In a certain underground cave in the Necromancer Realm.
Here, the Necromancer King Zaguras had transformed it into his own palace. The cave was extremely stuffy and hot, because underground rivers of magma flowed through it, and on the surrounding walls grew mottled fluorescent plants that thrived in the intense heat. This gave the cave a faint glow.
In the widest part of the cave, Zaguras sat on his crude throne, one hand propping up his chin, showing a calm expression.
Of course, the calm was a facade.
His heart was now filled with unease.
In the Necromancer Realm, he was the sole ruler. Ye Shui, Posili, these young people, if placed in the outside world, would definitely be top-tier powerhouses, people who could inspire awe and fear wherever they went. But to Zaguras, they were just lambs waiting to be slaughtered here.
In the Necromancer Realm, he was the absolute master. The only thing he feared here was the realm’s original owner, the Headless Knight Selti.
But… Ye Shui had actually awakened the Headless Knight. How… how had he done it?
Zaguras kept comforting himself in his mind. Even if Selti had awakened, she was now just a useless head that could only hurl curses. She had no power. Although Ye Shui held three Necromantic Holy Relics in his hands, and if he learned necromantic spells like summoning spirits, creating spirits, or devouring spirits through them, it might indeed pose some threat to his rule. But, were necromantic spells so easy to learn?
Back then, Zaguras had deceived Selti and learned the methods of using necromantic magic from her mouth, mastering them proficiently, but it had taken a full ten years… Even if Ye Shui and Posili had enough talent and power, in such a short time, it was absolutely impossible for them to threaten him.
As long as he killed them during this period and reclaimed the Necromantic Holy Relics, everything would be fine.
Zaguras indulged in beautiful fantasies in his heart. As the ruler of the Necromancer Realm, he felt that he had been too nervous earlier, actually fleeing in fear upon seeing Selti… Suddenly, Zaguras opened his closed eyes, a hint of joy appearing in them: he could sense the disturbance in this world. Although the sensation was not very clear, it let him know that his undead army had discovered the whereabouts of Ye Shui and his group.
In the Necromancer Realm, there were a total of thirty-two undead at the second tier. Ye Shui called the undead of this tier Necromantic Generals, but Zaguras did not bother with such complications. He had simply numbered the thirty-two Necromantic Generals. When Ye Shui had exposed his identity by having Wu Shuang Lu Bu deal with a small group of undead, Zaguras immediately ordered Numbers Five, Nine, and Twenty-Seven, who were closest to that location, to advance on Ye Shui with their subordinates.
At the same time, he had dispatched two Necromantic Dragons to join the assault.
With so many undead forces, Ye Shui and the others would surely die without doubt!
Zaguras could not see the battle scene, but he could sense the gains and losses on the battlefield. He revealed a smile. Everything was about to end. Soon, Ye Shui and the others would become just another one among the endless undead… However, his originally expectant and excited expression suddenly turned grave.
“This, what is happening…”
They were decreasing…
He realised that the number of undead under his control was rapidly diminishing!
How was that possible? Ye Shui and the others had only been here for a day or two. Even with Selti’s help, how could they comprehend the power of necromantic magic so quickly? Without comprehending necromantic magic, how could they possibly subjugate the undead of the Necromancer Realm?
How had they done it?
This was a question he had already asked himself many times.
The surprise on Zaguras’s face turned to astonishment, and finally to near terror. His eyes widened greatly, as if he had forgotten to breathe. Of course, undead did not need to breathe in the first place, but the Necromancer King, in order to experience the feeling of being alive, had always forced himself to make these meaningless breathing motions. But at this moment, he completely forgot those habitual actions.
They were decreasing…
Finally, Number Twenty-Seven among the three Necromantic Generals suddenly extinguished in his consciousness. This meant that control over Number Twenty-Seven had been seized by Ye Shui and the others.
Before Zaguras could recover, the fires of consciousness belonging to Number Five and Number Nine also extinguished one after another in his mind.
With the three Generals defeated, command over tens of thousands of undead troops fell into Ye Shui’s hands!
Zaguras rose from his throne, his spiritual body trembling slightly. The undead he had personally selected to serve him closely in the cave noticed that their master was in a state of mingled fear and rage, and they all prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling incessantly.
“I still have two Necromantic Dragons in that direction… Ye Shui’s summoned giant dragon may be powerful, but it is useless against Necromantic Dragons…”
He comforted himself in his heart.
However, moments later, he sensed that those two Necromantic Dragons had also fallen into Ye Shui’s hands.
In the Necromancer Realm, the Necromancer King commanded all undead, but in the blink of an eye, three of the thirty-two Generals had been defeated by Ye Shui. This also meant he had lost one-tenth of his control over the undead.
Too fast, so fast that he was caught off guard…
“I cannot let them continue. Mobilise all undead, attack them!” Zaguras roared from his mouth.
…
High in the sky, Dragon Bao’s massive claws gripped the necks of two Necromantic Dragons respectively. Dragon Bao’s power had not yet fully recovered to its peak, but his body had grown large enough. The two Necromantic Dragons were even a size smaller than him. When he gripped their necks, Wu Shuang Cao Cao and Wu Shuang Dian Wei jumped onto the heads of the Necromantic Dragons respectively, delivering fatal blows.
The bodies of the two Necromantic Dragons began to fall powerlessly from the high sky. Their bodies seemed to rapidly turn to ashes, burning away completely, and then in those ashes, they swiftly reformed.
Undead do not perish, but the reformed Necromantic Dragons, under the rules where the strong prevail, had become undead under Ye Shui’s command. Wu Shuang Cao Cao and Wu Shuang Dian Wei jumped onto the bodies of the two Necromantic Dragons respectively, turning them into their mounts.
The battle thus came to a close.
An endless undead army had come to attack, but now on the map in Ye Shui’s grimoire, the undead army that had originally appeared in red had completely turned blue. The three Generals commanding these undead had been slain by Wu Shuang Zhao Yun, Wu Shuang Guan Yu, and Wu Shuang Lu Bu respectively, turning these tens of thousands of undead into Ye Shui’s subordinates.
Ye Shui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The spirit creations he had made were only from ordinary undead. These ordinary undead, according to the pyramid hierarchy, would rank below tiers seven or eight. After Ye Shui’s modifications, their strength had been enhanced, and they gained some bonus attributes and martial skills, but their inherent combat power could not compare to those enemy Generals.
If it were one-on-one, they would not be opponents for the Generals at all. But the key was that Ye Shui’s spirit creations had been endowed with the ability to devour spirits. Through devouring spirits, they could then unleash the Wu Shuang Frenzy mode. This was akin to building up qi in a game. Every time the spirit creations killed an undead, they could accumulate some spiritual energy and then use Wu Shuang Frenzy.
In other words, the more rabble undead the enemy had, the stronger Ye Shui’s spirit creations became. This was the true essence of Necromantic Wu Shuang.
The battle had lasted about half an hour and had now concluded. Even Selti, who had witnessed the fall of the gods and that war of the divine, was shocked into speechlessness at this moment. She had high hopes for Ye Shui and his group, but she had never expected Ye Shui to perform so well, as if it were just a game… Well, actually, Ye Shui had indeed felt like he was playing a mowing-the-lawn game throughout…
As for Posili… the poor girl was now squatting alone under a large rock nearby, her fingers unconsciously drawing circles on the ground, with an expression that said do not bother me, I need to be alone.
When Ye Shui had said that Posili’s Ice Queen should only handle defence, she had been very unhappy, thinking Ye Shui was underestimating her too much. But in reality, she now realised that Ye Shui had said that only to take care of her. During the battle just now, her Ice Queen had stood by her side the entire time, waving its fists and cheering, fulfilling the role of a cheerleader… and incidentally, it had been captured by Wu Shuang Zhao Yun. Rest assured, it was now happily running towards Wu Shuang Zhao Yun.
How could this be!?!?
Green stood by Posili’s side, trying to comfort her. But due to his lack of experience in talking to girls, he stammered and did not know what to say. Still, Green’s concern eased Posili’s mood a little. Like those girls who were still upset, she decided to sulk by ignoring Green to vent her inner grievances.
However…
“Wow, Wu Shuang Diao Chan has started dancing!” Green suddenly exclaimed, then turned and ran off.
Posili: “…”
Wu Shuang Diao Chan was dancing gracefully, stunningly beautiful. But… the object of her dance was not Wu Shuang Guan Yu or Wu Shuang Lu Bu, but Wu Shuang Zhao Yun.
Just now, Wu Shuang Zhao Yun had been the first to shout “The enemy shames me by stripping my clothes” and slay a General, so Wu Shuang Diao Chan’s reward dance was rightfully for him.
Meanwhile, Wu Shuang Guan Yu and Wu Shuang Lu Bu, the two spirit creations, immediately became extremely irritable, shouting and yelling loudly to vent their anger, and vowing to claim the enemy General first in the next battle.
“Wow, that Wu Shuang Guan Yu’s face is turning red from anger!!” Debbie exclaimed.
“Er…” Ye Shui was somewhat speechless. This was not his original design. Guan Yu’s face turning red because Zhao Yun had stolen his girl…
But it was fine this way. Wu Shuang Diao Chan’s stimulating buff was still in effect.
Selti walked up to Ye Shui with a face full of emotion, admiringly saying, “I did not expect you could launch a counterattack against that brat Zaguras so quickly. You have surprised me too much.”
“The tribal alliance is probably already outside the City of the Divine People by now. The battle outside is about to begin. We do not have much time to delay here.” Ye Shui said softly. He looked at the map in the grimoire. “Zaguras is gathering the other undead armies to come at us. Next, we push straight through!”
