Chapter 34: City of the Dead (5) Necromancer
The night was uneventful, and despite the "noise of corpses" outside, we regained our strength and prepared to begin our escape plan in the new morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"Continuous Fireball Technique!" "Wind Blade Technique!" "Flying Swallow Slash Flame!" "Thousand Wave Spear Stabs!" "Recovery Technique!" "Swift Technique!"
Except for Allen, the other six members of our team all started to attack the corpses below on the rooftop, and soon a large number of corpses fell below, and the surrounding zombies filled the gap of the fallen corpses and continued to squeeze towards us.
"Try to take out as many zombies as you can, and make a louder noise to attract more zombies to our side!" I reminded everyone loudly.
"Molten Flame Technique!" Neil also began to move in earnest, sending out a mid-level fire attribute magic from his hand. I saw a large red-hot rock appear from a high altitude and smash it down from top to bottom against the zombie group, knocking down a large number of zombies in an instant. The heat burned all the zombies in that area, and we could even smell barbecue on the rooftop, of course, we didn't have the mood and appetite to smell it at all, the taste was too strong. And the zombies below have been completely attracted by our actions, as if they are fearless, not afraid of the high temperature of the ground at all, slowly huddled under us little by little, and in the end it is difficult to turn around.
"How's that, Alan, do you have any extra space over there for us to land?" I turned around and asked Aren behind me aloud.
"Well, Captain, but there are a few scattered zombies wandering downstairs that aren't being lured away. Alan replied to me.
"It's okay, let me go down and deal with them first, and get ready to launch the ropes!" Bard said to Alan.
"Ok, Captain, I'm firing!" Alan saw me nodding and pressed the trigger of the heavy repeater crossbow in his hand.
"Whoosh~" The bow and arrow tied to the rope were quickly launched, and the "bang" sounded firmly into the wall of the first floor of the tall building opposite.
"Okay, Alan, you tie the rope to the railing on the roof of the building, and pull it tight! Okay, look at me!" Bud saw that Alan had tied the rope as he had requested, and immediately sprinted with all his might, doing a front flip, using his nimble body to put his feet on the rope as if it were flat ground, and ran down quickly.
"Quick, hurry up, in order!" I began to ask the rest of the people to leave the roof, except for Link, who can use his nimble body to run on the rope like Bud, the rest of them can only hang their weapons on the rope, and quickly slide down with both hands tightly, and immediately start to destroy the scattered zombies around after landing, so as not to get in the way, but because the other side of the diversion attack is gone, the rest of the zombies are gradually attracted by the sound of attacks on our side, and begin to slowly rush towards us.
After Neil jumped, I was finally the only one left, I hung the body of the cross gun on the rope, and then jumped off the roof, grabbed the two ends of the gun and quickly slid down from the roof, as long as I slid to the first floor of the opposite building, I could let go and fall to the ground to join everyone.
"Bang!" The railing with ropes tied to the roof of the building has rotted due to the baptism of time, and this time it seems that it has finally broken because of the rapid rappelling of several of us, alas, it is really a flying disaster, as the leader of the mercenary team, I lost my balance in the air at this moment because of the breakage of the railing, and fell down...
"Chris!" Anne, who was on the ground, shouted nervously.
"It's okay, don't worry!" I responded to her loudly in the air, and then grabbed the gun with both hands, the head of the gun went up, a front flip, and used the inertia of the forward rush to adjust the posture to face the opposite high-rise wall, and at the moment when I was about to hit the wall, I plunged the gun head into the wall, and hung it in the air as an aerial lever, and then kicked the wall with both feet to pull out the spear, jumped down, and aimed at a stupid fat zombie on the ground is a shot, and immediately split it in half. Well, it works very well, and this top-down marksmanship will be called the "Dragon Lance" in the future, I thought to myself, and then put away the spear and ran back to the group.
"The battle is successful, get out of here quickly!" I ran back to my friends and shouted, everyone immediately ran quickly towards the depths of the city, there were not many zombies in front of them, most of them should be following us slowly, just speed up and enter the city again to search for the traces of the big brother!
But at this time, Neil, who was at the end of the line, slowly stopped, and turned his head to face the corpses behind him.
"Let's go, Neil, we don't have time to waste this group of monsters, or we'll have to be surrounded again!" Neil didn't speak, but pulled out his magic guide and pointed his finger at the tall buildings on either side of the road.
"Molten Magic!" he shouted, and a massive piece of lava slammed into the bottom of the tall building, knocking it down. "Molten Flame!" he used the same magic on the tall buildings on the other side, and the collapsed ruins of the two buildings buried a large group of zombies inside, and more importantly, the entire street was blocked, and the zombies were almost blocked by a thick wall of ruins. These stupid guys don't go around the road, they keep reaching out and yelling at us, but they can't take a step forward.
"Now they don't expect to catch up with us, you can relax a little and move on!" "The clever Neil used his methods to help us block the pursuers, and now we can continue to explore the city without worrying about it.
"That's amazing, Neil, I can catch my breath now, otherwise I'll be chased around by this group of zombies like a lost dog in the future, it's too much trouble!" said Emma happily.
"Good job, blonde boy!" Bard smiled at Neil as he returned to his usual relaxed appearance.
"Well, is this what it's called resourcefulness?" Link said to himself, his left hand propped up his right hand, and his right hand pinched his chin, "Compared to him, this one—" Link squinted at me.
"What do you see, if it weren't for me, how would you have come down?" I said, standing next to him, a little unpleasantly, hum, I was out of the limelight by Neil again, as the captain, I won't lose!
"Alright, alright, don't talk about it, let's go!" Anne persuaded her.
"Yes, Captain, it's not a good place to stay long!" Alan said eagerly, but with a heavy helmet on his head covering his face, he couldn't imagine how nervous he was at this moment.
So, we set off again, and although there were zombies along the way, there were few of them, and they didn't pose a threat to us at all. After searching for a while, we came to a very large square in the city. This square is really big enough, it is estimated to be larger than the entire mercenary camp, but there are still a lot of bones and weapons scattered around the square, it seems that a lot of people have died here, there may have been some fierce battles here before!
At the end of the plaza stood a two-story high platform, with long stairs to go up from all four directions, "It must be nice to look down from the platform, let's go up and have a look!" Emma suggested.
I nodded, thinking to myself that Emma really had a brain muscle, when this was a sightseeing tour? Besides, there was nothing under the high platform, only bones everywhere, what was there to see?
Just as we approached the high platform, an old voice suddenly sounded from the top of the high platform: "Who are you? dare to trespass on my territory, and not leave quickly?" The voice was not very loud, but countless echoes resounded in the empty square, giving people an awe-inspiring and inviolable sense of majesty.
We looked up at the high platform, and saw a scrawny old man on the high platform, followed by a skeleton that could walk freely like a human. It is said that he is skinny, and it can be seen from his face that his eye sockets are deep, his cheekbones are prominent, his face is emaciated, his chin is very sharp as if he had been cut by a knife, his skin is loose and inelastic, and he has big bags under his eyes, and he walks tremblingly.
The old man was dressed in a black robe, a black triangular pointed hat, a skeletal cane in his hand, his eyebrows and beard were all white, his beard was waist-length (why do I feel that old magicians are like this, it is so characterless), he wore a pair of square glasses on the bridge of his nose, his eyes were deep and bright, he seemed to be in good spirits, and he was looking at us with a majestic face, as if he thought we were burglary thieves.
"There are still living people in the City of the Dead? he can't be the legendary necromancer, right?" Emma whispered.
The rest of our team nodded in agreement, if this old man didn't speak, we would all treat him as a dry corpse, how old is he? Did he manipulate all these zombies that attacked us? Did he kill so many innocent people and manipulate them into walking corpses? Thinking of this, I lost the slightest affection for this old man who looked like a dry corpse, and immediately replied to him loudly: "We are here to find people, and the day before yesterday, a tiger warrior with a big knife arrived here, do you know?"
"I don't know this person, and even if I did, I wouldn't have to answer you. The old man was full of uncooperative tones.
"You didn't hurt my eldest brother, did you? Neil stepped forward and said loudly.
"Presumptuous!" the old man smashed the bottom of his skeletal cane to the ground, "Is my territory a place for you and other rats to mess around? If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude to you!" As soon as he finished speaking, he raised the skeleton cane in his hand and stretched it out to the top of his head, only to see that the two eyes of the skeleton on the cane emitted a dazzling light, and the white bones scattered in the square were automatically combined as if they were attracted by magnets, and became like skeletons that could move behind the old man. The difference is that they are slowly approaching us with various weapons in hand...