Lord of Arcane

Chapter 348 Introducing the Undead
When Xia Duo flew back to Linshui Village, Simon and the others had already returned, and Leiden was giving the last blessing to the dead soldier.

In front of the altar, with a solemn expression, Leiden read the holy words facing the sun above his head, and a ball of holy light appeared in his hands.Then, Layton covered the forehead of the deceased with his radiant hand, and then slowly moved towards the legs.

After that, it needs to be repeated several times before it is finally over.

Xia Duo remained calmly outside the crowd, watching from a distance. In fact, he could also do this procedure. It was nothing more than summoning positive energy for baptism to remove negative energy from the deceased, so as to avoid mutation after burial.

It's just that Leiden's blessing has a better effect, and even has a weak antiseptic effect.

Seeing that the ceremony was about to end, Xia Duo sent a message to Layton and Aiwa, asking them to come to his tent.

……

After a while, no matter if they were citizens or slaves, they continued to work under the leadership of the leaders of their respective working groups.In Xia Duo's small tent, he is assigning tasks to Aiwa and Layton.

"There must be more than that nest of trolls around the territory, and the two I met last time didn't find the nest in the end, maybe there are more.

"Aiwa, your next task, in addition to training the members of the guard to use magic items, you also need to expand the reconnaissance range around the territory and mark the threat level in advance. In addition, pick out the members of the guard who are suitable to be rogues, and train them. Let them become full-time scouts, and I will give you 5 spots."

"Yes, my lord!"

"Lighton, Aiwa picked a few people, you have to add a few, together with the one who died today, the conditions of the territory are limited now, so recruit training is not done, try to choose people who have adventurer or soldier experience, a little older It’s okay to relax a bit. Also, from now on, the scope of activities of the cleanup team will be limited to the areas scouted by the scouts.”

"Yes, my lord!"

Xia Duo waved his hand, Aiwa left silently, only Layton was still standing there, Xia Duo asked: "What else?"

"My lord, with the increase in population, I think there should be night watchmen in the territory."

"Night watchman, don't there be guards guarding the night?"

Xia Duo said subconsciously, but he reacted the next moment.In Savile Land, night watchman is not a general term, but refers to a special group——

Undead!

Xia Duo is very envious of this kind of sleepless "perfect worker", but the existence of negative energy still makes him fearful. He absolutely dare not make undead creatures by himself. Lose.

Besides, necromancers are not seen well in Netheril. Only the priests of the Lord of Death can raise undead creatures openly, and can also reduce the impact of negative energy on the outside world (it cannot be completely ruled out).

Of course, this is not without restraint and without rules.Generally speaking, it is the corpses of some criminals, or the extreme believers of the Lord of Death, who are willing to leave their bodies for driving after death.

The night watchman in Savile Town is a kind of undead creature. During the orc war, after Xia Duo killed a necromancer who had lost the ability to cast spells, Leonard brought a team of night watchman with him when he arrived.

Although Xia Duo had never seen their real appearance, the negative energy was unstoppable by a mere layer of ordinary black robe, and this incident left a deep impression on him.

It would be great if a group of night watchmen could be introduced, which would just reduce the defensive pressure on the territorial guards. Thinking of this, Xia Duo asked, "How can we introduce night watchmen?"

To be honest, he was worried that it would be hard to find such a "person" who only worked, didn't eat, and didn't get paid!

Layton smiled, and then said: "My lord, we don't need to do anything extra. The servant of the Lord of the End of All Things likes to record the life and death of all things, hoping to obtain eternal peace from it. My lord only needs to invite a life recorder to Savile Town." If the person serves as the cemetery guard of the territory, he will call up the night watchman for the adults and serve the adults, but—”

"But what?" Xia Duo asked hastily. He didn't expect that the conditions for obtaining a night watchman would be so simple. As long as there is someone in hand, just find a servant of the Lord of Death.

"My lord, the life recorder will not participate in the killing, and the corpse of the night watchman needs to be provided by the lord."

"Well, does it have to be human? I mean, can a goblin or a beast's corpse work?"

"Ah—" Layton was stunned. He had never thought about such a question. As far as he knew, most of the night watchmen in Savile Town were criminals and people who violated the curfew.

"My lord, I can't answer this question, at least I have never heard that goblins can transform night watchmen."

Xia Duo was a little disappointed that he didn't get the answer he wanted, but he still planned to ask professionals later. If goblins can be made into undead creatures, it would be a shame.

Although smaller in size, this can be regarded as a single unit with low power, but they are almost perpetually moving. In the long run, they are simply a huge profit.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo could hardly restrain himself and was about to teleport back to the Tower of Time, and then go to Savile Town to look for the life recorder.

But in the end, he still stopped. Since it was a "perpetual motion machine", he didn't care about this little bit of time. Anyway, a ship would come over in a few days, and it would save the energy of the Tower of Time.

……

After Layton left, Xia Duo sat quietly for a while, and after lunch, he set off to inspect the site of digging the river again.

In the past few days, 500 river diggers, including a set of tools, have all been in place. Xia Duo can see a new progress every day.

He first took a look at the brick kiln on the north side of the temporary work shed. It is still in the stage of firing bricks for the kiln. The quality of the bricks at this stage is the worst, and it is slightly stronger than sun-dried soil.

Afterwards, it continued to change, and finally "qualified" bricks were produced.Of course, in Xia Duo's opinion, these bricks are actually not qualified, but they are enough for paving the ground.

To the north of the brick kiln is the element channel, or the river channel. Some dugs were made at the east end, but Xia Duo stopped and cleared the trees along the way first.

Hundreds of people started working at the same time, and the efficiency was still very fast. Xia Duo walked along the way, and most of the trees on the "road" of the element passage had been brought down.

This step takes almost no effort. The real trouble is handling and the stumps in the ground.Digging the river, digging the river, it is impossible to keep these tree roots!
The same is true for Linshui Village. The residential area only needs to clean up the surface, but for the development of farmland later, it is necessary to clear up tree roots and forest stones bit by bit.

This is a big project.

……

Follow the element channel, all the way to the east.

Soon, Xia Duo saw the doomsday scene in the ruins of Mysuo not far ahead, and the Tower of Time looming farther away from the doomsday scene.

"Oh, I don't know when the magic net will return to normal!"

Sighing, Xia Duo came to the end of the passage of elements. I don’t know when, a stone house appeared here.
He knew from coming here a few times before that this was the temporary residence of the three arcanists of [Hidden Hand].In addition to them, other arcanists who came to repair the magic net also established temporary residences on the edge of the magic net ruins.

Xia Duo was not surprised, after all, repairing the magic net is not something that can be done in a short time.

This is a long-term project!
　The 2.0 version of the map of Daxia Territory has been uploaded to the comment area. A few points are missing, but it does not affect it. You can take a look at it.

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