The necromancer just wants to plant trees.

Chapter 583 The Secret of the Chains of Human Desire and the Spirit of World-weariness
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"Dickens is deeply trapped in the quagmire of negative energy and can no longer extricate himself!"

There was a hint of regret and helplessness in Danya's voice:

"I have tried to persuade him many times to give up those stupid and stubborn ideas, but I have failed every time.

He couldn't accept himself now, nor could he endure life in the tower of exile.

He was a perfectionist by nature, and was once a conceited genius, the hope of White Rock City.

However, the more talented a person is, the more he will fall after suffering a huge blow.

But I'm different.

From the beginning, I was far more peaceful than Dickens.

When I was first imprisoned here, I was full of anger and dissatisfaction like Dickens.

But gradually, I convinced myself and accepted the current result.

The difference between him and me was apparent as soon as I started on the path of the Necromancer.

Like other necromancers, he believes that power is everything and with power he has nothing to fear.

But when I walk on this road, I often feel fear.

You should be able to feel it too, right?
With every step forward, as my strength increases, I feel the fear from the bottom of my heart!

I know, it's the awe of losing control of power.

The path of the necromancer is just such a path, we are living people, but we walk in the realm of the dead.

We have no taboos and are stealing the authority of the underworld.

We are at the bottom of the mage contempt chain, simply because we do all kinds of evil and there are no rules that can restrain us.

This is an important source of my inner anxiety.

I realized long ago that power without restraint often backfires on itself.

The best solution is to embrace tools or rules that can check and balance your power.

But reality is often not so ideal. The pursuit of power is the instinct of intelligent creatures.

Constraints are not.

I have seen many young and successful necromancers who, after mastering powerful powers, suddenly lose control one day -

Either the summoned creature lost control and turned against him;

Or maybe the forbidden necromancy had gone awry, leading to something even darker and more terrifying happening.

There are also necromancers who study plague, but eventually turn themselves into walking sources of plague infection...

I have seen too many such scenes.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, I have always had a sense of awe for necromancy in my heart.

I knew this was the path I wanted to take.

I also know that there is an abyss below this road..."

Tanya's words were full of sincerity.

Matthew was also moved after hearing this:
"You're absolutely right."

In fact, let alone the Necromancer.

There are many normal mages who go crazy because of their research.

The more talented you are, the easier it is to do this.

Those who have not gone crazy, have managed to survive, and have become legends or divine wizards, most of them have experienced or shown signs of mental breakdown.

This is the essence of extraordinary power.

And in the extraordinary power.

The realm of the dead is perhaps the easiest to lead people astray.

Tanya seemed to be in the mood for conversation:
"Do you know the chains of human desire?"

Matthew nodded:
"The foundational artifact of Baiyan City. As far as I know, all the necromancers in Baiyan City have advanced through the Chains of Human Desire..."

Danya laughed and said:
"fake."

"That was fake news reported to the alliance in order to cover up the truth."

"In fact, only about one-third of the White Rock City mages choose to advance through the Chains of Human Desire."

Matthew asked thoughtfully:
"Is it because the chains of human desire will restrain them?"

Danya nodded, a mocking smile on her pale face:

"The effect of the Human Desire Chain is to make you rely on your own consciousness and make a series of rules and vows when you become a necromancer."

"After this, no matter how far you go on this road, you must abide by the oath you made when you first started."

“It’s a constraint, but also a gift.”

“Those who have advanced through the Chains of Human Desire are called “Order Necromancers” by us;
Those who are employed through other means are basically chaotic and disorderly "Chaos Necromancers."

"Due to the suppression of the Alliance, the person in charge of Baiyan City must be an Order Necromancer, but there are also many Chaos Necromancers who hold considerable power in Baiyan City."

"In other words, they are the backbone of Baiyan City!"

Matthew nodded slightly.

Baiyan City must have secrets.

Now it seems that the lip service to the Alliance has never stopped. No wonder Isabel is so dismissive of the Necromancer.

"So, you're an Order Necromancer, and Dickens isn't?"

he asks.

Danya shook her head.
"No."

"People from the three major families are basically all Order Necromancers. Otherwise, we won't be able to fool the Alliance, and we won't be able to manage Baiyan City."

"However, when Dickens took office through the chains of human desire, he only set himself three oaths.

And I have thirty of them!"

She continued with a smile:

“I’ll tell you a secret. The fewer oaths created through the Chains of Human Desire, the faster the strength of an Order Necromancer will increase in the early stages.
Otherwise it will be much slower.

However, this happened before the fourth level.

From the fourth level onwards.

The more oaths a necromancer has, the greater his potential.

Especially in terms of promotion to legend.

A Necromancer who has taken more than twenty oaths and has strong self-discipline has a promotion success rate that is nearly a hundred times that of an ordinary Necromancer!
Dickens actually knew this.

But he shrugged it off.

He thinks he is a genius.

And genius should not be restricted by any rules.

It turns out that he is indeed a super genius who is most suitable for the way of the dead.

It only took him one year from taking his oath at the Chains of Human Desire to entering the fourth level.

It then took another twenty years to be promoted to legend.

In the history of the City of White Rock.

He has made rapid progress.

I am different.

My talent in the field of death can only be considered an ordinary genius.

Because there were a large number of vows in the early stage.

It took me seven or eight years to advance to the fourth level.

It took another seven or eight years to become a legend.

It has been nearly twenty years.

But even so I did it faster than Dickens.

This is the power of the chains of human desire!"

To sum up, the greater the constraints, the stronger the later stage?

This pattern is consistent with Matthew's understanding.

In the early days, he could hardly make any progress in the field of the dead. On the one hand, it was due to his low-key accumulation of experience, and on the other hand, he really felt that his talent was very average at that time.

It was not until Xiaofei was summoned that the upgrade speed began to increase by leaps and bounds.

Think about it now.

Matthew invisibly met the standards of the chains of human desire.

His own ethics are much stronger than most necromancers.

What's more, there is another force in his body that checks and balances him.

It almost satisfies Danya's legendary path to becoming the most perfect necromancer!

“This secret should only be known by very few people, right?”

Matthew asked.

Tanya responded in the affirmative:
"Of course, only the core members of the three major families know this secret."

"But even if it is made public, not many necromancers would be willing to put so many shackles on themselves from the beginning."

Matthew thought for a while:
"Indeed."

“Not everyone has the resources and ambition to become a legend.”

"Most people become necromancers just for the sake of immediate survival, and they simply don't consider so many things."

Danya nodded in agreement.

Matthew was puzzled again:

"In that case, the oaths related to the Human Desire Chains are actually just empty talk for most necromancers, right?"

"Or, he could have created fewer oaths when he was advancing, just like Dickens did. After all, this is a process that relies purely on self-discipline."

"Looking at it this way, it seems that this artifact isn't that useful."

Danya shook her head.
“That’s not the case.”

“It is true that many Order Necromancers set fewer oaths and rules for themselves when they first advanced, but this number is actually less than that of other people.

If compared with himself, in most cases, that is an extraordinary moral standard.

You have to understand.

When a person first embarks on this path, his heart is purest and his moral standards are the highest.

Every rule and vow he set for himself at this time.

These are things he would absolutely not want to set up in the future.

Have you ever seen a necromancer who becomes more and more kind?

Do not!
People will only get worse.

This is certainly true for Necromancers.

The greatest significance of the human desire chain is to keep you from forgetting your original intention——

Use your original self to constrain your later self.

At the very least it can help you avoid sliding a few steps deeper into the abyss in your endless decline.

Even if it’s just a few steps.

This is the meaning of this artifact!"

Makes sense.

Matthew quickly agreed with Danya.

Perhaps this was the original intention of the legendary wizard from the Alliance to create the Chains of Human Desire and establish the City of White Rock.

Many people only know that the necromancers in Baiyan City have been restricted.

But they don’t understand that this constraint is actually a form of protection.

Protect others.

Protect yourself too.

"So, what will happen if you break the oath on the chain of human desire?"

Matthew suddenly asked.

Danya was silent for more than twenty seconds before she slowly replied:
“That’s a question I can answer.”

"In my life, I have only violated the oath of the Human Desire Chain once, but that one deviation almost cost me my life!"

Matthew actually had the answer in his heart:

"The trace of the dead?"

"Ember Blood Crystal!"

Danya in the glass jar suddenly opened her mouth.

A diamond-shaped red crystal came out of her mouth, rose a few times in the light green liquid, and then slowly disappeared in front of Matthew.

These were similar crystals to those he had seen on Dickens' body after he jumped to his death.

"Me, Dickens, and Tanya."

"We all broke our vows under the temptation of eternal life."

Danya's voice was filled with deep regret:
"In fact, at the beginning, we didn't dare to seriously violate our oath. We only dared to touch the edge of our oath and test it."

"But we were soon surprised and delighted to find that minor violations of our oaths did not bring any punishment!"

“So we kept increasing the intensity of breaking our oath.”

"Until the end, we completely violated our oath and did many taboo things that the alliance did not allow, but the punishment we expected still did not come!"

"We even thought that there was something wrong with the Human Desire Chain, or that our power had become so strong that the oath could no longer affect us!"

"That was the time in my life when I was most afraid of my own power. However, the Blood Embers project had reached its final stage, and the hope of eternal life was within reach. I could not resist the temptation."

“Later, we succeeded…”

“But, the truth was revealed.

The Alliance began to investigate, and we put the blame on Hux, and soon after, Isabelle captured her and took her to Mount Blackthorn."

"Dickens and I thought the matter would end there, so we hid back in White Rock."

"Then one day."

"Ecmond has arrived in White Rock City."

"He came to hold Dickens and I accountable. Right from the start, he said he would exile us to the Arcane Wilderness and lock us up in the prison that the Alliance had built in advance for the prisoners."

"Dickens and I were facing a formidable enemy, but we thought that there was only one Ekmond and he might not be our opponent. We might even have a chance to escape."

“But no one expected it.”

"Ecmond simply took out a divine weapon that looked like the Chains of Human Desire and completely suppressed the two of us...

After that, as you can see, Dickens and I were locked up until today..."

Looks like the chains of human desire?

Matthew suddenly thought of something.

"Yes."

Danya smiled bitterly:

"That is a part of the chain of chaos that was pulled out of Isabel's body."

"She knew our plan a long time ago, so she deliberately used the Chaos Chains to suppress the effect of the Human Desire Chains, so that the punishment for breaking our oath would not appear for a long time."

"The day Ekmond arrived with her Chains of Chaos, she directly detonated the Chains of Human Desire, all the punishment and backlash for the two of us breaking our oaths."

"The backlash was so terrible and violent that we certainly didn't have the energy to resist Ekmond's exile..."

Is there such a thing?
Isabel is indeed a good fisherman, and Ekmond is not a good guy either!

Matthew touched his chin and replied subconsciously:
"This is a bit despicable..."

Danya also complained:

"Who says it's not?" "If Isabel didn't have the power to suppress the chains of human desire, we might not have gone so far in the taboo project."

"If minor violations are punished at the beginning, serious backlash may not occur at all!"

"From this perspective, Isabel really doesn't treat us necromancers as human beings."

"In her eyes, we are like grass that can be harvested at will, cattle and sheep that can be slaughtered at will..."

Danya's complaints were becoming more and more exaggerated.

Remember that the teacher is watching you from behind at all times.

Matthew quickly added:
"Maybe she just wanted to test you."

"She wants to see if you can achieve self-control through your own heart without the constraints of human desires."

Danya snorted coldly:
"Ecmond did say that."

"That's their excuse for deliberately indulging themselves!"

"But everyone knows that this is essentially to suppress Baiyan City!"

“You have to understand that at that time, Baiyan City already had four legendary necromancers, and there were many more outstanding young talents who were thriving under the cultivation of the Chains of Human Desire.”

"If there were no ulterior motives, would the Alliance push the fat piece of meat of the Scar of the Dead to our mouths?"

"They are all people with evil intentions, what do you mean by good intentions?"

"It's nothing more than a winner takes all!"

Matthew almost wanted to applaud her after hearing these words.

Danya's train of thought matched his perfectly.

He actually felt that the teacher was just looking for an excuse to attack Baiyan City.

But this cannot be said clearly.

Matthew hesitated for a few words and then turned the subject back to Dickens.

Danya told Matthew.

Dickens' current situation is caused by the severe backlash of the chain of human desire.

He has been completely assimilated by negative energy.

Transformed into a humanoid collective in the negative energy field.

A terrifying existence similar to the soul of the realm.

Matthew nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

“Thank you for answering my questions.”

"By the way, the artificial legendary project you mentioned earlier requires high-dimensional matter, right?"

Danya suddenly became excited:
"Yeah!"

"That's it!"

"I just need a little bit!"

Matthew replied sincerely:

"I can give you some."

"But I'm sorry not now."

"I need to observe for a while, and then after making sure everything is safe, I will give you enough high-dimensional matter."

Danya's voice suddenly became sharp:

"observe?"

“What else do you want to observe?
My project can be made public for you to see, and the information can also be given to you!

I can tell you anything you want to know!

Just don’t drag your feet!”

Matthew's tone was still calm:
"I understand your anxiety."

"But since you are in a state of immortality, you shouldn't be in a hurry for this little time, right?"

"To be honest, I respect you very much, but I am also wary of you."

"Your attainments in the field of the dead far exceed my knowledge. I cannot use my own knowledge to fully identify and judge it."

"The only way I can build more trust in you is to spend enough time observing you."

Danya said coldly:

"How long will you observe?"

Matthew replied:
"Ten years, or twenty years."

"It depends on the relationship between you and me."

Tanya said nothing.

Matthew continued:

"If you are really in a hurry, I have another plan."

"Then we sign this."

talking.

Matthew unfolded a piece of parchment with some words written on it.

Then hold the quill with the wizard's hand.

A series of detailed rules and terms were added on top.

Tanya did not open her eyes.

But she had obviously seen what was on the parchment, and her voice became full of dissatisfaction:

"Deep Contract?"

"With such harsh terms, do you want to turn me into a slave?"

Matthew said seriously:
"The harsh terms just show my sincerity."

"I am willing to sponsor some high-dimensional matter for your project, but I also need to consider my own safety."

"As long as you sign this in-depth contract, I will immediately give you what you want."

"Or, if you're not in a rush, we can take our time."

Tanya thought for a long time.

Then he sighed depressedly:

"Hey."

"As expected, he is a wizard from the Seven Saints Alliance, and he is always cunning."

"Forget it, I'm not in a hurry. Take your time. If you really trust me one day, just send the things over."

"I'm sick!"

"I'm going to go to bed!"

"Get out of here right now!"

But just as Matthew was about to leave with a wry smile.

Tanya suddenly called him again:

"correct."

"I had prepared a gift for you. It's a good thing to strengthen the spell "Rebellion"."

"I put the things in the undead transformation pool. I was originally going to take them out and give them to you directly. But now... come back and get them after ten or twenty years when we have established trust!"

Matthew's heart moved.

He turned around and took a few steps, quickly coming to the undead transformation pool filled with negative energy.

The pool is bottomless.

Matthew's perception was blocked.

He pondered for a few seconds, and suddenly tentatively opened the negative energy field to see if he could use the power of the field to explore the situation at the bottom of the pool.

But at that moment.

The whole hall suddenly became extremely cold.

clap clap clap!
Crisp sounds continued to come from the floor.

Matthew narrowed his eyes.

It turned out that the water elements in the air were frozen into small ice chips and were falling one by one!
Between glass jars.

Extremely oppressive domain forces surged over like an overwhelming force.

In the face of this power.

Matthew's negative energy field seemed to be "stuck", unable to spread out, and there was even a tendency for him to be led by the nose by the other party!

This is……

Danya's negative energy field!
"Crash!"

There was a loud sound of water coming from the undead transformation pool.

Matthew looked back.

Colorful ghosts are competing to rush out from the bottom of the pool!
Under the influence of the negative energy field, this group of ghosts looked extremely terrifying and hideous. They flew around Matthew, giving him an unbearable tingling sensation before they even touched his skin!
……

"Warning: Your negative energy field has been interrupted by Danya's negative energy field!

Domain coverage: With a higher level of exploration and proficiency, Danya has suppressed your negative energy domain window in the short term, and you will not be able to continue to control the negative energy domain in the short term!

Warning: You have encountered a group of world-weary spirits (legendary creatures/extremely dangerous)!"

……

The spirit of world-weariness.

One of the legendary ghost creations.

They are the legendary forms of ghosts, and each world-weary spirit carries extremely exaggerated emotions such as world-weariness, destruction, hatred, hostility, and joy.

These emotions have become a realm unto themselves.

It is also one of the sources of power for the evil spirits.

As a forbidden creature in the realm of the dead, the birth of each evil spirit is accompanied by the tragic death of a large number of innocent people. It is a creation that the Alliance will never allow.

The power of the evil spirit is very strong, and its offensive methods are hard to defend against. Even a legendary wizard must be very careful when fighting against a single evil spirit.

What’s more, it’s a whole group!
"It's actually a disgusting spirit."

A flash of surprise flashed across Matthew's eyes, followed by deep regret and sorrow:
"so……"

"Were those words before really meant to get close to me?"

"In fact, I have noticed some loopholes. For example, you clearly have thirty oaths, so you should have suffered a more serious backlash than Dickens. Why are you so emotionally stable?"

"Now it seems that you have completely abandoned your emotions and integrated them into the body of the disgusting spirit."

"And from the moment you started creating forbidden creatures like the Abomination, you were ready to completely turn against the Alliance, right?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you are the one who cooperated with the Snake Mountain Demon Realm. The corpses that the Red Crown Werewolf brought back were also sent here..."

"After all, given Dickens' current state, it's hard for him to discuss cooperation with others..."

Danya's cold voice came from all directions.

There was deep sarcasm in her voice:
"Since you have guessed everything, why are you still staying here?"

"Isn't it because of greed that you want more from me?!"

"To paraphrase Isabel, if you had just walked away, you wouldn't have fallen into my trap."

"But since you chose to stay and came to this pool, you can only blame yourself for your lack of self-discipline!"

The words fell.

All the evil spirits let out sharp howls.

Even though Matthew had blocked his ears in advance, he could still feel the tremor that went straight into his soul!

next moment.

In the pool behind him, all the black liquid formed a tornado.

Followed by.

The water tornado overturned and turned into a giant python, tightly blocking the space around Matthew!

This is……

The power of eclipse!

"Eclipse Space..."

Matthew silently analyzed Danya's moves.

The dark eclipse field can completely strip away the flesh of any creature trapped within it.

Only a relatively undefended spiritual space remains.

For the world-weary spirit.

This is indeed the best target to attack.

Even though Matthew's body is strong, he can hold out in the dark space for a while.

His body's various resistances will also drop significantly under the influence of the power of eclipse.

In the process of fighting against the evil spirits, there will be various signs of powerlessness.

He tried to mobilize the power of the eclipse realm.

It was discovered that this area was also blocked.

There was a flash of surprise in Matthew's eyes:
“So you can play like this…”

Danya's voice was full of disdain:
"Do you think you can become a true legend by entering a few more fields?"

“The key to a field is to be sophisticated, not to be numerous.”

"In the same field, my status in the field is higher. Even if it is only slightly higher than yours, it is enough to make the final decision!"

"Now, I'll give you one last chance to hand over what I want!"

"Otherwise, your best outcome will be to become my newest abomination!"

Matthew shook his head silently:

"Pity."

"I thought you would be a little different."

"I didn't expect that he would look like this after the truth was revealed..."

"The road in Baiyan City...is completely crooked!"

Danya shouted angrily:
"You traitor!"

"As a necromancer, you have become a running dog of the Alliance!"

"You still have the nerve to accuse Baiyan City of having problems with the roads?"

"I've heard similar things countless times from Isabel and Ekmond."

“I also asked them, if the road in White Rock City is problematic, then what road should we take?”

“But they didn’t answer me.”

“They just told us we were wrong.”

"But you never told me what was right!"

“At first I was confused and angry.”

"But then I understood."

"It turns out that in their eyes, the existence of us necromancers is a mistake in itself!"

"In that case, why don't we just go all the way to the end?"

Amid Danya's angry roar.

Countless white hand bones suddenly stretched out from every corner of the dark space.

He touched Matthew directly!

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(End of this chapter)