"Missing again? How come?"
Although it was difficult to show any surprise on the face with only bones left, the Lich Edwin still couldn't believe the news he had just heard.
It was already midnight on the second day after Lord David's army began to assemble and set off. It was unbelievable that there were indeed missing persons in the camp.
If the missing are just ordinary low-level undead, maybe they will fall apart when they walk, no big deal. If the missing is a middle-level and high-level undead, maybe there are strong hunters who are hunting in the dark, which is understandable. , but what's missing is...
"Yes, Maharaja Kaben's camp in the southwest city is already empty. The tents are there, the equipment is there, and even everyone's personal equipment is there, but it's empty."
The messenger is a ghost, his expression is blurred, but the constantly flickering shadow shell shows his excited heart.
"How is it possible! This is the thirty-seventh time that the group has disappeared. Even though the high-level undead are constantly patrolling back and forth, they are still missing. By the way, does Lord Kaben know?"
This has to be said to be a wonderful irony. The undead actually encountered ghost stories, and this colleague who disappeared without a sound made them unable to understand at all.
If there was a sudden attack, how could it just disappear without any reaction? There is no trace of the battle on the scene. For other races, there may be a large-scale psychic attack, but the undead are immune to psychic magic, how could this be possible? It disappeared silently.
"Master Carbone... Master Carbone was in the barracks at the time, and he disappeared too!"
The lich stood up abruptly, and the fire of the soul in his eyes kept flickering. It was nothing but the sudden disappearance of the low-level undead, but at least how could the undead king above the legendary disappear so inexplicably, Kaben The strength is definitely not under him, if he can disappear suddenly, how can he be called safe.
Can you kill an undead king in seconds? Can you leave no traces? Now that several big people are scanning the camp repeatedly? Even though he hadn't felt the threat of death for a long time, the Lich Edwin still felt a chill in his vest, as if something vaguely spied on him in the dark night.
"Actually, I have some clues, but I'm not sure yet..."
The fluctuation of the shadow became stronger and stronger, and it seemed that the secret contained in it made it impossible to control the excitement.
"What did you find! Tell me now!"
And the rush of emotions made the Lich face the ghost actively, grab the other side's empty body, and hurriedly asked.
"That, that is..."
Before the words were finished, the Lich found that the shadow seemed to begin to dissipate, the dark wind filled the room with smoke, and the silent wailing was the scream of the soul. It seemed that some curse had been triggered, and the ghost began to die automatically.
"Speak! I command you to speak!"
The hurrying lich Edwin hurriedly approached the ghost, pouring a lot of negative energy into his arm, and asked him to maintain his dissipating body.
The negative energy sent out was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the outstretched arm found that it could not be withdrawn, but the shadow completely turned into a black mist, and the black mist turned into distorted faces, and some of them were so familiar.
The hoarse voice of the soul echoed in the room, without the temperature of the slightest emotion.
"Join us… "
"…Why you! Carbon!"
The most eye-catching face was the Undead Monarch who had just disappeared. He felt that the situation was not good. Edwin immediately planned to activate the protection spell, but he did not respond at all. When the black mist completely dissipated, the tent of the lich was empty. There is no one, as long as the open window is still blowing in the night wind, the log on the desk is blown repeatedly, as if the owner here is still there just now.
…
"Have you heard? Many undead disappeared at night, it's really scary. This time the missing person actually has a lich. It is said that not only his people are gone, but even the life box has become empty. It's really scary that the lich with the phylactery just disappears like that."
"What are you afraid of, you are not an undead."
Apparently to Betty's exclamation, the dwarf "eldest sister" Mary had no interest and was trapped in the camp. She had been drinking for two days, and her face was tired and lethargic. According to her, this was the habit of the dwarves. , it will be fine in two days, but I know that this is just pure alcoholism caused by excessive drinking, and it will be fine in two days... Or, she is right, it's just a habit of the whole family Just alcoholism.
"... The trade channel I have just done, those undead are really in stock, especially those wise undead, as long as some expired journals and books can be exchanged for a lot of treasured magic materials and gold. Originally, the corpse witch promised me. Introduced a big boss, the Lich, but the boss disappeared immediately and canceled it, ah, that bastard still owes me two silver coins, he plans to use the enchanted cursed skull to exchange it with me!"
"... Not to mention that the enchanted cursed skull is a precious material for undead magic. You, a priest of a true god, bring this thing with the same thing as a blasphemous god. The minimum price of that thing is tens of thousands of gold coins, and you are going to receive two silver coins. ? This is too profiteer."
How should I say it, it should be said that it is worthy of being the priest of the goddess of wealth, you can even earn the money of the dead!
"By the way, I can sell the amulet that was blessed by the true god! Now people are panicking... ghosts are panicking, I can definitely sell it!"
"Don't play around and be found out. By the way, have you found out? Many undead have become dull recently, and they seem to be at a loss..."
Well, while you can make money, you can also publicize the teachings. Maybe you can dig a few believers from the dead. The business outside the door is enough to move the wealthy goddess of wealth. On track.
In the very center of the room, there is a decayed stone tombstone, but there are still various circles around it, and the dead cat writes and draws around it to maintain it.
"It's incredible, so small, is it the core of the Graveyard Demon?"
Graveyard Demon is one of my harvests in the Tower of the Clouds, and it is also a super undead creation made according to the ancient method.
He is a strange monster, often the incarnation of the cemetery. Once awakened, it is at least a super undead war machine above the holy rank, and its specific combat power and ability will be determined according to the area and history of the composed cemetery.
If it is an ordinary cemetery... Ordinary cemetery cannot do it, generally only a region with enough negative energy has been invaded and rotted for more than a hundred years, and it is possible to produce it, and if a cemetery demon appears on the battlefield after a hundred years of bloody battle, it is more than 100 meters high. It is a giant war machine. If there are corpses of demigods and quasi-gods in the graveyard demons built on the battlefield of the level of battle of gods, then the existence of true gods will also have headaches. In fact, there is a layer of demon lords in the endless abyss of demons. It's just such a burial demon, but I heard it's a natural occurrence.
Ordinary necromancers regard it as the creation of undead magic, but they do not study the root cause. This is a common problem of most mages. They are used to the magic of various mysterious creations. They never ask why. This is a common problem. This kind of magic civilization is too developed to create calmness and harmony, but because of the luxurious and gorgeous colors in front of it, it also misses a lot of hidden scenery.
The most incredible thing about the Graveyard Demon is his structure. He is made of grave soil with extremely high negative energy. That is to say, although it has negative energy and bones in its body, 99% of the material is still the earth element. .
Then, according to the most basic element theory, it seems that he should be an earth element creature, but in fact, regardless of any classification, it is regarded as a pure undead creature.
This is undoubtedly contrary to the current mainstream undead research theory.
Different from my research method based on the essence and foundation, most necromancers start from undead materials that can be seen and touched. They tend to make better undead materials to make stronger undead creatures. Personal theory, this is not wrong, a strong soul must have a strong body to exert its strongest strength, gentleman... A positive soul must be carried by a healthy body, otherwise there will be problems, but this is definitely not the whole of the undead creation. !
The bones of legendary powerhouses can often create legendary undead, but it does not mean that all legendary undead must be made from the bones of powerhouses above legendary, and in the eyes of most necromancers, this is indeed an unquestionable axiom.
According to the classic undead creation model, it is impossible to explain why the 99% of the burial demons, which are made of soil, are so powerful. They have an unbelievably powerful aura of blasphemy, and their combat effectiveness is amazing. At the same time, they can also become a supply ground for the undead. And the training center, let alone explain the source of those supernatural abilities.
Perhaps they would say that the bones in it played a role, but those buried in the soil were undoubtedly a random combination of natural formations.
If any random combination of materials can constitute a magical creation, top-level undead with a large number of supernatural abilities can be created, and what needs to be done by the undead magic circle and the necromancer is itself a mockery of the classic undead creation theory.
But it's pretty clear from my undead tectonics, and that's why I'm so interested in the graveyard demons.
"Only a powerful enough soul can drive such a powerful undead creature, and through research, it has been determined that the soul does not have much intelligence... No, it should be said that there is no memory and knowledge, it is just like a newborn baby, he His soul is simply blank, and there is a soul above the legendary rank just after birth, which is simply inexplicable."
This naturally reminds me of the river Styx that can reincarnate the soul, and after several experiments, I have come to the conclusion that is most likely to be close to the truth.
This soul is not an individual in the cemetery, but a collection of countless individual remnants. The entire cemetery is his body, and the soul that matches it is born in this body.
Maybe the final conclusion is a bit deviant, but I personally think it makes some sense:
Under the long-term erosion of negative energy, the normal transformation from life to death is reversed, the bones of the deceased become the catalyst for transformation, the sludge full of bones has completed the transformation from death to life, and all the remnants of the soul are synthesized (devour each other birth) a collective consciousness, he is a newborn, so he is blank and needs time and knowledge to catalyze his maturity into adulthood.
Alright, now that you know the origin of the Graveyard Demon, is there any practical significance? Graveyards that are more than a hundred years old are not everywhere, so there are still many unknowns in the generation of collective consciousness, and even mass production is impossible.
But just follow the gourd and draw the scoop and manufacture the finished product according to the drawings and processes. They are only third-rate technicians and real researchers, but they can improve the original design according to the principle. Super original product.
"...The formation of a cemetery demon requires two basic conditions. First, many negative energies gather into a relatively independent individual, and second, many relatively independent souls. In a sense, the undead army that gathers together is Meeting this basic condition, they are a whole (the Legion), but there are countless separate soul fragments (the undead itself)."
Of course, this is not enough. There are still many unsolved mysteries in the generation of the burial demons. The undead that simply gather together cannot achieve the premise of the generation of collective consciousness. Therefore, I moved some hands and feet.
"In this tombstone, is the soul of the newly born cemetery demon?"
"No, no, he is just a fragment of the soul of the 'Little San', a part that I divided up for research. If the complete Little San is useless, he already has his own body, but if it is an incomplete fragment in front of him, Desire for it in its entirety will accomplish my goal, and he will become the seed of this soul giant!"
There is a connection between the undead. The undead emperor controls the undead king, the undead king uses the soul contract to control the high-level undead, and the high-level undead controls a large number of low-level undead. This is a conceptually established soul network. , he is also the backbone of the undead army.
If an army of undead is regarded as an individual, each member is his cell, but these cells have independent consciousness, when one day, the consciousness of the group wakes up, and orders all its cells to obey its own command, destroying the individual cells. Consciousness, what happens
The current "Little San" is the group consciousness. What I have to do is very simple, just tell him that the entire army of undead is his body, and the soul network formed between the undead is his meridians and blood vessels, he should wake up!
"He is awake, he needs the body, he needs the force of death to be brought together, he needs all the cells to be arranged according to his will, he is a premature baby with a congenital deficiency, and he wants to... be born!"
I don't know what peculiar changes it has undergone, just like no one knows how babies get their own consciousness and soul, and how many magical processes there are, all I do is to meet the conditions for this phenomenon to happen, and then this It happens naturally, but…
"...To be honest, I don't know what the results will be, but don't you think it's interesting because you don't know? Experiments that are destined to succeed are meaningless at all, and the unknown is the most attractive. , my undead tectonics will have new results!"
And now, the results of my experiment have come to fruition. The camp and the army of the undead are alive, cleaning up the impurities in his body and perfecting his soul and body. He ordered his blood vessels, torso, limbs, and internal organs to obey his orders and build the most perfect body.
The undead came together in a daze, merging and devouring each other. They could not resist, nor would they resist, just like the body cannot refuse the command of the soul, only the strong who prove themselves to the world with the soul emblem can still maintain their ego for a short time. The independence of the group, but instead made the cluster consciousness come to the door in advance and turned it into nutrition in advance. Since they are still part of this legion, they are naturally swallowed without resistance.
A new soul is on the way to be born, and as the leader of the experiment, I can't finish the daily experimental records, and countless inspirations flash in my mind. It seems that I am about to see the birth of another masterpiece. This time, since it is an aggregation of the legions that brought war, I intend to call him Mars (war mars).
Perhaps, only by using oneself to build the holy order of the mind-like world can avoid the desperation that is conceptually defined as part of the army, and from the fact that there is already a holy order undead monarch unlucky, such standards are not necessarily safe.
Of course, it's actually quite easy to refuse Mars' call, just tell yourself that you are not part of the undead army but an outsider, and then Mars can't conceptually define you as part of his body.
But unfortunately, as long as I don't say it, it is impossible for any undead to think of it.
This is really unreasonable, but according to the concept of the Middle Ages in a certain region, if someone predicts that steel creations can float on water, they will definitely be regarded as lunatics. Many phenomena that seem unreasonable are just because the research is not in-depth, and The experimental results can be reversed. If this experiment is really successful, I am afraid that I will reverse the intermediate process step by step, and I am destined to gain a lot.
"That... Have you ever thought about how to end it? This thing makes me feel gross, so you're not afraid that you won't be able to control him."
"Don't worry, I've thought about it."
"Have perfect control preparations? How? When?"
"... It should be said that since we can't think of how to control it at all, we don't plan to control it at all. Will parents plan the future of their newly born child? Let him grow up freely and happily. Well, from this appetite, he will be a healthy person. good boy."
[He will definitely be healthy, and everyone else will definitely be unhealthy! Don't talk like a stupid parent who is proud of the excessive vitality of the bear child. You can't reflect on it. During the pregnancy, even the holy order swallowed it as a nutritional supplement. What kind of monster do you think it will become in the end? Have you been? The high-level undead as a body is obviously much better than the negative energy soil. Have you ever thought about how strong the collective souls formed by the undead monarchs will be in the end? The two-way bonuses of soul and body will have geometric bonuses! There is basically no upper limit for that thing, have you ever thought about it? I said earlier that if you don't stop the creation of the undead, sooner or later you will destroy the world! System prompt: Five points of justice points will be automatically deducted from the spit fee, so don't thank me. By the way, what do you think of my next use of the roar?]
Heloise nodded indifferently, she was used to it.
"… My Majesty, you will destroy this world sooner or later, really."