Chapter 465: Study Hard, Wait for Them to Come Pick You Up

Someone did not want Anthony and Gust to form an alliance.

Two forces probing each other, with no foundation of trust — it would only take a tiny bit of sabotage to create an irreparable rift of suspicion, making future cooperation impossible.

There was no need to do anything; just find out which Death Prison Anthony went to, rush over, wipe out all the undead guards, then report it upward.

Gust would send people down to inspect. When they saw the Church of Light followers completely unharmed while every undead guard had died a gruesome death, the first one they would suspect would be Anthony.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si could tell at a glance it was a frame-up, because Anthony had been with them the whole time. Gust had not — they had never even met face to face, lacking any foundation of trust.

Rather than suspect a traitor framing Anthony, it was easier to just believe Anthony did it.

They just hadn't expected Seeing Ange to come over to check the situation and then get cornered by the people Gust sent. And they certainly hadn't expected who Gust's people had cornered.

"What do we do, what do we do? Can we take them? Should we run first?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si was a bit flustered — there were so many enemies, and their intent felt very strong too.

The little angel turned around and patted her chest: "Ao!"

"Uh, you'll protect me? How thoughtful, haven't doted on you for nothing." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said, gratified.

Unfortunately, Seeing Ange let out an "ao" of her own, vetoing that decision, then pulled her soul out and stuffed her body into the Divine Domain.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si was handled the same way — soul pulled out, body stuffed into the Divine Domain. In the field, only Seeing Ange and the little zombie remained.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si's intent quickly projected onto Seeing Ange, asking in confusion: "What are you doing? The two of you fighting all of them? Can you win?"

The little angel's intent also projected onto Seeing Ange, shouting indignantly: "Ao!"

Since her birth, this was the first time she'd had her soul pulled out — not letting her fight was one thing, but not even letting her watch from the sidelines, infuriating!

Seeing Ange said: "Anthony said, pretend to be enemies, don't reveal ourselves." While speaking, she armored up into Soul Armor, then summoned the Death God Scythe.

"Kuabada, you sure remember Anthony's words clearly." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said indignantly.

Had to admit, this was a good idea. The enemies wanted to frame Anthony, but they came over and saw two undead creatures wearing Soul Armor, with Seeing Ange shouldering the Death God Scythe — even if they wanted to frame, they couldn't. They couldn't exactly claim the undead were sent by the Light Pope, could they?

Back in the Main Plane, Anthony had actually done this kind of thing, but here, getting others to believe it wasn't so easy.

The intent from the spirit carriage extended over, landing on Seeing Ange and the little zombie, letting out a somewhat surprised "eh": "Who are you people? Guards? Weren't we told the Church of Light attacked? Where is the Church of Light?"

Seeing Ange ignored him, simply reached out a hand to probe — all the surrounding soul energy and fragments were drawn toward Seeing Ange's palm.

The intent on the spirit carriage suddenly flared with rage: "Despicable, stop! Trying to destroy the body and erase the evidence?"

A soul-level attack instantly stabbed toward Seeing Ange, piercing into her soul like a needle.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in shock: "Soul Impact… beam? Kuabada, new move!"

Soul Impact was the most commonly used move among undead, but also the most unvarying — it was a pure contest of soul strength on both sides, and not just slightly stronger, but much stronger, for Soul Impact to be effective.

If the two sides' soul strength were roughly equal, then Soul Impact was basically a hostile greeting — the equivalent of a "what are you looking at" kind of greeting.

Yet what Lord Nai Ge Li Si was seeing now was a Soul Impact with variation — the impact had been compressed into a beam, stabbing over like a needle. Whether it was effective or not aside, the form itself was unprecedented.

Round wheels were common enough, but square wheels — never seen one before.

Seeing Ange tilted her head.

Alright, it had been blocked — no effect whatsoever.

Like using the Holy Hammer of Earth to smash a rock, a small rock and a big rock both shatter on impact, no way to tell the difference. So between a normal Soul Impact and this impact beam, Lord Nai Ge Li Si couldn't tell any difference either.

The being on the spirit carriage Immediately Cautioned, intent asking: "Who are you people? Why did you kill our guards!"

Not only killing, but trying to destroy the evidence — Seeing Ange gathering all the soul fragments in the area together was itself a method of destroying the evidence.

Undead had the ability to extract memories from soul fragments; as long as the soul fragments preserved the memories, even after a long time they could still be extracted.

Seeing Ange had once, in the God-Seeding Valley, gathered many fragments of elven druids and extracted fragmented druid knowledge from them.

These memories, scattered and broken, were useless to ordinary people, but for an "old farmer" like Seeing Ange with rich practical experience, they were equivalent to patching a shortcoming.

Now Seeing Ange had gathered all the soul fragments — they couldn't even do a soul fragment traceback anymore.

Seeing Ange didn't speak, just went about gathering up the soul fragments in the area. Not only did these undead need to trace back, Seeing Ange also needed to trace back exactly what had happened.

Once everything was cleaned up, the undead cavalry and spirit carriage were almost there. Seeing Ange patted the little zombie's shoulder and pointed forward: "Ao!"

Finished speaking, she pulled out two teleportation scrolls.

Teleportation scrolls were actually quite precious things — they used silk cloth as the base lining, dragon hide as the inner pages, a World Tree branch as the axle, with particularly fine magic inscribed on them. Making one used to be very difficult.

But in Seeing Ange's hands, she had turned them into cabbage — the quantity was so great that even Xi Lu Di, a master of spatial mysteries, wanted to stock up from her.

Dragon hide was originally very hard to come by — didn't one have to slaughter a few dragons? Seeing Ange didn't need to; just cut a piece off Lord Nai Ge Li Si's backside, soak it in essence liquid, and let it grow.

The little zombie pushed out with both hands, a black beam of light shot forth.

Some might say where does a black beam of light come from, but the Death Breath Shockwave had an effect of drawing in all the surrounding light. The moment it fired, everything around dimmed, as if black light were shining out.

The leading undead cavalryman violently flung his spear, stabbing into the Death Breath Shockwave — the entire beam was split in two, splitting off to both sides.

However, the spear could only break half before being dissolved within the shockwave. But at that moment, a second spear was flung over, then a third.

The three undead cavalrymen struck together, forcibly breaking through the little zombie's Death Breath Shockwave.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si was greatly shocked: "So strong."

If the undead cavalry escorting the spirit carriage were already this strong, then who exactly was inside the spirit carriage?

"So strong!" The same thought also rose in the souls of those three undead cavalrymen. The spears they flung were their soul weapons, so they had an intimate sense of the Death Breath Shockwave's intensity.

That was secondary though — what horrified them even more was that this level of Death Breath Shockwave had been unleashed by the enemy opposite without any warning at all. It was simply outrageous.

The big sucker who had taught Seeing Ange the Death Breath Shockwave had to cast and mobilize the death energy from an entire region to release this move. The little zombie hadn't made any fuss at all — just pushed out with both hands and fired it. This meant the little zombie's soul was strong enough to support the casting of this move.

The three spear-flinging undead cavalrymen involuntarily scattered to both sides, giving up the front position, while simultaneously re-condensing their soul weapons. Without weapons, their combat power would plummet.

But this no longer mattered. At the same time the little zombie released the Death Breath Shockwave, Seeing Ange had already torn open a scroll, then stuffed it into the little zombie's hand.

Immediately after, she also tore one open.

A powerful teleportation ripple spread out. The undead being inside the spirit carriage raged: "Trying to run?! Hmph!"

A special ripple spread from the spirit carriage, shooting toward Seeing Ange's position, attempting to interfere with the teleportation scroll.

Seeing Ange tilted her head, stepped in front of the little zombie — all the interfering ripples were blocked by her.

A flash of white light, and the little zombie was teleported away.

Then his scroll also erupted, and Bai Guang swallowed him up too.

The spirit carriage arrived at the teleportation point, and a lich dripping with jewels and luxury stepped out of it — even his teeth were gold-rimmed.

Staring at the spot where Seeing Ange had finally vanished, the lich studied it for a long moment, then asked hesitantly, "You all saw my Hand of Disruption, didn't you? You saw it, right? So why didn't he react?"

The undead cavalrymen exchanged glances.

The leading undead cavalryman considered for a moment, then said, "Perhaps he has some magical item that resists the Hand of Disruption."

"What kind of item could resist the Hand of Disruption?" the lich muttered to himself. "Spatial barrier? Guardian Bulwark? A dimensional beast, huh?"

After muttering for a long while, the lich still couldn't be sure which it was, so he set it aside: "Connect the relay spirit — I need to report to the council."

After the relay spirit was connected, the lich recounted what had happened here, and a puzzled voice came from the other end: "Two undead creatures killed the island's guards and swept away all the soul shards? Are you sure? You're sure they were two undead creatures?"

The lich said impatiently, "What do you mean? Are you questioning me? Two undead creatures wearing Soul Armor, one who casts Death Breath Shockwaves, one carrying a Death God Scythe, and he even tanked my Soul Impact — what do you think they are? Light's lapdogs?"

"No, no, I'm just confirming, just confirming," the other end hurriedly soothed.

"Bullshit, you're questioning me — it's just like me asking 'are you no good?' I already told you they're undead creatures, and you still ask — what do you mean?" the lich snapped. He was such a professional; how could he fail to tell whether the targets were undead?

"Yes, yes, I'm no good, I've been impotent for years, hanging up." The communication cut off.

The lich stared blankly at the communicator for a long moment, then turned and asked, "He just insulted me — did you all catch that?"

The undead cavalrymen collectively shook their heads.

"He's an undead creature — what the hell is he impotent about? I'm the lich, I'm the one who has that thing, and he insulted me." The lich was furious.

……

At God Fall Town, the little zombie and Seeing Ange emerged from the teleportation array one after another.

They took out Lord Nai Ge Li Si and the little angel's bodies, then guided the souls back in. Because the divine realm had a deactivating effect, they also had to heal the bodies once, or else they'd lose hair or scales.

"What about Jia Delige?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Jia Delige was still above Death Prison Island — after Seeing Ange and the others had landed, it had flown to even higher altitude to stand guard.

"Longdao, fetch the water dragon," Seeing Ange said.

"Uh, Dorok is a gold dragon, not a water dragon," Lord Nai Ge Li Si corrected.

Seeing Ange tilted his head: "Can't fly, can swim — water dragon."

"Fine, you've got a point — water dragon it is, then. I suppose this counts as naming this sub-dragon species," Lord Nai Ge Li Si sighed, then changed the subject: "That lich just now seemed to cast a Hand of Disruption — why didn't the teleportation scroll react?"

Seeing Ange pointed at his heart: "Guardian."

"Oh, right — you have too many good things on you. If you hadn't said so, I'd have forgotten you still carry a divine spark, the God of War and Peace, which comes with Guardian Bulwark — basically ignores any disruption." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said in sudden realization.

That evening, Jia Delige landed in the wasteland outside God Fall Town.

Everyone hurried over to look, and Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked, "Where's the little brat dragon?"

Jia Delige resentfully rolled its eyes, then opened its mouth and spat out the young dragons one by one — nine in total.

"Why didn't you tell me these guys were so annoying? Letting them sit on my back — not a single one could stay on. Just from falling into the sea, it happened over a dozen times. Picking them up nearly killed me from exhaustion," Jia Delige complained.

Jia Delige was a dragon lich — its stomach had no digestive function, but it wasn't airtight either, and Jia Delige had flown the whole way with its mouth open, gulping wind. The young dragons, stuffed into its stomach for the flight, had nearly suffocated, and now lay on the ground whimpering, not wanting to get up.

Imagining Jia Delige scrambling over the water's surface to scoop them up, Lord Nai Ge Li Si empathized deeply and nodded sympathetically: "You've worked hard. What about the others?"

"They're with Dorok." Mentioning this put Jia Delige in a much better mood — even a little schadenfreude: as long as someone else is worse off than me, I don't feel so bad.

He was very curious how Dorok had brought the remaining nine young dragons from Longdao.

But Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked, "It's never been here before — if you don't lead it, how can it find the way?"

"It said it can sense the direction, told me not to wait for it."

After another long stretch, near dawn, a giant golden "lizard" crawled up to God Fall Town.

"Krabada, I'm exhausted," Dorok collapsed to the ground, unwilling to move.

"You really did find the place — where are the young dragons?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked eagerly.

The others all crowded around too — everyone was curious how it had brought those young dragons over.

On Dorok's back, they found nine little young dragons bound so tightly they couldn't move, only able to whimper. Well — simple and brutal — bound and carried over.

Dorok and the young dragons were ultimately settled near the deep pool where the World Tree grew. There were mountains, water, and trees here, and if any danger came, the World Tree could shelter them for a while.

No sooner had they settled than Dorok fell into a deep sleep. It had just been reactivated for evolution — the moment it felt safe, it wanted to sleep, and the moment it woke, it wanted to eat. Seeing Ange piled up a heap of rapeseed cakes beside it, so it could stretch out its head and eat the moment it woke.

The next day, Dorok woke, crawled out of the cave, and found Seeing Ange: "my lord, I think I just triggered a blood resonance — in a daze, I sensed other members of my kind. They imparted a draconic language spell to me, told me to study it well, and wait for them to come fetch me."