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Chapter 545 The Ideal Lord (First Update)

The two traveled through the passage, and finally, after Li Chuan destroyed a cleverly disguised mechanism, they arrived at the end of the secret passage, in a very mysteriously decorated room.

The reason this room is considered mysterious is because it is unlike any other room. In the very center of this room, there is a magic circle that appears to be used to perform some kind of special ritual.

"This should be a necromancy spell circle, but I don't know what it's for."

Serana, seeing the circular magic circle in the room, explained:

"My mother is not only a master alchemist, but also very proficient in necromancy. She taught me all my necromancy spells, but I've never seen this magic circle before."

"There's a bookshelf there; perhaps we can find some relevant clues."

Li Chuan glanced around the room and then pointed to several bookshelves in the corner.

Besides the circular magic circle, the room also contained many tables and bookshelves. The tables were filled with various alchemical materials, and the bookshelves were filled with books related to necromancy.

"I found my mother's diary!"

After rummaging through the bookshelf for a while, Serana excitedly picked up a yellowed diary that appeared to be made of a special material.

So the two of them opened the diary and began to read it.

"So it was in the Soul Stone Tomb. No wonder the locator spell couldn't find it."

After reading the diary, Li Chuan finally knew where the second volume of the ancient scroll was.

It turns out that a thousand years ago, Serana's mother, Valerica, after realizing she could not persuade Harkon to complete his plan, sealed Serana and an ancient scroll in a cave in the Cangyuan Territory.

He then carried another ancient scroll and, using the necromancy he had developed, opened a teleportation portal to the Soul Tomb to evade Harkon's pursuit.

Harkon will never be able to complete his insane plan unless he finds both his daughter and himself at the same time.

As for what the Soul Tomb is?

Previously, when Li Chuan was browsing through books on the mainland, he learned about the Holy Spirit and the Deity from books that introduced related topics.

The Soul Stone Tomb is an independent plane, but it is much, much smaller than the planes of normal demon gods. Moreover, it does not belong to any holy spirit or demon god, but to a guy called the Lord of Ideals.

Rumor has it that this ideal lord is not a demon god, but rather one of the earliest necromancers who invented soul trap magic—yes, the kind of magic that kills creatures and absorbs their souls into soul crystals to create soul stones.

In order to achieve immortality, they abandoned their frail mortal bodies, merged their souls into one, entered the Annihilation Realm, collected a portion of the Chaos Creation Matter, and then created their own Annihilation Plane.

His greatest hobby is capturing powerful souls and bringing them into his annihilation space, thereby increasing his own power.

Therefore, he greatly enjoys making contracts with necromancers, allowing them to summon undead creatures he creates to fight for him, and then harvest their souls into his own space after they die.

Because he invented the Soul Trap spell, he can collect a portion of the soul from the Soul Crystal if someone in the mortal world uses this spell.

However, he was quite picky; he didn't want ordinary souls, only those black soul stones made from harvested human souls.

However, it is said that the power of this ideal ruler is incomparable to that of the demon gods who existed before the creation of the world.

Historical records state that because the Soul Stone Tomb of the Ideal Lord was closest to the world of Nirn and the easiest place to establish a teleportation array, the Demon God Dagon used the Soul Stone Tomb as a route to invade Nirn.

This naturally displeased the ideal ruler, but he dared not resist in the slightest.

During this time, when Dagon's demon army passed through the Soul Stone Tomb, they also killed a large number of the Ideal Lord's undead servants and devoured their souls, severely weakening the Ideal Lord.

After Dagon's defeat, the ideal ruler was unable to communicate with the necromancers of Nirn for a long time, resulting in the loss of a large number of necromancy spells.

The necromancers in the human world today mostly study resurrection spells, which involve resurrecting skeletons and corpses to control them in battle.

Spells that summon undead minions, like those used to summon spirit mounds, are practically unheard of anymore.

"If it's this one, then it seems like there's some potential."

After recalling the information about the Soul Tomb and the Ideal Lord, Li Chuan's face showed a thoughtful expression.

If Valerica were taking the ancient scroll to the annihilation space of any one of the sixteen demon gods, he would absolutely not enter rashly.

But what she entered was the soul tomb of the ideal master.

To be honest, Li Chuan felt that his strength was no less than that of the Ideal Lord, and perhaps even stronger.

The Ideal Lord was created by the aggregation of the souls of a group of necromancers, and because Dagon's invasion of Nirn has not yet been recovered, his dimension has nothing of note other than souls and necromancer servants.

Li Chuan's own creation, the Tsukuyomi Dimension, not only absorbed the energy of the Blood Spring but also received enhancements from the Divine Tree Fruit, making it far more complete and powerful than the Soul Stone Tomb.

The ideal master in essence is an aggregate of souls, while Li Chuan, like the demon god Dagon, possesses a powerful physical body and multiple world power systems.

Therefore, if he manages to enter the Soul Tomb this time, he not only wants to find Valerica to retrieve the last ancient scroll, but also wants to try to kill the Ideal Lord and absorb his Soul Tomb.

Even if he couldn't defeat his opponent in his own dimension, he was still very confident that he could escape using the power of the Tsukuyomi dimension.

If he could absorb the Soul Stone Tomb and integrate it into the Tsukuyomi world, his strength would surely increase greatly, and the Tsukuyomi world could also create a Netherworld for life to reincarnate ahead of schedule.

"I learned necromancy from my mother. There must be some materials left over from when my mother opened the portal in this room. However, my mother left a protective mechanism. We don't have her blood."

Serana said, frowning.

Valerica was worried that Harkon would eventually figure out the garden's mechanism and track her all the way here, so she added an extra lock to the method of opening the Soul Tomb portal.

Her blood is required to open the portal.

"Don't worry about that. As your mother's daughter, you have her genes, so your blood should work just as well."

Li Chuan waved his hand, then began searching the room for the three materials needed to activate the teleportation array: ground bone powder, purified void salt, and special soul stone fragments.

Even if Serana's blood is useless, after reading Valerica's diary and just browsing the necromancy book on the bookshelf, with his magical skill, he could spend some time creating a new way to open the Soul Tomb portal.

(End of this chapter)