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At the southwest end of the Trace of the Dead, less than two hundred meters away from the oak forest, ghost-like humanoid creatures are constantly crawling out of the charred black soil.

Their bodies are dilapidated, their faces are dark, and they look like humanoids from the front. But if you look at them from the side, you can see that the width of these "creatures" is abnormal, and they are as thin as pieces of paper!

Their faces are made up of large blocks of shadow, as if they don't have faces at all.

The movements of these "paper creatures" when walking are extremely unnatural, somewhat similar to zombies.

Every time they take a step, a bunch of sparks will fall on their bodies.

When the spark falls to the ground.

The originally clean soil will be stained with a layer of black.

Gradually.

The ends of the scars of the dead also expanded.

When Matthew and others rushed here, this was what they saw.

There are about a dozen paper creatures wandering around the end with nothing to do.

But as soon as he noticed Matthew's approach.

As if they had found their target, they suddenly became energetic and rushed over in unison!

puff!

Rhaegar took the lead and chopped down a paper creature with his sword.

The latter's body was easily torn apart by the two-handed sword, and suddenly turned into fly ash and disappeared into the air.

Rhaegar kept up his efforts.

He rushed forward alone, slashing left and right with the big sword in his hand. In a short while, he killed all the paper creatures that were emitting sparks!

This scene stunned Matthew and others.

"Is this the trouble you're talking about?"

Rega placed the big sword with both hands on the ground contentedly, turned around and looked at Matthew with a smile:

"I can kill them easily without sword oil!"

Matthew looked at the traces of the dead behind him, his eyes full of doubts.

It can be counted in seconds.

His expression suddenly changed and he said:

"Get back!"

Rhaegar didn't react slowly. Hearing Matthew's call, he quickly drew his sword and took two steps back before turning his head.

This sight made him take several breaths of air.

But on the scorched earth of the Mark of the Dead, more than thirty circles glowing with red light suddenly appeared. On the ground covered by the circles, charred black hands stretched out from inside!

In silence.

A large number of paper creatures emerged from the circle.

Their number has doubled compared to before.

What's even more terrifying is...

The paper creature that appeared this time actually had a face, and it looked exactly like Rhaegar!

At this time, even the most nervous person realized something was wrong.

Rhaegar raised his hand suddenly, and almost couldn't hold the big sword in his hand:

"My energy seems to have been sucked away!"

Matthew tried his best to sense the information of those paper creatures.

He didn't dare to use balanced perception for fear of causing further changes in the Mark of the Dead.

Fortunately, after a while.

There was a reaction on the data bar.

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"Hint: You encountered an "ash pawn"!

Your partner Rhaegar killed all the "Ember Pawns". In the process, part of his body elements were extracted and copied by the Ash Pawns.

"Ash Pawns" will become more numerous and powerful with the help of "Ashe Lords"!

A new batch of ash pawns have launched a charge against you!"

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"This is "Ashes of Life"?"

Matthew's heart skipped a beat.

Seeing that everyone was about to take action again, he quickly called them to fight and retreat:

"Don't fight with ash beings near the Mark of the Dead. They are immortal and will absorb elements from living people to increase the power of the Mark of the Dead!"

I heard Matthew say this.

Only then did everyone stop and quickly retreat towards the oak forest.

But even so.

Half of the Ashes pawns were killed in tears by the crowd because they charged too hard.

When a group of people retreated to the edge of the forest.

You can vaguely see many red circles appearing on the ground of the Mark of the Dead!

"The numbers are still increasing!"

Rhaegar cursed:

"And why do most people look like me?"

During the conversation.

He couldn't help but slash with the big sword in his hand, and accidentally wiped out half of the remaining pawns!

"No more!"

Rhaegar sat down on an oak tree.

His face was extremely pale and he was sweating like crazy on his forehead.

"Because you killed the most pawns and also had the most life elements sucked away."

Matthew said calmly:

"I have seen the introduction of this kind of creature in the information provided by the Seven Saints Alliance. They are not separate lives, but an extension of the Mark of the Dead. If the Mark of the Dead cannot be severely damaged, then this kind of creature called "Ashes"

The creatures will accumulate more and more, until we are completely unable to defend them, and they will advance with great success, thus further expanding the coverage area of ​​the Mark of the Dead."

Rhaegar gasped and said:

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Matthew said helplessly:

"You cut too fast, much faster than I expected from you."

Lei Jia stared angrily for a while. Seeing that a new wave of Ash pawns was coming, he couldn't help but asked worriedly:

"Can your oak forest stop this monster?"

Matthew shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid not."

Just the next second, Silver Moon Zombies crawled out from the entrance and exit between the cemetery and the surface. They walked steadily towards the more than fifty ash pawns who looked like Rhaegar.

"But my undead can."

Matthew said so.

The words just fell.

The swarming zombies easily tore these ash pawns into pieces!

After some time, red circles lit up again in the Mark of the Dead, but this time, the number of red circles did not increase!

"Sure enough, the number of pawns killed by the undead will not increase because they cannot absorb life elements."

Matthew breathed a sigh of relief.

As early as the moment it was confirmed that Ash Lord would send troops to hunt him down, Matthew began to prepare for today.

During this period, the information provided by the Seven Saints Alliance made a great contribution.
To be continued...