Chapter 7 Just Pay Taxes

The term "good lich" only appears in stories, and it seems that there are too many evil liches, so the story writers made it up to attract attention.

The racial characteristics of liches are destined to make them unacceptable to human society. 70% of humans blatantly discriminate against liches, and for liches, they are actually discriminated against by dogs.

No matter how much humanity remains, the undead body will subtly influence the lich's senses and thoughts, and it will gradually completely lose its human status and become another species.

To a lich who is immortal and possesses powerful magical powers, mortals are just like dogs, inferior creatures.

Don't get me wrong, most liches discriminate against every living race equally, even other lowly undead. Skeleton servants are just tools for liches, not much better than dogs.

Only those who are equally wise or powerful can gain the respect of the lich.

Because of the lack of worldly desires, the lich's thinking tends to be absolutely rational, and only some extremely strong emotions in life can be retained. This emotion is like the white moonlight in life, the cinnabar mole in dreams, and more like the only chocolate that can be tasted.

Anyway, when I think about it, it’s mostly bitter.

Therefore, many liches behave rationally 90% of the time, but become crazy at critical moments.

Ambersou has been a lich for a short time, so he still has more humanity left in him, and his strongest emotion is hatred for poverty.

It’s not about loving money, but hating the state of poverty.

Amberxiu had to reincarnate as a lich because of poverty. He hated the feeling of not having enough money even though he had a way to prolong his life.

So what he pursues is to buy whatever he wants, rather than hoarding a lot of money and waiting for adventurers to give him gold coins.

Because of this, even though the Withered Rose's request was outrageous, Amber agreed without hesitation if she really gave him the money.

Add money, no shortage of money, advance deposit...these are like spells with special effects on Ambershu, any one of which can shock his soul.

Isabel didn't know all this and could only try to think positively, hoping that fairy tales weren't all lies.

Amber could sense Isabel's mood changes, but he didn't take it to heart. He had already entered the working state. First, he studied the information sent by the withered rose. At first glance, Amber felt that something was wrong.

It's not that the information is too little. On the contrary, the information is too detailed. It doesn't seem like the information was obtained from outsiders. It seems more like an undercover agent has been planted in the Ryan Empire, and the identity of this undercover agent is very high.

Because these materials record almost three hundred types of defensive magic, not only the location and coverage are marked, but also the list of personnel responsible for maintaining the magic circle is recorded.

If everything recorded above is true, just reporting this information directly to the Ryan Empire could earn you millions of gold coins.

"How generous." Amber Xiu sighed.

Although this information was valuable, he had no intention of selling out the Withered Rose.

Because the consequence of doing so would most likely be that he would be silenced first, and the Ryan Empire would not believe that Amberxiu did not make a copy.

And he would indeed make a copy.

Perhaps there will be a chance to sell it to the mountain dwarves of Thunder Castle in the future. They hate their neighbor the Ryan Empire.

Amber carefully read the information about the magic arrays, and the more he read, the more he felt that this deal was a big win. There were many magic structures that amazed him, and he didn't know that the defense arrays could be played like this. When he saved up some money, the magic traps in the castle could be fully upgraded.

Immersed in reading the information, Amberxiu temporarily forgot the passage of time until a carriage arrived in front of the castle gate near dawn.

Amber said to the dozing Isabel: "Your brother is back."

Isabel woke up suddenly. After drinking the tranquilizing potion last night, she felt relaxed and waited until the second half of the night out of boredom. Before she knew it, she fell asleep on the table.

Isabelle was shocked at her own courage for falling asleep in front of a lich.

Now that she had heard the news about her brother, Isabel asked anxiously, "Lord Lich, can you let me see Raul?"

"Just to let you go see him, otherwise why would I wake you up...wait, what's going on?"

Amber Xiu waved his finger, and layers of halos emerged from between his fingers, transforming into the scene at the entrance of the ancient castle.

Raul looked exhausted, but he still managed to open the carriage and take out a bloody corpse.

Isabel couldn't help but scream, then covered her mouth tightly.

She had never seen such a horrible scene before. The carriage was filled with corpses. The corpses might have been disemboweled or had their throats cut and heads beheaded. They looked miserable.

Raul was moving the items with a numb expression, as if he was already numb.

"Raul..."

Isabel couldn't believe that it was her brother who did this. How could he have killed so many people?

Amber was even more surprised than Isabel. With a teleportation spell, the two of them were sent to the gate of the castle.

Raul was still moving the bodies when he suddenly saw Amber Xiu and Isabel appear. He was stunned for a moment and then said excitedly: "I brought the bodies back, a total of twelve, more than you ordered! Please keep your promise and release my sister."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Isabel burst into tears. Only then did she realize that Raul was killing for him, using twelve lives in exchange for his own chance of survival.

She knew she shouldn't blame Raul, but looking at the corpses, Isabel couldn't say a word of thanks.

Raul held the gem controller tightly. If Amber went back on his word, he would control the alien skeleton to attack. Even if the hope was slim, he would try his best to survive.

However, to the surprise of the siblings, Amber Xiu said strangely: "I asked you to bring back living people, why did you give me a cart of corpses? Raul, I asked you to bring the fleeing free people to live in my territory, not to help me collect materials."

"What did you say?!"

The controllers in Raul's hands fell to the ground.

Amber shook his head and said, "What on earth are you imagining? Didn't I tell you very clearly that you should bring back the freedmen who have fled? I also asked your sister to prepare a tranquilizing potion to prevent them from getting too emotional and unable to listen to me properly."

Raul said excitedly: "But...but...what you gave me is a murder weapon!"

Amber said as a matter of course: "Otherwise, without my skeleton protecting you, wouldn't you have been captured by the lord long ago? If you want to save other free people from the lord, do you have to rely on your mouth instead of tools to kill people?"

This time, Raul could only open his mouth, but no words came out.

Amber continued, "You barged into my territory, and I treated you regardless of our past grudges, and gave you the power to save your compatriots. But in your eyes, I am already a monster who slaughters humans. You didn't even ask carefully because you thought it was not a misunderstanding. Humans, racial discrimination is your original sin."

Raul recalled everything that had happened before. It was just as Amber said. He had never done anything to harm humans from the beginning, and he had never asked him to kill anyone. Why did it sound like everything was his fault? Could it be that it was really because of his racial discrimination that this happened?

Raul looked at his sister for help and asked tremblingly, "Is this true?"

Isabel vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she could only nod and say, "Master Lich, you did ask me to prepare a lot of tranquility potions. This... this is for the living."

Undead creatures don't need tranquilizing potions, so what Amber said is absolutely correct.

"Lord Lich, are you really willing to accept us refugees? Can we live in your territory?" Raul asked.

Amber nodded and said, "Of course, as long as you pay the taxes."

(End of this chapter)