Chapter 20: Apocalypse
(PS: X, didn't I set up a pre-update?Why didn't I update??) οΌ
Wu Ming went deep into the crack for about a kilometer, this is about a kilometer underground, which is already a short distance, and the deeper he goes into the underground, the more turbulent the negative energy becomes, in this environment, there is not even a need for corpses or resentment, this negative energy alone can produce some undead creatures in the form of negative energy.
However, what makes Wu Ming strange is that the negative energy here is so turbulent, but there is not a single undead creature, it is as clean as an ordinary environment, this is obviously impossible to be naturally formed, Wu Ming has some numbers in his heart, and he is not afraid to continue to move forward at the moment, and when he walked to the end of the passage, the front suddenly opened up, and a small underground square appeared, there were many caves on the walls of the square, and there were also some man-made things, and even Wu Ming saw the torch of the Netherworld Flame.
Just when Wu Ming stepped into it, there were already four death knights standing in the square, they were three men and one woman, all wearing heavy armor made of dark metal, each holding a weapon in his hand, a scythe, a spear, a two-handed heavy sword, and a giant scimitar, these four knights did not speak, just looked at Wu Ming.
Wu Ming also saw the four knights, and he said, "I am a friend of Oranli, and I am here to find the Death Knight Tribe. β
The female death knight snorted coldly: "We can see it, hmph, if Oranli comes, I will directly hack him to death with a scythe, the original seal was broken in less than ten years, if we weren't vigilant, maybe something big would happen, hum!!"
The other three Death Knights were silent, and Wu Ming laughed awkwardly, deciding in his heart that after he went back, he would delay the matter of analyzing the origin of the magic method for ten days and a half months, otherwise he would suffer too much.
Although he thought so, Wu Ming still said: "Actually, my relationship with Oranli is very ordinary, uh, he works under me, it's probably such a relationship." β
The eyes of the four Death Knights fluctuated slightly, and one of them, who looked to have silver hair and looked very handsome, said: "Ten years ago, Oranli was a third-order magician, although ten years is not enough time for him to be promoted, but he is at least a senior third-order magician, and you ...... If that magic robe isn't deceiving, you're probably a second-order magician, right?"
Wu Ming tugged at his magic robe, and said with a smile: "Acquaintance, everyone, I am a second-order magician Wu Ming, and a lord of 300,000 square kilometers, and the core territory is about 3,000 square kilometers, which is not big, but it can be regarded as a lord." β
The four of them seemed to understand something, nodded slightly, and a death knight who looked to be older and had a beastman head said: "Even if you are the lowest-level baron-level real feudal lord, you can barely recruit a third-level magician, so what is the purpose of your arrival, magician." β
Wu Ming looked around, and didn't find any other death knights, so he said: "Now that the business alliance has changed, the blood clan has united most of the undead clans, the high and other goblins have united most of the earth spirit derivative races, and the forces of the original business alliance, these three parties are in the melee, I, as a lord, want to participate in the war, the number is about two hundred to three hundred, all of them are elites, and I will also fight in person, these elites are my personal guards." β
The four death knights nodded slightly, they don't know how long they have been separated from the commercial alliance, but the general common sense still knows, the commercial alliance does have fiefdoms, most of which belong to the clans of various ethnic groups, and then there are very rich and powerful forces or individuals, who can get this kind of one percent of the core territory, plus ninety-nine percent of the paper territory, and if you want to expand the core territory, you must have military merits, but the business alliance is based on commerce, and there are few times for foreign wars, and this kind of civil war is when many ambitious lords try to participate in the war and obtain war achievementsγ
"Please go back. The four Death Knights spoke at the same time.
The female death knight said, "We have appointed ourselves here, and we will no longer meddle in the mortal war, you have found the wrong person." β
Wu Ming frowned, looked around and said, "To tell you the truth, although it's not me who is cold to you, but with your strength, you are all third-order strength, right? Although the negative energy here is abundant, but our undead races are not just negative energy, for the undead races below the third order, the negative energy is abundant, there is a slow precipitation of tens of thousands of years, it is estimated that it can reach the third order, but if you want to continue to advance, then you must have many other things, all kinds of undead races are one kind of food, battlefield tempering is one, and there are magic tools and weapons armor or something, these are all needed, with your strength, why are you trapped here?"
The death knight, who had not spoken, was a middle-aged man, and it was a very, very rare human undead creature, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Actually, this is not a secret, do you know why the number of death knights in the outside world is so scarce?
Wu Ming frowned and shook his head, and the Death Knight continued: "There are three reasons, the first is that the birth of the Death Knight can only appear on the battlefield ruins, and the probability is very low, other death scenes, whether it is a massacre, a mass grave, or the magic of the Lich, basically there is no Death Knight, because the Death Knight itself is a killing machine born on the battlefield, and this is our birth from fate." β
"Second, the Death Knight will reduce the luck of himself and the people around him, although the reduction is not large, but this reduction is continuous, especially when a large number of Death Knights gather together, we are very similar to humans in this regard, but some differences are that as long as the Death Knight enters the battlefield and causes killing, this reduction will stop, but it will increase the luck, which is amazing, even the top mages don't understand why this is the case, so the number of our Death Knights has not been much, because of fear, all the creatures who know about this situation will be afraid of us, and even say that we have brought wars and brought plagues, brought famine, brought death. β
"Third, all third-order Death Knights will have one or several innate magic, in other words, our skull core can be easily made into magic tools, so some law classes will deliberately hunt Death Knights. β
"For these three reasons, you can hardly see a Death Knight on a scale in the outside world. β
Wu Ming's brows were still furrowed, he thought about it, and then said to the death knight: "Reduce your luck, how can this be reduced?"
The female death knight sighed and said: "We don't know how to reduce it in the dark, generally speaking, if it is a death knight without an owner, and there is no other person around, then what is reduced is your own luck, if there are other people, it will be reduced together with the luck of other people, but the reduction will be greatly reduced, similar to the flat distribution, if it is a death knight with a master, then who is its master, or who is the merger, what is reduced is the luck of its master and the merchant, so ...... Do you still dare to hire us!?"
Wu Ming sensed it, his sixth sense, his exercises, did not have the slightest sense, in other words, either his luck did not drop, or the magnitude of the decline could not be sensed at all, but he preferred not to descend this statement, because he could even shield the Heavenly Dao Gaia, how could the decline in the luck of this death knight be compared to the decline in human luck?
"Then what if I have to hire you?" Wu Ming thought for a while before saying: "I have something special in myself, and I definitely can't tell you the specific content, I can only say some basic ...... I have a little relationship with the Logic Family, and you should know what this amount is. β
The faces of the four death knights finally changed, the logic clan, the third of the Flood Desolation Clan, and the enduring third, this weight is too terrifying, even among the undead clans, one of the blood clans is the strongest and strongest, it is only more than two hundred Flood Desolation Clans, and the gap between the third of the Flood Desolation Race is just like the gap between ants and dragons.
Wu Ming looked at their faces, and then laughed and said: "I can't prove anything, and I don't need to prove it, whether you believe it or not, I have a way to resist the decline in the luck of the Death Knight, at least the decline in my luck, but I don't think there is anything I can think about about others." β
The old Death Knight was silent for a moment, then whispered, "If you hired us and signed a magic contract...... The impact on others is not very great......"
The handsome silver-haired young Death Knight also muttered, "If it's just a hire, it should be fine......"
Even when a woman dies, it is said, "If it's just a hire......
Only the middle-aged human death knight didn't speak, just looked at Wu Ming with a strange gaze, Wu Ming didn't know what he meant, so he just said: "Speaking of which, don't you have more than five hundred clansmen, why are there only four of you?"
Inexplicably, Wu Ming seemed to see the faces of the four death knights red, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, the female death knight coughed and said, "Uh, because I've been here for a long time, uh, because I still have to fight...... In short, for various reasons, they are a little embarrassed......"
Then, dozens of seconds later, Wu Ming saw more than a hundred death knights coming out of those caves, the armor on their bodies was mostly broken, and some people even directly tied some clips with strips of cloth, weapons...... It's more like a beggar's stick, it looks like it's embarrassing, if it weren't for the glamorous and mighty image of the four death knights, Wu Ming really thought that he had stepped into the territory of the beggar gang.
The faces of the four death knights seemed to be even redder, and Wu Ming laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm the lord, I take care of the weapons and armor, but the enchanted weapons still need to wait for some time." β
"Enchanted Weapon ......"
The female Death Knight seemed to be drooling, and she looked at the scythe in her hand, which was full of gaps and looked like saws, and unobtrusively carried it behind her, in fact, the other three Death Knight were all in the same position.
"That's right. Wu Ming suddenly asked, "Haven't asked the names of the four yet?"
The four Death Knights, in fact, were the leaders of this Death Knight group, and the four of them became upright, and the middle-aged human Death Knight said: "Our names have long been forgotten, in order to remember the world's understanding of us, and to tell ourselves, how the world perceives us, my name is War." β
"My name is death. The handsome, silver-haired young Death Knight said.
"My name is Famine. "Beastman Death Knight Road.
The female death knight finally said, "My name is Plague. β
"That's our name. The four Death Knights finally said in unison.
Wu Ming's face immediately changed again, and he muttered bitterly: "War, death, famine, plague, ......"
Legend has it that there is a cooperative relationship with the high-ranking saint, the one in the West, and it is considered a very small number of alien races who have the qualifications of councilors in the Flood Desolate Heavenly Court, except for the bull head and horse face, a few dragon clans, and a few people who are kind to humans, it seems that there are only these four knights, they are said to be saints, they are ...... οΌ
"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse......"