Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 26: A Sudden War (4)
Perhaps influenced by those magical themes in reality, players always think that the races in the world of Entagri are similar to the things imagined by humans themselves, demons are evil and violent, orcs are bloodthirsty and impulsive, elves are peaceful and kind, and the undead are dull and stubborn.
Indeed, most of the time these races are more or less in line with this perception, the demons like to solve problems with fire, the orcs are slightly better, they prefer gladiatorial fights, the elves love nature, and the undead are sluggish and lack change because of the long time they have. But if you think these views are for everyone, you are very wrong!
For example, in the current war, if it were written according to the script of humanity itself, those bandit-like centaurs would not choose to take the initiative in the face of the invasion of the undead, but stupidly waited for these bone racks to hit the door, and then were overwhelmed by the tide of undead creatures. And in a head-on battle, I'm afraid no one would have believed that these centaurs could launch such a shocking charge, and the undead could not have dealt with it so calmly.
This brief confrontation between the charge and the counter-charge is just a test for both sides, and Yu Bin is very sure of this!
In the amazement of Thunderlight and Keldilla, the Centaurs blessed with bloodthirsty magic rushed towards the undead soldiers who were waiting for them, and the distance between the two sides was even shortened to the extent that they could see each other's nostrils, which was almost instantaneous for centaurs who were good at running.
However, such a short distance of a few tens of meters has become an insurmountable gap!
With an order, those dark mages slammed the staff in their hands to the ground, driven by the power of death, hard bones with the thickness of arms emerged from the ground, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, growing rapidly, building a bone wall nearly two meters high, and the hard bone spurs stretched outward like thorns, looking like a forest of white bone spears suddenly appeared.
The sudden appearance of the bone wall was obviously not expected by those centaur warriors, at this time they could no longer make any response, and the height of the bone wall was not high enough for them to leap over, and the centaur warriors who rushed to the front could only use their flesh and blood to open up a path to victory for the compatriots behind them, as if the waves were crashing against the rock wall, and the sharp bone spurs instantly pierced these heroic warriors.
At the same time, the skeleton archers in the middle of the phalanx also threw out the arrows in their hands, and the rain of arrows, which was far denser than the wave just now, hit those centaurs like raindrops, and for a while, the turbulent waves broke like foam, and countless centaurs were either pierced by the bone wall, or were killed by the rain of arrows falling from the sky, and the strong smell of blood even reached Yu Bin's location.
Thunder Light and Keldila were stunned by this sudden change, neither of them expected that the entire battlefield situation would be reversed again in an instant, and those menacing centaurs would collapse in front of a fragile bone wall.
Only Yu Bin knows that the bone wall is not as fragile as it seems, and of course those dark mages alone can't make these bones that make up the bone wall so hard, but don't forget that the land under the feet of these undead has become a place of death, and the death power in the soil is the root cause of the bone wall's inability to destroy, and what those centaurs are fighting against is actually this land, unless the death power here is exhausted, those bone walls will not disappear!
Centaurs who were not afraid of death under the influence of bloodlust rushed forward to step on the corpses of their compatriots and rushed towards the obstacle, trying to open a passage with their own bodies, but the effect was very poor, unless a part of the bone wall was destroyed in an instant with absolute strength, the cracks in those bones would be repaired by the death force in the soil in a very short time, and they would be restored to a complete state.
But the centaurs clearly didn't have the ability to do that, and even the strong centaur warriors couldn't use their tomahawks to cleave through the walls of bone, let alone destroy the barrier.
Just when Yu Bin thought that these centaurs would retreat and reorganize the attack, there was a burst of horn sound from the rear of the centaurs, and the thick and long horn sound seemed to carry a special magic, which instantly calmed the impulses of those centaurs, and covered each centaur with a faint glow.
Those arrows that fell from the sky were completely lethal in the face of this layer of ghostly light, and they could not penetrate this protective barrier at all. After eliminating the threat of a rain of arrows, the Centaur priests and centaur shamans who had been specially protected began chanting incantations loudly.
The white light once again enveloped the wounded centaurs, making them forget their pain for a moment, and at the same time, the ground beneath their feet began to tremble, as if the whole earth had turned into the sea, churning up and rolling high and low waves. The surging waves of earth lasted for nearly ten seconds, and when it was all over, the bone wall that blocked the way had been covered with a large layer of soil, the sharp spear forest had turned into a low slope, and the moat had become a path again!
The demoralized centaurs cheered, brandished their weapons, and leaped down the low slope, this time with nothing left to protect the undead.
The war is heating up in an instant!
Zombies and centaur warriors scuffled together, the skeleton archers threw away the rudimentary bone bow in their hands, drew the bone blade at their waists and formed a second line of defense with the other skeleton soldiers, stopping the centaur wanderers who rushed into the formation, the ghouls jumped up and threw the centaur scouts to the ground, tearing each other with sharp claws and teeth, and the flying gargoyles swooped down, their targets were the centaur priests and centaur shamans, but the latter was not easy to mess with, These spellcasters are also important figures in the centaur community, and the centaur defenders who fend off the undead while seizing the opportunity to catch the swooping gargoyles to the ground.
Centaurs are disemboweled, undead are chopped to pieces, this is a mill of flesh and blood, a slaughterhouse of life, where death is the cheapest thing, sprinkled on everyone's head as if it didn't need money.
Faced with this situation, the dark mages could no longer cast spells in unison, and they began to fight on their own, some to strengthen the undead soldiers, others to use death spells to attack the more powerful centaurs, and even create opportunities for the gargoyles to kill their targets.
Almost every second, centaurs are caught in the air by gargoyles and then brutally thrown at places where the undead gather, but more often than not, gargoyles are knocked down by centaur guardians and then turned into rubble during the siege.
It was a war with nearly 20,000 participants, and everywhere you could see was severed limbs and flesh and blood organs.
But in general, the centaurs still have the upper hand by relying on their superior individual strength, the fragile skeletons can only become powder under the horses' hooves, the ghouls can only inflict no serious wounds on the centaurs, the zombies are completely reduced to sandbags, and only the smaller number of ghosts and ghouls have not had good results.
If this situation continues, there is no doubt that those centaurs will become the ultimate victors, which even Lei Guang and Keldila can see, but the bone wall just now has already slapped the two of them in the face once, and this time, they are not sure whether those undead will have a backhand.
Of course, there is a back hand, and it was soon discovered by Yu Bin Yu Bin.
When the first deceased centaur staggered to his feet, Yu Bin knew that the centaur would eventually fail in this war. The most important thing in fighting the undead is never how to kill the undead, but how to prevent yourself from becoming a part of the undead. For the undead, fighting to nourish war is their core strategic thinking, and the dead enemy is an ally, this sentence is not nonsense.
Every time a centaur dies, the death power on the battlefield will increase accordingly, and these death forces will be used by those necromancers to resurrect those dead centaurs, so those centaurs will find that their enemies have somehow changed from those skeletons and ghouls to compatriots like themselves, and even they can recognize their friends and relatives from the corpse in front of them, both physically and psychologically, This condition is painful and fatal for any species of life!
"Don't look any further! There must be an undead transformation circle near the battlefield, and those necromancers are apparently manipulating the circle there, transforming those dead centaurs into undead centaurs! Yu Bin said without thinking, this tactic was almost a textbook thing for the undead, and those centaurs obviously didn't understand all this.
"It's horrible!" Lei Guang and Keldila said with palpitations, whether it was the back and forth between the two sides or the battle of swords and swords on the battlefield, as well as the incredible transformation tactics that Yu Bin said, it was an eye-opener for the two guys.
At this moment, Ailan, who had left to investigate before, finally returned: "It looks like the outcome of this war has been decided, shouldn't we retreat?" ”
"What are the results of the investigation?"
"There is nothing to be gained, those centaurs seem to have made up their minds to defeat these undead from the front, maybe the small number of undead gives these centaurs inexplicable confidence, so there is no battle in the other directions at all."
Yu Bin nodded in agreement, centaurs are actually not a smart race, in the eyes of these guys, about 10,000 undead don't need to care too much at all, just rely on brute force to crush the past.
"Did you find anything special around you? For example, a cave that is heavily guarded by the undead or something? Yu Bin asked casually, since those dead centaurs were transformed into undead on the battlefield, it means that the transformation circle is not far from the battlefield, and it is likely that Alan found this place when he was scouting.
"A special place? I don't know if it's tightly guarded, but I've seen some skeletons carrying some supplies towards a nearby mountain, and it doesn't look like they're going to fight, but like a convoy! ”
"Convoys?" Yu Bin was a little surprised, because an ordinary transformation circle does not need to consume additional materials, as long as there are enough necromancers, the transformation circle can transform those dead corpses at a fixed speed, and what is consumed is only the death magic power of the necromancer himself, "Are those materials too much?" ”
"Quite a few, there are at least a dozen boxes alone, big boxes!"
"Transformation circle, a large amount of materials, the number of undead deliberately controlled, and this velociraptor plain!" These key words quickly flashed in Yu Bin's mind, and finally strung together into a possibility, "Where did those skeletons go with their supplies?" ”
Alan pointed to the east, "That mountain! ”
"Velociraptor Lair!" Yu Bin immediately said a name, if he remembered correctly, it was the lair of the king of the velociraptor and the slaughterer Basr, it was obvious that after Basil disappeared from the velociraptor plain, these undead took over the magpie's nest and used the lair of the king of the velociraptor as the location of the transformation circle.
Ailan and the others looked at Yu Bin, their faces full of confusion.
"One last piece of evidence is missing!" Yu Bin said to himself, "If those undead just watched the centaur retreat, it means that I guessed wrong, if not, then it means ......"
"I think the evidence you want has appeared!" Keldila interrupted Yu Bin's musings, pointed to the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, and said, "Look, there's something coming out behind those centaurs!" ”
Behind the centaurs was the undead knight Thassarian, as well as nearly a thousand zombies and dozens of dark mages, including several necromancers, for the centaurs who were in crisis at this time, this was already a force that was enough to decide the victory, not to mention from the undead knight Thassarian, those centaurs felt the breath of despair that made them desperate.
It was an irresistible force, and only the chiefs of the entire clan had the same aura, and for ordinary centaurs, and even those powerful centaur warriors, this aura meant absolute strength!
The strength of the heroes is enough to completely lose their hope of victory!
"Heroic undead! It seems that this is the commander of these undead! That's exactly what these guys have in mind! ”
"Bingyu, you make it clear! The more I listened, the more confused I became! ”
"Although the transformation circle of the undead can transform the corpse of the dead into undead creatures, this transformation is very flawed, the transformed undead can only exist for a few days, and the strength will be greatly reduced compared to the previous life, this is because the death magic of the necromancer alone cannot provide enough soul power for the large number of undead creatures transformed, so naturally it cannot ignite the soul fire." Yu Bin explained, "Therefore, those undead need a lot of materials to enhance the effect of the transformation circle, by consuming additional death crystals, the transformation circle can transform those dead centaurs into real undead creatures, and even further strengthen them, exchange 10,000 cannon fodder for thousands of elite undead centaurs, this deal is also willing to do it, it's too profitable!" ”