Chapter 43: The Mystery of the Origin
When Arnold came out of the underground riverbed, he suddenly realized that the outside world had changed.
Not only these skeletons that suddenly emerged, but also these wandering undead spirits also changed.
Before Arnold entered the underground riverbed, although these war spirits were equally fierce, they had no independent consciousness at all. They were wandering and hunting entirely on the instinct of the dead. But when Arnold contacted them again, he found that their wandering and attacks suddenly became purposeful. After hunting a war spirit, all the nearby war spirits surrounded them.
This behavior is similar to the situation where Ayi controls his own team of war spirits. When Arnold thinks of this, he suddenly sweats coldly! If the war spirits on the wasteland are controlled by others, what a terrible thing that would be!
In order to verify his idea, Arnold once again captured a war spirit with the spirit-tempting magic circle to subdue Ayi. But this time, Ai almost lost control. Ai let out a harsh scream, and then flew towards the direction of Prisoning Spirit Mountain without control. Arnold finally had to cancel the summoning technique and send Ai and the war spirit back to the world of death.
When Arnold summoned Ayi again, Ayi calmed down a little and understood the reason through spiritual communication.
Now there is a spiritual power to control them in the soul flames of these war spirits. If Ayi wants to subdue these war spirits, she must first expel this mental power. When the two mental powers come into contact, she found that the mental power was so familiar. When she drove out the mental power, the other party actually summoned her to summon her to the prison spirit mountain, which led to Ayi's almost losing control.
Although Ayi's spirit has returned to stability, her desire to go to Guiling Mountain has become stronger.
Arnold fell into silence.
Arnold knew that Ayi was an extremely special existence among the dead, and few of the dead could still preserve memories of his life. The Prisoner Mountain is likely to be related to the mystery of Ayi's identity during his lifetime. For the dark magician, the dead are just tools for the magician to fight, and revealing the life experience of the dead is of no benefit to the battle. When the dead gradually recovers its self-consciousness, the magician usually acts to erase this consciousness and make the dead a tool that only needs to obey commands.
Arnold hesitated at that moment.
Arnold, who grew up in loneliness, never used Ayi as a tool. Even if he lost her, he decided to go to Guiling Mountain with her. The only condition was to expand his subordinates to one hundred.
Arnold finally took steps towards Guiling Mountain...
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If Arnold has also weighed it, Arthur's goal is to go straight to Mount Guiling.
Arthur, who had experience fighting skeletons, did not bother with these low-level guys at all, because they knew that if they did not defeat the people controlled behind them, it would be meaningless to kill more skeletons.
Whether it is the information from the guardianship of the Star and Moon, or the experience of Arthur and his fellow in the Necrotic Heights, the mastermind behind the control of these skeletons and necrotics is likely to be hidden in Guiling Mountain. It seems that the legend about Guiling Mountain is by no means groundless.
Arthur and the others could bypass these low-level skeletons, but they could not bypass the silver-body war spirits floating everywhere on the wasteland. From the moment Arthur and his friends stepped onto the plateau, these war spirits had transformed into patrol identities and began to attack the lives of the highlands in an organized manner.
Now these war spirits are like an organized army. If one destroys a war spirit, it will attract all the nearby war spirits. These war spirits swarm in waves and will never stop until they are destroyed.
The dark magicians entering the highlands had suffered heavy losses at this time. Except for a few extremely powerful teams, the rest were desperately fleeing. At this time, the undead highland was no longer a place where risks and benefits coexist, but had become a Jedi.
These war spirits do not pose any threat to Arthur and the others for the time being. Alia's light and Qiong's flames have a strong restraining effect on the undead. In addition, Ashu's flame dragon breath is sprayed out, which can swallow a group of war spirits. More often, Ashu does not set fire to death the war spirits, but directly swallows these war spirits one by one.
Asu's strange behavior naturally puzzled Arthur. He turned to Berlanka for answers: "Did you really awaken him at that time just summon the magic circle?"
But Berlanka gave an extremely mysterious explanation: "The breath of dark elements awakens Ashu's life. It's not surprising that he likes dark elements. These necromancers are a mixture of spiritual energy and life energy. If Ashu can digest that spiritual energy, there is actually no difference between eating these necromancers and eating the flesh and blood of demon beasts."
Berlanka's explanation may make sense, but in fact there is still a difference. Ashu preyed on monsters, and he was basically full after dozens of kilograms of flesh and blood. However, after eating these war spirits that almost didn't need to be digested, he didn't look like he was full after swallowing hundreds of them. Instead, he became more excited and addicted to it.
No one noticed in the black fog, Ashu's original red skin was gradually getting darker and darker without realizing it.
As Arthur and his party continued to penetrate into the high ground, they faced more and more attacks from the undead. Joan, Alia, Ashu and others could not handle it at all. Arthur, Gorry and Chiro also had to join the battle, and even occasionally needed Shino to take action.
Arthur couldn't help but complain, "How many flesh and souls have been sacrificed to summon so many undead spirits?"
"Who taught your dark magic? This is common sense of dark magic. Summoning the dead does not require sacrifices at all, only hell creatures need it." The gap in the battle of Chiro explained to Arthur.
Arthur felt a little embarrassed. He only learned a few simple and practical dark magic from Arnold, and there was no foundation for dark magic at all. Naturally, he didn't know the specific difference between the undead and the hell creature.
Seeing that Arthur really didn't know, Chiro further explained: "If you master space magic, you naturally know that the world is not a space where we are. Necromancers, skeleton warriors and other low-level dead creatures with almost no independent consciousness wander in the lowest level of death world. As long as you open a summoning magic gate, these guys will automatically run out when they smell the breath of life. And hell creatures such as harps, three-headed hell hunting dogs live in a high-level hell world. Only by using blood and soul as rewards and using summoning magic arrays as contracts can they be summoned to come to this world to hunt and kill."
Arthur then suddenly realized, "I understand, your Fiska family and Zenaya family are both good at summoning, but you are good at summoning hell creatures, while the Fiska family is good at necrotic creatures. Then, could these skulls and necrotics be made by that old guy Dunlop?"
"No!" Qiluo denied it flatly: "The Zenaya family does not have such great power, and these skeletons are not skeleton warriors from the necromance world, but someone awakened the soul flames buried under the skeletons. These skeletons are much weaker than real skeleton warriors. The strangest thing is that these war spirits have uneven strengths released from the death world, and most of them are the lowest level primary necromances, and unlike what we encounter now, each of them is the strength of the silver body warrior."
"I'm afraid this secret can only be truly solved by going to Guiling Mountain. Let's talk about it first."
Chapter completed!