Chapter 37: Preparation
Mani walked out of the tent, and the outside had been set up as a barracks by him, and all the inhabitants near the northern city wall moved out and settled in the southern city, and since Roy left, the whole city of Engels began to enter a state of martial law.
Engels did not block the news of the attack of the undead, and some people began to evacuate while it was still safe, but most people still believed that the Engels family could shelter them.
The living map is placed in a house not far from the northern city wall, and it is guarded by special personnel to monitor its movements.
At this time, the black marker representing the Necronomicon on the living map began to move slowly, and the direction of progress was the city of Engels.
Mani walked in, the guards on both sides all knelt on the ground, and a middle-aged man in heavy armor turned around, and when he saw that it was Mani, he quickly half-knelt down and shouted, "Master Mani." ”
Mani stretched out his hand to help the man up, he was the most powerful knight under the old Engels when he was still alive, he had always been loyal to the Engels family, and when the old Engels died, he was driven by Mani.
"Uncle Tonks, hurry up, what's on the map." Mani's mouth said.
The knight of Tonks stood up, he grabbed the map on the table, handed it to Mani, stretched out his hand and put a little on the mark representing the necromantic legion, and the whole mark was scattered, and countless fragments of necromantic markers formed a huge sword-like formation and came straight to Engels City.
"Young Master, after Kreacher's estimate, there are 10,000 incoming undead troops, the high-altitude magic eye of Hampas has been lifted into the air, it will take some time to reach the location of the Necromantic Legion, I have asked people to move the rolling wood and stones in the warehouse to the city wall, the prepared magic turret has been preheated and charged, and it is expected to be launched in ten minutes, and the transfer of the rest of the soldiers still needs the consent of the young master." Knight Tonks said.
As a veteran knight with years of experience in warfare, Tonks has already given the highest orders he can to prepare for battle when faced with changes on the living map.
Mani nodded, Tonks did the right thing, but he couldn't call in the garrison without the consent of the city lord.
"Herald! The back of the hand army sent an additional 1,000 people to defend the city wall, the rest of the soldiers were on standby, the material depot dispatched longbows and crossbow arrows to equip the city wall, each person had a pair of bows and crossbows, and two pots of corresponding arrows, the magic crystal fully supplied the magic tower, the magic tower of the mage regiment was in place, the knights were fully equipped and stood by at the west city gate, and the militia gathered in front of the material depot to prepare to transport supplies and supplies. Mani commanded.
A soldier kneeling at the door immediately said yes, stood up and quickly ran outside.
"Hanlipas, where has the Eye of the Sky arrived?" Mani asked.
As the chief mage in Engels City, Hanlipas is good at alchemy and plastic energy, and his high-altitude magic eye refined through alchemy, can quickly rise into the air and fly to a predetermined position for reconnaissance according to the control of spiritual power, and can use the equivalent receiving device to display the picture observed by the high-altitude magic eye on the receiving device, because it is painted with alchemy paint that can change its own color in accordance with the surroundings, it is difficult to find in the eye, and is often used in the reconnaissance of the battlefield.
Hanlipas, who was standing on the side, said, "It will take some time, and the High Sky Magic Eye has not yet flown to the designated place. ”
Hanlipas' eyes have turned pure white, which is a magic created by magicians with reference to the talents of ancient magical creatures, called spirit casting, which can condense its own spiritual power into a bundle, so that it can reach farther places, and when used, the eyes turn pure white is a sign of magic.
Using the long-range spiritual power generated by the spirit projection, the detection range of the High Sky Magic Eye can be made farther.
"There it is!" Hampas said, his hands dancing in quick succession, injecting all of the footage seen by the Overhead onto a white metal plate that lay aside.
I saw that there seemed to be a layer of water curtain on the white metal plate, rippling a circle of ripples, and from the middle of the ripples, a picture slowly floated out of it, filling the entire screen.
The Eye flew high in the sky, and the rows of skeleton soldiers below walked side by side with long knives and shields, mixed with burly stitched corpses, clawed ghouls, and from time to time poisonous ghouls covered in green blisters.
The legion is flanked by bone cavalry riding bone horses, while an undead floats in the middle.
It had a black body like smoke, wore a red hooded robe, and had a real skull on its face, and its hands in the smoke clenched a scythe-like staff, floating with the entire team in the air.
It seemed to have spotted the High Altitude Demon Eye peering down in the sky, and raised its skull, two hollow eye sockets upward, and the soul fire floating inside flickered a few times, and its mouth opened to let out a silent howl.
A skeletal vulture that had been flying in the sky let out a low roar and flew towards the Eye high in the sky.
"Not good! It's been discovered! Hampas said, the skeletal vulture had already spotted the Detective Eye hidden in the sky with the help of the special undead below, and opened its mouth full of white bone fangs to bite the Detective Eye.
At this time, Han Lipas suddenly found that a force was constantly interfering with his spiritual power, making it difficult for him to control this high-altitude magic eye, seeing the fangs of the skeleton vulture in front of him, Han Lipas directly activated the self-destruction circle engraved in the core of the magic eye, and the spiritual power was instantly withdrawn, and the picture on the white metal plate then stood still and slowly disappeared.
"What's that undead?" Mani asked.
Although in the Overworld, there are also undead who will awaken from Tomb Red, most of them are ordinary undead such as ordinary skeleton soldiers, and the rules for the birth of special undead are not retained in the Overworld, so Mani is not clear.
"The red-clothed god of death, a medium-level rare undead species, was only born in the land of death intent in the undead glacier, when a thousand undead entered the land of death intent, and after being infected and absorbed by the breath of death there, a special undead spirit will be born in the breath of death, because there is no entity, it will only be attacked by sword qi and magic, it is one of the types of necromancers who can release magic, and his spell-like talent is able to step into the void, appear behind the creature, and use the sickle in his hand to cut the soul, and the soul is split." Hanlipas said, his face a little unsightly.
In antiquity, the earliest mentors of the druids were also the first demigods of nature, the lord of the forest: Goldlyn, who led all his disciples to sort out and divide all the creatures born in the world, form a list and keep it, and re-count and correct it every once in a while.
Resura, who is closely related to the Ring of the Trade Winds, acquired this knowledge from the druids early on and made it into a book called the Race Encyclopedia to teach the new mages.
It was by chance that Hanlipus had read the book and remembered the creatures described in it very clearly, and when he saw the real Red Death, he immediately recognized it.
"Do you have faith that you can entangle this undead?" Mani asked, and from the mouth of Hampas, he understood that if this special undead spirit was allowed to attack, with its ability to escape into the void, it could harvest the souls of ordinary people on the battlefield, so he had to pay more attention.
"With the amplification of the magic tower, the mage group should be able to suppress this necromancy." Hanlipas said that he was a little unsure, after all, this was the first time he had fought against this special undead, and he didn't have much confidence.
Mani glanced at him, and then said, "Then everyone, go to the city, we are ready to fight!" ”