#2580 - Punishment
Inside the large buried section of the tunnel, Fang Heng carefully read the long string of game notifications that popped up.
Good heavens…
In general, most of the quest lines on him had been completed and settled.
Besides a significant decrease in favorability with Empress Persephone's subordinates, the biggest penalty was actually a 5-level reduction in his Nether God skill level.
Still acceptable.
In addition, he had gained a new quest to help Empress Persephone restore the empire's glory.
It seemed he had to rebuild Empress Persephone's forces.
Fang Heng wondered if this quest would eventually lead to him being sacrificed to become the Empress's body again?
It was hard to say.
He would see what happened.
After all, this quest had one advantage: the quest location was in the Dead Realm, and operating in the Dead Realm could at least prevent him from being hunted down by the Holy Court.
[Hint: The Power Ice Crystal Will Core in the player's Sea of Consciousness is weakening].
[Hint: In the current state, the Ice Crystal Will Core of the Persephone Empress's faction will gradually weaken until it completely disappears. If the ice crystal disappears completely, the player's current quest - Recreate the Glory of Persephone Empress will be declared a failure, and the player's current skill - Nether God Bloodline will be converted into the same level of extraordinary-grade Necromancy].
Fang Heng frowned slightly, sensing the ice crystal in his Sea of Consciousness.
Okay, so there was a time limit for the quest to rebuild the Empress's forces.
"In any case, I need to find a way to get out of this damn place first…."
Fang Heng closed the game notifications.
He wasn't sure about the range of the Dead Realm storm outside, but at least he didn't dare to dig directly upwards for now.
With so many people from the Necromancer Council watching him, it wasn't easy for him to use his special ability to go offline.
Forget it, he would just AFK for now.
He would sleep for a day and a night, and he would probably be able to get out by then.
He had been fighting continuously, and his spirit and will had been greatly depleted.
Just as Fang Heng was about to rest, the stone slab in his hand began to heat up slightly again.
The Necromancer Council had a message for him.
Fang Heng opened the stone slab and saw the message that appeared on it, and his heart stirred.
The undead wanted him to set up a teleportation magic array to connect to the outside world first?
Then, the structure of a magic array appeared on the stone slab.
That's fine.
He could directly have the zombie clones excavate and clear a space to complete the arrangement of the magic array.
The difficulty of the magic array was not high, and half a day would be enough.
Although it was only the most basic magic array, it only allowed people from the outside to enter here through projection, and the broken Dead Realm space was not enough for him to leave.
Anyway, let's take it one step at a time and start arranging the magic array!
The zombie clones staggered over and began to try to clear a space around them.
……
"It seems that Fang Heng is confident in completing the production of the magic array."
High-level members of the Necromancer Council.
Seeing the zombies clearing an area and Fang Heng starting to arrange the magic array, everyone whispered to each other.
"Constructing a complete magic array channel will require more time to prepare. As for the first group of people to enter the Dead Realm channel…" Georgie pondered for a moment, then looked up at everyone, "Anyone who wants to participate can sign up actively."
The mentors who still had the ability raised their hands one after another.
A team of three was quickly selected.
The basic magic array, three people were already the limit, and it would also consume an extremely large amount of energy.
In addition, even if the magic array was successfully arranged, it would take at least a day to complete the initial docking.
The Necromancer Council naturally couldn't wait.
Georgie's pupils shrank, and he raised his head and said, "Well, immediately distribute the information."
……
Fang Heng waited in the cave for two full days.
The zombie clones were not slow in excavating the tunnel. They worked continuously for twenty-four hours and estimated that they had dug forward five kilometers.
However, the Necromancer Council considered that this time they encountered an unprecedented disaster-level storm.
The undead storm lasted for a long time and covered a wide area.
For safety reasons, they asked Fang Heng to continue to wait patiently and take action after the necromancy mentors confirmed it was safe.
Fang Heng thought that since he had already waited so long, he didn't care about another day or two.
As for the other side, after the Necromancer Council continued to test the magic array Dead Realm channel for two days, the magic array finally took effect.
As a black light flashed through the center of the rapidly operating magic array, three necromancy mentors emerged from the magic array.
"Mentors!"
Fang Heng clasped his fists at the three necromancy mentors who came.
"Fang Heng, we finally see you. We are relieved to see that you are okay. You did a very good job this time…"
After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone quickly shared the troubles they were encountering.
Since the magic array had not been completely completed, a large amount of energy was needed to open the space channel from the other end, and the teleporter could not remain open for a long time.
Therefore, they needed to wait for Fang Heng to leave the underground tunnel, re-arrange a magic array in the Dead Realm ground area, and then find a way to find the materials needed to strengthen the magic array from the Dead Realm to improve the level of the teleportation channel.
The difficulty was not high, but it would take a little time.
Fang Heng quickly agreed, saying that it was not a big problem.
Abe Akaya's magic array also needed a large open space to summon, and the temporarily excavated channel was difficult to satisfy.
He also needed to go to the ground.
"Come with me."
Fang Heng led the mentors to the deepest part of the tunnel.
The zombie clone group was still continuing to dig forward.
Although the mentors had seen it several times through images in the Necromancer Council hall, they were still surprised when they saw it with their own eyes.
It was not difficult to control summoned creatures to work, but to summon so many at the same time and be able to skillfully control the tools?
It was simply unheard of.
A mentor stood in the tunnel, condensed a seal with both hands in front of him, closed his eyes, sensed the external situation, and then raised his head and said, "Well, the storm concentration above is now negligible. We have confirmed that we have passed through the external Dead Realm storm."
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, Fang Heng, let's start."
"No problem!"
Fang Heng immediately controlled the zombie clones to start digging diagonally upwards.
Until more than half an hour later, a cold breath flowed in from outside the tunnel.
The underground tunnel was finally opened.
Fang Heng walked out of the underground tunnel, stepped on the rotten ground, and took a heavy breath of relief.
