"Not too successful?" Lily touched her nose, "Why?" ”

"Because the ideal of wizards is to create creatures that are cheap, obedient, neat, and smart enough to perform some complex operations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, the only thing that can be achieved is 'cheap', after all, the creation of undead only requires the use of ready-made organisms, saving the time and cost of artificial cultivation. "But imperfect bodies can't withstand complex intelligence, and using the original soul is not only inhumane, but also fills the undead with resentment towards the wizard - to put it bluntly, the obedient are not smart enough, and the smart are not at all obedient." As for neatness...... Not to mention. ”

"However, because they are essentially assistants to wizards, the undead are usually not very intelligent, and tend to follow the orders of a certain leader." The pink girl added, "As for the higher-level undead who lead them...... Or something else, I'm afraid I'll have to investigate it myself. ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Lily clapped her hands, "Let's go, be careful, don't get caught by those stupid bones or rotten meat!" ”

She waved her arm and led the way. Eskar reverted back to her goshawk form, alerting her from above for anything ahead. The two witches on the team paused for a moment after each stretch, Yuffie leaving her magical imprint on the trees or ground, while Lynn carefully took some plant or soil samples, saying they would later use them for analysis. Luckily, Amberie and Lynn were much faster than Roar, and they didn't slow down the team.

After walking for more than an hour, the scene that Eskar had seen before gradually came into everyone's eyes. The war seemed to be coming to an end, and judging from the formation of the two sides, it was clear that one side of the undead had the upper hand, while the other 'army' retreated somewhat haphazardly. However, the battlefield was littered with the corpses of both sides - the victor's losses were no less, and after a symbolic pursuit for a moment, they stopped and let the other side's army drift away.

The mercenary swept her gaze across the battlefield. The army of the undead seems to be dominated by zombies and skeletons, and in addition to humans, there are nearly equal numbers of beasts and birds. In Lily's opinion, the fighting power of those bison or wildebeest zombies is probably much stronger than that of humans who only know how to wield weapons indiscriminately and move slowly.

In addition to this, there are several knights in shabby armor who ride on bone mounts. They seem to be self-conscious, methodically gathering the forces after the war, and directing them to gather the scraps of flesh, bones, and 'corpses' of the enemy on the ground into large baskets, and then carry them in the other direction.

"What's that?" The mercenary poked Yuffie with her elbow.

"Guardian of the Dead." Yuffie's voice was tinged with respect, "In order to create this special kind of undead, someone must voluntarily sacrifice their body and soul and make an eternal vow to achieve a certain goal. They have the memories and experiences of life, but they are forever bound by their vows and cannot be truly free. She put a hand to her chest, "Oaths do not distinguish between good and evil, but generally speaking, people can only have such awareness if they are determined to protect something." ”

"So they're good people?" Alphonse's eyes flashed.

"I don't know—maybe so." Yuffie replied, "The Undead Guardians obviously couldn't have spawned spontaneously, so there must have been someone who created them." As long as you find that person, maybe the reason for everything will be understood. ”

Lily snorted, narrowed her eyes, and turned her gaze to the other troop that was evacuating. They seem to be a lot more numerous than the undead, but the power of the individual is lower.

The most numerous unit in the army is a strange creature that is no more than half a man tall. They have wrinkled, dark red skin, no hands or feet in the usual sense, instead short, thick limbs that are glued to their bodies, and look like half-melted, bloated humanoids, or tumbling clumps of rotten flesh. Their features had long since been deformed, leaving only two hollow, sunken eyes, and a mouth that took up half of their faces—always wide open, and they made moans or muttered indistinctly.

They wielded their slimy limbs and squirmed and crawled forward. As they went, a dark red viscous liquid dripped from their bodies, leaving marks on the ground, and in an instant, they were covered in the marks of their counterparts behind them.

"This ......," Bell covered his mouth with his hands, "it's the most ...... I've ever seen Disgusting guy! And it's such a big crowd...... What the hell is this!? ”

"Bad Devil." Yuffie pursed her mouth, it was rare for Lily to see her so serious, "In the outer plane...... One of the lowest creatures in the world that tends to be evil. She turned to face her friend, "Try your summoning spell on otherworldly creatures, Lynn." ”

The blonde girl did as she was told. She quickly drew a simple silver circle on the ground, then chanted a spell—the circle emitted a shimmer of light, but nothing could be summoned.

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work." She shook her head, "Looks like you guessed right." ”

"Well, the astral plane is still impassable, and in this case, it is impossible to summon creatures from the outer plane here by known means." Yuffie explained to Lily and the others, her tone completely devoid of the joy of guessing the facts, "The other party must have mastered some long-term channel that can send these creatures here in a steady stream. And it's not just bad demons—"

She pointed to the ranks of the enemy, and Lily followed her fingertips to see small creatures with dark brown batwing wings and disgusting green skin flying over the enemy; Carrying a broken and rusty spear, its body seemed to be covered in blood and covered in bones; and creatures clad in filthy animal skins, with striking pitch-black sheep's heads, black halberds, and muscles all over their bodies.

"Kwassey, Babu, Hill." The pink maidens called out their names one by one, "They are all relatively inferior beings, but unlike the dregs of the soul of the inferior demons, they are the real Tanali, or 'demons' - beings from the bottomless abyss. ”

"That is......" Lily took a breath, "the enemy we're going to deal with...... Is it an army of demons? ”

"Absolutely." Yuffie wrapped his hands around his shoulders and said calmly, "Besides, this is only the enemy's striker, maybe there are more advanced guys behind him-what, are you scared?" ”