Chapter 40: A Little Try
The huge silver moon slowly emerged from the top of the mountains in the east. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoDu Shen stood alone in the narrow mountain col, uninhabited in front of and behind. A subtle sound, coming from the north, pierced through the vegetation. Du Shen heard the continuous friction sound, but he didn't make any move. He knew that it was his 34 skeleton warriors who came.
Sure enough, as the bushes trembled, skeleton after skeleton emerged from behind the bushes. They clapped in line, bone swords in hand, dim blue fire burning in their eye sockets.
Du Shen didn't speak, turned around and left. The skeleton shelf has limited intelligence and will only act according to Du Shen's instructions. And Du Shen ordered, and there was no need to speak. Within sixty meters, just one thought.
Du Shen led the skeleton out of the mountain along the mountain pass. He stopped in the dense forest, and his thoughts moved, but the pearl appeared on his shoulder. Du Shen mobilized the Force of Fear collected in the past few days to create all the skeleton warriors.
One after another snow-white skeletons appeared out of thin air, standing in front of Du Shen. In the blink of an eye, when Du Shen stopped moving, he was surrounded by a total of 49 skeletons.
Du Shen raised his feet, and the skeletons around him followed at the same time. They sped southwest, accompanied by the slight sound of footsteps and bones crashing.
The staging place chosen by Du Shen was not far from Eagle Claw Manor. Drilling out of the stretching woods, Du Shen saw a large area of buildings standing at the top of the hillside. In the distance, Du Shen could see the light of the fire. It was a bonfire for the dinner party.
Ahead is an open field. Du Shen did not take a detour to find the main road. He led his men straight forward. The crops in the fields are very low, reaching only heels, and the soil is dry and relatively firm. The actions of Du Shen and his subordinates were almost unaffected.
The endurance of the undead is inherently strong. Du Shen also did not save physical strength. They walk at a speed comparable to that of ordinary people trotting.
The Earl's dinner was actually held in the meadow outside the estate. Because the number of people gathered was too large, there were more than 400 people. Loss of protection from the building, but also unobstructed view. Before the dinner, the Count remembered that the war was imminent, and still arranged for men to stand guard on the perimeter. Despite everyone's dismissiveness, the Count's arrangement still worked. Before Du Shen could climb to the top of the gentle slope, the enemy had already spotted him and his subordinates.
There is a short process of message delivery. On the meadow, the noisy crowd gradually quieted down. Du Shen took advantage of the enemy's command and response time to order the skeleton to attack with all his might. Du Shen himself slowed down slightly and gradually fell to the end.
On the meadow, it was quiet for only two or three seconds, and the noise resumed. The scene seems to be a little chaotic. Du Shen saw that many people rushed towards the skeleton in a group, but more people rushed to the manor or the barracks tent to the south. There were also a few people huddled together, moving first towards the gate of the manor, and then quickly stopped.
Du Shen's attention was focused on the bodies of the enemies who were charging towards him. Du Shen saw that although those people were as powerful as tigers, most of them did not have armor at all. Du Shen couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth: "It's really a good time for a sneak attack!"
Indeed, because of the participation in the dinner, the enemy's forces were greatly weakened and dispersed. Almost all of them were not armoured. And those servants and auxiliaries who seem to have turned around and fled are not losing their fighting spirit. They rushed to the barracks and estates just to get their weapons.
The two sides collided dozens of meters away. The enemy was in a hurry, fed and drunk, and moved somewhat slowly. They failed to form a tight battle formation, and became entangled with the skeletons. At the beginning of the contact, almost every enemy was besieged by two skeletons.
Although the enemy is a knight, the attributes of the skeleton are not much different. The enemy may be highly skilled, and the skeletons are at least enough to parry, and there are two. After a few fights, several vanguard knights were stabbed or slashed to death in the blink of an eye, accompanied by sporadic screams.
The fighting power displayed by the skeleton seems to surprise the enemy. Du Shen vaguely heard the enemy's shout from the front of the battlefield: "Damn! It's a knight." Everyone, beware. ”
"Knights?
"It's really a knight! How is it different from what the adults say?"
"Damn wizard, how dare you defile the knight's body!"
Accompanied by incredulous doubts or curses, the enemy who was supposed to make contact with the skeleton hesitated for a moment. This moment of retreat is so deadly. The knights who had already wrestled with the skeletons still had a chance to be rescued. Even, as long as the companions behind them followed in time, they did not have a chance to destroy the skeletons in front of them.
However, because of the surprise of the companion and stopped. These knights who were fighting were seriously injured and even killed one after another, leaving their stomachs full of grievances.
"Ahh......h Despite their long battle, they have not been able to make amends. Someone shouted out the panic in everyone's hearts: "It's all knight-level!"
At first glance, the number of skeleton monsters on the opposite side is at least the same as that of your own knights. However, ahead, there are already companions who have died. Moreover, the rest of his peers are not all by his side.
Horror ignited anger, and many knights transferred their hatred to those pig teammates: "MD, how dare those bastards leave their weapons when they attend the banquet!"
Hesitation, retreat, will only lead to death. In a matter of moments, several more knights were killed. Seeing this, the remaining knights, although they did not retreat, stopped one after another, and did not dare to step forward to fight the enemy for a while.
"Don't panic," the Earl shouted from behind the knights, "leave the skeletons alone, just kill the wizards who manipulate them." The skeleton collapses without a fight!"
The Earl's reminder dazzled everyone's eyes. Everyone turned their eyes to the lonely figure thirty or forty meters away. Immediately, a knight let out a tiger roar, wanting to bypass the longing skeleton and rush to Du Shen.
As soon as the thought moved, the nearby skeleton immediately blocked the rushing knight, and the fight was inextricable.
The other knights work together. They were divided into several groups and rushed towards Du Shen from different directions. Whenever they encountered the skeletons chasing and intercepting them, some of them stayed behind to attract the attention of the enemy, and some scattered again and rushed towards Du Shen.
Although the knights were experienced in combat, they were only feudal armies after all. Their coordination is nothing short of subtle. On the other hand, Du Shen already has slightly more skeletons to protect him than knights. What's even more terrifying is that Du Shen seems to be operating a strategy game. He can give or adjust orders to each skeleton on the fly.
An even more desperate thing happened: in the face of the charging knight, Du Shen actually took the initiative to step forward to meet him. He paced slowly, waving his right hand in confusion. From Du Shen's mouth, there were complex spells that even he didn't understand.
The knights were intercepted by the skeletons and couldn't get close to Du Shen for a while. Du Shen suddenly stopped. He stopped the chaotic swing and pointed his right hand forward. Just a few meters in front of Du Shen, an identical skeleton appeared out of thin air.
"He can summon monsters too!" exclaimed one of the knights, discouraged.
The newly created skeleton costs Du Shen a hundred DreadForce points. This is what Du Shen has just collected, from the enemy in front of him. These forces are all that Du Shen can collect on the spot tonight.
However, others don't know! The knights thought that Du Shen could make the first one, so he could continue to make the second. Because of the purge of the temple, the wizard has been reduced to a legend. The anti-missionary mission of the temple has certainly made people classify wizards as evil, but it has also planted the seeds of fear deep in the hearts of the people.
At this moment, the seeds in the hearts of the knights burst out in an instant. The skeleton in front of them was an enemy they had never touched. Du Shen in the distance, the way of fighting really subverted everyone's cognition. They couldn't predict how profound Du Shen's strength was and how strange his methods were. They will only magnify Du Shen's terrible according to the legend.
Almost all the knights, successively lost courage and confidence.
Soon, some knights turned and fled. The battle scene was instantly chaotic.
Du Shen was dual-minded, controlling the skeleton to kill the resisting knights as quickly as possible, while keeping an eye on the movements of the earl's family.
When the Earl's family was seen retreating to the gate of the manor under the protection of a few guards. Du Shen immediately followed slowly. In order to keep his distance, he had to spare some of the knights, either merely injuring them or simply letting them go.
The earl's side, when he found Du Shen's clear action, became more and more panicked. Those guards who originally accompanied the earl's side either fled one after another, or took the initiative to pounce on Du Shen, and were killed by the skeleton in the blink of an eye.
The guards fled or died, and the power around the Count, though shrinking, never disappeared completely. The soldiers who went to get their weapons had just returned. They saw the Count's family hunted down and mostly joined the ranks to protect the Count.
However, the strength of the newly recruited soldiers has not reached the knight level. They were even more vulnerable to the skeletons, almost crushing at the touch of a button.
The skeleton led by Du Shen was like a sharp blade cutting through butter, constantly consuming the figure on the earl's side. Gradually, the number of people in front of the earl became fewer and fewer, and finally only their family of three remained.
In the depths of the manor, in the corner of the wide courtyard, Du Shen led nearly forty skeletons to block his target in the corner. Du hid deep in the middle of the white bones, and said loudly: "Lord Earl, I have admired the name for a long time, and I will finally see it today." You seem to have a daughter, and an illegitimate child, why haven't you seen them?"
Du Shen turned around and scanned the entire courtyard, but did not find a hiding figure in the corner: "Forget it." They don't matter, you three are here, just do it!"
Count Leon Maya smelled ominous in Du Shen's tone. His heart grew heavier. He tried to penetrate the cover of the bones and judge Du Shen's identity. However, Du Shen not only wrapped his entire body in a robe, but also wore a rough wooden shell mask. Even his hair, Du Shen covered it with a hood. Count Maya had no way of speculating on Du Shen's identity. He could only judge from Du Shen's voice that the other party was very young.
"Who is Your Excellency," said Count Maya, with a calm and calm expression, "I consider myself upright and strict with my family. I don't have a big enmity with Your Excellency, do I?"