Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 853 - 476 Monarchs Territory_2

Chapter 853: Chapter 476 Monarch’s Territory_2

Chapter 853: Chapter 476 Monarch’s Territory_2

Don’t be fooled by its simplicity; considering its height and the difficulty of its construction, if this were in the human world, it would definitely be considered a marvel.

Not only is this the headquarters of the Council of the Undead, but it is also the home of the Undead Holy Fire. If translated into human terms, the Undead Holy Fire would be equivalent to the Ministry of Education.

The Undead Holy Fire bears the task of knowledge transfer. By simply coming here and casting one’s thoughts into the Holy Fire, one can receive the knowledge and memories engraved within it. The amount one can learn depends on the wisdom and strength of one’s soul.

Although Golden Skeletons and Iron Skin Zombies possess intelligence and sufficient soul strength, do not expect them to receive much knowledge.

Witches and the Undead, even those of the lowest level, can absorb a great deal of knowledge. By staying here for a few years, one can become a scholar or mage with profound knowledge.

Why stay for years? Because their souls are weak. If the souls were strong, this process could be significantly accelerated.

In addition to learning, one can also contribute their own knowledge back into the Holy Fire, enriching its depth and breadth.

However, maintaining the burning of the Holy Fire is no easy task. The more knowledge the Holy Fire holds, the more soul energy it needs.

The Undead Temple in the Lich Underground City had its Holy Fire extinguished because, for a long time, no one maintained it or provided it with soul energy.

Therefore, the more knowledge and memory the Holy Fire holds, the better it is not. When the Holy Fire was first lit, everyone was curious and recklessly crammed it with all sorts of jumbled memories, many of which were not worth preserving.

It took nearly half a year to clean up, causing Gust, the chairman, to suffer from insomnia for a long time.

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Since then, the Undead Holy Fire no longer allows just anyone to stuff things into it; even if they do, it’s only organized knowledge.

From the moment the Undead Holy Fire was ignited, it has been burning for seven hundred and eighty years now.

Standing before the Holy Fire, Chairman Gust took out dozens of Soul Crystals and cast them into the fire; back when there were more people, he could have organized shifts for everyone to contribute.

Now, most people are out following His Majesty to the Starburst Array, and those who are left have all been dispatched, so they have to rely on Soul Crystals to sustain it. It’s not like he can be expected to contribute, with his old arms and legs; he certainly can’t sustain this mass of Undead Holy Fire.

Thinking of this, he muttered to himself, “Ah, Your Majesty, we’ve been at peace for so many years, why wage war against them? It’s just a Star Burst being released; it won’t even reach us.”

He didn’t know that it was the Monarch’s homeland over there, and with that hard to grasp, he could only sigh a few times. Lately, Gust has been extremely anxious, with the Magicians trapping the Monarch, and still having the energy to send down the Magician’s Ladder to compete with them for the people’s hearts.

What is the need for people’s hearts? Birth, age, sickness, and death are the laws of nature, only the Undead can change that. Anything that dies comes under their jurisdiction.

So, when Gust first received the news, he was baffled. Initially, he did not want to bother with it, but soon, the Guild of the Dead brought back news—the Sorcerer Alliance had burned all the corpses.

This was outrageous! That was threatening the very foundation of the Undead Empire; he could not sit idly by.

Then, the Guild of the Dead brought a second piece of news—famine was wreaking havoc outside, many had starved to death.

Dead people? Dead people were good, returning to the embrace of the Undead was not an issue, but what was this about providing disaster relief? Why was the Sorcerer Alliance providing disaster relief? That was illegal.

Considering that the illegal relief efforts by the Sorcerer Alliance led to the severe consequence of the life species burning the corpses after death, Gust immediately mobilized all available hands to destroy the enemy’s ladder.

However, as preparations began, Gust slowly realized that things were not as simple as they seemed.

The Undead Empire did not have many flying units, unlike the Sorcerer Alliance whose ground units could not fly, even their vehicles were capable of flying.

This meant that the Undead Empire needed to deploy its flying units to attack the smallest units of the other side, even though their weakest flying units were high-order undead, the numbers were severely incompatible.

Moreover, the enemy had a weapon specifically against undead, the landing points of the ladder were also in terrain that was easy to defend but hard to attack, preventing them from leveraging the numerical superiority of the undead or the individual prowess of the high-order undead.

The ability to easily convert a ground battle into aerial combat with the flying ladder made the situation even trickier.

After much research, someone forecasted that a cold wave might hit the East Nai Peninsula and suggested taking advantage of the frozen water surface to launch a strong push.

Good idea, so they did it, and everyone knows the results. The issue was that their losses were also extremely heavy; twenty Necromancer Kings were deployed, four died, all shattered by the weapon aimed at undead.

As for the lower-ranked skeleton zombies, the casualties were beyond count; many had their bones frozen by the cold wave, but they, unaware, heard the orders and charged forward, only to have their brittle bones break and their flesh split open, suffering heavy casualties.

After the battle, Gust was so heartbroken that his soul was restless for several days.

Then the next day, they lost another Dragon Sorcerer, the brave Gaddarigo, whose soul contractor, along with his physical body, was snatched by the damnable Light Bugs.

The death of five high-order undead was one of the most severe losses the Undead Empire had not seen for many years, possibly even greater than the casualties of those who followed His Majesty into battle.

Because none of the Necromancer King’s Life Boxes were stirred. If there were casualties on His Majesty’s side, surely someone would have used a Life Box to resurrect. Since no resurrections had happened, it meant the situation had not reached its most dire point yet.