Chapter 12: The Feast of the Dead

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This is a forbidden place for the living, and this is a paradise for the dead. Under the blood-red demonic full moon, the living retreat, and the dead return.

In the Yala continent, the dead sometimes turn into undead for some special reasons, but the undead usually do not recover, only when the night of the demonic night, that is, on the 33rd of each month, when the red moon Lilith is full moon, the concentration of death energy in the entire continent reaches a critical point, and then the undead will be revived from their slumber. Of course, there are exceptions. If the concentration of death energy in a certain area is itself high enough to reach this tipping point, then there will be undead rampant without the need for a demonic night. However, all this is only effective for a large number of low-level undead, and the real high-level undead, such as high-level vampires, death banshees, dark knights, corpse witches and other high-level undead creatures, can move freely without being in the demonic night, and can reach the peak of their power in the demonic night.

In the history of thousands of years, most of the events of the undead have occurred on this day, but since the Quaternary Age, except for the battle of the dead a hundred years ago, there has not been a large-scale undead attack, which can be regarded as a blessing.

In the abandoned city of Briana, the concentration of death energy climbed to its peak as the red moon rose to the zenith, and suddenly a groan sounded in the silent city, as if it was resounding from the soul, as if it continued to tell the pain of death and the regret of life.

"This is the voice of the soul. Pannis did not lower his voice, and as he spoke, he carved a very strange magic circle on the walls and floor with a dagger: "The precursor to the appearance of ghosts, the higher the level of ghosts, the higher the intensity of the soul sound, and the soul voice of the high-level resentful spirits can even make ordinary beings fall into madness. However, if the death banshees reach the highest level, there will be no soul sound emitted, they will completely converge the soul sound in the revenant, and then choose the time to explode at one time, this is the banshee's howl. ”

"What kind of circle are you carving?" Vivien tilted her head and looked at Pannis's actions curiously, "I've never seen this kind of circle before. ”

"A circle that hides life. Pannis replied, "A special type of concealed circle for the undead. The low-level undead found that living beings were achieved by exploring life, not by hearing, smelling, and seeing, so ordinary concealed magic circles were useless to them, and only with this special type of magic could they be. ”

"Hell, why didn't you say it sooner. Dora said hatefully: "It made me worry for a long time." ”

"It doesn't work against top-tier undead like the Banshee of Death. Pannis squinted at Dora.

"So what?" Dora was creepy at Pennis, "Why are you staring at me?"

"So you'd better start praying now. Pannis patted Dora's shoulder solemnly: "Pray that there will be no death banshee in this city, otherwise it will ......"

"What would have happened otherwise?" said Dora, trembling slightly.

"Otherwise......" Pannis lowered his voice, halfway through his words, and suddenly turned the volume to the maximum: "It will scare you." ”

"Ahhhhh Dora screamed and jumped up, gritted her teeth viciously, and kicked Pannis's shin: "You go to die." ”

"Oh no. Pannis hugged his calf and jumped on one foot all over the ground: "It hurts." ”

"I kind of get it. Dora huffed and said to Catherine, "That's how you should get along with him, it's too bad." ”

"Congratulations. Lina also patted Dora on the shoulder: "You've finally come to your senses." ”

"Look, it's coming out. Vivien stayed by the window and saw the situation change outside: "There are so many ghosts. ”

Outside the window, on the street, there was already a sea of ghosts. Countless miserable white humanoid ghosts floated from under the ground, their hazy figures glowing with light, and they couldn't see their faces and clothes clearly, only the general outline. A large number of ghosts are constantly wandering the streets, gathering more and more.

"How can there be so many ghosts?" Catherine said in surprise, "Is it so easy to create ghosts?"

"Of course not. "But if there are some special circumstances, it is still possible to produce so many ghosts." ”

"Special circumstances?" asked Catherine, "for example?"

"Most likely, it's the Banshee of Death that I kept mentioning. Pannis replied, "Higher-level undead are born with a passive skill of awakening, and they have a certain chance to awaken the dead around them to become the same kind of undead. Therefore, there are always a lot of skeletons around the skeleton lord, there are always a lot of ghosts around the banshee, and there are death knights gathered around the dark knight, all for this reason. ”

"So, do you think there are banshees in this city?" asked Catherine.

"I can only say that the possibility is very high. Pannis nodded, "More and more evidence points to this." ”

"You really know about the undead. Lina said curiously: "Contact your 'I won't die' again, you won't be pretending to be an undead." ”

I said. Pannis squinted at Lina: "As a priest of a loving god and nemesis of the undead, is it really appropriate for you to ask such stupid questions?"

"That might be. Lina looked up at the sky with fluttering eyes: "Maybe you are the special one." ”

"Well, since you've been exposed. Pannis grimaced and turned his gaze to Dora.

Dora neatly transformed the long whip into a sword, raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't mess with me, provoke me to kill you with a sword." ”

"Swear to live and die with the city. A neat shout suddenly came from the window without warning, startling the five people. Looking out the window, the large number of undead in the street no longer wandered aimlessly as they did at the beginning, but lined up in a neat queue, constantly walking through the street. Judging from the outline of their clothes, most of the undead are not soldiers, but civilians in the city, but all the civilians on the street hold illusory and hazy weapons in their hands, a few ghosts hold the illusion of swords in their hands, and most of the ghosts only hold household items such as bamboo poles, wooden sticks, kitchen knives and axes. But at this moment, no matter what these ghosts hold in their hands, they all have only one common purpose, to fight the invaders and protect their homeland.

"It's ...... Is there a recurrence of death?" asked Catherine, taking a deep breath and feeling a little shocked.

"Yes. Lina drew a square on her chest, her voice filled with compassion: "This is their last moment, whether it is for one person or for a city. ”

Outside the window, the ranks of ghosts began to become chaotic, as if they were engaged in fierce battles with unseen enemies, and the silent night began to become extremely noisy, with a chaotic mix of shouts and screams, interspersed with the cries of women and children. In the distance, white flames burn brightly, flames that exist only in the soul, heralding the beginning of the fall of the city.

"Fuck off, die. "Outside the window, in front of a house, two lone ghosts stood side by side outside the ruined building, guarding what was once supposed to be the gate of the building, one holding a logging axe in one hand, the other holding a thick wooden stick in the other, waving at the air in a random manner, as if they were fighting the many enemies as best they could. Spanning hundreds of years, perhaps their former enemies are standing here, a large number of soldiers playfully surround the two recalcitrant civilians, teasing like cats and mice, sometimes taking advantage of the two of them to leave a scar on their bodies, and every time, the two ghosts will let out a self-suppressed snort, but continue to fight despite the wounds.

"Is this war?" Lina's eyes were a little red as there were many similar scenes on one street, and she clasped the Dharma book tightly in front of her chest with both hands, and prayed in a low voice: "May my god Deniya bless, and your souls will finally be liberated and return to their eternal resting place." ”

"Yes, that's war. Dora also seemed to forget her fear of ghosts, and looked out the window with burning eyes: "All wars, hundreds of years ago, hundreds of years later, will not change anything, it will always be like this, accompanied by blood and fire, accompanied by crying and death. ”

"You mercenaries are always in contact with these?" Catherine asked Dora, "these wars and the like." ”

"The years have been much better, and it is said that hundreds of years ago, all mercenaries made a living by participating in wars. Dora shook her head and replied, "In recent years, the mercenaries' main targets have shifted to the large forested islands overseas, and the enemy has basically turned into magical beasts, and they no longer fight with other intelligent beings or even their fellow mercenaries. But even so, there will be some small wars that we need to participate in, and I have participated in several small wars. The real war scenes were much more terrifying than they are now, and the one-man show of this kind of death scene reproduction is like heaven compared to the real situation. ”

"Unthinkable. Vivien bit her lip and shook her head: "I can't imagine why humans can do such cruel things to their own kind?"

"Who knows? Actually, it's not just humans, orcs also wars and kills each other, but not as often as humans. Dora shrugged and turned her gaze back out the window. The two ghosts in front of the building outside the window had fallen to the ground and dissipated, returning to nothingness. But everyone knows that maybe thirty-three days later, under the light of the red moon, they will wake up again and repeat this tragedy again, forever. One by one, the ghosts of the street fell and disappeared, the shouts of killing gradually weakened, and the sound of battle gradually advanced into the distance, and it was obvious that the defense lines of the inhabitants were being broken little by little.

"Those bands of thieves obviously don't hide their lives, and they have been discovered by a large number of ghosts. As soon as the ghosts spot a living thing, they instinctively turn their attack on the living thing, oh poor people. Dora pursed her lips and suddenly asked strangely, "Pennis, why did you suddenly become so stiff?"

"Do you really want to know? I think it's better that you don't know. Pannis sighed, "If I were you, I would never look back." ”

"Have you played enough? The same method, you think you can fool me a few times, I'm not an idiot, I won't be fooled again. As he spoke, he turned his head unconcernedly.

"Ahh Dora's screams resounded throughout the ruined city again, but fortunately, the ghosts in the streets did not hear and could not be alarmed, fortunately, fortunately.

But unfortunately, right next to everyone, the shadow of a little girl Bai Sensen was close to the backs of the five people, learning from the five people, curiously poking her head out of the window, wanting to see what was attractive outside the window.