Chapter 436 Another person is trying to steal my girlfriend

A wasteland of gray ruins, a land of corruption.

A human noblewoman in a long skirt and high boots was surrounded by drooling beasts staring at her hungrily.

Knights in armor and armed with weapons guarded her on both sides.

The team was very long, and they could smell the hot wind from the gray ruins of the wilderness, spreading all the way to the bloody red swamp in the corrupt territory.

But this is the last place they can find to stay.

Being in the magic land, they learned the news that the magic ring was about to be broken before others, and they had even started collecting the fragments of the magic ring before that.

The gods sleep and die, but their divine power will not disappear. Instead, it will be transformed into other forms and continue to be preserved.

Just like those things called "blessed weapons" and "cursed weapons", they possess different powers. They may not be powerful, but to a certain extent they can represent the existence of the magic ring and have symbolic significance.

Fleeing to the beastmen's territory was actually an act that he was forced to do.

The people of the three continents regard the magic ring as the source of their power, while the humans in the Demon Land believe it is a seal.

The magic ring was broken, the seal collapsed, and the three gods that were the main beliefs of mankind disappeared. Coupled with the frequent appearance of evil gods such as the Beast Lord, the entire magic land became a mess.

There is everything here, nothing is unusual.

For the humans in the Demonic Land, the disasters caused by the complete collapse of the Magic Ring have completely corrupted the former human warriors and made them stand completely on the opposite side of humanity. The only option left is escape.

Climbing up the stone steps, the human female noble raised her hand to signal the guard knights behind her to stop.

She lifted her skirt so that the long hem would not be stepped on by her boots, then quickened her pace and walked into the hall.

Deep in the hall, in front of the huge throne.

There was someone there who looked very similar to her.

The reason why the King of Corruption was willing to accept the fleeing humans from the Demonic Land was because the Beast King was the aunt of the human nobles.

"Our astrologers have seen the inevitable danger." The human female noble said straight to the point, looking at the figure with three corrupt beasts curled up beside him.

He is known as the King of Corruption, and he possesses wolves, lions, and bears, and he has the strength of 6 rings, which is enough to dominate an area.

The Corruption King raised her hand and gently lifted her long hair and tucked it behind her ears. She bent down and gently stroked the wolf's head: "My dear, you are very safe here. Don't worry about those things. I will protect you well."

"Gu...King of Corruption, you know that I am the last guardian of mankind."

"But the cell is broken, isn't it?" The Corrupt King said, "You can live like a princess here, instead of having the title of a princess but worrying about unknown dangers every day."

"The astrologers saw the stars falling!" said the human noblewoman. "They saw death in the stars, countless deaths."

"how much longer?"

"Thirty years from now."

The answer surprised the Corrupted Queen. She looked up suddenly, and the bear and the lion also looked up. Their eyes were fixed on the human noble. She subconsciously took a half step back.

But after the King of Corruption raised his hand and hit the two beasts on the head, they immediately lowered their heads, the bear licked its paws, and the lion yawned out of boredom.

"Astrologers can see that far into the future?"

"It's just a branch of the future, a crisis that can sweep the world." The human noble looked at her aunt helplessly. She couldn't address her aunt as a relative here. Although everyone could see that they must have a blood relationship, speculation and acknowledged facts were two different things.

Seeing his aunt lowering her head to concentrate on stroking the wolf, the human noble could only continue, "Even if we don't look too far into the future, the magic ring is broken, and the Demon Lord is just one of the ones who escaped. I'm not sure if the stars falling from the sky are also related to the broken seal. Maybe there are other things in the seal that are causing trouble."

"My dear, that is the magic ring." The Corruption King spoke with a gentle tone that could melt one's flesh and blood. "The three gods have fallen asleep, like the masters of beasts... I can't say too much, but His power is far from enough to create a new magic ring. It seems that we have two choices left. Either we create a new magic ring to get everything back on track, or we quietly wait for the beginning of a new era. But you know, all we can do is wait for the new era."

"So, your way of welcoming the new era is to go along with the abyss?" the human female noble asked indignantly.

She knew that this was the only way she could force her aunt to tell the truth.

But, there are only some.

"The Overlord will not lend us his power gently." The Corrupted King lowered his head and gently stroked the three beasts beside him, "Look at them, how cute they are."

"To regard illness as strength." The human female noble shook her head. She did not agree.

"After life is completely corrupted, it will be reborn, dear. Corruption is more than just a disease. It looks like a plague, but it can actually make you a better person."

"Maybe."

The human female noble took a deep look at the three beasts.

Then she talked about her other plans: "I want to contact humans in other material planes."

The aunt who has become the "Beast King" has gradually separated from her human identity. She will no longer put her own interests together with those of humans. For the believers of the evil god, the era of chaos is a good time to fish in troubled waters.

She could only place her hopes on other material planes, hoping to find a few strong people who were willing to sacrifice for humanity. The legends seemed weak, and she doubted whether she could find such power.

But it doesn't matter, there are still 30 years left, she still has plenty of time to search, to discover, to guide...

But unexpectedly, the King of Corruption suddenly spoke up: "Humans from other material planes? They seem to have been making a lot of noise recently."

"What?" The human female noble was stunned.

I planned to spend thirty years slowly searching, and then suddenly I told myself that they had come to the devil's land and caused a big noise.

"They are a human army that controls the power of the abyss and possesses the power of immortality. They are located on the edge of the wasteland. I find it quite interesting that I have asked someone to contact them, but I didn't expect them to be mixed up with the beast sacrifice site."

"The power of the abyss, immortality?" The human female noble's face was uncertain.

On the one hand, she was happy about the emergence of human power, but on the other hand, she was angry that they had surrendered to the power of the abyss.

"I want to meet their leader."

……

Ever since the undead became famous in the Gray Ruins of the Wilderness, they immediately attracted the attention of many forces. Here, humans are a rare food ingredient... but that does not include the strong ones.

As long as they are weak enough, beastmen can also be one of the ingredients.

Forces big and small came to pry into the corner, hoping to get help from the undead.

Among them, the power of King Lionheart is the greatest.

The beastman Blackblood, who was let go by the undead seemingly "secretly" but actually "blatantly", has returned. Every day he is thinking about poaching the undead with a large sum of money.

It’s not that Blackblood hadn’t thought about looking for Lind. If he could capture Lind, the entire undead team would definitely belong to the Lionheart.

But when Blackblood learned that Lind was working with the High Priestess of Beasts Solaris Ancient Echo, he gave up the idea. Everyone has their own choices, and all he can do is respect and bless them.

There were so many powerful forces that did not join, but actually joined a broken force like a candle in the wind. Beliefs cannot be changed at will, but the people under Lind can change.

So Blackblood began to promote how great the Lionheart was, saying that as long as you joined, you could get weapons, treasures, and even blessed weapons containing fragments of the magic ring.

The undead pricked up their ears.

They understand blessing weapons. Generally speaking, that thing is like a prototype. It has the best effect, but it is easier to get out of control when using it.

If you give the blessed weapon to Lind, new weapon types will be unlocked, and there will also be a large number of rewards and even side stories.

Regardless of whether it is handed in or not, the blessed weapon is definitely a good thing and you have to get it!

As for converting to the Beast Master and then gaining powerful strength, they simply ignored it. Except for a few brothers with strong tastes, most people refused to turn themselves into beastmen.

Beastmen have good physical talents, and can be very powerful when paired with melee professions, but everyone assumes that the T0 in the current version is the Mage. Wearing heavy armor and adding various buffs, being able to fight and resist is the correct way to play the game.

Just because everyone likes Fury doesn’t mean they want to become Fury. What if they are not as pretty as Beast Girl? That would be a big loss.

But no matter whether they were moved by the heart or the will, in the end no one chose to take action.

Among the favorable conditions that the beastmen could offer, only "title" and "blessing" were attractive. When they asked about the blessing, Blackblood looked confused.

How long have you been playing this game? How could you not know the traps in the game? I pulled a big one to show that if I choose to betray Linde, Linde will definitely turn around and play a big one on me.

And you, Heixue, don’t even know what blessing is, the game functions are not complete, and you still want to drag us into the trap!
Therefore, the Lionheart King will never be the main option in the game. At most, you can get some side quests and small benefits from them, and then surrender to them.

On this day, Lind was studying with Solaris the feasibility of obtaining the power of the Beast Master. Although his behavior was considered extremely rebellious by the Beast Girl, Lind actually tried to get his hands on the power of the Beast Master.

But she still gave some suggestions.

"Profession? I don't want to learn any profession."

The beastmen's professions conflict with Lind's approach. If there were beast knights, he might consider it, but in the power system dominated by beasts, only "warriors" and "swordsmen" have a similar positioning to knights.

In order to avoid any accidents and to avoid having hair growing on his body which would reduce his appearance, Lind refused to obtain this power. There are countless evil gods in the world, and he has not succeeded in collecting the four major paths under the Sun's Proof. There is no need to use those crooked ways.

Lind knew very well that the reason he could succeed to where he is today, besides the information gap between him and the undead, was also because of his handsome face.

He looks like a good person and has gained half of your trust without even saying a word.

On the other hand, an ugly NPC will be suspected when he speaks. Even after the plot is over, the undead will find out that he has wronged a good person and will at most apologize to the corpse.

You're already dead, there's no point in apologizing.

"If you don't learn a profession, how can you obtain the power bestowed by the Lord of Beasts?" Solaris expressed her incomprehension.

"What is the path of the King of Corruption?"

"Beastmaster."

"what?"

Lind was shocked that the beast who was known as the most useless and could only raise scorpions and fleas in the desert had actually become the king of beasts.

"She's very lucky. After coming into contact with corruption, she possessed a bear, a wolf, and a lion, and her strength grew rapidly." The Beast Girl had a blank expression on her face. She knew all the information about the people she didn't deal with. They were all her number one enemies.

But those people never regarded the beast sacrificial site as an enemy.

In short, the feeling of not being valued is very uncomfortable.

Lind asked, "You got the echo before, and you were going to give it back to the beast master and wake him up, right?"

"Yes." Beast Girl nodded.

"Can we try to wake him up now?" Lind asked.

"Impossible, the power is far from enough, more echoes are needed."

"What I've taken out isn't enough?" Lind threw the echoes on the ground, and they piled up into a small hill.

The beast girl glared, "When did you find it?"

What the undead are best at is finding things to complete tasks. As long as a goal is given, they will always find a way to complete it.

Lind had already generated a large number of responses, and almost all of the locations given by the Beast Girl had been cleared out. Those without locations were also discovered by the undead themselves, and then cleared out.

"It's still not enough." But the Beast Girl shook her head again.

She said solemnly: "The majority of the echoing power remains in the current beast master. In addition, a large part of the beast master's echo is also in the beast king, and some of it will remain in those powerful beastmen. If you want to barely awaken the master, you need the echo of at least one beast king. When the master I believe in wakes up, the battle for the divine power between the new and old beast masters will begin, and our beast sacrificial site will also suffer a devastating disaster."

Either you go for volume or you kill a big one. It's easy to understand.

Linde asked, "What if the beast master you believe in wakes up and dies immediately afterwards?"

"What?" Beast Girl was surprised.

She previously thought that the undead's weird way of speaking and doing things was related to their frequent deaths and sufferings, but now she realized that the root cause was Lind himself.

"As long as you dominate death, there will be no war for theocracy." She still answered, but after answering, she always felt that something was wrong.

"That's easy." Linde relaxed.

Regardless of whether it is the Lionheart King or the Corruption King, it is said that their strength has reached the sixth ring, and their own realm has surpassed the epic level.

Above the epic level of Lind is legend, and above the legend is myth, and the division of realms becomes increasingly blurred.

He asked the Beast Girl many times before getting this answer.

According to the Beast Girl, there is no longer any concept of realm in the Demonic Land, and the most important thing is how many rings of power you can burst out.

With Lind's strength, even if he exploded, he still couldn't beat a normal 5-ring strongman, let alone a 6-ring strongman. But not being able to beat him doesn't mean he has no chance at all.

You can use the accumulation method to let the undead people brush echoes through the beastmen.

Just as he was thinking about it, another undead came running over and said happily, "Sir, Lord Linde, there are also beastmen coming from the Corruption Territory. This time they are offering a higher price. Should we accept it?"

It is impossible to rebel, but if I can receive a mission from Lind, would it not be considered as rebellion? Can I switch identities flexibly?

The 3000 undead people carefully selected by Lind have trained themselves to be very well-behaved and obedient.

Moreover, from the very beginning, Lind asked the undead to collect the words and conditions offered by the beastmen who came to pry the girl away. It seems like there must be a mission.

"Another person trying to steal my girlfriend?" Linde's eyes lit up.

Give me a pillow when you feel sleepy.

(End of this chapter)