The Rise of the Cemetery

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Pulling away the thick dust under the roots of the ghost tree, a piece of purple copper ore that is rare here is revealed.

The black robe finally nodded in satisfaction, stretched out his dirty right hand with well-defined bones, sharp nails and full of dirt, and scratched a few times in the air casually. A mysterious rune with green light appeared out of thin air, but after a slight pause, it turned and sank into the nearby ghost tree.

Slap.

A piece of dead old bark the size of a palm fell off from the ghost tree, revealing a secret hole hidden behind it.

The secret cave is not big, only about the size of a fist, but inside there is a miniature magic circle running flickeringly. And a mysterious black fragment is floating in the center of the miniature magic circle.

The black robe looked at everything in front of him, and couldn't help admiring softly.

On such a tiny magic circle, there are six or seven magical effects such as concealment, anti-prophecy, anti-detection, and demon sealing. It can be seen that the "person" who drew this magic circle has profound magic knowledge and master-level drawing techniques.

But today he ran to this desolate place, not for this miniature circle, but for the mysterious fragment floating in the center of the circle. Carefully putting the fragments into a magic sealing box, the black robe hesitated, and a small fireball smashed into the secret cave. In the bang of the flames, the inside crackled and burst slightly, and the traces of the existence of the miniature magic circle were completely wiped out.

And after finishing all this, the black robe looked around, sensing the dense aura of undead in the ghost tree forest, he couldn't help snorting coldly.

There were a few short whispers, and violent magic flames surged out from the thin body of the black robe, sweeping everything around at the speed of a galloping horse. Where the flames passed, the ghost tree blazed into a torch that soared into the sky, and the undead spiders and ghosts living on it were burned to ashes before they could escape. The swamp on the ground was also churning violently. It was completely boiled, and black water mist was rising, which vaguely mixed with the painful wail of the old hag.

The skinny body in the black robe walked silently through the turbulent magic flames, raising his hand from time to time to shoot a fire arrow or burst fireball, destroying and igniting the surrounding ghost trees. When encountering a guy hiding at the bottom of the quagmire, the black robe only needs a "meteor bomb" like a flint meteor to smash the quagmire into a deep pit, and everything inside will be destroyed in the next pillar of lava fire .

After making two circles around the location of the Midong Ghost Tree, and confirming that all the ghosts within a radius of 2 miles were killed, the black robe nodded in satisfaction, turned around and sank into a portal that was opened casually.

This terrifying forest, which was still full of ghosts and ghosts, became a mess in an instant, and became a real place of death with lingering smoke.

The exit of the portal is opened in a super huge magic square.

The entire Magic Plaza can be roughly divided into seven functional areas.

Near the direction of the city hall at the north end is the administrative area. The bustling crowds there are dense, and mysterious figures in various costumes and costumes can be seen everywhere, but there are more undead with big arms, round waists, and burly bodies. Seeing groups of hideous, hideous, tall and powerful terrifying undead lined up obediently, waiting to enter the city hall to handle some business, the black robe couldn't help shaking his head and laughing secretly.

These guys are good at robbing houses when they go out, and they don't change their faces when they eat flesh and blood, but they are all honest like elementary school students in front of the majestic city hall.

The northwest corner is full of noisy people, and there are constant clanging and knocking sounds. It is the location of the blacksmith shop, undead repair shop, and valuation shop. It is also the most frequented place for cemetery mercenaries. Every time they return from a war, the mercenaries in the cemetery need to go to the blacksmith shop to repair their war weapons. The undead repair field is also opened for mercenaries. As long as the soul fire is not extinguished, any type of residual limbs will be repaired here with the fastest and highest quality.

As for the valuation shop, it was also opened for the mercenaries who returned from the war. Once they have any doubts about some of the spoils captured after the war, they can take them here, and the veteran Lich who has the talent for identifying strange objects can conduct item identification. In this way, they can safely throw the identified items into the auction house, so that there will be no hateful incidents of secret casting of pearls.

Of course, these service places also need to charge. The most commonly used currency is of course merit points, which is a common currency officially supported by all cemeteries. As for the hardest currency, of course it is the elusive soul crystal.

Now it is no better than the initial stage of the large cemetery. At that time, there were very few items circulating in the entire circulation area, and the services that the cemetery city could provide were also scarce, and almost everyone had soul crystals. But now that the large cemetery has risen rapidly, there are more and more strange objects, various high-quality and efficient services emerge in an endless stream, and the price of soul crystals has also skyrocketed.

According to the latest quotes from the underground black market in Stratholme, soul crystals have soared from the initial one soul crystal = 100 merit points to the current one soul crystal = 2127 merit points. This made soul crystals hard to find on the market, and became the hardest currency that the undead were crazily hyping up.

These days, holding one or two soul crystals in your hands and swaggering through the big market will definitely reap the most envious looks. Of course, after flaunting your wealth, you should stop going to those dark corners, otherwise there will be many hateful guys at the God of Thieves level among the mercenaries.

It is said that the "Item Exchange Promotion Association" formed by a group of hateful thieves was also secretly established a month ago, and also obtained an organization license from the city hall, becoming an official organization officially recognized by the cemetery.

This can't help but make those big guys who like to hang out in the cemetery market very angry. They all hide their dimension bags, storage waist bags, and space rings in the most secret places on their bodies, and they are careful every time they are used.

In the northeast corner of the Magic Square, there are magical buildings such as auction houses and mission halls that must be opened in every cemetery city. The flow of people inside is undoubtedly the densest in the entire square. It can also be regarded as the business district of Cemetery City.

However, in addition to these officially opened function halls, the large streets extending backwards are also densely packed with many private shops and stores. Like Papa Chuck Enchanting Shop, Fulong Master Alchemy Shop, Undead Pet Shop, Kardashian Banshee Beauty Shop, Lyme Brothers Special Metal Wholesale Shop, Succubus Hut Massage Shop (囧)...

The southwest corner of the Magic Square is the leisure area, where most of the pubs, bars, and hotels are located. In addition, there are also distinctive ethnic buildings such as Nightmare Garden, Fighting Arena, Horror Castle, Howling Haunted House, and Knight's House.

However, fish and dragons are mixed here, and fighting is commonplace, and it belongs to the area with the worst law and order. Now it is a place where many undead boys who are preparing to advance to "thieves" practice their hands.

As for the southeast corner of the magic square, there is the temple area, where special magical buildings such as the hall of conjuration, the hall of evil gods, the altar of death, the column of bones, and the monastery of the undead stand next to each other. Most of the people who can haunt here are fanatics such as clones of the god of death, accusers of the dead, believers of evil gods, blasphemy mages, and sorcerers.

They either worship death, or believe in evil gods (Li Xun), or pursue chaos, all of them are horrible guys with extreme thinking and distorted behavior. Here, there is a large-scale evil magic ceremony almost every day.

Therefore, even the cemetery mercenaries are unwilling to take a step here unless necessary.

And in the south of the Magic Square, where the security is heavily guarded, it is an indispensable teleportation area for every cemetery city. Several large portals across planes are built here.

So although there are quite a few people moving around in this area, they all come and go quietly, never daring to make any noise.

As for the last functional area, it is the center of the magic square. There is a huge fountain pool, which is filled with the purest liquid negative energy. There is no need to soak in it at all, as long as you stand near the fountain for a while, the dense magic water mist can quickly replenish the energy loss of undead creatures. Therefore, many bone mages, corpse witches, and dracolich who have exhausted all their magic power in the magic experiment will come here for a leisurely walk.

Of course, some demonic mercenaries from the abyss plane did not dare to get too close to it, otherwise a level 15 high-level demon would be infected and change its original attributes in just half an hour.

The place where the black robe teleportation appears is the edge of the teleportation array area in the south of the square. After standing here for a long time, a cloudy portal will suddenly open, and some mysterious guys wearing strange robes will emerge from it.

While the black robe was looking around, a high-ranking Lich wearing a cemetery-style robe and a Stratholme badge on his chest appeared in front of him.

"Master Wingnos, you are back! His Excellency the Legend of Karthus has been waiting for you for a long time!"

The black-robed spellcaster is none other than Wingnos, a rising star in the dracolich family, and now has a spellcasting level of level 17. Hearing the word "Legend" at this moment, Vingnos paused slightly, and then quickly walked towards the magic tower as usual.

This trip, he has an important mission on his shoulders.

The black mysterious shard in the storage ring is of great importance to the king's duel that will be faced in the Necropolis two days later, and it cannot be lost. Therefore, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly rushed to Lord Karthus' magic residence under the guidance of the high-ranking Lich.

At this moment, the news that Karthus advanced to become a legendary magician has already spread throughout the large cemetery, and it has become the hottest topic among all the cemetery's subordinates. The first hero in the Great Cemetery who independently crossed the legendary threshold was actually from the dracolich clan, which made all dracolich proud, but also unspeakably envious and jealous.

As the first group of dracoliches who pledged their "loyalty" to Karthus, Vingnos was naturally entrusted with an important task. This trip to the Ghost Tree Forest is his first mission!