Godly Revival System: I Buy My Killer's Stats - Chapter 396: Undead Skeleton

Chapter 396: Undead Skeleton

What Ethan was worrying about his corpse… had finally happened. His corpse decayed until only the skeleton remained, and it started moving.

Although it seemed to be struggling, the skeleton had successfully turned into an undead being.

The Golden Core inside, turning into a fiendish blue orb as blue flames lit up in its hollow eye sockets.

With Blood God’s Battle Robes on its body and the aura of a Peak Golden Core Realm, the skeleton looked eerily powerful.

‘T-this… I should kill it… I should kill it.’

Ethan didn’t know exactly how powerful his skeleton was; however, he knew one thing for sure: that as time passed by, it would become powerful.

Ethan didn’t have a good feeling about letting his skeleton become powerful because in the future, when it unlocks my memories and learns about the Godly Revival System, things would become complicated.

‘If it gets my intelligence and starts planning with the Corpse Emperor or even the Undead God backing the Undead Invasion of the Greenheart Realm, I might get killed.’

Others might not know how to truly kill him; however, Ethan knows how to kill himself.

If someone like the Corpse Emperor or the Undead God helps Ethan’s skeleton, it would be a piece of cake for the skeleton to kill Ethan.

All it needed to do was block all the Safe Points and repeatedly kill him again and again until all his Godly Revival Life Cards were consumed.

‘Even the Safe Point in the Mystic Soil Domain might not be safe because, as a skeleton, it might even open a portal into the Mystic Soil Domain with the help of that Undead God.’

The more Ethan thought about it, the more he wanted to destroy his skeleton, which turned into an Undead Being.

‘There is still four minutes… I hope it won’t go far.’

By now, Ethan had already spent 55 minutes in the Soul Realm and in four minutes, he would revive in the Death Point.

However, those four minutes… felt like four hours to Ethan.

Every second stretched into an eternity as he watched his skeleton slowly find its footing, each bone creaking with an eerie rhythm.

Ethan’s heart was pounding in his chest, and he couldn’t help but imagine all the worst-case scenarios if he failed to destroy the Skeleton.

[The host can…]

‘Revive at Death Point.’

Ethan directly chose the Death Point for his revival, and as usual, the process started.

[The host has been successfully revived using a Godly Revival Life Card]

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[Alert: Due to the Undead God’s power, the host’s Skeleton has gained sentience and become an Undead Being. Do you wish to bind it as your Undead Avatar?]

[If you don’t want to bind it, the system suggests that the host destroy it before it grows powerful and becomes a threat to the host]

As soon as Ethan revived and wanted to rush in the direction of his Skeleton turned Undead Being, he received a series of system notifications.

‘W-what? My skeleton… I can turn it into my Undead Avatar?!’

Seeing the last two system notifications, Ethan’s eyes widened in surprise, but the next moment, he couldn’t help but grin.

This was completely beyond his expectations — he had thought his skeleton would become a dangerous threat, but instead, it was offering him a chance to control it.

‘Bind… of course, I want to bind it!’

Without any hesitation, Ethan accepted to bind it as his Undead Avatar.

[The host has bound his Sentient Skeleton and successfully turned it into an Undead Avatar].

Once the binding was completed, the skeleton… no… the Undead Avatar slowly walked towards Ethan, still staggering but much better than a few minutes ago.

The connection between them was similar to Ethan’s connection with his first Avatar, the Little Heavenly Farmer.

A silent, yet strong bond that allowed Ethan to feel every movement, every flicker of the blue flames that burned in its hollow eye sockets.

As the Undead Avatar stood before him, its eerie blue flames stared back at Ethan, and he couldn’t help but feel an odd sense of familiarity — a part of himself staring back at him.

‘Huh? It doesn’t look as powerful as it looked earlier.’

Previously, Ethan sensed that the Skeleton had the power of a Golden Core Realm Cultivator but now, it had no aura at all… as though it was just a walking skeleton.

‘There is no time to worry about this thing. I should return to the Stronghold.’

Ethan wanted to check the information on the Undead Avatar; however, he was worried that the Spectral Death Knight might return and assassinate him again.

Therefore, he stored his Undead Avatar in the Storage Ring and quickly returned to the Stronghold.

Along the way, he encountered two more Undead Armies; however, he didn’t bother to confront them.

Destroying them was easy; however, he could not afford to die again because Ethan now had only one Godly Revival Life Card left until his [Godly Revival Ability] comes out of its cooldown.

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Inside the Stronghold,

[The Life Essence in the Greenheart Realm has increased to 10.01 percent]

Just as he entered the stronghold, Ethan received a notification and knew that the Ancient Heartwood Tree had successfully filled the gap he created by absorbing the Death Essence earlier.

‘So, a single Undead Army’s bones can recover 0.01 percent of Life Essence… not bad.’

The entire Greenfire Realm was quite big, and 0.01 percent of Life Essence from an Undead Army’s bones was considered not a bad thing… at least in Ethan’s view.

‘But… the process will still be very slow, and what’s more, it is only a temporary solution.’

That’s right! Just like the Ancient Heartwood Tree could inject the Life Essence, the Undead Race could also do the same to regain that 90 percent Death Essence in the realm.

However, unlike the Ancient Heartwood Tree, they won’t wait for the decrease in the Life Essence; instead, they would forcefully replace that small amount of Life Essence by injecting Death Essence back in.

Of course, to do that, they needed to spend double, which is 0.02 percent of Death Essence, because they were forcibly taking back control of the realm’s balance.

It was exactly why the Ancient Heartwood Tree won’t forcefully inject the Life Essence; instead, it waited until the Death Essence had decreased by 0.01 percent.

Then, it carefully filled that gap with the 0.01 percent of Life Essence, ensuring that the Undead would have to pay double the cost to undo that small bit of healing.

‘It’s like a hidden tug-of-war…’

Ethan understood now just how patient the Tree was, and his respect towards the tree had increased to another level.

‘The only way to save the Greenheart Realm is by increasing the Ancient Heartwood Tree’s Lifespan.’

Ethan muttered to himself, ‘But this hidden tug-of-war must be continued. So that the Undead Race could deplete their Death Essence.’

For the Ancient Heartwood Tree, the Life Essence was coming from the Undead Beings… it means, as long as there are enough Undead Beings, Ethan could continuously provide the tree with enough bones to convert into Life Essence.

On the other hand, as time continues, the Undead would eventually run out of Death Essence.

Th𝗂𝖘 ₡h𝘢p𝖙𝑒r 𝐢𝘴 p𝘰𝖘†ꬲ𝒹 bყ Ҡ𝙞ţ𝖾𝐧𝗼𝗏𝙚|

‘Since there is no void to fill the Life Essence, there is no hurry in feeding the Ancient Heartwood Tree.’

Ethan thought about it and turned around to walk out of the stronghold, summoning his Undead Avatar to check its information.

‘T-this… it is a…’

Looking at the available information of his Undead Avatar, Ethan was thoroughly shocked for a moment before becoming excited.

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