Chapter 512: The Power of the Present

As far as the outside world knows about Mu Hua now, this ghost god who regards the city of Cairns as his territory has four forces under his command that are openly capable of fighting against external threats.

First of all, as the lord of the Ghost City, this ghost god who fools the devil has cultivated a large number of psychics in the city of Caines.

According to the public data released by the city of Caines, in this not-so-large city, the number of people who have the conditions and the intention to practice necromancy has reached more than 4,300.

Although these people are amateurs, most of them learn some necromancy magic after work or even in their leisure time, but the daily working hours of less than six hours allow them to have enough time to practice after resting.

In addition to more formal supermarkets that have shift business hours, the city of Cairns follows the work schedule of certain public institutions. After all, the work of handling government affairs is frequent, so it should be able to handle all the work.

When people get used to a certain pace of life, including some small private shops, before 10 a.m. and after 3 p.m., even if they are not closed, there is basically no one serving customers seriously.

With the revival of the city of Caines, the citizens' income and benefits have been put in place accordingly. Most of these amateur necromancers who practice in their spare time have family members who become their guardian spirits. They can be said to be Mu Hua's die-hard supporters.

It is precisely because of their existence that 90% of the 'Eyes of True Vision' originally installed in Caines City were removed in order to prevent ghosts from giving bad feelings to outsiders who come to Caines City.

Even if you don't have clairvoyance, you don't have to worry about ghosts playing pranks on you here, because there are too many people who can see and beat them up.

Similarly, generally no one dares to do anything wrong in Cairns City, because when you are stealing, you can't be sure whether there are a group of ghosts nearby, chatting and watching what you do.

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Also mainly based on ghosts, the second ghost force in Caines City is much more professional.

'Wall of Sighs Club'

With the Scholomance Academy as its base, a faceless man and a dozen witch souls serve as the club's initiators, including even a wailing banshee.

They gathered a group of ghosts who were devoted to cultivation, and took the Faceless Man as their goal to cultivate and evolve. Their purpose was to build the Wall of Sighs to protect the city of Caines when danger came.

Like a so-called secret society, this club is unabashedly secretive.

While publicly acknowledging the existence of the club, most club members conceal their identities, and some initiators usually use corpse demons as carriers to carry out normal activities in the outside world.

The ghosts transformed from humans have excellent adaptability to the corpse demons, and they can control the corpse demons for a long time. Apart from the magical beasts, the thing that Caines City is most lacking in is probably the corpse demons strolling all over the streets.

It is hard to say whether the members of the Wall of Sighs Club are Mu Hua’s die-hard supporters, but according to outside rumors, they are the absolute guardians of the internal order of the city of Cairns.

Compared to ordinary citizens who practice necromancy, they will actually secretly execute those who pose a threat to Caines.

As the dean of the Scholomance Academy, the witch Caroline somehow became a wailing banshee in a short period of time. She is the official director of the Wall of Sighs Club.

The identities of the other faceless man and a dozen witch souls are difficult to confirm, because they gave themselves many aliases (corpse demons), regardless of their strength, just like changing clothes, changing their appearance from time to time.

As instructors of the School of Necromancer who teach necromancy, there are a dozen witch souls who are always changing their identities, causing headaches for even their students because they have difficulty confirming their identities.

As for the faceless man, some speculated that it was Selma from the Malz Magic Materials Store, because she not only controlled the business rights of youth potions and a large number of magic potions, but her daughter was also highly valued by Mu Hua.

When mentioning her daughter Athena, we have to mention another force that is even nominally directly under Mu Hua's command, the Black Crow Knights.

The entire team consists of sixty-six knights loyal to Mu Hua and one thousand human ghosts.

The ghosts of the Black Crow Knights are generally unloved and have no relatives or friends from the past. They are all equipped with corpse demons made from the corpses of powerful demons.

The sixty-six knights in the Knights Templar who also practiced black magic were extremely talented, but their growth was not outstanding for the time being. They vowed to transform into liches and follow Mu Hua even if death came.

Clark and Athena lead the Black Crow Knights as the captain and vice-captain respectively. Compared with other members of the Knights, these two are extremely talented and are said to have the strength to lead the brigade in combat.

The Black Crow Knights are usually divided into two teams, one team rests in the city of Caines, and the other team is led by Clark and Athena in turn to the Caines Courtyard for training.

They have not yet penetrated into the various monster areas of the courtyard, and have not had any impressive achievements since their establishment. Most of the information about them is still rumors.

Even though there are not many living Black Crow Knights, don't forget that those one thousand ghosts are also members of the Knights. Whenever they prepare for battle and go out, the large number of powerful corpse demons accompanying them are as terrifying as a hundred demons parading at night.

The last force related to Mu Hua is rather strange.

The Dandelion Demon Hunting Group is also where Mu Hua came from. This team has a close relationship with Mu Hua. Although they have not shown exaggerated combat power, judging from the flying dragons raised by Mu Hua, the wisdom fruits sold to the outside world, and the tears of elements that are occasionally listed on "Mistaken Life", they are not weak.

Originally, under the cover of all the things in Cairns City, Tabitha and her group were not really noticeable, but after all, they did do some "big things" in the past year.

At first, Taibetha led the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group of nearly twenty people to hunt imps and fire dogs in the basin of the Pangard Crater. It was a place hated by both humans and ghosts, and no one saw them, let alone paid attention to them.

As Taibesha took on more and more missions to clear out the imps in the basin from the Adventurer's Guild, the Adventurer's Guild stationed in the Pangarde Courtyard became aware of the existence of such a team.

However, no one paid attention to the Dandelion Demon Hunters at that time. Apart from the factor of team integration, the Adventurer's Guild only thought that Taibetha and the others were doing charity work, and it was estimated that they would not last long.

But as time goes by, the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group seems to be fighting with the little devils in the crater basin.

At the beginning, it was a team effort. Everyone was armed with guns and shot at the little ghosts. When they encountered fireballs from groups of little ghosts, there were also people holding shields to defend.

But the imps were also very agile, and they seemed to feel that guns were too inefficient, so they used magic grenades and even cluster grenades.

The kid doesn't produce much, so this is basically doing charity, right?
Someone in the Adventurer's Guild suddenly decided to investigate the Dandelion Team's information and discovered that they were related to the city of Caines. At that time, the familiar industry in Caines City was just starting out, and people only thought that they hunted imps to provide raw materials for the feed factory in Caines.

When you raise magical beasts, you can't not provide them with food, otherwise they will not be familiars but berserk ferocious beasts.

It's a bit of a loss-making trick, but considering the price of the Warcraft familiars, it's understandable to break even.

Then, this group of people no longer used guns or grenades, and they even threw away their shields. They faced the little devils' fireballs and started fighting with swords and spears.

Do you feel that it is not worth it? Are you starting to realize the value of saving?

But that kind of gang fight didn't last long, and the swords and spears turned into short knives.

No, after adapting for a while, the twenty people became ten people, and the group fight was still a group fight, but this group of people no longer formed a team. They fought on their own and all ran away. One by one, they started a hunting moment of group fighting against a group of little ghosts.

Walking is too slow, switch to shuttle.

The shuttle can easily ignore the hidden imps, so switch to the terrain vehicle.

My goodness, the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group did not even bring their logistics team. A dozen main combat personnel began to frantically hunt the imps in the crater basin. The individual combat power of the imps is limited. Apart from the fact that all members of this team have extremely high fire resistance, there is nothing special about them.

But this killing lasted for nearly a year. It seemed that they really wanted to clear out the crater basin. Some people in the Adventurer's Guild began to bet that they planned to use the task points from killing the little devils to build the demon hunting group into a brigade.

The ghosts in the crater basin actually mainly come from the underground space under the surrounding mountains. The cave passages in the mountains are too small to accommodate people, and the underground space is not an open cave, so humans cannot enter.

Even if you blow up the mountain, these little ghosts will probably be able to dig new holes and come out from underground. If you kill all the little ghosts here today, another batch may come out and gather here again tomorrow.

Therefore, Panjiade Courtyard basically gave up the crater basin area and allowed the little ghosts to occupy this vast basin.

The guys from the Dandelion Demon Hunters, who were becoming increasingly adept at killing imps, came to the basin to stake out a spot. They did not set up a camp to garrison there. These guys, who could withstand the imps' fireballs with their bare chests, killed the imps like they were on an assembly line and would not move once they staked out a spot.

As a result, it's really amazing that some of the little ghosts seemed to be really scared of being killed by them. Some people even discovered that some of the little ghosts had started to dig holes in the mountain in the opposite direction of the basin. They actually moved their nests and went to the area outside the basin.

If the Dandelion Demon Hunters were allowed to continue killing here, they might actually be able to recapture the Crater Basin? This patience and tenacity were truly remarkable.

The Dandelion Demon Hunting Group has become famous. There are other teams that kill low-level monsters, but not many can kill as persistently and unrestrainedly as they do. More and more people know that this is a team supported by ghosts and gods behind the scenes.

Mu Hua's identity as a logistics manager was a joke to outsiders, and Dandelion was also considered to be a force deliberately cultivated by Mu Hua.

After all, it is not convenient for ghosts and gods to walk outside, and a powerful adventure team is very suitable to help ghosts and gods deal with some trivial matters in the outside world.

As for the 20,000 magical beings in Kanins City, it seemed that Mu Hua really wanted to let them live freely, as if he had no intention of putting them in the battle sequence at all. This attitude also made the magical beings from all walks of life have a very good impression of Mu Hua.

Four forces, either overtly or covertly, surround the lord of the city of Caines. Mu Hua is no longer an outlier who acts alone.

Except for the Dandelion Team doing "charity work" outside, these four forces are basically maintaining the stability and development of Caines City.

At the same time, Mu Hua has been very obedient over the past year. Even if Mu Hua wants to do something in the future, there is already a new courtyard in Caines that he can do it with. The surrounding areas of Caines have let go of a lot of their grudges and defenses against this jealous ghost. (End of this chapter)