Chapter 3.8

　　When Sui Yuan felt his dagger stab Osmund's chest and saw that it was about to slice his neck, he almost gave himself a heart-attack!

　　Luckily, he manages to stop on time, only resulting in a small nick. In these few minutes of self-induced immobility, Sui Yuan gathers his scattered wits about him and retrieves his soul before it can ascend. As soon as he can trust himself to function normally again, he leaps backwards, placing as much distance between them as possible. Almost killing the male lead is too terrifying an experience! Sui Yuan feels that he might have nightmares for the entire week!

　　Only after calming his palpitating heart with great difficulty does he wonder what should be said next. As he is afraid the other party will find fault with him and pick another fight, Sui Yuan eventually decides to throw down a final, vicious line before fleeing the scene, filled with impatience to end this arc of the story as quickly as possible.

　　"Nadred! I know you still remember! I know you still harbour feelings for Osmund! Am I right?!" Aurora's despondent voice calls from behind, causing the mentally unprepared Sui Yuan to stagger and nearly fall flat on his face. Tears of blood streaming down his face, he increases his pace, escaping swiftly.

　　What harbouring feelings for Osmund?! Not killing him equals to liking him?! What the h.e.l.l kind of logic is that! Sui Yuan really wants to fall on his knees before the female lead ah.

　　"For better or for worse, at least you managed to throw off that pig teammate." 5237 comforts him in a pleased tone. "As for liking whoever or whatever, wait until after you clash a few times with the male lead according to the storyline, then this rumour will definitely disappear."

　　"I suppose," Sui Yuan heaves a long, drawn-out sigh, praying for everything to go smoothly before pondering his next steps.

　　After swallowing the source of darkness - don't say it again, the suffering he went through honestly feels worse than dying. No second time! - he is now a villain BOSS. Next up, he needs to establish his Dark Kingdom.

　　Like what the original character was meant to do, Sui Yuan travels through the dark lands to find a suitable place for setting up his headquarters. At the same time, he subdues more than a few beings lurking around, sending them out as his eyes and ears to monitor the main leads, ensuring they are capable of leaving the dark lands safely. If the male and female leads end up dying because he stabbed Osmund, the consequences would be unimaginable!

　　The first point on his to-do list progresses smoothly. With this formidable power at his disposal, Sui Yuan easily conquerors the entire dark lands. With that, his army is naturally formed, its ranks filled with violent plants, animals and other humanoid beings. Next, he also experiments in fusing his powers of darkness with self-taught necromancy.

　　Who knows how many skeletons and deceased beings - from small to big - have been buried beneath the moist earth of the dark lands. Hence, with so many corpses and skeletons left behind, it is the perfect place to practise necromancy. While necromancy raises the dead and permits them to move around freely, his newly-gained darkness magic imbues these resurrected beings with more power and strength than the average undead, making them a rather intimidating enemy to face. However, as Sui Yuan's control over darkness magic is not all that great yet, he can only control around ten of this strong undead at any given time. Thus, in order to practise and train how to control his new minions, Sui Yuan comes to a decision - let these ten plus undead build houses for him.

　　When 5237 hears his declaration, it bangs its head against the nearest wall for a few minutes straight.

　　By controlling his group of undead to accomplish various tasks every day, Sui Yuan's understanding and skill over darkness magic and necromancy inevitably increases in leaps and bounds. Presently, the total number of undead he is able to control is over a hundred. Gradually, he also begins to gather higher level creatures, making them into elite troops and commanders of his army. As for his castle, it is slowly being constructed under the joints efforts of the undead.