When the Davis family went bankrupt, Rathomond thought about this problem that troubled countless people.
everyone will die...
No matter you are rich or poor, a king or a commoner. Even if you have struggled for most of your life and accumulated wealth that is unparalleled, you still have the power that millions of people look up to...
Everyone will die...
So, what is the difference between being penniless and getting rich overnight?
Will this dream of competing for the country on the Indong continent allow people to transcend classes, or will they die in the wilderness?
Rathomund felt quite ridiculous when he thought of those people who couldn't survive in the Western Continent and went on to cross the ocean to reach Secred.
Losing his family property made him think clearly about certain things, so he turned his attention to an even more ethereal and unknown realm.
In order to make everything worthwhile and to make himself eternal, he began to study mysticism and understand the invisible art.
At first, he was not exposed to the deep fears and dangers, but the power brought by secret transmissions became more and more fascinating to him, making him extremely eager to obtain more powerful knowledge and secret transmissions.
Until by chance, he learned the secret from before the mythical era...
The fear from ancient times made Ratomund constantly panic. He began to make unreasonable guesses about the situation of human ancestors in the past, and about the aliens who really ruled this land...
He had to do something, even if it meant finding an answer to one of those fears.
Then, the Crimson King appeared...
Ratomund couldn't understand that kind of thing at all. He knew that although the other party met him in the dream as a human being, he was extremely convinced that that kind of thing was definitely not a human being...
But what can he do? Even though he has become powerful and has become the seer of Secret Transmission III, he is still so powerless when facing the fear of the unknown.
So, how can we get rid of the gaze of those things in the dark?
Rathomund made a deal with the Crimson King, a pact with the devil.
He received a gift, which was an instrument that was said to exist in the ancient Aynanian mythology - the Danan Crucible!
It is said that that artifact can resurrect everything! It cannot even be defined by the classification of relics.
It is neither an awakening level that was created in recent times, nor a mythical level passed down from the mythical era. The history of that pot is even older than that of the demi-gods!
When Rathomund discovered that Danaan's Crucible could cooperate with his own power, and the effects produced far exceeded the level of Secret Tradition III, what he felt was not joy, but a deep fear.
He smelled a strong smell of conspiracy, so he was even more afraid of the Crimson King. Because this kind of thing was obviously deliberately arranged for him by the other party.
The Crimson King has a hall called the Round Table, which contains twelve heavy seats, and one of the seats is reserved for Rathomund.
He knew it very well, but he didn't think it was a supreme honor. Instead, he thought it was a prison that was stealing his soul.
"You must not be bewitched by him...you must not sit down..."
Rathomund reminded himself repeatedly to keep rejecting the Crimson King, even if from a certain time, obscene words appeared in his ears that disturbed his thoughts.
The sound has no pattern and can appear at any time.
But Rathomond endured all this, and decided to use the Danaan Crucible to build his own kingdom of death. He killed the people and creatures who could be exploited, threw them into the pot to resurrect, and became his minions, slowly accumulating strength.
Be prepared for the great horrors that exist outside of human history.
Yes, fear is the fundamental reason why Rathomond did all this.
Not the desire for power and wealth, just fear!
He killed countless people and resurrected countless people.
The mouth of the pot was too small, which greatly affected efficiency, so Rathomonde sank it into the lake, mixed it with the water source, and then tried to throw the body directly into the lake. Unexpectedly, he got the same effect as Danan's crucible!
As a result, the production efficiency of the untouchables has been greatly improved, and the rule of Ratomond's invisible art is: as long as they are logically killed by him, the Undertaker can affect and control all resurrected corpses.
However, because mourners are restricted from being resurrected and their corpses will still rot, using this power alone is not enough to build the Kingdom of the Dead, and Danan's Crucible solves this problem.
Rathomond poisoned hundreds of slaves, killed them quickly and in batches, and then dragged them together in a cart and threw them into the lake, where they all resurrected and became untouchable.
He created countless living dead, assigned them responsibilities, and ordered them to produce, open up wasteland, mine, plant...
He would also kill the seers, such as the elder Valentine from the Third Secret Sect, and resurrect them to become his thugs.
But these are far from enough. Rathomund does not expect mortal corpses to be able to fight against the Great Terror, so he hopes to obtain an older and more powerful power.
Finally, his living dead miners dug out something in the deepest part of the land of East India...
It was a corpse, extremely twisted and indescribably deformed.
When Rathomond saw this thing for the first time, everyone was stunned.
He first saw a pair of wings growing out of the body's back and the skeleton was wrapped in rotten skin, thinking it was a dragon that would appear in myths and legends.
However, only the wings of the corpse have the same appearance as a dragon. Its other parts are as strange as they are.
Ratomond did not see its head, only one spine, which was highly arched, with ribs splayed to both sides, and asymmetrical... Including its eight legs, which were not as symmetrical as a spider or a crab.
When the living dead touch it, this thing will secrete a thick black substance, burning everything it touches into a coke-like blackness. The flesh and blood will decay instantly, and the rocks will break into pieces with a light touch in the charcoal blackness. Its power is somewhat
It's similar to The Withered Mystic in The Secret Path of the Hermit III, but it's a little different.
The most important thing is that this thing is very huge, as big as a mountain, and it can't even be moved.
After reading various books and studying ancient history, Ratomond speculated that this thing must have existed before the era of mythology, perhaps the same existence as the Crimson King!
In the days that followed, he continued to study the corpse and even tried to use the power of the Undertaker to influence it. However, because the corpse was not killed by him, he could not turn it into a controllable living corpse.
Ratomond was unwilling to give up. He saw the hope of confronting the Crimson King in this mysterious corpse, so he tried every means to control the power of this huge corpse!
Later, he really found a way, but still because of fear, he did not publicize the existence of the corpse.
So, he decided to dig out a huge pool based on the location of the body, redirect the Red River, fill the pool with river water, and then hide Danan's crucible at the bottom of the pool, because to complete his method, Danan was needed.
The power of the crucible.
Rathomund built Turbulent Castle on the waterhole, and with Turbulent Castle as the center, he continued to expand the Kingdom of Death underground to cover up all this.
The residents of Lilcui are all being used, and the officials of Canada are also being used as cannon fodder. The Elysium project is just a cover. What Latomond wants is to make himself stronger and become able to compete with the Crimson.
The king is strong against the enemy!
However, when the real Knower showed a huge gap in strength and destroyed the Turbulent Castle he had worked so hard to build, Ratomund realized... that he had to wake up that thing in advance...