Baiye Village was silent, and there seemed to be a faint chill lingering in the air, but the houses were dilapidated, and there was a thick layer of ash on the ground. Among the ashes, messy wreckage could be vaguely seen.
Sui Xiong looked at it from a distance, shook his head, and sighed deeply.
He already knew the original cause and effect, and also knew why the old chief priest suddenly plotted against him—good and evil were mortal enemies.
The battle between good and evil, the battle between ideas, the battle between positions... To put it bluntly, it is a battle of ideologies. On Earth, this kind of struggle has developed to the point where two major camps, headed by two superpowers, have deployed weapons powerful enough to destroy all mankind several times to intimidate each other. In this world, various pantheons, countries, races, and sects often fight over ideology. The old master's act of avenging kindness and revenge is actually nothing in this context.
But hundreds of people in Baiye Village lost their lives in vain just because the old chief priest wanted to play ideological struggle alone.
He did not regret the way he had attacked innocent people with all his strength. At that time, he knew very little about the world and was facing a huge crisis. What was wrong with struggling with all his strength? However, he was really full of sympathy for the villagers who died in vain. But he is very dissatisfied with this world where the ideological struggle is so sharp and fierce that people cannot understand it.
"This world is really sick..."
With emotion, he controlled the giant jellyfish and walked around the village. The tentacles, which were more powerful than any hoe, dug deep ravines in the ground to form a simple magic circle.
This is a protective magic circle that can prevent the dead inside the magic circle from turning into reborn creatures.
The so-called resurrected creatures refer to the bodies of dead creatures that will be reactivated under the erosion of dark power—called negative energy in this world—and turn into monsters that can move. This type of monster has no intelligence and will only instinctively attack nearby things containing positive energy according to the principle of positive and negative energy conflict - the most common ones are various natural creatures.
Sui Xiong was a game fan before traveling through time and had been exposed to many games. According to his idea, those who are resurrected after death and become monsters should be called undead. But in fact, the so-called "undead system" is divided into two parts, return-to-death creatures and undead creatures. The former is just a simple monster without intelligence, but the latter is a dangerous monster with wisdom and power that can continue to grow.
Undead creatures come from various sources, and are backed by gods, demons and monsters, so they are a force that cannot be underestimated in this world. The situation is different for the returning creatures. They lack basic intelligence, cannot provide the power of faith, and cannot perform slightly complicated tasks. They do not receive any attention and protection. Even most undead creatures despise them. They are extremely low-end. No matter how low-end it is—even if many undead creatures themselves are advanced from return-to-death creatures.
However, it is this thing at the low end of the monster world that poses the greatest threat to the people living in the Black Forest.
The official name of the Black Forest should be the Forest of Ashes. Legend has it that in distant ancient times, some gods fought here, and the dead gods turned to ashes, polluting the forest. Since then, this forest has become the birthplace of negative energy, exuding negative energy all the time. While eroding the surrounding land, it fuses and condenses all the bones in the forest and turns them into reborn creatures.
The strange thing is that no matter how strong the returning creatures become, they will not advance. This makes the Ashen Forest worthless even for villains trying to recruit undead minions, and only poor farmers will work to cultivate it.
Through the analysis of the power on the shrine of the Sleepless God, Sui Xiong has mastered the means of absorbing negative energy. The magic array he designed at the moment was to extract the negative energy from the array and disperse it into the distance.
Without the support of negative energy, the bones of the dead will naturally not transform into reborn creatures.
Being big is convenient. Sui Xiong quickly completed the magic circle without using any tools, just relying on his powerful tentacles. Relying on the skills gained from the art department of a third-rate art school, the entire magic circle was painted perfectly without any flaws.
Before activating the magic circle, he once again stepped into Baiye Village and inspected it carefully.
This magic circle will greatly reduce the concentration of negative energy in the array. If undead creatures have been produced in the village, they will be killed by it.
Although undead creatures are rare, there may be accidents.
Things were just as he guessed, he really found undead creatures in the ruins.
It was an undead soul with only its soul left, making a fighting posture, fighting an enemy that did not exist.
Sui Xiong recognized it at a glance - bald, tall, and agile. Isn't this guy the most powerful warrior in the village
According to the information obtained from the shrine, this strong man is called Gerald Caban and he once worked as a mercenary. Because he offended a big shot outside, he fled to a remote Ash Forest to live in seclusion. He lacks faith and has no respect for the gods. He only believes in his own axe. However, he is also a good teacher. He has a high reputation in the village and can be regarded as a thorn in the flesh of the old chief priest.
The strong men in this world are roughly divided into three levels: bronze, silver and gold. The characteristic of advancement is the change of life form. Above the gold level are those legendary creatures with long lifespans and powerful strength. And above that... They are gods and demons. Gerald and the old chief priest were both in bronze rank. In terms of strength, twenty or thirty ordinary strong men were not enough for them to fight. However, the old priest was old and frail after all, and Gerrard was in his prime. There were several conflicts between the two sides, and the old priest was at a disadvantage.
As a sacrifice to the evil god, he has many spells at his disposal. But Gerald was an old man who had been in the entertainment world for many years. He was very cunning and never gave the old priest a chance to plot against him. Until that night of fierce fighting, the old chief priest sacrificed himself to launch the enslavement technique to assassinate Sui Xiong, but in the end, Gerald and the entire village were buried with him.
Sui Xiong stared at Gerald's undead soul. Most of this soul's body had become dim and void, only a little light at the heart was still beating. If nothing unexpected happens, after a while, he will completely dissipate and become part of the negative energy that permeates the entire Ash Forest.
But now that Sui Xiong is here, things have taken a turn for the better.
After thinking for a moment, Sui Xiong released his magic power and turned into a gray ball, shrouding Gerald inside.
The ball was filled with pure negative energy. Under the control of Sui Xiong's magic power, they continuously penetrated into Gerald's soul, making the already weak undead quickly become stronger. After just a while, the undead's face became as clear as a living person, and the light of wisdom regained its face.
He stopped and stood looking around in confusion.
"How is this going?"
"You're dead." Sui Xiong said.
Gerald turned to look at the huge beast, the confusion in his eyes not completely fading: "But what on earth is going on?"
Sui Xiong sighed and told him the cause and effect of the matter in detail.
"So that's it..." After listening to Sui Xiong's story, Gerald was silent for a long time, and all his sighs finally turned into a long sigh.
"What are you going to do?" Sui Xiong saw that he was in a low mood and asked, "Go to hell or to the Kingdom of God?"
In this world, if the soul of the dead does not want to dissipate or become undead, there are only two places to go. Either go to hell and gamble your luck to see whether you will degenerate into an evil monster or enter the Great River Styx that runs through all the worlds and wash away your past and reincarnation; or you can go to the kingdom of the god you believe in and transform. As a creature of the kingdom of God, live for a few more years, and finally integrate into it completely and become a part of the kingdom of God.
Sui Xiong didn't get a lot of information, and he didn't know exactly what life was like in hell and in the Kingdom of God, but according to his thoughts, both options seemed to be bad.
If you want to be reincarnated, just reincarnate directly. It doesn't matter if you become a monster! There is nothing wrong with going to live in the Kingdom of God, but why should we be integrated into it and turned into building materials in the future!
Gerald was silent for a while and said: "I believed in the God of Thieves back then, but later abandoned my faith. Now I am an unbeliever. No God will accept me. And hell... I don't want to go..."
"Then there is no other way. There are only two ways to dissipate or become an undead creature. Which one do you choose?" Sui Xiong said, "Forget it if you dissipate. If you want to become an undead creature, I have some skills and can help you transform. At least I can retain some sanity.”
"I don't want to be a wraith or a death knight..."
"You are so demanding."
Gerald smiled: "I didn't expect that when I was alive, I was chased by several bronze-level killers and ran for my life like a dog. After I died, I actually talked and laughed with a powerful legendary creature... Forget it, I looked away. , just dissipate."
After all the hardships, the only option was death. At this moment, he gave up on death, and his whole temperament became calmer and nobler.
But Sui Xiong was unwilling to let him die completely like this. Gerald was a good person and had some abilities. The most important thing was that he had traveled all over the country for many years and was well-informed and experienced. I am not familiar with this world, and the information obtained from the shrine is unreliable. It would be much more convenient if I could win over Gerald as a guide or something.
If nothing else, letting this bald man pretend to be the great magician and pretending to be the legendary creature he summoned would save you a lot of trouble! I am so big, if I don't find a suitable identity, I will definitely cause panic when I go outside!
So he thought for a while and finally made up his mind.
"Here... let me try to recreate a physical body for you..." he said.
"What?" Gerald was stunned and didn't understand what he said.
"I'll try to create a new body for you, and see if you can attach it to it and resurrect it."
Gerald was overjoyed, but hesitant - Necromancy was notorious, so he had to be afraid.
However, he then thought about it, was it necessary for such a powerful creature to deceive such a small mortal like him? For example, those scenes in folk tales in which the devil deceives mortals into signing contracts also deceive big people with outstanding talents and bright futures. Who would spend such energy on a dead adventurer who is about to lose his soul? Wouldn't it be nice to directly cast a spell to command undead creatures...
Thinking of this, he felt relieved, but he still couldn't help but ask: "Is this really okay?"
Sui Xiong chuckled: "Just give it a try. You're ready to die anyway, so even if the resurrection fails, there's nothing to lose."
This statement is very convincing. Just like a person is already planning not to play a certain game anyway, so what does it matter if his account is used to test cheats
OK, no problem!
Gerald accepted the proposal after thinking for a moment, and then cooperated with Sui Xiong to start rebuilding his body.