Chapter 288: Confident revenge, the power of 4th-tier undead

Khajiit stands above the dilapidated temple, staring coldly at Tang Zheng opposite, revealing an evil, cruel smile:

"I have been thinking about how to take revenge, but I didn't expect you to deliver yourself to my door, and even brought the 'Orb of Death'."

"Although the original plan was destroyed by you, as long as I kill you and take back the 'Orb of Death,' it's nothing more than wasting some time."

The cold aura permeates.

Slap! Slap!

Tang Zheng raises his palm and pats the red robe on his body lightly, as if patting off the dust stained on his body.

"You look very confident, old friend."

Tang Zheng is also curious that Khajiit was actually able to endure until now before intending to act completely.

Besides wanting to know his true purpose, the other party should have the confidence to completely defeat him to dare to be so arrogant.

"Arrogant bastard, you simply cannot understand the power of 【Zuranon】, and you will never understand the terror of the Alliance Leader."

Khajiit's eyes become colder and colder; he holds the magic staff in both hands and inserts it into the ground forcefully, and the rich negative energy aura begins to surge:

"This is the brand-new power I have mastered, a gift specially prepared for you!"

Thud!

A rich negative energy surges from the magic staff and injects into the ground, followed by a vibration like a drumstick striking.

A dark blue magic circle appears under Khajiit's feet, and in an instant, a roar containing some kind of deterrent effect rings out from the magic circle.

Clatter!

A monster with a completely rotten body, as if aggregated from a large number of undead, emerges from the magic circle, its huge body spanning between the two sides.

Its height even exceeds the dilapidated temple, reaching more than four meters tall.

Thud!

The light of the magic circle does not dissipate.

Another monster emerges from the magic circle; compared to the huge undead giant, this monster is of normal height, looking similar to the skeleton warrior summoned by 3rd-tier undead summoning.

But the color of the bones is dark red; the other party holds a dark red bone long knife, a dark red shield, and even carries a combination longbow on its back.

All three weapons harbor the dim light of magic; this is an armed skeleton using magic items!

The light of the magic circle dissipates, and two undead monsters, one big and one small, appear before Tang Zheng's eyes.

Seeing these two monsters.

"'Undead Aggregate Giant', 'Red Skeleton Warrior'?" Tang Zheng raises his eyelids.

One is an aggregate zombie monster, and the other is a subspecies of skeleton warrior; although both are 3rd-tier undead, their true combat power is stronger and can reach the level of 4th-tier.

These are not ordinary undead; using normal magic means, it is impossible to summon these two kinds of undead.

Just like the "Death Knight" that Ainz likes to use most, it is generally created or summoned using special skills.

"Arrogant bastard! Repent for your arrogance!"

Khajiit feels the powerful negative energy aura exuded by the two monsters and reveals a satisfied look on his gloomy face, roaring.

In that legendary city of undead, Khajiit did not stay in vain; using the negative energy there and the power of the Alliance Leader.

He manufactured these two undead monsters possessing the power of 4th-tier undead.

Relying on Khajiit's death-system specialized ability, he can control 100 ordinary undead in one breath; if controlling powerful undead, it is very limited, like this level.

Controlling these two is already his current limit.

Relying on these two undead monsters, he has the confidence to kill Tang Zheng; recalling the battle back then.

Khajiit is clear that Tang Zheng's strength should not be strong; even if he is stronger than him, it is at most the level of a 4th-tier magic caster.

With this level, he still wants to cooperate with their Alliance Leader?

It's simply a joke!

"Kill him for me!" Khajiit controls the two undead and rushes toward Tang Zheng, looking at the opposite side with great expectation.

The situation he expected—the other party being flustered and panicked—did not appear.

"Truly boring."

Watching the two rushing undead, Tang Zheng raises his palm expressionlessly:

"Dragon Lightning!"

Dazzling blue electric light illuminates the night in an instant, turning into galloping dragon-shaped lightning and flying out; only the blue light flashes in the air.

The two undead just summoned are turned into ashes and dissipated; the terrifying lightning dissipates more than half, but still releases range-based aftermath attacks and continues to strike toward Khajiit.

'Obtained experience: 3721'

'Obtained experience: 3907'

【Experience bar: 1112322/410000】

"5th-tier magic..."

"Electric attribute defense!"

Khajiit's sunken eye sockets tremble, looking at the terrifying lightning entering his eyes in disbelief; the calm expression originally disappeared, and he screams in horror.

Boom!

"Ah—"

The location where Khajiit is located is enveloped in electric light; following a scream, the figure standing on the steps of the dilapidated temple is blasted away and falls to the ground of the graveyard.

The blue electric light dissipates.

Khajiit lies on the ground in a sorry state; with the resistance of "Electric attribute defense," plus the power of only the aftermath of Dragon Lightning.

It looks like he didn't suffer serious injuries, but there are many burn marks on his hands, face, neck, and other positions exposed outside the magic robe.

"How could it be... how could you possibly master such powerful strength?"

Khajiit supports himself on the ground with both hands, raises his head to look at Tang Zheng not far away, and speaks with trembling fear.

The other party is clearly a powerful magic caster who masters the power of 5th-tier magic; why did he use the means of "Angel Summoning" to disguise it back then.

With the terrifying magic power just now, he could have easily killed him back then.

Khajiit's eye corners twitch, somewhat unable to understand, and a sense of grievance that cannot be described rises in his heart.

This bastard!

Possessing such powerful strength, yet still so careful—too cautious!

Rustle~

Rustle~

Footsteps walk toward him.

"Failed again." Khajiit's heart rises with wails; he suddenly feels ridiculous for his own overconfident "confidence."

Is he going to die?

Khajiit knows that the Alliance Leader can allow him to fail once, but will never allow him to fail a second time.

It's truly unwilling!

All his efforts actually lost twice to the same person in the end.

Tang Zheng comes to Khajiit's side, looks at the figure who gave up resistance, and suddenly says: "Do you want to become an undead?"

Khajiit, who is preparing to wait for death, looks at Tang Zheng blankly.

"I originally wanted to cooperate with your Alliance Leader; since you also master the 'Spiral of Death' ritual, it might not be impossible to cooperate with you." Tang Zheng says.

Khajiit's desperate and decadent expression slowly disappears, and strange light appears in his pupils.

"Why?" Khajiit is incredulous.

"I said, what I am interested in 【Zuranon】 is the 'Spiral of Death' ritual; I want to determine whether this ritual can really turn humans into undead."

"Since you want to become an undead so much, that couldn't be better; it just happens that I can take you to verify it."

Tang Zheng says coldly, not hiding his purpose at all.

These words fall into Khajiit's ears like a god responding to the unwillingness in his heart; the originally desperate situation actually reversed.

Khajiit climbs up from the ground excitedly.

Even facing Tang Zheng, this enemy who killed him once, compared to the deep desire to become an undead, it is not worth mentioning at all.

The mysterious person before his eyes is very strong; relying on the other party's power might be able to make up for the time wasted before, and even accelerate the completion of his original plan.

"You are really not joking." Khajiit's hands tremble, still feeling somewhat incredible.

"What do you think?" Tang Zheng takes out the "Orb of Death," urges his magic power, and a huge magic circle appears under his feet.

The next moment.

With a "Boom!"

The roaring figure of the Bone Dragon flies out from the magic circle and hovers above the heads of the two, a white bone emitting a faint light under the moonlight.

"Bone Dragon!"

"You, how did you do it!" Khajiit's gaze is dull.

He spent more than a year collecting negative energy, and he couldn't reach the conditions to summon a Bone Dragon, yet how long has the "Orb of Death" been in the other party's hands.

No wonder this mysterious person confidently wanted to cooperate with their Alliance Leader; relying on the Bone Dragon's ability, except for the Alliance Leader, the other disciple members are not the other party's opponents.

Looking at Tang Zheng, who is completely wrapped in a red robe and seems to be watching him quietly in front of him.

Khajiit bows slightly, revealing an evil and excited smile on his face: "I will tell you everything I know and fully assist Your Excellency in completing the 'Spiral of Death' ritual."

As the weaker side, Khajiit needs to show more of his value.

"Happy cooperation." Tang Zheng reveals a smile behind the black mask; thinking carefully, cooperating with Khajiit is more reassuring and easier to control.

Spiral of Death?

Others don't know, but how could Tang Zheng not know the true origin of this magic ritual; Khajiit simply couldn't succeed.

Even if it can really be unfolded normally, it will take at least a few years.

"Happy cooperation, old friend." Khajiit grins and laughs, putting his posture very low; the scene of wanting to kill Tang Zheng not long ago seems to be just a hallucination.

Bang!

Khajiit suddenly feels a pain in the back of his neck, his eyes roll back, and he loses consciousness and faints.

Tang Zheng picks up the fainted Khajiit and disappears.

On the other side.

Holy Kingdom.

Holy Queen Calca and Kelart, without alarming any great nobles, secretly dispatched a ten-person exploration squad, which finally sent news in anxious waiting.

These 10 people are experts in Ranger and Thief techniques, recruited from the scouts of various troops in the Holy Kingdom; in terms of investigating intelligence, no one is more suitable than these ten people.

Such elites, yet almost wiped out, with only one person surviving.

When the other party was discovered, he was already near death; if it weren't for relying on tenacious will to hold on until being salvaged by a sea ship, it would probably have been a complete wipeout.

Inside the palace.

Holy Queen Calca confirms that the youth has regained consciousness under the treatment of several priests, and feels relieved: "It's good to be able to survive."

At the same time, she feels guilty and sad in her heart.

The other 9 people have all died in the Abelion Hills, and even their remains probably cannot be found.

"Your Majesty, you need to rest well." The middle-aged secretary maid with standard etiquette stands to the side with a solemn expression, reminding her.

"You also know the current situation; it must be dealt with as soon as possible." Holy Queen Calca hears the solemn voice beside her, reveals a helpless smile on her white face, and explains softly.

"You don't need to explain to a servant." The middle-aged secretary maid's voice is still old-fashioned; Her Majesty the Holy Queen is good in every way, just too kind and gentle in character.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 289 =====