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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 599

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:13:24 AM


Chapter 599: Seclusion

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Chapter 599: Seclusion

With that embarrassing episode over, Sage took a few moments to compose himself before heading into an isolated training room. He stopped to stand in front of a large egg and gently ran his ghostly hand over the shell. While Hei Bai had stolen the egg from his storage chamber underground, she had not taken the one he kept on the Inner World. There were also a couple spread out among the wilderness, but those were far away and he didnt want to risk the danger of traveling for months to retrieve one.

Before making use of the Soul Spawn technique to enter this new body, he called for Tao Ba in the most respectful manner. He left the isolated chamber and waited in an extravagantly decorated hall, having the Hoplite servants prepare a dozen different dishes to serve the pot bellied boy with. A few minutes later, the white haired boy arrived and he was happy to eat Sages food and drink the tea and wine he was offered. Only after a few hours of feasting did Tao Ba finally pat his stomach, satisfied.

Oh Great One, as you can see my body was destroyed. I already have a method to get another, but just like last time Im afraid Ill revert to a beast state again. I will be helpless again and I hope I can count upon your kind assistance once more.

Tao Ba gently sighed, Unfortunately, you can not. I wont be able to help you like that again. It might have been okay to bend the rules a bit before, but now that you've damaged your ring youll be watched much more closely. In fact, Ive also come bearing some bad news.

Sages eyes widened, You cant help me, but then what should I do to-

Tao Ba held up a hand to cut him off, Youll have to figure it out on your own. I just put you somewhere with many beasts for you to eat. Im sure you can figure it out. Because of the damage your ring suffered, your space is being reduced to a tenth of what it is now. Ive taken the liberty of centering it around your little house and storage area. Go now and move everything else you want or youll lose access to it.

With that unpleasantness over with he was back to where hed started, getting a new body. Back then, when he died, he had no idea that using the Soul Spawn technique would revert him to basically the intelligence of a newborn. His mind was a blur for years until he woke up in a lake. He had no idea what happened, but now it seemed that Tao Ba had just brought him somewhere with many beasts for him to feed on.

So, when I use Soul Spawn I am reborn and my new body has to mature to a certain level before I can regain my intelligence again.

He was only speculating based on what Tao Ba said and his prior experience, but he felt it made some sense. The Twin Ringed Soul Serpent was a very rare beast, but it wasnt a very powerful one. If he remembered right, they could only reach the third rank when they matured which meant the odds of them advancing further and gaining intelligence were quite small. Without many of them ever getting smart enough to notice, it wasnt odd that this sort of problem he faced wasnt mentioned in their ancestral memories.

It was a shame that Sage couldnt just go to the Inner World, but it was pretty impossible to live inside ones own body after all. Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound.

Since hed already been forced to change the space in the Universe Ring, he decided to just go with a drastic remodel. The space he was given seemed to cover a complete sphere, so he had quite a lot of area under the ground to play with. To that end, he brought out Warp Worms and Dragoons to start a full reconstruction. The storage area was sunk deeper into the ground, being moved down to the maximum depth he had access to. Sage had his minions do all the digging and construction while he handled the movement of all the formations. Next, he built a huge tower at the center of the space and gave it some nice pagoda-like decorative touches on the outside. Since space was now at a premium, he had to reserve as much ground area as possible and since the sky was a mile high, he had plenty of room to build vertically.

Thinking along those lines, he summoned even more Dragoons out and had them build eight more towers, running Steel Silk lines between them all and down to the ground. Anchoring them like giant tents to stabilize them so he could build even taller. The strange materials from this world made it easier for him to construct a large structure, especially since he could use shapes that people in this world hadnt imagined in his construction. Arches, curved scaffolding, tension structures, all things that the architects of this world wouldnt dream of including in their buildings. While Sage was certainly no structural engineer he had flying laborers with an infinite amount of cable. He just had them build a few test towers and fill them with stones. Then when they collapsed he built a tower to half the maximum height theyd previously reached.

It took a couple weeks to complete the nine structures, but Sage felt it was worth the time expenditure to optimize the space he had remaining. He had a plan for these towers.




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