Chapter 176 - 171: Ritual!

Ten minutes later.

Sixty thousand corpses! All were piled to form multiple peaks over the fortress.

Wendy had prepared herself to her peak condition, to absorb the fleshly energies of these group to increase her undead army powers

At the same time her absorbing these corpses would increase the chances of forming her undead knights up by a degree, which in fact was the main reason behind this piling up.

Corpses of half step aura emperor class cultivator were turned into half step emperor undead, who inturn would become the seeds for her Knight candidates.

More than thousands five hundred half step emperor undead were seated all around her, in a specific pattern of tongs to start the ritual.

By now, wendy had collected enough fleshly energies for the ritual to produce 30 knights out of hundred!

After absorbing the sixty thousand corpses, she was sure to increase this number to 50 or even higher!

So wanted to be in her peak condition to increase this number further was self explainable

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Eight meter balls of grey flames were launched to different direction, which upon contacting the corpses had inturn spread far, turning more violent with passing seconds.

As if the fire was fuelled with kerosene, the grey flames spread far and covered the entirety of fortress in matter of seconds.

Huge grounds of fortress, enough to host hundreds of thousands of soldiers was lit on fire, with corpses present all over that quickly dissolved like candles into it.

Few minutes later.

Boom!

The wave of heat were intense, reaching far up-to western warlords palace, where the outer walls were slightly scorched under its influence.

If not for her steady control over the flames of grey, it could had passed by the outer walls even reaching up-to the inner walls of western warlords palace to damage the people within.

Mark as usual was patrolling around, flying over the forest to prevent an unknown party from entering the scene or cause trouble for Wendy, when she's performing the ritual.

The people in the western warlords palace had long since entered into the inner walls, shortly after which Mark had activated the formation over walls to protect them.

The formation was activated not just to protect them but also to confine the people within.

Without any third party involvement, the where about of princess, the matter of undead and Mark's involvement wouldn't be divulged.

The beast men in orange rank bases wouldn't be risking this far to capture her for fun right?

Since the case involving the abduction of princess was a huge matter, that third party would for sure host spies within the blood wigg army or their supporting staff.

So Mark wants to isolate them for some time and prevent any third party involvement when the most important part of Wendy's upgrade was about to happen.

Once wendy is finished with her ritual, hundreds of undead knights at aura emperor cultivation would be there to listen to her command.

As such, no matter whether they are traitorous human forces or beastmen bases, when clashed with wendy they'll face sure death!

Whoosh!

At the same time Mark entered the mysterious space inside the orange crystal and discovered tons of blinking dots of which some were approaching their location

Twenty four yellow rank and five orange rank bases!

He didn't really cared about the green dots which were aggregated in thousand, cause they wouldn't really pose much trouble to him and all he needs was to flick his hand and the base would be destroyed for real under his might.

Though they were a seven days apart from their location, Mark could still use teleportation runes and intercept them to slower their advance.

Whoosh!

After Wendy's ritual, if it was a success, her powers were prone to be advanced.

And Mark reaching seventh step in refinement wouldn't want to be left behind, so he teleported randomly to a yellow base and start wreaking it without leaving behind any survivors to tell his tale.

One day later.

" Three bases! "

" Man, it's really hard to kill these half mutants all by myself! "

At this rate it would take days trying to eliminate all these bases by myself!

Collecting the bodies of the dead from the battle, Mark sighed dejectedly looking at his speed which required a couple hours to eliminate a yellow rank base by himself.

Though he felt a bit laging in his process, he was anyway satisfied as the experience pilling in him was good and he was few percentage away from breakthrough to eight refinement realm.

" Seven... No atleast nine more yellow rank bases had to be annihilated to make a progress! "

Taking a deep breath in, Mark entered the mysterious space in orange crystal to traverse to next point.

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" 52! Still... it's better than nothing! "

" I have to create multiple undead knights for my lovely ma... to strengthen his powers! "

Wendy started chanting spells and strange runes floating above the fortress which could be seen from hundreds of kilometers afar!

Magmatic grey magic circles were condensing above the fortress and half step emperor undead Knight candidates were floating up in the sky with Wendy at their center.

Whoosh!

Rays of magmatic grey were befalling on the undead and a strange transformation was started within them.

" Ascension commence! "

Wendy roared loud, shortly following which the magic circles started spinning around indicating the commencement of ritual.

Storms of winds were grazing down the ground with greyish white lightning which hit the walls of the fortress and crumbled it down.

The ones in the western warlords palace were startled by this phenomenon and trembled violently with each lightning that descended the ground.

Good thing that a formation barrier was placed over western warlords palace. If not for it, a single descending lightning was enough to rage down a mansion to dust.

General quickly ordered his men to stay home and made a curfew to prevent them from getting out their allotted mansion.

Even he himself was not confident enough to face the lightning and get unscathed, let alone his men who would piss their pants in the roars of it.

He just hoped these lightings to pass by quick and prayed well for Mark's safety as his princess safety now depended on him.

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Author's notes:

Comment or review my book if you like the chapter.

Power Stones are luxury which I can't ask casually, and thanks for reading my chapter dear readers, I am awaiting your responses.

Story will enter main arc from next chapter!

Status:

# Mark - 7th stage of refinement! ( High order aura emperor equivalent )

# Wendy - Peak order aura emperor!

Wendy's undead forces

1. Initial order aura king - 20,000 ( normal ), 20,000 ( peak-initial)

2. Middle order aura king - 6,000(peak-mid)

3. High order aura king - 1,200(peak-high)

4. Peak order aura king - 600(nearing HSAE)

5. Half step aura emperor - 1500 ( mostly piled up from half mutants and green rank base leaders )