The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 141: Rise Of The Lich Sovereign (2)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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In a world filled with the miasma of death, Lich Oz stared at the realm he’s attempting to conquer from above his grand castle, and analyze his progress with his cold eyes.

Gravendath, the world of the undead. Gravendath is divided into five continents. The Southern, Northern, Western, Eastern, and the Central continent.

On each continent, several kingdoms existed and were ruled by undead kings. Those who became undead kings possess the greatest strength and bear the most mana of death. Lich Oz had completely conquered the southern continent and the 8 kingdoms above it. 

Amongst the kings of the southern continent, Lich Oz won over Malistrode, Vlad, and Ursula while he killed the other 5 kings as they strongly reject the idea of serving him. 

After ruling the southern continent, Lich Oz and his army marched towards the eastern continent and conquered the kingdoms above it together with all of their kings. As the eastern continent is smaller than the southern kingdom in size, there are only four kingdoms on it.

Crossing the abyss ocean using a huge ship owned by Ursula’s kingdom that was made by strong Gravendath’s wood that got strengthened by the Arachne’s steel web, Lich Oz encountered several abyssal undead monsters that became the reason why the sea called the abyss ocean.

But with Lich Oz’s, Malistrode’s, Vlad’s, Ursula’s, and their army’s strength, they managed to defeat all of the monsters and harvest an enormous amount of condensed undead energy inside the abyssal whales. And since all of the undead obtained the ability to transform into a human form, they cooked the meat of the abyssal whale and ate it. While they don’t really need to eat, they had the urge to eat because they could now taste things other than souls.

Looking at his soldiers that seemed to be so happy to be able to eat, Lich Oz decided to make the abyssal whale as the army’s meal supply and allow them to keep and preserve the meats. As the body of the abyssal whale is far bigger than a normal whale on earth, the meat is enough to feed the whole army for a month.

Not only the meat, but the bones and skin of the abyssal whale is also a very valuable material that could be used to make high-quality weapons and tools. Lich Oz instructed the Arachnes to make strong armors and weapons from it. Not only the abyssal whale, but Lich Oz also encountered abyssal octopus and titan shark. After facing the abyssal whale that gave them lots of materials and food, the army happily fought the abyssal monsters that used to be feared by the Gravendath denizens.

Lich Oz realized that his army had indeed achieved a greater feat of strength. They should be enough to conquer the other continents easily.

After arrived at the eastern continent, Lich Oz conquered the zombie kingdom and have the zombie [King] serve him after getting challenged into a duel just like Ursula. After the zombie [King], he marched towards the skeleton kingdom and have the skeleton [King] surrendered after defeating his army.

Lich Oz continues his march without any stop as Vlad, Malistrode, and Ursula start to get addicted to wars. Without having Lich Oz join the fight, Malistrode, Vlad, and their army conquered the kingdom ruled by a lich [King] while Ursula and her army conquered the small kingdom of the Dullahan [King].

In a short time, Lich Oz had conquered the southern kingdom and they immediately marched again towards the central continent. Bringing all of his armies, Lich Oz conquered half of the central continent in a day with the seven kings under him. 

Because of the great chaos Lich, Oz brings, and how he had conquered the southern and the eastern continent made his reputation and the seven kings under him soar and spread wide towards the whole Gravendath. 

The central continent is huge and has about 10 kingdoms above it, and Lich Oz had conquered five of it while the Wraith [King]’s kingdom is the fifth, Lich Oz had killed the rest of the four kings as they seemed to have their mind-controlled by the undead dragon. After confirming that the Wraith [King] is not under the undead dragon’s mind control, Lich Oz has him to serve under Vlad.

“My king… It seems that the Wraith [King]’s army had already gone their evolution too after pledging their allegiance towards you, my king. And after obtaining the ability to transform into a human and to taste the food, they immediately attempt to eat the abyssal monsters meats that we’ve preserved, and it seems that it is true that eating the meat of the abyssal monsters had improved their death mana’s amount and quality significantly,” (Vlad)

“But after observing my people’s improvement, it seems that the more they eat the abyssal monsters’ meats, the lessens the growth will be. But lots of them managed to rank up and obtain some special abilities after eating the abyssal monsters’ meats,” Reported Vlad.

“I see…” Lich Oz muttered as he stared into the dark skies with the red eyes from his skull as he’s using his usual Lich form.

“Well, I do feel that my strength kind of increased after eating the abyssal monsters’ meat, not to mention that the meat is delicious too,” The skeleton [King] warrior that served Lich Oz said frankly. He’s using his human form that is a muscular red-haired man.

“So you too, huh, Armando? I thought that it was just my imagination that my strength increased, but it turns out that it had indeed increased. Mine increased for about two folds, how about you, Armando?” Asked Malistrode that still used his mummy form.

“Hm…. Three or four-folds, maybe? Well, I ate quite a lot of my portion, maybe that’s the reason,” Armando indifferently said.

“You sure are a glutton, Armando,” Said a lich that looked far ancient than Lich Oz’s lich form.

“Shut it, Malacoda. I’m sure you’ve eaten it too, right? The meat is very delicious when it is cooked using his majesty’s recipe. You need to admit it,” Said Armando, riled up.

“I never said that it’s not delicious, but it is a fact that you’re a glutton as you spent a whole day eating the abyssal whale. In my opinion, eating a small portion and respecting its delicacy is more important. And I’m much more interested in the gourmet that exists in the Ablux continent, it’s said that inside his majesty’s empire, there are sweets called pudding and cake, let’s finish this world’s conquest so that we could eat those sweets!” (Malacoda)

“You sweet loving old relic,” Armando muttered under his breath.

“What did you say!?” Malacoda reacts strongly as five black grimoires appeared from the thin air.

“D-don’t get too riled up, old- Malacoda… I’m just joking…” Armando apologized to Malacoda.

There is a reason why Armando easily apologizes to Malacoda. Just like Ursula, Malacoda’s name is well-known in Gravendath, or even more. People who heard the name of this ancient old lich will tremble because of the dark story that goes along with his name.

As he is the lich that had once rampaged in the southern continent and killed every undead living there thousands of years ago. Even the undead dragon [King] avoids meeting this ancient lich. But how could he end up serving lich Oz?

The answer is easy, the bored ancient lich that had been locking himself inside a cave for thousands of years met another lich for the first time. And unlike the other undead that immediately trembled before his presence because of his terrifying mana, Lich Oz politely greets him and invites him to serve under him.

It may be just a whim, but until now, Malacoda had been serving Lich Oz loyally with full of respect.

But unlike Lich Oz, the other kings serving him are wary of his presence. Their unsure whether the ancient lich will betray their beloved master or not.

“Shut it both of you, you’re before the presence of his majesty,” Vlad scolded Malacoda and Armando.

“Hm?” Malacoda releases his murderous intent towards Vlad.

The murderous intent is thick and heavy, but for the current level that the kings serving Lich Oz are, it’s something that they could withstand.

“What is the meaning of this, Malacoda? Are you going to betray his majesty here?” Vlad coldly asked towards Malacoda.

“Malacoda, we’ve been wary of you since you’ve joined our ranks. Even though you’re infamous for your strength and tyranny, don’t think that you could do things as you wish,” Said Malistrode as he released his murderous intent, clashing with Malacoda’s.

Lich Oz sighed at the scene in front of him and silently whispered to himself.

“Indeed… some sweets are sure nice to ease the soul, huh…” (Lich Oz)