Chapter 566 Special Undead
Standing outside the door of the Golden Ye Hotel, Li Si looked solemnly at the building shrouded in night.
There is a legendary being who has been watching this hotel
No!
It should be said that he is paying attention to the girl Juou in the hotel!
Just now, it was probably because he wanted to take action against Juou that he was targeted by the hidden legend.
Li Si's mind was racing rapidly. He had previously thought about whether testing this obviously extraordinary girl would cause any bad reaction.
But he didn't expect that a legend would always pay attention to Juou, and might even be hiding near Juou.
This legend who pays attention to the girl Juou is most likely the controller of this illusion, the legendary mage Ihailes!
After all, it is quite rare for a legendary mage to appear in this small sand sea city.
Unless the two legendary powerhouses that appear are opposed to each other, the possibility of there being two legendary powerhouses in this illusion is still too low.
If Ihailes had been paying attention to Juou, why didn't Li Si, an outsider, take action against Li Si when he came into contact with Juou?
Li Si didn't notice anything wrong.
Could it be that Ihales didn't actually care about the unexpected visitor coming into contact with Juou, but he didn't allow Juou to be hurt by others.
Li Si always felt that something was wrong, especially with Ihailes's behavior pattern.
It can be seen from the mission introduction that Ihailes must be obsessed with saving his beloved, so he spent such a price to plunge the entire town into an illusion.
Time here has stopped, and all the residents living here have become undead creatures.
But could a crazy and persistent person be so indifferent when faced with the possibility of his loved one being hurt?
Just gave Li Si a warning, but didn't even appear in front of Li Si?
This is somewhat inconsistent.
You must know that with Li Si's current strength, even if Zhuou may be an undead creature, he is no different from an ant in front of him.
Of course, Li Si only planned to test Juou and did not intend to hurt her.
But others don’t know?
At least in Li Si's view, if someone tried to hurt Taiya, who was helpless, he would not give a warning.
The distance that Li Si escaped was not far, just outside the Golden Ye Hotel.
This kind of distance is just under the nose of the legendary powerhouse. .
Therefore, Li Si was a little surprised when he did not see the legendary powerhouse chasing him as he expected.
Could it be that there was something wrong with the legendary mage Ihailes himself, or there was some inconvenience that led to this situation?
Li Si wasn't sure, but he didn't plan to take action against Juou in the short term.
There was insufficient information. Even if the legendary mage Ihailes really appeared, Li Si would not have any more useful information.
The appearance of the legend made Li Si want to take Taiya out of the hotel and change places.
Although Taiya has become much stronger after experiencing the baptism of Amandu City, it is difficult to resist in front of a legendary mage who hides his traces.
But in the end, Li Si didn't do this. Since Ihailes didn't appear in front of him before, he basically wouldn't take action against Taiya.
It would be better to let Taiya stay in the Golden Coconut Hotel, so that if anything unexpected happens, Li Si can be notified in time.
After thinking for a while, Li Si sneaked into the shadows again and left the hotel.
Alley in the night,
Li Si stood in the middle of the alley, and a resident of Ihailes passed out in front of him.
Judging from the clothes of this middle-aged man, he seems to be an ordinary hawker in this small town.
Because of the arrival of the Holy Gul Festival, it was very late for him to close his stall and go home. As a result, he bumped into Li Si who was looking for the next experimenter on the way.
Without any notice at all, Li Si knocked him out and made him lie in front of him.
The man's body lay quietly on the cold ground, like a dead branch broken by the wind, without its former vitality. His face was pale, his eyes were closed tightly, as if he had fallen into an endless sleep, and his breathing was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, as if he was wandering on the edge of life and death.
Li Si first pressed his right hand on the man's chest, and then felt his body temperature, which was as warm as an ordinary person's, as well as his steadily beating heart.
No different from ordinary people.
Li Si turned his palm into a blade and gently slashed the man's right arm.
There was no sound, the man's right arm was broken from it, and the unconscious man did not react at all,
really!
Li Si looked at the man's wound and nodded slightly.
The resident's broken arm was unnaturally twisted and separated from his body, but strangely not a drop of blood seeped out.
The wound was not bright red and moist as expected, but an unusual dead gray-white color, like dead wood that had lost its vitality in winter, exuding an ominous aura. In this grayish white, the muscle fibers can still be vaguely trembling slightly, as if they are looking for something.
The resident in front of him is not a living person, but has turned into an undead existence.
However, it is very different from normal undead creatures.
Li Si carefully observed the condition of the wound on the broken arm and reached out to touch and feel the lifeless body.
After a moment, Li Si stood up, holding the resident's severed arm in his right hand.
Use a concealment spell to hide the unconscious residents from others passing by.
Li Si's figure flashed and left the alley.
Outside the small sand sea town of Ihales, on the sand dunes,
Li Si stepped on the soft sand dunes, but felt relieved in his heart.
Sure enough, as before, the spatial ability is not limited, so you can be more bold when exploring this secret realm.
——
bite!
[Tip: You have left the limited area of the mission [Ihailes’ Persistence]! Please return as soon as possible, otherwise the mission will be judged as failed and cannot be taken again! ]
[Failure countdown: 605958]——
Li Si looked at the small city shrouded in night in the distance, and a system notification sounded in his mind.
Hurry up!
Li Si left the small town this time not just to determine his escape route.
Raising his hand, Li Si looked carefully at the severed arm that should have appeared in his hand.
But the originally lifeless broken arm had now turned into a pile of gray-white dust, scattered on the sand dunes.
Li Si still held some ashes from the broken arm in his hand, but he did not feel any special aura from it.
After glancing at the dust in his hands, Li Si quickly returned to the alley without any delay.
He didn't want to fail the mission by being away for a long time. When Li Si returned and looked at the unconscious resident, his arm was clearly cut off by Li Si just now, but it was intact at the moment, as if that incident had not happened.
Indeed it is!
Li Si nodded, then lifted the concealment spell and left here.
The residents in the small town are not so much undead, but their bodies are different from those common undead creatures.
The undead refers to the spirit or consciousness left after the death of a living being. It is an evil creature that appears due to its own resentment or other factors.
The most common undead are evil creatures such as skeletons and corpses. The souls of the dead are entrusted in the bones of the dead.
These newly born undead are very weak and do not have any intelligence, and can only act based on instinct.
Ordinary people can defeat these undead creatures, but the biggest characteristic of undead creatures is that they are not afraid of death.
As long as these undead are given enough quantity, time and space, they will be like cultivators, constantly devouring the soul fire of other undead and strengthening their own strength.
After a certain level, the undead will give birth to new wisdom, and they will be almost completely different from the two people they were in life. The memories of the undead will have little impact on them.
For this reason, almost every human town has a cemetery guarded by the Church of the Gods to bury the dead residents and reduce the appearance of the undead as much as possible.
It is almost impossible for this kind of undead to survive without the support of soul fire.
But at the same time, there is another possibility for the undead to exist, which is to become a ghost without a body.
The so-called ghosts are undead whose souls have been strengthened and can exist independently. Basically, they reappear in the world in their original appearance, usually without a fixed form, and ordinary people cannot see ghosts with the naked eye.
The situation of the residents of Ihales is actually very similar to that of ghosts.
Although they have entities, they are not existences that rely entirely on the body like the skeleton soldiers.
In Li Si's opinion, these forms of existence are more like using necromancy spells to bind their souls to this small city called Ihailes.
In other words, the existence of these residents depends on the city, not their bodies.
So when Li Si took the resident's broken arm away from the small town, the broken arm lost its connection with the soul and turned into ashes.
As for the residents in the small town, their bodies have returned to normal.
It can also be seen from this that these residents should rely on this city for their existence, and their souls are almost unaffected.
So, all the people in the city have been turned into undead by Ihailes, so can it be called a "small city stuck in time"?
After all, a city of the undead cannot undergo new changes and will only continue its previous life day after day.
Although this makes sense, Li Si feels that it is not that simple.
If that were the case, then this legendary level mission would be too simple.
There must be something else I haven't noticed
Li Si thought about everything he had seen since entering this small town, but he didn't gain anything new.
Can we just wait for the Eid al-Adha the day after tomorrow?
There is nothing special about life in this small town, except that the existence of the Eid Al-Adha makes Li Si feel that something is wrong.
God Gur?
Is there any special connection with the legendary necromancer Ihailes?
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain that the city lord would specifically appear at the Al-Adha festival party.
And it seems that this is something that everyone in the city will participate in. Li Si doesn't think that a legendary being will show up every year just for this matter.
Unless the matter is closely related to him.
Gods
Could it be that this Ihailes wants to embark on the road to ascending to the gods and become a god?
And the god Gur is his incarnation, how does he collect faith through this method?
Li Si is not sure. This guess seems likely to be true, but there are many loopholes.
First of all, the people in this city are basically undead. Although they all have souls, the power of faith generated is extremely rare and mixed.
Otherwise, wouldn't the legendary lichs who control the undead natural disasters be able to easily obtain massive power of faith?
Even if there are outsiders coming to this city, Ihailes does not welcome outsiders to enter. It seems to have a sense of enclosure and self-isolation, which is not like a legend who has embarked on the road to godhood. The act of wanting to gather faith.
However, old Milo also said that in the past, many outsiders came here specifically to participate in the celebrations of this small town during every Al-Adha celebration in Ihales.
Although Li Si had never heard of the Gurd'a Festival before, if what Old Milo said was true, it was very likely that Ihailes had had such an idea before.
So why is it terminated now?
Is it because of Juou's departure?
Li Si's thinking began to diverge, but no matter how he thought about it, the information he now knew always felt fragmented.
It's as if many parts of this small town's history don't match up, giving it a weird and uncomfortable feeling.
What happened to cause this result?
Perhaps the purpose of the legendary mage Ihailes in creating this illusory city of the undead was because of this.
Under the deep darkness of night, a lonely three-story building stands in the heart of the small town, like a giant that time has forgotten, quietly guarding unknown secrets.
This building is entirely made of huge gray rocks, and the stones are tightly spaced, revealing an inviolable solidity and vicissitudes of life. The thin moonlight barely outlines its sharp outlines, adding a bit of coldness and mystery.
There was a dead silence in the small building, without any light coming out, and even the tiniest light seemed to be swallowed up by its thick stone walls. The windows are closed tightly, like pairs of silent eyes, rejecting the curiosity and prying eyes of the outside world.
Such silence makes people involuntarily think that perhaps this place has been deserted for a long time and has become an abandoned ghost house.
The surrounding streets were empty and lonely, except for the occasional night wind that blew up a few fallen leaves and rustled on the stone pavement, adding an uneasy melody to the quiet night.
Li Si hid in the shadow of the house not far away, observing the building.
According to Old Milo, this is where the city lord lives, which is also the territory of the legendary mage Ihailes.
It does look a bit like the Necromancer, dark and devoid of any flourishing decorations.
Li Si pondered in his mind, and after some thought, he separated himself from the camera and touched the building.
Let's explore the road first and see what's going on inside this building.
If it doesn’t work, it’s still too late to run away!
(End of chapter)