Lord of Rot

Li Qi stepped over the corpse with a torch in hand. This tomb... looked more like a hole made by a mouse. The further you walked in, the more winding it became.

Fortunately, the cave is very simple and there are no side roads.

Just walking so far for a while made Li Qi's legs sore. He strongly suspected that he had now reached the border of the Porcupine Territory. Maybe he could smell the sea breeze if he walked forward for a while.

"Pampered nobleman!"

He complained and rubbed his legs. Even if he wanted to regret it now, it was too late. He turned around and walked back to get nothing, but maybe he could find something if he went forward?

With various emotions in mind, Li Qi finally reached the end. This was a spacious stone room with a coffin lying across it. A huge magic circle was carved below the coffin, but the lid of the coffin had been lifted.

"I guess that rotten guy originally stayed here."

He glanced into the coffin and thought of the rotting corpses that the four farmers had killed with all their might.

There was only a pile of pitch-black gelatin in the coffin, and a human figure outlined in white lines.

He searched carefully, unwilling to return empty-handed, and by his luck, he found a bag.

The bag, sewn from deerskin, was filled with gold and weighed about a dozen pounds.

There was also a book on the side. The cover was made of someone’s skin. It felt smooth to the touch, like a girl’s thigh.

He stared at the book a few times and determined that there were tiny pores on the book.

Li Qi trembled and almost threw the book away.

If the real Baron Reacher were here, he would probably roar "Evil! Heretic!" and then burn the human skin book with a torch, but Reacher who came from time-travel didn't think so. He opened the book and used the torch to Read slowly in the flickering firelight.

At this moment, he sincerely thanked the late Baron Leald Clarence. The knight status he earned through hard work allowed Li Qi to have a teacher to teach him how to read since he was a child. Otherwise, Li Qi would definitely have a headache looking at a series of serpentine words.

This book comes from a certain scholar who ignored taboos and studied corpses in an attempt to gain the secret of immortality. In the end, he succeeded and restored the ability of corpses to walk. When he showed this technology to other scholars, the scholars called him " Heretic, expel him.

He hid in the mountains and concentrated on studying and perfecting his academic studies, but he found that his research results related to corpses had unknowingly exceeded those of life research.

At the end of his life, this necromancer planned to transform himself into a corpse in exchange for endless time, but judging from the corpse outside... he failed.

In the legacy of the Necromancer, it is recorded how to transform corpses into zombies that can move. In his records, he also successfully created higher-level zombies with intelligence, which he called ghouls. They died as they grew older. Most of what the spiritual scholar created were corpses. He didn't bother to create corpses that were like cannon fodder. He even had the fantasy of finding a dragon's corpse, but he never succeeded until his death.

Li Qi looked at the record excitedly, this was exactly what he wanted! Something that can save one's life.

Is it taboo to manipulate and study corpses? Fuck the Four Gods!

"10 ounces of gold. It works best if there is salt. A complete corpse. Any injuries on the corpse need to be filled with gold. If rare magic materials can be added, there may be mutations. But I have nothing now. Just gold and Corpses, and by the way, magic circles."

The depiction of the magic circle was very complicated, and Li Qi doubted whether he could complete the imitation in one day. Fortunately, the deceased necromancer left a complete coffin, and underneath the coffin was a huge magic circle.

"Thank you to the Four Gods for your blessing!"

Li Qi walked back and dragged one of the four farmer corpses back. If it weren't for the necromancer's corpse that obviously did not meet the condition of "complete corpse", he would definitely have dragged it over.

He put the corpse into the coffin, weighed out 10 ounces with the scale in the tomb and placed it on the corpse's chest. Then he used about a pound of crushed gold to fill the wound from the farmer's chest to his stomach. Now was not the time to feel sorry for gold. Then he closed the coffin lid.

He was exhausted from transporting the body and moving the coffin lid, and was panting.

Recite the mantra and then just wait.

It was a string of meaningless curses that could only make various strange sounds, but after Li Qi recited a few sentences, he found that they sounded very smooth. It sounded like "quedinghechengfuhua" or "kong'er" in Chinese.

The dark space makes it impossible to sense the flow of time.

Suddenly there was a shaking sound in the coffin. Li Qi stood up and pushed open the coffin lid with great effort. The heavy coffin lid fell to the ground with a "boom" sound. The sound rushed out through the crypt and was eventually swallowed up by the darkness.

The farmer's body opened its eyes and stared blankly above. The gold had melted into the wound on its abdomen, filling the wound and leaving a golden scar.

He successfully created a dead body!

Li Qi took out the book and found a small spell developed by the necromancer scholar in order to control the unintelligent corpses. He could control the movements of the corpses with his own will, but this required super mental strength.

Baron Li Qi, who regarded the dead body as his life depended on it, chose to give it a try without hesitation. The strange thing was that he was not as strenuous as recorded by the necromancer scholar. The whole process of casting the spell was very easy and smooth. When he stopped, his consciousness had already Completely controlling the dead body in the coffin.

"I might be a magic genius"

In Dongxia, it is said that only scholars can study magic, but it is just a private behavior. Studying magic and arcana is contrary to the beliefs of the sect. In this country, belief in gods and loyalty to the monarch are above all else, at least That's what it says on the surface.

After thinking that he might be able to learn the legendary magic in the future, he turned his mind back. He controlled the dead body to sit up from the coffin, and saw the young baron holding a torch next to the coffin and wrapped in white cloth.

Under his long black hair is a pair of black eyes. It is said that he inherited his late mother's handsome face. Because his father was the former Porcupine Baron, he does not look thin at all.

One consciousness controls two bodies, which is a little confusing, but after a little control, he found that the problem didn't seem to be too big.

"Maybe this is the benefit of two souls merging?"

Thinking this, Li Qi controlled the dead body in the coffin to crawl out.

The corpse was clumsy, staggering forward, and gradually became familiar with it.

"Next please, my soldier!" he said.

He controlled Corpse No. 1 to drag a corpse into the coffin. After a period of suffering, Corpse No. 2 emerged freshly from the coffin.

In the following time, Dead Corpse No. 3 and Dead Corpse No. 4 were successfully born.

Li Qi tried to control four dead corpses. In order to control them accurately, he gave up his body and let them fall to the ground and fall asleep.

But even so, it still seems very clumsy to control four corpses at the same time. It can only make the simplest attacks, forwards and backwards, etc., but it cannot be as subtle as controlling the bending of fingers like when controlling only one dead corpse.

He walked back with the four dead bodies, and on the way back he also picked up their respective sickles, axes, hoes, pitchforks and other farm tools.

He stopped when he reached the entrance of the cave. After controlling the corpses to stop, Li Qi climbed out of the entrance of the cave.

It's daybreak.

He turned to look at the tombstone. The groove on the tombstone had been completely occupied by green moss.

Pouring a glass of water finally relieved his thirst, but the hunger in his stomach had not subsided.

There were footsteps outside, and then a knock on the door.

"Sir, let me clean and change your dressing." The voice was unfamiliar, and it sounded like he was the valet of his younger brother Leo.

Rather than coming to help with the scrubbing, it's better to say that I'm here to see if I'm dead.

Just when the door was about to be pushed open, Li Qi said: "Let Teacher James come."

"You! Are you awake!?" The voice outside the door was startling.

"Let Teacher James come!" Li Qi emphasized again, making his voice sound weak: "I only trust him now!"