Chapter 1159: 361. Encounter with an Acquaintance

At the ceremony site on the first floor of the Signal Tower, spiked cages hung from the ceiling, containing living creatures to be used as ritual sacrifices.

Blood formed into columns that dripped from the cages down to the ground, spreading along the magical runes on the floor, flickering red, corrupt and sinful.

A group of undead beings from various factions of the Undead Cult surrounded the ritual array, standing on a circular high platform, watching the array on the ground.

They saw the blood water spreading over the array and also witnessed the flickering luminous soul energy.

Compared to the dazzling red blood light, the soul energy appeared murky and unstable, as if it might extinguish at any moment.

The undead beings anxiously conversed, whispered, searched for someone, or questioned the Demon Bone.

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Noland Lee, having used Deconstruction to search for Archelon among the undead, encountered this scene.

At the ceremony site, he saw a figure he was familiar with.

Sully.

Back when the Land of Revival was still known as the Land of Suffering, Noland Lee was still the unlucky Sin Soldier.

Morster, the Acting Commander of Division Intelligence Unit Two, arranged for Sully to approach Noland Lee and bring them together to ensure Noland stayed fixed in his place.

Noland Lee harbored little affection for this nurse, but she was after all one of the few who had been kind to him after his misfortune in the Suffering Borderland.

—The kindness came with a clear agenda, but, undeniably, Sully did develop genuine feelings from deep within her heart in the process of their interaction.

Thus, just as Noland Lee helped Mars, Alvin Stafford, and Murphy with the challenge of the Undead Barrier, he also asked Morster to help Sully leave the Suffering Borderland and find an opportunity to become a Wizard, to see the outside world.

Morster agreed and took action, but sadly, Noland Lee last encountered the Earth Vein Pillar team in the Bustling Tunnel.

The leader of that team told him that Sully, due to being far beyond the age limit for Magic Enlightenment, couldn’t become a Wizard.

Although Noland Lee felt helpless, he could only express his regret.

Since then, Noland Lee had lost track of this nurse.

Yet now, he unexpectedly encountered her at the Undead Cult’s ceremony site.

The good news was, Sully wasn’t locked inside one of those spike-lined metal cages, suspended in mid-air like livestock.

The bad news was, Sully had become an undead, a bona fide undead being.

Moreover, she seemed to have gained some status within the Undead Cult, able to stand at the back of the crowd present, observing the ceremony.

Thanks to the site’s tiered stands, resembling a “choral” arrangement with high and low positions, Noland Lee could see Sully in full.

Noland Lee manipulated the memory fragment in his mind, magnifying the image to get a clear view.

After scrutinizing her for half a minute, Noland Lee nodded to himself.

No mistake, he had identified the right person.

Although he couldn’t use Deconstruction on the figure in the memory image, he recognized Sully from her figure, expression, and appearance.

“I didn’t expect Sully to maintain her original figure even after becoming an undead…”

Noland Lee meticulously discerned her attire and features, applying his knowledge of the Undead Cult to perceive some subtleties.

Sully had flesh and blood, not stripped bare like a skeleton, there were no black suture lines of assembled creatures, nor any disfigurement.

She remained largely unscathed, preserving her pre-death appearance except for her skin, which had turned from its original fair hue to a dull gray, and her eyes had lost their vitality, only showing grayish-white pupils.

Then he looked at her clothing.

A standard High-level Cultivator’s magic robe, mainly in shades of black and gray, cinched at the waist, with a wide, billowing hemline resembling a ceremonial skirt, and paired with a pointed black Wizard’s hat perched on her head, making her look like a large cone…

Undoubtedly, Sully had become an undead of the Living Corpse type, not undergoing skeletal transformation or suture-based modification.

Noland Lee reviewed the information about the Undead Cult he had acquired from Deconstruction.

Within the whole Undead Cult, there is only one faction with this style—the Dynasty Faction, comprising entirely of former members of the Ancient Tatis Dynasty.

These beings, somewhat proud at their core, viewed maintaining their intact original body as an honor and were unwilling to undergo bodily modifications of the undead transformation.

They used high-grade magical organs embedded in their bodies, which minimized the physical toll.

These not only preserved their bodies but also endowed them with combat prowess surpassing other factions.

Noland Lee’s gaze shifted slightly, observing the undead around Sully, both in front of and behind her. noveldrama

Yes, that’s right, no mistake, they all appeared completely human, with no signs of skeletal or suture-based modifications.

It seemed that Sully had risen to an unexpectedly high level.

Perhaps it was because she carried some Ancient Dynasty bloodline that she was immediately taken in by the Dynasty Faction after joining the Undead Cult, becoming an official member.

This was Noland Lee’s speculation.

He wasn’t really sure if Sully bore any Ancient Dynasty bloodline.

However, when considering all possible explanations, that was the only reason that made sense of the memory image he witnessed.

Noland Lee pondered in silence.

During this quiet time, the undead had failed to find Archelon in the Underground Pipeline.

They grew furious and irritable, howling in the empty underground space, and treated the delicate energy devices with brutality.

At this point, Noland Lee realized why the Demon Bone valued Archelon so much.