The ancient scroll!

What would it look like after unsealing it?

What kind of secret or ancient treasure is hidden within it?

Would it be some ancient divine weapon?!

Many fantastical thoughts were running through Maxwell's mind. At this moment, he felt like all these days of hard work were worth it.

"Hey brat..."

"I need your assistance to crack the array."

"The power of my soul isn't strong enough, so I need to borrow your spiritual will as well. We'll also need the formless power of the beast cores to break through the array. There cannot be the slightest negligence or break in the process, either. If we happen to fail, other than all our efforts being for nought, the ancient scroll won't be able to endure the pressure and will instantly disintegrate into powder." Advised Dracula seriously.

Maxwell nodded and said, "Fine, I will cooperate with you. I will let go of my spiritual will, and you can control it fully."

If it were back then, Maxwell would never have let Dracula control his spiritual will.

This was something extremely dangerous.

Once one's will was controlled, one's existence could be seized by another.

But after such a long time, especially when fighting Godfrey in Eden City, the Void Piercing Dragon Technique made Maxwell extremely grateful towards Dracula. At the most dangerous moment, Dracula saved him at the cost of possibly having his soul extinguished. This alone made Maxwell unconditionally trust Dracula.

Maxwell had a thought, and his sea of consciousness became quiet.

Right after that, Maxwell said in his mind, "Let's do this!"

Dracula then shouted: "Good brat! This is a very painful process, so you must persist through it. It also consumes a lot of mana, so you must bite down hard and hold on, and not slacken for one bit!"

"I understand!"

"Just go ahead and crack it. I can handle any pain thrown at me." Said Maxwell. What kind of bitterness had Maxwell not experienced ever since he transmigrated here? What kind of pain had he not experienced? Now that it was time to crack the ancient scroll, he would still endure it even if it was more pain than he had ever experienced.

Dracula started laughing happily and said, "Good brat! You have the graceful demeanour of my past, hahaha..."

Immediately after, Dracula stopped the nonsense chatter and activated his soul energy.

A wisp of soul entered Maxwell's sea of consciousness. The sea was extremely vast, which shocked Dracula once again. He then said to himself, "This kid is too extraordinary! He managed to refine his sea of consciousness to such a huge size that even peak King Rankers would only have a sea of consciousness about this size. This is simply too extraordinary!"

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Dracula's expression turned grim. "Concept of death's aura?"

The soul made a slight movement and woke up the grim reaper's path of slaughter. Almost instantaneously, an image of a grim reaper rose out of the sea. It was coldly watching the wisp of Dracula's soul before carefully guarding itself.

"What a good brat!"

"He even managed to gain the concept of death."

"He is definitely a genius!"

"I was originally intending for you to follow my path of slaughter, and didn't expect you to comprehend an even stronger path of slaughter. What on earth did I miss out on these few months? How did this brat turn into a different person?" Dracula was in a complete mess of shock right now.

He was planning to wait for his soul to recover before bringing Maxwell into his path of slaughter.

This was a condition Maxwell agreed to in the past.

But now it looks like. Someone didn't even want his path of slaughter and directly comprehended a higher realm of slaughter concept. Dracula couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile. "This brat is too awesome."

For the world's most domineering blade to praise someone, most likely Maxwell was the only person in this world to get it.

Dracula's wisp of soul didn't provoke Maxwell's grim reaper's path of slaughter and slowly took over the control of Maxwell's will.

Immediately after, Dracula started reciting a mantra, and Maxwell's will made his sea of consciousness become turbulent. Within an instant, Dracula was in complete control.

Maxwell's powerful will then formed a connection with the five elemental beast cores.

Gold, wood, water, fire, earth; each of these attributes is connected with the other, forming an array of the five elements. The energy of the five elements then started merging.

Suddenly, Maxwell's mana started depleting like crazy!

His whole body was stimulated by this.

Maxwell was extremely uncomfortable with this high-speed depletion of his mana. It was similar to having his spiritual energy drained, which made his body wracked with unbearable pain.

"Hey brat!"

"Endure it!"

"This pain is only the beginning!" Said Dracula. His soul then accompanied the mana and started crazily stimulating the energy of the five elemental beast cores.

Wanting to crack the array on the ancient scroll required them to maximise the power of the five elements.

Destroy with absolute force!

Dracula's soul, Maxwell's will, and mana; these three powers crazily coursed through the five elemental beast cores. The power within those beast cores was surging and raging about, almost like they were going to explode any second inside Maxwell's body.

Whenever a beast core was about to explode, Dracula would expertly control it.

"We're going to start now!"

"Brat, keep clenching your teeth and hold on!"

Dracula then roared out, and his soul exploded forth with an endless amount of domineering aura. This aura directly made the energy of those five elemental beast cores crush down towards the ancient scroll. Dracula made another shout: "Five Elements Open; unseal for me!"

"Bam!"

The inside of Maxwell had become a battleground of sorts.

The five elemental powers and the array were constantly clashing with each other.

At this moment, Maxwell almost fainted from the pain and then jolted awake by it. His internals felt like a blade was slowly cutting them into 10,800 little pieces. The rebound effect of using the Void Piercing Dragon Technique was nothing when compared to the current pain.

Even though this was the case, Maxwell continued clenching his teeth and endured it with his life on the line!

It was all for none other than...

Going to the Sky City in three years' time to beat the shit out of Peter Wesley. It was all for Gwendolyn!

"Whoosh!"

Maxwell didn't know how long he had been in pain for and started hearing explosions inside his body. His mind was suddenly startled by the change because all the pain had disappeared. He then frowned and asked internally: "Did it succeed?!"

There was no response inside his mind.

Maxwell lightly exhaled before chuckling and saying, "It's fine if you've failed. It's merely an ancient scroll and not a big deal. Next time I'll find a primordial scroll for us, hahaha..."

"Damn!"

"It seems like a brat like you is looking down on me, huh?" Dracula shouted. His voice contained some excitement that couldn't be hidden before he laughed crazily: "Look, brat, it was successful! The array on the ancient scroll has been cracked by me! Hahaha!"

Maxwell widened his eyes and started laughing excitedly. He then said, "It's finally been cracked!"

Immediately after, Dracula started muttering: "However I look at it, the ancient scroll is just a messy-looking piece of map. What is it trying to depict?"

Maxwell had a thought and immediately brought out the ancient scroll. After carefully looking through it, he started laughing: "Hahaha... Who would've thought the ancient treasure is in the Capital City!"

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