Lex sat on a stone slab that was once the cornerstone of a building, holding Agartha's skin in his hand.

He was digesting everything that Ahmanet was telling him. Ahmanet was once Princess Ayeesha, High Priestess of the God of Death in her past life. She was well versed with knowledge of death and the afterlife, and affairs of the soul. 

Once a soul is severed, like with Lucius or killed like Alburus, it could not be found again after the soul dissipates over time. He could reanimate Lucius' corpse with his corpse puppet technique, or use another soul to replace it. But it wouldn't be Lucius anymore.

Of course, if Lucius' soul was just only severed a short time ago, he could have still attempted to turn him into a shadow clone. But the battle happened days ago, and the soul had already vanished. Even Alburus was killed days ago, his soul was no longer there to create a shadow clone. As for Thomas, there wasn't even a remnant of his body left. Even if there was, his death was too long ago.

All of Lex's shadow clones were created within the hour of their deaths, Phoenix, Amazon and Valkyrie included. Only Ahmanet was created several millennia after her death. But her soul was bound to the mummy body anyway, which preserved her soul for Lex to create a shadow clone out of. 

In fact, the only reason Grom's soul was still able to be used to create a shadow clone was because her soul was eaten up by the alroune.

This gave him hope as Agartha's soul was also devoured, but by the Demon King. Could her soul be recovered if Lex killed him? Ahmanet didn't have the answer to that conundrum.

"Either way... I'll kill him anyway" Lex said through gritted teeth.

He looked up and looked at his forces who were standing still like an army in their groups.

They were a large group now, with 500 Harlots, 65 Wolfpack, 100 Sheilas and 80 Twilight, most of whom ranged between Levels 4 and 5.

Furthermore he had the leaders Levels 6 Ahmanet, Morrigan, Kali, Madelyn, Selene, Levels 5 Fenrir and Phoenix and Levels 4 Amazon and Valkyrie.

He stood up and took a breath, extending his hand while holding Agartha's skin.

Using a technique similar to what he saw the Shadow King use on Wai Ling, the skin filled up with a shadow, making it look like Agartha, only with her eyes completely black.

"Come. Though you don't have your soul, you will be there to watch me inflict the finishing blow" he said to the skin, animated by the shadow.

They all disappeared into the shadow, aiming to cut the Demon King off before he can reach the capital!

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At the campsite that Lex left only a day ago, the place was filled with bodies everywhere.

Some were on their last breaths, the majority were dead.

Skeletons roamed around stabbing their swords into bodies, making sure that they were dead.

As they did so, the dead bodies sat up and gruesomely started ripping off their flesh to reveal their skeleton inside.

Some were pulling out their own eyeballs, others were tearing off flesh from their limbs, using their weapons, some were using their teeth.

Surprisingly, there was a lone soldier standing still. Skeletons walked by and stabbed him, then left him alone.

But he continued standing there, only to be stabbed ever so often that his abdomen was already filled with holes that no longer bled.

This soldier was the corpse puppet Lex sent to warn General Flamehart. He stood still as a statue after that, as his task was done.

However, regardless or not whether the general heeded his words, the Demon King attacked so swiftly that they could not retreat in time and General Flamehart's head was now impaled on a pole.

Lex appeared out of the shadows and his whole army appeared a split second later.

His eyes popped open, realizing that he was too late. He must have completely missed the Demon King when he teleported from the canyon straight to Zentopia!

Just then, all the skeletons started attacking them, even the half skeletons that still had flesh on them. Most of them were level 3 and weaker than his army, but the total dead here that had become skeletons were over 35,000!

They had appeared out of nowhere into the heart of the camp, so they were surrounded.

But Lex expected this or worse, since he was targeting the Demon King.

Suddenly, the ground started shaking as thundering sounds got closer and closer.

A group of 30 deathknights rode by, smashing and killing his werewolves and succubi, turning them back into shadows.

From above, a powerful lich levitated in the air dressed it it's torn cloak and cast a death ray onto the ground, causing the banshees to disintegrate back into shadow. 

"That's Romgar and his death knights! And the archlich Malus!" Morrigan said to Lex.

"Oh undead warriors eh?" Lex smiled and raised his hand as he wanted to confirm his suspicions.

The archlich's body suddenly fell from the sky and crashed onto the ground as it's torn cloak covered it's body.

He rushed over with his sword ready for anything, to see if his guess worked

The cloak moved and the figure within suddenly stood up.

"Please give me a name master" a beautiful woman said as the new shadow clone bowed to her. 

"You..you're a woman?" Lex was shocked. 

The 30 death knights smashed through the vampires, turning them back into shadows and was charging directly at Lex. 

"Master!" Amazon yelled, before her head was lopped off and turned into shadow. 

Lex raised his hand, not bothering to look at the charging death knights as he stared at the beautiful woman in amazement. 

The thundering got closer, but it suddenly slowed down and stopped a mere 2 feet away from Lex. 

"Master, please give me a name" all 30 death knights said, all looking dashing and handsome like the knights they were before. 

Lex turned his head and looked at the leader and said "You will be called Arthur" and then he looked at the rest "the rest of you will be jointly called Camelot" he said, referring to the knights of the round table. 

Then he turned to the beautiful woman still awaiting her name

"That will make you Morgan... Morgan Le Fay" he smiled

The death knight and the former lich bowed and repeated their names with awe. 

With the lich now under his control, the skeletons all stopped attacking and stood still. 

He looked around and resummoned Amazon and all the succubi, banshees, vampires and werewolves that were destroyed. 

He saw his corpse puppet still standing there, when he noticed Phoenix standing not far away, looking down on a body.

It was her ex-fiancée Eric. 

"Do... do you want me to turn him into a shadow clone?" he asked

"My will is yours master" Phoenix said emotionlessly. 

Lex waved his hand and a shadow came out of Eric, which looked like he did, but a shadow version. 

"Please name me master" the shadow clone said

Since he didn't give Phoenix her original name, he decided to just name the new clone "Soldier" 

"My name is soldier" he said emotionlessly and stood next to Phoenix without talking

Then he turned away, not knowing why he was so sentimental. Was he expecting them to kiss or something?

He walked back to his leaders, which now included Arthur and Morgan. 

"Morgan, order your skeletons to chase down the Demon King or his minions. We will teleport directly to the capital" Lex said

The 35,000 or so skeletons drew their swords and started running towards the capital. While marching here took 4 days, the skeletons didn't grow weary nor did they tire. At the speeds they were sprinting, it would only take them 2 days!

With that, Lex gave a command as they all vanished into the shadows. 

Only a lone corpse puppet stood still in the midst of the dead bodies, unmoving and unfeeling.