Infinite Terror: All members of the Zhongzhou team are wheelchair-level enhanced

Chapter 285 Xiao Honglu: Of course, a necromancer must enslave fourth-tier undead.

On the western seas of Middle-earth.

The ships of the gods are sailing against the wind and waves.

Brilliant divine power permeated the ships, which carried the gods across the sea at lightning speed.

The faint outline of the western continent is about to appear before our eyes.

The appearance of the Dark Lord Sauron certainly made people's hearts tighten, but Xiao Honglu's intervention made them feel relieved.

"Another deity? When did Middle-earth become so numerous? If he can stop Sauron, it will be a great act of salvation." On the ship, Varda, wife of the god-king, thought to herself.

Chu Xuan gazed calmly at the sky, thinking to himself, "It's Xiao Honglu, the kid who secretly strives to be like me. Let's see how far you've come."

His gaze held a scrutinizing quality.

The Zhongzhou team has more than ten members, and Chu Xuan knows all of them.

Everyone has a goal and a reason to live, like Zheng Zha's desire to protect everyone, or Ba Wang's effort to ensure that no team member dies before him...

One of Xiao Honglu's goals is to defeat Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan was aware of this matter and was also paying close attention, wanting to see how Xiao Honglu would perform this time.

Neos led his Reincarnation Squad on a mission across Middle-earth.

Blood rain poured down, the sun was obscured by the dark divine essence, magic power proliferated wildly, and a group of demons bearing the name of the demon race emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Various disasters continued to occur.

These are the things that Neos and his Reincarnation Squad are going to do.

He no longer cared about things in the sky; everything was about racing against time.

Su Bai sat cross-legged atop the Doomsday Volcano, practicing the 'Seven Kill Sword', when Xiao Honglu's voice suddenly rang out in the network communication.

“Captain, leave the Dark Lord Sauron to me.” Xiao Honglu’s voice was firm and confident.

“Okay,” Su Bai said.

Zhan Lan originally intended to make a move; as an angel, she could remotely teleport angelic flames, and she also wanted to execute judgment on the Dark Lord Sauron.

Since Xiao Honglu has spoken, we'll give it to him.

“Soren’s true form is suspected to be at the mid-fourth tier. I will keep an eye on the situation and take action at any time,” Zhan Lan said.

Xiao Honglu said, "Hmm."

He has no inhibitions, and Zhan Lan can serve as a safeguard for him.

……

In the sky, Xiao Honglu rode a white bone dragon, defying the heavens.

Behind him, a ghostly green army of undead accompanied him as he flew away.

It was a grand and impressive procession.

Xiao Honglu, who was in charge, was like a general leading his troops into battle.

Flying to the small spatial rift, Xiao Honglu hovered before it, staring directly at the head of the Dark Lord Sauron that emerged from the rift.

"Necromancer?" As Xiao Honglu flew up, the Dark Lord Sauron's unpleasant metallic voice came from under his helmet.

Xiao Honglu looked at the Dark Lord Sauron with a fanatical glint in his eyes.

"Tier 4, beginner level? No, it should be Tier 4, intermediate level." Xiao Honglu was very excited.

He is a necromancer, and his rank has reached the peak of the third tier. He possesses 500,000 units of death energy within his body.

One unit of death energy can control a first-tier undead.

Undead with strength of level one or higher require multiple portions of death energy to control.

The stronger the undead, the more death energy points it needs.

At this point, Xiao Honglu could theoretically control an army of up to 50 undead.

This is Xiao Honglu's current combat strength.

Upon reaching the peak of the third tier, he discovered that becoming a fourth-tier death mage was extremely difficult. Even when he placed himself in a place like the Mountain of the Dead, his death aura would not increase further.

Places like the Mountain of the Dead are naturally suited for necromancers; better places are rare and hard to come by.

This is equivalent to a 'fourth-order' pathless path.

However, the way has now come.

The Dark Lord Sauron, also a necromancer, is Xiao Honglu's senior and possesses intermediate fourth-tier power.

Xiao Honglu came to learn from others.

Riding on the white bone dragon, Xiao Honglu waved his hand.

Behind him, the countless pale green undead army also transformed into two torrents, rushing towards the rift of the great demon 'Morgos' and the rift of 'Sauron' respectively.

However, these two torrents were not meant to help open the spatial passage, but rather to strike and stop the ghostly green torrent of undead summoned by Sauron.

boom! boom! boom!
Xiao Honglu was only at the third rank, and his pale green undead army was far fewer in number than the Dark Lord Sauron's summons.

The Dark Lord Sauron's 'Soul Summoning' technique affected the entire Middle-earth.

Middle-earth has a long history, and it is long since unknown how many people have died.

Therefore, Xiao Honglu's method of stopping them was to have the undead army self-destruct.

One self-destruction took away several ghosts from the vicinity.

Before self-destructing, it can still fight, which can greatly prevent these eerie green undead from contacting the spatial rift.

"Ignoring me?" Dark Lord Sauron was somewhat annoyed when he saw that Xiao Honglu did not respond to him.

"You're too weak!" Soren said bluntly.

The arm that emerged from the spatial rift along with his head now beckoned with a finger.

Terrifying magic emanated from his fingertips, instantly awakening more undead across Middle-earth, who then soared into the sky.

Xiao Honglu's necromancer army is finite, while the Dark Lord Sauron's summons of the undead on Middle-earth are infinite.

“Master of the Undead, this is how it’s used,” said the Dark Lord Sauron.

He beckoned with his finger again.

Before the rift, Xiao Honglu's ghostly green undead army was constantly 'soul-exploding', each explosion killing several undead controlled by the Dark Lord Sauron.

After being blown up, their soul power dissipated in mid-air.

The scattered soul power was drawn by the Dark Lord Sauron and burrowed into his fingers.

The aura emanating from the Dark Lord Sauron has grown even stronger.

"You wouldn't believe that 'Soul Lure' move."

"With this technique, no matter how many you explode, I can absorb just as many. By using this power, I can also continuously summon the dead."

"It's like a perpetual motion machine, endlessly regenerating."

"And you," the Dark Lord Sauron said, looking down at Xiao Honglu through the gaps in his helmet with a mocking gaze, "your undead army is limited and can never compare to my infinite undead army."

Xiao Honglu remained silent, focusing solely on exploding souls to prevent any undead from approaching the spatial rift.

Within a short period of time, the expansion rate of the spatial rift returned to normal and no longer accelerated.

But as the Dark Lord Sauron said.

Xiao Honglu's undead army was limited in number, while the Dark Lord Sauron's undead army was limitless.

It's a draw now, but that might change in a while.

Not long after, Xiao Honglu unleashed the 'Undead Empire', taking out the orc army within the undead space and causing it to self-destruct.

Countless zombies and orcs appeared in mid-air, but before they could even begin their freefall, they were detonated.

Their location, combined with the power of their self-destruction, resulted in the widest coverage area under Xiao Honglu's calculations, and also killed more of the undead of the Dark Lord Sauron.

“A desperate struggle!” said Sauron, the Dark Lord, who emerged from the spatial rift with a head and an arm.

Xiao Honglu remained calm as he watched his painstakingly amassed army of 200,000 undead soldiers self-destruct one by one, yet he showed no sadness whatsoever.

If you look closely, you can even see excitement deep in Xiao Honglu's eyes! "My target is a fourth-tier undead." Xiao Honglu looked at the Dark Lord Sauron with a covetous expression.

……

Bang bang bang!
Xiao Honglu's army of the dead is still self-destructing.

Xiao Honglu's necromancer bloodline comes from the Diablo universe, and he controls the undead by using "death energy".

The energy circulation within his body is also death energy.

When he assembles his undead army, he needs to release a corresponding amount of death energy to form 'death energy runes' above his head.

Xiao Honglu manipulates corpses by controlling death runes.

The amount of dead energy cannot be restored.

For example, Xiao Honglu possessed 50 units of death energy. He released all 50 units of death energy and controlled an army of 50 undead.

Therefore, Xiao Honglu's body will be devoid of death energy and will not recover.

Only when a spirit dies will the corresponding amount of death energy be returned.

Now, Xiao Honglu's army of the dead has self-destructed, and the death energy unique to Xiao Honglu has not been taken back by him, but is wandering between heaven and earth.

The Dark Lord Sauron absorbed the soul power from the self-destruction of the undead army, incorporating a portion of the death energy into his own body.

Xiao Honglu is waiting.

Once he has destroyed enough of the undead army, and once the Dark Lord Sauron has accumulated enough death energy within him.

That was the moment when Xiao Honglu would deliver the decisive blow.

Xiao Honglu's goal is to use the characteristics of his own death energy to enslave the fourth-tier mid-level Dark Lord Sauron!

……

The Dark Lord Sauron looked down at Xiao Honglu and said, "Your strength is too weak; you've only just come into contact with the art of enslaving souls?"

"You have a good character."

How about I give you a chance?

Xiao Honglu remained silent, still riding on the white bone dragon, looking straight at the Dark Lord Sauron.

Soren could tell that Xiao Honglu didn't want to talk to him, so he continued, "You know Su Bai, the captain of the Central Continent Team, right?"

"He cut off one of my eyes, the kind that can't be restored."

"If you cut off one of Su Bai's eyes, I can take you under my command."

"I will pass on all my knowledge of soul control to you."

Upon hearing the words of the Dark Lord Sauron, Xiao Honglu spoke to Sauron for the first time, "My captain cut off one of your eyes?"

Soren said, "That's right, those were the eyes I projected onto Mount Doom using magic. They were destroyed by Su Bai, and his sword intent followed me into my new eye like a shadow."

"Whether it's restored or dug up and regrown, it carries his sword intent and cannot be completely restored."

"This deal is a great deal, isn't it?"

The Dark Lord Sauron used his bewitching power.

Xiao Honglu remained silent.

Seeing this, the Dark Lord Sauron wondered if there was hope.
"Hahaha, you can't stop it. Even if you can stop it for a while, you can't stop it for long."

"The reason my power extends from the spatial rift is entirely to borrow the power from Middle-earth to accelerate the construction of spatial teleportation."

"Even without borrowing any help, we can still open a spatial passage using the arrangements on the other side of the void dimension, although it will be slower."

Xiao Honglu remained silent.

After a while, Xiao Honglu spoke up amidst the Dark Lord Sauron's confusion, saying, "It's all done."

Xiao Honglu's painstakingly built army of 200,000 undead has vanished, except for the white bone dragon he rides.

All of the more than 400,000 portions of death energy were absorbed into the body of the Dark Lord Sauron.

The Dark Lord Sauron said, "Necromancers never personally participate in battle. You have no troops left. Consider my suggestion, or should I order your execution?"

Looking at the Dark Lord Sauron, Xiao Honglu reached out his hand towards Sauron.

A glow emanated from between Xiao Honglu's brows—a clearly visible rune of death energy.

"Stop...!" Xiao Honglu activated the death energy runes, controlling the amount of death energy within the Dark Lord Sauron's body.

The Dark Lord Sauron's expression changed drastically in an instant.

……

Sauron was a necromancer who was very knowledgeable about the soul.

His power is also related to his constant absorption of soul power.

He skillfully uses the power of persuasion to bewitch people and turn them into his slaves, enslaving their souls and bodies.

The soul will become a ghostly green phantom, and the body will become a skeleton warrior or a skeleton mage.

If a ghost dies in battle, its soul power dissipates in mid-air, and Sauron will absorb it into his body to increase his own cultivation.

He makes very high use of a living organism.

This time, Soren was no exception.

Xiao Honglu used his undead army to self-destruct, and his undead army was also killed several times over.

He absorbed all the scattered soul power into his body without hesitation, and used it as energy to cast spells again, summoning souls from the Middle-earth continent, thus giving him a continuous supply of soul soldiers.

But this time, absorbing soul power was different; he absorbed more 'death energy'.

He had never fought against other necromancers before, so he had never absorbed their power.

He didn't pay any attention to the death energy he absorbed from Xiao Honglu this time.

His school of necromancers did not rely on 'death energy fractions' to control the undead army.

Therefore, he really didn't care about absorbing Xiao Honglu's death energy.

Xiao Honglu anticipated this and tested the waters during the process.

The Dark Lord Sauron did not show any resistance, and Xiao Honglu's plan was able to proceed.

This is the real reason why Xiao Honglu self-destructed his entire undead army.

……

"What...what did you do to me?!" Dark Lord Sauron exclaimed in astonishment.

He found himself suddenly out of control, his body moving under Xiao Honglu's command.

He tried to control his body and discovered that there was an enormous death energy permeating his entire body.

It was these deathly energies that controlled his body.

"It's a trap, you bastard!" Dark Lord Sauron realized.

The death energy he absorbed was a trap set by Xiao Honglu, and he fell into it.

Under Xiao Honglu's control, the Dark Lord Sauron canceled his 'Soul Summoning' ability, and the eerie green torrent that rose from the Central Plains immediately dissipated.

Then, Xiao Honglu manipulated the Dark Lord Sauron to destroy his own cultivation level.

But at that moment, the Dark Lord Sauron's body began to struggle!
He was actually fighting for control of his body.

The Dark Lord Sauron was, after all, a mid-level fourth-tier powerhouse.

Although his true form is in the void dimension, only his head and a partition extend through the spatial channel.

This prevented him from fully utilizing his abilities.

But it is not something that Xiao Honglu can so easily enslave.

The Dark Lord Sauron seized control of the body, but Xiao Honglu's control over the death energy was no joke either.

Anything produced by the Supreme God is guaranteed to be of the highest quality.

The two were locked in a stalemate.

(End of this chapter)