……

On the west side of the cemetery, in a spacious workshop, Matthew took the five bodies that had been sealed in wax out of the body bags and laid them out on the ground in a row.

He was checking the corpse's decomposition.

Life and death are the most magnificent propositions in this world, and they are also the most irreversible laws.

Even though Matthew had disposed of them properly, the inside of the corpses was invariably decomposed.

Matthew poked open the swollen bubbles on the half-dragonman's forehead, and a foul smell filled the workshop.

His nose tightened, and he couldn't help shaking the bell next to him, and Sinwak, who was lying outside the house and sleeping soundly, heard this sound, and his eyes didn't open, but he pulled the rope in his hand hard.

Whew!

With the trolls' efforts, the giant fan in the center of the workshop immediately started to run violently.

The wind blew across the ground.

The air was suddenly fresher.

Matthew breathed freely - he had been dealing with the undead for a long time, but he didn't have enough experience making the undead, and this fan was bought by Leila out of her own pocket after visiting the artisan workshops of the North and South Trade Posts.

"It seems that there is a constant magic in the workplace that keeps the air fresh and gets rid of odors."

Corpses that have not yet completed the infusion of negative energy do smell very strong.

Matthew could only endure the stench and work.

Among the five corpses, the best ones were of course the half-dragon spell swordsman and the boar warriors, followed by the three dragon blood warriors who were scavenged from the dragon worship sect.

Among them, the half-dragon spell swordsman is the best.

Contrary to people's stereotypes, the real Black Warrior is actually an undead unit that can carry and fight, and can also do magic.

The best place to make a black knight is the corpse of a warlock, a priest, and other professions.

They will have the opportunity to retain a little spirituality from their lifetime, as well as their instinctive proficiency in magic.

The half-dragon man has excellent physical fitness, and the spell swordsman profession is proficient in magic, and the black warrior transformed on this basis is very likely to be a small superlative.

Of course, because it was a first-time production and the craftsmanship was unfamiliar, Matthew didn't have too many expectations for whether his black warrior would be magical.

In his opinion, as long as these five guys can graduate smoothly, they will obediently serve as meat shields for themselves.

"There's no way I'm going to never find the right meat shield!"

After checking the integrity of the corpses, Matthew summoned a team of zombies and carried the five corpses one by one to a corner of the workshop.

There, neatly arranged rows of one-man high clay jars.

Matthew went to the next room to get a ladder, set it up against the wall, and climbed up.

Lifting the layer of black flannel on the mud tank, a strong breath of negative energy came to the face, and the tank was filled with pitch-black liquid.

This is the extract of negative energy spring water.

It is called the "Death Essence" by necromancers.

With the help of the zombies, Matthew carefully soaked the five corpses into the death solution.

They will be soaked in a mud tank for more than 10 days until every corner of their body is filled with negative energy.

This process is called "negative energy injection".

It is also a necessary step to craft most mid-level undead.

The soaking time for the Black Samurai is already short, with a minimum of 49 days for mummies and 19 days for Ghouls.

The crafting and summoning of intermediate undead creatures is much more troublesome than that of beginners.

Negative energy infusion is only the first step in making a Black Warrior.

Ten days later, the second and third steps were reached.

Both of these steps are unique to the Black Knight, namely "Oiling" and "Counterbinding".

Oiling refers to the delicate application of an undead realm potion called "Dark God Oil" to the body of a black knight.

This process must be carried out by the necromancer himself, not by someone else.

It is said that this is also the process of the necromancer's initial contract relationship with the black knight.

The most important thing in the oiling process is not the necromancer's technique.

It's the quality of the Dark Divine Oil.

This thing directly determines the level of the Black Knight and the amount of dark magic that can be used in the future.

And "anti-binding" refers to the awakening of the residual spirituality in the corpse through necromancy summoning, igniting its soul fire, making it turn against the object, and breeding a new consciousness belonging to the undead.

After the counter-binding is successful.

The production of the Black Samurai has been successful for the most part.

The "Seal Ceremony" in the fourth step and the "Confession Ceremony" in the fifth step are both natural and only need to take some time to grind.

Matthew expects that the production time of Black Samurai will be between a month and a month and a half.

One of the most critical props is the Dark Divine Oil.

Matthew originally wanted to buy it in the market, but even White Rock City couldn't buy much Dark Divine Oil, and there were it in the Alliance Mall and the Cauldron House, but it was ridiculously expensive.

After renovating the cemetery, Matthew was very shy.

Therefore, he had to do it himself.

The brewing method of the Dark God Oil is not complicated, and the difficulty lies in the acquisition of its materials.

Matthew made a list of materials and glanced at it, his brow furrowed slightly:

Premium corpse oil, rose, lilac, lily of the valley, jasmine, netherworld black locust, bone flower, ghoul's liver......

Four of these mundane petals are not difficult to obtain, and there are some on the edge of the Black Locust Cemetery.

High-grade corpse oil and ghoul's liver are a bit of a hassle, but Matthew should be able to get them too.

But this bone flower is something only found in the negative energy plane!

"Why do you need a ghoul's liver for any immortal ritual?"

"Isn't it time to have a few ghouls? This also makes it easier to use local materials in the future. ”

Matthew complained in his heart.

He remembered that the night of the dead had used a special ingredient called a ghoul's liver in the previous rituals.

But after all, he just thinks about it.

Ghouls are difficult undead creatures to drive, and few necromancers will nurture them.

The reason for this is that ghouls' innate "hunger trouble" is too deadly.

They will eat everything they can get their hands on uncontrollably.

Even if they're not hungry at all.

This flaw is not unique to ghouls, in fact, mid-level undead creatures are considered to be the most difficult to serve-

Ghouls eat everything;

Vampires are bloodthirsty;

Banshees love to tear things;

Only the mummies are the most well-behaved, but their penchant for secretly hoarding cloth occasionally causes their owners to fall coldly.

This flaw is not unique to mid-level undead.

In fact, among the low-level undead, zombies also love to gnaw people, skeletons have a great obsession with piecing together bones, and ghosts have difficulty resisting the urge to suck the energy of the living.

But their flaws are easily suppressed and easily satisfied.

As long as Matthew gives an order, the low-level undead can restrain their flaws.

Bathing in a negative energy fountain can quickly dissolve all their obsessions - which is one of the reasons why Matthew built a cemetery in a hurry.

The high-level undead are generally more intelligent, and their flaws are not obvious.

Only the mid-level undead are the most troublesome.

They each have their own obsessions that are not easily satisfied, and sometimes the necromancer has to make a tougher pact with them in order to better control them.

In this case.

The Black Knight is naturally the most popular mid-level undead creature among necromancers.

Because the flaw of the Black Samurai is "self-harm".

Usually a person quietly hides in a corner and harms himself, without disturbing anyone.

When you get to the battlefield, you can still charge with your life.

Who doesn't love it?

Because of this, and the production process of the black knight is also very hard, and every black warrior is the heart of the necromancer.

Matthew once had the evil idea of disguised himself and going to the vicinity of White Rock City to rebel against a few black warriors.

Fortunately, the "Temperance Field" stopped him in time.

At that moment, he looked at the list of dark divine oil productions, and his brows gradually relaxed.

"So far, I can only ask Xiao Boiling for help."

After struggling for a while, Matthew still made such a decision.

Turning to the undead under your command is not a very frustrating thing.

The premise is that after the Xiao Boiling Gang finds enough materials, they have to give a reward of equal value or even more.

Thinking of Philorius, who is now the overlord of the negative energy plane, is still rolling.

Matthew felt pressured.

We have to work harder.

Otherwise, he can't even compare to a bone dragon under his command.

A moment later.

Matthew calls to Philorius through the Pact of Immortality.

In order to give small boiling space.

He even deliberately left the workshop and went to the cemetery.

A large and familiar circle of negative energy appeared in midair.

The next second.

The silhouette collapsed sharply, and the expected bone dragon did not appear, only a bare bone bump jumped out of the teleportation array and came to Matthew.

Matthew looked at it hesitantly.

It was like a ......

Dove?

"Hello, master of the master, my name is Portotlon, I am a bone pigeon, you can call me Bolong or you can call me a bone pigeon."

"When you summoned your master, the master was fighting with another king of bone dragons in the King's Mountain, and the master sensed that there was not much danger on your side, so he let me come over. I'm my master's military advisor, and it's the same if you tell me anything. ”

The bone's smoothness and clarity of speech made Matthew a little interested.

"When did you become Xiao Boil's military advisor?"

Matthew asked.

The bone pigeon tilted his head suspiciously:

"Xiao Boil?"

"Oh, you mean Lord Philorius? It's not clear, the negative energy plane has no concept of time, we immortals are not good at timekeeping, it may be yesterday, it may be the day before yesterday, it may be a week ago, in short, I am now a die-hard servant of Lord Philorius. Although before following him, I had also been a hardcore loyal servant of seven or eight quasi-immortal kings. ”

Matthew quipped:

"Then you have a rich resume."

The bone pigeon exaggeratedly said:

"Don't say it, I do have a lot of experience, I have a unique understanding of the negative energy plane, but it's a pity that those quasi-kings who have been served by me are all stubborn and self-serving, I have told them many times, that monarch mountain is unlucky, but they don't listen, they have to occupy there and claim hegemony, Lord Philorius is the same, this didn't take long to dominate, the enemy came to the door, hey."

Seeing him sighing, Matthew couldn't help asking:

"Who is Xiao Boiling fighting with? What is the cause, and is it related to the King's Mountain? Tell me more about it. ”

The bone pigeon suddenly came to the spirit:

……

"The enemy is an old bone dragon hovering near the King's Mountain, and that old guy has always had ulterior motives for this mountain, but he is timid and has not made a move.

A while ago, Lord Philorius took down the original owner of the King's Mountain, settled in openly, and prepared to become the sixth immortal king of the crater.

However, the other five immortal kings were all wilted, and they were:

Demigod Lich, Dark General, Colossus of the Tomb, Pharaoh, and Banshee King.

The worst strength of the five guys is also a half-step legend, and the demigod lich and the tomb colossus are the real legendary characters, who hold the authority of the silver land of the crater and have been secretly preventing the birth of the sixth undead king.

No, as soon as Lord Philorius came to prominence, the other five undead kings secretly instigated the old bone dragon to go to war with his master.

I know very well what kind of courage the old bone dragon has, and he must not dare without the support of others.

My advice to Lord Philorius is to retreat as advance, withdraw from the King's Mountain, give up the broken mountain to the old bone dragon, and pretend to fly away.

See if those five kings can tolerate him?!

It's a pity that Lord Philorius didn't listen!

I'll admit that he's a hard-working bone dragon, but he doesn't know how to plan at all, and I've tried my best to translate it into various languages, but he still doesn't understand.

In the end, the two bone dragons fought in a daze, and they were still fighting at this time, and it is estimated that the five kings will come to fish in troubled waters in a while.

Tut-tut!

If you don't take me, I don't think Lord Philorius will be in the limelight for long.

I think you are a persuasive person, I have a whole set of plans to assist you to become an immortal king, as long as you believe in my strategy, you can become the number one person on the crater, and the fourth roundabout is just around the corner!

But before you can do that, you'll have to go through a ritual to transform yourself into a lich.

After all, there is no way for a living human to become an immortal king. ”

……

The more Matthew listened, the more frightened he became.

I didn't expect this little bone pigeon to really have something.

He groaned and asked:

"What do you mean by the crater, the silver land, and the fourth roundabout?"

The bone pigeon replied:

"The crater is the name of the region where Lord Philorius is now in this negative energy plane; The Land of Silver corresponds to the Land of Gold, a relatively barren land, and legend has it that there is also a Land of Diamonds and a Land of Dark Gold, where the undead are covered in golden light! Of course, this is just a legend.

As for the fourth roundabout, it refers to the composition of the entire negative energy plane, we all know that the negative energy plane is composed of nine roundabouts, and the higher you go, the higher the negative energy level, and the stronger the power of the undead.

The king of the ninth roundabout may only be a general at the eighth roundabout, but only an elite character at the seventh and sixth roundabouts.

The goal of all sapient undead creatures is to climb as high as possible.

We are now at the location of the fifth roundabout.

Strange to say, according to legend, as long as there are six immortal kings in the crater area, they will have a chance to get the ladder from the fourth roundabout, but those five guys have been obstructing the birth of the sixth king, which is really short-sighted!

Do you think there's some conspiracy behind this?

For example, the legend of the Fifth Ring is really just a trap in which certain forces trick the kings into killing them as pigs.

The five kings learned of this, so they have been secretly manipulating to prevent the birth of a sixth king?

Do you think my conjecture is justified? ”

The bone pigeon chattered non-stop.

Matthew marveled at his ability to think, which was really too rare among the undead.

He really thought about signing the bone pigeon, but considering that the little brother who robbed the little brother was somewhat dishonorable, he said:

"I'm interested in the stories of the negative energy plane, if you're willing to tell me these stories, and your boss doesn't mind, then I can sign you a separate communication contract, and you'll serve as a messenger between me and Philorius to deliver information, how about it?"

The bone pigeon didn't say a word, and bowed his head:

"That has to be! I'll tell Xiao Boiling when I turn around, I'm now the master of the master, and I don't need to be angry with him every day! Having said that, the masters are already almost fifth-order existences, and the master of the master, you must be a legend, right? ”

Matthew muttered:

"It's not legendary, but it's almost there."

The bone pigeon said curiously:

"How many levels exactly?"

Matthew answers:

"Level 12."

The bone pigeon was silent for a while:

"I think it's good to run errands for Lord Philorius, and of course, you can call me at any time, after all, you are all much higher than me."

Matthew glanced at the data bar.

……

"Hint: You're chatting with the Bone Pigeon (LV1)."

……

"Speaking of which, is there something about the master's master calling the master this time?"

The bone pigeon asked.

Matthew told him about his lack of corpse oil, bone flowers, and ghoul livers.

When the bone pigeon heard this, he was immediately overjoyed:

"These things can be seen everywhere, especially the ghoul liver, there is a ghoul under the master's command, I have long seen him unpleasantly, and I will go over to see if he is dead in a while, even if he is not dead, I will slander the master, kill him, and dedicate it to the master's master!"

With that, he disappeared into thin air.

Hours later.

Ma corrects the tombstone.

The bone pigeon appeared next to him on its own initiative, holding a tawny bag in its mouth, filled with the materials Matthew needed.

"The master said, next time you need to speak directly, not to mention the ghoul's liver, even if it is his own liver, as long as you say a word, I will take it out and give it to you!"

The bone pigeon impassionedly imitated Xiao Boil's words:

"The master also said that if he delayed the master's affairs because of his war, it would be a sin that could not be shirked, please rest assured, he will definitely do his best to kill the old bone dragon as quickly as possible, even if it is seriously injured, it doesn't matter, the next time you summon him, he will drag his body to the battle!"

Matthew listened funny.

Xiao Boil, this guy, started to play this game with himself again.

"Tell me, what support does he want?"

Matthew asked bluntly.

The bone pigeon immediately replied:

"Yourself!"

"Lord Philorius said that there is a very strange skeleton mage in the old bone dragon camp that is difficult to deal with, and if you participate in the battle yourself, you will definitely be able to capture it."

Matthew's eyes rolled.

He thought for a moment:

"It's not that I'm not completely non-negotiable, it's just ......"

The bone pigeon put the bag up:

"The master said, there are things that satisfy you, it belongs to the tribute paid in advance, and after this battle is over, more tribute will be handed over to you, I hope you can accept it with a smile."

Matthew opened the bag and found a small crockpot inside, which contained a puddle of golden liquid.

……

"The Fountain of the Undead: A sacred relic of the undead. There are several ways to use it –

1. Mix a small amount of water to make the undead gain a large amount of XP.

2. Mixed in the negative energy fountain, it can greatly improve the comprehensive attributes of the undead.

3. Crafting an Undead Creature: Gives the undead a resurrection trait.

4. Carry the Immortal Fountain in a bottle with you, and you will have the opportunity to further comprehend the realm of the undead."

……

"Okay, as long as the time doesn't conflict, the next time you want to fight, you can call me in advance."

Matthew silently accepted the objective fact that he had become Xiao Boil's summons.

After sending away the bone pigeons.

He quickly took out the materials for making darkness, set up a large cauldron in the workshop, added firewood to the bottom, and began the boiling of the dark oil.

Afternoon.

The "soup base" of the god oil is preliminarily boiled, and it is about to enter the process of collecting the juice on the fire.

That's when it happened.

There was a commotion at the entrance to the cemetery.

Matthew rushed over when he heard the sound.

only to find a middle-aged man pulling and pulling with the zombies.

He quickly repelled the zombie and asked strangely:

"Rhaegar? What are you doing here? ”

Rhaegar pointed to the tear in his garment, and said sternly:

"Your zombie misbehaves, you must pay for this clothes!"

"In fact, if it weren't for your face, I would have cut them all down with one sword!"

said.

He slipped an invitation into Matthew's hand:

"In the morning, I met Alena, but unfortunately we only talked for a few words, and she left under the pretext of having an upset stomach, leaving only the Minister of Deep Blue Harbor and Zeller there to be polite to each other."

"She hurried over, but she was secretly avoiding me, which was very unpleasant."

"I'm going to hold a dance party in the inn in the name of Alena in the evening, and I want to touch her bottom, and you must attend."

Matthew pondered:

"Have you seen Lady Alena? Do you have any special feelings? ”

Rhaegar recalled:

"She's changed a lot and it's not the same as before, but I can't say exactly what it's different for, after all, I haven't seen her a few times when I was young."

Matthew asked:

"If you can't tell the difference rationally, why don't you ask your intuition - your first reaction is what's wrong with her?"

Rhaegar thought for a moment:

"She's prettier than ever."

"It's a hard feeling to describe, I don't know if you can understand it, the appearance is still the same, and even a little older, but on the whole it has become more flavorful and temperamental."

Matthew: "......"

"I'm not interested in proms."

He pushed the invitation.

"You must go."

Rhaegar said solemnly:

"Alena is old and intelligent, and it's hard to get useful information from her, but her adopted daughter Judy is different, she's still young, and she loves the ball and is interested in everything, so you can get close to her at the ball and find out the real purpose of their trip from Judy!"

"Don't say no, it's work!"

Matthew couldn't help but roll his eyes:

"The Spell Advisor's job also includes seducing girls?"

Rhaegar replied rightly:

"Doesn't my lord's job include being a spell target for you?"

"It's a Rolling Rock character, and you're going to have to get used to it."

……

(End of chapter)