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.

Xiao En and the others just kept walking behind the Nightmare Warhorse, but they didn't know how long they had walked. Harding felt that Kěnéng had been several hours, but Roti Kabas felt that Kěnéng had passed for several days, but Sean felt that only one day had passed, and everyone was completely lost in the flow of time so far. It is also impossible to know what time it is at this time.

And this situation is still deteriorating. If they can't leave this space, eventually even their own consciousness, + pig + pig + island + novel + www + z+ will be completely lost, and then they will live and die with this space .

If you want to say that you still have the final understanding of the speed of time, then it is probably Cecilia.

However, when Cecilia said "Does time still have meaning for us now?", everyone stopped worrying about the Wèntí of the speed of time. Because for them, the flow of time has indeed lost its meaning, as long as they are not lost to each other, then any other Wèntí will not be Wèntí. As for the diet Wèntí, all have been uniformly resolved: they use Cecilia's sense of time flow as the standard, as long as Cecilia feels hungry, they will eat.

That's all.

After all the Wèntí were resolved in a unified way, the marching Sùdù of Xiao En and others was obviously improved.

However, the only thing they are not sure about right now 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, and some undead creatures will still be encountered from time to time. It's just that it is no longer limited to one kind of ghoul, and other varieties have also begun to appear.

For example, low-level undead creatures such as walking corpses, zombies, and zombies, and even spirit-shaped undead creatures such as ghosts and ghosts.

But there are no high-level undead creatures like fear knights anymore.

Therefore, for Xiao En and others, except for the undead creatures of the spirit type, which caused everyone a little trouble, the others were not threatening.

Without the concept of time flow, Xiao En and the others felt numb to everything encountered in this space. Retained in their memory, in addition to fighting is eating and traveling. Such actions are repeated almost all the time, and the magic power and divine power retained by Cecilia and Heatley,

Nature is also becoming less and less in such battles. So much so that in the later stage, he even basically lost his combat ability.

It's not that the magical power and divine power of the two are completely exhausted, but that Sean forbids them to continue to cast magic and divine spells, allowing them to retain the last ability to protect themselves. If Heaterly's divine power is exhausted, at most she is exhausted and unable to continue to cast healing spells. But if Cecilia's magic power is exhausted. The concomitant migraine leads to other Wèntí, and it doesn't do the magician any good if left in the condition for a long time.

Still repeating the constant fighting, eating, and rushing, it's not known how long it took before Xiao En and the others finally saw a piece of dilapidated ruins.

The appearance of this piece of ruins made everyone's eyes shine instantly.

Because they are really tired of seeing all kinds of cracked earth, gray sky and dead forest, and of course there are all kinds of low-level undead creatures everywhere. At this time, I saw that such a ruin appeared. It is also a surprise for them, after all, they can finally see a different scenery.

It's just that even if the heart seems to be very surging and pleasantly surprised. But everyone did not act rashly.

None of them are newcomers who have just started their adventures. Although losing their sense of time and direction makes them very uncomfortable, and it can even be said to cause a great burden and depression on their spirits, this Wèntí is not enough to make their spirits suffer. produces a crash. So naturally, everyone will not be like those newcomers who have just started their adventures. After seeing such a ruin after getting tired of looking at the wasteland, they will be very excited to rush up. 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 the ruins should probably be a courtyard or something.

The supposedly exquisite arch has completely collapsed, leaving only a few stones that can still be discerned. Originally, 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 out of shape. In addition, you can also identify the place that should be the courtyard, that is, there are a large number of collapsed stone pillars and stone walls. Of course, they are also very severely weathered.

After checking the surroundings, Cecilia finally said in a deep voice, "This... should be the garden center of the main building."

"So, we can get out of here?" Rotikabas's face was full of joy. He had stayed in this silent space for too long, so long that it almost made him feel like he was going to rust "Where is the exit?"

"It's not that simple." Cecilia shook her head, "It's true that this is the garden center of the main building, but since there are no traces of magic power fluctuations, it is not easy for us to find the exit... Lance Te, do you know how to get out of here?"

All eyes turned to Lancet.

But Lancet also looked blank: "I, I don't know very well, I..."

"Well, although I didn't have any expectations, I'm still a little disappointed to hear you admit it so bluntly." Cecilia shrugged, but her expression didn't show any disappointment at all. Like, "How did you discover the entrance to this secret space before?"

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

Hear Lancet's words. Sean and the others all looked helpless. Although the Zhidào mermaid race is the representative race of cuteness, it is really rare to see people who are as cute as Lanster. At least it is obviously different from the legends about mermaids that other people have heard. Of course, Sean didn't see many mermaids in the game back then, even if he saw them, they were the players' attendants, and he only cared about the battle so he didn't have time to say hello.

at this time. The nightmare horse that had been leading the crowd all the time suddenly neighed, and even stood up straight up, looking extremely panicked.

Xiao En and others responded quickly. Almost seeing the abnormal reaction of the nightmare horse, he immediately protected Cecilia and Heatri in the middle, and the others surrounded them in a circular formation. After confirming that both Heatley and Cecilia were protected, Sean reached out and patted the Nightmare Warhorse. Try to calm its fluster and restlessness.

"Cough...very...long...cough cough...live...people..." A very strange and hoarse voice came out. suddenly sounded.

But with the sound of the sound, what appeared was not the owner of the sound, but dozens of hands suddenly broke out around Xiao En and the others. I saw that these hands that broke through the ground quickly pressed the ground, and then supported the whole body to crawl out from the ground. Their movement was very fast, and their movements were very neat. It was not even too late for Xiao En and others to take advantage of these corpses Destroy it before it crawls out of the ground.

When the twenty or so corpses protruding from the ground stood in front of everyone, the expressions of Xiao En and the others became even uglier.

Necromancer.

The infantry-type advanced body of the Black Samurai. A sixth-level undead creature, its individual combat power is stronger than that of a sixth-level bone demon. Because they have sharper weapons and harder armor. And unless it's a one-hit kill, the never-tiring and undead qualities of Necron Warriors are enough to overwhelm any of their enemies. It is precisely because of this that among the many sixth-order undead creatures, the combat power of the undead fighters is also a relatively high-ranking existence. Even in some one-on-one battles, the undead fighters can also defeat the black knight.

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

It's not that they can't wipe out these undead warriors, but once they attack first, it is very likely that these undead warriors will have the opportunity to attack Cecilia and Heatri. And if they defend passively, it will be very difficult for them to solve it. There is even Kěnéng who wants Cecilia to use the last remaining magic power to fight.

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

"Why?" Rotika Bass was a little puzzled.

"Undead warriors cannot evolve naturally." Cecilia explained for Sean, "Among undead creatures, the only natural evolution route for black warriors is the black knight. So any appearance of undead warriors , are all transformed by necromancers or liches, which means that they can only be man-made products.... If the one who intercepts us is a lich, I think we can surrender."

Liches are twelfth-order existences in the game, which means that all liches are legendary powerhouses.

With the strength of Xiao En and others, even if they are only facing a Lich who has been trapped here for countless years and has almost lost all his mana, it is not something they can easily defeat. Because the lich itself is immortal, no matter how severe the trauma or destructive attack is, they can only temporarily lose their mobility. If you want to kill the lich, you must destroy the phylactery, otherwise everything will be in vain .

"I think we can talk about it." Sean glanced around, but he didn't find the person who spoke just now, but he knew very well that since the other party spoke, it meant that we could communicate, at least not like face to face. Like that fear knight, he can't communicate at all and can only do, "If you want to leave here, then our purpose is the same."

There was a silence.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but they could feel the heavy pressure from each other's eyes. After all, they were facing a very intelligent and communicative undead creature, if it was a lich. Of course, if it is a necromancer, he can still control twenty necromancers so far. His strength should not be underestimated either, so Sean really didn't want to fight unless necessary.

Because this is destined to be a fierce battle.

"No. Sorry..." There was a moment of silence, when the atmosphere was almost depressing enough to drive ordinary people crazy, and finally there was another voice, "Here, for a long time... no, a living person...appeared. So, I have been for a long time. No We've communicated."

The voice still seemed a bit sluggish and unsmooth at first, but it soon became smoother. But what Sean and the others really care about. But it's not that the owner of the voice's language recovered so quickly that people are surprised, but the information revealed in this tone shows that this person really has no hostility towards Xiao En and others, and also has a very strong tendency to communicate.

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

Because that means at the same time. They can avoid a nasty battle by negotiating.

"Excuse me, are you..."

"Me?" after a single word. The owner of the voice fell silent again.

After a long time, for the people who have completely lost their sense of time, it is likely to be more than ten seconds or ten minutes, or even several days before they finally heard the owner of the voice speak again : "Forgot.... The time is too long. Can I ask, what time is it now?"

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

Sean originally wanted to use an honorific title, but he found that this distorted space caused everyone to lose their sense of time and direction, so it was hard to say whether the other party felt old because of the loss of time sense. If that's the case, then Sean will use his honorific words for it. This is very Kěnéng will make people laugh, so after a little hesitation. Sean still didn't use the honorific title.

"The age... I guess."

"Kěnéng is 1876 in the mainland calendar..."

"Kěnéng?" There was some doubt in the other party's tone.

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

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

This time, Xiao En could tell that the other party was someone who had existed since the time of the Mermaid Empire, and whether it was the old Mermaid Empire or the new Mermaid Empire in the Age of Ashes, it was enough to prove that this person had lived for tens of thousands of years. And if the person who can live for such a long time is not a lich, Sean will cut off his head: "Even the Atlantis Empire has been destroyed for a long time. Now... on the surface, humans are dominating, The areas of activity of other races are restricted."

"Human beings." When the owner of the voice said this term, there was obviously a bit more strange emotion.

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

Because if they are necromancers or necromancers, at least their bodies still have flesh and blood. And if it's a skeleton mage or a bone mage, then they don't 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 Not Kěnéng at all.

A true lich.

Sean and the others swallowed.

"I have no malice towards you." The lich seemed to feel the emotional fluctuations of Xiao En and others, and then said, "My memory is very messy now, and I have forgotten many things. ... Probably, it is In order to preserve my knowledge about mages as much as possible, I deleted all irrelevant memories during the transformation, so now I don't remember who I am, and I completely forget what era I was in. But... I Remember, my identity before transformation."

Speaking of which, the lich let out a loud laugh, probably wanting to show off his sense of humor, but no matter how he listened to the laugh, it was obviously extremely terrifying: "I am a human being."

Xiao En and the others agreed a few times with a half-smile.

"Akas is a gadget I made. I stuffed all the souls that could be captured nearby into it. Now that even Akas's mount is with you, it proves that Akas is dead. Now." The lich didn't mind the reactions of Xiao En and others, and asked directly, "But you can rest assured, I don't plan to conduct any strange experiments on you, and I didn't plan to come out at first, but I heard When you said that you had a way to leave, I was so impatient that I summoned other servants to stop you, for which I sincerely apologize."

Having said that, the lich actually bowed slightly to Sean and the others in an ancient aristocratic manner of apologizing.

Sean is really curious, why does this lich treat its own identity as a useless amnestic, but instead retains the etiquette of these ancient nobles? At least in Xiao En's view, if he had a choice, he would definitely choose to forget these noble etiquettes and not forget his own identity. But of course, he wouldn't ask the lich in front of him about this kind of thing, especially since it doesn't look weak at all. In Sean's real eyes, the rich dark energy emitted by this lich is the same as that of the previous Dark King. More than ten times when sucked!

"It's us who should say sorry." Sean said politely.

"No, no, this is my fault. The matter of Arcas is another matter, but it is indeed my Wèntí who frightened you." The lich said, "And I also know, like my current identity , I don’t have a good reputation in the outside world. It’s just that I’ve been trapped here for a long time, so long that I don’t even know how I lived until now, so I desperately want to leave. I hope you can bring Give me a ride."

While saying this, the lich waved a little bit, and even a necromancer turned and left, and then quickly came over with a big bag.

To say it is a pocket, it is better to say that it is a cloth bag that is torn apart from a mage robe and then laid flat. However, judging from the heavy appearance of this cloth bag, it is obvious that there are a lot of things inside, and things that can make a lich think they are valuable for collection, no matter how you look at them, they cannot escape the ranks of "treasures".

"These things should be regarded as the scare I caused you and my travel expenses to leave here." The lich ordered the necromancer to open the cloth bag, and the jewels emitted from the cloth bag stabbed Xiao blind. En's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes, "If you still feel uneasy, I can sign an ancient mage blood contract with your mage friends to guarantee that I will not cause any harm to you after I leave."

"I agree." Sean nodded without hesitation, "But the content of the blood contract must be formulated by me."

"Yes." This time, it was the lich's turn to nod without hesitation.

Seeing that Sean and the Lich had reached an agreement within a few words, everyone looked at Sean in horror. In the entire history of the Miracle Continent, Sean is probably the only one who dared to negotiate with the Lich and extract wealth from the Lich, right?

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

Think about it, Sean not only fooled those lunatics from the Peace Association before, smashed the place of the devil, but also killed the big shots of the Millennium Covenant Empire, and even dared to cheat the goddess of life. Cecilia would not be shocked at all by choosing to negotiate. On the contrary, she looked at the lich with some sympathy. After all, she had experienced so many things with Sean, how could she not understand Sean's temper.

As long as he is the one who makes the rules, it is tantamount to letting Sean make the rules of the game. And the rules of the game formulated by Xiao En, even a god must abide by it, let alone a lich. At this moment, Cecilia was wondering how much blood Sean was going to let the Lich bleed. As for whether the person who signed 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 an unconditional trust. (to be continued...)

PS: I'm too lazy to cut it, so everyone will look smoother.