Chapter 166 Coven Conclusion

After waiting 20 minutes, the 2 returned and Zero saw that Alucard's bad mood had improved quite a bit. Zero really was surprised by how this new relationship had popped out of nowhere from his perspective.

"So when did this happen?" asked Zero

Hikaru blushed and looked away and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Fine let me clarify. When did you 2 get together?" asked Zero again

"Just a 3 weeks ago." said Alucard stepping closer to Hikaru pulling her in

Zero saw this scene and chuckled as he asked, "Are you trying to warn me off?"

Hikaru was embarrassed and pushed Alucard away before turning to him and scolding him. She said, "Why do you have to embarrass me like this. I…"

"Sister I don't think he can hear you anymore." said Zero as he interrupted Hikaru who hadn't been able to control her strength and pushed Alucard so hard that he crashed quite far away.

Zero laughed as he flicked his finger and Alucard was lifted in the air and flew towards them. It looked like the force of the hit had knocked him unconscious. Zero released his telekinesis and Alucard fall down onto the ground. Hikaru walked over and looked at Alucard on the ground with a blank face.

"He's okay but you'll need to learn how to control your new strength. Anyway he should wake up in a few minutes." explained Zero

"Okay then let's leave him and go take care of what we need to do." said Hikaru

"I'm surprised that you aren't more worried about him. I thought you'd make us wait until he woke up." said Zero

"I just got through warning him about this jealousy of his but he disregarded it. He got the punishment that he deserved. Let's leave him and finish up." said Hikaru with a blank expression on her face

"Alright whatever you say sis." said Zero as he shrugged and walked inside the building

When they entered the building, they came across Soma who was sighing and shaking his head. It seemed like he had heard everything as he apologized to Zero and Hikaru for Alucard's behavior. After the apology, he walk past them to the area where they had left Alucard.

Zero and Hikaru continued to the kitchen area where a large freezer was held. As Zero touched the freezer, he noticed that it was coated in Yoko's mana. He turned and asked, "What spell did Yoko cast on this freezer?"

"She said it was a stasis spell." answered Hikaru

A stasis spell meant that was ever was stored inside at the time of the spell would be unchanged until the door was opened again. When Zero opened the door, he found that Yoko had also cast a spatial spell causing the interior of the freezer to enlarge enough to hold all 3,000 bodies and souls.

Now the hard work could begin. Resurrecting these people was quite easy but resurrecting them as witches would be the problem. Witches are simply humans who have a strong enough soul to harness the natural mana within the air. The witches that Zero encountered inside Dracula's castle were simply demonized humans, so while Zero could easily make them these weren't the type of witches he wished to create. What Zero aimed for would be similar to Yoko while she was still a human.

This meant Zero who have to alter the souls of these people on a level he hadn't attempted yet. Zero called forth the first soul and began the soul operation. Mortal souls were incredibly fragile so any wrong movement or alterations would cause the soul to collapse.

Zero needed to do 2 things to transform a human soul into a witch's soul. First, he needed to increase the soul's ability to hold mana, and secondly, he would need to add an attribute to the soul. Increasing the mana capacity of a soul is easy enough to do if you use mana to stop it from collapsing the difficult part was the attribute. Adding an attribute was akin to changing a creature on a molecular level. Zero decide to start with the attribute first as he began.

Most human souls had an attribute for either light or darkness due to the influence of the divines and infernals. The world of Castlevania belonged to the divine so almost all humans on this world naturally had a light attribute. This made it easier to transform for the divines to transform certain powerful souls into demigods to strengthen their group. Likewise, a world owned by the infernal would have humans with a darkness attribute for the same reason. Mina and Soma were good examples of this since without the interference of Yaldoboth these 2 would have eventually been transformed by Sophia.

After 30 minutes of careful alteration, Zero managed to change the attribute of the soul from light to fire. Once this was done Zero returned the soul to its natural state and began to pour mana into the soul. After the soul reached an appropriate mana capacity Zero released the soul. The soul had changed from a light yellow color to an orange color and it shone 5 times brighter than before although it hadn't grown at all. A soul's size would change when its rank increased and its mana capacity would naturally increase but Zero was doing so without increasing the soul's rank.

Zero bid farewell to Hikaru so that he could continue transforming the souls. He told her to head home and relax since she had been working so hard none stop.

Zero then moved on to the next soul and since he was a little used to what needed to be done it only took him 19 minutes this time to finish. As time went on it took him less and less time to change the souls. Soon it was taking him a few minutes to change souls and eventually he could change 2 souls at once. By the time it was midnight Zero had complete the task of changing the attributes of 600 souls to fire. Now he would move on to the other attributes.

Working throughout the whole night Zero managed to completely transform all 3,000 souls. He created 5 groups of 600 souls; the groups being fire, water, wind, earth, and space. With these souls now finished he was ready to create the coven that would support the city he was building.