(100) In a hellish place
"Abaddon! You lost the Sixth Garrison of the Cult of the Damned, and then you brought us back such a little girl? ”
In the council hall of the Cult of the Damned, the Great Elder who was at the top of the hall angrily punched the long table in front of him, of course, the Lich's strength could not break the long stone table, but the momentum of the superior made the Death Knight below feel palpitations.
"Great Elder! This little girl is the great light in the mouth of that stupid mortal, and it is she who destroys the army of the Cult. ”
The Helllord's humble demeanor at this time was almost like that of a court attendant, justifying the mistakes of his army.
"You've been saying from the beginning that this little girl is a great light, so let's use a little experiment to verify it."
"We're going to put her in the proving ground, put her with the ghouls, if she's really the Great Light, then there's definitely a way to eliminate the ghoul test subjects, and if she fails, then she's not the Great Light, and you'll pay for your deception."
The headquarters of the Cult of the Damned is actually a large research institute, where tens of thousands of undead Scourge elites are improving their rotten soldiers, and they need to study the functional building system they are using, and give full play to the potential of this 'god-given power', so as to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Scourge Legion, so as to spread the truth of their death faster.
These elites include Master Necromancers, Master Banshees, veteran acolytes, and knowledgeable followers of the Cult of the Damned, and their leaders are the Lich class and several special heroic undead, the Lich is the most numerous heroic undead in the Scourge of the Dead, and their conversion success rate is much higher than that of the Death Knight, and becoming a Lich is an honor for the Cult of the Damned.
In the center of the huge circular building modeled after the Roman gladiatorial arena, two ghouls are fighting fiercely, both of them are different from the ghouls on the battlefield outside, one of them has a faint purple light on his claws, and the other wears a very strangely shaped armband on his arm, and the combat power of these two ghouls is not at all comparable to that of ordinary ghouls.
"The Ghoul Armband allows a newly born, ghoul to gain the power to easily kill an elite ghoul who has upgraded the 'Advanced Evil Force' and 'Advanced Evil Armor', and the elite Ghoul can even fight the unequipped heroic ghoul for a while after equipping the Ghoul Armband and the Speed Boots, this is the strongest equipment we have recently researched."
"But the cost of producing this equipment is too high, otherwise we would have a legion of obedient and controllable hero units. The chance of a heroic undead being born is extremely low, and we lost the only heroic abomination in Bologna before. ”
In the stands, two necromancer researchers were talking seriously, as if the so-called heroic undead were all guinea pigs.
At this moment, the elder group of the Cult of the Damned God came to the stands of this testing ground, and the two necromancers hurriedly bent down to salute them.
"Your Excellency the Great Elder, may I ask why you have come to this testing ground? Could it be that there is some new research indication? ”
"I've brought you an interesting piece of research, and she might surprise us, as long as Mr. Abaddon isn't lying."
As he spoke, the Great Elder looked at the Hell Lord, who seemed to be a little uneasy behind him, and then ordered an experiment to be arranged immediately.
The little guy shrank his head and reluctantly moved forward step by step, as long as she wanted to stop, then the two villains behind her would immediately push her forward roughly, and even kick her hard, and the malice around her made the little guy very scared.
The light of the four souls that burst out of Dong Dong can purify the unborn monsters such as ghouls, skeletons, and shadows, but for the living guys, it only purifies the dirty power on the other party's body, and the heroic undead have a certain resistance to this light.
Abaddon knew that Dong Dong was powerful, and the restless glow of the little guy along the way swept away a lot of undead who rushed to her, so Abaddon did not escort her with the undead, but she didn't seem to be able to emit the same scale of light that day when she was in the border fortress.
During the escort, the Hell Lord found that this little girl was getting weaker and weaker day by day, and he was a little worried that if Dongdong weakened to the point where he could not shine, he would not be executed as a deceiver, so he showed a worried expression.
The exit in front of her was getting closer and closer, and the feeling of uneasiness in Dongdong's heart was getting stronger and stronger, and she hugged the knight puppet in her arms tightly to find some comfort on this wooden man, but unfortunately she couldn't even get a little warm feeling, the puppet was just a puppet.
The escort team entered the arena, the huge and empty space that gave the little guy who walked through the long passage a little trance, and then she noticed a large group of monsters in the center of the arena, numbering up to a hundred elite ghouls.
Seeing the thump of these monsters, the first reaction was to turn around and run, but the gate that was suddenly lowered blocked the way for the little guy to escape.
"Don't ...... Don't throw me in this kind of place, let me in! There are so many monsters here! I don't want this place anymore! ”
Knock knocked on the floodgates in vain, but the two Cultists of the Cursed God who were in charge of escorting her turned away without mercy, not bothering to heed the child's pleas and cries, as they had already escorted stupid mortals here more than once.
"Abaddon! Is this what you call the great light? Looks like you're just as stupid as the other Death Knights! Get ready for punishment! ”
The Great Elder pointed to the scene in the gladiatorial arena and said to the Hell Lord in a mocking tone, the little girl who had been sent down was now huddled with her back against the gate and shivering, pitiful like a little white rabbit, and the slowly approaching ghoul was a wolf who had been hungry for ten days and half a month, she couldn't even feed a ghoul, and it was only a matter of time before she was torn to pieces.
From the day the Scourge built this place, hundreds of test specimens have fallen here every day, both painful undead and unfortunate humans, and it is a terrifying experience to feel the wailing sound everywhere in this place.
"Don't ...... Stay away from me and don't come near me. I'm afraid of you...... Don't come near me anymore, okay? Woohoo......"
Even if they could understand Knock Dong's pleading, the ghouls wouldn't have sympathy, and who would sympathize with a tender and delicious steak?
The lichs and necromancers in the stands saw the Knock Knock as a relaxing entertainment, or at least they found it funny.
With only one white rabbit and hundreds of predators, the beastly greed and cunning ghouls finally rushed up, waving their sharp claws and desperately trying to get fresh flesh and blood, and the result was ...... But he was confused by the light.
The frightened little guy finally remembered that he could still release the power of the Jade of the Four Souls, although the feeling after the release was very uncomfortable, but the Dong Dong, who was frightened by the undead villain, couldn't take care of it so much, and the purification power of the Jade of the Four Souls instantly covered the entire gladiatorial arena.
The ghouls who were directly bathed in this light suddenly turned into ordinary stones and fell to the ground without moving, and the elders of the Cursed God Sect in the stands were also greatly impacted, and the huge magic power of the Great Lich and the Master Necromancer was instantly purified by this light, but these guys did not show any panic, because they were all attracted by that light.
Although these lichs and wizards of the Cult of the Damned God all possess knowledge of spiritism and arcane studies that match their identity, and they are able to use necromancy to fight or create magical items in the same way as their peers in other worlds who rely on talent and hard work to become undead spellcasters, just as the warriors born of equipment in this world have been badly evaluated again and again by Ice Hunter and others, these necromancers and lichs ...... They lack the consciousness of true undead spellcasters, and they lack respect for death and souls.
Chadom's evaluation of these guys when he left was to the point, they were just derivatives of functional buildings, nouveau riche who suddenly gained great power, walking corpses who tarnished the name of the undead, these guys only had the rancid stench of death on their bodies but could not see the ghost of the soul, even with the identity and power of the undead, these guys still maintained the way of thinking of the living.
Normal lichs are in their own tombs, a house that is 1,800 years old, and they have transformed themselves into this kind of human and ghostly in order to study magic, and they will not go out at all unless they can obtain more magical knowledge or lack experimental materials.
The Lichs of the Age of Empires, on the other hand, saw themselves as the Superior Ones, the nobles of the New Age, who still had a strong desire for power, wealth, land, and other things that meant nothing to the undead, fueled by the power of functional architecture and the life that seemed to never come to an end, and their twisted beliefs eventually cursed the Cult of God.
The Four Souls Theory is a rather backward and primitive theory of the soul, although it has been accepted by many practitioners who study the soul in an era, and even derived such a peerless treasure as the Jade of the Four Souls, but it was eventually replaced by a more advanced and perfect soul theory, just like the Pythagoreans that detonated the first mathematical crisis but eventually turned into tears of the times.
But it is such a primitive and backward thing, in the eyes of this group of parallel undead is also an indescribable magical existence, the real undead should be very familiar with things but very strange to them, the jade of the four souls is the crystallization of the soul, and the light emitted by the jade of the four souls is the soul light, and Dong Dong let them see the color of the soul for the first time, which is not a good thing for her......
"It's so beautiful! This kind of light! And this power! I saw the secrets of the world from inside! That secret that the summoner is hiding! ”
Shadom didn't deal with his research materials and research facilities on this world in time when he left, he didn't think that the fools of the Cursed God Cult could understand these things, and the Cursed God Cult only knew that this world contained a powerful power, but he didn't know how to contact this power, Shadom was born in a world of monster civilization with a high degree of occultism (the demon world in Mao Yu's biography), and there was an insurmountable gap between the level of knowledge he mastered and the knowledge level of the Cursed God Cult.
Now this situation is that after the local people of the Stone Age saw the explosion of black powder, they swore that Lao Tzu could build a nuclear power plant!
"To raise the study of this little girl to the highest priority, we must find out how she released this light, which may be able to activate the strange facilities left behind by the summoner Shadom, and we have a chance to get the 'realm power' that can subvert everything in the world before he does, and then...... We curse the Cult of God to rule this world! ”
As a result, the bright and beautiful light of the four souls not only did not awaken the conscience of these guys who did not know that they were still there, but was maliciously coveted because of its special effect.
"I'm in favor of this study! It is our mission to spread the truth of death to the whole world! I think research should start with dissection, there should be something different from ordinary humans in this little girl! ”
One of the lichs said in an excited tone, but his opinion was immediately refuted.
"We are not sure if there is a second individual who can emit this light, so it is not wise to rush into dissection, we should start with observation experiments, gradually study the test subject, let the test subject emit that light, and then we observe and record to see if the same conditions can make ordinary people also emit that light."
The sane lich's proposal was approved by all of the Cult of the Damned's higher-ups, who couldn't wait for the study.
At this time, the Great Elder finally noticed Abaddon who had been forgotten to the side, and the Hell Lord looked relieved.
"Hell Lord Mr. Abaddon, you have made a great contribution to the Cursed God Cult, and you will be rewarded."
The Great Elder said.
"In the name of the Chief Elder of the Cult of the Damned, I appoint you as the ruler of Udolfinger City, and take over all the territories of the former Carolingian family, and the undead legions in that territory will be under your command."
The overjoyed Hell Lord hurriedly made a respectful look.
"Thank you for your generosity, thank you for the justice of the Cursed God Cult, I will definitely try to make a greater contribution!"
After Abaddon had left satisfied, one of the lichs asked the Grand Elder strangely.
"Why give such a large area to this stupid Death Knight? On what basis does he command our army? ”
"It doesn't matter, that place will soon become a battlefield...... Our old rivals have fostered an alliance in Otogot, and their full energy is no weaker than that of the Supreme Inquisition, so let this fool and the Death Knights temporarily fend off the army of that alliance, and we just need to study it in peace. ”
Exhausted, Knock collapsed in the middle of the ghoul remains, this time she didn't fall into a coma, the little guy still didn't understand why there were so many villains bullying her, she didn't do something nasty? Even the villains have no reason to bully her......
In the testing ground, the girl's helpless and aggrieved sobs could still be heard, but the audience on the stage was discussing ambition and conspiracy with great interest, and no one bothered to cut down a single glance.
From that day on, Dongdong would bring this place every day to fight the enhanced monsters of the Undead Scourge...... It's not so much a battle, but it's actually just forcing Dongdong to use the Jade of the Four Souls constantly.
The researchers of the Cult of the Damned tried to find a way to preserve the light of their souls, using a variety of materials, even removing the core hedron of a dark castle and transporting it to the proving ground.
But the precious core, which could contain the power of spiritism and turn the entire black castle into a powerful fortress that could be both offensive and defensive, was filled with rifts the moment it came into contact with the purifying light, and before the lich monitoring the experiment gave the order to terminate the experiment, along with the twelve obsidian destroyers in the proving ground, it was reduced to useless shards all over the ground.
The magical materials used in the Scourge of the Dead's functional building system proved to be inaccessible to the Great Light.
In the arena, Knock Knock is being held high by the neck of an Abomination, and if it is only to kill her, the stitching monster can actually use other quicker methods, such as machetes or iron hooks, but that is not allowed.
A lich has concluded that Dong Dong uses that kind of light, and only when she is in fear and pain, she will attack the undead around her, and in normal times, the little girl's reaction is to run away or just shrink into a ball.
But what made the researchers strange was that even though the child was beaten and cried, his voice was hoarse, he was stunned that he never cried out in pain, and he didn't even have an instinctive reaction to the pain, which in their opinion was a big discovery.
"Subjects behave very similarly to us undead when dealing with certain external stimuli, such as whether they can still move their injured limbs unless they have been traumatized to their joints or tendons, while humans in humans will be incapacitated due to trauma that does not affect the motor structure."
At a meeting summarizing the research, one of the lichs recounts Xue Linlin's experiments, and then comes to a hilarious conclusion.
"Perhaps the essence of the test subject is an advanced variant of the undead, and we can crack this variant through more detailed structural research, so as to improve the evolution level of the entire undead."
Evolve...... This word is a word that appears in the materials left behind by Shadom, and the rulers of the Cult of the Cursed find it a word that is suitable for representing all the peoples of the undead beyond the earthly realm, enough to be on a par with the gods.
The undead are evolved, while mortals are a bunch of inferior beings who should be eliminated, valued as domestic animals.
These madmen are reluctant to admit that the light of the undead that can be easily destroyed (they don't know the concept of purification) belongs to a fragile little human girl.
"Perhaps...... Wrong with the direction in which we think? The container that can hold that kind of light is not a dead thing, but a living thing? ”
One of the lichs had a flash of inspiration and made a very constructive proposal
"We should find a bunch of stupid mortals, let the subjects in, and after a while, send the mortals who have come into contact with the subjects into the proving ground to test if they can use that light."
"That's a good idea, but where should we find a group of mortals, the mortal settlements near the headquarters are all in ruins."
"It's easy to do! We happen to have a place here, and there are a lot of mortals......"