Wizard: Building a Cultivation Family from Scratch

Karen's movements gradually slowed down until she stopped moving completely...

"Damn it!"

Seeing this scene.

The Blackwater Knights member who had handed Granger the shield immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

He mustered his courage and walked up to Karen, who was nailed to the wall, and looked her up and down.

Then he turned to Oriana, who was still somewhat shaken, and said:

"My lord, it really does seem to be Karen."

But how could he...?

"Be careful!"

However, at that moment, Gordon's low growl suddenly came.

The Blackwater Knights member reacted extremely quickly.

Upon hearing Gordon's voice, he immediately and hurriedly hid behind him.

However, it was all too late.

Karen, who had been motionless, suddenly raised her head, her eyes gleaming with a ghostly blue light.

"Bang!!!"

A sickeningly loud crash rang out.

Karen, who was pinned to the wall, suddenly swung her right arm and slammed it hard into the throat of the Blackwater Knight.

"Snap!"

The sound of bones shattering rang out, and a stream of scarlet blood spurted out, splashing onto the cold wall.

asshole!

Seeing the scene before him, Gordon was furious and immediately raised his hand to unleash a wind blade spell.

In an instant, it sliced ​​"Karen"'s body in two!

Although this member of the Blackwater Knights had not awakened the power seed and was not a super knight, he was extremely loyal to the Roland family.

  

At this time, the Roland family was in a period of expansion, and loyal retainers like him were the most valuable core assets; the death of one meant one less.

However, to everyone's surprise, even though Karen's body had been cut in two by Gordon's wind blades, the matter was still not over...

The corpse, which had been broken in two, was still slowly twitching on the ground.

Karen's upper body lay sprawled on the cold mine floor, her face, rotten to the point of being almost unrecognizable, still fixed on the crowd, emitting indistinct roars as she continued to crawl toward the fallen Blackwater Knight's corpse.

This scene sent chills down everyone's spines.

"Damn it, this thing is still alive!"

Another member of the Blackwater Knights' voice trembled.

The old knight Granger's face was extremely grim. He took a step forward, raised his longsword, and wanted to completely shatter Karen's head.

"Wait!" Gordon's voice suddenly rang out at that moment.

Granger paused, a look of confusion in his eyes.

However, Gordon did not offer any further explanation.

He strode forward, squatted down beside Karen's half-crawling corpse, and then placed his hand directly on the rotting flesh near Karen's chest.

This action immediately caused everyone in the mine to frown instinctively.

However, Gordon didn't care at all.

He first punched "Karen" in the face as she tried to resist, pinning her to the ground, and then reached in and began to pry inside her chest.

Soon, he found a dark bluish-black object about the size of a thumb among them.

"What is this?"

Oriana, who was standing next to her, asked.

Gordon forcefully pulled the object out of Karen's chest cavity, looked down carefully, and found that it seemed to be some kind of mushroom.

"There are magical fluctuations on it; it must be some kind of demonized plant."

Gordon pondered for a moment before speaking.

This was the first time he had ever seen a demonized plant in this world, and he couldn't help but feel curious.

Upon hearing Gordon's words, Orianna immediately realized what he meant:

"So this is what allowed Karen to be resurrected and move?"

"It seems so."

Gordon nodded, then extended two fingers and gently pinched them together.

With a "pfft".

The thumb-sized, bluish-black mushroom shattered instantly.

In that instant, Karen's half-corpse finally lost all strength, slumped to the ground, and remained motionless.

At this moment, the onlookers around also understood.

What they had just faced was not "Karen" at all, but a corpse controlled by some mysterious force.

"Maurice!"

As the crisis subsided, the remaining members of the Blackwater Knights quickly gathered around and knelt down beside the Blackwater Knight who was still coughing up blood.

Orianna looked at Maurice lying in a pool of blood, a trace of sadness appearing in her eyes.

This is an old soldier who has followed the Roland family for many years.

He was already serving in the castle when Oriana was still a child.

Oriana even remembered that the other man had a sick wife and two young children.

Not long ago, when the soldiers were being paid, Oriana overheard him laughing and telling the other soldiers that he would buy his youngest daughter a new pair of boots after this patrol was over...

But now his neck had been smashed to pieces, and blood was gushing out from the gaps in his armor.

His eyes were wide open, as if he never understood why he had fallen there, even in death.

However, at that moment, Orianna suddenly felt someone tap her on the shoulder.

She turned her head and saw that it was the old knight Granger standing behind her.

Granger sighed softly, patted Orianna on the shoulder reassuringly, and then looked up at the soldiers and said:

"Let's carry him upstairs first. Once this is over, we'll take him home with us."

Several members of the Blackwater Knights nodded silently.

Everyone could clearly feel the sadness spreading through the mine.

As a benefactor of the Thorne family, Gordon naturally couldn't say much at this point.

He could only stand up silently, examine the clump of mushroom fragments still lying in his palm, and begin to ponder.

Clearly, the one manipulating Karen's corpse was the wild wizard mentioned by the Viscount Wolfe's envoy.

Gordon was very interested when the other party mentioned this wild wizard.

But he never expected that the place where this guy was hiding was actually near this mixed crystal mine.

but……

There was one thing that puzzled Gordon greatly at this time.

According to Viscount Wolf's envoy, this wild wizard, skilled in necromancy, was at least a third-level wizarding apprentice.

But judging from the current situation, the opponent's strength shouldn't be that great yet...

At the very least, he still needs to use external objects to control the corpse.

This doesn't quite match what's recorded in Daniel's notes.

Logically speaking, a third-level wizard apprentice skilled in necromancy should already be able to control the dead using witchcraft, without needing any external aids.

Or does this peculiar, demonized plant possess some other advantage?

However, just as Gordon was pondering, a strange sound suddenly came from the depths of the mine again!

This immediately attracted the attention of others.

"clatter!"

"clatter!"

"clatter!"

This time, the sound was no longer a single voice, but a series of sounds emanating from the darkness, as if many things were crawling out from underground.

Immediately afterwards...

Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd.

One after another, swaying corpses suddenly burst forth from the darkness!