Chapter 325
Chapter 325: Lack of manpower
The clouds were a fiery red in the sunset, refreshing gentle breezes blowing happily through people’s hearts. All of the potholes and scars in Brettel City had been fixed during this period of reparation.
The main city gates had two huge magic crystal cannons stationed at them. They shone a faint red halo under the sunset. seemingly ready to spit out enormous flames at any moment.
Helen Tina was currently standing in front of the city gates after having been forced to sign the contract. She looked up at the two magic crystal cannons that’d originally belonged to her, unsure what to feel. Han Shuo stood on the city’s walls, smiling merrily as he held the contract aloft and waved goodbye, “Dear honorable Duke Helen Tina, we won’t be seeing you off.”
Helen Tina inwardly gave eighteen generations of Han Shuo’s ancestors a good cursing. However, she was worried that rebellion that could break out any time in her Helon Duchy. Having recovered her mental strength, she slowly floated up using levitation skills. Her shining eyes glared fiercely at Han Shuo as she gritted her teeth and lowered her voice, “Greedy evil demon, I’ll definitely be back for revenge!”
“Have a safe journey. Remember that you have to pay back the gold coins you owe me in three months!” Han Shuo beamed radiantly, waving the contract in his hand as if telling Helen Tina not to try to weasel her way out of her debt.
“Hmph!” Helen Tina turned her head angrily. She transformed into a fiery shadow, slowly flying towards the direction of Helon Duchy. The fiery shadow looked like a rainbow across the horizon beneath the sunset.
“My Lord is truly too evil. Not only did he take this poisonous beauty, he even exhorted a huge amount of gold coins. Truly eating people down to the bones!” Chester shook his head emotionally, his eyes looking at Han Shuo full of worship.
“I didn’t think Helen Tina was this beautiful, no wonder Benedict of the Narsen Duchy is so obsessed with her. A pity, ah, a pity. He definitely wouldn’t expect that our lord was one step ahead to pluck this flower!” Dick chuckled at the pain of others, making malicious speculations about how ugly the situation would be after Benedict learned of this.
“Your Lordship, I think that with her malevolence, Helen Tina definitely won’t be willing to let this go after she leaves. Hmph, if she spreads the news about our Brettel City extorting four hundred thousand gold coins from her, I think it will give rise the greed of the seven grand duchies.” Faulke approached Han Shuo, saying worriedly as he watched Helen Tina depart.
Therefore, Han Shuo put more effort into studying necromancy magic. Using the secret chamber in the city lord’s mansion, he could easily transport to the Cemetery of Death – the most perfect training grounds for necromancers. Not only the scent of death here dense, this place even had plenty of magic tools and laboratory. Han Shuo stayed here alone every night and captured some live magic beasts to practice the spell “Soul Tremor”.
For a demonic practitioner at the separate demon realm like Han Shuo, their soul had become the even more mysterious consciousness which possessed some truly wondrous uses. Based on his study of the soul, in addition to his memory of demonic magic, Han Shuo gradually felt that there was a link between the understanding of the soul in necromancy and the changes in the consciousness in his demonic cultivation.
Especially at this realm, the consciousness had miraculous abilities to sense the presence of all creatures in the surroundings, to create illusions and implant magical brands on the soul, and seemed to be able to communicate with the magic elements that existed everywhere in this world. Han Shuo suddenly had a whim to consider if it was also possible to integrate demonic cultivation and magical training so they could complement each other.
However, this wonderful idea was still extremely difficult to implement with Han Shuo’s current situation because his knowledge had yet to reach true proficiency in any field. There would be a long process of exploration if he wanted to master the two aspects. It seemed this wouldn’t be able to be applied for a short while.
This spell “Soul Tremor” used the consciousness to attack the opponent’s soul. Han Shuo had experimented it on living magic creatures over the past two days. Moreover, he had certain reflections in some areas of using the mind to attack, gradually grasping some key parts of this spell in two days.
Han Shuo walked out from the Cemetery of Death on the third day. Bathing under the warm sunshine, he felt a very leisurely pleasure. While he was checking on the progress of the city, Dick ran out from an unknown location to Han Shuo’s side and said respectfully, “My Lord, I have sent out the invitations according to your orders. The five mountain leaders on the surrounding mountains all agreed to come to Brettel City seven days later.”
Smiling lightly, Han Shuo looked at Dick deeply before finally saying, “Dick, you are also a mountain man. I know that you wouldn’t let me down if I placed this in your charge.”
“But of course. Otherwise, with your methods, all the leaders who didn’t come with definitely meet with some accidents. I didn’t want to become the villain of my people.” Dick thought inwardly, his expression still respectful as he said smilingly, “My Lord has gained the mountain people’s trust after you exterminated the Red Beard bandits. I think they’ll be coming here with hearts full of hope.”
“Perhaps with more fear than not, haha!” Han Shuo laughed heartily with Dick. How could he not know what these people wanted to do? Dick had said all that needed to be said, and so they naturally knew what to do.
“Eh… They actually are a bit afraid. Heh heh!” Dick answered with a laugh. He looked into Han Shuo’s eyes and felt as if the latter knew the thoughts in his mind. Dick involuntarily felt scared in his heart.