Mythology: Ragnarok

The gravedigger turned around and saw that Agred had been kneeling on the ground for some time. If he hadn't already become a skeleton, you might have seen a man sobbing sadly. Agred's soul fire was constantly changing and leaping, as if telling of his sorrow, his anger, and his regret. At this moment, the gravedigger dared not make any move as he watched this strange scene.

A moment later, Agreed stood up and reached out his hand, intending to use necromancy to turn his wife and daughter into undead. But after thinking about it, he lowered his hand. As an undead himself, he knew best what kind of torment they would suffer. He had already killed them and shouldn't torment them because of his own obsession. He should let them go and live a better life in the next life.

Thinking of this, Agreed activated his magic, compressing the two remains into a deep red diamond of ashes. Agreed put the diamond into his hand and used dimensional magic to store it in his private space. Agreed looked at the gravedigger and asked, "Did you find anything else on me back then?"

The gravedigger looked at Agreed for a moment, then suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "You had a pendant on you that looked a bit like coal. It didn't look worth much, but... you know there's not much profit in my line of work, so I put it away. Wait here, I'll go get it for you right away." With that, the gravedigger hurriedly ran into his hut, searched high and low, and finally found Agreed's pendant in a pile of ruins. He then rushed over with the pendant and respectfully returned it to Agreed.

Agreed took the pendant and praised, "You did a great job. I'm very grateful to you. I don't have much to repay you with, but there are some gold coins I saved up in this pendant. Consider it a reward for your help." As he spoke, Agreed took out four or five bags of gold coins and threw them to the gravedigger. The gravedigger's eyes immediately lit up, and he kowtowed profusely as he accepted the bags.

Then Agreed took out a ring of similar size from the pendant, removed the gemstone, and then set the diamond containing his wife and daughter's ashes into it. He then put the ring on his ring finger. Next, Agreed took out a magician's robe from the pendant and covered his empty body.

After packing up, Agreed said to the gravedigger, "I'm leaving. I advise you not to tell anyone about me, otherwise neither I nor the Church of Light will let you live."

The gravedigger immediately agreed, "Please rest assured, I will definitely..." But before he could finish speaking, Agreed placed his bone hand directly on his head. Agreed was still not at ease, so he simply altered his memories to prevent any accidents from happening.

Ten minutes later, a mysterious figure in a long robe walked towards the nearby forest, while the gravedigger at the mass grave was happily counting the gold coins.

The gravedigger was very happy today because he had just accidentally unearthed a nobleman's coffin filled with gold coins buried with him. This made him rich overnight, at least in his memory. He believed that this was how the gold coins came to be. Even if one day he realized that his memory was different from reality, he would not think too much about it and would just think that he must have remembered it wrong, and then he would come up with a reasonable explanation in his mind.

In the forest, Agreed was greedily absorbing the marrow and life energy of a bear. In no time, the nearly half-ton bear was turned into a puddle of mud and thrown to the ground by Agreed.

Agreed then sat comfortably on the bearskin on the ground and muttered to himself, "Judging from the memories of those two people, it has been five years since I left this world. The Church of Light has ruled the entire human kingdom and established a huge country called the 'Kingdom of Light.' Staying here now will only make things more and more dangerous. I must leave here and seek other opportunities."

It seems that overthrowing the Church of Light requires careful planning. I need at least the fighting strength of Tutankhamun back then to be able to challenge Baldr, but where should I go...?

Currently, Agred's bone strength is only comparable to that of a mid-level warrior, and his soul cultivation has been greatly reduced due to rebirth, falling below the level of a grand mage. Leaving the human kingdom is now an inevitable choice for Agred if he wants to develop further.

But... where to go? He desperately needs to find a place teeming with strong-boned creatures and where there is little danger. Is that even possible?

Suddenly, Agreed slapped his forehead and said, "How could I forget? Although my current physical condition makes it impossible for me to improve my strength by hunting high-level creatures, I can raid the burial sites of those high-level creatures! Their bodies are so terrifying that it would take a long time to completely decompose the energy within their bones after death. It's safe and suitable for me."

Without hesitation, Agreed immediately stood up and headed towards the border of the human kingdom. He had already planned it out. His first stop was the Orc Empire, the old neighbor of the human kingdom, to dig up the ancestral graves of the Orc Emperor's family. Then he would continue forward, bypassing the Elf Empire and the western swamp inhabited by vampires, to find opportunities to develop in the Dwarf Empire (Elves and vampires turn to dust and disappear after death, so Agreed would not gain anything by going there, and thus chose to take a detour).

If given the chance, Agreed would most like to find the burial grounds of the dragon race. After all, dragons are the true pinnacle of life, and the Bone Forging Technique clearly states that to reach the Divine Bone Realm, one must rely on dragon bones as a foundation.

So Agreed continued to hunt monsters and animals to replenish his bone mass as he traveled around human towns. Three months later, Agreed reached the border and left the human kingdom. At this time, the color of his bones had begun to turn white over a large area, which was a clear sign that he was about to reach the White Bone Realm.

Later, Agreed carefully used illusion magic to sneak into the Orc Empire. Fortunately, the Orc Empire generally did not set up defenses on its borders, because in most cases they were invading others and few people would lead troops to this barren land to fight the Orcs, since it was a thankless task.

So Agred entered the territory of the Orc Empire very smoothly, constantly ambushing orcs and wild beasts on the wasteland along the way, using their bones for cultivation. Soon, Agred's body smoothly entered the White Bone Realm. Just when Agred was having trouble finding the royal tomb of the Orc Empire, a surprise appeared before his eyes.

It was a perfect dinner in a lifeless town where countless elderly orcs, nearing the end of their lives, were barely clinging to life. These orcs were now in the same predicament as the suicide squad led by the old orc swordsman. They were all old men who had been banished to the border town by the orc empire because they had lost their value. Once their numbers reached a certain point, the orc empire would form suicide squads from these old men, distribute some discarded equipment to them, and then, under the coercion of the orc army, the suicide squads would attack neighboring human towns to "die gloriously." This weakened the enemy's strength and also made use of these worthless old men (although it seemed cruel to us, it was a matter of course for the orcs who had no filial piety).