Volume 4 Chapter 562: The Lord of Death at the End
A not-so-bright light burst out, but Arkhan's expression suddenly changed: "How is that possible? Weren't you dizzy just now?"
While roaring, he cast a series of protective magic, but as the distance was so close, he didn't have time to make many moves.
With a series of "crackling" sounds, many of Arkhan's magic spells were broken first, followed by at least a dozen magic props of various sizes. When being watched by the Girl of Doom, his luck was worse than ever.
The surrounding beetles were still waiting to be rescued, but Little Zeus and Dragon Cloud Elemental, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, had already released a sky full of thunder, instantly turning most of them into ashes, and then stopped the giant beetle.
Both of them are elemental creatures with extremely high resistance to physical attacks. Even if they cannot kill the enemy quickly, they are more than enough to delay the enemy.
The magic pet Xiaoqi also released the magic that he had stored in advance, further delaying them.
Levi did not retreat but advanced, stabbing towards Arkhan with a translucent sword in his hand. It was the famous 7th-level magic - the Sword of Mordenkainen. When it flipped and attacked, there was a certain probability that it would directly cut off part of the enemy's limbs.
Arkhan instinctively used his swordsmanship, trying to deal with Levi for a while, then forcibly remove the restrictions of the dimensional lock again and find a chance to escape.
But soon his eyes widened, because he discovered that Levi, a master of the celestial mysteries, was also proficient in swordsmanship and was even stronger than himself!
After a few moves, his left leg was cut off on the spot.
Although this was not a serious injury for a lich, it caused his body to lose balance and gave Levi more opportunities.
So Levi rushed forward, and silently, a black jade dagger appeared in his hand and stabbed straight at Arkhan.
At the same time, Levi called out in his heart: "Goddess, I need your strength!"
Seleket responded immediately: "I know!"
Then the huge divine power was poured into Seleket's tail needle through a special channel, and then pierced deeply into Akhan's body.
In an instant, all of Arkhan's movements stopped, and in less than half a second, his entire body was dyed dark green.
Now, in addition to the anger and unwillingness in his heart, he was more desperate.
Because even if he is a lich and can offset the special poison on the dagger to a certain extent, he will definitely not be able to resist such powerful divine power.
This is even much stronger than the incarnation of Tefnut, the goddess of rain and moisture, whom he defeated!
Damn Levi, why are there so many powerful beings, even real gods, willing to help him?
But no matter how many complex emotions he had, now only emotions were left, and he couldn't actually do anything.
He just used up the last of his strength and looked straight at Levi.
Although he didn't say anything, Levi could easily guess that it was nothing more than what he said last time, about Nagash being the savior or something.
But Levi didn't take it to heart at all. Nagash was resurrected several times and beaten to death several times. With such an existence, how could people believe that he could really save the world?
What's more, Lilith has the memories of the parallel world. Even if we really want to save the world, it will be Lilith and myself!
With a crisp sound, Arkhan's entire body shattered like glass. The giant beetle, which was originally in an attacking posture, seemed to have been turned off, and instantly remained in the attacking posture without moving.
Even when little Zeus and Dragon Cloud Element took advantage of the opportunity to hit it hard, it did not dodge or fight back.
At the same time, some changes also occurred to the undead in the distance. After Arkhan died, they lost their controller and inevitably fell into a panic state, starting to fight only by their instincts.
Levi signaled little Zeus through the mental link to stop for the time being and remain on alert.
As for the Messenger of Mercy and others on the other side, let them decide for themselves. Levi just picked up the many spoils dropped by Arkhan as soon as possible.
As soon as I started, a series of system prompts sounded.
"You have obtained the Ninth Volume of Nagash - Secrets of the Dead (Gold - Legend - Wonderful Item):
Effect 1, bind the soul;
Effect 2, evil oath binding;
Effect 3, nine volumes echoing;
Effect 4, Lord of the Dead, you can summon, recruit, transform and drive skeletons, zombies, ghosts, ghouls, dark knights, bone dragons, and their advanced or mutated soldiers at will, and when you fight with the above soldiers, the final damage caused by each attack will be increased by 15% (up to 1000).
Note 1: If the opponent is an ownerless unit, he will be more willing to accept your recruitment, and the recruitment fee and maintenance fee will be reduced by 15%-50%.
Note 2: If the opponent is an elite or hero unit, it may not be recruited by you, but the opponent will do its best to avoid fighting with you.
Effect 5, Lich Secrets, you can recruit and transform necromancers and liches, and learn the magic recorded in the Nine Volumes of Nagash more freely.
"You have successfully collected all the Nine Volumes of Nagash. Since you are not a god and meet other hidden requirements, you have activated the hidden ability of the Nine Volumes of Nagash. You have obtained a special title - the Lord of Death at the End.
Effect 1: You will gradually understand all the secrets in the Nine Volumes of Nagash. You can try to learn any ability recorded in the Nine Volumes of Nagash. When any progress reaches 100%, you will completely master it. Even if you lose the Nine Volumes of Nagash later, your related abilities will not be affected in any way.
Effect 2: You have obtained the secret method of making Life Elixir (Fake), that is, the Blood Elixir. If the drinker is a living mortal, he or she may be transformed into a first-generation vampire and then develop his or her own clan.
If the drinker is undead, health and mana will be greatly restored. If it is another race, it will vary depending on the opponent's race and camp.
Note: You cannot directly control the first generation of vampires created by your blood spirit secret potion, but if the other party successfully establishes a clan, your reputation level in the clan will never be lower than respected.
When you clash with all the vampire descendants of the other party, the damage you cause to them will be greatly increased (up to 300% based on the difference in strength between the two sides);
Effect 3: When learning all death and dark magic, the requirements are reduced by 10%-90 %, and the learning speed is increased by 50%-200%.
When you use death and dark magic, you will gain all-round benefits, including but not limited to increasing casting speed, reducing casting cost, reducing error rate, increasing maximum attack distance and duration, etc.;
When you attempt to step into the realm of God, your understanding and mastery of the priesthood and fields related to death, undead creatures, magic, knowledge, and doomsday may be strengthened to a certain extent.
Effect 4: Out of fear of your reputation, all vampires, vampire pirates, or other forces led by vampires and with main members that have not been at war with you will raise their initial reputation level toward you to respect.
If the faction is led by other undead creatures, the initial reputation level is increased to friendly.
The chances of all undead that have come into conflict with you actively seeking peace or surrendering are greatly increased.
Effect 5, Death Army, when you fight against the undead, you automatically gain the Aura of Fear and the Aura of Terror, your undead troops are strengthened by 5%-15%, and the damage they cause to hostile undead creatures is increased by 5%-15%.
All of the above abilities are only obtained after you collect all nine volumes of Nagash for the first time. Once obtained, you will not lose the above abilities unless there is a second person who has collected all nine volumes of Nagash.
But this does not apply to Nagash, who always assumes the full power of the Final Lord of Death until he is utterly killed."
"As the first person besides Nagash to truly collect all nine volumes of Nagash, you have received an additional reward. The reputation of a random undead faction has been raised to worship. Randomly...
The current random result is - Pirates of Sartosa."
Levi was dazzled by this series of information. He finally understood why almost all undead were filled with fear or awe when they mentioned Nagash.
Even legendary beings like Neferata and Mannfred turned against Arkhan and even attacked him from behind when they learned that Arkhan was trying to resurrect Nagash.
On the one hand, it is because Nagash's character is too bad, and on the other hand, Nagash's restraint on the undead is too great, especially when dealing with vampires like Neferata, he can easily beat them with his eyes closed.
After all, except for Dracula and his descendants, Lucia and Alucard, almost all the vampires in the main world were born because of the blood spirit secret potion created by Nagash, and they will all be restrained by him.
Coupled with Nagash's bad character, those vampires really walked on thin ice and lived a miserable life in front of him. If they had any choice, they absolutely did not want Nagash to be resurrected again.
Now that Levi has collected all nine volumes, he will be able to gain a lot of enhancements when fighting other undead in the future.
In the long run, effect 3 is undoubtedly the strongest, but other priesthoods or fields are fine, but that doomsday...
Could it be that Nagash really foretold something?
As for the Sartosa pirate, it was an unexpected little surprise, but not a big deal.
Sartosa is an isolated island not too far from the Southern Kingdom, Araby and the Tomb Kings. There are some evil pirates composed of humans, vampires and other undead creatures on it, and they are in a hostile state with many surrounding forces.
But because Sartosa was easy to defend but difficult to attack, they advocated the use of muskets and cannons in battle, which further strengthened Sartosa's defensive power.
In addition, they are very self-aware and know who they can and cannot offend, so they have been doing pretty well.
This is the information known to the general public, but in fact, thanks to Lilith, Levi knows even more.
Their leader is a unique female pirate, Aerenatha Saltgrudge from Norsca.
The name sounds good, but in fact she was once a person who was affected by the power of the devil, causing her body to mutate severely and become a hybrid of a hedgehog and a mermaid.
Even though the Norse people worshipped demons, they didn't like to see creatures with this appearance, so she was abandoned after she was born.
But somehow she attracted the attention of Mannan, the god of the sea, or Maslan, the storm god of the elves.
So this special mermaid was raised by sea fairies sent by the sea god, and taught many skills in navigation and naval warfare.
No one knew what happened afterwards, but all the outside world knew was that she cut off her mermaid tail with her own hands, separated her legs, made a pair of , and grew up to become the Lord of Sartosa.
There is no doubt that she is just a nail planted by the sea god in Sartosa, so even if Levi obtains the reputation level of Sartosa, it does not mean much, because Yan Yuan cannot make the final decision on the real big things, and everything she does will follow the will of the sea god.
However, Salty is currently focusing on fighting the Dread Fleet among the vampire pirates, the legendary vampire Count Noctis. Maybe Levi will have the opportunity to join forces with her in the future.
Unfortunately, although this series of gains can be considered good, it is obviously still a long way from Levi’s real goal, because there is not a single bit of knowledge about the priesthood or field of death!
But before he could say anything, a new prompt popped up.
“In addition, the Nine Volumes of Nagash also hide secrets beyond mortals. However, since you are not Nagash, based on your current status, you can choose one of the following three methods to try to obtain the true secret of Nagash.
1. Consume an additional 2 points of divinity and 1 fragment of the godhead to perform a sacrifice ceremony to Nagash. When Nagash agrees, you will obtain the corresponding secret;
Second, go to the Black Pyramid of Nagash and summon the secrets hidden in it with the power of the Nine Scrolls of Nagash;
Third, if you can become a god as a mortal and obtain a priesthood or field related to death, and call upon Nagash when you are deified, all the secrets of Nagash will be revealed to you.
If you choose any of the above methods and succeed, you will be able to ignore all equipment requirements of the Nine Volumes of Nagash."
After reading it, Levi narrowed his eyes immediately. He now had every reason to suspect that these three methods were all traps set by Nagash.
Not to mention sacrifices, for many beings in the chaos camp, it is very possible that they just enjoy the sacrifices but do nothing.
Judging from Nagash's past performances, he seems to be a chaotic evil camp.
With 2 points of divinity and 1 fragment of the godhead, plus Nagash's other accumulations in the past, he could at least become a demigod. Levi would not be stupid enough to sacrifice to him.
The Black Pyramid is a powerful structure built by Nagash, more of a fortress than a wizard's tower.
Ever since Nagash died last time, it has been closely monitored by the Egyptian gods, because everyone knows that once Nagash returns, he will definitely try his best to take back the Black Pyramid.
Given Levi's current condition, if he went, he would be asking for trouble. The Egyptian gods would never let him go easily as he had already collected the nine volumes of Nagash.
As for the last method, it is definitely not safe.
Because there is a special kind of magic in this world - the magic of Karsas' ascension, which uses the body of a mortal to replace the powerful magic of the gods.
The wizard who invented this spell, Karsus, briefly replaced the first generation goddess of magic.
This was a power that even the gods were shocked and even frightened of.
However, the gods later discovered that the conditions for casting this magic were extremely harsh, the duration was extremely short, and even if mortals succeeded in casting the spell, it would be almost impossible for them to withstand the power of God.
So Karsus only had a moment of pleasure before he exploded on the spot because he could not bear the massive power and the prayers of so many believers, and the goddess of magic soon returned again.
But even if Levi was deified, he would never be able to match the goddess of magic in a short period of time, and Nagash was definitely not Karsus.
If Levi really called for Nagash during the Canonization of Gods, Nagash would definitely take the opportunity to do something. If he used a modified version of Nagash's ascension to the gods, there might be many more twists and turns.
So these three options are all traps, it’s just a matter of how big the trap is.
But Levi had to admit that even if he didn't mention the secret of Nagash, once one of these three options was successful, even if he became a god, he could still continue to hold and use the Nine Volumes of Nagash, which was very attractive.
He spent so much time and energy to finally collect them all, but in the end, the Seal of God was unusable. That would be a shame.
But that is a matter for later. Levi still needs to have a good discussion with Lilith before deciding what choice to make.
Next is the Tomb Blade wielded by Arkhan, named after him, a legendary weapon that combines spellcasting capabilities with melee attack capabilities.
Normally speaking, if one of these weapons that can be used for both physical and magical cultivation is taken out individually, its attributes would definitely be in the lower to middle level among weapons of the same rank.
But at the same time, it also comes with two special skills, which greatly increases the value of this weapon.
The first is all beings killed directly by it. If it is a mortal with a corpse, it can choose to forcibly transform the opponent's corpse into a skeleton for driving.
If it is already a corpse, transformation will be easier.
The strength of such a skeleton is definitely weaker than when it was alive, but the whole process is simple and efficient, and the consumption is extremely low.
If you go to some large cemetery of powerful people and take a few turns, you might be able to harvest a lot of powerful skeletons.
The second is that it has 100 grids of space, which can normally allow up to 100 undead creatures to hibernate in it and then be released during battle.
Now most of the grids have been used, and each grid has clearer markings, including name, level, race, etc.
Levi blinked and looked at the Messenger of Mercy and others who were still fighting there. He finally chose to take back most of the undead creatures.
Then, only dozens of lights flashed, and the Skeleton King and the Undying Corpse King disappeared one after another. The only enemies on the scene were those corrupted angels and the largest one. That was the undead that Arkhan transformed using the corpse of a lord-level demon. Arkhan called it the Lord of the Abyss.
Then Levi gave them an order to stay where they were. This could not completely suppress their instinct to fight back after being attacked, but it would definitely make it easier for everyone to move.
The Messenger of Mercy turned his head and took a look, without saying much. He just put down the sword temporarily and walked forward to take a closer look. He wanted to try to monitor how this corrupt angel came into being.
The messenger and Duke Lucan did not stop their attack, preparing to completely destroy the demon's body.
There are some dark and death magics in the Arkhan Space Ring, such as Soul Extraction, Soul Withering, Dance of Death, Dark Gaze, etc., but basically they have all been recorded in the Book of a Thousand Spells of Hoeth and the Nine Volumes of Nagash.
Then there are more than a dozen blueprints of God-given buildings, which can recruit ghouls, tomb demons, dark knights, soul-binding knights, terror knights, etc.
Even if Levi can't use them, Lucia and Martis will definitely like them very much.
In addition, there is a more valuable blueprint of the Lost Royal Zoo. Once it is built, two level 6 skeleton elephants can be recruited every week. Levi decided to give it back to Khalida. She will definitely like it very much.
Their fighting ability is secondary. The main reason is that they are large enough. They will look very majestic when taken out, which will definitely satisfy Khalida's vanity.
After such a long period of contact, Levi has already gotten to know Khalida quite well. While being a warrior queen, her character as a whole is not without comparison and ostentation. This is a common problem among the Tomb Raiders, and it is estimated that she will never be able to change it in this lifetime.
Next came two inactivated Holy Titans, and a half-modified Death Titan, as well as some corresponding research and manufacturing manuals.
Levi flipped it twice casually, and combined with the power he currently possessed, he felt that as long as he wanted, he could also try to create and transform the Death Titan, or purify the Death Titan into a Holy Titan.
As a 7th-level soldier, the Holy Titan requires relatively fewer conventional materials such as stone than the Sphinx, but it requires more elemental crystals and a special magic - Construct Enlightenment, which makes its overall cost several percent higher than that of the Sphinx.
According to Arkhan's research, Levi can choose to give these Titans the power of lightning or darkness, but combined with Levi's own strength, he feels that adding light is also entirely possible.
But it does not require soul fragments and its combat power is also stronger, so Levi thinks it is still very worthwhile.
The only problem is that, because Levi has never made such a thing before and the Death Tome cannot assist him, the success rate of manufacturing may not be 100% at the beginning.
It seems that he still needs to wait until he returns to the Fear Rock and ask Harpros and other tomb technicians to help him and work together to create it.
There are also corpses of more than a dozen kinds of beetles of different sizes, as well as transformed undead beetles. It seems that the cooperation between Arkhan and the Beetle Prince is still very close.
Unfortunately, there is no record of how Arkhan transformed the demon corpses into undead. Arkhan may have memorized this most secret information in his mind.
Then there are all kinds of materials, skeletons, corpses, soul crystals, elemental crystals, etc., but basically there are no high-end goods.
Either all the high-end ones were used up by Arkhan, or this was not his main space ring. As a legendary hero who had lived for thousands of years, Levi would not be surprised at all even if Arkhan said he had ten rings.
But Levi still felt very satisfied, because in addition to a lot of materials, there were also 100,000 gold coins.
Although it was still not enough to repay the debt owed to Khalida, it was enough to make Levi much more financially comfortable.
The last one is a small and exquisite beetle - the gift from Apophis: sealed in it is a special beetle - the Crypt Assassin - Arak, which is the giant beetle in front of Levi.
As a level 16 combat hero, it has many skills including Sand Stealth, Change Size, Earth Thorn, Mana Burn, Spiked Shell, Carrion Beetles and Crazy Swarm.
Overall, it is an assassin-type beetle with good burst and survivability, and is particularly good at fighting against mage-type enemies.
Not to mention the mana burn, the main thing is that when the ground spike attacks an enemy with lower physical fitness, it may forcibly interrupt the opponent's spell casting and cause dizziness. This is probably one of the reasons why Arkhan resolutely chose to launch a surprise attack on Levi just now.
But Levi, who had merged with the ascetic, had already been on guard against the opponent's surprise attack, so he reacted almost the moment the ground spikes were formed.
It looked like he was knocked away by the spikes, but in fact he jumped up directly on the spikes and pretended to be dizzy.
In his condition at that time, jumping dozens of meters was an easy thing for him. That little thing was not difficult for him at all.
In fact, he had intended to fight hard to make the scene more realistic. Anyway, given his condition at that time, it didn't matter if he took a few hits.
But when he realized where the spikes were aimed, he felt a little uncomfortable. They were too despicable, all aiming at his lower body, so he had no choice but to dodge.
Fortunately, Arkhan didn't notice this at all at the time, and achieved a very perfect result.
After thinking about it, Levi also collected the Crypt Assassin to see if there would be a chance to exchange something with Queen Lashut or King Lamizazi in the future.
This thing can only exert its highest combat effectiveness in the desert. In other places, it cannot sneak in the yellow sand, and its assassination ability will suddenly drop to a level, which is really a waste.
At this time, the Messenger of Mercy had also dealt with everything, but after purifying these filthy beings, the Messenger of Mercy still looked solemn: "Levi, there is something wrong with those rotten angels."
Levi's subconscious reaction was: "Akhan lied?"
"I have no way of knowing for sure, but they do not seem to be born completely from nature, nor do they seem to be corrupted. Instead, they seem to be corrupted by some special power, just like the corruption of the four gods of chaos, but I did not find any power of Nurgle in them."
At this time, Duke Lucan next to him interrupted and said, "Perhaps it is other evil gods, such as the Great Horned Rat related to disease or plague, or the goddess of poison and disease - Talona, etc."
Levi added: "We can't rule out the maggot king of the green-skinned gods, Idros."
The Messenger of Mercy, the Messenger and others nodded secretly after listening to this. In the recent series of chaos in the main world, the gods related to death and epidemics have benefited the most, followed by gods related to battle and chaos, and finally purification, life and healing.
However, there are often multiple gods in other areas, but there are relatively few gods involved in epidemics, so their strength has expanded extremely rapidly recently.
For example, the goddess of disease was originally a weak divine power of level 4, but it is said that she has now broken through to a weak divine power, and has been extremely active in the fight against the demons of Nurgle. It is obvious that she has tasted the sweetness and does not want Nurgle, the god of demons, to snatch faith from her.
Although the Greenskin pantheon had just been badly defeated by the Dwarf pantheon and was in the stage of recuperation and licking its wounds, if you think about it from another perspective, the ordinary Greenskins were quiet, and the Greenskin gods had benefited greatly from it, so perhaps it was time to do something else.
Especially the Maggot King - Idros, who can gain double benefits from the war against the dwarves and the plague that is prevalent throughout the main world. He may become stronger faster than most green-skinned gods.
Levi continued, "I think we need to pay attention to their tails. They are likely related to lizards or dragons."
"If you, the Mercy Messenger, are going to the address provided by Arkhan later, please be sure to call me. I also want to do my part."
Curiosity about this matter was one reason, and Levi also wanted to repay the other party's kindness a little.
The Messenger of Mercy nodded, and then he was suddenly stunned for a moment, because he thought of a god who had long disappeared in the past, who happened to be related to dragons, lizards, and decay.
If it was because of the other party's remaining divinity, he really had to take Levi with him, because Levi would most likely benefit from it!
