Chapter 1439 - Mastermind (1/2)

Chapter 1439: Mastermind

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Feeling that the five rings were taking himself away with Dereksey, Jophany closed his eyes in desperation. Vampires were so vigorous that he couldn’t kill himself even if he wanted to. He had to be a puppet under someone else’s control. His fate would surely be miserable.

He would just be a human-shaped key who had lost all his freedom. When the Bloody Lich needed to enter the Kingdom of Nightmares, Jophany would be useful. The Bloody Lich was not wrong that he only needed to be alive. It would be fine even if his tongue or his limbs were cut off.

Considering the Bloody Lich’s abilities, as long as Jophany was alive, the former would be able to enter or leave the Kingdom of Nightmares freely.

Nine of the 13 vampire ancestors had perished in the past year. Another one perished not a long time ago. There were only three vampire ancestors that were still alive. Two of them hadn’t been seen in a long time, even though they were likely still alive.

Seeing the Bloody Lich, Jophany realized that it was all part of his scheme. The guy intended to control or kill all vampire ancestors.

If nobody could enter the Kingdom of Nightmares freely, then his phylactery would be indestructible…

Thinking about everything that happened in the Kingdom of Nightmares, Jophany knew that it was a perfect plan. Nobody could possibly come out. Even if anyone entered the place, they would run into the Leopard Tail Worms, which were invincible in the Kingdom of Nightmares. Even the vampire ancestors were unwilling to confront those parasites.

It was even more perfect to just hide the phylactery deep inside the Kingdom of Nightmares. In that case, nobody would be able to destroy the Bloody Lich’s soul unless the King of the Undead took action in person, but even if the King of the Undead were to take action, he would still be stranded in the Kingdom of Nightmares forever. He would never go to that kind of place.

Thinking about that, Jophany became even more desperate. He knew that the King of the Undead could rip apart the Bloody Lich’s body any moment, but was unable to destroy his soul. If his soul was hidden well, the Bloody Lich’s body would be a shell that he could abandon at any moment. All he needed to do was revive in a body that he had prepared in advance.

If there were no alternatives, he could always revive in the body of a random undead creature in the Plane of the Undead. As long as he didn’t voluntarily expose himself, who could possibly identify the Bloody Lich among the countless undead creatures in the Plane of the Undead?

When a war started, considering the longevity and capabilities of liches, it wouldn’t be difficult for them to retaliate for thousands of years.

Most liches were knowledgeable experts when they were alive. After they died, they turned into undead creatures. When they awakened their wisdom and memories, they would transform themselves into liches.

There were also the terrifying mages who converted themselves into undead liches for the pursuit of the truth of magic when they approached the end of their life. Thanks to the knowledge they had accumulated over a long time, all of them were very strong.

That was exactly why liches were horrifying. Every lich was at least an extraordinary undead creature. The Bloody Lich, which had existed for countless years, boasted a shocking amount of knowledge.

Dereksey was quite satisfied with his plan. Although the trap he had set up earlier had been seen through, he was still able to collect a lot of information.

He had neatly created a transformation trap based on the language and strength systems dating back to the Nesser Dynasty. He disguised a sacrifice ritual as a seemingly perfect lich transformation ritual. It took him a lot of time to do that.

Ever since the Nesser Dynasty, Dereksey had been picking the knowledge of Noscent. In the age of mages, he had been learning from mages too. Unfortunately, he was still stuck in level 49, and couldn’t rise to level 50.

However knowledgeable he was, he could not advance again. To accomplish the advancement, he would have to find his soul first. If a lich’s soul wasn’t kept a perfect secret, then it wouldn’t be long before he died.

That was the dilemma.

However, an opportunity had presented itself. The Leviathan Plane and the Plane of the Undead collided. Dereksey didn’t know why it happened. Even he didn’t see it coming.

Still, it was a rarely seen good opportunity. The Leviathan Plane was adjacent to Noscent, and was the most important resource plane for Noscent. It had been the biggest colonized plane so far.

The two worlds were so closely connected that it was very easy to travel in between. It was even possible to do so with teleportation arrays.

Most planes could only be communicated with Planar Paths. If teleportation arrays were optional, it meant that the space barrier between the two worlds was extremely thin. Also, some of their space might be overlapping.