Chapter 3804

Ruugat of the Earth was a fairly recent lost city, which made him much more dangerous than his “siblings”. The Forbidden Magic that animated his pseudo cores was old and outdated, but much more efficient than Thaymos’ or Argantyr’s.

Ruugat had been created after the advent of the Guardians, when the undead were already considered Mogar’s fourth main race The Warlock King of Yerzath, one of the few Awakened to ever build his own empire, had been impressed by the feats of the Guardians and sorely disappointed by their apparent lack of care for poor, righteous people like himself.

Keeping an empire running required a lot of time that the Warlock King couldn’t spend researching new magic. Border wars threatened his empire from the outside as much as his political opponents did from the inside.

He pleaded his case to Zagran the Garuda, the Guardian of his region, asking her to intervene and protect his people, but she turned him down, and so did Roghar the Fenrir and Fenagar the Leviathan.

Feeling ignored, the Warlock King decided to turn the non-intervention policy of the Guardians into a blessing by resorting to Forbidden Magic. Yet history was filled with tales of powerful mages like him who had twisted the laws of nature, believing they would be able to achieve their goal without dying in the process.𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖 For this reason, the Warlock King did more than prepare a self-destruction spell for Ruugat of the Earth. He created the lost city weak on purpose, to limit the number of sacrifices required and keep Ruugat’s power in check as he became stronger.

The Warlock King had no lack of fuel for his Forbidden Magic. War prisoners, political opponents, and dissidents died in mass to give birth to the lost city. Despite his name, Ruugat was shaped as a colossal human golem of black stone.

He was as big as a city come to life, but his body was uninhabitable. The Warlock King had created Ruugat to be his champion. To bloodlessly win every conflict, expand the borders of his empire, and be the living remainder of his might to his ungrateful subjects.