A lonely star loomed among the dark clouds of the night sky, and a cool breeze blew through the treetops, startling a few owl calls and breaking the silence deep in the mountain forest.

"Damn it!" The two dwarf warriors carried axes through the mountains and forests, as dwarves, they have the talent of "dim vision", which allows them to see their surroundings clearly as long as they have even the slightest glimmer of light, so naturally they no longer need to use torches like humans when patrolling at night.

"Goo-goo-goo-goy-goo-goo-goy-goo-got-goo-goy-gooy-gooy-got-goo-goy-got-gooy-got-gooy-got

"Yes!" At the mention of his lovely daughter, the dwarven warrior next to him suddenly became much more excited, he wore a funny hat on his head, and he had already picked up a wine bag in his hand, but he did not drink immediately, but said happily: "It's next month, but His Majesty has not returned yet, I think there is probably no way to invite him to preside over it in person." ”

"Well, it's not been very peaceful lately, I heard that a civil war has broken out on the human side, and the undead legion that has not appeared in 200 years has also appeared, and it may not be long before we will be dispatched to fight side by side with our human allies again. The bearded dwarf said.

As they walked, the two dwarves who patrolled the mountain said that they would have to walk for at least an hour to return to the Rock Fortress, where they were already familiar with every plant and tree, and that there would be no problems even with their eyes closed.

"Huh?" the bearded dwarf stopped suddenly, and he stared at the clearing that appeared not far away, which was supposed to be part of a dense forest, and it was really strange that someone had cut down those tall trees and cleared a large clearing of land now.

The bearded dwarf beckoned his companions and walked over, and when they were on top of the clearing, they realized that the ground was not level, and there were countless faint marks on the ground, as if someone had scribbled on it. The dwarf with the funny hat was stunned for a moment, and said to the bearded companion beside him, "This, this is very much like a magic array, but I remember that no one of us dwarves seems to be good at this?"

"Could it be a human or an elf?" said the bearded dwarf, when he suddenly saw a shadow appear behind his companion, and he immediately reminded in shock: "Be careful with your ......"

That's all the bearded dwarf said, for a pair of sharp claws had already slashed through his neck, and he fell to his knees clutching his throat in pain, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not breathe any more air. In a trance, the bearded dwarf saw his companion's throat slit by a skeleton, and he finally understood what had happened, but then fell into an eternal sleep.

The strange magic spell was recited softly, and two black orbs appeared in the palm of a gray-robed lich, and after completing the spell, the lich waved his white bone arm and threw the two orbs at the dwarven ranger who fell to the ground bleeding profusely, and the latter's body immediately appeared a large area of ulceration after touching the black "corrosive orb", and yellow pus gushed out quickly and flowed on the ground, and a pungent and unpleasant smell soon appeared in the air. A few minutes later, the bodies of the two dwarven rangers were melted into a cloud of yellow water by the evil magic, and finally slowly seeped into the dirt.

More than a dozen black shadows reappeared in the middle of the clearing, each of them wearing black lich robes, the gray-robed lich who had dealt with the accident saluted these black-robed lichs, and continued to start the alert with the giant bone golem that killed the two dwarves, and those black-robed lichs did not pay attention to their companions at all, and they really did not have time to distract now, because the entire magic array had been carried out at the most critical time.

This is part of the Lich Lord Nicholas's entire attack plan, in order to ensure that the dwarves can't send a message for help to their allies in time, Nicholas's undead legion has sent a large number of people to quietly infiltrate the vicinity of the dwarf city, they arrange a considerable number of magic arrays according to a certain direction, once these magic arrays are successfully arranged and opened, it will have a huge impact on the dwarven city, and its most direct point is to interfere with the stability of the space-time teleportation magic array, so that the dwarves can't use this means to contact their allies, as for the help team sent by the dwarves, Nicholas also arranged enough people to snipe themIt is imperative that the entire attack achieves a sudden goal, so as to achieve the combat goal in one go.

After several days of continuous night efforts, the entire magic array has been nearly completed, each of these large and small hundreds of magic arrays has a black-robed lich personally presiding, during the day they will be shrouded in a layer of illusion to hide the dwarf's sight, as for the night intruder accidentally, naturally like the two dwarven rangers just now, died of death, and by the time the dwarf sensed that something was wrong to conduct a large-scale search, the undead legion would have already launched an attack.

"What? Cassano didn't rush north? Ryan and the others still stayed in Ironfist Castle, and the three adult red dragons flew around over Cassano every day?"

"Ryan, if they don't go north, it won't take more than 4 hours to fly at full speed by the red dragon from Cassano to Blackstone Mountain, no, the time of our surprise attack must be changed, I can't risk failure!" Nicholas's voice appeared a little faster, and it said to several red-robed lichs in front of him, "What do you think?"

The lichs under the demigod lich are all distinguished by the color of the clothes they wear, among which the gray robe is the worst, the black robe is strong enough to be independent, and the few red-robed lich are all the most powerful assistants, each of them is carefully selected by the demigod lich, both in strength and talent, it is very similar to the dragon vein descendant like Catherine, but it is not explicitly accepted by Constance as a student. This time, Nicholas occupied Senate's body and brought over 4 at one time, which can be said to be an unprecedented large-scale gesture by the Undead Legion.

"Nicholas, when we set up the magic array, we have already cleaned up dozens of small reptiles one after another, and if the time of the surprise attack changes, it is easy to expose the intentions of our army. ”

"I second, and I don't think there's a need to worry too much about Ryan's threat, we're not inferior to them. ”

"No, Nicholas's strength is enough to deal with that Ryan, and the Elven Queen can only play a supporting role, not to mention that she is not in Cassano now, and we have always had an advantage in terms of strength. It's just that now there are three adult red dragons on Ryan's side, and that's the most troublesome, because we can't guess what the dragons mean. ”

"I think the surprise attack must be fast, we must cooperate with the 'friends' of the other world, as long as we can open the passage between this plane and the other world, we can pay the necessary price. As for the human legendary mage and his friends, I suggest that Sandru's offensive be more violent, and if necessary, let it sacrifice twelve black-robed lichs to open the void passage again, as long as 20 more frost bone dragons are dispatched, plus 300 dark rune knights, I believe that the pressure on the imperial capital will make all humans nervous, so that their power can be mobilized. ”

The four red-robed lichs each stated their opinions, they did not argue with each other, but just said their thoughts for Nicholas's reference, and the lich lord Nicholas pondered for a while before he spoke: "The attack time remains the same, but we must strengthen the blockade of the dwarves, so that this news is delayed for at least 5 to 7 days, this time should be enough for us to break through the dwarves' defenses." In addition, I will send heavy troops to Cassano to the way to help the dwarves, and if he does come to the rescue, they will be killed together. If Ryan had come in person, I would have dealt with him. Well, I'll assign ......"

Ryan stood at the top of Tekken's tallest building, his spire-topped magic tower, with a small platform for a view of the surrounding landscape. Ryan silently watched the long procession at his feet, just a rough estimate, there were more than three thousand people participating in the selection of magic apprentices today, and the whole team was sent from the gate of the castle to the north gate of the new city, this view can be said to be quite spectacular.

Under the vigorous publicity and promotion of Ryan, Victor and others, the mainland people's understanding and understanding of magic is no longer as strange as before, and many people even know some superficial magic spells, such as "illumination" and the like, although the vast majority of people have no way to really release it, but from this point of view, the popularity of magic in the human world is indeed becoming more and more widespread.

For the situation in front of him, Ryan is of course very happy in his heart, but he also has a worry, because Cassano's population base is too small, in the past period of many selections, in fact, almost some people with magical talent have been selected, and now it is naturally much more difficult to select more magic apprentices from those who have repeatedly selected the crowd, and because of Ryan's famous deeds, many people blindly pursue the path of magic, completely ignoring whether they really have magical talents, just blindly emphasizing hard work, often leading to half the effort, this bad sign has also appearedAlthough there are not many cases, Ryan is already thinking about how to calm the impetuousness caused by the promotion of magic.