Chapter 842: The Power of the Artifact
"What, what's the problem?"
Ron asked rhetorically.
Nicole lost her mind for a moment, then said, "I know what you're thinking...... You must be thinking in your heart, you have obtained my father's inheritance, and then you get the Scourge's Scepter, and you can command hundreds of millions of undead if you appear as the inheritor!"
"Isn't it?"
Ron blushed, as if he had shown her what was on his mind, and in fact, that's what he thought in his heart.
"Actually, you are not wrong to think so, the Scourge's Scepter is the symbol of the Scourge's legion, and if you own it, you will own the entire Scourge's legion, commanding hundreds of millions of undead...... But......" Nicole sighed, looking at Ron with some regret, "it would have been possible if you had appeared shortly after my father's fall, but now a hundred thousand years have passed...... It's too late, maybe...... Those dead have forgotten their father......"
"Really?"
Ron's gaze dimmed, and the glimmer of hope that had just risen in his heart was also shattered, time had passed for 100,000 years, and the undead were afraid that they had almost forgotten about the person Herimus, and suddenly someone took out a weapon and said that everyone should obey his orders, and it was strange that they could listen.
Even if Lord Noah, whom Ron respects, if someone takes Noah's sword in 100,000 years and asks Ron to obey his orders, Ron will not have any other choice but to treat him as a fool.
Nicole glanced at Ron and said a little hesitantly, "Actually, for now, the Scourgeship Scepter is in your hands, which is not necessarily a good thing, do you remember the last time the Sultan Continent chased and killed my group?"
"It's the undead named Jibin, I remember!" Ron said with a deep groan, remembering that Nicole had been hunted by a group of undead on the Syran continent for the Scourge Scepter.
"Yes!" Nicole nodded, "They're from the Plague Legion!"
"Plague Legion?"
Ron was stunned for a moment, "What's that?"
"It's also a main battle legion of the undead...... Exactly...... The leader of his legion is Gibin's father, the Dreadlord Saruman, who was my father's subordinate 100,000 years ago, and the Plague Legion is also a part of the Scourge Legion, since my father's disappearance, the Plague Legion has become a part of the Scourge Legion!"
Nicole recounted some of the grievances of the undead in the main plane.
"This guy named Saruman is very strong, at least not under my father, after my father disappeared, he started the idea of the Scourge, planning to use the token of the Scourge Scepter to order hundreds of millions of undead to swallow the entire Scourge!"
"I see!"
Ron listened carefully, he finally understood, sighed and said, "It seems...... It's not safe for me to hold this Calamity Scepter, I'm afraid that once I get to the main plane, if he knows that I have this thing, I'm afraid that he will kill me directly and snatch the Scourge's Scepter!"
Ron secretly thought to himself, how big is the gap in strength between himself and that Dreaddemon King Saruman, even if the other party is weak, how can he talk about a plague army, and he is only alone in the main plane, this comparison of strength......
For a moment, Ron's mind was in turmoil, thinking that this mission was really not so easy to accomplish, otherwise it would be nice for the Lich King to inherit the power wherever he wanted.
"Yes, it's just one side trying to snatch the Scourge's Scepter, but the other side is even more dangerous for you......"
Nicole said.
"What? and?"
Ron was shocked, he felt that he had more than one enemy in the undead main plane, and it was strange that he was really dangling around the undead main plane with the Scourge's scepter, and he was slaughtered every minute.
"The other force is the Scourge God Emperor Fismarck, after my father disappeared, this guy named Fismarck took over most of the power of the Scourge Legion and called himself the Scourge God Emperor, but he has never been able to take out the Scourge Scepter, so his inheritance is a bit ...... Problem, many undead don't like him, of course, the strength of this Scourge Legion is far inferior to the original Scourge Legion......"
"This is what Klein said of the Scourge Legion!"
Ron groaned for a while and said, he had heard Klein say that there was still a Scourge Legion on the Undead Main Plane, but this Scourge's Legion was not worthy of his allegiance, as for the reason, Klein did not say.
"Of course, there are not only these two forces that want to snatch the Scepter of Scourge, other forces also want to get the Scepter of Scourge, support the spokesperson, and then control the entire undead clan, such as the demon clan you met last time in the Snow Lan Continent, and even the angels in the Justice League...... They all want it!"
Nicole took a deep breath and said, in the past 100,000 years, she has worked hard to protect the Scepter of the Scourge, not to mention hiding, but also to find the whereabouts of her father the Lich King, if it weren't for the savings of millions of black crystal coins left to her by the Lich King, she bought a lot of life-saving things, I am afraid that she would not be able to live now, her strength is too low.
Listening to Nicole talk about the situation of the undead main plane, even Ron felt troubled, his trip to the main plane seemed to be able to save his life, as for what to restore the glory of the Cataclysm Legion, what to shelter hundreds of millions of undead, it was not necessary to think about it.
"Is there any way to do it?"
Ron asked, frowning, he was at a loss for the current situation, which he could not solve.
"I don't know...... Father's order is to give the Scourge's Scepter to the true heir...... And I've done my job!"
Nicole shook her head, a hint of confusion flashed in her eyes, she made it clear that her mission had been accomplished, and the rest was the matter of Ron, the heir.
"The Undead Lord Plane, I haven't been back for a long time, besides, with my strength...... I'm afraid it won't help you much!" Nicole whispered.
Ron stood up and paced the Hall of the Dead in annoyance, his brow furrowed and his face solemn.
At this point, Ron stopped, "That...... Scourge...... Scepter Can I take a look?"
"Yes!"
Nicole was not surprised, she looked up, took out a delicate necklace from her neck, and then placed her hands on the necklace and whispered a spell.
After a while, there was a "snap-" sound, and the space lock on the necklace was opened, and Nicole solemnly took out an object and handed it to Ron with both hands.
"This is the Scourge?"
In the hall of the dead, Ron quietly stroked a bone staff as smooth as white jade in his hand, and asked with a sigh.
The Scourgeal Scepter in Ron's hand is a bone staff with a strange shape, a crystal white body, about one meter three or four long, the body of the staff is very smooth, and it has Ron's most familiar bone feeling, but it is unusually heavy, much heavier than a steel sword, the top of the bone staff is a huge skull, hollow eye sockets, sharp teeth, it looks very hideous, and below the huge skull is a row of slightly smaller skeletons, a total of eight, respectively to the east, south, west, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, Eight directions to the northwest, and the lower jaws of the skeletons in these eight directions, and a string of beads, these small beads are smaller skeletons, Ron counted carefully, these small beads are exactly thirteen in each string.
"Thirteen" is an unlucky number in the current conception of death, and this meaning is preferred by the undead.
"Yes, this is the Scourge!"
Nicole nodded in reply, she hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "It's yours now!"
"Can I use it now?"
Ron couldn't put down the Scourge Scepter, this weapon gave him a different feeling, it was a feeling of blood connection, and when Ron held it in his hand, he could clearly feel the joy emanating from the Scourge's Scepter, as if he had not seen a close comrade in a long time.
"Of course, it's your right!"
Nicole shrugged her shoulders, then whispered, "But beware, it's powerful...... I can increase your strength by at least thirty percent, I'm afraid you'll ruin this place!"
"I have my own score!"
Ron nodded, and he chanted a few incantations softly.
In an instant, the entire hall of the dead fell silent, and a trace of strange and terrifying aura overflowed and spread in all directions.
The sun in the sky seemed to lose its light and fell like a morning star, plunging the earth into boundless darkness.
"What's wrong......
"What's going on?"
"Why is it dark......
"It's scary...... Suffocating power!"
The sunny weather suddenly became dark, but it was not completely dark, but a taste of dead silence and desolation, and the people in the Dark City were in confusion, and panic was spreading.
"What's going on?" Vivien, who was discussing with Grand Elder Huo Meilin, stood up in a state of mind and said in surprise, "What a powerful aura of death!"
"This is coming from Ron's room!" Huo Meilin's face was solemn, "Artifact, I feel the breath of the artifact!"
"Let's go...... Look at it!"
Homelin exchanged glances with Vivien, and they all ran in the direction of the Hall of the Dead.
"Giggle-"
In the Hall of the Dead, Ron held the huge skull at the top of the Scourge's Scepter as if he was alive, and the two hollow eye sockets emitted a strange cyan light, while the small skull in eight directions rotated like a spinning top, driving eight strings of thirteen beads to rotate together, making a crisp sound like bone tapping.
At this moment, Ron's body has risen in the air, like a demon god falling from the sky, "whoosh-" sounded, and with the wave of the scepter, a strange black practice flew out of his hand, crossed the gate of the hall of the dead, pierced out of the wide terrace, and directly hit a hill more than thirty miles outside the dark city.
"Boom-" The ground shook, and the hall of the dead in the Dark City also felt a strong tremor.
"So exaggerated?"
Ron was stunned, he didn't use much power, but he caused such a huge amount of damage, Nicole said that the artifact has a power bonus effect, so it was true.
"You still don't know how to control the power of the Scourge, if this artifact is in my father's hands, its power will only be greater!"
Nicole said proudly.