Chapter 103: Stopping War with War
Iberian Peninsula, southern coastline, near Almeria.
After a long journey, the Azure Sword came to this port city near the coastline.
Originally built by the Carthaginians of the Southern Continent, it was a famous port of the Solomon Empire in the Quaternary Period, and now it has once again fallen into the hands of the undead of the Southern Continent.
Before arriving near the city, everyone saw a huge column of black smoke from the center of the city straight upward, spreading out from the height of the sky dome, which is the unique "dark canopy" of the realm of the dead, which is said to not only eliminate the sight of the Holy See's "all-seeing eye" surveillance satellites, but also effectively shield the propagation of any electromagnetic waves, so that most communication tools automatically fail under the dark canopy.
Because of this, the Holy See, which was far away in Italy and the peninsula, could not have much effective intelligence information about the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, which was occupied by the undead army at this time.
According to Eleanor's plan for the southern front, the people of the Blue Sword should choose to venture into the city to find out the intelligence of the Andalusian region, and then make a second revision of the plan based on this information to reduce the subsequent risks.
Near the gates of Almeria, the group saw the relief arches characteristic of the Empire of the Dead. Skeletons, Bloods, Ghosts and Witches, each with their hideous and strange appearances, are vividly depicted on the reliefs.
Two tall skeletal soldiers, one left and one right, stood on either side of the archway, their deep, hollow eye sockets dancing with dark blue flames. The locals, who were humans, curled up in fear and waited in long lines to enter the city, not daring to get too close to the two skeletons.
An invisible banshee was flying back and forth along the front and back of the long line into the city, constantly passing through the bodies of the humans. Through the banshee's unique possession perception, she can detect whether the fear in the hearts of these entrants is mixed with other malice, so as to screen and identify spies who may be mixed with the team.
Suddenly, she bumped into something hard and was immediately bounced away with some dizziness.
In the procession that entered the city, Eleanor also raised her head noticed, looking in the direction of the banshee.
Although the banshee remained invisible, Eleanor's mist of will told her that something was indeed there, and that it had bounced off after hitting herself.
The banshee, who had suddenly hit the wall, refloated vigilantly, slowly refloated in front of Eleanor with some kind of evil aura, her empty pupils fixed on her azure eyes.
Eleanor frowned and looked ahead, her gaze falling to the ground through the invisible bansheeβnot visible, but she was sure it was standing in front of her.
Would you like to reach out and try to touch it?
Just as she was hesitating, a slender arm suddenly reached out from the side and unceremoniously grabbed the invisible banshee's neck.
Get lost!
The Banshee King, who possessed Mi'er, instilled his malice into the mental information and quickly penetrated the body of the invisible banshee. The other party immediately flew upside down in horror dozens of meters away like a sardine that had encountered a catfish, and then turned around and disappeared behind the arch without looking back.
For the undead who do not have complex minds, it is almost impossible for the superior transcendent to resist the suppression of the lower level, and they do not even have any consciousness of "subduing the above", which is completely different from the human beings who are accustomed to using power and scheming.
The skeleton soldiers standing on both sides of the arch suddenly moved slightly, and their skulls, which had been stationary, suddenly moved slightly.
They sensed the banshee's panic and escape, but the skeleton's own crippled mind could not discern what was going on, so they turned their gaze in the direction of what was happening.
However, Medea soon shot two threads of mind, and effortlessly and stealthily seized control of the two skeletons, even unnoticed by their owners.
"In this city, there is an undead demigod stationed in the race, and the race is the corpse witch." Medea lowered her voice and said through the telepathic communication channel, "I read their soul fires, they are summoned by the third apprentice of the demigod to resurrect the undead. β
"Everyone be careful, Mi'er should pay attention to the accident, and Medea will maintain the manipulation and don't show anything unusual." Asker ordered.
So everyone continued to mix in the group, and it took about ten minutes to pass through the arch unharmed from the center of the two skeleton soldiers who were under control.
In Almeria, crowds of horse-drawn carriages are parked in the middle of the road, which is like a traffic jam. Citizens covered their mouths and noses with their headscarves and quickly lowered their heads from both sides of the road, trying not to inhale the strong stench that filled the air.
All the carriages carried wooden coffins, and the stench inside almost rose to the sky.
"There's ...... in there," Nora asked in a low voice.
"Materials." The Banshee Monarch said lightly, "Transformed into undead material." β
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"In fact, the materials that are transformed into the undead are very demanding on the quality of the corpses." As if he didn't care about the disgusting expressions of the girls, the Banshee King continued, "The corpses of ordinary humans are completely insufficient to support the undead, at least they must have a certain amount of extraordinary strength. β
"Normally, corpses with higher physical strength are used to make skeleton warriors or ghouls; Those with strong psychic power will extract the spirits and use them to make resentful spirits or banshees. β
"So, the undead don't usually go after ordinary civilians?" Eleanor asked, stunned.
"That's right." The Banshee King laughed, "Or, ordinary people at Lv.0, they don't look down on them at all as material. The undead usually prefer the corpses of the transcendental, and the stronger the transcendent himself, the more powerful the undead will be after his death. β
"Secondly, there are those who have not taken potions, but have absorbed supernatural powers in their daily lives, such as ingesting spiritual materials by mistake, or killing creatures with supernatural powers. In the corpses of such people, although the extraordinary power in the body is not completely digested, and the spirituality is quite mixed, the number is thousands of times that of the former, so it constitutes the main material of the undead army. β
"As for the civilians who have nothing, they are useless when they die, and they can make wealth through their labor when they live." The Banshee King pointed to the frightened and hurried civilians around him, and said with a smile, "So you see that they are all scared to death, afraid that the undead will kill them, but there is no need to worry at all. β
So the undead don't actually massacre human civilians on a large scale? Eleanor was in a slight trance, but soon regained her strength.
Even so, the living should not be subject to the rule of the dead, let alone the possibility of desecration of corpses. As long as the war between the land of the dead and the kingdom of Aragon-Castile continues, the killing and death on this continent will continue.
And this time, I will stop this war...... Even by means of war!