Chapter 9: The Riot of the Dead
In the busy city of Ruth, the warriors were summoned by the priests and gathered in front of the temple, receiving their blessings and encouragement, each smearing their faces with bright dye, roaring and brandishing weapons and equipment, declaring that they would shed their last drop of blood for the gods.
"What a group of fearless warriors." Shepard followed Maru to stand on a high platform near the temple and inspect the tribal warriors, and couldn't help but admire.
Maru was also proud: "Under the protection of the great Mazarus, the warriors of the Ruth tribe are fearless! ”
Dressed in leather armor made of animal skins, Maru carried his usual great axe, and his face was also painted with bright oil paint, making him look hideous and terrifying.
He looked at Shepard: "Shepard, please allow me to call you brother, you saved my life, and slept with my woman, in my heart you are my family!" This is not your war, you just go back and wait for the good news from me and Aranda!" ”
"......" Shepard's eyes drifted, "A true warrior will not be afraid of any battle, not to mention that I am an archer, I don't need to be on the front line, the undead are the enemies of all life, I want to face it with the brave warriors of the Ruth tribe, this is my glory as a warrior!" ”
When Maru heard this, he gladly said, "Well, you follow my team, just as you did when you saved me, and shoot your arrows when we need them!" ”
Shepard nodded, and jumped off the platform with Maru, Maru walked to the front of his team and roared loudly, and the tribal warriors belonging to him also roared in response, and the [Divine Blessing Warriors] who exuded a wild and wild aura rushed out of the tribe in a loose formation.
Shepard followed behind them, observing the forces of the Ruth tribe and observing his familiar profession.
"That...... Is it the [Earth Splitter Samurai]? What a strong vitality...... Is it only three? It is estimated that there are some guards guarding the temple, no more than ten at most. ”
"[Ruth Berserker]? [Hammer of Massarus]? [Barrier Guard]? Good fellow...... there are so many [Hammer of Massarus]? Gee. ”
In addition to the most [Divine Bless Warriors], these four classes are all unique to the Ruth tribe, and there are only a dozen [Revenants] like Aranda and Shepard, who are in the role of scouts, and a large number of tribal warriors who are not qualified to become professionals follow the professional team.
The resurrection of the undead seen by Shepard is a signal, and in the next few consecutive nights, there will be a revival of the undead army in the wild, so the Ruth tribe must first mobilize force to smash all the undead troops in sight to prevent them from causing a catastrophe.
Also notify any nearby tribes that are affiliated with or subject to the Ruth tribe, and provide warriors to join the sweep army, or clear the nearby small undead forces on their own.
Maru led a team of dozens of people to constantly search for the movement of the undead army, most of the first teams sent were of this size, and when they encountered a small group or a small number of undead, they would all be crushed, if the scale was too large, they had to retreat and notify the rear tribe to send support, and if necessary, the priests of Matharus would join.
Although there is no divine gift, the priests themselves are also powerful warriors, and they have received more divine graces from Massalus, all of them are epic and powerful existences, as for the legend of level 25, it is the concept of a near-god, and Massarus itself is only slightly stronger than this level, and will not allow such a strong person to appear under his subordinates.
"Attention, all of you, listen to me! …… Warriors! Rush with me! ”
An army of hundreds of skeletons mixed with walking corpses appeared in front of them, and Maru stopped the group first, Shepard thought he would have some plans or instructions, but the result was a roar, and then a group of people roared and launched the pig assault tactic.
"This is really ......" Shapard, who was speechless, ran up a nearby high slope and took off the exquisite longbow he had taken from the Ruth tribe, directly or indirectly controlling tens of thousands of people, and the background was not at all comparable to the seaside fishing village with less than 100 people.
What's more, Shepard himself has bow-making skills, and Salantos, who is famous for archers in the Old World, took advantage of the opportunity of the imminent war to obtain a lot of materials from the inventory of the Ruth tribe, and carefully made this longbow for himself, and by the way, he picked a short sword forged by the Ruth tribe.
Although facing the resurrected dead, but the warriors of the warlike Ruth tribe have no fear, since the tribe defeated the Tatos tribe in the west, the strongest tribe in the entire north is only the Ruth tribe, unless further south to set foot in the central region with few plains and many mountains, but the temperature in the central part is relatively humid and hot, so that the northern warriors who are not afraid of the cold are very uncomfortable.
The unmelted snow in the wilderness left many pits, and the slowly moving undead could occasionally see skeletons or walking corpses suddenly falling, and then crawling on the ground after a long time.
The nimble warriors were as agile as leopards in the wilderness, holding axes similar to those in Maru's hands, or holding clubs and maces, and the Ruth tribe was not skilled enough to make maces and greatswords, and it was only after the war with the expeditionary force that the tribe's metal smelting skills could be improved by blacksmiths captured from the expeditionary force's garrison.
The undead of hundreds of people and the warriors of the Ruth tribe of dozens of people are completely incomparable in terms of combat power, and these undead with incomplete bodies or even no weapons are the victims of the chaos of the new world's theocracy, so that the dead cannot be at peace, so they can only be wiped out and let the broken souls fill this world and return to the world.
Until the Grim Reaper ascends the throne and leads the souls of the dead to Hades, the gods edict the temple under their command to purify the battlefield and the cemetery, and there are priests who pray for the dead, and the souls of the believers are directly connected to the Kingdom of God or Hades, and the remaining unbelieving souls will also be caught by the Dead under the command of the Grim Reaper to the Hades, and the walls of the unbelievers can be filled with other uses depending on the Grim Reaper.
The angry warriors were like chopping melons and vegetables to destroy the undead, Shepard stood on the high ground beside him, drawing his bow and arrows to destroy the black hands that were ignored by the warriors who were getting more and more excited about the battle, and an inconspicuous golden red attached to each feathered arrow, the power of purification and fire was enough to destroy the remaining soul fire of the undead with a single arrow, and send them into eternal sleep.
The process of battle is also constantly providing experience for Shepard, in addition to killing the enemy itself does not provide experience, the process of battle and many aspects can continue to provide experience for players, and the combat experience obtained in battle can be used for various skills and professions, and depending on the strength and combat effectiveness of the combat object, the corresponding bonus experience will also be obtained.
So killing the undead doesn't give experience per se, but every time he hits the undead, he gains combat experience, and if he happens to save a tribal warrior who will be attacked, he will also get a certain amount of bonus experience, and so on.
"Whew!"
There was a sound of breaking through the air, and with the sound of bones falling to the ground, Maru turned his head to see a short skeleton scattered behind him.
He swung his great axe in Shepard's direction, and looked around to see that all the undead had been destroyed, and many of the tribe's warriors were wounded and panting for air, but none of them were killed.
"Roar! Brothers, can you continue to fight? ”
"Nonsense! Of course! Many warriors roared back to express their dissatisfaction.
"Good! Let's move on, search fifteen miles further, and we'll return to the tribe! Maru took the lead with a great axe on his shoulders.
Behind him, many tribal warriors followed, gradually calming their breathing and regaining their strength.
Shepard looked at the horizon in the distance, suddenly his eyes narrowed slightly, and after a while, the strength under his feet, like the wind, rushed to Maru, grabbed the arm of the other party, which was as thick as an ordinary person's calf, and said in a deep voice: "You can't move forward, quickly retreat, you have to ask the tribe for help." ”
Maru turned his head blankly: "What? ”
Shepard shook his head heavily and slowly: "You listen ......"
Maru raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent, and the wind brought the message from the same place, it was an indiscernible sound, like a muffled thunder.
Maru's eyes widened, he looked left and right, climbed up a huge rock two or three people high, stared into the distance for a while, slid down the ground, and waved his axe: "Brothers, turn around, we have to alert the tribe!" The undead have rioted! ”
Everyone was in a panic when they heard this, the undead riot represented the appearance of tens of thousands of undead in the wilderness, and it was no longer just skeletons and walking corpses, but also many beasts and demonic beasts in the bone-buried wilderness.
Maru grabbed Shepard's shoulders and said in a low voice, "My brother, it's my luck to have you here this time!" When I return to the Horde, I will inevitably be involved in the war, and if anything happens to me, Aranda ......"
Shepard grabbed Maru's shoulder with his backhand and laughed, "What nonsense? The Maru I know isn't such a timid person, but it's just something that has died, so why don't you let them die again? ”
Maru grinned, "Not bad! It's just dead things, watch me make them die again with my big axe! ”
After a while, he suddenly said again, "Hey, you really don't want Aranda to ......"
"Get out!"
"Hahaha!"
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The retreating Maru team sent the news back to the tribe as soon as possible, and when they returned to Ruth City, the teams sent from several directions reported the information of the undead riots, and each undead riot was not an act of a single piece, but an army of the undead from several directions echoed each other to form a magical resonance, which was huge and terrifying.
This kind of scene is impossible in the Old World, and Shepard has not encountered it a few times in his previous life, but he did not expect to face this accident with the people of the Ruth tribe in the New World.