Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 47 The Dead
"It looks like someone got here before us. Who else knows this place?"
Looking at the root gate that was destroyed beyond recognition, William turned his head and looked at Ebony behind him and asked.
Wu Mu, who had been in a state of daze since before, noticed William's gaze. He looked up at William weakly, and then replied weakly in a tone that was almost like talking to himself:
"Except for you and... Flora, who claims to have known about this place for a long time, no one else knows about this place. It should be like this..."
And Flora beside him immediately added:
"He didn't do things very cleanly, so it's not surprising that he was discovered by someone with ulterior motives."
William nodded slightly.
No matter how close Ebony's thoughts were to the living, he was essentially a ghost. Even though this ghost could simulate the real reactions of the living to a large extent, which prevented William from seeing the clues before, he would always lack the agility of the living when doing things.
"I'll go in first. If there's any danger, you have to help the people here get out first. Remember, you have to protect the safety of Nezemar ."
William turned around and said this to Flora, and the next second, he disappeared at the door, leaving only a flashing shadow.
In fact, for a Divine Realm wizard like Floro, his reminder seemed a little too cautious.
So, after being stunned for a second, Flora whispered to herself in a complaining tone:
"Are you treating me like a child?"
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"Very good, very good... No matter how you look at it, this is still a pretty big scandal."
After ordering his men to execute more than a dozen undead in public, those "people" were finally willing to cooperate with Yin Lai'er's request.
They gathered in an orderly manner in the square in the center of the camp, squatting on the ground with their hands behind their heads - this set of movements was smooth and flowing, and they did not look like stiff and rigid undead, but rather no different from real people.
To be honest, if it weren't for the guards from the "Tower of Annihilation" who could easily distinguish the dead from the living, Yin Laier might not have been able to detect their identities.
Now, he looked at the undead who behaved too much like humans, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
It seems that I'm lucky this time.
In other words, that arrogant guy Floro is in big trouble this time - the dignified Duke of Holy Tree is secretly raising undead in the underground roots of Holy Tree City. It sounds like this matter can become an agenda item for the next Senate meeting.
Jade Province is the granary of the empire. In order to prevent the land here from being polluted, the research and use of undead magic is prohibited by law throughout the Jade Province.
This was the basic legal provision written into the Imperial Code Emerald Volume by the founding emperor Terra I at the beginning of the founding of the country. Even considering the deep hatred of the forest elves for the undead magic, Terra Riel still requested that this law be written down as the first legal guarantee.
Considering the background of the large-scale necromancy tide that occurred in Blackwater Province not long ago, the Star Council is now discussing whether to limit the scale of necromancy spells in the Star Law. At this juncture, if the person in charge of Jade Province, the granary of the empire, is found to be conducting inhumane necromancy experiments...
It would provoke fierce opposition from the forest elves within the Jade Province, but going to the Platinum Palace would serve as an important bargaining chip for the elders to put pressure on the Queen.
Although Yin Laier knew that this trip would definitely yield something, he never expected it to be such a big reward. At this moment, he couldn't wait to know how much reward Speaker York, who was very clear about rewards and punishments, would give him after he returned to Platinum City.
If he could successfully overthrow the Duke of Holy Tree, perhaps the Senate and the Imperial Council would reserve a substitute seat for him, and he would then be able to truly step onto the stage of the center of power in the empire.
Thinking of this, Yin Laier couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"What are you laughing at, dog of the Empire!"
A voice interrupted Yin Laier's fantasy at an inopportune time.
It was a forest elf with a burly figure and muscular body.
He slowly put down his hands, stood up, and stared angrily into Yin Laier's eyes.
The multiple poisonous snake tattoos coiled on his arms took shape, and they danced around him, spitting out their tongues and making hissing sounds.
"Excuse me?"
Yin Laier turned his head slightly, pretending that he had not heard clearly.
"What are you laughing at, dog of the Empire?"
The burly forest elf undead repeated word by word, and more tattoos turned into poisonous snakes, crawling out from his cuffs, collar and trouser legs.
Yin Laier was somewhat familiar with the man in front of him. He seemed to be a tribal leader who worshipped the venomous snake totem and was executed by Fularo for refusing to fulfill the request to let his men join the "Wild Hunt" team.
Unexpectedly, his body and soul were used by that woman to create a high-level undead creature.
"It's really rare. As an undead, he can carry such strong intelligence and drive those great spirits. The necromancers I have seen in the Platinum Circle cannot do this. Is your master Floro so powerful?"
Yin Laier said so.
Generally speaking, being able to make the awakened undead speak a few sentences with a little coherence is already a great achievement. Undead like this, who look no different from when they were alive, are no exaggeration to say that they are miracles - God knows how far the Duchess has gone in this regard.
However, the further she goes, the bigger the mistake she makes, which is what Yin Lai'er is happy to see.
"Whose slave are you saying I am?!"
After Yin Lai'er said that, the burly forest elf who stepped forward on his own initiative was like a lit barrel of explosives. He roared and controlled the poisonous snakes to attack the human in front of him from different directions.
Yin Lai'er looked at the dozen or so poisonous snakes with deadly venom dripping from their mouths attacking him, but his expression did not even change.
The two black-robed men guarding around him raised their heads slightly and looked at the poisonous snakes. Then, without any other movement, the poisonous snakes that attacked Yin Laier from all directions made a "crackling" sound at the same time, and their heads were cut off by some invisible thing.
More than a dozen triangular snake heads turned into spots of light and disappeared before they even hit the ground. The headless snake bodies also fell to the ground, and then quickly dissipated like a ignited fuse.
"Did I say something wrong? Aren't you the undead transformed from that duke?"
Yin Laier asked curiously, and then he continued:
"Ah, you don't have to answer."
The burly forest elf undead opened his mouth, looking as if he wanted to explain something, or perhaps just wanted to curse a few more words... Then, his head flew up like the previous snake heads.
"Because you're already dead."
After Yin Laier finished speaking, he looked around at the remaining forest elves with some regret, and said with three parts of sadness and seven parts of joy on his face:
"A word of advice, the rest of you should not try to attack me. They are not good at such complicated things as reading people's expressions."
The guy's head was chopped off so easily that the remaining undead couldn't help but scream. This made Yin Laier sigh the same way as he did when he first found this place:
"It is a strange thing that the undead would feel fear and sadness because of the death of their companions."
To be honest... is this really something that necromancy can do? Even if it is, what kind of mentality does the person who creates this effect have? He couldn't figure out why the woman did this.
But now is not the time to dwell on such issues.
He has already obtained the evidence, but the problem now is how he should take the evidence out.
After thinking for a moment, he looked at the thirty or so survivors in the square, looked around for a while, pointed at the youngest boy among them, and directed the guards around him:
"Go and bring the child here."
It was impossible for him to take all the people here away as evidence, so the best option was to find someone who was easy to control and bring back to Platinum Province.
"As for the rest..."
Yin Lai'er looked at the remaining undead souls, who were shivering with the same reaction as humans, and couldn't help feeling sick.
Although no one in the world has proposed the theory of "uncanny valley", people's feelings about this kind of thing that looks extremely like a human but is not a human are still very similar.
Plus the need to destroy the evidence of my presence here...
"Let's purify the rest...it'll be a good thing."
After thinking for a moment, Yin Laier came to this conclusion.
After receiving the order, the guards following him turned their eyes to the undead squatting on the ground - they seemed ready to attack at any time, and then...
"Moon Realm Monster?"
First there was a flash of lightning, and then a familiar voice suddenly appeared beside Yin Laier.
It was the man he had met earlier in the main hall of the Bone Palace, the man from Storm Province whom the Duke called an advisor.
All the guards of the "Tower of Annihilation" turned their eyes to this uninvited guest. Almost at the same time, they entered the highest level of combat status... It was a status that Yin Laier had never seen before.
However, the other party didn't care at all. He first looked at the few human-shaped gray groups not far away, and then looked at the undead whose head had just been chopped off - then, his face immediately became gloomy.
"You killed a total of twelve people here?"
The man looked at him and asked in a low voice.
"And the undead..."
Before he could utter the word "already", the man slapped him on the left face and sent him flying about ten meters away - he was able to stop because he happened to hit a protruding root in the hall.
"Do you know what you just did?"
The uninvited guest said as he looked at Yin Laier who almost went into shock.
"Do you...know what...you just did?!"
Feeling dizzy and with a dislocated jaw, Yin Laier replied with difficulty and a loud voice.
"My instructions to them are to kill anything that attacks me. Once the order is input to them, even I cannot undo it."
"So, you're dead , stranger."
Listening to his intermittent words, William looked around at the guards who had surrounded him and suddenly became interested.
In his etheric realm perception, these guys are not magic chanters, not authority holders, nor are they possessors of other extraordinary powers. Compared to the extraordinary powers that real humans can use, the power fluctuations in them are closer to the existence of the Moon Realm.
But they are undoubtedly human beings in this world, not even summoners who have signed a contract with the Moon Realm beings.
This is similar to... an artificial Moon Realm ability user?
William had heard from Remedios that the two organizations established by the Empire, the "Tower of Annihilation" and the "Demon Burial Agency", had conducted extremely in-depth research on the nature of the Moon Realm, and were said to have achieved groundbreaking results.
So these guys in front of me are one of the so-called "achievements"?
Thinking of this, William directly drew out "Judgment Two" with the hand that was not holding the spell medium.
Since artificial Moon Realm exists, will it be afraid of natural anti-Moon Realm weapons?
