Splash, splash...
Chilling, deathly still—the intertwining of life and death. The black suspended river that should have existed in the deepest depths had been drawn into the void: the Netherworld Yellow Springs River!
Within the Netherworld Yellow Springs River lay both the beauty of life and the undead of death. Only the gentle Light of Awakening bloomed from that dazzling pearl, holding the line. In the endless darkness, the pitch-black shadow clutching the Book of Life and Death let out a sinister, hoarse, cruel, wicked sneer. What he saw in these foreign Rulers was not a crisis of life and death, but immense wealth!
Greed filled every one of his cells, and the desire to possess erupted from the deepest reaches of his soul.
Though he had already lost the Omnipotent Soul, every Ruler's corpse was still the ultimate material for an Art of Life and Death synthetic beast.
As if driven by an intense urge to collect, one of the Black Witch King's favorite pursuits was refining enemies who had fallen by his hand into raw materials of living flesh cells for synthetic beasts.
Enemies while alive, slaves when dead—what a cruel fate that was!
More than that, these Ruler corpses often carried differing rule attributes. Before becoming materials for synthetic beasts, they were likewise specimens for the Black Witch King to study the mysteries of rules. Every rule possessed something unique, and through studying them, it became easier to uncover truths and mysteries few had ever known.
Thus, greed had utterly conquered fear. Not only was the Black Witch King not intimidated by the siege of Rulers drawn here by the Mother Shell of the Mirage Desire Maze, he instead regarded it as a rare opportunity. By relying on the rules of this Chaos Void Domain, he transformed