Long before he beca the feared Chira Sovereign, he had been nothing more than a young man struggling to survive in a savage and forsaken land.
Unlike the civilized planets of the Magus Alliance, where cities were protected by formations and powerful clans maintained order, his world knew only brutality. Villages were built from bone and stone, hidden behind crude walls that could be torn apart overnight.
Every dawn was uncertain. Every night was worse. Children were raised knowing that one careless step beyond the settlent might end with claws around their throat or fangs tearing through their flesh.
n there did not fear war.
They feared being eaten.
He had not been weak. Even in youth, he possessed sharp instincts, fierce determination, and uncommon talent. But on such a world, strength alone was never enough.
Fortune arrived when he encountered a mysterious hermit shaman living deep within the wilderness, a figure revered as half-man, half-myth. The old shaman saw potential in the desperate youth and accepted him as a disciple.
From that day forward, his life changed.
The shaman taught him the forbidden path of spirit beast cultivation and passed down a divine inheritance.
[The Twelve Spirit Beast Arts]
It was a terrifying technique. Through it, one could not only borrow the technique of powerful spirit beasts, but also enhance cultivation.
With this art, the young man rose rapidly.
He entered the Magus Realm.
Then rose further.
However, when he had only just stepped into the Cosmic Realm, greed had already taken root in his heart.
The more he learned of the The Twelve Spirit Beast Arts, the more he coveted the complete inheritance for himself. He no longer wished to remain a disciple standing beneath another's shadow. He wanted the technique, the spirit beasts, and the power that ca with them.
The legendary hermit who had guided him for years was betrayed and killed by the very student he had raised. From that day onward, he stepped fully into a criminal life, no longer pretending otherwise. In pursuit of stronger spirit beasts and greater transformations, he raided remote worlds, massacred tribes, trafficked forbidden creatures.
Cities burned, rivers ran red, and survivors were chained as bait to lure the remaining creatures from hiding.
Over centuries, he beca the Chira Sovereign.
And in the end—
Karma returned through the sa road it ca.
He too was betrayed by his own disciple.
"Urghhh!! Get the fuck out of my head!"
The elderly spirit roared in rage, his spectral body trembling violently inside the sealed soul chamber.
Ery stood before him in calm silence.
It had been several days since he captured the Three Cosmos criminal and imprisoned the soul within his personal domain. Only after breaking into the Chira Sovereign's aperture and capturing the rare Silver Veil Ape had Ery finally decided to deal with the old monster directly.
Now he was using [Soul Walk], entering the criminal's consciousness and walking through mories, barriers, and hidden ntal layers.
Ery's tone remained level.
"I already entered your domain. There was little worth taking."
His eyes narrowed slightly.
"It seems the only valuable thing left in you is that divine technique. Give it to , and I may reconsider handing you over to the Magus Alliance."
The elderly spirit laughed hoarsely.
"Hahaha… you think I'm a fool? Even if I gave it to you, you would never let go."
"Maybe," Ery replied calmly. "I would rather end you here to ensure there are no future problems, but I can promise you this... If you comply with my demand, I will hand you over to the Magus Alliance. It will not be pleasant, but you might still have a chance."
"Hmph. The only way I would give it to you is if you swear a spirit oath not to harm …"
Ery cut him off imdiately.
"Forget it."
His voice turned colder.
"There is no chance I let soone like you walk free"
The old man's face twisted with hatred.
"Hahaha! Even with your profound soul strength, you may imprison —but you cannot stop from self-detonating!"
Ery sighed.
"I really wanted that bounty money."
Then his gaze sharpened.
"But… oh well."
Ery made his decision without speaking further.
He moved decisively.
With a single motion of his hand, the ground beneath the imprisoned soul rippled and split apart. From the darkness below, dozens of thick roots erupt upward like living spears. They were covered in glowing veins of runic light, and moved with terrifying speed. In an instant they wrapped themselves around the Chira Sovereign's spectral limbs.
The elderly spirit's expression transford imdiately.
"What do you think you are doing?!" he shouted, panic finally breaking through the arrogance he had maintained until now.
Ery did not answer.
Behind him, a vast shadow began to rise.
The chamber darkened as a monstrous silhouette took form from swirling mist and writhing darkness. Countless tentacles unfurled into the air, while clusters of cold, inhuman eyes opened one after another.
It was Chututllu.
The ancient Khaos guardian lood behind Ery like a nightmare given shape. Waves of Khaos energy rolled from its body and poured into the roots binding the Chira Sovereign.
The restraints transford instantly.
Their surfaces darkened further, the runes across them twisting into devouring sigils as they pulsed like veins carrying hungry life. What had begun as simple restraints beca sothing far more dangerous.
An advanced version of [Spirit Devour].
The Chira Sovereign's face lost all color.
"You're insane…" he rasped, then his voice rose into fury. "Bastard! Then let us die together!"
Knowing the inevitable, the old criminal chose destruction. He ignited everything left inside his damaged soul, drawing together the remnants of his Three Cosmos power in preparation for a final self-detonation. Spiritual fire surged through his spectral form, and violent energy gathered so quickly that even the chamber trembled.
But the explosion never ca.
Instead, the power within him turned chaotic.
Energy channels twisted shut. Gathered force collided against itself. The carefully ford detonation collapsed inward before it could be completed.
The old man froze in disbelief.
Only then did he realize what Ery had done.
During the long hours of probing mories, questioning him, and pressing his mind for secrets, Ery had not rely been searching for information. He had secretly planted layer after layer of restrictions throughout the weakened soul.
"You tricked —ARGHHHH!"
The Chira Sovereign scread as the roots constricted further.
Still unwilling to surrender, glowing runes began spreading across his spectral body. But Ery's enhanced mastery in Spirit Devour was rciless.
One defensive layer after another was torn apart as streams of crimson soul force were dragged from the old man's body and drawn into Ery's control.
At the sa ti, the devouring force dug deeper into the most protected corners of his mind.
mories sealed were dragged into the open and stripped away.
Ery remained calm throughout the process, though his concentration was absolute.
He had considered other options before making this choice.
Tessa had already inford him that the bounty on the Chira Sovereign alone was worth three billion spirit stones. Even as a soul lacking body and aperture, handing him over would still earn nearly half of that sum.
It was a fortune.
Yet after capturing the rare Silver Veil Ape and learning more of The Twelve Spirit Beast Arts through Varkul's, Ery had changed his mind.
The value inside this criminal now exceeded re money.
With his growing mastery over the Law of Devouring, he was confident he could gain far more by absorbing the man's knowledge and remaining essence before the inevitable collapse.
Minutes passed beneath the sound of endless screaming.
The Chira Sovereign's spectral body gradually swelled into a grotesque shape as unstable energies accumulated faster than they could escape. His outline bulged outward in pulses of red and black light, while cracks of spiritual distortion spread across his form.
Ery's eyes snapped open.
That was the limit.
With one decisive strike, he tore open a spatial gate leading to a prepared wasteland far beyond Neo Terra City. Then, he hurled the bloated soul through the opening.
The gate sealed behind it.
A heartbeat later, the distant horizon erupted.
A catastrophic explosion thundered more than a hundred miles outside the city. Crimson fire rose like a pillar into the heavens, followed by a shockwave that rolled across the wasteland and shook the clouds.
The Chira Sovereign, feared for centuries across many sectors, had finally et his end.
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