Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 36: Holland
However, he saw Lu Mei's eyes without any fluctuation and the knife was getting closer and closer.
Grand Duke Rose had to change his words immediately: "It's identity. The key to the Lamp of Expulsion is identity!"
As he finished speaking, Lu Mei's knife landed right on his neck. If Grand Duke Rose had spoken a little later, his head would have been gone.
Although dying here does not mean you are truly dead.
But the closer one dies, the more serious the parasitism of the time worms becomes in the body.
The more serious the parasitism, the greater the burden on the mind.
The time worm will make people gradually become unlike themselves, just like a normal person who will be gradually eaten away by the worm.
Therefore, being parasitized by the Time Worm will gradually lead to the transformation into a zombie.
Why would Grand Duke Rose rather sleep here than find a way to unlock the Land of Eternity?
That's because he didn't dare to take the risk. Once he was killed a few more times in the process, the progress of his transformation into a zombie would continue to accelerate.
Once the zombification reaches a certain level, everything he has will disappear and any plan will be meaningless.
"Go on." Lu Mei moved the knife closer.
The cold blade, pressed against his neck, made Grand Duke Rose instinctively feel a certain threat, as if he would really die if he was killed.
"The key to zombies is the dissipation of self-identity. The key to the Lamp of Expulsion is to borrow the rules of the Name Realm. As a lord, I can legitimately use the power of the Name Realm to determine the status. Only those who have the identity of a human being will not be affected by the Lamp of Expulsion."
"Dutchman's research?" Although it was a question, Lu Mei had almost come to a conclusion.
The Grand Duke of Rose is a typical member of the aristocracy. What they pursue is privilege. Such research on higher-level power must have been produced by the academic school.
"Yes." Although he wanted to say that he invented it, when Grand Duke Rose saw the blade on his neck, he chose to tell the truth.
After the advent of the time realm, the connection between this place and other realms became much easier. Hollander was originally a scholar who was studying the realms.
In the process, he observed the realm of name.
The so-called realm of name is a place where the identity, self, impression, fame and other things of all living beings are integrated.
As the zombie process progresses, the self within it disappears, and identity, impression, fame, and the like also fade and even disappear.
The reason why Grand Duke Rose could help was because this was his nominal territory and he was the person with the highest "status" in the area.
So he acted as a medium and constructed the lamp of expulsion.
"In other words, everything you complained about before was not necessary for seizing the holy relics." Lu Mei shook her head, her words full of contempt.
"No, no, no, I'm very important." As if sensing Lu Mei's murderous intention, Grand Duke Rose said quickly, "I am the medium of the Lamp of Expulsion."
"Once I die, the Repelling Lamp will be much less effective, even if it doesn't disappear."
"Then the whole city will be in chaos, and there will definitely be problems at the small gate in the garden. When the small gate is closed, you will never be able to leave here again."
Hearing this, Lu Mei stabbed the knife directly into the body of Grand Duke Rose.
The expected pain did not come, but instead he felt that most of the strength in his body was sealed in an instant, leaving him with only basic mobility.
Then the thorn ring fell into Lu Mei's hands.
"I'll give you two choices. One, come with me to find a way to eliminate the Eternal Land."
"Second, wait to die here!"
"One, one, one!" Grand Duke Rose immediately made a choice. It wasn't that he really wanted to stay with Lu Mei, but because...
Grand Duke Rose raised his hand. The thorns that were wrapped around his body seemed a little wilted at this moment. Even the sharp thorns became limp at this moment, as if he had just crawled out of his wife's bed.
"I can't be too far away from the thorn ring. The mere fact that the ring is separated from my body will weaken the effectiveness of the thorns on my body by half."
"If I really go too far away, my injuries will explode directly."
"You have such an important handle on me in your hands. We finally have a basis for cooperation now!"
At this time, Grand Duke Rose finally showed some of the spirit of a grand duke.
His situation was actually very serious at the time, because when he was snatching the holy relics, he was ambushed from behind by members of the cult and was killed once.
It was at that time that he was completely infected by the Time Worm. At the same time, compared to others, his mental state was not strong.
Just one death was enough for him to be unable to endure the pain of death, and he began to turn into a zombie.
In order to heal him, Hollander gave him the Ring of Thorns. After all, at that time, the Grand Duke of Rose was still needed to create the Lamp of Expulsion.
In addition to being able to create and control thorns, the Thorn Ring also has the effect of stimulating life. Individuals carrying the Thorn Ring will have thorns wrapped around their bodies, and their lives will always be in a tough and self-recovering state.
People in the Land of Eternity do not have the ability to recover themselves.
If they are dismembered, unless they find the body parts themselves and sew them together using their special abilities, even if they become zombies, their limbs will still be incomplete.
And during this process, pain will always be with them.
This kind of pain will inevitably accelerate the transformation into a zombie.
Therefore, healing abilities are important.
Even if they are dead, the "corpses" must be treated, otherwise they will remain in the pain of death and then quickly turn into zombies.
This was the case with the Grand Duke of Rose. He was stabbed in the back and could not bear the pain. At that time, the Lamp of Expulsion had not yet been truly manufactured. He only served as a medium to draw out part of the power of the Name Realm.
It was with this part of strength that they successfully raided the Insect Cult and snatched the holy relics from it.
In other words, the Grand Duke of Rose actually played the role of a mascot and a drag in the whole thing.
But no matter what, he obtained the Ring of Thorns and used it to stimulate his body, giving him powerful recovery abilities and the ability to tolerate pain.
Afterwards, he even used the thorn ring to put himself into a deep sleep. This was an ability he developed to stimulate life to change towards a directional posture.
"Do you want to collect all the items from the original ceremony and then reverse the ceremony?" Duke Rose followed Lu Mei out of the cave and asked.
Then, without waiting for Lu Mei to reply, he said to himself: "It's useless. Hollander once considered this, but this damn traitor finally chose to give up."
"He said at the time that the change in the ceremony was not an accident." Grand Duke Rose's words were full of contempt for Hollander, but he was full of trust in the other party's words.
"So he gave up collecting the items for the ritual, and then used the time pocket watch to open the small portal."
"And trapped us here!!!"
Grand Duke Rose complained about all this, but did not dare to show it too much.
Galloping all the way, they soon arrived at the south garden.
There are a lot of lights of repelling here.
Grand Duke Rose looked at the Exorcism Lamp and quickly ran forward to take one.
Following Lu Mei all the way, they naturally encountered attacks by zombies.
This made Grand Duke Rose, who had no thorn ring and whose fighting ability was questionable, feel a little frightened.
Fortunately, they successfully entered the south garden, where at least there were no zombies.
But Lu Mei did not let down her guard. According to the lying bug, the cult sent a lot of outsiders who had not been transformed into zombies to the South Garden.
However, none of these people returned.
There's something wrong with this.
If it were the first few people, they would choose to leave through the small portal immediately and ignore the people from the cult.
But the people behind them must have the means of the cult.
Either by coercion, or by inducement, or both.
In short, it is impossible that none of these outsiders brought back relevant information.
However, the fact is that the South Garden seems to be a desperate place and these outsiders never return.
Lu Mei now only lacks three things.
The whereabouts of the holy relic, the Blood Leaf, is unknown, and no one knows where the Time Worm has gone.
The only thing whose whereabouts are currently known is the broken watch that was transformed into a key to the small portal.
So no matter what, Lu Mei had to come to this garden, on the one hand to get the time watch, and on the other hand to look for traces of the blood-colored leaves.
"Okay, okay, since you're so stubborn." Grand Duke Rose looked at Lu Mei who ignored him and walked straight into the garden, and hurriedly followed behind her and said.
"But Hollander betrayed us and did not fully open the small door."
"So, I used the Ring of Thorns to force Hollander to transform the small portal back."
“But I didn’t expect Bu Tingye to run away with the Blood Leaf.”
"We are no match for Hollander, so we can only run away with the Ring of Thorns."
"At that time, he was not too far from Bu Jingye. We found that he was running towards the river valley in the north."
Afterwards, Grand Duke Qiangwei introduced Bu Jingye to Lu Mei.
This is the largest businessman in this area. He has used his money to win over many skilled fighters.
I contributed a little during the raid on the cult.
Then he successfully snatched the bloody leaf, which has been in his hand ever since.
While studying how to open the portal, Bu Tingye only lent out the Blood Leaf temporarily for a period of time.
Then he found that a pocket watch was enough to open the small portal.
Grand Duke Qiangwei didn't understand why Bu Jingye didn't join him in coercing Hollander, but now it was too late.
Hollander had already run away with those people, and no one else in the small portal could make changes except him.
However, soon after entering the garden, they saw a tall man standing in front of them.
The moment Grand Duke Rose saw the other person's figure, his body trembled.
"Hollander!"
