The Rise of the Cemetery

Chapter 0032

At dawn the next day, as soon as the sky leaked, the barracks was already full of voices, the shouts of officers, the sound of assembly commands, and the clashing of soldiers rearranging their armor and knives. After a hasty breakfast, the team assembled and began to line up to wait for the arrival of the mage group.

When the sun rose to the treetops, the mage group appeared, accompanied by nobles and knights. They rode horses or rode cars, and under the protection of 900 soldiers, they began to march along the mountain road to the depths of the mountain. 400 guards.

2 of the 5 mages who went out to search came back and brought back the location information of the undead army. 2 mages were confirmed dead, and the other mage was seriously injured after trying hard to kill 2 undead mages. He is recuperating in hiding , After contacting, he said that he would strive to move to a possible decisive battle location.

In this way, the number of mages in the team reached 11: 1 high-level mage, 2 middle-level mages, and 8 low-level mages; 21 accompanying knights, several nobles, and 900 elite soldiers. The enemy probably has 1 high-level necromancer, 6 low-level mages, and 200-300 undead servants.

After walking 7 miles along the mountain road, I had to give up all the carriages and began to drill into the forest. The supplies accompanying the army were either carried on their shoulders or carried on horseback, and the mages had no choice but to get on their horses awkwardly, and the soldiers led the horses. Although there are horses to travel, the mages are still complaining, sitting on the horses, staggering, and have to be careful of the branches extending across the road, otherwise they will be swept off the horses.

After walking through the mountains and forests for 20 miles with difficulty, the team began to separate out more than ten groups of sentries as they got closer to the scheduled location, and various bamboo whistles to indicate safety came and went one after another.

Earl Hawass was in the middle of the team, and instead of wearing heavy armor, he rode on horseback in relatively light chain mail. As the leader of this team, he must lead the team to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Necromancer. He shuddered at the thought of the horror of the Necromancer, but fortunately, the strength of the team gave him a little confidence. He kept stroking the potion bottle that Mage José Tiku handed to him in his arms, feeling uncertain. There were only a handful of nobles who could get this potion, and many of the remaining people didn't know it at all. The curse of the necromancer has long shrouded the entire team. Although the mages have the means to remove this threat in wartime, after all, there will be a lot of damage. Only the potions prepared by these mages in their arms can completely eliminate it. curse.

In order to eliminate the necromancers, the principality mages really showed no mercy for the casualties of the army. Thinking of this, Earl Hawass was also a little terrified.

A mournful long whistle sounded suddenly, right in front. Earl Havas, who was also considered a battle-hardened man, quickly looked around. His team was located in a small sparsely forested area, and he could barely form a formation. There were mostly undulating hills around him. Without the urging of Earl Hawass, the knights under him had already started shouting loudly to gather their men, distributed the spears, shields, quiver and other items carried on horseback, and formed a defensive line in the middle of the sparse forest area, and the shield soldiers were crowded. As close as possible, the spearmen put their spears on the shields to form a dense jungle. The archers and crossbowmen hid behind the trees and waited for orders. The knights got off their horses and held big swords behind the line of defense. Patrol and yell, ready to make up for possible loopholes at any time.

Although it is a sparsely forested area, the trees are still densely covered and the shrubs are overgrown, which brings great trouble to the formation. Along with the soldiers, they went up with swords and axes and cleared some of the most obstructive shrubs before retreating to the back and holding their heads tremblingly. Wait for the outcome of the battle.

Compared with the rush and mess of the army, the mages are much more orderly. After moving to a hill with a good view at the rear side of the battle formation, let the guarded knights command 300 soldiers holding large shields to spread around to be vigilant. Some of the mages began to chant spells and cast magical eyes to check the surrounding movement, while others began to bless themselves and the soldiers on the front line with buff spells. Various and colorful energy shields also began to emerge.

Soon the sentinels scouting in front came back rolling and crawling, and with them came back densely packed undead creatures. Most of these undead creatures are low-level skeletons and zombies, and their speed is not fast, but the huge number still brings a strong visual impact.

The tide of corpses flowed down the hill silently and slowly, but unwaveringly, and collided with the human defense line. There was no reminder or announcement, and the battle just started.

Jose Tiku frowned. There were more than 300 undead creatures, and it was very likely that they had reached 700. In other words, the enemy's strength was not much different from his own.

A mage who cast his magic eyes screamed: "I found the enemy, it's on the hillside ahead!"

Jose Tiku raised his head and looked down the hillside. Among the dense and surging corpses, several black-robed mages wearing hooded cloaks were particularly eye-catching. Within ten steps of them, no skeletons or zombies dared to approach, only some high-level undead swarmed around to protect them, and the naked eyes could see vampires, stitch monsters, ghouls, and black warriors, and there were twenty or thirty ghosts on their heads. Non-stop interspersed wandering.

"The enemy has shown up and is releasing purification potions, hurry up!"

Following Jose Tiku's order, eight low-level mages began to jointly cast the second-level spell of Cloud and Mist. For a while, a large group of transparent water mist with a diameter of 100 meters appeared above the mages' heads, and continued to increase the humidification. , two middle-level mages opened a lot of glass bottles one by one, and mixed the medicine inside into the water mist above their heads. When they were ready, they used the wind-making technique to move the water mist to the front line of the battle.

On the front line of the battle, those undead creatures emitted a rancid smell and moved slowly. Looking around, the situation of dead bodies all over the mountains and plains is really extremely terrifying. Swords have limited effect on them. Even if their hands, feet or even half of their bodies are cut off, as long as the soul fire in their heads is not extinguished, the undead creatures can continue to fight. And if the arrows can't hit the soul fire, they won't have much effect, but the heavy axes and maces are more reliable. The undead creatures came one after another, they had no hesitation, no fear, and no fatigue. Whenever the previous companion fell, the undead creatures behind stepped on its remains and continued to move forward. Although this kind of offensive is extremely simple, it is extremely difficult to deal with. The soldiers on the front line didn't have any chance to breathe at all, they could only persevere until they were knocked down.

The shield soldiers in the two rows in front squatted down and tried to curl themselves behind the shields, holding them firmly with their shoulders, and pushed each other with the zombies that kept pouring in. The spearmen in the front row held their spears against the zombies and skeletons. As they approached, the spearmen in the back row just stabbed vigorously. From time to time, zombies and skeletons were pierced and fell in front of the shields, and from time to time human soldiers were pulled from the line of defense and were eaten miserably. As the undead creatures continued to fall, the front line was gradually shrouded in black air, and inexplicable black spots gradually appeared on many of the human soldiers. At this moment, the mist of the mage's medicine drifted to the front line.

All the human soldiers covered by the water mist could not detect the almost invisible black air from their nostrils, and felt inexplicably relieved. The plague seeds secretly planted by the necromancer on their bodies had been removed by the purification potion in the water mist, but Life expectancy is inevitably shortened accordingly. However, there are a few exceptions. Some humans who were parasitized by corrupt cysts like Hans Knight not only did not get purified, but screamed and hissed miserably in the mist like those undead creatures, rolled on the ground, and black flames spewed from their mouths and eyes , slowly transformed into a dead corpse as the flesh and blood melted.

It wasn't until nearly a hundred undead creatures were wiped out that the mist slowly dissipated under the sunlight, and the fearless crowd of zombies rushed forward again. The battle between human soldiers and zombie skeletons continued. The mages on both sides did not participate too much in the direct battle. Instead, they prepared spells silently with a tacit understanding. As the high-level mages of both sides flew into the sky, the battle between the mages also began. up.

With a distance of nearly 200 meters and a constant battle of flesh and blood, the various spells of the two sides collided and annihilated each other in the air. For a time, fireballs in the air, acid arrows, scorching rays, magic missiles, ice edge arrows, and negative energy rays crossed each other, fighting in full swing. However, the dual wizards now have sufficient mana and their shields are complete, so there is no possibility of any casualties in a short period of time. Correspondingly, the guard's meat shield is not so lucky. Whether it's the soldiers holding large shields on the human side, or the thick-skinned suture monsters and ghouls on the undead side, without the protection of mana shields, they have to work hard to block some magic attack routes that escaped the net to save the mages. Their shields were consumed, but they suffered heavy casualties, becoming the group with the highest casualty rate on the battlefield.

Due to the large number of people, the human mage side clearly has the advantage in spells, but the undead side has the obvious advantage in meat shields. A 3-meter-tall suture monster can resist 4 or 5 spells without falling down. A small fireball will take down 2 or 3 people, and the two sides somehow maintain the balance and stalemate of the battle.