Chapter 72: A Scenic View

However, this method of directly summoning undead creatures from another dimension has a fatal flaw: time. These undead creatures summoned from another plane have a limited existence on the Ark Continent, and this time limit is related to the summoner's own abilities and the level of the summoned dark creature. In theory, the higher the summoner's level and the stronger their magic, the longer their summoned creatures can exist on the Ark Continent. The higher the level of a dark creature, the shorter its existence on the Ark Continent.

Of course, there are exceptions. If you summon a powerful dark creature and are willing to pay with some of your own life force, you can make this dark creature live on the Ark Continent for a long time. However, generally, no summoner would use this method because the higher the level of the dark creature, the more life force it requires. If you want a demon to stay on the Ark Continent for a long time, you might die immediately. Moreover, mages value their time, so they generally wouldn't use this method to keep undead creatures from another plane on the Ark Continent for a long time.

Another method used by dark summoners is to create undead creatures on the Ark Continent, like the Undead Mercenary Corps does. Every summoning mage can create a summoning space, which can only hold summoned creatures. If a mage turns a person or a magical beast into an undead creature, they can place it in the summoning space. However, the level of such an undead creature will be significantly reduced, and it will never be able to level up.

This is why the people monitoring Zhao Hai and his group were so surprised. The alien clearly wasn't summoned from another plane. If it were, it would have disappeared by now. But looking at the alien's combat power, they could tell it had at least the strength of a fifth-level warrior. If this magical beast was artificially created, what level was it before it was killed? Everyone was puzzled.

A mage can generally only create low-level undead creatures. To create high-level undead creatures, they must pay with their own life force. Generally, low-level undead creatures cannot have combat power exceeding that of a fourth-level warrior. Could this green undead creature be a high-level undead creature created by the black mage? Was he crazy?

Zhao Hai and his group, of course, knew the consequences of releasing the alien and being seen by others. However, they didn't care. In the future, Zhao Hai would release more undead creatures in battle, and these undead creatures would not be much lower in level than the alien. It would be better to let others know early.

There are very few places on the Ark Continent where undead creatures can naturally appear. Places where undead creatures can naturally appear are notorious, like the Corpse Swamp and the Abyss. These two places are among the five most dangerous areas on the continent. In the past hundred years, no one has been known to survive after entering these places. In the past thousand years, even those who survived from these places didn't live more than five years in good health.

Because of this, the Corpse Swamp and the Abyss have become true forbidden zones, with no adventurers willing to go there because no one wants to die.

This is also why there have been very few dark summoners on the continent who use locally produced undead creatures as summoned creatures. People have forgotten that such summoned creatures even exist.

Zhao Hai dared to release the alien so openly for a reason. His first appearance was at Black Mountain Fort. If someone connects the alien to the Corpse Swamp, it can explain why he appeared at Black Mountain Fort. People on the continent would only see Zhao Hai as a mad black mage, not connecting him to Adam, making Adam's identity safer.

When Zhao Hai and his group appeared, the Black Earth Wasteland had just been ravaged by the magical beasts and undead creatures from the Corpse Swamp. Not long after these creatures retreated, Zhao Hai appeared at Black Mountain Fort. Even if others knew the alien was an undead creature from the Corpse Swamp, they would think he captured it in the Black Earth Wasteland, considering him somewhat crazy but never connecting him to the Buda family.

Zhao Hai and his group's progress was not fast; in fact, it was quite slow, which was intentional.

Zhao Hai and his group wanted to cooperate with the Makider Trading Company and took this cooperation very seriously. The person they wanted to cooperate with had to be someone they trusted, and no one was more suitable than Laura.

However, Laura had not yet returned from Black Mountain Fort, so even if Zhao Hai and his group arrived in Casa City early, they wouldn't make a deal. Therefore, they were not in a hurry and moved slowly.

What no one knew was that Green had already secretly gone to Casa City. The person appearing on the alien's head every day, wearing full armor, was not Green but a slave with a similar build to Green.

Green had to go to Casa City early to prepare, buy a small estate, and do some preliminary work. While everyone's attention was on Zhao Hai and his group, Green's actions would not attract any notice.

Of course, Zhao Hai and his group were not idle. They were drawing maps, recording the terrain of all the places they passed through.

Zhao Hai's understanding of this world was still limited. He wanted to know more about the area around his home. He felt a great lack of security.

Because Green was not there, Zhao Hai and his group were even more cautious. Their daily progress was not fast, and they mostly traveled on major roads. Even when they had to bypass cities, they would choose well-traveled paths.

Zhao Hai's goal was to avoid anyone trying to test them. With only Merlin present and Green absent, their combat power was halved, so he had to be careful.

In fact, Zhao Hai was overthinking. His current identity as a black mage that no one dared to provoke meant that no one would dare to question his identity. Seeing the alien, no one would dare to provoke him.

One could say that Zhao Hai and his group underestimated the deterrent power of a black mage over ordinary mercenaries and adventurers. Mercenaries and adventurers are clear that it's better to offend a powerful seventh-level warrior than a fourth-level black mage. Offending a warrior might get you killed, but offending a black mage could result in being tortured to death and then turned into an undead creature to fight for them.

Adventurers and mercenaries are not afraid of death, but the idea of fighting for their enemy after death makes them uncomfortable. They would rather have their bodies eaten by magical beasts than become undead creatures.

Because of this, no adventurer or mercenary would dare to offend a black mage, especially one with a summoned creature as powerful as a fifth-level warrior.

Although Zhao Hai and his group's progress was not fast, they attracted the attention of the entire Vansel Principality. Whether it was the caravans they encountered on the road or ordinary passersby, everyone paid attention to them. The reason was simple: their battle with the Undead Mercenary Corps had been widely spread.

The Undead Mercenary Corps was too famous on the continent, almost becoming an untouchable presence. Now, Zhao Hai had actually fought with the Undead Mercenary Corps and driven them away, which could not help but attract attention.

No one thought Zhao Hai and his group could capture the entire Undead Mercenary Corps. In their view, that was impossible. The Undead Mercenary Corps had emerged unscathed from many battles, not just by boasting but through real combat. Apart from being nearly wiped out by the Sinya family, the Undead Mercenary Corps had rarely suffered any losses. Even with Zhao Hai and his group's strong combat power, no one believed they could capture the Undead Mercenary Corps.

People paid attention to Zhao Hai and his group for two reasons: one, to see who was so bold as to provoke the Undead Mercenary Corps, and two, to see when the Undead Mercenary Corps would take revenge on Zhao Hai and his group.

However, to everyone's disappointment, Zhao Hai and his group traveled safely, and the Undead Mercenary Corps seemed to have disappeared, not causing any trouble for Zhao Hai and his group. This puzzled everyone because it was unlike the Undead Mercenary Corps' usual style.

Thus, under the watchful eyes of everyone in the Vansel Principality, Zhao Hai and his group moved slowly toward Casa City, almost becoming a scenic view, much to their frustration.

However, their goal was achieved. Everyone's attention was on them, and no one noticed the Buda family or the small estate in a small mountain outside Casa City being bought for a hundred gold coins.

This small estate was originally built by a merchant. It was built on a very remote small mountain outside Casa City. The land on the mountain was very barren and could not grow much. The only notable feature was a hot spring, and the estate was built around this hot spring, enclosing it.

The merchant clearly intended to use this small estate for occasional vacations and hot spring baths. Unfortunately, he later went bankrupt, and the estate, being too remote, had no buyers. When Green learned of this, he immediately bought it. Although the small estate was not worth a hundred gold coins, Green bought not just the estate but the entire small mountain.