The World Tree located in the Void exuded a brilliance that mortals could not look at directly, and the nine huge planes were dragged into the void from top to bottom by thick branches, emitting a strange light like the sun.

In addition to the nine planes like the sun, there are countless half-planes like stars attached to the surroundings of this World Tree, colorful, like delicate gems under the sun.

Among these wooded gems, the gray gem that belonged to Alice at the moment seemed to merge into the entire void, so inconspicuous, the half-plane called the City of Death.

In this strange half-plane, three towers stood in the pitch-black earth, originally just the most ordinary earth, but under the erosion of a steady stream of negative energy, they have now been transformed into tomb soil.

The outermost two of the three towers were slightly taller than the middle one, and the gray walls had a faint gray energy wriggling, and from a distance they looked like tentacles on the bottom of the sea.

It was a myriad of human faces hovering around the tower, their faces full of joy, sadness, anger, and peace, and they were constantly trying to flee the area, but they were bound by the rope that connected them to the tower.

The east tower is made of rock and white bones, mottled white bones as if they have been destroyed by time, covered with cracks like spider webs, and at the top of the tower there is a blue flame blazing, from a distance, this tower looks like a lighthouse guiding ships outside the harbor.

It looks similar, but the tower is not directed by ships, but by souls lost in the void, and fragments of souls that have been mutilated for various reasons.

The tower to the west is a little different, using a dark and smooth building material as a whole, with no cracks or mottled marks on it, giving people a sense of history and faintly exuding a palpitating atmosphere.

At the top of the tower, there is also a blue flame burning, but the color is even more blue, and it looks more illusory, as if it will be extinguished in the next second.

The tower to the east is an ordinary Spiritist Tower, while the one to the west is more ornate and more ornate to be made from precious loot, and the higher-level Ghost Tower is at least twice as effective as the Spiritist Tower.

These two towers were originally just made to accumulate for the growth of the half-plane, and now that it is difficult to connect with the main plane, the role of these two towers has become more and more important, and it can be said that the souls and soul fragments that these two towers attract every day are the only output of this half-plane.

Although the quality of those souls and soul fragments is not very good, high-quality souls will be protected and watched by powerful beings such as gods, and those who can be attracted by these two towers will only be inferior goods that the gods can't look down on.

However, it doesn't matter if it's an inferior product, it's also a kind of population, a kind of resource, which can accelerate the growth of this half-plane, can be transformed into a warrior to fight for Alice, and can be transformed into a resident of the City of the Dead to work for Alice, provide her with faith, and speed up the process of her becoming a god.

The tower in the middle is the magic tower built by Alice herself, and it still maintains the appearance of a three-story magic tower, but there is a lot more defensive magic on the outside, and the most important thing is that the outer wall of the magic tower has changed the materials used.

The original wall was just an ordinary stone made of fossil mud, and later after the invasion of the frost giants, it was upgraded with obsidian, and it has great resistance to magic attacks, but on the other hand, it will affect the use of magic, and soon after, Alice, who always makes mistakes in experiments, can't bear to replace it with necromantic stones.

Necromantic stones, these stones contaminated with the breath of negative energy, are not the ones that Alice took from the graveyard before, but the ones that Alice went to the place of trade and traded with a Void merchant in another region, according to the Void Merchant, these necromantic stones came from the kingdom of Thanatos, the god of death of the Olympian god line.

Thanatos, the god of death, is the child of the goddess of the night, Niks, who has an extraordinary status in the Olympus god system, and his god kingdom does not know how many thousands of years it has existed.

On top of these necromantic stones, Mithril and Adamantite are also used as materials to draw some mystical magic, originally Alice planned to use the knowledge on the [Book of the Dead], but in line with the principle of low-key life, it was finally replaced by the [Book of Hecate], the more widely circulated magic, although the power is a little weaker, but it is also very weak, enough to resist the bombardment of legendary magic.

But to be honest, although the magic tower made of necromantic stone can increase the power of the magic tower, it also has great benefits for the entire half-plane, but the disadvantage is also very prominent, the fragile stone tower body can be penetrated with a certain amount of strength, and this shortcoming, Alice can only rely on the defensive magic arranged outside for the time being to cover up.

When she becomes a god, this situation will change, after becoming a god, her divine kingdom will be shrouded by her power, and it will be completely transformed into a realm that only belongs to her, and any person or god who comes here will be suppressed to varying degrees, unless there is absolute power, otherwise no one can kill a god in the divine kingdom of gods.

In the highest floor of the magic tower, the element pool connecting the four elemental planes has been successfully built, and the power of the wind element, fire element, earth element, and water element is continuously extracted as the energy for the operation of the entire magic tower, and the inexhaustible energy is stored as the energy for the growth of the half-plane, after all, the growth of the half-plane is only negative energy, and the four basic elements are also essential.

Because it is in the void, there is no obstruction of the main plane plane wall, connecting the four elemental planes and extracting the power of the four elements can allow this magic tower to continue to run even if no one is in charge, until the day when the connected elemental plane collapses, or the day the passage breaks.

In the library on the second floor of the Magic Tower, the originally empty shelves were already filled with all kinds of books, including stone tablets carved with hieroglyphs, vellum written in blood, bamboo and wood pieces strung with rope, and cut stone slabs, and in some open spaces inside, there were several frescoes that looked like they had been cut out of the cave.

Because of the use of magic to extend the space of the second floor, countless bookshelves are neatly arranged, some of the books here are brought by Alice from the Academy of Magic, some are from the Book of the Dead and the Book of Hecate, some are copied from the two libraries of Alexandria, some are copied from the tribes that chose to submit after the establishment of the Baltic Empire, and some are the spoils of victory over the enemy.

The books here are arranged by category, and in order to quickly find the information you need, Alice has also made a small tower with a copy and search function using the soul hedron of a legendary powerhouse.

With this tower spirit, anyone can find what they need as quickly as possible, no matter what script it is written in, no matter what kind of material it is comfortable in, and because this tower spirit is made with the soul of a legendary powerhouse, it also has a certain wisdom and can answer all kinds of questions.

Alice didn't build this floor for herself, but she had a [Book of the Dead] in her head, a library that she could take with her, and what knowledge she needed to consult could be consulted with a single thought.

The reason why this library was built on the second floor of the magic tower was actually influenced by the experience of studying at the Academy of Magic, when she was studying at the Academy of Magic, in addition to Alice's own dormitory, the place where she stayed the most was the library of the Academy, it can be said that without the library of the Academy of Magic, even if Alice had an artifact, it would never have been possible to have such a terrible growth rate.

Moreover, Alice's construction of this library can greatly facilitate those vampire maids, so that they can obtain enough knowledge to advance to become spellcasters, after all, there is no better place for apprentices to learn than here in the library, plus there is a tower here to answer some simple questions for them.

After the previous vampire maids were taken to the main plane by Alice to help Semiramis manage the Baltic Empire, the library was empty, and Taling was left alone to read the knowledge here.

Alice did not forbid the Taling to read the knowledge of the library, on the contrary, she hoped that this knowledge would make the Taling more powerful and intelligent, and only then could she be able to help her in the construction of this half-plane.

After the vampire's maid leaves, Alice plans to choose some of the ghosts to come here to study, if not to be a spellcaster, to become a scholar who is just a knowledgeable scholar and an official who can handle simple things.

However, in the end, Alice had to give up this idea, the quality of the souls attracted by the Ghost Tower and the Soul Tower was not very good, and those that Alice collected from the main plane, it was very coincidental that there were no suitable ones to learn this knowledge, they were more suitable to learn how to become a qualified ghost knight, rather than wasting time in the library.

As a last resort, Alice had no choice but to find Brunhilde, and through Brunhilde's channel, she contacted a Void merchant who specialized in the slave business, and after spending a cart of pearls, she successfully exchanged a batch of seeds from the Void merchant for a batch of seeds that could become a spellcaster.

Even if it is only possible to become, just to have a possibility, and this possibility is still very low, it will cost a lot of money, because of the power of the spellcaster, and because of the preciousness of the spellcaster, if it were not for the face of Brünnhilde, the Void Merchant would not have sold these precious goods to Alice, because he sold these slaves, and what he wanted was not only money, but also connections.

A total of twenty girls under the age of eight obtained from the merchant, all of whom were of human race, had no special blood, had no other talent other than the possibility of becoming a spell caster, were very thin and malnourished, and their clothes were covered with dark stains, and it was obvious that they had not been treated well in the hands of the slave trader.

The eyes of these girls were very gray, they were eyes that did not show the slightest hope, which was the usual method of slave traders, so that the slaves who sold as long as they were kind to him could gain their uncomplicated gratitude and allegiance, which was not complicated but extremely effective, and Qiel's feelings for Alice also stemmed from this.

Slaves can be obtained on a large scale, only in the event of a war, the fighting power of the defeated side is wiped out, and the remaining old and weak women and children are sold to slave traders as trophies by the victors in exchange for profits, which does not leave a future trouble, but also can win the wealth of development for the tribe, which is the choice of most of the victors, and it is also the reason why slave traders can have so many sources.

Alice doesn't care what happened to them before, but she doesn't care what made them slaves.

What she needs is to instill in these girls whose minds are not yet fully formed in her favor the ideas that are true to her and to the capital of death, and to raise these things, these ideas to the level of faith, and finally to make her investment pay off and bring her benefits.

Of course, with the passage of time, with Alice's personality, it is very likely that the relationship between the two parties will change, and they will become more intimate, just like those vampire maids now, from the status of servants to the key parts of the operation of the entire Baltic Empire.

Alice is also very generous in terms of resources, not only arranging for Taling to teach them knowledge, but also opening the library for them to read freely, and there are not too many restrictions in terms of magical materials, if some special talents can be found in it, it would be great.

In the end, Alice also invested in blood and opened up the permission of the blood pool to them, allowing them to use the resources in the blood pool as much as possible, improve their qualifications, and prepare in advance for the transformation into vampires in the future, which is a condition that those vampire maids before could not enjoy.

The remaining two floors of the Magic Tower have not changed much, the first floor is still a very empty hall, originally planned to be a living room for entertaining guests, but still not to welcome the first guest.

As for Brunhilde, she was no longer a guest, and as the mistress of this half-plane, Alice had given her the second most privileged to herself, and she could freely enter and exit all other places except for the basement level.

On the basement level, it is the center of the entire half-plane, where Alice's body is located, in addition to the use of solid marble, it is arranged with magic used to confuse the sight and the feeling, Alice is confident, even if the legendary spellcaster casts magic, even if the legendary thief and the legendary assassin can't detect that this magic tower has an underground part.

This magic tower is built in a small lake, there are no bridges around, and there are no ships, there is a regional magic presence in the sky above the small lake, solidifying the surrounding space, preventing enemies from directly using space movement type spells to appear here, and flying is also not allowed, the [Forbidden Sky Enchantment] is connected to the magic tower, and until the magic tower collapses, this [Forbidden Sky Enchantment] will always exist.

The gray lake ebbs and flows, transparent and illusory, but you can't see what's inside, and occasionally some weird bubbles appear on the surface of the lake, making a crisp popping sound.

On the shore of the small lake, the dark earth is planted with trees without leaves, the trees that are not too tall are twisting and growing upward, the miserable white trunks look lifeless, and the irregular branches are strangely twisted, in the dark environment is reminiscent of the monsters from the abyss, on the top of those twisted branches, long thin ropes are tied, with the breeze blowing, swaying slightly, making a sharp sound.

On the other end of the rope were the remains of the bones, each with different characteristics, and it is believed that these skeletons belonged to a different race during their lifetimes.

These twisted trees are actually undead dryads, which are exchanged for a special type of druid, the dead druids, usually this kind of undead dryads only appear in the dead life plane, which may be the product of negative energy eroding the dryad, but this conjecture has not yet been confirmed.

This particular undead need to grow just as much as the dryads, but the energy changes from sunlight, soil, and water to negative energy, grave soil, and corpses, and hanging the corpses on the branches is a skill that comes with the druids when buying these undead dryads, which is said to allow these undead dryads to gain wisdom and become high-level undead.

Of course, these undead dryads have only been planted for less than a few years, and they can grow so tall because of Alice's investment regardless of the cost, and the rest will really grow and mature, it is a matter of time, even if they become undead, some attributes of the plant still exist.

Alice was actually very curious about this, and she included it in the notes that needed to be experimented, and the notes recorded in that note were all things that Alice was curious about, and when it was no longer so urgent to become a god, Alice decided to understand and solve all those problems.

In fact, in addition to these undead dryads, those druids also sold some undead tree spirits, but those are things that have no wisdom at all, and even basic sanity has been lost, Alice is not wrong to need strength, but uncontrolled power has never been in her consideration, put these unstable things in the important half-plane death capital, Alice will not die like this.

Of course, there are also reasons why they don't want to irritate their dryads because of these things, and now there are more than a dozen dryads of other types in addition to the previous two oak dryads on the Jutland side, and if they know about the undead dryads, it is likely that they will have some bad associations.

The undead dryads guard the central lake, and in Alice's future vision, these undead dryads will become a forest of the undead, and as the years increase, their strength will become stronger and stronger, and the area will expand, and finally become the supporting force of the entire half-plane.

On the periphery of these undead dryads are the Ten Thousand Bone Pit, the Dragon Tomb, the Blood Pool, the Elephant Mound and other buildings, but in addition to the Ten Thousand Bone Pit and the Blood Pool, the Dragon Tomb and the Elephant Mound have just been built into a frame, and it will take a long time before the real formation takes shape.

There is no way, there are too few dragon bones that can be used as materials for the dragon tomb, even if Alice keeps using dragon blood to water, the dragon breath of this dragon tomb is still very insufficient, and it will take a long time to accumulate for the dragon's bones to transform into a bone dragon.

The situation of the elephant mound is similar to that of the dragon tomb, and so far only the corpses of the mammoth were obtained during the Second Scandinavian Defense War, and some of the others are the bones of ordinary elephants, which can only be used as consumables for the growth and construction of the elephant mound.

Although ordinary skeleton elephants also have an unstoppable posture when they launch a charge, the structure of the skeleton determines that every charge is a burden for these ordinary skeleton elephants, and there is no need for the enemy to take action, as long as they charge a few times and hit a few times, the fragile skeleton body of the skeleton elephant may collapse, and it will take a long time to recover.

The massive skeletal mammoth has no such effect, and has reached the legendary undead, with strong and hard bones that allow them to exert their combat effectiveness when charging in battle.

The negative energy wrapped around the skeleton mammoth is like a halo that constantly erodes the enemies around it, if it is in a large-scale war with living beings, their existence is a strategic weapon, just like the role of the caster in the war, with the result of being able to change a battlefield with their own strength.

Next to the elephant mound is the Ten Thousand Bone Pit, which is also the building that Alice has invested the most, in addition to the thirteen bone giants at the beginning, there are some giant bones that have not become undead, and a steady stream of negative energy is attracted by the Ten Thousand Bone Pit, injected into the bones of these giants, and transforms them into bone giants.

The undead created in this way will be born naturally, and in terms of strength, potential, and intelligence, these naturally born undead are much better than those created by magic.

In addition, this Ten Thousand Bones Pit that has begun to take shape can also produce skeleton mages, skeleton archers, and skeleton warriors, these skeletons born in the Ten Thousand Bone Pit have stronger strength and strength than ordinary skeletons, and the strengthened bone hardness is enough to resist ordinary swords, and the body eroded by negative energy also has a strong resistance to general magic attacks.

It can be said that at this stage, except for those gargoyles, these skeletons are the main force of this plane, and if they encounter the invasion of the enemy, the main force of the battlefield on the ground is these.

Of course, people have no windfall and no wealth, horses have no night grass and no fat, and in the case that the resources of the main plane cannot be transported here, it becomes urgent to find another way to develop and grow, in this cruel world, stagnation is a kind of regression, after all, the enemy will not stop moving forward because you are standing still.

It just so happened that Alice recently came across such an opportunity, the opportunity to obtain a lot of resources, and it was a particularly critical opportunity for the development of the City of the Dead.