Chapter Seventy-Six: Exploring the Mansion I
As he was casting a spell, Mayor Mare couldn't dodge the dagger Rhodes stabbed at him. The dagger that Rhodes was holding in his hand was completely submerged in the mayor's chest.
Realizing that his body was pierced by a dagger, Mayor Mare seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
The tip of the dagger burst out from behind the mayor, and Rod's thrust pierced the mayor's heart directly, killing the mayor.
In an instant, since the mayor had died, the bone vine lost control, and the surrounding rattan began to swing wildly.
As long as the undead creature is cast a spirit mark by the necromancer at a low level, no matter how much its own strength grows, it cannot get rid of the control of the spirit mark, unless the necromancer dies first.
Since the spirit mark has a distinct master-slave attribute, when the undead creature dies, the spirit attribute that the necromancer used to control will be completely returned.
In the necromancer's mind, the spirit imprint will dissipate in an instant, and if the necromancer does not pay attention to perception, or if he tries to probe the number of spirit imprints, he will almost completely perceive the anomaly.
And once the necromancer dies, the spirit imprint of the undead creature will cause a noticeable sense of pain when it dissipates. This pain arises directly from the fire of the soul, beyond the limits of the body.
Because of this unbearable pain, undead creatures will go crazy for a short time. The more powerful the undead creature, the stronger the spiritual imprint in the soul fire, and the stronger this pain becomes.
Because of this, as the spiritual imprint in the soul fire dissipated, the bone vine fell into a state of madness, and all the remaining rattans on his body began to shake wildly.
A rattan struck in front of Rod, knocking him into the air. The mayor's corpse was also knocked away by the rattan.
Rhodes was knocked over some distance by the rattan, and so did the mayor. Even though he was whipped away by the rattan, Rhodes still held the dagger in his hand.
After falling to the ground, Rod's body was extremely weak.
The red light on the dagger did not dissipate, and even though the body was still lying on the ground, Rhodes still tried to bring the dagger close to his body.
At this time, a hand grabbed Rhodes' hand holding the dagger, and the nails on his hand were sharp, like sharp claws, which was the vampire who had ended his batting.
The vampire tried to snatch the dagger from Rod's hand, but because Rod grabbed the dagger to death, and the dagger was extremely sharp, for a while, the vampire could not take the dagger from Rod's hand.
At this point, as if receiving some order, the vampire grabbed Rod's hand and slammed it twice into the ground.
Due to Rod's weak body, the clenched hand gradually released after hitting the ground twice.
Suddenly, the dagger was knocked flying by the vampire and eventually fell to the ground.
Since the dagger was out of his hand, the consciousness in the dagger quickly faded, and Rhodes woke up.
As soon as he woke up, Rhodes felt a pain in his body.
The sharp pain couldn't stop coming to Rod's mind, and at this time, Rod, whether it was on his arm or everywhere in his body, had obvious wounds, and he couldn't stop leaving blood outward.
Due to the pain and the weakness caused by excessive blood loss, for a while, Rod only felt that it was difficult to control his body.
Relying on his last consciousness, Rhodes opened the attribute panel and assigned attribute points to his constitution.
In an instant, Rod felt a tingling sensation coming from his body, and the wounds on his body quickly recovered. Rod opened the attribute panel and saw that the originally extremely low health had recovered to about half.
The recovery effect of attribute points will gradually weaken with the increase of physical strength, compared to the beginning, Rod's strength has increased a lot, therefore, a little attribute point can only restore Rod's health to half.
Seeing this, Rod took out a few healing magic scrolls from the space ring, tore them open, and the healing effect was applied to Rode.
Under the effect of attribute points and scrolls, the wounds on Rhodes' body gradually recovered.
At this point, the rattan stopped whapping indiscriminately around him, and had recovered from the pain caused by the dissipation of the spiritual imprint.
Several rattans wound towards Rod, and the vampires next to Rhodes immediately met them to fend off the attacking rattans.
Rod got up and stepped aside at the same time, picking up the dagger that had fallen to the ground.
As soon as he made contact with the dagger on the ground, the dagger came to Rhodes again with a burst of consciousness, apparently wanting to continue to control Rhodes.
However, the moment Rod touched the dagger just now, he directly included it in the spatial ring.
After all, the dagger was just a prop, and when it was put into the space ring, the dagger consciousness in Rod's mind became a strong unwillingness, but to no avail.
Previously, although Rod's consciousness was suppressed by the dagger, but for what the dagger did, Rod saw it clearly in his consciousness, and Rod clearly knew that the dagger controlled himself and killed the mayor.
Under the suppression of the dagger consciousness, Rhodes' own consciousness completely lost control of his body, but Rhodes found that he could still control vampires through mental imprints.
Rhodes realizes that the only way to regain his consciousness is to let the dagger out of his hand.
Although the dagger did not attack the vampire for a while, Rhodes understood that if he directly let the vampire come up and snatch the dagger, the vampire would also be attacked by the dagger.
Therefore, Rod can only let the vampire look for an opportunity next to him, and finally knocks the dagger down, and Rod is able to regain consciousness.
After handling the dagger, Rod set his sights on the body of the bone vine.
At this time, in Rod's sight, several rattans grabbed the mayor's body and pulled it to the location of the bone vine itself.
The cocoon-like object that Rhodes had originally thought of opened at this time, revealing the internal structure of the bone vine.
The inside of the bone vine is a blood-colored space, and there is no obvious tissue in the space, only a full amount of fluid.
Rattan grabbed the mayor's corpse and sent it inside, then closed the space.
At this time, the two ghosts and other ghosts controlled by Rhodes had also arrived here.
Due to the fact that Mayor Mare is unable to distract himself from controlling the Skeleton Warrior when dealing with Rod. Without the control of the mayor, the disadvantages of the Skeleton Warrior's low rank are exposed, and they can only be killed by the Shadows and Ghosts.
Although the undead creatures in the rear arrived, Rhodes did not let them move, but just looked at the bone vine in front of him.
After devouring the mayor's corpse, the bone vine's whole body began to undergo a change, and a burst of blood passed from the center to all the surrounding rattans.
At this time, the rattan that had been cut by Rhodes grew again, and it had a tendency to continue to extend around. The originally short rattan began to grow wildly in the surrounding area after receiving this blood light.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Rod knew that the strength of the bone vine had been improved. Not only did he recover the parts of his body that were originally cut off by Rhodes, but his strength was further improved.
The bone vine devoured the mayor's flesh and blood, and according to the mayor's strength, his flesh and blood could greatly increase the ability of the bone vine.
Several rattans struck in the direction of Rod, and seeing this, Rod had to dodge to the side.
As for the rattan that attacked him, because he could no longer use the dagger, and the blade in his hand was not sharp enough, Rhodes could not cut it off, so he could only dodge.
A few more rattans struck, and Rhodes dodged behind him again, and before he knew it, Rhodes was behind the ghosts and ghosts.
At this time, looking at the rattan around him that was still trying to wrap around him, Rod also realized that the main target of the rattan was himself.
What the bone vine needs is his own flesh and blood.
Although the vampire's flesh is also effective against the bone vine, since the bone vine has seen the vampire's bat-transformation skills, it is difficult to wrap it around and pull it to the rear, at this time, the bone vine has set his sights on Rod.
At this time, because Rod retreated to a position far away from the bone vine, although the bone vine wanted to attack Rhodes, it was blocked by the surrounding undead creatures in time.
After devouring the mayor's flesh, the power of the surrounding rattans was greatly enhanced. In this very short period of time, many of the surrounding ghosts have been killed.
Rhodes didn't care about the bone vine, but walked directly towards the back of the passage, and the surrounding undead creatures also retreated, but under the entanglement of the vine, several ghosts were still dragged to the rear by the bone vine and killed.
Since Mayor Mare is dead, and the body of the bone vine is located in the depths of this room, without the control of the mayor, Rod is not in a hurry to deal with the bone vine that cannot be moved.
Unlike vampires, although the bone vine has a strong advantage in defense, due to the limitations of the bone vine itself, it is destined to be used only to garrison one place, and cannot follow Rhodes to other places.
Rod was destined to stay here for long, so he chose to convert the bone vine into experience points.
Due to the limitations of the bone vine itself, without the protection of the mayor, Rhodes could destroy it by simply setting the entire mansion on fire.
Therefore, instead of rushing to destroy the bone vine, Rhodes retreated outside the room first and began to search in the mayor's mansion.
The mayor's body has been devoured by bone vines, and the items carried by the mayor may not be available to Rhodes, but the rest of the items inside the mansion can still be searched by Rhodes.
As a result, Rhodes needed to conduct a search of the entire mansion.
Rhodes retreated to the hall of the mansion, and by this time, the black clouds outside had dispersed, revealing a fairly bright moonlight. Since the door of the mansion was not closed, the moonlight shone into the interior of the mansion.
Despite the moonlight, Rhodes still had trouble seeing the inside of the room, so he searched around, and finally found the torch dropped by the ghost at the beginning, lit it, and Rod began to search the interior of the mansion.
Rhodes followed the room where the bone vine was located and began to explore the interior of the mansion.
On the first floor of the mansion, there are a number of rooms. It was these rooms that Rhodes first began to inspect.
Rod pushed open the door, and the empty objects in these rooms, as well as the dust accumulated on them, undoubtedly told Rhodes that there were still many people here.
Compared to the other houses in the town, the mansion is extremely large.
Although the mayor is a necromancer, since he settled here, in order to make his life more comfortable, there are many servants in the mansion. The servants were required to tidy up the mansion, prepare meals, and serve the mayor.
At this time, there was no one inside the mansion, and Rod estimated that it had nothing to do with the bloody aura he found around the bone vine in the first place.
Rhodes realizes that since most of the mayor's controls are skeleton warriors, the walking corpse that originally pretended to be the mayor at the door should be one of the servants living here, and the mayor killed him, transformed it into a walking corpse, and used the disguise magic to deceive Rhodes.
Rhodes pushed open the surrounding doors, which were closed but unlocked.
There were several rooms in succession, and Rhodes did not rummage further inside the rooms, although these servants may have some gold coins, but they are obviously not worth mentioning for the mayor's wealth.
Afraid that something would be missed, Rhodes didn't rush to open the door of a room, observed and sensed the breath inside the room, and after confirming that it was just an ordinary room, he went to search for the next room.
It wasn't long before Rhodes found a larger room next to these rooms.
There was a long table in the room, and some chairs were placed on the side, and there were some decorations around it, but they were only the more common items.
Scanning the contents of the room, Rod knew that this was not the room he was looking for, and moved on to the next room.
Soon, Rhodes finished searching the first floor of the mansion.
The first floor is mostly some ordinary rooms, except for the room where the bone vine is located, which is a little special, and the one that helps Rhodes is only a room for equipment.
The room was filled with a large number of iron swords and shields of special styles, as well as some iron armor, apparently prepared by the mayor for the skeleton warriors. Rhodes collected some iron shields and put them into the spatial ring.
Soon, Rhodes came to the second floor of the mansion.
Rhodes came to the door of a room on the second floor, unlike the unlocked rooms on the first floor, a keyhole on the door caught Rhodes' attention.
Seeing this, Rhodes let the ghost next to him start pounding on the door.
The ghost slammed into the door with all its might, slamming it open in a few clicks, and when the impact was over, the dark light on the ghost's body flowed and he recovered from his injuries.
Rhodes stepped into the room.
In Rhodes' perception, the rich death energy inside the original mansion had become thin in the room, replaced by a rich magical element.
Rhodes looked into the room, where he saw a table with several books, a stack of manuscripts, and quills for writing. The bookcase at the back is filled with all kinds of books.
Rhodes knew that this was the mayor's study, and where he studied his spells.
Arriving at his desk, Rhodes took a book in the middle of his desk and began to examine it.
After flipping through it for a while, Rod put down the book in his hand in disappointment.
There is a lot of magic knowledge recorded in the front of the book, so when Rhodes first looked through the book, he thought it was the mayor's magic book, and when Rod turned the page to the back, he realized that there were no spells at all.
Among them, the knowledge recorded in the book covers the four series of spells, although just a brief glance, Rod realized that the owner of the book has at least an intermediate level of four series of spells.
Seeing this, Rod closed the book and reached for another book on the table.