Chapter 383
Chapter 383: The other world
Ossen City. Han Shuo’s official residence.
Within a secret room, Han Shou grasped the skeletal staff, chanting the incantation for necromancy. After a long and tedious section of incantation, a mummy lord stood before Han Shuo. The mummy lord was stupefied as it inspected Han Shuo, the entire secret room suddenly filled with the deathly scent emitted from its body.
Of the three summoning spells at grand magus level, Han Shuo has already mastered two of them. He is able to proficiently summon old fey demons and mummy lords, only left with the spell for bone demons. As he still didn’t really understand the characteristics of the bone demon’s body composition, Han Shuo temporarily still could succeed in summoning a bone demon into this world.
With an order, the mummy lord unwillingly wielded the ancient strips of cloth that twisted around its body, moving its body in accordance to Han Shuo’s directions.
Nodding his head, Han Shuo knew that he thoroughly grasped the summoning of the mummy lord. Han Shuo then chanted another spell and with a wave of the white bone staff, the mummy lord returned back to the netherworld.
Keeping the white bone staff, Han Shuo then took out the skeletal staff obtained from the Cemetery of Death. Fiddling with the skeletal staff in his hand, Han Shuo hesitated for a while, intending to use the skeletal staff to summon the old fey demon and mummy lord.
This skeletal staff was different from the white bone staff. Chanting necromancy while holding the skeletal staff would often result in the might of the summoning spell to be doubled. When Han Shuo used the white bone staff, he could save a little mental strength but he would be unable to summon two old fey demons to the Profound Continent.
However, if it was channeling the necromancy spell through the skeletal staff, he should be able to momentarily search for two old fey demons. Han Shuo had the experience of using the skeletal staff when summoning evil knights. He believed that old fey demons were perhaps the same as the evil knights and he could similarly summon two old fey demons.
Han Shuo hesitated for a moment, before starting to chant the necromancy spell to summon old fey demons. When Han Shuo’s spell connected with the netherworld and the chanting reached the section to search for old fey demons, Han Shuo’s mental space suddenly felt the two targets that were separated by a long distance.
However in this other world, the old fey demon had sufficient death qi to utilise, and its soul was extremely formidable. Although Han Shuo’s Soul Tremor attack was able to cause enormous harm to the old fey demon, it was unable to truly kill it. Furthermore, the bone spears were only able to leave shallow white scars on the old fey demon’s body, unable to pierce this high ranking undead creature.
In such a place, Han Shuo’s mental strength was exhaustible. Prolonging such as situation, Han Shuo’s mental strength will definitely be used up. At that moment, he would not be able to contain the old fey demon. This high ranking old fey demon would definitely be able to destroy Han Shuo’s soul that had descended to such a place.
After the row of bone spears and Soul Tremor, a bone prison formed suddenly, temporarily imprisoning the old fey demon within. Han Shuo saw that the old fey demon did not have any reaction to the Soul Tremor magic and didn’t continue staying in this area, his visible yet immaterial body quickly floated into the distance, resembling an ordinary wraith in the netherworld.
Within the netherworld’s overcast sky, there would often be wraiths floating about. These wraiths only had the simplest of consciousness and usually became food for higher ranked undead creatures. They were also the nutrient that Han Shuo used in refining some of his demonic creatures. Han Shuo never though that one day he would enter the netherworld and actually be besieged by wraiths.
Five white misty wraiths suddenly surrounded Han Shuo. These five wraiths sensed that Han Shuo had a different aura from them and attempted to attack Han Shuo as though he was a mutated being.
When Han Shuo who was visible but had not material body saw the five wraiths approaching, he could sense their ill intentions revealed by their simple consciousness. Han Shuo gathered a small amount of mental strength, unleashing the Soul Tremor magic. With a poof, the five wraiths were turned into grey smoke, becoming death qi and returning to the earth.
The rows of wraiths that were further way felt the momentarily explosion of power from Han Shuo, immediately classifying Han Shuo as a high ranked undead creature and kept far away from Han Shuo. None of the wraiths dared to approach Han Shuo any more.
At a towering barren mountain peak an unknown distance away from han Shuo, there was a magestic undead palace. Within a lofty palace where there were strict rankings, on the highest respected platform, the little skeleton sat upright on an enormous throne filled with sharp spikes (TL note: Game of thrones reference?) By his side were the earth zombie, fire zombie, wood zombie and the seemingly timid water zombie.
Beneath the little skeleton were six evil knights and two bone demons as well as the previously subdued mummy lord. They all knelt on one knee with their heads lowered towards the little skeleton.
On the palace’s cold ceiling hung the bone demon that was remodelled by little skeleton with the ability to fly as well as numerous gargoyles that curled their bodies and stood in place silently.
Behind the few evil knights were a few stupied hate warriors and zombie warriors. They resembled conscientious bodyguards, devotedly standing upright, as though willing to risk their lives for the little skeleton at any moment.
“My lord, why do you need to depart?” The previously subdued mummy lord humbly inquired with his head lowered.
“All of you, help me properly look after this place. I’ll be back very soon.” The little skeleton had yet to answer, only giving orders as a superior. “The powerful existence from the eastern dead sea might come in the near future. All of you guard this place, do not attack others while I’m not around.”
“Understood, my lord!” The high ranked undead creatures all replied deferentially. Facing the fiercer little skeleton, they who were previously lords of an area couldn’t help but lower their proud heads.
“You can withdraw. Properly guard your respective territories!” The little skeleton imposingly conveyed his intention. Apart from the three evil knights that had been refined by Han Shuo’s demonic magic, the other evil knights and mummy lords all withdrew after receiving the orders.
“Father has come here. This world isn’t the same as the material world. Without a corporeal body, Father would possibly run into danger, I must go and protect him!” The little skeleton said to the earth zombie and the others after the subordinates have withdrawn.
“We’ll go too!” The earth zombie touched its head, simple-mindedly saying, “We want to see Father in this world too.”
“That’s out of the question. You need to stay here and look after our home. With their strength, those subordinates would find it hard to ensure the safety of this place. I only trust you guys. This is because we have inherited the same bloodline!” The little skeleton instructed, before saying, “Be at ease. When i find Father, I’ll bring him over.”
With that sentence, the flying bone demon that was hanging upside down at the top of the hall suddenly spread its wings and soared in front of the little skeleton. The seven bone spurs on the little skeleton’s back trembled, shooting into the body of the already remodeled bone demon. The huge wings of the bone demon made of meshed rotting flesh flapped once, bringing the little skeleton away from the summit of the towering death mountain.