Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 443 - 58 Curse Death

Early morning on Fire Island.

Thira climbed out of bed and stretched comfortably.

While brushing her teeth in the bathroom, she suddenly heard chattering voices coming from outside.

What is everyone doing gathering outside so early in the morning?

She spat out the toothpaste and rinsed her mouth. After thoroughly washing her face, she pushed open the door and walked out.

Descending the stairs, she saw several girls surrounding Peggy, discussing something with puzzled faces.

Peggy was kneeling on a cushion, tears continuously falling from her eyes, yet her tear-stained face bore a smile of relief.

A sign hung around her neck, with the words:

"I am a fool who violated team discipline."

"Alright, alright!" Nora stepped forward to disperse the crowd. "What are you looking at, huh? Loitering around here... Go do what you need to do."

The girls dispersed noisily, and Thira approached Peggy, speechless for a long while before asking Nora,

"What happened here?"

"She was punished by Aske." Nora pointed at the sign on Peggy’s chest and sighed.

Thira: ???

Just then, Aske also came out of his bedroom, yawning.

In order to condense the War Law, he hadn’t slept all night, and when he had returned to Fire Island with Peggy, it was almost 4:30 a.m.

He slept until ten in the morning yet still felt a bit tired.

"Aske!" Peggy yelled in surprise and then jumped up from the cushion, hurling herself towards her squad leader, who had come back from the dead. He only managed to step half a step back before Peggy hugged his legs.

"What are you doing! Have you realized your mistake? Get back on your knees!" Aske pushed her away, scolding her.

"I know I was wrong, wah!" Peggy burst into loud sobs, "Squad leader, please don’t die again, wah!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Aske absolutely refused to acknowledge Peggy’s absurd utterances. "Let go!"

"I won’t let go!" Peggy cried even more loudly.

"Nonsense!" Aske, frustrated and flustered, lost his eloquence under the watchful eyes of Nora and Thira.

"I’m not leaving!" Peggy rubbed her face on his calf, smearing her tears on his pants, "Unless you promise you won’t die again..."

"You’re insane!" Aske was both amused and exasperated. What are you saying, making it seem like I’m suicidal or something. Right, Nora?

"I’m not sure." Nora raised her eyebrows, questioning, "So why does she say that?"

"It’s like this." Aske decided to keep it short, "Last night, I went to perform the Law Condensation ritual."

"Oh?"

"And perhaps Peggy misunderstood something." Aske was succinct, smoothly changing the subject. "Right, the task has been completed, and I have now mastered the War Law."

With a gesture from his right hand, he conjured a Battle Axe from thin air, capturing the attention of the girls.

"That Battle Axe looks exactly like Sigrdrifa’s North Wind Axe, except it’s semi-transparent, appearing somewhere between solid and an illusion."

"Is this?" Thira and Nora recognized the weapon.

"It’s the conceptual weapon of the North Wind Axe," Aske explained. "Through the inspiration of the War Law, I can summon any military equipment that I can comprehend from my memory at any time."

War Law. Conceptual Weapon solved the burden problem of the Weapon Master having to carry various equipment.

"Oh, then you don’t have to carry the whole smithy on your back anymore," Nora joked.

"Pretty much," Aske replied as he pulled out a miniature submachine gun from the air. "Each summoning consumes a certain amount of Spirituality, and I can only maintain it for about 10 seconds at a time. After it disappears, I have to summon it again. Thus, it’s not really practical to give these to you; I can only use them on the spot myself."

"Once you condense Laws, you’ll understand that, on the Path of Law, promotions are entirely dependent on your understanding of the Law. From Lv.10 to Lv.14, advancing a level presupposes the comprehension of a Law skill or the embodiment of Law."

He explained patiently, "That means, when you reach Lv.15, you should have the ability for Law Embodiment and possess four Law-related skills. This is also why I have asked you to condense only one Law."

"Because Condensing Laws itself has a large threshold, yet contributes very little to combat strength. Real combat power grows from Law Skills."

"If you condense multiple Laws without comprehending the corresponding Law Skills, the Condensing Laws itself is meaningless; however, if you want to comprehend different Law Skills, upon reaching Lv.20, you could only choose one Law for ’Domain Weaving’."

"In one’s own Domain, the skills of the corresponding Law are greatly enhanced, whereas the skills from other Laws are weakened. Therefore, condensing multiple Laws only has an advantage before Lv.20, but becomes a disadvantage after Lv.20, equating to a waste of several precious skill slots."

"Is that so?" Thira said. "So when promoting to Lv.20, one can have at most eight Law Skills?"

"That’s right," Aske confirmed. "Law Embodiment and Domain Weaving are both essential, so the eight available skills must be carefully chosen. Once you start to condense Laws, talk to me first about understanding skills, and we can finalize the options for Law Skills before you proceed with condensing corresponding Laws."

"Uh..." Peggy timidly raised her hand, saying guiltily, "Aske, I think I’ve already understood a Law Skill."

Aske: ???

Fire Island, outdoor training ground.

In fact, after seeing Verona City disappear without reason and the mutant clouds over the trenches, Aske had vaguely guessed that something must have happened to Peggy after his death.

But he hadn’t expected Peggy to have advanced so many levels at once.

That’s cheating!

"This is the ’Curse Death’ of the Death Law." Peggy demonstrated by pointing at a mouse in a cage. The latter suddenly flipped onto its side and died.

"Yikes!" Nora and Thira both gasped.

Nora was using the mouse for medical experiments, so she went up to open the cage and checked the condition of the corpse.

There were no wounds on the body surface, but it was indeed dead, the cause of death unknown.

"This skill allows me to kill any Life I want to kill," Peggy explained her Law Skill to Aske without reservation. "But each activation consumes a considerable amount of Spirituality, proportional to the Life Force of the target."

"With my current capacity of Spirituality, I can kill about a hundred Temple Knights in one go. If the enemy is a Transcendent with strong Physical Power or an Extraordinary Creature, the number would be even less."

"That means, this skill does consume a lot." Aske nodded. If the Spirituality consumption wasn’t substantial, the ability would be overly game-breaking. "What if you run out of Spirituality?"

"Then I can’t kill the target, but it will burn the corresponding Life Force, making them weak," Peggy replied.

That is to say, this is a one-time Final Battle skill, similar in effect to the fourth form of Life Destruction of the Star Nine Forms, but it can be activated from a distance, suitable for use when facing a boss.

After all, if you stab an ordinary soldier, they can die without consuming Spirituality. Using this skill to clean up ordinary soldiers is simply wasteful. It only proves its great worth when dealing with creatures that cannot be broken through or hit.

"I understand," said Aske. "What is the second skill?"

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