Holy Necromancer: Rebirth of the Strongest Mage

The illusory figure belonged to a young woman who didn't look older than twenty.

Looking at the Illusory figure of the woman, it was as if the woman was a spirit. However, something didn't feel right.

Gabriel couldn't help but feel some similarities between the woman before him and another girl.

In the same dream where he saw this castle for the first time, there was another girl who was quite close to him in age. In that dream, the girl was his sister... Or rather the sister of the young Karyk whose life he was seeing.

"You're his sister...?" Gabriel was quite stunned.

The spiritual figure floated before him. Her face was blank, as if she was still a little dazed and muddled.

The illusory figure before Gabriel was just like how he would've imagined the girl to have looked like when she grew up. The similarities were uncanny. However, that didn't make sense.

According to what he had heard through Lambard, when Karyk first awakened his abilities through the chaos of destruction, his body swallowed all the souls of the dead in the Empire! No matter how he resisted, he couldn't stop it.

Even his sister and his family's souls were swallowed by his body, becoming the unintentional stepping stone for his incredible abilities that later shook this entire world.

The souls that were absorbed at that time weren't like the souls that could be recalled or Karyk wouldn't have been so troubled. The souls he absorbed at that time were all torn apart, turning into the purest form of energy.

That's why Gabriel found it hard to believe that the soul could belong to Karyk's sister. Unfortunately, the similarities were just too much to be a coincidence.

This place was getting more and more weirder the more he saw. First, the Army of Undead which was sealed here, and now a person who was supposed to be destroyed? Unfortunately, there was no one who could guide him or explain things. He had already lost hope for the Grimoire to explain anything.

"Who are you?" Gabriel asked the Illusory figure directly. He didn't know why, but looking at that spirit, there was astonishment in his eyes, yet there was also a strange feeling of relief which he didn't understand.

The spiritual figure that came from the dark red stone looked at Karyk, not speaking anything. It was unclear if she could even speak or understand his words in the first place.

She didn't get close to Gabriel, but she didn't leave either.

"Can you understand what I'm saying?" Gabriel waved his hands before the girl, but the girl didn't react. She just looked at his moving hands in curiosity.

Gabre sighed, shaking his head in disappointment. It was clear that he wasn't going to get an answer.

"She won't understand a single thing. She's like a newborn."

Just as Gabriel was wondering what he should do with the woman, a voice came from behind him... A voice that he recognised and didn't feel any hostility towards.

"Alion?" Surprised, he turned around.

Just as he expected, there was a man behind him. The man had similar cross shaped earring but looked slightly older than him.

"How can you be here?" Gabriel asked, perplexed. Every Time he saw the man, it was in the dream. "Am i still in a dream? Did I fell asleep after I entered the abyss?"

Everything that Gabriel saw in this place was hard to believe. In fact, it was easier to believe that it was a dream than the reality. However, he didn't remember falling asleep. Even though the line between his dreams and reality was oftentimes blurred, this place still felt too real for comfort.

"This isn't a dream," Alion responded as he walked closer to the spirit in the distance. He gently patted the head of the spirit.

Gabriel was astonished to see that the man could touch the spirit that didn't have any physical body.

He also subconsciously stepped closer, reaching out his hand. He didn't feel scared.

Even though he just wanted to test to see if he could also touch the spirit, just as he was about to touch the woman's hand, his wrist was grabbed by Alion who stopped his hand.

Gabriel's hand was only a few inches away from the cheeks of the woman when he was stopped by Alion. The woman looked back and forth between the two of them like a little child full of curiosity.

"Why are you stopping me?" Gabriel frowned. He didn't feel as if there were any dangers. Moreover, for some reason when he was stopped when he was about to touch the head of the girl, he felt a strange anger. Even he didn't understand where that originated from.

He had never seen his father. As for his mother, she died when he was little. He never grew up with a proper family, let alone knowing what it felt like to have a real sister. Yet, for some reason, he felt quite close to the girl before him.

"If I don't stop you, you'll destroy her soul." Alion released Gabriel's hands.

Gabriel didn't dare reach out his hand this time. If he touched her, she was going to be destroyed? Even though he didn't understand why, he didn't take a risk.

"Why can you touch her but I can't? Is it because you're also a spirit and I'm not?" Gabriel asked. Even though Alion was before him, but Alion was just a Demigod. Unlike Gods, he couldn't live this long.

For Gabriel, what was before him was just the spirit of Alion which came through the earrings... Similar to the remnants of souls of Novius and Cylix in the Tower of Challenges.

Alion's lips curved into a smile. "Do you want me to be dead so bad?"

"You're not dead?!"

"I'm as alive as you are," Alion vaguely answered but before Gabriel could ask more, he changed the topic. "As for why you can't touch her, it's not because of you being alive. It has more to do with your elements."

"What do you mean?" Gabriel asked. "What does my Elements have to do with her soul?"

"What do you think? You're at the Holy Lord level of Light. If you touch her now, even if you don't want to, the Holy Aura of Light will destroy her soul and I can't allow that to happen..."

"You seem to care about her." Even though Alion didn't say it explicitly, Gabriel felt more as if he did care about the girl like family. "Who is she? And why was she in that stone? What was even that stone in the first place?"

Alion didn't answer immediately. It was as if he was thinking about what to say.

After a brief pause, he finally said something.

"She... She is the calamity that destroyed everything..." He touched the woman's cheeks gently, as if he was scared of hurting her. "She is the reason the world was turned upside down."

As he spoke, his eyes glanced at Gabriel. Some inexplicable emotions flashed in his eyes. "She's the reason for the downfall of the person that was once called invincible…"