When the battle was over and the deadline agreed between Rhodes and Stephen was getting closer and closer, Rhodes returned to the few remaining underground quiet rooms to wait for the last time.
While waiting, Rhodes carefully studied his existing abilities and gained certain results.
In the past few days, Rowling also made her own choice and began to rebuild Saou City at the original site. Although the area closer to Diya in the northwest has a more advantageous location in terms of terrain, but Rowling still chose this place.
With the end of a meditation, and after confirming the arrival of the deadline through the system log, Rhodes walked out of the underground quiet room.
Normally, after the knowledge attribute is increased, one must go through the process of meditation in order to increase the upper limit of one's own mana. However, the knowledge attributes provided by treasures and other things are not included in this.
When Rhodes took the Titan Arrow in his hand and gained all attributes +6, the upper limit of mana was increased by 60 points, but there was no mana itself, so he needed to meditate to replenish the mana.
Arriving on the ground, Rhodes noticed that in addition to Rowling, who had already expected this, North and another blond woman were also waiting for him here.
Seeing Rhodes appearing here, North's originally relatively relaxed expression suddenly froze, and he ignored Leah beside him and came to Rhodes' side.
At this moment, North only felt that he was being pulled by something. When he looked back, it was Leah who was holding him.
Holding North's hand, Leah's eyes were full of pleading: "Do you have to go to Diya?"
North moved his gaze to the side, unable to bear to see Leah's expression at this time, but the will in his heart was as firm as ever.
"Yes, Lord Rhodes is going to Diya to meet those...eternal lichs. If this trip goes well, I will be able to get the answer I want to know most from the mouths of these immortal lichs."
After the battle, when North handed the potion he had refined during this period to Rhodes, he learned from Rhodes that when he returned to Diya soon, he would face almost all the witches in the entire area. Demon.
When he first heard the news, North felt extremely shocked, and an inexplicable fear spread in his heart. From the almost endless transformation of corpse witches in the city, North also vaguely saw Rhode's reliance. Immediately, North realized that this might also be an opportunity for him.
After the previous conversation with Rhodes, North realized that if he wanted to become a real necromancer, he first needed to figure out what a real necromancer was.
Like orthodox mages, they continue to explore and research magic knowledge, but replace conventional magic knowledge with matters related to necromancy. Such necromancers were the first to be excluded by North. Unfortunately, this is Apart from refining potions, North's most time-consuming activity was.
Unable to get answers on his own, Noth can only seek help from other creatures.
North believed that as the top existence in Dia, lichs with immortal abilities naturally have profound insights into necromancers. By asking these lichs, not only can they learn the true meaning of necromancers, but also learn how to become necromancers. The methods of a true necromancer.
What made North feel a little relieved was that after learning his thoughts, Rhodes did not refuse the request, but promised to try his best to give him some help in the process. After all, North alone could not He had no chance to meet those lichs, let alone have them answer his questions.
Rhodes' help to North was not all based on the agreement between the two. In addition to the fact that Rhodes valued him more, some qualities of North also attracted Rhodes.
Rhodes praised North's courage to face the Lich directly. Even some heroes who have gathered their will would find it difficult to have the courage to do this, but North insisted on doing so.
Rhodes paid attention to the will in North's heart. From North, Rhodes saw the potential to awaken the heroic will. He was very curious about what would happen if this will continued to develop. For this reason, Rhodes Wouldn't mind offering some help, including setting up North's meeting with the real lich.
Unlike Rhodes who valued North, only Leah was truly worried about North's safety during this trip.
Just from the words spoken by North, Leah could feel the extreme danger. She couldn't imagine what the real situation would be like. What he had to face was the most top existence in the entire Diya, and no one knew what it was like. What would a moody lich do to an ordinary necromancer?
"Although I don't know much about the necromancers, I can see that Lord Rhodes, who can stand shoulder to shoulder with many lichs, is also capable of answering your confusion. Why do you have to see those witches?" Where’s the demon?”
Hearing Leah's words, North was stunned for a moment, as if hesitating for something, and then shook his head one after another: "Only a real lich can give me the answer."
From North's firm words, Leah seemed to realize something. She knew that no matter how she tried to persuade North, she could not change his already decided mind. She could only sigh, her eyes dimmed, and her heart was full of loss.
After breaking away from Leah's hand, North no longer hesitated and walked towards Rhodes who was not far away.
Seeing North's behavior in his eyes, Rhodes was not surprised. He had the will to make this decision for him.
Noticing Leah who was originally next to North, Rhodes recalled that according to Elon, she seemed to be the original tax officer of Saou City, but she did not have a rank and was not worth paying attention to.
According to Rhodes' original prediction, if the previous battle had not occurred, after he returned from Taitalia, he would be able to complete Elon's request and transform the death knight Vita.
Prior to this, Rhodes had made certain preparations for the transformation of this special death knight and placed many materials required for the ritual in the deepest part of the underground quiet room.
However, the process of the Titan Corpse Witch King's awakening completely destroyed this area. With the help of earth-bending magic, although the destroyed area could be restored, the crushed materials were difficult to recover.
Because of this, the transformation of Death Knight Vita still needs to wait for a while before it can be restarted.
Regarding the need to postpone the transformation of Vita, Rhodes did not hide it from Elon. After informing Elon of the situation, Elon did not show any abnormality.
At this time, Rhodes turned his gaze to Rowling, who was also looking at Rhodes.
From the sense of blood connection, Rhodes could feel Rowling's worries about him. However, maybe it was out of trust in her strength, or maybe she was afraid that this worry would affect Rhodes' judgment. Rowling did not He didn't express this, and just watched Rhodes go away.
After this period of recovery, Luo Lin's complexion became rosy, no longer pale and bloodless, and the look in her eyes became more lively.
When he rushed back to deal with the legendary mage, Rhodes had already discovered this. Under the action of the energy-taking secret method, the traces left on Rowling's body due to the erosion of death energy seemed to have completely disappeared, and she also recovered. regained its original appearance.
While lamenting the miraculous ability developed by the Lich, Rhodes also conducted a series of tests on the unique skills he had mastered, the energy-absorbing secret method.
When he first obtained this ability, Rhodes vaguely felt the uniqueness of this ability, but he did not make any specific attempts. The past few days of waiting in the quiet room undoubtedly gave Rhodes such an opportunity.
According to the prompts given in the system log, the energy-absorbing secret method can be used to quickly replenish existing health points. Since it involves the existence of original vitality, when used on living creatures, the effect of the energy-absorbing secret method can even be comparable to that of the vampire king's blood intake. Compare.
In addition to replenishing the health value, the greatest effect of the energy-absorbing secret method is to repair the damaged maximum health value.
According to Rhodes' understanding, when a player's body is severely injured and suffers symptoms such as disability, his maximum health will be permanently reduced. Even if the legendary mage uses healing magic to repair the body, the lost maximum health cannot be restored.
Some hidden injuries on the body will also cause the maximum health to be permanently reduced. Only with the help of the highest quality fairy spring can it be restored.
The energy-absorbing secret method can do this directly, restoring the maximum health value of the damage, but it cannot exceed the original limit.
In Rhodes' view, the only flaw of the energy-absorbing secret method is that the effect of this skill can only be used to restore numerical values. It cannot have any impact on existing wounds on the body. Even if it is only a minor injury, it cannot be treated like a normal injury. Healing magic heals wounds like that.
For necromancers like Rowling, whose bodies have been eroded by death energy due to the increase in spiritualism level, the emergence of the energy-taking secret method has undoubtedly solved the problems that trouble them.
After replenishing her original vitality through the energy-absorbing secret method, Luo Lin also practiced for a period of time before she returned to her best condition.
What makes Rhodes concerned is that the energy-absorbing secret method can not only act on living creatures, but also undead creatures can become the targets of the energy-absorbing secret method.
After many attempts on his own, Rhodes discovered that the energy-absorbing secret method directly acts on the soul fire of undead creatures. Once it completes the absorption of its original vitality, it will cause great harm to the undead creatures and can instantly kill any level. Undead creatures inferior to spellcasters.
However, during the execution of the energy-absorbing secret method, it will encounter strong resistance from the undead creatures themselves, which can easily destroy the progress of the secret method, unless other means have been used to restrain the undead creatures in place, or otherwise It is difficult to achieve any results if you use it on the undead creatures you control, but if you use it on ordinary undead creatures rashly.
In addition to undead creatures, the fate of ordinary creatures whose vitality is extracted by the secret energy method is not much better. If they survive by chance, they will turn into the biological form that Rhodes once saw in Wallen City.
What worried Rhodes was that although he got this special secret method from Stephen, he could not find any way to improve the level of the secret method in the system.
Rhodes realized that the energy-absorbing secret method he had obtained might only be the most basic part of the secret method. Although it could be used to solve Rowling's problems, its more powerful effects could not be truly demonstrated.
Rhodes believed that Stephen, who had existed in the Death Tomb for countless years, would definitely make a series of improvements to the existence of the energy-absorbing secret method.
For countless years, the flaws that existed in the energy-absorbing secret method may have been repaired by Stephen long ago. Even if Stephen showed the ability to steal the soul fire of undead creatures at will, Rhodes did not find anything strange.
What really worries Rhodes is whether the ability of the energy-absorbing secret method can be effective on the Corpse Witch King transformed from the Ghost King's cloak.
If the only artifact in his hand was the Ghost King's Cloak, Rhodes might be worried about the outcome of this trip. Stephen didn't use this ability last time, maybe because of some scruples in his heart, but that doesn't mean that this time Won't.
However, Rhodes was not too worried about this at this time. The completion of the collection of Titan Arrows gave Rhodes sufficient confidence that he could defeat the legendary mage head-on. This was the reason why Rhodes returned to Diya during his trip. rely.
No matter how many undead creatures the lich has, or even if multiple lichs join forces to plot an artifact, they will still be inferior to the Titan's arrows, which can cast unlimited spells.
Except for artifacts with unique effects like the Forbidden Magic Ball, there is almost nothing that can restrict the casting of Titan's Arrow.
In the process of returning to Diya this time, the only thing Rhodes has to worry about is the possibility of losing the artifact. Losing any combined artifact in his hand will be tantamount to a devastating blow to Rhodes' strength.
Unlike Sandru, even if Sandru loses a combined artifact, he can still rely on his own spellcasting ability. He has few opponents in the entire Diadu. However, Rhodes currently has to rely on two combined artifacts in his hand to perform at the same time. Only by doing so can he have the strength to rival the legendary mage.
At this time, seeing that North had come to his side, with a slightly nervous expression but no fear, Rhodes realized that he was ready to go to Diya.
Seeing this, Rhodes looked at Rowling aside, without saying much, just a hint of farewell flashed in his eyes, and then he raised his hand to cast a spell.
A dark green portal appeared in front of Rhodes. Since the overall distance is not too far, the Gate of Time and Space displayed by Rhodes directly connects to the Death Tomb in Diya.
The ghost dragon descended from the sky and then entered the portal. Rhodes followed closely behind him and disappeared into the dark green twisting ripples in a flash.
Looking at the door of time and space that led to nowhere, North pursed his lips and looked a little nervous.
Taking one last look at Leah not far away, North firmed up his thoughts and rushed to enter the gate of time and space before it closed.
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