[Soul Forges]?

(Well, I've started writing the side stories for this book. The Succubus Queen storyline, which had to be cut for certain reasons, will be updated regularly on the public WeChat account. The side stories overlap with the main plot. If a few parts of the story seem to jump ahead too far later on, the missing material actually appears in the side stories. The first installment will be posted this Wednesday. The Succubus Queen and Fallen Witch storylines will have a separate volume of their own. Follow the public WeChat account to read them.)

The wind howled.

The closer Soren drew to the Death God Ruin, the more clearly he sensed the chaotic energy shrouding the air.

Casting spells in the Eastern Realm required greater concentration. Without enough concentration, a caster could suffer spell backlash. The portion of the Death God Ruin exposed aboveground came into Soren's view. Before he even approached its entrance, he sensed chaotic magical energy rising from deep underground. According to the markings on the map, an immensely powerful lich had occupied this place. He studied chaos magic here, and magical energy perpetually shrouded the ruin's interior.

A lich.

These monsters stood near the very pinnacle of undead existence and were exceptionally difficult to deal with!

Under normal circumstances, hardly any adventurers were willing to face them. Even if they killed a lich, these terrifying undead would rise again within ten days unless their phylacteries were destroyed. Even deities found liches difficult to deal with, and many divination spells could not locate their phylacteries. Unless a deity possessed certain special powers, few could easily kill a lich outright.

Soren was one of the deities who possessed such special powers.

He had an extremely powerful domain—the [Slaughter Domain]. Any deity who commanded a domain related to