Merlin spent the next five days travelling south and only stopping if a soul beast was in the way but he would deal with soul beast without any mercy since he was sour from the mention of his Anti-Celestial counterpart. His killing spree was not even enough satiate a quarter of his bloodlust.
Sometimes he would battle the spirit wraiths that hated him the most, Arthur and Shadowblade. The poor Spirits Wraiths were beaten beyond recognition. Their master had fought them which such ferocity and brutality that it left them with a bit of trauma. They talked with the other spirit wraiths on how their master's personality changed a bit and how he rarely slept.
Fenrir once tried to ask his master Merlin what was wrong but he'll would only answer in silence. In those five days, he had killed five-hundred soul beast and used all them in the Spirit Wraith ritual to create a spirit wraith that would be stronger than rest but since he used a lot undead soldiers, it would possibly take about half a year for the process to be complete.
He stopped by a lake, knelt down used the water to wash his body since his body reeked of blood and subtle but undeniable scent of death. He bathed himself removing all the dirt and blood on his body. After taking his bath, he changed into a new set of clothes since his old ones were torn to shreds from all the fighting.
The new set of clothes were made from durable black fabric. The clothes closely resembled the clothing ninja's use to wear but without the mask. The clothing had a few runes on it that were applied by Keith. The runes glowed a golden-like color under the sunlight.
After getting into his new set of clothes, he decided to go and fight some more soul beasts. He found a sleuth of brown bears. The bears stood on their hind legs and in their fronts paws they were different weapons. The majority of the bears were holding sword, other were holding maces and shields.
"If Keith's theory of being in a novel is correct, I guess the author either smokes weed or he just run out of ideas," Merlin said. He thought for a while and came to the conclusion that it was probably the latter. When he was about to attack the bears, there was massive tremor in the threw him off balance.
After a few minutes the tremor finally and a massive fissure appeared. As he soon as he saw the fissure, his instincts told him to run or jump. He jumped transferring all his strength to his legs and landed on a tree branch.
Shadow tendrils sprouted from his back and used them to swing from tree to tree until he was far away as possible from the imminent danger. His gaze fell on the giant fissure. The bears fell into the fissure and were pierced by the spikes inside. The bears screamed in pain before their bodies went limp and died.
Merlin felt pity for the poor creatures. They didn't even get the chance to defend themselves but what were they supposed to do against a fissure. Merlin shook his head. Now was not the time to dwell on such a useless topic.
When the earthquake occurred, Merlin knew it was caused naturally due to his soul essence detection. This phenomenon was either caused by someone or something but he didn't know what caused it but he would find out pretty soon. A giant earth golem emerged from the fissure. The golem stood at an impressive height of twenty-five meters. There were eight blue spike protruding from its back and Merlin could tell that those spikes were essence stones. The eyes of the golem glowed a deep crimson color.
Merlin sensed that its aura was the same as soul beast that was about to break through the third rank/ Soul Knight Rank. Merlin knew that killing this beast wouldn't easy but he could do it with a little help.
The golem locked eyes with Merlin for a brief moment. The golem created a giant boulder using its earth powers and sent it hurtling towards Merlin. Merlin dodged by jumping over the incoming boulder. He landed in a nearby tree and hid behind its trunk to protect his body from the incoming earth shards.
He summoned a miniature version of Fenrir and said, "Hey Fenrir. What do you think about doing that ritual I mentioned a few months ago?"
Fenrir wagged his tail and said in a cheery voice, "It would be an honor sire."
Merlin turned Fenrir into a small black orb and absorbed the essence of that black orb. The energy travelled from his soul circuits until it reached. While this process was happening when was dodging the boulders from the golem on instinct whilst most of his concentration was on completing the ritual.
The black essence mixed with the soul essence turning a deep shade of purple. He spread the purple soul essence to all of his body part from his blood vessels, muscles, her nervous system, his brain and all of his other internal organs. His hair grew longer reaching his waist and turned to an obsidian black color. His eye changed into an azure-like color. On each side of his cheeks three marks resembling whiskers.
His muscles grew larger and became more refined. His strength increased two-fold and he was ready to fight the earth golem. He rushed towards the earth golem with new found speed and agility. Dodging every rock that was thrown at him.
The golem clearly enraged stomped it feet on the ground causing a massive shockwave. Merlin jumped high in to the air and the golem used this opportunity to throw as many massive rocks at him as possible. Merlin landed on one of the rocks and jumped to next rock to the next until he reached the golem.
His nails elongated and now resembled the claws of a werewolf. His swiped his claws taking of a big chunk of earth from its face. Merlin then dug his claws deeper in the golem's skull causing to scream in pain.
Merlin knew that the scream would attract unwanted attention. He retracted his claws and he jumped high in the air and shadow tendrils sprouted from his back and attached themselves to the essence stones on it back and removed them.
The golem eyes lost color turning completely black and hollow. The golem's body cracked and turned in to a pile of rubble. Merlin attached a tendril a tree branch and swung himself towards that tree. Landing perfecting on the tree branch.
"Too easy," Merlin said as he stared at the pile of rubble. When he was about to rest, ten more earth golems emerged from the fissure. "I should have kept my mouth shut but look on the bright side Merlin, I get to use more of Fenrir's powers," he said.