The Rise of the Cemetery

As soon as the small auction was over, while the residents of Stratholme were still playing and celebrating, the great figures in the cemetery were already busy with heavy missions.

The most urgent task at hand is to make the most meticulous preparations and foreshadowing for the transfer of the Skeleton King's soul.

Groups of high-ranking liches and dracolich gathered together, and under the leadership of Kel'Thuzad, Parkwick, and Platya, they constantly adjusted and supplemented the details and steps of this magic ceremony, striving to achieve perfection.

If this soul transfer is successful, it will undoubtedly provide a new way of thinking for the Great Cemetery to quickly obtain top combat power in the future.

To complete the settlement of the Skeleton King's soul, the first problem is how to deal with the soul of the Bone King Cook. If you simply extract Cook's soul completely, and then inject the Skeleton King's soul fire, this is undoubtedly the easiest method. But this method also faces a very difficult problem.

That is, with the strength of the Skeleton King's soul alone, can Cook's legendary body, which has been tempered through thousands of years, be smoothly driven?

For this point, all casters are not optimistic.

Any legendary powerhouse has gone through hundreds of years of long process to polish the best match between soul and body. What kind of body strength also needs what kind of soul strength, otherwise it would be the same as a young child wielding a big knife, hurting himself first before hurting others.

Back then, the combination of the green-haired zombie Moros and the dragon's remains was not as difficult as it is now. After all, the level gap between Moros and the magic dragon was not too huge at that time, and with the help of the soul crystal, it could be forcibly driven.

As for using soul crystals to forcibly increase the strength of the Skeleton King's soul, that is nonsense for laymen. The Skeleton King is currently level 15, and his soul strength is always limited by the level 15. No matter how much you make up for him, the soul strength is still there, it is impossible to push it to the legendary level, so everything is useless!

Therefore, many spellcasters discussed and discussed, and felt that the best solution was to retain most of Cook's soul, just simply erase its memory and consciousness, and then let Skeleton King complete this soul transfer by soul fusion.

However, in this way, there are also great risks.

The more Cook's original soul consciousness is retained, the greater the benefits of Skeleton King after fusion will undoubtedly be, but this will also increase the risk of soul fusion in disguise. Soul fusion sounds nice to say, but in the final analysis it is a way of soul devouring. To forcibly devour the remnant soul of a level 22 legendary undead king with the level 15 soul strength of the Skeleton King, who is still talking about who swallowed it!

Don't be ill-prepared, and in the end, the King of Bones swallowed the Skeleton King in turn. That would be a waste of money, and send away a top leader of the Great Cemetery in vain.

That time the ghost dragon was born, Li Xun was purely for fun, so he was left to mess around. But this time, his shallow and inferior knowledge of necromancy was of no use at all, so he could only watch from the sidelines, letting a few undead masters lead a group of corpses and dracolich to do whatever they wanted.

I don’t know whether it should be said that there are more people, or that these guys are usually silent about this. All the preparations were discussed and done, and everything was ready in just 3 hours.

Inside the sealed room of Stratholme Mage Tower.

In this tightly guarded sealed room, in the center of the wide hall is a huge black circular platform. The whole piece of steel rock reinforced by various magic means is engraved with dense magic patterns and rune lines. There are 12 thick pillars standing on the edge of the platform, which are also densely covered with mysterious magic words and mysterious runes.

The magic circle on the black steel rock under the feet has been completely lit up, and circles of elemental halos visible to the naked eye are constantly rippling, but they are obviously dancing around the bone skeleton in the center of the hall. From the 12 pillars supporting this world, 12 rune chains purely constructed of mysterious magic lines extend out, and are firmly nailed into the body of the white bone skeleton.

The bone king Cook's slender figure remained motionless, and even the soul fire in his eyes gave off a lifeless sense of twilight.

More than a hundred selected adult Lich entered in a single file, and stood in a certain position according to a certain order. Kel'Thuzad and Plataya stepped into the sealed room with serious expressions. As for the forgotten mage Parkwick, he is already in the core control area of ​​the mage tower at this moment, ready to mobilize the power of the entire mage tower to cooperate with the magic ceremony on the spot.

Kel'Thuzad nodded slightly at Plataea, then took a step forward without hesitation, and murmured to cast a spell at the Bone King Cook in the middle of the seal room.

When the strange and mysterious incantation sounded, the 12 rune chains also appeared on the 12 rune chains, which were full of magical brilliance, and flashed on and off along with the incantation. At this time, Kel'Thuzad had clearly obtained the highest authority to control the entire seal room.

At some point, those high-ranking liches who had put their spirits into the operation of the magic circle began to cast spells in unison. A mighty and surging spiritual energy is constantly condensing and growing in this mysterious and mysterious alien space.

Xu Shi felt the death notice from the depths of his soul, and the silent soul fire of the Bone King Cook fluctuated slightly. With an angry roar from the depths of his soul, Cook struggled to break free from the energy shackles suppressing his soul fire, and let out a wisp of spiritual power.

Just a simple sweep, it basically figured out its current situation. The mysterious and complex magic circle that suddenly appeared in the void under his feet, and the huge spiritual union that was ready to go, all gave him a feeling of dead end.

Is this to completely obliterate my soul existence?

With a hint of doubt, endless resentment and hatred surged deep in Cook's soul. A strong urge to destroy this ugly world made it impossible for him to wait quietly for his own demise. Instead, he pulled out the potential of his body and mind, and fought hard to launch a final counterattack against all the constraints imposed on his body and mind.

The sound of hunting wind and death roars suddenly sounded in the sealed room that was calm as usual just now. But all this does not exist in reality, but in the spiritual level.

The Lich Spirit Unity, which was suppressing Cook's original consciousness, began to tremble violently. Waves of aftershocks of mental shock emerged in the void, spreading to the outside in the form of ring-shaped ripples. Every individual involved in it couldn't help shaking their bodies, and the soul fire also flickered.

The aftermath of the spread didn't travel very far, and it smashed into the outer protective barrier between the seals that suddenly manifested. The big ripples turned into fine, small ripples, which were gradually absorbed by them, unable to penetrate at all. This also made Cook's last thought of asking for help from the outside world was strangled in his mind.

Cook's soul was boiling, already stimulated by the intuition of death, he was about to go berserk.

Waves of soul shocks poured uninterruptedly at the Lich's spiritual union, and the Bone King showed his extremely terrifying and powerful spiritual power at the moment of his death, even though he was not good at spiritual power.

For a while, the spiritual union composed of Kel'Thuzad and hundreds of corpse witches could only stand firm and defend themselves, passively coping with the dying counterattack of the Bone King.

Judging from the scene, the caster of the cemetery was unexpectedly at an ugly disadvantage.

However, the reality is never as simple and intuitive as the surface of things.

In a hidden secret room in the mage tower, each dracolich, surrounded by the attendants of the lich, formed a small circle, and they were constantly projecting their power through the wonderful magic circle under their feet.

Their spellcasting is more like a prayer of some kind of evil god. The lich attendants surrounded their master, constantly chanting evil prayers aloud, and continued to worship their master. Every time the ceremony reaches its climax, some treacherous and evil runes will manifest between the bones of the dracolich and disappear quickly.

These disappearing runes will simultaneously emerge somewhere in the body of the Bone King Cook, and stir up his emotions to become more extreme, so that anger, hatred, unwillingness, destruction, rage, madness... These negative factors gradually dominate Its all mind.

A crazy Legendary Bone King is not terrible, after all, it is already at the end of its strength and can't extract much power at all. Just by mobilizing his extreme emotions, the Bone King's intelligence was suppressed by himself. They only focused on burning the already limited soul potential to resist the enemy's oppression, but it was unthinkable. This was also a disguised form to reduce the difficulty of the subsequent soul transfer.

I only know that the madman who is impulsive and reckless is not terrible, but the madman who calms down is the scariest.

The dracolichs polluted Cook's mind with sorcery and witchcraft, causing him to fall into madness and rage that he could not extricate himself from. The spiritual union guided by Kel'Thuzad seemed to be in a passive and inferior posture, but it silently melted Cook's last sliver of strength.

A quarter of an hour passed, and Cook's rage continued...

Half an hour passed, and Cook's berserk continued...

An hour passed, and Cook's rage reached its peak...

Two hours later, Cook finally showed a trace of fatigue, and the mental wave began to slowly recede...

Four hours passed, and Cook's mental attack seemed weak, as if he was dying...

And at this time, it was also the time for Master Kel'Thuzad to lead the counterattack.

In the long process of mental confrontation just now, all the joints in Cook's mental body have been completely mastered by the undead master. This counterattack is not like Cook's mindless and savage collision, but like the most precise surgical operation, the spiritual union of hundreds of corpse witches is split into spiritual tentacles, and they move step by step in an orderly manner. Pushing forward, layer upon layer of intrusion hit Cook's mental body.

Every step forward, he preemptively occupies those spiritual nodes that play a supporting role with superior strength, and transforms the nearby area into his own home field, and only then takes the next step calmly.

In this way, one side is advancing steadily and step by step, while the other side is powerless and loses the city and land, which fully demonstrates Master Kel'Thuzad's spiritual control ability that is far beyond ordinary people.

Cook is unwilling, Cook is angry, Cook is roaring...

But everything is nothing compared to the cruelest and harshest reality.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Master Kel'Thuzad led the Lich Spirit Unity to occupy more than 90% of the bone king Cook's soul space, forcing his remaining soul consciousness to the edge of the soul space, allowing his Initially lost control over the source of the soul.