The soldiers of the Patrol Corps began to clean up the battlefield, and in addition to collecting the functional equipment of the necromancer and skeleton monster, they were also asked to collect some other disgusting loot.

The metal parts of the Abomination's body, including machetes, chains, scythes, and rings to hold flesh in place, ghoul skulls and rotting claws, can be refined into precious black crystals to craft better crafted weapons.

Although they think that weapons are high-quality, in another world they are just tatters that people don't bother to pick up.

The equipment that uses the energy crystal technology of the Arad world is lighter, stronger, and sharper, and the patrol corps is equipped with a javelin reinforced with energy crystals, which can easily pierce through the thick skin of the stitching monster and cause serious damage to it, and the patrol corps also has a few strengthened cavalry swords, but those are all good things that only cavalry captains are qualified to equip.

Gather the things collected from the undead and send them back to Bologna, and the young lady named Ethelia will return the favor by supporting the patrol with excellent reinforcements, and the lord acquiesces in this private deal.

The commander of the patrol regiment met with the leader of the besieged unit while the soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, and they took the initiative to ask to meet him, and the commander had planned to see them again after returning to the fortress, but the other party's request was very urgent.

Two people rode in front of the corps commander under the protection of the guards, one was a middle-aged man with a weathered face, and the other was a young man with a strong superior temperament, and the corps commander's eyelids kept jumping when he saw the ribbon and badge on each other's chest.

"I didn't expect to see such an excellent knight here, it seems that my previous understanding of Otto Goths was really superficial in the past, this country is not a barbaric and backward country, it has a group of excellent soldiers."

The middle-aged man first praised these life-savers, and then introduced himself with a full of courtesy.

"My name is Marmont, Auguste? Marmont, Duke of Laxa of the Frankish Kingdom, Commander of the Second Legion of the Kingdom. ”

This is indeed a great man, the commander of the Frankish kingdom, and a very famous general among the nations.

"Hello! Your Excellency Legion Commander! I'm Gatu, commander of the Territorial Patrol Regiment in Bologna, and it's a great honor to meet you. ”

The corps commander hurriedly returned the salute to the other party, this is a soldier's respect for a well-known veteran, and it has no other meaning.

"Your Excellency, Legion Commander, I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of asking questions...... You are not with your army, why are you here? ”

The problem would be serious if the Second Frankish Army suddenly appeared on the Bologna border without notice.

Respect to respect, the corps commander remembered that he was a soldier in Bologna, and he had to get this to the bottom of it.

"The army? Ha! There are no more armies...... You don't have to worry about that. Captain of the Otogots. ”

The young man beside Duke Marmont suddenly spoke, his tone sounding very low and even despairing.

"Your Highness...... The situation is not so bad, the kingdom still has the strength to fight, and the surrounding countries will not sit idly by. ”

"Your Excellency, Legion Commander, what happened? Who the hell is this ......?"

"I am the Crown Prince of the Frankish Kingdom, Joseph? Bonaparte, we ...... We fled after the army was scattered. ”

The young man replied with a dead face, and Marmont did not deny his words with a gloomy face, and Gato was dumbfounded.

"The Frankish kingdom has been defeated? How is that possible? That's an army of 120,000, more than the population of Bologna! ”

It took a lot of effort for Gato not to shout this sentence directly, and he asked the other party in a low voice with a stiff face.

"What the hell happened to you? Why was the 120,000 army of the Frankish kingdom broken up? ”

Marmont originally wanted to hide the news for the time being, and wait until he went to the headquarters of the coalition army in Bologna to announce it, but the commander of the Gato Corps seemed to be a man with a bit of a brain, and he was a lifesaver, so what he said in advance should not hurt.

The Frankish kingdom, which was thriving and well-armed, did not make any mistakes in command in the early and middle stages of this crusade, and they launched five successive battles in two months, and each battle was fought beautifully.

The Undead Scourge lost all the formed legions, and these monsters could only be trapped in a few captured fortified cities, and the generals of the Frankish Kingdom tacitly did not immediately start recovering the territory and cities, and they divided into six ways to start a dragnet sweep of the remnants of the undead monsters in the territory and rescue the surviving people, which was a very correct choice.

Because of the information provided by the survivors of the four major territories and Bologna, the Frankish army also did a very good job in the details, they burned the corpses of their comrades to prevent these corpses from becoming a resource for the undead to feed the war, and all the people in the area they migrated, even the domestic animals, so that the undead could not find the corpses that could summon cannon fodder.

The prescription provided by Bologna to prevent the plague was prepared on a large scale, and the damage caused by the killer weapon of the Scourge to the Frankish army was suppressed to an inconspicuous degree, and of course, many people knew about the Great Light, because these potions that could deal with the plague were the result of Dong Dong.

The development of the war was simply smooth sailing, those necromancers who knew nothing but the tactics of the Sea of Bones were abused by the generals of the kingdom to delirium, and there was even a group of guys who saw the wind and turned to the kingdom, or became warlords on their own, and the Cult of the Cursed God could not maintain control over these guys, these villains were originally selfish and joined the religion.

When the war reached the foot of Udolfinger, everyone thought the big picture was decided.

Udolfinger is the central flashpoint of the Scourge of the Dead, as well as the largest training ground and cantonment site of the Scourge of the Dead, and they have built a large number of bizarre structures of unknown function on the ruins of the city, and the most horrific thing is the large pit they dug to store the 'resources', which are real mass graves, these ordinary victims are used to make materials for ghouls and abominations.

The Frankish army launched a fierce attack on Udolfinger with the mentality of a decisive battle, and they suffered great losses.

Towers with black-purple or blue-crystal floating on top are not simple decorations, they can emit deadly blue-gray ripples and biting cold winds, and they seem to be defensive functional buildings of the scourge of the dead, these buildings are neatly built on the perimeter of the walls of Udorfinger, and each tower is presided over by an acolyte or an ordinary necromancer.

The first infantrymen were almost wiped out, and the French army finally used the assembly trebuchet to destroy the towers.

After a bitter battle, the royal army entered the gates of Udolfinger, a city full of ghouls and abominations, and even many necromancers participated in street battles, and the knights of the Franks showed extraordinary will to fight, and they repeatedly fought with undead monsters for every square, street, house and even alley of Udorfinger.

After four days of fighting in the city, the Frankish army finally drove the leaders of the Scourge to their headquarters in Udolfinger, the massive floating fortress 'Black Castle', and victory was within reach.

But the Cult of the Damned Cult leaders trapped in the black castle have concentrated all the remaining strength to protect themselves, and the black castle itself can emit blue-gray ripples like those strange towers, and there are thousands of necromancers in the castle alone, counting the lich, banshees, and acolytes, their number will reach a staggering three thousand, these guys are all fanatics of the Cult of the Damned.

After losing four valiant knights, the kingdom once again slaughtered the Great Fortress, hundreds of assembled trebuchets and more than a thousand catapults bombarded the Black Fortress indiscriminately for two days, and the fortress collapsed and disappeared in a green ball of light, and the kingdom seemed to have won.

The Cult of the Cursed Gods, which caused the disaster in Udor Finger's territory, was wiped out along with the Black Castle, the functional buildings of the Undead Scourge were demolished in time, and the bodies of the victims of the mass grave were also burned and buried, isn't this really a victory?

They did not win, and the Franks had been cautious enough, but the facts showed that they still underestimated the undead scourge.

On the third night after the battle, when everyone from the king to the soldiers relaxed their vigilance, the undead launched a long-planned attack, and the strange statues scattered among the ruins of Udolfinger suddenly turned into flesh and blood monsters, the soldiers had always thought that they were just ordinary statues, and even some nobles who liked the novelty moved these strange-shaped statues into their tents as trophies, and they immediately paid the price for their carelessness.

The monster of the stone statue looks like a bat with sharp claws that has been magnified dozens of times, and the monster of the obsidian statue with a more elaborate shape is a kind of evil god with a human upper body and a winged lion on the lower body.

On top of that, both monsters are flying, and they can also use evil magic from the sky to attack the humans below.

Just when the human legion was dazed by the thousands of gargoyles and obsidian destroyers that suddenly appeared in the city, the death knights who had never appeared in the siege of Udolfinger appeared in front of the French, and dozens of high-level death knights awakened the army of 'manipulating corpses' that could not be killed, covering the intermediate and lower death knights to give the most lethal blow to the human army.

In many novels, there has been such a situation, the protagonist has developed a powerful air force one step ahead of the times, and has used the air-ground integrated firepower that has been fashionable for hundreds of years to defeat the army of the old era, and the undead also used their powerful air force to teach this group of humans a good lesson, which is really bullying...... Where did humans in the age of empires have such a thing as an air force?

The Death Knights knew how to fight better than the necromancers, and the resurrected undead were as precise as scalpels to clean up the command points of the Frankish army, making this huge army lose command and discipline, and finally ...... They rushed to the king and cut off the head of the king of the Franks.

The army collapsed completely, they scattered in the darkness, no one cared for anyone, and by the time it was dawn, Udorfinger had been overrun by the undead scourge that had gathered again, and there was a row of heads in front of the gates of the city, and the owners of these heads were the nobles of the kingdom who participated in this crusade, led by their king Carlo? Your Majesty Bonaparte, the Supreme's eyes widened in horror, and his expression was frozen in the moment before death, as if he did not understand why he had lost until he died.

The remnants of the army are now fighting in various ways, Commander Marmont and Joseph **** gathered an army of 3,000 people to break through to the outside to ask for help, but the undead disaster that should have been cleaned up suddenly appeared from all parts of the territory again, and the breakthrough team was continuously blocked, and finally only these 300 people escaped.

"The trap that the kingdom fell into from the beginning...... Those undead are just trying to finish their own long poems! ”

Joseph? Bonaparte said with a frightened expression.

"The necromancer who hunted us down told us personally, 'If we want to truly rise, the undead must sacrifice the head of a human king as a work, and the king will die at the hands of the Death Knight, and the knight who kills the king will become the Death Lord!' ”

"It's serious."

It took more than ten minutes for the commander of the Gato Corps to consume this huge amount of information, and he said to the person in front of him very seriously.

"You two, please follow me to the fortress, I will arrange for the two of you to meet with the lord immediately, and this matter must be known to them immediately."

“…… Please do it as soon as possible. I had a bad feeling. ”

Marmont replied with a frown.

"The Scourge of the Dead will soon see even greater changes......"

At the gates of Udolfinger, a knight wrapped in black armor looked at the king's dead face and taunted in a cold voice.

"My Majesty...... You didn't expect me to appear in front of you again, did you? You are Your Majesty, and I am just a bug-like knight, not even a royal subordinate. ”

Of course, the dead man's head could not speak, but his hideous expression was quite appropriate.

"Yes...... I'm just a junior knight, a knight who has come out of a place where the undead are ravaged just to report to the kingdom, because we are knights of the Frankish kingdom, and I am the same as the knight brothers who rushed out with me. ”

He was not the only one standing on the city wall, more than thirty dead people in black armor were quietly gathered outside, they were the Death Knights who completely defeated the army of the Frankish Kingdom.

"Intelligence on the enemy, possible allies, location of survivors, topographical maps, countermeasures...... These are the pieces of information that we have given our lives, and we present them to Your Majesty, and then we have been rewarded with fine wine. ”

"What a sweet wine! I had never drunk such good wine in my life, and the brother who was the son of the Carolingian family said that it was the best wine he had ever drunk, and we were stupid enough to bask in the sense of accomplishment of our mission, until the court attendants around us suddenly flashed their daggers......"

The Carolingian brother had a sword smeared around his neck, and he was clutching a wine glass before he died...... The Merovingian brother had already collapsed drunk on the table, and was stabbed in the back with a dozen swords without any response...... Oh! And then there's the Valois brother, who was standing at the wine table and singing a triumphant song, but instead of applause and flowers from the audience, he got a poisoned crossbow arrow. ”

"It's all over...... My comrades-in-arms...... My brethren ......"

As he spoke, the knight reached out and took off the crown from the king's head, which was still very new, and was inlaid with a fragment of a hedron that glowed with an enchanting black sheen.

The knight carefully removed the fragment and tossed the crown aside.

"You have betrayed our loyalty, just to covet the light that does not belong to you? You polluted her...... You polluted her!!! ”

The knight roared and drew his sword to split the skull in front of him, then turned and raised his sword in front of the knights.

"My brothers, the revenge on the betrayers is over, and the following ...... It's time for revenge on those undead monsters. ”

All the death knights neatly drew their rune swords and held them on their chests, and the man in front of them, who may have been unknown in his lifetime, but now ...... He is the ruler of almost all Death Knights.

He's the Death Lord! He will lead all the Death Knights who have not forgotten their hatred to take revenge!

"It's not an opportunity yet...... Our enemies are very strong, and even with the help of the kingdom's army this time, we have not been able to fully understand the full strength of the Cult of the Cursed, so we need to be patient, patient. ”

'O great light...... Protect our souls, don't turn us into puppets of evil, protect our will, don't let us forget the hatred of life, we will kneel before you and receive all judgment after the vengeance of our sins. ’

The Death Knight in the room prayed in their hearts, chanting the name.

'O great light'