To be able to win this victory relatively easily is a bit of a fluke to be honest, but if you think about it carefully, it is inevitable.
The four adventurers before were extremely powerful. Even if they used sneak attacks, the Lich still had to spend a lot of effort to kill them all. For this, it also lost two of its powerful subordinates and even consumed its mana. Many of them didn't even have time to restore their protective spells.
In this case, if they encounter Palin and the others, whose strength is only higher than that of the previous four, they will of course be defeated but not victorious.
"I just don't understand, why doesn't it run away?" Lafleur said with some confusion, "If it ran away directly from the beginning, even if the zombie couldn't run away, it should be able to run away by itself, right?"
"Because it wants to kill us." Palin explained, "Almost all lichs are filled with extreme hatred for the living. When it discovered us, this hatred had already greatly hindered its ability to attack the situation. Judgment. Especially Mr. Morton’s magic, the sacred power is what it hates the most, so even though it knew there was danger, it decided to attack us.”
"Isn't this just like a bison that charges wildly upon seeing a trembling piece of cloth?" Raffoul muttered, "Your intelligence is in danger!"
"How much wisdom do you expect from a skeleton?" Rhett sneered, "A truly powerful mage will never choose to become a lich. They have many ways to extend their lives, and there is no need to use this method. Even if they want to Even if he transforms into an undead creature, he won't choose to become a skeleton... All in all, this guy is just a second-rate guy."
If the sealed lich could hear his words, he would be furious at this moment. It should be noted that any lich is at least transformed from a high-level mage. If a high-level mage is considered second-rate, then what can be considered first-rate!
After cleaning the battlefield, the bodies of the adventurers and their equipment were put into the space bag. After Palin and the others returned to the town, they would search for the adventurers' relatives and friends and hold a funeral for them.
If you're lucky, maybe you can be resurrected.
As for the remaining things, they are naturally trophies.
The remains of fire elements, the corpses of earthly monsters, and parts of the lich are all good trophies. And the heavy armor worn by the zombie is also valuable - it just needs to be cleaned and purified. It can only be valued after the purification is completed after returning.
In addition, the Lich also carries some valuable equipment, but unfortunately they are all soaked in negative energy and cannot be used immediately.
"The harvest this time is good, how about we turn around now?" Rhett suggested.
But this time it was the taciturn Morton's turn to object. He firmly stated that he would continue to move forward, find the lich's lair and destroy it.
If the priest becomes stubborn, there is really nothing anyone can do. What's more, DeVol also agreed with Morton's opinion. After consideration, Palin and Raffl also voted in favor.
Four to one, Rhett could only grumble and complain, and moved on with everyone else.
They walked for about another day and finally found the lich's lair.
Passing through the magic secret door discovered by Palin, everyone saw a huge underground space. A large number of corpses were piled up around a huge altar. Various strange plants were densely growing in the pile of corpses, and many strange monsters appeared in it, making it seem like a paradise.
Palin almost vomited after seeing this scene. The other people's faces were not good-looking, and Morton was even more filled with indignation. He felt like his whole body was almost on fire.
"Evil!" he roared in a low voice, "must be purified!"
No one would stop him at this time, so everyone started working together, using a large amount of fire oil to assist, setting up a huge position, and ignited the entire altar with the surrounding corpses, plants and monsters.
The blazing flames illuminated the dark underground space. The monsters howled and died in the flames. The altar was destroyed by the flames, and the corpses of those who died in vain were finally purified.
The fire burned for a day and a night, and when it was finally extinguished, the former Lich's lair was reduced to ruins.
Palin and the others rummaged through the ruins for two days and found a lot of useful things. Perhaps there are many that have not been noticed - after they return to report, the soldiers from Rye Town, in coordination with the temple priests, will rush here to thoroughly purify and clean up the place.
Maybe they can't clean it up, and there will be other adventurers to try their luck in the future, but all of this has nothing to do with Palin and the others.
In the biting cold wind at high altitude, the huge jellyfish opened its eyes and showed a playful smile.
Although the lich's evil practices were outrageous, Sui Xiong was inspired by the altar and its surrounding arrangements.
A large number of corpses should have generated huge negative energy, but in fact, except for the altar, the negative energy in the rest of its lair was not very strong. Because those demonized plants absorbed negative energy, and then the monsters used them as food to further purify the negative energy.
In the ashes after the burning, Palin and the others found many magic cores that condensed a large amount of negative energy.
I don’t know if the lich did it intentionally or unintentionally, but in short, through this method, it successfully collected and condensed negative energy.
Sui Xiong has no interest at all in collecting and condensing negative energy to obtain this type of magic core. But this method gave him great inspiration.
So he found Akane, who was working hard on research, and had a detailed chat with him.
Akane was also a person who knew everything, and they immediately understood what Sui Xiong meant. After careful consideration, they felt that this method could indeed be used as a reference, so they set about setting up a testing ground.
The testing site is an underground cave where the mushrooms cultivated by Akane that can absorb negative energy thrive. Sui Xiong summoned some "herbivores" from the undead world and let them feed on these mushrooms.
The monsters that got plenty of food grew very fast. When they multiplied to a certain extent, Sui Xiong released "carnivores" into them.
By this time, the concentration of negative energy in the cave was already so low that it even affected the growth of mushrooms. As a result, the monsters that lacked food began to die in large numbers, and their corpses piled up like mountains.
Akane had to put in mushrooms that could decompose corpses and avoid contamination. This type of mushrooms in turn became food for herbivorous monsters... In short, a small biosphere was finally realized in the cave.
This biosphere uses external negative energy as its basic energy source, and its output is a magic core that condenses a large amount of negative energy. Its biggest advantage is that it can effectively consume negative energy and achieve purification.
Above the cave, the originally black soil gradually turned into dark brown, and the plants contaminated by negative energy gradually returned to their normal appearance.
After about three months, the land was really purified, and there was no smell of death on it.
Of course, this is the result of using magic. If it is allowed to develop naturally, it may take several years or even more than ten years to finally achieve the goal.
"It's amazing!" Akane sighed with emotion as he stood on the ground where he couldn't feel the negative energy at all. "I actually used this method to achieve purification! I never thought I could do this!"
Now, he is sincerely convinced of Sui Xiong. If reality is a game, Sui Xiong's reputation with him must have been elevated to "worship."
Of course, this method cannot be considered perfect. For example, the monsters underground need to be cleaned up regularly to kill the particularly powerful ones to avoid the breeding of terrifying and powerful monsters - in that case, the city will be in danger.
But the danger is controllable. The monsters Sui Xiong chose are not powerful in combat. As long as they are cleaned up regularly, there is no need to worry about raising tigers.
"I suddenly thought of a game." Sui Xiong looked at the transparent model suspended in the air, which was what they expected the city to look like. He suddenly thought and sighed, "There are towns on the ground, but through the underground barriers and tunnels, But it’s a huge evil maze…”
Akane couldn't help but laugh: "It sounds really familiar. This seems to be the residence of the evil devil in the legend."
Sui Xiong was not sure whether the evil devil lived in such a place. But he had to find a way to resolve the negative impact of the maze beneath his holy land.
Otherwise, if rumors spread in the future that "the holy land of Masked Void Church is actually a terrifying crypt where evil monsters are cultivated", wouldn't I really become the evil demon king
It wasn't hard to get him, because when he remembered that game, he had already thought of a solution to the problem.
"I plan to launch a service in the Holy Land." He said, "I want to build the underground into a maze and welcome people to explore. Before exploring, bind a return spell to them. When they encounter When there is great danger, the spell will be activated automatically and send them back."
"...It seems interesting."
"Not only that, I will also put some treasure boxes in the maze, and put potions, coins, scrolls, equipment in the treasure boxes... In short, I want to make people who explore the maze feel that their hard work is worth it."
"Uh-huh… "
"In this way, I can promote it to the outside world and launch a tourism project like 'Dungeon Adventure', so that people who want to take risks but are afraid of danger can come here and experience the feeling of adventure and treasure hunting!"
Sui Xiong became more and more proud as he spoke, and inspiration erupted like a volcano: "And this can also be used as a training base for young adventurers to continuously cultivate a large number of talents for my church. At that time, I can also regularly organize activities, such as 'If you are a man, go down to the 100th floor', for example, 'Golden Monster Hunt', for example, 'Summer Special Equipment Collection'... For each event, I set special prizes to ensure that they can't stop!"
"I also want to open a recharge activity. If you recharge 100 gold coins, you can communicate underground; if you recharge 1,000 gold coins, you can use remote storage; if you recharge 10,000 gold coins..."
Sui Xiong waved his tentacles, spitting out his words, his eyes were filled with golden light, and he even began to speak incoherently.
"... When the time comes, I will build a company and recruit customer service personnel. I will have a whole row of beautiful girls who will speak softly and softly. In short, it will be just one sentence."
"How can you become stronger without recharging money!"