Chapter 33: The Dilemma
The cold crescent moon hung high in the night sky like ink, a few stars blinked lazily, and the thick clouds rolled over the eaves and over the treetops, so frightened that a few crows "quacked" and flew towards the spire tower of the castle, but in the blink of an eye, they were frightened by the two black shadows hovering high in the night sky, and fell into the bushes in the back garden, hiding like quails. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, it was close to midnight, and Kekeba quietly came to Liang Ke's hidden tree and nodded to Liang Ke. Liang Ke raised his eyes to look at the sky, lowered his body and waved his hand back, and then took the lead in jumping high out of the shadow under the tree, stepping on the snow, and rushing towards the gate of Wisteria Manor as fast as a cheetah, behind him Piderow, Tucker and others restrained their breath and followed the footsteps of the adults closely, Praggart and Sanduo were not suitable for light raids due to their huge size, so they could only be used as reserves, waiting for Liang Ke and others to rush into the gate before launching a fierce attack.
From the woods where Liang Ke was hiding, to the gate of the castle less than five hundred meters away, Liang Ke rushed forward as fast as a leopard, from launching, to climbing over the iron fence wall, to slamming open the heavy wooden door with his shoulder, and rushing into the hall where he couldn't see his fingers, it took less than ten breaths. During the afternoon's battle plan research, he and Cokoba imagined many possible scenarios, so when several people rushed into the hall, they quickly dispersed, and the troll warrior quickly took out the prepared fire sickle and prepared to light the torch. But in the blink of an eye, a breeze suddenly blew in the cold hall, and the wind strangely swept through everyone's hair and clothes, and everyone couldn't help but shiver, and before everyone came back to their senses, the copper-clad door closed again and again, Liang Ke instinctively felt the danger, and he yelled, "Take me as the center, back to back guard, lighting!"
In the whole combat plan, Liang Ke's assault team has an unavoidable disadvantage, that is, they are not familiar with the terrain. No one has ever entered the Wisteria Castle since it was built, and Kekeba has no way to find the internal structure diagram, Liang Ke is not worried about the congenital loss of geographical advantage, because he occupies the most important time, this kind of surprise attack of the enemy will not be detected in advance, so this battle is an unprepared encounter for the enemy, as long as the difference in strength is not large, it should be easy to take down the opponent, and Liang Ke can't see that those weak necromancers can hurt their own perverted subordinates without the help of undead creaturesγ
According to the plan, after Liang Ke broke the door, everyone should light the torches as soon as possible, see the situation in the castle clearly, assess the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, ensure their own safety, and determine the comparative advantage before closing the gate and implementing the strategy of catching turtles in the urn. But the door was obviously deliberately closed by the opponent, and the person who closed the door didn't even let these demons notice, which made Liang Ke's keen fighting nerves feel an unprecedented threat. At this moment, with a series of "bangs", the candles on the huge candlesticks in the hall were lit one by one, and in an instant, as far as the eye could see, it was as bright as day. The bright candle flame dazzled everyone's eyes, but Liang Ke still squinted his eyes to see the situation in the hall clearly, and couldn't help but be shocked that the hairs on his whole body exploded.
The position of Liang Ke is in the center of the hall on the first floor of the castle, from the outside, the castle covers an area of about one acre, as the hall of the main building, it is fifty meters square, the wide staircase winds back and forth to the second floor, there is a narrow corridor on the right side of the hall leading to the annex building, and a huge bust is hung on the fireplace on the left. The whole castle is richly decorated, elegant and elegant, and full of artistic atmosphere. But there was no time to dwell on it now, and Liang Ke stared at the eerie people standing opposite him like a wounded wolf. No, to be exact, it was a group of filthy and ugly monsters, zombies with stinking black pus and blood, huge wounds, skeletal warriors with bone knives in their hands and a white sheen, and saliva-scorched, ball-bellied demons standing densely in every corner from the floor to the stairs. Under the candlesticks of the chandeliers, there are also some huge bats hanging upside down between the lattices of the windows, which wrap their bodies more than a meter long with huge meat wings, showing only their red eyes, staring at the prey standing under the hall.
"Ghouls, those guys aren't bats, they're ghouls that feed on carrion, don't be bitten by them, or the corpse poison in their teeth will make you slowly rot and die, and it won't taste good. How did these things end up here, you guys hit the jackpot, these things are not common in hell. Achilles suddenly heard a timely warning from the depths of Liang Ke's soul.
"I'm kao! Say hello before you talk next time! The situation is so tense, you're trying to scare me to death! Stop talking nonsense, tell me how to deal with these disgusting things. Liang Ke was on full alert, and his spirit was highly nervous, and the sudden speech of the demon dragon egg startled him, but he also knew that Achilles must have known the origin of these creatures before he came out to help.
"How to deal with it? Kill them all, there is no other way......
Liang Ke had just exchanged words with Achilles when there was a sudden commotion among the undead creatures on the stairs on the second floor, and they moved to both sides to make way for a passage, and several figures slowly walked out from behind. Although Liang Ke had never seen these people, it was not difficult to judge from the number of personnel and clothing that these people were the targets of his operation, and the only thing that puzzled him was that the girl mage standing at the front and wearing a black robe was not one of the people that Pidero had been monitoring these days. These people stood on the stairs and had no intention of rushing to get started. They observed Liang Ke and the others unhurriedly, whispering a few words from time to time, and after a while, the black-robed female mage came out of the crowd and asked in an ethereal voice, "You guys...... Is it the temple sent to deal with us pagan lackeys?"
The voice of the female mage sounded like a lark singing in the hollow valley, naturally with a charming stereo effect, as if it was whispering a cappella in your ear, and like a lover whispering in your ear, Liang Ke was dizzy when he heard it, and he felt like he was floating on the clouds for a while, and he couldn't wait to find a chair to sit down and talk to this crisp and soft voice. Just as he was about to sink, suddenly, a stinging pain came from the depths of his soul, and Liang Ke immediately broke free from that psychedelic state, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Achilles smiled: "When you see a woman's bones, without little Katyusha, you're finished, stupid." Liang Ke felt that he was at a loss, so he didn't refute it, and glanced at the female mage coldly and said, "It's not about faction, it's just helping." β
"Hehe! No wonder you have the courage to help, not only can you easily find our hiding place, but you can also be afraid of my little tricks, since you have to succeed this hero, then let us see how confident you are to use these trolls to mess with the necromancer's game. Kill!"
With a sharp roar of the female mage, a bone arrow appeared out of thin air, and then dragged a white light and whistled towards Liang Ke, and then all kinds of bone spears and bone teeth attacked them like raindrops, and those undead creatures also got the order to attack, moving their huge bodies, dragging bone knives, bone hammers and other rudimentary weapons to join the battle group, for a while the creaking sound of long knives cutting through bones, and the pop of chopping flesh and bones were endless, and occasionally you could hear the snapping sound of bone spears, bone teeth, and bone knives shattering into powder after falling on solid armor. In this small space, martial arts can no longer play much role, only the purest power confrontation between friend and foe remains, but fortunately, the troll warrior and Tucker are well-equipped, not afraid of ordinary physical attacks, everyone cooperates quite tacitly, and they will not be divided and eaten in a short time. But looking at the steady stream of undead creatures, sooner or later they will also run out of strength, which is the point that people on the battlefield are never as good as the undead.
During the fight, Liang Ke glanced sideways at Pidero and a few others, although they still seemed to be slaughtering those undead creatures on the ground, but the huge bone club in the hands of the evil ghost occasionally landed on the helmet that they didn't have time to retreat, which would shock them into a dizziness, Liang Ke's heart was shocked, and he quickly let out a loud roar: "Tucker! β
Under the protection of the troll, Tucker quickly retreated to the inside of the station circle, took out the messenger cannon in his hand, and pulled it violently, this thing quickly spewed out a tongue of fire, jumped to the roof, and then there was a loud noise, which shook the candle flame, and those gargoyles who had been watching the battle honestly seemed to have been awakened from a dream, and pounced on Tucker who disturbed their rest with a sharp whistling, so frightened that Tucker quickly picked up the warhammer for defense. Liang Ke and the others didn't notice, and several necromancers standing on the stairs pursed their lips and smiled contemptuously.
Time passed little by little, and gradually, Liang Ke had begun to feel the big knife in his hand become extremely heavy, and every time he swung it, the muscles of his arms would be in sharp pain. The corpses that fell at his feet were already more than a man tall, but these damned undead creatures seemed to never be able to kill them, and they tirelessly pounded the precarious defensive formation, and the gargoyles on their heads were like vultures waiting to eat carrion, and a single blow would throw them into chaos. The armor of the trolls has been damaged by the continuous blows, the helmets and arm guards have already been lost in the corpse pile, and most of the Mithril long knives have been lost because they were cut into the huge body of the demon and cannot be pulled out quickly, and Pidero only has two long knives left in his hands, and if this continues, they will be overwhelmed by these undead in less than a quarter of an hour, but the reinforcements who are not far away still do not move.
"Aragorn!I'm afraid we can't wait for reinforcements, I just tried to contact Sanduo, but there was no response, this castle must have been arranged with some kind of barrier, everything that happens here can't be perceived by people outside, including spiritual communication, and they can't break through this barrier, so Kekeba and they definitely don't know that we are facing a crisis until now. Achilles' voice trembled, and it was clear that he was also beginning to worry about how to solve today's dilemma.
"Can't you break through this barrier either?"
"With my current ability, I can't even tell exactly what kind of barrier this is, and if I want to forcibly break this damn barrier, at least wait for the day I break out of the shell. β
"Oh, it's so powerful, it seems that there are masters behind these necromancers, what a difficult guy to deal with! Katyusha, do you have any way to help my brother?" Liang Ke could feel that this time they had reached the critical moment of life and death, and Katyusha would have some ways to deal with the undead, but that would definitely come at the cost of her life, so it was not until the moment of life and death that Liang Ke opened his mouth to ask for help from the little undead.
"Brother, I can, I can use soul drain to bring down these undead at once. "The little undead was excited to pack the ticket because he could help the big brother.
"No! that would quickly weaken Katyusha's life, unless you want her to die. Aragorn immediately raised his objections.
"Katyusha, don't mess around, there's no easy way to do it, just make these pesky undead incapacitated for a short time. Liang Ke asked anxiously.
Katyusha thought for a moment and quickly replied, "Yes, Achilles taught me a method, and I gave it the name Soul Trembling. β
"Don't affect your life, understand?" Liang Ke was still a little uneasy.
"No, it's similar to the undead virus I used before, it barely consumes much mana, and now I can control the target of the spell, but it's a little less powerful. β
"Okay, just use this, wait for my order before you make a move. β
Liang Ke had a quick exchange with Katyusha while observing the situation. They fought and retreated, and had been forced into the corridor on the right by the undead creatures, Liang Ke swung his knife and slashed a skeleton warrior in front of him, shouting, "Tucker, take the gate and rush out." Then he took two hard stabs in the shoulder, and took the lead in reflexively killing the door.
The heavy long knives flew up and down, corpses and broken bones were like rain, Liang Ke and several people guarded the formation, inch by inch towards the wooden door, the mages on the stairs saw that these exhausted sneak attackers were about to die, how could they let them leave easily, they frantically sent the undead creatures around Liang Ke and the others, and low-level magic such as bone teeth, bone arrows, and bone spears were sprinkled at the gate like no money, regardless of whether they could accidentally injure those undead creatures.