Chapter 158: Sweeping the Swamp
Skeletons under the command of the undead knight Tris clean up the battlefield, collecting scattered wreckage and carefully digging out their kind trapped in the swamp mud.
After Aldrich counted the battle damage, he found that most of the forty-eight skeleton soldiers under the four knight squires who had been canonized not long ago had been killed in battle, and only nine were intact, and the others were more or less wounded.
Stacking the bits and pieces of bones in the tow bucket behind the carriage, Tris untied the reins of an undead horse and took it to himself, and ordered Friel and the others to take their undead subordinates back to the castle sacrifice altar in the wagon to repair and transform.
After the four of them walked away, Aldrich took out the Beamon Sacrificial Inheritance Item, which had been transformed from his corpse by killing Shrek, a native of the swamp, and only a two-sheet thin leather book.
The cover is only the size of two palms, and the pattern is a ring of two black and white snakes biting each other's tails, and the text inside is not recognizable when opened, but it does not mean that it cannot be used.
Tris triggered this special item with the system, and countless light and shadow images flashed in front of his eyes like a marquee, even if he closed his eyes, he couldn't stop it, but fortunately, such a strange experience was only five breaths for a short time.
In the undead hero template, behind the profession of the graveyard lord, there is a new class of war sacrifice, and the left and right sides of the three skill pillars are lit up, which are the mountain and forest whispering war song of the glorious system and the life drain war song of the evil department.
"Huh! It doesn't seem to be possible to automatically generate orc hero templates, but there is an extra war sacrifice class that sings war songs, could it be because the inherited items are missing. ”
Aldrich put aside his mind and ordered the swift and fast ghost wolf to open the map in front, and the Dementors who had completed the promotion paraded around the undead army.
Now in the depths of the Black Swamp, the appearance of the indigenous hero Shrek and a large number of goblins makes him have high expectations for the next rioters and the formation of the Sea of Skulls.
The undead under his command have just reached hundreds due to the addition of goblin skeletons, and the ambitious undead knights unabashedly lead the army to slaughter the settlements of wild monsters.
Only the skeleton soldiers with simple minds obey orders without complaint, and even if there is a waterhole in front of them, they will not hesitate to step into it, becoming a stepping stone for those who come after them.
After half an hour of walking through the swamp where the ground was gradually hardening, the stealthy ghost wolf discovered an abandoned grotto, and dozens of goblin domed grass huts scattered around it, densely packed like mushrooms.
The skeletons then split into seven groups, each led by a ghostly wolf, and attacked unabashedly, slashing at the sight of the green-skinned goblin with a scimitar made of ribs.
At this time, most of the villages that stayed on the ground were old and weak women and children, old goblin miners who could not do heavy work, weak physique turned into farmers to tend to the crops, and young goblins who could only play around, as for the adult goblins, they all went to the grotto, wielding iron pickaxes to dig something.
"Probably iron ore or something, this wild monster settlement has a high rate of metal use, and it just did what I wanted. ”
Standing on a rocky hill, looking down at the pitch-black and bottomless grotto at his feet, Aldrich secretly gave an order to let the ghost wolf lead the skeleton soldiers to constantly penetrate and divide, and completely crush the goblin families who were holding together and resisting on the spot against the grass hut.
Fresh lives disappeared in front of his eyes, and the blood splattered everywhere stained the skeleton soldier's miserable white skeleton, and deep in the hollow orbital bones, the pale phosphorescence gradually became a faint red, which was a sign that he had accumulated enough killing experience and began to advance to the ranks.
Tris was indifferent at all, and this steely indifference made the evaluation of him by the underlying operating module of the system refresh again:
"Hidden attributes: Don't treat NPCs as human beings, +1 for Remnant Violence, +1 for Slaughtering Protected Animals. ”
It's a pity that Aldrich can't see all this at all, but even if he knows the systematic evaluation, it is estimated that he will not take it seriously, and will still let the killing feast continue to the end.
Screams and wails abound, and the goblin village was stunned by the lightning raid of the undead army, but the head of the village who presided over the settlement on the ground, the gray-haired gray goblin, had some wisdom from his long life experience.
Knowing that the other party was not an ordinary enemy, he did not hesitate to blow the goblin horn and order the remaining villagers to move closer to the rock tent he was in.
The Undead Knight, seeing the signs of turning the tide of battle, immediately ordered the ghost wolf to abandon the skeleton soldiers he was following and join forces with the Dementors to kill the Goblin Village Chief.
After years of dealing with herbs, his skin gradually faded and turned gray after being soaked in various poisons, and the Goblin Village Chief unknowingly communicates with the spirits of the swamp and learns how to summon them, becoming the only witch doctor in the village.
Faced with the approaching shadows, he began to call for the ubiquitous frog spirit, and the swamp was full of deep pools of stagnant water, giving birth to all kinds of strange frogs, some of which would spit corrosive acid, deadly poison, and even fiery fireballs.
When the Goblin Witch Doctor called them to help, very few of the frog spirits woke up and responded, and most of them were intimidated by the majesty of the Undead Knights and did not dare to show up for the Goblin Witch Doctor.
A stone-ground green-striped frog opened its mouth and ejected its tongue, which was so sticky that it couldn't break free with the strength of a ghost wolf, and then retracted it hard, trying to swallow it and laugh slowly.
The low-flying dementors immediately swooped down, flew to the stalemate and couldn't move, and unleashed a kiss of the soul-snatcher, only to see the wisps of spiritual essence peel off like a funnel.
No matter how angry, frightened, complaining, and pleading the green-striped frog is, all the chaotic emotions are used as nourishment and food by the dementors, and they are swallowed by the spirit and fused into a part of their own ghost.
The pain of torn soul made the frog monster no longer able to wrestle with the ghost wolf, first the viscous tongue hung softly to the ground, and then he couldn't stand the pain in his heart, and his eyes rolled and he fainted.
The Undead Knight ordered the other ghost wolves to come to their aid, and their razor-sharp claws directly shredded the tongues that had lost their slime and vitality, saving their companions who were almost lost.
The sputtered venom was useless to the zombies, and the strong acid that corroded everything seemed to have a slight effect on the ghostwolf's body, but the Dementors immediately attached it and entangled them firmly, at least delaying the time to deal with the Goblin Witch Doctor.
The green-skinned goblins who had entered the rock tent before were all old men as old as the village chief, and they were weak and decrepit, and they were no match for the ghost wolves.
Within two strokes of wielding the rattan knife, the ghost wolf saw through the flaw and knocked it down, grabbed his wrist and forcibly dragged it out, broke his neck and threw it on the ground, panting half-dead, like an old dog with a yellow mud in his neck.
After dealing with the last red-veined frog monster that could spit fireballs, the four-headed Dementor flew to the rock tent, passed through the window at the top, and was not afraid to glow with the fluorescent blade of the blade, and pounced on the goblin witch doctor whose face had changed drastically, and cast the Soulsnatcher Kiss again.
Rao is this gray-skinned goblin has gone through the vicissitudes of time, time has carved a deep imprint on its body, and its soul is also very strong due to frequent contact with the spirit of the swamp, but it has always been just a mortal thing, embellished with a special advanced body dementor of the third-order undead creature Yin Soul in the castle cemetery, like a pebble soul in the riverbed, and it is also vulnerable at this time.
The Goblin Witch Doctor held on a little longer than the Frog Monster, and when all his emotions were swallowed as food, his soul essence couldn't help but pull at it with an all-pervasive pulling force, and gradually shattered and dispersed.
The Cursed Blade can only be used once in a battle, and the undead knight Tris realized that such a powerful monster could gain more experience by harvesting it himself, so he did not hesitate to put up the heroic banner, rode the undead horse away from the hill, and rushed to the goblin village chief who was waiting for death in the rock tent with his eyes closed.
The zombie axe was raised high and slashed down, and the dark skin as tough as leather was not damaged, but the invisible blade full of negative energy then completely ended the Goblin Witch Doctor's long life.
The Undead Knight immediately turned over and dismounted, pressed his right hand on the corpse's chest, and cast a spiritualist spell again, but unfortunately today's luck seems to have run out, or the corpse of the Goblin Witch Doctor is different.
Ever since the conjuring was cast, the gray skin had turned into a rocky texture, and by Tris's hands, it had turned into a lifeless stone statue.
Even the all-powerful system has no additional evaluation of the Goblin Statue, and this treatment is a bit of a headache for Aldrich, who is somewhat unimpressed by the forty percent success rate of intermediate spiritualism.
He then used the remains of the goblin and the corpse of the swamp frog monster to conjure the soul to transform the form of the dead, and good luck came back to him, not only did the skeleton replenish nearly double the strength, but also added three special ghost frogs.
Ghost Frog, a second-order undead from a Goblin Village, has a base damage of 8-11, Defense 24, Health 35, a direct minion of the Undead Knight, Damage 12-20 (modified), Defense 42 (fixed), Health 38 (fixed), Acid Attack 20-30/Poison damage 6 per second, Duration 10 Breaths/Fire Attack 28-45, Explosion damage 14.
"Hmm! The ghost frog is also boosted by the zombie axe and fragile skin, and its attack power is quite impressive according to the current situation, and the attack methods are diverse, which is enough to make up for the relatively single attack method of the undead army. ”
At this point, the entire goblin village was bulldozed by the growing army of undead, and Aldrich ordered the skeleton soldiers to dismantle the grass hut and get hundreds of square meters of wood and more forage, all piled up near the mouth of the mine in the rocky hills.
Remove the unburned veneer from the campfire in the Goblin Village, carefully keep the fire in front of the grotto, light the forage, light the wood of different thicknesses by the way, and then push it down in one gob, closing the "only" passage for the goblin miners to enter and exit.
The billowing smoke continued to spread, and the smoke that suffocated ordinary people passed into the depths of the mine. After half an hour, the forage and wood were burned out, and the undead knight estimated that the time was almost ripe, and immediately sent a dementor who did not need to breathe and was not afraid of mortal fire, and went to the depths of the mine to explore the results of the battle.
It didn't take long for the Dementors to have good news, and the mines that were constantly winding down were full of the corpses of goblin miners, and they still survived, and the physique that hung in one breath was naturally solved by them.
The commander who is good at combat has no brilliant feats, and the undead knight Tris is not a top battlefield commander, but with the help of the special advantages of the undead to raise the war, and the general trend is crushed.
The smoke that killed the Goblin Miner was only an occasional flash of inspiration on Aldrich's part, and it did not reflect his combat command ability.
"It's time to harvest the loot!"
The skeleton soldier descended into the depths of the mine by a human ladder, carrying the corpse of a goblin miner to the surface as if it were a relay, and placing it neatly in front of the undead knight.
Fearing that his character and luck would run out, Aldrich decided to have the skeletons carry the goblin's corpse back to the castle cemetery.
With more than two hundred heads in number, plus wild boars and other large beasts raised in the huts, Tris was very pleased with the results of this raid, and he believed that it would not be long before the Sea of Bones would take shape.
After this battle, Aldrich upgraded Aldrich again, level 7 Undead Knight/Level 1 Wizard/Level 1 War Sacrifice, 200 base health points, 30 additional health and 25 mana for the caster class, and 45 additional health and 30 song power for the sacrificial class.
Upgrading the extra skill points is used to upgrade the talent spiritualism, and now the undead knight can summon the ghost of the Yin spirit from the corpse, and the success rate has also reached 50%, and if you want to improve again, unless you get special equipment similar to the undead amulet.
Based in the rock caverns where iron ore is produced, the area of the Wasteland gradually expands, and Aldrich orders the ghost wolves and Dementors to continue to explore the depths of the swamp, and as the system map continues to expand, the settlements of neutral monsters in the wild gradually light up.
After the transformation of the sacrificial altar, most of the goblins transformed into skeleton soldiers, and a small number of them became miner zombies due to long-term mining before their deaths, and their hands were thick and strong.
By the way, the quadruple army of the undead brought Freel and the others who were recuperating in the ancient castle to Tris, and easily swept a wild boar cave, and the undead knight sang a life absorption war song of unknown meaning, and used the life force of the wild boar to transform it into a source of healing, so that the injured bodies of Freel and the others quickly recovered to health.
At this point, even the proudest of his personalities surrendered willingly, after all, he only had a Winter Ring to take his hands on, and Aldrich Triss was not only far ahead, but also mastered the indispensable healing technique. Thorin and Mandy naturally had nothing to say, and as for Freel, who was the first to make a statement, she was greatly encouraged by this.
The undead knight led the army to sweep all the way, with the characteristics of war and warfare, not only did he not suffer too much wear and tear, but it snowballed bigger and bigger, and the skeleton army numbered more than a thousand, like a towering mountain of bones, a boundless sea of bones, crushing and engulfing all the forces that tried to resist.
Friel and the others also led their own troops again as they wished, and Aldrich, who had opened the system map, coordinated the overall situation and continued to strangle the wild monsters of the swamp natives.
The foundation of the undead version of the Industrial Revolution was initially laid, but the time to leave came, Cell, and the others disappeared one after another, and Tris arranged the relevant matters before waiting to leave from the secret realm.
At a glance before parting, the Pumpkin King in a dinner dress quietly appeared, and cast a look of approval at Aldrich, who had faded away.
"Sure enough, it's Jack the Pumpkin, I must sign a contract with him next time, and I can't work for him in vain. ”