Chapter 326

Three years before the New Calendar.

Upper Wind Month, April 5th.

E-Rantel.

"Colorless Peace" Inn.

After a day of traveling, the group that suppressed the hill undead had returned.

Tang Zheng stood before the transparent glass window, looking out at the street, which was as bustling as ever; this hill war, which had caused heavy casualties and shocked both demi-humans and humans.

For ordinary people, they neither knew of it nor could feel it.

However.

Tang Zheng knew that what happened in the Abelion Hills would soon spread.

Neither the Holy Kingdom nor the Adventurer's Guild would hide such heartening news of eliminating the undead that caused the turmoil.

But some intelligence needed to be hidden.

The remaining personnel from the three parties—Tang Zheng, the Holy Kingdom, and the Slane Theocracy—had held discussions.

The main information to be hidden was the intelligence regarding the "Dominion Authority" summoned by the Slane Theocracy, and once this information was hidden, some details needed to be negotiated among the three parties.

Tang Zheng was very clear that what the Holy Kingdom and the Slane Theocracy truly cared about was the method he possessed for merging into angels.

It was just that Grandmother Grandmother Liji and the remnants of the 【Sunlight Scripture】 could not make the decision and needed to return to their respective countries to report.

Tang Zheng withdrew his gaze from outside the window, turned around, and looked at the large wooden bed in the guest room, where Enri was sleeping.

She had been in a deep sleep for a day and two nights.

It was not for any special reason, but entirely due to excessive physical exhaustion.

Breaking through her own level cap and using power of high-level intensity had obviously and unavoidably caused certain sequelae.

"The level is too low; it needs to be raised as soon as possible to adapt to the power." Tang Zheng shook his head lightly; he speculated that Enri should wake up before long.

When Brian broke through his own limit to unleash destruction power at level 40, it directly caused the collapse of his own body; Enri only sleeping for a period of time was a much lower price to pay.

"Before long, your fame will probably be greater than mine, the team leader."

Tang Zheng thought of something, let out a light laugh, and got up to walk toward the lobby outside the guest room.

The result of their three-party discussion for the time being was that the Death Knight and the 【Zuranon】 Alliance Leader were solved by the joint efforts of the three parties.

This could cover up the matter of the "Dominion Authority" and, incidentally, indirectly hide the method Tang Zheng had for merging into angels.

But regarding the merit of eliminating the Soul-Eater, a legendary undead, Grandmother Grandmother Liji's side actually mentioned they would actively assist in the publicity, which could be considered compensation for hiding Tang Zheng's merit.

In reality, it was still not good; the performance of "Free Will" in this event forced both sides to treat them with caution.

Inside the lobby.

Except for the Evil Spirit Dog, Miss Miss Cuiye was not there.

Because Miss Miss Cuiye did not return with Tang Zheng, but instead stayed in the Abelion Hills.

The reason Tang Zheng agreed to stop Grandmother Grandmother Liji was that "Seven-Colored Scales" Gulide had indeed provided sufficient conditions.

This was Tang Zheng's original goal, only the result had changed slightly.

Simply put, the other party's goal.

Was nothing more than wanting to obtain Tang Zheng's protection; the conditions were many, such as the treasures of various tribes, the blood of demi-humans, and so on.

But facing these conditions, which catered to his preferences and would even make any adventurer's heart beat faster, Tang Zheng remained indifferent.

Finally.

"Seven-Colored Scales" Gulide actually hardened his heart, expressed submission to Miss Miss Cuiye, and was willing to let Miss Miss Cuiye become the queen ruling over the remaining tribes in the hill region.

The current hills, having suffered the disaster of the undead, had less than 30,000 surviving demi-humans, the vast majority of whom were the young and the women and children of various tribes.

The top power of the various tribes in the past, the "Ten Great Demi-Humans" who deterred all sides, were left with only "Beast General" Hekete Hekete Weishi and "Seven-Colored Scales" Gulide.

Under these circumstances.

The hill demi-humans could no longer withstand any disaster.

And the people from the Holy Kingdom and the Slane Theocracy both showed extreme hostility toward the demi-humans; only Tang Zheng, because of his relationship with Go Jin and Miss Miss Cuiye, did not show hostility toward them.

Coupled with the power displayed by Tang Zheng and Enri.

Various reasons.

Contributed to "Seven-Colored Scales" Gulide making this decision.

"At this time, Miss Miss Cuiye should have already met with the Mist Witch and the lizardman Crusch Lulu."

Tang Zheng stretched, thinking as he walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down.

The lizardman Crusch Lulu and the other had been staying in the true gathering place of the demi-humans, and even used the Fourth Rank magic "Cloud Control" to solve the lack of water and drought, gaining great fame among the hill demi-humans.

Nowadays.

Whether in the shadows or in the open, Tang Zheng already had absolute control over the entire Abelion Hills.

As for whether "Seven-Colored Scales" Gulide truly submitted, or just promised on the surface to deal with the crisis first while secretly accumulating power?

Tang Zheng did not care at all.

"Once a 'reputation' is established."

"It will be difficult to remove it."

Tang Zheng said to the Evil Spirit Dog on the side: "Right, Blackie."

"Awoo." The Evil Spirit Dog wagged its tail first.

"It seems you agree with this point of view."

Tang Zheng patted the Evil Spirit Dog's head and smiled lightly: "The Twin Witches, the lizardman Crusch Lulu, and combined with Go Jin, should be enough to stabilize the hill demi-humans who are currently licking their wounds."

"Speaking of which, the original plan was to have Go Jin rule the Abelion Hills on the surface, but this result is not bad either."

"As for 'Seven-Colored Scales' Gulide, such a clever demi-human, after using his reputation to stabilize the situation, it's better to solve him secretly, to avoid causing unnecessary trouble."

"Watch the door well at home, Blackie."

"Teleportation!"

Tang Zheng took advantage of this time when no one was disturbing him to first confirm his gains.

The air twisted for an instant.

Tang Zheng's figure disappeared from the room, and as his vision changed, a fiery red glow appeared before his eyes.

Lava zone.

The Shadow Clone stood quietly on the rock ground scorched by the high temperature, with the Alliance Leader's shattered body placed beside it.

The intense heat turned the withered flesh and blood wrapped around the bones charred black, and there was a faint smell of burnt rotten meat in the air.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Tang Zheng said lightly to the Shadow Clone, a thought moving in his heart.

The Shadow Clone's body became illusory and dissipated like a broken bubble, and the red robe clothing on its body fell to the ground.

With a "clink" sound.

The Magic-Sealing Crystal also fell from the vanished "Shadow Clone," making a crisp sound as it collided with the ground, rolling to Tang Zheng's feet.

"After the Hero's Soul merged with the Shadow Clone, the time it existed far exceeded my initial expectations, and it even compensated for the defect that the Hero's Soul could not use magic."

Tang Zheng bent down to pick up the Magic-Sealing Crystal, his eyes bright.

Except for being unable to speak and unable to use job skills, it could be treated as a true clone combat force!

Just the result of this experiment.

Could be called a huge harvest!

"Magic-Sealing Crystal, a game item from 'Yggdrasil'."

Tang Zheng looked down at the Magic-Sealing Crystal in his hand, which was crystal clear and composed of several sharp cylindrical crystals, his heart feeling somewhat hot:

"This magic item is really a waste in the hands of the Slane Theocracy."

The Magic-Sealing Crystal could store the power of rank magic, and the Slane Theocracy could only store some low-rank magic; if that were all, it wouldn't be called a "waste."

In the "Yggdrasil" game, magic scrolls, short staves, and staves could actually all achieve this.

The true value of the "Magic-Sealing Crystal"—is that it can store the power of super-tier magic!

When Ainz first saw Captain Captain Nigen take out the Magic-Sealing Crystal, he immediately had Albedo activate a special skill to protect him.

It was because he was worried that the Magic-Sealing Crystal stored power at the "Seraphim" level, and even suspected whether angels at the level of the Star-level Seraphim or the Supreme Seraphim would appear.

It is evident!

The upper limit of power that the "Magic-Sealing Crystal" can store far exceeds the power of "rank magic."

"Strange, logically speaking, the 'Great Tomb of Nazarick' should not lack Magic-Sealing Crystals, and Ainz also mentioned that Magic-Sealing Crystals are not considered precious."

Tang Zheng held the Magic-Sealing Crystal in his hand, a look of doubt flashing in his eyes:

"Why haven't they been used all this time? After all, Magic-Sealing Crystals are different from scrolls; they can be used continuously."

"It's naturally a waste to use them against people from the Other World, but when dealing with Shalltear, they weren't used either; instead, they used the pay-to-win hourglass item that eliminates the casting time for super-tier magic."

Tang Zheng pondered silently; information was limited, and he could barely speculate on the possibilities.

First: The method of storing "super-tier magic" might be relatively special and requires the means of specialized life-class players.

Second: Using a Magic-Sealing Crystal to cast super-tier magic also requires casting time, so it's not as good as casting it oneself.

He shook his head.

This was ultimately just a guess; there were other possibilities, perhaps they simply didn't intend to use them at all.

"Regardless, the 'Magic-Sealing Crystal' is the thing that can truly be called a resource."

Tang Zheng admired the crystal for a moment and reluctantly put it into his item box; he hadn't mastered "super-tier magic," so he couldn't even conduct experiments.

Currently.

He only had two things that could barely be counted as resources: one was the newly acquired Magic-Sealing Crystal, and the other was the stored Tenth Rank scrolls.

Starting production on January 15th of this year, averaging one per day, he had stored 75 blank Tenth Rank scrolls so far.

In reality, it should be 80, but he spent 5 days in the hill region and couldn't produce them secretly.

The acquisition of the "Magic-Sealing Crystal" could be considered to have made up for the loss.

He looked at the Alliance Leader's corpse.

"There has been no sign of resurrection."

"In that case, there shouldn't be anyone hidden behind the Alliance Leader." Tang Zheng pondered for a moment.

If so, controlling 【Zuranon】 would be much simpler.

"Let's first experiment with the other big harvest." Tang Zheng's spirit became excited as he looked at the information on the attribute panel.

Tenth Rank Magic—"Grand Ritual: Final War (Good)"!

"Casting this magic once actually consumes 80 mana and 1.5 million experience points... hiss..."

"This is too exaggerated!"

Tang Zheng hadn't observed carefully before, but now seeing the magic's consumption, his eyebrows twitched.

He did know some special magic that not only required mana but also had issues with experience points or cooldown times.

Tang Zheng was not surprised by the 80 mana consumption alone.

Among Tenth Rank magic, the mana consumption of some spells was not fixed.

For example, "Reality Slash" had the top-tier mana consumption, and there was also "Mercy of the Sala Tree," which was second only to "Reality Slash."

There was also the continuous consumption type—"Memory Manipulation."

Which was an even bigger mana drain!

According to Ainz, assuming one deleted 5 days of a person's memory, the massive MP consumption would exceed the limit of an average magic caster, which was 1300 MP.

Even for an MP-breaking possessor like Ainz, wanting to find the location of the dwarf race through the lizardman's memory, he only searched shallowly because of the rapid mana consumption.

"1.5 million experience points consumption..."

"Experience points are already scarce, and the ways to obtain them are limited."

Tang Zheng had a bit of a headache.

Right!

He almost forgot the 【Mad Mage】 job skill "Mad Meditation," which had the ability to offset the consumption of one magic cast.

"Tenth Rank Magic—"

"Mad Meditation: 'Grand Ritual: Final War (Good)'!" Tang Zheng activated the job skill and let out a low chant.

Hum—

A huge vortex of holy bubbles appeared above Tang Zheng's head, rich holy light surging, mapping the light and heat released by this lava sea onto the red-lit valley, dyeing it silver-white.

Clatter~

Clatter~

The sound of wings flapping and armor rubbing came from the white bubble vortex.

The next moment!

Dense Guardian Angels flew out from the vortex first.

Tang Zheng immediately activated "Ninjutsu: Detection" to observe.

64 Third Rank Flame Angels (20lv)

32 Fifth Rank Purification Angels (30lv)

"Huh?"

Tang Zheng was startled.

Why were there no Fourth Rank angels? It jumped directly from Third Rank angels to Fifth Rank angels.

"Could it be because of the 'Super Magic Master,' pushing the magic to its maximum value, so the levels were all capped at multiples of 10."

"Skipping the Fourth Rank angels (between 22-28 levels)."

Tang Zheng didn't have time to think; angels with even more astonishing momentum flew out from the bubble vortex.

These had three pairs of wings, the top pair of which were more like decorations than wings, and they held a standard round sun shield in their hands!

8 Sixth Rank Shelter Angels (40lv)

Information about this angel surfaced in Tang Zheng's mind.

Thud—

A vibration came from within the bubble vortex.

It was as if a wheel was pressing heavily on the ground, emitting a collision hum, like some kind of mechanical sound.

The next instant!

Holy sacred flames surged out from the vortex!

Amidst the flames, an angel with a very strong sense of holiness flapped three pairs of wings that had lost all metallic texture and flew out from within!

This was a strange angel that looked somewhat similar to the "Dominion Authority," with no head or feet, and the halo above its head was even brighter and larger!

Both arms were placed in front of its chest, palms facing each other; in the very center of the two palms, there was a wheel burning with flames, and inside the wheel was a hollowed-out, open eye pattern.

While the entire wheel was wrapped in flames, it shimmered with a faint bronze luster!

4 Eighth Rank Control Throne Angels (50lv)

"Sure enough, just like the Fourth Rank angels, it also skipped the Seventh Rank (43-49 levels) Dominion Authority." Tang Zheng narrowed his eyes.

He felt a powerful aura emerge!

White holy flames surged even more intensely from the vortex!

Swish!

Two angels almost identical to the "Control Throne Angels" flew out from the vortex one after another; the bodies of the two angels were wrapped in a holy white flame-like virtual energy.

An invisible pressure surged over, even exceeding all the previous angels!

Tang Zheng noticed that although the appearances of these two throne angels were the same, the flame-burning wheels in their hands were different, with a smaller wheel nested inside!

2 Ninth Rank Judgment Throne Angels (60lv)

Boom—

The vortex vibrated violently.

A massive figure nearly six meters tall, far exceeding all the other angels, squeezed out from the vortex, as if the bubble vortex could not bear this power!

(End of chapter)