Chapter 0839: Strangling
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The decisive battle was fought in the dark, and the cemetery in Stratholme was not idle.
The blood sacrifice ceremony was all ready. Karthas, who presided over the ceremony, was a legendary sorcerer and took the lead, sitting cross-legged at the core of the main ceremonial circle early, silently communicating with the hosts of the four auxiliary arrays.
However, they will launch it a little later here, and they will need to wait for the destruction of Kern's lair before they can push the blood sacrifice to begin. Otherwise, whether the effect of the blood sacrifice could penetrate the magic defense of a saint, even Karthas could not have a positive answer.
In the central control hall of the magic tower, Li Xun was wearing a Dawei robe, and his face was solemn and he faced the dense magic water mirror in front of him and gave an order to act.
As a result, on the vast undead continent of tens of thousands of miles, 11 elite troops of the cemetery, which had been hidden for a long time, immediately entered the Kern lair in different regions under the leadership of the cemetery heroes and mercenaries.
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Dustwind Canyon.
The fierce winds of the mountains and tsunamis never stopped.
The sky was full of sand and dust, covering almost the entire area in a patch of yellow sand.
A corner of the Thousand Miles of Sand Sea on the outside of Dustwind Canyon suddenly swayed with light and shadow, and when the Obscuring Circle and Illusion Circle were withdrawn, an elite and powerful Cemetery Legion of up to 30,000 people was revealed in it.
"Hurry up. With so many Kern nests, we can't be the ones who are dragging our feet! Cheer me up, and if the battle goes well, the merit rewards will be doubled this time! "Leading this force is the Corpse King of the Rank Polluter, and in front of him are a dozen or so cemetery mercenaries who are gearing up, and behind him, followed by two Saint-Order undead with ugly faces and strange shapes.
"Offensive ......"
With the commander's order, the Cemetery Legion, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately rushed towards the entrance of the Dust Wind Canyon in the distance like a white wave on the ground.
Since it was the Corpse King who led the team, the large army he chose was still his preferred elite lickers and predators. As for other troops, out of the principle of collocation and universality, the Corpse King also brought a part, but compared to the licker troops all over the mountains, it can only be regarded as a squad.
Because the yellow sand here is full of yellow sand and the wind is howling, the sky is no longer a safe battlefield. So everyone didn't ride the bat demon, but followed closely behind the Licker troops, and strode with their legs open.
The first ambush encountered by the troops came from under the thick yellow sand.
Countless small sand scorpions, poisonous red-tailed scorpions and terrifying sand worms as big as giant pythons keep burrowing out of the ground and frantically attacking the licker troops. And the licker is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and immediately uses his sharp claws and strong body to return the color, and the two sides are not afraid of death to strangle together.
For a while, the entire vicinity of the entrance to the Dustwind Canyon was filled with life-and-death battlefields of lickers, predators, and sand sea creatures.
"Lord Corpse King, you clean up the outside first, let's go in and take a look!" The tallest of the cemetery mercenaries, Dabo, showed a terrifying smile on his hideous and crooked rotten face, greeted the corpse king, and rushed straight into the canyon entrance with a group of mercenaries.
The Corpse King didn't have time to deal with this group of loose ghosts, and commanded a group of corpse witches to form a small battle group, constantly driving the cloud of death into the nearby battle circle, escorting the main force into the canyon.
Soon, at the cost of 400 lickers, the Cemetery Legion as a whole rushed into the entrance to the canyon.
Now that it's in, it's all easy to say.
The Corpse King had 300 Raging Predators block the entrance to the canyon, supplemented by 50 Corpse Witches, to keep it tight.
The entire natives of the undead realm have been reduced to undead creatures, and it stands to reason that the creatures of the sand sea here should not be an exception. However, due to the existence of the plane shattering point, this place has been initially chaotic, so the creature here is not so much an undead creature as a chaotic creature similar to a star beast.
Therefore, the large area of the death cloud of the corpse witches is an insurmountable barrier for them.
After stabilizing the rear, the Corpse King began to lead a large army in the Dustwind Canyon to find the ancient ruins where the enemy was hiding. However, there was no need for him to work hard at all, the group of cemetery mercenaries who came and went like the wind had already found the entrance and exit on a narrow stone wall in the depths of the canyon, and successfully solved a few outer guards.
After the Corpse King inquired, he put the reward for finding the entrance on the head of a skinny bone thief who was as thin as a monkey. With a wave of his hand, the cemetery army swarmed in and plunged into the depths of the ruins.
This place is worthy of being a safe place for believers to live for a long time, and it is not only a narrow and tortuous area, but also full of all kinds of terrifying magical mechanisms that are difficult to describe. As a result, almost every inch of the ruins had to bury a considerable number of lickers.
If it was a small team, I am afraid that it would have been killed and wounded before it entered the living area of the ruins, and it would be difficult to shake the nearly 10,000 Kern believers inside. Unfortunately, it was the Cemetery Legion that was attacked today.
Under the frenzied and surging attacks of the lickers, the Kern believers who were clinging to the living area continued to fall and die, and they were defeated and retreated, and they were attacked by the cemetery troops into the core area of the ruins.
Maybe it's to accommodate more believers, or maybe it's because no one dares to invade the security station, so the war facilities inside the ruins are not sufficient. And the Kern believers are even more mixed, from the terrifying undead knights of level seventeen or eighteen, to the white bone skeletons of level four or five, there are everything in the ruins. All the fighting was also completely spontaneous, and there was no large-scale organized resistance.
The Corpse King dodged a bone arrow, and the thick tendrils of an octopus tentacle on his right hand stabbed out like sharp arrows, directly piercing the skull of a skeleton mage hidden in the corner of the cave wall, shattering its soul fire. The thousands of fleshy whiskers in his left hand condensed into a fleshy whip more than ten meters long, and he broke the body of a zombie head-on.
Under the opening and closing of the left and right, more than a dozen Kern believers who suddenly rushed out from the magic secret passage fell under the fierce power of the corpse king. And the two Saint-Rank undead who followed behind the Corpse King, Quack Monster smiled and watched him slaughter the enemy, but he was not prepared to intervene in the slightest.
I have to say that there are not many war fortresses in this relic security station, but there are really a lot of small and medium-sized shrines. There are not many armies on a large scale, but there are a lot of scattered believers.
The Kern believers met the cemetery troops, just like a human civilian suddenly met a completely professional soldier, and the combat qualities of both sides were not at the same level at all. Therefore, there was no expected life-and-death struggle, but a one-sided slaughter.
However, there is still an elite guard in this relic security station.
Therefore, before entering the core area, the Predator troops on the front line of the battle suddenly encountered a powerful counterattack by the enemy forces, suffering heavy casualties. And the group of cemetery mercenaries who accompanied the army were one alarm after another, constantly asking for support from the Corpse King.
They are under onslaught from a Holy Order undead.
After receiving the message, the Corpse King nodded at the two "bodyguards" behind him, and the two Saint Rank undead who had been waiting for a long time rushed out with a cruel smile.
Two against one, and a group of cemetery mercenary helpers around, so this battle started quickly and ended just as quickly. By the time the Corpse King arrived at the scene with his personal guards, the Holy Order Kern Believer had already been dismantled. Even the head hung on the belt of a cemetery holy order, and became a trophy.
I have to say that after experiencing a series of bloody battles in the cemetery, and supplementing with magic equipment that fits his strengths, it is not a problem for the holy steps that come out of the cemetery to single out these wild holy steps, not to mention the shameful siege.
Although the lickers of the cemetery troops were seriously injured, the group of cemetery mercenaries were all alive. After they encountered the enemy's Holy Order, although they were inferior to each other in terms of combat strength, with good teamwork and excellent magic equipment, they still managed to drag the battle to the moment of the arrival of the Graveyard Holy Order.
Seeing the enemy leader in the ruins, the cemetery mercenaries didn't care to ask the corpse king for credit, and immediately dispersed in a hurry, and went into the ruins in twos and threes to search for treasures.
That's the biggest benefit they're willing to do with the team!
If it were in normal times, the Corpse King would probably have to rummage through the same room as them. But now, the level 18 corpse king is already a qualified cemetery commander, so he can only regretfully give up his hobby, and frequently urge the corpse witch clerk to quickly clean up the battlefield and count the battle exploits.
On the other hand, the news of the victory has reached Stratholme via the fastest route.
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In the central control hall of the Stratholme Magic Tower, Li Xun closed his eyes slightly, silently listening to the high-ranking corpse witch chief Jacob reporting the latest battle reports on various battlefields.
"The Corpse King's Dust Wind Canyon has sent back a message. Everything is going well there, and all the Kahn believers have been exterminated. According to preliminary statistics, a total of 7,136 Kern believers were killed, including 1 of the Holy Rank, 18th level xx, and 17th level xx ......"
And all over the hall, dozens of corpse witches are sitting in front of different magic water mirrors, constantly casting spells to connect the battlefields. Whenever the latest news came, they swiped the results on parchment and then summarized them to the strategic command.
And this so-called strategic command is composed of demon wizards, Zena, butchers, Karui and other cemetery city lords, and has a staff department composed of many dragon lichs and a strategic intelligence department supported by Isa**. Almost all the battle orders in this campaign were from the hands of the command headquarters, the staff was only responsible for providing corresponding strategic advice and strategic plans, and Issa was responsible for all intelligence collection and aggregation and the decomposition and transmission of battle orders.
In the past, such large-scale system cooperation was only implemented in small local battlefields, and never before was it carried out on such a vast and grand battlefield as it is today. Each of the 11 battlefields that are being fought at the same time is the most important, and there is no room for mistakes. Therefore, the blood of the frontline is soaring, and the rear is also busy with all fours facing the sky, and there is no idle place.
However, there are priorities, and the battlefield must be divided into three, six, nine, etc., and there will always be one or two of the 11 Cohen lairs that are different.
Therefore, Li Xun closed his eyes and concentrated not to doze off, but to divide his mind, focusing on one of the most important battlefields from afar.
Mist Valley.
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