Undead.
When Fangzheng saw the newcomers, he quickly confirmed their identity. As for why? It was very simple. If walking skeletons weren't undead, what else could they be called?
There were more than ten skeletons in total. Of course, it was impossible to tell their height from their appearance, but from their clothes, it could be seen that they should be a group of sailors. The group of skeletons walked over from the other side, peeked their heads out and scanned the surroundings. Then, they turned around and walked to the other side.
Are they patrolling?
Looking at this scene, Fangzheng frowned. He closed his eyes and sensed for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes.
"No undead aura? Are these living people? "
Fangzheng felt like he had really seen a ghost coming to this godforsaken place. Previously, he hadn't sensed the aura of the dead in the graveyard, but now that he was here, he couldn't sense the aura of the dead even when the skeleton was running around in front of him. On the contrary, these skeletons actually gave off the aura of living people!
Are you f * cking kidding me?
Is this also an illusion?
Thinking of this, Fangzheng frowned slightly. He seemed to understand who the person was and why the Gulf of the Dead was created. Judging from the experience along the way, the greatest ability of this magical item's illusion was that it seemed to be able to conceal the original existence. And its working principle should be to project a plane projection from a parallel world and cover up the original thing. Fangzheng didn't know much about space magic, but during his time in the Origin World, he had learned some common knowledge about this continent. Now it seemed that the reason why the other party did this was probably for the souls of these tens of thousands of sailors.
Fangzheng knew that according to the "setting" of the Origin World, the people of this world would leave this plane after death and go to the realm of the god they believed in. Of course, if you believed in the big shots of hell, then you would go to the underworld to fight a bloody battle.
But in short, the rule of the Origin World was that souls couldn't stay in this world. Regardless of whether you went to heaven or hell, you would always have to move forward. It was as if you had swiped your ticket and entered the station. If you didn't get on the train, you would be forcibly deported. Naturally, it wasn't that there weren't any fishes that escaped the net, but they were extremely few. Otherwise, how many people had died in the Origin World over the past several thousand years? Could the undead even account for 1% of the total population?
The entire Bay of Departed Souls — no, the Golden Bay had lost tens of thousands of people in one go. Fangzheng did not believe that these souls would stay in the Overworld of their own accord. Following this line of reasoning, one could quickly come to a conclusion. Someone used that evil magic item to cause a massacre to collect the souls of these sailors, and in order to prevent the Goddess of Order or other powerful beings from noticing that something was wrong, he stuck another layer of cover on it to block the detection of the main world.
As for why these undead didn't have the aura of death, Fangzheng guessed that it was the same as the Projection Plane above. He guessed that the magical item had taken the opportunity to bring the Projection Plane of these people over, concealing the aura of death on their bodies. Otherwise, with Fangzheng's sensitivity as a Paladin, he would have sensed tens of thousands of undead the moment he entered the sea … Wait, why do I have a bad feeling about this ….
"Ding!"
As expected, just as Fangzheng sensed something, a familiar system notification jingled. Then, a series of mission notifications appeared in front of him.
[Overworld Mission Triggered: Sea of Undead]
[Countless souls are being eroded by darkness. Only death is the best release. Holy Light, this enemy is worth fighting. (Break the seal of the Demiplane and free the bound souls. The Dimensional Codex recharge rate will be changed to 1: 1 if the mission is successful. The Dimensional Codex recharge rate will be changed to 100: 1 if the mission is failed.)]
"… … …"
Fangzheng was completely speechless when he saw the mission notification. He raised his head to look at the dark sky before him, then lowered his head to look at the medal on his chest.
Goddess, shouldn't I have boarded your pirate ship back then?
"What's wrong? Big brother? "
Tiria asked curiously when she saw the strange expression on Fangzheng's face. Facing Tiria's question, Fangzheng smiled helplessly.
"It's nothing … It's just a little troublesome …"
Frankly speaking, Fangzheng had always politely declined such a high-risk mission. His original plan was to see what the hell this place was like. If there were any benefits, he would take them. If there weren't, he would retreat. But now … It seemed like he had no choice but to do it!
What a joke. The original exchange rate of spirit crystals and Dimension Points was 5: 1. That was already bad enough. If the system adjusted it to 100: 1, how was he supposed to play? Of course, the higher the risk, the higher the reward. If the exchange rate was adjusted to 1: 1, Fangzheng would make a huge profit!
According to Fangzheng and the Northern Chamber of Commerce, half of his monthly income had to be converted into spirit crystals. Before Fangzheng boarded the ship, he had already taken his first month's "commission" from the Alchemist Association. Those spirit crystals were converted into Dimension Points, which amounted to only 1,500 points. And this was the result of a 5: 1 exchange rate. But if you changed it to 1: 1, heh heh heh ….
As a game planner, Fangzheng was not stupid enough to think that he could do whatever he wanted just because he had doubled his assets. Huh? You're asking me why? To understand inflation?
After spending so much time with the system, Fangzheng understood it quite well. Although changing the exchange rate from 5: 1 to 1: 1 might seem like he had made a profit, in fact, all the useful skills required a lot of Dimension Points to upgrade.
For example, Fangzheng's [Time Control], which had been upgraded to D-rank, originally required him to spend 1,000 points, but because Fangzheng had conveniently used the mission reward, it was equivalent to upgrading it to D-rank for free. So the question was, how many Dimension Points would it take to upgrade [Time Manipulation] from D rank to C rank?
10,000 Dimension Points ….
When it reached B rank, it would be 100,000 Dimension Points ….
When it reached A rank …. When it reached S rank ….
Haha, can your salary increase keep up with the price of commercial housing? There was no such thing.
Sigh, how nice it would be if there were more players.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng could not help but sigh. Before he transmigrated, the 200-square-meter penthouse suite in the city center was paid for by the players. If not for the players, he would not have been able to live such a good life.
So at that time, Fangzheng swore that he would produce more games with paywalls in the future, so that the players would be willing to spend money without worry, feel comfortable, and play with peace of mind …. Well, that was all for another time.
But now, as a Paladin, he had already signed the contract. What else could Fangzheng do? Get ready to work? At least the Goddess of Order was on his side. Fangzheng knew very well why he was not being hunted down by the Holy Cathedral even though he had killed an enemy Paladin. Of course, part of this was because Fang Zheng had used the enhanced Masayr to act mysterious. But if it wasn't for the Goddess of Order tacitly approving of his pretentiousness and even helping him out, who knew what the outcome would have been.
It couldn't be helped. In this world, people had to help each other.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng firmed his resolve and clenched his fists tightly.
For justice, for the world, for peace, for humanity, for freedom, for order. I, Fangzheng, swear that I will take away that terrible magic item and free the bound souls here!
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