127. Army of the Undead
"Quick! Light the beacon! The elven captain shuddered suddenly, and immediately roared.
The current situation has obviously completely exceeded their expectations.
He even wondered if the upper echelons of the empire had already known that these intruders were undead this time, so they kept blocking the news. But even if he had doubts now, it was pointless, because the scale of these undead creatures was beyond the reach of their village.
The only way now is to evacuate immediately!
In the world of Drora, there are no strangers to all kinds of ectope creatures, especially undead creatures, which can be said to be the species they are most familiar with.
In the Book of Twilight of the Twilight Church, the evolutionary chain of all undead creatures in the entire bone plane is even completely recorded, as well as the characteristics, weaknesses, and so on of almost all undead creatures.
Therefore, this elven captain knew very well what they were going to do when facing the army of undead from the bone plane in front of them.
"Get out of here now!" The captain yelled loudly, then immediately turned and jumped off the observation post.
He was only one of the five captains of the village, and the village's supreme commander was someone else.
So at this moment, his idea was to report to the commander immediately.
However, barely before he had jumped off the observation post and ran a few steps, a loud explosion roared from behind him.
The strong impact even knocked him out directly.
When he fell to the ground, he only felt a burning pain behind him, and the dim situation around him seemed to be slightly alleviated: the light was obviously much brighter.
He looked back in amazement, only to see that the observation post that had been standing just now had been completely burned.
But the spitting flames were not red, but eerie blue-white, and even the temperature was not hot, but with the observation post as the core, the surrounding ground began to spread and condense rapidly.
"Pale Flame...... It's Pale Flame! The elven captain let out a frightened cry, and he hurriedly got up from the ground and ran quickly, "The undead scourge is coming!" Run away, everyone! ”
It seemed to be the sound of an explosion that woke up the entire village.
Many half-elves and humans pushed open the door and walked out, and all kinds of frightened expressions appeared on the faces of these people. Especially after they heard the elven captain's roar, the look on their faces was instantly replaced by horror.
Almost in the blink of an eye, all kinds of screams rang out in the village.
The chaos spread to the entire village almost instantly.
"Are you crazy?" An elf who also seemed to be the captain suddenly ran to the elven captain's side and slapped him, "That's not a pale flame at all, it's just an ice flame bomb." ”
"I'm not crazy!" The elven captain's eyes were only frightened, "That's Pale Flame!" Someone has opened the Gate of Bones in our empire, and the army of the undead in the Bone Plane has begun to invade again! ”
"What crazy are you talking about!" The captain had an angry look on his face, "There are people from the Holy Light Church who are supervising the entire Azea Continent, if there are really traces of fluctuations in the Gate of Bones, the people of the Holy Light Church would have issued a warning a long time ago!" You spread rumors and confusion like this, be careful to be punished by the commander for felony! I don't want to think about it, it's ...... now."
The elf, who was also the captain, soon lost his words.
Because at the main gate of the village, dozens of undead warriors in armor, acting as arrowheads, led hundreds of skeleton warriors to rush in.
More than a dozen half-elves and human warriors who were maintaining order and preventing the spread of chaos were caught off guard and were immediately cut down by these undead and fell to the ground. Even if he had a little ability, he was able to block the initial round of raids, but when the black knights who followed also joined the battle, the defensive line that had just been formed was completely defeated immediately.
And this time, after losing the defense, the elves, half-elves, and humans in the village began to suffer large-scale casualties.
"Dead ...... Undead! The elven captain, who had just said that his companion was crazy, also had an unbelievable look on his face, because he had already seen that another elven captain with the same strength as himself was actually killed on the spot by a black knight with a heavy sword, "Why...... Why is this happening!? ”
He turned his head abruptly to find his companion who was on duty tonight.
But when he turned around, his companion was gone. Obviously, it was the moment when he lost his mind just now that he left him and fled.
"Damn it!" The elven captain let out an expletive.
However, when he also wanted to turn away, a force of impact directly knocked him to the ground.
Before he could even react, he felt a sharp pain in his neck, as if something was biting at him. Immediately afterwards, there was a sharp biting pain on his side, arms and other parts, and along with the bite, he could still feel a burst of weakness, which made him realize that he had been poisoned.
In the next moment, he already understood what he was biting at himself.
Ghoul!
Legend has it that whenever the Plane of Bones invades, these special undead creatures will rush into the world with a large number of skeleton cannon fodder, and then cause chaos and create more ghoul companions at an astonishing rate.
"No!" The elven captain let out a frightened cry at the thought that he might also become a ghoul from corrosion.
However, the feeling of weakness and weakness had completely spread throughout his body, and even the feeling of pain had been stripped away.
The only thing he could feel was that his body was being eaten like a pile of dead flesh by several ghouls.
Darkness gradually enveloped his consciousness.
He struggled to resist the erosion of darkness, but in the end, it was all useless.
Before his consciousness was completely consumed by the darkness, what he saw was the half-elves, humans, and his own kind, who had died, were standing up again as corpses under the interference of magic. Some of the more fragile ones melted and fell off as they re-stood, and eventually only white bones remained.
That's what it is...... Skeleton Soldier's ...... Birth......
For no reason, at the last moment when his consciousness completely dissipated, the only thing that came to the elven captain's mind was such a brief thought.
These elf villages are just a point in the supply network of the Silver Moon Empire, so the elves who are arranged to be stationed here will naturally not be much stronger. Elven captains like them are only the strongest heroes and mid-rank heroes, and if they can reach the strength of the upper heroes, they can be qualified for the position of village commander or outpost commander.
And now the undead creatures attacking this elven village, there are dozens of black knights who have reached the level of heroic strength alone, even if they are consumed as consumables, it is enough to consume the commander of this village. What's more, what is now invading is an undead army with a complete formation system, naturally it is impossible to only have black knights, and undead creatures of the same level as black knights include necromantic corpse witches, ghost-faced warriors, and bone knights.
Slightly next level, there are ghouls, bone mages, black knights, and so on.
So in just a moment, the entire elven village has been completely conquered by this army of the undead. And the entire village, except for the ghouls devoured in the battle, or really mutilated, the remaining corpses were quickly converted into new undead creatures to join the undead army.
There are only a handful of elves, half-elves, and humans who are lucky enough to escape.
Among them, there was the elven captain who was the first to escape.
There were large burn marks on his back, but the wounds were not charred black, but a hoarfrost-like color.
He just stood on a slope outside the village, watching the black smoke rise from the village.
Just by looking at it like this, he already knew the fate of this elven village.
He glanced at the huge dark cloud above the wormwood forest, and even now, the expansion of this dark cloud had not stopped in the slightest, but was accelerating. He knew that this dark cloud was actually not a dark cloud, but a negative energy area formed by the convergence of extremely strong negative energy, and all creatures that relied on negative energy to survive, including but not limited to the undead, as long as they were in this dark cloud area, their strength would be increased to a certain extent.
"We, what now?" A purebred elf asked in a restless voice.
"Run!" The elven captain spoke, "We must tell all the villages along the way about all this, and we must also ...... the news of the invasion of the undead."
Speaking of this, the elven captain suddenly stopped.
In his opinion, the upper echelons of the empire had apparently already known the news. So even if he passed the news back to the capital, it would be meaningless, and it might even cause the entire empire to panic.
A sense of helpless exhaustion permeated the elven captain's heart.
"Team...... Captain ......"
"What's wrong?" The elven captain came back to his senses, then glanced at the only survivor in his squad.
I saw that the other party stretched out his hand and pointed behind him, and the look on his face was extremely frightened.
Moreover, the other people around him had the same expressions.
It made him feel a little bad inside.
He turned to look behind him, and saw dozens of ghouls dripping with saliva, encircling them all.
The elven captain suddenly remembered that the Book of Twilight of the Church of Twilight had recorded that whenever the bone plane began to invade, it was the skeleton soldiers with the lowest status in the bone plane who were responsible for serving as cannon fodder for consumption. Ghouls, on the other hand, are the scouts of the bone plane, not only spreading fear and confusion, but also relaying all the information they detect back to the base camp of the undead army.
Even, they are the best hounds in the bone plane!
Creatures that they remember the smell will never escape!
A maniacal smile appeared on the elven captain's face: "Ha, it seems that these ghouls will not let us go." …… Let's split up, how many can run is a few, everyone...... Ask for more blessings. ”