Chapter 2380: Heavy on the Lazy
"Where is this room?! I am going in circles. Ah! Undead! Sorry for that. Please be on your way." Lime exclaimed in shock as she suddenly bumped into an undead created by Creepysoo.
As soon as all of the disturbances happened, Creepysoo immediately cast a special spell on the Necronomicon called Undead Castle. This is a spell that can only be cast once every three months and uses up 80% of the user's mana. The user also cannot cast any other spells as long as this spell is active, but it transforms a castle into an undead temporarily.
The castle of the Gnome Kingdom was used for this spell but only most of it was transformed as Creepysoo lacked the mana to make all of the castle animate. He also needed the permission to do what he wanted to the castle. If it was an abandoned castle, then he could just cast this easily, but he needed the permission of the one in charge. Thankfully, the minister was very enthusiastic about giving him control for a moment.
All the personnel that the assailants attacked or allegedly killed were all undead. The real attendants were all gathered into a room that is protected by an army of death knights that Creepysoo summoned with the Undead Castle. In essence, all of the soldiers and personnel of the castle were not harmed and only the undead were attacked.
This is the reason why Creepysoo had to summon lots of undead and his knights as he cannot use spells when using the Undead Castle spell. A good thing about the spell that Creepysoo used is that he can see every part of the undead castle. He used the shadow creepers as a means to teleport from one place to the other as his undead cannot hear his commands when he is far away.
"The place should be located two doors away from you. That is the place where I can feel the negative emotion." Creepysoo reported to Lime as she entered the room.
"Found it! It would take some time checking for the artifact. Interrogate the enemies if needed." Lime stated.
"Are you sure you are a True Saint? You sound like a thug right now." Creepysoo replied as he found it funny that a saint speaks like a thug.
"Call me back when you need more information. I will check on each artifact here and I have no time to argue. Remember that you told me that the Primordial Beast of Sloth is involved in this. That thing might come attacking." Lime replied.
"Ok. I also stationed some shadow creepers outside the castle to monitor for activity. I will report to you when I have more info. Also, I think I can give some advice since it is from a primordial beast." Creepysoo stated as he looked at the door covered in dark thorns and even, he cannot enter yet.
"Okay then. Any information is appreciated." Lime replied.
"Big brother said that primordial beasts are natural phenomena. Find the artifact that might seem too natural. If it is an artifact that is created by a primordial beast then it is bound to emit a lot of natural energy. Given that whatever phenomenon affecting the kingdom is still in effect." Creepysoo replied.
"Thanks." Lime replied as she started to scour thousands of priceless gifts.
"No problem. I just hope that the doors would open." Creepysoo stated and the dark thorns finally receded which made him gently open the door.
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"Tell me, why do you need the artificial sun?" Hexy asked the Team A leader that is gripping his shoulders and having a full-blown panic attack.
"Am missing something? Or am I interrupting?" Creepysoo stated but no sound came out of his mouth.
"Ah! No wonder I could not hear his answers. The curse is still in effect because of the plant." Hexy stated as she collected all the miasma used for the Curse of Silenced. She then fed this miasma to the Tone Deaf plant which it devoured with joy.
"Artificial Sun!? No! Master! I! Please spare me!" The Team A leader shouted as he clutched his body thinking it was not real and real at the same time.
"You did some nasty work on them, but it seems he do cannot speak properly. Should we just kill him, and I will raise him as an undead to speak?" Creepysoo stated.
"I even tried the Curse of the Whistleblower on him but something in his soul suddenly made him lose his mind. The others died without a problem, but he lived because he was strong enough to counter the effects of Haunting Utopia. He was only affected for a few seconds before he lost his mind and kept babbling like that." Hexy stated.
"Maybe we should ask for something that our other guild member needs to know. What is the appearance of the artifact being used to transmit all these negative energies?" Creepysoo asked as his red eyes glowed menacingly which frightened the weakened Team A leader.
"Idol?! Sloth! Goat! Sky!" The Team A leader shouted as he once again cradled himself like someone that lost their marbles.
"Did you hear that? The artifact should be a statue of a goat in a sky or something." Creepysoo reported to Lime.
"A goat in the sky? Are you sure about that? There are some goat statues here but there are no indications of skies." Lime stated as she saw some goat statues.
"Maybe it is not the sky itself. Maybe the statue is the same color as the sky. Also, look for ones that look like it is slacking off. If you are not sure, then just destroy all goat related statues you can find." Creepysoo stated.
"There are thousands of them. I cannot pay for the damages but there is a blue goat statue here that is gently sleeping. I am going to take my chances with that one." Lime stated as she took out her hammer and slammed it towards the blue goat statue that is about one foot tall.
As soon as Lime destroyed the goat statue, a powerful wave of negative energy swept throughout the castle. Lime suddenly felt sleepy, but she slapped her face to stay awake. Hexy also felt this wave of negative energy and felt drowsy, but she did not feel sleepy. Creepysoo felt the negative energy but did not feel sleepy at all since undead do not rest.
The wave of negative energy swept across the kingdom, but it only made every person inside sleepy. The cloud of negative energy pooling outside the castle also dispersed as soon as the idol was destroyed. All of them thought that they have succeeded but they felt an incredible bone chilling pressure located outside the castle. The powerful pressure appeared for two seconds before it suddenly vanished.
"What was that? Did you guys do that?" Lime asked.
"We did nothing." Hexy replied.
"Is it the primordial beast?!" Creepysoo exclaimed as he looked out to the direction where that powerful pressure was but there was no oversized monster destroying the city.
"Is it not coming? Still, prepare for battle." Creepysoo added as he called all of the undead to prepare.
All three of them were nervous as fighting against a Primordial Beast of Sin with just their group is impossible. They know that their guild leader also fought some primordial beasts, but he told them that the entire guild is needed to deal with one. They waited for one hour with great anticipation, but nothing happened. No one attacked the castle which made them think that it must be fake out.
"Will it not really attack?" Hexy asked Creepysoo.
"I do not know. I will send some shadow creepers outside to check the city. If there are any beings hiding, then the shadow creepers will be the ones to find them." Creepysoo stated.
Creepysoo sent out the shadow creepers and they did a full sweep of the city but there was no sign of other beings that are awake. All the shadow creepers reported that all people were asleep, and all stoves were closed so there is no risk of fire. The three of them could not believe that they really did not need to fight against the Primordial Beast of Sloth
"What is happening to him?" Hexy suddenly stated as the Team A Leader convulsed before turning into mush.
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The Primordial Beast of Sloth suddenly emitted a powerful killing intent when one of its artifacts were broken. It was the artifact that is being used to cover the entire city with negative energy that is created by it. The Primordial Beast of Sloth was angry one moment and then suddenly stopped.
"Why did you stop!?" One of the hooded beings around the Primordial Beast of Sloth shouted.
"I got bored and tired. I want to go back." The Primordial Beast of Sloth stated.
"You can…" The hooded being stated before he suddenly popped like a balloon which made the others around fear the primordial beast.
"We shall now return." Another hooded person stated as they opened a scroll that ripped the dimension and vanished from their location.