Versatile Mage

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

Every place within the valley for a hundred kilometers was beyond recognition after being trampled by the undead army, and no human city was more solid than an entire valley. These creatures of the Underworld acted like they could pick up the scent of the living, and the fear they were under as they fled for their lives!

Playing tag was one of the greatest joys for these creatures of the Underworld. It was almost like the prey they tortured and chased down would taste better than those directly fed to them. All the living would die eventually and end up in the Underworld. Their meaningless struggle was only going to entertain the undead. So run as much as you could, run until you were worn out, run until you were overwhelmed by despair, and your flesh would be very fragrant!

Not long ago, the valley only held the Yoked and the Underworld Monarch Frogs, but the army of undead had swiftly replaced them all. Skeleton Executioners riding skeletal horned horses led the way. These white skeletons were holding a pair of bone weapons. Their rotten bodies were almost connected to the incomplete skeleton horses. The horses galloped freely across the territory of the living as their bone weapons rattled in the wind. They were a bunch of mad executioners!

Their role in the Underworld was to cut newcomers into pieces. The pieces would scatter across the place and mix up with the remains of others. They were the masters of incoming souls. To become a qualified undead, the first thing newcomers had to learn was not how to kill, but how to reassemble their bodies! If they could not find their own body parts, they would have to choose parts that were compatible with their bodies.

The Underworld Executioners led the army of undead. If anyone had been glancing down at the army from high up in the night sky, the Underworld Executioners were like a white veil drifting in the wind across the vast land. The density of the undead at the front was slightly higher, and gradually decreased toward the back of the army. The Underworld Executioners who had woken up late would eventually overtake the creatures who were afoot, and gathered at the front of the tide. It was like the white arc at the front of a tsunami, a spectacular blade of death!

The thousands of Underworld Executioners were only a small portion of the army. Other creatures slightly inferior to the Underworld Executioners in terms of speed were the Twin-Bodied Demon Cows, a strange kind of creature with the muscular body of a demon cow as its core, but the parts above its neck were made of the upper bodies of the Yoked!

Rumors said that Yoked who had atoned for their sins had a chance to be freed from the Underworld Monarch Frogs’ control. However, their cursed flesh had gone through endless tortures, and would be so weak that they could not even slaughter a chicken after leaving the Underworld Monarch Frogs. They had to connect their body to a demon cow without its head to truly live their redeemed life.

Two Yoked and an Underworld Demon Cow would turn into a Twin-Bodied Demon Cow. They had outstanding physical strength, and the smallest among them was at least five meters tall. They could even reach sixty meters, as tall as a skyscraper!

These Twin-Bodied Demon Cows were the main “trampling squad”. Countless undead were crushed into mincemeat by their hoofs. They enjoyed the sound and the touch of trampling on the remains and flesh of creatures. It was a great way for them to vent their frustrations. The rulers of the Underworld enjoyed watching flesh and bones scattering in the air while blood sprayed all over the ground. That spectacular red carpet was the only thing that matched their noble status. Therefore, these Twin-Bodied Demon Cows responsible for producing such ‘red carpets’ were the pharaohs’ favorite, and so the power granted to them was greater than others!

Half of the quakes and destruction the land was undergoing were the inspired work of the Twin-Bodied Demon Cows. They were following the Underworld Executioners, since the Executioners were good at picking up the scent of the living. The Twin-Bodied Demon Cows would be able to produce new carpets just by following the Underworld Executioners!

Behind the two vanguard troops were the rest of the Underworld creatures. They were so mixed up that it was impossible to identify what they were.

Unlike a usual horde of undead, these creatures were not classified as skeletons, zombies, demons, or spirits. They were classified into several different groups instead, including the Enslaved, underworld warriors, mummies, the Grafted, Underworld Titans, and the rulers…

Mo Fan was currently standing on a rocky slope. The Underworld Executioners and the Twin-Bodied Demon Cows were the first to flow past them, like a dark tide. The noises they made were deafening; they destroyed everything in the way. Even the hills along the way were razed to the ground. On the other hand, when the creatures were passing by the mountain where the Black Vatican was watching, Mo Fan noticed a crimson barrier encapsulating the mountain they were on.

The creatures of the Underworld avoided the mountain when they were passing by, like it was a forbidden land. They would cautiously avoid it, despite the massive congestion it caused!

Despite how unstoppable the army of undead was, the creatures did not trample the people of the Black Vatican to mush like Mo Fan had hoped.

After the vanguard went by, Mo Fan saw an ocean of undead surging past. He saw many mummies: Death Saber Mummies, Giant Axe Mummies, Red-Eyed Mummies, Dark Serpent Mummies…

There were many Undead Mages in Egypt, but from what he had heard, the majority of them could only Summon mummies. Of the creatures of the Underworld, only mummies could form a unique contract with the living, but even so, there were still a lot of mummies that were reluctant to sign a contract with living humans!

Mummies were from inside the pyramids, unlike the undead on the outside of the pyramids. Therefore, the overall strength of mummies was significantly higher than the outer undead. Even the weakest mummy had the strength of a Great Warrior-level creature!

Mo Fan had fought against mummies before, he knew how strong they were. His scalp had already turned numb after seeing the overwhelming number of mummies in front of him. To think that a single pyramid would contain over ten thousand mummies! Normally, the people who were buried as mummies were the authorities of Egypt during ancient times. Mo Fan remembered there were less than a hundred mummies during the battle against the mirage that General Fenna had commanded. It showed how shocking the number of mummies the Great Pyramid of Giza contained was!

He could not help but wonder how many soldiers in the whole country would stand a chance against just the army of mummies alone!

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A Dark Serpent Mummy passed by the mountain while Mo Fan was lost in his thoughts.

The Dark Serpent Mummy had the body structure of a human, but it was extremely tall, like a pine tree with no branches. Its body was covered in a shroud of demon scales, its eerie dark golden glow emanating a dangerous and terrifying aura.

The Dark Serpent Mummy’s head was as high as the mountain. It stared coldly at the people of the Black Vatican inside the crimson barrier when it passed by.

The other creatures had simply ignored their existence, or perhaps they could not even see the living humans inside the crimson barrier, but the Dark Serpent Mummy acted as if it could see them. It was looking right at them, leaving the Blue Deacons in a great panic!

“It…it can see us?” Violet Ghost gasped. His legs were already trembling.

The other Blue Deacons completely lost their calm. If the Demon Serpent Mummy destroyed the barrier, they would all be exposed in front of the unstoppable army of undead. Even a Forbidden Mage would struggle to leave this place in one piece!

“Hello!” The Cold Prince lifted his head and smiled widely.

The Demon Serpent Mummy looked at him. Its eyes flickered with disdain and ridicule.

It kept moving, and proceeded on its way. The Demon Serpent Mummy was surrounded by a huge group of Brutal Sword Death Servants. Unlike the rest of the undead moving so chaotically, the Brutal Sword Death Servants were moving in orderly rows!

The Demon Serpent Mummy saw the humans inside the barrier, but it did not attack them. The way it was looking at them was obviously full of disdain, like a noble person who could not be bothered wasting his time with trashy beggars!

The Cold Prince seemed to have realized the meaning behind the Demon Serpent Mummy’s grin. The childish smile on his face gradually lost its fervor.

The Cold Prince clearly did not plan to be looked down upon by a mummy ruler. In his opinion, he should be treated like a ruler of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and be respected by the creatures of the Underworld, instead of being treated so disdainfully!

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Mo Fan’s heart was beating rapidly as he stared at the Demon Serpent Mummy’s back.

What level was that creature? How did it apply so much pressure to them with just a single glance? It was most likely comparable to the eight undead rulers of the Ancient Capital!

In addition to that, Mo Fan was extremely familiar with the Brutal Sword Death Servants. He had a hard time fighting a dozen of them in the past. He remembered the Dark Swordmaster he had fought against before only had around a hundred of them as its underlings.

But the Demon Serpent Mummy had three companies of the Brutal Sword Death Servants, each troop having a thousand of them!

Having three troops of Brutal Sword Death Servants escorting him… could it be that the Demon Serpent Mummy was actually a pharaoh!?

Currently, only the rulers of Underworld with their own pyramid would be called a pharaoh in Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza clearly belonged to the pharaoh Khufu, but for some reason, Mo Fan felt that the Demon Serpent Mummy’s level was at the level of a pharaoh. Otherwise, why would he be escorted by so many Brutal Sword Death Servants!?

The Demon Serpent Mummy and his subordinates alone could easily trample a city into ashes!

The guy clearly saw us, yet he didn’t even bother attacking. Did the Cold Prince reach a special deal with the Underworld?, Mo Fan wondered.

That means the creatures of the Underworld have been planning to invade all along. They didn’t come because the Cold Prince Summoned them. The Cold Prince only unlocked the door for them. Perhaps that’s why the Demon Pharaoh of Serpents didn’t really treat him seriously?

The truth was, the Black Vatican was not necessarily unbeatable. They were more like a bunch of traitors that had opened the gate for the enemy when two countries were at war. If Mo Fan demonized now, he would have no trouble taking down all the members of the Black Vatican around him!