quicksilver blood

Chapter 39 Undead
Roland went all the way up to the third floor, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that no one followed him out of the corner of his eye.

It seems that there is no stuffing.

He had never been so grateful for Karal's obscurity.From the street to the mule inn, if those fools had even a little bit of common sense, the Blight played by Roland would be completely revealed.

Just as Claude thought in the beginning of the trace of no light-it is impossible for the blight to use natural magic.

The method of changing jobs of the Blighter is somewhat similar to that of a black wizard changing to a Lich. It needs to use negative energy mixed with impurities to completely pollute one's natural heart until it withers and withers.

It's a ritual of power, but it's also a limitation.

Once the Blighter's natural heart is tainted, there is no turning back.There is no way to restore the withered heart of nature.

Therefore, no matter how far the Blight goes on this road, it is impossible to become an Archdruid, and it can only live in the shadows for a lifetime.In other words, the witherer cannot get any job transfer or promotion in the druid class—this is an alternative advancement. The reason why the witherer is powerful is not only the restraint of negative energy on the living, but also One reason is that they converted all their druid classes into blighters.

However, not being able to become an Archdruid means not being able to gain any real power within the Druid sect.

The Father of Gaia cannot be contacted without an Archdruid class level.Without the ability to transform knowledge into power and predict the future, a druid is just an ordinary gardener.

Not to mention becoming the Three Patriarchs, it is impossible to join the Council of Sages, and even the ability to contact nature is also abolished - unlike ordinary druids, the natural heart of the blighter is not open, and the professional characteristics are also not open. It becomes [withered heart of nature], the natural favor for natural life becomes natural fear, and at the same time all the previous magic spells will become the corresponding withered version.

For example, the entanglement technique, no matter what the surname is, the druid can only use emerald green, withered yellow and dark green.But the vines of the Withered One are jet-black vines mixed with gray traces.It was like being scorched by fire.

Any life that is hit by the withering entanglement technique will undergo a test based on the physical attribute every second. Once the test fails, part of the life force of the subject will be evaporated out of thin air.This evaporation of vitality is manifested in reality as people will become older and weaker. If the priest of the silver rank does not give blessings to lift this vicious curse, then this evaporation of vitality is tantamount to permanent.

For example, just now, Roland used vines to strangle the passing middle-aged man or break the boss's hand - if he was really a wither, then there would be burnt black marks where his vines had entangled him.

If Roland guessed correctly, after the guards checked and reported to Farina, the woman would immediately notice that there was a problem with Roland's identity.

From the appearance of the corpse to the completion of the autopsy by the guards, and then running to the oak cabin to report to Farina, the process took half an hour anyway.

In other words, Roland only had half an hour to get the job-changing item to sue the dead crow from the priest of the outlander.

The biggest problem is that Roland has no idea what form that prop exists in.

In Roland's time, the job transfer method of the Death Crow has become safe and effective-after a professional who wants to become a Death Crow completes the preparatory tasks, the last step is to exchange all the blood in his body for mercury .

Therefore, it is necessary for the death crow as the instructor to personally paralyze the heart of his apprentice, then use the hands of a psychic to take out the chest cavity, then use blood to dry up the blood in the whole body, and finally pour mercury directly, and then put The heart is put back to resume the heartbeat.

Although it was quite dangerous, the whole process was simple and orderly, and no job change props were used.

Roland's understanding of Farina was limited.

In the game, he has not done any tasks related to Farina.It's just that after Roland led the team to overthrow Farina, who was the witch of the black crow, he got a diary from her, and when he turned to this page, he got a system prompt "You have obtained information about the death of the crow." Information about job props".

At that time, because the player couldn't change his profession to sue Death Crow, he didn't know what the name of this profession was.Farina is only referred to as "the apostle who manipulates the plague" in the diary.The most hateful thing is that she didn't point out what that thing looked like, what function it had, and where it was placed.

The only thing Roland knew was that the thing must be on the outsider.

——If he doesn't give it, then just grab it.

Thinking of this, Roland just walked to the door of the stranger.So he didn't hesitate anymore, pushed the door open and walked in.

The first thing that caught his eyes was a decayed and pale face.About seventeen or eighteen years old, she still looks very young, but her hair is withered and yellow.He was dressed in shabby clothes and had a faint but real stench.

That kind of smell is not the kind of smell that people in some areas accumulate because they haven't bathed for a long time.Rather, it is somewhat similar to the feeling of rotten frozen meat in the refrigerator.

Seeing Roland push the door and come in, the man turned his head suddenly, with a hint of ferocity flashing in his eyes.

But when he saw the clothes on the person's body clearly, he was suddenly startled, his ferociousness turned into timidity, and his small eyes that gave off a rodent-like appearance began to scan around very quickly.

"Don't look anymore, you can't run away."

A cold and hoarse voice came from under the black robe, like an echo from the kingdom of the dead.

The pale-faced young man turned his gaze around, and his jet-black pupils gradually became bright red.

"Do you know who you're talking to, Blighter?"

He was not to be outdone, his voice was full of hoarse whimpers, giving off the feeling of the whispers of the dead.

Or rather, that was the whisper of the dead.

"Am I not talking to a long-dead shadow, the undead?"

Responding with the same sentence pattern, Roland's tone was full of malice.

The moment he saw his appearance, Roland thought it was his own illusion.But when he smelled the stench of corpses, he knew he hadn't admitted his mistake.

This must be the undead.The undead from Elkart, the home of the Druid.

And... a traitorous undead.

After that war, Elcate, which was defeated but could not be destroyed, was called the Kingdom of Decay.The country protected by the gods refused to provide it with any trade, so after hundreds of years, it has even been forgotten by most people. To this day, many people still think that Elcate is just a legend.

But Roland knew that it was not a legend.

Elcarter's undead pirates still appear in the Eastern Sea as living legends.

Until the return of their new king, these decaying undead have no honor or discipline, and they are fearless of all things, as utterly hopeless as a moving Scourge.

Relying on their firm will and determination, they gave up reincarnation and eternal tranquility, woke up in endless darkness, and left unswervingly from the kingdom of the dead, never to return.

In the beginning, the birth of the undead was not the greed for eternal life, but the obsession to defend the faith.

After the first batch of gods stole the authority of the saint, the golden race who still remembered the glory of the saint left angrily and went to their own demiplane, or simply went to Outland through the wall of Gaia , into the never-ending war with the Twilight Legion.

And the race that flowed blood of silver was divided into two, one part succumbed to the so-called "gods" and became their first believers; while the other part firmly fought against the former.

However, the souls of the elves and other silver races who are believers no longer go to the kingdom of the dead after death, but escape reincarnation and enter the kingdom of the gods, gaining eternal life in another sense.When their projections emerged from the Kingdom of God again, their enemies desperately discovered that this was an impossible war to win.

At that time, Druid, who believed in the father of Gaia, found another way to escape from reincarnation from a part of the inheritance left by the sleeping teacher.As long as a similar ceremony is held, one can transform oneself into a life form similar to the death crow.

They call this form undead.

Unlike those silver races who believed in gods, the rebirth of the undead required a heavy price.Once reborn as an undead, it means that you can no longer return to the kingdom of the dead, and you will never rest in peace forever—not a description, but it is true.

Even if it is cut into minced meat, each small piece of minced meat still has its own feeling.Even if it rots into slag, every scum still maintains a sensitive feeling.If the eternal stagnation of thinking is the definition of death, then the undead are immortal and cannot be killed by any means.

Even if he was hammered into flesh and burned to ashes, his consciousness would still stay on the dead land.And eventually it will be resurrected as a clay doll.

This is not a kind of luck, but a kind of misfortune.

In the days when they could never end their immortality - and at the same time their bodies were still decaying uncontrollably, their once noble souls quickly withered and withered, and in the end, they even forgot their original glory.

In order to find something to do for themselves, some fallen undead even began to believe in some evil gods, which was contrary to their original wishes.

For example, the undead in front of me.He is a typical undead who believes in the god of decay and disease, so that they can give up the maintenance of the body and choose to let it decay naturally.

Because he cannot die at all, and therefore cannot receive eternal life from the kingdom of gods.In other words, it is simply working for God in vain - the deadline is forever.

The moment he recognized his identity, Roland gave up the idea of ​​negotiating with him.

Roland thought there was no need to communicate with such an extremely mean person.

"Your soul will wither away with your decaying body—"

Hearing Roland's low moans, two emerald green vines emerged from under the black robe with silver-gray patterns.

But at this moment, a mockery mixed with astonishment flashed in the eyes of the undead priest.

(End of this chapter)