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"Is this body yours from when you were alive? I need a piece of your body tissue from when you were alive to serve as a summoning medium."

"My demigod, this is the body formed from the ashes before me." Kel'Thuzad nodded, broke off a rib from his own body, and respectfully handed it to Rhodes.

His skeletal eyes gleamed with a pale blue light, and the flames of his soul flickered wildly. He had long awaited this new resurrection.

Rhodes nodded and began to use the rib as a medium and the White Zetsu as a sacrifice to perform the Impure World Reincarnation technique!

A strange magic circle began to form beneath White Zetsu's feet, and Kel'Thuzad's soul was extracted from his lich form.

Kel'Thuzad even took out his lich phylum and extracted a portion of his soul from it; this phylum is used by liches to save their lives.

The lich's life-saving methods are far inferior to this immortality!

It's important to know that these liches can indeed be resurrected after death in their phylactery.

However, it takes time to recover the soul, and it cannot be used multiple times, since the soul cannot be split too many times.

Even a lich as powerful as him can only use it a few times. After being defeated in the Eastern Plaguelands last time, his soul was weakened to the extreme.

Kel'Thuzad's soul was completely gathered together and then injected into White Zetsu's body.

Some gray substance began to appear, like paper and ink, and began to wrap around White Zetsu's body.

An elderly mage, dressed in a purple robe and looking to be in his fifties, appeared on the spot, panting heavily.

"I've been resurrected! I can't believe I can be resurrected. This is my original human body! My God, this is amazing! My magic! Arcane and necromantic energy have actually merged!" Kel'Thuzad immediately discovered a pleasant surprise.

His magic power, based on his original human form, had also incorporated the necromancy of the lich, essentially merging his human power with the power he possessed during his lich era.

He originally thought that after being resurrected in this form, he would only possess the magical power he had in his human days, which was about the same as Ronin's.

It's incomparable to his lich form; after transforming into a lich, his mana was greatly enhanced by necromancy.

But now, this transformation has pulled his soul out of the lich's body and bestowed it upon the human body. With these two magical powers combined, he is much stronger than before.

Now he can cast arcane magic, frost magic, and necromancy—spells he possessed in his human life and spells he gained in his lich form after death, even combining them perfectly.

"This is the magic of drawing and turning. Your resurrected body is something I specially prepared for you," Rhodes said.

Just like the special body that Kabuto Yakushi prepared for Madara Uchiha, Rhode added the lich's magic to this body when he transferred his soul.

In any case, the lich's magic can be contained as long as the body is undead, and this kind of impure earth resurrection, although it maintains a human form, is an undead life in every sense of the word.

"Please let me, let me get acquainted with this body, great demigod," Kel'Thuzad said excitedly.

Rod nodded naturally and gestured for him to proceed.

Once Kel'Thuzad received permission, he immediately began casting his various necromancy spells: frost spells, arcane magic.

He could feel that once his magic was depleted, it would inexplicably surge back again. Now, if he wanted, he could release spells that he had previously had to be drained and honed before.

Furthermore, it can be cast freely like a normal spell, without any need to worry about stamina issues.

Kel'Thuzad even fired a fireball at himself, shattering half of his body. In just a few dozen seconds, a large number of paper scraps appeared around his body and slowly pieced themselves back together.

"Hahaha! Thank you, great demigod. I am overwhelmed by your blessing. I am now more powerful than ever before," Kel'Thuzad said.

"We have one last ritual. Actually, I have the ability to resurrect the dead. I can resurrect you as a true human being." After saying this, Rhodes was about to cast the Reincarnation Technique.

"No, no, no! Great demigod, please don't punish me!"

This is the most perfect body; I am the strongest now.

Limitless magic power, limitless stamina, immortality, and far greater magical strength—this is the most perfect form, far beyond the reach of a mortal human body.

Kel'Thuzad immediately knelt on the ground and began to plead with Rhodes.

For others, resurrection might be a dream come true, but for Kel'Thuzad, it was not. In his eyes, this impure body was the most perfect body.

"Some spells that target the soul can destroy it, and the ultimate Force can destroy your body, making it impossible for you to recover," Rhodes said.

"Great demigod, you are but a mortal. You can be killed by spells that target the soul, and you can be killed by the ultimate six fundamental forces. What difference does it make?" Kel'Thuzad retorted.

Yes, that makes sense, and it seems to be true!

The resurrected body is just as vulnerable to these spells, and even some ordinary elemental magic. Ordinary swords and blades can kill it, but this body has absolutely no need to worry about ordinary attacks.

Moreover, there are very few in the entire world of Azeroth who can unleash the ultimate Force. Only the Titans, the Old Gods, the Wilderness Demigods, Sargeras himself who was personally infused with power, or Archimonde and Kil'jaeden can use it.

"Great demigod, you should know that as a lich, I know a lot of soul-targeting spells, and I am very skilled at them. If someone wants to kill me with soul magic, their skill level must be much higher than mine," Kel'Thuzad said.

No way! I'm a top-tier lich, how could I possibly not have any means to defend against soul magic?

Even the most skilled sorcerer, unless their magical proficiency far surpasses his, cannot possibly attack him with soul magic.

"Hahaha! Well, it seems that completely reviving you is actually a punishment for you. This is the kind of situation you like best," Rhodes said.

Perhaps in the future I can have Kabuto Yakushi and Orochimaru finish them off, and work with the Second Hokage to further improve this spell.

These bodies, reborn from the dead, can also cultivate and increase their power. This form of immortality is indeed most suitable for certain psychopaths.

Speaking of increasing power, Rhodes suddenly thought of a way that might allow a certain lich to gain chakra power.

"I will give you another power! Do not resist."

Rhodes approached Kel'Thuzad, touched his forehead with his finger, and infused some chakra into his body.

The White Zetsu's body already possesses the power of Wood Release and chakra; he merely activated and amplified it.

Those who are resurrected using kobolds, fishmen, or werewolves cannot be granted this kind of chakra power.

Rhodes also did not intend to bestow chakra power upon other Edo Tensei users, because possessing chakra meant having the ability to undo Edo Tensei, and it could not be given away indiscriminately.

The power of chakra, using White Zetsu's body as a base, rapidly spread to Kel'Thuzad, and then began to activate and increase his physical activity.

Rhodes added chakra to this body, roughly equivalent to the chakra of a tailed beast.

The resurrection of White Zetsu's body should allow this great lich to master five types of ninjutsu and Wood Release.

"My demigod, I feel a new energy within me, and I also feel a life force," Kel'Thuzad said with surprise as he immediately noticed the changes in his body.

I can't believe that life force can still exist within the body of an undead!

"Hmm! This is the new power I bestow upon you. This power is called chakra. The body that was given to you as a sacrifice before already possessed a power called Wood Release."

You can summon trees to fight; these trees can absorb chakra or other energies. You should study this carefully.

After Rhodes finished speaking, he handed over some Wood Release ninjutsu and basic Five Elements Release techniques to Kel'Thuzad.

"Great demigod, are you interested in recruiting more subordinates? If you have any, you can recruit them from Naxxramas Fortress and the Knights of the Ebon Blade."

There are some top-tier liches, and death knights, who are also first-rate experts.

"I've also brought some ice dragons with me from my Naxxramas fortress this time," Kel'Thuzad said.

"Can you make them loyal to me?"

"Great demigod, but all liches, you can trust them completely."

"As for the other undead monsters, there's no need to let them control this power, because many of them are insectoids, or undead modified by other monsters," Kel'Thuzad said.

Abominations are monsters composed of a collection of corpses, pieced together from various bodies, and therefore lack any independent consciousness.

As for the other spiders, cave demons, gargoyles, and the modified monsters, they are all magical creations.

There's no need to use this special resurrection spell on them; all that's needed are some liches and these death knights.

"My Lord Demigod! I can try to persuade these Death Knights."

Those who wish to join your ranks shall be granted new immortality; those who do not shall remain as death knights.

"Then just use dark magic to control it; I can handle that." Kel'Thuzad said.

Most of these death knights can be persuaded; those that cannot be persuaded can be controlled by force. (End of Chapter)