Chapter 1159 (1/2)

Chapter 1159: 361. Encounter with an Acquaintance

At the ceremony site on the first floor of the Signal Tower, spiked cages hung from the ceiling, containing living creatures to be used as ritual sacrifices.

Blood formed into columns that dripped from the cages down to the ground, spreading along the magical runes on the floor, flickering red, corrupt and sinful.

A group of undead beings from various factions of the Undead Cult surrounded the ritual array, standing on a circular high platform, watching the array on the ground.

They saw the blood water spreading over the array and also witnessed the flickering luminous soul energy.

Compared to the dazzling red blood light, the soul energy appeared murky and unstable, as if it might extinguish at any moment.

The undead beings anxiously conversed, whispered, searched for someone, or questioned the Demon Bone.

Noland Lee, having used Deconstruction to search for Archelon among the undead, encountered this scene.

At the ceremony site, he saw a figure he was familiar with.

Sully.

Back when the Land of Revival was still known as the Land of Suffering, Noland Lee was still the unlucky Sin Soldier.

Morster, the Acting Commander of Division Intelligence Unit Two, arranged for Sully to approach Noland Lee and bring them together to ensure Noland stayed fixed in his place.

Noland Lee harbored little affection for this nurse, but she was after all one of the few who had been kind to him after his misfortune in the Suffering Borderland.

—The kindness came with a clear agenda, but, undeniably, Sully did develop genuine feelings from deep within her heart in the process of their interaction.

Thus, just as Noland Lee helped Mars, Alvin Stafford, and Murphy with the challenge of the Undead Barrier, he also asked Morster to help Sully leave the Suffering Borderland and find an opportunity to become a Wizard, to see the outside world.

Morster agreed and took action, but sadly, Noland Lee last encountered the Earth Vein Pillar team in the Bustling Tunnel.

The leader of that team told him that Sully, due to being far beyond the age limit for Magic Enlightenment, couldn’t become a Wizard.

Although Noland Lee felt helpless, he could only express his regret.

Since then, Noland Lee had lost track of this nurse.

Yet now, he unexpectedly encountered her at the Undead Cult’s ceremony site.

The good news was, Sully wasn’t locked inside one of those spike-lined metal cages, suspended in mid-air like livestock.

The bad news was, Sully had become an undead, a bona fide undead being.

Moreover, she seemed to have gained some status within the Undead Cult, able to stand at the back of the crowd present, observing the ceremony.

Thanks to the site’s tiered stands, resembling a “choral” arrangement with high and low positions, Noland Lee could see Sully in full.

Noland Lee manipulated the memory fragment in his mind, magnifying the image to get a clear view.

After scrutinizing her for half a minute, Noland Lee nodded to himself.