"Call the Demon King."
The majestic voice echoed through the pitch-black mine, like scorching wind brushing across faces devoid of any blood.
Chris fell to her knees with a thud, pupils filled with trembling fear, no longer the effortless deanor she had before.
Having been an adventurer for so many years, it was her first encounter with the legendary Demon King.
In order to survive, she abandoned her dignity and pressed her forehead firmly to the ground.
"De-Demon Lord... I am a fool who didn't recognize you, I beg you to spare , just treat like a fart and let go..."
She didn't know what this creature had done, perhaps so form of Undead Magic unknown to her.
In any case, she felt completely powerless, to the point where she couldn't even stand steadily.
Tears, snot, saliva... uncontrollably spilling out.
And that wasn't all.
Following her colleague known as Grey Dog, she also, unsurprisingly, wet herself.
It seed to be a side effect of "Soul Drain," with too much life force drawn out, one couldn't hold on.
Furthermore, her faith points stopped increasing.
"It seems there is a limit to the amount a single person can contribute... Perhaps it's also related to the level of the soul."
Thinking this, Luo Yan's gaze moved past the group led by Silver Scythe.
The line he had opened with seed less for the small fry in front of him and more for enhancing the player's imrsion.
Just a mont ago, when he fetched the Crystal Ball, the number of online players in "Cataclysm OL" surged upwards.
Finding they could see again in the ga, those fools rushed back from the official website.
'Fuck fuck fuck!'
'What's happening?!'
'Is the server opening?!'
'Let out! Let out now!' (screaming)
Their noisy clamor was sowhat reminiscent of holess Undead.
Luo Yan glanced at the adventurer groveling on the ground and turned his gaze to the skeleton soldiers in the distance.
These were creatures summoned from the core of the Demon King Territory, precisely one hundred in number!
Currently, they stood idly, awaiting his command.
As the most basic summoned creatures in Undead Magic, the initial stats of skeleton soldiers were even lower than those of imperial farrs, at 2/3/1/0/0.
Lacking intelligence, they could only follow simple orders, so they were usually used as cannon fodder to attract firepower on battlefields.
However, per the Cataclysm system's rules, he could imbue these skeletons with a player's soul mirror image through a sacrificial ritual.
Consequently, these skeletons would have growth attributes similar to those of naturally born Undead—they could level up and execute more complex, specific commands.
What if they don't listen?
Luo Yan didn't have a better solution.
He was also new to being a Demon King and running "Cataclysm OL."
He'd just have to take things one step at a ti.
"...Hopefully, you'll prove useful."
As he spoke, he opened his luggage, took out the Demon Crystal chalk needed for drawing magic circles, drew a standard circle on the ground, filled in the inner lines, and then placed the Crystal Ball on top of it.
A faint green light glimred, adding a ghastly touch to the ambiance of the entire space.
Chris's eyes widened in terror, wanting to know what was happening, yet she didn't dare to ask.
At that mont, Luo Yan clapped his hands and stepped back from the shimring green magic circle.
"Co forth—"
"My minions."
Hiss—
Sparks danced around the magic circle, suddenly bursting into fireworks that scattered high above!
Tiny firefly-like sparks flew towards each of the skeleton soldiers and hit their skulls precisely.
Struck by the green light, the skeletons jerked violently as if electrocuted, their joints creaking and clattering.
Observing the pickaxe by his neck, Grey Dog, lying on the ground, felt his heart leap into his throat, terrified that these deranged Undead would give him a similar treatnt.
Fortunately, the abnormal state didn't last long, and the skeleton soldiers quickly returned to normal.
But—
That so-called normalcy only lasted a few brief seconds.
In just a mont, all the skeletons in the mine began to boil, emitting a series of cringe-inducing sounds.
"Oh oh oh oh!"
"Dog planner, aweso!!!"
"I can move! I can move!"
"Fuck! Why am I a skeleton?!"
"Where's the Enchanting Demon?! I don't want a skeleton! I want an Enchanting Demon!" (scream breaking)
"Negative review! Why isn't there a little brother!"
"Pants... wait, where are my pants?! Damn! How can I strip without pants?!"
"Wuwuwu... it's actually real! Fully imrsive virtual reality MMO... I can't believe I'm actually playing it in my lifeti!"
The skeleton soldiers, as if bewitched, creaked noisily while hopping around the mine, dancing and gesticulating.
Luo Yan could obviously understand what these players were yelling, and he had anticipated their excitable reaction.
After all, he had personally baited them.
Contrary to Luo Yan's smiling deanor, the Silver Scythe lying on the ground was in a completely different mood.
They couldn't understand what the skeletons were saying or even realize they were speaking at all. To them, the creaking was rely the sound of bones rubbing together.
As they watched the chaotic scene, Grey Dog, who had just cald down, once again wrote fear across his face, desperately trying to distance himself from them.
Chris was the sa.
Especially when she saw a few skeletons approach her, their jaws clacking as if planning to devour her, her soul nearly left her body in fright.
SAN value finally broke through the bottom limit.
Chris's eyes rolled back, and she eventually passed out.
Who would have thought this ga was so realistic that an NPC could be stunned by their own ugliness, leaving the surrounding players quite injured as well.
Pig-headed Knight, "Dang! It seems we've scared soone into fainting!"
Minotaur Warrior, "It's all because you're so ugly!"
Pig-headed Knight, "Hey! As if you're any better looking!"
Minotaur Warrior, "%￥#@!"
The two skeleton soldiers clacked their jaws, seemingly spitting non-existent spittle at each other.
Elsewhere, soone discovered Bond's corpse.
Looking at the mushy ss of flesh that was chopped up, a few skeleton soldiers with a poor ntal constitution instinctively retched, but a few bolder ones squatted down curiously to observe.
"Ugh!"
"So disgusting!"
"Does this ga not have any censors?!"
"Ga developer, co out! Soone said you lost your code!"
"Man, this guy died a pretty miserable death."
"Wait a minute... there's blood on my pickaxe? So I'm the killer???"
While the skeletons were busy critiquing the corpse, suddenly, one of them excitedly shouted.
"Look what I found!"
The skeletons all looked over and saw one holding an antique flintlock pistol... presumably dropped by the guy lying on the ground.
"He must have bullets on him!"
"Quick! Start searching!"
Seeing soone had already picked up so equipnt, the skeletons realized they had been too conservative in their approach to the ga.
Coming to their senses, they imdiately began turning over the body on the ground, and in monts had stripped the mushy ss of flesh completely bare.
Perhaps it was due to a filter of so sort, but these players had picked up the equipnt without any fear or disgust, which saved Lord Demon King quite a lot of trouble.
Luo Yan recalled his own first ti learning Undead Magic and found himself sowhat admiring these foolish players.
But now wasn't the ti to deal with these guys.
Just as the last player logged into the ga, a row of dark green dialogue boxes also simultaneously appeared in front of Luo Yan.
[Mission: Prepare a freely movable body for the players (100/100) (Completed!)]
[Reward: Ten thousand faith points!]
Ten thousand faith points credited!
Holding back his excitent, Luo Yan imdiately opened the attributes panel and clicked the upgrade button located after his soul level.
The mont he pressed the button, a surge of dark green energy swiftly erged from the void, then relentlessly poured into his chest.
The pleasure of his soul being replenished made Luo Yan let out a satisfied low moan.
Aweso!
It was utterly freaking aweso!
Both physically and ntally!
In front of all the players, Luo Yan, standing amidst a green glow, completed his upgrade from a bronze-level soul to stainless steel-level soul.
And the overflowed experience directly raised him from LV30 to LV31, breaking through a plateau he could never surpass before!
[
ID: Luo Yan
Race: Human
Soul Level: Stainless Steel (Level cap LV50)
Level: LV.31 ( 1)
Experience: (0/310K)
HP: (1300/1300) ( 500/ 500)
MP: (3600/3600) ( 1000/ 1000)
Constitution: 13 ( 5)
Strength: 13 ( 5)
Agility: 13 ( 5)
Intelligence: 35 ( 10)
Spirituality: 36 ( 10)
]
Looking at his revamped attributes panel, Luo Yan was so excited he nearly burst into tears.
Eighteen years!
He had finally removed that stubborn bronze hat!
Exactly which year he had reached the peak of bronze, Luo Yan couldn't quite rember, nor did he want to spend the ti recalling it.
He just wanted to enjoy the mont, silently feeling the vast power filling every cell in his body.
It might sound a bit exaggerated, but that was his most genuine feeling at the mont.
"... I didn't expect that the attribute points gained from breaking through from LV30 to LV31 would not be 2 points, but a total of 25 points across all attributes!"
"I wonder how much attribute growth breaking through the stainless steel-level bottleneck will bring!"
His spiritual power had surged greatly!
He could hardly wait to try that high-level magic he had learned long ago but couldn't use because his spiritual power wasn't sufficient!
While Luo Yan was unable to contain his joy, an unimpressive skeleton soldier suddenly scurried over to him, knelt down on one knee with a creaky noise.
"Respected Lord Demon King! I am your most, most, most loyal servant, 'Yiye Zhiqu'!"
"I am already aware of our mission, please skip the storyline description and directly grant the mission!"
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