'His enhancement...is related to the words of the declaration of royal authority just now...This word spread quite far, not only affecting the soldiers in the city, but also ordinary people in other cities far away. Their cognition changed because of this declaration, so it was enhanced. This special spirit may be related to the people of this country's recognition of its royal authority.'

"Ah... Becoming stronger through cognition? There is such a thing? How did you do that!?"

'It should be achieved through some kind of extremely sophisticated soul transformation surgery. This transformation stitched the soul of the last king with the national concept of Adus, so that the people's cognition could enhance him, but it seems that it is far from perfect.

"Ah... what an interesting transformation technique. Deeply rewriting the soul itself, reconstructing it to expand the control over other creatures is obviously the realm of 'silence', and transforming ordinary people's real cognition into power... this is the scope of 'light' again. Suturing a soul with the concept of the country... this is not just limited to 'light', it even involves 'enlightenment' a little bit... Let's see the designer of this transformation operation in the truth..."

Setut said with emotion in Shadi's heart. His words made Shadi, who was extremely nervous, anxious, and then he said loudly.

"Don't dwell on those trivial things. What should we do now to stop this guy?"

"Based on the current situation, there is no way. This thing has the support of the Adus national soldiers in this area... and may even have the legal basis of the Adus Baruch Dynasty for 700 years. We can't win at all with our current situation. Let's prepare to escape. It is possible that we can escape." Setut responded to Shadi, and Shadi spoke more eagerly after hearing this.

"Escape? Do you want me to abandon tens of thousands of soldiers here and escape alone?"

"Otherwise, if you keep the green mountains, you will never worry about lack of firewood, kid. Go now while it's still far away!"

Listening to Setut's words, Shadi was silent for a while. After a while, he slowly spoke.

"No, if I have to leave, I have to arrange the retreat first. There are so many people, we should retreat as many as we can. If we retreat randomly, many unnecessary people will die. Setut, can you try your best to help me hold on for a while?" Shadi begged Setut. After listening to Shadi's words, Setut paused slightly and answered with a long sigh.

"Well... I'm not the one who dies in the end anyway, so do whatever you want."

"Thank you, Setut."

As he spoke, Shadi continued to stare at the huge wall of wind and sand that was approaching in front of him, and began to call out loudly to his followers who were blown away in the distance, asking them to come over and convey his orders.

…

On the other side, earlier in the Valley of the Dead Eagles, inside the Mausoleum of King Rahman.

In the bedroom within the underground palace, Nefernis sat in a small tomb space built of cold stone, sitting at the center of a magic circle made of bone powder, meditating silently with her eyes closed. In front of Nefernis's magic circle, there were three bone pieces of different shapes, while Dorothy with her face covered and her several corpse dolls sat aside and watched the scene in front of them. Not far from Dorothy, there was a translucent spirit of an old man floating, that was the shaman Uta of the Tupa tribe.

After meditating in the magic circle for a while, Nephnis slowly opened her eyes. A slight confusion emerged in her eyes, and then a pale translucent mountain cat spirit came out of Nephnis's body, suspended in the air and stretching out gracefully. It was the Soul Whiskers of the Wilderness. After seeing the Soul Whiskers, Nephnis' confusion disappeared, and she smiled and said.

"Thank you, Master Soulbeard, the ritual has been successful!"

Nefernis said this, and then Soulwhisker floated in front of Nefernis. Seeing it licking its lips, Nefernis knew what the other party was thinking. She decisively took out three iron coins from her clothes and placed them in front of Soulwhisker. After seeing it, Soulwhisker immediately licked it happily. Then Nefernis turned her gaze to Dorothy and Uta, still speaking with a smile.

"You two, the ceremony was successful. I have been promoted successfully and become a soul bonder."

In order to prepare for the more important ceremony later, Dorothy and Uta decided to let Nefernis, the only and most important one, be promoted on the spot to become a soul bonder of the first stage of the body-reliant path to increase the fault tolerance rate.

The Soul Contractor's promotion ceremony required three bone fragments containing at least black-level souls, a soul that could be suppressed in the body and at least chalk-level, and a spiritual field with a good "quiet" spiritual environment as the ceremony location. The current Nephnis had all the conditions.

The sleeping halls in the Mausoleum of King Rahman are all made of Netherfrost Stone and are located in the deepest part of the entire mausoleum. They are naturally home to the most suitable spiritual place for the undead to sleep. The spirits who are of the Cretaceous level and know how to cooperate with each other have a familiar partner, the Soul of the Wilderness. As for the three bone fragments that contain at least black-level souls, they were provided by Atif and his men, a treasure robber who once invaded Nef's house and kidnapped people. Everything is ready.

Finally, after everything was ready, Nefernis was finally promoted to a Cretaceous-level soul bonder. Now Nefernis's body can exert more abilities of the soul it relies on, and can even make slight modifications to her body according to the characteristics of the soul it relies on. She can also leave her body and use her soul to attach to and control others.

"Well... now that everything is ready, let's get started, Uta Shaman."

After nodding, Dorothy asked one of her corpse dolls to speak to Uta beside her, and Uta's spirit nodded, then slowly positioned itself and floated up.

"Be prepared to be relied upon, girl recognized by Soulbeard."

After saying that, Uta floated away holding Nefernis's hand and merged into her body. After Nefernis closed her eyes and accepted Uta's soul support, a trace of vicissitudes and remoteness emerged in her eyes when she opened them again.

On the other side, Dorothy had begun to control her corpse puppets. According to the method given by Sadroya, she quickly erased and destroyed the soul-controlling magic circle on the edge of the sarcophagus step by step. After the magic circle was destroyed, Dorothy let all the corpse puppets lie on one side of the huge sarcophagus, put their hands on the coffin lid, and then push it open together.

With a loud bang, the heavy coffin lid fell to the ground, and then a large amount of gray-black spiritual mist gushed out, almost instantly covering the entire tomb. For a moment, a chill ran down the backs of all the living people in the place.

From the spiritual mist, a vague black shadow full of resentment was looming, and a distorted and strange sound came from it.

"Are you here to prolong your stupid and despicable behavior again? My corrupt heir..."