Chapter 36: The Northern Campaign (15)
In order to make the people in the fortress more aware of the fears they are about to face, Frost has specially stopped the blizzard that has been raging in the Northlands. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info frost blades, bone fire, blood claws, the flags symbolizing the three lords of the immortal empire fluttering in the wind, the white miserable sea of bones mixed with a little black ghouls, and the still hazy sky, gargoyles, vampire bats, and the bone dragon of the sky overlord circled back and forth over the fortress. This situation has made the already low morale of the surviving soldiers even more slump to the bottom.
"It's a tough battle. Dante stood on a specially raised wooden box and looked down the city walls, even after a great battle, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed. The number of enemies is too much, and as far as the eye can see, there are no other than the undead or the undead, all over the mountains and fields, densely packed, and people are panicked and desperate.
Orlando clenched the longbow in his hand, doing his best not to let his teeth chatter timidly, and he couldn't help but regret the decision he had made a moment earlier.
Whether he was the son of Grand Duke Kronberg in the east of the empire or the Wood Elf half-blood, they all worshipped the goddess of music and dance.
[Go, go to the northern polar regions to find your destined savior, only by his care, you can escape the doom of early death.] 】
Since his mother was killed, Orlando, who has succeeded him as the divine envoy, has escaped from the imperial capital under the guidance of Avga, and mixed among the refugees all the way north to meet his destined savior. Looking at the army of the undead besieging the fortress like a tidal wave in front of him, he couldn't help but wonder, can I really survive?
[It really stayed...... I can't guess this one's mindset. Without the blessing of Eagle Eye, the Lich can sense the majestic life force that stands on the walls of the fortress, and the humans around him are as small as dust compared to them.
"What now?" Safin looked coldly at the lich who was lost in thought, in their original plan, there was no such thing as fighting the incarnation-level children of nature. The last time the discussion was fruitless, and the lich obviously didn't want to talk about it, he could only use the removal of his eyeliner as an excuse to avoid it, and now, the problem was once again in front of him. If it does, Safin is not confident of winning.
Divine punishment is a general term for the gods to transmit the greatest divine power through the divine envoys of the material world, and the intuition of the gods' abilities determines the power of divine punishment. At a level like the first generation, even the weakest gods couldn't compete with the power they wielded, let alone them. The Pillar of the Earth symbolizes life, and together with the bright dawn, it has the strongest suppression of the undead. In addition, the apostle of the pillar has three divine punishments because of his unique way of advancing and powerful divine grace, even if all the northern lands are used up here, it will be beneficial to the situation. At least in the short term, it can curb the pace of the undead empire going south, if you take the opportunity to kill back to the imperial capital to rectify the internal strife of the Silver Empire, even if the god of death sets up a new lord, he will miss the perfect opportunity to quickly occupy the human territory, which is probably intolerable to the grumpy god of death. Even if you don't survive this battle, you can't escape being held accountable.
The world only knows that the Immortal Empire is jointly led by three major lords, but they don't know that there is actually only one divine envoy, and the spokesperson of this generation of the god of death is a lifeweaver from another world, and he still doesn't know his name, and can only use his position as a proxy for the lich lord. It has been in Edgar for many years, and it has never disclosed its name, not even a pseudonym, not even a title.
For a time, Safin scoffed at this, thinking that the Lich Lord was too cautious, even if he knew his real name, and as a lifeweaver, not to mention ordinary people, even other gods could not fathom the thread of its fate, so they could not predict. But as he learned more about it, Safin realized that it might not be cautious, but ...... The Lich Lord really doesn't care about names. Or, it doesn't like its past and wants to discard it completely, along with the name that represents it.
[The original divine punishment is terrible, but it is not without a way to crack it. The lich didn't think long before the silent army of the undead moved at the behest of its mind. The low-level undead who acted as cannon fodder and vanguard began to attack the city, and the skeletal archers fired wave after wave to cover the Colossus that would later be used to break the city, and the arrows were so dense that the wounded soldiers left behind in the fortress could only dodge, and watched the Colossus that walked slowly but made the earth tremble with every step approached.
"Come here, don't you want to think about what to do?" Orlando licked his lips nervously, turning his expectant gaze to Nature's children.
Dante squinted and looked at it for a few moments, finally making sure that the Colossus was not made of gold, silver, stone or earth, which was difficult. Ore, dirt, and stone, all of which are directly or indirectly related to the earth elemental, can be manipulated and disintegrated by the children of nature according to their own rank. The fact that the undead did not use the previous stitched trolls as a tool to break the city is enough to prove that the colossus deliberately created a magic designed to deal with the children of nature.
Dante's worries are exactly what Link thinks.
He can't waste his divine power to predict the material of the statue, although the pillar is powerful, the divine power is not inexhaustible. Instead of bothering and laboring, it is better to do it in one step and directly destroy the province.
Gurg...... Gurg...... Gurg...... Gurg......
With the sound of gears, the colossus that had reached the outside of the city wall raised its hands, and the soldiers in range took cover. Seeing that the heavy fists were about to collide with the stone wall, the hard surface suddenly softened, and the colossus immediately sank, and its heavy body seemed to sink into quicksand, the more it struggled and sank, the faster it sank, and after a while, it was not topped, and the ground recovered after it sank completely. The soldiers who had hid in the battlements and looked out let out a cheer of joy, but fortunately there were children of nature, and they didn't have to deal with such a behemoth.
Orlando also breathed a sigh of relief, he had thought that the children of nature would conjure up the earth elements or fight against themselves, and such a solution was both unexpected and reasonable. The Earth Pillar has absolute control over the Earth Elemental, and as long as the Child of Nature does not give orders, the Colossus will stay underground forever, minimizing the casualties of the coalition forces.
[Hmph...... It's kind of interesting. The Lich didn't expect to succeed in one hit, and there were many such statues, so it was up to it to see how long that one could last?
After the order for the general attack was issued, dozens of giant elephants that were originally located in the rear of the army marched slowly towards the fortress, which was the brainchild of the necromancer of the Lich Territory for many years, mixed with a variety of man-made materials, stealing the skills of dwarves and elves, not driven by magic. The skeletons along the way did not get out of the way, or in other words, the death mages who were the commander-in-chief and the death mages who passed on the orders did not control the skeletons to make way for the huge colossus, but still stepped on the skeletons and stepped on the ground with a layer of white ground, followed by the death knight who drove the nightmare.
This scene made Orlando's heart move, could it be...... The Undead Empire deliberately trampled on low-level undead, and used this as an opportunity to cast what spell to block the Sons of Nature's divine magic?
He had guessed correctly, the lich prayed to the Grim Reaper as an oracle, and Hicks poured divine power into the shattered low-level skeletons, successfully blocking Link's summoned elemental attacks. Link didn't expect Frost to use his divine power in such a place, and hard-hitting melee combat was inevitable.
Safin waved the God-given staff in his hand, and the vampire bats flying in the sky pressed down on the fortress like locusts, and suddenly curses erupted in the battlements. After the collapse of the Life Barrier, these undead creatures who had been kept out were also able to enter, and when they caught the living creatures, they tore and bited, sucking blood and infecting the victims with corpse poison and epidemics.
Under the order of the lich, the Sky Overlord's bone dragon swooped down, and the seemingly fragile but hard as iron skeleton slammed into the stone wall, knocking out many holes, and the soldiers hiding inside were either frozen into pieces of ice by the cold breath, or directly devoured, transforming into a huge amount of energy to supply the bone dragon's activities.
The casualties of the allied forces in the fortress immediately increased, and they were all wounded soldiers. Knowing that he was injured, he could not survive the long snow migration, and the festering wound may have become infected. Most of them have the same idea as Dante, that instead of being reduced to an unconscious undead after death, it is better to die in battle in the fortress and be purified directly by the children of nature.
Orlando used his elven bloodline to shoot down the approaching bats one by one with his longbow, knowing that his attack was a mantis arm for thousands of vampire bats, but he couldn't do nothing and watch the undead slaughter the defenders of the fortress. Dante also took the axe and slashed down one ghoul after another who climbed up the battlements through the Colossus, but the number of enemies was so great that it seemed that they could never be killed, and the exhaustion soon spread from the body to the spirit.
Link, who had stood still once in the move, stepped on his four hooves, and the crisp sound was extra abrupt in the shouting. The glowing white halo spread outward from the white deer, like ripples in the water, wave after wave, silent, and when the halo crossed the body, Orlando even felt a certain feeling that could not be described in words. Something passed through the body, combing out some substance like a comb, and the body and mind suddenly relaxed a lot.
Exhilaration?
Orlando took the moment to glance at the white deer, which still stood on the battlements like a signpost, and then kicked with his hooves, and hissed with his head high, which was neither human nor deer. Something in the air was rapidly approaching, and looking around, Orlando jerked his head, and the hazy sky was torn apart, just as he had seen the dawn in the wilderness. The brilliance that was indistinguishable from the white of the Child of Nature fell from the broken clouds, like scattered star chips, crystal clear. He touched the little starlight that fell on his body, and his fingers actually passed through it, and there was no substance at all. Before they could figure out what it was, the undead who had stormed the fortress were absorbed by these seemingly raindrops of stardust and turned into a streamer, and the sheer number of undead caused the stars to converge into a river—a river that fell from the sky.
Orlando, who was half a beat slower to react, realized that there was a strange starry night, which was clearly the legendary flow of life, the root of Edgar's life! )