Chapter 524 - 435: Nightmare Beast’s Skill 2
Chapter 524: Chapter 435: Nightmare Beast’s Skill 2
Flora Bloom raised an eyebrow. "Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like I’ll have to take them all in then!"
And so, something unimaginable began to unfold in the zombie gathering area.
A woman, with a fair and delicate baby girl strapped to her chest, stood before a massive horde of Middle Level zombies that were lining up one by one.
Each time a Middle Level zombie’s turn came to step forward, it would vanish. When it reappeared, it would orderly return to its original territory in the mountains.
Eventually, Flora Bloom grew impatient with collecting them one by one and began taking in the zombies that were touching each other, dozens at a time.
She would collect a batch, release them, and then collect another.
In the end, in less than an hour, every single one of the thousand-plus Middle Level zombies in the area, though they appeared unchanged, had been branded by Flora Bloom’s spatial power and now recognized her as their master.
As a result, the low-level zombies on the outskirts began to suffer. The only way for Middle Level zombies to evolve into High-level zombies was through cannibalism.
Of course, they ate the Crystal Cores. A zombie’s rotten flesh held no energy for them.
The number of low-level zombies on the outskirts was immense. The thousand-plus Middle Level zombies controlled them, making them walk right into their grasp, then directly dug out and devoured their Crystal Cores. Soon, High-level zombies would be born.
But the aftermath of all this was no longer their concern.
Of the twelve special forces soldiers who had arrived by plane near the zombie gathering area, only Five and Nolan Jennings flew the plane home. The rest were all riding Flora Bloom’s Golden Crow.
The Golden Crow, a species ranked even higher than a Divine Beast, was something they likely would never have had the chance to ride in their entire lives if Flora Bloom hadn’t tamed it.
Meanwhile, Lex Cross had Shadow fly alongside the Golden Crow while he sat beside Flora Bloom, his gaze fixed on the white-robed man lounging leisurely at the end of the Golden Crow’s tail.
"Lex, is it really a good idea for him to come back to Morhaven with us?"
Lex Cross nodded. "We can’t make a move on him right now."
"But... I’m worried!"
The white-robed man, bouncing one crossed leg, said, "Hey, I can hear your conversation. That’s not very polite, is it? Besides, there’s nowhere on this Earth I can’t go.
Even if you forbid me, you think I can’t get in on my own? Your little plants and flowers are quite nice, but... if you try to stop me, I’ll rip them all out by the roots. Don’t believe me?"
Flora Bloom glared daggers at the white-robed man. "Why exactly do you want to go to our human city? Don’t you have your own place to be?"
"I’m human too, you know. Why can’t I go?"
"You? Human? I’d sooner believe you were a dog... You don’t do a single decent thing, but you sure know how to be a scoundrel."
Seeing the white-robed man so thoroughly rebuked by Flora Bloom that he’d stopped bouncing his leg, Lex Cross suppressed the upward twitch of his lips and nodded in approval.
"Now, now, little darling, words like that will break my heart! Is that any way to treat someone who’s repeatedly spared your life?
I know it’s impossible for you to repay me with your body now, but couldn’t you at least be a little more polite?"
"No! And even though you made a promise, I still think you’re a threat to the people in our base! Can’t you just go back to wherever you came from?"
"You!" The white-robed man’s eyes darted back and forth between Flora Bloom and Lex Cross. "I was the one who gave you that metal-elemental Crystal Stone, for crying out loud! Is this how you treat your benefactor?"
"Someone who almost killed me the first time we met counts as a benefactor?"
"You! I won’t lower myself to arguing with a woman like you! I’m leaving, I’m leaving, alright?! You... remember what I told you, you hear me?"
Before Flora Bloom and the others could react, the white-robed man leaped straight down from a thousand meters in the air.
The tension in Lex Cross’s expression eased slightly, but Flora Bloom was still reeling from the shock.
"He... he just jumped?"
Lex Cross nodded, feeling a pang of displeasure at Flora Bloom’s intense focus on another man. "He wasn’t human to begin with. A fall like that won’t kill him twice.
Once the Undead cultivate to the Cosmic Level, they achieve an immortal body. As long as a single sliver of their Original Divine Soul remains, they can be resurrected even after death."
Flora Bloom nodded in understanding. "What’s an Original Divine Soul?"
"He said that humans become zombies after death, and that zombies can evolve into the Undead through cultivation. In reality, that process isn’t so simple.
Once someone cultivates to his realm, they can separate their Original Divine Soul from their physical body. Even if the body dies, they can use the power of the Original Divine Soul to be reborn.
So, as long as his Original Divine Soul is not extinguished, he cannot die."
Hearing this, Flora Bloom suddenly thought of the black ant in her space. The white-robed man had communicated with her through it just a moment ago. ’That black ant must be his Original Divine Soul,’ she realized.