Chapter 8: The Terrible Realm of the Dead
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At the same time, in a life plane near the front line of the Natural Alliance.
The life plane, which was originally full of lush forests, trees, meadows, water sources, and various intelligent races and life existences, has become unrecognizable, the sky that was originally full of light has become gloomy and dark, and the withered earth is full of dangerous plants full of death and dark power, and even rivers, lakes and other water sources have become black water full of the power of death elementals......
However, these are insignificant compared to the situation of the original owner of the life plane. Because those original owners have become dead, and even rushed to their former comrades-in-arms and cities with weapons in hand!
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Somewhere in a city on the plane of life.
The city, which was entirely elven in style, was in ruins, littered with charcoal-like plant remains and mutilated corpses and bone slag.
"Click-click-"
On the road full of ruins, a group of gray-black skeletons numbering in the hundreds were carrying a batch of "goods" through this unusually dead place, walking in a certain direction outside the city. And on these skeletons, whose bones look a little thinner than the average human, the so-called "cargo" is some relatively intact corpses and damaged weapons and armor!
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Beyond the ruins of the city, dozens of black bone towers are surrounding hundreds of peculiar giant craters.
Those hundred-meter-tall bone towers that were exuding wisps of black and cold aura were of course not mage towers, but the soul towers that the realm of the dead had already made notorious among several major forces!
This kind of soul tower, which is said to be made of thousands of corpses and the soul of a strong man, and then built by at least one of the undead of the Sanctuary rank, can continuously gather the aura of death and the dark element - of course, the actual effect of this thing is closely related to the quality of the building materials and the level of the builder!
The Tower of Spiritualism may sound terrifying, but it feels amiable compared to the corpse pits littered with corpses, broken magical items, and unknown things. Because although the appearance of the Soul Tower is a little gloomy, compared to the corpse pit filled with black and red liquid and floating corpses, it is definitely clean and tidy.
At the edge of the giant corpse pits that made ordinary people shudder just by looking at them, teams of gray-black skeletons threw into the corpse pits some of the remains of only a third or half of the corpses and some of the seemingly low-level broken magical equipment. From time to time, there are also some gray-black skeletons and zombies crawling out of the corpse pit, and then going in another direction under an irresistible command.
These skeleton soldiers and zombies obviously belong to the kind of garbage goods, and the strength of the gray iron rank is not bad for skeleton soldiers and zombies, but in this high demon world, they can only be regarded as cannon fodder first-level storage zΓ i.
Beneath those towers, a lich dressed in black mage robes looked disapprenantly in the direction of the corpse pits.
"Damn it! The guys in the Legion have all scavenged for good materials, and what good work can be made by leaving these rotten bones and wreckage? The skeletons and zombies produced are cannon fodder sent to the front lines......"
From the outside, it looked like an ordinary half-elf, but it was a Legendary rank lich Necromancer, looking at the steady stream of skeletons and zombies crawling out of the corpse pit, muttering a little bit of thought.
The lich's grudge was great, as the entire Spiritist Towers and Corpse Pits outside the city had been looted by the Legion of Death who had breached the city before it took over, and the corpses of the strong and the more intact ones had been replenished to the Legion's losses, leaving only a few inferior materials that the Lich called rotten bones and wreckage.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a sound sounded from a corpse pit that caused the undead fire to collapse in the heads of hundreds of newborn skeleton soldiers around them, and then a black shadow resembling a giant rushed directly out of the corpse pit!
"Huh? Animal undead? Or the ...... of the Sanctuary Rank"
The lich looked at it with a little interest as he looked at the skeletal giant bear, which was more than five meters tall, covered in scars all over his body, and even had many organs and limbs spliced together from other corpses and bones, and roared into the sky. Although the Bone Bear belongs to the undead creatures of the Sanctuary Rank, it is still an inconspicuous little character in the face of a Legendary Lich, and after the Lich moved his fingers, he let the Bone Giant Bear lie in place for him to study.
"It turned out to be the wreckage of a legendary druid who died in battle, mixed with the soul of a gold-rank bear-like demonic beast......"
After a little research, the legendary lich understood why the skeletal bear had come about.
The legendary lich then unceremoniously subdued the bone bear as his new research subject, before turning his head in the other direction and muttering with interest, "Those guys from the Legion don't know what's wrong!" But if you look at it now, I think I'm about to take the last bastion of the Natural Alliance......"
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Thousands of kilometers away, in the middle of an entire dimensional continent, a forest.
This vast forest was probably the only forest left in the entire plane, and the entire forest withstood countless attacks from the outside world under the green light emitted by a towering giant tree thousands of meters high!
"Whoosh-whoosh-"
"Boom---!!"
"Z-z-la-"
"Whew!!" β¦β¦
This forest is surrounded by millions of square kilometers of forests, surrounded by hundreds of millions of undead armies.
The lowest skeletons and zombies, black knights and undead archers dressed in elven-style light armor, long-eared corpses with withered muscles like dried corpses, death knights riding various undead beast mounts, dark death treemen, powerful bone beasts or death beasts, and undead dragons flying in the sky...... Outside the Forest of the Natural Alliance, the last of this plane, various undead of what was clearly an Elf race or a member of the Natural Alliance attacked the green light of the forest, and rushed into the forest with a roar.
The green light shield in the forest acts as a reliable barrier, blocking the terrifying number of ranged spells and law attacks, and the green light in the forest can harm undead creatures in the same way that sulfuric acid of varying concentrations can damage ordinary people. Even those powerful undead who had reached the Sanctuary rank would be weakened by a small half of their strength by the green light in the forest. As for those weak undead creatures such as skeletons and zombies who have not reached the bronze level, they were turned into a pile of flying ashes by the green light almost as soon as they rushed into the forest!
However, for most cannon fodder undead creatures who have not yet been born with self-consciousness, this threat of death will not make them think about running away at all. On the contrary, even after these undead creatures that were constantly dying, even after they fell, the gray-black death aura that floated out still merged into the forest.
"Destroy the !! of the undead"
"Don't let them rush in!!"
"Boom -- !!!" β¦β¦
In the forest, the coalition composed of elves, half-elves, humans, giants, dwarves, treants, dryads and other intelligent races also desperately tilted their fire on the massive number of undead outside.
Fireball, Lightning, Cryo, Wind Blade, Natural Purification, Flame Fireball, Chain Lightning, Swarm Ice Pick, Meteor Shower, Summoning Treants...... All kinds of elemental spells and natural spells poured out as if they didn't need money, and even from time to time, there will even be a legendary mage as a guide, using the magic circle and the mage tower to carry out a large-scale spell bombardment!
Even the warriors below the legendary level rushed to the front with their magic swords to fend off the undead creatures that were constantly rushing into the forest. Looking at the outermost plants and meadows that have begun to wither and die, you can understand what the upper echelons of the undead army are fighting - the golden mother tree that is about to transform into a god-level is powerful, but how long can this kind of extremely expensive protection be able to resist after facing the undead creatures like a tide?
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In the center of the forest, a giant city of plants far beyond the scale of the Yaofa continent was revealed.
This giant plant city composed of giant trees, vines, and flowers looks very eye-catching, especially the golden mother tree in the center of the city, which is thousands of meters high and is emitting endless green brilliance, attracts everyone's attention.
However, in a room next to this golden mother tree, several elves, dryads, and a strong man who seemed to be similar to a human sat in this room, discussing the current situation with ugly faces.
"There are so many damn bones that you can't kill them all! Not to mention our current situation, if there are no reinforcements, we can declare that we are dead......"
The "human", who looked like a big man and was more than two meters tall, shouted loudly.
"Lord Grom, this can't be helped! Whether it's us or you dragons, the main battlefield now is on the side of the Teroff plane, not on our marginal planes......" Listening to the words of the legendary king-level dragon Grom who had incarnated as a human, the other blonde elf who served as the leader was a little helpless, and responded to the topic with a wry smile.
The battle line in the Endless Void is very large, and even the three parties of the Natural Alliance, the Dragons, and the Giants cannot invest heavily in all planes. Located in the Nature's Alliance, a marginal life plane close to the dragons, the situation of getting support is certainly not very good. But now they have reached the sad point where they don't even have reinforcements, and they are about to run out of ammunition!
"But what do we do now? The dimensional teleportation array can't take everyone away, and the support of the golden mother tree can't protect it for a long time......" Another tree spirit girl who looked relatively small, only one meter five or six also looked at the others helplessly, and asked in a somewhat helpless tone.
Hearing this question, the only remaining high-level personnel in this plane present also had a headache.
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Beyond the forest, lies the heart of an army of the undead.
Soul towers with a height of hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters stood on this originally beautiful grassland, and one by one, the undead knights who were at least of the gold rank were at least the leader of the undead knights of the holy realm, driving the dead undead mounts to gallop on the land that had become a death polluted land.
In the Soul Tower, outside the simple tents, the intelligent high-level undead are looking at the forest battlefield, talking and laughing like normal intelligent beings.
Well, it's just watching the golden skeleton chatting with the zombie lord, the death banshee chatting with the undead knight, and the bone dragon flying up and down with the undead lord and king from time to time, which really tests the imagination of the living......
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"According to the current situation, we can capture this last place in a month at most!"
At the very center of the entire Undead Legion camp, a Death Knight with the undead king's horizontal power fluctuations (equivalent to the legendary king) looked in the direction of the forest that looked like a super giant shield and commented. The pale silver flames in its eyes were a strange glow, indicating that the undead knight was in a state of thought.
"Tarrel, are you still bothered by what happened in your lifetime? But it's really strange......" Seeing that the Death Knight's situation seemed a little unstable, the other Undead King present said with some mockery.
- The armor on the Death Knight King named Tarel is also in the style of elves, and if there is an elven powerhouse in the forest at this time who sees the armor and appearance on this Tarrel, he will definitely recognize this elven leader who died in battle when resisting the invasion of the undead in his own plane more than ten years ago.
Looking at the situation now, this elven powerhouse named Tarrell is like the Prince of Arthas in "Warcraft", who has successfully changed from a hero in life to an accomplice who fell into the realm of the dead after death. Now, for the race and country that he once worked so hard to protect, the Death Knight Lord probably had to act as a butcher's knife himself......
"That's it! Nemoor, you guys are ready to fight at any time, and this time you will definitely destroy the enemy in one fell swoop......"
But at this time, the undead emperor-level lich standing in the center finally spoke.
"Yes! My lord!" *N
After listening to the words of the lich master who was equivalent to the level of the legendary supreme powerhouse, no matter which Death Elf knight or the taunting Undead King, along with several other Undead Monarchs who had been silently watching, they all knelt respectfully on the ground, and responded warmly to the boss who controlled their souls.
"Only by being able to control an entire death plane can you call it a true undead emperor......"
After watching several of his right-hand men leave, and feeling that the undead emperors around the forest were also sending those temporary cannon fodder to their deaths, the lich wearing a black mage robe of the demigod rank thought silently.
For the lich, the Undead Emperor isn't just about strength. If there is no plane that can really be used as a lair, the undead emperor in the realm of the dead is at most a relatively high-end thug. Unfortunately, the number of planes in the realm of the dead is far from enough to give each undead emperor a plane.
Therefore, if he wants to obtain a plane as his own territory, the undead emperor needs to take matters into his own hands and compete with other intelligent races such as giants, dragons, elves, etc. As it happens, the best way for the undead to progress is to kill and suck the souls of their enemies, and when combined, the kingdom of the dead continues to expand. In particular, the speed at which the Realm of the Dead fights is too buggy, and the way of rapid expansion and replenishment of troops is too troublesome.
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A month later, under the leadership of thousands, thousands of bone dragons, zombie dragons, and ghost dragons, countless armies of the undead forcibly flattened the last forest in this life plane.
When there were less than 50,000 remnants left in the end, the demigod of the elf clan guarding this plane did not hesitate to choose to blow up the golden mother tree that had lost its owner!
"Boom---!!"
When there was an earth-shattering bang, the thousand-meter-tall Golden Mother Tree directly turned into a giant ball of green light like a nuclear explosion shockwave, and then the oncoming Law of Life and the natural purification power almost swept half of the continent like a tide!
Countless mid- and low-level undead fell in this purifying storm, and even several Legendary Monarch-level undead kings were seriously injured because of this.
However, for the plane that has been completely enveloped by the breath of death, this big // explosion that finally created an artificial ocean did not change any results. And when the power of the law of life and the power of natural purification, which were hated by the undead, disappeared, the entire plane of life was completely transformed into a paradise for the undead......
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That lost life plane was not an exception, in the past hundred years, nearly 100,000 life planes of the three major races of the Natural Alliance, the Dragon Race, and the Giant Race have fallen into the hands of the Dead Realm one after another.
After these planes of life fell into the hands of the realm of the dead, bone dragons, ghost dragons, zombie dragons, death elf shooters, death elf knights, elven corpse witches, ghost banshees, bone giants, zombie giants, ...... And so on, a series of Dead Nation Replenishment Army, which has made many races want to split, and even more so that the three major forces will never die in the Dead Country!
- I believe that not many people want to be at peace after their own death, not to mention the fact that the realm of the dead, which turns the plane of life into a realm of death, makes it impossible for the two sides to negotiate at all, and is completely called the enemy of the living!
However, having said that, with the strength of the Natural Alliance, the Dragons, and the Giants, they were still not the opponents of the Death Realm that had been prepared in the early stage.
Compared to the great lizards who are more interested in treasure and sleeping, the giants who are more interested in food, hunting and fighting, and the elves and other races who invest much more time in songs and paintings than in magic and martial arts, in the realm of the dead that have died once and evolved by killing after death, the combat power of those undead powerhouses is too much dead. And if you talk about the middle and lower combat power...... Will the Undead Legion be short of cannon fodder?
Especially in the early days, when there was mental calculation or unintentionality, the Death Realm occupied tens of thousands of life planes of the three major forces almost without much effort, and then these life planes were provided to too many soldiers and revived powerhouses in the Death Realm. Even if the three major forces resisted with all their might, they really suffered a big loss in the early stage!
After all, the three major forces were happily watching the Dark Alliance that suddenly popped up against the Alliance of Gods that had risen in power in the last thousand years, and the feeling of sitting leisurely and laughing at the wind and clouds was indeed very good. And the three major forces of the Natural Alliance, the Dragon Clan, and the Giants also put most of their minds on the confrontation between the two forces, and even the main force was transferred to this side.
As a result, after the appearance of the Death Realm, the ferocious offensive that threw away tens of thousands of lives at once directly caused the three major forces to be directly blindfolded. And thanks to the results of this ferocious offensive, the Death Realm, which was already known for its warfare, had almost no losses, and even expanded a large number of troops by the way.
The three major forces were a little dumbfounded when they looked at this situation, even if they later realized the threat of the Death Realm, which can be called the enemy of the living, and when they quickly deployed their main forces to the side of the Death Realm, the vast territory in the Endless Void became the most troublesome thing for the three major forces - the dimensional teleportation array was too expensive, and the inability to teleport those half-dimensional gardens that were filled with life was even more of a headache!
In this case, the Death Realm, which had an absolute advantage, was barely blocked by the three major forces until more than thirty years ago, and only more than ten years ago did it slow down its offensive pace for some reason.
Well, that's right, the Dead Realm is just slowing down the momentum and pace of its own attack, not stopping!
Something similar to the fall of one or several life planes is still quite common for the three major forces, and unless these fallen life planes are particularly important, the three major forces try to delay each other's time rather than gather forces to counterattack - more troops are needed to defend there than on other staggered and important fronts!
The biggest headache for the three major forces in the Dead Realm is that what this big force is best at is killing the living and resurrecting them. Then these resurrected dead joined the realm of the dead and became demons that killed their former relatives and clansmen.
If you are cold-blooded, those low- and middle-grade undead who have become zombies, skeletons, and ghosts are nothing, but if those holy realms, legends, and even pseudo-gods, and legendary supreme people join the realm of the dead after they die, the situation where the enemies fight more and more will make the scalps of the warriors of the three major forces numb.
However, fortunately, some things that became popular more than ten years ago have curbed many of the methods of the Death Realm, and even affected the current war between the Death Realm and the three major forces...... (To be continued......)