Undead Creatures

"Supreme Master, Undead Pharaoh Thutmose pledged eternal loyalty to you. My consciousness and soul shall belong to you."

Undead Pharaoh knelt on one knee, his hoarse voice echoing through the room.

"You have a name?"

Luo Ao looked at the Undead Pharaoh before him in surprise. As his creation, Luo Ao could completely control everything about him, though the Undead Pharaoh was a monster created from a mummy within the ruins and the soul of a necromancer.

Yet in essence, he was an entirely new life and existence.

"Supreme Master, this name was carved into this body."

"Alright."

Luo Ao did not dwell on it. Within this dungeon, he was the absolute master. As for the issue with the Undead Pharaoh, the mummy had likely been an incredibly powerful existence in life, and even after death, some of its power had remained within its body.

That was also the fundamental reason the Undead Pharaoh was so powerful. Otherwise, how could the soul of a mere official necromancer give birth to such a powerful Undead Pharaoh?

"Thutmose, from today onward, you will be responsible for guarding these ruins." Luo Ao glanced at the magical equipment floating nearby. "All these things are yours as well."

"Yes."

With a wave of his hand, the Undead Pharaoh summoned the magical equipment floating in midair before him. An ancient, tattered pharaoh's robe wrapped around his body, a bone-crafted staff rested in his hand, and a pitch-black spellbook floated at his side.

Turning around, the Undead Pharaoh headed toward the core area of the ruins. Over the long years, most of the magical puppets and traps within the ruins had ceased functioning. His next task was to restore the ruins.

After the Undead Pharaoh left, Luo Ao took out new materials. One Undead Pharaoh alone could not guard the entire Sixth Layer.

3 Necrotic Crystals + bones filled with death energy + undead magic

Monster Creation.

Light flared once more. The Necrotic Crystals melted in the glow and flowed into the bones, while undead magic gave them their essence. A Skeleton Mage clad in a black robe and floating in midair appeared on the spot.

[Name: Skeleton Mage]

[Level: lv4]

[Skills: Undead Body lv4, Undead Magic lv3, Undead Summoning lv3, Undead Alteration lv3]

[Description: A fusion of death and knowledge. The essence of a skeleton symbolizes death and decay, and it possesses absolute hostility toward the living. Having mastered forbidden undead knowledge, it can freely alter undead beings and twist souls.]

"That was a little expensive."

Luo Ao looked at the Skeleton Mage floating before him. Creating one such monster cost a full 2 points of Primordial Power, but he still used another 30 points of Primordial Power to create fifteen Skeleton Mages.

He gave five of them to the Undead Pharaoh as subordinates, while tossing the other ten into the Death Mountains. With their undead magic and Undead Summoning abilities, as long as they had suitable materials and enough time, they could summon entirely new members of their kind.

Over the following period, based on his experience creating Skeleton Mages, Luo Ao gave different abilities to different creations, producing monsters such as Skeleton Warriors, Skeleton Archers, Skeleton Deathguards, and Ghost Assassins.

These monsters were only lv3, and each cost just 0.5 points of Primordial Power. With a grand wave of his hand, Luo Ao created fifty of each kind. As usual, he gave a few of each to the Undead Pharaoh, then threw all the rest into the Death Mountains.

He let them summon and alter new members of their own kind.

"The monsters in the Death Mountains and the ruins are sufficient. All that's left is the desert next door and the Lava Sea."

Due to the environment of the Sixth Layer, ordinary monsters were not suited to surviving here. Therefore, Luo Ao planned to make undead creatures the main inhabitants of the Sixth Layer, while creating some special monsters in the neighboring desert.

1 portion of berserk fire element + 1 Magic Gem + 3 portions of Demon Iron Ore.

[Name: Flame-Iron Scorpion]

[Level: lv3]

[Skills: Flame-Iron Body lv3, Fire Element Venom lv3, Scorching Ray lv2, Elemental Assimilation lv2]

[Description: A semi-elemental lifeform that lives in scorching desert wastelands. Its blazing steel body is armor it was born with. Its massive iron pincers can snap steel, while the venomous stinger on its tail contains deadly fire venom. It is a lethal hunter of the wasteland desert.]

"Not bad, not bad. For Flame-Iron Scorpions to reproduce, they need to go to the Lava Sea and devour large amounts of fire elements. That just happens to fill the gap in the Lava Sea."

However, having only one type of monster in such a vast desert wasteland would be far too monotonous. Luo Ao used earth elements to create another giant worm-like monster. Its densely packed fangs were like a meat grinder, and it could sense vibrations in the ground to hunt its prey.

"Oh, right. I nearly forgot adventurers' old friends."

With a thought, Luo Ao transferred another batch of the Goblins and Slimes that had multiplied in great numbers on the earlier floors, tossing them into the Fifth Layer and Sixth Layer respectively. He believed that with their weed-like reproductive and survival abilities, they would surely find a way to survive on the Sixth Layer.

If they could not survive, Luo Ao did not care. In any case, those two kinds of monsters were as abundant as mushrooms in his dungeon.

"Speaking of mushrooms..." Luo Ao's spiritual power turned toward the entrance of the Sixth Layer. One Puchi after another emerged from the passage while spraying spores, with ever-spreading mycelium trailing behind them. "Fungus Lord, you really came the moment you caught the scent."

Luo Ao still felt rather attached to the first monster he had created.

"Puchi~ Puchi~"

As if sensing Luo Ao's gaze, the many Puchis spraying spores twisted their round, plump bodies and began hopping about.

After taking one look, Luo Ao stopped paying attention. Still, he transferred some Puchis to the areas of the Sixth Layer inhabited by Goblins and Slimes. With the mushrooms grown after the Fungus Lord's adaptive evolution, the Goblins and Slimes would be able to survive as well.

"Forty points of Primordial Power remain. I'll use them to fill out the monsters on the Fifth Layer."

Luo Ao glanced at the remaining Primordial Power on the panel, then turned his gaze toward the Fifth Layer, currently the dungeon's most hospitable environment. The Sixth Layer had now become a death zone, and future adventurers exploring it would definitely need to replenish supplies on the Fifth Layer.

Therefore, Luo Ao planned to give future adventurers a little trouble.

1 Magic Spring + magic plant brimming with vitality + power of nature.

[Name: Nature Flower Fairy]

[Level: lv4]

[Skills: Nature's Darling lv4, Plant Magic lv3, Aura Concealment lv3, Theft lv2, Flight lv2]

[Description: A flower fairy born from nature. She is naturally close to nature and possesses magic that controls plants. She instinctively loathes those who destroy nature. Lively and restless by nature, she enjoys stealing items rich in magical aura.]

"Adventurers, you'd better protect your equipment and treasures in the future, or they'll get automatically picked up."

Luo Ao looked at the palm-sized flower fairies before him. They might be tiny, but their strength was no weaker than that of an adult man. Paired with Aura Concealment, they were practically born thieves.