Chapter 1 Jobiya the Great Emperor

Jobiya the Great Emperor was an elderly man, hale and hearty, dressed in a silver-white robe, radiating authority. The other six elders were also in their sixties or seventies.

Nie Yan's gaze drifted towards one of the elders. He had a hooked nose and eyes as sharp as a hawk's. This somewhat gloomy fellow was none other than Elder Redwin, who had been quite famous among players in his previous life, though not for any good reason.

"Greetings, Your Majesty, Emperor Jobiya," Carl said, placing his right hand on his chest and bowing slightly.

"Greetings, Mr. Carl," Jobiya the Great Emperor nodded with a smile.

"Your Majesty, Emperor Jobiya, I have just received news that the detestable necromancer Bordman has been resurrected. He is building a undead army in the eastern part of Emerald City. If they are allowed to develop, it will be a disaster for the Greenland Empire."

Then, Carl had Nie Yan recount what he had seen and heard.

After listening to Nie Yan's words, Jobiya the Great Emperor frowned in thought.

Nie Yan looked at this legendary figure before him. Jobiya the Great Emperor rarely appeared in public view, always living in seclusion. Even when the Undead Scourge swept through the Greenland and Saturn Empires, he did not appear. But at that time, there was no need for him to appear. The Paladin Order of the Holy Cathedral, together with several legendary NPCs, controlled the situation.

This gave Nie Yan a certain idea. Qin Han was basically courting death. The Undead Scourge was just an expansion pack, and even if it was strong, it could only be a flash in the pan. There was no way he could completely destroy the Greenland and Saturn Empires. Nie Yan wondered what Qin Han was planning. He might be preserving his strength to take down the Ni Ren Tribe in a destructive way with the sea of skeletons, and then his people would be the only power left. That would be worth it even if he deleted his account and started over.

If Qin Han was really planning to do this, Nie Yan couldn't let him succeed so easily.

"I foresaw a powerful dark force, so I went to the eastern part of Emerald City and made this startling discovery," Nie Yan said, trying to mention his divination as much as possible.

"Divination?" Only then did Jobiya the Great Emperor notice Nie Yan's identity as a great scholar.

"You said you discovered the necromancer Bordman in Emerald City. What evidence do you have to prove it?" Elder Redwin said, his tone questioning Nie Yan.

This annoying fellow! Nie Yan was quite displeased with Elder Redwin, but he didn't show it. He took out all the things he had collected from his bag, including the necklace. These items exuded a powerful aura of darkness.

"Even if you have these things, it doesn't prove that the information you provided is credible," Elder Redwin said, as if he was deliberately making things difficult for Nie Yan.

Nie Yan frowned. There were many NPCs in Faith that were not very likable, and Elder Redwin was one of them!

If Nie Yan's status in the Greenland Empire was high enough, he could completely ignore these detestable NPCs.

Everyone looked at Jobiya the Great Emperor, waiting for his decision.

Jobiya the Great Emperor was silent for a moment, then said, "Mr. Nie Yan, you may return for now. We will consider the information you have provided, but we cannot give you any reply at this time."

Nie Yan nodded. The reaction of these NPCs was within his expectations. This was just a foreshadowing on his part. When the Undead Scourge really began, these people would remember his words.

"Your Majesty, Emperor Jobiya, I will take my leave now. May the glory of the Father be with you," Nie Yan said with a slight bow, and then retreated.

As he exited the hall, Nie Yan seemed to see Elder Redwin's sinister smile.

Nie Yan's heart sank.

Carl also bid farewell to the elders and followed Nie Yan out of the hall.

"Don't be discouraged. Emperor Jobiya will consider it carefully," Carl said with a smile.

Looking at Carl's amiable smile, Nie Yan felt for the first time that an NPC could have such vivid expressions. But NPCs and players were ultimately different. Their language was all programmatic, and they could not be as natural as ordinary players.

"Thank you, Your Excellency Carl," Nie Yan nodded.

Carl bid farewell to Nie Yan and walked towards the Holy Cathedral. Watching Carl's figure slowly disappear at the street corner, Nie Yan couldn't help but wonder what a cool thing it would be to have Carl as a servant!

That was impossible for the time being. He estimated that he would have to wait until the Ni Ren Tribe had fifty or sixty top-tier professional players before Nie Yan could realize this dream.

Nie Yan walked towards the warehouse. Some of the things in the warehouse needed to be cleared out, and he was about to begin an operation.

"Guo Huai, gather all the flying mounts of the Ni Ren Tribe," Nie Yan said. Previously, the flying mounts of the Ni Ren Tribe had been recuperating. Those with minor injuries had mostly recovered and could be fed crystal cores to increase their ranks.

Nie Yan sorted out the warehouse and received a message from Guo Huai that the flying mounts of the Ni Ren Tribe had gathered on the open space in front of the guild headquarters of Cripps Fortress. Then he took a large number of crystal cores and teleported to Cripps Fortress.

Outside the guild headquarters of Cripps Fortress, there was a closed drill ground that could accommodate five or six thousand people. At this time, two or three hundred people were gathered on this ground, almost half of whom had flying mounts. The others had gathered out of curiosity.

Seeing Nie Yan arrive, the guild brothers greeted him one after another.

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

Nie Yan nodded.

They were all wondering what Nie Yan had called them here for. Could there be a mission?

"Summon your flying mounts," Nie Yan said.

After hearing Nie Yan's order, the players scattered to various places on the open ground and summoned their pets.

All kinds of flying mounts, numbering over a hundred, appeared on the plaza, astonishing the Ni Ren Tribe players who were watching. They were shocked by this, the Ni Ren Tribe's air force! Although it couldn't compare to Angel Domination for the time being, after all, they had different starting points, it was already quite a force.

Nie Yan distributed crystal cores, one by one, to the owners of these flying mounts based on the attributes of each pet, and they fed them to their own flying mounts.

"It's actually a crystal core, Boss, where did you get these things?" A Ni Ren Tribe brother exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone looked at Nie Yan.

"I got them in the Ancient World when I changed classes," Nie Yan said. Anyway, it was no longer a secret that he had changed classes in the Ancient World instance. Even if other guilds knew that he had obtained many crystal cores from the Ancient World, they couldn't organize teams to go to the Ancient World to farm them, could they? So the source of the crystal cores didn't matter, even if he said it.

Each of them received at least five or six crystal cores, which still shocked everyone. So many crystal cores were truly amazing.

Nie Yan looked at his backpack. These crystal cores were just a fraction of what he had, and they were all crystal cores within the fourth rank. He kept the fifth and sixth rank crystal cores for later, when he had more advanced flying mounts. There were at least a thousand more in his backpack. Five or six crystal cores per person were enough for their flying mounts to digest for the time being.

"Feed them a little less at a time so that the flying mounts don't sleep for too long," Nie Yan instructed the players.

"Understood."

They began to feed their flying mounts on the spot, generally choosing the lowest rank crystal cores at first, feeding only one at a time.

Nie Yan also fed his Darkwing Dragon a few low-rank crystal cores. He didn't dare to feed the Darkwing Dragon Dragon Crystals for the time being, because the energy contained in the Dragon Crystals was too powerful. If it couldn't digest them, the Darkwing Dragon would fall asleep for a while.

If it fell asleep, the Darkwing Dragon would be unusable for the time being, which would be very depressing.

Nie Yan received a message from the Ni Ren Tribe's Thief Corps, which he had sent to investigate the Undead Scourge's rate of expansion and track its progress.

The skeletons were expanding very rapidly. Qin Han had resurrected at least 150,000 undead. An army of 150,000 skeletons was already quite terrifying. If it continued to expand, it would be terrible.

What made Nie Yan somewhat depressed was that Xie Yao and the others were all changing classes right now. Otherwise, organizing some top-tier players to clear the skeletons would at least be able to slow down their expansion.

The thought of facing a tide of skeletons in the future made Nie Yan's scalp tingle.

What could he do to deal with these skeletons?

Nie Yan racked his brains, but he was really at his wit's end. He could only have the guild's production professions prepare more light-element scrolls, accessories, potions, and other items, since light elements were the bane of undead. He suddenly remembered that he could also recruit thirty paladins from the Holy Cathedral and use them for his own purposes. The paladins of the Holy Cathedral were generally very powerful. Thirty of them was already a pretty good force, especially when dealing with undead creatures, since Holy Light could deal 200% damage to undead creatures.

These things were far from enough to deal with the Undead Scourge, so he could only think of other ways later.

Nie Yan walked towards the Holy Cathedral, intending to see what kind of paladins he could summon. On the way, he suddenly received a message from Tang Yao.

"I've successfully changed classes."

Nie Yan was slightly stunned by the message from Tang Yao, and then overjoyed, "A Magister?"

"Yes!" Tang Yao nodded.

He hadn't expected Tang Yao to have completed his class change so quickly, much faster than the others. It seemed that he had been relatively smooth during his class change.

"That's great," Nie Yan said excitedly. With a Magister, they had another tool to farm skeletons.

Nie Yan remembered that when the Undead Scourge was rampant in his previous life, no top-tier classes had appeared yet, and the players' levels were only around eighty or ninety. That was why the level 100 skeletons seemed so difficult to deal with.

Perhaps, he shouldn't care about what the NPCs were going to do. If the Ni Ren Tribe had a few more Magisters, what would they have to fear!