Chapter 302: Death Energy
When the previously dead orc slave was transformed into an undead creature, Rhodes focused on observing the changes that took place in him. Rod noticed that the orc undead appeared to be more unusual.
Due to the physique of the orcs themselves, they are weaker than humans of the same rank, not to mention these orc slaves.
As the most common creature in Krulod, after Krulord was enslaved by Bracada, a large number of orcs were captured by the merchant groups that came here and transported to the rest of the country as slaves, which is also related to the general weakness of the orcs.
Due to the lack of strength, the half-orcs as slaves, even if they wanted to resist, they could not defeat several low-level professionals who had joined forces.
In terms of rank, although the human overseer is only a low-level professional, his strength is significantly stronger than that of ordinary orc slaves. The transformed orc undead were able to suppress human overseers with their own strength.
If it weren't for the village chief's timely support, the human overseer wouldn't have been able to defeat the orc undead.
Rod knew that, generally speaking, the strength of the transformed undead creature was not only related to the necromancer's own level of spiritualism, but also the strength of the undead creature during his lifetime.
If it is just an ordinary human corpse, then no matter how high the necromancer's level of spiritualism is, it cannot transcend the limit of the rank and directly transform it into an undead creature above the second order.
This has always bothered all necromancers. The necromancer tried his best to transform the corpse into a stronger undead creature, but in the end, he could only be disappointed to find that except for a very few special items, there was almost no way to solve this limitation, and if he wanted to transform into a high-level undead creature, he must require the corpse to be a high-level professional before his death.
Rod recalls that among the few special items, there are not many items left except for an artifact that will appear in the second expansion. Combined with the special environment inside the mine, Rod was able to roughly guess what was inside the mine.
In front of Rhodes, the walls of the mine were still facing outward, exuding a strong energy of death. As the thought rose from Rod's mind, he could vaguely feel that behind the mine wall, in the depths of the mountain, something seemed to call to him.
While Rhodes was meditating in front of the mine wall, the village chief in the rear had been waiting in silence. It was as if he was feeling the atmosphere around him, and no one bothered Rhodes during this time.
Noticing that Rod threw aside the Revenant Crystal that he had been holding in his hand, the village chief knew that Rod must have come to some conclusion.
Just as the village chief was about to step forward to ask Rhodes, he suddenly stopped his movements and turned to look at the mine wall in front of Rhodes.
In the village chief's perception, a magical energy that he had never sensed before began to gather behind this mine wall.
The village chief had tried to sense the death energy in the Revenant Crystal, but he was unable to get any information at all. If the village chief can take out the energy in the Revenant Crystal and compare it with this magical energy, he will find that the two death energies are actually the same energy.
The death energy gathered this time was not an extremely subtle existence like before, but almost condensed into an entity.
In an instant, death energy burst out from the mine wall in front of them, and the location where they burst out was the pit dug by the group of orc slaves with pickaxes, and for a while, the entire mine wall was almost crushed by this death energy.
The village chief knew that something unusual must have happened, and at the same time, a strong sense of crisis emerged in the village chief's heart.
The abnormal situation inside the mine was beyond the village chief's ability to deal with, and the village chief knew very well in his heart that he should immediately withdraw from the inside of the mine, but he didn't know what he thought, and the village chief did not choose to do so.
On the other hand, the human overseer did not have such an idea, and when he discovered the anomaly in front of the mine wall, he immediately retreated to the exit of the passage and came to the village chief, and once he found any danger, he would flee to the rear as soon as possible.
As soon as the death energy rushed out, it quickly surged towards the rest of the corpses on the ground, whether it was the humans who were originally going to transport the corpses of the orcs, or the slaves who were killed by the undead of the half-orcs, all of them were drowned in this death energy for a while.
Due to the high position and the extremely strong energy of death, this time, when the surrounding corpses were resurrected, Rhodes fully felt the changes that had taken place in them.
If it is said that ordinary corpses have a limit on the absorption of death energy, once it reaches a certain level, it cannot continue to absorb death energy, but these corpses inside the mine have broken this limitation. The surrounding rich death energy frantically poured into the interior of these corpses, increasing their strength wildly.
When the transformation of these undead creatures was about to be completed, Rhodes tried to cast a spirit imprint on them, but was unsuccessful. The state of this group of undead creatures at this time was as if they had been manipulated by a necromancer.
Soon, all of these undead creatures were transformed. Compared to the previous half-orc undead, due to the existence of a large amount of death energy this time, the strength of these undead creatures has all increased.
Noticing the undead creatures appearing around them, the village chief's face suddenly changed, and according to the strength they showed, this group of undead creatures could even completely destroy the entire village.
When the human overseer saw the undead creatures standing up, he completely gave up on fighting them, and only wanted to flee the place quickly. At this time, the human overseer only hoped that Rhodes inside the mine could resist this group of undead creatures for a while longer, so that he would have enough time to escape.
Regarding what the village chief said, Rhodes is a powerful mage, although the human overseer showed due etiquette on the surface, but in his heart, he did not have any recognition of Rhodes's strength, in his opinion, a powerful mage would not be so young.
After a quick glance into the inside of the mine, the Overseer did not intend to stay and watch the battle, but prepared to flee immediately to the rear.
However, when the human overseer observed Rod's appearance at this time, his attempts to escape stopped.
The human overseer noticed that even though he was inside the mine and surrounded by a large number of orc undead, Rod's face still did not change, as if this group of orc undead was nothing at all.