"Yes, sir. What are your orders?"
As Yun Wei watched the panting guard run up to him, his eyes darkened slightly. His gaze fell on the eagle tail pattern engraved on the guard's chest, and he suddenly felt that the thick silver armor was more like a collar than armor.
This is the ignorant Middle Ages, where knowledge and wisdom are the wealth monopolized by the nobility. Most ordinary people are like pets kept by lords and the church, struggling daily to survive, succumbing to the instinct for survival, currying favor, and changing their allegiance to whatever is in the wind.
They were generally uneducated and short-sighted. Compared to his original world, the ordinary people here were more like numb and docile "animals," and the nobles could easily control them by simply holding the reins.
But perhaps, at this moment, he can also take advantage of this.
"Open the city gates and let the villagers in." Yun Wei imitated the tone of those nobles, speaking arrogantly, his words exuding an unyielding arrogance.
“But—” the garrison officer hesitated upon hearing this. Once the city gates were opened, those lowly villagers would flood into the city, and the situation would be much more difficult to control.
“This is not a discussion, it is an order! Bob is fighting the dragon in Lunagal, and His Majesty has ordered me to handle all matters here.” Yun Wei leaned closer to the guard, a glint of light flashing in his dark pupils. “Or are you planning to lead your whole family to dig up carrots in His Majesty’s farmland after all the villagers outside the city have died?”
“Fool,” he said bluntly. “Even if you confiscated all your wealth, it wouldn’t be enough to offset the taxes levied on the villages surrounding Moonflower City. If you don’t want to incur His Majesty Theodore’s wrath, do as I say right now and open the city gates!”
As he slowly uttered the threatening words, Yun Wei silently used a first-level necromancer spell, 'Negative Suggestion'. This was actually a spell geared towards the mental realm, capable of secretly manipulating the opponent's mind.
His mental strength was already exceptionally strong, and the other party had already assumed that he was the court mage by His Majesty's side. By implanting false instructions through some fragments of information that the other party actually knew, the implication was naturally quite successful, and there was absolutely no reason for it to fail.
The guard was already in a state of panic, and when he saw those dark eyes, his gaze gradually became blank. He seemed to see his own miserable fate of scavenging for food among piles of corpses in the other's sinister and indifferent tone, which reminded him of his tragic childhood.
"Go, open the city gates. I'll bear the consequences, no matter what." Yun Wei curled his lips, and his spiritual power plunged directly into the other's mental sea through the opening.
"Yes, sir, I'll do it right away!" The guard stiffly took a step back, then drew his sword and roared at the soldiers at the city gate, "Open the city gate—"
At his command, the heavy city gates slowly opened, and panicked villagers rushed in, shattering the peaceful silence within the city.
Looking at the terrified crowd before him, Yun Wei lowered his eyes and strode towards the city wall.
At this point, his battle truly began. If he failed to stop the maddened zombies, Moonflower City, with its gates wide open, might truly fall completely.
A strange emotion was surging within him, making him feel a sense of novelty.
He was used to proceeding cautiously and to minding his own business. What could have made him make such a risky choice just now, no longer hesitating to consider the consequences?
It's like a dignified, old-fashioned character from a family drama suddenly wandering onto the set of a shonen anime. Although he's momentarily at a loss, his adrenaline is still surging through his healthy body, making him incredibly nervous yet incredibly excited.
It's as if I've become ten years younger.
This feeling... isn't bad.
There wasn't a soul on the city wall. The experience he had accumulated over the past ten years in the apocalypse came in handy at this moment. Yun Wei found a roll of hemp rope coiled on the ground at the foot of the wall. He picked up the end of the rope and skillfully tied a knot on the protruding part of the wall above the firing port.
He cast a "Lightness Spell" on himself, and with the aid of the wind element, he became much lighter. Yun Wei grabbed the heavy hemp rope, lifted his hem, and flipped over the city wall, sliding towards the outside of the city using the polished wall as a springboard.
The rough hemp rope pierced his palm, but Yun Wei seemed oblivious, his eyes fixed on the approaching zombie three hundred meters away.
He has about a third of his mana left, enough to use two level four spells.
He walked past the dense crowd at the city gate, heading north alone. Behind him lay the magnificent and opulent Moonflower City, its endless prosperity and fame irrelevant to him, yet home to the man he loved most.
As night deepened, a figure in a flowing white robe appeared solitary and elegant, surpassing even the dim moonlight.
Yun Wei slowly stopped fifty meters away from the city gate. He took a deep breath, raised his hands, and slowly opened his palms. His hands were cut raw and bloody from the rope, and blood was seeping out.
The bright red blood, though scalding hot, quickly turns cold once it leaves the body. No wonder the priests of the Radiant God Cult always proclaim that life resides within this endlessly flowing, dripping blood.
As the overflowing blood fell to the ground, the sweet, metallic smell of rust filled the air.
The nearest zombies stopped in their tracks, sniffing the air intently. Then, their blood-red eyes widened suddenly, and they charged frantically toward where Yun Wei stood.
When the zombie was about ten meters away from him, a grayish-white light shot out from Yun Wei's fingertip, like a seed, and fell to the ground beneath him.
A massive and complex magic array spun and rippled, its cold, eerie light illuminating the night. Dozens of wrist-thick white bones rose abruptly from the ground, like a white cage, trapping Yun Wei within.
This is a level three necromancy spell, "Prison of Bones".
The last time he used it, Yun Wei was standing on the crumbling spire of the "King's Tower".
The last time, he was being chased by a raging rock bear and fled into a cave in a panic. It was there that he accidentally formed a contract with Isaac.
“This is my lucky magic, isn’t it?” Yun Wei said softly, as Isaac’s resolute expression reappeared in his mind.
Profound feelings, unwavering commitment.
His smoky gray eyes, like fragile glass, were the sight he loved most in his life.
The unique necromantic energy spread outwards, causing panic among the villagers at the city gate, who screamed in terror.
However, the zombies surrounding the bone prison were drawn to Yun Wei's blood. They ignored the villagers behind them and relentlessly attacked the sturdy bone prison.
Bone fragments fell like snowflakes.
Through the gaps in the bone prison, Yun Wei quietly watched the people who had turned into zombies.
From their clothing and demeanor, he could discern their professions in life. They were men and women, young and old, farmers and laborers, tax collectors, papal knights…
But whether they were down on their luck or glorious in life, at this moment, they have all become pitiful monsters, clumsily emitting piercing roars at him with only their bloodthirsty instincts, and relentlessly charging forward amidst the roars.
The bone cell was surrounded by zombies, who swarmed in and roared incessantly, their stench of decay filling the air.
Yun Wei felt that at this moment, any spellcasting techniques seemed superfluous.
Then, with his eyes slightly closed and with a compassionate yet devout expression, he began to chant the incantation for the resurrection of the dead:
"The law commands the souls, in the still of the night, the dead who linger outside the ruined city, prostrate themselves before my throne in pilgrimage..."
"I will surely grant you a complete rebirth."
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