Chapter 86: Death Conversion
"Sir, something's wrong. There's half a body buried under the old abandoned city.
No, only one-tenth of a body, just the part from the right shoulder to the right waist. Previously, three laboratories were suppressing it, so it was fine.
Now that body seems a bit out of control."
As Gu Xi was heading towards the tavern, he heard Luna's voice.
One-tenth of a body, just the part from the right shoulder to the right waist?
What's going on here?
Although Gu Xi didn't quite understand yet, he already knew where the problem was coming from.
If it were anything else, Gu Xi might not be able to handle it, but a corpse?
Gu Xi wasn't worried at all. There's no undead mage who can't deal with a corpse.
If there is, then the undead mage's level isn't high enough.
Thinking of this, Gu Xi decisively said, "I understand, I'll hold him back, you handle it however you need to."
After saying that, Gu Xi glanced at the tavern right in front of him, then quickly turned and left.
The tavern maid, who was already standing at the door ready to greet him, was baffled by this. She turned to look at the maid next to her, touching her own skull.
"What's wrong with the city lord? Am I not pretty anymore? Is that why he ran away as soon as he saw me?"
The skeleton maids shook their heads repeatedly. They didn't dare to say anything casually.
Faced with such a question, they could only shake their heads, pretending they didn't know.
And as Gu Xi ran towards the old abandoned city, he had no time to consider the tavern maid's thoughts. The only thing on his mind was that after he got out, he must find someone to ask if there's any mount or something he could trade for.
Running back and forth like this all the time, Gu Xi would get tired too.
Before Gu Xi could reach the old abandoned city, the death avatar had already swooped down to the ground.
His target was the thickest and largest arm.
As the death avatar flew down, the arm seemed to be stimulated and moved slightly.
The fingers tried to reach out to grab the death avatar, but in the end, they failed.
This movement of the arm, however, provoked a counterattack from the death avatar, who bit heavily on the largest arm.
With one bite, the death avatar tried to do a rapid spin to sever the arm.
But the problem was that besides being long, the arm was also very thick. Biting on the bronze arm didn't cause much damage.
Instead, the death avatar was almost thrown off, which made him very angry.
He felt like he was being challenged.
These were just dead things, he didn't believe they could do anything to him.
So the death avatar flew high again, then charged down, turning into black mist and crashing heavily into the bronze arm.
This crash finally moved the bronze arm a bit.
But the bronze arm didn't just fall; instead, it swung back and struck the death avatar heavily.
The death avatar, already at level 11, was directly knocked away by this strike, his life force dropping by half.
If it weren't for the death avatar's tough bones, they might have turned to powder by now.
Rolling over on the ground, the death avatar got up again, his body quickly turning into black mist, ready to charge at the bronze arm again.
At this moment, Gu Xi had already rushed in from outside.
"Death Avatar, fall back."
Hearing the command, the death avatar quickly returned to Gu Xi's side.
At this moment, Gu Xi's mind was racing with thoughts. He was certain that the bronze arm was connected to an incomplete corpse below.
At the same time, this corpse was being influenced by some force, continuously reanimating. The bronze arm extending from the ground was the result of the corpse's reanimation.
Moreover, with the energy stored in that part of the corpse, it wouldn't be long before the whole of Aridowei would be covered with such arms.
In the end, it would be uncertain who Aridowei would belong to.
As he called back the death avatar, Gu Xi had only one thought: to ruthlessly deal with the buried corpse, eradicating it from the source.
Others might not be able to handle this corpse, but an undead mage had plenty of ways.
Corpse explosion was the best choice.
Although the explosion might flatten the old abandoned city, it wasn't a big deal to Gu Xi.
After all, the old abandoned city was something he got for free, and it was just the city area that would be blown up; the land he merged would remain.
Just as Gu Xi was considering where to stand to blow up the corpse without affecting himself, the ground of the old abandoned city suddenly began to tremble.
Luna's voice echoed in Gu Xi's ears again.
"Sir, suppress that corpse."
Without thinking, Gu Xi immediately pointed at the death avatar.
"Avatar, suppress!"
The death avatar, hearing the command, turned into black mist and flew into the sky. Then he made a sharp turn in the air and dove into the ground.
In the next moment, Gu Xi felt his mana being drained, similar to when he first summoned the death avatar.
And the death avatar also disintegrated on the spot, turning into pure death energy and sinking into the ground.
In that moment, the entire old abandoned city turned black.
After disintegrating the death avatar, Gu Xi almost fell to the ground. This feeling of having his mana drained was even worse than when he first summoned the death avatar.
But Gu Xi had no intention of falling. He used the Crushing Staff to support himself and stood firmly.
As the death avatar turned into death energy, the ground of the old abandoned city began to contract.
At the same time, the three laboratories were completely expelled from Aridowei and sent to Victoria City.
Now, the contraction of the land just squeezed out the original positions of the three laboratories. Meanwhile, those bronze arms also began to change under the influence of the death energy, turning from bronze muscles into bronze bones.
As the arms transformed into bones, Gu Xi couldn't help but exclaim. He noticed that the bone structure inside the arms resembled beast bones.
Each arm bone was different, indicating that more than one corpse was buried below.
Although Luna counted it as one corpse, Gu Xi didn't argue. One corpse or many, it didn't matter.
Under Gu Xi and the death avatar's suppression, Luna finally completed the transformation of the area.
The ground of the old abandoned city turned black, all buildings collapsed and decayed, eventually turning into a flat land, leaving only bronze skeletal arms extending from the ground.
The tallest was still that over twenty-meter-long arm, but now Gu Xi felt that this arm obeyed his commands.
At this moment, Gu Xi heard a voice in his ear.
[Ding! Due to the influence of death energy, the old abandoned city area has undergone mutation. The area has been re-planned and transformed into the Hundred-Armed Giant Graveyard]
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