𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔
Lisa was now in a city called Zelano, which was not far from the main city of the undeads.
Zelano was a small city. Most of the people in the city were low and intermediate-level undeads. Only the city lord was a high-level undead.
After leaving the area, Lisa had to live in such an unfamiliar city. She first found an inn and stayed there for three bone coins a day.
In the society of the undeads, the purchasing power of bone coins was very strong. Lisa still had enough bone coins to cope for a while.
Even though she was a thief goddess and did not have to worry about money, it was more important for her to find a way to increase her strength and undo the seal.
If Jungkook were here, she might be able to learn how the undeads trained from his mouth, but right now she could only rely on herself.
After booking a room, Lisa decided to stroll around the city to see if she could find any clues.
Walking on a street full of undeads, Lisa felt very strange.
“Are you a human?” Suddenly, a voice came from behind Lisa.
Lisa trembled and subconsciously became vigilant.
But soon, she realized that she had overreacted. She had become an undead. How could she be a human?
Lisa laughed at herself and continued to move forward.
“Hey! Wait a minute!” A shout came from behind her.
Lisa frowned and turned her head hesitantly.
She saw a young undead with gray skin running towards her.
“You… Don’t run. I just want to ask you something. Don’t be nervous.” The undead teenager walked to Lisa with a smile. His handsome facial features, even when matched with his gray skin, did not make people feel disgusted. As far as the undeads were concerned, the man in front of them gave off a clean feeling.
“What’s the matter?” Lisa was not sure of the other party’s intentions. Just now, the word ‘human’ made Lisa subconsciously react.
“Hey, little guy, don’t be afraid. I am also an undead resurrected by human beings. I just haven’t seen an undead resurrected by human beings for a long time, so I just want to talk to you.” The handsome undead youth revealed a bright smile, and his white teeth looked very dazzling in the sunlight.
The corner of Lisa’s mouth twitched slightly. So this guy was just emotional from seeing someone like him?
She looked up and down at the young man in front of her. Low and intermediate-level undeads were all resurrected. Many of them were from other races when they were alive. Before the war between gods and devils, although the undeads were opposed by all races, it was not to the extent that they would fight to the death the moment they met. At that time, many high-level undeads would sneak into the graves of human beings and resurrect the dead into their own kind.
But after the war between gods and devils, the undeads, like other races, disappeared from the human world. They were sealed in the Howling Abyss, almost cutting off the possibility of resurrecting other corpses to fill their own population.
Looking at the young man in front of her, Lisa tilted her head slightly. He looked to be in his early twenties. Corpses resurrected by the undead would always maintain their appearance before death. Obviously, this young man was still very young when he died.
“Are you done?” Lisa pursed her lips. She was not interested in talking to this undead. She only stopped because she did not want to cause a commotion.
The young man was stunned and looked at Shen Yanxiao helplessly.
“I’m sorry, I… I just haven’t met my kind in a long time, so…” The young man lowered his head in embarrassment.
Lisa raised her eyebrows.
“Your kind?”
The young man said, “Although… although I was resurrected as a low-level undead a long time ago, I have always thought of myself as a human being. This body is not the real me.”
Low-level undead? Lisa looked at the young man in surprise. The death energy emanating from his body was obviously much stronger than hers. Lisa easily detected that the other party was clearly intermediate-level.
“You are an intermediate-level undead.” Lisa said.
The young man was stunned for a moment before he said, “I was a low-level undead when I was resurrected.”
Lisa’s eyes brightened when she heard that.
“Can you tell me how you train?”
“You don’t know?” The young man did not expect such a question.
“I don’t know.” Lisa nodded honestly. This undead human did not give her a bad feeling.
“Strange, didn’t the high-level undead who resurrected you tell you?” The young man scratched his head, confused.
There were two ways for the undeads to resurrect the dead. One was to preserve the soul and memories of the deceased, and the other was to directly resurrect the body and become a puppet that they could order around.
The latter type of resurrection consumed much less for the undeads. Many high-level undeads would use the latter, and the former was somewhat rare. The soul-preserving resurrections were generally used to fill the number of undeads. After being resurrected, the undead who resurrected them would also be responsible for telling them the rules of survival for the Undead race.
But the little undead in front of him seemed to know nothing about all this.
“Can you tell me?” Lisa looked at the puzzled young man and asked.
“Well, in fact, it’s not difficult. You just have to get some dark nuclei of undead creatures and absorb the power inside them,” the young man said.
Lisa knew that the undead creatures in the young man’s mouth were actually similar to the magical beasts in the Brilliance Continent. Some of them were born naturally, while others were creatures resurrected by the undeads. Just like magical beasts, every undead creature had a demonic core in their body that provided power. Only after killing the other party could this demonic core be taken out.
This kind of thing also existed in demons. In order to accumulate the first power for Jungkook, Lisa had to run around and collect it everywhere.
However, Lisa did not expect that after she became an undead, she would have to rely on this thing to increase her strength again.
“Well, undead creatures are quite ferocious. They are not something you can deal with. If you have money, you can go to the shops and buy some…” The young man shut his mouth halfway through. He noticed that the clothes of the little undead in front of him were very shabby. She looked so thin that she did not look like an undead with huge assets at all. Dark nuclei were very precious to low and intermediate-level undead. Every one of them was being sold for a sky-high price. It seemed a little difficult for such a little fellow to buy a dark nucleus.
Lisa did not notice the young man’s sympathetic gaze. She just narrowed her eyes and thought about where she should get some dark nuclei to nourish her extremely fragile body.
According to the young man, Lisa felt that the most convenient way to obtain a dark nucleus was to steal it.
She had never considered using money to buy things from the undeads.
Lisa thought as she walked away, leaving the young man who had yet to finish his sentence behind.
The young man looked at the little girl, who had already turned around to leave, and immediately rushed up.
“Wait!” The young man pressed Lisa’s shoulder.
Lisa frowned and turned around. Why was this guy still here?
Seeing Lisa’s eyes filled with disdain, the young man swallowed his saliva and retracted his hands.
Why was the gaze of this little fellow so terrifying?
In his memories, he recalled that human children were very friendly and adorable!
“You still don’t know anything about this place yet. It is very dangerous for you here. I… I have the law of survival for the undead here. You… You can take it and read it. In any case, I don’t need it anymore.” The young man took out a black book from his cloth bag and carefully handed it to Lisa. He just felt that it was rare for him to see his kind, so he wanted to get close to her. However, the little girl in front of him did not seem to like his presence, but he could not bear to see such an ignorant little girl get hurt…
The young man’s brain had turned into paste. After he stuffed the book into Lisa's’s hands, he did something very surprising; he just turned around and ran away at high speed.
Lisa was speechless as she looked at the book in her hand and then at the departing figure. She did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Well, although she did not have a good impression of the Undead race, that young man with human thoughts was not annoying.
Lisa looked at the book in her hand. Six large golden words were written on the black cover.
“The law of survival for the undead?” Lisa raised her eyebrows and turned to the first page. She saw three bold and powerful words written on the inside of the page—Su Jingfeng.
It was written in the human language. These three words were obviously the name of the young man when he was still a human. Even though he had become an undead, Su Jingfeng had not forgotten his original human side.
“Thank you,” Lisa looked in the direction Su Jingfeng left and whispered.
After putting away the law of survival for the undead, Lisa was no longer in the mood to stroll around. She went straight back to the inn and closed the door to study the book.
This book was obviously for resurrected undeads. It had records of the normal lives of the undeads.
After being resurrected, all of them would start off as low-level undeads. Only by constantly absorbing the death energy in dark nuclei could they improve their death energy and gradually evolve from a low-level undead to an intermediate-level undead.
It was also recorded in the book that the intermediate-level could be said to be the highest realm for non-purebred undeads.
Lisa calculated according to the previous times she undid her seals. If she wanted to undo all the layers of the undead seal, she had to train until she turned into a peak high-level undead.
“I shouldn’t be considered a non-purebred undead… right?” Lisa tapped her chin. Her situation was somewhat special. She was not resurrected by any undeads, but she was not a natural-born undead either. However, she was sure that the undead blood integrated into her body was definitely not that of a low-level undead.
This could be seen from her dragon blood. The power of other races integrated into her body by those Warlocks was almost all top-notch.
Unsure if she could break through to become a high-level undead, Lisa decided not to tangle with this problem any further. She quickly read the whole book, and slowly, she gained a general understanding of the situation of the Undead race.
In addition to absorbing death energy, undeads, like humans, could rely on improving their combat strength to enrich themselves.
The night after she learned about it, Lisa quietly visited all the shops in Zelano City.
But the tragic thing was…
Among the dozens of shops, she did not even find a single dark nucleus!!!
Crash!
Could it be that Su Jingfeng was fooling her?
Didn’t that guy say that you could buy it in a shop?!
Su Jingfeng was wronged. He did not lie to Lisa. Dark nuclei could indeed be bought from shops, but they were only sold in large shops in large cities. How could there be precious dark nuclei for sale in a small and almost negligible city like Zelano? Even if there were, they would be bought by other undeads immediately. It was impossible for them to wait until Lisa came in the middle of the night to steal them.
It had to be known that although there were many undead creatures in the Howling Abyss, due to some special reasons, the number of undead creatures killed had not increased.
It was rare for a batch of dark nuclei to be harvested, and with the high-quality ones being sent to the hands of the Lord of the Undead in the first instant, only the low-quality ones would enter the market.
The number of low and intermediate-level undead in the entire Howling Abyss was similar to the number of humans in the Brilliance Continent. With so many people in need, it was obvious how popular this thing was.
Lisa, who did not get a single dark nucleus, told herself that she could not return empty-handed, so she stuffed all the bone coins in those dozens of shops into her storage ring. As for those undead magical weapons, soul-summoning skulls, finger bones, and other commodities unique to the Undead race, Lisa did not take any of them.
Even though she had killed countless enemies, carrying so many sinister things on her would still burden her!
The method of raiding shops was no longer feasible. Lisa visited various shops for three consecutive nights, but she still found nothing. Therefore, she completely abandoned this road.
Right now, there were only two ways she could obtain a dark nucleus.
The first was to rush into the warehouse of that old bastard, the Lord of the Undead, and grab the dark nuclei he had hoarded.
However, Lisa thought that in her current condition, having small arms and legs, she really did not have the courage to break into the territory of the Lord of the Undead. Undeads were not human beings. They had many sinister methods to kill people. Without the powerful perception of Jungkook, Lisa did not intend to use her fragile little body to resist the cruelty of the Lord of the Undead.
The second method was also the most primitive method.
That was…
Lisa would kill the undead creatures herself.
The book in her hand also recorded some undead creatures. Lisa looked at the low-level undead creatures and saw that they were similar to low-level magical beasts. Although she had no battle aura or magic right now, she still had one skill.
That was archery!
The power of an arrow without the support of battle aura was naturally not too strong, but it should not be difficult to fight against low-level undead creatures. This was Lisa’s only fighting strength at present.
Having made up her mind, Lisa opened the storage ring with a smile and reached out her hands to touch the golden bow lying in the ring.
As a result…
Lisa’s hands that had just approached the longbow when a burning sensation immediately transmitted to her fingertips.
Lisa immediately retracted her hand and narrowed her eyes at her burnt fingertips.
“…” What was going on?!
Lisa was speechless.
She seemed to be unable to use the bow made by elves. As long as she touched it, she would immediately be injured by the pure energy of life on the bow.
Elves represented life, and undeads represented death. It was impossible for these two existences to coexist.
Lisa felt like crying…
She was glad that she had a skill that she could use without magic or battle aura, but now she realized that the weapon needed for this skill was so arrogant that she was not allowed to touch it!!
Do you think you’re a chaste woman?!
Do you not recognize your master after she changed her appearance? Are you a dog? How dare you bite her!
Lisa could no longer use the bows and arrows made by the elves. She did not want to turn her pair of hands into charcoal.
Helpless, Lisa could only go to the weapon shop in Zelano City and choose a bow.
When Lisa came to the only weapon shop in Zelano City, there were many low-level undead standing inside. They were browsing through the weapons in the shop.
Lisa silently snuck in.
She had only entered a weapon shop twice in her life. The first time was to buy a bow, and this time… it was to buy another bow!
Unlike the weapon shops in Black City, there were only a few oil lamps in this weapon shop. Lisa even had to squint her eyes just to see the weapons placed on the black wood counter.
The first thing Lisa saw was a skeleton arm wrapped in bandages. At the front end of the arm, the white bones of the palm were tightly clenched, and a gray crystal was embedded in the palm.
That was a… staff?
Lisa took another look. Almost every weapon in the shop had something to do with bones.
Lisa did not even want to touch those things.
“Do you have a pure wooden bow here?” Lisa looked around but could not find a bow that she could use. With no choice, she could only force herself to walk to the counter and ask the shop assistant.
“Dear customer, what… do you want?” The undead apparently didn’t quite understand Lisa’s request. He stared at Lisa with his empty eyes with a slightly gaped mouth, just like a corpse that had breathed its last breath.
“A pure wooden bow.” Lisa took a deep breath and warned herself to ignore the face that looked like something from a horror movie.
The shop assistant was dumbstruck when he heard Lisa’s request.
The two low-level undeads who were shopping for weapons looked at Lisa strangely.
“Hey, did you hear that? This idiot actually wants a wooden weapon.” One of the low-level undead poked his companion in amusement and looked at Lisa with a mocking gaze.
“Is she really an idiot? She actually wants a wooden weapon. Who would use that kind of thing? Is it for children to play house?”
For undeads who were filled with death energy, wooden things could not be used for a long time. Even the branches that had been chopped off would quickly wither into fragile dead wood in the hands of an undead. The death energy of undeads would subconsciously devour all living beings they came into contact with.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏
Therefore, in this undead weapon shop, there was basically nothing made of pure wood. Even if there were, it would be made out of tungsten wood that was as hard as steel. Tungsten wood had no toughness and was the closest thing to steel in wood. Only tungsten wood could maintain a certain firmness in the hands of an undead.
Unfortunately, tungsten wood was not suitable for making bows.
The wood needed for a bow must be resilient to a certain extent. Otherwise, it would not be able to bend.
Lisa looking for a pure wooden bow sounded like a joke to other undeads.
The shop assistant was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses. He looked at Lisa with doubt and impatience.
“I say, customer, if you don’t have anything you want to buy, please make way.” The shop assistant did not believe anything Lisa said. How could an undead want a pure wooden bow? That kind of thing would corrode into a fragile piece of dead wood in no time.
Lisa was innocent. She was really here to buy something, not to cause trouble.
“I really want to buy it. If you have it, sell it to me,” Lisa said helplessly. If she were not so weak right now, she would not mind dragging this idiot out and giving him a beating.
“No! Hurry up and leave.” The shop assistant waved his hand impatiently, as if he was chasing away flies.
Lisa narrowed her eyes and was about to flare up, but the next second, a tall figure suddenly appeared by her side. Before she could come back to her senses, the figure had already reached out and pulled out the undead from the counter.
“Ah!!” The undead released an ear-piercing scream.
“Shut up!” A cold roar sounded beside Lisa.
Lisa turned her head in surprise and suddenly found a tall and handsome figure appearing beside her.
He had long black hair, a sharp face, and handsome facial features that were laced with a wild and cold aura. His black eyes that were filled with killing intent narrowed as they flickered with a dangerous glint.
“Give Master what she wants, or I will eat you!” The cold voice came from the handsome man again.
Lisa was slightly shocked. She looked at the unfamiliar man in front of her in surprise.
Eat you…
Why did his tone sound so much like Taotie?
A murderous aura emanated from the man. Some of the undeads who were still in the shop fled in an instant.
The shop assistant trembled and widened his eyes in horror.
“In… in the left drawer…” The undead was almost crying.
The man narrowed his eyes and suddenly threw the undead out. It seemed like a light throw, but the undead crashed through several rows of cabinets before he stopped.
The man then bent down and opened the drawer on the left. A dusty wooden bow was lying quietly in the drawer. Without another word, the man took out the bow and handed it to Lisa who was stunned on the spot.
Lisa stared at the man’s facial features and hesitated for a moment before she slowly said.
“Taotie?”
The cold and wild handsome man suddenly blossomed with a bright smile.
Lisa was completely dumbstruck.
This fellow was really that foodie Taotie!
“You… How did you become like this?” Lisa pointed to the figure that was half a head taller than her, and she could not believe her eyes.
Taotie?
How was this possible?
Her Taotie was clearly a natural foodie, a cute little boy!
How did he turn into a wild, cold, and handsome man in the blink of an eye?
This did not make sense!
Taotie blinked his eyes and looked at Lisa’s shocked expression. After hesitating for a moment, his figure changed and once again, he turned into the cute little boy that only reached Lisa’s chest.
“Master, I’m protecting you!” Taotie snorted coquettishly and reached out to hug Lisa’s slender waist. He looked up at Lisa with his adorable face and clear eyes. His eyes were filled with the words “please praise me, feed me, touch me”.
“Protect… me?” Lisa had yet to recover from the shock of Toatie becoming a handsome man.
“I’ve said it before. Lord Jungkook and Vermillion Bird are not here, so I will be responsible for protecting Master’s safety. Master, don’t worry. I won’t let those undeads hurt you!” Taotie looked at Lisa with unusual seriousness.
Lisa was stunned.
Taotie had indeed said similar words before, but… she did not expect that Taotie would protect her in such a way.
“You can transform into an adult?” Lisa looked at Taotie.
Taotie nodded.
“Then why are you…” Why are you still acting cute all day long?!
Taotie innocently puffed up his cheeks and said, “Vermilion Bird said that Master likes us like this.”
“…” Lisa was speechless. What kind of knowledge did Vermilion Bird instill in Taotie?
“When did you start to be able to change into your human form?” Lisa’s lips twitched. She vaguely felt that she had been fooled by her two adorable idiots.
“Not long after the beast tide…” Taotie whispered.
“Can Vermilion Bird transform into an adult male?” Lisa narrowed her eyes.
“Yes.”
“Since when?”
“A few days before we left for the Hidden Dragon Continent…”
“Very good. You two little bastards, how dare you lie to me!” Lisa narrowed her eyes, grabbed Taotie, and slapped his little buttocks.
No wonder she had always found it strange. Taotie had already evolved into a holy beast, so why was he still unable to transform into an adult man? Vermilion Bird was also about to break through to the realm of a holy beast, so why did he still have a cute face all day long?
It turned out that these two little kids could already transform into adult men, but they had been fooling her!
“Wuhuhu, it was Vermilion Bird. Vermilion Bird said that Master likes an adorable appearance and told me not to become an adult. Wuhuhu…” Taotie burst into tears. Where did his previous coldness go?
A cute little face with crystal clear tears was staring at Lisa with grievance. Lisa’s heart tightened.
She suddenly let go of Taotie and turned her head to the side.
Looking at that little face again, the guilt in her heart was about to explode!
Vermilion Bird was right. Lisa did not have the slightest resistance against adorable little things. Otherwise, she would not have allowed Mini Dragon to occupy the position as her summoned beast and delayed sending it back to where its father, Wings of Death, was.
In order to ensure that his position as a cute pet would not be shaken, Vermilion Bird pulled in the foodie Taotie and maintained the appearance of cute boys together. He was determined to be the cutest little cutie in Lisa’s eyes.
At that very moment, Lisa wished she could grab Vermilion Bird and spank him!
Because of his injuries, she had been worried about Vermilion Bird. She thought that he could not transform into an adult man because his injuries had just been healed. But because of this…
She promised that she would not kill Vermilion Bird!
“Then why did you suddenly transform into an adult?” Lisa asked.
Taotie stood in place with his small hands behind his back and quietly rubbed his buttocks.
“Because I want to protect Master, just like Lord Jungkook!”
In Taotie’s mind, Jungkook was the most powerful existence he had ever seen. He deeply remembered that every time Jungkook protected Lisa, his mighty body was like an iron wall that sheltered Lisa from wind and rain.
Lisa was slightly stunned and turned to look at the shy Taotie.
Taotie had always been eating. For twenty-four hours a day, other than sleeping, he would just eat. Usually, if there was anything, Vermilion Bird would come forward to resolve it. If Vermilion Bird could not resolve it, Jungkook would take care of it.
There was hardly any time for Taotie to appear. Even when they were dealing with the undeads several times, Taotie had just been ‘eating’ them.
However, Lisa remembered that after she came to the Howling Abyss, she had not seen the scene of the little foodie eating silently for a long time.
He was either watching her quietly by her side or staying in her body to guard against any movements around her.
A foodie who had been pursuing food all his life suddenly gave up his pursuit and made it his duty to protect Lisa.
Taotie knew that Lisa was currently fragile. She did not have powerful magic or battle aura, nor the protection of Vermillion Bird and Lord Jungkook. Right now, the only one by Lisa’s side that could protect her safety was him.
Therefore, he abandoned his pursuit and picked up a weapon to replace Vermilion Bird and Jungkook as her guardian.
“Idiot.” Lisa looked at Taotie, her eyes overflowing with gratitude.
“Master, I will protect you. Please believe me,” Taotie looked at Lisa and said.
“Come back into my body. There will be trouble later.” Lisa rubbed Taotie’s little head with a gentle smile on her lips.
“Oh.” Taotie pitifully opened his mouth and returned to Lisa’s body in a flash.
Taotie had caused a scene in the weapon shop, causing the originally messy weapon shop to be even more messy.
Lisa swiftly found a few baskets of arrows from the shop, threw a few bone coins on the ground, and left with her newly obtained bow and arrows without looking back.
Taotie’s appearance would certainly alert the undeads. She had to leave at once!
Less than ten minutes after Lisa left, the undead soldiers of Zelano City received the news and led their troops to the weapon shop.
But what welcomed them was only an undead shop assistant crying without tears and a room full of mess.
After obtaining the weapon, Lisa did not return to the inn. She bought a map from a shop and left Zelano City.
Before the storm caused by Taotie subsided, she did not dare to stay in this city any longer. Her current ability was not enough to protect herself. If she were to let Taotie out again, she would immediately become a wanted criminal in the Howling Abyss.
Because of the trouble caused by a certain foodie, Lisa could only leave without stopping and embark on her journey of slaughtering undead creatures in advance.
𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏
In the Forest of Death, dozens of miles away from Zelano City, there was black vegetation everywhere. These plants nourished by death energy were highly corrosive. Any non-undead life form here could suffer the shadow of death at any time.
Lisa held the wooden bow in her hand and walked through the dense forest. Without the help of her battle aura, her speed was greatly restricted.
Lisa could not imagine that she would become like this one day.
Her strength had returned to her weak state, and the only weapon she could use was a pure wooden bow without any magical cores.
Lisa could feel that her body was spontaneously absorbing the little vitality left in the bow. In order to not absorb it too quickly, she could only wrap a thick cloth around her palm to isolate some of her aura.
She did not want her weapon to be scrapped before she could even find a target.
Lisa’s current ability was insufficient. She did not want to challenge high-level undead creatures. Even though she had Taotie, this holy beast, sitting in front of her, Lisa had already made up her mind. As long as it was not a crisis, she would never borrow the power of Taotie.
Plus, it was not necessarily a bad thing for her to return to zero.
Her previous progress had been too fast. Even though she had been working hard to seize every minute and second to train, she was mostly training in battle aura and magic. She did not have much time to train in her physical skills.
True experts relied on their internal and external strength. Lisa’s internal strength was very strong, but her external physical skills had always been lacking. Most of the time, she relied on battle aura and magic to fight head-on with her enemies. Jungkook had also mentioned this before. She was an expert in long-range attacks and sneak attacks, but once a strong enemy approached her, her ability to fight back would be limited.
Right now, Lisa no longer had any magic or battle aura to rely on. Now, everything could be resisted by her strong physique.
Lisa locked onto her first target, a low-level nightwolf.
Nightwolves were an extremely low-level undead creature. However, nightwolves were accustomed to living in groups. One nightwolf was not difficult to deal with, but they often moved out as a group. At least two or three of them would travel together.
However, Lisa discovered that the nightwolf in front of her was wandering around the Forest of Death alone. She carefully observed for more than ten minutes and did not find any other nightwolves nearby. Only then did she relax.
Lisa subconsciously picked up her bow and arrow, wanting to shoot the nightwolf.
But the second before she took action, she gave up the idea.
Since she wanted to train up her insufficient physical skills, why should she stick to her Archer profession?
Lisa curled her lips and carefully opened her interspatial ring. She placed the wooden bow in and found a dagger made of black iron.
The dagger was extremely sharp, but it did not have much spirituality. It was also one of the weapons Lisa could use at present.
“Master, what are you doing?” Crouching in Lisa's’s body, Taotie noticed her actions and suddenly asked.
“Just finding a little wolf to practice with. Don’t worry.” Lisa chuckled, but she felt that her current situation was ridiculous. A low-level undead creature actually had the ability to threaten her life.
The size of a nightwolf was similar to an ordinary wolf. Its entire body was covered with grayish-black fur that faintly emitted a trace of death energy.
Lisa wrapped the dagger in her hand with a cloth strap. She had learned this from the mercenaries of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Group. In intense battles, weapons would often be lost due to external forces. Lisa’s current physical strength was insufficient, so it was hard to guarantee that such a situation would not happen.
Taking a deep breath, Lisa brought out her thieving skills and carefully approached the nightwolf that was looking for prey.
The hungry nightwolf did not realize that it had become someone else’s prey. It opened its hungry eyes and looked around for a target.
All of a sudden, a ghost shadow pounced on the nightwolf.
With her agility, Lisa gripped the dagger and stabbed the nightwolf.
Although the nightwolf was a low-level undead creature, its movements were extremely agile. It immediately noticed the abnormality and opened its bloody mouth at Lisa.
Lisa stabbed the back of the nightwolf. And just before it was about to bite her, she immediately jumped back and dodged the attack.
“I’m really not used to it.” Lisa did not feel any sense of accomplishment. She frowned and looked at the nightwolf she had injured.
Her knife was originally aimed at the neck of the nightwolf, but because of her lack of speed, the nightwolf dodged it, causing her to only stab it in its back. Moreover, because the dagger had pierced its ribs, it could not go deep.
The original fatal blow missed, which made Lisa more aware of how insignificant her current strength was.
If it were the previous her, she could toy a small nightwolf like the one in front of her to death with just one hand. How could it be like now, giving the other party a chance to fight back?
Recognizing her current strength again, Lisa did not give up. Instead, she became more determined to work hard and become stronger.
In the Forest of Death, where there were no undeads, Lisa and the nightwolf fought fiercely.
Time flew by and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
In the depths of the Forest of Death, there was an inconspicuous tree house on a huge tree. The tree house was very simple, only enough to shelter them from the wind and rain.
An agile figure dashed up from under the tree and stood steadily on the branch.
In the small tree house, an adorable little guy was looking at a certain someone covered in blood with his legs crossed.
“Why bother?” Taotie blinked his eyes and looked at Lisa, who had returned dirty again.
At this moment, Lisa was dressed in simple black clothing with an undead creature on her shoulder. Seeing Taotie’s speechless expression, Lisa smiled and threw the undead creature to him.
In the past half month, other than eating and sleeping, Lisa spent the rest of her time searching for undead creatures everywhere in the Forest of Death.
During this process, Lisa encountered danger several times. Taotie had wanted to take action several times, but he was always stopped by Lisa. She would rather fight to the death than let Taotie help.
However, during this period of time, Lisa’s growth was also extremely fast.
At first, she could only fight against low-level undead creatures carefully. Now, she could use her skills to kill intermediate-level undead creatures alone. Her current strength had been accumulated bit by bit by herself without any help.
Compared to her previous progress, Lisa’s current growth speed was much slower. However, these were all her accumulated strengths. There would never be a situation where her strength and power would change like before.
Although Lisa felt that her progress was a little slow, in fact, she had grown very fast.
In the past half month, she had killed more than two hundred undead creatures, and the number of dark nuclei she had accumulated was very high. Lisa absorbed the death energy in those dark nuclei according to the method written in the book she received, and there were faint signs of breaking through to the level of an intermediate-level undead.
“Master, do you miss Vermilion Bird and Lord Jungkook?” Taotie swallowed the corpse of the undead creature like a jujube. Lisa’s spoils of war were directly swallowed by him every time. However, during this period of time, he had been guarding Lisa’s safety, so he had very little time to eat. Even so, he did not complain in the slightest and still played the role of a guardian seriously.
Lisa was stunned and her clear eyes drooped slightly.
Miss them?
During her days in the Howling Abyss, she would miss them whenever she closed her eyes every night.
“We will go back.” Lisa perked up and rubbed Taotie’s little head.
“Yes.” Taotie nodded obediently. He held his sleeve and carefully wiped the dust off Lisa’s face.
From the first day he met his master, she had been so powerful and glorious. But now, she came back like this every day. Taotie could not help but feel sad. This should not have happened to Lisa, but she herself did not have any complaints. She just grabbed every minute and second to train desperately.
Lisa’s training was so ruthless that even Taotie was worried.
After resting for a moment, Lisa set off again. She had a deep understanding of the benefits of absorbing dark nuclei. Unfortunately, most of the targets she had killed before were low-level undead creatures. There was too little death energy in those low-level dark nuclei, so her growth had been very slow. It was not until two days ago when she began to change her target to intermediate-level undead creatures that her growth speed improved.
After half a month of constant exploration, Lisa had become very familiar with the Forest of Death. She followed her previous marks and dashed towards the gathering place of intermediate-level undead creatures.
Suddenly, a panicked cry entered Lisa’s ears.
Lisa immediately stopped and flew to a tree to hide.
That sound was clearly the cry of the undead.
Lisa had been squatting in the Forest of Death for half a month, but she had not seen a single undead. Why would an undead come here today?
Lisa narrowed her eyes and flew along the tree branches.
Soon, she found the source of the cry.
In the southeastern region of the Forest of Death, several young purebred undead were running at full speed, rolling and crawling all the way while wailing incessantly. Behind them, a huge high-level undead creature was roaring angrily as it chased after the fleeing purebred undead. Its huge body directly broke the trees in front of it.
Lisa was dumbfounded. What was going on?
A group of young purebred undead had provoked the most ferocious undead creature in this forest. Were they tired of living?
𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝑻𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘
Although those young purebred undeads were also high-level undeads, their strength could not be compared to that of an adult high-level undead.
Purebred undead would be categorized as a high-level undead after their birth, but their strength was actually no different from a low-level undead. They had to constantly absorb death energy before they reached adulthood to become a real high-level undead.
Lisa had seen the high-level undead creature that was chasing them everywhere before.
Not long ago, when she was fighting to the death with an intermediate-level undead creature, she accidentally entered the territory of this huge creature. As a result, the intermediate-level undead creature that had fought with Lisa for half a day and left Lisa riddled with scars was directly trampled to death by this fellow.
If Lisa had not escaped quickly, she might have really summoned Taotie to save her life.
From then on, Lisa would deliberately avoid his territory.
“The ignorant are really fearless.” Lisa stood on a high tree branch and sighed as she looked at the group of purebred undeads who were being chased by the high-level undead creature.
The talents of these purebred undeads were very high, much higher than that of a resurrected undead. However, no matter how high their talents were, they still needed to consolidate their strength before they could become truly talented. They were still young seedlings, yet they dared to provoke a giant. Wasn’t that courting death?
Those purebred undeads were complaining incessantly under its chase. A few undead teenagers even picked up their weapons and reluctantly attacked the giant with their weapons.
It could be seen that these undead teenagers still had some ability, but no matter how fierce these little toddlers were, they could only use their baby teeth to bite people. If they wanted to grow into a vicious beast that could eat people without spitting out their bones, there was still a long way to go.
Lisa crossed her arms and enjoyed the scene.
She had no intention of helping at all, not to mention that she had no record of soloing a high-level undead creature before. Just the identity of the other party alone made her have no intention of saving them.
Why did she save a group of undead brats who did not know the immensity of heaven and earth?
Unfortunately, the heavens seemed to want to make things difficult for Lisa. A female undead, who was being chased around by the giant like a headless fly, somehow regarded the tree Lisa was on as a refuge and directly leaned against the trunk, shivering.
The other undeads were all running, but this fellow was so frightened that her legs went soft and could no longer run. Seeing this easy target, the giant beast regarded her as its food and rushed over.
Lisa’s eyes widened.
I say, girl, why do you have to lean on my tree? I just want to watch a show. Can you save me the trouble?
Before Lisa could finish being speechless, the huge beast had already hit the tree under her feet.
The tree trunk as thick as ten people broke under the impact.
Lisa, who was standing on the tree, did not have the time to jump onto another tree before she was forcefully shaken down.
The giant was still furious when he suddenly saw an undead falling from the tree. Its eyes immediately turned red as it rushed towards Lisa, not caring if she was with the previous group.
“I’m just watching a show. Why am I so unlucky…” Lisa looked at the huge beast that was rushing towards her with a tragic expression. She wanted to cry but had no tears.
With her current physique, if this fellow were to bump into her, she would definitely turn into meat paste!
A group of purebred undead who were still running suddenly stopped because they found that the huge creature had a new target and was no longer chasing them.
“Who is that little kid? Why haven’t I seen her before?” A battered and exhausted undead teenager asked his companions.
“I’ve never seen her before either, but she looks like a low-level undead.” Another undead teenager shook his head. He was also covered in wounds.
“Low-level undead? What a joke. How can a low-level undead come to the Forest of Death?” An undead girl came over with the help of her companions, her face full of disbelief.
“In any case, that Mole Beast seems to have regarded her as its target. Let’s take the opportunity to leave first.” The undead teenager did not care about the other party’s life or death at all. Even if the other party’s appearance had resolved their crisis, in the minds of the arrogant purebred undead, low-level undeads were as insignificant as ants. Asking them to save a low-level undead was simply a joke.
Just as they wanted to take advantage of the Mole Beast’s change of target to retreat, a mournful roar erupted from its mouth.
This roar shook the earth, and the group of undead teenagers turned around in surprise.
What happened next stunned them all.
They saw an agile petite figure dancing in the air with the help of the surrounding trees. She held a very inconspicuous longbow in her hand. While she dodged, the longbow in her hand kept shooting arrows at the Mole Beast.
It was almost impossible to fight against high-level undead creatures with ordinary arrows. The skin of high-level undead creatures was extremely tough. Even swords that could cut iron like mud could hardly cause them fatal injuries.
However, an unbelievable scene unfolded before their eyes. Every arrow shot by that figure was aimed at the Mole Beast’s eyes!
No matter how powerful an undead creature was, their eyes would always be their weakest point.
“How is this possible… How did she do it?” The undead teenager rubbed his eyes in disbelief. He could not believe what he saw.
A low-level undead could actually inflict heavy damage on a high-level undead creature! This was simply a joke!
“Oh god! I’ve never seen such a precise aim!” The undead girl covered her mouth in surprise.
Even though she was constantly dodging, she still had the ability to release arrows in mid-air, and every arrow hit the Mole Beast’s eyeballs. Under such a dense swarm of arrows, the Mole Beast’s fragile eyeballs were filled with black arrows. It was hard for them to imagine that an undead could shoot so many arrows in such a situation, and the accuracy of the arrows shot was at 100%!
“Is that guy really a low-level undead? That’s impossible.” The purebred undead who wanted to take the opportunity to slip away stopped in their tracks. They were dumbstruck as they looked at the scene of a low-level undead toying with a high-level undead creature.
Seeing that the Mole Beast, who had almost killed all of them, was played to this extent by a puny low-level undead, the worldview of these teenagers was completely distorted.
Crash!
That fellow could not be a low-level undead! If low-level undeads were so skilled, how were we supposed to live?
The group of purebred undead teenagers were shocked by someone’s gorgeous display of archery.
Little did they know that the person who was entangled with the Mole Beast already had the urge to die.
If Lisa knew the thoughts of those undead teenagers, she would definitely give each of them a big slap!
What seemingly gorgeous archery? What teasing? F*ck, those were all fleeting clouds!
God knew that she had no experience in fighting one-on-one with high-level undead creatures. This fellow was so big and strong. If she were touched by this fellow, she would go to see God!
In order to save her life, Lisa could be said to have exerted all her strength. With her skills as a thief goddess, the combat skills she had honed during this period of time, and the few archery skills she had left, she was not slapped to death by the Mole Beast. She did not dare to stop at all because the speed of the high-level undead creature was too fast. Once she was caught by it, Lisa could only die.
Therefore, she could only constantly jump back and forth in mid-air with the help of the trees around her and seize every opportunity to shoot the Mole Beast’s eyes.
This was not performance art, this was survival!
She did not want to know how elegant her jumping posture was, nor did she want to know how elegant her shooting posture was. She only wanted to live!
Lisa cursed all eighteen generations of ancestors of those idiotic purebred undeads in her heart and also despised this idiot Mole Beast.
You are a high-level undead creature. Is there a brain in that massive skull of yours? Do you have eyes?
That idiot standing there is your target. Why are you fighting with a bystander like me?
Helplessly, Lisa could only look down on those purebred idiots while she desperately tried to save her own life.
Were the brains of undeads not very good? Mingye was already stupid enough, so why were those purebred undeads so ridiculously stupid?
F*ck, it was one thing not to help, but what was with standing there and watching the show?
Do you have any decency? Do you know that you were the one who provoked this big guy?
Lisa was depressed, but the Mole Beast refused to let go of her.
This was Lisa’s first battle against a high-level undead creature, and she did not have much confidence in winning. However, her long-standing experience had made her notice the key to victory. The Mole Beast was huge. Even though it was extremely fast, its movements would be greatly restricted in such a dense forest due to its huge size.
Therefore, Lisa constantly used the surrounding trees as cover and attacked the Mole Beast’s eyes from afar.
The group of purebred undead teenagers had been completely convinced by Lisa’s gorgeous display of archery. They even forgot to run away and save their lives. They just stood there in a daze, watching the fierce battle between Lisa and the Mole Beast.
It was not until two hours later that the Mole Beast, whose eyes had been filled with arrows, finally realized that it could not catch this crafty undead. Having lost its vision, it let out an angry roar, turned around, and returned to the depths of the dense forest with its tail between its legs.
The Mole Beast could not understand how those seemingly fragile undeads could suddenly be so ferocious. An undead could actually toy with it and blind its eyes. What was even more depressing was that it could not even touch the other party!
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆
Lisa finally relaxed as she watched the Mole Beast run away. She slowly landed on the ground and rubbed her aching shoulders.
After more than two hours of shooting incessantly, she had consumed more than half of the arrows in her interspatial ring. She could not even count how many arrows she had shot.
Fortunately, it was a large high-level undead creature this time. If it were a small one, Lisa felt that she might not be so lucky.
Lisa was still secretly summarizing her experience in this battle when a large wave of black shadows rushed to her and surrounded her.
“You… you fought off the Mole Beast?” An undead girl screamed in a nearly distorted voice.
Lisa was forcefully brought back to her senses by this shout. As soon as she looked up, she saw a group of undead teenagers surrounding her.
What the heck? What was going on?
What did these idiots want?
“You’re a low-level undead? That’s impossible…” After approaching Lisa, the undead teenager confirmed that the death energy on her body was indeed that of a low-level undead. However, there was something strange about the death energy on her that he could not understand for a moment.
“You are so good at archery. Where did you learn it?”
The group of undead teenagers chattered noisily in Lisa’s ears.
Lisa blinked her eyes. Looking at these curious undead teenagers, she was speechless.
Could these idiots be any more stupid? Did they realize that they had just experienced a crisis?
After waiting for Lisa’s response for a long time, the group of undead teenagers looked at Lisa with some doubts. If it were any other time, they would never be so kind to a low-level undead. However, Lisa had just shown them her amazing archery skills, which made their arrogant hearts somewhat restrained.
“Hello, my name is Iry. Thank you for saving us just now.” An older undead teenager seemed to have noticed Lisa’s indifference. He revealed a smile and looked at Lisa.
Lisa glanced at Iry. She remembered that when they were chased by the Mole Beast, it was this undead teenager who had been trying to organize his companions to attack the Mole Beast. Although the effect was not obvious, at least he had some brains.
“No need. If there’s nothing else, can I go now?” Lisa pursed her lips. She did not intend to stay with these idiots.
Iry looked awkwardly at Lisa and then at his companions before he said, “Well, please wait a moment. We are actually students of Deathfire Academy. We are here to carry out the task given to us by our mentor.”
Iry was also very helpless. There were only more than twenty people in their team, all of whom were young purebred undeads. As a result, they received a mission to go to the Forest of Death. No one expected that not long after they entered the Forest of Death, they would encounter the ferocious Mole Beast. If Lisa had not appeared in time, it was estimated that many of their companions would have died at the hands of the Mole Beast.
“Deathfire Academy?” Lisa raised her eyebrows.
She remembered that there was a record about this in the Law of Survival for the Undead. In the world of the undead, there were schools similar to that of human school that were specially used to teach young undeads how to increase their strength. These schools were generally divided into three types: one for purebred undeads, one was open to resurrected undeads, and the other was open to both kinds of undeads.
Deathfire Academy belonged to the third type, which was open to both kinds of undeads.
However, the conditions for resurrected undeads to enroll in the academy were very harsh. Not only did they need to undergo a death energy test, but they also needed the recommendation of the high-level undead who resurrected them.
Moreover, schools that specialized in dealing with resurrected undead taught very strange content. Most of the content they taught was how to make resurrected undeads submit to purebred undeads.
Lisa had also thought about whether she should go to an undead academy or not. After all, a lot of the knowledge there was tailor-made for undeads. Going to such an academy would be much faster than her working behind closed doors. However, because the enrollment conditions were very harsh, Lisa could only give up.
After all, she did not have anyone who could recommend her.
“Yes, our mission is to kill five ghost wolves.” Seeing that Lisa had heard of Deathfire Academy, Iry revealed a big smile on his face.
“You?” Lisa sized up the group of teenagers.
Ghost wolves were intermediate-level undead creatures, and they were accustomed to acting alone. Lisa had also killed two ghost wolves before. This type of undead creature was very disgusting. It could transform its body into a soul state for a short period of time, making it impossible to attack it. Although the duration was very short, it could effectively avoid fatal injuries. It took Lisa half a day to kill those two ghost wolves.
As for the group of teenagers in front of her…
Lisa honestly did not think highly of them. After seeing their reaction when dealing with the Mole Beast, they would probably be tortured to tears when facing those crafty ghost wolves.
“Well, this is the first time we have received a mission to kill an intermediate-level undead creature, and it is also the first time we have come to the Forest of Death. I see that you seem to be very familiar with this place, so I wonder if you can join us and help us complete our mission. We will definitely thank you well,” Iry opened his mouth and said in a somewhat embarrassed tone. A group of purebred undead actually had opened their mouths and asked a low-level undead for help. This was simply a disgrace!
However, Iry had a vague feeling that the other party might not be as simple as a low-level undead.
At least, he had never seen such a savage low-level undead.
“…” Lisa looked at Iry speechlessly, wondering if she had misheard him.
“Not interested.” Lisa turned to leave.
She did not want to cooperate with these idiots who went against the Mole Beast the moment they entered the forest.
“Hey! Don’t go yet!” Iry was a little anxious when Lisa refused.
Iry had the most experience in this team and was also the oldest here. He was elected as the leader by other teenagers, but Iry knew very well that his companions really had no strength to speak of. When they encountered the Mole Beast, only one or two of them could barely fight back, while the others could only run away.
With such a team, Iry did not feel at all that he could complete the task the mentor gave them.
“I’m not interested.” Lisa frowned and was somewhat impatient.
“Don’t be in a hurry to refuse. You can tell us first about the remuneration you want. Our family conditions are pretty good. As long as it’s not too difficult to get, we might be able to satisfy you.” Iry tried hard to persuade Lisa. After what had just happened, he had no confidence in his team at all. This mission was very important to him, and he had to complete it.
𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏
Lisa looked at the eager Iry in front of her. She already understood what had happened just now. It was almost impossible to rely on this team to kill five ghost wolves. Many of the undeads here had no combat experience. In the face of powerful undead creatures, they only knew how to run away.
Even though ghost wolves were not as powerful as the Mole Beast, they would often render their opponents helpless due to their unique skills.
If these undead teenagers could cooperate together well, it would not be difficult to kill five ghost wolves.
However, based on how they performed just now…
Lisa determined that their level of cooperation was non-existent.
“I need a large number of intermediate and high-level dark nuclei.” Although Lisa’s speed of killing undead creatures in the Forest of Death was not slow, they were still just low-level undead creatures. In the face of intermediate-level undead creatures, her speed of killing would be greatly reduced. As for high-level undead creatures, she did not have the ability to kill them for the time being.
“There’s no problem with intermediate-level dark nuclei, but as for high-level ones…” Iry hesitated for a moment before he finally nodded.
“We will try our best to get them, but as you know, high-level dark nuclei are generally supplied to the royal family. The quantity may not be able to meet your needs.”
“One hundred intermediate and twenty high-level ones,” Lisa said.
With this batch of dark nuclei, she should be able to break through to the level of an intermediate-level undead. At that time, she might really be able to challenge high-level undead creatures.
Iry looked at Lisa and said, “Please let us discuss this.”
Lisa nodded in agreement.
Iry immediately discussed it with the other undead teenagers.
“I say, Iry, this kid is too ruthless. Where are we going to get a hundred intermediate and twenty high-level dark nuclei?” The other teenagers were very dissatisfied with Lisa’s exorbitant demand.
“I’ll think of a way to get the high-level dark nuclei. You can just get the intermediate ones.” Iry sighed. Lisa’s asking price was extremely high. If this price was released in a city of the undead, not to mention five ghost wolves, even five Mole Beasts could be sold.
However, they were now in the Forest of Death. Apart from Lisa, they could not find another powerful undead.
Moreover, they did not have enough time. They only had five days for this mission. If they wanted to rush to the nearest city, they would need at least four days to go back and forth. Even if they did that, it was unknown if they could find five ghost wolves in the Forest of Death in the remaining day.
“Iry, are you crazy? Are you really going to pay her so much? This mission is just a small test. Even if we fail, the teacher will not punish us.” Another undead teenager disagreed. If they could not complete the mission, they would at most get a bad score.
“That’s right. This kid isn’t that powerful. She didn’t kill the Mole Beast, right? At most, she’s a little stronger than you. Besides, there are so many of us. If we really encounter a ghost wolf, we should be able to fight it. A ghost wolf is not a Mole Beast. It’s just an intermediate-level undead creature.” Many undead teenagers were unwilling to pay such a huge fee. They would rather try their luck.
Iry’s proposal was completely rejected. None of the undeads supported him. It was really unacceptable for them to give so many dark nuclei to a low-level undead.
Iry’s expression was somewhat ugly. He was a few years older than these undead teenagers and had been in Deathfire Academy for a longer time. He knew very well that the mission this time was not that simple at all.
However, looking at his confident teammates, Iry knew that even if he told them the importance of the mission, they would not care too much.
Lisa was not surprised to see Iry walking over dejectedly.
She knew that the price she offered was very high and had exceeded the value of this mission, but she did not feel any regret. She did not intend to help them in the first place. If they were willing to accept the fact that they were being squeezed dry, then she would treat it as training. If they were unwilling, it was fine. She would continue with her training.
“Sorry, they can’t accept your price.” Iry looked at Lisa awkwardly.
Lisa smiled and said, “The price I want is outrageous, so it’s reasonable for them to reject it. If there’s nothing else, I’ll take my leave.”
“Please wait!” Iry suddenly said, “I want to ask, if… if we change our minds, where can we find you?” Iry had a feeling that their next task would not be very smooth.
Lisa raised her eyebrows. “Every afternoon, I will go to the nearby spring to fetch water. If you change your mind, you can find me there.” Lisa did not intend to expose her tree house.
“Very well.” Iry nodded politely to Lisa and then turned back to his team.
Lisa continued her training. Meeting this group of undead teenagers was just a small episode in her training.
The day after she separated from Iry and the others, Lisa went to the spring at noon to get some water. Just as she walked near the spring, she saw a group of undead teenagers lying on the edge of the spring.
This group of undead was the team Lisa had met before, but in just one day, this group of undead teenagers had changed dramatically.
They were already in a sorry state when they were chased by the Mole Beast that day, and now they looked even more miserable. Their clothes ragged, their faces ashen, and their hair was casually draped over their shoulders like straw. A few undead girls sat by the spring with empty eyes.
If the team Lisa encountered before was considered as unlucky, the scene in front of her now could only be described as refugees fleeing from a famine.
How did they end up like this in just one day?
Before Lisa could figure it out, Iry, who was sitting in the corner, had already discovered Lisa’s existence. He immediately got up and rushed towards Lisa.
“You really came!” Iry’s gray, handsome face almost wept with joy when he saw Lisa.
“What’s wrong with you?” Lisa found it hard to imagine what had happened to this group of teenagers. How could they be in such a sorry state? Even Iry’s clothes were in tatters, and he had to rely on a black cloak to hide his sorry state.
Iry wanted to cry but had no tears. “We met a ghost wolf.”
Lisa looked at Iry with hesitation. She didn’t believe that this group of undead teenagers without any combat experience could deal with ghost wolves, but even if they couldn’t kill the other party, they didn’t have to torture themselves like this, did they?!
Although the ghost wolf was an intermediate-level undead creature, its disgusting feature was its occasional ghosting skills. In terms of its attack, the ghost wolf was not outstanding.
Lisa could not figure out what had happened to them.
With a long face, Iry told Lisa everything they had encountered yesterday.
After they parted ways with Lisa, their team found a safe place to rest and adjust. In the afternoon, they set off again to look for the ghost wolves.
They did not know if it was fate or something else, but they did find a ghost wolf before nightfall. However, just as they were about to attack it, they tragically discovered that the ghost wolves, who had always acted alone, would attack in groups!
The moment they attacked the first ghost wolf, three stronger ghost wolves immediately pounced from all directions!
A team that had already fallen into a bitter fight against a single ghost wolf would have to face the attacks of four ghost wolves at once.
It was obvious how miserable they would end up.
Before they could fight back, they were chased around the forest by four ghost wolves. Many of their companions were bitten by the four ghost wolves. If it were not for their strong self-healing abilities, they would have died here.
Lisa was amazed. Ghost wolves had always acted alone, and it was almost impossible for more than one to appear at the same time. But there was only one possibility for this to happen.
That was, the first ghost wolf Iry and others saw was actually a female ghost wolf, and that female happened to be in heat. Its pheromone had attracted other male ghost wolves, and as a result… Iry and others got caught in a tragedy.
Lisa really did not know what to say. Iry’s luck was too good.
“After this failure, my companions also realized the horror of the ghost wolves. They want to… can we invite you to join our team again? All the remuneration will be given according to your previous request.” Iry almost could not wait to open his mouth. Previously, he was full of confidence that they could deal with a few ghost wolves, but after being attacked by ghost wolves, he finally realized the horror of ghost wolves. After being chased around the whole forest, they had been scared out of their wits. Even if you beat them to death, they would not dare to fight ghost wolves again.
Thus, Iry had no choice but to take the team back to the spring and ask for Lisa’s help.
When Lisa saw Iry’s group appear by the spring, she had already guessed their intention, but… she still had some doubts in her heart. Iry’s group of undead teenagers was absolutely the worst team she had ever seen. As soon as they entered the Forest of Death, they provoked a Mole Beast, a high-level undead creature. It was already rare for them to be lucky enough to encounter their target ghost wolf, but in the end, they happened to bump into the scene of a male ghost wolf courting a mate, directly turning a one-on-one duel into a group fight.
Nothing seemed to be going smoothly for this team.
Seeing that Lisa did not respond for a long time, Iry could not help feeling a little anxious.
Just as he tried to talk more with Lisa, she curled her lips and stared at him with a smile. “I can join you, but there are two conditions you have to promise me.”
The fighting ability of this team was too tragic to look at. Lisa felt that even the first-year students of Saint Laurent Academy were probably better than these brats.
“What conditions?” Iry asked. They had refused Lisa’s request before, and now they had to come back for her help because they had hit a brick wall. It would be ridiculous if this matter were to spread out.
As long as Lisa’s additional conditions were not too harsh, Iry could still accept it.
“First, after I join you, all of you must listen to my arrangements. Second, the dark nuclei of the five ghost wolves will belong to me.” Lisa looked at Iry and stated her additional conditions.
“Well…” Iry hesitated.
Lisa shrugged her shoulders and said, “To tell you the truth, I’m not optimistic about your ability to survive in the Forest of Death. You know nothing about this place. I don’t want anyone to accidentally break into the territory of some dangerous creatures again. You only need the ghost wolves’ corpses. Their dark nuclei are of no value to you, so I’ll take them. You just have to listen to my arrangements. I promise that after I help you complete your mission, there will be no casualties among you.”
Lisa was very sure, because from the very beginning, she did not intend to let this group of dregs with only five percent of her fighting strength join the battle. Instead of wanting a group of pig-like teammates, she would rather fight the ghost wolves one-on-one!
“Can you really guarantee our safety?” Iry looked at Lisa in surprise. To tell the truth, after entering the Forest of Death for less than three days, all of them were riddled with scars. If it were not for their undead physique, it was estimated only a few of them could still stay standing.
Two consecutive failures had cast a huge shadow on these young undead teenagers.
So it was great news that someone could ensure their safety.
“As long as you abide by our agreement, I can guarantee it.” Lisa nodded.
“I’ll go and discuss it with them. I’ll be done soon. Please wait a moment!” Iry was a little excited. Lisa’s confidence made him see hope. He immediately turned back and conveyed Lisa’s words to his companions.
Unlike before, this time the undead teenagers were unusually easy to talk to. They did not object to Lisa’s additional conditions. Especially after they heard that Lisa would ensure their safety during this period, all of them scrambled to express their approval.
Who still wanted to care about some shitty mission? They only wanted to return to the academy safely! They had had enough of this damn place!
Lisa’s additional request was quickly approved, and she joined the team of undead teenagers. At the same time, Lisa asked Taotie, who was crouching in her body, to pay attention to the surroundings. Once he found a high-level undead creature approaching, she would be immediately alerted.
“Well… we don’t know what to call you yet.” Iry looked at the little fellow who was a head shorter than him and said somewhat awkwardly.
“You can call me… Jeon Lisa.” Lisa curled her lips and subconsciously combined her name with Jungkook’s.
“All right, Jeon Lisa. What should we do next? Should we take you to the ghost wolves first?” Iry looked at the petite Lisa and felt that this little fellow was not compatible with such a domineering name, but he also vaguely felt that the little fellow in front of him was stronger than many undeads he had seen.
“No need. The rest of you can rest here. Iry, you can take me to the ghost wolves.” Lisa curled her lips and smiled.