Asa is now only different from a corpse in that he has one more breath. He has been unconscious on the bed for several days, and Xiaoyi has been guarding him by his bedside all these days, taking care of him.

  Some of the thieves asked where that couple had gone, and the half-orc boss said they were invited by the lord to discuss some important matters. They used their imagination to guess, thinking they must be still negotiating with the lord for some benefits, sighed and thought it was indeed a wise move, then left with their goods.

  Asa has been moved from that house without a roof to another room. This matter was not made public, after all, the lord of the city also had to maintain the dignity of the law, and any theft should be sent to the gallows in the square. Lord Sedros only said that this person was a friend of his own, who was injured in his magical experiment.

  The healing spell can finally take effect on the physical body. There is no systematic magic that Sedros cannot use, although he cannot delve into many grand spells due to learning too much, but as long as he can use it, there is not one that he cannot master, his healing spell is absolutely not inferior to any high-level priest.

  But even with higher-level treatments, they can only treat 'injuries'.

  His hands and the skeleton and muscles in front of his chest were all crushed to pieces, even the most skilled craftsman couldn't separate those fragments smaller than grains of rice from the congealed muscle blood vessels and reassemble them. Many of the broken ribs had injured internal organs, and the skull was completely split open, just a little more and it would have burst apart.

  Lance couldn't believe that a person's body could withstand such injuries and still manage to cling to life.

  This is indeed a serious misunderstanding and also a very coincidental misunderstanding.

  If Little Yi had also come to move the loot with the thieves at that time, then he would have definitely seen the lord of Sedros City. If Asa hadn't been so stubborn about doing things his own way, if he could have discussed this matter with Little Yi, if his fighting spirit wasn't so strong, and he could have explained himself a little when caught or simply surrendered... If any one of these had happened, things wouldn't have turned out like this.

  Cedros City Lord came to see Asa's situation again today, still shaking his head with a gloomy face. Through conversation with Xiao Yi, he learned that this was indeed a misunderstanding. Although it is still impossible to explain why this young man would wear the Ghost King's robe and come to steal that book, someone who can bear to give up a World Tree leaf, which all magicians dream of, to save people will not be a member of the Death Spirit Association. Moreover, the appointment letter from Archbishop was not forged either.

  Cedros could also see what kind of relationship the two had, which made him very concerned. He tentatively asked Xiao Yi: "What if he never wakes up? It seems like your engagement is not far off, right?"

  "He won't wake up and I'll just stay here. Not going anywhere." Xiao Yi replied calmly.

  Xiao Yi's tone was not that of a resolute and passionate declaration, which would have been better because passion is always short-lived and will calm down after a period of excitement. But this calmly determined tone indicated that she had already accepted reality.

  If it were someone else, the lord of the city would still have some appreciation for such a romantic relationship, but she was the daughter of the duke, and there were many other things on her back.

  Cedros said with a meaningful tone, "Do you know, it's actually very unfair to say that. If he really can't wake up for the rest of his life, do you plan to spend your entire good life on him? You're still young, and there are many beautiful futures ahead."

  Xiao Yi shook her head. "I was like that before too, he saved me. Now I can't save him, at least I'll accompany him."

  "But he doesn't know anything about what you're doing now. You're just deceiving yourself by doing this."

  Xiao Yi simply said: "This is my own decision."

  "Have you considered your father?" Sedros said slowly. "You should know how much hope he has placed in you, and yet you're willing to abandon everything for the sake of your own selfish emotions?"

  Xiao Yi didn't say a word, slowly feeding Asa a spoonful of honey water into his mouth. Her face was expressionless.

  Cedros looked at her and sighed, then turned around and walked out.

  He suddenly felt like he was a very annoying person.

  But hate to say it, the matter has to be said this way because things have to be done this way. If she really wants to stay, the most troublesome one is probably not the Duke but herself.

  Suddenly, an official came running from the direction of the city government office and said to him: "Lord City Master, those bandits who set out a few days ago have returned. Only a few are left. They say that in the wasteland, there is a huge fire-breathing monster walking towards here."

  "A monster?" Sedros' eyebrows furrowed together.

  At the entrance of the city hall, Cedros took down an arm from the horse's tail.

  This is evidence of the desperate last struggle of a band of thieves who were awakened in the night by strange noises on the ground. They saw, by moonlight, a huge creature approaching them and, terrified, they mounted their horses and began to flee. The few thieves who hesitated for a moment or moved slowly were engulfed in flames spewed out by the monster, only a few managed to escape.

  Cedros carefully examined the arm. The arm was intact, with a clean cut, as if it had been chopped off by an axe or a knife. However, the bone at the cut end was blackened and crumbled to dust when touched, like dry bread. No natural flame could cause such damage to the human body, reducing it to ashes while leaving the exposed arm perfectly intact.

  This corrosive flame should be the effect of dark system magic. But what kind of thing can spit out magical flames? He roughly knew that it was the Necromancer's Guild messing around, but he couldn't see what method they were using.

  Cedros has been traveling and exploring the continent since he was a teenager, seeing the strangest things, even encountering legendary dragons in the underground world, and visiting the Valley of Deya and interacting with the Necromancers. He also likes to read books, having visited almost every famous library on the continent, and can memorize all kinds of books at a glance, making him one of the most knowledgeable people on the continent. If there is anything that even he doesn't know about, it can only mean that this thing has never appeared before.

  "When did you encounter that creature?" Sedros asked the remaining thieves.

  "Three nights ago," replied the old thief, Fodory. He was one of the quickest to move, almost immediately running towards the horses upon hearing the sound, while some people were still picking up their weapons and going out to take a look. It seems that the longer people live, the more they want to continue living.

  From the words of the thieves, it can be inferred that the speed of the monster does not seem to be fast, but it should not be far from here.

  Cedros and Gru rode their horses to the northeast of Oufu City, where the swamp was a terminal of the Lizard Swamp extending into the wilderness, which was used as an independent residential area for the lizard people. The two set off on a bipedal flying dragon from here.

  It's not just the bipedal flying dragon, but also the barbaric cattle and carrion lizards that are being secretly domesticated here. The lizardmen generally do not participate in other affairs within Euford City, their task is to experiment with domesticating these animals in this swamp.

  There has never been a record of domesticating such a thing on the mainland since ancient times, and no one has ever dared to have such an idea. These are the most dangerous animals living in the most dangerous regions.

  The barbaric bull is a kind of wild cattle unique to the lizard swamp. At first glance, it looks like a cow, but its legs are over two meters high, four or five meters long, and weighs several thousand kilograms. Its outer layer is not covered with fur, but with thick, large scales that even a battle axe can hardly cause effective damage. Although it is a herbivore, its temper is more ferocious than any carnivorous animal. Combined with its massive strength and size, it is absolutely one of the most dangerous beasts on the mainland. Moreover, because they often eat toxic grasses in the swamp, their stomachs accumulate countless toxic gases that can be spit out from their mouths at any time. This gas is as harmful to human skin as a substance called "sulfuric acid" created by alchemists.

  Only the bipedal flying dragon can incorporate the aurochs into its diet. These gigantic flying creatures have unimaginable strength and speed, enough to grab an aurochs in mid-air and then drop it. Repeating this process until the aurochs is battered to death before feeding on it.

  Although they are extremely dangerous animals, nature is also extremely useful. Just imagine the situation where the bison charges into the battlefield, and there isn't a single general who would be willing to send his soldiers to face such a monster. The two-legged flying dragon has a huge role whether it's used for surprise attacks or transporting goods, and capturing the commander of thousands of troops is just a trivial matter.

  As long as we possess this mighty force of arms, no enemy will dare to make a careless move against us.

  Only the Lord of Sedros had the audacity and ingenuity to tame these creatures, he knew all their habits from books and deduced methods for taming them from human history of domesticating other animals. Only he could get the lizard people to obtain eggs and cubs from the swamp and then domesticate them in the swamp's unique environment. Over the years, only a few have been successfully domesticated, but even these few are extremely useful.

  With the incredible power of the two-legged flying dragon, even carrying Sedros and Gru, plus a lizard man driver, it was completely effortless. Its flight speed was also beyond the reach of horses. So in just half a day, Sedros saw from the air the monster that the thieves had spoken of.

  "What is that? A large bat? It seems like there's someone on it?" Shandru frowned and said. The three of them were in a distant forest, Cedros couldn't see them.

  "That's a domesticated Wyvern. I didn't think anyone could use this as a flying tool, what an interesting little trick." Vydinna also looked a bit surprised, but it didn't affect her triumphant mood. "It seems that the leader of the Beastman City-State has received news and come to see our great masterpiece with his own eyes. I wonder what he'll think when he sees this masterpiece that will turn his city into ashes."

  At a glance, Cedros could be certain that this was a monster capable of reducing the entire city of Euford to ashes. He felt that the magical fluctuations surrounding it were unimaginable.

  "Fly down and take a closer look." Sedros said to the lizardman driver. The lizardman pulled on the reins, and the twin-footed flying dragon let out a cry as it dived downwards towards the dead dragon.

  As he swept past the corpse dragon, Sedros saw clearly the countless corpses that made up its body, and also felt the magical energy contained within those corpses. Such a monster was indeed something that only the Death Spirit Association could create, but such a huge and perfect magical creature was completely beyond his imagination. It wasn't just powerful, it was a perfect fusion of several completely different types of magic. His vast knowledge and deep understanding of magic allowed him to clearly distinguish between these magics, which made him even more shocked.

  Those corpses were not ordinary corpses, nor were they zombies, but living corpses. Only a practitioner who has reached the pinnacle of limb magic and dark magic can create such a transformation of corpses. It is to burn all the remaining life force in the human body in an extremely short period of time, and an ordinary person's corpse can have incredible combat power comparable to that of a high-level warrior in a short period of time. And there are hundreds or thousands of such corpses here, which was originally enough to be the combat power of an army, but now it is only used as the body of this monster.

  The shape of the monster was something he could make out, it was the form that the legendary great magic 'Dark Dragon' from the Dark System should take. Originally, it was just a shadowy image condensed from magical power, and it would automatically dissipate after the spell was released, but now it had merged with hundreds of living corpses. It wasn't just a shape, there was indeed a surging dark magic power flowing through these countless corpses.

  What shocked him the most was the monster itself. In a certain sense, it was actually a living organism. The rotting parts were just some isolated limbs and hands protruding from the surface of the corpse dragon, but the parts that made up the corpse dragon's body still maintained their original appearance, even with the skin on those corpses retaining the luster unique to living tissue. Undead creatures could only maintain themselves for a short period, but this was clearly not a freshly created monster. This was done by using some method to merge highly active corpses as a medium with the magic of 'Black Dragon' during the brief moment when the life force within the undead body burned intensely, temporarily forming a cycle of magical power and granting the entire corpse life to sustain its strength. The incredible magical power and life force within this monster's body merged into an endless cycle, allowing it to spew out that destructive flame almost like a living creature breathing.

  Each magic is so exquisite, and the balance between each magical power is grasped just right, and in this balance, the strengths of each attribute magic are brought out to perfection. He was amazed, this is simply a matchless masterpiece of magical art.

  But he suddenly woke up again and shouted at the lizard man: "Too close, fly up quickly."

  The dragon's head had already turned around. After the previous few days of being bombarded by hundreds of magicians, it was extremely sensitive to human auras. It stretched its neck and took a breath, and even the lizardman driver, who didn't know any magic, could feel the crazy condensation of magical power causing eerie fluctuations in the air.

  Cedros chanted an incantation and swung his hands forward, a white light ball flew towards the corpse dragon's head. This was the most aggressive spell in aeromancy, "Thunderclap Bomb".

  After a loud roar, the dragon's head and neck moved slightly, and the intense explosion left a small pit on its head. However, such damage seemed to have no effect on it, and it began to open its mouth, with green flames about to spew out.

  Kurou crouched down, then jumped up and let out a loud roar that pierced the clouds. As he did so, his feet pushed off with such force that even the massive body of the White Dragon was forced to dip downwards slightly. The white aura that enveloped his entire body made him look like a silent bolt of lightning as he charged towards the Corpse Dragon's head with a heaven-shaking momentum.

  The front end of the lightning bolt struck the undead dragon's head. The fist burst out with dazzling light and a huge roar at the moment it came into contact with the corpse, this was just one punch, but it completely surpassed the brilliance of those hundreds of magic spells. The undead dragon's neck twisted to the side under the force of this blow, even its massive body was skewed to the side by the impact. If it hadn't hit the head, if there wasn't a neck to act as a buffer, this punch could have knocked down this mountain-like monster.

  The sky in this piece suddenly started raining down corpse fragments. The dragon's head was almost completely shattered, leaving only half a mouth hanging from its neck.

  In the distance, the three magicians who witnessed all of this with their own eyes were completely shocked by the earth-shattering momentum of this blow.

  They were all consummate magicians and could see that it was not magic.

  That doesn't require skill and wisdom, no profound sorcery of transformation resonance synchronization etc., that's just the most direct and unbridled display of the original vitality.

  No matter who sees this momentum, this scene, and this aura, they can only think of one word: Power.

  The three of them had also been obsessed with the desire to become stronger, which is why they were able to become top-notch magicians. However, it wasn't until now that they saw this true power and were completely shocked, just like a writer or painter who has refined their technique and artistry to express beauty would feel when faced with nature's breathtaking scenery.

  But the spectacular scene only paused for a moment, and the green flames continued to pour out of the half-tilted dragon's mouth. It was not a true living creature, and a small part of its physical damage did not hinder the flow of magical energy.

  The head and neck of the corpse dragon immediately swung back, and the crazy green flames sprayed towards Gru who was still in mid-air.

  Gru's posture still maintained the shape of throwing that punch. This punch was his full strength, and his body had not yet recovered from releasing this explosive power, and his body was completely empty, with no place to land. Facing the surging green giant wave, his solitary figure in mid-air was as small as a leaf, as if it would be immediately submerged in this ocean of death without leaving even a ripple.

  But his body suddenly moved backwards out of thin air, as if a giant hand was pulling him. He barely dodged the wave of green flames. This was the effect of Cedros' wind magic.

  The bipedal flying dragon flapped its wings and rapidly ascended, but the wind it stirred up also brought a few green flames that burned towards the dragon's downward-slapping wings. Although they were only small sparks of green fire, they were enough to cause the bipedal flying dragon to writhe in agony, which was equally fatal.

  Cedros still controlled the wind magic with one hand, pulling Gulu over here, while the other hand swung out several white cold awns to intercept those green flames. The green fire and the cold awn collided, making a light sound before dissipating into nothingness.

  Kulou stood on the back of the Bipedal Flying Dragon again. The Bipedal Flying Dragon soared into the sky, flying over the range of the Corpse Dragon's flames.

  The corpse dragon seemed to be enraged by this attack, and its movements became swift and fierce. It shook its body and jumped into the air, but it didn't jump very high and was immediately pulled back down to the ground with a massive thud.

  In the high sky, changes began to appear on the body of the Corpse Dragon. The corpses that formed its body started to squirm and then gradually, the originally shattered head was supplemented by other corpses that squirmed over from elsewhere.

  "Good fellow." Gru's eyes gleamed. The fact that the full-force blow just now hadn't knocked down this monster got him excited. "Fly down and let me try again."

  Cedric hastily stopped him saying: "Too dangerous, that kind of magical flame is irresistible. We must think of another way."

  The corpse dragon let out a mournful cry towards the sky, feeling that it was powerless. It then resumed its slow pace and continued walking in a northwesterly direction.

  Cedros furrowed his brow and said slowly, "There should be a core, to maintain the operation of such a large magical power cycle, there must be a strong core. From the fluctuations in magic, it should be located at the lower right side of the chest, about three or four meters inside the body. However, the key is how to destroy... and what exactly is that thing? What can make such a huge magical power condense into a life form and circulate endlessly?" Cedros furrowed his brow in self-talk, suddenly enlightened. "I know," he said to the lizardman driver, "Okay, let's go back now."

  The dragon flew in a circle in the air and then turned back in the direction it came from, soon becoming a small dot that disappeared on the horizon.

  Xander was the first to let out a long-held breath, his mind still reeling from the impact, and asked: "What kind of person is that? Is it really human?"

  Rohnis was also shocked by the blow, but he turned his head to look at his equally shocked student and said with a sarcastic tone: "If everything really went as you expected, what are you surprised about?"

  "No matter what. I believe my work is invincible. I believe it can eliminate all the garbage completely." Vidyana's hoarse voice said firmly, as if to emphasize that even seeing such a shocking blow did not shake his confidence at all.

  Faith is power, but it's purely a personal and inner strength. If it still needs to be loudly proclaimed and displayed, then there's a suspicion of giving oneself courage.

  Ronnis could certainly hear the suspicion in that. He nodded and smiled, saying: "I didn't go back, it seems things are getting more interesting." The magic that could use two systems at the same time and still control so well made him think of an old friend from before.

  "That's interesting, that's interesting." Shandru nodded his head in agreement.

  Europa City, at night.

  Xiao Yi had just finished feeding Asa honey water. Her hand stroked Asa's face, her soft palm tracing the distinct contours. She was now very troubled, Cedros' words to her today had disrupted her already firm determination.

  Is it really just self-deception? Is she just escaping reality, evading her responsibility to her father? But can she leave him here and go back alone? That's absolutely impossible. She felt the pain of her emotions being torn apart.

  The lord of Sedros walked into the house, looked at her actions and sighed, then slowly said: "If I can cure this young man, but you must promise me to complete a thing that you should have done originally, do you promise?"

  "I agree." Xiao Yi stood up, with an expression on his face as if he had just heard the Gospel of salvation.

  Cedros put his hand on Xiao Yi's head and patted it, nodding and saying: "I know you've always been a well-behaved child, always listening."