Chapter 52: The Calm Before the Storm

  The Valley of Lost Souls in the Forest of Despair.

  Fayden arrived with 1,000 undead wizards in an area known as Soulscar Gorge.

  Fitz gazed out at the uneven terrain and said to Dolores, "This is the closest route to the base, so I can set up some things here and let those magical beasts taste some bitterness first."

  Dolores hung her head, as if she had something on her mind. Fizz also noticed Dolores' abnormality and asked her: "Dolores, what's wrong with you? I have a feeling that your heart is not here."

  Dolores bowed and said with an unusually firm attitude: "Master, I got an answer from you."

  Fei Zhi came over with interest, smiling and saying: "Go ahead and ask, as long as I can answer it, I'll tell you."

  Dolores said slowly: "Master, I want to know if the dominant ruler of the Dark Sanctuary in the future is the Master?"

  Fitz didn't say a word, he quietly looked at Dolores and then pointed to the sky.

  Dolores didn't understand what Fizz meant and looked up at the sky in confusion.

  Fei let out a sigh and said, "You're underestimating the master's goals. Just being the leader of a small Dark Sacred Court? To be blunt, someone in that position is just one of the master's pawns. If the master really wants to get involved with the Dark Sacred Court, they'll become its god!"

  The sky was shocked by a thunderbolt. The purple lightning ignited a tree behind Fizz.

  Dolores couldn't help but sigh at Chen Le's boundless ambition.

  Fei Zhi smiled and said to his disciple: "Do your own thing well, I have a premonition that you will reach a position farther than the Pope of the Dark Sacred Court!"

  Dolores clenched her fists as if tomorrow was already within her grasp.

  Fizzle waved a staff (which came from the undead wizard) and drew a map in the air. Then he said to Dolores beside him, "Dolores, what else do you think we need to pay attention to besides digging some traps?"

  Dolores looked around and said, "I've been to check the terrain. The entire canyon is surrounded by rivers, and it's summer now, so I hope we can use water to drown them."

  Fēi zī xǐn wèi de xiào le xiào shuō: "méi cuò, wǒ jiù shì dǎ suàn yòng zhè tiáo hé liú qù yān mò tāmen. hái jì dé wǒ yuán lái chéng wèi bié rén nú lì de shí hou, wǒ tīng jiàn qí tā rén shuō, zhè tiáo hé liú shì shén cì gěi zhè qún mó shòu shēng huó de lǐ wù. dàn shì zài hòu tiān, wǒmen jiāng huì bǎ zhè ge lǐ wù biàn chéng tāmen de zāi nàn."

  Dolores looked at the undead wizards around her who were releasing diseases and said, "Master, why do these wizards give me a very weak feeling?"

  Faye shook her head and said, "I actually don't know either, I don't know where these wizards come from. All I know is that they will listen to their master's orders, and it's the kind of unconditional obedience."

  Dolores fell into thought.

  Fei's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he said: "Don't think about things you shouldn't be thinking about. Now that we're serving the master, we should have the demeanor of a servant. Moreover, the master doesn't know what he's done, and his whole person has become crazy. I hope you don't provoke him, or else no one will be able to save you."

  Dolores also became aware of this issue and abandoned the question she had just thought about.

  After a while, the disease was spread, and Fei Zhe said to Dolores: "Dolores, take some ghouls up to move stones, remember to block the river channel a bit, don't let the water leak."

  Dolores nodded and led dozens of ghouls upstream.

  Fey saw Dolores from afar, then took out a bottle of medicine from his bosom and said: "Diseases are not enough, the master's medicine is more reliable. That Anlun kid really has some talent for alchemy, he actually managed to refine this poison that only an intermediate alchemist can refine."

  After finishing speaking, he found a few skulls and had them dig a hole. He then poured some river water into it and finally added the medicine himself, carefully diluting it.

  The clear water soon turned green, and Fizz looked at the foul-smelling diluent with disgust, then let the skulls sprinkle the diluent little by little around.

  And those plants and trees, upon encountering the diluent, emitted yellow smoke. Fei Zhi lightly tapped one of the plants with his staff, its shape remained, but its physical body had already rotted away into dust.

  Fei Zhi felt a bit apprehensive afterwards, and he recalled the instructions Chen Le had given him when handing over this bottle of medicine: do not use your own body to touch these drugs.

  "It's too overbearing! And it's not even happening right away!" Fei Zai thought, and later when he had time, he would definitely find his master to get some.

  "Dong dong dong!" Dolores' side started working. Fei Tzu looked up at the sky, feeling that today's air was exceptionally good.

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  Illuminati HQ, Training Grounds.

  "Your Excellency, the First Squadron of the Holy Light Knights has assembled, with a total of one thousand men!"

  The chief holy knight, Tu Xin, looked at the neatly lined up knights on the training ground and shouted: "Yesterday, His Holiness felt that something extremely evil had appeared in the Absolute Forest. Our mission is to go and investigate what this evil thing is! It's possible that some of us will sacrifice ourselves on this mission, but I ask you, are you afraid?!"

  "I'm not afraid!"

  "Good! You are indeed the loyal Holy Knights of Light. Now, rest and await the army of the Divine Kingdom."

  "Yes!"

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  "Dolores, what do you think the water will rise to at this time?" Fei Tzu said as he listened to the rolling river.

  Dolores was just a ghost wizard who had lived for less than a century, and he certainly didn't know how to look at water. He shook his head awkwardly in front of Fett.

  Ferris stroked Dolores' head, as if petting a child, and said with a smile: "Hey, didn't I tell you? You need to learn more things, but you never listen."

  Dolores' face turned bright red, although she felt a bit uneasy, but what the instructor said was true.

  "Tomorrow I'll teach you how to recognize a river," said Fei, pointing at the river.

  Dolores bowed her head and said, "Yes, mentor."

  Fei Zhi burst out laughing.

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  The Great Hall of the Dead

  Chen Le was meditating with his eyes closed when he suddenly felt something out of the ordinary.

  "Ah!" Chen Le let out a miserable cry.

  "Wronged spirit!" Chen Le's eyes widened in shock, his eyes blazing red.

  "Return my life!" A half-bodied goblin pulled Chen Le's leg.

  "Give me back my life!" Another headless centaur who was holding Chen Le's arm said.

  Chen Le hugged his head and crouched there, shivering with fear.

  "Return our lives!" The centaur and the ogre that Chen Le had killed before appeared beside him, crying out for revenge against their murderer.

  "You're all dead, why are you still bothering me!" Chen Le waved his fists, wanting to hit these vengeful spirits.

  "You're dead and won't bother us anymore, come down and keep us company!"

  "Get out of my sight! Now!" Chen Le's head seemed about to explode as he yelled miserably.

  "Wake up, Master!" Zha Zha's voice was like a lifesaver.

  Chen Le slowly opened his eyes and found that the vengeful spirits around him had all disappeared. He then sat on the ground, panting heavily.

  "Master, this is all a lingering effect of becoming the Lich King. Master, I hope you give up on this task." Zha Zha said.

  Chen Le gritted his teeth and said: "I can still hold on, revenge is my only goal."

  Zhang Zhang stopped talking. The entire hall fell into a dead silence.

  Thanks for the reward brought by the old tiger on the way out TAT