Arcane Universe

As a mage known for his knowledge, the archmage certainly knew that these monsters in front of him were all ghouls.

Not only human corpses will form ghouls, basically any intelligent creature, as long as the conditions are right, will form ghouls.

As a great mage, although he is not a necromancer, he knows some basic necromantic knowledge very well.

When the corpse of a humanoid is eroded by negative energy in the negative energy enrichment area, there will be several different results.

The corpse of an ordinary person, under the attack of negative energy, will accelerate to decay and quickly decay into a pile of bones.

Negative energy is far less corrosive to bones than flesh and blood, so bones can exist in negative energy for a long time. In this process, bones will undergo some wonderful transformations under the action of negative energy, and finally , The bones will become a negative energy substance.

Generally speaking, negative energy is harmful to most substances. It will accelerate the decay of flesh and blood, wither plants, and decay metals, but negative energy is not harmful to everything. For example, some viruses and molds become very active in a negative energy environment. Some woods and rare metals produced in the Nether Darkness Region will have beneficial changes in negative energy.

This kind of material that can change beneficially in negative energy is negative energy material.

If the bones that have become negative energy substances continue to be soaked in the rich negative energy, they will become stronger and stronger.

Of course, even if it becomes stronger, the bones with negative energy will not suddenly stand up and become undead skeletons.

Another prerequisite is needed to produce undying creatures, that is, the soul of the creature does not leave their corpse after death. When the corpse turns into a negative energy direction, the soul also suffers from the erosion of negative energy. , Eventually triggering some kind of qualitative change, and under the action of negative energy, it will combine with the corpse of negative energy to form a dead soul.

This is how the undead skeletons are produced.

The production process of undead zombies is similar, except that, generally speaking, the corpses that produce zombies are relatively strong creatures during their lifetime. Their flesh and blood are stronger than ordinary creatures. Under the erosion of negative energy, The rate of decay will be slower, and in a negative energy environment, it will exist for a longer time.

The flesh and blood of living beings are the same as skeletons. When they are infiltrated in negative energy for too long, they will become negative energy.

If a corpse can be turned into a negative energy before it completely decays, then it has the potential to transform into a zombie of the undead.

The ghoul is the perfect version of the undead zombie.

When a corpse is tenacious strong enough, it can stay in a negative energy environment for a long time without decay. If a corpse completes the negative energy transformation before it decays, then it It has the potential to become a ghoul.

After a long period of research, Necromancer discovered that there is a prerequisite for a corpse to be transformed into a ghoul. The transformed corpse of a warrior is the easiest to transform into a ghoul.

Ghouls are undead creatures, most of their body functions are preserved before they are alive. Their negatively energized bodies are as flexible as when they are alive, unlike zombie, whose bodies lose their body due to decay. Part of the function, even if the final negative energy is successfully transformed, the body will become very awkward.

The power of ghouls during their lifetime is not only preserved, but also increased in the process of negative energy. Their bodies become skinny due to negative energy, but they are extremely tenacious. , Ordinary swords can hardly hurt them.

Because of its immense power, skinny body, weight loss, and no armor in the way, ghouls possess terrible flexibility that they did not possess in their lifetime.

They have a rickety body, but they run like the wind. They can jump seven or eight meters high like a frog. They have sharp hands with terrible viruses and can even tear ordinary steel armor.

Ghouls can also get more negative energy by eating fresh flesh and blood, thereby quickly repairing their bodies.

Because the negative energy gathering place of the main matter world is rare, natural dead spirits are actually rarely produced.

But there are always exceptions.

The area around this Arcane stump is an exception.

Because of the energy imbalance of the Arcane stump, dozens of kilometers of land nearby have been polluted by negative energy, forming a huge negative energy enrichment area.

In this area, every dead creature’s corpse will be attacked by negative energy. Most of them become negative energy bones, and a small number of powerful creatures become negative energy. And will not decay corpses, this kind of corpse is a good raw material for Necromancer to make undead, but if there is no external force, this kind of corpse will never become an undead, because there is no soul.

When ordinary creatures die, the soul will leave the body and lose the anchor of the body. The soul will be drawn into the underworld by the power of the world. Without the corpse of the soul, it is absolutely impossible to become a dead soul.

However, there are always some people in this world. For various reasons, after death, their souls linger in the corpse and are unwilling to leave.

If this kind of thing happens in an ordinary place, it will not have any bad consequences, because the power of the world is so huge, and souls who can’t go away will soon be drawn in by the power of the world. Underworld.

But if such a thing happens in the negative energy enrichment area, it will have a chain reaction.

The nostalgic soul will be affected by both the negative energy and the negative energy corpse, and finally combine with the negative energy corpse, so undead creatures are produced.

Undead creatures are also called undying creatures. This is because the death of creatures is related to the invasion of life by negative energy. Undead creatures are negative energy creatures. For them, It is not only harmless, but beneficial. Without the damage of negative energy, undead creatures will never age and die. Without external intervention, such creatures will naturally exist for much longer than human lifespan.

After thousands of years of accumulation, a large number of undead creatures have gathered in this negative energy area.

Of course, there are also a huge number of ghouls.

While observing the battle with the ghoul, the archmage’s mind naturally flashed some knowledge about the undead.

Natural undead, without the interference of external forces, their souls will be completely corroded by negative energy, lose their wisdom in life, and become creatures with only instinct. Therefore, they should be driven by instinct to become negative. The areas with the densest energy gather, and in this process, the powerful undead will expel the weak ones according to their instinct.

According to this theory, the archmage speculated that there should be a large number of ghouls in this small town, because ghouls are the most powerful natural undead.

But the number of ghouls in front of him is far less than his speculation.

Natural undead will not violate their instincts, so there is only one explanation for this matter, that is, the mage tower is still exerting some influence on the town.

This speculation made the archmage feel a little uneasy.