Volume 1: Village Story Chapter 1: The Hill Outside the Village Chapter 108: Conclusion

  After the initial shock, I calmly took out my own magic wand and said to Xiū Dé: "Xiū Dé sir, you too are a lingering ghost. I took a wrong turn and still managed to meet you. It seems that today is a day when we must settle our scores once and for all."

  "Great, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find you anywhere. Today, I've finally encountered you here, it's truly fate's arrangement. I've been searching for you for so long, and now that I've found you here, where can you run to?"

  "I curiously asked, 'Why should I run? Aren't you the one who's running away? The head of the Necromancer Guild, the great necromancer Chek-sama has returned. You bunch of clowns must have scattered already, right? Now, aren't you being chased by the necromancers under Chek-sama and can't escape anywhere? Maybe killing you would even gain me favor with other necromancers, huh?"

  Xiu De's face changed slightly, the dry muscles on his face twitching involuntarily: "I didn't think you knew so much, now I can even less tolerate your existence, cut the nonsense, hand over your soul to me, I'm just short of a corpse puppet, and you're not bad material!" After finishing speaking, Xiu De let out a strange laugh, as if I was already his plaything.

  I let out a cold laugh, pointing my magic wand at Shude. Three wind blades shot towards him with a sharp whistle. Shude also let out a cold laugh, and a black smoke rose up beside him, his figure immediately disappearing into the black mist. At the same time, the three wind blades whizzed through the black fog and disappeared into the distance, clearly having no effect. The wind blades were just a probing attack, I didn't expect to hurt him anyway. If a powerful undead magician like Shude could be easily injured by my wind blades, there was only one possibility - that Shude was an imposter.

  Under the black smoke, the ground suddenly shook, and a huge flame column burst out of the earth, wrapping the entire black fog around it. The flames were like a red long sword, swallowing the entire cloud of smoke cleanly. A small wisp of smoke shot out of the flame column and fell on the grassy edge, transforming into Xiude's true form. Although it still didn't cause him any substantial harm, it was clear that this magic exceeded his expectations. Xiude's face was disheveled, and several large holes were burned in his clothes by the flames.

  "Unbelievable! Not seeing you for a while and you've become even more formidable than before! Now, let me show you the true power of a Lich's Great Magic!"

  Xiu De swung the magic wand in his hand, and the ground beneath my feet suddenly turned black. The green grass on the ground withered quickly, and black smoke burst out from underground, transforming into various ferocious undead creatures that pounced towards me in mid-air. At the same time, Xiu De summoned a gigantic white skeletal beast from somewhere, which appeared to be the body of a tiger. Its eyes gleamed with a pale blue light, its sharp claws grasped the ground, and it arched its back like a bow, letting out a loud roar before pouncing towards me.

  I hastily raised my magic wand and cast a "Fire Ring" spell, a huge fire ring spread out from me, burning the surrounding undead creatures to ashes. In the midst of the raging flames, a giant flame giant emerged and charged towards the white skeletal tiger, blocking its attack. This was a continuous magic I came up with after studying ancient magic with Nant, combining my previous magical experiences. After casting "Fire Ring", I utilized the extreme expansion of the fire element to maximize the damage caused by the fire ring, then used the remaining energy to immediately cast "Flame Puppet" and summon the flame giant for an attack. This way, it saved nearly half of my magic power and mental strength compared to using two separate spells.

  But I never expected that Xiu De's white bone tiger was not just a white bone puppet beast. After the tiger's attack was blocked by my flame giant, Xiu De activated his magic wand and a black light hit the tiger's body. I only saw that another virtual image of the tiger suddenly appeared on its body, bypassing the flame giant and pouncing towards me.

  In the book of necromancy that Lailo gave me, I once saw a description of this magic. This magic is not only available to necromancers, but ordinary magicians who have learned and grasped the use of necromantic energy also have a great chance of releasing it - "White Bone Puppet Beast". Because the souls of beasts are not wise, in the words of necromancers, they are low-level spirits, so they don't need to pay any price for their own soul to subdue and control them. If you want to subdue higher-level spirits like humans, you usually need to pay a certain price, sacrifice to the god of death, to manipulate them. This is why ordinary magicians can control the white bone mount "Hellish Warhorse". But Shude's magic seems to be different from others, there is still a complete soul of a fierce tiger sealed in the White Bone Puppet, and when the puppet is blocked, it can split out to attack the enemy. This move was far beyond my expectations.

  In the heat of the moment, I had no choice but to use a spatial magic that I normally wouldn't resort to. I left an illusion of myself in place using spiritual magic, while I instantly moved behind Shude. Just as the tiger's soul shattered my illusory shadow, my staff had already pierced through Shude's body, and the large, sharp gemstone at the tip of the staff protruded from his chest like a spearhead.

  Xiu De looked down at his chest in a daze and said, "This... how is this possible..." I let out a cold laugh and said, "Spatial magic, haven't seen it before?" After finishing speaking, I forcefully pulled out the magic wand, and fresh red blood dyed the entire wand red. Xiu De collapsed to the ground, convulsing.

  Fresh blood stained the ground red, and gradually, the blood flowing from Xiū Dé's body turned black, continuously gushing out of his body as if it would never stop.

  I was staring at Shude's body in confusion when I suddenly heard Xilu shout: "Be careful, Alick!" Then I felt a strong force pulling me away. When I turned my head, it was Xilu hiding in the dark. Just as I was about to ask her what was going on, Shude's corpse suddenly exploded with a loud bang, and black ** shot up into the air, covering an area of several meters around us. All the grass and trees that were stained by the black ** immediately withered away. The black ** turned the circular area within a few meters into a dead zone.

  I stared at the scene in shock and asked hesitantly, "Xilu, thanks to you, otherwise I would have died unjustly. How did you know that Xiude still had this trump card?"

  Xī Lù stood beside me, gazing at the scene and said: "My brother's assassination organization once assassinated a powerful undead mage. A top-notch assassin was consumed by this evil undead magic and perished together with that undead mage. At the time, they had no idea how that assassin died. Later, my brother found out through various investigations that after being ambushed to death, the undead mage could make his corpse suddenly explode. The black ** could corrode enemies within a few meters to leave only white bones behind. Moreover, this black ** would cause even one's soul to completely dissipate if it came into contact with just a single drop. This magic is truly disgusting; even in death, it wants to drag its enemies down with it."

  I asked with a bit of a smile, "Don't these undead mages fear that their own souls will also completely disappear?" Xilu looked at me with a hint of a smile and said, "You usually seem pretty smart, but do the souls of undead mages even exist after they die?" I rubbed my head, suddenly remembering that the souls of undead mages had long since returned to the God of Death, it could be said that they no longer had any soul existence. I actually asked such a stupid question, no wonder Xilu said that.

  I immediately ignored Xilu's mocking gaze and changed the subject: "How far is it from here to that small town? Why don't we travel through the night, after a fight, I'm so excited that I won't be able to sleep anyway."

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