Chapter 56: The Lair of Darkness (Part II)
"For Kislev!"
In the dark and deep tunnels, Rhodes raised the Thunder Tomahawk and rushed over with a loud roar.
The moment the ice wall shattered, bullets shot out of the shotguns and flew towards the bloodthirsty ghouls with the frictional heat.
Holding the axe in one hand, Rhodes slashed down a red-eyed ghoul with fangs with an axe, turned sideways to avoid the bite of the other ghoul, and then grabbed its neck while the ghoul was in the air and his body was out of balance, smashing its head on the blade of his axe, and the Mithril battle axe was inserted into the skull, and when he pulled it out, scarlet and black pus and blood splattered.
Rhode noticed that these ghouls were of different forms, not all of them were completely mutated, and some of them could be newborn ghouls that had just gnawed at the corpse, their appearance was still vaguely human, their fingers had not yet grown sharp claws, there were still human hair on their heads, and their eyes were still black or gray in the form of humans.
What surprised Rhod even more was that some of the resurrected zombies were not even humans, they were much shorter than humans, and they looked like rat people! Thinking about how the hunting party had entered this underground labyrinth at the beginning, Rhodes quickly guessed that this was once a rair of the rat people! It was only led by the ghoul king, and now, the occupancy of this lair has become the ghoul king and his men, and the original nezumi have been killed and resurrected as their slaves......
This would explain why the entrance was so small that it could only accommodate dwarves, and the others had to bend down to enter. Well, if it's a rat man's tunnel, then, it must have other exits!
Thinking so, Rhodes severed another ghoul's arm with another axe, mending it with an axe as the other man screamed, slicing open its chest. The Kingdom Knight on the other side was even more violent, strangling the ghoul by the neck with a sharp iron flail before screwing the ghoul's head off his body with a roar.
The bloody battle lasted about ten minutes, and the zombies and ghouls came in waves, but in the end they all fell under the swords of the hunting team. The price was that when they came in, more than two dozen people were intact, and now, only twelve were left uninjured, and the others were more or less wounded, Caroline's shoulder was torn open, and Rhodes simply bandaged her shoulder with gauze, and Bogur had a piece of flesh bitten off the back of her neck by ghouls, and the Moors applied a special ointment to it to prevent the wound from suppurating and infecting.
The knight of the kingdom was stabbed in the abdomen by the skeleton warrior with a spear, but fortunately the hard armor saved his life, the tip of the spear only pierced the iron piece and the leather armor inside, leaving a small hole in the skin of the abdomen, so it did not go deeper, the attendants took off the heavy armor, and then applied a hemostatic agent to the wound to stop the bleeding and then put the armor on Pirno's body again, because such a small wound is not easy to wear armor if it is wrapped in a bandage, for a knight, without armor, the protection ability will be greatly reduced。
The Gnosca Marauders that Rhodes was carrying also had more or less wounds, but they didn't wear heavy armor, so they wrapped a few laps of simple bandages and continued on their way.
The most seriously injured was a Night Raven of the Moorish Order, a brave hunter who was knocked down by hordes of zombies in the battle and was frantically bitten on the ground, but fortunately he drank the life potion before the battle, and his skin became as solid as a rock in the face of the undead, but when the effect wore off, he was left with countless cuts all over his body, as well as shocking tooth marks.
Dafert left two of his companions behind to care for the wounded, while the others moved on. A small bookstore
With the faint light of the torch, the rest of the group continued to explore the cave, and the vial in Daft's hand was the key to guiding them to the vampire. Horrifyingly, after slaughtering a wave of zombies and ghouls, the light of the vial in the Raven Captain's hand showed no signs of fading, and even the closer he got to the depths of the cavern, the brighter the vial light became. This proves that everyone knows very well what they do.
The tunnel became wider and wider as you went, which was unexpected, but you could feel that the intersecting tunnels were converging, like the main channel of countless tributaries flowing into a large river, so that the originally small tunnels became wider and wider.
Rhodes ordered everyone to be vigilant, because the narrower the tunnel, the safer it is, and the more spacious it is, sometimes it is full of crises.
The air became cloudy here, and the smell of blood and rotting flesh became more pronounced. If there was black technology, Rhodes would have liked to come in wearing a gas mask to counteract the lingering stench. You can see that everyone is holding back, because the real enemy may be not far away.
They killed a few more sporadic undead monsters, half-undead monsters, and the tunnel grew wider and wider, almost forming a spacious cavern instead of a tunnel.
Some mutated ghouls let out a low roar here, but they didn't dare to attack again, and the strange atmosphere alerted Rhodes again.
Soon, this sense of crisis became a reality. At the end of the cavern, a group of dark shadows approached, unlike all the undead creatures they had encountered before, these creatures looked more like humans from a distance, they had the size and height of humans, and at the same time, relying on his keen hearing, Rhodes heard the sound of the heavy armor trembling.
The bottle in Dafert's hand glowed with a blazing blue light like crazy, almost bursting the bottle.
The undead forces are so powerful here that even the palms of the seasoned Night Ravens oozed sweat.
"Brothers, we have an opponent. ”
The figures in the darkness were revealed, and it was only then that everyone could see their true colors—a group of undead warriors in heavy armor. Their bodies had rotted away, leaving only a mass of eerie white skeletons to build up massive armor, but that didn't affect their strength or speed at all. The eerie white bony fingers held a handful of dark weapons, the power of the weapons was terrifying, compared to the weapons of ordinary human soldiers, these dark warriors' weapons were obviously much more sophisticated, and the magical energy contained in them was even more unbearable than ordinary humans.
"Grave Guard. Daft whispered. "They're coming to hunt us......"
The hunter becomes the prey...... Obviously, those low-level undead creatures killed along the way are nothing to this army of vampires lurking underground. These black-clad undead guards are their true workhorse.