Travels of the Necromancer

I summoned a higher-level wraith to guard the camp, and then just in case, I summoned bread—my bone dragon.The skeletal structure of bread is very complete, and the bones are also very strong and beautiful.It is said that it has a part of ancient dragon blood, so it is taller than ordinary earth dragons.

This is the first time Bread has left the swamp since it was reincarnated, so it turned around in a circle curiously, then felt my breath, and slowly lowered its head.I patted its huge head and jumped onto the dragon's back.

Originally, I planned to explore the entire Skeleton City carefully by myself after the trial team's expedition was completed.However, the strong undead breath I felt during the day made me unable to ignore it.The entire Skeleton City was originally filled with the breath of the undead, but it was different from other places in the city.I recalled the map I had glanced at. The building near that direction...is the Temple of Light built by the Western Expeditionary Army.

Since it is a temple, there should be many light knights staying behind.Although they were reincarnated involuntarily and could not retain all their power, there may also be high-level undead creatures such as death knights. It is not surprising that the breath of undead is stronger than other places.But even high-level undead creatures are dormant during the day and should not be active.Perhaps the ones there were not undead creatures.

Low-level fear and obedience to high-level is also one of the instincts of necromantic creatures. The bone dragon at the top of the biological chain is enough to make skeletons and walking corpses dare not move on the ground.Therefore, although the distribution of undead creatures on the way to the temple became more and more dense, they did not dare to approach due to the pressure of the bread. I did not encounter any trouble along the way and saved a lot of time.But when I arrived at the square in front of the temple, I found that there were no undead creatures around.

There are neither living creatures nor undead. It is a truly dead place. Looking at the gate of the temple, I can feel that even the bread is tense.While it would be safer to carry the loaf, it is too large for me to take it in without tearing down the temple door, so I have to let it wait for me at the door.As for myself, I put away the ordinary magic wand in my hand, and took out the magic wand my teacher gave me from the magic space for the first time in a year.

It was an ugly, crooked, gnarled staff, like a useless twig.But absolutely no one will really treat it as a useless branch, because at one end of the staff are nine lifelike skeletons the size of a fist.The original owners of these skeletons were high-level magicians who came to the dark swamp to make trouble. After defeating them, the teacher cut off their heads and made them the size of a fist with alchemy, and put them in the branches of the tree of wisdom that he got in his early years. above, crafted into a staff.Because this staff is full of the resentment of those losers, so using it to cast curse magic will have a very high bonus, the teacher named it curse (it is said that the name comes from a play that the teacher likes very much ).

Then, I checked the dagger in the boot again.The fighting instinct that Ley left me is an extremely precious wealth, and I don't want to waste it. I have always done some basic exercises according to the method he remembered to maintain the best condition of this body.Today's warriors are likely to know some simple magic, but magicians seldom do physical exercise, and the magicians in the images of ordinary people are weak, so this free martial art may one day be able to win by surprise effect.

After everything was ready, I stepped carefully into the gate of the temple.

If the larger the temple, the more gorgeous the decoration, and the more money it costs, the more pious the believers, then the believers who built this temple must be extremely pious.The tall stone pillars covered with reliefs, the murals that are still clearly identifiable after hundreds of years, the colorful fountains that have dried up, and the statues of tall angels on both sides all describe the glory of this temple.

Magic circle?That was my first thought when I stepped into the apse.Passing through the front hall and the atrium is the apse where the statue of the God of Light is placed.The ground of the apse is covered with complex and precise magic patterns, so the entire apse becomes a huge magic circle.The core of the magic circle is a huge statue of the God of Light, and what is surprising is that the spirit of the undead is constantly gushing out from the statue of the God of Light.

I am now at the bottleneck stage between mage and mage, but even so, I can hardly resist the coercion emanating from the statue, presumably it is the effect of that huge magic circle.I suddenly felt that I might have found the key to the night of death.

However, no matter what is hidden under the statue, I will not go up and pick it up like the protagonist in an adventure novel.In fact, standing far away is already my limit, and I may be crushed by coercion if I go forward.So I quit the temple and drew a simple one-way magic circle to report to the teacher. I think the teacher will be very interested.

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"Hey, wake up, it's outrageous to be lazy during the night watch!" A thunderous voice sounded in his ear.

"I don't think a guy who's been sound asleep since the third second of his vigil is qualified to accuse me." What a rude guy, I glanced at some orc, pretending to have sore muscles from sitting up and sleeping, Get up and move your body. In fact, I didn't close my eyes for more than a quarter of an hour.

"I, I, you can wake me up..."

"Please tell me how to wake up an orc without waking up others? Of course, if you don't mind water bombs or freezing spells, I can try next time."

"Hmph, you disgusting guy with strange yin and yang." The half-orc muttered, turned and left.I don't think he's interested in discussing anything about the vigil any more.

The rest of the team also woke up one after another. After breakfast, we continued our expedition.

Because of the courage and judgment shown in yesterday's battle, the old mercenaries began to recognize Noah's ability, and the atmosphere in the team became much more harmonious.Unfortunately, the harmonious atmosphere did not last long.

"What nonsense are you talking about!!" Surprisingly, Mr. Thief, who has always been low-key, was the first to attack. His screams were clearly heard even by me at the end of the line.

But knowing the cause and effect, I am not so surprised.Mr. Thieves has always been wise not to get involved in any factional fights, but has an uncharacteristic passion for ownership of a certain kind of shiny metal.And our captain, whose brains are completely rusted by the rules of the knight, actually said that he would return part of the treasures discovered during the expedition to the temple, which naturally made Mr. Thief blow his hair.

"I do have such an idea." Facing other team members' questioning, Noah acted calmly.

It seems appropriate to return the lost property to the owner, but the problem is that the owner's items were originally stolen... Well, it should not be recorded in the history books of the temple.But even so, it is unheard of for mercenaries to find treasures after hard work, and finally return them to their original owners. Mercenaries do not take risks for the sake of light and justice.

So although Noah stated that he would not force the mercenaries to return their share to the temple, the atmosphere of the entire mercenary team has become weird again, even more weird than before.The whole team hurried, explored, and camped in this weird atmosphere, and finally the thieves and female archers were drawn to watch the night.The thief also received envious glances from the flower guardians, but unfortunately his mind was obviously not on this, and he still looked sullen.But all this has nothing to do with me, the only thing that matters to me is that I can finally sleep well today.

However, I seem to be too happy too soon.In the dark, I slowly opened my eyes, the teacher is calling me.