Marduk, who was reviewing the troops, looked satisfied.

As the head of defense of the psychic academy, for a long time, most of the people under his command are those unintelligent ghouls and zombies, then flesh puppets and gargoyles, a few necromancers or those who can't graduate, these subordinates are indeed more than enough to guard against ordinary people who occasionally get lost and come in, but who doesn't want to have more power in their hands?

Marduk didn't mean to betray Kel'thugad, but for a heroic undead warrior like him, training a group of cannon fodder every day really didn't interest him.

Fortunately, this operation made him very satisfied, and the harvest was rich. Looking at the five hundred undead knights neatly arranged in front of him, Marduk felt for the first time the majesty, grace, majesty of being a commander!

At this point, Marduk also had to thank Yu Bin, the little undead. At the beginning, when Kel'thugad ordered him to obey Yu Bin's command, although Marduk did not object, he was still very disgusted in the depths of his soul. It was an insult to let him go as a hero-level existence to listen to a small reptile who was not even a third-order reptile. If this was not an order given to him by Lord Kel'thugad himself, he would definitely use the black sword in his hand to cut Yu Bin in two.

But now, as the leader of a group of undead knights, Marduk is very happy with the little guy who never interferes with his actions except to complete his mission. Look, that's a full 500 undead knights.

So, even when his review was interrupted by Yu Bin, Marduk didn't get angry.

"Aha, little one, is there anything you need help from Commander Marduk?" The undead warrior asked condescendingly, riding on a skeletal horse.

Yu Bin endured Marduk's rudeness, anyway, this is not the first time, and he will get used to it after a long time: "Your Excellency Marduk, we have to go." ”

"Oh, looks like we have a new goal! Say, which unlucky guy are we going to do this time? "The smooth military operations in the past few days have made Marduk not pay any attention to those human beings.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to satisfy your desire to fight this time, Lord Marduk, we need to go to the ruins of Madla to find something."

The ruins of Madla are located on the edge of the province of Lamia in the Almerian Empire, near the Casvaator region of the Kingdom of Virgil.

Once a city famous for its gemstones, any jewellery merchant would give a thumbs up when it comes to Marderla's jewelry. Thanks to the finest gemstones mined in the Kasvaator region, the city has doubled the revenue of the province of Lamia in less than two decades.

However, with the sudden eruption of the Galigaya volcano in the Kasvaator region, magma and ash turned those gem mines into hell, and the ensuing fire elemental riot, Casvatora quickly became a chicken rib, and the cost of redeveloping abandoned mines far outweighed the excavation of new mines, so the gems exported from Casvaator were almost completely cut off. A large number of gem artisans had to leave the city to make a living elsewhere.

Faced with the fire and lava elements that come out of the Casvatorium from time to time, the Almerian Empire had to designate a large area centered on Maldra as a dangerous area, which made Maldra decay more and more, and eventually caused the city to become a ruin due to the empty buildings.

Because many of the mines in Casvatora were destroyed by volcanoes so suddenly, a large number of unprocessed gems were buried under the cooled magma. When the Almerian Empire decided to abandon Maldela, the city became a paradise for scavengers, who set out from the ruins to excavate in the Casvato region. If you are lucky, you can use a gem you dig up in exchange for a few months of affluent life, while if you are unlucky, you can only die under the heat and flames of those fire elements.

It wasn't until the appearance of the Lich Maltan that some changes began.

For some reason, most of the scavengers who went to Mardra to try to unearth gems have died here in the past six months, and survivors who have been lucky enough to escape report that some undead spirits with their bodies on fire are hunting down any scavengers who try to enter Kasvatore.

The scavengers believe that these undead are the miners who died in the volcanic eruption, and in this way they defend the place where they work. However, it is also believed that the Lich Maltan has awakened the miners sleeping underground through some special ritual in an attempt to turn the undead into his own men, but apparently for some reason he has to abandon this plan.

Compared with the former theory, Yu Bin believes that the latter speculation is more reliable, the last eruption of the Galigaya volcano was more than 60 years ago, and although the exact time of the appearance of these fiery undead cannot be proven, at least half a year ago, the scavengers have not encountered similar monsters.

The time when Maltan was inherited, the sudden appearance of the flame undead, and the inaccessible characteristics of Casvato made Yu Bin have to wonder what secrets are buried here.

For a lich, the lifebox is arguably their most important thing. Each Lich will immediately create their own life box and put in a small piece of their own soul shard. Then keep the life box in what they think is the most secretive. Once the lifebox is successfully crafted, even if the lich's body is completely destroyed and the soul is completely annihilated, the soul fragments kept in the lifebox will be preserved, and with a long time to recover, the lich will finally be reborn.

As such, each lifebox embodies all the skills and knowledge of the maker, representing the lich's highest magical achievement, the result of his life's work.

After learning that Kel'thugad had fought alongside the Grand Sorcerer Griman, Yun asked for some information about the legendary lich. According to Kel'thugad, compared to other lichs who commonly use death and soul power to protect the life box, Griman uses the power of the earth to do this, as long as his life box is surrounded by the earth, he can continuously absorb the surrounding earth element, which can be used to protect the life box and nourish the soul fragments inside. This ingenious method was of great interest to Kel'thugad for a time, and he paid a great deal of money to obtain this skill in making a life box. However, to do this, it required a very deep knowledge of earth magic, which forced Kel'thugad to eventually give up making such a life box.

As for why Griman died in the end with such an invincible life box, it can only be said that those elves spent a huge amount of effort to destroy this lich. In order to ensure that not a single fragment of Gryman's soul was left behind, the elves sacrificed the lives of a full twelve heroes, using the immense force of nature to reunite Griman and the fragmented soul fragments before slaying the powerful lich once and for all.

Yu Bin believes that Maltan, an unlearned miser, simply does not have the ability to make a life box on his own, and this coward is notoriously small, so after he is successfully promoted to the lich, there is only one way he can go, and that is to use the life box left by Griman. And after having the life box, Maltan's personality determined that he could not put the life box too far away from him, and of course it was impossible to carry it directly with him.

And from the time Martan infiltrated the Kingdom of Virgil to the present, it has only been about half a year, and Yu Bin believes that Martan, who is busy with revenge, does not have so much mind to find another place to put his life box. There is a high probability that the lifebox was hidden by him in the territory of the Kingdom of Virgil.

When Yu Bin entered the ruins of Madla with Marduk and a small number of undead elites, the Almeria Empire had no heart to care about this handful of undead who didn't know where they came from. In the name of guarding against the invasion of the undead, Queen Fiona has placed more than 200,000 Imperial troops on the border between Almeria and Minas, ready to enter this brutal but stubborn kingdom, under the pretext of helping His Majesty King Manteine Virgil to destroy the evil undead entrenched in the castle of Radre.

In a way, this is also the result that Yu Bin has long expected.

"These flame undead can't communicate at all!" "I've never encountered such an undead, and fire is second only to light and the forces of nature. If only Professor Kasdinov were here, that madman loves to study this kind of thing the most. ”

Five hundred undead knights and a few abominations cleaned up the surrounding special undead under Marduk's orders, but other than that, they only brought a few necromancers and gargoyles as guards, and as for the low-level skeletons, zombies and ghouls, they didn't bring a single one.

"That's why Maltan used this as a place to keep his life box, because even the undead can't torture any information out of these guys' heads." Yu Bin doesn't care very much, although most of these special flame undead are skeletons and zombies, but their strength is at least the fifth order, for ordinary players, even if they form a team, it is difficult to survive here, but for Yu Bin, who has two heroes and hundreds of high-level undead knights, these things will not pose any threat to him.

"How far are we from our goal?" Alan asked, riding his horse and turning the dagger in his hand.

"It should be almost there." Yu Bin replied while looking at the small box in his hand. Inside the box is a magic item made by Kel'thugad himself, which can be used to sense Gryman's breath, and as a life box used by the Great Sorcerer, it will definitely leave a lot of traces of Gleeman's power on it. "You look around, I think that stupid guy from Maltan will definitely leave a trace."

"By trace, what do you mean?" Alan stopped what he was doing and pointed into the distance.

Yu Bin looked at the crane arm and stand that stood up speechlessly, and his face twitched: "Okay, I admit it, I overestimated the IQ of that idiot lich. Yu Bin never imagined that Maltan's obsession with wealth would reach such an extent that he didn't even let go of the gems buried underneath.

With the goal, the speed of the march naturally increased, with the undead knight and the abomination of the way, in less than ten minutes, Yu Bin and they successfully arrived at the excavation site.

Looking at the hot construction site in front of him, Yu Bin couldn't connect this place with the lich who was already in danger.

Located near the Galigaya Volcano, it is surrounded by a high concentration of fire elements, and there are sixth- and even seventh-order lava elements wandering everywhere. But for some reason, the lava elements turned a blind eye to the excavation site in front of them. A large number of flame skeletons were used as coolies, and the rock walls around the excavation pit were constantly gouged by hand to the rock walls formed by the magma cooling and solidifying, and the rock walls around the excavation pit were set up with a number of booms and supports, which appeared to be a rudimentary device, probably used to smash the surrounding lava stone walls so that the skeleton miners could dig faster.

"You think that guy is going to hide his life box here?" Alan asked, confused.

"I don't know, but that's what the guide in my hand instructs. Let's take a look, I don't think it's going to waste much of our time. The corners of Yu Bin's eyes twitched a few times, and then he made a look at Marduk.

Marduk, who had long been impatient, immediately waved his hand, and the undead knights immediately rushed down, and they were responsible for cleaning up the skeleton miners.

The necromancers began to summon new skeletons to explore the caverns around the digging pit.

An hour later, Yu Bin, who had searched the entire excavation site, had to admit that he had taken things too simply.

In this huge pit, Martan dug more than a hundred small digging pits, the largest of which was about the size of several football fields, and the smallest, the size of a volleyball court. The most troublesome thing for Yu Bin is that the tunnels dug out by the flame skeletons are intertwined with the original pit tunnels here, and may even cover the entire Kasvaatar area, becoming a huge underground labyrinth. And Yu Bin simply didn't have enough manpower to explore one by one, and time didn't allow him to do so.

Marduk stood next to Yu Bin and asked, "Do you need me to go back and bring more troops?" I estimate it will only take three days to get here, and you'll have enough people by then. ”

"We're not here to fight! Do you want that queen of Almeria to send those more than 200,000 troops to destroy us? Yu Bin shook his head and vetoed Marduk's suggestion.

"What then?" Ailan asked, and Lei Guang and the others also stood by and waited for Yu Bin's decision.

Yu Bin also felt a headache, the guide provided by Kel'thugad could only indicate the general direction, after all, Griman had been dead for so long, and even if he left some traces of power on the fortune box, this trace was already very weak, and he didn't know when it would completely dissipate.

"I thought you really could do anything!" When everyone was sad, Les Frost slowly walked out of the transmitted white light, his own strength was enough for him to easily break through a temporary spatial rift.

Seeing Rice's appearance, Yu Bin's face showed a strange expression, tilted his head to stare at him for a while, and suddenly smiled.

Isn't this guy the best detector in front of you? Everyone is a lich, so the lifebox should be similar to the lifebox, right?