Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 332: Promotion to Prince
Although those players who poached the giant wizard and died at my hands were filled with anger and hatred towards me, even some unrelated necromancers had complaints after hearing about my bloody massacre of my peers. They were all quite dissatisfied with my violent behavior. However, as long as the big guys like Qiu Shui Chang Tian, Tian Xing, and Ye You didn't say anything or even come out to oppose me, either openly or secretly, the other stragglers or self-proclaimed righteous necromancers were insignificant. At most, they would complain verbally and criticize me, but they didn't have the courage, especially the strength, to openly confront or cause trouble for me. In the end, those "poaching teams" who wanted to get involved in my vested interests had to restrain their actions and no longer dared to ignore my warnings and invade my sphere of influence near the holy land "Karamay" at will. The "poaching trend" had just begun to show signs, but before it had time to develop, it was forced to stop under my brutal suppression. Except for a few desperate people who were blinded by huge profits and valued money more than their lives, most of the participants or intended participants wisely chose to withdraw from the "poaching" action because the risks were too high and the price they might pay was too high. As a result, I quickly regained control of the situation and did not lose too much profit. Of course, I'm alone, and there are too many things I need to take care of and deal with in the "Dead Space". I can't spare too much energy to spend on the holy land "Karamay", so it's difficult to completely put an end to "poaching". I can only make those "illegal elements" restrain their actions and not endanger my interests too much. I try to force them to act outside my sphere of influence, reducing the chance of them discovering the traces of the giant magician population before me. In this way, even if there are some losses, I can ensure that I can gain several or even a dozen eight-armed giant magicians every month, at least to meet my basic needs for giant magicians.
In addition to the eight-armed giant magician of the tenth level summoned through the "Yellow Elephant Gate", the most eye-catching among the undead subordinates I summoned was the ghost knight, which was a new type of soldier that I had conquered in the "Dead Space" in the past month. It had never appeared before, so it naturally aroused great interest from other undead wizards. Heinrich and Haishar, the true and false ghost knight kings, were naturally very powerful, but what other undead wizards valued most was the number of high-level ghost knights I conquered, especially after some informed undead wizards disclosed that I had only started to get involved in the development of the ghost knight kingdom since Qiu Shui Changtian laid out the "teleportation magic circle" for me. In just a month or so, he has subdued so many level-10 ghost knights, including quite a few upper-level level-10 individuals. Such high efficiency can be said to be far beyond that of the Eight Extreme Yin Demons, the Black Dragon King, the Undead Ghost Phoenix and the Eight-armed Giant Magician. It is estimated that even the Hell Dragon Clan and the Abyss Demon Dragon Clan in the two forbidden areas of "Hell Volcano" and "Bottomless Abyss" are far inferior to them. The strength of the undead wizard can be enhanced faster. Therefore, after the end of the "World Heroes Conference", a wave of developing the Ghost Knight Kingdom was set off among the Undead Wizards. Not only did the other eleven top Undead Wizards who participated in the deployment of the "Teleportation Magic Circle" get involved in the Ghost Knight Kingdom and establish a "bridgehead" or "foothold" there, demarcating their sphere of influence and laying the foundation for their further development in the Ghost Knight Kingdom, but other master Undead Wizards also went on expeditions and more and more joined the army to develop the Ghost Knight Kingdom. As I expected from the beginning, once the Ghost Knight Kingdom shows its huge value and development potential, it will surely attract a large number of Undead Wizards to come and develop it, making it a key development area.
Fortunately, the area of the Ghost Knight Kingdom is extremely vast, and the number of Ghost Knights above level nine living in it is as high as tens of millions, which is at least enough for us top necromancers to develop, so that there will not be too much fierce competition and unnecessary disputes due to too many monks and too little porridge. However, there is one thing that is destined to disappoint those necromancers who came to the Ghost Knight Kingdom to develop because of my outstanding performance. My efficiency in conquering level ten Ghost Knights is actually much higher than the normal value, so it cannot be used as a reference for comparison. In fact, although there are a large number of level ten Ghost Knights living in the Ghost Knight Kingdom, which may be more than 100,000, they are usually quite scattered. Except for the number of Ghost Knight Kings who have conquered a group of varying numbers as their personal guards, most of them are scattered everywhere, and it takes a deep search to find them. The efficiency of conquering them is not too high. I had taken advantage of this, for I had accidentally provoked the Ghost Knight King Heinrich at the very beginning, and I had used some means to subdue him by force. With him as a spy, I could easily discover the existence of other Level 10 Ghost Knights nearby. Moreover, he and Heshar could move freely in the Ghost Knight Kingdom, and their strengths exceeded those of ordinary Level 10 Ghost Knights. Relying on their unique ability of "telepathy" and tacit cooperation, they left the Level 10 Ghost Knights with no way to escape and they had to be defeated one after another. This meant that I no longer needed to bring other undead minions with me, and they could easily defeat the enemy with just the two of them. Capturing those lone Level 10 Ghost Knights, because of their status as Ghost Knight Kings, although they have lost to me in the "Knight's Duel" and lost the dignity and honor of being the Ghost Knight King, their basic status and position are still there. Attacks on other Level 10 Ghost Knights will not attract other Ghost Knights to intervene, allowing me to go deep into the Ghost Knight Kingdom alone and successfully subdue more Level 10 Ghost Knights, without having to spend time searching around and investing a certain amount of troops to guard against the threat of other Ghost Knights' rash intervention. Naturally, the efficiency is much higher. Other undead wizards do not have this advantage of mine, so it will definitely not be so easy to subdue them, and they cannot match my high efficiency. However, compared with other regions in the "Dead Space", choosing to develop in the Ghost Knight Kingdom is still quite good, and they can get relatively large benefits, which will also make them feel that the trip is worthwhile.
I will not relax my development in the Ghost Knight Kingdom. The level 10 Ghost Knights, especially the upper level 10 Ghost Knights, will be one of my main combat forces in the future, and I must strive to conquer as many as possible. At the same time, I also want to play with the ideas of several other Ghost Knight Kings, one real and one fake, "spiritual communication", tacit cooperation, and the strength beyond the upper level of level 10. Such powerful undead must not be easily let go. Heinrich is the ninth Ghost Knight King, that is to say, in addition to him, there are at least eight Ghost Knight Kings with stronger strength. I dare not expect to conquer all eight Ghost Knight Kings and swallow this huge benefit alone. At least I must strive to conquer a few more and occupy the largest piece of the cake. However, each Ghost Knight King not only commands hundreds or even thousands of level 10 Ghost Knights as their personal guards, but also subdues a large number of level 9 Ghost Knights to become their direct subordinates. They can be said to be overlords of one side and have strong power. It is too difficult to defeat and subdue them by normal means. For us necromancers with limited time, unless multiple top necromancers join forces, it is basically impossible for a single person, even for me, the "world's number one necromancer". The most effective means is naturally "Knight's Duel". It was with this method that Wu Ma Li was able to fight Heinrich and achieve an almost impossible result. Not only did I buy one get one free, and subdue two capable subordinates, one real and one fake Ghost Knight King, but it also laid a good foundation for my future development in the Ghost Knight Kingdom. Using "Knight's Duel" to defeat and subdue other Ghost Knight Kings can be said to be the easiest and fastest way. However, there are quite a lot of difficulties in actual operation. The reason why I was able to defeat Heinrich without a horse in the "Knight's Duel" last time was mainly because he was too arrogant and too concerned about Haishar's safety. He took the initiative to ask me for a "Knight's Duel", and I sent the Knight of Destruction to fight, and it was an unexpected attack, so I created such a brilliant result. Other Ghost Knight Kings will not easily challenge me to a "Knight's Duel" without any reason. Once they are provoked, the most direct and most likely approach will definitely be to mobilize the Ghost Knight army to have a head-on confrontation with me. If I take the initiative to request a "Knight's Duel" from other Ghost Knight Kings, not only do I have to first determine the specific objects participating in the duel, but the target Ghost Knight King also has the right to refuse a "Knight's Duel" proposed by an Undead Knight who does not match his status and position - in this way, Ibola and Wu Ma, who are the Knights of Destruction, will no longer be able to fight. Even if they can evolve into the Ultimate Knights of Destruction, they will definitely have a 100% chance of winning against the Ghost Knight King. The Ghost Knight King is not a mentally retarded idiot, and he will not agree to a "Knight's Duel" with them. He is more likely to lead his men to attack them in groups and eliminate the "Public Enemy of the Undead" together. The only one who is qualified and confident that he can get the other Ghost Knight Kings to agree to accept the "Knight's Duel" is Heinrich, the Ninth Ghost Knight King. However, in the "Knight's Duel" between Ghost Knight Kings, a Pseudo-Ghost Knight King is usually brought along. With Heinrich being only the Ninth Ghost Knight King, especially after losing his inherent innate Ghost Pegasus mount and replacing it with an acquired Black Bone Dragon mount, his own strength may not have decreased much, but the actual combat effectiveness that can be exerted will definitely be affected. In addition, the Pseudo-Ghost Knight King Haishar has just completed his evolution. There will definitely be a certain gap in strength between them and the top eight Ghost Knight Kings. They don't have much chance of winning in a "Knight's Duel". Therefore, the current focus of development can only be to subdue those level ten Ghost Knights and transform the Ghost Archer Dragoons and Ghost Javelin Dragoons. For the time being, we do not have the ability to cause trouble for other Ghost Knight Kings. We can only wait until Heinrich is equipped with a level ten upper-level Black Dragon King or even a Hell Dragon mount through the "Undead Dragon Knight Transformation Technology" and his combat effectiveness is significantly improved, and then we can plan to attack those Ghost Knight Kings.
"Hell Volcano" is also a key development area. We must conquer the Hell Dragon clan as soon as possible, and even let Taotao replace Hades as the Hell Dragon King, and let them become one of my main combat forces, so that we can adapt to the development requirements of the situation. It is almost impossible to overthrow the rule of Hades, the old stubborn, by peaceful means. We cannot hope that it will suddenly be kind and willingly give up its throne to me. Survival of the fittest, the strong will be king. I estimate that I will still have to resort to force in the end to solve it. Even if I risk openly turning against Hades and confronting him head-on, I must speed up the pace of expanding my power. Revolutions will always involve bloodshed and sacrifice. A happy ending with zero casualties is perfect, but it is difficult to achieve. Even if I have to pay some price, as long as Taotao and other absolute main forces do not have any accidents, I can accept that Hades can abdicate. However, there is still the matter of "Blood Bodhi" that has not been completed. First, we need to cultivate "Blood Bodhi" to help Shaman further strengthen his strength, win the challenge of becoming a vampire fang prince, solve the four vampire fang princes of Sablotu, and then return to the "Hell Volcano" to focus on dealing with the threat from Hades. Therefore, now I just let Gonzalez and other volcanic undead who are not capable enough to fight and have names with higher IQs take other low-level volcanic undead subordinates to search for "Millennium Fire Lotus" and "Ten Thousand Years Fire Crystal" all over the mountains and plains for me. With their leadership and supervision, the efficiency will be higher, and we will try to reserve as much as possible, so that my plan to conquer the Hell Dragon Clan in the future will be easier.
The resistance alliance has completely eradicated the Cathedral of Light in the twelve main cities of the Northern Continent. According to the plan, the focus of the attack will be on the Eastern Continent. The former Vice President of the Senate of Light, Hua Mantian's Huadu Mercenary Group was destroyed, and he himself has lost his position as Vice President of the Senate of Light. He is just an ordinary Senator of Light, with the qualifications to discuss matters, but no leadership and decision-making power. It is said that after his and Yamato Spirit's plan to obtain the "Prince Order" and jointly establish a super mercenary group was shattered, the forces that were previously attached to him were basically lured or replaced by the current Vice President of the Senate and the Peace Guards of the Southern Continent. At present, he has to rely on others and succumb to the deputy leader of the Sun Never Sets Mercenary Group. He has almost no hope of making a comeback. At most, he can only compete for a place as a Level 10 Knight of Light and participate in the final battle between light and darkness. Hua Mantian's loss of power also directly affected the light forces in the Eastern Continent. He has lost the qualification to continue to be the leader, or he no longer has the high reputation as before, and he may not have the face to continue to issue orders and lead various forces. The Church of Light has decided to focus on the development of the Southern Continent and will not provide too much support to the Eastern Continent, making the local light forces leaderless and weaker. It is estimated that it will be difficult for us to pose too much of an obstacle to our resistance alliance. As long as we plan well and make preparations, and do not leave any opportunities for the Church of Light to take advantage of, with the power of our resistance alliance in the Eastern Continent, it is only a matter of time to complete the task of completely eradicating the Cathedral of Light in the twelve main cities of the Eastern Continent, and there will not be too much difficulty. Of course, we must hurry up. The next task of our resistance alliance is to clear the Cathedral of Light in the Southern Continent. It is likely to take more time, and we cannot delay too long in the Eastern Continent. Therefore, as soon as the "World Heroes Conference" ended, Long Xing Tianxia presided over a meeting of the Dark Council to discuss matters related to the "Eastern Expedition", and began to gather people and formulate relevant action plans to attack the Cathedral of Light in the main city of the Eastern Continent and destroy them one by one. If there is nothing too important and I really have no time to spare, I will also take time to participate in the attack on the Cathedral of Light. Although we will not encounter the full resistance of the Church of Light, and we do not need our resistance alliance to use all our strength to win, this is equivalent to an opportunity to earn more merit points, and no one wants to miss it easily.
After working in the Ghost Knight Kingdom for a while, with the help of Heinrich and Haishar, he ran around and subdued quite a few level-10 Ghost Knights, basically taking in all the results they had discovered some time ago. Most of them were lower- and mid-level level-10 Ghost Knights, and the number of upper-level level-10 individuals was still relatively small. Often, one might not be able to find and subdue one after a day's hard work. Gathering a team of upper-level level-10 Ghost Knights was not something that could be achieved in a short period of time.
The cultivation of the "Blood Bodhi" went very smoothly. With the soul energy of the undead creatures provided by me and the Dragon Horse Spirit, the blood and qi consumption of the "Blood Pool" and "Blood Pool" was continuously replenished, ensuring the supply of abundant blood and qi essence. Finally, twelve "Blood Bodhi" were successfully cultivated and ripened, without withering in the middle. Because the specific cultivation site was chosen in the "Blood Pool" under my control, the fruit grew at the bottom of the "Blood Pool". The "Blood Pool" only continuously provided a large amount of blood and qi essence, so the blood lich Temur picked the "Blood Bodhi" and presented it to me. From Temur's expression, it can be seen that it is also extremely coveted for these "Blood Bodhi". If I hadn't forced it to swear a solemn oath in advance and dared not deduct and swallow it without authorization, I'm afraid it might not be able to withstand the temptation of the "Blood Bodhi".
According to the agreement, Longma Spirit gets one-third of the profit, which is four "Blood Bodhi". Although I am reluctant to give it up, I need more men, and even if I get eight "Blood Bodhi", it is not enough. However, I can't forget my principles for the sake of profit, break my promise and ruin my reputation. Besides, Longma Spirit has also paid a lot. It takes a lot of time to drive so many undead men to the "Blood Pool". Bat Demon Dika is not as easy to deal with as Blood Lich Temur. He always urges Longma Spirit to provide more soul energy on the pretext that he needs more blood essence. In order to avoid delaying the growth of "Blood Bodhi", Longma Spirit has to meet its requirements. Finally, when the "Blood Bodhi" matures, the "Blood Pool" becomes dark in color, which obviously consumes a lot of blood essence. The situation of the "Blood Pool" is much better, but Bat Demon Dika takes the opportunity to knock Longma Spirit and take advantage of it.
After handing the four "Blood Bodhi" to Longma Jingling, he left excitedly and went to train his Millennium Blood Witch, intending to train the strongest blood bat royal family. I did not delay for long. Shaman had already been summoned to wait by my side. I was ready to let him take a few more "Blood Bodhi" and try to enhance his own strength as much as possible, and start challenging the first blood-sucking fang prince, Sabu Luotu, as soon as possible. This can be regarded as the fastest and most effective method. In comparison, the previous "Dragon Power Intimidation Method" can only be regarded as an inferior way. Moreover, for the blood-sucking fang prince who is a blood-sucking fang prince with special royal equipment, even the "Dragon Power" of the tenth-level upper-level Black Dragon King and the Hell Nether Dragon is estimated to have little effect. Perhaps only the "Dragon Power" of the bone dragon powerhouse of the Hell Nether Dragon King level will have some effect. I have always been quite worried about when Shaman will have the strength to be promoted to the blood-sucking fang prince, and I am very worried about it. Fortunately, the appearance of "Blood Bodhi" gave me hope of helping Shaman successfully win the challenge of becoming the Prince of Advancement. I no longer have to wait helplessly for Taotao to become the Hell Dragon King, which made Shaman, my pet, unable to play a role and even lost the opportunity to appear on the stage.
First, let Sama take a "blood bodhi". At the same time, according to the suggestion of the blood lich Temur, let it soak in the "blood pool" to help dissolve the effect of the "blood bodhi" faster. In just one or two hours, Sama completely absorbed the effect of the "blood bodhi" and underwent a complete transformation. The level did not increase, and the attack and defense capabilities did not change much, but Sama's mental strength doubled, and his physical fitness also improved significantly. The recovery speed after the body was injured was much faster, and the "blood evil" spewed out was not only more powerful, but there would be no danger of fainting after exhausting the blood essence of life - after spewing out five mouthfuls of "blood evil", it would forcibly retain a little blood essence of life, which could be used to escape, enhancing the ability to protect itself. At the same time, the improvement of physical fitness made the physical strength more abundant, and the agility attribute was also improved to a certain extent. The action when incarnated as a human and the flying speed after incarnating as a bat were accelerated a little, and the effect was quite obvious. Thinking about the strength of the first vampire prince Sabrotu, who was at the intermediate level of level ten, I gritted my teeth and let Saban swallow three more "Blood Bodhi" pills in succession. The effects can be cumulative, and the recovery speed after injury is faster and the movements are more agile. The mental power increased each time is equivalent to about twice the original mental power before taking the first "Blood Bodhi", which is equivalent to four more lives. In addition, after exerting the "blood change" ability, the mental power can be increased by about twice as much. During the dozens of minutes when the effect occurs, it is equivalent to having eight lives, becoming a veritable "blood cow".
I believe that such strength should be enough to challenge the vampire fang princes. I immediately asked Shaman to cross the "Dragon Bone Mountain" and rush to the Lost Continent. I have never relaxed my attention on the four vampire fang princes. I know their current approximate location, help Shaman find them, and apply for the challenge of the strongest first vampire fang prince, Sablotu. The challenge of the promotion from the lower vampire fang duke cannot be refused, and there is no need to follow any ranking order. You can choose any vampire fang prince to challenge. Sablotu can only accept it. The time and place of the decisive battle were soon agreed upon. I, the master of the undead wizard, and the other three vampire fang princes watched. Anyway, the challenge of the promotion is a fair duel, and I am not worried that the other three vampire fang princes will intervene when Sablotu is in trouble.
Without special opportunities, it is almost impossible for a vampire fang duke of level nine to defeat a vampire fang prince of level ten. Unlike the state at a lower level, the gap in strength between two levels of higher-level undead creatures cannot be made up by acquired efforts. However, I spent four "blood bodhisattvas" to turn Shaman into a "blood cow", which should have the strength to fight against the vampire fang prince. The vampire fang royal equipment that Sabrotu possesses, which can be transformed into four times, is actually not very useful in the challenge of promotion. This is a duel of life and death. If Shaman loses, he will only die in battle. If he escapes, he will permanently lose the qualification to challenge Sabrotu again. If Sabrotu loses, he will definitely lose his life, and Shaman will replace him as the first vampire fang prince. Especially for Sabrotu, as a superior and a top-level vampire fang prince, his dignity and honor make him not avoid the battle with Shaman. He will always take the initiative to attack and pester Shaman to fight to the death. The flexible and agile fighting style of the quadruple transformation cannot be used in the promotion challenge. Even if he dies in battle, he will not wander away and retreat, but will be hunted down by Shaman.
Such a challenge rule is quite favorable to Shaman. As a lower-ranker, especially under the control of my "Soul Contract", it does not need to pay attention to dignity and honor, and does not have so many scruples to talk about. It can fight in any way under the premise of a fair fight. With the mental strength much higher than that of Sablotu after taking four "Blood Bodhis", as well as the faster recovery speed and abundant physical strength after the physical fitness improvement, the increase in speed also makes it difficult for Sablotu to take too much advantage when fighting in human form. With enough capital to fight a protracted battle with Sablotu, it can be said that there is a considerable chance of winning this challenge for advancement.
