Chapter 410 King of Ashes
In the following time, Lind planned a route to the King of Ashes, passing through several novice villages along the way. He was very curious about the reactions of the village chiefs of those novice villages to him.

These are genuine official NPCs.

The only pity is that Dorothy is unwilling to give in, so the crystal defense tower cannot be built and is ultimately incomplete.

Dorothy's explanation was also very clear. The Griffin Territory had absolute autonomy, and the feudal lords could not interfere. Moreover, the people here lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the situation that Linde was worried about would not happen.

When Lind met the village chiefs of the Novice Village, he found that they did not show any hostility, and were even very respectful to him, just like ordinary civilians seeing a duke, which made him feel very interesting.

It seems that there is little point in nibbling away at the bottom step by step. Instead, it is better to go directly to the high-level route, control the lord of the main city, and then the village chiefs of the novice villages under his command will surrender all at once.

It feels a bit like siege.

However, it may also be related to William, the son of the Rand Kingdom. Wherever William is, this group of people will favor him.

When Lind appeared in the Novice Village, the new undead people surrounded him excitedly.

This is Linde!

"Master Linde, is there any mission?"

He really didn't have any mission, and after finding out that he had no mission, the undead people left one after another and no longer bothered him.

After visiting one novice village after another, Lind was surprised to find that the business system was very complete, much more stable and complete than his own system supported by the undead.

But it is hard to say which one is better or worse. In order to stabilize the economy in the territory, the lord will have to consider many aspects, but a stable economy cannot keep up with the development speed of the undead.

Yesterday, an ordinary Heart of Disaster was a scarce commodity, but today it might be everywhere. If the undead’s resources accidentally flow into the market, it will cause the market to collapse directly. Another possibility is that the undead will directly clear out all the goods in the mall at high prices. Anyway, that little bit of resources is nothing to them.

After some brief inquiries, I found out that it was Dorothy's operating strategy.

Dorothy is truly a business talent.

……

"Duke?" When Hutton saw Lind, he didn't know why he suddenly felt guilty. He just wanted to stay away from Lind.

But Linde seemed to have a special connection with me, and fortunately, he never noticed me.

Hatton was still feeling nervous and couldn't get a good rest that night.

I slept in a daze, and when I woke up the sky outside was still dark.

He thought he should run away and get away from here. The fear drove Hatton to act quickly.

When Hatton packed his luggage and went to the second floor stairs, he heard a confused voice: "Hatton, where are you going?"

"Nunali, I..." Hatton said, "I think I might have to leave."

"Why?" Nanali didn't understand. The days were getting better and better. "Who did you offend?"

"I don't know, but I have to go." He didn't dare to say that he was simply afraid of the Duke and felt a strong threat from him.

Nanali hardly thought about it. The contact during this period had made the young girl, who was just beginning to fall in love, develop a liking for the boy in front of her. She usually didn't have contact with other young people, and Hutton had a eloquent mouth.

"I'll help you!"

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Hatton fled towards an uncertain distance.

What Nanali didn't expect was that just after dawn, soldiers from Griffin Castle came to the door with torches.

A damp mist covered the soldiers' armor.

When she got closer, a chill suddenly swept across her face, and Nunnally shuddered subconsciously.

"Do you recognize this?" The soldier's heavy gauntlet was holding a necklace.

"This is Adams' lock." Nanali was surprised. She recognized the lock because it was unique.

"We found a rotten corpse. The cause of death was a slashed throat, but the attacker was a novice who stabbed him more than a dozen times before killing him. The things were found on the corpse, and the face was unrecognizable. If you want to take the body back, you can go to Griffin Castle."

"Damn robber!" Nanali's mother turned around and threw herself into her husband's arms.

"Robbers? No, no, no. The goods were not taken away. They were buried with the bodies. Even the valuables on the bodies were not taken away." said the soldier. He didn't like doing this job either, but those undead masters were too enthusiastic. After finding the bodies, they went straight to the Duke of Lion and Miss Dorothy, and they were shouting incomprehensible words like "hidden plot" and "hidden mission".

Then things became simple. Miss Dorothy would never allow any innocent deaths to occur in her territory. The sovereignty of the territory was sacred and inviolable. Moreover, she had just said that such an unexpected situation would not happen in her territory. She could not give Linde an excuse to insert his power.

"Hutton?" A possibility suddenly arose in the minds of the family of three that they dared not think about.

"What?" The soldier was surprised. He didn't expect to have an unexpected gain.

"Go and get Hatton up, dear."

"I'll call him."

The soldier also noticed something strange, so he didn't leave immediately, but soon he received a message.

It seemed that Hatton had packed his bags and fled, just last night.

The family, who were not very sure at first, had to accept the slight possibility that they raised a poisonous snake that killed their son some time ago.

Otherwise there is no explanation why Hatton ran away.

Nanali tried to open her mouth several times. She was struggling over whether her brother or her naive love was more important. But no one noticed her expression as they were all thinking about Hatton.

The investigation was very quick, and the whole family was questioned back and forth. What worried Nanali was those mysterious undead people who kept staring at her and plotting loudly in front of her.

"I think there's something wrong with her. She's hesitant when she speaks."

"Do you want to just start questioning?"

"I have nine ways to make her do it. Nine!"

In the end, Nanali was released because she was a relative of the victim rather than a suspect.

After nightfall, Nunnally still felt uneasy.

In order to protect her, the cook brought her niece to accompany Nanali. The girl was a 12-year-old girl named Qiu, but she was very tall. It was said that her dream was to wield a sword and make achievements on the battlefield.

But every time he would be pulled by the ears and scolded by the cook.

When scolding, the cook had to stand on tiptoe to reach Qiu's ears.

But for the next period of time, nothing happened except that the undead and soldiers came to the manor to ask questions a few times.

"I don't know how he is doing." Nanali was still worried about Hatton.

She hopes to see Hatton again and hear his explanation. She is unwilling to identify Hatton as the murderer of her brother.

After nightfall, people felt uneasy and Nanali suddenly woke up.

"Who?"

Qiu, who was guarding a small bed outside the door, suddenly woke up: "What's wrong, Nanali?"

"Nothing, but I may have heard wrongly," said Nunnally, who had a strong intuition that there must be something downstairs, so she appeared at the top of the stairs with her skirt lifted and a lantern in her hand.

"I'll go down and take a look. You go to sleep first." Nanali said this and walked down the stairs holding on to the stairs.

The dark manor staircase was illuminated by the light. As she walked slowly down with deliberately light steps, the swaying firelight illuminated the steps below one by one and threw the stairs behind her into darkness.

Coming down the stairs, the first thing she came across was a utility room, and then against the wall was a stove. Whenever the weather was cold, she would sit in front of the stove, warm herself by the fire, and sometimes she would hold a kitten.

There was only a table with some sundries and a few chairs in the room in front of the stairs on the first floor.

"Nannali?" Qiu poked his head in again.

"Don't worry," Nanali turned around and said upstairs.

She carefully walked around the table and continued walking forward until she reached a room.

I pushed the door open, and then, "Ah--!!"

News spread that the whole family of the small manor, including the maid and the cook, were killed by a mysterious and terrible monster.

Then the undead and the soldiers went in to investigate and found that this small manor had been invaded by the abyss. The situation suddenly became serious.

A large number of undead gathered, and even the flying dragon was hovering above the manor.

The abyss was cleared very quickly, but people couldn't figure out how the abyss got here, and Miss Dorothy had to pay the price. After this incident, she had to agree to Linde to build a defense tower.

Only the small manor slowly turned into a haunted house. If people were to pass by this area, they would subconsciously take a detour. No one wanted to be involved with this filthy room where people kept dying. …

Linder stood at the foot of the Ash King Mountain.

Looking ahead at the active volcano that was spewing thick smoke.

The flying dragon Alex was hovering above, but instead of expressing his joy, he was expressing his complaints to Lind.

too hot!
Although it can breathe fire and the abscesses on its body are always dripping with magma, Alex is only a flying dragon, not a giant dragon. The high temperature and flames will kill it, so it prefers colder places.

Linde waved his hand to drive away the flying dragon, telling it to go wherever it wanted, literally.

The active volcano under his feet was rumbling and shaking. The high temperature did not bring any benefits to Lind, but only made him feel hot. The source of his power was fire, not high temperature.

We climbed up to the crater with brisk steps.

It's not a volcano, but more like a huge crucible spewing fire. Orange-yellow thick soup is bubbling inside. When Lind looked down, he could feel a stream of hot air rising from the bottom, hitting him in the face like a heavy slap.

He jumped down, and the "Snake Catcher's Flame Wings" spread out behind him to help him adjust his direction.

After approaching, Lind took off his coat, threw it casually, and used a piece of chain to nail the quiver to the inner wall of the volcano. After determining the position, he pulled the quiver over.

Linde dived into the lava.

It's hot and painful, but you won't get hurt.

The furnace emblem allows the power of fire to continuously penetrate into the body.

The Murloc sigil allows him to move faster in liquids.

He could swim in the lava, and even take a deep breath and dive underwater, but he still needed to find a way to go deeper.

The boiling soup is bubbling.

The high temperature prevented all living things from approaching.

Armor made of fine steel will also be melted here, and the refined steel will probably turn into molten iron in a very short time.

Linde swam freely in the bubbling and surging magma.

If he had such an active volcano as support when he went to war with others in the future, he could give it a try even if it was a legendary BOSS.

Fortunately, there was still a place to stand at the bottom. Lind climbed out of the lava. His underwear had been burned to ashes, and only the lava was hanging on his skin, lingering on and unwilling to leave.

After walking forward a few steps, Lind stopped and began to recall the method of summoning the underground tunnel worm "Express" that Miko, Isa and the Crystal Mage had mentioned.

The "Express Train" to the New World.

First draw the magic circle, then take out various magic materials and place them, then follow the steps.

"Fuck!" Lind couldn't help but want to swear.

The temperature at the bottom of the volcano is too high, and the ignition point of some magic materials is very low. As soon as they come into contact with the high temperature in the air, they burn directly and turn into a ball of fire.

He could only use his frost ability to create a suitable environment.

As soon as the icy air emerged from the palm of his hand, it was immediately transformed into water vapor by the high temperature.

"call--!"

Lind could only increase his output continuously. He even stepped one leg into the magma to absorb the magma's fire power, and then used this power to create ice to resist the high temperature at the bottom of the volcano.

If he didn't have the ability to multitask, the task of creating a cold environment and making a signal magic circle for summoning would be enough to keep him busy.

When everything was ready, even Linde felt extremely exhausted.

Seeing the soil on the rocky ground become soft for a moment, like a few bubbles coming out after rain, he compared various situations and finally determined that the summoning had failed.

"Intermittently. I need to go deeper, but I'm running out of energy."

Summoning the "Express" consumes a lot of energy.

Fortunately, this is a volcano. It lacks everything except fire to help it replenish energy.

Diving down and finding a way out in the magma, he always felt that the Crystal Mage was hinting at something.

When I take a break, I lie at the bottom of the volcano and read some posts.

After the undead from the Kingdom of Rand went to the Kingdom of Black Swamp, they were no longer constrained by Lind's various tasks and completely let themselves go.

[new! Teach you how to quickly gain reputation]
Looking at the other party's long speeches and operating methods, Lind just wanted to sigh that the undead must not be allowed to seize the opportunity, otherwise this group of people will really collapse the world.

He thinks it might be more appropriate to directly turn "reputation building" into "pyramid selling", and it might be okay to directly apply the 1040 Sunshine Project.

Ordinary people in the Black Swamp Kingdom, who were living in dire straits, had never seen anything like this before. They could improve their social status just by recruiting people.

Whether you are a beggar, a disabled person, a prostitute or a businessman, you can pay to recruit people to join. The more people you recruit, the more you earn.

The undead who was suppressed by Lind and had no chance of making it in the Rand Kingdom, suddenly became the leader of the Beggars' Sect when he arrived in the neighboring country.

This group of NPCs has little combat power, but after being brainwashed they become very loyal, and their favorability levels are all maxed out.

On the contrary, business players, mercenary players, thieves who follow the hamster style, and those who take upskirt photos are not that important. They are just wanted because their operations look too ordinary and thus seem too normal.

Linde took a deep breath and continued searching.

What he didn't expect was that before he started digging, he actually found a cave at the bottom of the volcano. When he went in, his body felt like it was penetrating a thin film. The air inside was very cool, as if it was a completely different world from the outside world.

"Is this the place the Crystal Mage was talking about?"

This is a place with a stove-like structure.

There is also an unsigned manuscript.

"The records of a legendary wizard?"

"Tianxing, my old friend, please allow me to start recording from now on. I didn't tell you in advance because I knew you would definitely not listen to me because of your bad temper. You swing a hammer, right? My academic research has entered a very difficult level. Traveling can help me solve this problem. You know, the further you go, the more you can gain, but going further also wastes a lot of my energy.

I searched several continents, and I found those so-called gods, who called themselves gods, all had sources of their power, just like the Lord of the Furnace, I caught traces of Him, and He is not as great as I imagined.

I found that wherever there is a volcano, there is always His figure, just like the statue of the Sun's Witness only appears in the Sun Church. I began to study the power of the Lord of the Furnace, and I found that His power is very interesting and is related to the 'furnace'.

It's the one you helped me forge. You must not remember it, but it's the platform you said looked very large. It means that the furnace I imitated may have the same power as the Furnace Master. Don't tell anyone else, and help me protect that thing. Although I can make another one, it's very simple to make, isn't it?

The furnace has many functions, such as making potions. Would anyone really drink such a twisted thing? Letting other people's power run wild in your body, if someone likes it and is not afraid of death, the power of the 6th ring does sound very tempting. Yes, it should be called a legend. I don't think the power obtained by drinking potions can be called a legend like ours.

Don't ever make a wish into that thing, things can get ugly, I didn't build a wishing machine, but the furnace does fill a lot of needs, I think it might have a bit of god power, give a price and get a reward.

You can definitely understand what I mean by this, right? Yes, it is the ultimate pursuit of alchemy. "

After putting the letter down, Linde's heart began to beat violently.

Lots of information.

He didn't know who this legendary wizard was, but he knew the other person mentioned in the letter, Tianxing.

It is said that the possibility of overlapping names of wizards is extremely low, and it is very likely that he is the only one on a path.

Tianxing represents Tianxing School of Magic, or Tianxing Mentor.

Miss Micko once told a joke from the Magic Land: "Without sufficient knowledge to support you, you are just a cripple carrying a hammer." The joke mentioned was Tianxing, but a country bumpkin like Linde couldn't understand it at all. Before he met Micko, he didn't even know what the Magic Land was.

He also remembered that there was once a disaster executioner who was in charge of logistics and said that he had learned from the Tianxing mentor.

There is a high probability that the other party is in Tianxing Magic School.

The legendary potion recipe of the Furnace Master Path, and there is also a "Degraded Wishing Machine" level furnace.

He was really greedy.

Lind put the notebook away and prepared to give it to the Crystal Mage when he returned. It was likely that the legendary mage sent out some kind of signal before disappearing and was captured by the Crystal Mage.

Next he needs to summon the express train.

The ground began to bubble and churn, and then Lind got his response.

It will take another two or three months.

(End of this chapter)