Chapter 383: The other world (1/2)

Chapter 383: The other world

Ossen City. Han Shuo’s official residence.

Within a secret room, Han Shou grasped the skeletal staff, chanting the incantation for necromancy. After a long and tedious section of incantation, a mummy lord stood before Han Shuo. The mummy lord was stupefied as it inspected Han Shuo, the entire secret room suddenly filled with the deathly scent emitted from its body.

Of the three summoning spells at grand magus level, Han Shuo has already mastered two of them. He is able to proficiently summon old fey demons and mummy lords, only left with the spell for bone demons. As he still didn’t really understand the characteristics of the bone demon’s body composition, Han Shuo temporarily still could succeed in summoning a bone demon into this world.

With an order, the mummy lord unwillingly wielded the ancient strips of cloth that twisted around its body, moving its body in accordance to Han Shuo’s directions.

Nodding his head, Han Shuo knew that he thoroughly grasped the summoning of the mummy lord. Han Shuo then chanted another spell and with a wave of the white bone staff, the mummy lord returned back to the netherworld.

Keeping the white bone staff, Han Shuo then took out the skeletal staff obtained from the Cemetery of Death. Fiddling with the skeletal staff in his hand, Han Shuo hesitated for a while, intending to use the skeletal staff to summon the old fey demon and mummy lord.

This skeletal staff was different from the white bone staff. Chanting necromancy while holding the skeletal staff would often result in the might of the summoning spell to be doubled. When Han Shuo used the white bone staff, he could save a little mental strength but he would be unable to summon two old fey demons to the Profound Continent.

However, if it was channeling the necromancy spell through the skeletal staff, he should be able to momentarily search for two old fey demons. Han Shuo had the experience of using the skeletal staff when summoning evil knights. He believed that old fey demons were perhaps the same as the evil knights and he could similarly summon two old fey demons.

Han Shuo hesitated for a moment, before starting to chant the necromancy spell to summon old fey demons. When Han Shuo’s spell connected with the netherworld and the chanting reached the section to search for old fey demons, Han Shuo’s mental space suddenly felt the two targets that were separated by a long distance.

These two targets were old fey demons. However, there was a incomparable distance between the two old fey demons. In the same moment, both old fey demons felt Han Shuo’s presence. When the feeling of their freedom being threatened entered their souls, the two old fey demons instinctively struggled.

Han Shuo was startled, fixing his mental strength on suppressing one old fey demon as they were too far apart. Han Shuo’s mental strength couldn’t handle both old fey demons at once, their frantic resistance causing him to get a little dizzy. This was the reason why Han Shuo’s suppression became quite strenuous.

At this moment, Han Shuo understood that he had neglected an important issue. The personality of old fey demons were vastly different from that of evil knights. Although evil knights were similarly high ranked undead creatures, there were numerous undead creatures in the netherworld. In addition, evil knights were considered to still prefer living in a group. When Han Shuo used the skeletal staff to summon evil knights, they would often be from the same location, locating two or three evil knights and then summoning them to the Profound Continent.

However, old fey demons were an even higher ranked existence and their numbers in the netherworld were much lesser than evil knights. Furthermore, as high ranked existences, old fey demons dwelled in separate locations, becoming the master of that location. Basically, it highly unlikely for two old fey demons to live together in the same area.

Han Shuo had precisely overlooked this point. When the spell channeled through the skeletal staff, it immediately sensed two old fey demons were five thousand kilometers apart. As the two old fey demons were too far apart, Han Shuo couldn’t handle both of them at the same time. Old fey demons were also undead creatures with a formidable soul. When Han Shuo focused on one old fey demon, the other old fey demon suddenly revolted, causing Han Shuo to be somewhat unable to suppress it with his mental strength.

This situation happened too quickly. A necromancy summoning didn’t take long. Because Han Shuo didn’t anticipate such as a situation at the beginning, he simply didn’t have the means to handle it at short notice. When the two old fey demons sensed that Han Shuo’s mental strength was in slight disorder, they frantically resisted further.

There was a sudden sharp pain in his mind. Distracted, Han Shuo’s consciousness was a little routed and he felt himself actually becoming a strand of peculiar existence. Under the pull from the souls of the two old fey demons, he traversed the spacetime tunnel, arriving at the unknown netherworld.

Han Shuo had had the same experience once. Now that it happened a second time, Han Shuo immediately reacted, his mental strength tenaciously wrapped around that strand of consciousness to prevent harmful substances within the spacetime tunnel from intruding as he involuntarily descended to the world filled with deathly stillness and mystery.

Within the world which seemed forever monochrome, a thick stationary layer of grey clouds obstructed the horizon. This place was filled with swamps everywhere, as well as deathly still forests that were formed from large withered trees. These withered trees seemed to have gone through thousands of years of decay and had long since been void of any moisture or nutrients. There were even ash grey colored spider webs suspended from the tree trunks, with many bizarre tiny undead creatures wiggling on the spiderweb.

Within the swamps which were all over, the aura of death pervade everywhere. The swamps gave off weird bubbles and from time to time, one or two zombies will rigidly climb out of the swamps and then proceed to aimlessly roam the vast silent netherworld.

The netherworld was the final destination of departed spirits. Over the millions of years, the perpetual deathly qi continuously produced various kinds of undead creatures. When an undead creature disappears, the death qi from its body would return to this world, go through many years of bizarre evolution before once again forming another undead creature.

Han Shuo’s consciousness was gradually restored. Han Shuo slowly observed the deathly still area that was covered with swamps. During his observation, Han Shuo tried to absorb the deathly qi from the Cemetery of Death and condense a body that is visible yet lacking in form for himself. However, Han Shuo’s whole body was drifting in the air.

Suddenly, Han Shuo felt the existence of the little skeleton and the zombies. They were in a region far away, but Han Shuo was able to distinctly sense their existence. As for the three evil knights that were refined later, he could only sense a faint dot.

Howl… “Petty existence, you have intruded into my world without permission, I want you to suffer the burn of my fury.” a shrill voice filled with incomparable anger suddenly rang in Han Shuo’s ears. This voice was filled with the roar of ire, scaring Han Shuo greatly.

With a sudden reaction to his consciousness, Han Shuo felt a shadow rapidly approaching from his left. Han Shuo watched attentively as one of the old fey demons that he had just attempted to summon unexpectedly appeared. The surroundings of the old fey demon were filled with hundreds of low ranking undead creatures. Among them were ghouls, skeleton knights, zombies and three hate warriors.