What Feng Chou was worried about finally happened. However, to Feng Chou's surprise, Glise, who had interrupted him and Natasha, just left in a slightly embarrassed manner without any other expression. Even Natasha didn't seem to care. After Glise left, she continued to finish what she was supposed to do with Feng Chou.
Afterwards, Gretel also acted as if she had never seen him and Natasha having an affair. Her attitude towards him didn't change at all.
Feng Chou, who was extremely puzzled, finally understood the reason for the matter after a round of indirect questioning.
Although monogamy was practiced in this world, and there was no such thing as having three wives and four concubines, this world was ultimately a world dominated by men. Although men, especially men with higher status, could only marry one wife, society did not exclude the existence of lovers. For a man of noble status to have many lovers, not only was it not a shame, but it was also a kind of honor.
For Gretel and Natasha, it was natural for a good male noble like Feng Chou to have more than one lover. From the first time they saw each other, Gretel and Natasha had already confirmed each other's identity.
In addition, female knights, female housekeepers, female tutors, these positions were synonymous with lovers in noble society.
Although the happiness of having multiple wives was intoxicating, Feng Chou wasn't completely immersed in this kind of enjoyment.
After a month of rest, Feng Chou left the manor with the distribution of wild creatures near the territory drawn by the Rogue Apprentice during this period of time.
The creation of the body of a construct or a magic statue was only a small part of it. For these two types of magical creations, the most important part was the soul.
Compared with the intelligent robots on earth that relied on calculation to generate intelligence, the intelligent principle of the Construct in this world was simple and crude. That was, the soul of intelligent life was directly injected into the Construct.
Although the principle was simple and crude, it was extremely complicated to infuse a fragile soul into a construct and make it last for a long time. Even for high-level necromancers, they only knew how to use it and didn't know how to do it.
The first Construct that Feng Chou intended to try was the magic wood Construct that he had bought in large quantities some time ago.
Although this magic wood Construct had a challenge rating of level 10, it was actually only an intermediate Construct. Its soul core could only be made with the soul of a mid-grade creature.
Feng Chou naturally didn't have the soul of an intelligent creature, but among the necromancy spells, there was a special "Soul Assimilation" spell that was used to collect the soul of creatures.
Soul Assimilation was a level 6 spell. It could forcibly absorb the soul of a creature in a very short time after it was killed and imprison it in a gem.
The gem that imprisoned the soul was actually a soul crystal.
Feng Chou had a lot of soul crystals in his hands. As for the soul of an intelligent creature, to be honest, there were a lot of them in the wilderness.
With the enrichment of his database, Feng Chou's understanding of soul crystals became more and more in-depth.
Soul crystals could be divided into several grades according to their quality.
The lowest grade soul crystal was the kind of soul crystal was usually made by torturing an ordinary soul...
When the soul was tortured in extreme pain, it would release soul force and gradually dissipate.
Devils and demons tortured the souls of ordinary people to collect soul force and make them into Calamity Coins.
This method was the simplest, and even low-grade devils and demons had the ability to make them.
Some devils even mastered the method of using soul drugs on souls to extract soul force.
This kind of soul drug would cause the soul to experience incomparable pleasure and release a large amount of soul force at the same time. The soul that was contaminated with the drug would quickly dissipate.
Soul crystals extracted using this method were pink in color, so they were also called "pink Calamity Coins".
In hell and the abyss, pink Calamity Coins of the same denomination were worth twice as much as ordinary Calamity Coins.
In fact, whether it was pink Calamity Coins or ordinary Calamity Coins, they were all inferior soul crystals. The difference between the two was that when a demon or devil absorbed the soul force of the two types of Calamity Coins to strengthen themselves, the former would cause the sucker to experience intense pain, while the latter would make the sucker feel like they were on cloud nine.
But no matter what kind of Calamity Coins it was, they all contained fatal soul poison. Devils and demons had to be careful when absorbing the soul force of the Calamity Coins. Once they absorbed too much poison, it would cause irreparable damage to their soul, turning them into idiots or lunatics.
Moreover, after absorbing this kind of inferior soul crystal, demons would need a long time to digest the poison. Otherwise, the poison would accumulate and the consequences would be terrifying.
Inferior soul crystals, whether it was ordinary Calamity Coins or pink Calamity Coins, were unable to store souls. They would contaminate the imprisoned souls.
In addition to torturing or poisoning souls to create inferior soul crystals, high-grade devils and demons also mastered a spell that could directly extract soul force from souls.
This spell was called "Soul Extraction". It could directly extract high-quality soul force from relatively powerful souls (mid-grade and above). Low-grade souls could not withstand this spell and would directly collapse.
The soul force extracted through the Soul Extraction spell could be used to create relatively pure soul crystals that could be used to imprison mid-grade and below souls.
Feng Chou had always thought that the soul crystals he exchanged from the Mirror of Reincarnation were of this level. However, when he traded with the Devil Viscount Morpheus last time, he specifically exchanged two ordinary soul crystals from him. He found that the soul crystals in his hands were much purer than the latter's.
The purer the soul crystal, the less side effects demons and devils would have when absorbing it. For example, the soul crystals in Feng Chou's hands were almost absolutely pure. Demons and devils would have almost no side effects when absorbing them.
Moreover, the purer the soul crystal, the less damage it would cause to the imprisoned soul. Using the soul crystals in Feng Chou's hands to imprison souls to create constructs would make them smarter and last longer.
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Demons and devils above level 15 mastered the more powerful "Advanced Soul Extraction" spell. It could extract purer soul force from the souls of high-grade powerhouses and use this soul force to create high-grade soul crystals.
High-grade soul crystals could be used to imprison high-grade souls.
Legendary-grade devils and demons could create higher-grade soul crystals. The high-grade soul crystals that could imprison master-grade souls were called secondary soul gems.
Real soul gems used to imprison Legendary-grade souls could only be created by powerful lords in the Abyss of Hell.