Chapter 86: Human Species Charm! Call Out the Countermeasure First

The moment Khajiit’s smooth, bald head poked out from the underground passage, his cold gaze had already swept past the gaps in the surrounding zombies toward the area outside the temple.

There were bare tombstones and withered trees, but not a single undead to be found.

This caused Khajiit’s eyes to narrow.

One must know that he had specifically placed some low-level undead around the temple, not only to scare off those who might rashly approach this area.

They could also serve a certain purpose as sentries.

There is a certain connection between a controller and the undead they control; once that connection is severed, one can naturally sense it.

Of course!

This was an arrangement Khajiit made when he first entered this graveyard, and over the course of more than a year, he found that very few people entered the graveyard, let alone its deepest reaches.

So, he simply severed the connection.

But this was not a problem; for a necromancer, even if those undead were destroyed, he could still cast magic to control them.

But the prerequisite was—the corpses of those undead had to be in front of him!

And now.

The empty graveyard did not even have the shadow of an undead, and there were no undead corpses present at all, which meant that those undead had not been destroyed, but lured away!

"Prepared, are you!"

"And, it's not just one person, is it?"

This thought flashed through Khajiit’s mind instantly, yet his expression remained very calm, his gaze indifferent.

This border city of E-Rantel had no powerful adventurer teams, and certainly no strong individuals worthy of his attention.

If there were!

Then they could only be people from outside E-Rantel.

You will regret choosing to provoke a noble necromancer in a place like this!

Khajiit exuded a dangerous aura as he stepped out of the underground passage, and the low-level zombies gathered around immediately dispersed.

At this moment!

Khajiit immediately spotted a Guardian Angel hovering about one or two feet above the ground, a hundred meters away.

That repulsive holy aura, and the light it emitted in such a dark environment, made it difficult for anyone not to notice!

It was precisely because of this overly conspicuous trait that Khajiit became vigilant, though not toward this Guardian Angel, but toward other places.

"Magic Detection!"

Khajiit started by casting a detection spell.

Soon, the magic provided feedback!

The clearest feedback was naturally the magical reaction from the Guardian Angel a hundred meters away; besides that, there was another magical feedback about fifty meters to his left.

Yet, in his field of vision, he could see nothing at all!

Suddenly!

That invisible magical feedback began to move, rushing toward his direction.

"Don't joke around!"

"Do you think such tricks can deceive me?"

Khajiit sneered and raised his finger toward the invisible direction on his left:

"Negative Burst!"

A dark purple beam of magic bloomed from Khajiit’s fingertip and shot out.

Boom!

The Negative Burst easily struck the invisible figure, creating an energy vibration from the magical collision and knocking the opponent back.

The Guardian Angel, which had been invisible under the effect of "Camouflage," suffered the magical attack, and the effect of the invisibility was dispelled, revealing its entire figure.

Khajiit was stunned to see that it was actually a Guardian Angel, rather than an opponent like a thief who mastered stealth-related skills.

"Two Guardian Angels, are there two religious-type magic casters?"

"No, was that invisibility effect just now the second-tier 'Invisibility,' or some other stealth magic? One magic-type caster and one religious-type caster?"

This thought flashed rapidly through Khajiit’s mind.

And it was during this brief moment of distraction!

"Charm Species: Human!" Suddenly, a hoarse, middle-aged male voice rang out sharply from behind the Guardian Angel a hundred meters away.

"Undead Spirit!"

Khajiit’s eyes widened and he shouted in a low voice, but his expression changed immediately as he looked at the Guardian Angel a hundred meters away, his already pale face turning sallow:

"You're playing with me?" He had felt absolutely no magical power of mental control.

Within the shadows.

Tang Zheng, wrapped entirely in a black robe with no features visible, exited his stealth state and stepped out from behind the Guardian Angel.

"Just saying hello."

Tang Zheng let out a hoarse chuckle, his gaze quickly glancing at his attribute panel.

……

【Skill Points: 41→40】

Skill: Undead Spirit (Tier 3)

Cost: 15mp

Description: Immune to charm, hypnosis, and other mental control-type skills.

……

=9+Shu_Ba

Got it!

The things Tang Zheng was slightly wary of regarding Khajiit were the Bone Dragon and the mental control-type magic like "Charm Species: Human."

Just from the prefix of the magic, one could feel how much malice this spell held toward the human race. Though, it was true that this magic was originally used by demi-humans and heteromorphs to enslave humans.

Facing this kind of mental control magic, one would be quite passive without a countermeasure, which is why humans developed magic that could resist such mental control—"Undead Spirit"!

This was also a necessary means for high-level magic casters; otherwise, once controlled, it basically signaled the end of the battle.

Tang Zheng’s hoarse laughter at this moment.

To Khajiit’s ears, it was nothing but naked mockery.

In his view, this was Tang Zheng testing whether he possessed countermeasures for mental control, while incidentally draining some of his mana.

But such petty tricks, in his eyes, were things only the weak would do!

"Foolish fellow, you have no idea what a true powerhouse is!"

Khajiit gripped the black staff in his hand, his tone incomparably cold, "Call out all your companions; I have no interest in knowing what your purpose is anymore!"

"I will make you know the consequences of provoking me!"

The angry voice echoed through the graveyard.

"Companions?"

"Sorry, no such thing exists."

Tang Zheng spoke hoarsely, shrugged his shoulders, and reached out a hand to beckon.

The Guardian Angel that had been knocked back by the Negative Burst flew back quickly; the purpose of this angel from the start was to attract Khajiit’s attention.

Clearly, the plan was quite successful.

This was the result of having the advantage in intelligence.

Whoosh!

With the return of the Guardian Angel, the number of angels in front of Tang Zheng returned to two.

He glanced at the chest of this Guardian Angel; the originally bright silver luster of the armor had become dull, and there were even pitted, corrosive marks that looked like rust.

The magical attack of the Negative Burst was clearly very effective!

Undead have weak resistance to holy and fire attributes. The reverse is also true!

"Are you hiding?"

"Then I'll slaughter you first, then deal with your companions."

Khajiit naturally did not believe the truth Tang Zheng spoke, and he was slightly surprised to see the two Guardian Angels in front of Tang Zheng.

Able to summon two angels at once?

Was it a special magic item, or had he specialized in summoning?

However, they were all useless means!

"Prepare to wail, foolish person!"

"I will make you appear before your companions in the most miserable state!"

Khajiit raised the black staff in his hand and struck the ground hard, while the Orb of Death in his other hand began to emit a faint black glow.

(End of chapter)