Chapter 4 Target Cemetery

Before the two summoned creatures disappeared, Donald had the protection of the infantry Clinton, and successfully hunted two second-level demonic beasts, as well as five first-level demonic beasts, at this time it was already ten in the afternoon, and it was getting late, and Donald was ready to go home immediately.

Even with a powerful force like Clinton, who was fully armed and could confront a third-level demonic beast equivalent to the strength of the Black Iron High Rank, he didn't dare to stay in this dangerous forest at night. You must know that in previous lives and in this world, most wild animals basically choose to move at night, especially those carnivorous creatures.

Following the direction he came, and hurried before nightfall, Donald returned to the old mansion in the town, and the butler of Code, who had been worried for a day, immediately greeted him.

"Young master, you're back!"

Donald smiled and comforted a few words, then pointed to the infantry soldiers who followed behind him and said:

"This is Clinton, the knight squire I collected on the road, Kode, you go and clean up a room, from today Clinton will be our family's retainer!"

Although the butler couldn't tell the strength of a warrior, the man in front of him wrapped in at least three hundred steel armor, and he moved so freely, his strength should not be much weaker.

The only thing to worry about is the loyalty of this person, no matter if it seems that the young master seems to have a lot of confidence in him, then he can't object, so let's observe for a while before we can talk about it. After all, the strength of their Merlina family is too weak now, and it is good to have such a powerful warrior in front of them to deter those Xiaoxiao.

However, Kode still pulled Clinton and carefully interrogated him. However, Clinton was originally a character created by Donald, although in essence there is basically no difference from the humans born and raised in this world, and can even combine with the women of this world to have children.

But the difference is that since he was born, he has had the most loyal attitude towards Donald in his soul, and he will not blink an eye when he dies for his master, and when the Book of Truth created him, it only gave him basic common sense of life and a strong sense of battle, as for other aspects, he naturally will not waste energy and give it boringly.

So there was a bit of a mum in his conversation, and he had little enthusiasm for anything other than his master and the fight.

Kede interrogated for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a reason, but Donald promised him, and then he put aside his doubts and went to prepare dinner.

The secret of the Book of Truth, even if it is the closest person like Kode, Donald does not intend to reveal it, after all, the reason why the secret is a secret is that no one knows, and the more people know, the greater the risk, and it will not bring any benefit.

As a knight's squire, he is already qualified to dine with his master, not to mention that he also has that strength. Clinton did as Donald ordered him to do it at the table, putting the food in front of him into his mouth one by one.

Even when Donald spoke, he would only answer words like "yes" and "yes", and dining with such a person was completely unpleasant, and Donald quickly ended his dinner.

The butler came up to clean up the dishes, and at this time two bells rang in the town outside.

"It's night, young master, have a good rest, I'll go prepare bath water!"

"Go ahead, Kod, you have a good rest, tomorrow you have to sell the monsters we hunted!"

Donald nodded, knowing that it was the night watchman in the cemetery outside the town who was ringing the bronze bells, reminding the townsfolk that night had fallen and that they were not going out of town at will. This world is often dangerous in the wild at night, especially in towns like Red Maple near the outskirts of the Green Cloak Forest. Therefore, in general, towns and villages will set up alarm bells to remind the people.

Thinking of the night watchman, and then of the cemetery outside the town, Donald suddenly clapped his hands excitedly.

"Cemetery, by the way! How could I not have thought of this!"

This world, like his previous life, does not practice cremation, but hopes that the dead can be buried and the soul will return to the kingdom of the dead.

Therefore, whenever someone dies in the town, the only pastor in the town is invited to pray for blessings. Then the kings were buried in a cemetery outside the town. This creates a situation where corpses in the cemetery are easily eroded by negative energy, leading to the emergence of undead and undead.

Under normal circumstances, the local lord will pay for the priest of the church to go to the cemetery every year to preside over the ceremony, appease the undead, and purify the cemetery to prevent the appearance of mutated undead creatures that may cause harm to the lords.

The shrine in Red Maple is guarded by a single priest, an elderly junior priest, who is responsible for delivering teachings to the people of the town and the two surrounding villages. Other work includes presiding over funeral ceremonies, treating patients, and so on.

The church institutions in this world are divided into two types: temples and altars, except for the main temple, which is generally built in the holy place where the true God is first believed, other large and small temples are distributed in the large and small towns of each diocese, and are built by local believers or at the expense of the lord.

The altar under the temple is an altar engraved with the emblem of the gods or the image of the gods, which is simple to build and does not cost much, and also has the function of a partial temple, so it is generally built in small towns and villages.

The most marginal territory in the northern county like Red Maple Town, although it has developed well, has only built a shrine, and the cost of building a temple is too high, even a small temple is more than five times the cost of building the lord's mansion of Red Maple Town, and this price makes it impossible for Baron Red Maple, who has not changed his stingy personality for two generations, to spend money to build. As far as Donald knew, the merchant nobleman did not believe in the true god, but in the great Kinsor!

For this reason, both the temple of Boulder City and the old priest in the town were a little dissatisfied with the attitude of this merchant nobleman. The former was disgusted with Baron Red Maple's attitude towards the temple, and the latter was dissatisfied with being assigned to this lord, who had no oil and water, and encountered a stingy lord.

"I remember that the last time the cemetery was purified was before the autumn harvest festival last year, and with the attitude of old Colliver towards Baron Red Maple, it is estimated that the purification will not be so clean. So after nearly a year, there should be some changes in the cemetery, I have to go inside to see it!"

It's not that Donald cares about safety in the cemetery, his purpose is not to purify the undead, but to collect the soul fire of the undead, and destroying them is just incidental.

So he whispered a few words to Clinton, and after the silver moon rose in the air and most of the people in the town had fallen asleep, the two of them quietly left the old mansion with the butler Curd on their backs, climbed over the wooden wall, and headed for the cemetery outside the town.

The fear of the dead is the same in any world, and the huge cemetery of Red Maple Town is guarded by only the elderly night watchman, so Donald easily avoided the night watch in the gatehouse with the help of Clinton and sneaked into it.

The atmosphere in the cemetery was quiet and eerie, giving Donald the same feeling as if he had encountered the wasteland of the undead in the middle of the forest.

"It seems that there is a lot of possibility of undead creatures here, Clinton, where the two of us go, you just have to defend when you encounter undead creatures, try not to make a move!"

"Yes, master!"

With Clinton as an infantryman, Donald cautiously walked towards the older cemetery area.

Two generations of lords of Red Maple Town, established for more than fifty years, is still a young territory. However, this place can be traced back to a hundred years ago, when Hongfeng Town was just a small village. Despite this, the number of burials in the cemetery is too many to count, and many civilians die without tombstones, but are simply buried in earth pits, and most of the dead have decayed over time.

With the help of the Book of Truth's sense of energy, Donald found the place where the negative energy was most abundant, and there was only a small piece of broken tombstone, as if it were a mass grave, the earliest cemetery in the cemetery.

"This is it!"

Donald took out a first-level demon core and opened the list of summons for the Book of Truth.

"Come out!

A two-foot-long earthy creature appeared at Donald's feet.

The thing was wrapped in a layer of soft and tough leather armor, with a hideous head and an earthworm-like body, like a combination of a cobra and an earthworm.

This is the wild creature Dune Bug that appeared in the Warcraft expansion, referred to as Insect Killing. This creature that lives in the desert area can be said to be a kind of Warcraft, which can spray sand and stone attacks, and its attack power is not outstanding, but it has a strong ability to dig and drill into the ground, and it is an excellent expert in lurking and sneaking attacks.

Donald summoned it out for his ability to dig into the ground.

If he wants to test whether there are undead creatures here, he can't dig people's graves himself, right?

Watching the sandworms burrow around in this old graveyard, throwing out one or two rotten bones from time to time, Donald thought silently in his heart:

"No wonder, don't blame, you've been dead for so long, your soul should have returned to the realm of the dead, maybe you've been reincarnated. Don't worry about these bones!"

Don't say it, after the sandworm's toss, it really brought out an undead creature.

It's just that the appearance of this undead creature is too miserable, and the skeleton with only half a skeleton just crawled out of the soil, and it lost two ribs, and it almost fell apart.

Under Donald's compassionate gaze, Clinton dismantled the skeleton with a few clicks, leaving only the skull of the soul fire for his master to collect.

After receiving this broken skeleton with only twenty units of soul power, no matter how the sandworm tossed, there was no movement in this cemetery. Donald had no choice but to leave.

"Forget it, I didn't have much hope, tomorrow we will go to the necropolis outside Boulder City, where the resources must be more abundant than this!"

Take the initiative to dissipate the sandworms and let the Book of Truth regain the remaining energy, and then Donald takes Clinton to return home.

As I passed through a newly built tomb, a dark and cold aura suddenly came to my face. The sneak attacker was very fast, and Clinton, who had always been on the alert, was not satisfied, and slashed towards the shadow with a sword. If it was a normal creature, it is estimated that it has been split in half by Clinton now, but after the shadow was hit by Clinton, it was actually split in two, and then merged unscathed and continued to attack the target.

This accident made Donald unavoidable, and before he could dodge the front, he was pierced by the opponent in the left shoulder.

"Damn it!"

After being attacked, Donald saw the enemy's true appearance, which turned out to be a vague figure floating in mid-air and ready to attack.

"It's a ghost!"

Unexpectedly, the search for the undead did not have the expected result, but now a ghost unexpectedly appeared.

Ghosts are also called ghosts or ghosts, and they are almost the same thing. They are undead rather than undead.

Although the undead and the undead both carry the word "undead" and are also in the same camp, they are still different in nature.

The ghosts that belong to the undead are different from the skeleton zombies and other physical undead creatures, the latter are mostly their own souls returning to the underworld, and the residual soul imprints in the body are stimulated and mutated by negative energy, and they belong to a kind of negative energy creatures, basically without the memory of life, and are completely a new existence. Ghosts, on the other hand, are undead souls that remain in the main world after their souls die because of some unwillingness to resent, becoming a collection of negative energy. With no physical or physical attack power, they hate the living, and can use negative energy to seize the life force in living beings, and the powerful undead have strange abilities that non-professionals can't resist.

Fortunately, this was just an ordinary ghost, and after being attacked by the ghost, Donald only felt cold all over, and half of his arm was numb. However, his ability to summon does not require the use of spell casting gestures like mages, otherwise he will be restrained by this ghost raid, and basically have no power to fight back.

"Summon the Undead Banshee!"

As Donald's voice fell, a figure very similar to the ghost appeared in front of Donald, blocking the ghost's subsequent secondary attack.

That figure seemed to be an illusory light and shadow, with a dark blue and black cold energy circulating around it, and the originally beautiful elven face was distorted, as if suffering from endless pain, it was the undead second-level spellcaster banshee.

Banshees were once beautiful female elves who were brutally murdered by demons during the fall of Kalimdor. Because of the inhuman torture, these dead souls still remain silent in this world, wailing in pain and resentment.

Their terrible voices, the terrible, never-ending sounds of living creatures, were regarded as the howls of death. Later, the banshee became a warrior of the undead legion, using the power generated by the mournful wail to attack the enemy on the battlefield. Their eerie screams of evil could be heard for miles.

Seeing that the banshee was about to launch an attack on the incoming ghost, Donald hurriedly shouted:

"Don't attack, keep it under control!"

The banshee obeyed her orders and used her natural abilities to occupy it at that time. The ghost figure on the opposite side was a stagnant figure at that time.

Whether living creatures or undead spirits, any non-magically immune enemy unit, with the exception of Alchemy Golems and Mechanical Units, will be controlled by this ability, which, when used, will immobilize the target unit for a few seconds, during which time the Banshee will take additional damage. The banshee will then disappear and occupy the target's body, but will not damage the target. Of course, occupying this skill is not invincible, and it basically doesn't work for creatures and heroes above level 5 in the game, that is, the silver level and above in this world. For targets below the bronze level, the success rate also depends on the opponent's willpower and soul strength.

Donald fears that any attack will cause damage to the ghost and cause the energy in his body to be lost, so it is only fitting to use a banshee who is a ghost herself against its kind.

As the ghost, controlled by the Banshee's possessed skill, continued to struggle, Donald summoned the Book of Truth and said to it in a sympathetic tone:

"Give up! No matter what happened to you in life, what unwillingness and resentment you have, you can't do it like this, even if I don't make a move, you can't escape the priest's purification, or turn it into energy and be used by me!"

With that, the ghost, along with the banshee's body, turned into a black streamer and was absorbed by the Book of Truth.

Then the communication artifact looked at the harvest of Fang Cai, Donald couldn't help but smile and said:

"Great, a ghost has more than three hundred soul powers, and the energy contained is ten times that of a low-level skeleton soul fire, which is much stronger than killing skeletons!"

With the harvest of this ghost alone, Donald's trip is worth the ticket price.

Unfortunately, the Book of Truth is not a container for souls, so it cannot absorb the power of the remnants of souls in the graveyard. Otherwise, even if there are no undead and undead creatures, it will be very rewarding.

In the face of this situation, the hint given by the Book of Truth is that it can be exchanged for the sub-artifact soul ball to specifically absorb the soul, which can absorb not only the soul power of living creatures but also the dead undead, and even the power of those subtle souls that remain in the space can be absorbed and used to a large extent.

In that case, as long as you find a place where a large number of creatures have died, such as an ancient battlefield or a necropolis, and walk around there, you can gather a large amount of residual soul power, and you can easily get a lot of soul power to create creatures without such a thankless effort.

Not to mention that the exchange conditions of the secondary artifact are simply unattainable for him now, even if the special equipment of the soul ball can be split into ten soul ball fragments as in the game plot, but the level of each fragment is also at the level of low-level legendary magic equipment, which is not at all what he can redeem now, not to mention that the complete secondary artifact needs to be endowed with divinity when it is created.

After dealing with the ghost, Donald walked around the cemetery several times until he didn't find anything before leaving with his men at night.

As for the destruction of the undead and ghosts in the cemetery, no one would know about it if he didn't say it. It is likely that they will only think that after the cemetery has been purified in previous years, there will be no abnormalities.

As for the old priest who was the only one who might find any traces, Donald was basically not worried!

Most of the people who are sent to remote areas are low-level pastors who are not valued in the church, and naturally they do not work hard to fulfill their obligations. Especially the one who didn't deal with the local lord very much.

So even if Clifford knew that Donald had done what he was supposed to do, the old priest would only thank the goddess for making him a lot easier, and he should not arouse any suspicion.