Chapter XV: Biological Weapons

The arrival of the new force in this way surprised the militia on the hill.

Usually just imagining the hunting scene makes people feel uncomfortable, but now I feel a sense of relief and pleasure when I see it.

What a relief result to think that the corpses of those enemies have become friendly forces!

"Hahahaha, that's great!" Tucker, who was in tears, couldn't help but laugh out loud and thanked the necromancer, "Thank you, Mr. Mage, for keeping our brother's body."

"The Lord has said that they are all martyrs, and they cannot be blasphemed." After absorbing a magic stone, the necromancer said faintly, "According to the order, each person can get ten gold coins."

Ten?

"What are you talking about...... Gold? Ten more?" Tucker suspected he had misheard, "This...... That's too much, isn't it?"

For the poor mountain people, even if the wind and rain are smooth in a year, there are no disasters and no difficulties, and the next gold coin can be saved by saving food and frugality.

However, often in the second year, the gold coins have to be spent for various helpless reasons.

In addition to the local products, everything from outside the mountains is expensive, but in order to survive, people have to grit their teeth and accept it.

If someone gives ten gold coins, the people here will definitely sell their lives to him, even if it is cheaper, there are many people who sell their lives, otherwise the bandits will not grow so quickly.

But there are many old men who make the poor work hard, and there are very few who are really willing to give gold coins.

Besides, if there are a lot of gold coins, who wants to stay in this barren mountain and live in the wilderness?

What does a nobleman get in the end when he gives gold to a group of people who have been abandoned in the mountains by the gods?

The necromancer glanced at the militiamen in a daze, and added, as if he was afraid that they would not be shocked enough.

"If the deceased's parents have no one to take care of them, the lord will pay for the support of the villagers."

"If the deceased has no children to support, they can be sent to Silver Dragon Castle, and His Highness will let them go to school."

To tell the truth, the zombie-like face of the necromancer said such a serious thing, and there was really an indescribable sense of disobedience, which made the few living people who were still alive to hear these words feel a lot of emotion.

What the demons said turned out to be so beautiful......

"Sacrificed to protect the territory, the lord will erect a monument to the heroes in the local area, and the names of the martyrs will be engraved on it, so that people will pay homage to them forever."

If you get a pension, you can still become a hero?

All the people who heard these words had a sense of surprise and surprise that they didn't know how to describe, that they were lucky to be able to survive today, and that they could get more gifts if they died in battle?

Our lord is too merciful, isn't he?

Tucker's tears this time were not because of pain, but because they were too moved.

Originally, the lord's elimination of harm for the people was enough to make the people grateful to Dade, and they were willing to reward the living, compassionate the dead, and erect a monument to commemorate them.

"Those who survive are all heroes of battle, and they will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds." The necromancer summoned ten more skeletons, took a short break, and said, "Your Highness will not treat the loyalists badly, and will not spare the betrayals."

The lord is rich now, the production and sales of the products in the workshop are booming, gold coins are rolling in from all over the place, maybe the shelves of the new army have not been erected, but the military salary and magic stones are enough.

The banner on the mountain showed morale like a rainbow, and the skeletons on the hillside picked up their weapons and rolled down, this time it was the turn of the opposite Iwasu and the bandits to be directly dumbfounded.

If you can't beat it regardless of losses, how can you fight it next?

This kind of battle could not be fought, and Iwasu gritted a mouthful of metal-covered teeth and gave the order to retreat in hatred.

"It's getting dark, the old men are tired and go home to rest, next time kill them all! Bah...... Count them lucky."

If you don't withdraw, you can't do it, hundreds of skeletons that were still your own people half a day ago have already rushed to kill their own people, and the formation is too terrifying.

The battle was outrageous beyond imagination, and the remaining bandits, fearing that they would also be turned into skeletons after they died in battle, had already begun to turn around and flee by themselves, and swept down a large number of people who supervised the battle.

If we had to force them to attack, I am afraid that there would be a mutiny next, and so many people would run into the mountains and they would not be able to catch them if they wanted to.

Iwasu knew that if he wanted to restore his morale, he had to go home to be able to use his grace and power, and let these drunken guys pour a stomach full of spirits, and then find some slaves who were not sorry to die for them to vent their grievances, and they could barely stabilize people's hearts.

I also have to find a chick who looks similar to the female knight to vent my anger......

The bandits should be glad that Iwasu is a gambler who dares to bet, but he is not a madman who suffers more and more.

It is impossible to recover losses from the battlefield, so make up for them elsewhere.

That night, Iwasaki's men sneaked out of an unknown cave and attacked a small village loyal to the lord, brutally killing a dozen old and weak people who had not left the mountain, looting all useful things and setting them on fire.

This kind of thing has been done too much before, so the bandits will not have any chance of missing, and all the villagers have suffered miserably, and there is no time to call for help.

The silence is not for the sake of secrecy, since the bandits want real power, they don't care about letting the lord army know, arson is the most clear signal.

The fire in the mountain burned like a provocation in the night, and even outside the mountain you could see the fireworks rising into the sky.

By the time the lord's army, led by the militia, arrived over the mountains, it was too late.

This is Iwasu's challenge to Ninia, although he suffered a big loss on the frontal battlefield, but he has to prove that the lord cannot protect his people, and everyone will only be precarious if they follow this demon lord, unless they never go into the mountains to live.

As long as the lord's army can't exterminate the bandits, they will continue to run rampant in the mountains, but it is not easy to storm a fully fortified mining town, and Iwasu knows the pits better than anyone else, and it is suitable for stubborn resistance.

On the contrary, if anyone dares to betray the bandits, then it is difficult to escape the fate of being killed, and the mine is the passage to death.

There are still many inhabitants in the mountains, and it is impossible for the lord's army to cover everything, and no matter how many troops are put in the mountains, it is like sprinkling a handful of pepper noodles in soup, and it will soon disappear without a trace.

Ninia may be able to capture some points, but the bandits are not cornered, and the dwarven mines and mines are their way out.

As long as they wish, they can come and go freely in the mountains, as if they were in a no-man's land, and kill anyone who dares to resist them.

Ninia's response to this unscrupulous provocation came quickly and ruthlessly, and she came this time not only to suppress the rebellion, but also to have some more special weapons experimental projects.

No one is better suited to experiment than traitors and enemies, and the lord has authorized Ninia to judge the occasion for her own use, and he will be responsible for any accidents.

The next night, almost at the same time that the bandits attacked the village yesterday, Harpy flew over the last remaining fortress outside Iwasu with a new weapon made by the lord.

Tens of thousands of demon bees in the fifteen large bee hives poured out of the nest, stung all the bandits inside to the ground, and the deadly venom did not cause too much severe pain, and quickly caused people to have anesthesia and hallucinations.

Dozens of people lost consciousness, jumped from the fortress, and eventually became fodder for the monsters.

It was a gift from Seid, and as one of the recent research in Silver Dragon Castle, the little devil had various local wild bees and the poisonous bees of the Demon Domain engage in an all-round exchange iteration, creating a poisonous demon bee that sealed its throat with a bloody needle.

It takes time to transform and breed, and Seid's farm is limited in scale, and if Vincent hadn't been in a hurry to send him some to the battlefield for experiments, the child would have planned to transform it into more, more ruthless, and more capable of giving birth to it, and then use griffons to release it into the territory of the Herodes.

The intended target was the junction with the Jungle of the West, a testing ground for the Herodians to create sandstorms.

In the spirit of humanitarianism, the demons are deeply sympathetic to the tragic plight of the elves, and are willing to provide them with biological weapons suitable for forest areas to support.

But since someone is dying, Vincent doesn't mind doing some small experiments in his own territory first.

To make matters worse, some female demon bees do not sting, but their larvae are parasitic animals.

Some bandits may not have been poisoned and escaped, but they have inexplicably become hosts, and will be devoured into an empty shell within a month.

Back in the old nest, they are all walking beehiriots, and one person can release dozens of demon bees.

The lethality and quantity are guaranteed, and the only trouble is recycling, which requires demon members to use special spells to make the swarm gather and retract it, so as not to become a disaster in the territory.

Of course, Syd is not ignorant of Vincent's desire to protect the people, so the demon bee also has some deliberately created defects, such as not being resistant to heat or cold, and its lifespan is generally less than a month, even if it is not recovered, it is impossible to survive for a long time.

In any case, this biological weapon is enough to deal with bandits who think they can save their lives by shrinking.

No matter what kind of solid armor they wear, all bandits who are not sealed and protected will inevitably die.

At night, there was a dead silence in the fortress of hundreds of garrisons, and the usually brightly lit fortress was pitch black, no different from a giant beast that died in the night.

In this creepy way, the demons issued a warning to the arrogant Iwasu - it is useless to hide in fortresses and mines in the face of the power of the lord's army.

Although Ninia did not participate in person this time, the consequences were definitely more terrifying than the last time - at least there were survivors in the last surprise attack, and this time the people inside died before they even had time to run.

The undefended fortress was just an ornament, and after Harpy's investigation found that only corpses remained, so after recovering the demon bees, the militia climbed the stone fortress that should have been easy to defend and difficult to attack, and lowered the ladder to let more people in, completely occupying the place.

The effect of the demon bee is too good, even if the people inside are wearing armor, the exposed parts are not spared, and many people's bodies can still see thick and long stingers sinking into the skin, revealing the dry part of the body and shining with a strange luster.

In addition to turning dead corpses into skeletons to replenish their forces, this time the lord's army also specially identified the corpses parasitized by demon bees.

Such corpses could not be simply brutally sacrificed with necromancy, but were to be transported back to the experimental base of Silverdragon Castle, where they could be preserved and hatched in a safe place for Syd to continue to select the offspring with more powerful traits.

The Demon Bee will not attack the Demon Clan's dependents with blood spells, which makes the soldiers of the Volunteer Legion secretly congratulate themselves on their choice.

In the various bizarre tactics of the demons, the blood curse is not only a sign of loyalty in Ninia's mouth, but also a reliable mark of identification between friend and foe, so that she can get more safety and results.

In private, there are already people who boast about their blood curses to others - you don't even dare to use the blood curse, what a coward!

Thanks to the biological weapons, the weapons and materials inside are intact, and even the road leading to the mining town is unguarded, and the hidden mountain road is directly open to the territorial army.

The militiamen of the Volunteer Regiment were so demoralized and eager to make meritorious contributions that the battle was too boring and boring, and some of the brave men took it upon themselves to put on bandit clothes and walked along the mountain roads without permission.

This was inspired by Ninia's surprise attack on the first line of defense, which led the young people to follow suit, and they planned to fool the town guards by disguised as fugitive bandits, and open the town gate while the enemy was unprepared, leading the main army directly into the dwarven mines, and taking the rock beard by surprise.

If the enthusiasm is too high, it becomes an impulse with an uncertain future.

Although the idea is good, Iwasu is not a fool, he did not let his guard down because nothing happened in front of him, not only changed the password every day, but also let his cronies guard the road and send people to patrol back and forth.

The attack of the demon bee was silent, and Iwasu's patrol did not find that the fortress was lost, but the people who touched it were not prepared after all, and they unfortunately did not escape the eyes of the bandits.

The reason why it was discovered was not because the bandits' various insights were comparable to Conan's, but because Iwasu himself was a dwarven supremacist and did not believe in Terran bandits other than his own race, even if they had no flaws in their appearance, they had to be investigated vigorously.

In fact, it's just a routine process to find fault.

As expected, it was simply impossible for the young militiamen to turn themselves into bearded dwarves,

He was also unwilling to grovel to the evil dwarves, and the other party didn't even bother to interrogate them seriously, and directly refused them to pass, so the conflict between the two sides soon broke out.

The dwarven patrol suffered an unprepared loss, and after leaving a few corpses, the rest escaped without incident, and the militia fell short.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be rushed, and Iwasu has controlled the bandits and the mountains for many years, and it will definitely not be easy for people to get their hands on, so the militia gave up the surprise attack, and it also indirectly exposed the news of the loss of the big fortress.

The patrols disappeared, and all the bandits became frightened birds, retracting the town and constantly reinforcing its defenses, putting on a posture that could not be defended.

The aggressive behavior was indeed tactically alarming, so Ninia also arrived at the fort, in addition to commending the militia for their bravery, but also criticizing their unauthorized behavior from the perspective of military law.

The commander did not allow his subordinates to improvise, but further mining towns were not in the plan for this operation, so the militiamen had to accept punishment for their unorganized and undisciplined behavior, and they were punished by three days of confinement and public review.

In fact, this is the first time Ninia has punished her subordinates since entering the mountain, and he has shown another side of himself as a tolerant and gentle woman.

Ci is not in charge of the army, and this means is also necessary to restrain the army.