I'm really a necromancer

Chapter 252 Melkor’s Plan
"What's going on? Why did the battle between Ihua and Melkor stop?"

"Are the two sides going to reconcile? That guy Melkor clearly deserves death. He killed so many of our companions before!"

"I didn't expect that the 'Blood Maker' Petain, who is the fifth-level tutor of the academy, would be so mean! He could even do the nasty thing of coveting and depriving his apprentice of his bloodline!"

"Indeed, if it were others, I might feel sympathy, but since it is Melkor, the bastard - I can only say that he deserves it!"

While dozens of surviving apprentices in the distance were engaged in heated discussions, a few apprentices noticed the focus of Yihua's words, looked surprised, and asked:

"Wait a minute, what does Ihua mean by 'plan'? Melkor's mentor, 'Blood Maker' Petain, gave Melkor an unknown mission before he entered the secret world?"

"Losing the ability to communicate with the outside world...suddenly being attacked by a large number of terrifying shadows of the dead...I felt that this apprenticeship exam was weird before. Could it be that there is a mystery hidden in it?"

On the other side, Rey, who was severely injured in the previous confrontation with Melkor, has now recovered his mobility under the treatment of other apprentices, but his body is still a little weak.

He heard the conversation between Yihua and Melkor in the distance, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he subconsciously said:
"Plan? Mission? What on earth is going on? Am I not taking the apprenticeship exam?"

He originally thought that this apprenticeship examination was a competition between himself and Melkor, but he didn't expect that he would now become an outsider.

Melkor, who originally seemed to Rey to be on the same level as him, or at least slightly better than him, unexpectedly easily defeated him in the apprenticeship exam.

Even though Rey tried his best, he still didn't have the ability to stand up to Melkor.

In Rey's mind, Yihua, who although had a certain degree of strength, was still no match for him, suddenly appeared at a critical moment and showed his power to be on par with the terrifying Melkor.

Not only that, from the conversation between Ihua and Melkor just now, Rey realized that this apprenticeship exam is not as simple as it seems. Ihua and Melkor know a lot of information that other apprentices don't know at all!

The token expired, and the apprentice in the secret world was completely cut off from the outside world...

According to the information previously disclosed by Enzo, the strange power in the secret world is at most the level of a top first-class apprentice. However, now, the strange power in the secret world has skyrocketed to the level of a high-level third-class apprentice...

Relying on the keen intuition of a genius third-class apprentice, Rey subconsciously connected various anomalies in the secret world today.

Rey, who was puzzled, wanted to rush forward right now and ask Yihua, who seemed to know more.

But then he caught a glimpse of Melkor not far away from Yihua, and recalling the terrifying power of Melkor's blow that severely injured him, Rey finally resisted the desire to step forward and ask Yihua.

At the same time, after listening to Yihua's suggestion, Melkor did not fall into thinking as Yihua expected. Instead, he sneered with a mocking look on his face:

"Haha, I didn't expect you to know a lot. Is this your purpose to learn about Mentor Petain's plan?"

Yihua on the other side saw Melkor suddenly calmed down, his eyes flashed, but he did not respond verbally.

Seeing that Yihua did not respond to him, Melkor said coldly:

"Unfortunately, my mission has been completed long ago. After the mission was completed, my mentor did not do anything to me. Compared to you, I trust my mentor Petain more!"

Compared to Ihua, who had a deep hatred against him, Melkor seemed to trust his mentor Petain more.

As soon as he finished speaking, Melkor's figure flashed, and he suddenly gave up his long-range attack and rushed towards Yihua.

In this regard, Yihua accurately grasped the key points of Melkor's words and realized that Melkor had entered the secret world and was indeed performing the task assigned to him by his mentor, and that the task had been completed. Yihua's face turned cold.

Although he didn't know what Melkor's plan was, he was currently in the middle of a battle and had no time to think deeply and no time to ask questions. Yihua didn't hesitate for a moment and decisively used the time he had just negotiated to construct the undead summoning technique.

In an instant, along with the large space distortion around them, twenty faceless figures disguised as Yihua appeared again.

What Yi Hua and the other apprentices didn't know was that what Melkor just said was half true and half false. It was true to complete the task assigned to him by his mentor, but it was false to trust his mentor Petain.

What really caused Melkor to decisively deny Yihua's proposal was the sound coming from the space ring that his mentor temporarily lent him.

Just when Yihua finished speaking, the voice of his mentor Petain suddenly came from an inconspicuous object in the space ring on Melkor's hand.

The other party claimed that he had no intention of harming Melkor, otherwise he would not have tried his best to cultivate Melkor in the past three years.

At the same time, he also confessed that when everything ends smoothly, he will find Melkor a bloodline that is not inferior to the Serpent of Shadows, or even more powerful, and transplant it to him.

Being able to explain to Melkor secretly in time after Yi Hua made his remarks questioning himself obviously meant that Petain was able to eavesdrop on the sounds around Melkor through the inconspicuous piece of debris in the space ring.

And that inconspicuous sundry was one of the materials given to him by his mentor Petain to build a temporary teleportation array that allowed him to secretly enter the secret world.

Previously, Petain had mixed that inconspicuous piece of debris into the materials for setting up the temporary teleportation array, and did not take the initiative to explain it.

In addition, Melkor later took the apprenticeship examination and did not bother to check carefully. Even after a cursory inspection, no abnormalities were detected in these materials.

So this piece of debris with eavesdropping and sound transmission functions was passed through, and was stored in the space ring temporarily lent to Melkor as an extra spare material for setting up a temporary teleportation array.

As for Petain's claim that he would search for it in the future and transplant him a bloodline that was comparable to that of the extraordinary life form - the Serpent of Shadows.

In Melkor's opinion, it was all a deliberate attempt to appease himself.

Yi Hua said earlier that the power of the blood plague transplantation would not affect the existing bloodline, and that Petain deliberately took this opportunity to take away the long-coveted Shadow Serpent bloodline. In Melkor's opinion, it was probably true.

Not to mention anything else, the secret placement of the listening device alone was enough to make Melkor suspicious of Petain.

However, due to being monitored by Petain at this moment, it was difficult for him to agree to Yihua's proposal and fall out with his mentor.

As for why his mentor Petain didn't kill himself, in Melkor's opinion, the reason was very simple.

Petain was an extremely cold-blooded wizard who believed that profit came first.

At that time, he had just set up a temporary teleportation array to secretly lead Petain to the secret world, but he did not collect too much power of the blood plague.

Even if Petain killed him at that time, he would not get much benefit.

And when the apprenticeship exam is over and Melkor kills hundreds of apprentices in the secret world and accumulates a lot of blood plague power, it will be Petain's turn to pick peaches.

Melkor didn't trust either Ihua or his mentor Petain. He only trusted himself.As the most proud disciple of "Blood Maker" Petain, Melkor has not blindly followed his mentor's instructions in recent years.

Secretly, he also obtained a lot of relatively confidential information from Petain.

These include the power characteristics of the blood plague, as well as the origin of the blood plague in Petain's hands and even the Star Tree Islands!

Neither the power of the blood plague in Melkor's body nor the power of the blood plague controlled by Petain, a fifth-level sorcerer, are not the source of all the power of the blood plague.

The blood plague that now exists in the Star Tree Islands and is spreading everywhere has its origins in a powerful blood plague wizard called "Lord Blood Plague" by Petain.

Melkor already knew that the amount of blood plague power given to him by his mentor Petain was not large, and its main function was only to "infect" Melkor.

In fact, the effects of the blood plague are extremely wide and diverse, and it does not only have the ability to create the blood corpses that were used to create Camilla City.

Just like the young woman in blood that Yihua once saw in Viscount Rafal, who spread the blood plague and infected other bandits.

Blood plague also has the function of increasing other life constitutions.

Its powerful effect even made the young bandit leader who was the woman in blood grow from an ordinary thing to a top knight in just a moment like a balloon!

Even the blood plague wizard himself was obtained by creating and cultivating different types of blood plague.

The blood plague spread by the blood plague wizard can only be controlled freely by the blood plague wizard who is its creator.

In other words, Petain cannot control Melkor's life and death through the power of the blood plague. The person who can truly control the life and death of Melkor and even Petain is actually the "Lord Blood Plague" who controls everything behind the scenes.

Melkor's secret ambition was no less ambitious than that of his mentor Petain.

Although he has not seen the "Lord Blood Plague" with his own eyes, according to his judgment, the other party is most likely a powerful official wizard!

Rather than obeying the orders of Petain who followed "Lord Blood Plague", it would be better to replace Petain.

"As long as I kill this guy Yi Hua and the other remaining apprentices in the secret world, maybe I can use the power of the blood plague to increase myself to the level of a quasi-fifth-level apprentice. According to current speculation, Petain should be with me right away. The other fifth-level tutors in the academy are in a state of melee..."

"At that time, I can take advantage of the chaos to leave the secret world, and kill the remaining thousands of apprentices in the outside academy without the obstruction of fifth-level apprentices. With the power of the blood plague obtained by devouring thousands of apprentices, I can , then I will have strength that is no less than that of a fifth-class apprentice!"

"If I continue to lurk in the dark and wait for the opportunity, I may be able to take advantage of the opportunity to swallow up a few fifth-level apprentices and Mentor Petain. Even if I am unlucky, I, who has fifth-level strength at that time, will be on an equal footing with my mentor and will no longer be beaten by him. There’s a threat!”

In just a few moments, Melkor constructed his subsequent plan in every detail.

Feeling that his plan was extremely perfect, a sinister smile appeared on his lips inadvertently.

However, Melkor did not consider whether he could successfully complete the first step of his plan.

That is - kill Yihua.

The next moment Melkor conceived the plan in his mind, twenty faceless shadows disguised as himself summoned by Yihua appeared in the surrounding open space and surrounded him in an instant.

Looking at the twenty Yihuas who suddenly appeared around him, Melkor had a look of astonishment on his face and subconsciously said:

"What the hell? Hallucinogenic witchcraft?"

This scene also caught the eyes of the surviving apprentices who were staying not far away and patiently watching the battle.

"Why do so many Vice-Presidents suddenly appear? Are these illusions created by the Vice-Presidents to interfere with Melkor's sight?"

"Although it is an illusion, the fact that it can create so many at once shows Yihua's strength!"

"By the way, isn't Yi Hua a second-class necromancer apprentice? These illusions may have been created by borrowing magical items?"

"Now that things have happened, do you really think that a mere second-class Necromancer apprentice can compete with Melkor, who is now extremely powerful? Let me tell you, Yihua must have hidden his true level!"

Seeing the sudden appearance of twenty "Yi Hua", their reaction was very different from the hundreds of Illuminati apprentices who saw Yi Hua using the same method to defend against the Shadow of the Dead during the daytime.

"Hmph, worm-carving trick!"

Melkor, who mistakenly thought that these "Ehua" were just illusions, did not pay any attention to these disguised faceless shadows, and passed straight towards Ihua.

At the next moment, twenty fearful tentacles behind the faceless figure that transformed into Yihua's appearance were aimed at Melkor who was rushing towards Yihua, and suddenly shot out.

Feeling the sense of crisis coming from behind, a chill flashed across Melkor's neck.

With a keen sense of crisis, Melkor tried his best to move quickly under the attack of hundreds of fear tentacles, almost without blind spots, trying to avoid the attack of the fear tentacles.

Tuk Tuk Tuk!
There was a dense sound, like the sound of a dagger piercing wood.

At the same time, Melkor's figure flew towards Yihua's left side like a cannonball.

In just a few moments, Melkor's figure flew several hundred meters away.

Twenty faceless shadows gathered together, even if they faced four levels of undead and decaying men and horses, they were still capable of fighting.

Not to mention that Melkor, who has not yet truly been promoted to the fourth level, has barely become a quasi-fourth level existence with the blessing of the blood plague.

Due to a moment of negligence caused by inertial thinking, Melkor did not dodge in time. In the end, he was hit by twenty or thirty fear tentacles after hastily dodging.

Each of the fearful tentacles of the Faceless Shadow is as powerful as nearly half of Yihua's full blow.

The accumulation of twenty or thirty fear tentacles means that in an instant, Melkor was able to resist the damage equivalent to Ihua's full force slashing of a dozen swords.

"Is it true? The 'phantoms' of those vice-presidents can actually launch attacks?"

"Not only that, the average strength of those 'illusions' seems to have reached the level of third-class apprentices!"

(End of this chapter)