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Makino's Worth
🕑 Added 2025-01-11 13:14:08 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 398 ---
Huo Yuhao felt happy inside. He basically has gotten clues about Valerie and Liu Mei's whereabouts.
However, Huo Yuhao quickly suppressed his excitement and stared at the nervous Makino. The latter has waited for a while to get her Martial Soul awakened by him.
Everyone stared at Makino, making her even more nervous.
Huo Yuhao chuckled, "Okay, don't be too nervous now. You're looking like a tomato now."
"Mm..." Makino looked down, tapping her shoes shyly.
"Ah, you..." Toki sighed helplessly at Makino's reaction. This noble sister of hers is always talented and gentle, but before the handsome Huo Yuhao, she has no defense at all.
Of course, this is Toki being a hypocrite. While Makino could resist Huo Yuhao's charm a little, Toki had already surrendered her whole being to him.
Of course, this happened because Huo Yuhao helped Toki return to the realm of living again.
Huo Yuhao didn't know what Toki and Makino were thinking. He focused on the ground and flicked his finger, causing an awakening array to carve on and energized with divine energy.
Makino looked at the array with a fascinated gaze. She can feel a steady flow of high-purity energy within those shallow grooves, intertwining and gathering under her foot.
She tried to sense this divine energy but was dumbfounded when her acute sense couldn't grasp its property. It was 'simply' too pure and overwhelming.
"Don't be nervous. Just let the energy flow and let it wash the impurities out of your soul." Huo Yuhao said calmly, adding more divine energy to the awakening array.
"Then, without further ado, Awaken!"
Makino closed her eyes and felt a warm, comfortable blanket-like energy covering her body. She sighed in relief like she was dipping in a hot spring with that "perfect" temperature.
At the same time, the shackles in Makino's body broke one after another and unsealed her past life's memory. Each memory caused her body to tremble instinctively.
"Ah!" She groaned, wanting to forget these painful memories.
"Makino..." Toki was worried. However, she quickly calmed down because Huo Yuhao wouldn't harm her sister.
Makino gritted her teeth and raised her right hand, causing white flower petals to materialize and spread in the air. Each petal exudes a breath of life, merging and layering one above another, becoming a beautiful white rose with faint emerald and golden luster.
The white rose gave everyone a sense of beauty, but deep beneath the flower is a black stem covered with deadly thorns and has the extreme breath of death.
Huo Yuhao and Huang Qiu'er couldn't help but narrow their eyes at this bizarre rose. After all, they could tell that Martial Soul's quality is near God-level, especially with the breath of life and death it possesses.
"This Martial Soul is weird..." Huang Qiu'er mumbled. Although she has seen a fair share of unique Martial Souls, having two contradicting elements in one vessel is not good.
If it were just a 'normal' element like fire and water, Huang Qiu'er wouldn't comment much, but Makino's Martial Soul possessed both life and death elements.
Huang Qiu'er couldn't help but glance at Huo Yuhao.
Since Huang Qiu'er, the Auspicious Emperor, has crossed her destiny with Huo Yuhao, she has seen the scenery beyond this world and witnessed his power over the dead.
As for the life element part, Huang Qiu'er recalled Huo Yuhao possessing this power, though rarely using it.
Makino opened her eyes wide and gasped, falling to the ground with a pale expression. "Uugh."
Huo Yuhao walked to Makino and patted her head, sending pure mental power and life energy into her body. Soon, her complexion returned to normal.
"Are you okay?" asked Huo Yuhao.
"I'm fine, Yuhao-sama. Just feeling a bit nauseous," Makino replied. She sighed and rubbed her forehead gently.
Then, Makino looked down at Huo Yuhao's shadow and noticed countless eyes staring back at her. She felt a cold shiver in her spine and stumbled back.
Huo Yuhao saw the utter fear in Makino's eyes and said, "Don't be afraid. They are not your enemies."
"They won't bite you."
Gulp!
Makino nodded hesitantly. After all, the feeling of being gazed back by the abyss wasn't good. She felt like her poor heart would drop to the ground at any moment.
"Haha, are you shocked? They are my Eternal Shadow Army." Huo Yuhao added with a chuckle. "They have accompanied me to another world for years, helping me kill countless enemies and conquering a universe."
"What do you think? Wanna learn? I think your Martial Soul is quite suitable for learning this power."
Everyone who heard Huo Yuhao's words 'unconsciously' swallowed their saliva. They didn't expect Huo Yuhao to be this generous.
"Dayum..." Rayleigh couldn't help but feel envious.
Fujitora couldn't help but roll his eyes at the Dark King, 'What are you even jealous of? You're not worthy of wielding that kind of power.'
Zephyr and others also looked at Rayleigh weirdly. They know their place, but this guy sure is something else.
Huo Yuhao ignored Rayleigh's comment and stared at Makino, "Do you want to inherit Light Necromancer's path?"
"Beside me and Eluxia, you will be the third Light Necromancer."
"Light Necromancer..." Huang Qiu'er flashed with a look of surprise. "Ah, no wonder. That white rose also possessed a strong Light Element!"
Yes, that's right.
Makino's White Rose Martial Soul is called Calamity White Rose. It is a half-step God-level Martial Soul with three elements, but death and life overshadow the light element.
The former are just too overpowering than the latter.
Even then, the light element of this Martial Soul is still pure. Nearly as pure as a Seraphim Martial Soul.
If Makino could develop the Calamity White Rose's light element into the Ultimate Realm, her chance of becoming a God would be even higher.
So, Makino's worth is no less than Toki. Her potential is scary if she was born in the Douluo Universe.
Fortunately, Makino met Huo Yuhao, or her soul would have perished into the mortal she was.
Makino was overwhelmed, "This..."
"Yuhao, let me do it." A calm voice suddenly appeared.
Hearing this voice, Huo Yuhao smiled and closed his eyes.
Everyone blinked instinctively and saw a female in a gray-silver robe appearing from thin air.
The men were stunned by her beauty, and the women felt complicated because they had to admit she was more beautiful than them.
Of course, there are exceptions like Huang Qiu'er. As a proud Auspicious Beast, her beauty is no less or even more than Eluxia.
"Child, raise your head." Eluxia stared at Makino kindly.
Makino looked up, feeling at ease for some reason.
Eluxia smiled, "I used to think Yuhao would inherit my mantle as the Light Necromancer, but he has too many good things. My inheritance is not good enough for him."
"Hey, don't say that. Your path has the potential to surpass the God King Realm." Huo Yuhao said in embarrassment.
Eluxia snorted at Huo Yuhao and continued, "My name is Eluxia, also known as the Calamity Necromancer."
Makino, who knew the name of her Martial Soul, was stunned. "Calamity Necromancer..."
"Yes, we are fated." Eluxia giggled, reaching for Makino's head and rubbing it gently.
"Would you like to be my closed disciple?"
"Closed disciple!" Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. How could he not know what Eluxia meant?
Accepting a closed disciple means Eluxia would pour everything into Makino and wouldn't teach the Light Necromancer to anyone else.
"I accept," Makino replied firmly.
"Good." Eluxia nodded in satisfaction. "You may call me Teacher from now on."
"Yuhao, I will take her away for a while."
Without waiting for Huo Yuhao's reply, Eluxia grabbed Makino and dragged her into the Necromancer's Demi-Plane.
"..." Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao shook his head helplessly, "Well, what can I do?"
He looked at everyone and thought of something.
"Okay, Makino will be gone for a while, but we will get busy now."
"It's time to make Dragon Nest's name known in this world!"
