Chapter 512: The Power of the Open

Chapter 512: The Power of the Open

Now, as far as the public outside knows about Mu Hua, this ghost god who regards Caines City as his territory has four forces under his command that are openly capable of resisting external threats.

First of all, as the lord of the ghost city, this ghost god who fools the devil has cultivated a large number of psychics in Caines City.

According to the public data of Caines City, in this not-so-large city, the number of people who have the conditions and intention to practice necromancy has reached more than 4,300.

Although these people are amateurs, most of them learn some necromancy after work or even in their spare time, but the working hours of less than six hours a day on weekdays allow them to have sufficient time to practice after resting.

In addition to the more formal supermarkets that have shift business hours, Caines City follows the work and rest schedule of some public institutions. After all, the work of handling government affairs is often, so it should be able to cope with all work.

When the public got used to certain rhythms of life, including some private shops, before 10 a.m. and after 3 p.m., even if they were not closed, basically no one would serve customers properly.

With the revival of Caines City, the income and welfare of the citizens were in place accordingly. Most of these amateur necromancers who practiced in their spare time had their families become their guardian spirits. They were the die-hard supporters of Mu Hua.

It was precisely because of their existence that 90% of the ‘Eyes of True Vision’ originally laid in Caines City were removed in order to prevent the ghosts from giving bad feelings to outsiders who came to Caines City.

Even if you don’t have the ability of psychic vision, you don’t have to worry about the ghosts playing pranks on you here, because too many people can see them and beat them up.

Similarly, generally no one dares to do anything wrong in Caines City, because when you are stealing, you can’t be sure whether there is a group of ghosts nearby who are chatting and watching what you do.

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The second ghost force in Caines City is also dominated by ghosts, and it is much more professional.

‘Wall of Sighs Club’

Using the Psychic Academy as its base, a Faceless Man and dozens of witch souls are the club’s initiators, and there is even a wailing banshee among them.

They have gathered a group of ghosts who are dedicated to cultivation, and use the Faceless Man as their target for cultivation and evolution. Their purpose is to build a wall of sighs to protect Caines City when danger comes.

Just like the so-called secret society, this club has an undisguised concealment.

While publicly acknowledging the existence of the club, most of the club members hide their identities from the outside world, and some initiators usually use corpse demons as carriers to carry out normal activities in the outside world.

The ghosts transformed by humans have excellent adaptability to corpse demons, and they can control corpse demons for a long time. In addition to magic beasts, the most lacking thing in Caines City is probably the corpse demons strolling all over the streets.

It is hard to say whether the members of the Wall of Sighs Club are Mu Hua’s die-hard supporters, but according to rumors from the outside world, they are the absolute guardians of the internal order of Caines City.

Compared to ordinary citizens who practiced necromancy, they would really secretly execute those who were threatening to Caines.

As the dean of the Psychic Academy, the witch Caroline became a wailing banshee in a short time through unknown means. She is the minister of the Wall of Sighs Club.

The identities of the other faceless person and a dozen witch souls are not easy to confirm, because they have given themselves many vests (corpse demons), regardless of strength, just like changing clothes, changing from time to time.

As the instructors of the necromancy academy, the dozen witch souls who always change vests often give their students a headache because it is difficult to confirm their identities.

As for the faceless person, some people speculate that it is Selma from the Malz Magic Materials Store, because she not only controls the operation rights of youth potions and a large number of magic potions, but also her daughter is highly valued by Mu Hua.

When mentioning her daughter Athena, we have to mention another force that is directly under Mu Hua's command, the Black Crow Knights.

The entire group consists of 66 knights loyal to Mu Hua and 1,000 human ghosts.

The ghosts of the Black Crow Knights are generally unloved by their parents and no longer have any relatives or friends. They are all equipped with corpses made from powerful demon corpses.

The 66 knights who practiced black magic in the Knights are extremely talented, but their growth is not outstanding for the time being. They vowed to become liches and follow Mu Hua even if death comes.

Clark and Athena lead the Black Crow Knights as the leader and deputy leader respectively. Compared with other members of the Knights, these two are gifted and are said to have the strength to lead the brigade in battle.

The Black Crow Knights are usually divided into two teams, one team rests in Caines City, and the other team is led by Clark and Athena in turn to Caines Courtyard for training.

They have not yet gone deep into the various monster areas of the courtyard. Since their establishment, they have not had any impressive records. The information about them is mostly rumors.

Although there are not many Black Crow Knights alive, don't forget that the thousand ghosts are also members of the Knights. Whenever they prepare for battle, the large number of powerful corpse demons accompanying them are as terrifying as a hundred ghosts parading at night.

And the last force related to Mu Hua is more bizarre.

The Dandelion Demon Hunting Group is also where Mu Hua came from. This team has a close relationship with Mu Hua.

Although they also did not show exaggerated combat power, judging from the flying dragons raised by Mu Hua, the wisdom fruits sold to the outside world, and the tears of elements that are occasionally listed on the shelves of "Mistaken Life", they are not weak.

Originally, under the cover of all kinds of things in Caines City, Taibesha and her group were not really visible, but who can blame them for doing some "big things" in a year.

At first, Taibesha led the Dandelion Demon Hunter Group of nearly 20 people to hunt ghosts and flame dogs in the basin of the Panjiade Crater. It can be said that it was a place where people hated ghosts. Not to mention paying attention, basically no one saw them.

As Taibesha received more and more tasks to clear the ghosts in the basin from the Adventurer's Guild, the Adventurer's Guild stationed in the Panjiade Courtyard knew that there was such a team.

However, no one paid attention to the Dandelion Demon Hunter Group at that time. Apart from the factors of running-in the team, the Adventurer's Guild only thought that Taibesha and her group were doing public welfare, and it was estimated that they would not last long.

But as time went by, the Dandelion Demon Hunters seemed to be fighting with the little ghosts in the crater basin.

At first, it was a team collaboration. All members were armed with guns and shot at the little ghosts. When they encountered fireballs from groups of little ghosts, there were also special people holding shields to defend.

But the little ghosts were also very flexible. Then they seemed to feel that the efficiency of guns was too low, so they used magic grenades and even cluster grenades.

The little ghosts didn't produce much, so this was basically doing charity, right?

Someone in the Adventurer's Guild suddenly investigated the information of the Dandelion Team and found that they were related to the city of Caines. At that time, the familiar industry in Caines City had just started, and people only thought that they hunted little ghosts to provide raw materials for the feed factory in Caines.

You can't raise monsters without feeding them, otherwise they are not familiars, but crazy beasts.

It's a bit of a loss, but considering the price of the monster familiars sold, it's not hard to understand if they are equal.

Then, this group of people no longer used guns and grenades, and they didn't even need shields. They started fighting with the little ghosts with swords and spears, one by one, despite the little ghosts' fireballs.

Do they feel that it's not worth it? Are they starting to save money?

But the cross-country fight didn't last long, and the swords and spears turned into short swords.

No, after adapting for a while, the twenty people became ten people, and the fight was still a fight, but this group of people didn't form a team, fighting on their own, all running away, and one by one, they started a hunting moment of fighting a group of little ghosts.

Walking is too slow, so switch to shuttle.

Shuttles can easily ignore hidden little ghosts, so switch to terrain vehicles.

Good guy, the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group didn't bring the logistics team, and more than a dozen main combat personnel began to hunt the little ghosts frantically in the crater basin. The little ghosts have limited individual combat power. In addition to the high fire resistance of all members of this team, it doesn't seem that they have any reputation.

But this killing lasted for almost a year. They seemed to really want to clear out the crater basin. Some people in the Adventurer's Guild began to bet that they planned to use the task points of killing little ghosts to pile up the demon hunting group into a brigade.

The little ghosts in the crater basin actually mainly come from the underground space under the surrounding mountains. The cave passages in the mountains are difficult to accommodate people, and the underground space is not an open cave, so humans cannot enter.

Even if the mountain is blown up, these little ghosts can probably dig holes again and drill out from the ground. If you kill all the little ghosts here today, maybe another batch will come out and gather here again tomorrow.

So Panjiade Courtyard basically gave up the crater basin area and let the little ghosts occupy this vast basin.

And the guys of the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group, who are getting more and more comfortable killing little ghosts, come to the basin to squat, and they don't set up a camp to garrison. These guys who can resist the little ghosts' fireballs with bare chests feel like they are killing little ghosts in an assembly line, and they won't leave once they squat.

As a result, it's true that some ghosts seem to be really scared of being killed by them. Some people even found that some ghosts have started to dig holes in the mountains in the opposite direction of the basin. They actually moved and drilled into the area outside the basin.

If the Dandelion Demon Hunting Group continues to kill here, they may really be able to recapture the crater basin? This patience and tenacity are definitely achievements.

The Dandelion Demon Hunting Group is famous. There are teams that kill low-level monsters, but there are not many teams that kill as persistently and unrestrainedly as they do. More and more people also know that this is a team supported by ghosts and gods behind the scenes.

Mu Hua's identity as a logistics manager is a joke to outsiders, and Dandelion is also considered to be a force deliberately cultivated by Mu Hua.

After all, it is not convenient for ghosts and gods to walk outside, and a powerful adventure group is very suitable to help ghosts and gods deal with some trivial matters in the outside world.

It seems that Mu Hua really wants to let the 20,000 magicians in Caines live freely, as if he has no intention to put them in the battle sequence. This attitude also makes the magicians from all walks of life have a very good impression of Mu Hua.

Four forces, openly or secretly, surround the lord of Caines City. Mu Hua is no longer a lone outlier.

And except for the Dandelion Team "doing charity" outside, these four forces are basically maintaining the stability and development of Caines City.

At the same time, Mu Hua has been really quiet over the past year. Even if Mu Hua wants to do something in the future, there is already a new courtyard in Caines for him to do, and the surrounding areas of Caines have let go of a lot of grudges and defenses against him, a jealous ghost. (End of this chapter)