Although the dead lord Adbert wears quite heavy armor, in fact, his figure is quite thin, and even if his face is not clear, it can be seen from the shape of his face that he is essentially a weak researcher.

Just as his memories overflowed throughout the labyrinth of subspace.

The power of the Dead King gives him a majestic and indifferent temperament, and the man is now the king of the labyrinth, the true ultimate enemy of all those trapped here.

But Ian knew very well that beneath the shell of the dead monarch was still the good man who was gentle and thought most things with kindness.

[Do you want to know the truth...... Then I'll tell you]

Therefore, turning his head, the Dead Lord looked at the laboratory that was still maintaining the strange black light shield, and he said slowly to Ian: [Tell you, what does the Dead Monarch's plan represent]

[It represents a brand new fourth-level or even fifth-level inheritance that can stabilize man-made and even mass-manufacture]

[And the price is that one person carries the soul of a kingdom]

It can be seen that the Dead Lord said this with the intention of surprising Ian.

But Ian was not surprised.

His biggest reaction was to nod his head clearly: "Sure enough, it seems that I guessed correctly." ”

Yes, Ian had expected this.

From the moment he received the power of the Dead King, he had been puzzled by this strange thing, not so much about using the revenant soul to strengthen himself, but about the revenant soul strengthening the host, so that the host could protect their inheritance.

He's not saying that Terra's shit is scumbag, but even on Earth, there is definitely no shortage of egoism.

Shouldn't this inheritance be of the 'dead soul is my shield, and a dead soul is my life'?

It turned out to be really not!

So, from then on, Ian began to try to connect the information he had received before, and to connect the backtracking horizon with the information that Adalbert knew in his memory.

- As early as a few years ago, the Avak Territory carried out the implantation of 'Artificial Soul Possession Brain' in the face of the plague.

In other words, the entire Avak realm has souls, and these souls can even fine-tune their structure through the possession of the brain.

In this way, we can bypass the difficulties in Adalbert's memory that he ignored because of his high morality, and directly create souls that can overlap and resonate with each other, and even form some kind of spiritual structure!

If an artificial soul is considered as a essena structure, then hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of souls overlap to build up a sufficiently complex, multi-functional, and robust sublimation system.

Then with an extreme 'emotion' or 'goal', the 'consensus' will be unified......

For example, 'revenge'.

Or, 'rest in peace'.

Then, the power of the third energy level can be derived.

Of course, this is not enough...... The magnitude of millions of people is too small, although it sounds like a lot, but as long as you think about the complexity of the circuits and structures on the electronic components, and then compare the essa structure that is more complex than ordinary electronic components, you can know that the million-level is really very small.

In particular, these million souls are a structure composed of spiritual combinations that are attached to the brain...... The intensity is really not high.

Therefore, the 'dead king' is needed.

It takes a backbone, someone with enough strength, potential, and faith to resonate with the souls of the dead, so that the miracle of such ascension can be achieved.

Moreover, if you want to become stronger, then if you want to reach the fourth energy level, you need at least a few souls calculated at the level of 'billion'.

As for the fifth energy level...... At the very least, it has to be a strong person at the peak of the fourth energy level, and with the soul and faith of hundreds of millions of sentient beings, he has climbed to the state of the fifth energy level......

In other words......

"Grand Duke Thorin. Only him! ”

Ian suddenly remembered that the Grand Duchy of Thorin had successfully become independent on the way to the swarm, and his own swarm seemed to crush the entire Grand Duchy of Thorin as if it had entered a no-man's land......

He suddenly felt a shudder: "Wouldn't it? This madman, Inaga's disciple back then, wouldn't really do this?! ”

"The reason why I'm in a swarm is like no one...... It's really because the Grand Duchy of Thorin has completely turned into a dead realm...... A nation of the dead?! ”

"He killed everyone in the entire Grand Duchy!?"

Not really.

Ian reacted that even if the Grand Duke had been preparing for so many years, it would be impossible to completely popularize the Soul Possession.

So there are still some people in the Grand Duchy, which gives the swarm of himself doubts, but he doesn't care too much about the feeling - there are few people who eat and people who don't eat are two concepts, so the swarm himself doesn't notice too much difference.

- All clues, including the Prophet's future, are connected!

Therefore, under the stunned gaze of the Dead King, Ian was thoughtful, and even suddenly expressed his guess: "So, from the very beginning, this plan was to kill all the people, and then bear their souls and protect them in their own bodies. ”

"Engrave the memories and souls of all living beings in your body, raise the strength of the only king to the point where you can overcome all natural disasters and destruction, and then the king will overcome all dangers and obstacles and move into the future......"

In this regard, Ian's evaluation is very simple: "It's worthy of being a Terra, this kind of sick idea can be sorted out, and it has been done." ”

It sounds very strange, but in fact, it's actually a very 'efficiency' way of thinking.

Rather, such an action would be most reasonable if it were purely logical.

Ten billion human beings, stacked together, are only a billion tons, and they are only about one cubic kilometer...... It's just a small hill.

The third-level mountain giant tortoise outside, in terms of weight alone, I am afraid that it can be the same as tens of millions of humans, but how many times larger is the city that tens of millions of humans need to live in than the mountain giant tortoise?

If it's all stacked in a life-sustaining device, protecting humanity is a simple matter.

If it's just a soul, it's easier to preserve.

Only one carrier is required...... Maybe you can do it!

Therefore, if we want to protect all mankind in some kind of irresistible catastrophe that sweeps the whole world, and can even destroy the entire world ecosystem...... Then the plan of the dead monarch has become practical.

Destroying human bodies and using their souls as raw materials for refuge - the souls support the power of the Dead King, they hook up the essence of the Void and the subspace, draw on the essentia of nature, and each soul is designed to freely combine a variety of powerful power structures to complete their own tasks and support the Dead King's divine power.

And the Dead Monarch operates in the outside world to ensure that he can maintain himself, and can avoid even more irresistible disasters.

This is essentially ......

It's just an outer-space immigration ship, a psionic version.

Everyone is a crew, everyone is a hull, and the captain directs the direction.

Ian said in his heart. He remembered his original job when he was on Earth, and understood it all like a blessed heart: "The essence of the dead king is a kind of shelter...... A kind of 'tinder'! ”

"This is the truth of the Dead King's plan!"

- A Terra-Psionic version of the Tinder ship!

[Yes...... You guessed it right]

The Dead King obviously didn't expect that Ian's train of thought would be able to keep up.

After a moment of silence, he smiled with relief: "Yes. That's it. 】

[On the Terra Continent, there are not enough resources for everyone to become strong]

[Even if the Ascendants are not interested in ordinary people and their wealth, it is only a conflict between the Ascendants...... will create this kind of tragedy in front of you and me]

[Even ......]

Speaking of this, the dead lord Adbert looked at his hand, and he looked at the pale hand: [In order to save some people, destroy more people]

[Nothing bad to admit. I used my body as an experimental subject of the 'former Dead King' to liberate those dead souls - I know the purpose of the Grand Duke, he just wants to make this technology practical, he just wants a result, and he will do whatever it takes in the process, and this is where I recognize him, he can make choices that I can't do, and do things I can't]

[For me, this is the only way to solve the atrocities in the Avak lab]

But how can I underestimate the hatred of the souls of the dead who have died of misfortune? The Dead Lord used too many vicious psionic powers and Void technologies, and after settling on me, hatred and despair converged, guiding the fall of the Void Fragments and creating this subspace labyrinth.]

[And then...... Everything will get out of hand]

[Phantoms are killing, viruses are killing, fungi are killing, and Warcraft are killing...... Even, the real world, which constantly overlaps with the virtual realm, has induced a huge spiritual shock in the entire Avak Territory - those who have been experimented with artificial souls for several years without knowing it, have been given birth to souls under the guidance of rampaging technology.

[And their flesh went mad in the spread of despair and hatred, and became beasts that chose to devour people]

The Dead King raised his head, and he looked at the top of the subspace labyrinth, as if he looked at the resentment that made up the entire labyrinth: "I killed them - I just wanted to save the test subjects, but I killed all the innocent ordinary people in the Avak realm]

[I am also a sublimator. My arrogant decision to bury them all...... It was only after I became the Dead Monarch that I realized that the meaning of the Dead Monarch's inheritance was to protect those ordinary people from meaninglessly dissipating in the hands of an arrogant sublimator like me.

[Even if the price is death, they will live forever in the body of the Dead - they will have a dream, an eternal dream that will never end until true death comes]

[For them, this dream is reality]

- It turns out that there is also a cyberspace, the dead king is playing outside, and the dead soul is sleeping and dreaming inside, which feels pretty good.

This Dead King's technology is quite advanced.

That's Ian's thoughts. But if you think about it carefully, the original name of the Void Realm had a 'Psionic Cyberspace', and the Dead Lord essentially turned himself into a small Void entity.

In this case, there is a local area network in the body of the deceased, so that the souls of the dead can dream in their own bodies and live an illusory but real, happy and peaceful life...... Not surprising.

"But what about the dragon?"

Ian thought of a puzzle - Theo and his prosthetic body seemed to have a high synchronization rate, why didn't there be any soul and body matching?

[Dragons are different. Dragon souls are special, strange beings that are not affected by the body - according to my judgment, dragon souls are essentially independent beings that exist in the virtual realm, they are super beings with souls and then bodies, similar to goblins, so no matter what kind of flesh can be perfectly adapted. But unlike the goblin, if it's not a dragon body, the dragon soul can't fully exert its power,]

Adbert said: [To be honest, the reason why the research lab wanted to capture the child of the King of the Mountain this time was to study the special features of the dragon soul...... Even the study of the Dead King has a lot to do with dragons.]

[But until the end, we didn't study anything, and we could only rely on the special nature of the dragon soul to extract some relevant information from the virtual realm]

"That's ...... so"

Now, Ian can fully understand the idea of the legacy of the Dead King.

To put it bluntly, the wise men on the Terra continent have all thought about the question that the second prince Mikael asked Ian not long ago.

- Since the sublimator can do everything, what else do ordinary people do?

INTERVIEWER If we must protect ordinary people, how can we protect them?

The Dead King is the ultimate answer to this question.

- Since he thinks that ordinary people are useless, then the essence of all the power of the Dead King comes from the convergence of all souls. Whether evil or ruthless, cunning or arrogant, it is necessary to reach a consensus with the souls of the dead in order to gain power.

- Since in this world full of natural disasters, it is impossible to protect the lives of ordinary people, so simply kill all ordinary people and only protect their souls!

Moreover, it is different from those fourth-level and fifth-level inheritances that require a lot of resources.

The dead monarch only needs people.

All you need to do is have a soul!

And this related technical problem has been solved by Adbort and some pre-era technologies!

In this way, the line of the deceased monarch who does not need resources is the inheritance that is most closely related to ordinary people and completely opposite to the vast majority of sublimators.

Moreover, because it does not require various resources, the entire system of the Dead Monarch will also be the most stable inheritance.

Because, Ian has already seen the final form of this inheritance.

- Death will not be the end, but the beginning of 'revenge'.

Naturally, the souls of the old dead yearn for 'stability and prosperity for future generations', whether it is an enemy country or a natural disaster, they are the object of their 'revenge consensus'.

For those who die unexpectedly, as long as the deceased himself is not a mutilator, then the deceased will judge them, slay their enemies, and let their power be used by them.

In this way, as long as the deceased emperor wants to maintain his power, and wants to keep his rule and authority alive, they will become the fulfillers of the people's wishes, and this desire will not have any unrealistic and strange needs, only the most stable 'security' and 'revenge'.

He wants to protect his home for the living, and he wants to take revenge on the murderer for the dead.

If necessary, he will also kill all the citizens with his own hands, and then gather all his strength to avoid natural disasters and strong enemies, and ensure 'existence and continuity'.

In the face of this inheritance, the entire social order of Terra will be greatly changed, and the kingdom without the dead king will become the backward side, just as one side has a full set of underground industrial facilities for nuclear war, and the other side does not.

Once the two sides are in a fight to the death, the Dead One could even leave the planet and wander other areas in search of a possible home, or simply turn into a psionic Tinder ship, like the one that came to Terra.

And the other side ......

The other side can only wait for death.

After all, the problem of the sublimator's lifespan has not yet been solved, and the Dead Monarch still has a chance to find a place to rebuild the ecosystem and restore civilization, at least he can entrust the soul in his body to the next Dead Monarch.

Even if the other fifth energy levels can rebuild the ecosystem, where does the human soul come from? Those potion materials and spiritual experiences, without a world to experience, where is the space to grow?

"Let's say, this is what Inaga II wanted to do, but didn't have time to develop it...... It's really in line with his style. ”

"Rather than fighting the people of Terra within the system, it is better to bring a transformative inheritance technology that will completely smash the old world - albeit with the dead and blood...... But a new world will also be born. ”

It's just that it is a beautiful new world or a worse world of dead tyrants...... Not necessarily.

After all, everyone knows that ordinary people and the general public are blindly obedient and easily deceived...... In addition to seriously responding to the wishes of the souls, the Dead Lord can naturally use various means to distort their wishes.

On top of that, Ian felt something wasn't quite right.

After all, even if Inaga II was a real madman, it was added to his disciple by the madman Grand Duke Sorin.

But just to change the world, you can't use such extreme means as the Dead King.

By now, Ian fully understood why Grand Duke Thorin had joined forces with the Gnostic Courtyard to conduct research with the Flamelands.

Without the technology of the Flying Flame Land, there would be no artificial soul possession.

Without the vast number of Void and psionic texts brought by the Gnostic Academy, Adalbert's soul research would not have gone so smoothly.

Coupled with Grand Duke Thorin's own set of psionic inheritance, the birth of the Dead King is a matter of course.

But he still felt that it didn't seem to be enough.

Seem...... There is another hidden secret.

- If Grand Duke Thorin just wants to make himself have the power of the fifth energy level, he only needs to specialize in his own inheritance.

His inheritance could have reached the fifth energy level, although it was difficult, but if he became the fifth energy level and then went to the Dead King, the success rate would be significantly improved.

Of course, the fifth level may not be so easy.

[You already know the truth about the Dead King]

At this moment, Adalbert said to Ian, his tone tinged with admonition: "Knight of the Vale, or rather, Mr. Mahdi. You can leave]

[Now I am just trying to correct my mistakes...... Since there is a second Dead King besides me, I can also focus on avenging the Dead Souls - the fortress in front of me is my final goal......]

"Wait."

But Ian raised his hand and interrupted the other man's narration: "After listening to it for so long, I actually have an idea. ”

He motioned to Adbert not to talk nonsense, and continued to frown: "You have such a high moral standard? ”

The Dead King was stunned for a moment.

He didn't understand what Ian was saying.

The young man in the form of a Knight of the Valley thought for a moment, and he said in a relatively simple way, "I mean, isn't your moral standard a little too high?" ”

"You don't have any friends or family to become test subjects, but just seeing the deplorable situation in Avak's lab makes you want to help them and save them...... Even at the cost of his own life, he tried to practice the immature technique of 'Dead King'. ”

"Is your homeschooling so good? Won't you feel sorry for your mom who has been waiting for you? Oh, forgot, you've always been very optimistic and friendly all your life, and you're born to be that kind of person......"

The Dead King was overwhelmed by Ian's question—the Terrans always had a hard time understanding Ian's train of thought, and the Dead Soul was like that, and so was the Dead King.

"Sure enough, you didn't think about it, did you?"

Looking at the other party's performance, Ian sighed: "So, you wanted to help others from the bottom of your heart, but because you didn't expect the Avak Laboratory to be so vicious, you accidentally caused the Abyss of Silence, which led to the birth of the subspace labyrinth, so that the Viscount of Avak was completely wiped out." ”

"You did make mistakes, but are you really wrong? You are in order to do a good deed, because of the viciousness of others has led to a bad result, and you are willing to admit that it is your fault, but in the final analysis, it is really your turn to take the blame? ”

At this point, the Knight of the Glen turned his head and looked in the direction of the fortress, his expression almost like he had seen a foul of smelling things: "With the moral standards of ordinary people, this is the time to find an excuse to dump the pot in the Gnostic, Grand Duke Thorin and the Flying Flame - I have been waiting for you to say this, and then help to agree and comfort you." ”

"And then- let's slaughter them all!"

"I didn't expect you to not dump the pot?!"

Ian's tone grew heavier all the way, and he was clearly disappointed by this: "Where are you a moral saint?" Without the support of Grand Duke Thorin, you would definitely be killed by the office struggle! ”

To be honest, he didn't complain that Ian was out of control - it was the first time he had seen someone who didn't dump the pot on Blaze Land and Gnostic...... Oh my God, that's weird!!

He walked all the way from Nanling to the Imperial Capital and then all the way to the Western Realm, and everyone swore that it was the fault of the Flying Flame Land and the Gnostic Academy, and this was the normal situation! The Imperial people should have this quality!

As a result, there is still a sincere person here.

With the expression and tone of the Knight of the Valley, it was really sarcastic to say this, but this dead king's temper was really a bit outrageous, and he even nodded with some hesitation: [I also thought that it was all their fault, so I decided to kill them all...... But actually, I know very well that it is because of my research that the Dead King Project has been able to get to this point.]

[This is originally my responsibility, at most I don't think it's feasible, while others think that there is, but it just needs enough lives to sacrifice and accumulate data...... If it weren't for me, the Dead King Project might not even have appeared.]

Saying this, the Dead King's expression gradually became indifferent and firm: [If you want to join forces with me, my answer is 'no']

He raised his head and looked at Viscount Avak, who had been staring at this place with a cold contempt behind the fortress: [Viscount Avak took a step ahead of me and seized the prototype of the 'Dead River' from the hands of the Flying Flame Land, and even led the Knights to take away all the human souls in the central storage room as fuel for the Dead River]

[I chased him all the way and blocked him here]

[Compared to the Dead Monarch, the research materials of such a thing as the Dead River must not be left - I will destroy the entire subspace labyrinth after destroying him, and I don't need others to accompany me to bury]

- Is this person clubbing in his head? Why is it so difficult to get him to shake the pot? How do I convince myself to help him?

- Moreover, the Dead King is so outrageous, what kind of demonic thing can the Dead River be?

In addition to having nothing to say about Adalbert's almost saintly moral qualities, Ian, who was angry with the other party, really couldn't imagine what could make Adalbert swear to die with him.

"You don't have to guess."

And at this moment, in the distance, Viscount Avak's indifferent voice sounded.

Standing on the top floor of the fortress through a black barrier shield, the local nobleman announced to Ian and the Dead Monarch from afar: "This labyrinth will not be destroyed, and the legacy of the Dead Monarch will not be inherited by the two of you who have no idea of the Grand Duke's great plans. ”

"I'll kill you. Especially you, Adbot, you murderer of my people. I'm going to take back the power you've stolen and put everything back on track......"

As he said this, Ian could see that Viscount Avak's face, and even his clothes, had layers of intricate blood-colored lines, making his eyes scarlet.

But the scarlet was not the blood ice of the Dead King, which seemed to be condensed from despair and hatred, but boiling lava, unleashing fiery rage.

Drops of blood seeped out of his skin, forming a large, hideous blood-colored armor outside of his body, like a demon, but more delicate and nimble, like some kind of goblin that lived on blood.

A dull voice with deep hatred came from the blood-colored vampire armor: "You know, in the original plan, kill everyone in the Avak Realm, the first person to become the Dead King......"

"Yes......"

"Shut up."

But Ian suddenly shouted angrily and interrupted Viscount Avak's words: "The two of us are talking, and it's your turn to interject as a brute?" ”

"At the end of the day, whether it's Grand Duke Thorrin, the Empire, the Gnostic, the Flamelands, or you, Viscount Avak—it's because of you arrogant fools, you arrogant humans, the millions of people in the Avak Realm, who are still trying to live and have hope for the future, that they die so suddenly for no reason!"

- Miles of the Azure City, a mother who has worked hard all her life but can't wait to spend her days with her son; The warm-hearted Aunt Lydia and her equally enthusiastic son's family...... Thousands of ordinary people.

- I saw the life of the prostitute who tried her best but still couldn't redeem herself, and the many test subjects who also died in the laboratory because of the plans of the Gnostic Institute and the Flying Flame Lands, as well as the Grand Duke of Thorin.

A strong sense of absurdity and an extreme surge of anger hovered in the heart.

Adam, who finally figured out something, turned around and looked at Viscount Avak.

"I finally understood why Huaiguang wouldn't interfere in this matter...... Yes, because these are all mistakes made by humans! ”

"Huaiguang will not prevent humanity from making a choice, whether it is sin or good."

"But I can't, I'm going to stop it-"

The black-haired Knight of the Valley drew his sword, his scarlet eyes lit up with a silver-cyan light visible to the naked eye, blending into a strange purple.

Ever since he saw this thing called the 'Strategic City Defense Force Field Shield', which had blocked the siege of Adalbert's Phantom army for a long time, Ian had been using his Foresight and the power of the silver chip to scan for its weaknesses.

And now, he has found it.

A bone-colored spiritual fire ignited on the heavy abyss iron sword, covering up a layer of golden light on the blade.

Frost, crystallization and netherworld triple power mixed, Ian held the hilt of the sword tightly in his right hand, the blade was parallel to his eyes, and his left hand pressed on top of his right hand, forming a right angle of nearly ninety degrees, posing to break through the sword.

"What are you trying to do here?"

At this moment, Viscount Avak was surprised by the movements of the Knight of the Valley in front of him, he controlled the Dead River Armament for some unknown reasons, watched the posture of the mysterious knight, and then finally understood what he was going to do, so he laughed: "You don't want to use that black and rotten sword to penetrate the strategic city protective shield, do you?" ”

"It's so funny, it can hold back an army group for several hours, even if it's the peak of the third energy level, don't want to easily penetrate it!"

Ian didn't reply, he had the patience to talk to the good guys, but he didn't have the patience to waste time with stupid and bad trash.

The Heavy Abyss Iron Sword was already covered with an extremely powerful demonic weapon potion, which had a special effect of penetrating the shield, although this effect could not be fully exerted for a strategic-level shield, but he now also had the power of the Dead King.

- I'm going to run through it.

Such a spirit, like an arrogant command, and like a divine guide, the souls of the revenants who received the command for the first time excitedly shouted: "As you wish, our king"

And so the next moment.

Ian slammed his foot on the ground, and his feet collapsed, and countless cobweb-like cracks spread across the rocky ground.

In the dust, under the gaze of the Dead King and the Dead River, his whole body turned into an afterimage, and the blade of the Heavy Abyss Iron Sword tore through the dust and rock debris in the sky, forming a long sword light in mid-air that seemed to tear through space.

Rings of blasting shockwaves and white mist appeared behind Ian, and in an instant, he struck the area with the lightest color of the strategic-level shield with a single sword.

The triple power and the power of the black shield collided, lighting up with a fiery flash like the sun.

Before the corners of Viscount Avak's sarcastic mouth could be fully raised, the black strategic-level shield that covered the entire fortress shattered with a 'click', cracking a huge hole.

The shield fragments composed of pure phase positions spread towards the rear like explosive bomb fragments, and Ian's speed was faster than these fragments, and he directly crossed a distance of dozens of meters in an instant, and a sword aimed at the top of the fortress, his eyes widened slightly, and before he had time to show surprise, the scarlet 'Dead River Armament' slashed away!

And at this moment, Viscount Avak heard Ian's resolute proclamation from his soul!

"The sins of mankind will be corrected by me, the Mahdi!"