Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 663 Chapter 659 Zhuang Xuteng Phase 2
Being alive means a second chance, and Zhuang Xuteng will use this opportunity to take revenge. Thinking of Anzu, Zhuang Xuteng hates him, but Anzu is just a representative of the company, and his real enemies are the four major companies, none of which should not be destroyed.

This is a purely personal grudge and has nothing to do with any "public opinion." If you were to conduct a survey now, no matter what scope you choose or how large the scale is, under the multiple pressures of Safety Blue, Dream Mist Machine, and social public work points, the answer to the question "Should the company be eliminated?" would definitely be "No."

"I must make good use of this opportunity. I cannot be led by the company anymore. I must successfully destroy the company's power." Zhuang Xuteng quickly filled his stomach with hot porridge, then found a set of robes, pants and cloth shoes in the Lich Master's tower, and put them on. Then he sat down and began to meditate. "Since I am alive and still in the real world, there should be a stone pillar hall with the Lich Master in it."

The meditation was successful, and he returned to the stone pillar hall, but there was no Lich Master on the high seat. Zhuang Xuteng lowered his head and noticed that the mist was still avoiding it, showing the same form as before when it was afraid of the Lich Master. He didn't understand the current situation, so he walked behind the throne. This time, he didn't touch the smooth and warm wall, but walked into the darkness. The scenery in front of him flashed, and he appeared from the other end of the stone pillar hall, and in front of him were the towering pillars of knowledge and memory.

"The Stone Pillar Hall has two states: when you enter in the flesh, the edge is a wall, connected to the fireplace in the kitchen and restaurant of the Mage Tower; when you enter in meditation, the edge is a teleportation effect, connecting the two ends of the Stone Pillar Hall..." Zhuang Xuteng pondered for a while and soon realized the misunderstanding in his thinking. "Is it one Stone Pillar Hall or two?"

He finished his meditation, passed through the wall from the fireplace in the kitchen and dining room to the stone pillar hall, and immediately began to examine it carefully. The hall that this physical body entered was exactly the same as the one in meditation. The stone pillars recorded knowledge and memories, and the content could be changed according to his ideas. Zhuang Xuteng tried it, and all the stone pillars were completely open to him. He could see whatever he wanted, including the most difficult space shuttle spells. He had no foundation in this area of ​​spells before, and it stands to reason that the stone pillars should not show him knowledge that he could not master. Now that he can see it, it means that the stone pillars recognize him as a lich master.

"This is so weird. Where did the Lich Master go? Did he leave me here and then go to my world with his physical body?" Zhuang Xuteng was confused and sat on the platform to think. Reality and illusion, body and imagination, this world and that world... When he was sorting out his thoughts, he suddenly had an idea: since it is the same hall, if I start meditating in the hall, will I see my physical body?

Closing his eyes, concentrating, meditating, Zhuang Xuteng felt a momentary dizziness - this dizziness is a must when entering the hall. He opened his eyes and saw himself standing under the high platform of the hall, which was exactly where he would stand after meditating and teleporting here. At this time, his physical body was sitting on the throne of the high platform, but that body opened its eyes, and the pupils were red, just like the Lich Master.

"Uh... Lich Master?" Zhuang Xuteng wanted to step onto the platform, but found that his feet were entangled in mist. The mist was pulling him back, not wanting him to step onto the platform.

This pulling force could not stop him at all, but Zhuang Xuteng felt that there was no need to fight the mist. He stared at "himself" in the throne and found that his body was gathering more and more mana. After a few seconds, the body moved, leaning forward in a stiff and abrupt movement, and at the same time, the voice of the Lich Master was emitted.

"You finally figured it out. How long did it take?"

"Master Lich! You are still here! How come I am still... Yes, you asked the question first, so you should get the answer first. It has only been about an hour since I regained consciousness? My eyes are not implants, and I have lost the built-in clock, so I can only estimate the value." Zhuang Xuteng patted his chest, took a long breath, and asked: "What is going on? Why didn't I die?"

"The situation is different from what I thought." The Lich Master said: "Let me correct you first: you did die, and then you were resurrected with me."

Zhuang Xuteng knew that the Lich Master could see that he didn't understand, so he waited patiently for him to continue.

"Every lich has a phylactery that stores a part of its soul. If a lich is destroyed, it will be resurrected near the phylactery a few days later, and its body and strength will be completely reshaped." The Lich Master said: "My body was in the company world when it was destroyed. The distance between the worlds delayed my reorganization and resurrection. At the same time, I was wrapped by the living shadow. The company used special equipment to collect me together and kept me alive. As a result, I was in a state of no body but not destroyed, and the reorganization stopped."

"After that, I escaped from the company's shadow container and drilled into your body, partially merging with your soul. With your body, I will not be able to reassemble, and I am not sure whether my old phylactery can still work properly after the soul fusion." The Lich Master sighed and said, "After returning here, I made some adjustments to the phylactery to ensure that I can be resurrected from the phylactery after you die."

"What does the life box look like?" asked Zhuang Xuteng.

"It's the chair under my butt." The Lich Master said, "Specifically, it's the part where my butt rests. The backrest, armrests, and legs are not phylacteries, but they provide magical protection for it. I have seven fake phylacteries, but as long as the real phylactery is broken, any fake phylactery will automatically become the real phylactery. Obviously, the seven phylacteries outside were destroyed along with Doomsday."

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and basically understood the relationship between the lich and the phylactery. "Why did you revive me and not you?"

"I've been thinking about this, too. I've found three reasons. The main reason is that my soul is too weak: in addition to not having witnessed the destruction of the corporate world with my own eyes, I no longer have the motivation to survive. The fact that the corporate world is bound to be destroyed is deeply rooted in my heart, and it has doomed me to decay and destruction, and I have fully accepted this."

"My remaining soul is too weak and almost inactive, but you are just the opposite." The Lich Master said, "I can feel from here that your soul is extremely active and your vitality is amazing. I want to ask you what you did?"

"Within the range of my perception tentacles, I absorbed the vitality, shadow energy, and resentment of the residents of the capital Constitution City with all my strength for the final battle," Zhuang Xuteng said frankly.

"That's right. Your vitality is too strong, and your resentment has strengthened your mental strength. Plus there's a third reason: you were too unwilling to die, and your necromancy is strong. You should have become a powerful undead creature like a wraith, an earthbound spirit, or a vengeful banshee. But your soul merged with mine, and during your transformation into a wraith-like undead, the phylactery mistook you for a lich. Do you understand? You stole my chance to reassemble and revive."

Zhuang Xuteng opened his mouth wide, and he quickly waved his hands, saying, "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it! I was already dead at that time, floating in the air like a ghost, watching Anzu smash my body with his punches. At that time, I had only one thought: Master Lich, why don't you come out? I want to see you beat that bastard to death!"

The Lich Master held his forehead with trembling hands and said, "You are thinking about the Lich Master, the Lich Master, so the problem of the life box has been magnified again. Alas, the root cause is that I have completed my obsession and my soul is too weak. If you hadn't awakened me before, I would have sunk into a dormant state of decay. Now, I can accept this."

"I'm really sorry..." Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said, "If I die again, I will give up my vitality in advance and no longer have any emotions. I will accept death calmly, then you can take control of the initiative again, right?" "There won't be a next time. The life box is broken." The Lich Master said, "It paid the price for its mistake. The difficulty of reshaping a skeleton is completely incomparable to that of reshaping your body. It can only consume itself as part of the raw materials. The existing materials are not enough to make a second life box, and your world doesn't have what I need. By the way, what do you think of the new body?"

"Very good, not only can I use spells normally, I can also perform high-speed bursts!" Zhuang Xuteng pointed at his legs and said, "Master Lich, I checked and there are no implants in my legs. How can I perform high-speed bursts?"

"The vitality is too strong, overshadowing my undead aura and the shadow characteristics of the implant - maybe that's the case, I'm not sure."

"I see. At that time, Anzu used his supernatural power and kept trying to shut down my implants and Shadow Servant. I found that the overflowing mana and vitality could keep the supernatural power out of the body, so it always remained overflowing. Also, at that time, my implants were reactivated with mana, so they might have been regarded as part of my normal body."

"If it were in the past, when the world had not yet been destroyed, I would have been extremely excited to meet an extreme exception like you. Now, I am as calm as a corpse." The Lich Master smiled with Zhuang Xuteng's face, because he had long adapted to his skeletal body, and the smile squeezed out with muscles and skin seemed awkward and weird.

"Master, as long as I keep meditating, you can use that body?"

"That's the theory, but I'm not sure how far we can get from here. We may not be able to leave the Wall of Sighs..."

"I can get you some delicious food and drinks, so you can enjoy being alive again, which should extend your life."

The Lich Master was stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked curiously, "From what you said, you want to give this body to me?"

"I just reviewed the whole process. To sum it up, they were supposed to reconstruct your body, but ended up creating my body and resurrecting me. I'm returning it to its original owner, and you can use it as it is. That body isn't very handsome, but it's still young and in very good shape. Just use it to cast spells and destroy the company - I don't have any other requests."

The Lich Master nodded and said, "You are a really good apprentice, but I have no interest in what you are saying. My demise has nothing to do with the physical body, feelings, and other real things. It is purely a spiritual problem. You can learn spells, but don't learn my flaw of giving up life. By the way, why don't you go and fight the company and take revenge yourself?"

"Morgana is dead, my child is gone, my parents and family, everything is gone... All my motivation for revenge is for myself, and I feel that I am insignificant. In terms of efficiency, I will let you..."

"Stop first. Did you see them dead?"

"Anzu said so."

"Then they might still be alive." The Lich Master shook his finger and said, "Can you believe what the enemy says? Are you stupid? He said he beat you to death. Are you dead? Aren't you still alive? To be honest, if I were to be resurrected, I would transform you into a ghost. With my magical ability, I can at least preserve 98% of your memory. Then, I can find you another body and put you in it. You will have a little schizophrenia, mild hallucinations and migraines, accompanied by incontinence... but you can also live."

"They may still be alive... No, that, I hope they are still alive, but Anzu doesn't seem to be lying, and the company would definitely take such extreme measures to ensure victory and inspire my world will."

The Lich Master tilted his head and said, "World Will? We captured those three gods for interrogation, and they talked about World Will. How come the people in the company believe that there is such a World Will? Those three gods said that World Will does not exist, and they took the wrong path, so they had to burn their original form and force a breakthrough to correct their mistakes, so as to ascend to a higher level."

"It doesn't exist? I used the disintegration effect to melt Anzu. Apart from the will of the world, what other power can revive it?"

"What power did you use to resurrect? It's just my necromancy. I'm not the will of the world." The Lich Master shook his head and said, "I'm different from other spellcasters in my world. I never believe that there is anything sensual in the outside world. Spells are spells, energy is energy, thoughts are radio waves, and the unknown is just unknown, not mysterious. You don't understand how Anzu resurrected. To tell you the truth, Anzu doesn't understand how you resurrected either. You can scare him to death with the will of the world! Apart from the function of scaring people, the will of the world is absolutely bullshit!"

"Is that so?" Zhuang Xuteng was still a little skeptical.

"Do you believe the theory that Anzu proposed when he was fighting you, or do you believe the fact that you were resurrected?" The Lich Master shrugged and said, "The spell of the phylactery is on the pillar. You can take a look at it as you like using my identity. The anatomy research of the gods is also on the pillar. Half of the work inside was done by me personally."

"Hiss... Of course I believe you. Not only from an emotional point of view, I hope they are still alive, so I hope to believe you; but also from a logical point of view, theories must be supported by empirical evidence, so I definitely believe you." Zhuang Xuteng frowned and said, "I have to recover my strength as soon as possible, find a way to find them, rescue them, and then find a way to destroy the company."

The Lich Master nodded and said, "You can use your second life however you want. You don't need to worry about me. You are good at finding people to save others, so I won't say anything, but how do you destroy the company? I am only slightly interested in this matter now..."