NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Awakening
[Reshaping the body…][Remodeling completed…]……………………
A large number of corpses are stacked in a dark tomb.
These corpses have undergone some treatment, for example, the limbs that were chopped off at the time of death were stitched together again. An unknown pus was flowing on the ground, and the air was filled with a rotten smell.
If anyone who has practiced undead spells comes here, they will be able to find that the transformation of walking corpses is going on here.
In this corrupt corpse, an intact body is so strange. If anyone can approach this body to look at it, he can see its chest rise and fall with breathing.
Suddenly, this body moved, and then slowly sat up, supporting his forehead with his hands, with an extremely painful expression on his face.
“Where am I…”
As the thoughts slowly become clearer, memories also flood into my mind.
Family, friends, Wu You’s life, and… brutal skeletons, moving corpses, wailing villagers, spellcasters shrouded in black robes…
“My name is Luo Luo, the eldest son of a hunter in Saou Village. I have a younger sister who lived Wu You’s carefree life in the village, but the village was attacked by a necromancer. The whole village was destroyed. Everyone Was killed. Before I was killed, my last consciousness seemed to see the Necromancer grabbing my sister and saying what a natural hero… She should have survived…”
“No…it’s not like this…My name is Rod, a professional player in the 22nd century on Earth, and I am currently trying to play the most popular third-world virtual online game [Heroes of Invincible 3].”
“Am I… still in the game? Also, what’s the matter with this memory?”
As if to verify his guess, Rod reached out his hand and touched the ground he was sitting on, then quickly took his hand from the ground. Rod looked at his palm with a speechless expression, with some unknown pus on it.
Rod stood up and looked around the scene.
The gloomy tombs, the corpses on display, the low roars coming from the depths… all kinds of scenes that are hard to see in reality undoubtedly gave Rhode a certainty in his heart.
“Sure enough, I’m still in the game… Then, the attribute panel.”
As the thoughts rose, a transparent panel appeared in front of Rod.
【Name: Rod
Hero Specialty: Unawakened
Rank: Tier 1 Militia, Tier 1 (010)
Attributes: Strength 7, Speed 6, Constitution 8, Knowledge 2, Spirit 2
Health value: 4040
Mana: 00
Experience value: 0
Skills: None
Special skills: None
Spell: None]
Looking at his attribute panel, Rod fell into contemplation.
The three basic attributes of an adult man’s strength, speed, and physique should be 10. According to the memory of the predecessor, this body should be still in the juvenile stage, and the attributes have not yet grown to the average value. However, only two points of knowledge and spirit indicate that the predecessor has not become a mage. Talent. Generally speaking, the starting attributes are low, but the predecessor is not very old and has excellent growth potential.
“In the memory of his predecessor, the village he lived in was destroyed by a powerful necromancer. But according to the pictures I saw in my memory before, the so-called undead army is actually only the two low-level undead units, the walking dead and the skeleton soldier. , And the magic that the Necromancer casts is only the lowest-level magic arrow and slow magic.”
“The Necromancer relied on the convenience of a surprise attack in the night, coupled with the fear of the undead by the ignorant villagers, and successfully broke the village. If the village is attacked frontally during the day, the result is really not necessarily true.”
“This Necromancer is actually just an apprentice of the Necromancer…”
After judging the identity of the attacker in the village, Rod’s thinking suddenly became clear.
“The Necromancer apprentices have only a few purposes for attacking the village. Generally speaking, they are all related to wealth. Whether it is the money in the village or the value of converting the villagers into an undead army after death, they are all needed by the Necromancer apprentice. ”
“Everyone in the village was killed…Wait, according to the memory of her predecessor, his sister should have survived, a natural hero…hero?”
Rod’s eyes shrank, as if thinking of something.
The key to a heroic world: heroes. Even an ordinary person can awaken and become a hero when faced with a desperate situation.
But not everyone can become a hero, and more people are at a loss when facing desperation and can only wait for death to come. A person who becomes a hero must have qualities that ordinary people do not have, either being brave and fearless, or having a firm will.
Compared with ordinary creatures of the same rank, heroes can obtain a huge amount of extra attribute bonuses and growth, as well as a special trait for themselves.
“A natural-born hero?… It’s a pity that I was born in such a remote village. If I was born in the Kingdom of Elasia, I’m afraid I can make a big difference…”
Suddenly, Lord’s spirit was in a trance, and a blood-red panel appeared in front of him.
[Soul Mission: Blood Relation][Task Brief: Since the village you lived in was destroyed, as your only surviving blood relative, your sister’s whereabouts are unknown. Even death can’t take away your longing for your loved ones, you vowed to get your sister back. 】[Mission Objective: Recover your sister Rowling safely within twelve months][Failure conditions: exceed the specified time or lose the target hero][Failure penalty: the soul splits, the master disappears]……………………
“Okay, coming to this world, inheriting this body really has a price. However, according to the principle of the system’s general difficulty and income equivalence, although the reward for completing the task is not mentioned, it should be the allegiance and inheritance of the hero Rowling. The hidden dangers of the body are eliminated.”
“Since the necromancer apprentice who attacked the village discovered that Rowling is a natural hero, as long as he is not a fool, he will not simply turn Rowling into an undead creature, even if he can get a corpse witch.”
“What he will do is either to dedicate Rowling to a high lord in exchange for a reward, or to send Rowling to a large auction house in exchange for a huge reward.”
Rod calculated a little in his mind. In short, there were twelve months left, confirming that Rowling would not leave the soul task after an accident, and first figure out his own situation.
After everyone in the village has been killed, the necromancer apprentice will carry out a series of finishing tasks, from the simplest search of the village to the processing of corpses and transforming them into undead creatures.
How to deal with corpses to obtain higher quality undead creatures has always been the research goal of necromancers. The easiest way is to suture the wounds of the corpse to reduce the loss of walking corpses, and the second is to use various materials to increase the strength of the corpse. But no matter how high it is, it can’t transform the corpses of ordinary people into corpses or death knights. Really powerful undead creatures must be powerful before they are alive.
According to Rod’s observation, the Necromancer clearly did a good job in this regard. The traces of the treatment of the surrounding corpses are obvious.
Since it is difficult for apprentice-level necromancers to independently transform corpses into undead creatures, they can only take the processed corpses to places with strong death energy, let them naturally transform into undead creatures, and finally control them. The natural transformation will last from a few days to several weeks depending on the intensity of the death energy.
“These corpses around me have already shown obvious signs of corpse transformation. Just when the apprentice of the Necromancer returns and activates the soul fire, they can become walking corpses. Time is running out for me.” After observing the surrounding corpses, Rod came to this conclusion.