Chapter 44 : The Morgan Family—Eternal in Decay and Immortality!
Chapter 44: The Morgan Family—Eternal in Decay and Immortality!
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”
“That greedy rotten maggot!!!”
Inside the gloomy ancient castle.
A surge of death energy churned across Cassius’s shriveled face.
Even the expensive magic communication crystal was crushed to dust in his fury.
Indeed.
The deal had been successfully completed.
Oak Town, Maple Leaf Town, and his own Williams Territory—
Three towns.
Two hundred and thirty thousand living souls.
All to be offered as sacrifices!
To the decaying lord ruling this land—Melunus!
And the reward?
Only thirty percent!!
Merely thirty percent!!!
Because that greedy fiend had opened its lion’s mouth wide, unceremoniously taking the lion’s share of the spoils!
Even more than what Florence once demanded—its appetite far greater!
And he—
Cassius Morgan.
The traitorous lord who orchestrated this bloody feast, the ambitious schemer who wagered everything—
Could only receive a pitiful morsel of compensation!
Raging flames of anger scorched what little remained of Cassius’s decayed sanity.
He wished he could tear that greedy creature to shreds, grind it into pulp!
But alas, there was nothing he could do.
Cassius had no other choice.
Without the aid of the Lord of Decay—
Without the support of that vast Undead Legion—
He wouldn’t even be able to seize Williams under his very eyelids!
Yes.
Williams was indeed his domain.
The ancestral stronghold his Morgan family had ruled for generations.
Yet the eighty thousand residents of the city were not all docile lambs awaiting slaughter!
Those guards who had been trained and nurtured for years were certainly loyal, there was no doubt of that.
They could turn a blind eye to the trash of the refugee camps outside the city.
They could pretend not to hear the shrill screams as ghouls devoured every last one of them.
After all, those were outsiders—vagrants, expendable consumables!
But to turn their blades toward their own city—
Toward their neighbors, kin, even family?
That was an entirely different matter!
Those loyal guards could very well become the most dangerous traitors in an instant!
And those ordinarily meek merchants, craftsmen, and farmers—
In the face of despair, would burst forth with unimaginable resistance!
Not to mention those few stubborn old families in the city, who still possessed traces of battle qi or magic heritage.
Their combat power could not be ignored either.
“So I need external force—absolute, crushing power! Power that brings irresistible terror!”
The Undead Scourge Legion was the perfect butcher’s blade!
Now across the entire Bromley Continent, who could hear the name “Undead Scourge” without their face paling?
In infamy, none on the continent could compare.
And in truth—
Cassius’s plan wasn’t complicated, merely vicious enough.
He had dispatched the Morgan family’s most loyal guards, disguised as caravan escorts, mercenaries, even refugees—
To infiltrate Oak Town and Maple Leaf Town in batches.
They would probe out the core nodes of the magic arrays, the distribution of defensive forces—
And gather intelligence on any mages or knights who might become obstacles.
Then, at the appointed time—
They would destroy the energy transmission nodes of the arrays with full force!
Poison the garrison’s water and food!
Assassinate the commanding officers!
And in the chaos—
Seize control of the city gates, lower the drawbridges—
Open those heavy iron doors!
Allow the ravenous Undead Legion, waiting outside, to surge into the defenseless towns!
Thus—
A perfect inside-and-out slaughter would be complete.
Cassius only needed to wait safely in his chamber—
Wait for his share of the energy to arrive, and then break through to the Fifth Tier!
To become an Undead Noble!
“Thirty percent… is only temporary…”
“When I reach the Fifth Tier, Melunus—then we’ll settle this debt properly!”
A cold gleam flickered in the soul-fire burning within Cassius’s eye sockets.
……
The heavy black-iron door of the secret chamber creaked open.
Carlisle carefully stepped inside.
He knelt on one knee, head bowed deeply, not daring to look up.
“Brother, you summoned me?”
Cassius turned his stiff neck and said coldly, “The plan has begun.”
“Oak Town, Maple Leaf Town, and our Williams.”
Carlisle’s whole body trembled violently.
Though he had long prepared himself mentally—
When the bloody plan truly began, fear still crept up his spine.
After all, three entire towns!
What kind of hell on earth would that be?!
“Brother… isn’t that… a bit too much?”
His hesitation was met only with Cassius’s mocking sneer.
“Too much?”
“The lives of commoners are like leeks—cut one batch down, and before long, they grow again~!”
“Enough. Tell me—are all the men in position?”
Carlisle swallowed hard. “Y-yes, Brother.”
“Just as you instructed—the seeds have all been planted.”
“Very good!”
“Remember this, Carlisle!”
“The fall of Williams is not the end of our Morgan family!”
“It is the beginning of a new era!!”
“The glory of the Morgan family shall remain eternal in decay!!!”