’Holy... Shrine Maiden got almost as complex as Dracula now.’

[SHRINE MAIDEN EQUIPPED]

Carter opened his hand. A flicker of fire appeared. Then it spread all over him. The white-haired girl turned into a bright orange fox with flaming tail.

Then he concentrated. The flaming tail sparked lightning. His form changed again and he became a large blue wolf with lighting sparkled at his claws.

Dual Formation was not as versatile as Twin Formation. But it was more powerful and destructive. Combined this ability with Transcendent Aura and Carter had within the Shrine Maiden animals with holy presence.

He turned back into a human shortly after.

’This ability is much less taxing than using Transcendent Aura to manipulate reality. I might use it as Maiden’s main power from now on.’

Carter looked at the sacrificial stone slab again. Shrine Maiden absorbed Silver Invoker. He wondered if the opposite could be the same.

’Silver Invoker provided Twin Invoker Token instead of a normal Invoker Token. Shrine Maiden, however, provided an ordinary Shrine Maiden Token instead. Its Tokens don’t have any Transcendent characteristics. But I wonder if I can recreate what happened with Shrine Maiden to Silver Invoker?’

Shrine Maiden combined twelve different mental skills to achieve Transcension. He could give Shrine Maiden’s skills to Silver Invoker via the Token, then the remaining skills from his other skins.

’Transcension was created from Abstraction, Belief, Conceptualization, Divine Knowledge, Intelligence, Magical Knowledge, Manifestation, Mental Fortitude, Otherworldly Intervention, Prophecy Foresight, Spiritual Knowledge, Volition, and Visualization.’

’Silver Invoker already has Abstraction, Conceptualization, Manifestation, Intelligence, and Mental Fortitude. I just need a Shrine Maiden Token and one other Invoker Skin. It would also need another Human Skin to give Silver Invoker Adrenaline and Evaporative Decompression.’

’I have enough Human Shards to make an Elite one. Then I use the remaining Invoker Shards and Tokens to push Silver Invoker to Elite. The final piece is the Shrine Maiden Token. The good thing about a Token is I can literally feed it any shards to reach Elite.’

’All three Minor Elite Skins fuse into one. In theory, it should provide something even better than Shrine Maiden’s changes because I use Skin Fusion instead of Skin Graft.’

’Let me try that.’

[Forged x20 Medium Invoker Shards (Awaken)]

[Acquired x2 Medium Invoker (Awaken)]

[Fused x1 7 STAR Silver Invoker with x2 Medium Invoker (Awaken)]

[Acquired x1 10 STAR Silver Invoker (Awaken)]

Major Awaken Silver Invoker didn’t provide anything new. Only a higher level. Carter continued without stopping.

[Sacrified x810 Medium Human Shards (Awaken)]

[x3 Twin Invoker Token Matured]

[Acquired x3 Medium Twin Invoker (Awaken)]

Because Carter received the Token when Silver Invoker was in Medium Awaken level, he received two Medium Awaken Skins.

[Converted x1 Medium Invoker Shard (Awaken) into x3 Minor Invoker Shards (Awaken)]

[Forged and Fused x60 Minor Invoker Shards (Awaken)]

[Acquired x2 Medium Invoker (Awaken)]

’Only five? I don’t have enough Invokers to create two Major Awaken Skins to push Silver Invoker to Elite...’

Invoker and Twin Invoker were universal skins like human so they could blend with each other easily. Carter still lacked one more.

’What should I use as the last filler material? Human?’

Carter glanced toward the Skin List window. His eyes caught on the Yokai Skins. Yokais were basically animal awakened into Supernatural beings. Their nature was hostile toward human just like how human was hostile toward the ordinary beast.

’Twin Formation does have animal transformations ability. I wonder...’

Carter still had a few Yokai Skins he didn’t touch because of how weak they were compared to his main skins. But may they could prove useful now.

- Yokai Line:

x1 [Turtle Yokai] (5 STAR): 0.5%

x1 [Fox Yokai] (5 STAR): 7.3%

x1 [Tiger Yokai] (7 STAR): 15.9%

x1 [Boar Yokai] (8 STAR): 9.6%

x1 [Ox Yokai] (8 STAR): 8.2%

x2 [Snake Yokai] (8 STAR): 8.7%

x1 [Vulture Yokai] (8 STAR): 2.7%

’Turtle, Fox, and Tiger are Medium Yokais. They’re what I need.’

Carter noticed that the Tiger Yokai had much higher Base Synchronization than the remaining Yokais. It meant that he was more aligned with that skin than the others.

’Tiger it is.’

[Fused x3 Medium Twin Invoker (Awaken)]

[Acquired x1 Major Twin Invoker (Awaken)]

[Fused x2 Medium Invoker (Awaken) with x1 Tiger Yokai (Awaken)]

[Acquired Invoking Tiger Yokai (Awaken)]

[Fused x1 Major Twin Invoker (Awaken), x1 Invoking Tiger Yokai (Awaken), x1 10 STAR Silver Invoker (Awaken)]

[Acquired Tiger Spirit Invoker (Elite)]

’Wait a minute... That skill...’ Carter frowned deeply.

- Tiger Spirit (Elite): You may summon the spirit of tiger to aid you in combat. You gain the power of the tiger and some of its characteristics.

’Tiger Spirit...’

Carter looked over to the remaining Yokais.

[Converted x6 Major Yokai Shards (Awaken) into x 54 Minor Yokai Shards (Awaken)]

[Converted x6 Medium Yokai Shards (Awaken) into x18 Minor Yokai Shards (Awaken)]

[Forged x80 Minor Yokai Shards (Awaken)]

[Acquired x2 Hare Yokai]

[Acquired x2 Deer Yokaoi]

[Acquired x2 Bear Yokai]

[Acquired Hornet Yokai]

[Acquired Spider Yokai]

Then, Carter sacrificed every unique Yokai toward Ginro Musashi.

[Sacrificed Bear Yokai, Boar Yokai, Deer Yokai, Fox Yokai, Hare Yokai, Hornet Yokai, Ox Yokai, Snake Yokai, Spider Yokai, Turtle Yokai, Vulture Yokai]

[Tiger Spirir has mutated into Twelve Spirits]

’Now... He is ready.’

[Forged and Fused x810 Major Human Shards (Awaken)]

[Acquired x1 Minor Human (Elite)]

[Sacrificed x30 Major Terror Shards (Awaken) toward Shrine Maiden Token]

[Acquired Shrine Maiden (Elite)]

[Fused x1 Twelve Spirits Invoker (Elite), x1 Minor Human (Elite), x1 Shrine Maiden (Elite)]

[Acquired Spiritual Invoker]

It didn’t give Carter what he wanted. There was no Transcension Skill, no Transcendent Aura, and no Transcendent Circulation. Instead, because of this particular combinations of fusion and sacrifice, Carter unlocked an entire different path toward enlightenment.

This path was called Spiritualization.

[SPIRITUAL INVOKER EQUIPPED]

Carter returned as Ginro Musashi. But this silver-haired battle hardened warrior was different now. He was more primal, more animalistic, and his gaze contained the power of all twelve yokais he had consumed.

Behind the man’s large back, the illusion of those twelve animals materialized. Each growled and roared like they wanted to climb out from inside of him. Each had a different color and was associated with a different element of the Invoker’s former Twin Formation.

But that ability had changed to.