Nameless King

Energy absorption, worldview, and natural skills aside, the main difference between the races was their appearance.

All had different eye or hair colors, but there were exceptional features, such as the vampires\' fangs. However, these were some of the most minor changes.

Angels had real wings, Elves had pointy ears, Construct had a body part that was a mechanism, and so on.

Sometimes, the extra body parts were something important, and very durable, like the Demon\'s horns. Destroying their horns was very difficult, and for any Demon that it happened to, it was a real shame.

But, the most durable additional part of the body was the Spirit of the Axalts. That was why it was so difficult to destroy and also to repair, which most often meant the end of the Axalt\'s journey.

\'Wait... It\'s melting?\' Nitra internally muttered with her eyes wide open. She had the data of a thousand experiments and observations of various anomalous things, but she had never seen anything like this.

Marlis nervously bit her nails, and then she felt just like Nitra, like a scientist who had seen something that was possible and simultaneously impossible.

"Looks like someone\'s nervous, doesn\'t it?" Wain smirked, casting a glance at Marlis.

"This is unbelievable... this shouldn\'t have happened..." Marlis muttered with a shaky look.

Sven, Osvald, and Wain looked at her puzzled, they didn\'t understand why she was acting so strange.

"I know that some races have experimented with Axalt Spirits, after all, it is the most unique organ any of the races have..." Marlis said quickly, "Spirit gives to Axalts the unique ability to purify energy almost to the limit, achieving a result far superior to that of other races..."

\'Hah, good thing I didn\'t have to do that. Being a Human, has its advantages, however, we have plenty of disadvantages too...\' Wain said to himself, with a slight smirk on his face.

\'However... None of the experiments were successful... The main problem was that after the death of an Axalt, the Spirit was immediately destroyed, and disintegrated into small particles. Just like when Spirit was separated from the body." Marlis gulped, nibbling her fingers nervously.

Osvald turned to her, "Hmm? Doesn\'t that mean that in that case, you should have done the experiments with an Axalt alive?"

Marlis nodded, "Yeah, you\'re thinking in the right direction. That\'s why they started doing it when they realized that the Spirits were, being destroyed, irrevocably. However, there was one problem that caused none of the experiments to succeed."

Osvald gave her a questioning look, "What are you talking about?"

"In order to use Spirit for anything, be it gear or potions, it had to be melted or frozen first. That way, the heads of the experiments were trying to get around the defense mechanism of the Spirits that caused them to be destroyed upon the death of an Axalt."

Marlis sighed, "However, Spirit proved to be too strong. It took an incredibly high temperature to simply heat Spirit, so much so that an Axalt would turn to ash in a matter of seconds."

"One day, I learned of several experiments being conducted on Firth Chronicle Axalts. It was being done by the Undeads, decades ago." Marlis muttered with a deep look.

"Undeads...? Damn, they can actually be scary when they\'re interested in something." Osvald muttered while shaking his head. 

"Yeah. Unfortunately, even so, they couldn\'t melt Spirit while keeping an Axalt alive. Even using a special skill and various ways to strengthen and cool the body, nothing helped..."

Marlis continued, "So... In fact, melting Spirit is possible, but only theoretically since it was impossible to keep Axalt alive, but, that was the case until now. Now everything has changed..."

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Due to the abnormally high temperature, not only the air but also the space around Liang began to distort.

It seemed that to help him, even the sun began to shine much brighter, directing its rays directly at Liang. However, perhaps even the sun of such a large space was not as hot as Liang\'s body.

  Marlis stared intently at Liang\'s Spirit slowly melting, "Anyway, he\'s definitely the only Axalt whose body is strong enough not to burn while his Spirit melts..."

"Oh..." Osvald raised his eyebrows, "Doesn\'t that mean that all it takes is hard training to reach that level?!"

Marlis shook her head, \'\'No. There is only one reason why Liang was able to do the impossible again. He is simply a monster. He like Alucard shouldn\'t exist, they break all the rules of our world... they go against everything!!!"

"Hahahahahahaha!!!" Wain laughed, echoing for hundreds of meters around, drawing Marlis\'s attention. 

"Breaking the rules? I\'m familiar with that! You could say I\'m an expert at it!" Wain grinned slyly, "But... In fact, I\'m not the only one. Isn\'t that the point of the Transcendence Stage? That\'s what separates the strongest ones from the merely strong ones, isn\'t it?"

Marlis was speechless, she didn\'t say anything. She was also on the Transcendence Stage, just like Osvald and Sven, but she realized that compared to Liang or Nameless King, she couldn\'t be called the strongest.

"Yeah, you\'re right." Sven nodded with a slight smile, "While for billions, immortality is an unattainable dream, for Alucard, it has long been routine. Liang is not immortal, but he is capable of what others cannot achieve. It works the same for everyone."

Streams of steam surrounded Liang\'s as his entire body was already covered in burns, to him they were not fatal, though even he felt a strong and vivid pain.

The blood that covered most of his body had long since vaporized, but, there was a small portion of it left that was particularly thick.

The blood of a normal creature at this temperature would not have anything left, but it was Liang\'s blood. It was saturated with energy and power that ran through his entire body with every breath, every heartbeat.

Then, the wind currents around Liang, slightly changed their direction, causing the thick blood to slowly flow in one direction - moving straight towards the center.

For any Axalt, their center was their Spirit, and even Liang was no exception. The cracks of his partially destroyed Spirit, leisurely filled with thick blood, completely covering all the damage.

\'No! No! No! No!\' Nitra inwardly exclaimed with a furious gaze directed at Lian, \'This can\'t be! This is impossible! In thousands of experiments, never once has something like this happened! Why does he always find a way out?!

Nitra stomped her foot on the ground in anger, raising low waves of ash.

"No, I can\'t just stand by and watch him heal! I have to do something!" Nitra bit her lip until it bled, with narrowed eyes as the energy within her began to circulate faster throughout her body.

She couldn\'t approach Liang as she would simply burn. She was able to wound him by increasing her strength to 25%, but that was because of the huge amount of energy. Her body was much weaker than Liang\'s.

The high heat would leave burns on Liang\'s body, but, for anyone else, it would mean burning in an instant and turning into nothing.

However, Nitra could try to attack from afar, which she was about to do, but she had no margin for error.

\'35%... Hopefully, that will be enough...\' Nitra pondered, looking at her right hand, on which several cracks had appeared due to the sheer amount of energy she had released.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble. 

The space shook, as several dark spheres appeared beside her, with electrical discharges. They quickly began to rotate, and at their center appeared white stars from which destructive lasers were launched.

There were ten lasers in total, each one powerful enough to deal critical damage to a God Stage Creature.

It was easy to dodge them, but at that moment, Liang could not afford to do so. He had to keep raising the temperature and melting his Spirit, so he could immediately recover it as a material using his blood.

Liang glanced at Nitra, almost imperceptibly, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

Whooooooooooooosh.

Suddenly, the wind currents swirling around Liang expanded, tearing the lasers apart like hundreds of sharp blades.

"What...? He decided to turn the heat of his Spirit...?" Nitra muttered in disbelief.

"Hey, do you really think I want to burn myself? I\'ve already practically melted it, so there\'s no need for more heat." Liang smirked, stopping moving his muscles.

Because of this, the temperature began to drop rapidly, but, Liang didn\'t need it anymore, instead, he needed to create the desired shape of his Spirit.

Crackle. Crackle. Crackle.

Liang abruptly folded his arms in a lock, straining his chest muscles to the limit. In this way, all the parts of the Spirit, moved towards the center, connecting with each other.

When the correct shape was created, and all gaps were closed, the Second Vortex began to rotate in the opposite direction again, creating cold streams of air.