Capitalist's Delight

The two brand-new cards greatly alleviated the Creator, a special class's inability to cast spells.

They also increased his card count to fifteen.

Excluding support types like Mimicry and Mind Library, which could not be used in combat, only eight could actually be used to fight enemies.

Among them were three Creature Cards and five Magic Cards.

Two of them had been secretly created by Raymond based on what he had learned in this world, while avoiding everyone else.

Of course, aside from the Planeswalker's Card System, he had also used the Creator's class traits to make some magical items, potions, and Oddities.

Together with the Magic Scrolls he had saved up and the useful things stripped from corpses while handling the dead after the plague outbreak, it should theoretically be enough.

Just as Raymond was considering using Refinement to draw energy from some less useful magical items and replenish his empty mana pool a little, the Undead Creatures wandering the streets outside High Tower suddenly became restless.

The Zombies and Skeletons that had previously attacked the living purely on Undead instinct suddenly seemed provoked. They let out low roars toward High Tower and began gathering at a visible pace.

As for the Ghouls, which retained their former ability to speak and some intelligence, they stared at Raymond on the windowsill with gleaming eyes, giving him an involuntary sense of bone-chilling dread.

Beyond that, the shadows in the streets faintly concealed Ghasts evolved from Ghouls, Ghosts born from souls, and other dangerous Undead that had yet to reveal themselves.

There was no doubt that these Undead had been drawn by the huge commotion caused by creating the Land Card earlier.

Fortunately, less than two months had passed since the plague outbreak began and people started dying in droves.

Thus, some powerful spellcasters, Fighters, knights, Monsters, and magical creatures that had died had not yet had time to transform into more advanced Undead forms.

Otherwise, this place might truly have become a kingdom of the Undead.

"Damn! I knew something was bound to go wrong."

Realizing that these Undead Creatures intended to gather and assault High Tower, Raymond finally could not hold himself together any longer.

Since he did not have control over High Tower, he had no way to deal with the tide-like horde of Undead rushing in.

He could only wait for High Tower's passive defense system to activate on its own.

And with the magical energy stored in a Wizard's Tower, it might be able to unleash Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Cone of Cold, and Positive Energy spells to kill massive numbers of Undead.

But once that energy ran out, the remaining Undead would smash through the sealed entrance and swarm inside, killing every living thing they encountered.

Survivors in other High Towers had already gone through this more than once.

So Raymond knew very well what danger and predicament he was facing.

He could not keep waiting any longer.

Otherwise, there was only one path left: death.

Damn it!

The quest rewarding three card draws really was not so easy to complete.

As he repeatedly considered whether the escape plan he had made contained any fatal flaws, a group of roughly thirty Zombies of varying sizes and six Ghouls finally charged to the entrance first, triggering the warning runes placed around it.

The next second...

The top of the tower, which had already grown dim, suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light.

Before the Undead could approach the sealed gate, a Chain Lightning descended from above.

Crash!

Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

Dazzling silver arcs continuously leaped between the Undead Creatures.

Every target struck instantly blackened, then fell backward uncontrollably, emitting black smoke and a pungent burnt stench.

With just one strike!

One Ghoul and several Zombies were killed.

Immediately afterward, a series of Fireballs as large as washbasins followed.

They continuously exploded in the densest clusters of Undead.

Deafening explosions and scorching flames devoured everything.

When the magical flames faded, every Undead within twenty meters of the entrance before High Tower had been wiped out.

The Wizard's Tower's powerful defensive capabilities were displayed to the fullest at that moment.

As for Raymond, who was watching the show from above, he took the chance to absorb some of the Negative Energy released after the Undead were killed and poured it into his mana pool for use as Black Mana.

At the same time, he casually destroyed two magical items and refined roughly thirty points of Colorless Mana for emergencies.

Seeing that the Undead would not be able to break in anytime soon, he did not dare stay to keep scavenging benefits. He immediately turned and ran toward his own room on the eastern side of the third floor.

With his short little legs, Raymond hurried through the narrow passages and corridors, past the empty workshop and library lined with bookshelves, and soon arrived at the apprentices' dormitory.

But unlike most ordinary apprentices,

his room was not a crowded common lounge with space for only four beds, two tables, and a few chairs. It was an independent bedroom at the very end.

The moment he pushed open the door, the first thing he saw was two Undead Creatures assembled from various incomplete corpse parts, bound and fixed to racks, pedaling atop a wheelless device with a structure very similar to a bicycle.

As they pedaled day and night without pause, the transmission chains drove the shafts below into frantic rotation, producing a constant buzzing noise.

The shafts were densely and neatly wrapped in large quantities of copper wire.

Two enormous ring-shaped magnets sat around the coils.

Anyone who had studied middle school physics could tell at a glance that it was a primitive generator with a simple structure.

The copper wire at the end connected to a cylindrical crystal roughly half a meter long and about as thick as a drinking cup.

Through its slightly cloudy outer wall, silver electrical flashes could clearly be seen constantly flickering inside.

Clearly, this device's purpose was to store the electricity generated by the generator as pure energy.

Simply put, it was a product combining technology and magic.

Aside from the cylindrical crystal storage unit, which was a magically created Oddity, the rest was built entirely on the principle of electromagnetic induction.

As for the power source driving the generator, it was naturally two low-level Undead powered by Negative Energy.

Since there was no such thing as "conservation of energy" in a magical world,

he only needed to replenish the two Undead with a little Negative Energy from time to time for them to continuously produce electricity.

Raymond had even given the device a deeply meaningful name—"Capitalist's Delight."

He dared guarantee that if capitalists on Earth saw the Undead Creatures of this magical world, their first reaction would definitely not be fear. They would leap up in excitement and shout that this was exactly the labor force they needed.

No need for rest!

No need to breathe!

No need to eat or drink!

No need to date or reproduce!

No fear of corrosive toxic substances!

And no need to pay them anything at all!

With just a tiny bit of Negative Energy, these "little darlings" would continuously create value like perpetual-motion machines.

What 996, what 007...

Even slaves would have to step aside before Undead Creatures capable of working nonstop twenty-four hours a day.

By then, Necromancers capable of resurrecting corpses and controlling the Undead would absolutely become the hottest profession in the world.

For all anyone knew, corpses might become more valuable than living people...

Walking over to the cylindrical crystal connected to the copper wire, Raymond carefully used insulated tools to disconnect it, then removed the device storing electrical energy and secured it to the belt on his left side.

Besides storing the electrical energy generated by the generator, this Oddity could also release it in the form of Lightning Bolt whenever needed.

Under normal circumstances, it could release thirty ordinary Lightning Bolts at targets no more than ten meters away, or one devastating super Lightning Bolt.

The former dealt steady Harm.

The latter released all its electricity in one go.

Its power depended on how much charge remained inside the Oddity.