After passing through the Gate of Time and Space, Rod's form returned to the vicinity of the teleportation monument in Ao City.

The sky was still shrouded in large black clouds, and the dark canopy shielded all spells from probing, and also gathered more death energy for the creatures in the city.

Before that, Leah, who had returned to this place first, had disappeared at this time, thinking that she had returned to her residence first, and the only people who existed here were Rowling and the ghost dragon.

The ghost dragon, surrounded by the aura of the netherworld, leaned down and lay down beside Rowling, who reached out and stroked the top of the ghost dragon's head.

The Nether Aura surrounds Rowling's palm, but it doesn't bring her any erosion, and the necromancer who has the ability to perform the Endless Night Ritual will naturally not be affected by the most basic Nether Energy around the Ghost Dragon.

Noticing the sight of the ghost dragon being completely controlled by Rowling, Rhodes seemed to remember something.

In Rod's impression, Rowling seems to have mastered a special ability, which can cross its own spiritual imprint and directly control the ghost dragon, the existence of this ability is obviously beyond Rhodes's expectations, the last thing that can cross the spiritual imprint of the necromancer and directly control the undead creatures under his command is also the existence of the ghost king's cloak, a unique artifact.

That's why Rhodes wondered how she managed to do it.

Feeling the doubts in Rod's heart, Rowling showed a hint of a smile, without any intention of concealing it, and immediately explained to Rod: "My control of the ghost dragon uses the power of the spirit mark, but the spirit mark used is not my own, but my brother's. ”

Hearing Rowling's explanation, Rod was still a little puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?" During the time when I was banished to the water elemental plane, the spirit mark could not be connected to the existence of the ghost dragon at all, how can you use the power of the spirit mark? ”

Rowling shook her head: "What I mean is not to use the power of my brother's spiritual imprint itself, but to rely on the ability in my perception to make the ghost dragon feel, similar to the order given by my brother through the spiritual imprint, except that the person who gave the order became me." ”

After Rowling's explanation, Rhodes also roughly understood why the ghost dragon would obey her orders, and Rowling should have used a certain ability in blood perception.

Rod's spiritual imprint, the control of the ghost dragon has not been invalid from beginning to end, and Rowling relied on the ability to perceive the bloodline, imitated the breath of Rhodes' spiritual imprint, and gave orders to the ghost dragon.

Rod was naturally curious about this ability in bloodline perception, and at the same time had a burst of doubts, even at this time, Rhodes still did not master this ability, and could not use the power of bloodline perception to directly give orders to the undead creatures under Rowling's hands, but with the help of the existence of artifacts, this can be achieved.

Rod realized that Rowling was able to achieve this, obviously because she had a new understanding of the ability to perceive blood, and Rod could clearly feel that during this time, Rowling's thoughts about herself would be stronger if it weren't for the disagreement over some things.

As the two talked, Rhodes noticed that Rowling had not recovered from the marks left on her body because of the previous ritual, and that there was a large area of unnatural blue-black on the skin on the side of her face, and some flesh was missing, and she could vaguely see the inside of her mouth, but there was no blood left.

At this time, Rowling's overall state of body, although not to the level of those senior necromancers in Rod's impression, is not very good, and Rod realizes that if he does not return in time, Rowling's state will be even worse.

Noticing that Rhodes was looking at her, Rowling wanted to smile, but suddenly realized that her current appearance was not the same as before, so she turned her head slightly, so that the missing part of her face was covered by shadows, and only the side face with an intact face was facing Rod's position.

Feeling the inexplicable emotions in Rowling's heart, Rod didn't say much, just stepped forward slowly, reached out and stroked Rowling's mutilated face, wanting her to return to his own perspective.

The cold finger bones touched her face, Rowling felt a panic in her heart, and reached out to hold Rod's raised hand, at this time, she didn't want this flawed face to show in front of Rod's eyes.

Feeling Rowling's state at this time, Rod did not forcefully turn her head to the side, but asked, "Do you care, my current state?" Without the flesh and blood, the body can't make you feel any warmth. ”

Rod's inquiry made Rowling come back to her senses, and then replied with some loss: "I don't care about this, it's because of my fault that this change has happened to my brother." ”

Rod continued to ask, "What about the other than that?" If I had returned from the Hydro Elemental Plane in this state and had nothing to do with you, would you feel uncomfortable with me in this state? ”

This time, in the face of Rod's inquiry, Rowling glanced at him, shook her head vigorously, and replied: "I won't care about anything, no matter what you become, you will always be my brother." ”

As she spoke, Rowling let go of her grip on Rod, allowing him to move her face to face him.

From Rod's words, Rowling already understood what he meant, just as Rowling would not care about the changes in Rod, and Rod's abnormality at this time would not care either.

Under the effect of Rod's words, the mood in Rowling's heart improved a lot, and the erosion on her body in order to perform the ritual no longer bothered her at this time. Prior to this, if it weren't for the ritual, Rowling naturally didn't want her body to be eroded by the energy of death.

Noticing Rowling's state at this time, in Rod's opinion, since she had not completed the first stage of the ritual, Rowling at this time could still restore all the traces of erosion on her body through the existence of the secret method of energy receptivity, and restore her original state, but it was difficult for Rhodes to achieve this.

The original Rhodes thought that the Receptive Secret Method could restore all traces of erosion, and even the Lich after completing the entire ritual could restore its original form through the Regenerative Secret Method, so there was obviously no problem in restoring Rode's own body.

However, Elsha's words before made Rhodes know that the recovery effect of the secret method of receptivity also has great limitations, the existence of this secret method can help the lich restore its human form, but it cannot restore the perception they lost during the ritual together, and the perception after the effect of the secret method will not be much better than now.