Chapter 2316: Tangu Knight Order

The same process happened to Jovrick, with the difference being the lack of phenomena. Tang Shaoyang honestly liked it more this way than those fancy phenomena with no substances. Those phenomena only signified the change within the spirit, something he could find later from the spirit itself.

Jovrick’s cocoon was made of black smoke, and it kept releasing the smoke that turned the atmosphere around it bleak. It was reaching the ten-minute mark.

Instead of bursting out, the cocoon sucked the black smoke from the surroundings. That cleared the air of the initial black smoke almost instantly. Then the black smoke sucked inwardly, right where Jovrick’s head was supposed to be.

Then the cocoon disappeared, revealing Jovrick. His black armor was less glossy; it was more matte black. A cape fluttered behind him. His helmet grew a pair of horns from the side, curving upward. Instead of a shield and a sword, he had two swords hanging on his waist.

That was the change that happened to Jovrick, but not the only change. His stature was an obvious change for him. He was about two meters tall before the advancement. The advancement brought his height to over two and a half meters, maybe around 2.7 meters.

[Jovrick the High-Rank Archaic Spirit has advanced to the Pinnacle-Rank Archaic Spirit!]

[Jovrick receives a new title, Jovrick the Knight of Tangu Knight Order!]

"Another disappointing advancement?" Vandir muttered. The change was not impressive to him. There was no big or drastic change with Jovrick.

"What? Are you expecting him to turn into a demon or devil? This is an appropriate change so he doesn’t really attract attention when he is out in the human city," Zara said, rolling her eyes. "But in fact, the change is too much, and he might attract unwanted attention when they walk together in the city."

"I wonder if he truly grows a pair of horns inside that helmet..." Avyn muttered that nothing had to do with the conversation.

"What’s the title?" Vandir turned toward Tang Shaoyang. Now he was curious about the title.

"It’s interesting. He is now part of a knight order, the Knight of the Tangu Knight Order," Tang Shaoyang found it amusing because Jovrick’s advancement was influenced by him again.

Jovrick stopped before Tang Shaoyang, knelt with one knee down, lowering his head. Tang Shaoyang stopped him before, "I have enough formal greetings for today, Jovrick. You can save it for later."

Vandir appeared before Jovrick. "Do you have a vision like everyone else? Can you tell me what this Tangu Knight Order is?"

Jovrick gave a weird glance at Vandir, then he shook his head. "If you are asking about the vision as in revelation, then it’s a no. If you ask me about my personal vision. That would be serving His Majesty with my life!"

To Jovrick, Tang Shaoyang was more than just a savior. Tang Shaoyang helped him in his personal vengeance, killing the God Ranks in the Aqura world who abandoned him, sacrificing him, even to the point of getting rid of his closest ones just to get rid of his traces. That was where his conviction came from.

That answer confused Vandir; his orbs flickered twice, turning toward Tang Shaoyang.

"You don’t remember my new race?"

Vandir’s orbs flickered thrice, getting even more confused; he could not correlate his Boss’s race with Jovrick’s advancement.

"Your race is Tang... No, you merged that blighted Calamity Spirit when he tried to take over your body... Ah, it’s Tangu... Tangu Knight Order..."

Vandir’s orbs flickered fiercely, realizing what influenced Jovrick’s advancement. It was his Boss’s influence again.

"Will I be influenced by you if you use Spirit Advancement on me, Boss?" A thought occurred in his head, and that was not a bad idea.

So far, the highest-ranked spirit was Pinnacle-Rank of Archaic Spirit. Tang Shaoyang didn’t know if there was a higher-grade spirit than Archaic Spirit or above Pinnacle-Rank. That was an interesting idea to try.

"But you will not be the first spirit to advance beyond the Archaic Spirit. It will be me, Avyn, and Karan," Zara poured cold water on Vandir.

The skeleton turned toward Tang Shaoyang with a pitiful gaze, but Tang Shaoyang shrugged as Zara was not wrong. Vandir would not be the first if they still could advance further. However, he didn’t need a spirit that was stronger than him right now, as those powers would be suppressed to match his power. It was a pointless advancement.

On top of that, he didn’t know if he would have enough materials for Pinnacle-Rank advancement. That would require more, not just double, maybe triple or quadruple sacrifice, maybe even ten times the sacrifices.

"Maybe we can try that in the God Realm Champion. There would be a lot of corpses there, no?"

"I will take your words, Boss." Vandir was happy to hear it.

"Again, you will not be the first, even if it’s possible, Vandir. Don’t be too happy."

"Doesn’t matter. I am just curious if there’s a stronger spirit than an Archaic Spirit. Who knows, I might be able to advance myself. I just need to see a path, a clue." Vandir was generally happy.

Tang Shaoyang recalled Jovrick and summoned Gianni, the Hurakan Legion Commander II. The old man bowed his head, sparing his Master the greeting, just a gesture that his master was comfortable with.

"I will do it right away, Gianni!"

"I am ready, Your Majesty."

The Spirit Advancement was activated, and Gianni’s cocoon was black-gold colored. That was just a mass of energy in black-gold color. It floated five meters above the ground. Something new happened; it was not a phenomenon, but a creation.

The spear was made of that black-gold energy. The spear turned black; there was an engraving of a dragon, coiling around the shaft. The surprise was that the spearhead was an emblem of the Tang Empire.

The spearhead was in the shape of a hastate, forty centimeters long and around eight to ten centimeters in width. The Tang Empire’s emblem was at the bottom of the spearhead, engraved in gold while the spearhead was black. The first one was created; the second one after. Seven spears were created in the span of ten minutes.

The black cocoon sucked inwardly and disappeared into Gianni. The same Gianni as before the advancement. If there was anything that changed, it was that his white hair turned into silver. The wrinkles he gathered from his age disappeared, and his eyes turned into Crimson, similar to Tang Shaoyang’s crimson eyes, but lacking the slit pupil.

Gianni looked at the floating spears around him, nodding in approval, satisfied with the spears.

[Gianni the High-Rank Archaic Spirit has advanced to Pinnacle-Rank Archaic Spirit!]

[Gianni receives a new title, Gianni the Knight of the Tangu Knight Order!]