Soul (3/98)

"You have fifteen minutes. During that time, destroy everything you can see. When the fifteen minutes are up, fall back. The Yadaliate will teleport away in twenty minutes. We won't wait for anyone who hasn't returned by then."

As the Lightning Automatic Detonator activated, all the beasts aboard the Yadaliate charged out.

They heard Liu Zhi's command in their ears. He had ordered them to attack the Zerg, but he didn't really care how many they managed to kill.

Liu Zhi didn't want the beasts to kill the enemy. He wanted them to buy him time. He planned to use the Yadaliate's abilities to pull off something big here.

Bringing the Yadaliate inside the hive was nothing special. What Liu Zhi intended to do now was Soul Extraction.

After sending all the beasts out, Liu Zhi hurried to the chamber where the Magic Array had been set up.

The minerals used as energy in the chamber had been considerably depleted by the effects of the spells he'd cast there before.

Liu Zhi spent a little time replacing them all with fresh minerals.

Then he stood in the middle of the Magic Array and poured all his mana into it.

The Magic Array amplified the effects of Liu Zhi's magic. Both Death Ripple and the Summoning spell he'd used afterward had proven that.

The Soul Extraction he planned to use this time would work the same way.

Once he'd made all the preparations for Soul Extraction, a sudden realization came to him: using the spell through the Magic Array could have two different effects.

One option was to target a large number of creatures and extract the souls of every nearby member of the Zerg at once.

Of course, that would yield twenty to thirty thousand souls. The array could handle