Ascension

"...Fate?"

Richard looked at the mark on his hand and rubbed it thoughtfully. But he did not dwell on it, because he had already come to terms with it.

No matter what the future held, life still had to be lived one day at a time.

"Ulysses, what about the Crown of the King of Souls?"

Richard turned to look at their recent battlefield. Since everything had happened so suddenly, they had not paid attention to the King of Souls' remains while fleeing.

"Caw, kill another one."

Ulysses came back to his senses and shook his head slightly.

"The Crown of the King of Souls only exists for a short time. If we go back now, it's probably already gone."

Richard sighed at those words and silently waved his Staff. Before long, a dimensional rift leading to the Material World appeared before them.

"Then let's go back first. We'll hunt again in soul form."

Ulysses was slightly startled. "You figured it out without a teacher!?"

It had not taught Richard how to open dimensional rifts these past days.

Richard glanced at it and said blandly, "It's not that difficult. I watched you do it three times. Anyone who paid attention should have learned it."

"Caw, give you an inch and you'll take a mile. Get in already. That one just caused such a huge commotion—don't let it draw the dimensional sovereign of the Soul Dimension here."

After returning to the Mystic Realm and leaving their bodies behind, the man and bird carefully stored away everything they had obtained over the past few days before setting out once more.

After changing into pure souls, the Soul Dimension became much friendlier. Without Life Energy to guide them, the souls of the Soul Dimension treated Richard and Ulysses with the utmost courtesy.

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