klisemfg Chapter 236 Surprise discovery
Chapter 236 Surprise discovery
Yurev was covered in black armor, which seemed to grow on his body, its blackness extending to his bones.
Death Knights are usually transformed from powerful individuals in their previous lives. Their intense resentment and strength give them an innate ability to suppress ordinary undead.
The main reason is the strength of their resentment and the residual combat experience they possess... which makes them natural-born commanders.
More importantly, the death power contained within the resurrected death knights is mysterious and powerful, seemingly inexhaustible, originating from their summoner and another world.
Like an electric current flowing from another world, it fueled the spirits of these vengeful undead knights...
They felt no pain, only obsession...
Yurev, however, was an exception... He had died twice... On Fennis Wolf Island, he was completely annihilated by the necromancer Tuller. His lingering vengeful spirit was intercepted by Lorraine, and since being nourished in Lorraine's necromancy right eye Soul Lock Prison, Yurev was reborn for the third time.
This time, however, he became one of the powerful Death Knight commanders summoned by Lorraine using a mid-level vengeful spirit.
Last time, Yurev could easily fight a paladin like Marcus, if Lorraine hadn't actually wanted to kill General Marcus, the nobleman who had saved and helped him.
Whether Marcus can successfully rescue Tyrande and Fordring while surrounded by eleven Death Knights and blocked by thousands of skeletal warriors remains to be seen.
Of course, Lorraine didn't actually have a precise understanding of the strength of his current strongest group of subordinates.
He handed Yurev his Plaguebringer's emblem, as if bestowing upon him a tiger tally, granting him command over all the undead puppets resurrected by Lorraine using vengeful spirits. He could also command Yurev's eleven colleagues.
The scene was like a king bestowing a holy sword upon a knight. Yurev felt as if he had returned to the time when he was given a holy sword by a priest of the Church of the Holy Light and became the captain of the Scarlet Crusade.
One knee is on the ground; the knee of the dead, which cannot bend, is bent towards the ground like that of the living.
The black knee pads between his thighs left a soft dent in the blood-stained ground... In Yurev's deep blue spiritual eyes, a hint of crimson tinged with emotion, Lorraine could sense Yurev's loyalty and gratitude towards him at that moment.
Just like a subject treats an emperor...
Yurev bowed his head, stretched out his hands, and picked up the Plague Messenger emblem of Lorraine.
Slowly raising the insignia of Lorraine above his head, the ten death knights around him, whose bodies had seemed fused to their skeletal warhorses, dismounted as if alive. They knelt on one knee in unison, bowing their proud heads behind Yurev, silently accepting his inspection and signifying their submission to his leadership...
Only the resurrected undead soldiers stared blankly at the scene of Yurev's investiture in the center. They swayed unsteadily, seemingly unable to stand, yet their teeth were exceptionally sharp, bone spikes protruded from their joints, and their bone claws were long enough to touch the ground...
These unarmored soldiers are also a terrible threat to human civilians.
The eleven Death Knights, including Yurev, led hundreds of skeletal knights, all clad in full armor and armed with a variety of weapons... They were tall and solemn.
Lorraine discovered that, without her noticing, Yurev's resurrected army of the dead had gained quite a few rare unit types.
There were skeleton archers wielding bows and arrows, skeleton mages with skeletal staffs... and constructs that were significantly larger than ordinary zombies and skeletons, even a size larger than the skeleton knights.
A stitched monster, a collection of corpses pieced together from different bodies.
These were types of troops that Lorraine had never encountered before, nor had he ever summoned them. After pondering for a while, and taking a closer look, he noticed that even Yurev and the Death Oath's personal guard included skeletal warriors equipped with rudimentary firearms...
These weapons appear to be from the group of dwarven musketeers who died by the lake, the staff from the Kirin Tor mages, and the swords and crossbows from the Syndicate bandits.
The shields and armor were mostly derived from the personal guards who protected Tyrande in the Scarlet Crusade.
Aside from Yurev and Deathsworn, the other nine Death Knights' subordinates remained largely unchanged, still consisting of a hundred skeletal knights as guards, surrounded by mostly ordinary zombies and skeletons, some of whom were merely for show and couldn't even walk far...
To pass oneself off as an outsider...
Specious.
My Death Knights can evolve, and the units they summon can be equipped with weapons and have their configurations upgraded; they're no longer the low-level skeletons of the past... This was a delightful discovery, and the master and apprentice's interest in upgrading Necromantic Runes increased considerably.
The master was still resentful about his apprentice's loss of control at the Crusader post on the beach ten days earlier. The master wouldn't allow his apprentice to rely on devouring vengeful spirits and enter that unconscious state of madness.
Vengeful spirits are precious, but reason is of utmost importance.
Humanity is the bottom line...
Now, the teacher is pondering: if the necromancy runes of Lorraine were to level up again, wouldn't Lorraine be able to establish its own independent nation? A kingdom of the dead under Lorraine's control... just thinking about it seems incredibly exciting...
The future can be expected?
However, the necromancer runes were actually controlled primarily by his apprentice, Lorraine.
After a moment's thought, Roland realized that after possessing his disciple's body, he had become human. Although he possessed all three types of magic, had extremely high magical power, was proficient in multiple super-level spells, and even had room for improvement.
However, it seems he just can't master the necromancy of the Lorraine Order...
The master has discovered that necromancy can only be used when the apprentice has control of the body. It seems that only the Forsaken, Lorraine, possesses the abilities of a necromancer, whether it's devouring vengeful spirits or controlling and summoning this army of the dead... only Lorraine can do it.
Yurev and the Death Oath obey only Lorraine's orders.
All summoned creatures obey the commands of the necromancer's body that summoned and resurrected them...
"Sigh, my godfather doesn't trust me completely... He's definitely doing it on purpose..."
As a teacher, Luo Lin could only feel regret and sorrow.
The apprentice was still immersed in the joy of this new discovery. He felt as if he had become the King of Death, with the entire army of the dead awaiting his next command. He was full of pride and excitement.
For a moment, he forgot to order Yurev to stand up and attack directly.
The latter, along with the surrounding army of skeletons, awaited their master's command. Time seemed to stand still at the scene. Only Lorraine had a new idea. He stood still, straining to gather magic power, attempting to resurrect a death knight once more using newly stored vengeful spirits...
He wanted to test whether the tens of thousands of newly absorbed vengeful spirits could resurrect another incredibly powerful undead creature...
But no matter how hard he tried, or how many vengeful spirits he used, he could only summon ordinary skeletal warriors, or at most skeletal knights riding skeletal warhorses... No matter what, intermediate vengeful spirits could never be condensed into advanced vengeful spirits.
The quantity cannot lead to a qualitative change, as if there is a shackle that cannot be broken.
After several dozen attempts, and more than ten minutes later... the undead army gained over a hundred more members, utilizing almost entirely the remaining corpses...
Yurev and the other death knights remained kneeling...
They remained silent, but Death Oath rose to his feet. “Master, Yurev is leading his troops into battle. Let me guard you. I can once again command an army. Twelve Death Knights are the limit for the Rune Warden. The remaining few are not yet awakened; they are not worthy of your grace. Only after they die in battle will new Death Knights be born.”
The Oath of Death suddenly stood up and spoke, startling Lorraine.
Upon hearing this, Yurev suddenly looked up. "Master, I can also protect you. Your safety is the most important thing. This honor of leading troops reminds me of the grand occasion when we went to war, but unfortunately, not a single warrior returned safely... I feel pain, although this pain is the root of our existence, but I don't really want to lead them to kill the living people of Hillsbrad... I hope I can repay your kindness and die for you... unless you give the order yourself."
"Huh? What favor have I done for you..."
Lorraine stared blankly at the two death knights who were speaking...
"Hey, you two can talk? Hey you? You mean there can only be twelve Death Knights? Twelve Rune Wardens? You and he are the Awakened Wardens?"
The master and apprentice were astonished, eager to know what the rune on the right eye bestowed upon them by their adoptive father was, and why it was so miraculous... They had already realized that the death rune they had obtained from the shadow priest Xavius and his mage trainer was a gift deliberately arranged by their adoptive father...
"Yes... Master. I am so-and-so... I can't remember my name anymore. Master, you can call me Death Oath, I swear to carry out your will."
"Master's kindness is as dazzling as the sun in the sky; we can never repay it... Yurev loves you, my master..."
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