"Are you Duco Verne?"

Lance suddenly looked up and looked at the source of the sound...

However, in the vast darkness, he did not see any figure.

"Duco Verne is dead, I am his heir... Of course, I was his test subject, but later I turned against him."

The voice sneered, "He tried to transform me into a half-lich so that he could survive in a similar way before he died. He succeeded, and I, a good human, tortured him in a distorted state, and eventually became the current half-human and half-ghost state; but he also failed, because I did use various methods of fake death to avoid Verne's awareness."

"You are indeed keen enough. I didn't come to the island a few months ago. In fact, I have been in this ghost place for at least five or six years. It has been so long since I became a semi-lich! Do you know the feeling of living in a cold world forever? The bastard Verne deprived me of my slaughter, he deprived me of all the power as a human being! He killed my parents, and tried those messy witchcraft on me over and over again - some witchcraft was the result of his wild imagination, and it would never be successful anyway, but he was still enjoying experimenting on me! I have enough of him!"

"Since you hate Verne so much, you shouldn't try to be the same person as him, right?" Lance said.

"Shut up!" The other party seemed a little irritable: "What do you know? You don't know anything at all!"

"The self-righteous wizards, what is the difference between you and Verne? As long as the person who is slightly lower than you, you have to bow down in front of you. Do you think this is strength? Fart, you are nothing!"

"In my eyes, you are the same as Verne! And I am not! I am forced to do so. I don't want to hurt anyone at all! Do you understand? I am forced!"

The roar in the darkness became louder and louder.

The three of them looked at each other quickly, and they saw a hint of helplessness and surprise from each other's eyes.

"I know what you are doing. Try to judge my position by the source of my voice? I can be so calm in this situation. Maybe I should praise you. Unfortunately, you all did it wrong, because I am not in this factory at all!"

The man laughed and said, "And after you lost your magic, what's the difference between you and those ordinary people you regard as ants?"

Lance's eyes rolled slightly and he tentatively said, "You said you were forced, so who is forcing you?"

"Who? Have you not awakened yet? It's fate!"

The man said coldly: "Fate forces me, it forces me to make a choice. Either die forever. Even a wisp of soul cannot remain; or immortal, but if this is the case, some changes must be made."

"Since that experiment, I had successfully pretended to be successful and blinded Verne's sight. I made him think that the experiment had failed. So he put my body in a failed specimen chamber. At the beginning, I just wanted to hide there and never go out for the rest of my life. I especially don't want to see the demon Verne again!"

"After all, although the state of a half-lich is painful, it also makes me not hungry; although sometimes it is boring, I have endured it. I just want to stay alone and quietly until the bastard in Verne has arrived! At that time, I knew that he would not live long - can you understand this feeling? I hid alone in a dark basement, surrounded by my companions who died tragically. They were all those who were abused by Verne, and were testimonials of evil wizards when they died, and they were made into specimens if they died!"

"I just stayed in the cold basement for more than five years. Every time Verne came, I would bring some new specimens. At that time, I was often the most nervous and scared; I was afraid that he would suddenly find the trick of pretending to be dead, and then I would suffer more painful abuse than before - although I had lost the perception of pain, I knew that once I was caught, the demon would not let me go."

"My days go on like this. I have been looking forward to a day when Verne will die. In fact, according to my observation, every time he enters the basement, he becomes much older. Judging from the number and speed of the deaths of the apprentices on the island, his experiments are very unsuccessful, he becomes even more irritable and crazy. He was an evil guy during his lifetime, but he was the least courageous person in the world. He was extremely afraid of death. And looking at him like this, I felt much better."

"I kept telling myself that I would get through it soon, and I would get through it soon."

"However, on that day, he suddenly entered the basement and placed the new bid, an accident happened."

Lance asked with a frown, "You've been found?"

"No! My acting skills are very realistic!" the man said somberly: "But I heard some news that made me feel frightened."

"Generally speaking, every time Verne entered the basement, he hurriedly left after the specimen was released; but that time, after he put the specimen, he actually came to me. He stayed by my side for a long time and talked to himself for a long time. It was this thing that forced me to make a different decision in the end."

"From those words, I learned that Verne had calculated that his life span would not exceed two months. This was the deadline. His research in other fields was far from profound in the transformation of semi-lichs. He could not continue to extend his life through other fields. He wanted to make a desperate attempt and transform himself into semi-lichs, even if the chance of success was not high."

"He also said a lot of other words, and he hoped that I could forgive him and bless him with his transformation ceremony success - oh! How could I bless him after these unforgettable disasters? I hated him to the core, and at the same time feared him like a tiger. But on this day, the fear in my heart suddenly faded a lot. At that time, he stood in front of me and took a lot of effort to say a word. He looked like a real old man, as if a gust of wind could blow him down."

"Although I knew all this was a manifestation, after that day, I began to realize that Verne was almost dead. His power declined like never before, and soon I could survive."

"But all this is based on the premise that Verne must die!"

"He thought the experiment failed, but there was actually nothing! The ritual of transforming into a semi-lich is actually very mature. Only I know that with Verne's technology, the chance of successfully transforming himself into a semi-lich is much higher than he imagined! And once the ritual is successful, he may immediately see through my disguise. At the same time, once his life span is continued, I will never have a chance to stand out in this ghost place."

"So I have to make a decision! At this time, I finally felt the taste of fate. It pushed me and made decisions one by one. Some decisions are really not from the heart, but fate forces me to do this... I just want to live."

...

In the darkness, the strange fragrance became more and more intense, and the numbness in the three of them became heavier and heavier.

If they drag on like this, it is actually not a wise decision for them. Lance can use his shuttle ability to escape at any time, but the other two may not have the ability.

But apart from this, they seemed to have no other countermeasures, so they could only listen to this guy's crazy self-report. Delay the time and think of other ways.

"So you killed him?" Lance asked.

"I didn't!" the man laughed and said, "I just ran out of the basement and ambushed in advance at the place where he performed the transformation ceremony; and when his transformation ceremony reached a most important moment, I jumped out. I successfully scared him. Although I didn't know any witchcraft at that time, he still scared him to his spirits, which led to the failure of the entire ceremony."

"Do you think it's ironic? At least that's what I think. Duco Verne, such an arrogant evil wizard, was actually scared to death by his own testimonials! Hahaha... This is really funny. To be honest, whenever I think of that scene, I can't help laughing for a while. I don't know what I'm doing. Shouldn't the lich have no emotions?"

"You are just a semi-lich, and you should still retain some human feelings." Lance reminded kindly.

"You're right, I'm just a half-lich."

The voice continued, "If I were a real lich, you wouldn't be trapped here today. But because I was a semi-lich, things got complicated."

"After Verne's death, I originally planned to live alone on this small island. I really didn't plan to hurt anyone. But later, just when I was free to go through Verne's notes, I suddenly discovered a very terrible fact!"

"The half-lich is just a semi-finished stage in the Lich transformation ritual. In fact, the entire ritual has only been completed in a small part. My soul was pulled out and merged with the life box, but I did not become a real Lich! The half-lich is far more fragile than the Lich. This stage can last for at most about seven years of my life. And because of my greed for life and fear of death, I wasted five or six years of it!"

"I don't want to die, I began to learn the knowledge of undead witchcraft frantically. With the blessing of this body that will never be tired, I quickly gained my learning day and night."

"In just half a year, I mastered the method of the follow-up ceremony. But the time I had left was not allowed to follow the original method step by step."
Chapter completed!