Quadruple split

Although Little Smart Ghost Master is a thorough materialist, and has not inherited the mantle of the strongest psychic and onmyoji in the world, and has a very poor resistance to the so-called Chinese horror, even Mo Tan, who is in the "chaotic neutral" personality, has to admit that the "Winter" in the game has terrible talent in the [Necromancer] profession, and when he inexplicably unlocked the profession called [Psychic], his potential has exceeded the upper limit estimated by Mo Tan.

As for this fact, even Yi Dong himself was a little surprised. After all, his talent in games is at best mediocre. The only thing worth mentioning is his luck in the two-dimensional card drawing game. Although it is far from the absolute value of Cordova, it may be because of the two old two-dimensional people, Yinan and Gu Yanyue, who have accumulated virtue for many years (crazy buying of Gu Zi, fan peripherals, and COS to promote the development of the industry), Yi Dong's luck in related games is indeed good, and he even set a record of 32 consecutive small guarantees without deviation.

Of course, maybe because of rebellion, maybe because both of his parents are deep ACGN patients, or maybe because he was hit hard by the discovery that the COSER he liked when he was young was his mother, Yi Dong has very little interest in related fields, and even has some prejudices against otaku culture, which is also considered by Mo Tan as the core reason why he and Gu Xiaole often quarrel.

As for the "talent", I don't know if it is similar to the above reasons. Under the premise that both of his parents are one of the best people in the world at dealing with "supernatural", although Yi Dong doesn't know this, he has been uninterested in "spirits" and "ghosts" since he was a child. Compared with those floating things, he prefers Western-style dragons, demons and other related settings, and... as we just mentioned, he is a thorough materialist.

However, after an unexpected encounter with a world-class idol with Mo Tan not long ago, and almost being sung to his knees and kissing the soles of his shoes by the other party, Yi Dong, who was popularized by his friends about some "under-the-table" knowledge, is no longer as materialistic as before.

This is understandable. After all, any sober person should know that the strength of thrillers and heroic films depends on the screenwriter's imagination. However, there may be people who still believe in materialism after witnessing or even experiencing "superpowers" in person... but it is definitely not Yi Dong.

After Yi Dong realized that many seemingly unreasonable things actually exist in reality, the "Winter" in the game also quietly underwent some changes that even he himself did not realize.

This change did not immediately reflect the character's strength, nor did it change his skill strength, character panel, or even give him a new talent, but it raised his compatibility with the profession of [Psychic] to a whole new level.

After taking a step unconsciously, the first "job" he did in this field was the "special maintenance" of the former Fenrir team, now the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

This is a very normal thing. After all, no matter how special they are, Ned, Yinna, Salazar and Crabbe are actually dead. Even if the "shelf life" of the soul is extremely long, the complete death of the body is far more serious than ordinary people imagine.

In the eyes of most people, the most noteworthy aspects of undead creatures are mostly the killing and spreading of panic. As for the fact that their appearance is relatively bad, it has long become common sense in people's eyes, and no one has studied it in depth.

But others can choose not to study it in depth, but Yi Dong, the [medium], cannot. When he began to study it in depth, he immediately realized how difficult it is to keep an undead creature beautiful in appearance... or not scary, because in most cases, the decay process of the body after death is irreversible. Not only that, the difficulty of keeping a "corpse" fresh and keeping a "undead" fresh is even more different!

It is precisely because of this that, although it is not difficult for Yi Dong to stop Ned, Yinna, Salazar and Crabbe in the coffin from decaying with his strength and knowledge, and only a little arrangement can keep their bodies unchanged for a hundred years, but after they leave the coffin and are given souls again... the difficulty of this work suddenly increases to a crazy level.

With the help of biology, mysticism, his own thinking, and the advanced study materials borrowed from the Naxxramas Comprehensive College by Foster Ward, Yi Dong soon realized the problem. In short, the flesh of any creature will be damaged. For the living, this damage is manifested as aging, and for the dead, it is manifested as decay. When the soul is revived in the dead body, a very serious phenomenon will occur...similar to the phenomenon of rejection, which will greatly increase the decay speed of the body until it is reduced to ashes.

Take the dragons that are most likely to form natural undead as an example. After the soul is revived, they can only maintain their appearance in life for a short period of time. Before long, they will become corpse dragons that are more friendly to evil energy and negative energy, and lose the unique "dragon power" of dragons.

After that, corpse dragons will gradually turn into bone dragons, with only strong and magical bones left. By then, having lost their muscles and scales, they will become much more fragile, and eventually not only will they be unable to fly with their physical bodies, the different dragon breaths of each species will also be transformed into undead breath.

When the bones are completely decayed, the fate of these bone dragons will become two. Most of the soul fire will be extinguished after being completely decayed, completing the final "end", while a very small number of bone dragons will "wake up" for the second time in the soul fire, becoming a "dragon lich" that has completely lost its body and exists completely in the form of a spirit, and regain most of the dragon characteristics before its death.

Referring to the four corresponding specializations of the School of Undead, leaving aside some special plagues, zombies, gargoyles, and corpse dragons should belong to the category of [flesh and blood]; skeleton soldiers and bone dragons belong to [bone control]; dragon liches, banshees, ghosts, etc. that have completely escaped the constraints of the flesh belong to [calling spirits].

Therefore, although the level of [calling spirits] is quite high, and even the feat of extraditing the souls of Ned and others back to the body is achieved, Yidong's specialization levels in the three aspects of [flesh and blood], [bone control] and [plague] are very low. It can be said that it is quite difficult to ensure that the bodies of Ned and others... or the corpses do not deteriorate.

You have to know that although he has a special profession similar to Futaba's "Law Master", his strength is only at a high level. In order to ensure that Ned and others' bodies will not decay further, he must be inseparable from the four people in most cases, and use the skill of "Ghost Realm" to forcibly create a special environment that can suppress the "rejection reaction".

When in the "Ghost Realm", the four people's bodies decay at a speed only three to seven times that of normal life forms, and Yidong needs to perform "routine maintenance" about every week. When they leave the "Ghost Realm", although they can act normally like when they were besieging Futaba in the Academy City, as long as they do not receive "routine maintenance" for more than one day, their bodies, which have rapidly increased their decay speed, will collapse at a high speed, and then suffer irreversible damage. .

Before the start of the [Criminal Debate], Yi Dong's greatest progress was to extend the duration of the fixed area [Ghost Realm] to three days without interference, and to create a small [Cursed Wristband] for each of the four people. Although it has no properties, it can create a very small mini [Ghost Realm] that lasts no more than twelve hours after being activated.

Until today——

"Although I did find some inspiration, it stands to reason that... as long as you can move normally outside this room for more than three hours without obvious "discomfort", it will have met my greatest expectations."

Sitting around the mini psychic tower on the third floor of the mansion with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, although he transformed his existence into the form of the "dead", he did not become the horrible corpse before. Although his face was pale, his eye sockets were deep, and his eyes were shining with spiritual fire, he was still barely a handsome guy. Yi Dong frowned, rubbed his chin and said, "But now it seems that the result of the previous "routine maintenance" seems to be so good that it seems a little unreal..."

Crab laughed and grinned, "This is a good thing! If we can really do it together, Even if we leave the [Ghost Realm], we will only slowly weaken like a living person. Then Master Winter, you don't have to work so hard like before, and you have to stay with us all the time to help maintain our bodies? "

"It's not that simple."

Yidun waved his hand, showing a smile that was not stiff in emotion, but extremely stiff in biology, and said to Crabbe: "If you only look at your physical condition from the last routine maintenance to now, this is indeed a good thing. After all, at this rate of decay after leaving the [Ghost Realm], if you only hope not to cause irreversible permanent damage, you can at least survive independently outside for more than half a year. Of course, without considering the battle, but..."

Nervously pinching Ned's thigh, Yinna pursed her lips with expectation and fear of disappointment , nervously asked Yi Dong: "But what?"

"But I must know why this is happening. After all, if I don't understand the principle, this good thing is very likely to become your death warrant at some point in the future."

Yi Dong once again swept his phosphorescent eyes over the four people and said seriously: "You are not powerful souls that have the ability to transform into dragon liches. Although you are unique in terms of specialness, as long as you lose your body, your souls, which are very fragile compared to any lich, will definitely dissipate in an instant. So before I figure out why I can successfully deceive your bodies and make them mistakenly think that they are "still alive", you are not allowed to leave this mansion again."

Salazar and Ned immediately nodded in unison, saying in unison: "Yes, Master Winter."

"Relax, This is just a necessary insurance measure. I can guarantee that in general..."

Yidun's eyes swept across Crabbe and Yinna's faces, and he chuckled: "This is definitely a huge breakthrough. If I can solve this problem smoothly, the day when you can regain your freedom to a considerable extent is not far away."

"Great!"

Yinna immediately smiled with relief, and then said seriously: "But Master Winter, we don't need "freedom" so much. I have told you many times before. This time, the grace of regaining a new life, the four of us will definitely repay it to the end!"

Ned, Crabbe and Salazar next to him immediately nodded vigorously, indicating that what Yinna said was exactly what they thought, and their promise to go through fire and water for the mysterious gentleman and Master Winter would never change in the slightest.

"Oh, you can rest assured about this. In someone's words, there will be a long-term employment relationship between us. Note that it is an employment relationship, not the old-fashioned master-servant relationship."

Yidong smiled and said briskly: "We will provide work, compensation, treatment and a comfortable environment, and you should also help with some work when your ability allows, just like the last time in Academy City. Generally speaking, it is a win-win deal, and everything I have done during this period can be understood as an "investment."

Ned and others nodded in unison, but their faces became complicated involuntarily, especially Crabbe and Yinna. After thinking about the last "work" in Academy City, their eyebrows were almost wrinkled.

As for the reason...naturally, it was the content of their first "work" after waking up as a dead person.

The girl who was obviously the target of their attack, but in the end, she wanted to save them at all costs, has returned to their memory!

Perhaps it was a manifestation of the soul gradually regaining its vitality. The teammate who was originally forgotten by the four people at the same time, the new mage Futaba of the Fenrir team, who fought side by side with the four people and the Black Brahma priest until the last moment at the junction of Marshall Territory and Fire Claw Territory, was recalled by Ned, Yinna, Crabbe and Salazar. The time was exactly the night after the ambush in Academy City, when the four people reunited with Yi Dong.

When they told Yi Dong about this, the other party simply said that it was his own trick to let them forget Futaba, and the purpose was precisely for the previous encirclement and suppression that was extremely chaotic and fragmented.

It was also from that time that Ned and others, who were named the [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] by a certain mastermind behind the scenes and were given the titles of [Plague], [Death], [War], and [Famine] respectively, realized that the ‘work’ they would face in the future would be far more difficult and complex than common sense.

But even so——

They still made the choice without hesitation and decided to accept the employment of the mastermind behind the scenes.

Say goodbye to the mediocre and heroic self of the past, and embark on a life that is destined to be restless and uneasy.

This is not a big change in temperament, Ned and others are still the same as before.

In the words of Mo Tan when he was in the "chaotic neutral" personality, this is just the simple, unique open-mindedness of a high-level intelligent life after dying once.

Chapter 2351: The End