God-Tier Awakening: The Dead Can Still Level Up

Chapter 36: Awakening

The surviving Flood Dragon rushed toward the crater where Xingluo had fallen, its jaws opening as dark water gathered inside its throat.

Wuxia immediately pulled the Panther away from the Avatar and sent it toward her, forcing the remaining power inside its body into Shadow Step.

The Panther disappeared from the lake and reformed above the broken shore just as the dragon released its attack.

Before it could reach Xingluo, black lightning fell from behind and struck the Panther across its back, scattering part of its body into loose soul power.

The Panther twisted in the air and reformed beside the crater, using its remaining body to cover Xingluo as the dragon closed in.

Seeing it leave their fight, the red light beneath the Avatar’s helmet became sharper, and he raised the black spear toward the Panther.

Black lightning gathered around his arm before he threw the weapon with enough force to split the lake beneath its path.

Wuxia felt the attack approaching and forced the Panther to turn, but there was no time left to evade while protecting Xingluo.

The Panther raised one claw and condensed every trace of soul power inside it before striking the side of the incoming spear.

Its claw shattered on impact, and most of the Panther’s front leg scattered, but the spear was pushed away from Xingluo.

The weapon changed direction and continued across the shore, piercing directly through the Flood Dragon’s head before it could stop.

The dragon’s roar ended instantly as the spear entered through one side of its skull and tore out from the other.

Its enormous body lost all strength and crashed beside the crater, throwing water, stone, and broken soil over the shore.

The Panther’s destroyed leg began reforming, but its body had already become unstable after carrying the power of the sacrificed army.

Wuxia ignored that for the moment and looked toward the lake, where the Avatar stood completely still after seeing his own spear kill the dragon.

A low growl escaped from beneath the black helmet, and the sound slowly grew into a war roar that shook the entire basin.

"You mortals have dishonoured me," the Avatar said, his voice spreading through the lake and forest. "You deserve only death."

The pressure around him erupted, forcing the Panther lower while even Wuxia’s soul body trembled under the sudden increase.

The Avatar raised one hand toward the black moon above the dungeon and slowly closed his fingers.

At that moment, the moon moved.

Xingluo remained unconscious inside the crater, but Wuxia stared upward as the dark-red light in the sky began descending toward the lake.

For a moment, it truly looked as if the moon itself was falling, and the entire array beneath the water lit up in response.

Wuxia’s expression changed, but he could not abandon the two dragon corpses after sacrificing almost his entire army to kill them.

He moved toward the first corpse and spread his soul threads across its damaged head while keeping the Panther beside Xingluo.

"Extract."

The dragon’s body shook as dark soul power rose from beneath its broken scales, resisting the threads far more strongly than the previous mini-bosses.

Wuxia forced the extraction deeper and after several breaths, the dragon’s remaining will finally collapsed.

[Soul Extraction successful.]

[Target: Twin Demon Flood Dragon.]

[Level: 99.]

[Bloodline: King.]

[Soul Power Points Extracted: 1,000.]

[Soul Power: 9,200/10,000.]

[Soul Soldier compatibility detected.]

[Extract Soul Soldier?]

[YES] [NO]

Wuxia selected yes without hesitation, but before the soul could completely form, the pressure from above became even heavier.

The falling red light broke apart, revealing that it had never been a real moon.

It was a massive set of crimson armor suspended above the dungeon, its connected pieces giving off enough light to cover the sky.

The Avatar bent his knees and jumped from the lake, black lightning erupting beneath his feet as he shot toward the descending armor.

Each crimson piece separated and moved toward him, locking over the black armor already covering his body.

The chest plate connected first, followed by the shoulder guards, arm guards, and several sharp plates that closed around his legs.

Every piece that attached caused another wave of pressure to strike the lake, breaking more of the array beneath the water.

A warning rang inside the minds of both Wuxia and the unconscious Xingluo.

[Warning: The Avatar of Rahk is removing its seal.]

[Defeat the Avatar before the unsealing is completed.]

[Failure Condition: Death.]

Wuxia looked up once, then immediately turned toward the second dragon’s corpse.

There was no time to watch the transformation, his soul threads entered the newly killed dragon through the wound left by the Avatar’s spear, and the extraction began almost instantly.

The dragon’s soul fought back, but its head had been completely destroyed, leaving far less remaining will than its twin.

Wuxia pulled harder, ignoring the pain building inside his mind as another massive soul outline rose from the corpse.

[Soul Extraction successful.]

[Target: Twin Demon Flood Dragon.]

[Level: 99.]

[Bloodline: King.]

[Soul Power Points Extracted: 1,000.]

[Soul Power: 10,200/10,000.]

[Authority advancement condition fulfilled.]

[Soul Soldier compatibility detected.]

[Twin Soul Resonance detected.]

[Extract Soul Soldiers?]

[YES] [NO]

Wuxia selected yes, and the soul outlines above both corpses reacted at the same moment.

Dark-blue power erupted from their bodies and gathered into two enormous Flood Dragons, their forms made from dense soul power with dim red lines running between their scales.

The first dragon raised its head as its damaged face reformed, while the second pulled itself free from the spear still buried inside its corpse.

Their bodies coiled above the destroyed lake before lowering together in front of Wuxia.

[Twin Demon Flood Dragon Soul Soldiers formed.]

[Rank: High-Tier Soul Soldiers.]

[Bloodline abilities partially retained.]

[Intelligence: Awakened.]

[Twin Soul Resonance: Active.]

The two dragons lowered their heads further as their voices entered Wuxia’s mind together.

We bow to Master.

Wuxia barely had time to react before another panel appeared in front of him.

[Soul Monarch Authority advancement beginning.]

Above the lake, the final pieces of crimson armor moved toward the Avatar while black lightning gathered around his body.

Wuxia looked toward Xingluo lying unconscious behind the Panther, then toward the two newly formed dragons waiting for his command.

They had reached the required Soul Power, now everything depended on what the Authority advancement gave him before the Avatar completed its unsealing.