The old man told Rhodes his situation in a strange tone, with a bit of desire and a bit of determination in his tone.
However, after listening to the old man's words, Rhodes was indifferent.
Even though the old man just said a few words to Rhodes, Rhodes had already realized that the old man was in a panic and was desperate.
For the old man, essentially, both the other business groups and Rhodes were objects that he did not understand.
Since the business group could rob and kill him on the way, Rhodes also had this opportunity. The old man completely rejected the business group and chose Rhodes wholeheartedly, which was undoubtedly his performance.
At this time, the old man has faced death, and his desire for life undoubtedly exceeds his fear of the unknown. The old man clung to the last bit of hope and refused to let go. Even though he didn't know Rhode at all, because of Rhode's possible strength, the old man regarded him as his last hope of survival.
Perhaps he was in an extreme predicament and his panic made the old man say the most valuable thing he could provide without much thought, which was those gold coins.
In order to survive or temporarily escape from the immediate predicament, people often make wrong choices.
Just as these thoughts flashed through Rhode's mind, the old man in front of him was still saying something to Rhodes in a longing tone, but Rhodes didn't listen to a word.
Compared with the mayor, the old man in front of him is much shallower in every aspect. Whether it is patience or his own ability, he is completely inferior to the opponents Rhodes has encountered before.
Even though he didn't have much contact with the old man, Rhodes had a general understanding of the old man. Therefore, Rhodes had some indescribable feelings in his heart, either boredom or direct indifference.
Rhodes closed his eyes and felt the concentration of death energy on the old man's body.
As if confirming something, Rhodes opened his eyes, waved his hand to the old man outside the door, interrupted the old man's words, and said lightly:
"It's not that time yet."
Rhodes ignored the old man in front of him. At Rhodes's signal, the vampire closed the door directly.
Outside the door, the old man saw the door closed and was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to continue.
However, after realizing what Rhodes said before, the old man felt happy. It's not time yet. Does this sentence mean that when he leaves, he will take me with him
After recognizing this, the old man walked downstairs with the joy in his heart.
The old man had no idea that he had completely misunderstood Rhode's meaning.
Necromancers generally ignore the living. You must know that the undead creatures controlled by necromancers, whether they are walking corpses or skeleton soldiers, are not created out of thin air.
Any powerful necromancer will have thousands of people die at his hands as he grows up, whether it is to obtain resources or create undead creatures.
Rhodes knew that according to the current progress of the game, the necromancers had not yet reached the level that they would later. Although they would kill civilians and create undead creatures, they would only be limited to areas near Diya and within Diya.
Even the Necromancer Academy, which trains Necromancers, will issue tasks for apprentice-level Necromancers to kill each other and select the most capable Necromancer, while the remaining dead apprentices will become the nourishment for the winner.
The apprentice receives a mission from the academy and comes to destroy the town where the mayor is located, which reflects the way the academy trains necromancers.
The fierce internal struggle has destined the necromancers in Diya to be like scattered sand. Even if a single necromancer has extremely strong strength, he is often easily defeated when facing high-level creatures and well-disciplined armies.
After all, spiritualism is doomed to distrust each other among necromancers. Killing necromancers of the same level can earn huge profits. This also led to the fact that the necromancer was obviously very powerful, but was always suppressed in Diya by the surrounding forces.
Although Diya also has a big lord on the surface, because all places are controlled by powerful necromancers, they will not obey the orders of the big lord at all. This is also the main reason for the internal struggle in Diya.
Within the Necromancers, there is a lack of someone who can control all the Necromancers with absolute strength, and a true ruler.
Rhodes knew that this situation would change when the second expansion pack was launched.
A peerless necromancer will bring two artifacts of the undead clan to command all the necromancers in the entire Diya territory and fight against all the forces on the mainland.
Perhaps only when the second expansion pack is opened can the rest of the people on the mainland understand the power of the Necromancer. The necromancers who survived the cruel internal fighting, united with the outside world, and were led by the most powerful people, caused the entire continent to fall into the catastrophe of the necromancers.
The name of the second expansion pack is "Shadow of Death".
However, this information is still too far away for the current Rhodes. Even if the one-year deadline for the soul mission has passed, the first expansion pack is only more than half-way through. What Rhodes needs to consider now is how to quickly improve his strength and complete his soul mission.
Rhodes recalculated the current situation, the mayor, the necromancer, various undead creatures... After confirming it, Rhodes did not continue to think about it, but sat in the room and meditated again.
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After a while, Rhodes opened his eyes.
Unlike being unaware like before, due to the improvement of his overall knowledge and spiritual attributes, coupled with the shallow meditation, Rhodes can actively separate part of his consciousness to sense abnormalities around him.
Therefore, when Rhodes noticed the magic fluctuation coming from outside the hotel, he immediately ended his meditation, took the vampire beside him, and walked down to his room.
Rhodes came downstairs of the hotel. The old man was gone and there was a wooden bolt hanging on the door.
Through perception, Rhodes knew that the old man was hiding in a room in the corner of the hotel. Because of fear, he was emitting a lot of death energy, which was extremely difficult for a living person.
Rhodes did not bother with the old man, but took off the wooden bolt and walked out of the door.
When he came to the street outside, Rhodes saw the black clouds spreading around. It was not completely dark yet, but the necromancer immediately used the treasure to create these black clouds in the sky.
Then, with the sky still unobstructed, Rhodes saw that the black clouds were spreading from a place not far from the town with an expanding trend towards the town.
Rhodes knew that this should be the way the treasure created such a black cloud. At the same time, that place was exactly where the Necromancer was.
Black clouds spread quickly. While Rhodes was observing the black cloud, the black cloud had already crossed the location of the hotel and continued to spread to the surrounding area, soon covering the entire town.
Due to the shroud of black clouds, the surroundings suddenly darkened. Rhodes looked around and found that the light was obviously brighter than last night. Even with the cover of black clouds, Rhodes could still see the surrounding scene clearly.
No better than last night, since it was not yet night, the effect of black clouds blocking the vision was obviously not particularly good. At least Rhodes could see the surrounding scene directly without resorting to the firelight brought by the torch.
At this time, the black cloud has not weakened Rhodes' perception effect. If it is in this state, Rhodes can find the location of the hidden necromancer on the battlefield simply by sensing the concentration of death energy on his body.
Since this was the second time he saw this black cloud, Rhodes also had some understanding of the characteristics of the black cloud.
The location on the edge of the town still releases black clouds towards this side, and the concentration of the black clouds gradually deepens. Rhodes knew that the necromancer would definitely not take action now, but would wait until the black clouds completely gathered and it was still evening before attacking the mansion.
Although the necromancer would not attack immediately, Rhodes could not just wait there, but walked towards the mayor's mansion.
On the way forward, Rhodes saw no one, and none of the few remaining townspeople showed up at this time.
Recalling what the old man said when he came to the door of his room, Rhodes has already realized it. These townspeople were probably not hiding, but were killed and taken away by the undead creatures that came to test last night. They were the same group of undead creatures that Rhodes killed at the door of the hotel last night.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was still light around him, Rhodes carefully observed the houses along the road. While observing, Rhodes did not slow down at all, and soon arrived at the mayor's residence.
Standing outside the mayor's yard, Rhodes could see the skeleton warrior in front of the mansion and the mayor standing next to the skeleton warrior through the surrounding environment.
The mayor followed what he said and left the safest mansion and came to the skeleton warrior. This also means that when the battle begins, once Rhodes does not take action, the necromancer can use spells to block the mayor's escape route back to the mansion, and then send undead creatures to attack the skeleton warrior. The mayor will be in danger.
Rhodes looked at the mayor. The mayor was still dressed as he was yesterday, with no decorations on his body except a black robe. This was also the attire favored by the necromancer.
Rhodes noticed that the number of skeleton warriors beside the mayor was obviously more than the number of skeleton warriors stationed outside the mansion last time.
At this time, the mayor also saw Rhodes not far away.
Looking at Rhodes and the vampire beside him, and then looking at the black clouds in the sky, the mayor nodded to Rhodes numbly, indicating to Rhodes that he was aware of his arrival.
At this time, the mayor took out a prepared torch from the side, and at the same time raised his hand expressionlessly and waved it gently. Suddenly, a flame ignited at the top of the torch.
Since the dark clouds gathered in the center of the town, where the mansion was located, during the time when Rhodes met the mayor, the area around the mansion had darkened, and the light brought by the torches was extremely obvious.
Rhodes believed that even the necromancer who was secretly observing the battle could see the mayor holding a torch at a glance. His identity could be confirmed by the mayor's movements when casting spells, and then a large number of undead creatures would be sent to suppress him. Come up and kill the mayor.
Seeing this, Rhodes stopped caring about the mayor.
Rhodes did not enter the courtyard where the mansion was located, but turned around and walked towards the darkness behind.
Rhodes knew that through the test the day before, the necromancer had become wary of him and would search for him all the way to the mansion.
In other words, Rhodes couldn't just find a place to hide outside the yard like he did before.
Due to the weather, the necromancer would not carefully search all the houses in the town, but would focus on searching the places around the mayor's mansion.
If Rhodes didn't pay attention to hiding, maybe the necromancer would discover Rhodes before fighting the mayor, and then lead all the undead creatures to besiege Rhodes. For Rhodes, this is obviously not worth the gain.
According to Rhodes' estimation, if the undead creatures sent by the previous necromancer were just a test, then there will only be more undead creatures this time.
To deal with so many undead creatures at the same time, it would be okay if the number of low-level undead creatures increased, but once there were too many ghosts, it would be difficult for Rhodes to deal with them.
Therefore, Rhodes needs to find a suitable position and wait for the battle to begin.
Rhodes went to an abandoned house that he had chosen on the way here.
Rhodes came to the door of this house. The door of the house showed signs of damage. Rhodes reached out and easily pushed the door open, and then stepped inside.
After entering the room, Rhodes looked inside. With the moderate light, Rhodes noticed that there was not much dust accumulated in the house, and the owner of the house must have disappeared recently.
After clearing a cleaner place in the house, Rhodes sat down, and the vampire also came to Rhodes' side.
Rhodes put away the soul crystal on the vampire.
Since the Death Crystal emits death energy all the time, if Rhodes still lets the vampire hold it, the Necromancer with a keen sense of death energy will easily discover the location of this house.
From the position Rhodes is in, he can sense the death energy around the mayor's mansion. Although vampires also release death energy, the concentration of death energy is far less obvious than that in the mayor's mansion. In this small town, originally Covered by death energy, it is difficult to be discovered by others.
If the necromancer really wants to search all the houses in the town first, and then attack the mayor's mansion, then Rhodes has nothing to do.
Rhodes did not choose to meditate, but just sat and waited, focusing all his attention on the mayor's mansion.
Since he had meditated for a long time before, Rhodes was in a full mental state and did not feel sleepy.
Feeling the gentle death energy from the mayor's side, Rhodes was not in a hurry, but sat there and just waited.
(End of chapter)