From Harvest Moon to War Moon, Lu Cang had done quite a bit of research on Death Spells.
Every Death Spell required a soul to cast.
But the requirements for souls varied.
The soul cost for Death Substitute was: consume a soul with the same or greater spirituality as your own.
The soul cost for Soul Explosion was: consume any soul, but its power varied according to the soul's strength.
The soul cost for Tragic Soul Death Curse and Vicious Entangling Curse was: a soul with low spirituality.
He had no idea just how low spirituality had to be to count as low... He only knew that among the monster souls he currently had, almost all had negligible spirituality unless they triggered a Noble Soul.
Never mind. In any case, as far as he was concerned, all of these spells only required consuming any soul.
While contemplating the Source, he had also managed to create a Death Spell of his own.
"Corpse Preservation (Tier One Death Spell) (LV: 201)"
"Cost: 1 dead soul of the same level as the corpse, 0.05 mana"
"Effect: Perfectly preserves a corpse, keeping it in the exact condition it was in at the moment of death, unaffected by the passage of time."
This was a spell Lu Cang had created by associating Death Spells with ice magic.
Its effect was simple, but it still marked a small step forward in creating spells that combined his two classes.
Unlike the other original spells he could come up with on a whim,
this Death Spell had kept Lu Cang thinking for an entire night, even with Iz's guidance.
When the spell finally came into being, Lu Cang had a distinct feeling that he had moved one step closer to the Source.
After grasping this spell, the most