"Monster?" The huge figure bent down slightly and got into the door frame that was a bit low for him. Countless skeletal arms with rotten flesh hanging from them stretched out from under the black robe like blooming chrysanthemums. "Which one here do you think is a monster?"

"Lelph? Borken? Wood? Jack?..." A huge figure slowly approached the desperate Humphrey and put more than a dozen arms on the other's trembling shoulders. "Don't be nervous, Baron."

"Come, take a closer look at those bodies you whipped."

"Why can't you just watch carefully even at this time?"

Several bony hands grabbed Humphrey's dazed face, and their sharp fingers waved in front of his wide-open eyes.

"Still can't see clearly? Your noble eyes, are you still unable to see clearly even now?"

"Then what's the point of keeping it?"

“Ah!!!!!” Baron Humphrey let out a heart-wrenching roar, his face covered with glaring blood.

He fell to the ground, trembling, and groped in the darkness, trying to escape.

But it was no use, a huge force penetrated the back of his chest. He tried to howl physically, but his leaking lungs prevented him from uttering complete syllables.

"How can such a noble person become a puddle of mud after death?"

The sturdy figure retracted his densely packed bony arms, and raised his face slightly from under the hood. Suddenly, his sight turned, and he saw a man wearing a traveling cloak who had been standing at the door, and a girl with long pink and white hair riding on his shoulders.

There were several deep red teeth marks on the man's face and collarbone. It was not difficult to tell that they were the work of the girl who was still riding on his shoulders and biting his head.

"Ah... I didn't expect this was a couple's suite. Sorry to disturb your world of two." Ye Xiao saw the bloody scene in the room and scratched his head embarrassedly, "I'll leave now."

Chapter 13 Templar Knights and Necromancers

"Eunice...brought you here?"

The deep voice rang out from the huge figure in the house, but it was as calm as ever, not as crazy as the one who had just killed the Baron.

"I guess so, but for safety reasons, I asked it to wait outside." Ye Xiao shrugged. "You want to see her?"

"No." Besolini stretched out a bony arm from under his cloak and pulled out the knife stuck on the desk. His other bony hand gently stroked the blade. "Just... end it here."

"I have no reason to fight you." Ye Xiao shook his head, "I'm not familiar with the guy on the ground."

"There are hundreds of dead souls in my body, and my suppression of them has almost reached its limit." Besolini's voice was still steady. "Next, this body will be guided by the dead souls to Gray Gold Town. After killing the people in Gray Gold Town, it may go to Liangqiu Village, or directly to the Imperial City."

"So, you want me to finish you off here."

"I'm just telling you what I'm going to do." Besolini's bulky frame inched closer to the door. "It's your choice what to do."

"Maybe I have a way to save you?" Ye Xiao also planned to try Ella's version of the healing holy light.

He actually didn't have much ill feeling towards the dull necromancer.

"Being alive...is no longer salvation for me."

"Alright." Ye Xiao took down Gratia who was hanging on his head, "Be good, maid-sama, at least let me behave like a human being while I'm going through the plot."

"Hmph!" The little maid stood aside dissatisfied.

"Do you need a bandage first?" Besolini asked in a friendly manner.

"It's just a superficial wound, no big deal." Ye Xiao wiped the few drops of blood on his forehead with his right hand, and pulled out the staff on his back with his left hand.

I have to admit, when Gratia gets angry, her bite is actually pretty painful.

"Brother, if you are determined to die, can you do me a favor and surrender?"

“I want to, too.” Under the dark cloak, countless hands blossomed like lotus flowers. Besolini’s deep voice became a little weak. “But I can’t do it.”

As soon as he finished speaking, densely packed white bone arms instantly covered the narrow doorway like a volley of gunfire. At the same time, Ye Xiao also threw the staff in his hand into the door.

The spatial fluctuations flashed by, and Ye Xiao, who was teleported into the house by the magic wand, dodged the volley of white bone arms. He grasped the hilt of the sword with his right hand and drew the long sword boldly.

The sharp blade slashed at Besolini's bear-like back, tearing through his cloak but being blocked by the hard bone armor under the cloth.

Several bone arms broke through the cloak behind him and grabbed Ye Xiao. He flicked the tip of the knife and did a backflip onto the desk behind him, barely avoiding the swinging sharp bone claws.

Besolini's black cloak fell off, revealing a bloody and grotesque body.

It looked like a dozen rotting corpses were sewn together, with their twisted bodies entangled and intertwined to form this huge body.

The extended limbs swam in the sea of ​​​​rotten flesh, and the jaws of several pale heads surrounding them opened and closed, spewing out a thin blood mist.

"The biotechnology in this world always amazes people." Ye Xiao was amazed at the other party's unusual physiological structure, and raised his hand holding the staff slightly, "Fireball."

Dazzling fireworks exploded in the not-so-spacious room. The raging fire spread but did not leave much trace on the huge body.

Besolini, obscured by the flames and smoke, manipulated the skulls on his body to open their mouths and spit out thick green smoke to disperse the flames.

But at the moment the flames dissipated, a blade wrapped in golden glow broke through the thick smoke and slashed at the extended bone arm.

Besolini's eyes widened slightly under his hood, and his huge body retreated for the first time, retreating to the stairwell outside the door.

Several bone arms fell to the ground, burned by the holy light, and were crushed into ashes by a travel boot. The baron's sword held by one of the bone hands also fell to the ground with a noise.

Ye Xiao, holding a long sword wrapped in golden light and wearing armor transformed from holy light, slowly walked out of the house.

“Templar Knight…?” Besolini was a little surprised. With his rich experience, he could tell that the other party was very skilled when they first met, otherwise he would not have asked him to execute him.

But it was really hard for him to associate the frivolous, casually dressed guy in front of him with the solemn and dignified Templar Knights.

Of course, Ye Xiao didn't actually study the Templar's inheritance. He didn't have much time to practice the assassin's inheritance given by Atolina, so he naturally wouldn't find time to learn the Templar's skills.

All of the Templar swordsmanship and skills he possessed were what Ella had learned during High Priest Evans's memory mission, the Battle of Bards in the Lingfeng Valley in the past.

Although he does not have a high affinity for holy attributes and cannot exert much power, the techniques inherited from the Extraordinary Templar Knights are very useful against the undead Besolini.

Ye Xiao pushed the ground and arrived instantly, slashing out a golden arc with a knife enchanted by holy light.

In the narrow corridor, Besolini's huge body became a burden. Facing the slashing blows, he could only use the bone shield spell he hastily summoned to block them.

But the thin shield was easily broken by this knife. As the knife light penetrated into the sturdy body from top to bottom, the hot blade burned the rotten flesh and emitted thick black smoke.

The heads attached to it all let out painful howls, which echoed in the empty stairwell and made people's eardrums hurt.

"It seems... I didn't find the wrong person..." Even though huge pain filled his limbs, Besolini only let out a soft sigh, like the murmur of a dying person.

Ye Xiao pulled out the blade and shook off the rotten flesh that had been burned to ashes and was stuck on it.

He raised the tip of the knife slightly and pointed it at Besolini's thin and dilapidated face under the hood, "Rest in peace, old..."

Before he could finish his words, a thick black mist suddenly burst out from the body in front of him that was shrinking in pain.

The dark mist that came towards him quickly corroded the holy light armor wrapped around Ye Xiao's body, and even the glowing blade began to have dark spots.

Ye Xiao stepped back quickly, and when he looked at the knife in his hand again, he saw black spots like mold on it.

With just a slight swing, some iron filings fell off the blade.

"…I can't hold it back anymore…I'll leave it to you…"

Besolini's whisper floated out from the black fog, making Ye Xiao's scalp tingle.

"No, just hold on a little longer!"

No one responded to Ye Xiao's call in the black fog that filled the corridor. Countless hideous faces appeared on the surging black fog, emitting endless shrill screams.

It was difficult to get close to Besolini, who was wrapped in layers of black fog in the narrow space, and even the Holy Light Armor could not withstand the high-intensity corrosion.

Ye Xiao tried to use fireball to blast the black fog, but in the narrow corridor, the black fog was only suddenly spread around by the impact of the flames, revealing a groove for a short time, and then immediately swirled and gathered back.

At this rate, there is no way to get close to Besolini who is shrouded in black fog. The spell cannot be broken, and the knife that cuts in will be easily corroded.

He needed an open area where the black fog could disperse and not gather quickly.

Ye Xiao thought for a moment, threw away the rotten knife in his hand, faced the black fog and retreated to the door of the room.

Seeing the black fog filling the corridor surging in, just before it was about to cover the windows on the stairwell, Ye Xiao let go of the staff with his left hand and stomped hard on the baron's sword that had fallen at the door.

The exquisite noble sword bounced up from the ground. Ye Xiao grabbed the hilt in one hand and kicked the tail of the falling staff with one foot. The staff pierced through the air and flew straight out of the window with a whoosh.

Then, he suddenly pulled over Gretia, who was leaning against the door frame and yawning, and with a shout of "Disapparate", the two of them instantly disappeared into the air.

The next second, the surging black fog completely covered the entire corridor.

Chapter 14: Last Wish

"Wow, what are you doing!?" Gratia, who was falling in the mess outside the tower, couldn't help but scream.

"Let's go to a more open battlefield." Ye Xiao said as he let go of the maid's slender arm, grabbed the falling staff and shot a fireball upwards.

At the same time, the huge body in the stairs rushed out of the window wrapped in black miasma, just in time to encounter the flying fireball.

A blinding flame exploded, and the thick black fog in the clear sky finally dissipated, revealing the huge body that had been covered by layers of it.

Besolini inserted the pale bone arm that stretched out from his body into the outer wall of the tower and rushed towards Ye Xiao below, causing his tattered black cloak to flutter like a spider with a scarf.

The galloping huge figure soon caught up with Ye Xiao who was falling freely. The white bone arms wrapped in black mist moved and connected into a pale giant sickle, which slashed down fiercely.

Before the opponent approached, Ye Xiao threw the staff towards the wall of the tower. The staff, which was supposed to fall down together, bounced off the wall and turned into an arc to fly over Besolini's head.

He immediately grabbed Gratia's arm again, and disappeared in mid-air just at the moment when the giant bone sickle came down.

The sickle cut through the outer rock wall accompanied by a burst of flying sand, and Ye Xiao, who used the teleportation technique again, had already appeared half a body above Besolini, grabbing the little maid.

The black fog that was dispersed by the fireball in the open sky had just not had time to gather. Ye Xiao seized this opportunity to get close to the enemy, held the long sword in his hand, infused it with holy light, and chopped it down fiercely with a vertical slash.

The golden blade light pierced through Besolini's skinny head, cutting through the corrupt body underneath.

The dozen or so hideous skulls on it let out an ear-piercing howl once again, but this time, it was a cry that was about to fade away.

Watching the huge body burned by the holy light falling helplessly, Ye Xiao threw the little maid he was holding onto his back, and with both hands he stabbed the knife into the wall of the tower to stop the body from falling.

The sharp blade broke through the stone bricks and drew a vertical downward line on the outer wall of the tower.

……

After finally stopping falling, Ye Xiao first used Teleport to retrieve the staff that had fallen to the ground earlier, and then looked for Besolini's figure at the bottom of the iron tower and stone brick building of the refinery.

It didn't take long for him to see the huge figure of Besolini next to a molten iron pool with red flames.

"Fortunately, I didn't fall into the pool." After finding Besolini, Ye Xiao put the little maid who hit him with her fist back to the ground from behind, and slowly approached Besolini who was lying on the ground with a knife in his hand.

“……” Besolini, who was lying on the ground dying, noticed Ye Xiao approaching and remained silent.

Ye Xiao casually threw the baron's sword into the molten iron pool beside him. He didn't want to be considered as the baron's murderer because of this thing.

"You're almost dead, why don't you talk about some moral principles?"

“Alas…” Besolini’s sturdy body gradually shrank like a deflated balloon. Wisps of black smoke floated out of his body and dissipated in the air. “…I overestimated myself…In the end, I couldn’t endure it…”

"You carved spells on your body, disassembled it and placed it around the Gray Gold Mine. Was it to appease the dead spirits that suppressed the mine?"

After digging out the broken arm, Ye Xiao asked Gratia what the spell on the bandage wrapped around her arm meant before pursuing the next source of the smell.

The little maid who was proficient in the magic of necromancy gave the answer without much hesitation - a spell to appease and suppress the dead souls.

Afterwards, Ye Xiao learned from Eunice the real name of Besolini, and that this brother was once a necromancer wanted by the Human Federation.

Gratia said that generally speaking, the dead souls in this world would not stay in a certain place, but would naturally dissipate over time, unless they had some strong will.

The continuous gathering of dead souls will be like a bomb that is constantly filled with gunpowder, which will cause horrific consequences when the day comes.

Perhaps Besolini discovered that too many wronged souls lingering here would sooner or later cause a disaster, or perhaps Besolini knew those poor miners and didn't want them to wander in pain forever.

It is also possible that the infamous necromancer wanted to use these wandering undead to refine something, but failed because he was unable to control and suppress them.

In short, he did so, dismembering his original flesh and blood to set up a huge magic circle covering the entire mine.

The body he used was made from the remains of the miners to restrain the growing number of wronged souls.

But as to why, Besolini did not answer Ye Xiao's question.

However, Ye Xiao was more willing to believe the former, because he heard the dark owl that had been cursing Besolini on the road was hiding behind a wall not far away and sobbing softly.

Even when it was about to die, it did not come out to ask Besolini to hand over the potion that could turn it "back into a human", which may mean that such a potion does not exist at all.

"What a pity." Ye Xiao stood up. "With your talent for magic, you might be able to achieve greater success."

He was not talking nonsense. After all, a person who had never systematically learned necromancy could suppress hundreds of ghosts with his mortal body. Ordinary necromancers could not do this at all.

"Heh..." Besolini just chuckled.

His figure was no longer huge, and under the torn cloak, there were only a few shriveled bones that were turning into ashes.

"Actually... I want to open a flower shop with Eunice..."

As soon as the words were spoken, the frail body died.

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