Molos's Exposure

At the same time, the ghosts possessed extremely high flight speeds, nearly comparable to civilian helicopters.

Therefore, keeping close behind the speeding ambulance was effortless for the ghosts.

However, the other undead summoned by Moros lacked such abilities.

Aside from the four vampires that could fly through the air in bat form and follow the ambulance, the corpse mages and zombies could only remain at the docks, awaiting Moros's next orders.

Guided by police cars, the ambulance's speed was pushed to the limit.

In just over twenty minutes, Moros was swiftly sent into the operating room.

Stay alert. Protect me!

Before the anesthetic took effect and he lost consciousness, Moros gave the ghosts and vampires his final command.

Two hours later.

Moros, whose bullet had been removed from his shoulder, was still asleep under the effects of the anesthetic.

Although beings of the Exemplar Tier had surpassed ordinary humans, an excessive dose of anesthetic could still affect them if they did not use magic to resist it.

As for the dosage of anesthetic.

After all, Moros was an Exemplar-tier supernatural being whose life level had risen twice. The dosage meant for ordinary people was not enough to render him unconscious.

While Moros slept peacefully, an undead guard composed of six ghosts and four vampires watched over him with unwavering focus.

The ghosts quietly slipped into the hospital room using their invisibility, while the vampires remained outside the window in bat form.

It was precisely because of this undead guard that Moros dared to undergo surgery under anesthesia.

After being assassinated once by a killer sent by Mayor Yang, Moros's sense of security had greatly diminished.

He no longer dared to entrust his safety entirely to the two constables outside the hospital room.

The facts proved that Moros's caution had been entirely necessary.

After receiving a phone call, the two constables exchanged a glance, then tacitly left their posts.

Clearly, some deals had been struck through Mayor Yang's arrangements.

If it had only been Mayor Yang, the local police system would naturally have had no reason to show him any respect.

But when faced with Mayor Yang's patron, the Powerful Councillor standing at the pinnacle of Mu Continent's political landscape, the local police chiefs did not dare put on airs.

Under the Powerful Councillor's instructions, the local police system showed Mayor Yang sufficient respect.

Thus, the heavily armed private troops under Mayor Yang's command were able to rush out unimpeded by any force.

At the same time, they successfully obtained the exact location of the hospital where Moros was undergoing surgery.

Not long after the constables were reassigned, the hospital's fire alarm rang out with startling abruptness.

At the same time, billowing smoke rose from the building housing the hospital rooms.

Naturally, the hospital initiated evacuation procedures.

Whether deliberately or not, Moros, who was still asleep, was overlooked during the evacuation.

When the last nurse pushed a hospital bed out of the ward building, one of the hospital's leaders made a phone call.

Immediately afterward, signal lights representing the start of the operation began flashing inside several specially modified Toyota HiAce vans in the hospital parking lot.

"It's our turn! Move!"

Throwing open the doors, three well-trained private military squads filed out, then swiftly advanced toward the ward building.

Seeing this, the four bats hanging upside down outside Moros's window let out piercing shrieks.

Then they released their claws, beat their Bat Wings, and dove toward the private soldiers preparing to storm the ward building.

As they descended, the vampires rapidly transformed, revealing the sword-bearing noble appearance of their combat forms.

It was not just the four vampires. Warned by the cries of the vampires in bat form, the six ghosts that had been wandering through the hospital room also reacted swiftly.

They split into two groups. One was responsible for executing the private soldiers attempting to harm Moros, while the other devoted itself to protecting the necromancer.

"Fuck, what the hell is that?!"

A private soldier at the rear of the squad witnessed this utterly unscientific scene and involuntarily cried out over the radio.

Even with their rigorous training, faced with such an absurd sight

, the private soldiers' hearts were still filled with shock and confusion.

However, that moment of astonishment became his fatal weakness.

Beneath the thrust of a Steel Longsword, the tactical helmet atop the private soldier's head appeared utterly fragile.

Like the kiss of death, the sharp blade easily pierced his skull and took his life.

He was not the only one. The other three members at the rear of the squad also suffered merciless slashes.

They did not even have time to react before collapsing forever onto the cold hospital floor.

The deaths of the four private soldiers were not meaningless.

Their deaths bought precious reaction time for the other private soldiers.

"Return fire! Return fire!"

At the shouts of the three squad leaders, the private soldiers swiftly adjusted their aim and pulled their triggers without hesitation.

In an instant, a dense barrage of bullets poured toward the four vampires.

Then something happened that shocked the private soldiers.

The four vampires swung their Steel Longswords, knocking bullet after bullet aside.

Although quite a few bullets struck the vampires' bodies, from the private soldiers' perspective, they could barely detect any substantial harm inflicted by those attacks.

"Use..."

Before the private military captain could finish speaking, the ghosts charging down from the ceiling attacked.

Swinging their sharp claws, they pierced the three captains' chests with precise, decisive strikes.

The ghosts' damage was indeed rather low among Ashan World's Tier 3 units, but to private soldiers who were merely ordinary humans, their claw strikes were fatal.

Before the Flame-Chaser Warriors were born, Pre-Collapse Civilization had relied primarily on the power of technology to fight.

There were strong individuals among them, but such people were exceedingly rare.

At the very least, there were no such strong individuals among the private soldiers recruited by Mayor Yang.

With their command gone and the undead already in close quarters, the fate of the three private military squads needed no further explanation.

They did not last even five minutes before the three private military squads Mayor Yang had sent to eliminate the survivor were completely wiped out.

After eliminating the private soldiers who had sought to harm Moros, the vampires and ghosts swiftly returned to their previous positions and continued carrying out the necromancer's earlier command.

Protect his safety.

Moros Exposed

For the firefighters who came to put out the blaze, today was an extraordinary day.

The moment they received the hospital fire alarm, the city's fire department reacted swiftly.

Several fire engines raced to the scene. After disembarking with firefighting equipment, the firefighters prepared to rush into the ward building and extinguish the so-called "fire."

However, when they saw the scene before them, they were left dumbfounded.

The ward building's lobby was littered with bodies, severed limbs, and mangled chunks of flesh. The entire space was permeated by a suffocating stench of blood.

This was a fire?

Every firefighter was filled with confusion and shock. The scene before them was simply too bloody and horrific, far beyond anything they had imagined.

These were the remains of three fully staffed private military squads.

Even the most experienced firefighters had never seen anything like it.

The firearms and grenades scattered beside the incomplete corpses further proved that this was no ordinary fire.

Before Moros lost consciousness, the only command he had left the undead was to protect his safety.

Since that was the case, the vampires and ghosts, as units, naturally would not go out of their way to clean up the battlefield.

And so, this was the scene the firefighters saw.

"What are you standing around for? Put out the fire!"

The lead firefighter snapped out of his shock and rushed without hesitation toward several grenades scattered across the floor.

With his experience, he knew full well how dangerous such explosives were if left at a fire scene.

He needed to remove them from the fire as quickly as possible to prevent an even greater danger.

Following their leader's example, the other firefighters decided to temporarily set aside the horrific scene and fulfill their duties first.

They sprang into action, concentrating their efforts on extinguishing the flames.

Since the fire was not severe, the firefighters quickly brought it under control and extinguished it completely.

Although one of the hospital's leaders had accepted benefits from Mayor Yang and cooperated with the private troops' operation, he did not want to bind himself too closely to Mayor Yang because of it.

Therefore, he had merely started a small fire to reasonably evacuate the personnel.

If the ward building had truly burned down, he did not want to bear the grave consequences.

So, after the firefighters extinguished the blaze, the hospital leader immediately began organizing people to clean up the scene.

He knew very well that the truth behind this "fire" could not be exposed, or he would face severe consequences.

Thus, he ordered his subordinates to destroy all evidence and dispose of the bodies as quickly as possible.

Just as the hospital leader's subordinates were busy destroying evidence and handling the bodies, Moros awoke from the sleep induced by the anesthetic.

After learning of the earlier battle from the vampires' report, Moros knew that his peaceful life was gone forever.

In that case, I'll make a real mess of things...

With the Demiplane as an escape route, Moros did not fear this era's civilization all that much.

Pre-Collapse Civilization's technology was formidable, and Mu Continent's technological level was even far beyond that of Pre-Collapse Civilization.

But so what?

Before the Herrscher of Void was born, Pre-Collapse Civilization's research into space had remained only at the theoretical level.

In this era, when even Moth to Fire had yet to be formally established, even if the entire world joined forces, without Moros's permission, they would be unable to cross the barrier between worlds and enter the Demiplane.

With such an escape route, Moros naturally dared to do some outrageous things.

"Let's go!"

After gazing deeply at the bustling crowd outside the hospital room window, Moros's eyes revealed a resolute glint.

He activated the Demiplane passage, a swirling portal of deep blue light.

Then Moros led the undead into the passage without looking back.

With the corpse mages and zombies left at the docks as anchors for the Demiplane passage, Moros had no need to worry about being ambushed at the entrance the next time he returned to Mu Continent.

Upon returning to the familiar Graveyard City, Moros did not pause for even a moment.

Taking a squad composed entirely of vampires, he headed straight for a wilderness structure known as the Vitality Magic Well.

Moros's intentions were clear. No matter how the situation developed, the first thing he needed to do was restore his nearly depleted magic power.

Vitality Magic Well: Drinking from it restores mana to maximum, but each hero may drink only once per day.

As the master of the Demiplane, Moros naturally knew the Vitality Magic Well's exact location.

Traveling with only vampires, Moros reached the Vitality Magic Well in just over ten hours.

The Vitality Magic Well stood at the heart of a deep, mysterious forest, surrounded by ancient towering trees. Their branches and leaves bowed toward the magical well like pilgrims, as if revering the immense magic contained within.

The water inside the well was not clear and transparent like ordinary well water, but a deep blue.

The water's surface was perfectly still, yet it gave the impression of unfathomable depth, as though it connected to another unknown world.

After studying at the Mage Guild, Moros knew this was no illusion.

The reason the Vitality Magic Well's water possessed the miraculous power to restore a hero's magic was that it came directly from the magic-rich deep sea layer of the Water Elemental Plane.

The environment there was extremely hostile to humans, making survival nearly impossible.