Chapter Twenty-Eight: Undeadness
"This is the corpse of the transformed demonic beast?" Vivien held the staff, sat on the low doorway of the igloo, and used the end of the staff to flick the frozen corpse of the demonic beast on the ground, shaking her head, "This is definitely not what the magic of this era can do." Although some forbidden magic can temporarily fuse two magical beasts with each other, they are essentially two different magical beasts, which will not only die quickly, but will automatically differentiate into two after death. ”
"You know that so well. Since McWilling consciously returned to the igloo to make room for the exchange of the adventure group, there were no outsiders around, so Lina was relaxed, and asked curiously, "Could it be that your mage guild is also studying these?"
"This is also knowledge, and of course someone will study the latest chapter of the business tycoon of Rebirth Ninety-two. The smile on Vivien's lips looked rather weird: "Synthesis magic, replacement magic, potential stimulation magic, blood magic, each of these magic has a large number of mages working on it. For the crazy scholars in the capital of knowledge, it is not normal not to study these forbidden knowledge. But fortunately, the scholars in the tower have not yet broken the bottom line, and have not used intelligent beings as research materials, and once they find that someone is using them, they will impose legal sanctions. However, even though no one is doing this, it's hard to say whether someone will secretly use it, and in many cases, if it doesn't have much impact, the guild may pretend not to see it. Of course, I haven't studied these forbidden magics, but I've seen a lot of other people's work, so I'm sure it's not magic. ”
"Well, it won't be magic. It should be directly cut off some special body parts of other demonic beasts and installed on another demonic beast, which really looks very similar to the goblin technique. Pannis said, "I'm weird. Just like us, if the orc's tail is mounted on us, even if we can control it, we won't use it, it's really powerful to be able to use it normally, and I have the impression that only goblins may have this kind of biological technology. ”
"But we didn't say that before. Catherine said, "You and Rina both think that the goblins aren't so skilled. It is impossible for such a finished product to appear. ”
"So, you need to ask Eva about this. Pannis patted Eva's head and asked, "You used to be in the goblin research center. They should have that data as well, do they have any thoughts?"
"It's certainly not the goblins' technique. Eva shook her head expressionlessly, rubbed the top of her head against the palm of Pannis's hand, narrowed her eyes and said, "It's not just goblins who can study this technique. And you seem to have a misunderstanding, have you forgotten the existence of Sigern? A large part of the biological technology of the goblins is based on the three-eyed people from the First Age, but the goblins have transformed and studied these technologies to a certain extent, and this kind of biological modification technology involving multiple generations of inheritance is precisely one of the technologies that the goblins have not yet mastered. ”
"So, it's not the goblins who really master this technology, but the gods?" Catherine nodded, "Then it's almost certain now that it's the Divine Servant, the Cult of Evil Gods, who is controlling these modified creatures." After all, in this day and age, only they, the church, have the shadow of God's people standing behind them. ”
"That's pretty much it. Pannis folded his arms over his chest. Leaning on the wall of the igloo, he said thoughtfully: "However, why are the servants of the gods doing this? They don't seem to need to study these modified creatures at all, there is no point, even if they really strengthen some demigod beasts through transformation, these monsters are still far from the real demigods." It's impossible to deal with it head-on, so why should they bother with so much effort. What about doing something that doesn't have an equal harvest?"
"This can be regarded as a kind of strength enhancement. Catherine asked tentatively, "If you really transform some obedient demigod beasts, it will also form a large force." ”
"It's not that simple, if that were the case, this necromancer wouldn't have died first. Pannis kicked the corpse on the ground with his toes and said, "Judging from the previous battles, they don't have a very strong control over these monsters, and they can only barely control the attacks and defenses of the monsters, and they can't control them as finely as some beast tamers. And if you look at the Warcraft they chose, they deliberately chose to act together with the same Warcraft, which probably means that they can't suppress the hostile instincts between Warcraft, and in order to prevent them from meaningless internal friction between each other in their actions, they will ...... Wait, get out of the way. ”
Pannis's face changed suddenly, and he suddenly grabbed Vivien beside the corpse of the demonic beast, protected her in his arms with his body, and quickly rushed out of a distance away from the corpse. At the same time as he shouted out of the way, the rest of the girls rolled continuously on the snow surface for the first time, and quickly made a circle of space around the corpse of the demonic beast.
The corpse of the beast, which had begun to stiffen to the touch, had been discarded in the snow by Pannis, and it did not look unusual in the night. However, if a high-level professional with a keen sense of energy could find that bursts of dark and suppressed energy suddenly began to gush out from the stiff corpse, and large clouds of black smoke began to emerge from the corpse.
"Be careful, it's death energy. As the priest of the Earth Goddess, Lina is the most sensitive to death energy, and immediately distinguishes the type of this energy, and said with a stern face: "And the concentration is very high, I am afraid that the corpse will immediately transform into an undead, eldest sister, take advantage of the present time to quickly divide the corpse, so as not to change for a while, and it will be more troublesome in the future." ”
"Don't do it yet, my apprentice is hanging up again. Pannis stopped by saying, "You guys stand back first, I'm going to test their state." ”
As he spoke, the corpse, which had fallen to the ground, suddenly began to convulse, and the convulsions became larger and larger, like a strange dance on the snow. Under everyone's gaze, the corpse's eyes reopened, and both eyes turned blood-red, leaving only bloodthirsty madness in the cloudy gaze.
"What kind of undead is this?" Catherine whispered in surprise, "It's not skeletons, it's not death knights, it's not half-dead ghouls, what the hell have those people created?"
"I don't know. Pannis replied with a calm face: "It stands to reason that even if a corpse that has just died, if it becomes an undead, the flesh and skin of the body will explode, leaving only the skeleton to move freely, and I have never seen such an undead walking around in the form of a corpse." But I probably understand the purpose of the divine servants, the transformed monsters have little effect, but if the transformed monsters can become such special undead after death, then their role is different. The undead controlled by the necromancer are absolutely obedient to the necromancer's orders, and it is much more convenient to use than to transform the Warcraft. If there can be a large group of Legendary-level undead demonic beasts, and some demigod-level undead among them, the threat will be too terrifying, and the danger level will probably be no less than the disaster of the return of the dead a hundred years ago. ”
This special demonic beast undead staggered up from the ground, looked around with a fierce light, and seemed to be stimulated by the demigod power that Pannisy deliberately exuded, and let out a roar at Pannis's mouth, and lowered its body to approach the arc step by step.
"There is a certain degree of reservation in the combat habits before death, but there is basically no reason at all, if it was an ordinary legendary-level demonic beast, I am afraid it would have retreated a long time ago. Pannis's hands slowly retreated, keeping a certain distance from it, exuding a powerful coercion unique to demigods, observing and saying: "But looking at its movements, it is still very stiff, I don't know if it is because of the stiffness of the body after death or because of the cold, I think the reason is probably the former." ”
The sound made by Pannis made the undead beast even more manic, and its roar became more and more frequent, but Pannis didn't care at all, and continued: "Judging from the reaction, its hearing still exists, which is interesting, in addition to the few undead we have seen, there are actually other undead who still have hearing. ”
"Today is the seventeenth. Lina suddenly looked at the sky and said, "It's still early before the demonic night, and there is no nearby gathering point of death energy, how did it transform into an undead?"
"Then I don't know. Pannis shook his head and said, "Those cultists are priests of the Grim Reaper who has fallen in the past, maybe they have some way to directly use the power of the Grim Reaper to transform specific undead." But I'm a little relieved to say this, if it's really a direct transformation of the undead, I'm afraid the number of such undead won't be too many. They are just priests, not the god of death itself, the death energy that can be used is limited after all, and it is impossible to be like the real god of death, just the existence of authority can support the existence of countless undead. ”
The undead beast was finally enraged by Pannis's ignorance, and finally roared and rushed towards Pannis. But, contrary to everyone's expectations, when it rushed halfway, its body suddenly tilted, fell to its side, and dragged a long trail on the snow by inertia, and stopped in front of Pannis.
Pannis blinked suspiciously, bent down and stabbed the body of the demonic beast with a one-handed sword, the undead demonic beast seemed to have lost power, and struggled weakly on all fours for a few moments, and could feel that the power of death in its body was gradually dissipating, and it was restored from an undead into a corpse.
"What's going on?" Lina looked at the corpse that had calmed down blankly, and said with a blank expression, "Death energy is used up?"
"I don't know, tonight's incident has been secretly unspeakably weird from the beginning. Catherine shook her head and said, "Not only tonight, I feel that these two demonic beasts appeared too suddenly, let the necromancer take them to the snow field, and then let us meet them, and then turn into undead in front of our eyes, and finally die again without doing anything." It feels like everything is arranged, and they appear just to let us know what the servants are doing, isn't it really someone deliberately helping us? Or is all this information actually fake, just to confuse us about the trap we have set?"
"Anyway, when you meet the dragons, let's share the information. Pannis said with a calm face: "As for what is going on, I think sooner or later we will know." ”
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