Chapter 140: Death Collapse! [Seeking Recommendation Votes]
2016-10-02
Author: Zhu Sheng Fu Tu
“What just happened?”
Gloria arrived beside Soren, involuntarily gripping his hand tightly, murmuring, “I think I just felt something! But it’s not clear!”
Although she possessed the power of prophecy, she was not yet a true deity.
Mortals have no sense of the dissipating Domain of Eternal Sleep, while legendary beings may have a faint perception due to the changes in the energy of the entire material plane, feeling a chill and evil aura approaching. Only true deities can sense the changes in the whole world; as the main god of the God of Death system, Klanvor’s Domain of Eternal Sleep covers the entire world like a magic network. This power prevents ordinary dead from reviving on their own; they must cast necromantic spells to transform into undead. Now, as the Domain of Eternal Sleep gradually dissipates, accompanied by the thickening Death Aura, even without any spells, deceased beings may directly transform into undead.
“The Domain of Eternal Sleep is dissipating!”
Many gods with strong divine power have domains that overshadow the material plane, much like the climate of the Amazon rainforest, which is largely influenced by the Lord of Storms’ domain. Soren closed his eyes, sensing the changes in the material plane, murmuring, “The King of the Dead—Klanvor is in trouble! His Domain of Eternal Sleep covering the material plane is dissipating!”
This was a fate that Soren could not change.
From beginning to end, he has no idea where Klanvor is; the other party is a powerful deity, and unless he wants to meet Soren intentionally, it would be very difficult for Soren to track his existence.
Everything still happened.
Klanvor ultimately erupted into battle with the Undead Lords, although Soren did not know where, he was sure the fight was brutal!
The state of the King of the Dead should be very dire now; if even the Domain of Eternal Sleep has failed, then Klanvor must be very seriously injured. As a strong deity among those with medium divine power, close to strong divine power, Soren, at the same time the Domain of Eternal Sleep disappears, also felt a decayed and evil power seeping into the material plane.
This was the power of the God of Death—Naraku!
Although the faith of God of Death Naraku has spread in the desert regions, for most old gods, he is still an otherworldly god, an outsider.
His faith originated from a country called ‘Gray Eagle.’
God of Death Naraku has only spread his faith in the material plane for a few hundred years, but in the world of Gray Eagle, he is already a very powerful figure in the God of Death system. There are many such otherworldly gods, including the entire orc pantheon, which spread to the material plane during the Battle of the Orc Gates.
Gloria’s expression was serious as she slowly asked, “Will the Plague become more severe because of this?”
Soren nodded, “Yes. It will become very severe.”
The Domain of Eternal Sleep is a force that suppresses death, significantly increasing the difficulty of the dead reviving; the dissipation of the Domain of Eternal Sleep means that the dead will automatically transform into undead. In just a few days, the places that had previously experienced war and where many refugees died will quickly become a paradise for undead.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, a day went by.
As if to validate Soren’s words, near the Agate River in the south, on the land where the half-orc and half-elf battles once erupted, strange changes were beginning to occur.
This was a piece of black fertile land.
To compete for this land, the war between half-elves and half-orcs erupted continuously. And now, under the dark night, on this battlefield that once claimed the lives of tens of thousands, a pale bony hand suddenly reached up from underground, followed by bones breaking through the soil, revealing a half-orc that appeared to have decayed severely. Even in death, its physique remained tall, wielding a rusted battle blade, with weak soul flames flickering in its pupils.
This was just the beginning.
The entire land began to churn, one undead after another crawling out from underground, including orcs, humans, and half-elves; the undead who had once perished on this land began to revive one after another.
However, at this moment, they made no movement.
Because on the other side of this battlefield, a very powerful undead aura exploded.
Here was the half-orc cemetery, and with the evil aura permeating, a half-orc shaman, already severely decayed, crawled out from the ground, gripping a skeletal staff in one hand and holding a skull in the other, gazing at the other undead with the flickering flames of the soul in his pupils.
Thud, thud, thud!
Strange vibrations began to resonate.
In front of the half-orc tomb, a group of gray-robed necromancers was casting spells, while beside them stood a legendary rank lich.
They seemed to be summoning something.
Boom!
Suddenly, the tomb exploded, and then a burly half-orc stepped out from within; his body was not decayed much, just covered in various corpse spots, indicating he was very powerful in life and had refined his body to an astonishing degree.
This was a Fire Blade Sword Saint from a half-orc clan!
He did not die in the battle with half-elves but perished together with a Lesser Demon Lord from the Bottomless Abyss during a subsequent demon invasion while protecting his clan.
He had once been the right-hand man of the Ascendant—Eugene.
But now he had revived as an undead, his former battle blade covered in dark flames, which were the withering flames from higher-level undead, a vile negative energy fire capable of using the life force of any living creature as fuel.
With the revival of the Fire Blade Sword Saint, the surrounding necromancers stepped back, slightly bowing in respect to him.
This was a high-level undead with a biological level exceeding 25.
His death, due to a curse from a Lesser Demon Lord, prevented him from entering the Divine Kingdom and forced him to wander in the endless River of Underworld. The dissipation of Klanvor’s Domain of Eternal Sleep not only signifies the lifting of limitations over the material plane but also means other Undead Lords can now reach into the spirit world, underworld, and other sections of lower planes like the River of Underworld.
Without Eternal Sleep, there is no rest.
They can use evil powers to summon the souls of these deceased!
A similar scene erupted in Amber City.
From the ‘Meteor Explosion’ that broke out as Soren left, that area engulfed in flames saw thousands of houses turned to ash, with many living people burned alive in the fire. Now, under the dark night, strange white mist began to spread; there were not enough corpses, but lingering souls and grievances led to the birth of ghosts.
One pale shadow after another floated through the ruins, issuing strange and piercing laughter.
In the Bottomless Abyss, Soren’s Divine Kingdom.
After such a long period of development, the entire Divine Kingdom has changed significantly.
The scale of the reincarnation pool has roughly doubled, but the number of heroic spirits has decreased by ten percent compared to the beginning because many heroic spirits fell in the wars against the Kingdom of Fear. Although new heroic spirits are continuously born, they still cannot fill the original gap.
The deceased Chouhou has become an Otherworldly Messenger.
He is currently the highest authority messenger within the Divine Kingdom, responsible for helping Soren manage the entire nation.
Of course, he is only in charge of the combat and soul gathering part; the specific construction of the Divine Kingdom is still managed by the original Holy Spirit Priests.
At this moment.
A golden beam of light suddenly appeared above the Great Divine Hall, shortly followed by Chouhou’s figure quickly returning to the shrine, kneeling before Soren’s statue.
His expression was serious.
About a few minutes later, he walked out of the shrine, announcing to the other heroic spirits: “Abnormalities have occurred in the underworld and the River of Underworld! The God of Death Klanvor and his Otherworldly Divine Servants can no longer perform the task of gathering souls!”
“My lord has issued a divine edict!”
“From now on, the souls of believers will be personally gathered by us!”
The authority of the gods is part of the operation of the world.
Just as the fall of the Goddess of Magic would lead to the collapse of the magic network affecting the entire material plane, the mishap of the King of the Dead—Klanvor directly leads to the souls of the gods’ followers being unattended.
The gods and the God of Death system have agreements.
That is, the vast majority of followers’ souls, except for those especially devout and important believers who would have Otherworldly Messengers come personally to gather them, other souls go to the underworld and are collected by the God of Death Servants, eventually being gathered by the gods’ messengers within a unified time in the Divine Kingdom. Those souls that do not have Otherworldly Messengers to guide them mostly flow into the River of Underworld, with a small portion ending up in the Bottomless Abyss, Hell of Bartok, Gray Wasteland, and other areas.
Chouhou has begun to fulfill his duties.
So far, he has gathered three batches of souls, numbering about three hundred people, all of them followers who fought and died during the Elemental Chaos in the territory of Modo City, as well as a portion of wanderers who died fighting for Soren from other places.
These souls initially went directly into the underworld.
Then, as the Otherworldly Messenger, Chouhou has the ability to temporarily leave the Divine Kingdom; he is responsible for assisting Soren in taking souls from the God of Death Servants.
But now that’s not possible.
With the King of the Dead—Klanvor missing, the God of Death Servants can no longer fulfill their tasks; although souls will enter the underworld, they have lost the protection of the God of Death.
This means demons, devils, and evil spirits will soon be stirring!
When Klanvor was still around, there were daring devils who would steal souls from the underworld, but now, as the Undead Lords have joined forces to severely injure Klanvor, leading to his disappearance, many demons and devils are eagerly extending their hands toward the River of Underworld.
The figures of the demons lurk in and out during the Plague!
They are creatures that value profit above all else; after the first plundering in the material plane, these cunning demons quickly set their sights on the underworld.
In this situation.
The followers of the gods can only rely on themselves for protection. As Soren’s Otherworldly Messenger, Chouhou must now personally lead the Demon Hunters to gather the souls of believers, or else they might be stolen by demons at any time.
(To Be Continued ~^~)
