When the song ended, countless skeletons cheered as if they'd understood it.
Lu Yin pretended to cheer too, raising his arm higher than anyone else's, even though the music was grating and awful.
"You seem to know a lot about music, friend. How about we talk?" Behind him, in a little river, a fish skeleton opened and closed its mouth as it spoke to Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked at it. "I don't. I just think it sounds nice."
"You think it sounds nice instinctively? That works, too. How about we start a band?"
"You're a fish. You want to start a band?"
"Fish have dreams, too."
"Go play somewhere else." Lu Yin ended the fusion, feeling a little frustrated. Why did he always run into such weak skeletons? Couldn't he find someone powerful who could get him into the castle?
He shook his head helplessly and continued.
Another half a year passed. This time, Lu Yin spotted an exceptionally bright orb of light, brighter than any he'd fused with before. He grew excited and hurried over to merge with it.
After more than a year of fusions, Lu Yin had realized something: an orb's brightness had nothing to do with the strength of the being he fused with. It depended on how much deathly power that being possessed. The more deathly power it had, the brighter the orb.
He hadn't considered this before, because in the past, whether he used star energy or consciousness when rolling the die, he fused with creatures that had cultivated their own power. Star energy and consciousness were reflections of their strength. But the skeletons of the Death Universe were different. Their deathly power wasn't cultivated; it was bestowed upon them.
So Lu Yin dared to fuse with even an Eternal, a life-form who