Chapter 282: Car Crash
“My Lord, are you alright?”
The ice-cold and withered voice pulled the young girl out of the shock of everything before her. She retracted her slightly surprised gaze, raised her head, and saw Lei, covered in dust but already rushing to her side.
“Was there a problem with the sacrifice?”
She reached out and took Lei’s dry, thin arm to stand up. A faint throbbing pain came from all over her body due to the impact of the fall. The young girl slowly raised her head, her icy face filled with a solemn gaze. Her delicate eyebrows were tightly furrowed as she asked the governor beside her in a flat tone.
“Replying to Lord Lord, the response energy from the sacrifice was too powerful and exceeded the current level limit of the altar. I have already consumed two acolytes and transferred the divine gift received outside the city gate. It is my subordinate’s fault for not protecting you, my Lord. Please punish me!”
At this moment, the Lich’s head was lowered, and even the soul fire within his skull burned cautiously. Although the reason for the accident was the altar’s insufficient carrying capacity, regardless, as a subordinate, he had failed to protect his master and allowed her to be easily injured. Committing such a mistake meant that even his soul fire being directly erased would be justified.
“There’s no need for punishment. Take me to see it.”
Lei’s words caused the young girl’s eyebrows to twitch a few times, but she still gently shook her head and replied.
Previously, she was only pushed away by the residual energy waves. If she were to be serious, it was only equivalent to falling down. Apart from the initial fright, there was no substantial damage. Not to mention that her semi-undead body weakened the feedback from pain.
Moreover, for Kazumi, even if she were injured by this, she would not bear to punish or harm Lei, the governor who had proven his worth to the territory.
After all, punishing or even killing him would be a loss-making deal. It would be better to work twice as hard to repay it with production value.
“Yes, Lord Lord!”
Kazumi’s reply made Lei raise his lowered head. The temperature of the surrounding space dropped a few more degrees due to the gathering of ice elements, and an ice ladder from the altar entrance directly to the city gate outside appeared out of thin air before them.
“……Mm.”
Lei’s action was beyond Kazumi’s expectation. She originally thought the Ice Carriage was already flashy enough, but she didn’t expect such a stylish move as an aerial escalator.
At this moment, the quiet Corpse Crow nest in the distance began to squirm like living creatures. Then, countless black shadows gushed out from the nest and flew towards the altar.
Looking at the dense flock of Corpse Crows circling in the sky, Kazumi looked back at Lei, who was waiting quietly beside her, nodded, and stepped onto the ice escalator leading to the city gate.
……..
“Lei, what is this thing?”
Lei’s magic control ability was a bit stronger than Kazumi expected. Who knows how this medieval Lich came up with the idea of an automatic escalator. Kazumi originally thought she would have to walk over, but as soon as she stepped on the escalator, the entire ground spontaneously started to move.
Setting aside the matter of having Lei’s soul fire in her hand, judging by Lei’s current spellcasting ability, she was completely inferior to him without her summoned creatures. Therefore, until her magic control ability reached a certain level, the young girl would absolutely not grant control of the territory’s troops to this governor, even if it might bring certain benefits to the territory’s development.
Standing on the thick city walls, Kazumi observed this giant object descending from the sky through the shared vision of the Corpse Crows. However, she found nothing other than a large mass of soil and sand agglomerate and a large pit created by the heavy impact. She had to turn her head to the Lich beside her and ask.
“My Lord, if you are referring to the pile of things before you, they are just ordinary soil aggregates. And if you want to see what’s inside…”
Lei’s soul fire flickered, and the ice energy on his body converged into a sharp ice sword and shot towards the small hillock piled up in the distance.
“Hm?”
Seeing Lei’s sudden action, Kazumi let out a confused sound, but still turned her gaze to the strange dirt mound that had descended from the sky.
The power of the ice sword was not very great, only creating a small pit in the small dirt mound in the distance. The soil structure exploded and churned out, and at this moment, the soil blocks inside began to squirm. Then, from the gap in the dirt mound, several rotten heads that were somewhat familiar drilled out.
“Ghoul?”
Although it was the scarlet vision of the Corpse Crows, this familiar classic appearance made Kazumi immediately call out the identity of these heads. Ghouls were hiding in the dirt mound before her?
“Yes, Lord Lord. Please wait a moment.”
Lei nodded, turned into a wisp of ice, and then reappeared, holding a frozen ghoul in his hand.
“It’s just a normal ghoul… You mean, that whole area is filled with them? Is this… a response to prayer?”
After carefully observing the grinning ghoul before her, Kazumi had to admit that although these wild ones looked similar, they were still not as cute as her Little Black.
After determining through the system that they were ordinary ghouls, Kazumi gave up on studying the one before her and turned her gaze to the dirt mound in the distance.
The giant dirt blocks that had descended from the sky scattered on the ground to form a hill. If all of them were ghouls, then this number seemed a bit objective…
But a new problem arose, was this the so-called response to prayer?
“Yes, Lord Lord, in a sense, this is also a response to the altar’s prayer needs, but this being’s mood might not be very good.”
Following Lei’s meaning, Kazumi turned her gaze to the side of the dirt mound. Two long, concave imprints covering the entire dirt mound seemed to prove all this, as if some evil god who was constantly prayed to by believers had impatiently grabbed a handful of dirt and thrown it over, even bringing the ghouls inside along.
“……..”
Once this thought formed in her mind, it took root and grew. Thinking that the bestowed gift before her was garbage thrown by an impatient evil god, Kazumi was momentarily speechless.
But the young girl quickly adjusted her mindset. After all, her territory was in a state of revival. Ghouls, although weak, still had some combat power. Coupled with the amount of rotten soil in this small mountain, it was not a loss in any case.
It’s fine to pick up garbage. Improving strength is not shameful.
“Lei, can you distinguish how many ghouls are inside?”
“I’m sorry, the range is too large, and subordinate cannot do it.”
Listening to Lei’s reply, Kazumi nodded, placed her palms together on her chest, and the death energy within her stirred the death aura of the entire territory. The thin death energy formed a huge vortex behind the young girl, and endless decay and death auras emanated outwards.
“Then, let them all come out!”
As if summoned, the previously silent dirt mound began to squirm densely. Then, thousands of hunched, rotten humanoid creatures emerged like mushrooms after rain, like dogs smelling the scent of bones, their greenish-green eyes staring fixedly at Kazumi’s location.
Can you imagine what it feels like to be stared at by thousands of ghouls from an entire hillside with their greenish-green eyes?
Even Kazumi did not expect that the number of ghouls contained beneath this dirt mound would be so large. She originally wanted to use the pursuit of low-level undead creatures for death aura to summon all the ghouls hiding under the ground. However, the current scene was somewhat frightening to Kazumi.
Little Black within her body tentatively poked out a head, looking at the countless companions in the distance as if they were threatened, opening its mouth and letting out low, hoarse roars.
“Hoo—”
She let out a long sigh, suppressing the trace of restlessness in her heart. The initial dissatisfaction completely disappeared, and what remained was some unexpected joy. This generous evil god seemed to have given Kazumi a big surprise.
Such a considerable number of ghouls, even in a normal society without psychics, would be enough to cause a considerable undead natural disaster. For Kazumi now, it was possible to wipe out a small town before the heroes arrived.
Perhaps Little Black and the others felt danger from their own kind in terrifying numbers, but in the eyes of the young girl, these humanoid creatures with rotten skin and the aura of decay were another force she could control.
Several plans that were shelved due to insufficient hard power popped into her mind, and the young girl’s nervousness lightened a few points. She continued to maintain the output of death aura and looked at Lei beside her.
Regardless, even if their individual abilities were weak, the number visible at a glance was several thousand. The territory’s current area was not small. Kazumi still hoped to use Lei’s power to temporarily contain these guys and then slowly use her abilities to subdue these wild ghouls.
But what caught the young girl’s eye was Lei’s somewhat unsightly expression?
In fact, it’s hard to describe a skull’s expression with the word “unsightly,” but Lei’s current appearance truly confirmed these two words.
“My Lord, although it’s a bit late, I still advise you not to control low-level undead creatures in this way.”
“Why?”
Lei’s cautious words made Kazumi’s heart skip a beat. She asked the governor beside her with some doubt.
“Because, My Lord, your pure death energy will make them afraid rather than attract them…”
The cold and hoarse voice echoed on the city wall. The moment Lei finished speaking, the ghouls outside the city wall, as if receiving some command, from one to a group, and finally to an entire area, all turned around and fled towards the distant wilderness…
(Ps: The exam results were unexpectedly okay. I’ll be going to a training class the day after tomorrow, and I feel like it will be released next month. I can only say sorry for postponing it, dbq.)
(Another Ps: QAQ)
