"The Ice Plane's Zero? Aso's here as well? Oh my, this is quite a big deal. It's actually an allied army from all the Undead Planes, and an Undead Emperor is personally leading the army? "
The Corpse Plane, Ice Plane, Desecration Plane, Blood Curtain Plane, and Darkness Plane were the six known Undead Planes that were connected to the mortal plane. And Rex's superior, or perhaps it should be said that his superior's superior's superior, was the Ice Plane's Undead Emperor Zero.
Undead Emperor Zero's true name had long since been forgotten. She was a SemiGod lich who became famous around 1500 years ago. There was no information on her past, so it seemed that she wasn't from this plane. She had plenty of combat experience, and could be considered a "newcomer" among all the previous Undead Emperors.
It was no wonder why the little lich before me had chosen ice magic as well. It was said that the normal temperature in the Ice Plane was negative twenty degrees Celsius. It would be impossible for ordinary lifeforms to survive in such a world, and the main magic in that plane was ice magic.
Although the Undead Planes all had many undead creatures in common, there were all sorts of strange reasons for their birth, and the dimensional laws were completely different. Some were natural planes that were especially suitable for the undead to live in, such as the Ice Plane and Darkness Plane. The former were places where nothing could survive apart from the dead, while the latter were places where the power of death was so dense that it could reverse life and death, allowing the undead to reproduce just like the living.
Since there were natural Undead Planes, there were naturally unnatural Undead Planes as well. For example, the master of the Desecration Plane, Emperor Aso, had expanded his Divine Kingdom into a natural Plane.
Yes, a Divine Kingdom. Although Aso wasn't a True God, even the current generation's True Gods would have to maintain the humility of a junior in front of a first-generation descendant who was a super powerful existence that even a Main God might not be able to defeat. Perhaps Aso wasn't a True God, but he was definitely far more powerful than most True Gods.
Previously, it was mentioned that as long as one passed the Myth rank's three difficult levels, they would be considered SemiGods if they didn't ascend to Godhood. However, there were actually many powerful individuals from ancient times who had reached the Myth rank, yet they didn't even bother to ascend to Godhood. While Divine Concepts and Godhoods represented glory and power, they also represented responsibility and restrictions. While one would obtain the natural laws of the world, one's personality and soul would also be corrupted by the natural laws and become a part of the natural laws. For example, the unfortunate God of Holy Light.
Every Demigod's true story could be described as epic or legendary. Experts who had reached such a level would never make such a choice for the unreliable power they had been granted. Some people even believed that ascending to godhood was just a trick, a compromise with the world, and that the power obtained with one's own hands would not be inferior to that of a True God who had ascended to heaven in a single step.
The dimensional capacity of a plane was directly related to the Elemental Tide. Even a True God's incarnation in the mortal plane could only maintain SemiGod power. If you challenged the dimensional capacity limit, you would be attacked by the dimensional will. And in the mortal plane, the will of the two Creator Goddesses would attack you. Even if the two Creator Goddesses didn't attack you, the dimensional will wouldn't let you off. Living would be akin to being hated by the world.
For example, there would be endless calamities. Or, if you accidentally stepped on a banana peel, your luck would suddenly become extremely bad. Or, there would be endless natural and man-made calamities. Teams of heroes would attack you one after another. Basically, it would be difficult to say what the final result would be. It was likely that you would have to find a new home just for the sake of a peaceful environment.
Due to Aillé's existence, the position of Death God had long since been filled up. Without a new dimensional law to extend your life, it would be difficult even if you wanted to ascend to godhood. However, becoming a Follower God wouldn't be difficult at all. All you had to do was try your best to flatter a True God. However, the Undead Emperors who had experienced countless hardships would never be willing to submit to someone else. If they didn't die in the end, it was likely that they couldn't stay in the mortal plane any longer and went to another plane to seek refuge.
As for the residents of the Undead Planes, their origins were even stranger. Some were Undead Emperors' vassals. Or perhaps they were new undead mages who simply couldn't stay in the mortal plane anymore and "voluntarily" chose to live in another plane. But in terms of population, there were naturally residents of the Undead Planes as well.
The dimensional laws of the Undead Planes tended to favor the undead. Just like how the Elemental Planes would give birth to new elemental lifeforms, the Undead Planes would also give birth to new undead. However, the origin of souls had always been a mystery. I had heard a certain legend that said souls were secretly left behind by Undead Emperors from the River Styx. However, I didn't know if this was true or not.
Of course, if this was true, it was likely that Aillé, who controlled the River Styx, would be implicated. At the very least, he would be charged with negligence.
And as the Elemental Tide rose, the Undead Emperors would soon have the right to return to their homeland. But actually, the Undead Emperors had long since predicted the arrival of the Holy War, and had prepared for it in centuries. At the very least, there was a certain Undead Emperor who had been planning for the Holy War since more than thirty years ago, when he was still a prince.
The Undead Emperors had taken the initiative to attack the Undead Emperors, which meant that the Undead Emperors had both the right and the right. But when it came to people, the Undead Emperors wouldn't be any worse off.
It was already impossible to count how many known Undead Planes there were. After all, ever since the undead were born, these existences that were incredibly difficult to completely destroy had been constantly accumulating. The mortal plane wasn't the only plane capable of producing Undead Emperors, and the reason for producing Undead Emperors wasn't limited to only undead mages. It was highly likely that some famous Epic hero or dragon had lowered his head in front of death and become a part of it.
Even if they became undead, their growth rate would be so tragic that it was negligible. After all, the Three Great Trials involved the physical body and the soul. The Three Great Trials had blocked countless ancient undead, and had even been considered an insurmountable barrier.
But, how could the existences that surpassed common sense and became Undead Emperors be judged by common sense? Just because ordinary undead were unable to grow didn't mean that Undead Emperors would be unable to progress. The accumulation of tens of millions of years was their strongest shield. Nobody would be able to guess what exactly they had researched, and it would be impossible to know what their main research direction was without fighting them.
Even at my peak, I didn't have absolute confidence that I would be able to defeat any Undead Emperor in a duel. Of course, apart from very few exceptions, there was no guarantee that I would lose.
Fortunately, not all Undead Emperors were interested in the Holy War that only occurred once every two or three thousand years, not to mention the fact that they would spend a great deal of effort to establish a connection with the mortal plane. Judging from the current situation, those who still had hopes for the mortal plane were usually "newcomers" who had just ascended to the throne.
There were six Undead Planes and eight SemiGod Undead Emperors. They were all existences that were interested in the mortal plane and had already taken action. This was information that my "dog" had obtained for me when he was a spy working for the West Mist Parliament.
Fortunately, there weren't any existences that made people despair. At the very least, I only knew that in a certain Undead Plane, there was an ancient existence that was comparable to Aillé. In front of the most ancient Bone Dragon named Gregory, everything would meet its end.
And in the various Undead Planes, Undead Emperors were basically undefeatable existences. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been crowned with the title of Emperor. As the only "newcomer" from the previous year, as well as the "Best Newcomer" who had defeated the Holy Church in front of everyone, Yongye's name had already spread far and wide in all the Undead Planes.
A person's name was like a tree's shadow. I only briefly mentioned that my name was Roland, which meant that I was the undying Roland. Not even the Soul Torment Lich was able to injure him, and the lich who had been constantly threatening me immediately cowered. Not only did he obediently answer all my questions, he even told me all the information and guesses that he had secretly gathered.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry as I looked at this skeleton that was so scared that its teeth were chattering. Was the "Undying Roland" really that scary? Just hearing his name was enough to make the undead tremble?
I was clearly a good person, so the reason why the little lich was scared was definitely not because of my terrible reputation. Yep, it was definitely because the other Undead Emperors had gone overboard and implicated me, giving the little lich a psychological scar.
"Tsk, so weak. It seems that this Gul 'dan's skull can't be made into a God Equipment. Oh, I'm wrong. Fine then, it should be the skull of Rex, right? What? Wrong again? Alright, alright, Wu Yan X's skull is finally correct. Yep, I told you that my memory is excellent. It's impossible for me to remember incorrectly. "
As for "Wu Yan X", as a lich, he wasn't that old. He was probably only slightly more than a hundred years old. He had only completed the lich transformation ritual with the help of his superiors after accumulating enough achievements. His power level was slightly weaker than a real lich's, so he wasn't well liked by his peers. (Rumors said that he was actually praised as the most handsome lich and received a lot of praise from female demons, which made his peers jealous of him.) That was why he had been sent here to do this "time-wasting" job.
Since he was completely unprepared, he hadn't been in the mortal plane for very long, so he didn't know much.
But just what he had said was shocking enough.
Undead Emperor Aso from the Desecration Plane had actually personally come here. Although it was obvious that he had sealed himself and paid a heavy price to do so, making it impossible for him to use the full power of an Undead Emperor, since he had absolute authority here, the high-level undead would definitely organize themselves and move about in an orderly fashion. It would be impossible for any internal conflicts to occur. This was doubtlessly bad news for us, who were standing right in front of him.
Especially right now, when we were still blindly roaming around in the gigantic Bardi Empire. If we were exposed and Aso came looking for me, a junior, to talk about old times, that would be truly troublesome.
"… I definitely can't use brute force or act recklessly? It would seem that my choice was correct. "
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