Chapter 60: The Power of Krypton
As the worm-made porch quickly took shape, so did the Doom of Calamity's pedestal, and the giant of corpses and decay sprinted towards the fortress of Batzu Devil that had bombarded it before, dragging a huge amount of dark green slime.
In the command room of the fortress, through the "Goblin Observer" node arranged by the goblin Ricknaz, the surrounding enemy situation was clearly displayed on the sand table in front of Quis and others, and the situation was not optimistic.
"Mr. Quest, according to what has been proven so far, the demon army around the basin will move to the vicinity of the fortress after a maximum of two hourglasses. While remotely controlling the Observer, Ricknaz succinctly stated the situation.
"Boy, I don't know what you have to rely on, but as things stand, this Bato camp of yours can't withstand so many demon attacks," the half-lich Snead's last remaining head floated above the sand table, and to prove his claim, he continued. What's more, although you have a certain amount of troops here, most of them are mercenary soldiers from the material plane, and there are not many mid-to-high-level devil soldiers, and those high-level devils in Batzu obviously regard you as an outcast, your best choice is to let me cast the Otherworldly Gate, we ......"
As soon as he reached out and the floating half-lich head was immediately silenced, it was an add-on to the contract that gave Quest the power of the "employer" - for the reason that the final interpretation belonged to the employer, Quest could unilaterally stop communicating with Sneijder who signed the contract with a simple gesture.
"Those who disturb the morale of the army will be killed. ”
Quiz gave the half-lich a cold look, and after saying this, he put his energy back into defensive deduction. At this time, the Apostle of Calamity, who had previously launched a counterattack due to artillery fire and caused great trouble to the fort's defensive position, had rushed to the front of the fort.
"Go according to the original plan, deal with that undead monster first, and prevent it from destroying the defensive front. ”
By the time the Bone Demon Herald delivered the Fortress Commander's orders to the front line, the Calamity Messenger had already arrived less than 100 meters outside the third layer of the fortress's defensive front, and although the artillery and other ranged attacks slowed down its sprint, it was only enough to do so.
Originally, the last wave of Tanari demons who had been scattered and fled, at this time, under the effect of the parasitic acid mist worms in their bodies, they actually ran out of the mushroom forest again.
They were gathered around the Calamity, relying on their massive bodies as cover and supplies for them—
Several rounds of artillery fire caused the body of the Calamity to be shattered continuously, but it could be effectively healed by grabbing other demons around it as a wound medicine. The "unity of spirit and flesh" of the demons of the lower realms makes them the best cure for the new undead monsters with the dual characteristics of the Soul Prisoner Demon and the Corpse Demon of the Calamity.
Those Tanari demons themselves naturally do not have the consciousness of "sacrificing their lives for righteousness". It's just that at this moment, those acid mist worms that were originally parasitic in the body interfered with the demon's consciousness, making them ignore the fear of death and be willing to become a tonic for the messenger of calamity.
A Doom Messenger who ingests a large amount of "Supplement" will not only be able to get close to the enemy as he continues to heal, but his original "Vomit" attack will also be greatly enhanced. A single shot can not only kill the enemy, but also use negative energy to turn dead creatures into zombies' poisonous "thick phlegm", which is wantonly swayed as if it does not need money, which invisibly gives great pressure and fear to the defenders of the fortress.
"It's not okay to go on like this, Lao Tzu has to find a way to escape. ”
"Broom eyebrows" boss Dalton looked at the stormtroopers around him who had lost most of them, and carefully felt the opportunity to slip away, if it weren't for the surrounding devil gendarmerie who never talked nonsense and had been shuttling through the front line, this shadow thief master with a deep hidden second profession would have smeared oil on the soles of his feet.
At this time, in the defensive front, a large area of land has been turned into a filthy mire rich in negative energy by the vomit of the Calamity Emissary.
Luckily, among these defenders are god-worshipping priests who are constantly repelling or dispersing the dead defenders who have turned into zombies. It's just that among the more and more undead creatures that appear, there are gradually more difficult opponents such as demons and ghouls, which makes their pressure increase exponentially.
Watching more and more undead creatures slaughter in the defensive line, even with the pressure of the devil's gendarmerie, panic still sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, quickly spreading among the defending heterotopic mercenaries.
"The target is in place!" shouted a prophetic mage in charge of detection in the caster's force, with all his might.
He was loudly informing his colleagues that the terrifying giant undead monster, the Herald of Calamity, had stepped into a trap that had been prepared for him.
Despite his reluctance to remain in the fortress and fight, the half-lich Sneijder had to contribute to Quest's plan under the influence of the contract. The spell trap designed by him, the half-lich who was most familiar with the characteristics of the undead, was the most important part of the series of plans to destroy the Herald.
"The giant undead creatures created by combining the ritual spells of the two high-level undead demon Prisoner Soul Demon and Corpse Demon are undoubtedly extremely powerful.
But the original design was only to borrow some of the effects of the ritual circle, not to actually summon the monster.
As a result, there is a serious flaw that cannot be remedied - damage accumulation.
In addition to absorbing corpses and souls to increase its various resistances and inflating its health, it also accumulates negative resistances in its body that can inflict special damage on absorbed creatures.
At the moment, most of what it has absorbed is the essence of the Tanari Demon and the Batzu Devil, so-"
At this time, Quis was tossing a silver coin in his hand, which jingled and made a pleasant sound.
Silver coins, known in the lower realms as "poison claws". The reason for its name is simple, because whether it is the Tanari Demon, the Batzu Demon, or the Yugros Demon, these demons that thrive in the lower realms will feel a pinprick pain when they come into contact with this currency.
Mortals with a silver-plated weapon often have an unexpected advantage when fighting these demons, and the silver-plated weapon has a natural damage amplification effect on the damage dealt to the demons.
And if the demons, who are known for their super high physique, are slashed by silver-plated weapons, even if there is only a tiny wound, it will be difficult for them to use their powerful self-healing ability to heal during the battle.
Because of this, silver, which is often second only to gold in other material planes, is rejected by even the most greedy demons in the lower planes. To them, silver coins are not as valuable as copper coins known as green horns.
Quest happened to know this, because to carry out the infiltration operation against the Abyss Plane, he had collected a batch of these strategic materials through the Chamber of Commerce of the Yugros Merchants early on.
A soul prism was exchanged for 500 kilograms of silver, and at such a price of "no deception", Quest bought and hoarded nearly twenty tons of this metal from the Judge Demon.
Preparing for a rainy day, this preparation really came in handy at this time.
If you are in a world where there is no magic, it will take some effort and effort to deal with these metals. However, there are spellcasters in this world, and with the help of the casters in the fortress, a fourth-level transformation spell "Metal Dissolution of Gurustus" solves the problem.
Under the effect of the spell, the silver ingots first turn into a liquid state on their own, and then weave a connected silver web according to the caster's wishes. The silver ingots turned into nets with a metallic sheen, which were placed and filled into hollow shells.
Just as the Apostle of Calamity stepped into the circle of large undead creatures set up by the half-lich Snead himself, and was scrambling to escape the trap that had made his body fragile and his mobility began to decline.
The artillery, loaded with new ammunition, began to bombard it indiscriminately. The "silver bullets" burst apart when they hit the body of the Apostle of Calamity, and the nets made of pure silver were embedded in the monster's huge body in an instant.
The pain, the excruciating pain, the pain that drove the Calamity Apostle insane, all at once took over its mind that wasn't very clear, if it had any.
The damage dealt by the silver net was a hundred times more severe than the previous ordinary cannonballs, and as Snead the Half-Lich had predicted, the negative resistance of the Apostle of Calamity to the metal silver had accumulated to an extremely high level after absorbing a large number of lower realm creatures' bodies and souls.
The Apostle of Calamity was covered in the "Silver Bullet", and with enough flesh and soul nourishment from the flesh and soul of the Tanari demons, the body that had become more and more solid became full of holes, and the flesh and blood covered with filthy earth stumps quickly shrank and lost its vitality.
The deadly silver mesh was embedded deep into its body as the cannonball was inserted, taking with it a large patch of connected body with each attempt to cut it out or squeeze it through the flesh of the body.
And the attempt to annihilate the corroded silver net with the yellow-green slimy corpse that constantly oozes a blasphemous aura is offset by more and more dense artillery bombardments—those responsible for firing cannonballs are barbed demons.
Even through the shell of the shell, they will be affected by the silver mesh inside, so these guys desperately increase the frequency of fire, trying to get these uncomfortable shells to the enemy as quickly as possible.
If the newborn undead monster like the Apostle of Calamity had the ability to think, it would surely taste a mood called "despair" at this moment. As more silver mesh shells were embedded, the originally massive body was reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Sneijder, the half-lich, had only been a shackle to his trap, and the ensuing silver bombardment had made him powerless to struggle.
Even if there are many Tanari demons around to provide "supplements", each time the negative resistance of each demon is enhanced, it is several times more damaged by the silver net.
A powerful undead monster that had just been born and had evolved to the legendary realm was brutally knocked down by less than two tons of silver, which really felt incredible, but it was reasonable.
"So no matter how powerful the monster is, it can't stand the players who can krypton gold, and the war is really about money. ”
In Quest's battle room, the mechanical warrior standing next to the goblin Ricknaz summed it up with the strange words he was good at.