"What is this?" Melsen frowned as he looked at the black liquid before him.
"To become a Ghost Man, you first need to be remade into a living dead." Noah said, "This bowl contains specially cultivated bacteria. It will put you in a near-death state, allowing the living dead transformation to proceed more effectively. Don't worry, this transformation isn't very difficult."
"I understand." Melsen had no choice—or rather, this was his own choice.
The moment he drank the pitch-black liquid, he felt a burning pain from his throat all the way down to his stomach. Breathing became difficult, as though his internal organs were about to melt.
Noah then took out a dagger gleaming with golden light and said solemnly, "This is the Ritual Blade. If someone in a near-death state is stabbed through the heart with it, they will become one of the living dead. Though without the support of medicine, that should be quite painful."
As the Ritual Blade pierced his heart, Melsen felt the entire world change. If the world before had been filled with color, then now there was only dead silence, as though a barrier had risen between him and the world.
"The so-called living dead are actually created through special methods that keep someone in a near-death state, their soul neither departed nor remaining. At that point, the body becomes less important, and accordingly, there are no longer any fatal points."
"And what sustains your body is the presence of my Lord upon this Ritual Blade." Noah put away the Ritual Blade, then prepared to transplant Chris's remnant soul into Melsen.
A living person's body could not contain two souls. They would only contaminate each other. Either the master would accept the remnant soul's contamination and undergo a drastic change in personality, or the