Two Worlds: The Demon Cultivator Mistakenly Enters the Lord's World

Chapter 107 The Necromancer - Smolder

Gargoyles are not living beings in the ordinary sense, but a special kind of magical creation that serves as guardian beasts with their ferocious appearance.

Commonly found in churches and cemeteries.

After the gargoyles died, their corpses were not considered living beings and could not be used to recruit undead creatures. Hero Ironwall and his army of undead worked hard, but only managed to collect seventy or eighty bronze coins.

The undead army ransacked the main hall of the tomb and actually found some useful items there.

There were two carts of gold and silver treasures and piles of weapons and armor that had begun to rust.

These weapons and armor bear the marks of battle damage, resembling trophies salvaged from the battlefield, and come in a variety of styles.

Its origins are quite complex.

"Some nobles of the empire liked to be buried with the weapons and equipment they used to kill enemies in their lifetime, in order to highlight the glorious military achievements of the tomb's occupant!"

Grey was a noblewoman in her lifetime and knew some of the customs of aristocratic funerals.

After searching through these combat items, Hero Ironwall was also lucky enough to find a 1-star treasure.

【Iron Plate Armor (1-Star Treasure)】

[Equipment Effect]: Provides a slight defense bonus to subordinate troops.

[Equipment Slot]: Torso
This 1-star treasure looks ordinary; it's just a piece of regular iron armor that only protects the chest. However, its effect is exceptionally well-suited to the hero Iron Wall's defensive skill specialization.

It can provide some defense to his undead army, making it more resilient.

Iron Wall equipped himself with the Iron Plate Armor, and instantly his undead army looked as if they had recovered, with their bones and flesh becoming much harder.

It truly lives up to its name as an iron wall.

After cleaning up the main hall of the tomb on this level, Lu Feng and the hero Tiebi continued their exploration downwards.

"Crack!"

They smashed open the stone door leading to the next level, and a large number of skeletons poured into the dimly lit passage.

They act as pioneers, rushing in to trigger traps and pave the way.

The passage to the second level of the tomb was significantly more difficult than the one at the beginning, with more traps and even greater power.

Fortunately, the skeletons were effective enough, lining up to trigger the traps and clear the danger from the passage.

The second passage was quite damp, the moisture making it slippery, and moss grew on the walls, with water dripping from them.

Judging from this, the tomb is probably located about 30 to 40 meters underground, and its location should be close to the groundwater layer.

As expected, after Lu Feng and the others passed through the winding passage and entered the hall on the second floor of the tomb, they found that...

At this moment, the main hall on the second level of the tomb was completely submerged underwater. Undercurrents surged in the water, and ripples appeared on the surface, as if some enormous creature was lurking beneath the surface.

"Crack!"

Several skeleton soldiers cautiously entered the water in the hall. After taking only a few steps, the water suddenly churned, and the skeleton soldiers were abruptly dragged into the water. Before they could even struggle, they disappeared completely.

The water surface returned to calm.

"No need to send the skeleton soldiers in. Since there's water, just poison it!"

Lu Feng had been using Eagle Eye to observe the water in the hall. He had seen the creatures in the water when the skeleton soldiers disappeared.

【Rotten Swamp Catfish (1-star blank)】

[Corrupt Swamp Evil Catfish (1 star silver)]

They were a group of enormous catfish, all black in color, at least the size of calves, and covered in pustules.

Most of them are one-star blank items, with the elite individuals even reaching one-star silver.

I really don't know how these swamp catfish grew to this level in the tomb?
Perhaps the tomb's waterproofing was inadequate, allowing these swamp catfish to breach the tomb walls through underground waterways and enter the flooded main hall.

However, the origin of the catfish is not important; Lu Feng only cares about what kind of treasures he can find in this tomb.

Before them, these rotten swamp catfish were the very thing they had to overcome.

"hunger!"

Lu Feng released the Corrupted Abomination from the weapon storage bag. Its massive body landed directly in the water in the hall, splashing up a spray of water.

"Plague fog!"

As soon as Corruption and Abomination fell into the water, the plague mist surrounding his body quickly merged into the water, turning the water near his body a deep green.

"Clap clap clap!"

As the toxins spread, even though the swamp catfish, which live in swampy sewage, have a certain resistance to the toxins, they cannot withstand the putrid and abhorrent plague toxins.

Once in the water, the swamp catfish had nowhere to escape. Large amounts of toxins entered their bodies with each breath, quickly causing them to struggle violently.

Some also launched direct attacks on corruption and hatred, biting at them with their gaping maws that could easily tear apart their prey.

"Come on!"

But when the rotten catfish took a bite, it bit into the slick, decaying flesh armor of the corrupt abomination, which not only contained the speed of decay but also did not cause much damage.

"Roar!"

When attacked, the Corrupt and Abomination grabbed the rotten catfish that had bitten into the rotting flesh of his leg and stuffed it into its mouth.

With a single bite, the rotten swamp catfish in the hands of the corrupt abomination was like a delicious dried fish, which it devoured one by one.

A series of crackling and splashing sounds were heard in the water, and in a short while, the putrid catfish in the water of the second hall of the tomb were swept away by the putrid abomination.

With the monsters gone, the skeleton soldiers scouted ahead and discovered that the tomb was indeed leaking.

A large hole appeared in one of the walls of the hall, and water from the underground river flowed in continuously, filling the hall until the water level was even.

Having found the loophole, Gray used the Mountain-Driving Whip to drive the bricks and stones, easily patching the loophole. Then, using the water-storing artifact obtained from the Lord of Mist Mountain, she collected the water in the hall and carried it out in trips. Soon, the hall on the second floor of the tomb was cleared out by Lu Feng and the others.

After being soaked by groundwater for countless years, coupled with the presence of the swamp catfish in the hall, the second-level hall of this tomb is now completely devoid of any recognizable features.

There were no treasures, nothing at all.

Continuing to explore further, although the second level was leaking, the portal leading to the next level of the tomb remained tightly closed, without any trace of leakage.

When corruption and hatred forcefully pushed open the door, the passage to the next level was still dry.

Pushing open the stone door on this floor, a thick aura of death immediately wafted out of the passage.

The pitch-black passageway resembled the gaping maw of a ferocious beast, greedily seeking to devour everyone who entered.

"My lord, be careful. The next level might be the main burial chamber of this tomb. Judging from this dense aura of death, there's probably something big inside!"

Grey, with her keen senses, took Lu Feng's hand and reminded him.

"Understood! The cannon fodder will go scout ahead!"

Lu Feng nodded, and Heroic Iron Wall first sent a squad of skeleton soldiers into the passage.

The dark passage was filled with a gray, misty fog, thick with the aura of death. The skeleton soldiers could see nothing as they entered the passage.

The torches they held could only illuminate a small area around them; once they went more than ten meters into the passage, the skeleton soldiers holding the torches disappeared from sight. "This mist is strange; it absorbs light and sound, and it also has the effect of blocking detection!"

Lu Feng took a closer look.

Even with his Eagle Eye technique activated, he couldn't see through the black mist.

It's somewhat similar to the Misty Mist Lock Array set up by Lin Yufei, the master of Misty Mountain.

Similar effects.

Grey gazed thoughtfully at the mist in the passageway:
"This mist, imbued with the aura of death, is somewhat similar to the black mist emanating from the Death Curtain of the Undead race. Of course, the one in this tomb should be a weakened version; otherwise, if an Undead Curtain were set up, the entire Roland Forest would probably become the domain of the undead!"

"Be careful!"

Lu Feng listened, his brows furrowing slightly. It seemed that there was a powerful figure hidden in this tomb, and he must not let his guard down.

Shortly after the skeletons charged into the mist, they triggered traps in the passage, causing a series of commotions.

The length of the channel is finite.

Soon, the skeleton soldiers finished dealing with the traps in the passage and entered the third level of the tomb.

"Dead! The skeleton soldier was killed as soon as it entered the third level!"

Hero Ironwall sensed the undead creatures under its command and reported their progress.

"I saw it. Before my ghost died, it saw a mage in a black robe, holding a staff, awaken from the coffin."

He must have been a necromancer; he cast a spell and destroyed the skeletons and ghosts that went in!

Grey also reported on the results of her Ghosts' reconnaissance.

"I wonder if we can communicate with a necromancer?"

Upon receiving this news, Lu Feng's first thought was to subdue it.

Mages are often elite units, and they are also very knowledgeable. A living mage is far more useful than a single Soul Coin dropped after death.

Lu Feng ordered the skeleton soldiers to stop entering. After waiting for a while, the necromancer inside did not come out of the passage on his own initiative.

Lu Feng made thorough preparations before passing through the passage under the protection of the iron wall and heading towards the third level of the tomb.

After passing through the misty passage, we entered the third hall of the tomb, where a bright and open space suddenly appeared before us.

The third-floor hall resembled a mage's laboratory, with rows of bookshelves filled with books against the walls, and next to the bookshelves were skull lamps emitting a faint, oily green light.

Wisps of black mist emanated from the skull lamps, coalescing into a fog that surged into the passage through which Lu Feng and his companions had come.

In the center of the hall was a circular experimental table, on which were placed various bottles and jars, some of which contained strange and unusual monster materials.

In the center of the circular experimental table was a black jade coffin, its surface carved with intricate patterns and inlaid with gemstones imbued with magical power.

This coffin alone is worth a lot of money.

The owner of this tomb, as expected of a sorcerer, was certainly wealthy.

Disturbed by the skeleton soldiers, the black-robed mage climbed out of the coffin, dealt with the skeleton soldiers and ghosts, and then came to the circular experimental table.

The eerie fire within his skull burned faintly as he touched the instruments on the lab table, seemingly recalling events from his previous life.

Surrounded by the undead army, Lu Feng walked out of the passage and immediately saw the black-robed mage on the circular experimental table.

[Necromancer - Smolder - Hero (1-Star Gold)]

The brightly lit nameplate demonstrated the tomb's owner's power; he was not only a necromancer but also a hero of the undead race.

Fortunately, no undead creatures were found in the third level of the tomb, so Smolder probably wouldn't be able to unleash the full power of his undead hero abilities and command the undead army in battle.

The moment Lu Feng saw him, he patted his weapon storage bag and summoned the Corrupted Abomination and the Treant.

Three enormous tree-men, along with the corrupted abominations, quickly occupied most of the space in the tomb's main hall. Gray and the Mountain God's Guard stood on either side, while a steady stream of skeletal wolf riders emerged from the passage behind them under the command of the Iron Wall.

"Be careful, don't damage my book!"

While Lu Feng was deploying his troops, the necromancer Smode, standing in front of the circular experimental table, let out a low, hoarse voice.

His throat sounded like it was being scratched by a sharp object against glass; the sound was extremely unpleasant.

Even Smolder himself was stunned and bewildered when he heard his own voice.

He muttered to himself in confusion:
"I have finally become a dead man, a ghost!"

Clearly, Smolder, who had just awakened from the dead, was not yet used to his identity as a necromancer.

"Smolder, let's talk!"

Seeing Smode's confusion, Lu Feng, with the protection of his men, boldly spoke up.

Smodem was a talented individual, and Lu Feng really didn't want to kill him.

Lu Feng's voice pulled Smode from his dazed state. His gaze swept over the treant and lingered on the corrupt abomination for a moment, seemingly quite interested.

Judging from the current troop strength, Smolder realized that he was no match for the human lord in front of him.

In particular, this lord exuded a terrifying aura that made even his soul fire tremble.

Smolder felt he couldn't defeat this lord alone.

This discovery caused Smolder to pause for a moment, before returning to the following:

"Talk, talk about what?"

"In the current situation, fighting is meaningless. I am 99% confident that I can kill you, but a soul coin is worthless compared to a necromancer!"

"I want you to join my territory and become my hero! To serve me!"

Lu Feng spoke frankly, expressing his thoughts.

Upon hearing this, the soul fire within Smolder's skull trembled slightly as he pondered.

The hall of the tomb fell silent as he pondered, with only the undead creatures focusing their gazes on Smolder in front of the circular experimental table.

They were all waiting for Smolder's answer: war or peace.

If he makes even the slightest dangerous move, Lu Feng's undead army will swarm in and eliminate the necromancer Smode to prevent future trouble.

After a long silence, Smolder's hoarse voice broke the stillness of the tomb's main hall:

"I accept your invitation, but there are also some conditions for me to join the territory!"

"Go ahead and tell me!"

Upon hearing Smode's words, Lu Feng's lips curled up slightly, and he said loudly.

He wasn't afraid of Smodem making demands. The two-star treants had also made demands, and Lu Feng had still completed their task, getting them to join his territory.

"I am a mage, or more precisely, an academic necromancer. I may not be very good at combat, so after joining the territory, please try not to send me to war. I will use my creations and technology to support your territory's wars!"

"Furthermore, I need to build a laboratory of my own. I enjoy research and experimentation. If possible, please allow me to study this powerful Corruption Abomination. From it, I have seen the beauty and power of undead creatures!"

(End of this chapter)