Chapter 6: The Lich of Troublemaking
Along the streets and alleys of this strange city, the kind Mr. Lich and five humans turn left and right - Angela has seen patrolling scarletal soldiers and bone knights at the intersection of the streets more than once, but under the leadership of this Mister Lich, they have managed to get around without any suspicion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is actually a very unscientific thing.
The aura of the living is very different from that of the undead, and it is not that the dead who are not on patrol and guard notice them, but when the dead see the leader of the lich, they silently turn their heads and pretend to turn a blind eye - in the realm of the dead, Diel, there is a strict hierarchical order among the undead, and under no circumstances, the lower ones are not allowed to disobey or question the superiors, unless, some willful and reckless guy does not mind turning into a pile of unconscious bone scraps.
This gentleman was one of the nineteen members of the Parliament - at that level, they were already the top of Dir, and in order to maintain the internal peace and unity of Dir, the nineteen members of the Council of the Dead, and Lord Eddie Gregory, the Lord of the Scourges, were equally equal in status. Every major decision made by Dill must be voted on by the votes of the members of the Council of the Dead.
This is the function and power of the Councillors in Cemetery, and if you look at the entire realm of the dead, these councillors have another identity, they are the commanders of every powerful legion of the dead. Of course, this identity came into play mainly in times of war.
After about two hours of walking, the five former wandering mercenaries finally left Cemetery City. Along the way, Mr. Lich never said a word more, but from time to time he glanced back at the humans behind him, and this journey out of the city was down, and the undead who met along the way bowed to this Mr. Lich, and that respectful attitude was like those knight lords in the countryside in the human world facing the nobles.
Angela began to speculate about the identity of Mr. Lich - here he seems to be a great man?
Standing on a bare hill, Mr. Lich stepped on a craggy gray stone, he took out a pocket watch, looked at the time, and then said lightly to the five wandering mercenaries who had escaped from prison:
"You can go."
"Let's go?"
Mitch was puzzled by Mr. Lich's statement, it didn't look like the surface world. As a mercenary, of course, he also knew the adventurer stories that were sung by the public, and the desolate and deserted scenery of the place where the five of them were located looked like the underworld, and combined with the impressions along the way, he also vaguely guessed that the strange city behind him was probably the core of the legendary Diar's undead, Cemetery City.
Returning to the Overworld from Necropolis requires a passage. In front of this hill, he did not see a cave in the shape of a passage, except for a few dead trees with no leaves, only white stones that could be seen everywhere - no, no. He saw the white stone under the lich's feet, and there seemed to be some words engraved on it.
He crouched down and was about to see more clearly, when he noticed that his companions next to him were doing the same, only Angela didn't move, she looked at Mr. Lich, "Where should we go?" ”
Mr. Lich pointed to his feet.
"But it's all headstones."
Mickey exclaimed, he could see the words on the white stone, all of them were in some common fonts in the Elantt Kingdom, although he was not very literate, but under the name and surname of the seemingly person, there was a line of numbers, and he could see clearly: 341-417. This should be the year of birth and death of the owner of the tombstone.
An aristocratic lord lived to be 77 years old, this old guy's life has really been enjoyed long enough!
Mitch muttered. He watched his companion's reaction, and stole another glance at Mr. Lich.
"I'm not wrong."
There was a strong wind on the hill on the outskirts of Necropolis City, and the lich tightened his cloak, and he said, "The passage is under this tombstone. ”
"But we don't have the tools to dig the soil."
Mickey complained again, only to see a pair of soul fires in Mr. Lich's vague face suddenly light up, and he stared at this man with a lot of words, and softly "Huh? For a moment, the man bowed his head honestly.
"We can use our swords to dig up the dirt under the headstones."
Angela touched the twin swords on her belt, and she said as she acted on the spot - perhaps out of pride in her own strength, Angus had not collected the mercenaries' weapons at first: on the other hand, in a world where suicide was seen as a cowardly and shameful act, he did not think that these humans would take the end of their own lives.
Norman and Rowan also began to pick up their weapons, and Angela's younger brother Rank, a ranger longbowman, had a recurve bow behind his back that didn't look like a job that could be used for digging earth. The young man smiled at the lack of sunlight and nourishment, and he tore off the corners of his hunting suit, wrapped his palms and fingers, and squeezed them to the tombstone, working with his companions.
"You should have fifteen minutes left."
The five mercenaries, ignoring their weakness and fatigue along the way, were digging a deep pit in the brown dirt beneath the tombstone, the lich added. He glanced at the majestic and towering Great Hall of Parliament in the cemetery city, and suddenly took a step forward, and walked in the direction of returning to the city.
According to his plan, the operation was considered a success. So, it's time to get back to your own territory.
Hearing the lich say this, the digging work became more efficient, and the desire to survive made the undead mercenaries burst out with unparalleled strength, Angela's left sword was inserted into the earth, and when he found that there was an empty hole underneath, the five humans immediately cheered.
Then, they remembered that this was still the outskirts of Graveyard City, the territory of Diel's undead, and pressed each other's lips to each other.
The lich chuckled softly at the sound of the humans' cheers - from the sight of the humans on the hill, the back of the cloak was fading, but when Angela was the last to burrow into the ground, the hoarse figure echoed in her ears:
He uttered a long list of numbers, and told her to report the information back to the Church of the Radiant when she returned to the surface world.