Looking at the small piece of vine tissue in his hand, Rhodes realized the type of vine that originally attacked the vampire.
Based on some experiences in his previous life and what he had seen before, Rhodes guessed that the creature guarding the mansion should be a special undead creature, the bone vine. The original vine that attacked vampires was part of the bone vine.
After a high-level plant dies for some reason, the necromancer can transform it into a special undead creature through a series of soul-calling rituals, and bone vine is one of the more common ones.
Because it is a special undead creature, the bone vine has great potential. It can grow by devouring the flesh and blood of creatures. When cultivated, it is extremely beneficial for defense. It is a relatively top-notch existence among creatures of the same level.
However, although this bone vine is extremely powerful, it still has many limitations.
The flesh and blood required to cultivate bone vines is extremely large, and due to its own reasons, bone vines cannot leave the location of their roots like regular undead creatures.
Once the bone vine is cultivated, it can only stick to one place. In addition, the bone vine needs to swallow a large amount of flesh and blood every day as nourishment, otherwise it will appear in a sluggish state and find it difficult to exert its own strength.
When the Bone Vine's rank reaches a certain level, ordinary flesh and blood can only allow the Bone Vine to maintain its current strength, but cannot improve the Bone Vine's rank.
Since the body is a plant, the bone vine cannot be improved by absorbing the energy of death like ordinary undead creatures. Bone Vine must devour high-quality flesh and blood in order to gain strength.
Generally speaking, this kind of bone vine is cultivated for defense by medium-sized undead towns or above. Since the entire town is supplied as flesh and blood, it can exert its maximum strength.
Therefore, necromancers often keep this kind of bone vine in a dormant state, and will not wake it up until enough flesh and blood has been accumulated. When the bone vine is in a dormant state, it does not need to devour flesh and blood every day.
Rhodes realized that this was the reason why the mayor retreated to the mansion first. The mayor ignored the outcome of Rhodes' battle with the Necromancer and came to the mansion first, just to wake up the bone vine from its dormant state.
At this time, Rhodes had confirmed that the undead creature defending the mansion was a bone vine. Knowing this, and thinking about the strength shown by Bone Vine previously, Rhodes knew that he could not be anxious.
Rhodes looked at the small piece of tissue in his hand. Most parts of Bone Vine's body had this structure, and only the location near the core would change.
Rhodes took this small piece of tissue to a nearby candlestick and placed it on the candlestick for burning.
Although in the previous test, the bone vine showed resistance to flames, Rhodes still needs further confirmation to what extent this resistance reaches and how much effective damage the flame can cause to the bone vine.
The resistance of undead creatures to flames is generally not high. No matter what kind of undead creatures they are, they cannot withstand the burning of fire for a long time.
When Rhodes just got this piece of tissue, this small piece of tissue showed a white color, which should be its original color. Under the illumination of the flame, the tissue on the bone vine showed a special red color. The closer it was to the fire, the darker the red color became.
Rhodes looked into the candlestick. During the burning process, this small piece of tissue gradually changed.
At this time, through the burning of the flame, not long after, a kind of burnt black appeared on the bone rattan tissue. The black gradually expanded from the burned center to the surroundings. Finally, the entire tissue turned into this color, and it seemed that only It can be broken with just a slight tug.
Seeing this, Rhodes knew that the bone vine's resistance to flames was not as good as he originally thought. It could only be said to be average, stronger than low-level undead creatures like the walking dead.
Rhodes realized that flames could play a big role. This is also the reason why the bone vine will directly attack the ghost holding the torch, and immediately knock out the torch on the ground after killing the ghost.
During the process of extinguishing the torch, because the single vine of the bone vine is relatively wide and can produce great power, it was only after successive blows that the flame was extinguished. If it takes a long time, the bone vine will also Takes burning damage from fire.
At this time, Rhodes couldn't help but think that if he mastered the fire wall magic and had enough mana, it would undoubtedly be much easier to deal with the bone vine in front of him.
Because he was eager to conquer the undead creatures, Rhodes did not search the magic book carried by the necromancer. Although he could learn the fire wall spell in this way, Rhodes was still unable to cast it due to insufficient mana.
Therefore, even if he knew that flames could deal with bone vines, Rhodes still needed to find a suitable method.
With the candlelight beside him, Rhodes relit a torch.
Just when Rhodes handed the torch to the ghost, a stream of water fell from the sky and extinguished the torch in the ghost's hand. At the same time, multiple streams of water appeared, causing all the candlesticks inside the mansion to go out.
Rhodes knew that this was the response of the mayor who had been secretly observing the situation.
Using spells to directly condense water flow is like directly creating flames and does not consume much mana. Therefore, Rhodes' method only cost the mayor some mana.
This created water flow can be generated from any location, depending on the intention of the caster. Even if the mayor is standing in the room, since he is not far away, he can directly let the water pour down from the sky.
If the mayor initially left the flame on the candlestick to observe the members who entered the mansion, then the mayor had already obtained the necessary information and discovered that Rhodes wanted to use the flame After setting the mansion on fire, immediately extinguish the surrounding fire.
Compared with creating water flow, the mayor's move undoubtedly made Rhodes understand something. Even if the mayor is inside the room, he can still see what Rhodes is doing outside the room through some means, which makes Rhodes wary.
As the surrounding firelight went out, the light inside the mansion dimmed instantly. It was difficult for Rhodes to see the surrounding things clearly. Only the room where the bone vine was located had a little light.
In the dark mansion, a flame illuminated the surrounding area. Rhodes used mana directly to light the torch.
Rhodes stood there and waited for a while, but the water flow did not come again, which gave Rhodes some confirmation about the way the mayor observed him.
Handing the torch to the ghost on the side, Rhodes did not let the ghost try to light the mansion on fire, but just held the torch for illumination.
Rhodes knew in his heart that if it was just for lighting, the mayor would not use water to extinguish the torch. As Rhodes had originally confirmed, the mayor also needed the illumination provided by this flame to observe himself outside the room.
Since he could not directly use flames to ignite the mansion, Rhodes began to think about how to deal with the bone vine.
According to Rhodes' idea, the best way to deal with the mayor is to leave directly from the mansion, and then send undead creatures to monitor every move in the mansion.
After he learned the magic recorded in the Necromancer's magic book and restored his mana, it was undoubtedly much easier for Rhodes to deal with the bone vines in the mansion. Perhaps this was the easiest way to deal with the mayor.
Since the bone vine needs to consume a lot of flesh and blood every day after being awakened, as long as Rhodes surrounds this place, it won't be long before the bone vine will lose most of its power even if Rhodes doesn't attack.
However, as Rhodes had expected before, the war between Diya and Eli would begin soon. Rhodes needs to come to the School of Necromancy before the war starts in order to gain maximum benefits.
Rhodes has stayed in the town for a few days. If it continues like this, even if Rhodes kills the mayor without much loss, Rhodes will also lose the opportunity to gain greater profits in the war. A small loss brings a big loss.
At this time, Rhodes made his own judgment, that is, he could only attack forcefully. With these undead creatures under his control, although he didn't know how much loss he would suffer, as long as he could take down the mayor, Rhodes could accept it.
In the previous battle, the mayor had used all four spells. Rhodes didn't know why this necromancer chose to come here and become a mayor instead of studying at the Necromancer Academy.
Rhodes knew that a strong attack also depends on the strategy, and letting all the undead creatures swarm forward is undoubtedly the worst choice. When the undead creatures take action and how to dispatch them, the necromancer needs to make his own judgment.
In this regard, players can choose to learn a special skill: tactics, and after learning it, they can improve their command.
Rhodes did not choose to learn tactics. Since it was not a necessary skill, Rhodes could command undead creatures with his own combat experience alone, so Rhodes did not want to waste attribute points on learning.
Previously, when the vampire was entangled in the cane, it could still scratch the parts on the cane, but due to the short time, it could not cause much damage to the cane.
This means that ghosts and ghosts can also cause considerable damage to the canes, but be careful about the cooperation between the canes, otherwise they will be directly killed by the canes.
Under Rhodes' control, the surrounding undead creatures immediately prepared and came to the door of the room.
At this time, following Rhodes' instructions, the vampire entered the room first.
Behind the vampire were three ghosts controlled by Rhodes. In order to ensure that he could deal with Bone Vine, Rhodes sent out all three ghosts he controlled. However, the ghost did not make any movement at this time and was still outside the door, waiting for the vampire to enter first.
Compared with ghosts, ghosts have poor basic attributes and cannot withstand a single attack from vines. They also make the space crowded, which is not conducive for other undead creatures to avoid the attacks of vines. Rhodes did not let these ghosts come forward. Fight, but wait outside.
As soon as the vampire entered the room, a vine shot straight out at the vampire.
Following Rhodes' instructions, the vampire quickly dodged to the side, and the cane hit the air.
The rattan shoots out very fast. While the vampire dodges, the front end of the rattan has reached behind the vampire.
The front end of the rattan exerts force and wraps around the vampire, wrapping it around him.
At this time, several vines were shot out from behind again, hitting the vampire.
Shadow followed Rhodes' order and stepped forward directly to block the vampire.
The cane hit Yin Hun, and Yin Hun was unable to dodge. He took a few steps back after being hit by the cane, but then a dark light flowed around his body, and his injuries gradually recovered.
Except for one vine that entangled the vampire, several other vines wanted to attack the vampire, but were blocked by the ghosts next to them.
Although the body was entangled in the vines, since there was no attack from other vines, the vampire took this opportunity to tear the bone vines on his body with all his strength.
Under the tearing of the vampire, part of the vine wrapped around its body was torn apart, but compared to the whole vine, it was still of no use, and the vampire was tightly entangled.
The rattan is extremely tough. Even if the vampire tears it with all its strength, it cannot be broken. Each tear can only break a small part of it.
At this time, the vampire who was tearing at the vines lost his footing and rushed forward a few steps into the room. Then he stopped and almost hit the ghost in front of him.
It turned out that just as the vampire was tearing at the cane, a huge force suddenly came from the cane, trying to pull the vampire back, causing the vampire to stand unsteadily.
Fortunately, the vampire stopped his advance in time. The vampire kept moving, fighting the pulling force of the cane with all his strength while continuing to tear at the cane with his sharp claws.
Two more vines came at them, but they were blocked one by one by the ghost in front of the vampire. Yinhun is not afraid of being slapped by the cane. As long as the hit location is not the head, Yinhun can recover by relying on its own characteristics.
Therefore, the ghost can help the vampire very well and resist the attack of the vine.
The cane was slapped several times in succession, but no good results were obtained. The vampire has already torn off most of the vines wrapped around his body. He only needs to continue attacking for a moment before he can rip off the front of the vines from one part.
The bone vine seemed to be aware of this. The vine that was originally tightly wrapped around the vampire's body instantly let go and tried to pull back, but the vampire directly grabbed the retreating vine, preventing it from retreating safely.
At this time, the rattan grasped by the vampire began to swing violently, struggling violently in the vampire's hands, trying to get rid of the vampire's control.
At this moment, a sword blade slashed down, directly hitting the part of the vine that was originally torn by the vampire. Rhodes came to the vampire's side at some point and joined the battle.
Although it has been torn apart by vampires, the appearance of the rattan is still tough, and it can directly deflect the blade cut off by Rhodes.
Seeing that the weapon in his hand could not cause effective damage to the vine, Rhodes quickly took out a dagger from the space ring.
The dagger slashed across Rhode's arm, and the red light shone brightly.
Rhodes swung the dagger without any hindrance and instantly cut off the vines entangled with the vampire.
(End of chapter)