Chapter 72
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Chapter 72: Unique Skill – King of Dead Spirits
"Miyoshi Mitsui, state your wish, for this is a blessing."
A hundred reincarnators fighting each other until the last survivor ascends to godhood… really?
Killing… to become a god? Heh. How absurd for someone like me—a regular corporate drone. Though honestly, dying from overtime exhaustion on a company project is pretty ridiculous too.
As for blessings, I bet the other 99 reincarnators will pick cheat-like powers—"Invincibility," "Time Manipulation," "Causality Control," or such?
And there must be plenty choosing those.
How naive. If such blessings truly worked, what would these battles even look like?
"Can the blessing be anything?"
"Yes."
"Even something overwhelmingly powerful? No alterations or weakening of its effects?"
The Voice of Heaven remained silent.
"What’s the cost? What must I sacrifice for this blessing?"
After a pause, the Voice reverberated again:
"State your wish, Miyoshi Mitsui."
"I see… Then grant me eternal agelessness and immortality."
If I can’t die, survival is guaranteed. If I don’t age, becoming a god hardly matters.
I’ve had enough of the corporate grind.
"Wish granted. Strive toward godhood, Miyoshi Mitsui."
"Strive." Hah. That word haunted me endlessly before.
Still grating to hear.
…
…
How many days had passed since receiving this "blessing"?
Only chaos surrounded me…
Thoughts crawled sluggishly. My body felt disconnected from everything—if I even *had* a body anymore.
At this rate, my mind might simply… stop.
Wait—
Eternal agelessness and immortality… *This* is what that means? A foggy consciousness trapped forever?
Damn it! Is *this* the blessing’s true cost?
…
Time blurred.
Miyoshi Mitsui initially tried counting days before abandoning the futile effort.
Then—clarity.
Awareness sharpened. The faint sensation of limbs returned, startling him.
His senses trickled back.
First came weightlessness—as if his body barely existed.
A breeze brushed past… or *through* him?
Hearing registered only wind and distant footsteps.
Where was he?
Vision cleared next.
A vaulted ceiling materialized through dissipating mist. Indoors, clearly—but where?
Hadn’t he expected to fade into nothingness? Yet here he was, inexplicably revived.
Wait—
Fingers twitched.
As mobility returned, Miyoshi Mitsui pushed himself upright from the cold floor.
Then he instinctively looked at his hands, and his mind went blank for a moment.
What is this…?
Those were skeletal hands devoid of any flesh.
…
Reincarnated as a skeleton…
It took Mitsui over ten minutes to reluctantly accept this fact.
At least it’s better than being half-dead before, isn’t it?
During this period, he discovered the Status Panel and observed his current condition.
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Name: Miyoshi Mitsui
Race: Dead Spirit
Qualification: S+
Class: None
Level: LV.1
Health Value: 10/10
Magic Value: 12/12
Skills: 「Unique Skill – King of Dead Spirits」, 「Undying」
Attributes: Strength 0
Agility 0
Intelligence 1
Physical Resistance Ability 0
Elemental Magic Resistance Ability 0
Abnormal State Resistance Ability 0
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「Unique Skill – King of Dead Spirits」: Obtain absolute control over Dead Spirit Puppets. This skill contains three effects:
First, the skill holder can convert corpses into Dead Spirit Puppets and grant them the skill 「Undying」.
Second, targets slain by Dead Spirit Puppets will also fall under the skill holder’s control, though they won’t possess the skill 「Undying」.
Third, Dead Spirit Puppets will strictly obey the skill holder’s commands.
「Undying」: Undying.
…
The blessing had indeed been altered.
But… judging from the skill descriptions, they don’t seem weak?
Of the two skills, the former allows creating subordinates from any corpse, while the latter… What’s with this description… Some divine prank?
Both effects require practical testing.
Beyond self-examination, Mitsui roughly understood his current location.
If his guess was correct, this was an ancient castle abandoned for years.
He found himself in a lengthy corridor of the structure. One side contained numerous rooms, though time had crumbled parts of the walls, leaving rubble strewn across the floor.
The opposite side featured tall windows spaced meters apart, most of which were shattered.
Through the broken panes hung white mist, barely revealing distant woods when peering outward. The ground remained invisible below.
Mitsui decided to explore the castle first.
…
Within the castle, Miyoshi Mitsui initially discovered skeletons other than himself – true corpses devoid of animation.
There were also Dead Spirit skeletons like himself, but these wandered aimlessly without self-awareness, attacking any approaching monsters.
Mitsui converted the dead skeletons into Dead Spirit Puppets using 「Undying」, then commanded them to eliminate other resident Dead Spirits. The slain Dead Spirits could then be converted into new puppets.
The process sounded straightforward but proved time-consuming.
Magic Value posed the primary constraint: each use of 「Unique Skill – King of Dead Spirits」 drained all Magic Value. Natural recovery required extensive time unless leveling up.
The awakening speed of converted Dead Spirit Puppets appeared proportional to Magic Value expenditure – more spent meant faster revival.
Additionally, accidental death would trigger 「Undying」 automatically, consuming one-tenth of Magic Value.
Such deaths occurred frequently, as the castle’s ancient Dead Spirits far surpassed Mitsui’s level through prolonged survival.
Both death and revival processes inflicted excruciating pain.
This agony made Mitsui question existence itself. Staring at his skeletal form, he occasionally succumbed to despairing thoughts of permanent demise.
But having been reborn once, she knew death wasn’t the endpoint; her suicidal act might be witnessed by the master of the Voice of Heaven. If so, what awaited her next?
