Chapter 393

For these bandits wandering everywhere, bread, grain, and dried meat are not a problem because they can be stored for a long time, but vegetables are not; once picked, they will dehydrate, wither, or rot in two or three days.

Sometimes, after wandering for a long time, it is easy to go a month or two without eating vegetables. If a person does not eat vegetables or fruits, their skin will become dry, their gums will bleed, sores will form in their mouth and on their tongue, they will suffer from constipation and hematuria, and they may even get scurvy.

Sometimes, when pushed to the limit, they will even pick tender tree leaves to chew for the juice, let alone these fast-growing vegetables that have just sprouted a small section and are tender and juicy.

Admittedly, these vegetables are not yet mature, but there is a large patch of them; stripping them bare would be enough for the dozen or so of them to eat.

The bandits excitedly began to pick the vegetable leaves, pulling them up by the roots and casually biting into the stems and leaves to eat them. The fast-growing vegetables are juicy and the leaves are crisp, making them one of the few vegetables that are delicious even when eaten raw.

However, they had no idea what kind of trouble this behavior would provoke.

A skeleton jumped up from the sand, its hands forming a void grip, condensing a Death Scythe, and charged toward them.

By the time they wanted to fight back, they sensed a continuous surge of magic power erupting from the skeleton's body, and then the sand they were standing on became as soft as the surface of a swamp; every step they took sank into a pit, and they couldn't stand steadily at all.

"Oh no! It's a Golden Skeleton!"

"Oh no! This skeleton can use magic!"

"Oh no!..."

After a few exclamations, the dozen or so bandits were neatly harvested by Ang, just like cutting leeks.

"I knew it." Negris kept the pages of the book tightly shut, unable to bear watching. Actually, picking Ang's vegetables wouldn't be a big deal, because this guy's obsession is: things are planted to be eaten.

But they shouldn't have, they absolutely shouldn't have picked the seedlings; they had just sprouted to the length of a finger and were already picked. To Ang, destroying seedlings is a crime second only to burning a field.

Destroying seedlings only requires dying once, while burning a field requires dying many times, just like that Tulus and those poor demons whom Ang mistook for Tulus.

Albert struggled to crawl up from the ground, staring at all this in a daze, his mind buzzing: Is the Holy Spirit Lord this terrifying? I even complained about him before. Oh my god, will the Lord hold a grudge?

After these few days of getting along, Ang had only been focused on planting vegetables, giving Albert the illusion that he was harmless to humans and animals. He didn't expect that when it came to hacking people, the Lord was also very cruel.

Stepping over the corpses, the Earth Split technique vibrated, and they soon sank into the soil at the edge of the field. Next year, these farmlands will be even more fertile.

Turning to Albert, Negris asked: "What did you just say? Was Desert Town robbed?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Albert also recovered from the shock and hurriedly said: "Desert Town was robbed. These bandits don't know where they came from; they suddenly appeared, rushed into Desert Town, and killed everyone they saw, then started searching the surroundings. I was afraid of being discovered, so I ran back. I didn't expect them to search this far."

It takes more than an hour to walk from here to Desert Town, but it might only take twenty minutes or so by horse.

"Doesn't Desert Town have guards? Is it that easy for bandits to kill their way in? How many people do they have?" Negris asked.

From the skeleton guards at the town entrance, it can be seen that Desert Town is not a place without defenses. In such a remote wilderness, it would be impossible to build it without some military force, not to mention those bandits, mercenaries, and the like; even wild beasts and magical beasts alone could destroy many villages and towns.

Albert shook his head: "I don't know. I took a look from far away and couldn't see clearly how many people they had." Then he added worriedly:

"I don't know if those children are okay either. I went to the place where they live and didn't find them. I don't know if they entered the town or ran away."

As soon as those children were mentioned, Ang remembered the little girl who gave him the grave grass. He knew why the little girl wanted to give him the grave grass.

This is a world where living beings and the undead coexist harmoniously. The aura of death is very thick, which also gave birth to a large number of vengeful spirits.

Once night falls, these vengeful spirits will swarm everywhere, making people feel annoyed and irritable. And the undead are particularly susceptible to the influence of vengeful spirits. Grave grass can not only calm the mind and soothe the soul, but also drive away vengeful spirits, making it very practical.

Of course, Ang doesn't need it; instead, he hopes there are more vengeful spirits. This is soul energy.

It's just that the soul energy of vengeful spirits contains a large amount of obsession. If the undead absorb too much, they are easily affected, leading to schizophrenia or depression.

As the God of the Undead, these things cannot affect him. The obsession of vengeful spirits is not as strong as that in the soul flames.

"Worrying is useless. You stay here and hide well. I'll go and clean up the traces of these bandits, so that their accomplices won't find out that someone is missing and follow the hoof prints here," Negris said.

Following the hoof prints left by the bandits, Ang ran toward Desert Town. As he walked, air vortices formed under his feet, scattering those horse hoof prints.

Wherever he passed, shallow vortex marks were left on the sand, which would completely dissipate before long.

It takes Albert more than an hour to walk to Desert Town, but it only takes Ang ten minutes or so to run. Ten minutes later, two-thirds of the way there, the hoof prints had all been wiped away, and the hoof prints took a turn here.

Ang originally wanted to continue clearing them along the marks, but was stopped by Negris:

"Stop, stop, the hoof prints turn here. In case those bandits really follow the hoof prints here and see the traces disappear, they will only follow the straight line and won't turn to our side. Keep them; they can mislead the enemy."

"Oh." Ang responded, turned around and walked back. After walking for a distance, he stopped and looked at a sand dune nearby.

Walking behind the sand dune, Ang found five shivering children and an unconscious female mage.

"Eh, are those the street urchins? You ran out? Why are there only five left? Where are the others? Who is she?" Negris asked.

Ang also found them familiar, among them was the little girl who gave him the grave grass.

The few street urchins might have recognized Ang, and they responded in a jumble. There were about nine of them in this group of street urchins, four were captured, and only five were left.

As for this female mage, they didn't know who she was either. She fainted at the place where they lived last night, woke up a while ago, led them to run out, and fainted again when she got here.

The five street urchins were all small children and couldn't carry an adult, so they could only drag her behind the sand dune to hide.

Ang grabbed the female mage by the collar with one hand and lifted her up. After a closer look, Negris said: "There is a wound on her waist, not fatal. She seems to have fainted from hunger."

Gulu gulu! Hearing the word "hunger," the stomachs of the five street urchins all growled.

Negris asked Ang to take out three Spirit Beans, split them in two, and distribute them to the five children, and stuffed the remaining half into the female mage's mouth.

Under Negris's urging, the children hesitantly ate half a Spirit Bean, soon felt full, and were full of shock.

The little girl who gave Ang the grave grass before excitedly dug a Spirit Bean out of her arms and held it high for Ang to see.

"You didn't eat it? Then keep it for now, and eat it when you're hungry someday," Negris said.

"Sigh." Negris sighed in its heart. It could understand why the little girl didn't eat this Spirit Bean. She didn't know that one bean could fill her stomach, but the bean was given by someone else, representing someone else's kindness, so she couldn't bear to eat it.

For street urchins like them, other people's kindness is more precious than anything else.

"Let's go, let's go, I'll take you to my place."

Returning to the stone chamber cemetery, Albert was both happy and anxious. What he was happy about was that most of the street urchins were fine, and what he was anxious about was that Ang actually brought people to the stone chamber cemetery, which violated the rules.

However, being anxious was useless. Albert could only comfort himself: It was brought back by the Holy Spirit Lord, it has nothing to do with me, the Lord will forgive me.

With a bang, Jili felt a sharp pain in her face and woke up suddenly. What came into her eyes was a skeleton face in front of her, which gave her a big fright, and she instinctively fought back.

"Xi la li duo xi..." Before she finished chanting a spell, the skeleton reached out and grabbed, 'grabbing' away all the elements.

"Hiss—Deprivation?! How is that possible!?" Jili shouted in shock.

Deprivation is the suppression of a low-level mage by a high-level mage. The elements in the same place are limited. If someone else's control is stronger and they draw away all the elements, the low-level mage will have no way to cast spells.

If even magic cannot be cast, then apart from carrying a staff to hit people, I'm afraid there is no other way.

However, to achieve the effect of deprivation, the level gap between mages must be very large, otherwise, if they fight for them, it will be at most half for you and half for me, or seventy percent for you and thirty percent for me, and the effect of 'deprivation' cannot be achieved.

Although Jili does not major in magic, she considers her magic level to be not low. How could she be deprived of her control over elements by someone else? And the other party is still a skeleton, how is it possible?

"It must be because I'm too hungry, or because of the injury." Jili subconsciously touched her stomach.

Eh? Her stomach is bulging, she doesn't feel hungry, and it's not the state of weak hands and feet from being overly hungry. Her hands and feet are quite strong.

She touched her wound again, eh? Where is the wound? Why can't I feel the wound? It doesn't hurt either? Jili looked down and saw that the wound was intact, as if she had never been injured.

Who healed my wound? Who fed me? Two big question marks rose in Jili's heart, and then she quickly reacted: My wound is healed, and I'm not hungry anymore, so was I deprived because I was too weak?

Seeing the other party lost in thought, Negris asked: "Who are you? Why were you injured? Those bandits were chasing you, right?"

Jili raised her head suddenly and shook her head repeatedly: "No, they weren't chasing me, I don't know those bandits."

"Okay, I know, why were those bandits chasing you?" Negris asked.

Jili was stunned: "Can't you understand? I said they weren't chasing me, I don't know those bandits!"

"Okay, I know, you don't have anything valuable on you, so they weren't chasing you for robbery, then it must be because of you as a person. What is your identity? Why do they want to chase you?" Negris asked.

Jili felt a breath stuck in her chest. After holding it for a long while, she let it out long and said dejectedly: "I am Jili, an alchemist of the Warlock Alliance. They want to catch me to claim the reward."

"I said so, trying to lie to me?" Negris said triumphantly. It's not easy, it finally has a day when it can bluff something out. In the future, this kind of technique is Anthony's specialty, and it is often the one being bluffed.

"Where are they taking you to claim the reward?" Negris asked again.

Jili looked at it in surprise: "The Undead Guild, where else? Everyone in the Warlock Alliance is on the Undead Guild's bounty list. Catching one is worth at least fifty soul crystals or more. Haven't you been out for a long time?"

"It's only because you are the Holy Spirit of Light that I tell you these things. By the way, your Church of Light is the same, just not as expensive as us, starting at ten soul crystals."

Negris doesn't know much about the prices here, so it couldn't help but ask: "Are fifty soul crystals a lot? How much food can they buy?"

Food is the most common pricing item. As long as there are still people eating in this world, food is hard currency. By comparing it, one can probably compare the gap with the main plane.

"Probably enough to buy food for a family of five for ten years." Jili counted on her fingers for a long time.

"I have been asleep for a long time and don't know much about the current situation. Tell me about the situation. By the way, your wound was healed by me, no need to thank me." Negris took the opportunity to say.

"Which aspect of the situation are you talking about?" Jili touched her stomach and said relaxedly.

After seeing the armor on Ang's body and recognizing his identity as the Holy Spirit of Light, Jili relaxed.

If someone wanted to catch her to claim the reward, this person would definitely not be from the Church of Light, because people from the Church of Light are also on the bounty list.

Moreover, the other party also treated her wound, filled her stomach, and expressed enough kindness.

After some conversation, Negris obtained more information about this world from Jili.

"Now the ground has fallen into chaos. More than two months ago, after the Starburst Array in the sky launched a new starburst, the Undead Monarch began to attack the Starburst Array, and all the top undead creatures went up to the sky."

"The Starburst Array has powerful defenses, and the Lord of Silence is sitting in town. It's easy for the Undead Monarch to go up, but it's hard to come down. Now is the time when the Undead Empire's strength is most empty. If you want to come out and move around, now is the best opportunity. At least for the next few decades, the Undead Empire won't have time to bother with you."

"Hard to come down? What do you mean?" Negris was shocked and asked hurriedly.

"The Infinite Domain of Thermal Silence, the Lord of Silence's Infinite Domain of Thermal Silence, has trapped the Undead Monarch and his subordinates. Without a few decades, he cannot break through this domain. It just depends on whether the Undead Monarch breaks through the domain in these few decades, or whether we warlocks find a way to annihilate him."

"Hiss—doesn't that mean the world is in chaos?" Negris was shocked.

Jili nodded: "It has already started to be chaotic. I came all the way from Thunder Valley. It was chaotic all the way. Many farmlands haven't been harvested yet, and they were burned down along with the crops by people."

Speaking of this, Jili suddenly saw the skeleton in front of her straighten its waist, and its whole momentum was different.

"Hehe, hehe, my waist is a bit sore from standing for too long." Negris hurriedly explained (covered up).

Waist sore? You, a skeleton, have a sore waist?

"By the way, the tattoo on your back, what is it tattooed with?" Negris asked finally.

Jili stood up suddenly and glared at Ang: "You actually took off my clothes!"