The Rise of the Cemetery

The smoke after the war has just cleared, and the demon castle Gundrak presents an apocalyptic and decadent scene in the eyes of the young mage.

The bronze gate of the steel castle has been tilted to one side, and it is covered with purple, black and smelly flesh and blood residue. Most of the spikes have been broken, and only a few are still intact, with a string of grisly and bloody remains of lickers impaled on them.

The once tumbling hot molten road has now been condensed into a rugged rock bed under the erosion of endless dead energy, and then covered with a thick layer of countless demons and undead corpses, almost becoming a road of corpses. But now, the young mage is walking on such a road of ups and downs, walking towards the lair of the once glorious lord of the plane.

The Corpse King and some of the cemetery's elite are cleaning up the last stubborn diehards in the castle, while Death Prophet Farina and Forgotten Mage Parkvik lead troops to hunt down the fleeing enemies and stay at the gate of the Iron Castle to welcome the young mage The only one left is the seasoned necromancer Kel'Thuzad.

Many big and round loathes, who looked like a mountain of meat from a distance, moved out in groups, pushing aside the piles of demons and undead corpses on the road of corpses, barely clearing a bloodstain for Li Xun, the master of the cemetery. dirt road.

Li Xun looked at the corpses piled up like hills on both sides of the road, and then at the wet road in the middle that was mixed with the purple blood of demons and the black blood of undead, his whole body was about to collapse.

It seems to me that I don't even want to be the Great Demon King! Look at this style, look at this scene, even if Li Xun said that he is a good person with good intentions, no one would believe him.

Sighing deeply, the young mage cast a flying spell on himself, and "walked" across the welcome road lightly and frivolously.

Li Xun's trip is not here to check and accept this steel castle, nor is he here to experience the aftermath of the war. In response to the demon wizard's request, he built a cemetery city at the location of the plane's authority, as a cessation of the plane war, and declared his authority to the abyssal creatures on the entire 43rd plane.

Maybe it won't be long before the cemetery forces will have their own name and territory in the bottomless abyss. However, considering the demons' recognition of power, only level 13 demon wizards are not suitable to take the stage, so the cemetery forces are playing the banner of the level 19 Barlow flame demon Serge.

The first fortification site was not chosen on the side of the steel castle with the best location, but somewhere 5 miles away.

The same large number of high-quality demon corpses, the same mysterious sea of ​​bones rooted in the origin of the plane, this set of procedures is already familiar to young mages. At the moment when the churning cold and dead air condensed into a sea of ​​bones, the angry plane consciousness did not choose to show up, but sent his roar into the mind of the young mage from a long distance.

The young mage smiled faintly.

Dignity is earned by fighting! A homeless dog who only dared to hide in the distance and bark, still has the dignity of Lao Shizi?

The new bone sea is built, and the following are various attempts.

Hundreds of selected high-ranking corpses muttered continuously around the gray sea of ​​bones, chanting the sealing mantra full of dark and evil aura, while chanting, they prostrated themselves to the sea of ​​bones. .

The soaring gloomy beam of light enveloped the entire sea of ​​bones.

The arcane puppet possessed by Issa was accompanying the young mage, while repeatedly observing and detecting the progress of the sealing technique with its compound eyes flashing frequently, while sending specific instructions to everyone in the field through the young mage's soul system. Every high-level corpse witch is within the soul fire.

The entire sealing ceremony came to an end step by step under delicate and careful control.

Amidst the rumbling thunder, the entire area where the bone sea was located was trembling and humming continuously. Amidst the continuous abnormal noise of clicking, bottomless vertical and horizontal gullies appeared on the ground. These ravines are roughly distributed on the periphery of the sea of ​​bones, and gradually stripped out the sea of ​​bones in the middle with the tendency of being surrounded on all sides.

Li Xun took a deep breath, and there was a trace of excitement on his clean and white face. The sealing technique has reached the final step, and the front is basically smooth. As for whether the sea of ​​bones can be completely sealed, it all depends on this last step!

Li Xun and Yisa cooperated tacitly and at the same time issued instructions to all the high-ranking corpse witches who participated in the sealing ceremony. Following the sudden sound of chanting spells, all the high-level corpse witches raised their hands high and began to cast spells to close the last gap that locked the sea of ​​bones.

There was no way for everyone to do anything to remedy it. When the magical connection between the sea of ​​bones and the origin of the plane was cut off, the dead energy compressed thousands of times in the sea of ​​bones lost control.

All of a sudden, there were strange screams in the arena, hundreds of portals and arbitrary doors were suddenly opened, and high-level corpse witches jumped into them in a panic. Even young mages are the same.

It's a pity that the explosion came too abruptly and quickly, leaving no time for everyone to react. Therefore, when the huge roar was mixed with thousands of broken gravel and debris, there were still more than a dozen corpses who did not escape in time.

Just as the slow-moving arcane puppet chased the young mage and jumped into the portal, a huge cloud of dust rushed past. Of course, the debris flying like bullets would not let go of the slowly closing portal, and the young mage's screams were mixed with the ping-pong noise.

Ten minutes later, the young sorcerer with a big swollen head and the arcane puppet behind him, who was covered in broken stone chips, returned to the place where the sea of ​​bones was.

The sea of ​​bones has completely disappeared, leaving only a bottomless crater in place, and within a radius of 3 miles, there are traces of the shock wave of death energy everywhere. The bare ground is full of tangled residual dead air, corroding the originally fiery red and hot rock walls into scorched black and dark loose black soil. The breath of death in these black soils is already comparable to the graveyard of a hundred-year-old corpse.

Seal failed!

The reason for the failure is that once the deep connection between the sea of ​​bones and the origin of the plane is severed, the gathered dead energy will lose control. The more dead air gathers, the thicker it is, the greater the power of the explosion and the wider the range.

The corpse witches who came back together searched and rescued, and finally recovered some of the bones of the dozen or so corpse witches in the surrounding area. There are 5 soul fires that have not been extinguished. Although the limbs are severely damaged, they can be saved as long as they are sent back to the mausoleum to recuperate. "Yes!

Looking at the miserable scene in front of him, the young mage also showed a rare ruthlessness, and hissed loudly: "Go to the next location!"

So three hours later, another earth-shattering explosion of negative energy shook the world.

Seven hours later, the third explosion...

The day passed like this.

The young mage who was resting and recovering in the temporary camp tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

The whole day's experiment, not to mention the mana and energy consumed, not to mention the damaged high-level Lich, this kind of helpless depression alone tortured his mind.

The failure of the experiment means that the road to conquest of the alien plane set in the early stage will come to an end without a problem. Even if Issa can find a way to send individual heroes into the enemy-occupied area, without the sea of ​​bones that can continuously bring in soldiers, there will be no vertical and horizontal teleportation, then conquering the alien plane will be a journey to death.

Counting on one or two heroes to grow slowly on the different plane, play different worlds to fight for hegemony, and eventually dominate the plane, it is estimated that Li Xun's bones will not be seen until the weathering of the day.

The more he thought about it, the worse his mood became. The young mage lay in his small tent and turned over the biscuits.

But in the end, it was Siris' unintentional question that pointed the young mage in a new direction.

"Since it's not enough to directly seal the sea of ​​bones, why not temporarily replace the origin of the plane with something else?"

"Well……?"

Li Xun couldn't help holding his head, and began to think over the possibility.

yes! One of the main reasons for the continuous failure is that the sealing technique will sooner or later cut off the connection between the sea of ​​bones and the origin of the plane, which leads to the gathering of dead energy out of control. But if something can be used to temporarily replace the origin of the plane and be sealed together with the sea of ​​bones, this idea is also highly feasible in theory.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, Li Xun couldn't help jumping up, and while pacing quickly in the tent, he asked all his subordinates in the soul system for possible items that could replace the origin of the plane.

What is the origin of the plane?

There is only one word difference between a plane and a demiplane, but the real difference between them is vast. Apart from the huge difference in size, the only thing that determines their status is the origin of the plane.

It is said that some demiplanes cultivated during the period of the Arcane Empire once reached a size of nearly a thousand kilometers, and there are countless creatures and resources on them. But even so, they are still out-and-out demiplanes. Why? Just because they don't have plane origin.

The origin of the plane is not an item that can be realized, but an aggregate of rules, a controller that includes a certain plane's ecosystem. It is ethereal and invisible, but it retains a deep connection beyond ideology with everything on the plane.

When the demiplane develops to the extreme, under the scouring of time, the origin of the plane may be bred. The birth of the origin of the plane usually means the transition from a certain half-plane to the plane, and it also means that this half-plane has been able to build a self-consistent and balanced ecological system, and has since joined the ranks of the planes.

And a plane, only in the slow self-growth, gradually expands its own space, carrying more creatures, species, and resources, so that it can further include a vague plane consciousness in the long development. The plane consciousness is more like the collective wisdom of plane creatures, a kind of vague and childish plane consciousness, more like a fetus with instinctive reactions.

Li Xun remembers that in his previous life, there seemed to be a saying called group intelligence.

For example, geese always migrate in groups to reach their destinations accurately, but individual geese tend to get lost. Similarly, in the great migration of bison in Africa, a single bison cannot accurately remember the route, but a large number of bison will appear probabilistically accurate. For another example, when people guess the price of something, and average the results of everyone's guesses, they often get the correct price.

Probability increases the overall intelligence of the crowd.

And the consciousness of the plane is very similar to the group intelligence attached to the origin of the plane.

Of course, as long as the consciousness of this plane is given long enough, sooner or later it will have super wisdom beyond all creatures. But this so-called time is an astronomical number that is enough to scare people to death, and even anything related to the plane is unfolded in units of ten thousand years.

Uh... think too far!

Li Xun couldn't help tapping his head lightly, and began to try his best to pull his thinking back to the original plane.

In the final analysis, the origin of the plane is also an aggregate of rules, and it cannot be separated from the category of consciousness and energy. If you find a creature with strong enough soul consciousness and life force to replace it, can it also replace the origin of the plane in the generation of the sea of ​​bones? What about the role?

Well, it's worth a try!