"Welcome back, Master. Your loyal servant has prayed for your return every day!"
In the dark grand hall, Kersu's voice trembled with excitement. His face was pale and withered, like an evil spirit, while his body looked like a skeleton wrapped in skin. He was clearly weakened to the extreme.
The returning undead saw the mage he had once valued most beneath him. A trace of amusement flashed through his eyes, but the affection he had shown before was gone.
Kersu was a genius—at least among the natives, he was one of the very best. After coming into contact with higher-dimensional knowledge, he absorbed it rapidly like a sponge, becoming a capable assistant in developing his civilization.
But now, he had seen even more exceptional geniuses. The undead lord remembered the outsiders he had encountered on the island, especially the wind fairy whose talent was so extraordinary that even the Elf Council could not resist merging with her... And there was more than one such genius. There was a whole group of them.
What incredibly tempting resources...
Kersu trembled as he knelt and bowed. When the other party made no sound, he did not even have the courage to raise his head.
"Tell me about the situation..." the undead lord said in a low voice. "Where has everyone gone?"
Kersu hurriedly replied, "While you were away, the Black Goat Diagram became impossible to control, while that mysterious outsider force continued exploring it. If this went on, I feared all your painstaking work would become someone else's harvest. So I ordered people to closely monitor the outsiders' movements. Of course, so that you could return and take charge of the overall situation as soon as possible, Marina and Meng Jia La Gu De used the Undead Ship you once left with