Chapter 43: The Banshee
The heavy snow characteristic of the harsh winter has finally spread to the borders of the Danmoth Empire in the south. The apostolic offensive still doesn't seem to be making any progress, but it doesn't seem like a cause for concern for the bereaved. It can be said that among all the apostles on the entire frontal battlefield, only one apostle is very confident.
This made Yuri Allie on the side feel very puzzled, because it had been many, many days since the Apostle's army marched under the corner of this Courage Line, although Yuri Allie did not know the exact time, but in Yuri Allie's experience, this time seemed to consume the most time in the stalemate on the battlefield. In the past, it would have been long enough for the mighty Apostles to conquer any nation. Oh shit! Yuri Ellie slapped her mouth violently, she almost forgot that the land she was standing on now belonged to another country on this road, although this country was only a very weak kingdom, but it was this country that put the entire apostle in a difficult situation, and brought her to this new human world for her when she had to fight the rebellion in the apostolic world. But after all, not long after I came to this world, the kingdom of Magellan, which was regarded as a great danger by the bereaved lord, was a complete kingdom. Although there are still some remnants of this kingdom somewhere in the north, they are still alive and well, but they no longer pose any threat to the powerful apostles, and it is not too late to completely eliminate the Danmoth Empire in front of them.
But this Danmoth Empire has become the biggest trouble in front of him.
Although, in fact, they already have a high-ranking and powerful internal response within the Danmoth Empire, but this internal response has now fallen into a trouble of its own. Originally, this trouble could have been easily solved, but at this critical moment, there was an existence that everyone did not expect, that is, the undead, the lady who sighed.
As the only apostle among the current apostles who has dealt with Lady Sigh and Ciel, Eurie Ellie has to admit that this elf and an undead can be said to be two of the most skilled archery beings in this world. Although she hadn't seen the duel between the two beings, she felt that there was not much difference. However, in addition to archery, Lady Sigh also has an innate advantage that Elf Hill can't match, that is, the necromancy that only the undead can master. And he did suffer this hardship fiercely, and let his original task of being nine out of ten finally fall short. Of course, although it was the "old friends" who suddenly appeared that played a decisive role, it is undeniable that if it weren't for the persistence of Ms. Qingxi's best efforts, I am afraid that the battle would have been settled a long time ago.
In that defeat, what impressed Eurie the most was the necromancy of the Lady and how these old friends of the Magellan Kingdom came here? But in retrospect, this human mage named Viren was indeed really powerful enough, and even if he and the Lord of the Dead were combined, they were still able to let him escape. If it weren't for the fact that he was exhausted in the end, it would be a question whether the current Magellan Kingdom would still be there. And just like that, Eurie Ellie's long-planned raid failed after an accident.
When she returned to her life, the mourner did not have any anger, but nodded with satisfaction. Eurie Ellie didn't understand what the mourner meant, she knew that the mourner wasn't the kind of sinister person who couldn't be angry. But she really didn't know that her mission had failed this time, but the Lord of the Lost Lord seemed to be happy that Yuri Ellie had successfully completed her mission?" "My lord, my mission has obviously failed, but why do you still seem so happy?"
The mourner did not answer her directly, and the woman, who was even more beautiful than Yuri Ellie, chuckled at her and asked softly, "Recount your encounter as completely as possible." ”
What is this doing?" Yuri Ellie frowned slightly, thinking that it was indeed the Lord of the Mourners who wanted her to recall something, so she pondered for a while before replying, "The reason why we were able to find their traces is because our soldiers found some unreasonable traces on the side of a mountain wall. The marks looked like those left by a tall object in the snow after it fell. Moreover, when we approached the mountain wall, we could faintly smell the smell of wild animals emanating from the mountain wall. So, this makes us very confused. So we continued to look around the mountain wall while making up our makeup, and sent our best disguise master to carefully investigate the mountain wall, and sure enough, we found that our target group was actually all in the camouflaged cave. But when we reported the situation to you, you ordered us not to attack, but to lie in ambush and wait until they came out to attack them. My lord, I do not understand this, and if we can destroy them in one fell swoop within the hidden walls, we will not fail. Immediately, Yuri Ellie realized that she had said the wrong thing, and immediately knelt down and said nervously, "My lord, I didn't mean to offend you。。。。。。 ”
However, the mourner only gently helped Yuri Ellie to her feet and motioned for her to continue.
Flattered, Yuri Ellie continued: "Later, we waited until they came out according to your instructions before ambushing them, and we were about to succeed, but we didn't expect those people from Magellan's kingdom to appear. And besides, there's the magician we've locked up, and he's there, too! My lord, I really don't understand, isn't that magician locked up in our world by us?
After seeing the mourner suddenly bow his head and whisper something in Yuri Ellie's ear, Yuri Ellie suddenly realized, and then became angry: "It's him! I didn't expect him to betray you!"
The mourner patted Yuri Ellie's shoulder and said indifferently: "Actually, I expected it a long time ago, it's okay, you go on." ”
"Well, my lord. After those people appeared, the originally good situation of the battle was immediately reversed. And in the end, the army provided by the Lord Regent was wiped out, and I was the only one who escaped by chance. And the helper I worked so hard to find is probably already buried there. ”
"Well, tell me, how did you feel when it was snowing?"
"How do you feel?" Yuri Ellie was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously replied, "I don't feel anything wrong, I just feel that the snow on the ground is a little thick, and it's not very comfortable to step on." ”
The smile on the bereaver's face became richer and richer: "Recently, it has been snowing again, have you seen that there is anything wrong with the soldiers under your command in this heavy snow?"
"Yes!" replied Eurie in the affirmative, "as the weather has been getting colder lately, some of the weaker soldiers have become ill as a result. But the good news is that there have been no fatalities so far, and the cold's illness is only from the aliens we have conquered. ”
The mourner raised his hand to interrupt Yuri Ellie's words and asked, "Do you remember Autumn?"
"Autumn, of course, she was a warrior. Although her strength is not too strong among the enchantresses, after all, she was also sacrificed because of the mission. ”
"She's still alive. The Mourner interrupted Yuri Ellie, "This is the exact news I received, and she has joined the ranks of the magician Viren. ”
"What!" Eury Ellie was furious, her eyes flashing fiercely, "I'm going to find that traitor and bring her back for her to be executed!"
The mourner shook his head: "No, we still have to thank her." ”
This made Yuri Ellie wonder, "What do you mean, my lord, why do you want to thank that traitor?"
"Because Cho is not a pure apostle. ”
The words of the mourner stopped at this point, and she just squinted at Eurie Ellie. And Yuri Ellie immediately understood that the mourner was letting herself guess what she meant. So frowning and pondering. "Autumn, not an impure apostle. Then the mourner asked me what it meant to be with the soldiers in this harsh winter, but why did I think there was a slight connection between the things that the mourner had told me to know? Wait, wait! I finally knew!"
"My lord, do you mean that such cold weather will have an effect on the alien races we have conquered, but it will have no effect on pure apostles like us?"
The mourner looked at her and nodded approvingly.
"I see, I see! My lord, you mean, because Anne is a foreign race, her constitution will be affected in this harsh winter, and then her new companions think that all the apostles will be sick in this so-called harsh winter, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened, so we have not opened the situation for so long, in order to make sure that we will indeed be trapped in such weather, so that these enemies will take the initiative to fight us? But my lord, what if they still choose not to hold out?"
"Don't worry, no. "During the period we attacked this line of courage, our soldiers suffered some casualties, but our elite troops did not suffer losses as a result. You have to keep this in mind. Moreover, we are facing an enemy whose losses are only higher than ours during this period of time, and the difference is that even if our losses are several times higher, we can still maintain a strong combat effectiveness. But they have no way to lose, judging from the information provided by the regent before, these troops stationed on the Courage Line can be said to be their elite troops, and if an elite unit like this dies, there will be one less if it dies, and what about us? So even though we seem to be suffering from successive setbacks, they don't want to be so consumed anymore. They will certainly wait for us to be at our weakest before taking the initiative to strike a fatal blow at us, and more importantly, these humans are clearly not as good at resisting the cold as we are. ”
Yuri Ellie looked at the lost lord with a look of adoration, it turned out that all this was planned by the mourning master, including Viren's escape from the apostolic world with the assistance of Breitso, including the renegade of the enchantress Autumn who would inexplicably become a member of those humans. It's really just too godly, as if every thought of the lost lord is ahead of everyone. Sometimes, although you think that you are already anticipating the enemy and have made sufficient preparations for it, but in the end, when you are closest to success, you will find that the mourner has already sneered and looked at you in front of you. When you think about it, it's a really scary thing.
"My lord, what shall we do next?"
The mourner looked back at the rear, and he didn't know when, a large group of troops had quietly gathered in the rear. When Eury Ellie looked at it from a distance, she saw that it had reached about 10,000 people. If all of these 10,000 apostles were to be sent, the scale of the battle would be greater than the previous attacks on the Courage Line. However, when she looked closely, Eurie Ellie noticed that something was wrong. Because these apostolic armies were not the elite troops of the apostles, but those second-line and alien combat troops, which made Yuri Ellie feel even more confused. Why did the Lord of the Mourners send these soldiers to their deaths?
At this time, the mourner asked, "How long do you think it will take for the undead named Lady Sigh to find what she wants?"
"Now that the biggest obstacle for her has been lifted, the only ones in the entire empire who can still threaten them are the regular army. But the quality and combat effectiveness of those regular armies are ridiculously low, so I think if it goes well, then they should have reached the line of courage by now, and according to your orders, the Regent has already rehabilitated the Auxiliary Minister, so the Auxiliary Minister and the Lady of Light Sigh can feed back the information they have gathered at the first time. Then Eurie looked at the mourner, waiting for him to finish his most important words.
"Then we just have to wait for them to get into our pockets. ”