The Rise of the Cemetery

Kern, the master of death, was originally a god of this plane, and he belonged to the death pantheon.

Only such a guess can fit all the known information so far, and can also reasonably explain all the abnormalities that happened to Kern.

But for such profound and incomprehensible plane knowledge, Li Xun is nothing but an idiot, and can only honestly accept the knowledge bombardment of the dracolichs together with the Skeleton King.

In the dracolich's conjecture, long, long ago in the world of the undead, it must have been a grand world composed of complex races and hundreds of millions of creatures. Only from the vastness of the continent it possesses, one can imagine that this is a thriving large plane. In comparison, the Klein plane can barely be called a large-scale plane, but it is only a well-developed medium-sized plane.

From this, it can be imagined that in the undead world at that time, everything must be flourishing on the earth, there are many strong people, and there are many gods in the sky. Unfortunately, due to unknown reasons, this world was shattered. The chaos and annihilation of the rules caused by this will inevitably bring a devastating blow to the gods in the sky.

As the believers on the ground were unable to adapt to the great changes in the environment and died one after another, those gods who depended on the believers to survive could only choose to sleep helplessly. After the Kingdom of God disintegrated, these broken fragments of the Kingdom of God drifted into the endless sea of ​​stars.

So all the gods can't adapt to this great change?

No, one kind of god may be an exception!

That is the death god system.

If death gods really existed in this plane, then they must be the ones who can sustain until the end in this great change. Because the source of their beliefs is the dead, and the dead are precisely the special group that is least dependent on the environment and has the strongest adaptability.

However, they may be able to guarantee that the faith will not decrease, and even increase explosively compared to before, but the depletion of the source of the plane and the loss of the rules of the plane still cannot guarantee the existence of the gods of death.

You must know that the current undead world is not the same as the undead plane transformed from the abyss plane by the Great Cemetery. Although the two planes have great similarities, they are actually very different in essence.

Although the 38th layer plane occupied by the Great Cemetery is full of tombs and skeletons and zombies wandering everywhere, the origin and rules of the plane are intact, but the plane attribute is biased towards a single attribute dominated by negative energy. In the undead world, due to the damage of the plane, all the creatures on the plane could not survive the harsh environmental changes and were forced to transform into undead creatures.

It's like two ugly girls, one is ugly but still healthy, and the other is seriously injured and becomes extremely ugly before dying.

Therefore, even if the death gods in the undead world can survive longer than other gods, and there will even be an extremely short period of glory, when the plane as a whole sinks, they still cannot stop the fate of extinction.

However, the death-type gods are better than other god-type gods in that they have an extra buffer period, at least they don't have to face the inevitable death of faith failure and exhaustion of divine power so quickly.

If the dracolich present is replaced by the god of death, then if you think about it in another way, it will definitely use this buffer period to actively save itself.

So how will it save itself?

The gods rely too much on the rules of the plane to survive, and belong to the category most easily affected by the changes of the plane. So it will definitely find a way to break away from the Kingdom of God, so as to avoid a fatal impact on it when the Kingdom of God disintegrates. However, the laws of the plane do not allow a god to enter the plane with its body.

What would a god of death do if it knew it was doomed to fall?

Saint form!

If it does whatever it takes to survive, it can give up its divine body, strip away most of its origins related to priesthood and divinity, and then wrap part of its rules, perception and memory with the pure power of death. The way of coming is hiding in the plane.

In this way, when the Kingdom of God shatters and disintegrates, although the corresponding law impact and rule annihilation will severely damage it, it will not kill it. That gives it a chance to start all over again.

In this way, it can continue to survive in the plane as a pure death divine power energy body that has given up the kingdom of God and most of the priesthood, and only retains part of the divinity.

This is what scholars often call the form of a saint—a way of life that transcends the ordinary. Since the saint is actually just a large group of extremely pure spiritual energy, it can be combined with any substance. For example, if it combines with a human being that matches its attributes extremely well, it becomes a great Son of God. For example, if it is combined with a powerful artifact, it becomes a holy artifact.

This kind of spiritual energy body is already immune to the attacks of worldly weapons. Except for extraordinary power, mortals cannot kill them at all. Seriously speaking, it is a demigod-level existence in a special form.

According to the estimates of some scholars who claim to be sophisticated, a saint who walks in the world can at least be immune to worldly weapons below +1, and immune to magic attacks below level 3.

And that Kern most likely escaped the impact of the rules of the plane brought about by the disintegration of the Kingdom of God in this saint form, and survived. It's just that without the Kingdom of God, it is impossible to directly respond to believers. Kern, who had survived the years of ruin, could no longer regain his godly body, and could only hide among the undead kings in the form of a saint, slowly suffering through the years.

But the saint form cannot be maintained without the consumption of death power. For tens of thousands of years, how did Kern keep his holy body?

This is also easy to explain. From the altars of death temples, large and small, all over the world of the undead, Kern can obviously still maintain the lowest level of channels, and obtain supplements from death sacrifices. This is probably the only way for it to obtain the power of death.

Li Xun and Skeleton King were even more horrified after listening to the knowledge instilled by all the dracolichs in battle.

The other party used to be a god?

This... How the hell are you going to fight?

It's hard enough to beat a legendary undead king, but now the other party has turned into some shitty saint form again. What level is this? Wouldn't it be the terrifying twenty-eight or nine levels? How does this make Skeleton King, who has risen to level 22 by cheating, fight? It must be dead!

However, many dracolichs have repeatedly assured Li Xun that the current undead world simply cannot support such a high saint form, which is only twenty-six or seven levels.

After hearing the dracolich's assurance, Li Xun was not relieved, but rolled his eyes at them. Whether it is twenty-eight, nine or twenty-six seven, that is not a target that Skeleton King can deal with!

So the dragon lich can only come forward to popularize science again.

Judging from the performance of the current death master Kern, it is very likely that it has secretly retained a part of divinity and priesthood, which is of great help to it in collecting and transforming the divine power of death. But in some cases, it has become its most fatal weakness.

"The most fatal weakness?"

Li Xun has completely become a baby in the kindergarten today. What he hears and involves is the most precious wealth of knowledge in any plane. But he did not understand.

Divinity, clergy, godfire, godhead... He was stupid to understand these things, but it didn't prevent him from knowing that these were good things that mortals couldn't ask for. Any mortal who gets these things can immediately become a god. Even if he can't become a god, at least he can become an immortal demigod from now on.

How could such a thing become his Achilles' heel?

"Master, we have come into contact with so many kings in the undead world, have you ever seen who owns the domain?" As a personal think tank, Uzel can only continue to popularize science: "You know, in the plane of Klein , Domain is the standard equipment for legendary spellcasters!"

Li Xun was taken aback for a moment.

He turned around and thought about it, and realized for the first time that after coming to the world of the undead for such a long time, he had come into contact with three or four kings of the undead, but he had never seen their legendary realm! In Klein Continent, however, ordinary Legendary fighters cannot build their own Legendary Domain because their mental strength is not up to the standard. But those legendary powerhouses generally have domains.

At least, each of the five legendary liches in the Undead Council has domains!

"Why is this? This undead world was obviously stronger than Klein's plane before, and the undead king is not weaker than Klein's legendary powerhouse. Why do you rarely see their domain?" Li Xun really didn't understand.

"Master, the reason is very simple." Uzel replied patiently: "Because the rules of this plane are too turbulent and lost, anyone who puts his strength on the rules will not live long!"

What is the field?

A self-centered means to mutate and distort the original laws of the plane with its own power characteristics. To master the field, the prerequisite is to have a deep grasp of certain rules. Only after a deep grasp of this rule can it be possible to locally distort and alienate other rules.

Therefore, the prerequisite for mastering the field is that you must first master a rule!

But in the world of the undead, who else dares to touch the rules?

The gods who have the deepest grasp of the rules of the plane, and even can control the rules, have all fallen. In those years when the plane was most turbulent, all the guys who were coupled with the rules of the plane could not escape the impact of the rule changes. With these lessons learned from the past, who would dare to comprehend and control the rules of the later legendary powerhouses?

Therefore, the kings of the undead world generally do not have domains, not because they are not strong enough, but because they dare not master them!

"I understand everything you said, but what does it have to do with that Kern?" Li Xun still didn't understand.

In the end, it was Master Kel'Thuzad who resolved his confusion in the soul system.

That death master Kern, no matter whether he healed his scars and forgot the pain, or thought he could resist the impact of laws brought about by the turmoil of the plane's rules, he unexpectedly once again explored the old way of gathering priesthood and condensing divinity. This can be seen from its ability to briefly respond to the divine magic requests of believers around it, and it is close to success.

In other words, it has become more and more like a false god now.

However, throughout the ages, it is easy to destroy and difficult to build!

For such a half-baked false god, no matter how lofty it is now, as long as it can find ways to destroy its foundation in the mortal world, it will fall into the dust and mud in an instant, and become a victim of the backlash of the rules of the plane.