Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 108: Lord of the Dead
Because they were leaving the next day, they found a nice hotel to stay in. The recent undead cholera has caused a sharp decline in the tourism industry in the ancient capital, so the hotel was very cheap.

night!

Mo Fan did not go to sleep immediately. He called a few people and walked towards the outer city wall.

The kingdom of the dead in the ancient capital is world-famous. The few people have never seen the undead appear on a large scale, so they plan to take a look as a way to make mental preparations.

The outer wall of the ancient capital was very high, surrounding the city tightly like an iron barrel. Mo Fan and Lin Ran walked to the top of the wall as hunters. The wall here seemed to have no end, and the two found that the guards here were dozens of times more than during the day.

At this time, a cold wind blew from afar, mixed with a strong smell of decay. These smells were called the breath of death by the guards here.

The tall city walls stretched across the land, as if they had cut off the black land in the middle. However, if you looked down from the sky, you would find that there were many people walking back and forth within the city walls, and similarly, there were many figures wandering aimlessly outside the city walls...

The black clouds grew thicker and thicker, like ink. The thick darkness shrouded the flat land. Nourished by the rain of death, the undead grew. One after another, the undead crawled out from their deep tombs and scanned the world with their green eyes filled with the breath of death.

The undead sniffed and smelled the scent of living things coming from the direction upwind... and a large group of them!

Suddenly, these wandering undead spirits changed from mechanical and stiff movements to being possessed by evil spirits, and they rushed towards the city at an extremely fast speed! !

The black bodies infected by death looked like a group of refugees running for food from a distance. Then they gathered together densely and turned into a rotten black wave to crash into the city wall. Their hideous faces and eyes full of desire made countless mages feel their scalps tingling in an instant! !

"Aa ...

“Roar! Roar!!!!!!!”

The cries of the undead rose and fell one after another. Even people living in the city center could hear this special wail of death through a wall.

They are now gathered under the towering outer city wall. They use their sharp claws and hard teeth to try to destroy the defenses that block them. There are even some undead who use brute force to hit them, causing themselves to be smashed into pieces!
Liu Ru stood at the edge of the city wall. She couldn't help but hold Lin Ran's hand. She said tremblingly, "How terrifying..."

Mo Fan glanced at Liu Ru and said jokingly, "You are also a ghost."

Liu Ru was unhappy. She puffed up her little red cheeks and looked like she was saying, "Even if I'm a ghost, I'm still a beautiful ghost."

"It feels like there are a lot of undead souls." Liu Xian looked along the long city wall.

The city wall was long and continuous, comparable to a mountain range. Under the city wall, large groups of undead could be seen in every sentry tower...

The undead in some places have even built human ladders. They step on the undead under their feet and try desperately to climb over the city wall.

Of course the guards here would not let them pass, so soon a large group of wizards released magic, and magic of different colors such as fire, frost, thunder, and storm began to bombard wildly, and large pieces of blood and flesh splattered, which made people shudder.

"Please leave immediately, everyone!"

I don't know where this voice came from, but the powerful voice could be heard throughout the entire city wall.

The crowd did not have the chance to watch this war-like night again. They were quickly driven away from the city wall. But at the moment of leaving, Mo Fan saw a huge shadow appear on the horizon through the darkness. Lin Ran also looked over, sensing something.

This ghost figure was surrounded by a vast black mass, spreading out like the rising tide. Even if one couldn't see clearly, one could imagine how densely packed the undead were there.

This ghostly figure roared proudly to the sky, and its roar turned into rolling thunder that passed through the sky and earth, shaking the city walls so much that they even shook.

If the ancient capital is a city, then the shadow in the distance is a king. Under his command, the sky is filled with raging dirt and countless corpses are like tides...

This last scene left Mo Fan with an unforgettable memory all night.

He always thought that war was far away from people today, but he didn't know that this ancient city that has carried endless years is facing such wars all the time.

A battle between the living and the dead!

The shock was so great that it took a long time to calm down.

……

The night is short, even for those who fall asleep early.

Lin Ran was lying on the bed thinking about the huge black shadow before. It should be a monarch-level undead. The impact brought by the black shadow made it difficult for Lin Ran to fall asleep.

Seeing that Lin Ran was having trouble falling asleep, Liu Xian said, "I can help you sleep peacefully."

Lin Ran nodded, and then Liu Xian kissed Lin Ran's lips.

This made Lin Ran a little confused. He thought the vampire had some secret technique to make him fall asleep. Damn, why did he have to kiss?
Noticing Lin Ran's puzzled look, Liu Xian said, "Once you've used up your energy, you can sleep peacefully..."

After saying this, her pretty face turned red. Lin Ran was certainly not a dull person.

……

At daybreak, the slight tremor coming from afar had disappeared. I opened the window and looked through the grid-like city, streets and alleys. What I saw was a huge, hazy shadow in the morning mist. It lay there, as if there was a gap somewhere, and it seemed that there was no change from last night.

"Wake up!" Lin Ran raised his hand and patted each of the two perky buttocks.

"Hmm~, got it."

"Ah..." He stretched.

Seeing that the two girls couldn't get up for a while, Lin Ran went to the balcony.

Then Lin Ran saw Mo Fan looking into the distance.

"Can't sleep?" Lin Ran looked at Mo Fan and said.

“Yes, if you are not someone who has lived here for a long time, I guess few people can sleep well. I should have known not to go to the city wall to see the undead. After seeing it, I had nightmares about the undead breaking through the outer city wall all night long.” Mo Fan said helplessly.

“That doesn’t matter. We live inside the inner city wall. Even if the outer city wall is really breached, isn’t the inner city wall still a line of defense?” Liu Ru hugged Lin Ran’s waist and said to Mo Fan while looking at him.

"Little girl, don't talk nonsense. There are thousands of earth mages defending the outer city wall. How could it be breached? If it was breached, how many people would die? You can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense!" An old lady's voice suddenly broke in. It turned out to be an old resident who was trimming flowers and plants downstairs.

This hotel is also very interesting. The lower floors are high-end residential apartments, and the upper floors are hotel apartments.

"I'm sorry." Liu Ru stuck out her tongue and answered a little embarrassedly. She hid her head behind Lin Ran to avoid the old lady's sharp eyes.

"Young people nowadays are always so unreasonable. They have forgotten the spirit of perseverance left by their ancestors. All they do is hide in the city and let others die..." The old lady began to nag.

The few of them didn't listen much, and after getting ready, they went to the south side of the outer city wall to meet the short man.

……

Arriving at the outer south gate, they couldn't find the short man in the crowd for a long time, until the guy was waving his hands while talking on the phone with Mo Fan, then they saw him.

Lin Ran looked at the short man and found that there were already a few people around him, and it seemed that they were going together.

Most of the people looked very ordinary, but there was a woman wearing a black veil in the team who was very eye-catching.

Nowadays, everyone wears masks when going out, and basically no one wears veils. I have to say that this woman's outfit is quite chivalrous and tender.

I don't know if she wears it like this to cover her face or if she simply doesn't like the stench of corpses that has not yet dissipated outside the city. Lin Ran probably knows who this woman is.

In addition to the graceful woman wearing a black silk veil, there is also a pair of brothers who always follow the woman in the black silk veil. They seem to be her followers.

When the wind blew early in the morning, everyone smelled a strange odor, but for some reason, when the sun baked the earth, the smell disappeared, and it was as if the fierce battle of last night had never happened.

During the day, the outer south gate is open. If you want to go out, you can check in and then go out...

After leaving the outer city wall and following the short man, everyone started walking towards Yangyang Village.

Facing the Qinling Mountains in the south, whether flying or driving, it would not give face to the Qinling monsters, so if you go south, you can only rely on walking.

……

Lin Ran noticed that as Mo Fan walked along, his eyes would occasionally fall on the woman wearing a black veil.

This woman was not weird, in fact her outfit was very stunning. Even in the very cold weather she was still wearing a silk gown embroidered with colorful birds. Her soft, bright red shawl hung down elegantly, swaying as she walked. The curves of her graceful waist and round hips were rhythmically concealed and presented under the drooping shawl.

Mo Fan was walking behind the woman, and it was difficult for him to take his eyes away from the wrinkle-free body stretched out by the silk robe. From the waist to the beautiful buttocks to the slender legs, and from the long legs to the white and delicate feet... it seemed that every part of her was filled with temptation and alluring!

Mo Fan was also a man who had seen the world and had seen a lot of beauties, but the stunning temptation of this woman with black stockings and retro style became stronger as they traveled together for longer.

Lin Ran said, "Do you think she seduces you?"

Mo Fan looked at the woman and said, "She is a beauty..."

"Hey, shorty, where did you find this woman?" Mo Fan asked the black-hearted guide.

"She said she wanted to come here and paid more quickly than you did, so I took her with me." The short man said very directly. As he spoke, he secretly glanced at the woman in black stockings. There was a lustful light in his small eyes, and he looked at Mo Fan with an evil smile that all men understand, and said: "Do you feel like your soul has been taken away?"

"I'm just asking casually. I feel like this woman is a little unusual." Mo Fan said.

“How can it be easy? Even though everyone calls me a short man, I have had sex with more beauties than those handsome guys. I have had sex with all kinds of pretty women, women with great bodies and good sex skills, but this woman… Tsk tsk, no matter what she looks like, as long as I can have sex with her once, I won’t touch other women in the future.” The short man said with a lewd look on his face. His tone, which was revealed without any concealment, made it clear that he regarded Mo Fan as one of his kind.

At this time, Liu Xian pulled Lin Ran forward a few steps, not wanting to hear these dirty words.

"Can't you have a healthier mindset?" Mo Fan said righteously at this time.

"I'm not healthy? Then why did you walk behind someone? Wasn't it just to keep an eye on them?"

"Um...how long will it take to get to Yangyang Village?" Mo Fan said calmly.

The short man was speechless at Mo Fan, who was just as vulgar but insisted on pretending to be serious. He shook his head and said, "What you should worry about now is not when you will arrive at Yangyang Village, but when it will get dark."

After saying that, the short man pointed to the sun in front of him that was slowly rolling down below the horizon.

“Fuck, the mountain is about to set?” Mo Fan couldn’t help but curse. Time was passing too fast…

"Brother, it's winter now, the nights are long and the days are short, can you please be a little more cultured?" said the short man.

Lin Ran: “…” Why do I feel like laughing?

"You haven't told me where this woman came from."

"Ask yourself!"

...Mo Fan was turned down and had no choice but to walk over to Lin Ran.

At this time, Liu Ru said, "The aura of this woman is very strange."

"Hmm?" Mo Fan was stunned for a moment and then suddenly realized that the aura of this woman was indeed very strange.

All the while, Mo Fan was staring at the woman in black silk stockings. He wasn't just thinking about random things, but he also sensed a hint of something unusual...

"She should be practicing black magic." Liu Ru said.

The type of training one undergoes can easily affect one's temperament and aura. Liu Ru's judgment was correct. Even though this woman was filled with burning desires, and she also exuded a dark attribute, Mo Fan had the shadow system and knew a little about black magic. Moreover, Liu Ru herself was now classified as a dark creature, so she was more sensitive to darkness than Mo Fan.

Of course, those who practice black magic are not necessarily bad people. Even those who practice curse magic are considered normal practitioners as long as they abide by the conventions of the Magic Association...

"She must be very beautiful." Liu Ru continued.

"Yeah, very beautiful." Liu Xian also nodded.

"You can all see this?" Mo Fan asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Liu Ru looked at the woman with a bit of admiration and envy.

……

As the sky gradually darkened, Lin Ran and his companions had already seen the undead attacking the city, but the dead silence before nightfall was frightening...

Liu Xian held Lin Ran's hand tightly. She liked the feeling of having their fingers intertwined.

"Come on, eat this." At this time, a strong man took out something gray like garlic from the package behind him.

This man is strong, but he should be an ordinary person. There is no magical aura on him, but he seems to lack the vitality of an ordinary person.

"If there's food, why didn't you tell me earlier? I'm just hungry." Mo Fan was also very outgoing. When he saw the big and strong man handing out local specialties to everyone, he immediately took it.

This gray thing looked a bit like a sweet potato and a bit like a large piece of garlic. He took a crisp bite without thinking too much.

"puff!!"

The next second, Mo Fan spat out what he had bitten off.

“Fuck, what you gave me to eat is dog shit!!” Mo Fan couldn’t help but cursed.

"This is gray garlic, which is specially used to cover up the vitality of the living. With it, the undead will not attack us. This thing is limited in quantity. You just vomited one. If you can't survive tonight, you will have to take care of yourself." The dwarf explained hurriedly.

“It’s such a disgusting thing. I’d rather kill these undeads than eat it.” Mo Fan said.

As soon as Mo Fan said this, the black-stockinged woman's eyes flickered, and she looked as if she wanted to look at Mo Fan with new eyes.

"Don't be so confident when you say this... Hush, listen." Suddenly the short man signaled for everyone to be quiet.

"Listen to what?"

"Underground, in the soil..."

Everyone fell silent for a moment, and they saw that the soil mixed with white sand under their feet was beginning to loosen...

It looks like the bamboo shoots pushing up the soil in the documentaries.

"Gulu~~"

The short man's Adam's apple moved obviously.

Although he has been in this land of the dead for many years, his heart cannot help but beat violently every time the night falls. Even if he is not in the ancient capital and flies to other cities, this uneasiness and panic will still appear at night.

"Eat the garlic quickly!" the short man reminded everyone.

The woman in black stockings and her two companions ate the unpalatable gray garlic in one gulp without hesitation.

Lin Ran, Liu Xian and Liu Ru also ate one, only Mo Fan was still struggling.

"Uhhhh!! Uhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"

Just like the sound of something filthy stuck in the throat, Mo Fan turned around immediately and found a head full of maggots sticking out, with drooping eyes and chin...

It was like it was stuck in the ground. Only its head was exposed, and its body was still buried in the ground. When it saw Mo Fan, it kept moving towards Mo Fan like a wild dog seeing shit!
“Fuck, you little bastard want to hurt Grandpa Mo.” Mo Fan was not polite at all and kicked the undead in the head.

The undead's head was kicked off and hit the rock, and disgusting liquid spilled out in an instant.

"Uh-oh~~~~~~~~~~~~~Uh-oh~~~~~~~!!!"

The roars came one after another in an instant.

The next second, a large piece of soil cracked open, revealing a huge tomb less than ten meters in front of the people.

This tomb must be quite old, the bricks and stones were rotten beyond recognition, and there were more than 20 half-dead, half-skeleton bodies lying in a mess inside. They seemed to have heard the call from the falling head, and suddenly they crawled out of the tomb with bloodshot eyes! !
The skeletons were black in color, and they must have been poisoned to death. Looking at the tools scattered around them, they were probably the burial companions of some ancient generals. Mo Fan thought that more than twenty skeletons were a lot, but who knew that there was a cave under the tomb, and skeletons kept crawling out of the cave, each of them was covered in blood and looked extremely hideous!

Mo Fan's fist rubbed against the air, and instantly flames began to roll...

Since the skeletons all crawled out of the tombs, just blow up the tombs with one punch!
"Mo Fan, look around quickly." Liu Ru reminded him hurriedly.

Mo Fan turned his head and found that there were seven or eight more stone tombs of this type, scattered on the small muddy land nearby...

These groups of skeletons gathered like soldiers, their eyes like stars locked on Mo Fan, the only one breathing here. For a moment, Mo Fan was stunned by the shock.

“Actually, this thing tastes pretty good if you chew it carefully.” Mo Fan picked up the gray garlic and took a big bite, his expression as ugly as it could be.

Lin Ran smiled and said, "Brother Fan, that's right."

The short man sneered. He glanced at the groups of skeletons around him and said, "Let's leave here quickly. This is probably the tomb of a minister of the Qing Dynasty. There are so many people buried with him and craftsmen, it's even comparable to the funeral of a king... These skeletons are okay. We can handle them if we really fight. I'm afraid there are extremely powerful mages in the tomb who turned into undead generals after death, which would be fatal."

"Stay away from me when you talk to me." Mo Fan couldn't help but say.

The effect of gray garlic is immediate, and even the undead sometimes think that you haven't rinsed your mouth when you exhale, and those with obsessive-compulsive disorder will even give way to you.

Everyone was walking among the hordes of undead. At this moment, the woman in black silk stockings spoke for the first time. Her voice was so beautiful that it sounded like a clear melody floating down from the sky. It would have been even better if there was a little more emotion in her words. However, perhaps it was this otherworldly quality that made people feel itchy.

"Is it like this often here?" asked the woman in black stockings.

The short man was flattered by this question and quickly replied, "It wasn't like that before, but ever since the Shawang River riot, the air of death has become thick here. Some people say that a new era of the undead is coming. Maybe, if the supreme ruler of this undead kingdom is replaced, this situation is possible."

"The supreme ruler?" the woman in black stockings asked doubtfully.

"No one has seen it, but everyone knows it exists... Everyone calls it the Lost Emperor, and it is said to be the incarnation of a Tang Dynasty monarch after his death." The short man immediately began to show off his culture.

"How many years ago was your Tang Dynasty?" the woman in black silk stockings continued.

"Us?" The short man was stunned for a moment.

Mo Fan touched his chin. It turned out that this woman was not Chinese. No wonder she spoke strangely.

"More than a thousand years ago." The short man couldn't tell the specific year.

"The King of the Millennium..." the woman in black silk stockings murmured to herself, and then did not ask any more questions.

The woman didn't ask, but the short man wanted to show off his knowledge, so he continued, "That's right. Undead things depend on age. The older they are, the more terrifying their strength. Who knows what kind of shocking monsters will be born from the nourishment of a thousand years of death."

The history of this world is consistent. Mo Fan, who is well-read, quickly remembered something. The capital of the Tang Dynasty was in Xi'an. If this place nurtures undead creatures, then those ancient kings may indeed turn into undead after their death...

“These ancient kings are really something. They have been dead for so many years, but they are still ruling the underground world and the night world!” Mo Fan couldn’t help but curse.

"Most kings' tombs are Feng Shui treasures. It's normal for them to absorb the energy of heaven and earth and eventually turn into monsters. Everyone says that the ruler of the kingdom of the dead has changed. This is really funny, as if they know the previous ruler of the kingdom of the dead. Whether the ruler has changed or not, the dead don't know, but we living people know it." said the short man.

"Has no one seen the undead ruler?" Liu Ru asked weakly at this time.

The short man shook his head and said honestly, "I have never seen even the strongest wizard. Before, some foreigners who claimed to be from the Holy Court came here to seek answers. They were all top wizards, but none of them came back alive. I heard that they turned into undead in the end... Damn it, these foreigners are always causing us trouble. Damn it."

After the short man finished speaking, he suddenly realized that the woman in black silk stockings was not from this country either, so he smiled and said, "I'm not talking about you."

"It doesn't matter. I'm also happy to hear people from the Holy Court do stupid things." A smile flashed in the bright eyes of the woman in black stockings.

Holy Inquisition?
Mo Fan had heard before that the magic organizations in Europe were somewhat similar to arbitration institutions such as the Chinese Inquisition.

The Inquisition is responsible for executing, apprehending, and executing those evil wizards with stains, while the Holy Court is responsible for maintaining world peace.

Lin Ran's eyes fell on the woman wearing a black silk veil. Noticing Lin Ran's gaze, the woman said, "What's wrong?"

"No..." Lin Ran said nothing more.

At this time, the short man looked at Lin Ran with a little displeasure. He was with a pair of sisters, but he still wanted to hook up with this foreigner wearing black stockings. Wasn't it a bit too much?

Mo Fan looked at the short man, smiled, and said, "Is this guy really annoying?"

The short man nodded. Lin Ran with the sisters was indeed very irritating, mostly out of jealousy. Such sisters were very rare.

Ignoring the short man's jealousy, Mo Fan walked up to Lin Ran and said, "Do you think we will run into the same burly black shadow from before?"

Lin Ran shook his head and said, "I don't know, but we'd better reduce the fighting, otherwise it will attract some monsters, which will be very bad."

The magical fluctuations in battle will attract the attention of the undead, so use magic as little as possible, and try to avoid using high-level magic or above, otherwise it will attract the commander-level undead, which will be very bad.

Mo Fan looked at Lin Ran and lowered his voice and said, "Try not to use high-level magic. I don't want to fight a commander-level undead right away."

Lin Ran knew what Mo Fan was worried about so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, I know what to do." Lin Ran's eyes fell on the undead nearby. Although these undead did not attack them, they still looked very creepy.

Liu Xian said at this time: "The undead are really scary."

Lin Ran touched Liu Xian's head to comfort her.

(End of this chapter)