Chapter 350: The excited dark dragon (1/2)
Chapter 350: The excited dark dragon
Han Shuo, who’d just returned from the necromancer’s dimension, spent the next couple of days recovering. After he was fully rested, he went to the dark forest and caught a few magic beasts, continuing to practice the “Trembling Soul” magic.
After a few days of practice, Han Shuo was finally able to manipulate his mental strength at will. When a “Trembling Soul” spell was fired, a wild beast would simply fall down, blood flowing from its nose and mouth.
When Han Shuo could control “Trembling Soul” as he would, he began studying spells that higher ranked necromancers should be proficient in.
The most important matters were the summoning spells for bone demons, old fey zombies and mummy lords. As necromancers progressed, not only would the level of their summoned creatures grow higher, but they would also be able to summon other kinds of creatures. Necromancy archmages like Han Shuo should be able to call forth bone demons, old fey zombies, and mummy lords.
In reality, apart from a few differences in the incantations, there weren’t many differences between summoning the three. Even though their soul brands were different, the strength required to summon any one of them were roughly the same. As long as Han Shuo mastered summoning bone demons, he would then be able to summon the other two undead creatures just by slightly modifying the incantation.
Although, just like the “Trembling Soul” spell, the farther a necromancer progressed, the harder the advanced spells would become to master. Han Shuo’s understanding of necromancy magic from the deceased archmage Clayton was now useless.
Starting from this realm, Han Shuo would have to carefully study necromancy magic by himself. Luckily, the Cemetery of Death had many books that Han Shuo could peruse. The number of references concerning the essence of necromancy were too many to count.
As the three evil knights and twelve mystical demons were still being refined, Han Shuo used this time to study more advanced necromancy magic.
The days flew by. One day, Han Shuo suddenly sensed a familiar presence outside the Cemetery of Death whilst chanting his incantations.
Suddenly awakening from his deep contemplation, Han Shuo held the skeleton staff as he walked out of the Cemetery of Death, running into dark dragon Gilbert wandering outside, “What are you doing here?”
“Esteemed master, I felt your presence, and it just so happened that I was in the Valley of Sunshine. Hence I came over to find you.” Dark dragon Gilbert cheered up when he saw Han Shuo appear.
Gilbert hadn’t seem to have undergone any great changes. However, Han Shuo could feel from Gilbert’s body that his aura seemed to have strengthened a little. After Gilbert walked into the Cemetery of Death, he immediately began chattering, reporting on what had happened in the Valley of Sunshine.
Han Shuo gradually came to understand the situation in Valley of Sunshine from Gilbert’s stories. Ever since Han Shuo had previously schemed against the various powers that had converged on the hidden valley with the mithril mine, the four great powers had formed a temporary truce. Instead, they focused all their attention on crusading against the culprit behind the scenes.
Laureton had previously said that whichever faction was the first to find the culprit behind the scenes would hold power in the Valley of Sunshine. So, all the powers, large or small, were trying to find the culprit behind the scenes. However, even after so many months, there was still no results.
Trunks understood that the real culprit, Han Shuo, had long since left the valley. Towards this issue, he pretended to express concern, but also silently expanded the Soul Destroyer mercenary band. Unwittingly, the silent and unknown Soul Destroyers had gradually become the fifth great power in Valley of Sunshine thanks to its abundant funds and Trunks’ prestige.
Having consumed one of Han Shuo’s Rebirth Pills, Trunks’ strength had advanced from swordmaster to great swordmaster. Out of all the different factions in the Valley of Sunshine, only Laureton, who could go thrice berserk, could beat him. Florida and Adam Melo were both inferior to Trunks.
This period of time was the Soul Destroyers’ chance to rise. As they shot through the ranks of their peers, they absorbed even more outstanding experts. Trunks previous ruthlessness now had an added edge of insidiousness to it. He wasn’t in a hurry to immediately deal with Florida, intending to slowly torment him a bit at a time.
Gilbert took on some missions with Trunks, completing every operation perfectly. In this process, Gilbert frequently visited many brothels, using the skills that Han Shuo taught him to secretly absorb some yin energy. Thus, his strength also rapidly improved.
After he finished listening to Gilbert narrate the situation in the Valley of Sunshine, Han Shuo was actually slightly worried. Currently, Trunks’ Soul Destroyers were the fifth greatest power in the Valley of Sunshine. This also meant that Soul Destroyers had the right to participate in the fight for the leadership over the Valley of Sunshine. Previously, when the Soul Destroyers didn’t have this level of strength, only Florida would spare no effort in suppressing him. Now that the Soul Destroyers truly had such strength, the other three sides naturally would place more attention on Trunks.
Even the Berserker Warriors’ Laureton would unfortunately not be as friendly to Trunks as he previously was. After all, Trunks possessed the strength to threaten his Cairo mercenary band. There were no friends who were forever in this world. Once there was a clear conflict of interest, it was very possible that some dirty things would happen.
Han Shuo contemplated for a while, understanding in his heart that Trunks and the rest would perhaps find it more difficult to develop in the future. However, Han Shuo believed in Trunks’ ability and didn’t care too much about this. After thinking for a while, he smiled slightly and said to dark dragon Gilbert, “I have something for you.”
“What is it?” After Gilbert explained the details of the situation in the Valley of Sunshine to Han Shuo, he was surprised by Han Shuo’s response.
Han Shuo took the green dragon’s magical core from his space ring, lustrous green energy whirling within. The massive amount of energy contained within immediately caused Gilbert to go mad with joy, loudly screaming with delight, “A supreme magical core?”
“That’s right. This is a green dragon’s magical core, I believe this magical core should be useful to you?” Han Shuo grinned at Gilbert and asked.
Unable to stop nodding his head like a chicken pecking rice, Gilbert was tremendously excited, his right hand already holding up the green dragon’s magical core in his palm, laughing boisterously, “Useful. Too useful! I can feel the enormous energy contained within. With this green dragon magical core that’s of a higher rank than me, I can definitely evolve to the second level!”
“That’s good, swallow it immediately and just evolve in the Cemetery of Death.” This green dragon’s magical core had obviously been specially prepared by Han Shuo for Gilbert. Seeing Gilbert looking surprised and excited to the point of madness, he smiled.