Now the most crucial ritual material was secured.
The lich Konggs appeared somewhat regretful, humbly saying: "Your Majesty."
"There’s no shroud here, nor preservatives. The revival ritual might not be perfect."
"Originally, he should’ve been able to return as a corpse witch."
"But now it’s estimated that it can only be resurrected as a lower-ranked Corpse Demon."
For Duncan, it didn’t matter; he just wanted to witness the resurrection spell of this world.
Soon.
As Duncan placed the extracted Soul Crystal Stone into the Ritual Array, a chilling wind rose around, and a faint wailing of the Undead echoed, causing Tassia to shiver and quietly hide behind Duncan.
Although she seemed to have some power, in truth, she had never left this Nest City in her life. Her past knowledge was all from the Mechanical Divine Sect, and she hadn’t seen much of the Esoteric Practitioners’ methods.
Duncan began to cast spells.
In fact, the one directing the resurrection ritual was the Witch Demon Konggs, only now it existed as an equipment attachment for Duncan in the form of a Servo Skull.
In the Dimension Space, on the projection page.
The Mana Bar of the No. 3 Human Form began to slowly decrease, and a prompt appeared on the projection page.
—"The undead resurrection ritual is underway."
The entire ritual process was recorded.
Shrill howls echoed underground, and in Tassia’s terrified gaze, she saw seemingly tangible Evil Spirits, like a swarm of hovering black smoke. The Array beneath the body of Esoteric Practitioner Bert also emitted a dim, ghostly blue glow, then a flame ignited, spreading green fire along the blood traces on the ground.
The eyes of the Witch Demon Konggs gleamed with a dark fire.
As the wandering Evil Spirits were infused into Bert’s corpse, his cold, pale corpse suddenly began to twitch in the next second, first his head lifting high, followed by him sitting upright stiffly.
The wounds on his body began to heal rapidly, but it wasn’t the kind of human wound healing; it was more like a corpse slowly patching up with flesh.
Eventually, a wisp of deathly decay began to ooze from him.
—Corpse Demon-Bert (Witherer) (Undead Creature) (Three-star Silvery Gray)!
His power surprisingly increased.
After being resurrected into a Corpse Demon by the Witch Demon Konggs, an inexplicable surge of Magic Power emerged within Esoteric Practitioner Bert, though his life form and the essence of his Magic Power also underwent changes. As he slowly lifted his head, beneath his ashen pupils was a faint Soul Fire.
"I’m resurrected?!..."
Bert’s expression was extremely astonished. He looked down at his hands, at the wound on his abdomen, seemingly realizing something, he murmured, "It’s the resurrection of the undead by the Death Sect!..."
At this point, Tassia was already wide-eyed in amazement.
The dead resurrected.
Although not quite resembling the living, it still overturned her previous understanding. One should know that the Mechanical Divine Sect always prohibited the spread of Esoteric legends among the people.
The life form changed.
The gaze of Esoteric Practitioner Bert also landed on Duncan, especially the Servo Skull on his shoulder. Only then did he understand what that seemingly ordinary skull really was!
One of the legendary creatures of the Death Sect.
—Witch Demon!
In Esoteric Practitioner legend, a Witch Demon’s power matches that of the Archbishop of the Mechanical Divine Sect and some of the Mechanical Sages. Strictly speaking, they belong to the creatures of the Mythical Era, for even in the Mysterious Era of the Third Epoch, few Wizards could transform into powerful Witch Demons.
The skull of the Witch Demon Konggs emitted an eerie light, and Corpse Demon Bert immediately felt his will being suppressed, involuntarily kneeling toward Duncan, saying, "Master."
Although Duncan presided over the ritual, the Witch Demon was the true upper Undead.
This guy was slick, and so was the skull.
Looking at Bert’s still ragged, pockmarked body in front of him, Duncan suddenly used his thought to ask the Witch Demon on his shoulder, "Can his parts be replaced with the Mechanical Divine Sect’s construct prosthetics?"
Hearing Duncan’s words, the Witch Demon Konggs appeared slightly surprised, hesitated for a moment, then said, "Your Majesty."
"In the Mysterious Era, indeed, there were quite a few undead transformation technologies."
"But directly implanting the prosthetics of the Mechanical Divine Sect? Not many have tried that!"
"It might be possible."
"After all, the flesh of the Undead is just a shell, the essence is still the resurrected soul."
"But if done, wouldn’t the Machine Spirit also reject it?"
Duncan pondered, "Then tell me, those completely mechanized Mechanical Cultivators, do they count as dead or living?"
One without any flesh and blood.
With a fully mechanized body, organs hollowed out, brains replaced, consciousness uploaded, completely turned into a Mechanical Construct, does he count as dead or alive?
This question stumped the Witch Demon Konggs in front of him.
Must the Undead use bones as the shell?
Would steel machinery not suffice?
Since in the end, nothing remains, why not swap in a mechanical body?
Duncan said in a deep voice, "The Mechanical Soul will be dealt with by me."
"Do you think this plan is feasible?"
Not knowing what came to mind, the Witch Demon Konggs suddenly got excited, if Undying Undead could also be transformed into Mechanical Constructs, then a new sect could emerge, possibly even infiltrating the Mechanical Divine Sect and quietly gaining a foothold in this world.
Death can also be redefined, for in Duncan’s view, those entirely mechanized church cultivators were already a form of the dead.
As for the Mechanical Soul?
Currently, Duncan’s forte is suppressing the Mechanical Soul since he, himself, is a high-dimensional being, naturally possessing a degree of suppression over such spiritual concepts.
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