Chapter 490: Nearer and Closer Despair (4)
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If someone were to look down from the top of the gem abyss at this moment, they would definitely see countless gray-white undead climbing up the cliff. The dense undead are as if they have crawled out of hell, making people look at their scalps numb and frightened, but in the extremely dark environment, it is estimated that no one will see the traces of these undead.
In fact, if it weren't for the previous chaos of the White Bone Demon in Burkner Town, it is estimated that the undead would have been brought down into the abyss by the stones or wood smashed from the top of their heads. Because they didn't know when the undead would come, Chen Kai and the others would throw a rock or wood from the top of the gem abyss every hour to tempt them. As for how to test it, it's very simple, and that's the player's experience gain system.
It's just that the experience system is sometimes not particularly accurate, but at least it can allow Chen Kai and them to judge whether there is an army of undead under the gem abyss. It's a pity that because of this attack by Arthur, the Necromantic King, the player who was originally arranged to throw stones in the Gem Abyss did not go again. At least no one went until Chen Kai completed the statistics of the losses in the town of Burkna and the new round of defense arrangements.
Looking at the list of losses in his hand, Chen Kai's face was very ugly, he knew that the losses in this wave of attacks were very huge, but when he saw hundreds of corpses of residents covered with white cloth and slowly loaded into coffins, he couldn't help but feel angry. Some of the corpses, covered in white cloths, were very small, and were children of the people who had migrated to the town of Burkner, and even newborn babies. Listening to the sound of crying around him, Chen Kai felt like he was pressing a big stone in his chest and couldn't breathe.
Because Chen Kai knew that it was impossible for him to let the bodies of these residents be buried in the ground, in order to prevent them from becoming undead, in the end, all the bodies would be cremated after a simple farewell ceremony, which was very unacceptable in the magical world that focused on burial. But if you don't accept it, all the residents don't want their relatives to become undead, especially some people who have a good relationship with the dwarves are more aware of the pain of the remains of relatives and friends becoming undead. Therefore, although it is very painful to feel the corpses of relatives and friends reduced to ashes, it is better than seeing one's loved ones die without turning a blind eye and never be able to rest in peace.
Looking at the coffin that was gradually engulfed by the flames, Chen Kai's face darkened for a while, but in the end he still shook his head and walked towards the city wall that was being repaired. Gently touching the huge gap in the city wall that was split by the sword light with his hand, Chen Kai felt a tingling pain in his palm. The dense death power wrapped in the cracks of the rocks and the sword aura that did not completely collapse made the rocks on the city wall very fragile, and at the same time, they constantly exuded a terrifying aura.
Don't look at the rock that Chen Kai's hand touched is still intact, but as long as the death aura and sword qi contained in it completely dissipate, then the entire rock will become as fragile as flour and shatter with a slight pinch. Therefore, if you want to completely repair the city wall, the first thing you need to do is to remove these rocks that have been eroded by sword qi and death power before you can repair the damaged wall.
Feeling the tingling pain on the palm of his hand, Chen Kai's hand grabbed hard, and a wisp of white holy flame began to burn slowly on his palm under the action of his own power, constantly colliding with those death forces and sword qi, feeling the terrifying impact of his palm, Chen Kai's face turned pale for a while. Because he now consumed thousands of magic points to ignite the holy flame. It couldn't even burn off the death power attached to a rock more than ten centimeters large, let alone the sword qi contained in it.
In other words, these stones cannot be discarded at will, but can only be stored roughly, otherwise it will cause severe pollution of the land. If Chen Kai wanted to create a dead zone where no grass grows, then he just threw these broken rocks there. The power of death revealed after the rock shatters can completely turn the stone-covered ground into a dead field within tens of meters, that is, a barren dead land.
So players who are clearing the ruins quickly have one more job to do, which is to gather the collected rocks. These rocks are sealed by the Earth Elemental Caster with a thick rock shell and transported to the edge of the Gem Abyss.
"I hope we don't create an abyss of the dead!" Look at the rocks that weigh at least hundreds of kilograms. Chen Kai sighed slowly. Due to the fragile nature of the rock shells created by the player, and the fact that hundreds of rocks containing strong death power and sword aura gathered together produced a very strange result, the fragile shells became more vulnerable to disintegrating.
In fact, if Chen Kai hadn't let these players leave, it is estimated that some players would have been unable to withstand the incomparably rich death power around them and would have started to run away. Even if all the people who stayed around the gem abyss this time were temple professionals, and almost all of them were using the fighting energy of the divine attribute to fight against the death forces around them, but the death aura enclosed in these rocks came from a high-level legendary-level undead, not to mention that the level was nearly twice as high as them, and the quality of strength alone was higher than theirs, I don't know how much.
With a wave of Chen Kai's arm, hundreds of rocks rolled down the bottomless abyss of gems. Then one by one was pushed down the abyss. The Necromantic King's thirteen attacks forced Chen Kai to create thousands of rocks wrapped in death qi and sword qi, and they were all thrown into the gem abyss by him. As for why he threw himself into the gem abyss, in addition to the fact that the gem abyss was bottomless, it was estimated that another reason was because Chen Kai knew that there was a large wave of undead approaching under the gem abyss, and he hoped to use this method to prevent the other party from coming to the ground quickly.
One rock after another fell into the abyss, but even after a minute or two, Chen Kai and the others did not receive any hints of experience gain, because most of the rocks were eroded into powder by the terrifying death power and sword qi in mid-air. They drifted down from mid-air like snow, and few of them touched the undead. On the other hand, because most of the undead are still tens of kilometers away from the ground at the moment, no matter how fast the stone falls, don't even think of touching them in three or four minutes. However, when some players who are addicted to throwing stones start to throw rocks that were originally piled up around the Gem Abyss downward. Some of the undead were only struck by stones falling overhead. Fall into the bottomless abyss.
When an XP gain prompt appears in the player's field of vision, the player standing on the edge of the Gem Abyss first feels fear rather than ecstasy. Because they thought of the terrifying sword light in the night sky before. And the even more terrifying breath of death.
"Smash! Smash me !! Chen Kai's incomparably loud voice resounded throughout the Gem Abyss in an instant, because he knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, maybe it would lead to even more crazy revenge from that high-level legendary undead, but in Chen Kai's mind, it was the only opportunity to weaken the undead army.
It's just that while smashing down the rock, Chen Kai also notified Xu Fei, who had just been resurrected in the city. Let him begin to evacuate the inhabitants to the city of Kelda on his back. After all, the town of Burkner is now about to become a battlefield, and it is a disguised disregard for human life to let the ordinary indigenous residents who have no combat effectiveness continue to stay in the city.
Although most of the residents had already prepared to evacuate from their homes in Burkner, many were still crying when the news actually came. For the player, the world in the game is the place where they play, a rare scene in their lives, but for the inhabitants of the game, the place where they exist is their home. Homeland is not an idiom for the inhabitants of the game, but a very real thing. Although the town of Burkner is not their hometown, it has become their home for so long.
When the last rock was dropped, Chen Kai waved his hand to the players around him without hesitation to retreat. No one is happy with the ever-increasing experience points in the experience bar at the moment. Instead, he chose to run wildly and try to return to a safer town before the terrifying stoop. Chen Kai's legs kept moving, and his face looked behind him from time to time. At the moment when he was about to step into the outer city wall, a terrifying and incomparably sharp sword light roared out from beneath the gem abyss, bringing out countless scattered rock powder. This sword light rose into the air, and then quickly dispersed into countless incomparably small crescent sword qi and fell towards the surroundings of the gem abyss.
If Chen Kai and the others were still around the Gem Abyss at this moment, then it was estimated that these countless small sword qi would fall on them and cut them into countless pieces. Looking at the terrifying sword aura that fell. Chen Kai's mood became even worse, but fortunately, after this sword qi dissipated, the terrifying existence did not appear in front of Chen Kai and them.
When Chen Kai returned to the low city wall, he turned his head directly and lay on the city wall, and saw a white bone palm slowly clinging to the edge of the cliff under the dust of the gem abyss. This is the first undead to jump out of the abyss of gems, it is a lonely skeleton soldier with no one to follow, but he is definitely not the last undead to appear in front of Chen Kai. Because after this skeleton soldier stepped on the city wall, it only took a dozen seconds for a second skeleton soldier to appear, and the skeleton soldiers that appeared later were more and more and faster. Of course, compared to the number of undead armies that originally attacked the underground defense line, the skeleton soldiers in front of them were still extremely rare, even after a minute, there were only more than a hundred.
But as time went by, more and more undead appeared in front of Chen Kai. There was also increasing pressure on the defenders of the city walls. There was a voice in Chen Kai's heart telling him that now was not the best time to attack the undead, not to mention that the number of undead gathered together now was not many hundreds, and the location of the other party alone had passed the maximum shooting range of the catapult. Random shooting of catapults not only wastes ammunition, but also easily reveals the location of the catapults, although the location of these catapults may already be known to the other party.
Therefore, although the players on the city wall became extremely nervous, constantly looking at Chen Kai, who only showed his head on the city wall, in the end, there was not a single catapult shot, and the bed crossbow with a longer range did not even open the winch. However, Chen Kai still motioned for the players to load the crossbow arrows onto the shooting slot. But the crossbow string does not need to be tightened in a hurry.
The undead sprang forward some distance as soon as they climbed to the ground. But they just wandered around the Gem Abyss, not far from the Gem Path. Even if the number of undead increases to thousands. It's just that as the number increases, the range of their patrols increases.
Looking at the gradually increasing number of undead, Chen Kai's mood was extremely bad, but his fear of the legendary undead made him dare not send troops to wipe out these undead. The undead of the high legend had turned into a spell firmly entangled in Chen Kai's heart, and this spell made him look at those undead as if he were looking at a guillotine that was gradually falling, and he didn't know when this guillotine would cut off his head.
"Boss! Do you just let the number of the undead continue to increase? Fei Yun's voice came from Chen Kai's side, he didn't know why Chen Kai was waiting like this, but he was as afraid of that terrifying legendary undead.
"Wait!!" Chen Kai grabbed the edge of the city wall that was not completely petrified, and under his terrifying power, the wall that was not completely petrified but was still extremely strong was scratched out of a few clearly visible fingerprints.
"Okay!" Looking at Chen Kai's scarlet eyes, Fei Yun wanted to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh. But soon, the body he was about to leave was dragged back by Chen Kai.
"Fourth! You go and tell the second one to transfer Drake and Arno to the Southern Castle, and inform the dwarves to move to the south if possible. If the city can't be defended, then the castle in the south can at least be slightly resisted, at least much stronger than Kelda. Because Chen Kai installed several relatively large magic crystal cannons in the castle in the south when he was pretending to be a public servant. The beam power of those magic crystal cannons was at least the power of seventh-level spells, but the magic crystals consumed by each shot were also extremely terrifying. The most important thing is that these magic crystal cannons are all real smuggled goods, and even Prime Minister Capello will not be able to cover Chen Kai if they are present.
However, that was before the invasion of the undead, if it had been known that there would be high-level legendary-level undead in Burkner Town, let alone a medium-caliber magic crystal cannon, even if it was a giant caliber magic cannon, Prime Minister Capello would have asked Chen Kai to press it. Of course, the cost of installation and manufacturing must be paid by Chen Kai himself, after all, it is a cost of tens of millions of gold coins. A single shot costs millions of gold coins to save the magic crystal. Of course, such a thing is only something that may cause trouble for the undead of the high legendary level, and it may not be able to threaten the life of the other party, unless the giant magic cannons guarding the demon gate or the border fortress are moved, maybe a high legendary undead can be killed.
Players in Burkner watched as the inhabitants slowly retreated through the rear gates towards the northern city of Kelda, but to their consternation, the Minotaur and the Blackarmoured Cavalry appeared in the first place. If it weren't for the fact that Chen Kai himself was still guarding in front of the city wall, it is estimated that all players would have thought that he was about to escape. Of course, it didn't take long for the players to know where the Black-Armored Cavalry and Minotaurs were leaving, the castle that the south held to Altinis.
Upon reaching the castle, all the black-armored cavalry and minotaurs stopped and did not retreat any further south. This relieved the players who had been hanging in their hearts. Because if these black-armored cavalry were to evacuate directly or leave Burkner Town for other places under Chen Kai's orders, the morale of the players would be very huge.
Although Drake and the others did not evacuate from Burkner, even the transfer to the castle in the south was enough to cast a shadow on the hearts of some players. It's just that players don't understand why Chen Kai wants to mobilize the most important fighting force in Burkner Town to the southern castle, although the terrain there is even higher, and after Chen Kai's continuous maintenance, the area of the entire castle has expanded by nearly one-third. Then in the direction of the town of Burkner, a wall more than ten meters high was also built.
As the inhabitants of the city moved, the number of undead troops continued to increase. Looking at the seemingly endless army of the undead, guarding the city walls, the player's mood gradually sank, and this feeling of watching the enemies continue to increase is very terrifying. It's like a rope around your neck. You know you're going to die when this rope tightens. But I could only watch him tighten step by step. This kind of desperation that is gradually approaching makes many people's hands and feet begin to be cold. If it weren't for the signing of the task, the task punishment would be very heavy, and it is estimated that these players would have been unable to bear the fear and turned around and ran away without earning Chen Kai's fatal task gold.
"The battlefield of the Berkner Town Guard War is on! Attention all players!! "This is the system prompt that players received when the first undead appeared in the player's field of vision, and now more than an hour has passed since this system prompt appeared. The number of undead concentrated around the Gem Abyss has also increased from the original hundreds to the number of Cheng Dรน who are now uncountable, looking at the scene of the gray-white undead clattering in the sunlight in the distance, Chen Kai's heart is not afraid that it is fake. But no matter how fearful it is, it is useless, because the other party has already bullied him to the door, and the most important thing is that even if Chen Kai raises his hand to surrender, the other party will not accept the prisoner.
So far, Chen Kai has not heard of players surrendering to the undead and not being killed, because the dead creatures in the eyes of the undead are the ones who are not disgusted. Because of this situation, no player would have thought of surrendering the undead stupidly.
"It's coming!" When Chen Kai saw a golden cart pulled by a dozen huge hellhounds appear in front of him, his first thought was how such a cart could be pulled up from under the cliff. But the next moment he was attracted by the death knight leaning on the golden throne on the carriage, and in the afternoon sun, the pale face of the undead monarch Arthur leaned lazily on the throne, his pale head hanging down on the sides of his cheeks, and the crown of white bones stayed above his head, and a wisp of pale flame slowly burned on the crown. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )