Lord of War

  In this completely dead space, the sky will always be low and dull, and the earth will always be barren and decadent.

  No one knows what time it is now.

   Xiao En and others just kept walking behind the Nightmare Warhorse, but they didn't know how long they had walked. Harding thought it might have been several hours, but Rorty Kabas thought it might have been several days, but Sean thought it was probably only a day, and everyone was completely lost in the flow of time. There is no way to know when it is already.

  And this situation is still getting worse. If they can't leave this space, eventually even their own consciousness will be completely lost, and they will live and die with this space.

  If you want to say that you still have the last knowledge of the flow of time, then it is probably Cecilia.

  It’s just that when Cecilia said, "Does time still have meaning for us now?", everyone stopped worrying about the flow of time. Because for them, the flow of time has really lost its meaning, as long as they do not lose each other, then any other problems will not be a problem. As for the diet problem, they all got a unified solution: they used Cecilia's sense of time flow as the standard, as long as Cecilia felt hungry, then they would eat.

  That's it.

  After all the problems were solved in a unified way, the speed of Xiao En and others was obviously improved.

  It’s just that the only thing they are not sure about is where the Nightmare Warhorse intends to take them. But in this space, the only thing they can do is to follow behind the Nightmare Warhorse. Of course, this road is not necessarily so peaceful. From time to time, you will still encounter some undead creatures, but it is no longer limited to the ghouls, and other species have also begun to appear.

  Low-level undead creatures such as walking dead, zombies, and zombies. There are even ghosts, ghosts, and other undead creatures.

  However, there are no longer high-level undead creatures such as fear knights.

  So for Xiao En and others, except for the spirit-shaped undead creatures that caused everyone to spend a little time, the others were not threatening.

  Without the concept of time flow, Sean and others are numb to everything they encounter in this space. In their memory, apart from fighting, they are eating and driving. This behavior is repeated almost every moment. The magic and supernatural power that Cecilia and Hitley retained naturally became less and less in such battles, so that they had basically lost their fighting ability in the later stages.

  It's not that both of them have completely consumed their magic and divine power, but Shaun forbids them to continue to use magic and divine arts, so that they can retain the final self-protection ability. If Hitley's divine power is exhausted, it will be exhausted at best and unable to continue to perform healing magic, but if Cecilia's magical power is exhausted. The accompanying migraine can cause other problems. And if you have such a headache for a long time, it will not be of any benefit to the magician.

  Continuously fighting, eating, and rushing are still repeated. I don't know how long it has passed. In the vision of Xiao En and others, a broken ruin finally appeared.

  The appearance of this ruin made everyone instantly shine.

  Because they are really tired of seeing all kinds of cracked ground, gloomy sky and dead woods, and of course there are various low-level undead creatures everywhere. At this time, seeing such a piece of ruins appearing is also worthy of surprise for them. After all, you can finally see a different scenery.

   It’s just that even if it seemed to be a very surging surprise in the heart, everyone did not act hastily.

  None of them are newcomers who are just starting an adventure. Although the loss of the sense of time and direction makes them very uncomfortable, it can even be said that it causes a great burden and suppression on their spirit, but this problem does not cause their mental breakdown. Therefore, everyone will naturally not be like those newcomers who have just begun to take risks. After seeing the wasteland, they will be excited to see such a ruin. Who knows if there is any hidden threat.

  Everyone approached the ruins cautiously, and even put on a vigilant battle formation.

  The original appearance of this ruin should probably be a courtyard or something.

  The arches that should have been exquisite have completely collapsed, leaving only a few stones that are still faintly recognizable. There should have been many sculptures in the courtyard, but now there are only some abutments that have not been completely weathered. As for the sculptures above, they have long been weathered and corroded into shape. In addition, it can be recognized that it should be the courtyard, which has a large number of collapsed stone pillars and stone walls. Of course, it is also very weathered, and many places are completely turned into dust with just a touch.

  Cecilia checked the surrounding situation, and finally said in a deep voice: "Here...should be the center of the main building garden."

"So, are we able to leave here?" There was joy on Roty Kabas' face. He really stayed in this silent space for too long, and it almost made him feel like he was about to rust. "Where is the exit?"

"It's not that simple." Cecilia shook her head. "This is the center of the main building garden, but since there are no traces of magical fluctuations, it is not a simple matter for us to find an exit....Lanster , Do you know how to get out of here?"

  All eyes turned to Lanster.

  But Lanster was also at a loss: "I, I am not very clear, I..."

"Well, although I didn't have any expectations, I was a little bit disappointed to hear you admit it so bluntly." Cecilia shrugged, but her expression was not at all disappointed. It looks like, "How did you discover the entrance to this secret space before?"

"I, I found it according to the blueprint." Lanster said, "According to the elders, as long as I get close to a certain distance, a secret space like this can be automatically opened.... That's how the entrance was opened before. , I... I didn't do anything."

  Hearing Lanster's words, Sean and others looked helpless. Although I know that the mermaid tribe is the representative race of the dumb and cute, but like Lanster dumb and cute to this level. It's really rare, at least it's obviously different from the legends about the mermaid tribe that other people have heard. Of course, Sean didn't see many mermaid people in the game at the beginning, and even if he saw him, he was the player's attendant, so he didn't have time to say hello after the battle.

at this time. The nightmare war horse that had been leading everyone forward suddenly made a neighing sound. He even stood up directly, appearing unusually panicked.

  Sean and others reacted very quickly, almost seeing the abnormal reaction of the Nightmare Warhorse, they immediately protected Cecilia and Hitley in the middle, and the others surrounded them in a circular array. After confirming that Hitley and Cecilia were protected, Sean reached out and patted the Nightmare Warhorse, trying to calm its panic and restlessness.

   "Cough... very... long... cough cough... live... human..." a very peculiar hoarse voice. Suddenly sounded.

  But with the sound of this sound. It was not the owner of the voice that appeared, but dozens of hands suddenly broke out around Xiao En and the others. The hands that broke out of the ground quickly pressed the ground, and then strongly supported the whole body to crawl out from the ground. Their speed was very fast, and their movements were very neat, and it was too late for Xiao En and others to take advantage of these corpses. Eliminate it before crawling out of the ground.

  When the corpse that broke out of the ground stood in front of everyone in the twenty or so years, the faces of Xiao En and others became even more ugly.

  Necromancer.

  The infantry-type advanced body of the black warrior, the sixth-order undead creature. The individual combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the same Tier VI skeletal monster. Because they have sharper weapons and harder armor, and unless they can kill them in one shot. Otherwise, the untiring and immortal nature of the Necromancer is enough to make any of their enemies collapse. It is precisely because of this that among the many Tier 6 undead creatures, the combat effectiveness of the necromancer is also ranked higher. Even in some single-on-one combat situations, the necromancer can defeat the black knight.

  At this time, surrounded by twenty necromancers, Xiao En and others did not dare to act rashly.

  It’s not that they can’t completely wipe out these necromantic warriors, but once they start an attack first, then it is very likely that these necromantic warriors will have the opportunity to attack Cecilia and Hitley. And if they are passively defending, then they will be very tricky to solve, and it may even be necessary for Cecilia to use the last remaining magic power to fight.

   "Don't move." Sean said in a deep voice.

   "Why?" Rorty Kabas was puzzled.

"Necromancers cannot be formed by natural evolution." Cecilia opened the mouth to explain for Sean, "Among the undead creatures, the natural evolution route of the black warrior is the only route of the black knight. So any necromancer appears. , They are all transformed by necromancers or liches, which means they can only be man-made products.... If it is a lich who intercepts us, I think we can surrender."

   Lich, in the game is the existence of the twelfth level, which means that all liches are legendary powerhouses.

  With the strength of Sean and others, even if they were just facing a Lich who had been trapped here for countless years and almost lost all of their mana, they could not easily defeat them. Because the lich itself is immortal, no matter how severe the trauma and devastating attack, they can only temporarily lose their mobility. If you want to kill the lich, you must destroy the phylogeny, otherwise everything is in vain. .

"I think we might be able to talk." Xiao En scanned the surroundings and did not find the person who had just spoken out, but he knew very well that since the other party had spoken, then he could communicate, at least not like facing Like the fear knight, there is no way to communicate and can only do it, "If you want to leave here, then our purpose is the same."

   There was silence.

  Everyone looked at each other, but they could feel the heavy pressure in each other's eyes. After all, they were likely to be an undead creature with intelligence and communication-if it were a lich. Of course, if it is a Necromancer, he can still manipulate twenty Necromancers so far, and his strength cannot be underestimated, so if not necessary, Sean does not want to fight.

  Because this is destined to be a fierce battle.

   "No, sorry..." There was silence for a moment, and the atmosphere was almost suppressed enough to make ordinary people crazy. Finally another voice sounded, "Here, for a long time...no, living people...appeared. So, I have been for a long time. There has been no communication."

  The sound still seemed a bit sluggish and unsmooth at first. But soon, the sound became smooth. However, what really cares about Sean and others is not the speed of the voice's language recovery, but the information revealed in this tone shows that this person is indeed not hostile to Sean and others, and there is still Very strong tendency to communicate.

  This may be a rare piece of good news for Sean and others.

  Because it also means that they can avoid a fierce battle by negotiating.

   "Excuse me, are you..."

  "Me?" After a word is issued. The owner of the voice fell silent again.

  It’s been a long while-for everyone who has completely lost their sense of time. This is likely to be ten seconds or ten minutes, or even several days-and then they finally heard the owner of the voice say: "Forget about it. ...time, it's too long. I can ask. Ask, is it time now?"

   "...Are you... asking about the age?"

   Xiao En originally wanted to use the honorific title, but he found that this distorted space caused everyone to lose their sense of time and direction. So it's hard to say whether the other party also feels old because of the loss of time. If that's the case, then Sean's honorific name would make people laugh. So after a little hesitation, Sean still didn't use the honorific title.

   "The age... is it?"

  "It may be 1876 in the mainland calendar..."

  "Maybe?" The other party's tone was a little confused.

   "Our sense of time has been completely lost. So we don't know how long we stayed in this place." Xiao En replied, "But when we entered this space, it was the end of May 1876 in the continental calendar."

"Mainland calendar?" The owner of the mysterious voice fell silent again, but this time he spoke quickly again: "It seems that I should have stayed here for a long, long time, so long that I have forgotten a lot of things. Memories...So, the mermaid empire has been destroyed?"

  This time, Sean could hear that the other party was a person who had existed since the era of the Mermaid Empire, and whether it was the old Mermaid Empire or the new Mermaid Empire in the later Ash Age, it was enough to prove that this person had lived for tens of thousands of years. And if the person who can live so long is not a lich, Sean will cut off his head: "Even the Atlantis Empire has been destroyed for a long time. Now...the surface is dominated by humans, and others. Race areas are restricted."

   "Human." When the voice's owner spoke of this term, he was obviously a little stranger.

  But this time, the other party did not continue to hide, but finally walked out of the shadow of a stone pillar. Xiao En and others noticed that the opponent's mage robes were already very tattered, and they could even see the bones in the tattered robes. Such existence was undoubtedly a lich.

  Because if it is a necromancer or a necromancer, at least their bodies are still flesh and blood. And if it is a skeleton mage or a bone mage, then it is impossible for them to have the capital to transform the necromancer, because the bone mage is a lower-level existence than the necromancer, so let alone transformation, even manipulation It's totally impossible.

  A real lich.

  Sean and others swallowed.

"I have no malice against you." The lich seemed to feel the mood swings of Sean and others, and then said, "My memory is chaotic now, and many things have been forgotten by me.... Probably, it was me. At the beginning, in order to preserve the knowledge about the mage as much as possible, I deleted all the irrelevant memories during the transformation, so now I neither remember who I am, nor completely forget what era I am from. But...I still remember. , My pre-conversion status."

  Speaking of this, the lich laughed out of Jie Jie, probably trying to show his humor, but no matter how you listened to it, it was obviously terrifying: "I am a human being."

   Xiao En and others echoed with a few smiles.

"Akas is a gadget I made. I stuffed all the souls that could be captured nearby. Now that even the mount of Akas is with you, then it proves that Akas is dead. "The lich didn't mind the reaction of Sean and others, and asked directly, "But you can rest assured that I don't plan to conduct any strange experiments on you. I didn't plan to come out, but I listened. When you said that you have a way to leave, I was anxious for a while and called other servants to intercept you. I apologize for that."

  Speaking of this, the lich actually bowed slightly and performed an old noble courtesy of apology to Sean and the others.

  Sean is really curious, why does this lich treat his identity as a useless amnestic, but instead retains the etiquette of these ancient nobles? At least in Sean's view, if he was allowed to choose, he would definitely choose to forget these noble etiquettes and would not forget his identity. However, it is naturally impossible for him to ask the lich in front of him about this kind of thing, especially since it does not look weak at all. In Sean’s true eyes, the dark energy emitted by this lich is black before. Ten times more than when the king absorbs!

   "Sorry, it's us." Sean said politely.

"No, no, it's my fault. Akas's matter is another matter, but it's really my problem to scare you guys." The lich said, "And I also know that I am who I am now. , I don’t have a good reputation in the outside world. It’s just that I’ve been trapped here for a long time. I don’t know how I live until now, so I desperately want to leave. I hope you can take it with you when you leave here. Get on me."

  While saying so, the lich also waved a little, when even a necromancer turned and left, and then soon dragged a big bag over.

   said it was a pocket, rather it was a cloth bag that was torn apart by a mage's robe and then laid out flat. However, looking at the heavy appearance of this cloth bag, it is obvious that there are a lot of things in it, and things that can make a lich think of collection value, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to escape the ranks of "treasures".

"These things are regarded as the fright I caused you and my travel expenses to leave here." The Lich ordered the necromancer to open the cloth bag, and the jewels radiating from the cloth bag blinded Xiao. En's titanium alloy dog ​​eye, "If you still feel uneasy, I can sign an ancient mage blood contract with your mage friend to ensure that I will not cause any harm to you after I leave."

   "I agree." Xiao En nodded without hesitation, "However, the content of the blood contract must be drawn up by me."

   "Yes." This time, the lich nodded without hesitation when it was its turn.

  Seeing Sean and the lich's effort to reach an agreement with a few words, everyone looked at Sean with horror. In the entire history of Marvel Continent, Shaun is the only one who dared to negotiate with the Lich and extract wealth from the Lich, right?

  However, Cecilia's reaction was different, she just yawned lazily.

Think that Sean not only fooled the madmen of the Peace Association, smashed the devil’s place, but also killed the great figures of the Millennium Covenant Empire, and even the goddess of life dared to pit it. Now it’s just a lich who has never done a game. Cecilia was not shocked by the choice of negotiation. On the contrary, she looked at the lich with some sympathy. After all, she had gone through so many things with Sean, and she wouldn't know Sean's temperament.

  As long as he makes the rules, then it is tantamount to letting Sean make the rules of the game. The rules of the game set by Sean must be followed even by gods, let alone just a lich. At this moment, Cecilia was wondering how much blood Sean was going to let this Lich shed. As for whether the person signing the blood contract was herself, Cecilia didn't care at all, because she knew that Sean would never cheat her.

  For Sean, Cecilia has always been unconditional trust. (To be continued~^~)

  PS:  Too lazy to cut, so everyone will look smoother.