Joyce's once plump and full body withered away at an eerie speed.
The teleportation array above gradually revealed its complete form, and the core that Maggie had damaged was being rapidly repaired.
Ignoring the bruises on her neck, Eve covered her mouth and watched this scene in horror.
"It's about to start..."
Maggie frowned, quickly grabbed her staff, and a dense rain of light arrows flew toward the teleportation array as if they were free, but they were all blocked outside, as if there was a protective shield.
To make matters worse, Joyce, who had been lying on the ground, her body hollowed out and resembling a dried-up corpse, suddenly stood up for some unknown reason.
His limbs were stiff, like a puppet manipulated by a puppeteer, which was unsettling to look at.
Just as Maggie was intently staring at the mummified corpse in front of her, wary of his movements, a voice that did not belong to anyone suddenly appeared in the room.
“A piece of trash is a piece of trash. I told you we shouldn’t have trusted him.”
The male voice was languid, as if he had just woken up, with the ending note like a hook, alluring and seductive.
Maggie immediately became extremely vigilant and instinctively shielded Eve behind her.
"Puppeteer Ivy, who released you?"
Her voice was calm, and her expression was incredibly composed. Only Maggie herself knew that she was truly going crazy.
This is a character who will only appear in the third volume; he is also a ghost who has been sleeping for tens of thousands of years and is one of the bosses.
He shouldn't be here!
In terms of the severity of his personality, he is even more despicable than the Undead Plague - Pansy, as he manipulates the corpses of the dead, making them behave as if they were alive.
This is what makes many people willingly die to become his next puppet, just to stay by the side of their relatives, friends, or lovers.
In Maggie's opinion, using emotions to commit evil is almost the most disgusting kind of villain.
"Huh? You know me?"
The man's voice sounded somewhat surprised, clearly not expecting to be called by name so directly.
"You want to help activate the teleportation array, right?"
Maggie spoke softly as her mind raced.
She knew she couldn't possibly handle this guy, but she knew a little about Ivy.
After all, even villains have some heartbreaking pasts.
Even though she hated Ivy, she knew that getting rid of him was the most important thing right now.
"Of course, as fellow undead, isn't it normal to help your companions expand their territory?"
The teleportation array was still under repair. Maggie was anxious, but she didn't show it at all. Instead, she calmly talked with Ivy.
"What benefits did the undead forces of the Western Continent give you?"
Maggie didn't believe his nonsense and continued to ask.
Back then, forcing the undead back to the most remote and isolated quarter of the western continent of Coral was already the limit of what humanity could achieve.
We absolutely cannot let them make a comeback now.
"Huh? You even know that?"
Ivy was even more surprised and immediately deactivated her invisibility. In Maggie's eyes, a beautiful adult man slowly emerged from the darkness.
His lips were as red as blood, his eyes were long and narrow with slightly upturned corners, and his gaze was both amused and amused as he looked at Maggie with intense curiosity.
Maggie's heart sank. She was doomed; this guy had taken an interest in her, and she was about to be targeted by him...
But she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say it.
“I know you have no affection for your own kind. If there were enough benefits, I could hire you.”
Maggie forced herself to remain calm, her tone revealing no fear or unusual behavior; her disguise was perfect.
"oh?"
Ivy neither agreed nor denied, and continued to look at Maggie with great interest, wanting to hear what else she had to say.
"Maggie, hurry up! Once the teleportation array is repaired, the undead will start to emerge. The sacrifice has become Joyce. It will be activated immediately after the repair is complete."
The little ghost stared intently at the teleportation array, anxiously urging Maggie on.
"Do you want to become human again? I can tell you how."
Maggie clenched her fists tightly, cold sweat beading on her skin, and managed to squeeze out those words through clenched teeth.
She couldn't think of anything else that could move Ivy, except for this.
But this sounds like a fantasy, because it is common knowledge on the continent of Coral that the dead cannot be turned into humans and cannot be resurrected.
It's easy to be mistaken for a scammer or someone playing a trick on him.
Besides, she was indeed gambling, and the so-called method had a near-zero chance of success; it was only theoretically feasible, but no one had ever put it into practice.
This method also appears in the later part of the comic.
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As expected, Ivy's previously enthusiastic expression suddenly turned gloomy, and he grabbed Maggie by the neck with one hand.
With just a little effort, Maggie could be lifted up.
"Are you taking me for an idiot?"
Using something like this as leverage feels like an insult to his intelligence.
"You can try to see if I'm lying."
Maggie's eyes were firm, ignoring the suffocating feeling she was experiencing, and she continued speaking to Ivy.
Ivy paused, scrutinizing every expression on Maggie's face.
Time passed second by second, and the teleportation array was almost repaired before Ivy slowly let go of it.
"Okay, I won't interfere from now on. If you can stop the teleportation array from activating, I'll come back to you to make my promise."
Ivy raised an eyebrow, and after saying that, she vanished from the spot.
The Joyce corpse puppet that was about to approach her also fell at her feet.
Cold sweat dripped from Maggie's chin. If Ivy hadn't believed her, she would be dead.
Eve was so frightened that she crouched at her feet, unable to utter a single word.
But she didn't have time to rest; the teleportation array was almost ready to be activated.
She looked up, but didn't even have a chance to raise her staff. She heard the little ghost's frustrated voice in her ear.
"Damn it, the teleportation array is activated."
In the center of the teleportation array, vast swathes of soul fire appeared, from which faint white skeletons emerged. It wouldn't be long before they all surged out, taking over the entire royal city, and then the Kingdom of Saint Na.
Maggie tightened her grip on the staff, then closed her eyes and resolutely grasped the Demon King's Scepter.
The undead burst forth from the magic circle, eager to tear apart all living beings. Maggie and Eve were instantly overwhelmed by the tidal wave of undead.
Eve's room was instantly destroyed by the undead, and the front wall of the castle was completely damaged, instantly attracting the attention of everyone outside the castle.
The next second, enormous bone wings burst forth from the undead army, creating a vacuum zone in the most densely populated area of the undead, firmly protecting Maggie within it.
"What do my followers want from me?"
A cruel, cold voice rang in her ears, and Maggie slowly opened her eyes.
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