Chapter 336: The Great Emperor of the Dead (Part II)
"Missing again? How so? ”
Although it was hard to show any surprise on his bone-only countenance, Edwin the Lich still couldn't believe what he had just heard.
It was already midnight on the second day when the army of the Maharaja David began to assemble and set out, and it was unbelievable that the missing people continued to appear in the camp.
If it was just ordinary low-level undead who were missing, maybe they would naturally fall apart as they walked, and it was no big deal, if it was a mid- or high-level undead who were missing, maybe there were strong hunters hunting in the dark, and it would be understandable, but what was missing was ......
"Yes, the camp of the Lord of Carben in the southwest city is empty, the tents are all there, the utensils are there, even the personal utensils of each person are there, but they are empty."
The messenger was a ghost, his expression blurred, and the flickering shadow shell showed his agitated heart.
"How is that possible! This is the thirty-seventh time that the group has disappeared, and it is clear that the high-level undead are constantly patrolling back and forth, but they are still missing. By the way, does Maharaja Kaben know? ”
This has to be said to be a wonderful irony, the undead actually encountered ghost stories, and this colleague who disappeared silently made them incomprehensible at all.
If it was a sudden attack, how could it be so unresponsive, there was not even a trace of battle on the scene, and if it was of other races, it could be a large-scale psychic attack, but the undead were immune to psychic magic, how could it be so silently gone.
"Maharaja Kaben...... Maharaja Carbon, who was in the barracks at the time, was missing too! ”
The lich slammed to its feet, the soul fire in his eyes flickering. Just the sudden disappearance of low-level undead is nothing. But at least how could the legendary undead lord be so inexplicably gone. Kaben's strength is definitely not below him, if he can suddenly disappear, how can he be called safe.
Can you kill the Undead Lord in an instant? And still leave no traces? Still a few big names are repeatedly scanning the camp right now? Even though he hadn't felt the threat of death for a long time, Edwin the Lich still felt a chill in his vest, as if something was snooping on him in the night.
"Actually, I have some clues, but I haven't been sure ...... yet"
The phantom's fluctuations became more and more intense, and it seemed that the secret contained in it made it impossible to control its excitement.
"What the hell have you found! Say it! ”
And the rush of love makes the lich take the initiative to face the ghost. Grab the other party's empty body and ask hurriedly.
"That's ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the lich noticed that the shadow seemed to begin to dissipate, the dark wind filling the room with smoke, and the silent wail was the scream of the soul, as if some curse had been triggered, and the ghost began to die out of its own accord.
"Say it! I command you to speak quickly! ”
The hurried Lich Edwin hurriedly approached the ghost, pouring a large amount of negative energy into his arm, asking it to maintain his dissipating body. After that, I found that the situation was not right.
The negative energy sent out is like a stone sinking into the sea. The outstretched arm found that it could not be withdrawn, but the shadow completely turned into a black mist, and the black mist turned into a distorted face again, and some of the faces were so familiar.
The hoarse voice of the soul echoed through the room, without the slightest emotion.
"Join us......"
“…… Why would it be you! Kaben! ”
The most striking face was the undead lord who had just disappeared, feeling that the situation was not good, Edwin immediately planned to activate the protective spell, but there was no response, when the black fog completely dissipated, the lich's tent was empty, as long as the open window was still blowing in the night breeze, the journal on the desk was blown over and over again, as if the master here had just been there-
"Did you hear that? There are a lot of undead missing in the night, it's terrible. This time, there is actually a lich in the missing person, and it is said that not only is his person gone, but even the life box has become empty, and it is really terrible that the lich with the life box can disappear like this. ”
"What are you afraid of, you are not an undead."
Apparently in response to Betty's exclamation, the dwarven "eldest sister" Mary was not interested, she was trapped in the camp, she had been off drinking for two days, her face was full of tiredness and malaise, according to her, this was the habit of the dwarves, and it would be fine in two days, but I knew that it was just a simple over-drinking alcoholism, and it would be fine in two days...... Or, she wasn't wrong, it was just a habitual alcoholism of the whole family.
“…… I've just made a good trade channel, and those undead are really in stock, especially those wisdom undead, as long as they have some expired periodicals and books, they can be exchanged for a lot of treasured magical materials and gold. Originally, the corpse witch promised to introduce me to a big boss lich, but the boss disappeared directly, and it was canceled directly, ahhhh ”
“…… Not to mention that the cursed skull after the enchantment treatment is a precious material for necromancy, you a true god priest with this thing is no different from blasphemy, that thing has a minimum price of tens of thousands of gold coins, and you plan to receive two silver coins? That's too much of a profiteer, isn't it? ”
How to say it, should I say that I am worthy of the priest of the goddess of wealth, you can even earn money from the dead!
"By the way, I can sell amulets that have been blessed by the true gods! Now people are panicking...... The ghost is panicked, and it can definitely be a big sale! ”
"It's good not to be found out, by the way, have you noticed, a lot of undead have become sluggish lately, and they seem to be at a loss......"
Well, while you can make money, you can also promote teachings, maybe you can also poach a few believers from the undead, and the business experience outside the door is enough to move the wealth fan of the goddess of wealth for the time being, and my research is already on the right track.
In the very center of the room, there is a decaying stone tombstone, and the surrounding area is still covered with all kinds of magic circles, and dead cats write and draw around them, and maintain them.
"It's incredible. So small. Is that the core of the Gravelands? ”
Graveyard Devil. One of my gains in the Tower of the Clouds is also a super undead creation made according to the ancient method.
He is a strange monster, often the embodiment of the cemetery, once awakened, at least a super undead war machine above the holy rank, and its specific combat power and ability will be determined according to the area and history of the cemetery that composes it.
If it's an ordinary cemetery...... Ordinary cemeteries can't be made, and generally only areas with enough negative energy have been corrupted for more than 100 years. It is possible to produce, and if it is a graveyard demon that appears on the battlefield after a hundred years of bloody war, it is a giant war plane more than 100 meters high, if it is a graveyard demon built on a battlefield of this level of divine war, if there are demigods and quasi-god corpses, then it is the existence of a true god who also has a headache, in fact, the demon lord of the demon endless abyss is such a grave demon, but I heard that it is naturally generated.
Ordinary necromancers see it as a creature of necromancy, but they don't study it thoroughly. This is a common problem for most mages, who are accustomed to the magic of all kinds of mysterious creations. I don't ask why, this is a kind of calm and peace created by the overdeveloped magic civilization, but because of the luxurious colors in front of you, you also miss a lot of hidden scenery.
The most incredible thing about the graveyard demon is his structure, he is built from the grave soil with extremely high negative energy, that is, although it has negative energy and bones in its body, nine percent of the material is still the earth element.
Then, according to the most basic elemental theory, it seems that he should be an earth-elemental creature, but in fact, no matter which class, he is considered a purely undead creature.
This is undoubtedly contrary to the current mainstream theory of undead studies.
Unlike my approach to research from the essence and the basics, the vast majority of necromancers start from the undead materials that can be seen and touched, and they tend to make stronger undead creatures with better undead materials, and even according to my personal theory, this is not wrong, a strong soul must have a strong body to exert its strongest strength, gentleman...... A positive soul must be carried by a healthy body, otherwise it will most likely go wrong, but this is definitely not the whole of the undead creation!
The bones of legendary powerhouses can often create legendary-level undead, but it does not mean that all legendary undead must be made from the bones of strong people above legendary, and in the eyes of most necromancers, this is indeed an unquestionable axiom.
If you follow the classic model of the undead creation, it is impossible to explain why the graveyard demons made of clay are so powerful, they have an incredibly powerful blasphemy aura, and their own combat power is amazing, and at the same time, they can also become a supply and training place for the undead, let alone explain the source of those supernatural abilities.
Perhaps, they would say that the bones played a role, but the bones buried in the soil were undoubtedly random combinations of natural formations.
If any combination of materials can form a magical creation, it can create a top-level undead with a large number of supernatural abilities, and what else is needed for the necromancer circle and necromancer is a mockery of the classic undead creation theory.
But it can be explained clearly by my undead structure, and that's why I'm so interested in Gravelands.
"Only a soul strong enough can drive such a powerful undead creature, and through Guò's research, it has been determined that that soul does not have much intelligence...... No, it should be said that without any memory and knowledge, it is simply like a newborn baby, his soul is simply blank, and he has a soul above the legendary level just born, which is simply inexplicable. ”
This naturally reminds me of the River Styx, which is capable of reincarnating the soul, and after several realizations, I have also come to the conclusion that it is most likely to be close to the truth.
This soul is not an individual in the graveyard, but a collection of countless individual remnant souls, and the entire graveyard is his body, and the soul that matches it is born in this body.
The final conclusion may be a bit deviant, but I personally think there is some truth:
Under the long-term erosion of negative energy, the normal transformation from life to death is reversed, the bones of the deceased become the catalyst for transformation, the sludge full of bones has completed the transformation from death to life, and all the remnant souls are synthesized (devoured each other to give birth) to a collective consciousness, he is a newborn, so he is blank, and it takes time and knowledge to catalyze him to mature into an adult.
Okay, now that you know how the graveyard demon is generated, is there any practical significance? Cemeteries that are more than 100 years old are not everywhere, and there are still many unknowns in the collective consciousness. Even if you want to mass-produce, it is not possible.
But just draw the scoop according to the gourd. Manufacture of finished products according to drawings and processes. It's just a third-rate technician, a real researcher, but can improve the original design according to the principle, if the material is insufficient, you can find a replacement, and even make a product far beyond the original.
“…… There are two basic conditions for the formation of graveyard demons, the first is the accumulation of a lot of negative energy into a relatively independent individual, and the second is second. It's a lot of relatively independent souls. In a sense, the army of the undead that has gathered together meets this basic condition, they are a whole (legion), but there are countless independent soul fragments (the undead themselves). ”
Of course, this is not enough, there are still many unsolved mysteries about the creation of grave demons, and the undead who are simply gathered together cannot achieve the premise of the generation of cluster consciousness, so I have made some moves.
"Is this the soul of the newborn graveyard demon in this tombstone?"
"Nope. No, he's just a fragment of the soul of the 'Little Three'. It's a part of what I've cut out for research. If it is a complete junior, it is useless, he already has his own body, but if it is an incomplete fragment in front of him, and he longs for it to be complete, he will complete my goal, and he will become the seed of this soul giant! ”
There is a connection between the undead, the undead emperor controls the undead king, the undead lord uses the soul contract to control the high-level undead, and the high-level undead controls a large number of low-level undead, which is a conceptually established soul network, and he is also the backbone of the undead army.
If you think of an army of the undead as an individual, each member is his cell, but these cells have independent consciousness, what will happen if one day, the consciousness of the cluster awakens, and orders all of its cells to obey its own command, and the consciousness of individual cells is extinguished?
The current "little three" is that cluster consciousness, all I have to do is very simple, just tell him that the entire army of the undead is his body, and the soul network formed between the undead is his meridians and blood vessels, and he should wake up!
"He woke up, he needed the body, he needed the power of death to be brought together, he needed all the cells to be arranged according to his wishes, he was born prematurely deficient, he wanted ...... Born! ”
I don't know what strange changes have been undertaken, just as no one knows how the baby acquires its consciousness and soul, how many miraculous processes there are, all I did was to meet the conditions for this phenomenon to happen, and then this phenomenon happened naturally, but ......
“…… To be honest, I don't know what the results of this will be, but don't you think it's interesting because you don't know? The real yàn who is destined to succeed is not interesting at all, or the unknown is the most attractive. And if it succeeds, my undead tectonics will have new results! ”
And now, my real fruit, this camp, the army of the undead, has come to life, cleansing his body of impurities, perfecting his soul and body, and he has commanded his blood vessels, torso, limbs, and internal organs to obey his own commands and build his most perfect body.
The undead came together with blank eyes, fused and devoured each other, they couldn't resist, and they wouldn't resist, just like the body couldn't refuse the command of the soul, only the strong who proved themselves to the world with the soul emblem could maintain their independence for a short time, but instead let the cluster consciousness take the initiative to find the door in advance, and turned it into nutrients in advance, since they were still part of this legion, they were naturally swallowed without resistance.
A newborn soul is on the way to birth, and as the leader of the experiment, I can't finish my daily records, and countless inspirations flash in my mind, as if I am about to see the birth of another masterpiece, and this time, since it is the gathering of the legions that bring about war, I intend to call him Mars (war mars).
Perhaps, only by using the self to construct the Holy Order of the Mental Image World can we avoid the desperate situation of being conceptually defined as part of the Great Army, and judging from the fact that there is already a Holy Order Undead Monarch who is unlucky, such a standard may not be safe.
Of course, it's easy to refuse Mars's call, just tell yourself that you are not part of the army of the dead but an outsider, and then Mars is naturally not conceptually able to define you as part of his physical body.
But alas, as long as I don't say it, it is impossible for any of the undead to think of it.
This is indeed very unreasonable, but with the concept of the Middle Ages in a certain region, if someone predicts that the creation of steel can fly on the water, it will definitely be regarded as a madman, many seemingly unreasonable phenomena are just because the research is not deep enough, but the actual results can be reversed from the principle, if this experiment can really be successful, I am afraid, I will step by step to reverse the intermediate process, destined to gain a lot of gains.
"That...... Have you ever wondered how it ends? This thing makes me feel hairy, and you're not afraid that you won't be able to control him. ”
"Don't worry, I've thought it all through."
"Ready-to-prepare? How? When was it done? ”
“…… It should be said that since I couldn't think of how to control zhì at all, I didn't intend to control zhì at all. Do parents plan for the future of their newborn child? Let him grow up freely and happily. Well, judging by this appetite, he would be a good healthy boy. ”
[He will definitely be healthy, and others will definitely be very unhealthy!] Don't say it's like a stupid parent who is proud of the excessive vitality of a bear child, you can't reflect on it, and during the gestation period, even the holy order is swallowed as a nourishment, what kind of monster will you become in the end? High-level undead are obviously much better than negative energy soil as a physical composition, have you ever thought about how strong the cluster souls composed of this undead lord will be in the end? The two-way bonus of soul and body will give a bonus of geometric numbers! There is basically no upper limit to that thing, have you thought about it, and you will play with it nine out of nine? I said a long time ago that if you don't stop the creation of the undead, sooner or later you will destroy the world! System prompt: Five points of justice points are automatically deducted, don't thank me. By the way, what do you think of the next time I use the growller? 】
Heloise nodded indifferently, she was used to it,
“…… My majesty, sooner or later you will ruin the world, really. (To be continued......)