The Rise of the Cemetery

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The retrieved black mysterious fragment was sent to Karthus immediately.

And in a magic secret room on the third floor of the Stratholme Magic Tower, a large-scale dark magic ceremony is being hurriedly prepared.

In a large magic circle composed purely of magic crystals, countless flesh and blood bodies are spliced ​​together in a rugged and strange posture, rising into a mysterious and bloody magic altar!

On the flesh and blood pedestal around the altar, complex three-dimensional patterns are pieced together with white bones, which makes people unable to restrain the desire to kill from the bottom of their hearts when they see it. These patterns spread from the altar to the edge of the secret room, seamlessly connected with the lines of magic runes on the wall, and there is a palpitating magic energy surging inside.

On the outside of the magic altar, there are layers of walls of bones, which are poured from corpses of different races. Hearts, intestines, heads and other things can be vaguely seen.

Countless Liches prostrated themselves in the magic circle, carefully depicting evil spells, their expressions were serious and fanatical, as if they were doing some extremely sacred and great work. The fresh corpse source plus abundant and strong negative energy makes the souls begin to appear.

The ghosts of various races covered in dark green and glowing faintly began to wake up in the magic circle, wandering and crying.

The souls of these massacred alien creatures were firmly bound within the magic circle. They just woke up, as if they hadn't figured out their current situation, and they were afraid of everything around them and flinched. As a result, some fragile souls began to weep softly, and some bolder ones began to run around curiously. Their illusory bodies passed through the piles of corpses, and they could not feel any physical obstacles at all.

But the space they can move in is only within the range covered by the magic circle. Once the ghost wants to escape from the magic circle, it will be blocked back by a light green mask that suddenly appears.

After Karthus got the black mysterious fragment, he immediately came to the secret room and carefully placed it on the altar.

After all this was done, a high-ranking Lich hurried to the side of the legendary conjurer and began to report on the progress of the magic circle.

"Dear Lord Karthus, 71% of the construction of the magic circle at Stratholme's main venue has been completed, and the number of blood sacrifice creatures is 1384, including 972 large and small demons, 7 dryads, 290 underground kobolds, and 115 sea tribes.

67% of the construction of the magic circle in the sub-venue of Sleeping Land has been completed, and the number of blood sacrifice creatures has reached 980.

58% of the construction of the Magic Circle in the Land of Chaos sub-venue has been completed, and the number of blood sacrifice creatures has reached 1120.

73% of the construction of the magic circle in the Solma sub-venue has been completed, and the number of blood sacrifice creatures has reached 780.

The construction of the magic circle in the Yinfeng City sub-venue has been completed by 69%, and the number of blood sacrifice creatures has reached 950.

Judging from the current progress, it is estimated that all the magic circles will be laid by midnight tonight, and the communication test will be able to be carried out by then!

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From his words, it can be heard that in addition to the grand blood sacrifice circle in front of him, there are four other branch circles in the cemetery that are also under construction simultaneously. Such a huge resource input and blood sacrifice requirements are enough to show that the dark magic ceremony that Karthus will perform is definitely an unprecedented grand ceremony.

Looking through the records in the annals of magic, I am afraid that only the "natural disaster of the undead" held when the Undead Council annexed the Kingdom of Moror Hed can be compared with this ceremony. However, such a grand and terrifying bloody sacrifice was only for the black mysterious fragment brought back by the black robe Wingnos.

Although there are many spellcasters in the busy cemetery present, there are only a handful of people who can know the origin of the black fragments. Because it comes from Necropolis' current greatest enemy, the undead master Kern. In order to avoid being sensed by such a guy, all the preparations in the cemetery were cautious enough.

Even the black-robed Wingnos was only told to pick up an important item at the beginning of his departure, and he was not to leave any witnesses during the whole process. Other than that, he himself knew nothing. This avoids the possibility of information leakage.

And the provider of the black shards was, of course, the legendary Lich who was eager to get away. I don't know what kind of cunning method it used to get the stomach fragment of Kern's close-fitting armor without being suspected by the other party.

These kinds of methods really made Karthus and other descendants of the dracolich feel sincere admiration.

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The world of the undead, a desolate and remote mysterious canyon.

In the entire undead world, due to the loss of a large amount of vitality, the dryness and barrenness of the surface became more and more intense. With the changes of the sun, the moon and the stars, the original black land became increasingly barren and became an out-and-out barren hills and wilderness.

However, the most terrifying thing about the mysterious canyon is not the desolation of the land, but the imbalance and chaos of the elements.

The lack of the origin of the plane has thus caused the loosening of the barriers of the plane, and the boundary membrane is obviously thinning, and in some special areas, this change is especially obvious.

And the mysterious canyon obviously belongs to this kind of area.

Although the howling and vibrating violent void hurricane outside the boundary cannot invade in a large scale, it has already caused an elemental imbalance in this part of the area. When the element particles are disordered to a certain extreme, a state of nothingness similar to "chaos" appears.

If any creature on the material plane suddenly encounters this "chaotic" vortex, the entire body will be burst by the magic power soaked in it, turning into a ball of gorgeous magic fireworks. The more magical creatures are, the higher the danger. On the contrary, some low-magic creatures can survive by luck.

As for undead creatures, which are powered by soul fire, even the lowest-level skeletons are considered magical creatures by default, so they are even less suitable for living in this environment.

Therefore, in the world of the undead, there are many "chaos" areas that even undead creatures are unwilling to easily set foot in. They often also become the "death forbidden area" of the undead world.

It has to be said that Kern, the lord of death, is also a genius of heaven, and he was able to find out these "death restricted areas" one by one, and properly place the undead believers he had collected in them.

Like the mysterious canyon in front of me, it is also a famous "death forbidden zone", and there is not even a single undead creature within a radius of a hundred miles. But as long as you can break through the chaotic vortex outside the canyon that spans more than ten miles, then you will find a large-scale underground ruin deep in the bottom of the mysterious canyon.

At this moment, those living in the ruins are the devout believers of Kern.

According to the news from Sazastan, Kern has prepared as many as twenty or thirty such hidden believer gathering spots. Each hoarding point is usually guarded by one of its holy fanatics, and the location is sufficiently hidden, so its various abnormal behaviors have not been seen through by other undead kings for tens of thousands of years. Let it walk safely on the continent of the undead as the oldest undead king.

Although Kern didn't trust the legendary lich, considering that the other party didn't have any companions or allies in the undead world, he didn't avoid it with many secrets. This undoubtedly allowed Sazastan to learn many of its secrets actively and passively.

In order to save himself to the greatest extent, Sazastan did not hesitate to take the risk of invading the two holy servants who followed Kern, and thus learned more secrets about Kern from their memories.

So in such a short period of time, although Sazastan has only been to one gathering point for believers, most of the remaining 26 gathering points have been excavated by it.

Of course, if the Legendary Lich knew about it, it meant that the Great Cemetery knew about it.

Sarzastan, who has already set up various contact methods, has become the deep throat of Kern in the necropolis, sending out various information in different ways every day. The Kern armor fragments obtained by the black robe Vingnos in the ghost forest are one of the masterpieces of the legendary Lich Sazastan.

The legendary lich moved his mouth, and the large cemetery broke his legs.

After receiving the message from the legendary Lich, the Great Cemetery also began to cast a large area of ​​nets, sending out dozens of elite troops, and at the cost of a large number of soldiers died, they managed to find out the 11 gathering points of believers hidden by Kern. .

Some other locations were too far away for the cemetery, so they could only give up temporarily, and instead focused on the 11 Kern "nests" that were within reach.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, none of Kern's lairs or the Great Cemetery directly invaded, but silently gathered troops around them. It is conceivable that as soon as the battle between the Skeleton King and Kern begins, and the cemetery gives an order, the elite of the cemetery will rush into these Kern lairs and kill them all.

As the avatar of the god and saint, Kern must have an inseparable connection with his followers. Once a large number of believers die, Kern's status as a saint may not be so stable.

This is also the most vicious external trick that many staff members of the Necropolis can imagine.

Of course, in order to add another insurance, the Great Cemetery took the risk of contacting the Legendary Lich, and obtained a personal item of Kern from it. Then, with the help of the powerful curse of the legendary Karthus conjurer, he added nausea and damage to Kern.

Afraid that these things were not safe enough, Li Xun even used the authority of the master of the cemetery to mobilize the Arcane Tower of the Pioneer. Very smoothly, the arcane tower was anchored in the void outside the realm of the undead 2 days ago. Once the battle situation is disharmonious, the arcane tower can rush into the world of the undead in minutes.

As for the most important party involved in this king's duel - the Skeleton King, Li Xun has already made complete preparations for him. All kinds of magical treasures and strange things for injuries, life protection, and body protection are piled up all over his body. . Later, the Skeleton King repeatedly stated that he could only support up to 5 magic treasures with his spiritual power, so Li Xun could only help him choose carefully with many dracolich in resentment.

Treasures such as shield gems, magic shields, and lava shields were eliminated immediately. This level of magic treasure can barely withstand a normal attack from the opponent, and wearing it on the body is simply a squeeze. Items like the Fireball Necklace, the Missile Storm Ring, and the Rainbow Spray Ring are not high enough in rank, and they may not even be able to scratch the opponent's oily skin, and they are "garbage goods" that need to be eliminated.

With such a calculation, there are really very few powerful magic equipment that fit the identity of the Skeleton King.