Deep within Dimensional Block #109
Right when Lexi crossed into the Dimensional Block
Karo de Vult, the lich king Dimensional Leader of Dimensional Block #109, opens his pitch black eyes and then narrows them on the System Message that he hears and sees playing out in front of him.
{The Dimensional Champion of Dimensional Block #108 has entered Dimensional Block #109.}
A Dimensional Champion has entered the Block…
The undead creature whose skin is so pale it looks white while in some areas he is completely missing skin and flesh, revealing just his bones underneath his black cloak, turns his head to focus on the direction of the Dimensional Wall connecting their Block to Dimensional Block #108. And after staring for several seconds, he stands up from his throne made of bones, making the undead around him in the makeshift pyramid of sand they had already constructed since the Tutorial stand at attention.
This could get interesting.
He knows that whoever the Dimensional Champion is, they have to either be stupid or powerful to leave their own Block and enter another Block. And most people strong enough to become a Dimensional Champion aren’t stupid enough to do that.
It would be best to assume they’re powerful lest I underestimate them.
Just like all powerful undead that eventually become lich kings, Karo prides himself on being cautious. Because if anyone were to know the weight of losing, it’s an undead. Especially a powerful undead.
For all undead have died once already.
“Sire! We have news of the Eastern Resistance led by the humans launching an assault on our Eastern fortress!” a blighted one declares after stepping up to the top of the pyramid’s stairs and kneeling.
Karo turns his gaze back to the blighted one and orders, “Give them one last chance to become undead before we take the choice away from them and turn them after they die. But make sure not to aggravate Vargas.”
“As you will it, Sire!” the blighted one shouts before quickly turning around and leaving the top of the pyramid back down the stairs.
The lich king turns his gaze back towards the direction of the opposing Dimensional Champion before glancing towards the East, where the hellfire dragon Vargas d’Argol, the Dimensional Champion of Dimensional Block #109, has made his territory.
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If I got a message about the Dimensional Champion’s arrival, then he most certainly did as well.
Karo stares at the horizon above the seemingly endless sands for a while before returning to sitting on his throne.
In that case the best way forward is to wait for the dragon’s response before deciding on my own.
And with that decision made, Karo slowly closes his eyes again, making all of the nearby undead under his control settle back down again.
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The Eastern part of Dimensional Block #109
Right when Lexi crossed into the Dimensional Block
Vargas d’Argol raises his head to look towards the West as he sees and hears the System Message playing out in front of him and in his head.
{The Dimensional Champion of Dimensional Block #108 has entered Dimensional Block #109. Should your Dimensional Council declare war on Dimensional Block #108 you may challenge the Dimensional Champion to a duel so long as you are still within the same Dimensional Block. The winner of the duel will therefore claim control of the Dimensional Block for their own Block and the Dimensional Wall between the Blocks will no longer require Authority to pass through for citizens of the Blocks.}
His eyes narrow slightly.
Curious.
The dragon is in his humanoid form, the man’s dragon form still not unlocked to him yet. He has two red, draconic wings sprouting from his back through his red armor and he has blood-red shoulder-length hair, with crimson eyes that occasionally shift into and out of slits. Then he smiles slightly from his place atop a large dune of sand as he considers who could possibly be powerful enough to waltz into the Block of a dragon.
Or stupid enough, but that would be disappointing to him, so he would rather it not be the reality of the situation.
Vargas hasn’t had any care about what the Dimensional Leader has been doing with the Dimensional Block, largely because the lich king is the only one in the Block Vargas pays even the slightest bit of attention to. Outside of those who enter his territory.
But what he does know is that the man has been sending groups to the neighboring Blocks to scout them out for potential fodder.
At one point Vargas felt like the lich king even briefly considered whether the reality about Class S species being unaffected by any sort of species-changing infections was still true or not while looking at Vargas during the Dimensional Council. Only to quickly decide that since the System wasn’t the thing making that how it was, it most likely didn’t change.
Class S species are embodiments of their elements after all. They cannot have their forms changed by other influences.
After hesitating for a single second, Vargas flaps his wings and begins flying through the air towards the West.
He’s been stuck at his territory for a few days now, unable to go out and challenge another Tier 2 dungeon during this time. But the idea of leaving a potentially powerful individual to run around the Block without finding out who or what it is, is too much for him to bear.
So he decides to trust the lich king for the moment. That the King won’t have any of his undead disturb his territory in his absence.
If he knows what’s good for him he better keep his dead soldiers away from my land.
He frowns for a second.
Then again, knowing lich kings, there’s a decent chance he wants me to check out the visitor. And the man isn’t stupid, I’ll give him that. Even if he’s the typical undead coward.
Vargas continues flying through the air as his mind returns back to the new Dimensional Champion.
The Dimensional Champion better be a Class S species, otherwise they’re not worth my time.