Chapter 101: First Exploration of the Courtyard of the Dead

"Cousin, don't you think we are more like the monsters in this courtyard now?"

Wearing a cloak and carrying a war hammer, Taibesha stood by Mu Hua and teased as she watched a group of skeleton generals wrecking the skeleton guards.

That's right. Because of the shield fighting skills, although the skeleton guards were not defeated by the skeleton generals, the difference in strength still made the skeleton guards the beaten party.

The skeleton undead was fine, but the most annoying ghosts in the undead courtyard would be captured and devoured by Monday and Tuesday whenever they appeared near Mu Hua, and Taibesha didn't have to distract herself to face them.

Ten miles away from the safe zone, the level of the undead creatures in this area was low, and Mu Hua and his group were in chaos all the way.

The skeleton generals led by Mu Hua were more ferocious and brutal than the undead they met along the way. Taibesha felt as if she was the chaotic monster.

"Are all these undead real bodies?" Ignoring Taibesha's teasing, Mu Hua frowned.

The skeleton warrior is the real body, and the skeleton guard is barely classified as a third-level monster. After killing a few of them, Mu Hua found that they were still the real bodies.

After putting the remains of a skeleton guard into the Burning Source Furnace, Mu Hua did not look for the magic core in the pile of bones.

The magic core of the undead creature is different from that of other monsters. The magic core can be regarded as a fatal weakness for most monsters, but the magic core of the undead creature will condense from the soul after death.

And no one can tell in which bone the magic core of the skeleton undead is, because it is troublesome to collect the magic core, which is also a point that makes adventurers annoyed.

Bone Tooth Skill Stone * 1, Soul Fragment * 0.2, Soul Dust * 1, Life Base (Bone Ashes) * 1.4, Constitution Secret Stone * 1, Philosopher's Stone * 0.1.

Big bang?

This time, there is an extra skill stone and constitution secret stone compared to the skeleton guard smelted earlier. It seems that Mu Hua has a big bang.

A small surprise from smelting, but Mu Hua's focus for the time being is not on this.

He had encountered undead creatures in Lanton's courtyard in his early years. At that time, many skeleton warriors descended by projection. There were so many undead who descended by their real bodies here. Mu Hua wondered in his heart, is it because this is the courtyard of the undead?

"Corpses in hell can easily turn into undead."

"The Pale Land will also give birth to undead when it is blown by the wind of aging."

"The jealous demons like to derive undead. These low-level undead are cannon fodder for the jealous demons. There is no need to consume resources for them to project."

Tuesday floated beside Mu Hua, explaining Mu Hua's doubts.

"Ang~" The trembling roar destroyed another small group of skeletons. The demonstrative roar of a group of skeleton generals scared away the nearby evil spirits.

Mu Hua found that these skeleton generals who had obtained vocal cords liked to howl blindly, but Mu Hua was not too interested in those low-level ghosts.

Because even their bodies would go into Monday and Tuesday's stomachs, and if they were killed normally, they would turn into ashes, leaving no magic cores behind. Mu Hua had no idea how to put them into the furnace.

"Cannon fodder, there must be a lot of jealous demons in this courtyard, right? Hell is really terrifying." Mu Hua muttered.

Although the skeleton generals are already in the middle level, Mu Hua knows that they are still larger cannon fodder.

Perhaps only when they reach the level of black-armored skeleton generals, and their armor and blood allow them to gain a certain degree of magic resistance, can they be considered the backbone of the skeleton undead series.

The gray land, the gray forest, everything in the undead courtyard seems to be dyed gray and white.

Although there are plants growing here, only those special plants that adapt to the dead air environment can grow on the land filled with dead air.

"How about it? Go over there?" There was a fork in the road ahead, and Mu Hua asked Taibesha.

There is a dense forest right in front of the road. In the dense forest, gray-white pine trees grow very densely.

You may be able to collect some ghost face mushrooms and undead mushrooms in this kind of forest.

They are all magical plants that grow in places with a strong air of death. Collecting them is quite valuable.

However, it is said that there are many skeletons and undead buried under this forest. They will drill out from the ground when people pass by, making it difficult to guard against them.

The dense forest restricts the movement of the skeleton generals. The dead souls in this environment are also more dangerous. Mu Hua and Taibesha gave up this route early.

The road on the left side of the forest leads to a mountain area, and the road on the right leads to a basin and a dead sea.

The boundless Dead Sea is like a cage blocking the way to the basin in three directions. Going north along the beach of the Dead Sea, the roads on the left and right will converge again.

It is said that at that time, you will arrive at a burial ground that is no less than an ordinary province.

Passing through the bone-burying wasteland, you will reach a city of the dead shrouded by the fog of death all day long. That is also where the "demon king" of this courtyard sleeps.

"Go to the basin on the right. It is said that there are many liches in the mountains on the left, and occasionally wandering bone dragons will appear." Taibesha called up the forum interface of the Adventure Guild and searched for available information.

"Most of the terrain on the right is more suitable for the Skeleton General Group to charge, and the black-armored generals and death knights there may carry equipment."

"We shouldn't encounter elite death knights south of the burial ground, but there are organized gathering places for the undead in the basin area, so we must be ready to retreat at any time."

Combining her own investigation last night, Taibesha said to Mu Hua while flipping through the map.

The so-called elite monsters are those individuals with stronger talents, longer survival, and who have surpassed the upper limit of natural growth through cultivation attributes.

Their combat power exceeds that of their peers, just like the difference between settlers and adventurers. They are monsters whose real combat power is difficult to assess without seeing them with your own eyes.

"Then go to the right. However, Besha, I will use the magic cores I harvested this time. I will make you a few constructed undead as compensation." Mu Hua confirmed and replied.

"The magic core of the skeleton warrior? There is no need to care so much, right?" Taibesha frowned.

Because of the function of storing magic and reusing it, the magic core is much more expensive than the magic stone.

However, the use of low-level magic cores is limited, and the price is also limited compared to low-level magic stones. Taibesha doesn't care about this kind of harvest.

"Of course, it's not me who wants to form a team, so you don't have to care." Mu Hua said indifferently, and Taibesha was briefly stunned.

"Okay, I see." It seemed that he realized the problem he had overlooked.

"But, didn't you say you could derive undead? Why construct undead?" Taibesha said teasingly, somewhat dissatisfied with Mu Hua's tone.

Taibesha was not sure if Mu Hua could make constructed undead.

But the so-called derived undead is basically equivalent to creating undead creatures.

Taibesha didn't quite believe that Mu Hua could master those creation techniques that could burn the human brain.

"Miss, derived undead will respect their derivatives, but there is no contract between them." Mu Hua rolled his eyes, feeling that it was troublesome to explain, but Tuesday beside him interrupted and replied.

"The relationship between them and the derivatives is like that of your human parents and children."

"But it should be normal for you humans to kill your father and mother, right? Not to mention you, a creature that has nothing to do with them."

"If you can sign a slavery contract with those undead, you can even let them attack the derivatives."

"Of course, if there is no contract, unless you have the power of undead detention, there is no reason for them to obey your orders." Tuesday explained in a popular way.

"Respect, but undead detention can make them backfire? Then the derivative undead is not very dangerous." Taibesha frowned.

Similar to creating life, the derived undead seem to be more unstable than the magical life.

"The skeleton undead have simpler thoughts. As long as no one controls them, they usually obey the derivatives. And the derivatives are also easier to make them sign a slavery contract." Mu Hua explained.

"Can you really derive the undead?" Taibesha suspected.

"Who knows, there is not much harm in trying." Mu Hua spread his hands.

"Well, okay, then you'd better make my constructed undead first. What can you do? Skeleton, bone fang?" Taibesha said with a smile. She still didn't believe that Mu Hua could derive undead.

"What do you like?"

"How about a skeleton? It's convenient to carry."

"It's the same. It's not a real life form. It's just a puppet controlled by a ghost. Can you get the gap of the construction?"

"That's right." Taibesha smiled.

She was just cooperating with Mu Hua. She suspected that Mu Hua couldn't even make a constructed undead.

While talking, Taibesha urged Mu Hua to take out the armed shuttle and hurry on. She had had enough of the skeleton warriors. She wanted to go to the basin to fight some monsters that could produce valuable items.

Riding on the shuttle, Mu Hua had to send a group of skeleton generals back to the summoning space. They obviously couldn't catch up with the speed of the shuttle.

"This thing doesn't match the necromancer." After starting the shuttle, Mu Hua patted the body of the shuttle and complained.

"Ha, maybe you can derive a skeleton horse for yourself, summon a skeleton horse, haha, cool~." Taibesha teased.

The shuttle is convenient and energy-saving, well, at least it is much more energy-saving than a chariot.

"... Skeleton horse?" Mu Hua thought for a moment, and the two drove the shuttle towards the basin.