119 Dark Arena (1/2)

”I did tell you that you had to pay the price for trying to use the loopholes in the soul contract. You are no exception, even as a Soul Lifeform. You should be glad that you didn't tamper with that soul contract too much, or else what you signed wouldn't have just been a master-slave contract…”

Lin Yun was a bit regretful as he said this.

The only place that had been tampered with was the section with the true name, where the Soul Walker hid his true name, disguising it as Jalax.

In Noscent, soul contracts were the most impartial contracts. If one of the parties interfered with the soul contract, then a loophole could appear in the entire contract. No matter how well they did it, and no matter how big the exploit, since the Soul Walker tampered with the true name, Lin Yun would be able to make use of that loophole, but only on the true name section.

What Lin Yun did was very simple.

He only reversed the position of the two names.

The contract was still a contract, and the contents didn't change, but the positions of master and slave had been completely reversed.

This was also why Lin Yun said that the Soul Walker should be glad.

If the Soul Walker had made bigger changes, Lin Yun would have had more leeway when exploiting the loophole, and it might not have been as simple as a master-slave contract at that point.

Something like an eternal contract that couldn't even be broken through reincarnation, or a blood oath making them share their lives, or enslavement without anything in return. In short, it wouldn't be as fair and relaxed as a master-slave contract.

”You… How did you find out?” The Soul Walker withdrew, his voice shaking. The master-slave contract was already in effect. He wouldn't attack Lin Yun even without the Flame Shackles.

Moreover, he didn't have the power to attack Lin Yun. Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried to use magic to impersonate the Desolate Overlord, and he also wouldn't have been so helpless against the Flame Shackles.

”This is a secret…” Lin Yun smiled, not answering this question.

Only Lin Yun himself knew that he had nearly been duped.

This had been a brilliant trap.

At first, Lin Yun had truly believed it that he was facing a projection of the Desolate Overlord, because the true name of the Desolate Overlord wasn't something spread in this era, it would be known 20,000 years later.

But the Soul Walker exposed a flaw.

The Desolate Overlord, Jalax, was an existence above the Heaven Rank, so why would he lower himself to sign a master-slave contract with a Great Mage?

But that flaw still wasn't enough. After all, the behavior of an existence like the Desolate Overlord wasn't something that a Great Mage could predict.

Fortunately, a second flaw was exposed.

It was the true name on the contract.

Lin Yun immediately knew that there was a problem with the contract. The true name Jalax only had endless power in the God and Devil Language, yet the contract's true name was written using Nesser Language.

Thus, Lin Yun probed him.

Lin Yun tried to haggle with that suspicious Desolate Overlord, and surprisingly succeeded.

After the Desolate Overlord roared in anger, he actually agreed to change the time limit of the contract to one hundred years.

If at that time, Lin Yun still hadn't been able to see that this was a trap, then he really wouldn't have deserved that second chance. A frightening existence like the Desolate Overlord, how could it be willing to haggle with a human Great Mage?

Lin Yun used True Eyes, and sure enough...

”Shouldn't it be your turn to explain yourself?”

”There is nothing much to explain, I only drew an alchemy array, waiting for despicable thieves like you, that's all.” Although it had already signed the master-slave contract, the Soul Walker was clearly unwilling to accept it. His words were still filled with ridicule and disdain.

The Soul Walker truly felt that all this was unacceptable.

As a True Spirit Magic Tool's Soul Walker, he had already been in this prince's tomb for a thousand years. For some special reasons, he had already exhausted his mana a few hundred years ago, and it looked like his Incarnation would soon disappear. So the Soul Walker came up with a way.

He used the last of his power to draw an alchemy array in front of the Jade Rock Door to act as bait.

In order to make the bait realistic, the Soul Walker did indeed connect the Runic Shield and the alchemy array. In other words, that alchemy array really could control the Runic Shield, but he had left some tricks when devising the mana source. It looked like the supplied mana would be poured into the alchemy array, but it was in fact intercepted by the Soul Walker...

But the Soul Walker truly didn't think that there would be such a miserly person in this world.

He only had two level 5 mana crystals!

The Soul Walker almost cried when the mana of those two level 5 mana crystals was poured into his body. 'What could I have done with two level 5 mana crystals? That wasn't enough to cast half a spell when I was at my peak!' he thought.

'Damn you!' he cursed in his mind. 'Once this Lord Shawn had made you sign the master-slave contract, I would have humiliated you, miser! This Lord Shawn even turned into the Desolate Overlord. Yet this Lord Shawn was unlucky…'

Up till now, Shawn felt that if that damn human had been a bit more generous and had given it a bit more power, it wouldn't have had such a pitiable ending.

”Turns out True Spirit Magic Tools can also run out of mana…” Although the Soul Walker didn't explain anything, Lin Yun thought about it for a moment and figured out the entire process. He couldn't help chuckling, ”You are truly unlucky…”

Shawn exploded with rage when he heard Lin Yun laughing.

”You think you won? You became Lord Shawn's master in vain. Have you forgotten, Lord Shawn is the Incarnation of a True Spirit Magic Tool!”

After saying that, the Soul Walker turned into a mist and disappeared into the ring.

It was followed by a burst of proud laughter echoing in Lin Yun's ears. ”Hahahaha, ridiculous human, now you know the power of Lord Shawn. You signed the master-slave contract with Lord Shawn, but you forgot that Lord Shawn is the Incarnation of a True Spirit Magic Tool. If you have the skill, then make Lord Shawn come out from the Magic Tool…”