Nord could clearly feel that this undead warrior was stronger than him, and the undead who commanded the attack outside the Rock Point Pass could not be compared to Marduk, there was no doubt that this was the true commander of those undead.

At another time, Nord would have been happy to fight the undead warrior, even risking his life to kill him. But now, he has a more important mission. Nord may not be a good hero, but he is definitely a good general.

He knew very well what kind of disaster such a huge army of undead would bring to the Kingdom of Virgil once it crossed the pass. The entire kingdom will be in dire straits, and worse, once this support army quietly appears behind the kingdom's army in the fierce battle, the battle of Castle Radre will inevitably slide into the abyss that is extremely unfavorable to the kingdom.

"Human! I'll turn you into a lowly ghoul! Let you see for yourself how this kingdom was destroyed! "Marduk's weapon was a large black sword, a little thinner than a broad-bladed sword, but thicker than a normal one-handed sword, and as he quickly forwarded, the pitch-black blade slashed towards Nord's neck with a sword wind.

With a knight's sword in his hand, Nord was able to block Marduk's attack. But he didn't stop to fight this undead warrior, and on the side of his body, he bypassed Marduk's obstruction and rushed directly to the barn door.

The two soldiers who were originally guarding outside the barn were already in different places, which made Nord's heart chill, and with a kick of his leg, the door of the barn burst open, and his eyes looked in from the door, and the sight made Nord almost faint.

Four of the five griffons crouching in the barn had turned into corpses, only the last one still had the slightest breath, but the hideous wounds at the base of their wings made it impossible to fly.

Nord let out a roar of rage, and the knight's sword in his hand slashed at Marduk, who was not a knight of light, so he couldn't treat the surviving griffin on the spot, but some supplies and potions were already stored in the barn. Nord had to save the surviving griffon as quickly as possible, so he had to push back the chasing Marduk.

Perhaps not wanting to waste too much effort on Nord, Marduk did not choose to hard-pick up Nord's attack. Taking advantage of the brief opportunity to push Marduk back slightly, Nord flew to the corner of the barn, where food and potions for raising griffons were piled up.

What Nord didn't see was that as he rushed over, the corners of Marduk's mouth raised a noticeable arc.

Just as the old knight was about to reach the potion, a dagger shrouded in shadows quietly appeared from his side and stabbed him into his waist.

The cold of the blade finally broke Nord's tense nerves, and he finally realized that he had no chance to complete his mission, and that the evil undead had set such a tight trap that the suffocating griffin must have been the bait they used to design him.

The dagger was pulled out and plunged into Nord's back again, and the shadow power attached to the dagger made it impossible for the old knight to move forward, and he fell to his knees in humiliation.

"Well done!" Maduk admired Vidara's ruthlessness very much, and quickly rushed to Nord's side, and plunged the black sword in his hand into the heart of the old knight, "I said, I would turn you into a lowly ghoul!" ”

This black longsword was a weapon given to Marduk by Kel'thugad, and it didn't look special on the outside, but it contained a lot of death power inside. As Nord's life force completely dissipated, the power of death within the longsword turned the old knight into an undead spirit at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's a pity, it's wasted!" Yu Bin, who just arrived at the barn, watched the process of the heroic knight Nord being resurrected into a ghoul, because in the resurrection process, Nord's original strength had been mostly lost, and in the end Marduk got a sixth-order ghoul, or should be called the ghoul captain.

As for the remaining griffin, it naturally became Yu Bin's experience.

With the death of Nord, the human soldiers in the pass immediately fell into a desperate situation, being flanked by the undead before and after, and there was nowhere to escape, and finally 1,200 human soldiers were not only all killed, but also became part of the undead army under the transformation of those necromancers.

The large amount of materials hoarded by the Virgil Kingdom in the pass naturally became Marduk's bag, especially a batch of bursting arrows with a number of more than three thousand, which can be regarded as the most valuable part of these materials.

"What's next?" Marduk quickly took over command of the army of the undead, asking as he arranged for the men to sort the supplies.

"It's a good start. But this small number of troops alone was not enough to affect the outcome on the side of Castle Radre. After crossing the pass, you can enter the province of Baria in the Kingdom of Virgil. If I'm not mistaken, the Krk Fortress is less than three hundred kilometers from here. "Yu Bin had already written down the map of the entire Virgil Kingdom before he set out, especially those important military fortresses. In order to prevent Martan's men from reinforcing Radre Castle, Mantein Virgil used the pass fortresses in various places to keep the undead army firmly out of the country, and as for the undead who wreaked havoc in the country, he relied on several large military fortresses as support points to defend them.

Krk Fortress is such a military node, it is the largest military fortress in Baria Province, and it is also the closest to the border of the large military fortress, there are 20,000 Kingdom soldiers stationed in the fortress, Mante because of the elimination of the undead raging in Baria Province, and sent 30,000 additional reinforcements here, a total of 50,000 Kingdom troops, although not enterprising, but it is enough to ensure the safety of the main towns in Baria Province.

Once this place is captured, the entire Baria Province will become a stripped woman, and there is no longer any power to stop those undead, as for the garrisons in various towns, it is not that Yu Bin underestimates them, and the garrisons lacking high-level soldiers and heavy equipment will not be able to stop the undead attack at all.

"We can't take that fortress with the little strength we have. According to the plan we have made before, shouldn't we immediately divide our forces and use the same methods as possible to destroy the passes and garrisons along the border, so that more undead armies can enter the territory of the Virgil Kingdom? ”

Marduk's objection is not unreasonable, such a large military fortress as Krk Fortress is completely different from the pass under their feet, not only has sufficient troops, but also has this perfect defense facilities, all kinds of arrow towers, trebuchets, bed crossbows, rolling wood, alchemy puppets, etc., to capture such a well-defended, well-equipped military fortress, not only needs a large number of undead soldiers, but also will take a lot of time.

And now the power in their hands is less than 50,000 low-level undead, and neither in terms of quantity nor quality, it meets the requirements.

Yu Bin rubbed his brows: "The fall of the Yanjiao Pass will not be hidden for long, I estimate that it will take a day at most." If we continue to proceed according to the original plan, before we arrive, the other passes must have been prepared, and it will be very difficult to replicate the success here. Besides, I'm guessing that there's going to be a stir on the side of the Minus Kingdom, and that butcher king is going to surprise everyone. If the kingdom of Minus were to join the war, I guess the battle of Radre would probably be over within a week, and we wouldn't have that much time to slowly bring in the undead army. ”

As for the possibility of the Minas Kingdom joining this war, Yu Bin and Marduk have discussed it several times along the way, this undead warrior, like the dean of the psychic academy, Garding, does not believe that in the eyes of the domestic division, the Mynas Kingdom, which is opposed by two major forces, will come to this troubled waters.

"What about the troops? There were 50,000 people! ”

"So you can't fight hard, you have to use your brain! When you killed Nord, I had the gargoyles order Lord Bunker and Lord Ingman to join him here with all the necromancers and gargoyles in the name of Lord Kel'thugad. When the time comes, you will lead them in a surprise assault on the Kirk fortress under the cover of gargoyles and ghosts, and I will follow with a large army. ”

Buncraik and Ingman are the two biggest pieces that Kel'thugad has placed under Maltan, a heroic gargoyle and a heroic necromancer.

Marduk felt that this was a fantasy at all, even if he added two hero-level combat powers, he only had four hero-level in his hands, which still included the dark elf of Vidara. According to the information from the Cursed Cultists, there are three hero-level humans in the Kirk Fortress, four to three, and Marduk doesn't think this is an advantage.

"Two days ago, when my plan was approved by Lord Kel'thugad, the Cult of the Damned had secretly spread a modified plague of the undead throughout the province of Barria, which was slow to work but not easy to detect, and caused great chaos due to the undead throughout the kingdom of Virgil, many civilians left their homes and poured into the town. Taking advantage of the distribution of food, at least half of the refugees are now infected with the plague of the dead, which is estimated to add up to more than half a million. Yu Bin said without changing his face, as if those refugees were just a number, "From here to Krk Fortress, even if you want to launch a sneak attack at least tomorrow night, this time is enough to detonate the undead plague in the bodies of those refugees." When the time comes, the army in the Krk Fortress will have to disperse to those towns to protect the civilians who have not yet been infected, and the number of soldiers remaining in the Krk Fortress will be greatly reduced. ”

Marduk muttered, as if thinking that Yu Bin was ignoring him by not informing him of these things in advance.

"In addition, Her Excellency Farina has also secretly infiltrated the Krk Fortress."

This good news completely reassured Marduk, and with so many means and multi-pronged methods, he believed that the Krk Fortress would not be spared.

After Marduk leaves, Alan and Raylight walk in. Both had obvious excitement and smiles on their faces.

"There must be good news for you guys."

"That's right! I said, how the hell do you know that the Kingdom of Minas will do it? Lei Guang was especially excited, rubbing his hands and walking back and forth, "The Terran players we bought through the online forum have confirmed that the regular army of the Minas Kingdom left the station in batches this morning, and their whereabouts are unknown, and the leaders of several aristocratic factions and the king of Laclaus are also missing, and it seems that they must have taken the army towards Radre Castle." ”

Alan added, "Also, the castle of Haynum in Dalaran has appeared in the territory of Virgil, stationed in the province of Torre, and those archmages have finally gone into battle shirtless. ”

"It's not hard to guess. Since the expeditionary force won the defensive battle of Nanhai Town, the prestige of the Bright Holy See has become more and more high, if you were Dalaran, would you be willing to continue to do this? If you really wait until the expeditionary force solves the werewolves in the Silver Pine Forest and turns back to the Virgil Kingdom to help, then Dalaran's face will be lost! Yu Bin said, "The reason why Dalaran didn't make any big moves before was because he focused on finding the Book of Your, and on the other hand, I guessed that the Kenrito Council was mediating the relationship between the two major forces within the Minas Kingdom. ”

"In other words, from that time on, Dalaran was ready to deal with Maltan independently and not let the expeditionary force interfere?"

"I'm afraid so, yes. After Merganis returned to Dalaran, he must have brought back the whereabouts of the Book of your, although this ancient book fell into the hands of the Shadow Witch Elveira, so Dalaran must not be able to get it back in such a short time, and this news is estimated to not be hidden for long. In this way, in the Book of your, Dalaran is considered to have lost all the points, and if the Virgil Kingdom loses again, those kings may choose to openly support the Holy See of Light to fight against Dalaran in order to snatch control of the mage from Dalaran. ”

Behind any war, there are factors that have nothing to do with war. In reality, the world of Ntagari is no exception. The Holy See of Light organized an expeditionary force to help the Kingdom of Ashwood on the surface, and by the way, to cultivate Raphael, but the real purpose was to suppress Dalaran's prestige, and the Holy See of Light wanted to use this to share Dalaran's power, and those human kings also wanted to use this to snatch control of the mage from Dalaran's hands.

The battle of Ladre Castle is the same, why did Dalaran implement the strategy of one step at a time, little by little, to compress Martan's activity space, but now he did not hesitate to take the risk to fight this lich in Radley Castle? On the one hand, it was because the victory of the Holy See in Nanhai Town made the Council of Kenrito aware of the risk of losing power, and on the other hand, it was also to take this opportunity to tie the Kingdom of Virgil and the Kingdom of Minas to Dalaran's chariot and dig these two kingdoms from the side of the Holy See of Light. At that time, even if other kingdoms ask Dalaran to share the ownership of the mage troops, the Kenrito Council will have two allies to support the situation.

Alan and Lei Guang have never considered these aspects because of their age and experience. But Yu Bin is different, the cruel survival pressure in his previous life made him psychologically mature, and after being reborn, he will naturally be able to look at all this more deeply, whether he saw through the Tamil rebellion at the beginning, or now he sees through the driving factors behind these two wars, in fact, it is experience and experience that help Yu Bin.