Chapter 197 - One of the Councilors (1/2)

Chapter 197 One of the Councilors

These strange undead skeletons, let’s call them strange undead for now.

There were quite a number of strange undead, and when the first batch of undead climbed out of the ground and attacked Roy, there were still skeletons climbing out from farther and farther behind.

However, after exchanging blows, Roy quickly discovered that these strange undead were not all strong. Their strengths were uneven, and the stronger ones could reach the level of high-rank demons, but the weaker ones were only about the same as low-rank demons.

This difference in strengths seemed to reflect mainly in the age of their bones. The bones that looked fresh were stronger, while the decayed and older ones were weaker. This caused Roy to realize that the magic power of these strange undead seemed to come from their bones.

This made Roy feel very puzzled. In his impression, a creature with magic power should derive it from their flesh and blood body. Just like Roy, his current source of magic power was his demon heart, so he had always thought that flesh and blood were the vessels that carried magic power. But why could these undead skeletons with only bones preserve their original magic power in their bones?

Is it because these undead were special when they were alive, or is this a characteristic originating from the Red Sea Egg?

Roy used Ice Block, placing himself in the extremely thick ice shield, and allowed these numerous undead to attack him because he found that only the undead with the strength of high-rank demons and undead who knew how to use the power of holy light could cause him some damage. The other undead were not much of a threat, despite there being a lot of them. Many of them were old, and even if Roy did not make a move, they might break their legs during the exercise…

Under the protection of Ice Block, Roy only needed to maintain his magic power output, which allowed him to observe the situation of these undead.

With this observation, Roy immediately discovered the situation of the magic power of these undead gradually declining as they continuously used magic to attack him!

Now, Roy finally understood. It seemed like the magic power of these undead could only be regarded as some kind of magic power deposit phenomenon. In other words, they might have had relatively powerful magic power when they were alive, but after their deaths, this magic power was only stored in their corpses and was one-time use. After losing their flesh and blood bodies, the magic power of the undead could not be replenished, and it would be gone once completely used

up!

Roy initially thought that these fellows guarding the Red Sea Egg would be stronger, so he had made a more cautious plan. But after seeing this situation, Roy finally felt relieved and immediately began to fight back!

Black frost began to sweep through, and all the undead attacking Roy immediately froze. They fell from the air, breaking into bone fragments when they hit the ground. And the range of Roy’s cold aura was expanding with his magic power output… He planned to end this quickly, getting rid of these undead as soon as possible before leaving with the Red Sea Egg. After all… anything could happen if he took too long.

Let us rewind the time a little.

Just as Roy was trying to pull out the Red Sea Egg, hundreds of kilometers away, a battle was taking place where the Charred Council’s three councilor statues were.

Envy came back, and her goal was very clear. Once she entered this space, she went straight for the statues.

After coming here, she immediately launched an attack on the statues of the councilors. All kinds of attacks bombarded the statues, causing them to fly all over, and at the same time, her violent laughter of revenge filled this area.

“Come out! You rotten people who only know how to hide in tombstones!” Envy held a longsword in one hand and slashed a sword beam at a statue. The gun in another hand kept firing bullets at another statue.

She knew very well that these three statues were actually substitutes for the councilors of the Charred Council. These magically-constructed statues connected to the true bodies of the councilors, allowing them to communicate with each other and observe images. And the true bodies of the councilors were buried under these statues, where they truly lived, which was why Envy called them ‘tombstones!

In fact, during the tens of thousands of years of being imprisoned, Envy had not actually seen the true bodies of the three councilors. She only knew that they were in the endless lava under these statues, but she could not determine their exact location, so she could only attack these statues first in order to force the councilors out.