Chapter 119 Death and Rebirth
Chapter 119 Death and Rebirth
After accompanying Bettina for a while, Wu Yue came to the southeast of the Alterac Mountains. Although the Alterac Mountains are now within the territory of the kingdom, the residents in the mountains are actually very mixed, including humans, trolls, undead, tree people, and orcs, many other intelligent races.
Humans mainly live in the north, and trolls basically serve as soldiers to guard various human settlements. Orcs mainly live in the southwest, while treants and undead mainly live in the southeast. The southeast is also the largest entrance to the Alterac Mountains. Wu Yue arranged for the undead succubi and treants to live here with the intention of letting them serve as checkpoints.
The outpost that originally stood here was already a bit dilapidated in order to resist the reinforcements from Hillsbrad Foothills before Wu Yue conquered the Alterac Mountains. Although Bettina arranged for people to repair the outpost afterwards, the population of the Kingdom of Alterac suffered a major purge, so there has not been enough manpower available, and it has now become a gathering point for the undead.
The undead succubus wandered around the watchtower aimlessly. In fact, after experiencing what it was like to be an undead, she felt a little bored. The undead had no sense of taste, and their perception of the surroundings was very dark. They could not experience many things that living people could experience, so after a brief excitement, the succubus began to feel a little bored.
The only thing that could bring her pleasure now was to use her powerful mental power to explore the surroundings and control the undead. The undead who were resurrected by the death mage had more or less some self-awareness. Most of them were demons, and a small number were humans from the Kingdom of Alterac. Now, only under the command of the succubus, these undead knew what to do.
As for the tree people, they live in the surrounding woods and are dedicated to maintaining the trees. After being transformed from demons into tree people by the goblins, many of the original demons actually began to be able to communicate with nature and showed some signs of druidism. Now they have found their goal - planting trees. They seem to want to plant plants all over this snow-covered mountain range.
By the way, the tree people seem to have found their own way of reproduction. They seem to only need to touch the plants and transfer some of their energy to reproduce new tree people, but this is not without cost. Every time they transfer a part of their energy, they will become more and more rotten until they eventually wither and die.
Wu Yue came here to solve the problem of the reproduction of the undead. Generally speaking, the undead are summoned from the shadow world by necromancers using necromancy, and the souls are placed on the original corpses, and the activity of the corpses is maintained by the energy of death. However, the undead do not have similar spellcasters. Wu Yue can use the energy from the world to forcibly act as a necromancer.
But that would mean he would have to be the main force, so he gave up the idea. Instead, he thought of another way, which was to create a basin where a large amount of death energy gathered. Then, by throwing the corpses in and adding appropriate souls, they could be resurrected as undead.
Wu Yue intends to use the power of death in the world to achieve this, but his plan also requires the cooperation of the undead in the Alterac Mountains, so he needs to find them first.
After arriving at the outpost, Wu Yue discovered that there had been significant changes here. The breath of death began to become stronger, and there were slight signs of withering and corruption on the ground. This was normal. The undead would spontaneously absorb the energy of death to maintain the activity of their bodies. In this process, the energy of death would dissipate uncontrollably, which was unavoidable.
The succubus finally felt Wu Yue through the weak connection. She looked out the window of the watchtower and saw Wu Yue standing in the open space in front of the tower, while the undead around him ignored him. Her lips rose slightly, and she followed the street from the top of the tower and slowly walked down the stairs.
The door of the watchtower was opened, and Wu Yue saw the succubus. She walked with brisk steps and twisted her hips slightly. Her charming eyes and her dark blue skin gave Wu Yue a special feeling of excitement, but Wu Yue had already learned to control himself, and the feeling was fleeting. He directly told the succubus his purpose.
"I intend to use this tower as a place for you to increase your population!"
"Oh!" The succubus was a little disappointed when Wu Yue didn't care much about her performance, but his next words gave the succubus some interest. Since she had some contact with Wu Yue, she was no longer cautious at the beginning and began to release her nature.
She slowly approached Wu Yue, then walked behind him, rested her head on his shoulder, tilted her head slightly to look at Wu Yue, and said in a lazy tone
"It seems that you will soon have an army of the undead, my lord! Do you want us to celebrate together? Hmm!"
Wu Yue felt a slight chill on his shoulder. Although the succubus was already undead, its body didn't stink. Instead, it exuded a light, refreshing scent, like the snow that had fallen in Alterac over the years. However, Wu Yue had no such thoughts right now. It wasn't that he rejected the undead; he simply wanted to get the job done first.
Endless darkness began to surge around Wu Yue. The succubus's eyes immediately changed and returned to normal. She moved her head away from Wu Yue's shoulder and moved herself back.
Death, like black fog, gradually condensed in the watchtower, and the undead creatures inside suddenly became active. For the first time after death, they felt the revival of their minds and the strength of their bodies. When the breath of death became thick enough, Wu Yue began to fix it.
Wu Yue doesn't know magic, so he can't use magic to keep this energy in place, but his world also contains the power of death, and the world naturally has a fixed nature towards energy, so what Wu Yue does here is to let this watchtower be stained with a trace of the power of the world, so that it has the cohesion towards death.
After a while, the surge of energy finally stabilized, and the watchtower had changed drastically. It looked gloomy and eerie, and if you walked in, you could feel a cold breath coming.
Wu Yue pushed open the door of the watchtower. A cool breeze blew on his body. He walked straight up. The succubus followed Wu Yue into the tower and followed behind him.
Soon, Wu Yue reached the top of the tower. The breath of death here was the strongest in the entire tower. Wu Yue took the Naga's corpse out of the world and threw it on the ground. It was like hot water meeting boiling oil. A violent reaction occurred in the tower. Countless death energies poured out from each floor and gathered at the top of the tower.
The energy of death nourished the corpse of the Naga, stimulating its soul that had not yet gone to the Shadow Realm. Slowly, the corpse began to twitch slightly. Then the Naga opened his eyes, his snake tail began to swing again, and after supporting his body with both hands, he finally returned to this world.
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