Chapter 2517: Chapter 1105: The Ancient God of Death’s Guidance (2)
They will not only launch attacks on the enemy, but also slaughter all living creatures until they are killed or sent back.
Now Gaven and his group are formulating a more complete and stringent system of use, summoning them to participate in combat only in special circumstances.
"These corpse undead cannot be mass-manufactured and applied on the Material Plane!" The first condition proposed by the Record Keeper was weighty.
Upon hearing this condition, Gaven immediately furrowed his brows. This was the greatest asset he had obtained in the Bottomless Abyss, a strategic weapon that could inflict dimension-reducing strikes on enemies even in the Bottomless Abyss, let alone on the Material Plane.
He was counting on this weapon to aid him in establishing a sufficient force advantage upon his return to the Material Plane, yet one word from the Record Keeper rendered it obsolete.
After a brief contemplation, Gaven negotiated, "I can refrain from using souls from the Material Plane to create these corpse undead, but there should be no issue with purified soul energy from the Bottomless Abyss, right?"
Yego’s prohibition on mass-manufacturing such corpse undead on the Material Plane likely stemmed from the perspective of maintaining the Death Order.
After all, the number of souls required to create such corpse undead is quite terrifying.
Creating just one corpse giant or shadow flyer requires the extermination of a large town or small city at minimum.
Such brutal actions, even if the Record Keeper hadn’t proposed them, he wouldn’t resort to doing them.
Yet, the soul energy drawn from the Bottomless Abyss poses no such concerns.
"You’ve oversimplified things." The Record Keeper’s hollow visage once again flashed, and a new illusion appeared before Gaven.
In the sky, countless corpse undead resembling shadow flyers were shuttling endlessly.
On the ground, innumerable corpse giants were charging forward.
Behind them lay mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with countless towns turned to ruins.
Yego’s voice, chilling like the wind blowing from a crypt, sounded, "Once some things begin, they’re no longer under your control. Once you introduce these undead warfare tools on a large scale in war, it will undoubtedly elicit imitation competitions from your enemies.
To prevail over you, they will resort to any means, including large-scale slaughter of innocent lives. Can you bear the disastrous consequences of this?"
Gaven’s cheeks twitched uncontrollably; this possibility hadn’t crossed his mind before.
This wasn’t mere alarmism—it truly could unfold.
Those deeply versed in necromancy are never kindly individuals. In their pursuit of powerful strength, they stop at nothing, including city massacres and nation extermination, especially if it involves dealings tied to True Gods of death.
Should their desire persist, recreating corpse giants and shadow flyers is certainly not an impossible task.
Once the enemy outfits themselves massively, even if you were originally somewhat restrained, in the end, you’ll be compelled to fabricate extensively, akin to the nuclear arms race on Earth; if you fail to keep pace, your enemy will grind you down.
Gaven quickly detected the loophole in the situation, "With all due respect, Record Keeper, it might be too late now; during our comprehensive war against the Jackalweres, we already deployed them on a massive scale, surely capturing the attention of interested parties.
Even if I don’t introduce them massively in the war, they might still do so, and not to mention, the Material Plane and Bottomless Abyss are inherently connected, making transmission to the Material Plane possible from here."
"That’s another purpose of my visit." The Record Keeper’s Death Scroll automatically floated without wind, and numerous words stacked upon it came alive, directly floating in front of Gaven, "The series of issues you’ve created stems from your theft of undead divine power, absent its integration into your being.
Deities are the cornerstone maintaining stability across the entire Multiverse; you only need to integrate their manufacturing method into this cornerstone, and everything will automatically restore balance."
Gaven dared not casually touch things related to the Ancient God of Death, bluntly asking, "Great Record Keeper, just tell me what I need to do?"
"Enfeoff their manufacturing method, integrate it into the divine positions of these two newly born undead demigods, so thereafter, others can no longer arbitrarily manufacture these corpse undead, only capable of summoning them from the Bottomless Abyss, like summoning other powerful undead."
"The Record Keeper’s intent is to engrave them within the Bottomless Abyss, using the power of the Bottomless Abyss to constrain and restrict them?" Gaven finally understood Yego’s true intent.
The three undead demigods under his command are closely connected to the Bottomless Abyss, especially the Bone Slayer and Skeleton Plunderer; enfeoffing their manufacturing methods to them essentially equates to indirectly offering them to the Bottomless Abyss.
This was a development he had been avoiding all along.
"This is the primary function of the Bottomless Abyss." The Record Keeper stated emotionlessly, "Those powerful entities on the Material Plane, as long as they can summon these corpse undead directly from the Bottomless Abyss through spells, they won’t invest substantial effort and expense crafting these corpse undead themselves.
Even if someone takes the risk, conducting such an experiment, the undead demigods you enfeoffed can sense it using their divine position advantage, responsible for preventing this occurrence; this is their divine duty."
"So that’s why." Gaven fully grasped the Ancient God of Death’s intention.
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