the only savior

Chapter 987 Undead King Zhang Xiaoman

"Your Excellency Pole Star, I am willing to swear allegiance to you in the name of the princess of the Full Moon Kingdom and the current Banshee Queen. I implore you to become the king of my family and lead us out of the predicament."

Seeing that Zhang Xiaoman hadn't responded, Xierna mustered up her courage to speak again.

As a high-level undead, she involuntarily exudes a cold force all over her body, which makes people feel hard to get close to.

Over time, Hilna's personality also began to change in this direction.

She couldn't remember how long she hadn't been in such an uneasy mood, maybe it was before she became a dead soul?

But Hilna can't help it, because the person in front of them is too important to them.

The disappearance of undead spells led the undead clan under the abyss to a road of no return leading to destruction.

Without the increase of follow-up clansmen, although the "life" of these high-level undead is long, the abyss is not peaceful.

There are still guys like Abyssal Demons there, threatening their safety at all times.

Any battle, any downsizing will be irreversible damage to them.

If things go on like this, one day these undead will be wiped out, and their family will completely disappear from this world.

In fact, it is somewhat inappropriate to use the word race to describe them themselves.

After all, before these people became undead, they belonged to human beings just like the people in the Kingdom of Edron.

But the Full Moon Principality was destroyed together with the Sunset Forest hundreds of years ago, and they began their exile career as undead.

The living are unwilling to accept them, seeing them as evil and terrifying aliens.

And the Sunset Forest, their former hometown, has also turned into a swamp, unable to shade them from the sun.

These undead are not afraid of light, but they don't like the feeling of being illuminated.

That would make them groggy, as if they were ordinary people who were now harmed by the psychic magic in the sun.

So, they ended up relocating all of them to the Howling Abyss, west of Sunset Marsh.

The unique cold breath in the abyss is a very good nourishment for these undead.

It is as if ordinary people are in a comfortable and constant temperature environment, making them regard it as their new home.

In this way, hundreds of years have passed, and these undead have long been forgotten, including themselves, and their identities as humans.

Now, they have defined a new race for themselves, which is the current undead race.

However, the undead cannot give birth, so naturally there is no way to supplement the clansmen. If they want to welcome new compatriots, they can only rely on the conversion of undead magic.

But undead magic is just a flash in the pan. After resurrecting their unlucky undead, they were just erased from the history books.

There is no relevant content in all the magic books that record it, as if a pair of big hands forcibly erased all the undead spells in the world.

Without undead spells, the number of these undead will naturally not be replenished.

Although they tried to develop something called evil spirit magic, it was not undead magic after all, and it couldn't convert new undead, so it couldn't solve their troubles.

In order to be able to fight against the demons of the abyss, Hilna and McAvey formed an alliance and joined the Binder Association.

After all this is over, the undead will get support from the living to eradicate those demons completely.

Zhang Xiaoman listened to this girl—let's call her girl—after describing all this intermittently, and he had a certain understanding of this lost undead clan in his heart.

It's just that understanding is understanding, but it's still a bit unrealistic to ask him to be some kind of undead monarch.

He himself is not from this world, and he may leave here at any time. Moreover, these are a bunch of undead, so what kind of effort is there for him to be a living person in it.

He doesn't discriminate against them or anything, he just has a lot of things to do, and he simply doesn't want to be burdened by such a large family.

Unless, these undead can have their own value.

"How many of your people are left now?"

Zhang Xiaoman asked.

He is a very sensible person, and he will not refuse because "this matter seems troublesome" without knowing it at all.

Anything that is beneficial to him, anything that can help him, he doesn't mind spending some time to understand it.

Seeing that the other party was willing to ask instead of directly refusing, Hilna's eyes showed a glint of hope.

"Including me, there are currently 279 members of my family left."

"More than 200 people? How come there are so few... There are not even three hundred...?"

"Yes, at the beginning our number was about 100 million, but after such a long time, those irrational low-level undead creatures have been corrupted, and now the rest are high-level undead with self-thought .”

Shirna explained.

Zhang Xiaoman also nodded, it is reasonable to say so.

In fact, in the eyes of these undead, only the real high-level undead who can think are considered members of the undead clan.

As for those low-level undead without brains, they are actually just walking corpses that can move.

"More than 200 people...not too many..."

Zhang Xiaoman stroked his chin and thought for a moment.

This number was much less than what he had imagined at the beginning. If he was asked to lead a race with a large population like Yohad and Regina, he would definitely not be willing.

After all, he still has a lot of other things to do, and he has no time to waste on those trivial matters.

But if there are only more than 200 people...

Zhang Xiaoman narrowed his eyes.

This is not impossible to consider.

This number is not large, at most it can be regarded as a large-scale armed force, and many large-scale mercenary regiments in Tara tower have more than this number.

And the undead of more than 200 numbers are all high-level undead, that is to say, they are all high-level professionals whose strength has reached the seventh level at least.

Even because of the evil spirit spells and the natural characteristics of their race, these undead are much stronger than those mercenaries of the same level.

The balance in Zhang Xiaoman's heart has shifted a little at this time, but he still has to ask a few more questions.

"Hirna, you plan to let me be your monarch, what do you hope I can do?"

Facing such a straightforward question, Hilna breathed a sigh of relief—if she still had breath.

She still prefers this straight-forward style to the twisted side-stepping.

Slowly raising her hand, the undead princess removed the black cloth that had been covering her cheeks, revealing her face for the first time.

It was a pale and bloodless face, and her eyes were ice blue, with little shimmers shining in them, adding a sense of mystery to her.

With an oval face, a cherry mouth, and a petite Qiong nose, this undead princess has an oriental face similar to Iffy's, which is unexpectedly sweet and cute.

If it wasn't for the icy breath of death that filled it, destroying this beauty, the appearance of this undead princess could have reached at least 95 points according to Zhang Xiaoman's aesthetics.

He knew that the reason why this "girl" who had lived for hundreds of years looked like this was because she was still a girl under twenty when she was transformed into an undead. will continue to age.

However, aging has stopped, but some common disadvantages of undead creatures still exist.

For example, on Hilna's cheeks, there are broken cracks all over her right face, which are caused by the lack of undead spell repairs for a long time.

Even high-level undead are not immortal.

Their bodies will also gradually decay, but the speed is much lower than those of ordinary low-level undead creatures.

Unlike low-level undead creatures, high-level undead can rely on undead spells to repair themselves.

It's like repairing a machine, thus achieving a state of pseudo-immortality.

This is why the undead would rather stay in the abyss and be neighbors with demons than return to the shore to be exposed to the sun.

The cold breath in the abyss can greatly reduce their corruption speed. At this moment without undead magic, it is to prolong their lifespan in disguise.

Any creature has the instinct and desire to live, even these dead undead.

They are naturally unwilling to really die when they can choose.

"I just hope that you can lead us to live."

Hilna pointed to the cracks on her face and said:

"My clansmen and I are heading for corruption. Many injured clansmen cannot be repaired and have completely left us. Although we have become undead, we don't want to die yet."

Her tone was very cold, but Zhang Xiaoman could hear a strong desire for survival from it.

He slowly raised his hand, and gently brushed the face of the undead princess.

An icy blue light gushed out from his fingertips, sinking into the pale skin of the opponent.

In the next second, Hilna's previously cracked face began to heal suddenly. The negative and negative structural power of the undead spell can not only harm the living, but also repair the bodies of those undead.

Hilna's expression lifted, and the blue light in her eyes seemed to become a bit brighter.

She hadn't felt such a long-lost relaxation for a long time.

The body that had already begun to gradually decay was supplemented by the undead spell this time, just like a dead tree in spring, allowing her spirit and senses to return to their previous sharpness.

Zhang Xiaoman withdrew his hand, looked at the recovered state of the other party, and thought that his guess was right, the undead spell really had a repairing effect on them.

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Xiaoman stood up from the seat, looked seriously into the other's eyes, and asked:
"Hirna, I can agree to your request, but you must obey my arrangement from now on, and I will not provide you with revival, I will only guarantee that you will not perish, even so, Do you want to persist too?"

Hilna didn't hesitate at all when she heard the words, and simply knelt down on one knee.

"Great undead monarch, from now on, you are the supreme king of our family, and your will is the goal we are pursuing."

The undead princess's decisive act of swearing allegiance made Zhang Xiaoman look slightly sideways, secretly thinking that this woman really deserves to have lived for hundreds of years, at least this kind of courage is something that many people don't have.

"Okay, don't call me the undead monarch or anything in the future, I'm not dead after all... You should call me Jixing, about the undead clan, wait until I go to the Howling Abyss to make arrangements, now You'd better go back early to rest and get ready for tomorrow's battle."

Hilna covered her cheeks with a black cloth again, and performed a court royal princess etiquette, saying:
"My lord, we undead do not need to rest, but if it is your will, I will go back to meditate now to restore my mana as soon as possible."

Zhang Xiaoman opened his mouth, and immediately didn't bother to care about her address, he just waved his hand, motioning for her to leave first.

Hilna walked out of the room unhurriedly, and then gently closed the door, her gestures were quiet and elegant, worthy of her status as the undead princess.

After the other party left, Zhang Xiaoman looked at the door that was closed again, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.

He has somehow become some kind of "Undead Monarch", a title that sounds like a big villain, and he was absolutely not happy in the past.

But now he is at least the Lord of Stars who founded the entire Star Alliance and spanned several worlds.

I have seen many scenes, big and small, and I no longer care much about these so-called judgments of good and evil, as well as the details of appellation.

So what about being an undead monarch, as long as the other party can help his plan and contribute valuable power to himself, then he doesn't mind including it in his camp.

Still the same sentence, although the more than 200 high-level thugs have only mastered low-level elemental power, in the future, with the repair of their own undead spells, they will help them master undeads that are truly constructed of dark spiritual power like Alculus Magic is not difficult either.

At that time, it will be equivalent to more than 200 younger brothers who are at least high-level spiritual enlighteners out of thin air. Such a force has even exceeded the average level of the current awakened members of the Star Alliance.

As for the issue of loyalty, Zhang Xiaoman is not worried.

If the opponent accepts his own power, he will be controlled by him. Undead spells are not kind and benevolent bright magic.

Although Zhang Xiaoman couldn't control them like he could completely control Alculus, but if he wanted their lives, it would be a piece of cake.

After sorting out his thoughts, and making a little bit of future development plan, Zhang Xiaoman also fell asleep peacefully while it was still early in the night.

PS: Happy Holidays to everyone!
(End of this chapter)