The last ti he detected himself was while researching Identification Skill, when Activated Knowledge praised Shawn in a flattering tone.
Thinking about it now, it seems like a long ti ago.
Mysterious knowledge flowed from Shawn’s mind, resembling the process of casting Identification Skill, only this ti the mysterious knowledge was more controllable and orderly, without the previous flattering tone.
——Shawn[Aurelin Dual Cultivation][Knowledge][Mind][Thought Steel Seal][Aemon’s True Na]（Challenge Level 19）（Challenge Level 25 ）?!
Activated Knowledge’s thoughts were suppressed, making it more like a tool.
After the mysterious knowledge surged through his body, the abilities Shawn mastered seed to be transford into challenge levels through a unique law, allowing him to detect part of the enemy’s traits though not specific capabilities, and finally deducing a rough challenge level.
"If that’s the case, then in future encounters, I can roughly calculate the opponent’s strength level."
Shawn’s own challenge level should be 19, as for the challenge level 25 , it’s likely that with the activation of Aemon’s True Na, he can cast Aemon’s True Na Law three tis, which involves the three Paths of Purgatory: Demon, Devil, and Evil Demon.
However, if it’s not a life-and-death situation where he cannot defeat or escape from an enemy, Shawn wouldn’t activate Aemon’s True Na Law.
Shawn wasn’t skilled at tracking.
Fortunately, the Monster Doctor knew their stronghold’s location, although a bit of ti was lost because of the bizarre Evil Spirit, in the area of Long-haired Forest, it’s difficult for the enemy to cast Teleportation Spell to escape again. Although this region doesn’t prohibit the casting of Teleportation Spell, opening a Teleportation Gate has a chance of attracting ’Witch’s Long Hair’.
Shawn bypassed the strange white moss, the scent of death grew stronger, with signs of excavation in the nearby ground, and beneath the dug-up soil glimred a trace of black-red, with the hard rock resembling the hue of gray-white bones.
Shawn’s brows furrowed, he said solemnly: "Are you digging the Witch’s skull?"
The Monster Doctor respectfully replied: "Yes, Master."
Shawn noticed so scattered bone fragnts, he asked in a deep voice: "Have you found it?"
The Monster Doctor shook his head: "No."
"We only dug up so bone fragnts, used to create Skeleton Golem Guards."
They were digging the remains of a demigod, no wonder the stronghold was placed near the center area of Long-haired Forest.
Shawn detailedly inquired about the intelligence on this stronghold, it wasn’t very large, only had two staff mbers, but there were many other items present. As for the entity they served, the Monster Doctor himself didn’t know, since they weren’t qualified to contact more, only knowing the Upper Position people referred to It as ’Blood Father’.
"Blood Father?!"
Shawn frowned upon hearing it, closed his eyes to browse his mory, quickly finding so useful intelligence from Lady Hecate’s teachings.
——Blood Father - Aphrodis[Demigod].
——Domain: Undead, Flesh, Vampire, Corpse Demon, Undying Knowledge.
This demigod always remained reclusive, spending most of the ti dormant in the sepulcher. So say He is an imnsely powerful Vampire, as his avatar often appeared in the form of a pallid young man, eyes drenched with blood, dressed in a luxurious blood-red robe.
However, in Lady Hecate’s Maze Library Archives, He was believed to still be human, at least partially human, because the Vampire race template isn’t strong unless it’s the progenitor, otherwise it’s not worth the transformation.
As to why it’s so clear, this guy once coveted Lady Hecate’s beauty more than two hundred years ago, wanting to pursue her but ended up beaten fiercely, seldom appearing in front of others since then.
He is among the few demigods on the Path of Death that still have desires such as libido.
It’s said that in nearly a thousand years, most demigods on the Path of Death lost their mortal desires, especially those old bones, but Blood Father is different. During His active period, He was famously drawn to the pursuit of physical desires within the Path of Death.
But later He initiated the ’Concealnt’ ritual, rarely active in front of mortals for nearly a hundred years.
He is believed to be one of the demigods on the Vampire path.
However, Blood Father himself isn’t purely a Vampire, likely only a half Vampire.
Shawn appeared contemplative, then casually asked: "Are you collecting body organs because of orders from above, or is it on your own arrangent?"
The Monster Doctor lowered his head and replied: "So parts are submitted, so parts kept for our experints."
"The Path of Death requires a large number of corpses."
"Good resources are all divided up by those above, we can only find ways for ourselves."
Apparently, the Monster Doctor wasn’t very well off either.
Buzz.
Shawn’s figure abruptly stopped, the next mont a risen earth wall appeared before him, the Monster Doctor’s body too was instantly covered in a rock-like tone, a suspended skull head eerily erged, in the violent explosion, countless white bone fragnts shot forth.
Skeleton Trap.
The Monster Doctor seed to suffer so injury, he whispered: "Master, be careful."
"He activated the trap device."
Neither of them tread the Wandering Path, detecting traps required professionals, Shawn wasn’t adept at it, so he could only dismantle in the most violent manner.
——Earthquake Technique.
The ground began to tremble fiercely, in the direction of Shawn’s clenched fist, a small earth mound of over ten ters gradually took shape, piled up by gathered soil and rock, during the violent earthquake, almost all nearby chanisms and traps were completely destroyed.
A thick death aura erupted.
In Shawn’s sight, accompanied by a mist of negative energy dispersing, one by one lurking Resentful Spirits appeared in the gray mist, they were bound Evil Spirits, confined to this land. As the wailing of Resentful Spirits echoed, pale hand bones erged from below, countless skeletons crawled up, with opened underground chambers spewing out magic soul corpses, mummies, skeleton guards, corpse demons, ghouls and such monsters, quickly filling corners of his view.
——Pale Lord[Undying Knowledge]（Challenge Level 16）!
Shawn’s Spiritual Vision locked onto a figure hidden among the zombie crowd, he was cunning, disguising himself as a zombie. If not for Shawn’s Spiritual Vision seeing the soul projection of the Transcendent, it would’ve been really hard to spot him through naked eyes.
Fighting with casters on the Path of Death, don’t expect to duel one-on-one, the enemy clearly initiated the Death Wake ritual array.
Knowing he couldn’t win in a solo match, he went on to awaken the undead army to gang up against Shawn.
The Monster Doctor warned: "Master."
"The core of the ritual array is underground, if not destroyed, these skeletons will endlessly revive."
Revive?
This is good news?!
Clearly sothing clicked in Shawn’s mind, he wasn’t rushing to catch that Pale Lord hidden among the zombies, with Mind Link alerting the Monster Doctor at his side, he calmly conjured a big fireball, then launched it, blowing all skeletons in a diater of over twenty ters into a sky of shattered bones.
Indeed it can revive!
After Shawn blasted a large group of skeletons to smithereens, the shattered bones on the ground reassembled under the empowernt of so ritual spell, quickly forming new skeleton figures.
A tiny, fragnted amount of Soul Power was absorbed by Shawn.
They are far inferior to the previously killed Evil Spirit, but fortunately the quantity was substantial, piled together was quite considerable.
The enemy seed intent on using the undead army to deplete Shawn’s Mana Pool, while hiding among them to seek a chance for a sneak attack, secretly controlling the Death Wake ritual array, extracting the previously arranged soul power underground, continuously reviving new undead to surround him.
Such a massive undead army would exhaust even a Legendary Level caster’s mana.
"Really grinding monsters!"
Shawn’s face wore a repressed look of delight, he unabashedly conjured another big fireball, not only skeletons could revive, even ghosts seed transford into Binding Spirits, revived by the Death Wake ritual upon death, those zombies not blasted apart would crawl up again.
Shawn had two Mana Pools, one Magic Pool, one Spiritual Energy Pool.
Now he wasn’t hurried to defeat the Pale Lord controlling the ritual, with so many monsters, clearing them all would surely earn him a level up.
This was the Undead Wizard’s savings over decades, not grinding them cleanly would be such a waste.
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(PS: Delayed by childcare. The saved draft has been sent out. Will work on producing more tomorrow.)
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