Seeing some of the players in front of him looking embarrassed, Singo couldn't help but laugh to himself.

"Fortunately, I was prepared."

He patted the bulging purse at his side, which contained more than a thousand gold coins. As a Viscount of Dragon Blood who received dividends from the military-industrial group, he could naturally afford to take out such money.

In the team of dozens of people, several had to leave in despair due to lack of money, which increased his waiting time in the queue a lot.

The [Undead Knight] at the front of the line reluctantly paid the money and walked quickly into the [Undead Research Institute] carrying the body bag.

Maxi put away the gold coins and nodded slightly to the players waiting outside the door: "Don't be anxious, please wait outside for a while."

"Don't worry, Director Orest is very efficient."

Not long after, the [Dead Knight] came out happily with an [Undead Follower Rental Contract]. He hummed a song and summoned a beautiful long-haired female ghost under the expectant gaze of everyone.

"Damn, it's so fast!"

"This undead follower is quite good-looking."

"Not buddy?"

"I'm so jealous - why didn't I think of being able to summon a wife?"

"That's enough, you are also an animal!"

"This is clearly a fighting partner!"

Next, the famous Necromancer player [City in the Rain] also paid gold coins and couldn’t wait to walk into the research institute.

In just a few minutes, the next conversion was completed.

"hehe."

"Let me open your eyes."

Yuzhong Chengchi pushed his silver-framed glasses lightly, adjusted the brim of his hat, and walked out of the research institute.

Behind him were three majestic undead skeletons of different shapes and sizes. They were none other than the "Three Imperial Families", the three largest families in the north.

One held a sword, one held a spear high, and one wielded a hammer.

These three were ancestors pulled out of coffins in the Rain City. They were carefully selected. They were all renowned warriors and holy knights during their lifetime. Even after their death, their challenge levels were as high as level six, which was roughly equivalent to three small bosses.

When these "Three Imperial Families" are combined, with the help of the Necromancer's spells, their fighting power increases dramatically.

The players watching were extremely jealous.

"When will it be my turn?"

“So handsome!”

"I also want to raise an immortal follower!"

"I've decided. I'm going to switch to the summoning class starting today!"

Singo looked at the city in the rain in the distance with a serious expression: "His lineup is quite strong in this version. He is an opponent worth paying attention to."

Several players entered one after another.

"oops"

"Who hasn't made it yet?"

The white shark soon brought a row of immortal skeletons of Bosque's ancestors, holding the lease contract, and walked past him as if showing off.

"You have three summoning opportunities every day, and you're just using them to show off?"

Singo shook his head and laughed.

But it was finally his turn.

Singo handed five gold coins to Maxi at the door without hesitation, and with the other's friendly smile, he dragged the rotten corpse of the half-giant surrounded by flies into the research institute.

"Is this the Undead Research Institute?"

“It’s a little different than I imagined.”

In Singo's imagination, this should be a restricted area for living things with corpses and spider webs everywhere, but he didn't expect it to look like a research institute.

The neat rows of electric lights, the clean and tidy corridors, and the clear signposts on the walls all demonstrate this.

Even the bloodstains left by him dragging the corpse would be automatically removed by the cleaning spell on the corridor walls.

Singo looked at the heavy iron door at the end of the corridor, and at the skull logo on it, and finally felt the breath of death.

"Then let me see the so-called 'Eternal Sighing Soul'."

He thought so.

Singo placed his hand on the skull, and the heavy iron door slowly opened.

"Lord Orest, I am here to transform the dead."

"come in."

The voice was low and hoarse.

But Singo keenly heard a strong sense of fatigue in it.

It's similar to the half-dead sound made by a social animal who stays up late to work overtime.

Did he hear it wrong?

That's the legendary lich!
The Lord of the Undead! A sinister and cruel immortal who holds endless secrets!
Singo couldn't help but look up, the name above his head was particularly eye-catching.

[Soul Singer-Orest]

Faction: Burning Empire

Affiliation: Undead Biology Research Institute
Challenge level: ???
I saw the lich sitting on an ordinary desk, wearing a ragged robe, and the soul fire in his eye sockets was particularly dim. However, the skeleton scepter on the shelf next to him was quite scary.

He held a bone pen in his withered hand, writing something on the documents on the table. Singo found it difficult to describe this temperament.

This is simply - a wage earner among the liches, with no aura at all and a perfunctory air everywhere.

Orestes stopped writing and urged impatiently, "Do you still want to transform? Hurry up!"

"Ok."

Singo quickly put aside these distracting thoughts, walked forward, opened the store panel, and browsed quickly.

[Lich Rental Shop]

Base Price:

Skeleton: 5 gold, 350 experience
Mummy: 5 gold, 350 experience
Ghost: 20 gold, 950 experience
Corpse: 100 gold, 1550 experience
Bound Soul: 100 gold coins, 1550 experience
Undead Skeleton: 100 gold coins, 1550 experience
Death Knight: 12500 gold, 75000 experience
Lich: ??? Condition unknown
[Please present the item you wish to transform.]
The special options below, such as Death Knight and Lich, are obviously not prepared for current players.

Therefore, he skipped these directly. Since he brought a complete corpse, he chose the [Corpse Demon] that could turn the killed creatures into zombies as the best option.

"Lord Orest, I want to transform a corpse."

He untied the heavy body bag, revealing the rotten and smelly corpse of the half-giant inside.

The lich glanced at him and said calmly, "Half-giant professionals need to pay more."

A new transaction box popped up immediately.

[Orest, the Eternal Soul Sigh, offers you a new deal.]
[Half-Giant Corpse Leader: 800 gold coins, 5500 experience]

[Do you agree to the transaction? Yes/No]
"This"

Even Singo felt a little pain.

These gold coins and experience points would almost consume all his savings of the past few months, and even he had to think twice.

"Hurry up."

Orestes urged impatiently.

Under the temptation of improving his strength, Singo gritted his teeth and made a decision. He clicked the [Confirm] option on the panel and handed over the bulging bag of money.

"Sir, please help me transform."

"it is good."

Orestes removed his skeletal staff and pointed it deftly at the bloated, rotting corpse of the half-giant.

Suddenly, bursts of low growls were heard.

The gray mist of negative energy filled the entire body of the corpse, and faint light flickered in its dark eyes. Finally, it slowly stood up.

The nearly three-meter-tall corpse was covered in dirty, rotten flesh and blood, but one could still see how strong it was when it was alive.

[Half-Giant Corpse Leader]

Challenge Rating: 7 (3100 XP)

Orestes took out a blank scroll from the cabinet, continued writing on the table, and then threw it in front of Singo.

"All right."

"For the Burning Empire."

He uttered those classic words, but these words sounded a little weird coming from the mouth of a lich.

"For the Burning Empire."

Singo responded by pounding his chest with his right hand.

He secretly sighed in his heart: "A lich loyal to the empire is really strange."

But soon, his attention returned to the corpse demon he had just transformed, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Great! It really is a boss-level follower!"

Singo left with the scroll, and the half-giant corpse demon came under the control of the Undead Research Institute.

After all, the players are only renting it, and the ownership belongs to the imperial officials, or more precisely, to the emperor himself. No, to this dragon.

"How long will this kind of life last?"

Orestes looked at the door slowly closing and sighed deeply.

Transforming the undead is really a tiring job.

However, every time he transformed these "Starfallers" into undead creatures, he would feel a pure energy similar to the soul flowing into his body, allowing him to continue to maintain the life box.

Perhaps, he could reach true immortality in this way.

"tsk"

"Thank my master."

The exhausted lich sighed, but footsteps were heard outside the door again, and the next player to be transformed into an undead creature was about to arrive.

At this time, hundreds of players were already queuing up in front of the Undead Research Institute.

However, Orestes did not know that in order to control the power of the lich, Cassius took a 90% commission from the experience he gained.

Soon, the news of the [Undead Creatures Research Institute] spread throughout the forum, and those top-level followers that were comparable to bosses made many players jealous.

In this way, a vigorous "corpse battle" broke out in the empire, which was called the "Great Excavation Movement".

Hundreds of thousands of players roamed around the empire, digging graves, searching for relics, and even digging dead enemies out of the ground, which amazed the natives.

The skeleton of a high-level warrior can be sold at a sky-high price of hundreds of gold coins on the black market. Many people who are short of money even dig up their own ancestral graves and sell them to players.

At the same time, special industries such as coffin manufacturing and corpse preservation also flourished, giving rise to several "emerging enterprises".

Evil legends began to spread in the empire, such as "Starfallers like to eat old bones" and "they like bones with years of age the most." (End of this chapter)