Something's wrong with my undead

Although Alpite had briefly learned from Gawain about Macara's special achievements in spiritual studies, when the heroic spirit in the greatsword appeared in front of him in this form, he still felt mixed emotions.

The heroic spirit curled up in the translucent fish tank like a baby bird.

Like a piece of cargo, he felt a little uncomfortable.

But if you think about it carefully, this is the spiritual plane, and the fact that the other party can appear here means that he is a soul body.

In other words, from the very beginning, the craftsmen of the Eternal Dawn stuffed the souls of the living into the greatsword. No matter how many oracles and blessings were involved, after the halo faded, this was the essence of the matter.

What the Macaras did was to rescue it and present it to them in this form.

If he really wanted to condemn someone, he could only condemn the people of Eternal Dawn.

But he was emotionally unable to do so immediately.

Even though he was abandoned by the Holy Light and left his original camp, he could not switch sides immediately.

People always have feelings for their homeland. He hated those apostates who, after leaving the Eternal Dawn, immediately made fun of the church's dogma in Veritas's show. Many of them had once been fanatical supporters of the church, and their enthusiasm before and after was almost the same.

He didn't want to be as flattering and disgusting as those people.

Fortunately, this is Macara, they don’t care about Albite’s performance, they only care about whether the communication can be efficient and smooth.

"It seems you can handle this level of shock."

Loulton said, and then threw out a more impactful fact.

"Actually this is not your 'heroic spirit', it's the 'ancestor spirit' of the Zanluo people."

"What?" Alpite thought she had recognized the wrong person: "It didn't come from the sword?"

"No, if you mean the 'legacy' greatsword, then that is it."

Loulton explained: "In principle, the raw materials are dead things. They can only repair the soul, but cannot give a soul consciousness. This is why you need to rely on self-motivation to fight against the sequelae of having a large amount of soul essence extracted.

"Then by the same token, when a soul body is repaired by the elemental material, it falls into a deep sleep or becomes confused and unable to develop self-awareness, which means that it has already been like this before."

After a pause, he summoned three more fish tanks.

In the first one lay a structurally intact, translucent body of an adult male, his eyes closed as if dead.

But judging by his facial features, he seemed to be a Nice man.

The second contained a huddled, half-human, half-bird creature.

It looks very small, with a big head but a skinny body.

The two arms have wing structures starting from the forearms, and the feet are like bird claws.

The third one had just a head hanging in the air, with hazy white mist connecting his hair. Although his eyes were open, there was no fluctuation in his expression.

Loulton began his introduction like a salesman:

“This is a wandering soul from Delmines. Its will was wiped out by the powerful evil spirits there. It exists as a servant. After it entered here, it has been sleeping ever since.

"This is the 'beast soul' from the Zanluo Plateau. It was originally the soul of a Zanluo infant, but it was cut off from the outside world right after it was born. It was brought close to the will of the God of War and received catalysis, and eventually reverted to become an orc soul. However, it also lost its self and could only serve as material for the fusion of the ancestral spirits.

"You can clearly see the beastly characteristics in it. This inner 'blueprint' is what the Zanluo people hope the ancestral spirits will also possess, such as manifesting wings, fangs and claws, etc.

"The last one is a weapon spirit that we stripped from a magical equipment of the Veritas people. This kind of stripping generally has two results. One is that a soul with a weak sense of self-awareness is stripped out, and the other is that there is no feedback at all.

"Obviously, the former will gradually turn into the latter during long-term use. This is why the Veritas people add the concept of 'shelf life' to mass-produced magic equipment. In addition, the common point between the two is that they do not have a complete form. I guess this may be part of the discarding during the processing - cutting off most of the soul essence, which can reduce the cost of carrying the soul."

After hearing this, Alpite subconsciously looked towards the heroic spirit.

It fell into a deep sleep.

It has the features of a wild animal—wings and bird claws.

It lives in the magic sword...

The former arbitrator's mind was in a mess. He couldn't control his brain to combine the existing information and then keep moving towards a terrible conclusion.

"Does your situation allow me to continue?" asked Loulton.

Albite gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, please continue!"

"it is good."

Loulton continued without any emotion: "Combining the characteristics of these three, as well as our understanding of and experience with the greatsword, we can make the following preliminary judgment:

"Similar magical equipment, or what you call 'holy weapons', actually has nothing to do with the blessing of God, but is a technology similar to the magic technology of the Veritas people.

"Through comparison, it is not difficult to find that its shape is different from the self-forgotten 'mass weapon spirits' produced by these mages, and it still maintains its own integrity.

“So, we have reason to believe that the so-called ‘heroic spirits’ are actually a type of undead spirits.

"But the sources of materials for your heroic spirit production are relatively wide, including the Luku people who died in battle, as well as souls captured from other regions. For example, this one in front of us is obviously the ancestor spirit of the Zanluo people, otherwise it is impossible to explain its animal characteristics."

Having said this, Louden paused, as if waiting for Alpite to refute him.

But the former arbitrator did not.

He looked like he was about to break, and said nothing.

"I thought you were going to explain that this is the incarnation of your sacred beast 'Feather of Glory'." Loudon said to himself.

"This statement is more like a sophistry..."

Albite said self-deprecatingly, "We don't need to show mercy to any enemy in our battle with the Necromancers—except evil spirits. The Oracle said that evil spirits are a collection of suffering, and they hate the Shadows, or the Nessians, more than we do, so we will try to capture evil spirits and send them back to the Holy Sepulchre in Helm's City for purification.

"Although I have never dealt with the Gravekeepers, I know that the Holy Tomb is never very peaceful, and riots happen from time to time. They explained that it was the heroic spirits resisting the invasion of the underworld... Now that I think about it, the Holy Tomb is more like a training ground, processing workshop, warehouse, etc. rather than the resting place of the heroic spirits."

His tone was compassionate, and his self-mockery was so sharp that even Loulton wanted to comfort him.

So he said, "It's okay, now you are out of the Eternal Dawn, and you won't go there when you die."

Ok……

Bedivere opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

He didn't dare to intervene in the conversation between the former leader and the current leader.

Alpite didn't care, but followed the other party's thoughts and asked:

"Since this kind of soul has its will erased, why is the heroic spirit summoned by the sheep-catching knight sentient? Can other paladins with more refined holy light and stronger strength do the same thing?"

Loudon: "First of all, the souls whose wills are erased are only those who are not Luku people, or those who do not believe in the Holy Light. Secondly, in this specific case, Zhuoyang, or the heroic spirits summoned by others, are actually some kind of elemental creatures - Holy Light elementals."

"Elemental creature?"

Alpite murmured.

Loudon: "Yes, the wisdom of elemental creatures depends on the purity of energy. The more refined and advanced the energy incarnation is, the more intelligent it is. Otherwise, it is stupid and chaotic. Obviously, the reason why you didn't think about it in the past was, firstly, because of the constraints of faith, and secondly, only high-level paladins can have similar weapons, so as to summon elemental creatures with high intelligence, which look like soul bodies."

"I see……"

Alpite suddenly realized.

No wonder these heroes have such extreme attitudes towards the undead.

As the embodiment of Holy Light, their will is much stronger than that of humans influenced by Holy Light...

Moreover, it is no wonder that the strength of magical equipment depends on the purity of holy light, which is the characteristic of elemental creatures.

Similarly, it couldn't even tell the difference between itself and a skeleton.

It was a skeleton without any death energy, but with pure holy light in its body. To elemental creatures with only perception, he was more like their own kind than themselves.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "If this series of theories were made public, I can't imagine what kind of impact it would have on Eternal Dawn..."

"It won't be a shock."

Bedivere finally found his chance.

"These theories are public in McCalla. Anyone who has studied them carefully can explain them clearly. But the key is what the listeners will think. Think about it. If you were your old self, would you still be patient enough to listen to these things?"

of course not.

Alpite thought.

He will be angry from the first conclusion and then fight to defend the glory of God.

Once it is considered heresy and blasphemy against God, no matter how valuable the information is, it will be worthless.

But in reality, what they did was no different from the heretics they criticized...

To enslave and dominate the undead is nothing more than to coat them with a layer of dazzling gold, and then to be assimilated by the will of the Holy Light, and then to be transformed into the so-called "heroic soul", and to leap from a heretic to an army of justice that punishes heretics.

He suddenly understood Gawain.

The Sun Knight may have some kind of anger in his heart.

Pure, pure anger at this behavior.

Now he gradually felt it.