Chapter 1613  Divine Soul in Mortal Vessel: Limitations of Using Divine Powers for a Demi-god

"Cough. Cough. Cough."

Eren began coughing uncontrollably as soon as he finished harvesting the souls of the recently deceased beings. He felt feverish, and his eyes turned red, blurring his vision.

His limbs felt powerless, and his heartbeats were erratic. He didn't believe there was anything wrong with him. However, he instinctively felt as if his current body was restrictive.

He felt like an endless sea confined within a jar of water, as if the container that was his body was increasingly becoming incapable of containing his divine soul.

"What… What is happening to me?"

Eren asked Alephee in a low voice as he tried to control his mana circuits from going haywire. He also sensed that his mana core would burst if he didn't employ his Ranking Technique to quell the outpour of mana that was being absorbed into his mana core like a bottomless pit.

"What is happening to you, you ask. You are using divine powers in a mortal body, and on such a large scale. Of course, there'd be a backlash, silly."

Alephee sighed before continuing.

"I'm surprised your body didn't implode after such an extravagant use of your divine powers. You need to thank Reen once again. Without that peculiar half-blood constitution that allowed you to wield your divine powers in such a way, you would have destroyed your vessel and become a divine Specter," she said while keeping herself focused on operating the Array Eye.

"I… I see." Eren mumbled to himself before shaking his head to clear his vision. Fortunately, the maneuver worked, and his vision returned, allowing him to think clearly.

'I'd better limit the use of my divinity from now on. This body… it'll burst like a watermelon if I overdo things.'

Eren thought before channeling the mana throughout his body to eliminate the backlash. Thankfully, he had recently ascended to the Grandmaster Rank. Otherwise, using his divinity might have been fatal.

"Shallot. You… you are up," Eren prompted the artifact spirit to commence the process. Shallot, nodding at Eren, raised both her hands toward the opposite Array Eye before releasing numerous spiritual tendrils sprouting from her palms.

The spiritual tendrils surrounded Reen and the Cloud-headed Saber in the hive, enveloping them completely. Their intangibility allowed them to penetrate Reen and Saber's forms.

A substantial amount of Spiritual Force began pumping through the spiritual tendrils. The two potential artifacts avidly absorbed this Spiritual Force, bringing Eren's version of the Lazarus Project to its final stage.

Shallot started using all the Spiritual Force she had obtained from harvesting the souls, injecting it into the forms of two spiritual artifacts in the making. The divine flames that had been enveloping the two potential Elder Seed Artifacts burned brighter, tempering the forms as they absorbed the Spiritual Force.

"It's about time," Eren thought to himself before closing his eyes once again. His raised hands with empty palms remained empty no more as two white wisps appeared hovering above them.

Origin Force!

The two wisps were the strands of Origin Force that Eren had received from Argo right after his S-Ranked breakthrough. The inclusion of Origin Force was as important as the Spiritual Force to craft Elder Seed Artifacts after all.

Eren waved his hands and two wisps of Origins Force began making their way towards Reen and the demonic saber. When they entered the Array Eye, they were immediately absorbed by Reen and the sword's forms. The divine flames burned even brighter when that happened.

The appearance of lightning and storm. The very air felt heavy and highly charged. The Elemental Attainments of various elements started appearing in the surroundings when the Origin Force was added into the equation. They added to the chaos that was happening all over the world.

It was as if someone had dimmed the sun by causing an eclipse of unknown form. As if the perception of colors that was observed by all living beings had been affected to the point that everything became monochromatic.

One could tell that the kind of magic Eren was using to create his artifacts couldn't be defined in terms of Ranks of intensity. It was a completely different form of magic that couldn't be used by regular beings. It could only be used by divine entities.

Immortal magic.

Eren didn't have to observe the changes around him. He kept his attention focused on the artifact creation process, treating anything other than his current task as non-important things.

Reen and the demonic saber's forms were half-way into becoming the Elder Seed Artifacts. They were just missing the crucial ingredient they needed to make them Elder Seed Artifacts.

They needed Elder Ichor.

Slash.

Eren took out a dagger and slashed both his hands, drawing streams of blood. The blood was absorbed by the runic formation of the Array Eye he was currently operating. The bloodline energy within his blood was amplified before the two streams of blood made their way to the opposite Array Eye.

Eren's blood was quickly absorbed by Reen's form and demonic saber.

Skreeeeee!

A sharp metallic shrill was heard. It was as if the weapon was crying. A domain of Wrath Mana was created by the demonic saber itself as the runic etchings over it were lit up.

Eren could tell that Samael's soul fragment didn't want to be subjected to the treatment Eren was giving him. After all, Eren was practically hurting the Demon Prince of Wrath and his divinity by turning his soul fragment into an artifact spirit.

"This bastard Demonmir… he just won't give up."

Eren's emerald green eyes shone with cruelty as he guessed the intentions of Samael's soul fragment. In the next moment, he deployed all his Sin Series powers at the same time to suppress the Demon Prince's soul.

However, what Eren had deployed were not simple Sin Series Domains anymore. Instead, he now had the capability to use higher forms of his Sin Series Abilities that could cancel out the similar Abilities cast by others: Authority!

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