Chapter 62: Ambush Tactics
Thanks Seal~ for the tip!
To Roger's surprise, at the second graveyard, the Elemental Legion did not encounter any decent resistance.
Looking at the skeletons that fell to the ground one after another under the heavy punch of the rock elemental, Roger frowned.
Looking at the sky, it was already approaching dusk.
Could it be that the undead have abandoned this graveyard?
It's not impossible, but where are the summoners of the undead and skeletons who were supposed to guard them?
"Search! Search! These undead troops who are in charge of guarding and the vampires who are responsible for summoning these skeletons will definitely not be able to make it far! Search around here! Commanding Mum to dispatch with a search force composed of rock elements and fire elements, Roger also ordered the storm elementals to investigate separately.
It is estimated that tonight he will either be attacked by a large number of undead forces, or he will be completely ignored by the undead forces.
But no matter what the outcome, it must be right to do your best to destroy the undead forces now!
It's just a mixed army of sixth-order vampires and two hundred fourth-order resentful spirits and a large number of low-level undead, all of which have suffered considerable losses when their strength is damaged under the sun. In case of a surprise attack at night by those seventh-order death knights who are known as the strongest cavalry below the top rank, or even a few eighth-order bone dragons or their advanced troops, they can make themselves unable to eat and walk!
Roger, who had been thinking hard about the solution to no avail, opened the system panel casually, pressed his nervous emotions and carefully looked at his various panels and space bars.
Whenever Roger is cornered, he always likes to rummage through the various equipment and props accumulated by completing various tasks to see if there is any good way.
Sometimes a good idea comes when you have an idea, and sometimes it's just a simple collection.
But this time, when Roger flipped to the potion column in the space bar, he immediately noticed the holy water in it.
Well, I remember that when the Demon Clan event in the Falcon Principality was coming to an end, the Dawn Church sent someone to deliver a package, which should be the reward for me after completing the tasks related to the Dawn Oracle certified by the system.
I remember that the pastor, who was obviously a fanatic, tried to pull me into the church, but because he was impatient, he threw the package into the space bar, where did I put it?
Roger, who carefully checked the space bar, couldn't help but look forward to this package.
The things produced by the Dawn Church, whether it is equipment or items, have a very good purification effect on undead and demonic creatures.
Moreover, the Lord of the Dawn is actually very generous to those who have fulfilled his oracles. And even if a ruffian completes the oracle mission, the pastors of the Dawn Church will pinch their noses and admit it, and reward a lot of Qi.
Of course, some extra rewards that Dawn taught itself or something, then don't think about it.
In terms of reward distribution, the reputation of the Dawn Church is still very good.
As a concrete physical evidence of the existence of the demon race (the corpse of the sheep's head monster), as well as the identification of Viscount Barak as a member of the demon race, as well as the elimination of a handful of demon troops containing the eighth-order alchemy devil, and the certification of the will of the main plane, it has indeed made a contribution. Roger believed that the reward of the Lord of Dawn should not be far behind.
Oh, found it!
The small task last time all rewarded the No. 7 Holy Water, so this time the prize is a large amount of No. 5 Holy Water? Or is it not even the Divine Blessing Equipment that everyone in the Church of Dawn can use?
With a little excitement, Roger opened the package.
Looking at the contents of the package, Roger's face changed several times, and finally stopped at the look of excitement.
Well, according to the value, the value of these things is indeed quite high, but they are collectibles that are not very useful to the Dawn Church.
Those old fritters in the Dawn Church are really good enough.
However, on the other hand, these "waste products" that are not really useful to the Dawn Church are of great value to Roger, who does not believe in the Lord of Dawn.
It's a good thing that money can't get! It's still a good thing produced by a cardinal-level legendary powerhouse! I don't know how long these things have been in the Dawn Church's warehouse, and even though they have obviously been carefully wiped, there are still some faint traces of ash remaining.
Stroking a scroll with gold trim, Roger began to look forward to the undead coming to the door on time in the evening.
When the time comes, you can definitely give the undead a super gift!
In the Misty Swamp area, the daylight is a bit shorter than elsewhere due to the fog and topography.
And when the sun had not completely set and the afterglow of the setting sun still existed, the undead scouts who were no longer affected by the sunlight under the protection of the fog were dispatched one after another.
But they brought back Countess Mary and Count Tom, all bad news.
"The large cemetery in the east can be completely destroyed, and the whole land is full of vitality of the force of nature, leaving the graves in the center of the cemetery where the most negative energy is concentrated have begun to grow weeds!" Countess Mary's face turned pale. "Now, without a few years of negative energy accumulation, or a master-level necromancer master, this graveyard is useless."
"Ahh With a faint response, Count Tom calmly tried to place the vampire's fangs on top of the ghoul's head.
"There is still no news from the smaller cemetery in the south, and all the undead scouts who have gone have lost contact." Countess Mary frowned, clasped her hands on her chest and thought hard, "But judging from the traces left here in the Great Graveyard, the other party must have the strength to completely destroy the undead guards there." ”
"Even if I've ordered those inferior Blood Mages to delay as much as they can, there's no way they'll be able to delay for long." Countess Mary looked rather distressed.
"Hmm." With a faint sound of sound again, Earl Tom, who had failed to install the fangs, tried instead to put the ghoul's head on the shoulder of the Blood Servant.
"The question now is, are we going to attack the Elemental Legion in the southern graveyard, or are we going to set up an ambush on the only way they leave the graveyard? They can't fly, and they obviously can't wade directly through the bottom of the swamp like the undead. And those fire elements are obviously not suitable for entering the swamp, and they will definitely be messed up when they are flanked from front and back. But I still think it's better to have an ambush on the road, what do you think? Countess Mary couldn't really make up her own mind, and she found that there were so many things to consider that she couldn't make up her mind.
"Huh." Count Tom smirked twice, gave up on pretending to be more for the blood servant, and instead put the blood servant's two hands on the ghoul's shoulders, this time it was a smooth success, so Count Tom looked at his "work" very proudly.
But after smirking for a while, Count Tom realized that the voice of Countess Mary, which had been ringing in his ears, had stopped for some time.
Subconsciously turned his head to look at Count Mary's Count Tom, and saw Countess Mary staring coldly at his side, and a large number of spears of blood were aimed at him again.
"Huh?" Count Tom, who only had time to utter a single question, was drowned by countless spears of blood.
In the eerie background sounds of "whoosh", "poof", "whoosh", "poof", "poof", Countess Mary covered her face very weakly.
"I'm a big fool when I try to ask your opinion......"
After teaching the stupid Earl a good lesson, Countess Mary, with the tattered Count Tom, led the undead troops towards the only way out of the second cemetery.
In order to annihilate this elemental legion in one fell swoop, Countess Mary, in addition to her nearly 100 seventh-order wailing banshees and 100 seventh-order vampire counts under the command of Count Tom, also brought 300 fifth-order archigrons, 300 fourth-order peak resentful spirits, and 100 fourth-order skeleton griffins. All of them are mid-level and above undead troops, and the number has reached nearly a thousand!
Originally, Countess Mary had planned to bring the skeleton troops and the ghoul troops, but when she was selecting the troops, she learned that in order to speed up the construction of the dark canopy, Archduke Josephine had taken all the skeletons, zombies and ghoul troops.
And the base camp obviously needs to have enough troops to garrison, even if Countess Mary actually wants to pull all the troops out, but the other vampires obviously won't agree.
In the eyes of those vampire nobles, this elemental army and other dark canopies have been built, and the Grand Duke can crush them at any time.
So they watched as Countess Mary and Count Tom departed, and went on drinking.
In fact, being able to bring out these troops was already the result of Countess Marie's forcible use of the powers of the commander.
Although he was still a little uneasy, with nearly a thousand mid- and high-level undead elites, plus his own eighteenth-level hero and Count Tom, who was a twentieth-level hero, the odds of winning against a fifth-order elemental legion with no more than six hundred were still quite high.
Even if the opponent is a legendary hero, with the hard-hitting Earl Tom in front, the army of wailing banshees and vampires is enough to bury the legendary powerhouse.
Cheering herself up again, Countess Mary set up an ambush on both sides of the road with the legion of the undead.
To be honest, the undead troops are indeed very suitable for ambush tactics, and when all the troops are in place and all the undead breath is reined in, the sides of the road suddenly look nothing unusual.
The undead are like stones on the side of the road, hiding in swamps, dead trees, stones, etc., waiting motionlessly for the arrival of the Elemental Legion.
However, Countess Mary probably did not expect that Roger and his troops were doing the same thing at this time.
Joining the troops left behind on a rapid march, Roger and his druid elders hid in the depths of the cemetery, but set up a small magic circle in the center of the cemetery, exuding a strong force of nature.
The force of nature was as strong as if the druids were purifying the graveyard.
And the elemental legions all converged on the elemental fluctuations on their bodies, and quietly lurked around the cemetery. Especially the rock elementals, without the elemental fluctuations, they are no different from some large rocks on the side of the road.
The Flame Elementals were a little more troublesome, they were so conspicuous that Roger had to use his disguise again** to disguise them with the Ice Elementals.
The Storm Elemental and Thunder Elemental are much simpler, they can fly directly in the fog, and it is difficult to find their existence unless they look closer.
You're all set!
But left and right, the undead never appeared.
Tuna and the Druid Elders were resting quietly with their eyes closed, but Roger and Mom were a little impatient.
Could it be that these undead really intend to ignore us like that? Roger muttered to himself, and he couldn't tell if he wanted the undead to come and jump into the pit or if he didn't want the undead to target him.
Time passed minute by minute, seeing that most of the night had passed, but the undead had never been found, Roger finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Therefore, he decisively sent the air element to patrol around, and at the same time opened the [Eye of True Knowledge] to investigate.
These days, the Air Elementals have been in charge of scouting the perimeter of the troops, and they had carefully surveyed the area around the cemetery before Roger attacked. And after Roger decided to ambush him, the air elementals took a closer look at it again.
After this third investigation, the air elementals soon discovered that something was wrong: there were suddenly huge haystacks in some of the clearings!
Upon closer inspection, the air elementals discovered that they were some undead units in disguise!
Fourth-Order Undead Class: Bone Griffon!
The huge skeleton fell to the ground so clearly, just hastily covered with some weeds outside the skeleton!
It's like mocking the intelligence of the air elementals! No matter how stupid the air elementals are, they won't treat these things like weeds!
At this time, Roger, who had also received a notice from the air elements, immediately moved the [Eye of True Knowledge] over and carefully searched the vicinity.
Soon, Roger and the air elementals make new discoveries.
The air elementals have found some poorly disguised undead troops, this time with a force of about 300 Great Corpses!
These big corpse witches were lying on their stomachs in several huge swamp pools, barely "floating" on the edge of the swamp by some weeds, dead wood, and other things that they had collected from all around.
In fact, it doesn't matter if it sinks, anyway, the undead "can't drown".
However, it was obviously a waste of time to climb out when the time came, so the archgolems still tried to "float" on the swamp as much as possible according to Countess Mary's orders.
This also makes the air elemental a bunch of them as soon as they find it.
Vampires, on the other hand, are simple, they turn into bats and hide in various corners. However, they were not discovered by the air element, but in Roger's [Eye of True Knowledge] elemental vision, they were black bat-like, and they were still very conspicuous compared to the gray environment around them.
Looking at the state of the undead at this time, especially the discovery that the bone griffins and vampire troops that had not appeared before were all quietly loading stones at this time, Roger immediately understood.
I'm going, do you want to go together?
PS: If you add more, it's too late today, and you will add more tomorrow!