Alien Knights

Forty minutes after the battle started.

"Grand Commander, this is the seventh batch of corpses."

After hearing the adjutant's report, Cumberland moved his gaze to the battlefield.

The Knights lured the enemy in batches, and the Crusaders' tactics of fighting and retreating were very effective in dealing with the undead.

A large number of mangled remains of the undead were spread out from the center of the battlefield in the distance, nearly a kilometer away.

Cumberland said while watching: "Once again, we warn them not to engage in close combat with the undead and to keep a safe distance."

The adjutant used the hive to send and receive messages while reporting to Cumberland: "Another alien undead, immune to the fire element, was found in the eleventh team of the Crusaders who are currently fighting."

Cumberland looked intently, and saw an undead man whose body was burning with fire, rushing through the flames and rushing straight towards the shield wall of the Crusaders.

An elf with ice-based abilities replaced the fire-based elf and sprayed a stream of frost breath at the undead that was immune to fire.

After a burst of white mist, the biting frost froze the alien undead into an ice sculpture, and he no longer had the ability to move.

Cumberland turned his head to the adjutant and asked: "What's the number?"

Adjutant: "Sir, this is the eleventh one."

Cumberland pondered: "So far, eleven have appeared in the battle? This ratio is higher than the previous report..."

Adjutant: "Sir, do you mean...?"

Cumberland said: "In the combat report submitted by the Holy Acropolis, only one mutant will appear in about 800 undead... But today, this proportion has increased four times... There are two possibilities, one is Our luck is very bad, and secondly... the rate of alienation of the undead is accelerating..."

The adjutant whispered: "If it is the latter possibility, then it is very bad news."

Cumberland said expressionlessly: "There is enough bad news, I don't care about this one more."

The adjutant breathed a sigh of relief and returned his attention to the battlefield.

Just after he shot the crossbow arrow into the undead's brow, before the werewolf Aldenan could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Carol yell: "Be careful ahead."

A rotten undead dog used its agile movements to jump over the arrows and fireballs, jumped into the air, and jumped straight towards the back of the shield wall.

Aldenan was in a hurry, trying to get the crossbow hanging on Carroll's back.

A white light flashed in front of him, and the completely petrified undead dog fell from the air, fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Aldenan breathed heavily with lingering fear, looked at the undead dog that slowly stopped moving, and said, "I hate dogs."

Carol used his ax to carefully sweep the undead remains outside the shield wall. He nodded to the exhausted Gorgon, and then said to Aldenan: "There's no time to complain. Good luck in your hands." Crossbow arrows, the next wave of enemies will be coming soon."

Aldenan looked at the Gorgon who had just used up her powers and collapsed softly on the ground. With the help of an elf, she returned to the back of the phalanx and said worriedly: "Those human undead threats Not big, but smaller enemies, such as cats, dogs, and mice, require more energy from us."

Carroll said: "The key problem is those bugs. No matter who gets a little bit of them, they will become a member of the undead. This makes the close combat power of the Crusaders unable to work at all."

Aldenan raised his head and glanced at the Valkyrie hovering above his head: "What's more, the use of spores is prohibited."

While maintaining the shield wall formation with the orcs around him, Carroll said: "Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer enemies. It won't take long before we can eliminate the remaining undead."

Aldenan said in a voice that only he could hear: "But compared with the number of undead in front of us, they are like puddles and the sea..."

The battle is still going on...

After another hour of fierce fighting, the Crusaders and Knights finally faced the last wave of enemies.

The adjutant looked at the battlefield, wiped his sweaty palms with his clothes, and said to Cumberland: "Sir, this is the last batch."

Cumberland nodded: "Where are the casualties?"

The adjutant said: "No one died, and forty-six people were slightly injured. Most of them were caused by excessive use of supernatural powers."

Cumberland nodded and said to the adjutant: "Let the third formation of the Crusaders start cleaning the battlefield."

While using the honeycomb on the keel to communicate, the adjutant asked Cumberland: "Do you need to capture a few undead samples alive and hand them over to the research institute?"

Cumberland rejected the proposal: "We have enough samples at Wayne's place. Safety is the first priority in all actions now, and all undead souls should be cleared away!"

Adjutant: "Yes, sir!"

Seeing the last undead in his field of vision fall into the fireball, Carol, who had been in a state of mental stress for a long time, suddenly relaxed and almost fell to the ground.

"Damn, it's finally over."

Looking around, the remains of the undead are almost scattered across the entire grassland.

Carroll glanced at Aldenan who was collapsed on the ground, smiled and said, "I'll buy you a drink when you get back."

Aldenan waved his hand, looking uninterested.

The Third Formation of the Crusaders, a war formation composed of lizardmen, dwarves, ratmen and other species, was responsible for cleaning up the war.

Some of them are responsible for exploration, some are responsible for recording, and some of them use simple flamethrowers and acid bottles made from oil barrels, nozzles, and pressurizers to conduct a thorough inspection of the remains of every undead in the war. Kill to make sure there aren't any remaining undead parasites.

Several groups of heavily armed knights were cruising nearby, acting as warning and support.

After bursts of fire and smoke, the undead parasites that had slipped through the net and squirmed on the ground turned into pools of black scum.

A lizard man walking in front used his powers of clairvoyance and eagle eye to constantly examine the remains of the undead, and suddenly saw a strange thing.

A lump of flesh entangled with parasites was actually entangled in a burnt undead corpse.

Those parasites are entangled with each other, like countless blood vessels knotted together, exuding rhythmic rhythm.

The lizard man raised his hands and shouted a loud warning behind him.

However, it is said that it is too late and that is too soon.

The piece of flesh made of parasites suddenly moved.

Countless parasite tentacles broke out from the corpse and flew toward the corpses scattered around.

Like ants foraging for food, these parasitic tentacles drag dozens of corpses around and stick them tightly together, turning into a giant "corpse ball" in the blink of an eye.

Looking at this strange "corpse ball" in front of him, the lizard man's first reaction was to run.

But when he pulled out his legs, countless tentacles on the corpse ball pushed on the ground, and the entire ball suddenly rolled at high speed, "swallowing" the lizard man into the corpse almost instantly.

The adjutant who had already walked down the watchtower heard the communication in the hive and could hardly believe his ears. He quickly called out to Cumberland who was walking in front.

"Sir...Sir, there is another undead spirit!"

Cumberland stopped, widened his eyes and turned around: "What did you say?!"

"There is another undead, a spherical undead..."

Cumberland pushed the adjutant away, rushed up to the observation tower, quickly picked up the telescope and looked into the distance.

A giant "corpse ball" four meters high, made up of dozens of corpses, rolled at high speed on the battlefield while devouring corpses and soldiers.

Cumberland shouted angrily: "What the hell is that?!"

The adjutant could not give him an answer: "In the report... there has never been such an undead spirit..."

Seeing the corpse ball swallowing the two dwarves responsible for cleaning the battlefield, Cumberland, who was frightened and anxious, quickly ordered: "Order all military formations to retreat and reorganize their formations."

The adjutant was about to convey the order when he was suddenly stopped by Cumberland again.

"Cancel the order just now."

The adjutant was dumbfounded: "Sir, why do you want to cancel the order?"

Cumberland frowned and said: "The soldiers of the Crusaders can't run away from that damn corpse ball! Send the order, all the third phalanx retreats, the first phalanx re-builds the shield wall, and the second phalanx prepares to attack! "

Waiting for the adjutant to pass on the order, Cumberland said to him: "Send an order to all the knight commanders individually. Once the Crusader soldiers are found to be infected, no matter who they are, they will be disinfected immediately on the spot. Don't let any one go!"

The adjutant shuddered and nodded in agreement.

On the other side of the battlefield, Carroll and Aldenan looked at the "corpse ball" rolling closer and closer, their eyes straight and dumbfounded.

"What it is?!"

"have no idea."

The commander of the Crusaders conveyed an order at this time - to erect a double-layer shield wall and reinforce the support to block the impact of the undead.

Looking at the corpse ball that was constantly devouring corpses on the battlefield and getting bigger and bigger, Aldenan tremblingly picked up the crossbow and whispered: "Can that ghost thing be blocked with a shield?"

Carol stood together with the other orcs, raised the shield above his head, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know if it can be blocked, but if it can't be blocked, then we will all die."

The spherical undead showed an S-shaped trajectory on the battlefield. After devouring nearly two hundred corpses, the entire body had grown to a height of eight meters.

Countless parasitic tentacles, like the tentacles of an octopus, stretched out from the corpse, acting as a booster for the corpse ball to roll.

When the spherical undead approached two hundred meters away from the shield wall, a wave of crossbow arrows was fired.

Like a stone hitting cotton, the crossbow arrow failed to cause any damage to the spherical undead, nor could it even slow it down at all.

When the undead approached a hundred meters, the elves and velvet men began to release elemental powers.

Fireballs, lightning, and ice hit the surface of the spherical undead. At most, they can only explode a few corpses acting as "carapace", but still cannot cause any damage.

Finally, the spherical undead slammed into the shield wall of the first phalanx.

The orcs holding huge shields were pushed back several meters by the huge impact, but they finally succeeded in stopping the undead's advance.

The Gorgon standing behind the giant shield began to fire petrifying light at the corpse ball, and the petrified corpses peeled off from the spherical undead.

However, the spherical undead extended its tentacles to the undead remains scattered on the battlefield, constantly replenishing and repairing the shells of the corpses.

The worst thing is that the undead parasites on the spherical undead began to bypass the shield wall and attack the Orc Crusaders behind the shield.

The black parasites penetrated into the skin of the Crusader soldiers, screams came one after another, and blood sprinkled on the ground like rain.

Even so, the orc soldiers did not flinch at all.

"For the Dragon God!"

"All the glory goes to the Dragon God!"

When an orc who had been devoured by parasites fell, another orc took the shield from his hand without hesitation and continued to maintain the defense line of the shield wall, never allowing the undead to invade behind the shield wall.

Cumberland, who was standing on the watchtower, saw this scene, his palms clenched together unconsciously, and no trace of blood could be seen.

He quickly thought about countermeasures in his mind, and then ordered: "Order the second phalanx to gather firepower and attack towards the center of the ball!"

Fireballs, lightning, ice spears, and petrification rays all blasted toward the center of the giant corpse ball.

One corpse after another was beaten to pieces, and the speed of repair by the undead gradually failed to keep up with the frequency of attacks.

Finally, a deep mark was blasted out of the shell of the spherical undead corpse, revealing the lump of flesh composed of the parasite entanglement in the core of the corpse ball.

A Valkyrie hovering in the air dived to the ground, took her spear from behind, and threw it towards the core of the corpse ball with all her strength.

The spear shattered the core of the parasite, and the entire corpse ball disintegrated instantly like dry clay.