Chapter 125: The Invisible Dead

In Du Leimi's eyes, a group of illusory flying undead appeared.

This group of undead has almost no entities.

Even, some immortals only have a sustenance that I don't know if it is a skull or what kind of bone, while the rest of the parts are illusory, miserable white energy bodies.

Du Leimi had heard countless times that between the pieces of broken bones that had not been noticed too much, Huo Ran poked out the death energy, and then condensed into the undead.

The undead do not have a fixed form, and their form is not determined by what they are "in life", but by the outline of the skeleton in which they currently inhabit.

If it's a flying undead......

She'd even heard of the undead made up of a pile of bone sand and a pile of light bone fragments—

Like those desert spirits in the Earth Empire.

What's more, the bones left behind by the living are not the only shelter for the undead.

Although they are less adaptable and consume more, they can even live in the powder snow falling from the sky and enter the battlefield if they want to.

"The undead" and "the undead" are just a common name.

Duremi is well aware of how fiercely the frontier schools debate the definition of "life" in the Elven Kingdom, and even the claim that the undead are actually an elemental life.

One of the most basic and broad questions is what "life" is.

Able to generate vitality sustainably and on their own, to grow and grow, to reproduce offspring, and to respond to external influences, whether it is "ignorant" or "ignorant" or "intelligent" or "cunning", whether it is slow or fast.

This was the most mainstream way of saying two hundred years ago, and such a definition was acceptable for races other than elves.

The problem, however, is that "vitality" is not a necessary characteristic.

Elemental creatures, do they count as life?

This question has been discussed for more than 200 years.

And now, the word "life" has been divided into two pieces -

Flesh life and energy life.

As it has been said, the body of flesh and blood is forged by flesh and blood.

The life force nourishes matter, activates things, and unites those tiny things that are ubiquitous on the earth to form flesh and blood.

And the flesh will continue to nourish the life force, and the life force will make the flesh stronger, tighter and stronger.

The body of flesh and blood life is an entity with a high degree of condensation of matter.

And like elemental beings, incorporeal and formless energies such as elements are the basis of their bodies.

Life force allows the elements to condense faster, but elemental beings can exist without life force.

And between a large number of condensed things, there will be a "spirit".

The vitality is stable, but this spiritual power is uncertain.

They are born between things that are closely connected, but they are too close to each other and escape from the place where they were born.

Or, as some elven scholars put it, "squeezed out."

Once upon a time, an ancient elven scholar left a few words about the mutual attraction and repulsion of physical particles.

The vitality force is the force that attracts each other, and the spiritual force is the force that repels each other.

This statement was recorded in books, originals or transcripts, in the Great Library guarded by the Ancient Tree of Knowledge.

Duremie was not a scholar, but had read some theoretical books because of what he had to know to learn spells.

She didn't know which ancient elven scholar such a statement came from, and she didn't quite understand.

However, in recent years, whether the undead are considered life or not has also been pushed into the craze near the royal city because the original "life is divided into flesh life and elemental life" has been changed to "life is divided into flesh life and energy life".

Douremi, who was stationed all year round, had no idea what the children who were far away from the war would talk about the undead.

For her, there is only one thing -

The undead are far hostile to the living, especially to the elves.

Don't have an inexplicable affection for them just because "the undead count as life".

It's all life, will the other party be friendly to you?

No, Duremi waved the spear-shaped staff in her hand, and the surging vitality was drained by her as the source of the intervention spell and-

As if forming leaf veins, as if forming tree branches, the elements remaining in the surrounding air were intervened, controlled, and gathered by magic.

The dragon's unique life force clings to the elements, turning them into a part of themselves, and the beasts use violence to plunder the elements from the environment and use them in a coercive manner.

The way they internalize their energy is not suitable for elves.

However, elves can spread, adapt, and intervene like roots and veins, taming the elements like animal companions, and at the same time, using transfiguration to transform their bodies to gain more adaptability.

Duremi could feel that the elements of the environment, driven by her spells, condensed and shaped, came to life into the image of her most familiar animal companion, and pounced on the undead beside her.

However, Duremi did not attempt anything to "tame" the energy of death.

Once upon a time, there was a group of elves who did this, and then they became outsiders that the elven kingdom would never accept.

Duremmy glanced at the sky, the flying undead, the faint white glimmer that loomed through the bones.

With the sound of trumpets among the elves' air troops, one spell after another flew out, either activating the wind elemental, or strengthening the arrows, or strengthening the companions they were riding.

Or maybe it's a spell-like spell that the shapeshifter flapped his wings and spit out.

There was also one bombardment after another of external energy bombardment.

Although the direct destructive power of the life force is very low, and it is only effective against the undead, it is clear that the casters of the legion are no strangers to this type of spell in the face of the perennial invasion of the undead.

Duleimi glanced around.

Because of the morale of the giant skeleton being wiped out and the other troops that were freed up, there was no pressure on her side, and those undead were quickly wiped out by the elven warriors.

She doesn't need to stay here anymore.

But......

Glancing at the battlefield in the sky where there was a battle and corpses constantly falling, Duremi decisively chose to use the Transfiguration Spell.

Her vitality surged, and her lower body retracted into two legs, while her arms lengthened and widened, and the hair on her body turned into feathers.....

As the wind elemental became closer to her, Duremi transformed into a strange creature shaped like a harpy of the Birds and Beasts, and flew into the sky.

And her long legs, covered in scales, grew longer and stiffer, and finally turned into sharp claws, grabbing one of her abandoned staff spears.

Despite the fact that the spear was covered with a lot of metal, the staff lance itself was made of wood that was highly adapted to life force, and it was not too heavy, and it did not burden Duremmy's flying movements.

She flapped the wings of her hands, stirring up the fast-flowing life force in her body, intervening in the wind elementals present in the surrounding sky, channeling them to her own wings to help her fly better and faster.

At the same time, without the slightest hesitation, the spear she grasped with a pair of legs and claws gathered a large amount of vitality.

Like an arrow, the wind elemental converged around the spear, ready to strike.