Chapter 169: The Art of War
Dawn is usually a symbol of light and hope, but the dawn in the Lost Dark Realm is like a black veil, the gloomy sunlight not only does not bring warmth to people, but carries an ominous atmosphere, in fact, at least for the only living creatures in the Lost Dark Realm, the dawn not only does not bring them hope, but is more like the death knell of the countdown death.
The faint curtain of light that isolated the undead slowly disappeared as the dawn rose, as if it had exhausted its last strength, as if it had never existed.
"Ga ......," a skeleton soldier slowly took a step towards the location where the light curtain had originally been.
There was no burning, no destruction, and the skeleton soldier used the soles of his bones to step on a land that no necromantic creature had set foot on in a long time.
"Roar!" As if to announce victory, or simply a message, the skeleton soldier let out a roar that looked like bones grinding.
Behind the skeleton soldiers, countless necromantic creatures are like ant colonies, standing motionless, as if waiting for something, skeleton warriors composed of white human bones, living corpses like rotting corpses, undead armor composed of empty armor, and night shadows filled by pure shadows, originally purely in the shadows, they are naturally generated by necromantic energy, representing the shadow side of this world, representing death, but the creatures that were originally just allowed to act on instinct are now like a well-trained army, motionless, and of course there will be no conversation。
They stood silently, like lifeless ...... Real dead things in general.
"Eat them all. A man in heavy makeup was sitting on a throne made of human bones, and said lightly.
Then, the necromancers seemed to receive an order from a certain being, one by one, they began to move slowly, gradually, some of the necromancers began to run, as if they were driven, all the necromancers began to run, and the slower skeletons were ruthlessly trampled into the dirt, like a torrent of white and black, and countless necromantic creatures frantically pounced on the outer walls of the Ember Keep.
"Come on, poor struggle, please me?? And then, let's die. The man in heavy makeup, Noro, stood up excitedly, his hands clenching the armrests made of skulls.
However, things seem to be a little different from what they thought.
"Aren't there any defenses on the outer walls?" Noro asked, frowning.
"Yes, it seems strange, do you want to give the order to stop the attack?" A voice replied in the shadow behind Noro.
「...... No, it's just a bunch of imps anyway, let's see what tricks they can play. Noro thought for a moment, although he felt that the other party should have some plans, but with the power they had, there was really no need to have any scruples, so Noro still ordered to the black shadow.
"Yes, Lord Noro. The dark shadow said.
The necromancers were slightly blocked by the outer walls, but they quickly climbed over the walls and came to the clearing outside the Ember Keep.
"Listen to me, fireball, go!" a voice came from the castle.
As the sound fell, dozens of violently burning fireballs flew out from the inner walls of the Ash Keep.
Bump! Bump! Bump!
A violent explosion rang out in the crowd of necromancers, followed by flying bone and meat scraps, and some hollow areas appeared in the tight formation of the necromancers.
"Hmph, did those little bugs finally make a move? Noro looked at this scene with disdain, compared to the endless army of necromancy, these fireballs were more like decorative fireworks, and they did not achieve the purpose of blocking at all, at least, their forward speed was not affected at all, and they were afraid that this emotion did not exist among the necromantic creatures in the first place.
"Archers, cover shots, shoot!"
Bang!
A dense and faint rain of arrows shot out from the inner city wall, and the necromantic creatures in front were quickly shot down like weeds, and then they were trampled to pieces by the necromantic creatures behind, although this rain of arrows achieved the purpose of blocking the necromantic creatures, but after all, it only delayed death for a few seconds, after all, the bow and arrow could not stop every necromantic creature.
"Not enough, not enough, not enough at all!" Noro laughed a little rampantly, at this time, many necromantic creatures had already touched the city wall, and began to climb to the city wall, and in an instant, dense ant-like necromantic creatures climbed onto the necromantic city wall and quickly climbed up.
"Elven mage, Bone Breaker, long!"
Countless vines grew from the feet of the necromantic creatures as if they had been calculated, and these vines quickly grew to the thickness of a large python, and then climbed up the city wall, and then, these vines waved nimbly, as if the farmer was picking on pests, picking all kinds of necromantic creatures off the city walls, and rolling several necromantic creatures around.
Syllable!
As soon as the bone shattering vine tightened, the undead creatures that were caught were immediately crushed into pieces, but more undead creatures were directly peeled off and fell into the group of necromancers, and they were directly broken into pieces.
"Bastard, where are there so many little tricks!, give them to me!" Noro roared angrily, even the skull on the throne was crushed by Noro, obviously Noro did not expect to encounter such stubborn resistance, in his expectation, this should be just a group of children who have not seen war, but now their performance is no different from the veterans on the battlefield, and even, the person who commanded them to attack is like a general who has experienced countless bloody battles, life has become a number, and war is just a science of how to kill the enemy by the most efficient means, and the battlefield is just an emotionless meat grinder。
"Noro-sama, they can't affect anything, please calm down. A vague black shadow suddenly appeared in Noro's shadow, and I saw the black shadow slowly hugging Noro, as if comforting a child.
"Hmph. Noro seemed to calm down a little under the shadow's reassurance, but there was still some anger in his heart, like a human who had been accidentally bitten by an ant, and even though he knew that it would not hurt him, he was still annoyed by the rebellion against these small creatures.
After all, the number of vines is still not enough, some necromantic creatures directly use their bodies to entangle the vines, with teeth, claws, and weapons, the thick vine skin is still slowly bitten out of the gap after all, and the swing is slowed down, and other necromantic creatures take advantage of this gap to climb the city wall regardless of it.
"Ga!" Finally, a skeleton warrior emerged from the city walls, but what he saw was not a panicked cadet.
"No surprises!" a green-skinned orc smiled happily at the skeleton warrior.
Rumble!
At the edge of the wall, dozens of giant axes swept neatly and tightly, and a piece of necromantic creature was swept into pieces before it could fully climb the city wall, and other necromantic creatures that were not immediately destroyed by the giant axe fell directly to the ground from the city wall.
"It's ...... What's going on? Noro looked at the scene in disbelief.
I saw that the fireball continued to fall in the distant necromantic group, and the dense necromantic group could almost be said to maximize the power of the fireball explosion, and the originally dense necromantic group was actually blown up by the fireball a lot more thin.
Then, at the middle range, there is a constant rain of arrows, each arrow can hit almost a necromantic creature accurately, and the arrows with white light are obviously blessed by the priest, and each arrow can accurately destroy a necromantic creature, whether it is a skeleton, a living corpse, armor, or even a night shadow, as long as it is shot, no one will be spared.
At close range, the huge vines are constantly sweeping, and the necromantic creatures that intend to cling to the city wall are constantly swept down and crushed, although the necromantic creatures slowly bite off the vines with their teeth and claws, but new vines will soon grow under the spell of the elven mage, but the vines will not be long, always remain in the same number, and each vine is separated by a distance, which ensures that the vines can swing to the maximum extent, and the maximum number of killing necromantic creatures.
On the city wall, the melee team composed of orcs constantly swept away the sparse necromantic creatures with axes, and even if a few stood on the city wall, they would immediately be surrounded by the orcs excitedly and then shattered and disappeared.
And these four distinct attacks seem to have a allocated area of attack, and they don't interfere with each other at all, and because of this, the attacks that come and go are more like a flawless cooperative war.
Dense necromantic creatures, none of them can really attack the castle, black and white necromantic waves continue to lap on the city wall, but the ash castle is like a reef on the shore, even if it is constantly beaten by the waves, submerged, but still standing.
"Whew...... Call...... Whew......" Noro gasped, crossed his hands, and wrung his body tightly, as if he was enduring something.
"Haha, hahaha, hahaha!" Then, Noro smiled madly at the sky.
"Get out of the abomination! I'm going to crush that little bug completely!" Noro screamed, pointing his wizened finger at the Ember Keep.
「...... Yes, Lord Noro. The shadow swelled, as if to say something, but it still split a small piece and flew quickly in the direction of the Ember Keep.
"Taste the little hope now, and take it as ......."
"The seasoning before complete despair! ha!"