Dago took a deep breath and recalled what he had just done—
The underlying runic logic of the "Master-Servant Pact" was essentially a form of soul-level damage transfer and causal deception.
He had used this "rule" to strip away the boiling will within his sea of consciousness and forcibly redirect it along the contractual chain toward the Great Ice Serpent dormant in the distant frozen lake, making it bear half the backlash from Behelet's will in his stead.
The reason Behelet's will had now completely withdrawn from his body was due to the exceedingly cold and rational instinctive calculations of this Ancient Old One overlord.
Just imagine it: faced with a "feeble" human body with nearly exhausted carrying capacity and poor mana affinity, versus a magical serpent body flowing with the pure bloodline of the Primordial Great Ice Serpent and possessing extraordinary potential for magical transformation, how would Behelet choose?
The greed of a superior predator naturally made the latter a hundred times better as a "body to possess" than the former.
Dago had effectively "sacrificed" the Great Ice Serpent's soul and flesh, precisely catching the newly awakened will at its hungriest moment in exchange for a brief chance to "catch his breath."
But that chance to catch his breath was only temporary.
"The soul mark of the Master-Servant Pact cannot be erased unilaterally. Sooner or later, the resurrected Behelet will trace this anchor and find me again.
"If I cannot completely destroy it on the levels of mental power and rules, then the best possible outcome will merely be having my consciousness erased and becoming Behelet's 'human servant.'"
The destructive will of the Ancient Old One overlord, the Despair Winter Dragon, combined with the pure bloodline of the Primordial Great Ice Serpent.
As the two fused and mutated, who