Chapter 1 The Beginning

Not knowing how much time had passed, Nie Yan slowly opened his eyes. The surrounding cold wind howled, stinging his face.

Where was this place?

Nie Yan glanced to the side. A magnificent sight utterly shocked him. It was a vast, boundless plain, possibly an ancient battlefield. Looking into the distance, corpses were everywhere, stretching to the edge of the sky. Broken chariots, abruptly standing flagpoles, and various rusted weapons and equipment were intertwined with the corpses, creating an especially tragic scene.

A system notification sounded.

System: You have discovered the Death Plains, an ancient battlefield.

Death Plains? Nie Yan searched for information related to the Death Plains and the ancient battlefield. A passage appeared before his eyes: During the reign of the dictator Abak, the Lich King Insol launched six campaigns, but all failed. In revenge, the Lich King Insol initiated a Doomsday War. The war lasted more than sixty days. With the combined efforts of more than sixty legendary figures of the human empire, they finally defeated the Lich King's army, but the human empire's army was also completely wiped out.

The Lich King Insol, on the verge of death, cast an Eternal Silence Forbidden Spell, sinking the ancient battlefield into the depths of the earth.

Regarding that battle, the information only had a few words of description. Many things had already been submerged in the river of history. As the dictator Abak was overthrown and despised by the world, the dictator Abak's great achievements in that battle were completely destroyed and eventually forgotten.

Following the crowd is a common trait of humanity. When everyone roars madly, rare dissenting voices will be drowned out by fanatical ignorance.

Some gigantic scavengers were active on the battlefield. They were five or six yards tall, hunched over, with sharp spines growing on their backs, and extremely ugly in appearance. In addition, vultures occasionally flew down from the sky.

It seemed this was another dimension.

Withdrawing his gaze, Nie Yan realized that he had already died once. He had come back to life through the skill of Resurrection. His heart jumped, where was the Death God's Edge?

He quickly looked down and saw the Death God's Edge, the Paternoster Warhammer, and several Chapters of Order all scattered on the ground.

Nie Yan quickly retrieved these things from the ground. Fortunately, apart from some experience, the loss was not significant.

After recovering in place, Nie Yan stood up. He suddenly noticed that about ten yards away from him, five vultures had landed. Their greedy eyes were fixed on Nie Yan. Wherever Nie Yan went, their eyes followed.

Damn, these vultures actually saw him as food!

He cast a Super Identify on one of the vultures. It was a level 180 normal monster.

Normally, he could easily kill these vultures, but after being cursed by the Lich King, his stats had decreased, making it a bit difficult.

Nie Yan pounced on one of the vultures. He was preparing to clear out some of the vultures first, but before he could get close, these vultures took flight.

They didn't seem to want to fight Nie Yan at all.

Nie Yan picked up the Headless Horseman Doro's Horsebow and pulled the trigger, shooting at the vultures. After being hit a few times, these vultures quickly flew to places where Nie Yan couldn't shoot, but they still circled in the sky.

Nie Yan activated Gale Steps and dashed across the plain for thousands of yards. He looked up and saw that the vultures were still following him like lingering ghosts.

They could see through stealth!

If he didn't shake them off, it would be troublesome!

After a moment, two more vultures appeared in the sky. Seven vultures were constantly circling overhead.

Nie Yan looked at the Golden Earth Dragon's loyalty. It was too low. It would take a long time to feed it before it could recover. The only thing he could summon now was Paladin Leves, but Paladin Leves's stats were related to his own. After his stats were greatly weakened, Paladin Leves's stats were also far from what they used to be. Summoning him would probably only be sending him to his death. The Shadow Assassin skill had not cooled down yet, and the Darkwing Dragon could not be summoned either.

For the first time, Nie Yan felt a sense of being at the end of his rope, unable to use any skills.

Chirp, chirp. The vultures made a series of unpleasant cries, as if they were transmitting some kind of message.

Nie Yan was startled and looked ahead, seeing some scavengers gathering in this direction.

Trouble was coming!

Nie Yan ran quickly, avoiding the encirclement of these scavengers. Although these scavengers were only level 180 normal monsters, with Nie Yan's current stats, he couldn't fight against so many scavengers at all.

With the vultures' constant low cries, the scavengers still chased after Nie Yan relentlessly.

The number of scavengers was increasing, and with the vultures in the sky accurately reporting his position, they would eventually surround him to death!

Looking at the increasing number of scavengers behind him, a thought flashed through Nie Yan's mind. That's right, how could he forget this skill.

Nie Yan looked at the Undead Requiem skill in his skill bar. He hadn't used this skill for a long time.

These scavengers belonged to the dark attribute creatures and could be commanded with Undead Requiem!

While running backwards, Nie Yan adjusted his position. Under his guidance, more than twenty scavengers in the back slowly gathered together.

Almost there, Nie Yan's eyes lit up. He took out a Frost Scroll from his backpack and shook it open. With a bang, the scroll disappeared into the air.

The skill on the scroll was triggered. The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped. Sharp ice thorns rose from the area within a radius of about thirty yards in front. After touching these scavengers, they all burst open. Layers of white ice immediately froze on the scavengers' feet, making their bodies stiff and unable to move.

Top-tier freezing skill, Ice Imprisonment!

After these scavengers were frozen, they couldn't move.

Nie Yan used Undead Requiem on the scavenger at the front.

System: Undead Requiem failed.

Nie Yan continued to use the Undead Requiem skill. His Undead Requiem had reached the highest level, and the success rate was already quite high, and the summoning limit had long been increased from three to ten. After being cursed, although his stats had decreased, the skills had not been weakened!

After two failed prompts, a crisp system notification sounded quickly.

Success!

Nie Yan looked and saw that he had successfully commanded a scavenger.

He immediately ordered the scavenger to retreat, and then continued to command the second scavenger.

About twenty seconds later, with a bang, the ice under the feet of these scavengers cracked open.

Before they could start moving, Nie Yan shook another scroll, and the ground under their feet immediately became very muddy, causing them to sink into it, making it very difficult to even move.

Nie Yan continued to use Undead Requiem. More than ten seconds later, he successfully commanded another scavenger.

There were more than a hundred scrolls of various types in his backpack, which could last for a long time.

As time slowly passed, Nie Yan commanded more and more scavengers, reaching nine. The stats of these scavengers had been greatly improved compared to ordinary scavengers, with an increase of about 60%. The nine scavengers began to slaughter the ordinary scavengers. Under Nie Yan's control, they understood unity and cooperation, and their combat effectiveness was still quite fierce.

After slaughtering all the surrounding scavengers, he glanced at the sky and saw that the vultures had not dispersed.

A thought flashed through his mind. Nie Yan made the nine scavengers under his command gather around him, pretending to attack him. After a while, he fell to the ground, and the nine scavengers slowly dispersed.

For a long time, there was no movement. Nie Yan just lay on the ground.

The vultures in the sky circled for a while, looking very puzzled. After a while, they couldn't resist the temptation of food and landed from the sky.

They slowly approached Nie Yan, and feeling that Nie Yan was not breathing, they immediately spread their wings and pounced on him.

Nie Yan, who had been playing dead all the time, felt the vultures approaching, suddenly opened his eyes, and used the scroll in his hand.

At the moment Nie Yan used the scroll, black vines grew out of the ground, and before the vultures could react, they were firmly bound.

Nie Yan began to use Undead Requiem on one of the vultures, and ordered the scavengers under his command to attack the remaining vultures.

System: Undead Requiem successful.

After a while, the other vultures were killed.

Done!

Nie Yan scanned the vicinity and was quite satisfied with his work. The corpses of the scavengers and vultures on the ground quickly melted, and white spots of light floated into the sky and then disappeared, numbering several hundred.

Each spot of light represented a soul. It turned out that these scavengers and vultures not only ate corpses, but also ate a large number of souls. After Nie Yan killed them, these souls were liberated.

He inadvertently saw the experience bar of the Heart of the Saint and found that the experience bar had actually moved a little, which made Nie Yan very excited. The experience bar of the Heart of the Saint was about to be full, but it was just a little bit short and had not moved for a long time. Now seeing it move a little, although it was only a little bit, and it was almost imperceptible if he didn't look carefully, it still made Nie Yan's heart beat faster, wondering if he had a chance to get the Heart of the Saint!

After Nie Yan finished resting, he sent the vulture to the sky to scout for other scavengers.

Just as Nie Yan was clearing out other scavengers, he received two messages. One was that the elite groups of the Nirvana Guild and Angel Corps had a fight in the City of Sin. Fortunately, the Nirvana Guild didn't suffer much. With Brilliant Sword Light and the others there, there shouldn't be any problems. As for the other message, it was about the Half-Demon Angudas. At some point, the Half-Demon Angudas had actually entered the underground passage and encountered some Nirvana Guild players who were preparing to pass through the underground passage. More than a thousand players were wiped out, and only a dozen or so escaped.

What was the Half-Demon Angudas doing in the underground passage?

Nie Yan suddenly had an ominous premonition. Could it be that Angudas wanted to go to the surface? If his guess was correct, then the Nirvana Guild would be in big trouble!