Chapter 35: The Cemetery
To the northwest of the village of Kalipura is a fairly expansive cemetery. This village is obviously not big, but the cemetery is very large, almost half the size of a village.
This situation is very peculiar and unconscionable. When I first played the game, the Raiders team had researched this and determined that there had been a war here a long time ago, and the armies of the two countries had formed a battle on the dividing line between the forest and the grassland. Although the winner was not decided in the end, many corpses were left behind.
Of course, the corpses of the big guys can be transported back to their hometowns, but the minions cannot. So after the two sides signed the peace treaty, the soldiers were buried on the spot. The predecessor of the village of Kalipura was an altar of the Church of the Grim Reaper built to look after the necropolis.
The priests of the Grim Reaper have always been committed to maintaining the balance between life and death, and they like to move around such large cemeteries so that they can be the first to discover the spirits of the dead who have been resurrected with resentment and return them to the realm of the dead.
In the decades since the war, the priesthood of the Grim Reaper have been working well. But then there was an accident, the old priest who was in charge of supervising and managing the cemetery somehow fell ill and died, and before the successor priest arrived, the young priest was attracted by the strange skull ring that suddenly appeared, and abandoned the belief in "maintaining the balance between life and death" and began to study necromancy.
That little priest was none other than Hammer.
Hamer's luck was not good, and before he could figure out what to do, he mastered the means of transforming dead bodies into skeletons, and the substitute priest of the Church of the Grim Reaper arrived.
A seasoned priest and two warriors of the guards, the trio didn't have much effort to kill Hammer and seal him in the cemetery.
After that, the Church of the Grim Reaper still guarded the cemetery, but as time passed, something happened that the Raiders failed to verify, and finally the Church of the Death left the area, handed over the area to an adventurer called Kalipura, and established the Pioneer Village.
That Kalipura is the ancestor of the village chief of Kalipura. According to him, it can be called "Kalipura I".
Kalipura was not alone, he had several companions, including a priest of the Earth Goddess, who had settled down and established a Temple of the Earth Goddess in the village. As for the other partners, there is no record of it, and it is estimated that the descendants have been cut off or left here.
As the years passed, the power of the seal waned. The skull ring, an evil magical equipment, comes alive again, resurrecting the long-slain Hammer and turning the former Reaper priest into a true necromancer, a skeleton-only necromancer. The reborn Hammer is full of hatred for the world and hatred for the living, but he still remembers how easily he was killed, so he has been hiding underground to accumulate strength, waiting for the day when he will achieve great results and make big news.
If you follow the plot of the game, Hammer's big news finally succeeds. The village of Kalipura was turned into a ghost domain by him, and there were walking skeletons everywhere, and even the villagers were mostly killed. Although the adventurers wiped out Hammer and put the dead to rest again, the dead could not be resurrected.
Not only that, but because of the impact of this incident, the nearby forces have turned their attention here, so much so that it has caused the follow-up big plot - the invasion of the empire.
But this time, because of the influence of the traversers, Hamer's "big news" may not be able to be made.
If nothing else, everyone is at least sure that this time he will definitely not let him kill most of the villagers of Kalipura Village and turn them into elite skeletons with names!
From the village to the cemetery, the distance is not very far, and the pandas can get there quickly. But from a distance, the cemetery under the sunset was shrouded in a strange black fog, and no clues could be obtained except for the sound of fighting and Lao Liu's roar.
The panda did not hesitate to wait and see, and rushed directly into the black mist.
As soon as he stepped into the black mist, he couldn't help frowning, feeling a cold force trying to erode him.
Of course, this power is the magic of necromancy, at the beginning, Xiao Saili was only slightly contaminated, and he almost died on the sickbed, if an ordinary person like him stepped into this black mist, I am afraid that it will only take an hour to be directly transformed into a necromancy, and there is no chance to rescue him.
But this power does not work well on the traversers, although their level is not high, but their attributes are very strong, and almost all of them have a certain amount of magic resistance. The concentration of necromantic magic in the black mist alone was not enough to harm them.
Especially Panda is still a priest, although he has not been able to restore the divine power link with the God of Crucifixion and cannot use divine magic, but at the same time that the necromantic magic tried to erode him, the powerful divine power in his body spontaneously stirred up and launched a counterattack.
When the companions rushed into the black fog one by one, what they saw was that the panda's body lit up with golden light, like a small sun, shining.
"Divine grace, what are you doing with this skill now?" Yunero asked curiously, "I thought...... Why don't you use it until you fight the boss? ”
"It's not a divine grace, it's naturally activated, and it doesn't have any special effects. The panda replied as he walked briskly forward.
In front of them, graves of old and new were cracked one by one, and a white skeleton crawled out of the dirt tremblingly, with red fire dancing in its eyes, and turned its head to look at them.
A dim cemetery, a black fog, resurrected skeletons...... This scene is quite terrifying, and if you are a coward, you are afraid that you will be so scared that you will pee your pants on the spot.
But the panda was not afraid, and without even the slightest movement, he rushed straight to the nearest skeleton, and while the thing was still standing dumbfounded, and before it seemed to fully regain its mobility, he raised his fist and swept it in the neck.
The skeleton with only the skeleton was not strong, and the neck was directly broken by the panda's punch, the skull gurgled out, and the body also collapsed, turning into a pile of dry bones.
"As weak as in the game!"
Panda left behind such a somewhat arrogant sentence, just like he had done in countless battles in the past, and without looking back, he rushed towards the large group of skeletons that were slowly regaining their mobility.
It's just that, in the past, he did this mostly to PK with other players, but now, he no longer has to deal with those players behind the computer screen and on the other side of the network cable, but those evil monsters who have turned from fantasy to reality, and are alive in front of him and attacking him.