Volume 9: Outbreak Chapter 32: Backstab (12)
"Is it just a coincidence? Or did the Speaker foresee this, which is why he sent the army of the undead? Mander let go of his hand, and the werewolf warrior who had lost his breath fell to the ground, and the devastated soul could no longer be sustained, and in an instant, the body that had lost its soul quickly showed the gray color of death.
If it were a different time, Mande would be happy to make the corpse in front of him into a good battle puppet, like this Tier 4 werewolf, and the flesh is basically intact, at least a soulless corpse puppet with a strength between the 3rd and 4th tiers can be made, which is enough to fill the main battle force of the legion.
It's a pity that Mander is not interested in this now, and the heroic skeleton mage now needs to think about more important issues.
Using some kind of necromancy that directly acts on the soul, Mander successfully obtained the information he needed from the soul of the werewolf warrior. This method significantly avoids the generation of false information, as souls do not lie unless a more powerful and proficient soul-type wizard manipulates the werewolf warrior's soul. But he tortured four werewolf warriors in a row, and the information he got was all the same, which completely ruled out the possibility that the souls of these werewolf warriors had been manipulated.
According to the information from the torture, these werewolves are all members of the werewolf tribe in the Garibel Valley, and the reason why they attacked the camp of the undead was to prevent the werewolves from joining the chaos camp!
This is also the most incomprehensible point of Mande! Because not long ago, those werewolves had just asked the Supreme Council of the Undead to join the chaos camp, and it was for this reason that he and Merry came here with this undead legion, and they did not hesitate to stay away from the territory of the empire and confronted the human legion in this hilly area for half a month.
However, now, these werewolf warriors have not only expressed their determination to refuse to join the chaos camp with their actions, but even paid with their lives! The sounds of fighting and howling that still resounded in the camp to this day undoubtedly proved that those damned werewolves not only did not retreat, but also resisted angrily, constantly inflicting more casualties and destroying more supplies for this undead legion!
This diametrically opposed behavior makes Mande wonder if all this is a conspiracy of those werewolves!
He remembered the werewolf who led the werewolf tribe named Xia Duo to greet him and Merry, although in his opinion, the werewolf who only had heroic strength had a forced awkwardness and resistance on his face, but in front of the powerful undead legion, he and his tribe did not make any hostile actions, but tried their best to cooperate with them!
This is also the main reason why he and Merry didn't take those werewolves seriously, even if it was less than a day ago, those werewolves were in an internal turmoil, and Mander also subconsciously thought that it was the werewolf named Nandus who was integrating the werewolf tribe throughout the Garibel Valley in order to gain more benefits for himself after joining the chaos camp. I don't know how many times something like this has happened, and Mande is not surprised by this.
So he paid more attention to the undead army led by Tarsis Kemodir, Merry, who was good at charging into battle, may have thought that the undead army was following the orders of Speaker Andrew to steal the credit, and resented that he was being used as bait, but Mander thought more, as a necromancer, the power struggle between the Supreme Council of the Undead and the rulers of the three empires was not a big secret within the Wizarding Guild. And the Sa Anlotte Empire, because of its own unique way of governing, has always played the role of a balancer in it.
The Imperial Council, the supreme ruling body of the Sa Anlot Empire, is inherently close to the Supreme Council of the Undead, but at the same time, the members of the parliament are not willing to give up their power and place the Sa Anlot Empire under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the Undead. As a result, the Sa-Anlote Empire has been constantly oscillating between the royal family and the Supreme Council of the Dia Empire. Therefore, on the one hand, the Supreme Council of the Undead is unwilling to give up the opportunity to fight for the Sa Anlotte Empire, and on the other hand, it does not fully trust this strange undead empire, and the undead nobles led by the Emperor Diya Empire look down on the groveling of the Sa Anlot Empire to the Supreme Council, but at the same time they dare not completely push this undead empire to the side of the Supreme Council.
Therefore, strictly speaking, their second-line legion subordinate to the Sa Anlote Empire and the undead legion under the Supreme Council led by Tarsis Kemodir are not so-called allies, and even to a certain extent, the other party may directly use military means to use this opportunity to put pressure on the Sa Anlotte Empire through their second-line legion. At least in Mande's view, it's a good political maneuver. A second-tier legion is not important to the Sa Anlot Empire, and even if it is lost, no one will feel distressed, but it is enough to serve as a signal to convey the attitude of the Supreme Council to the councillors of the Sa Anlot Empire.
This is the main reason why Mande is guarding against Tassis. Although the survival of a second-tier legion is not important to the Sa Anlotte Empire, for himself, this undead legion is his everything, and it is his most important asset in the Sa Anlotte Empire.
But what he never expected was that this fatal blow did not come from the humans on the other side, nor from the undead army next to him who came from nowhere, but from the werewolves he regarded as inferior creatures, who had been groveling and even looking a little stupid!
In fact, when he first learned that the camp had been attacked, Mander still thought it was a conspiracy of the undead legion, and he even thought it was all a conspiracy, from the beginning when the werewolves asked to join the chaos camp, to the fact that he and Merry came here with the legion, it was all a conspiracy set up by the High Council to put pressure on the Sa Anlotte Empire. But when he learned from the souls of these werewolf warriors through soul torture why they attacked the camp, this speculation was completely overturned by himself!
The reason is simple! Because the news of these werewolves asking to join the chaos camp has already spread, if the news of the werewolves reversing their previous decision and refusing to join the chaos camp is spread again, then it will undoubtedly be a slap in the face of the Supreme Council of the Undead! This kind of thing will not only cause ridicule and contempt among the nobles, but will even cause the status of the Supreme Council of the Undead to be questioned in the chaotic camp! Especially now that the Black Dragon Queen Sinisterra has returned, the Supreme Council of the Undead, which has lost its prestige, is likely to cause the discourse of the chaotic camp to shift from the undead to the dungeon led by the Black Dragon Queen.
Mander could conclude that even if His Excellency the Speaker really wanted to use this opportunity to put pressure on the Sa Anlotte Empire, it would not be possible to use such stupid methods and excuses!
Knowing this, Mander could be sure that there was no way that these werewolves would collude with the undead army outside, but really wanted to reverse the decision they had made and refuse to join the chaos camp. The reason for attacking their camp was undoubtedly to take this opportunity to eradicate their external force and cut off the werewolf patriarch named Nandus from relying on the most.
So why did the army of the undead out there come here? Could it be that His Excellency the Speaker learned through some channel that the werewolves wanted to repent, so he sent this undead legion to suppress the opposition within the werewolves?
The more Man thought about it, the more he realized that his guess was probably true, after all, apart from themselves, the powerful people who were far within the undead could not have imagined that those humans would send such a weak army. The rulers of the empire would have thought that their second-tier legion had been firmly pinned down by humans in the Monas Hills and was powerless to solve the internal problems of the werewolves, so His Excellency the Speaker had to send reinforcements.
If this is the case, then the decision he and Merry have made is simply stupid, and the most important goal now is not to defeat the human legion, but to quell the rebellion within the werewolves and put the werewolves back on track.
"Immediately inform the Legion Commander and ask him to return to the camp with all the soldiers at once!" No matter what the purpose is, Mander is not willing to let Merry waste time outside with the main force of this legion, the number of werewolves who rushed into the camp and wreaked havoc is at least more than three thousand, such strength is not something that these wizard apprentices under his command and a small number of undead soldiers used to protect can compete, and the main force of the legion must be brought back to support, "Also, immediately ask Lord Tarsis to send troops to support, cut off the retreat of those werewolves, and never let these rebels escape back!" ”
At the same time, Mander did not hesitate to order those wizard apprentices to use the corpses and various raw materials stored in the camp to summon various undead puppets to increase the strength in their hands, and even those necromancers were ordered to join the battle to prevent those werewolves from further destroying the camp.
The gargoyle heading in the direction of Tarsis quickly collided head-on with the vampire brothers and sisters who were leading the troops to the undead camp, but unfortunately, before the gargoyle could say a word, Giovanni, who mistakenly thought that his actions had been discovered, immediately launched his own attack, and an arrow of blood shot directly through the soul core of the gargoyle, reducing it to a pile of rubble!
"We were discovered! Storm! Giovanni Entebury said to Lucretia, "Inform Lord Tarsis, and Gather at once, that there is no need to hide it, and take this camp directly!" ”
Lucretia nodded, and with a thud it turned into a bat the size of a basketball, and with the cover of night, it flew quickly towards the location of the legion.
"Split into two teams! The first team, led by me, went directly through the camp walls and attacked those necromancers, and the second team was responsible for taking out the gargoyles of the opposing party and seizing air supremacy! ”
For this operation, Yu Bin can be described as the best of his ability, Giovanni not only has more than 4,000 gargoyles under his hands, but also hundreds of players serve as subordinate commanders, and even nearly 100 gargoyles are injected with complete souls, after special modulation, high-end goods with a high level of intelligence!
What's more, all gargoyles are made of obsidian, which means that in terms of quality alone, these gargoyles far exceed the air power in Mande's hands!
The black gargoyles quickly divided into two parts, among which nearly fifteen hundred high-ranking gargoyles followed Giovanni and began to rise in height, each of them carrying two or three elite ghouls, while the remaining gargoyles were scattered into hundreds of battle groups, under the command of the players who served as subordinate commanders, began to invade the sky above the undead camp from different directions, looking for each other's gargoyles for aerial combat.
At the same time, Tarsis was not surprised to learn from Lucretia that the sneak attack had failed, after all, the undead were already very suspicious beings, and the identity of their own clan did not prove that they were all the way. Since you have lost the opportunity to sneak attack, let's go straight to the attack! Anyway, that stupid black knight has already taken away most of the undead constructor soldiers, and the number of remaining undead apprentices and undead soldiers is not even 30,000, even if the other party can use magic to summon some cannon fodder, it will not help!
You know, he has nearly 300,000 elite undead soldiers under his hands! If you despise these undead soldiers because they are of a lower rank, you will pay a heavy price!
When Giovanni's gargoyle army flew above the camp, Mande had already commanded the temporarily summoned undead puppets to strangle with the werewolf warriors who gradually converged, although in terms of individual strength, these temporarily summoned undead puppets were not the opponents of the werewolves at all, but with the magic bonus and support of a large number of necromancers and apprentices, coupled with the numerical advantage, they fought with the werewolves, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.
The arrival of fifteen hundred gargoyles obviously attracted Mande's attention, but unfortunately Mande already had a preconceived opinion at this time, he did not have much doubt about the appearance of these gargoyles, he only thought that his request for help had successfully reached the hands of Tassis, this group of gargoyles came to support him, so he did not have any vigilance against Giovanni's arrival, and still concentrated on dealing with those werewolves who were constantly trying to break through the defense line of the undead puppets and wanted to attack them.
"There's nothing more wonderful than a moment like this!" Giovanni himself couldn't believe all this, those undead didn't even have the slightest defense, and they showed their weaknesses with a big grin, and those necromancers were only surrounded by zombies, ghosts, or flesh golems to serve as guards, and there wasn't even a gargoyles above their heads!
"Start attacking!" Giovanni transformed back into his human form from bat form, drew his thin sword at his waist, and slashed at a necromancer who had just unleashed a bone spear. At the command of his commander, thousands of ghouls rained down from the gargoyles, knocking the unsuspecting necromancers to the ground.
A civil war between the undead has begun!