Chapter 458 The Origin of the Undead Scourge
Although he has a lot of heroes, what makes Zhou Kang more unhappy is that these clone-like heroes can only be upgraded to level 6 with ultimate skills, and then they can no longer gain experience.
Only the one who serves as a template for various heroes will not be restricted by the highest level of six. The remaining clone heroes must wait until the undead motherboard is upgraded from the Hall of the Dead to the Black Castle before they can unlock higher levels.
As for why the numbers of Lich, Death Knight, and Dread Lord are different, it is the result of Zhou Kang's own allocation. After completing some tasks in the immortal system, a hero can be given a copy quota. After completing such tasks many times, the upper limit of three heroes will become like this.
Now, there is about to be an additional spot on the hero panel, the one belonging to the Crypt Lord. However, when new heroes first come out, there can only be a maximum of five clones. If you want to get more places, you need Zhou Kang to complete similar tasks.
In fact, it stands to reason that Zhou Kang, who is currently in the second level, can only have three types of heroes: Lich, Death Knight and Dread Lord. Just like Yu Fei's night elves, one has one hero summoning quota, and the other two have two.
But Crypt Lord, which is now in the process of being transformed, shows that the undead can now have four types of heroes. The extra crypt lord is actually a reward after completing the mission. Adjusting to the mission panel again, Zhou Kang looked at this mission that brought him a new hero with satisfaction.
"Special mission - undead disaster. Launch a small-scale undead disaster in another world. Mission difficulty: A level. Mission reward: Open the ownership rights of the heroic crypt lord. Mission completed."
Some time ago, the system suddenly issued such a task to Zhou Kang that made him confused, which made him spend a lot of effort.
As a time traveler, Zhou Kang somewhat understood the meaning of "another world", and he also learned something about the world of Eslazer in the demon world. But how to launch the so-called natural disaster of the undead across a world gave him a problem.
Fortunately, Zhou Kang finally discovered a building that he had ignored before - the Abyss of Sacrifice. The Abyss of Sacrifice has only one function in the Warcraft game, which is to turn the undead peasant unit Acolytes into shadows.
However, after the undead disaster mission was released, Zhou Kang discovered another function of the Sacrifice Abyss - connecting to the world of Eslaze and even putting some units into the world of Eslaze.
In fact, this is also an accident. Due to rules in the game, only acolytes can be thrown into the Abyss of Sacrifice. But now it is a real building among the undead, so naturally there is no such restriction.
That day, Zhou Kang had a sudden idea and threw a skeleton warrior into the abyss of sacrifice to see if it could be transformed into something else. But after the skeleton warriors were thrown in, a curtain of light appeared like water waves in the originally dark center of the Sacrificial Abyss.
In this light curtain, Zhou Kang saw a huge bone altar. On this altar that seemed to be made of bones, the skeleton warrior whom he threw into the abyss of sacrifice was standing there stupidly.
Under the altar, there are several figures covered in black robes, with their heads hidden and their tails exposed. Sacrificing the pixels of the light curtain in the abyss was okay. Zhou Kang found out after careful examination that those black-robed figures were actually human beings!
This discovery made Zhou Kang extremely excited at the time. He traveled to the demon world, and all the creatures there were curious creatures. No matter whether they were demons or monsters, none of them looked like humans, but there were some that looked like humans.
Suddenly seeing the man in black robe who seemed to be of the same species as himself, Zhou Kang felt that he was still a human being and not a member of the demon world.
And this bone altar and those men in black robes are actually the secret stronghold of a necromancer in the world of Eslazer. Several men in black robes were performing a ritual to summon undead creatures from other worlds.
Several figures in black robes looked extremely shocked that an ordinary-looking skeleton warrior appeared on the altar. After going through extremely complicated rituals, I and others successfully communicated with other worlds through the altar and summoned the undead. How come the one summoned in the end was a skeleton that was usually used as cannon fodder?
But soon, they discovered that this skeleton warrior was different. Generally, the skeletons transformed by necromancers from the corpses of ordinary people cannot even defeat a brave adult man. However, after the experiments of these necromancers, the skeleton warrior summoned through the altar actually has the same strength as a bronze-level warrior. !
At this time, Zhou Kang, who had observed several necromancers through the Sacrifice Abyss for a long time and collected a lot of information from their conversations, appeared in time to communicate with these necromancers.
During the exchange, Zhou Kang claimed to be the Lord of the Underworld and the master of all undead creatures. In fact, the undead creatures transformed by the necromancer are not orthodox undead. Just like skeleton warriors, skeleton warriors among real undead creatures generally have bronze-level strength.
What Zhou Kang fabricated was both true and false, and with the help of the system, the necromancers were quickly convinced. Next, Zhou Kang expressed his willingness to develop those necromancers into the spokespersons of the underworld and show the style of true undead creatures in the world of Eslazer.
When a few ordinary necromancers heard about such a good thing, they naturally had no objection. Later, by using the Sacrifice Abyss to develop offline, Zhou Kang developed an organization dedicated to necromancers in the Eslaze continent.
And this organization is the driving force behind the undead disaster that Yu Fei knows. It was through this organization and the convenience of the Sacrifice Abyss that Zhou Kang could connect to the Eslaze world, and planned and launched the undead disaster behind the scenes, causing all human countries on the Eslaze continent to suffer.
What Zhou Kang paid was to use the Sacrifice Abyss to decentralize a lot of undead troops to obey the orders of those necromancers as a reward. He even used the Sacrifice Abyss to teleport a lich to the Eslaze world.
However, when Zhou Kang wanted to go to the Eslaze world through the Sacrifice Abyss, he found that he could not throw himself into the Sacrifice Abyss. After that, after learning that this was a system limitation, Zhou Kang also gave up the idea of visiting the Eslaze world.
Anyway, if he continues with the main quest, he can even return to his hometown on Earth, and he will definitely be able to visit the world of Esraz, so there is no need to rush.
As for the shadow that Yu Fei found in the Dark Night Capital, it was really a misunderstanding of the Undead. When Zhou Kang was on Earth, he had never come into contact with the game of Warcraft, and there was no Warcraft tutorial in the Undead System. Therefore, Zhou Kang had no idea about the Night Elves, and even didn't care about this race that had never appeared in his mission.
That shadow was just a necromancer who summoned the shadow by sacrificing the abyss and wanted to secretly investigate the Dark Night Capital, and was discovered by Yu Fei.
When the Undead Scourge really unfolded, Zhou Kang rarely paid attention to the situation in the world of Esraz, because his mission was already completed. Then, he found a demon similar to the Crypt Lord and transformed it into an Undead hero.
Now the progress of the transformation has reached 83%, and in another day or two, the Undead will have a new type of hero.
It should be noted here that the hero clones of the Undead are not as scary as imagined, because their attributes are based on the attributes and settings in the Warcraft Building Edition game.
That is to say, except for the first hero transformed as a template, the remaining heroes created as clones have only four skills, and each level has only one skill point.
This is also the reason why when Illidan dealt with the lich, the lich only used four skills: Frost Nova, Wicked Priest, Frost Armor, and Death and Decay. The maximum level of the cloned heroes limited by the Undead's second-level status is six, which is just enough for them to point out the ultimate skill.