Because he was casting a spell, the mayor couldn't dodge to the side when Rhodes stabbed him with the dagger. The dagger in Rhode's hand was completely buried in the mayor's chest.
Realizing that his body was penetrated by a dagger, the mayor seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
The tip of the dagger broke out from the mayor's back, and Rhode's thrust directly pierced the mayor's heart, killing the mayor.
In an instant, because the mayor was dead, the bone vine lost control, and the surrounding vines began to wave wildly.
As long as the undead creature is cast a spiritual mark by the necromancer at a low level, no matter how much its own strength has grown, it cannot escape the control of the spiritual mark unless the necromancer dies first.
Since the spiritual mark has obvious master-slave attributes, when the undead creature dies, the spiritual attributes used by the necromancer to control will be fully returned.
In the mind of the necromancer, the spiritual imprint will dissipate in an instant. If the necromancer does not pay attention to perception, or detects the number of spiritual imprints, he will almost not be able to detect the abnormality at all.
Once the necromancer dies, there will be an obvious feeling of pain when the spiritual imprint of the undead creature dissipates. This pain arises directly from the fire of the soul and transcends the limitations of the body.
Because the pain is so unbearable, the undead creatures will briefly fall into madness. The more powerful the undead creature is, the stronger the spiritual imprint will be in the soul fire, and the stronger this pain will be.
Because of this, as the spiritual mark in the soul fire dissipated, the bone vine fell into a crazy state, and all the remaining vines on his body began to swing randomly.
A vine struck in front of Rhodes, knocking him away. The mayor's body was also knocked away by the cane.
Rhodes was hit by the cane and rolled some distance away, as did the mayor. Even though he was whipped away by the cane, Rhodes still held the dagger firmly in his hand.
After falling to the ground, Rhodes' body was extremely weak.
The red light on the dagger did not dissipate. Even though his body was still lying on the ground, Rhodes still tried to bring the dagger close to his body.
At this time, a hand grabbed Rhodes' hand holding the dagger. The nails on the hand were sharp, like sharp claws. It was the vampire who had ended his bat transformation.
The vampire tried to take the dagger from Rhodes' hand, but because Rhodes held the dagger tightly and the dagger was extremely sharp, the vampire was unable to take the dagger from Rhodes' hand for a while.
At this time, as if receiving some order, the vampire grabbed Rhodes' hand and slammed it twice on the ground.
Because Rhodes was weak, his clenched hands hit the ground twice and then gradually loosened.
Suddenly, the dagger was knocked away by the vampire and finally fell to the ground.
Since the dagger was out of hand, the consciousness in the dagger quickly faded, and Rhodes regained consciousness.
Just after he woke up, Rhodes felt pain in his body.
Severe pain could not stop coming to Rhodes' mind. At this time, Rhodes had obvious wounds on his arms and everywhere on his body, and he could not stop bleeding.
Due to the pain and the weakness caused by excessive blood loss, Rhodes felt that it was difficult to control his body for a while.
With his last bit of consciousness, Rhodes opened the attribute panel and allocated attribute points to his physique.
In an instant, Rhodes felt a numb feeling coming from his body, and the wounds on his body recovered quickly. Rhodes opened the attribute panel and saw that the originally extremely low health value had recovered to about half.
The recovery effect of attribute points will gradually weaken as the physical strength increases. Compared with the beginning, Rhodes' strength has improved a lot. Therefore, a single attribute point can only restore Rhodes' health to half.
Seeing this, Rhodes took out several healing magic scrolls from the space ring. After tearing them open, the healing effect was applied to Rhodes.
Under the influence of attribute points and scrolls, Rhodes' wounds gradually recovered.
At this time, the cane stopped beating the surroundings randomly and had recovered from the pain caused by the dissipation of the spiritual imprint.
Several vines were entangled towards Rhodes, and the vampires beside Rhodes immediately stepped forward to resist the incoming vines.
Rhodes stood up, walked to the side and picked up the dagger that fell to the ground.
As soon as it came into contact with the dagger on the ground, the dagger sent a burst of consciousness towards Rhodes again, obviously wanting to continue to control Rhodes.
However, the moment Rhodes touched the dagger, he directly put it into the space ring.
After all, the dagger was just a prop. When it was put into the space ring, the consciousness of the dagger in Rhode's mind turned into a strong reluctance, but to no avail.
Previously, although Rhodes' consciousness was suppressed by the dagger, Rhodes could clearly see what the dagger did in his consciousness. Rhodes clearly knew that the dagger controlled him and killed the mayor.
Under the suppression of the dagger consciousness, Rhodes' own consciousness completely lost control of his body, but Rhodes discovered that he could still control vampires through his mental imprint.
Rhodes realized that if he wanted to regain his consciousness, he could only let the dagger escape from his hand.
Although the dagger did not attack the vampire for a while, Rhodes understood that if he directly let the vampire come up to snatch the dagger, the vampire would also be attacked by the dagger.
Therefore, Rhodes could only let the vampire look for opportunities nearby, and finally knocked down the dagger, and Rhodes' consciousness was restored.
After handling the dagger, Rhodes turned his attention to the bone vine's body.
At this time, in Rhode's sight, several vines grabbed the mayor's body and pulled it to the location of the bone vine's body.
The cocoon-like object that Rhodes originally thought opened now, revealing the internal structure of the bone vine.
The inside of the bone vine is a blood-colored space. There is no obvious organization inside the space, only filled with liquid.
The cane grabbed the mayor's body, sent it inside, and then closed the space.
At this time, the two ghosts controlled by Rhodes and other ghosts had also arrived here.
Because the mayor was unable to distract himself from controlling the skeleton warrior when dealing with Rhodes. Without the control of the mayor, the shortcomings of the skeleton warrior's low rank were exposed, and he could only be killed by ghosts and ghosts.
Although the undead creatures from behind arrived, Rhodes did not let them move, but just looked at the bone vine in front of him.
After devouring the mayor's body, the bone vine began to undergo a change, and a burst of blood spread from the center to all the surrounding vines.
At this time, the vines that were originally cut off by Rhodes grew out again, and tended to continue to extend around. The originally shorter vines began to grow wildly around them after receiving this blood light.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Rhodes knew that Bone Vine's strength had been improved. Not only did he recover the parts of his body that were originally severed by Rhodes, but his strength was further improved.
The bone vine devoured the mayor's flesh and blood. According to the mayor's strength, his flesh and blood can greatly enhance the bone vine's ability.
Several vines came towards Rhodes. Seeing this, Rhodes had to duck aside.
As for the vine that was attacking him, since he could no longer use the dagger and the blade in his hand was not sharp enough, Rhodes was unable to cut it off and could only avoid it.
Several more vines struck, and Rhodes dodged back again. Unknowingly, Rhodes came to the back of the ghosts and ghosts.
At this time, looking at the vines around him that were still trying to wrap themselves around him, Rhodes also realized that the main target of the vines was himself.
What Bone Vine needs is his own flesh and blood.
Although the vampire's body was equally effective against Bone Vine, because Bone Vine had seen the vampire's bat transformation skills, it was difficult to wrap him up and pull him back. At this time, Bone Vine set his target on Rhodes.
At this time, because Rhodes retreated far away from the bone vine, although the bone vine wanted to attack Rhodes, it was blocked by the surrounding undead creatures in time.
After devouring the mayor's flesh and blood, the power of the surrounding vines was greatly enhanced. In this very short period of time, many surrounding ghosts had been killed.
Rhodes did not control the bone vines, but walked directly to the back of the passage. The surrounding undead creatures also retreated one after another. However, under the entanglement of the vines, several ghosts were dragged behind by the bone vines and killed.
Since the mayor is dead and the bone vine's body is located deep in the room, without the mayor's control, Rhodes is not in a hurry to deal with the immovable bone vine.
Unlike vampires, although the bone vine has a strong advantage in defense, due to the limitations of the bone vine itself, it is destined to only be used to garrison one place and cannot follow Rhodes to other places.
Rhodes was destined not to stay here for a long time, so Rhodes chose to convert the bone vines into experience points.
Due to the limitations of the bone vine itself, without the protection of the mayor, Rhodes could destroy it by simply setting the entire mansion on fire.
Therefore, Rhodes did not rush to eliminate the bone vines. Instead, he retreated outside the room and started searching in the mayor's mansion.
The mayor's body has been devoured by bone vines. Rhodes may not be able to obtain the items carried by the mayor, but he can still search for the rest of the items inside the mansion.
Therefore, Rhodes needs to search the entire mansion.
Rhodes retreated to the hall of the mansion. At this time, the dark clouds outside had dispersed, revealing the relatively bright moonlight. Because the door of the mansion was open, the moonlight shone into the interior of the mansion.
Although there was moonlight, it was still difficult for Rhodes to see what was inside the room. Rhodes searched around and finally found the torch dropped by the ghost at the beginning. He lit the torch and began to search the inside of the mansion.
Rhodes followed the room where the bone vine was and began to explore inside the mansion.
On the first floor of the mansion, there are a large number of rooms. These were the rooms that Rhodes began to inspect first.
Rhodes opened the door. The objects placed in these rooms were all empty, and the dust accumulated on them undoubtedly told Rhodes that there were many people here before.
Compared with other houses in the town, the mansion looks extremely large.
Although the mayor is a necromancer, because he settled here, in order to make his life more comfortable, there are many servants in the mansion. Servants need to clean the mansion, prepare meals, and serve the mayor.
At this time, there was no one inside the mansion. Rhodes estimated that this had a lot to do with the bloody smell he discovered around the bone vine at the beginning.
Rhodes realized that since the mayor controlled mostly skeleton warriors, the zombie pretending to be the mayor at the door should be one of the servants living here. After the mayor killed him, he turned into a zombie and became a zombie. Use the art of disguise to deceive Rhodes.
Rhodes pushed open the surrounding doors. Although these doors were closed, they were not locked.
There were several rooms like this in succession. Rhodes did not search further inside the rooms. Although these servants might have some gold coins, they were obviously not worth mentioning to the mayor's wealth.
Fearing that something might be missed, Rhodes did not rush. After opening the door of a room, he observed and sensed the atmosphere inside the room. After confirming that it was just an ordinary room, he went to search the next room.
Not long after, Rhodes found a larger room next to these rooms.
There is a long table in the room, and there are some chairs beside it. There are some decorations around it, but they are only common items.
After scanning the items inside the room, Rhodes knew that this was not the room he was looking for, so he headed to the next room.
Soon, Rhodes completed searching the first floor of the mansion.
The first floor is mostly ordinary rooms. Except for the special room where Bone Vine is located, the only thing that is helpful to Rhodes is a room where equipment is placed.
There are a large number of iron swords and special-style iron shields accumulated in this room, as well as some iron armor, which were obviously prepared by the mayor for the skeleton warriors. Rhodes collected some iron shields and put them into the space ring.
Soon, Rhodes arrived on the second floor of the mansion.
Rhodes came to the door of a room on the second floor. Unlike the unlocked rooms on the first floor, a keyhole on the door attracted Rhodes' attention.
Seeing this, Rhodes let the ghost next to him start hitting the door.
Yin Hun hit the door with all his strength and knocked it open within a few seconds. After the impact, dark light flowed from Yin Hun's body and he recovered from his injuries.
Rhodes walked into the room.
In Rhode's perception, the originally rich death energy inside the mansion became thinner in the room, replaced by a rich magical element.
Rhodes looked into the room and saw a table with several books on it, a stack of manuscripts, and a quill for writing. The bookcases at the back are filled with various books.
Rhodes knew that this was the mayor's study, where he studied spells.
Arriving at the desk, Rhodes took out a book placed in the middle of the desk and began to examine it.
After reading for a while, Rhodes put down the book in his hand in disappointment.
There is a lot of magic knowledge recorded in the front of this book. Therefore, when Rhodes just flipped through the book, he thought it was the mayor's magic book. When Rhodes turned the pages to the back, he discovered that there were no spells. Not recorded.
Among them, the knowledge recorded in the book covers the four series of spells. Although he only took a brief look at it, Rhodes realized that the owner of the book had at least intermediate four series of spells.
Seeing this, Rhodes closed the book and reached for another book on the table.
(End of chapter)