Gathering Wives with a System

Chapter 529: Summoning An Ancient Spirit, Dragon King

Avery stood a short distance away from Emily, her expression calm as she explained the process once more.

Emily followed her words and closed her eyes.

At first, she felt nothing.

The battlefield remained silent around her. The smell of scorched earth and burnt flesh still lingered in the air, but she forced herself to ignore it. She focused only on her Spirit Element.

Slowly, she spread her senses outward.

Minutes passed.

Then something changed.

Tiny fragments of light began appearing in the darkness of her perception. At first there were only a few. Then hundreds. Then thousands.

Emily almost lost focus.

Countless spirit fragments floated throughout the area like drifting stars. Some were dim while others burned brighter. They moved upward little by little, vanishing one after another as they left the mortal realm.

All of them were undead once chained to the Necromancer.

Now that the Drowned King was dead, those spirits were finally returning to the cycle of Nirvana.

Emily steadied herself and began searching through them carefully.

She needed to find the lingering spirit of the Necromancer.

The task quickly became overwhelming.

There were simply too many spirits. Every direction was crowded with fragments of souls. Some were weak and disappeared almost instantly while others lingered longer. Trying to locate one specific spirit among them felt impossible.

Several more minutes passed.

Emily’s brows slowly tightened.

She was beginning to think she would fail.

Then she noticed something.

The stronger the spirit was, the slower it disappeared.

Her thoughts paused for a second before realization hit her.

The Necromancer had been the strongest spirit present here.

That meant it would take the longest time to leave the mortal realm.

Emily immediately calmed down.

There was no need to panic anymore. If she simply waited long enough, every weaker spirit would disappear first.

She took a slow breath and continued searching.

Perhaps it was luck, perhaps her search became better because she was no longer panicking, she found the spirit of Necromancer.

She called it back.

Dark mist gathered in front of Emily before condensing into a humanoid figure.

A tall man appeared.

He wore armor similar to the Drowned King’s, though his appearance was far cleaner and more regal now. A dark cape fluttered lightly behind him. His skin was gray, his ears pointed, and sharp shark-like teeth could be seen behind slightly parted lips.

The Necromancer looked directly at Emily.

Then his gaze shifted around the battlefield.

The Crimson Sky Wyrm stared back at him from nearby, its massive eyes unblinking. The pressure radiating from it was enough to make the surroundings feel heavier.

If the Necromancer attempted to summon undead again, the wyrm would destroy the skill before it fully formed.

And unlike before, there were no corpses left nearby.

The Drowned King could forcefully resurrect spirits instead of corpses, but that required significantly more mana, and such spirits would only fight temporarily. He was a necromancer, not a true Spirit Tamer.

Several more powerful Spirit Summons stood around Emily as well.

The situation was obvious.

”Do you want to do this the hard way or the easy way?” Emily asked with a small smile.

The Necromancer remained silent for a moment.

His eyes moved across the surrounding summons once more before returning to Emily.

”Disadvantageous as the situation may be, I am not afraid of battle. However...”

To everyone’s surprise, the Necromancer removed his crown and lowered himself onto one knee.

”Please allow me to serve you, O Great One.”

Emily blinked.

”...Why do you want to serve me?” she asked honestly.

The answer genuinely surprised her. The Necromancer clearly was not terrified of her command power. He looked perfectly willing to fight if necessary. Yet he had surrendered without resistance.

The Necromancer lowered his head slightly.

”I may have been alive, but I could not think. Only now, in death, have I been given the opportunity to truly think for myself. For that, I am deeply grateful,” he said calmly.

Emily understood immediately.

There were two kinds of monsters.

Natural Monsters and System Monsters.

Natural Monsters were creatures like Ogres or Crawling Serpents. They developed intelligence naturally as they grew stronger.

But System Monsters were different.