"That astonishing?"
Merlin's eyes lit up. Had the eldest princess gained something even greater this time?
"Take a look at this, and you'll understand."
With that, the eldest princess took a jade bead from her robes. It was smooth and beautiful, but also quite large, about the size of a baby's fist.
"What's this?"
Merlin took the jade bead from her hand. The moment he did, he felt the surging giant beast will within it. The wills inside might not have been powerful, but there were an extraordinary number of them.
Delighted, Merlin hurriedly extended his consciousness into the jade bead. Immediately, he saw giant beast wills piled like mountains and spread like seas, so numerous that they were almost impossible to count. A cursory glance revealed roughly a thousand of them.
A thousand giant beast wills possessed an almost unimaginable collective power. If an ordinary person's consciousness entered the bead, those frenzied wills would probably crush it outright.
Merlin, however, felt only overwhelming delight. His sole regret was that every one of them was a low-tier behemoth will.
"Excellent. They're all low-tier behemoth wills, but this is already an impressive number."
Merlin was very satisfied. Once he fused all these giant beast wills, there was no telling how far his behemoth body would advance. Perhaps it would approach the level of a sacred beast? Or perhaps he could become a sacred beast outright.
Even Merlin could not predict that.
The eldest princess gave a mysterious smile. Another jade bead suddenly appeared in her hand, and she said with a smile, "Leo, take another look. What's inside this one?"
"There's more?"
When Merlin took the jade bead from the eldest princess, his expression changed dramatically. Shock surged through him like a towering wave. Astonishing-this was truly astonishing, because this jade