Chapter 60: The Cemetery

Leaving the Soul of Magic, Bai Qi was not in a hurry to go to the Hall of Glory, he walked around the first street for a small half circle, and came to the muddy ground in front of the Soul Shepherd's shop.

Bai Qi hesitated for a moment and walked onto the stone path that led to the Soul Shepherd's shop.

Walking into the abandoned house on the ground of the soul shepherd's shop, Bai Qi did not enter the underground passage, he found the back door of the abandoned house and walked out.

Outside the back door of the abandoned house is a barren meadow, and a path faintly passes through the meadow, leading to a dark and dense forest not far away.

Bai Qi walked through the barren meadow and followed the path through the woods for several hundred meters, and a desolate glade appeared in front of him.

A layer of mist covered the glade, which made the light in the clearing even darker than in the forest behind Bai Qi.

The dark clearing is densely packed with tombstones, and this is actually a cemetery.

In the center of the cemetery was a tall black tower, with the entrance on the first floor of the tower open, and two tall knights in dark full-body armor guarded the gates.

Looking at the gloomy scene in front of him, even Bai Qi, who had been born and died several times, couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, and hesitated for a while before he walked into the cemetery.

Bai Qi walked through the cemetery and came to the tower, two strict death knights wrapped in pitch-black armor turned their heads to look at him, Bai Qi clearly saw that behind the tight armor were two pairs of blood-red eyes.

Bai Qi looked at the two Death Knights, paused for a moment in surprise, and the two Death Knights reached out and grasped the hilt of the broadsword at their waist.

The power of the thick darkness and death suddenly spread, and Bai Qi couldn't help but feel a tingle in his scalp, and he hurriedly followed the legend. He flipped over and took out a blue evolution crystal and threw it into a chest at the feet of the two Death Knights.

With Bai Qi's movements. The two Death Knights let go of their swords and took a half-step back. Get out of the way of the tower's doors.

Bai Qi swallowed his saliva, and stubbornly walked past the two death knights and walked into the tower.

The light in the tower was dim, and on the four walls of the hall of hundreds of square meters, only four miserable white oil lamps hung on the four walls.

A mage wearing a black robe and a hood walked out of the shadows and appeared beside Bai Qi silently, startling him, who was already nervous.

Bai Qi looked back. Underneath the gloomy hood, the mage had a young but pale face, and he turned a blind eye to Bai Qi's surprise and asked coldly, "What do you need?" ”

Bai Qi swallowed his saliva and moistened his throat, and said; "I have a nice corpse and want to make a zombie."

The young mage said, "Follow me." ”

With that, he turned and walked towards the simple wooden staircase at the edge of the hall.

The two of them followed the stairs to the second floor of the tower, which was a dark passage against the outer wall of the tower compared to the open hall on the first floor.

The young mage took Bai Qi and walked in the passage for more than ten minutes. At least a hundred meters have been crossed, but still still not reached the destination.

From the outside, the diameter of the roots of this tower is about twelve or thirteen meters, according to this size. The circumference of the second floor of this tall tower would not exceed forty meters, however, Bai Qi followed the young mage. They had walked more than a hundred meters around the passage, but they didn't see the stairs they had come up before.

Dark and narrow. The seemingly endless road made Bai Qi's heart full of depression.

The two walked another thirty or forty meters and stopped in front of a rough iron gate. The young mage chanted a few incantations lightly, and with a finger of his hand, a green light shone from his fingertips onto a simple circle in the middle of the gate, and after a few moments, the gate rumbled open.

The young mage made a gesture to invite in, and Bai Qi stepped through the door.

Inside the door was a huge room, and in the center of the room was a huge test bench that occupied one-third of the room, and the test bench was filled with bottles and jars and utensils that Bai Qi did not recognize.

On the opposite side of the test bench, a pale, emaciated middle-aged man was dissecting a female corpse.

The middle-aged man was dressed in a black robe, his sleeves were rolled up high, and he stared intently at the corpse in front of him, and the scalpel in his hand moved as flexibly as if it were alive.

The air was filled with a strange smell of a corpse mixed with the smell of a certain perfume, which was disgusting.

The middle-aged man asked without raising his head: "Warrior, what do you want?" ”

Bai Qi said: "I want to make a zombie. ”

The middle-aged man stopped what he was doing, "Manufacturing? So you have excellent corpses? "This is clearly a keen person.

Bai Qi said: "Yes, it is precisely because I obtained a good corpse that I want to make a zombie." ”

The middle-aged man completely stopped what he was doing, he cast a spell of "organ preservation" on the corpse that was being dissected, then put down the scalpel, bypassed the huge test bench, and came to Bai Qi's side, a thick smell of blood and corpses came to his nose.

Bai Qi frowned, but he didn't show anything abnormal, this necromantic mage had a strong spiritual power surging in his body, he was obviously an intermediate mage who was more than five levels, and it was not something that Bai Qi could offend casually.

The middle-aged man came to Bai Qi's side and said, "Take it out and take a look, let me see your corpse." ”

Bai Qi took out the treasure chest from the storage space, opened the lid, and took the body of Kimbar Khan out of the box, and the body left the box and quickly grew into a normal size.

Bai Qi held the obviously overweight corpse in both hands and placed it in an empty space on the test bench.

The middle-aged mage couldn't wait to get over to the corpse to take a closer look.

Bai Qi quietly took two steps back, keeping himself away from him.

The middle-aged mage pinched and touched the emaciated corpse of Kimbar Khan like a necrophile for a long time before he effectively raised his head regretfully, and he muttered, "It's a pity, if this corpse were stronger, it would be able to make a ghoul, not a zombie that won't last long." ”

Bai Qi asked, "What's the difference between the two?" ”

The mage said: "The difference is very big, ghouls are undead life, and zombies are undead items, to be precise, zombies are not life, they rely on the mage's spells and negative energy for a short time, relying on some instinctive actions before life, they have no soul and no consciousness, and will only act according to the simple orders of the mage." ”

As soon as he talked about his profession, this eerie-looking undead turned into a chatterbox, and he babbled, "Negative energy corrodes the zombie's body all the time, making his body decay rapidly, and when the zombie's body is completely decayed, he becomes a lower-level undead species." Skeletons', having lost their bodies, skeletons are fragile and have little strength, and are of little use, but because bones are more resistant to corrosion than muscles, if they are not destroyed, skeletons can exist for a long time until their skulls and the magic circle on their skulls are corroded through, and the negative energy destroys the brains that are specially protected by spells inside, and once the brains are corroded, the control center of this undead is destroyed, and it will completely lose control and become a pile of waste. ”

What made Bai Qi speechless was that as soon as this guy opened the conversation, he didn't dare to interrupt him.

"Unlike zombies, ghouls are a kind of creatures, undead creatures, undead creatures are also a kind of life, it can be much more advanced than undead items made by spells, undead life is a special life between life and death, their bodies are transformed by spells through special rituals to adapt to negative energy, just like demons, they will not decay due to the erosion of negative energy, and because of this, their bodies will not be like ordinary creatures, because of the negative energy that is actually ubiquitous in the main world. So the power of immortality was obtained, and this is where the name immortal life comes from. ”

"However, low-level undead beings only transform their bodies, but not their souls, so the souls of low-level undead lives will be attacked and injured by negative energy, so they are often delirious and intellectually low, and can only rely on instinct and the control of the mages who control them, and with the decay of the soul, the low-level undead lives will actually die."

"In order to overcome this shortcoming, the great arcanists of the Arcane Empire have created high-level undead lifeforms, and high-level undead lifeforms have not only been transformed to adapt to negative energy, but even their souls have been transformed, so that they will not be harmed and decayed by the erosion of negative energy, so they have a life close to immortal."

…… (To be continued......)