Bizarre Realm-Chapter 348 - 18: Undead Army! The Ultimate Monster Grinding Pool! (Part 2)
The last time he detected himself was while researching Identification Skill, when Activated Knowledge praised Shawn in a flattering tone.
Thinking about it now, it seems like a long time ago.
Mysterious knowledge flowed from Shawn’s mind, resembling the process of casting Identification Skill, only this time the mysterious knowledge was more controllable and orderly, without the previous flattering tone.
——Shawn[Aurelin Dual Cultivation][Knowledge][Mind][Thought Steel Seal][Aemon’s True Name]（Challenge Level 19）（Challenge Level 25+）?!
Activated Knowledge’s thoughts were suppressed, making it more like a tool.
After the mysterious knowledge surged through his body, the abilities Shawn mastered seemed to be transformed into challenge levels through a unique law, allowing him to detect part of the enemy’s traits though not specific capabilities, and finally deducing a rough challenge level.
"If that’s the case, then in future encounters, I can roughly calculate the opponent’s strength level."
Shawn’s own challenge level should be 19, as for the challenge level 25+, it’s likely that with the activation of Aemon’s True Name, he can cast Aemon’s True Name Law three times, which involves the three Paths of Purgatory: Demon, Devil, and Evil Demon.
However, if it’s not a life-and-death situation where he cannot defeat or escape from an enemy, Shawn wouldn’t activate Aemon’s True Name Law.
Shawn wasn’t skilled at tracking.
Fortunately, the Monster Doctor knew their stronghold’s location, although a bit of time was lost because of the bizarre Evil Spirit, in the area of Long-haired Forest, it’s difficult for the enemy to cast Teleportation Spell to escape again. Although this region doesn’t prohibit the casting of Teleportation Spell, opening a Teleportation Gate has a chance of attracting ’Witch’s Long Hair’.
Shawn bypassed the strange white moss, the scent of death grew stronger, with signs of excavation in the nearby ground, and beneath the dug-up soil glimmered a trace of black-red, with the hard rock resembling the hue of gray-white bones. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Shawn’s brows furrowed, he said solemnly: "Are you digging the Witch’s skull?"
The Monster Doctor respectfully replied: "Yes, Master."
Shawn noticed some scattered bone fragments, he asked in a deep voice: "Have you found it?"
The Monster Doctor shook his head: "No."
"We only dug up some bone fragments, used to create Skeleton Golem Guards."
They were digging the remains of a demigod, no wonder the stronghold was placed near the center area of Long-haired Forest.
Shawn detailedly inquired about the intelligence on this stronghold, it wasn’t very large, only had two staff members, but there were many other items present. As for the entity they served, the Monster Doctor himself didn’t know, since they weren’t qualified to contact more, only knowing the Upper Position people referred to It as ’Blood Father’.
"Blood Father?!"
Shawn frowned upon hearing it, closed his eyes to browse his memory, quickly finding some useful intelligence from Lady Hecate’s teachings.
——Blood Father - Aphrodis[Demigod].
——Domain: Undead, Flesh, Vampire, Corpse Demon, Undying Knowledge.
This demigod always remained reclusive, spending most of the time dormant in the sepulcher. Some say He is an immensely powerful Vampire, as his avatar often appeared in the form of a pallid young man, eyes drenched with blood, dressed in a luxurious blood-red robe.
However, in Lady Hecate’s Maze Library Archives, He was believed to still be human, at least partially human, because the Vampire race template isn’t strong unless it’s the progenitor, otherwise it’s not worth the transformation.
As to why it’s so clear, this guy once coveted Lady Hecate’s beauty more than two hundred years ago, wanting to pursue her but ended up beaten fiercely, seldom appearing in front of others since then.
He is among the few demigods on the Path of Death that still have desires such as libido.
It’s said that in nearly a thousand years, most demigods on the Path of Death lost their mortal desires, especially those old bones, but Blood Father is different. During His active period, He was famously drawn to the pursuit of physical desires within the Path of Death.
But later He initiated the ’Concealment’ ritual, rarely active in front of mortals for nearly a hundred years.
He is believed to be one of the demigods on the Vampire path.
However, Blood Father himself isn’t purely a Vampire, likely only a half Vampire.
Shawn appeared contemplative, then casually asked: "Are you collecting body organs because of orders from above, or is it on your own arrangement?"
The Monster Doctor lowered his head and replied: "Some parts are submitted, some parts kept for our experiments."
"The Path of Death requires a large number of corpses."
"Good resources are all divided up by those above, we can only find ways for ourselves."
Apparently, the Monster Doctor wasn’t very well off either.
Buzz.
Shawn’s figure abruptly stopped, the next moment a risen earth wall appeared before him, the Monster Doctor’s body too was instantly covered in a rock-like tone, a suspended skull head eerily emerged, in the violent explosion, countless white bone fragments shot forth.
Skeleton Trap.
The Monster Doctor seemed to suffer some injury, he whispered: "Master, be careful."
"He activated the trap device."
Neither of them tread the Wandering Path, detecting traps required professionals, Shawn wasn’t adept at it, so he could only dismantle in the most violent manner.
——Earthquake Technique.
The ground began to tremble fiercely, in the direction of Shawn’s clenched fist, a small earth mound of over ten meters gradually took shape, piled up by gathered soil and rock, during the violent earthquake, almost all nearby mechanisms and traps were completely destroyed.
A thick death aura erupted.
In Shawn’s sight, accompanied by a mist of negative energy dispersing, one by one lurking Resentful Spirits appeared in the gray mist, they were bound Evil Spirits, confined to this land. As the wailing of Resentful Spirits echoed, pale hand bones emerged from below, countless skeletons crawled up, with opened underground chambers spewing out magic soul corpses, mummies, skeleton guards, corpse demons, ghouls and such monsters, quickly filling corners of his view.
——Pale Lord[Undying Knowledge]（Challenge Level 16）!
Shawn’s Spiritual Vision locked onto a figure hidden among the zombie crowd, he was cunning, disguising himself as a zombie. If not for Shawn’s Spiritual Vision seeing the soul projection of the Transcendent, it would’ve been really hard to spot him through naked eyes.
Fighting with casters on the Path of Death, don’t expect to duel one-on-one, the enemy clearly initiated the Death Wake ritual array.
Knowing he couldn’t win in a solo match, he went on to awaken the undead army to gang up against Shawn.
The Monster Doctor warned: "Master."
"The core of the ritual array is underground, if not destroyed, these skeletons will endlessly revive."
Revive?
This is good news?!
Clearly something clicked in Shawn’s mind, he wasn’t rushing to catch that Pale Lord hidden among the zombies, with Mind Link alerting the Monster Doctor at his side, he calmly conjured a big fireball, then launched it, blowing all skeletons in a diameter of over twenty meters into a sky of shattered bones.
Indeed it can revive!
After Shawn blasted a large group of skeletons to smithereens, the shattered bones on the ground reassembled under the empowerment of some ritual spell, quickly forming new skeleton figures.
A tiny, fragmented amount of Soul Power was absorbed by Shawn.
They are far inferior to the previously killed Evil Spirit, but fortunately the quantity was substantial, piled together was quite considerable.
The enemy seemed intent on using the undead army to deplete Shawn’s Mana Pool, while hiding among them to seek a chance for a sneak attack, secretly controlling the Death Wake ritual array, extracting the previously arranged soul power underground, continuously reviving new undead to surround him.
Such a massive undead army would exhaust even a Legendary Level caster’s mana.
"Really grinding monsters!"
Shawn’s face wore a repressed look of delight, he unabashedly conjured another big fireball, not only skeletons could revive, even ghosts seemed transformed into Binding Spirits, revived by the Death Wake ritual upon death, those zombies not blasted apart would crawl up again.
Shawn had two Mana Pools, one Magic Pool, one Spiritual Energy Pool.
Now he wasn’t hurried to defeat the Pale Lord controlling the ritual, with so many monsters, clearing them all would surely earn him a level up.
This was the Undead Wizard’s savings over decades, not grinding them cleanly would be such a waste.
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(PS: Delayed by childcare. The saved draft has been sent out. Will work on producing more tomorrow.)
