Chapter 1403 - Transformation (1/2)
In the battle a moment earlier, Prome didn’t seem to plan to open the cage of holy light immediately. He hesitated for a few seconds. Other people might not have noticed the hesitation, but Lin Yun knew very well that the cage of holy light had to be sustained by the holy light mage all the time, and that it would disperse the moment the mage stopped powering it.
Shaking his head, Lin Yun dropped the idea that flashed across his mind. Having established a holy light cage and summoned four holy light spirits to help with the battle, the man had proved himself to be of the virtues of holy light. Even the four holy light spirits had approved him.
Only those with the purest souls and perfect virtues could’ve received the acknowledgment and assistance of the four holy light spirits while constructing the cage.
The valiance, wisdom, and piety that the holy light spirits evinced showed that the holy light mage who summoned them had the same virtues.
“Sir Prome, let’s just get out of here. The battle here must’ve caught the attention of a lot of undead creatures. The skeleton king has died. It’s possible that the undead creatures will seize the chance to counterattack…”
Prome’s face was unhealthily pale. He seemed too tired to talk. He simply nodded without saying anything.
Lin Yun looked at the side of the Plane of the Undead. In the distance, an ocean of undead creatures was surging, but very few of them were charging in his direction. They were actually fighting amongst themselves.
Very soon, Lin Yun discovered that countless crazy ghouls were attacking the other undead creatures near their territory. More and more undead creatures were torn apart. Everything was a mess. It was obvious that the undead creatures wouldn’t be able to counterattack anytime soon—not while they were busy fighting each other…
Lin Yun put on a weird expression. He couldn’t help but think of Emir when he saw the ghouls. Needless to say, he had brainwashed that guy too hard.
Emir had clearly started the civil war before the skeleton king died. He probably firmly believed that he couldn’t get what he wanted until he killed all the competitors…
Lin Yun opened the space gate, and returned to the fortress along with Prome. On the other hand, Emir was roaring and commanding his subordinates to charge, holding a leg bone that was even longer than himself.
“Kill those idiots! Kill the skeletons who shelter our nemeses! Kill the bloody idiots and the goddamn skeletons…”
Emir raised his head and looked at the black hovering birds in the sky with bloodshot eyes as if they were his mortal enemies.
“Those goddamn skeletons are standing in our way while we try to kill those wretched birds. Just kill them all…”
Countless ghouls and zombies shrieked and charged. They were not in any sort of formation, and they didn’t have any strategy. They simply pressed forward like a tide.
Skeletons were most neutral about crows in the Plane of the Undead. They had nothing but bones, and couldn’t care less about the crows. The crows never attacked skeletons, either.
However, the low-level undead creatures that had flesh, such as ghouls and zombies, naturally detested crows. They were all prey to crows at the beginning. Or rather, they were just food on the table that could be eaten any time…
There were a lot of crows in the skeletons’ territory. Emir wanted to kill them, but the skeletons wouldn’t let him pass, considering it to be an invasion. So, Emir decided to just conquer their territory.
He was not just going to conquer the territory, but also kill the crows in it. Those goddamn skeletons were all obstacles in the way of his revenge, so they had to be eliminated…
The lords who were commanding the skeletons discovered that the ghouls and zombies were charging uncannily and crazily, even though they were just cannon fodder.
When the tides of undead creatures encountered each other, they didn’t stop and fight each other. Rather, they joined and charged onward, until they encountered skeletons. They would just wave their claws. It was fine even if they didn’t kill the skeletons, because they had comrades following them…
The skeleton lords were all dumbfounded. They had no idea what was going on. Why did the goddamn ghouls and zombies not follow the rules of the Plane of the Undead at all?
All the undead creatures had been abiding by the unspoken rules. They were all dumbfounded to see the guys who didn’t follow the rules.
Skeletons could never understand how the undead creatures who had flesh hated crows. That was their instinct that had been engraved into their soul fire. Ghouls loathed crows in particular…
Damn it, we’re supposed to be predators, yet they’re competing with us over meat, and even eating us…
That was absolutely outrageous. So, he might as well kill all of them…
Almost all the ghouls agreed with Emir’s proposal. The zombies, who had been victims to the crows too, agreed as well. Then, they joined forces and turned into the maddest army of the undead.
The undead creatures didn’t really know if they were doing the right thing, but they knew they had to kill the crows…
Then, the skeleton king died, and Dirty Blood became completely chaotic. At the beginning, Emir attacked the adjacent skeletons’ territory. Then, the other lords joined the war too. Nobody knew why they were fighting, but they simply fought one another.
As it happened, the skeleton king was killed. It was the best opportunity to claim territory. So, just fight…
Dirty Blood became more chaotic than ever. Undead creatures were fighting within a radius of thousands of kilometers. Even more lords were joining the war. Those new undead lords were caught in the mire of war before they realized what was going on. The situation became more and more chaotic.
On the other hand, Lin Yun and Prome returned to the fortress. Lin Yun removed the seven needles on Prome, and seized the opportunity to examine Prome’s soul again.
His soul was as pure as a newborn baby’s. It was like a piece of blank paper…
After removing the seal of seven needles and seeing Prome off, Lin Yun felt that something was wrong about the guy.
Not only was his soul like a piece of blank paper, but he was inhumanly virtuous too. He was almost like a living saint.
But after observing him for a couple of days, Lin Yun believed that he might be overthinking. He couldn’t just suspect other people because he was incapable of doing it.
Then, he was busy treating patients. Almost half of the people on human beings’ side, ranging from Archmages to level-7 Heaven Rank mages, had been infected.
Lin Yun held the Book of Death and invoked the power of the Truth Chapter, absorbing and swallowing the power of plague in the infected mages. The crystal phoenix was too busy digesting the Heart of Plague to be summoned, but it was very easy to swallow the power of plague that had been derived from the Heart of Plague.
It took him an entire week to cure the mages of their infections. Then, he wandered for days in the channel in all the infected areas, asking the crystal phoenix to swallow the remaining power of plague.
After neutralizing the plague, Lin Yun didn’t stay in the fortress any longer. The new fortresses that were established were very close to the flames. When the flames died out, the war against the undead creatures would start again.