Karl felt the excessive mana beginning to burn his body, but with [Void Body] and [Impenetrable Bulwark] active, it wasn't enough to actually harm him yet.
The power was still growing, though. It didn't make any sense to Karl, the power had to be coming from somewhere, but the enemy was dead. If the enemy was dead, and the spell made his mana go out of control, shouldn't it just be a buff of his own regenerative abilities?
No, because there was a massive influx of soul power coming to him as well, so it was most likely stored somewhere else, or linked to another location.
Perhaps this could be an opportunity? The power had an indescribable sense of eternity to it, as if he couldn't see the limits of it. What if the issue wasn't that the energy was limitless, but that it was so much higher quality than his body that it simply felt like it?
Just a casual swat of an Overlord's power could do something like this to a Common Ranked Elite. Could this be a curse or blessing of an Immortal or Supreme that was placed on the reaper? If that was the case, he could use this power to advance.
The problem was that Karl was not a beast himself, and the knowledge of how to integrate power with your body to advance was not part of his genetic memory. Cara and the butterfly were trying to explain it to him, but how did you explain a basic bodily function?
It was like telling someone how to move their fingers. The first step was to just do it, and if you didn't know how, it was impossible to explain.
The Bomgon Lord felt the shift in the power as Karl tried to internalize it and smiled. Yes, that was precisely the way. Take it in and embrace the route to immortality as an undead.
But the more of the power that Karl channelled through his body, the more that the Bomgon Lord became concerned that this strange creature might know something that he didn't.
He wasn't dying.
If anything, his vitality was skyrocketing.
With the retreat of the Bomgon army, and the defeat of the undead in the city by the town guard, who had circled to the south side of the walls to avoid the oppression of Karl's aura, the battle was officially over.
All that was left was for him to stop doing whatever he was doing.
The mana began to grow faster than Karl could adapt, and then more than his damage reduction could handle, to the point that his body was beginning to burn, then reform with [Void Body].
There was still one thing that he could try, though.
[Purgatory Flames], Hawk's new fireball skill, used every bit of your available mana.
In theory, that should reset his mana levels to zero, and even if it didn't deactivate the skill, it would at least buy him some time.
Karl began to form the spell, with the intent to hurl it at the village in the distance, where the Bomgon army had retreated. If they wanted to curse him with overloaded mana, they could have it back.
The energy condensed, and then suddenly Karl was standing in the void again, floating in space, the same as he had been during the battle with the vampire.
"Shit. Death and Void Magic make Chaos. But this was Soul and Ghost flame, I should have been fine"
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