Chapter 1 "Hades" "Revised Again"
The underworld is the land of the dead, with endless wilderness and dark and turbid Styx, but without the slightest life.
There are no vegetation, no animals, just lying in the wilderness, countless bones and bones, and the souls of the dead who have been swallowed up by the River Styx, constantly struggling and crying.
And our story begins in this lifeless underworld.
In a dark cavern full of bones ten meters below the Underworld Wilderness, a tall skeleton was struggling to crawl out of the pile of bones.
'I'm there, my hand!!, why is my hand like this!'
Looking at its fleshless hands and the bones all around it, it was a skeleton that had just woken up from death in confusion and fear. Death is not terrible, what is terrible is that you don't know anything, you don't know how you died, you don't know what you died.
'Why is this happening!?? Didn't I just have breakfast with Lily at home?'
It just woke up, and it was a person who didn't know why and how he died.
He stood up with his hands on the walls of the cave and kept thinking about the cause of his death, he didn't understand how he died, he didn't understand why he died, but soon he stopped thinking about these things, because he saw something that shocked him, something he didn't want to think about when he was alive.
'Oh my God, the god of light is above!'
It was the skeleton of an angel, a body taller than a human, three pairs of huge and sacred wings, all of which had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a huge skeleton, but on that skeleton there were three pairs of bird-like wings, and it was clear that this skeleton belonged to an angel!
When it saw the angel's bones, it immediately knew where it was, the realm of death!
Only the Underworld has the bones of powerful and holy archangels, because they are warriors sent by the angry God of Light to avenge his brother Hades after the Immortal God was killed by the conspiracy and assassination of the Grim Reaper!!
Needless to say, the bones of the archangel speak for themselves, the angels have failed, and they have failed!
The skeleton looked at the skeleton that belonged to the archangel, and it didn't know whether to cry or laugh, but it couldn't do any of this, and now it was impossible to even speak, let alone cry and laugh.
It had seen angels and spoken to angels in its lifetime. However, that is not to say that he is transcendent, but because he was a beginner alchemist who specialized in creating the Bronze Armor for the Holy See.
Bronze armor is a metal unique to the underworld, the armor made of copper, it can be very effective against death, darkness, cursed magic, is an angel and the Holy See's paladin, a weapon to destroy heresy.
The bronze he touched before his death was the spoils of war harvested by the angels when the angels attacked the underworld, although the angels lost that battle, but those as trophies were taken away from the underworld by the angels.
Stygian Bronze cannot be crafted in the same way as normal armor, it must be crafted using the Alchemist's mana forging technique.
However, high-level alchemists disdain to forge the Bronze Armor, believing that the Bronze Armor does not have much value in crafting, after all, the Bronze Armor can only resist death, darkness and cursed magic, and has no resistance to other magics, and is no different from ordinary armor. Moreover, they also do not want to work for the Holy See.
Therefore, the alchemists who can create the Dark Bronze Armor are all beginner-level alchemists, and they are all alchemists who have something to do with the Holy See, such as the skeleton's father, who is a priest of the Holy See.
Through its father's efforts, it became a beginner alchemist, specializing in the creation of the Bronze Armor for the Holy See. Once, the bronze armor he created was favored by a four-winged angel, who spoke to him, and gave him an orc girl to be his wife.
However, none of this has anything to do with him anymore, after all, he is dead.
[Humble skeleton, now that you have awakened. So... These two kinds of magic are bestowed upon you. In the midst of struggle and despair, let's live!!]
Just as the skeleton looked at the archangel's skeleton and was at a loss, a mysterious and sacred, with a hint of coldness, sounded in his mind, igniting his soul fire at once.
'What!?' Huey, our little skeleton who had just woken up, was startled by the mysterious and sacred, and the cold voice!
'Magic???' Death is the Gift of Death??' Hurriedly and vigilantly looked around, and found that there were no other undead who could move or ignite soul fire except himself. He immediately understood whose cold, piercing voice it was, it was the voice of the Grim Reaper, who was in charge of the underworld, and who was bestowing him with the power of the undead.
Every undead who has just awakened will be given the power of the undead by the god of death, which is a rule established by the god of death since he killed the god of death, which is recognized by the world, and the treaty cannot be changed according to his preferences!!!
Fireball: Condense a ball of fire in your hand to attack an enemy within 20 meters, the higher the mana, the higher the temperature.
Death Finger: Concentrates powerful death energy on the index finger and shoots at the enemy, taking the life of an enemy within 30 meters, but has no effect on the undead.
These two magics gifted by the god of death both appeared in Xiuyi's soul fire, and both of them were elementary magic. Fireball is a fire-based magic created by demons from hell, and Death Finger is a death magic native to the underworld.
It seems that Xiu Yi has become a skeleton mage, becoming the largest number of undead in the underworld, a member of the skeleton clan.
'Forget about the fireball technique, the finger of birth and death....it doesn't work against the undead?hehe, it doesn't work... So what are you doing for me??' Every undead who is given the magic of death finger will be tempted to curse, but out of fear of death and his father's harsh teachings as a child, Xiue does not curse.
The feeling of powerlessness and anger at this magic soon disappeared without a trace. Then an inexplicable confusion surged into Xiuyi's heart, as a believer in the God of Light, he has no resistance to the dead, and fraternity is the code of every believer. But not to resist the undead, not to contradict it, not to say that he also wants to become an undead! The idea of simply using a fireball spell on his skull lingered in his mind.
"Alas~ I can't disappear yet...."For a long time, he sighed slightly in his heart, although he couldn't accept the fact that he suddenly became an undead without knowing it, but he didn't want to disappear like this, he still had parents, brother, sister, he still had a wife, he still had a 10-year-old daughter and a son who was less than 5 years old, he couldn't just disappear like this, he wanted to return to the world of the living, and he knew how to go back, so he wouldn't want to commit suicide, even though he was dead.
Determined, he began to explore the cave full of bones. The darkness in the cave doesn't get in the way of him, the darkness only gets in the way of creatures with eyes, he's a skeleton now, skeletons don't see things with their eyes! Soul fire is the skeleton's way of perceiving its surroundings.
The dark blue soul fire flickered in the empty eye sockets on Xiuyi's skull, where there was originally a pair of golden eyes, but now there was only the blue soul fire that represented the wisdom and life of the undead, the soul fire was silent and cold, like the bones on the ground, full of the coldness and haze of death.
He didn't know how long he had been in the cave, a day, or two, and he didn't know.
He walked for a long time, and finally at the corner of a cavern, he saw a huge, very empty cavern, and in the cave there was something that was no longer bones, the Stygian Copper Mine! A Stygian Copper Mine hidden in the cave wall, the size of a small mountain.
These dark copper ores are very important for Xiuyi, who only has two magics, and the fireball technique is just that, but death fingers....alas~~
Before his death, he was an alchemist who specialized in building the Dark Copper Armor, so as soon as Xiu Yi saw these Dark Copper Mines, he knew that these Dark Copper were the capital for his future survival, of course, it may not be appropriate to use them here to survive.
"Huh~"
When Xiu Yi tries to walk towards the Coppermine, he accidentally trips over the leg bone of a skeleton and nearly falls on his foot. At this moment, a bone arrow shot out from a shadow in the Bronze Armor, and quickly slashed above Xiuyi's skull, and a deep scratch with white smoke suddenly appeared on Xiuyi's skull!!
Xiu Yi, who was very happy when he saw the Stygian Copper Mine, was startled by an arrow, if the bone arrow had gone down a little bit just now, or if he hadn't tripped over it, the arrow might have shot directly into his skull, scattering his blue, cold soul fire.
"Huh~~Click!"
Taken aback, he did not hesitate and immediately hid behind a huge rock. Just as he was hiding behind the rocks, another bone arrow flew out of the shadows, straight into the eye socket of the skeleton from the side, and there was a sound of bones shattering.
And the sound of bones shattering made Xiu Yi angry! He had just died for no reason, and now he almost died again! No one can bear this kind of thing.
His soul fire gradually changed from a cold and biting blue to a bright and boiling red, which meant that he was already very angry!
The color of the undead soul fire will not change casually, and it will only change when the undead's emotions become very extreme.
Extremely angry, he hid behind this huge stone and began to slowly condense the fireball technique, planning to use this spell that has not been used since he woke up to give a fatal blow to the guy who shot his cold arrow!
"Boom~Boom~Boom~"
Three arrows in a row were fired at Xiuyi, but none of them hit the target.
Huey ignored the three bone arrows, as they posed no threat to him at all. He quietly hid behind the stones, slowly condensed the fireball technique in his hand, and waited for the opponent to run out of bone arrows, or the opponent was impatient, and approached him.