Chapter 152: The Undead Army! The best monster spawning pool!
The area is shrouded in pervasive negative energy.
Teleportation spells here can easily go astray, and even when teleporting through this space, it is easy to be anchored here by the 'long hair'. Because this land has a trace of the law of 'space', there was once an unyielding extraordinary person who tried to extract divine power from the Long Hair Forest, but in the end he was entangled by countless hairs and dragged into the ground, and eventually even his body could not be found.
——Lavinia’s scalp [blasphemous land].
In front of Xiao En's sight, there is an area of about 100 to 200 meters in radius. The ground is a white moss-like color, completely different from the dark land around it. Looking down from midair, it looks like psoriasis on the land. There are many black tangled tree thorns growing in this area. They look no different from the reflections of ghost trees in the spirit world, but as long as you get close, countless hairs will entangle you and eventually drag you into the ground to be decomposed and digested.
There are many extremely dangerous places in the spirit world, such as Candlekeep, Sleepy Hollow, Longhair Forest, etc.
Xiao En stopped and began to look through his knowledge base.
Without knowledge, it is difficult to move outside the material plane. Even a legendary warrior who ventures into the Longhair Forest may be eaten to the bone. Because Lavinia is a forbidden demigod witch. According to legend, she once summoned the projection of the Old Ones in some way, and had intercourse with them to conceive the offspring of the Old Ones. This forbidden fallen offspring began to grow rapidly as soon as it was born. After it reached adulthood, Lavinia sacrificed it and eventually became a demigod by stealing the power of the Old Ones.
Of course, her ending was not good either. The demigod witch went completely insane and out of control. She exploded in a demigod war, and her body was scattered all over the spirit world. In the end, only a piece of her scalp was left, which turned into a forest of long hair covering thousands of kilometers.
——Witch's head lice [evil] (CR 11).
A louse-like monster crawled out of the white moss-like jungle. It was about one meter long, with dense black hair on its head and a pair of split eyeballs. In the later period of the demigod witch Lavinia's loss of control, her body became more and more bloated, like a giantess hundreds of meters tall with a mountain of fat. This legendary witch with an amazingly beautiful face began to rot from the inside, and many terrible evil spirits grew out of her thousand-meter-long hair, which were these weird lice.
“You guys are good at picking places.”
Xiao En's eyes narrowed slightly. This strange evil spirit made him feel a little physically uncomfortable. After looking at the monster doctor beside him, he said calmly: "Solve it."
The figure of the monster doctor flashed out in an instant. Under his gray-white robe, biological tissue like eye stalks protruded. Along with a ray of burning light, a burnt wound appeared on the body of the strange head louse.
——Plague swarm!
——Giant insect technique!
The spells mastered by Doctor Monster seem to be very complicated. He used a spell to summon a large number of poisonous insects, and the next second the summoned poisonous insects began to grow. His spells tend to be necromancy, and he casts weak energy poison attacks, starting with a wave of weakening buffs. Doctor Monster's physical fitness is far superior to other spellcasters, close to the level of a lower-level warrior, which means he can easily fight in close combat and exert the power of limb transformation.
——Monster Doctor [Flesh Weaver] [Flesh Breeding] (Challenge Level 14).
Xiao En discovered that after obtaining the talent of the Son of Slaughter, his reconnaissance and identification abilities also had some subtle changes. When he tried to analyze the enemy's strength, a feedback similar to the challenge level would appear, and he could also analyze some of the enemy's ability characteristics.
This is definitely not his ability. It is most likely the power from some kind of killing law.
The Monster Doctor's combat power is above average, and he is considered a strong man in the real world, but he is not good enough in the weird world. The challenge level of ordinary Shadow Mind Flayers is 8. Outside the real world, there are a lot of monsters with a challenge level of 10 or above.
"It seems that I still need to study the talents of the Son of Slaughter carefully. It seems that I still have a lot of hidden abilities that I haven't developed yet."
"Why do I feel like after the Son of Slaughter's talent merged with the mysterious knowledge, there is an illusion that the system has finally arrived?"
Monster Doctor's actual combat ability is relatively weak.
Xiao En watched for a while and finally couldn't help it. A powerful psychic energy wave suddenly burst out from his body, and a mental spike directly destroyed the mind of the strange louse.
——Mind Spike【Spell Upgrade】!
boom.
The evil head exploded instantly, and filthy blood spilled onto the ground, quickly forming a corrosive area.
"Can you detect your own abilities?"
Xiao En looked around and ordered the Monster Doctor to clean up the battlefield. He then tried to study the abilities of the Son of Slaughter again. It seemed that as he was killing the enemies, the talents of the Son of Slaughter were gradually revealed. And the moment he got the monster's head, a strange soul power was also seized by him.
This soul power accelerated his progress in digesting the extraordinary essence.
"Do I have to take the head myself before I can use the talent of the Son of Slaughter to seize the enemy's soul power?" Xiao En said to himself.
The last time he detected himself was when he was studying identification techniques, and Activated Knowledge praised Xiao En in a flattering tone.
Thinking about it now, it seems like it was a long time ago.
The mysterious knowledge in Xiao En's brain flowed out, which was similar to the process of performing identification techniques before, except that the mysterious knowledge became more controllable and orderly, and there was no longer the flattering tone as before.
——Xiao En [Dual Cultivation of Orient] [Knowledge] [Mind] [Seal of Thought] [Amon's True Name] (CR 19) (CR 25+)? !
The thought that activates knowledge is suppressed and it becomes more like a tool.
After the mysterious knowledge surged through his body, the abilities Sean mastered seemed to be deduced by a unique law and converted into challenge levels. He found that his detection could not obtain the enemy's specific abilities, but he could detect and analyze some of the enemy's characteristics, and finally calculate a rough challenge level.
"If that's the case, then next time we encounter an enemy, we can roughly calculate the opponent's strength."
Sean's own challenge level should be 19. As for the later challenge level 25+, it is likely that when Amon's True Name is activated, he can cast Amon's True Name Law three times, namely the demons, devils and evil spirits of the three paths of Purgatory.
However, if it weren't for the life-and-death situation where he encountered an enemy that he could neither defeat nor escape from, Sean would not have activated Aamon's True Name Law.
Sean wasn't good at tracking.
Fortunately, the monster doctor knew where their base was. Although the strange evil spirit delayed them for a while, it was difficult for the enemies in the Long Hair Forest to cast teleportation spells again to escape. Although the teleportation spells were not prohibited in this area, there was a chance that the "Witch's Long Hair" would be attracted when the portal was opened.
Xiao En walked around the strange white mosses. The smell of death became stronger and stronger. There were traces of excavation on the nearby ground. There was a hint of black and red under the excavated soil, and the hard rock was a grayish-white bone-like hue.
Xiao En frowned and asked in a serious tone, "Are you digging up the witch's skull?"
Doctor Monster said respectfully, "Yes, Master."
Xiao En found some scattered bone fragments. He asked solemnly, "Did you dig them out?"
Doctor Monster shook his head and said, "No."
"We only dug up some bone fragments to make a skeleton golem guard."
They are digging up the remains of the demigod again, no wonder the base is located near the center of the Long Hair Forest. Xiao En asked about the information about this base in detail. It is not big, with only two staff members, but there are a lot of things besides it. As for the behind-the-scenes existence they serve, the monster doctor himself doesn't know, because they are not qualified to contact more, but they only know that the superiors call him "Blood Father".
"Blood father?!"
Xiao En frowned when he heard this, closed his eyes and looked through his memories, and soon found some useful information from Ms. Hecate's teachings.
——Blood Father-Aphrox [Demigod].
——Domains: Necromancer, Flesh, Vampire, Wight, Undead Knowledge.
This demigod has always lived in seclusion, sleeping in the mausoleum most of the time. Some people say that He is an extremely powerful vampire, because his incarnation often appears in the form of a young man with a pale face, bloodshot eyes, and wearing a gorgeous blood-red robe.
However, in Ms. Hecate's labyrinth library archives, "He" is considered to be still human, at least partly human, because the racial template of vampires is not strong, and unless it is the original, it is not worth transforming.
As for why he knew it so clearly, this guy once coveted the beauty of Ms. Hecate more than two hundred years ago and wanted to pursue her, but was beaten up. Since then, he rarely appeared in front of other people.
He is one of the few demigods of the Path of Death who still has sexual desires.
It can be said that in the past thousand years, most of the demigods in the Path of Death have lost their mortal desires, especially those old bones. But Blood Father is different. During His active period, He was well-known in the Path of Death for His love of pursuing physical desires.
But later, He started the "hiding" ritual, and for nearly a hundred years, He was rarely active in front of mortals.
He is considered one of the demigods of the vampire path.
But Blood Father himself is not a pure vampire, most likely just a half-vampire.
Xiao En looked thoughtful and said calmly, "Is it an order from above or your own arrangement that you collect organs from corpses?"
Doctor Monster bowed his head and said, "Hand over some of it, and keep some for your own experiments."
"The Path of Death requires a lot of corpses."
"All the good resources have been taken up by the higher-ups, so we can only find a way out on our own."
It seems that Doctor Monster is not doing very well either.
hum.
Sean's figure suddenly stopped, and the next second a rising earth wall appeared in front of him. The Monster Doctor's body was instantly covered with a rock-like color, and a suspended skull emerged strangely. In the violent explosion, countless bone fragments flew out.
Skeleton trap.
Doctor Monster seemed to be slightly injured. He whispered, "Master. Be careful."
"He activated the trap."
Neither of them was a rogue, and detecting traps required professionals, which Sean was not good at, so he could only use the most violent method to dismantle them.
——Earth movement technique.
The ground began to shake violently, and in the direction where Xiao En stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, a small earth slope about ten meters high gradually took shape, with the gathered soil and rocks piled together. In the process of the ground shaking violently, all the mechanisms and traps nearby were almost completely destroyed.
A strong breath of death erupted.
In front of Xiao En's sight, as the fog of negative energy dispersed, wandering ghosts appeared in the gray fog. They were bound evil spirits, imprisoned on this land. As the screams of the ghosts echoed, pale hand bones stretched out from the ground, and countless skeletons crawled up. In the opened underground chamber, monsters such as demon souls, mummies, skeleton guards, corpse demons, ghouls, etc. continued to pour out, and in a blink of an eye, they were all over every corner of the sight.
——Pale Lord【Undead Knowledge】(Challenge Level 16)!
Sean's psychic vision locked onto a person hiding among the group of zombies. He was very cunning and actually disguised himself as a zombie. If Sean's psychic vision had not been able to see the soul projection of extraordinary people, it would have been difficult to detect his existence through naked eye observation.
When fighting against a spellcaster from the Path of Death, don't even think about a one-on-one duel, as the enemy has clearly activated a ritual array to awaken the undead.
He knew that he was no match for his opponent in a one-on-one fight, so he summoned the undead army to attack Sean in front of him.
Doctor Monster reminded: "Master."
"The core of the ritual array is underground. If it is not destroyed, these skeletons will continue to revive endlessly."
Will be resurrected?
Is there such a good thing? !
Xiao En's brain circuit was obviously thinking of something. He was not in a hurry to catch the Pale Lord hiding in the group of zombies. After letting the Monster Doctor be on guard beside him through the mental link, he calmly rubbed a big fireball, and then a big fireball flew out, blasting all the skeletons with a diameter of more than 20 meters into broken bones.
It will be resurrected!
After Sean blew up a large number of skeletons, the broken bones on the ground actually reassembled with the help of some kind of ritual spell, and soon they were pieced together to form the shape of skeletons again.
A very tiny bit of soul power was absorbed by Xiao En.
They are far less numerous than the evil spirits killed before, but fortunately there are still quite a few of them, and when piled together they are a considerable number.
The enemy seemed to intend to use these undead armies to consume Sean's mana pool, while hiding themselves in it looking for opportunities to launch a sneak attack. He secretly controlled the ritual array to awaken the undead, drawing on the soul power that had been arranged underground in advance, and constantly resurrected new undead to surround him.
Faced with such a massive undead army, even a legendary spellcaster would be exhausted of their mana.
“It really kills monsters!”
There was a suppressed surprise on Xiao En's face. Without hesitation, he rubbed out another big fireball. Not only could the skeletons be resurrected, but even the ghosts seemed to have been transformed into bound spirits. After death, they would be resurrected again through the ritual of awakening the undead. Those dead zombies would also get up again as long as they were not blown to pieces.
Xiao En has two mana pools, one magic pool and one psionic pool.
He is no longer in a hurry to defeat the Pale Lord who controls the ritual. With so many monsters to deal with, he will have to level up after killing them all.
This is the wealth accumulated by the necromancer over decades. It would be a waste if he didn't clear it all in one go.
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(PS: I was delayed because I was taking care of my kids. I have finished posting the manuscript. I will try to post it tomorrow.)
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