Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 150: Immortality
After a fierce fight, layers of interception and blockade, the dense bone dragons acted as a wall, trapping Ibola and the Undead Ghost Phoenix, who were exhausted and no longer brave. Although they were still unwilling to surrender and were trying their best to resist, their weak struggles could only cause minor damage to the besieged bone dragons, and did not help them break through the siege and escape. They were gradually forced to the ground, and then I activated the "Touch of Death" to absorb their remaining mental strength one by one. They could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground one after another, only a few meters apart.
Of course, defeating and capturing Ibora and the Undead Ghost Phoenix was only the first step of the plan. My goal was to take them in for my own use. If this Destruction Knight was really Ibora, and its opponent was the Undead Ghost Phoenix that was beyond the ninth level, they were both special types of undead creatures. I would definitely not be able to successfully sign a "soul contract" with them with my own abilities. I had to use the pseudo-artifact "Soul Collecting Finger" to make it possible. However, I only had fifteen minutes, and I had no relevant experience in taking in souls before. I didn't know what the specific effect would be after using the "Soul Collecting Finger". At this time, I was also very nervous, full of expectations, but also a little worried.
In order to increase the chances of successfully signing a contract, and seeing that there is still some , I decided to try to communicate with Ibola and the Undead Ghost Phoenix first. If I can convince them and make them willing to cooperate with me, then successfully conquering them should be a sure thing.
"What's your name?" I first asked the Knight of Destruction who was suspected to be Ibola.
After waiting for a while and not getting a response from Ebola, I turned to question the undead ghost who seemed to be the Undead Ghost Phoenix, "What race do you belong to?"
The result was the same answer of silence. The two guys behaved in a generally arrogant manner and refused to communicate with me. They just stared at me fiercely with their eyes wide open, revealing their extreme unwillingness and hatred towards me. Their limp bodies were still trembling as they struggled hard. The arms holding the spears and the half of the wings that were not pressed under their bodies were trying to lift up slightly, probably wanting to attack me.
How stubborn! The more useful a person is, the harder it is to subdue him. I patiently asked a few other questions, but still could not get a single word of reply from Ebola and the Undead Ghost Phoenix. I activated the "Touch of Death" to absorb their mental power until only a tiny bit was left. They were already on the verge of death and almost fainted. I threatened and lured them with words, saying that those who disobey me will die, and those who obey me will live. If they refuse to submit, they will die. If they surrender to me, they will have everything they need, and they will be able to develop better and strengthen their own strength faster. However, they still did not waver at all, and they were determined to die rather than surrender. They were far from being as sensible as those ordinary or lower-level intelligent undead creatures.
The time to log off was imminent, and I could no longer delay any longer. I had no choice but to use the "Soul-collecting Finger" to force a "soul contract" with Ebola and the Undead Ghost Phoenix. Fortunately, although they were special, they were not the royal family with special equipment given by the system. The difficulty of taming them was only one or two levels higher than that of ordinary undead creatures of the same level, and there was no higher bonus effect, which was still within my tolerance.
He used the "Blood Transformation" and then the "Soul-Harvesting Finger" to perform the "Soul Contract" on Ebola and the Undead Ghost Phoenix. After comparing their mental resistance, he felt that it was a little easier to subdue the Undead Ghost Phoenix , so he attacked it first. He had to deal with one first, so that it would not be a wasted trip. This would make him feel more at ease. Moreover, based on the time required, he could also infer the probability of successfully subduing Ebola.
In trepidation, I spent more than five minutes, experienced repeated contract failures, and finally succeeded in subduing the Undead Ghost Phoenix. After the contract was successfully signed, I hurriedly checked and confirmed that this strange big black bird was the Undead Ghost Phoenix, which was at the lower level of level 10, and it was also a guy with a name, called Wuji. No wonder it could fight with the experienced upper level 9 Destruction Knight for several days without a clear winner. It turned out that it was also an individual with a higher IQ. Because time was limited, there were more difficult Destruction Knights waiting for me to subdue. I didn't dare to delay. I didn't have time to take a closer look at the specific abilities of the Undead Ghost Phoenix Wuji, so I rushed to Ebola and concentrated on performing the "Soul Contract", hoping to successfully sign a contract with it within the 15-minute "Soul Finger" effect time limit.
As time passed, and the "Soul Contract" failed again and again, I became more and more nervous, worried about the worst possible outcome. If I could successfully subdue it, everyone would be happy and everything would be fine. If I could not achieve my goal within the time limit, I would not have a second "Soul-collecting Finger" or a "Soul-sealing Card" to repeat the old trick. Without my presence to command, those undead subordinates would not be able to prevent Ibola from escaping without killing it. How to deal with the aftermath was also a dilemma. It was rare for a strong man to let the tiger go back to the mountain and leave the opportunity to subdue it for the future, or just kill it to eliminate the trouble forever - I had made a grudge with it this time, and I could not erase its memory. The Destruction Knight was bloodthirsty and cruel, and had a heavy hatred. If it successfully evolved into a stronger high-level Destruction Knight in the future, hiding in the dark to oppose me, it would be quite troublesome. I was reluctant to kill it, but I was also worried about letting it go, so I couldn't make a decision.
Fortunately, although the Destruction Knight was trying his best to resist, perhaps the success rate of signing the "Soul Contract" was already high enough, and in the end I did not have to make a choice The worst outcome did not occur. After more than eight minutes of intense attempts, I finally succeeded in subduing the Destruction Knight and successfully achieved my goal. At the same time, it also confirmed that it was indeed the intermediate Destruction Knight Ibola, the Swift Bee, who had been sealed by me. Judging from its state, it has almost accumulated enough energy and may evolve into the form of a high-level Destruction Knight in the near future.
Today's online time is up, and I have to log off soon. I don't have time to communicate with Wuji and Yibo La to learn more about the situation and information. In the remaining few minutes, I have to repeatedly instruct and force them to coexist peacefully and not invade each other. They have signed a "soul contract" with me and recognize me as their master, so they will naturally no longer have hatred and hostility towards me. After eliminating the conflict with the third party, the hatred between the two of them was immediately exposed and occupied their respective minds. Although they were still unable to move, they turned their eyes that had been glaring at me to look at each other, sparking sparks of anger and hostility. Once they regained a little strength, violent conflict could break out at any time. I don't want to let the two of them kill each other, but the higher the level of intelligent undead creatures, the more troublesome it is. It often takes more time and energy to suppress their instincts. There is no time to mediate and resolve the situation, so I have to seize the time to brainwash them desperately, and force them to stop fighting and stay where they are. I also let the bone dragon separate the two of them, hoping to suppress their instincts. I'll talk about anything when I go online tomorrow.
When I entered the "Dead Soul Space" the next day, Ibora and Wuji had both recovered some of their status and were able to move. Although they did not fight due to my orders, they still stared at each other, unwilling to give in. You waved your spear, I opened my mouth, and we threatened each other. Especially Ibora, he seemed more impulsive, constantly trying to rush towards Wuji, but had to endure it. Every time he rushed out a few steps, he was blocked by the bone dragon, and finally he could only retreat helplessly. Several times he almost collided with the bone dragon that blocked him. It was obvious that he was struggling to restrain himself between my orders and his nature. It made me feel very strange. Originally, Wuji should have been more hostile to it, the "undead public enemy", but I didn't know why Ibora showed such a strong killing intention and was eager to kill the Undead Ghost Phoenix.
Seeing me, the effect of the "Soul Contract" was further strengthened. Ibola finally suppressed the manic impulse from instinct, settled down, and no longer tried to attack Wuji. I had no time to care about the hatred between the two of them. The first priority after subduing, especially for the first time, is to check their ability attributes and have a clearer understanding of their strength and purpose. I already knew about Ibola's ability when I sealed it last time. What I want to know most now is naturally the specific situation of the undead ghost Feng Wuji.
Race: Undead Ghost Phoenix; Level: Lower Level 10; Name: Wuji; It is an undead creature with a single dark attribute, without any other alien attributes. The black flames lingering on the surface of its body are completely composed of dark energy and do not have fire attributes. The skill "Phoenix Cry" releases a beam of sound waves from its mouth to attack. It can only target a single target, can lock the opponent's actions, confuse the enemy's thoughts, cannot fully control part of its body and movements, and cannot effectively launch skill attacks, but needs to lock the opponent's body shape first. If the movement speed is fast, there is no way to perform it. The farthest attack distance is fifteen meters, and the longest duration is one minute. From the attack method, it should be a skill similar to "Dragon Flame". The direct damage it can cause will not be too great, but it has a strong auxiliary combat effect. It can be said that each has its own strengths.
Another skill is "Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix", which gathers the power of darkness, consumes 10% of the mental power, and transforms into a hundred small black birds of various shapes and sizes, which circle around the mother body and move freely within a radius of 100 meters. In addition to the physical attack ability that is not too strong, the main threat of the small black birds comes from the various types of undead magic attacks that are automatically triggered when they run out of life. There are both single and range attacks, which are quite powerful. Each casting of "Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix" can only last for half an hour at most. If the time limit is exceeded, no matter how many small black birds are left, they will immediately merge into the mother body and transform into energy form again, which can effectively save mental power. Wait for an hour before it can be cast again.
In addition, the Undead Ghost Phoenix, like the Black Bone Dragon and the Hell Dragon, is also a half-demon and half-warrior type. It can launch magic attacks when standing on the ground. It has mastered the range attack magic "Black Magic Arrow Rain", which it launches by flapping its wings. It can release thirty or forty magic arrows at a time, covering a space of about ten square meters.
The most unique ability of the Undead Ghost Phoenix is "rebirth after calamity". After being killed by the enemy, it will not completely die. Instead, it will be reborn immediately after reducing one or two levels according to the degree of damage to its body. It has the corresponding level of strength and can continue to fight. When it accumulates enough energy in the future, it can restore its original level and strength. Probably because the number of Undead Ghost Phoenix is small and they live alone, they are given this unique ability in order to enhance their survival ability. However, this does not mean that they have a real immortal body. "Rebirth after calamity" has a limited number of times and cannot be used repeatedly without limit. If it is killed several times, it will still be completely destroyed. It just increases the Undead Ghost Phoenix's ability to continue fighting and protect itself. Depending on the level, the number of times that "rebirth after calamity" can be used continuously is also different. The lowest level is two times for the Undead Ghost Phoenix of the ninth upper level. It increases once for each level increase. For example, Wuji's level is tenth lower level, so he can use "rebirth after calamity" three times in a row.
After seeing Wuji's attributes and abilities, I couldn't help but wonder why Ibora had to provoke it. The Destruction Knight should only be able to choose to absorb and transform one type of alien energy in his life, not to mention that the Undead Ghost Phoenix has a single dark attribute. In addition to the more powerful soul energy, it seems that there is no other benefit for Ibora. Moreover, Ibora has almost accumulated enough energy for evolution, and should not covet this. Why take such a big risk? After fighting for several days without being able to kill Wuji once, he still insisted on not giving up? Although the Destruction Knight is bloodthirsty, he is definitely not a simple-minded reckless person. He will not take too many risks without reason. Otherwise, as the "public enemy of the undead", Ibora would not have survived to this day in the "dead space" where the strong are rampant.
"Because I want to kill it and absorb its soul energy so that I can obtain the immortal ability of 'rebirth after disaster' that is unique to the Undead Ghost Phoenix clan." Faced with the question from my master, Ibola naturally could not remain silent and gave me the answer I wanted to know.
How could this be? Isn't the "transformation of powers" of the Destruction Knight only able to store energy of different attributes and transform it into a second attribute after the successful evolution? Now, according to Ibola's answer, it seems that he can actually absorb the soul energy of the Undead Ghost Phoenix to obtain its unique immortality. Is this a new feature of the intermediate Destruction Knight? But when Ibola was sealed in the "Soul Sealing Plate" last time, I didn't seem to notice it?
I hurriedly checked Yibo's ability again. Under the introduction column of the unique ability "Transformation of Supernatural Power", compared with the last time, in addition to the note "Intermediate Destruction Knights who already have a kind of alien attribute can continue to store the energy of this attribute, so as to further enhance the power of the ability obtained by the alien attribute when they successfully evolve into advanced Destruction Knights", there is also an additional hidden function that was not previously visible - "Intermediate Destruction Knights can also choose to transform and store an ability of undead creatures with dark attributes or another kind of alien attribute attached to themselves by killing and absorbing soul energy, and can make themselves have all or part of such abilities after successfully evolving into advanced Destruction Knights." It seems that this is the main reason why Yibo is eager to kill Wuji. Think about it, with the strength of the Destruction Knight, if he has the immortal ability to be killed but not completely destroyed and can be reborn immediately, it will definitely be a more terrifying existence. Yibo's ambition is really not small, and he is also smart enough, but he is also very courageous. He dares to go after the rare and hard-to-find immortal ghost phoenix. It is no wonder that it would cling to Wuji and refuse to give up. If it gave up this target and wanted to find other lower-level Undead Ghost Phoenixes to kill them, it would definitely not be an easy task.
Ibola's answer also confirmed my guess. It wanted to obtain the immortal ability of "rebirth after calamity" not only to increase its combat power after evolving into a high-level Destruction Knight, but also to cope with the "Nine-fold Thunder Tribulation" when evolving into a high-level Destruction Knight. When evolving from an intermediate to a high-level Destruction Knight, the Destruction Knights with slightly insufficient abilities will die under the heavenly tribulation. Only one or two out of ten can successfully survive the tribulation. By transforming and reserving the unique "rebirth after calamity" ability of the Undead Ghost Phoenix, it can obtain the immortal ability when evolving into a high-level Destruction Knight. It can die once without being destroyed, which naturally greatly increases the chance of surviving the "Nine-fold Thunder Tribulation". This is a valuable experience passed down by the older generation of Destruction Knights. After evolving into an intermediate Destruction Knight, in order to successfully evolve into a high-level Destruction Knight in the future, Ibola decided to choose the "rebirth after calamity" ability of the Undead Ghost Phoenix as the target of transformation and reserve, and has been committed to finding the Undead Ghost Phoenix in various places in the Lost Continent to kill it. However, the Undead Ghost Phoenix clan is small in number, and they live in scattered places and are hidden in secret. It is almost the most difficult to obtain among all abilities. Yibo La knows that there was once an intermediate Destruction Knight who also chose the Undead Ghost Phoenix's "rebirth after calamity" ability as his goal, but he did not store enough energy until the last evolution, wasting this function, affecting his own strength, and naturally it was more difficult to pass the "Nine-fold Thunder Tribulation" and he was destroyed. So far, Yibo La has successively discovered and killed several Undead Ghost Phoenixes of the ninth level, but he still lacks some energy to store, and he is about to be unable to hold on, so he has to start evolving. Fortunately, he found Wuji of the tenth level. As long as he kills it, he can obtain the ability of "rebirth after calamity" after the evolution is successful. Although it is very difficult to kill and may not necessarily succeed, the remaining time is limited. Yibo La no longer has the confidence to find other Undead Ghost Phoenixes to start with, so he can only take a risk.
