he could think of.

He didnʼt stay with the necromancer for long and told him to leave. Before the necromancer left, he handed him a communication device, this one was made exclusively for those under his command. The triplets were the first to have it, now, the necromancer was given one as well.

He also asked for the name of the necromancer and found out that it was, Sega.

Grey left, to test his experiments, he needed to think of a way to sacrifice life force.

ʼWhenever I meet a group of bandits, Iʼll use them. Itʼs not like theyʼre helping the world or anything.ʼ

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Two days later.

It didnʼt take long before Grey encountered bandits who tried to rob him. The strongest person amongst them was a Third stage Sage Plane Elementalist, and there were also two more people in the First stage of the Sage Plane.

The bandits numbered at around twelve, enough for Greyʼs experiment.

ʼVoid, why donʼt you help me out on this?ʼ He asked with a playful smile.

Void has been too free lately, not even bothering to fight whenever there was a battle. Grey was the one doing all the work.

ʼOkay.ʼ

To Greyʼs surprise, the always lazy Void agreed to his request.

ʼDonʼt kill them, I need them alive.ʼ He reminded Void.

Void nodded before going off.

When the bandits saw the small cat jumping off Greyʼs shoulder, they all laughed, however, their expressions changed when Void released his Rank Six aura. He was already in the Mid stages, so he had nothing to fear.

Void was fast and ruthless, even though he was told not to kill them, it didnʼt mean he couldnʼt wound them.

In the space of a few minutes, all twelve bandits were on the ground, unconscious.

Grey was a little stupefied by Void ability. It had been a while since he watched Void fight, so he forgot how powerful he was. And compared to the last time, Void had improved, so his strength was above what it previously was. Presently, Void shouldnʼt have any problems with fighting against someone in the Seventh stage of the Sage Plane if he went all out.

Void was only in the Fifth stage of the Sage Plane, but his battle strength was far above it.

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