Helmut stood at the mouth of the cave, staring at the white ice above his head, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh before he withdrew his gaze.

Helmut is a member of the Lair of the Immortals, and the leader of all those left behind.

Of the four lichs who remained at the same time, he was the oldest.

Originally, they also wanted to participate in the Armageddon that would ultimately decide the fate of the Eternals, just like the other lichs.

But Edwood ordered a few of them to stay, one to serve the High Priest of the Undead who was seriously wounded.

The second is to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

If the lichs do not achieve victory over humanity and are unable to stop humanity's progress, then a few of them will be responsible for covering up the last lair of the Eternals, so that even if humanity wins, it will not be able to find the High Priest of the Dead, leaving the last glimmer of hope.

When the time comes, they'll blow up the ice overhead with explosive crystals.

Tens of thousands of tons of ice over the top of the canyon will pour down like a roof, completely burying the canyon hidden under the ice cap.

In the extreme cold of the heath, the ice will freeze as hard as steel in two days. A pickaxe smashed into the ice can only knock out a white dot.

As a result, even if humans were to find the location of the cave, it would take at least several years to dig it up.

In the past few years, it is enough for the undead high priest to recover most of his injuries, and even if he can't launch a counterattack immediately, he can at least protect himself.

Of course, the result of this is that a few of them who are left behind will also be frozen in the cave.

However, as an immortal, they did not need any food supplies, and they had lived alone for hundreds of years, even if they were frozen for a few more years, but only a small fragment of their long lives.

As long as His Majesty recovers from his injuries and recovers his mana, the future world will inevitably be the world of the immortal race~!

But...... But this is the worst-case scenario.

So, ever since Edwood led his army, Helmut and the remaining lichs had been waiting at the entrance of the cave, their eyes fixed on the ice cap overhead, expecting them to return victorious.

For the cold and selfish lich, this kind of anticipation is extremely rare, if not ever. Helmut only vaguely remembers that hundreds of years ago, when he was still a human, he was in a somewhat similar mood when he was dating his lover.

Time passed in their anxious waiting, and by the early hours of the morning, the ice cap above them was still pale and there was no movement.

Helmut's mood gradually grew heavy, and the longer the time dragged on, the slimmer their hopes of victory became.

If no one returns by dawn, it means that they have completely failed.

Helmut's mind was mixed for a moment.

Scenes kept coming to his mind: the annihilation of the lichs on the march, the collapse of thousands of priests and mages storming the cave. In a moment, the lichs returned triumphantly......

The lichs who stayed behind also had different expressions at this time. Some were silent, some sighed. Others still didn't give up, staring at the ice cap above their heads without blinking, hoping that in the next second, the undead war fortress would appear......

Just when Helmut was expecting all kinds of results, suddenly a lich excitedly shouted: "Someone is back~!"

Helmut looked up.

I saw that against the white background above, a black dot was speeding up.

Then it got bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a pyramid-shaped war fortress with a dark body~!

It came to the top of the canyon and descended slowly.

Compared to the deep and narrow canyon, a lonely war fortress seems very small, but it is very striking.

The lichs who stayed behind nervously watched the landed war fortress, guessing the outcome of the war in their minds.

Helmut stared at the fortress of war and muttered, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back......"

Someone coming back means they may be victorious.

The war fortress was quickly lowered to a height of only a few tens of meters, when someone asked in a worried whisper, "Why is there only one?"

Helmut couldn't help but be shocked, and he also reacted.

He hurriedly raised his head and glanced around overhead, but there was no other sign of the war fortress.

Sure enough, there is only one such lonely fortress of war that fell through the ice sheet~!

In the past, when the battle returned, more than a dozen war fortresses would land one after another at the same time, and the huge roar would reverberate in the canyon, which was extremely lively.

Helmut's mood suddenly sank again: only one returned, which was not a good sign. Did all the others die in battle?

At this point, the war fortress flew cautiously over the canyon under the ice, and finally landed in the clearing in front of the cave.

Helmut narrowed his eyes and continued his rounds under the ice sheet for another week.

But all the dust around the war fortress fell, but no one saw the war fortress coming in from behind.

After the landed war fortress came to rest on the ground, Helmut and the lich looked at each other, and then they all flew over in a hurry.

They were desperate to know the news of the war. Even if it is a failure, it is better than waiting dryly like now.

But when they came to the fortress of war, and saw that the gate had not been opened, a trace of doubt flashed in Helmut's eyes—although they did not know what had happened, it was clearly abnormal.

Just when he couldn't help but want to fly into the war fortress and take a look for himself, the gate of the war fortress made a muffled bang, and then slowly opened.

Immediately afterward, several lichs wrapped in black robes slowly walked down.

Helmut immediately stepped forward to stop them, and anxiously asked, "What happened? Did we win? Why did you come back? Where are the others?"

As he spoke, he took a closer look at the other party, only to see that the hood of the black-robed man led by him was pulled very low, completely covering his face, and he couldn't see his face clearly at all.

However, he didn't care about it, and the lichs were basically all of them with this kind of urine surname.

The main reason for this is not to pretend to be mysterious, but because there is too much rotten flesh on their faces, so they all subconsciously choose to cover their faces - although the lich doesn't care too much about appearance, after all, as a human being, there are still a few traces of beauty and ugliness in the depths of their hearts.

The black-robed man at the head stopped, was silent for a moment, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes, we are victorious, and we are about to win." ”

The lichs who stayed behind suddenly let out a burst of excited cheers, excited.

Someone put his hand on his forehead and shouted, "I knew, I knew, the Eternals could not fail." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, fate is still on our side after all. ”

“......”

Helmut also breathed a long sigh of relief, he had always regretted that he could not participate in the decisive battle, and suddenly heard the news of the victory, Helmut felt that his life box was trembling with excitement.

At this moment, he even had the urge to cry, which was a miracle for a lich who had lost his feelings of life.

He held back his excitement and said, "Just ...... Are you all coming back? It's a tough battle, isn't it?"

"No, of course not. The black-robed man at the head let out a dry laugh and said, "The others will be back soon, they are cleaning the battlefield, and we are back to give the high priest good news." ”

The lichs couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all saw the look of loss in each other's eyes.

Helmut immediately scolded these lichs in his heart for being unprofitable, despicable and selfish. As soon as the crisis of war was lifted here, these dogs began to fight among themselves again, hoping that others would not be good.

At the same time, I couldn't help but sigh: it turns out that there are other people who are also alive, really, if it is really only one back...... Uh, no, if they fight with the enemy and lose both, and all of them die, how nice it would be~!

But these words, they didn't say them, but one by one they desperately squeezed out a smile on their faces, and shouted one after another: "Go quickly, your majesty will be very happy to hear it, you are really lucky, and you will definitely be rewarded by your majesty." ”

They said as they got out of the way.

The black-robed man at the head laughed lowly, lowered his head and slowly walked forward.

Helmut looked at the figures of the lichs and sighed, the Eternals had finally survived their greatest crisis in two thousand years.

They won, the future is still theirs, and the dark spell will have a day of victory after all.

Although they have lost their strength, lost the Semitic race, and lost the service of the dark mage, if they are given enough time, under the leadership of the High Priest of the Dead, the Eternals will surely reign again.

The last thing the lich lacks is time, and they can wait patiently for the opportunity in hundreds of years.

And the day when a human being, no matter how powerful a human being, finally grows old, unless he is strong enough to be a demigod, he can achieve eternal life like the High Priest of the Dead.

The innate advantage of the Eternals is that those lowly races that use ** activities can never be compared.

Helmut even began to plan a strategy in his heart for the future, first of all, they would use the Derazerg to clear the humans on the island of the undead, and then spread the Derazerg out to contain the power of the humans.

When the High Priest of the Dead recovers from his injuries, he will return to the Semitic tribe in one breath and rebuild the glory of the Eternals.

When the time comes, be sure to give those wall grasses a little bit of color, and let them know the price of the betrayer.

After this battle, Edwood's position as the number one lich will be untouchable, and Helmut decides that he must have a good relationship with him, and the number two and three people dare not think that he will be satisfied with the six and seven.

Helmut watched a few of the lichs who had reported the news walking towards the cave, and secretly envied in his heart, and secretly said: A group of lucky pups, I don't know what the god will reward them.

These people must be Edwood's cronies, right?

Otherwise, it wouldn't be the turn of this fat difference......

Looking at the backs of these people, Helmut suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say that something was wrong there, and there was a strange feeling in his heart, anyway, it was a little awkward to look at these lichs.

He pondered his conversation with the lichs for a moment, and suddenly remembered that something was wrong: they had just spoken of the High Priest of the Dead, not His Majesty, and that they had not used honorific titles like the lichs, which was very strange.

Thinking of this, Helmut suddenly raised his voice and said, "Wait. ”

The dozen or so lichs who were walking towards the cave suddenly stopped, and they suddenly stood like stone statues, and after a few seconds, the lich in the lead turned around and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Helmut took two steps forward and said in a deep voice: "I don't seem to have seen you, may I ask Your Excellency, who are you?"

"There are so many beings in the world, it's normal that you haven't seen me. With an inexplicable smile, the leader of the lich said slowly: "My name is Lorraine~!"

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a few hours ago......

In the early hours of the morning, the battlefield shook the undead's war fortress in the black night sky, and then pulled away from it.

The light from the magic cannon rained down into the fortress, splashing a ripple like water on the ground.

On the battlefield covered by dense fog, the fortress of war that swept over the human fortress launched an attack, and then quickly disappeared into the thick fog.

Even the lichs had to be careful when flying in the fog, and with their ability to see dark, they couldn't see a few tens of meters away.

Flying in the fog was a technical task, and the lich had to slow down and circle the fortress slowly.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the lich gradually struggled with the high-intensity attack.

In this case, no one noticed that a war fortress of the undead had crept into their ranks from the east.

On this war fortress, a man wrapped in a black robe said angrily: "You kid promised that if my zero machine is gone, you will accompany me to be exactly the same." ”

A person next to him, who was also wrapped in a black robe, said impatiently: "Don't say one, you can compensate all three."

One for playing, one for borrowing, and one for collecting, how about it?"

"Okay, good, how do I feel like your kid's tone is scolding?"

The person who spoke pulled the hood of the black robe, revealing a long fluffy white beard, glared at a pair of eyes and said unhappily, it was the Forbidden Spell Magister, the dean of the Maple Leaf Danlin Mage Academy, and the chairman of the coalition advisory committee, Lester.

Opposite him was Marshal Lorraine, deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, commander-in-chief of the front, and protector of the Vatino.

Lorraine pursed her lips and said, "Cut, don't pull it down, I'll keep it for myself." ”

At the same time, I secretly said in my heart, you mages are not all dead otakus, and there is no essential difference between them and those otaku who buy three copies of the same CD.

A delicate chuckle came from the side, and a man also wrapped in a black robe raised his hand to smack Lorraine, revealing a pink palm in his slippery sleeve.

Lester smiled very satisfied, and said, "This is what your kid said, and you are not allowed to pay the bill when the time comes." ”

There were more than a dozen people scattered around the two, dressed exactly the same as Lorraine, all wrapped themselves tightly and hid their faces with hoods.

"Yes, yes, yes. Lord Lorraine reluctantly agreed, and said, "Fortunately, I robbed such a war fortress in the first place." ”

Lester patted the cold walls of the war fortress and sighed, "yes, I didn't expect to use it again today." ”

The war fortress that everyone rode in was Rest's machine zero, which Lorraine and Resther had snatched back from the Semitic tribe.

After returning to the Maple Leaf Danlin, the elemental mages used Machine Zero as a template and embarked on the old path of the rise of a traditional industrial country that first copied and then innovated.

It's just that these otaku elemental mages who don't have girlfriends are really powerful, and they quickly cracked the magic circle of the undead war fortress and began to research and create their own war fortress.

Humans did not have the primitive technology of war fortresses, but the research of magic circles was not comparable to that of the lichs, and they soon built war fortresses that flew faster and higher, and carried more weight.

The Zero was also a successful machine, and became Lester's personal car to show off his exploits.

When the undead war fortress suddenly flew from the north, Lord Lorraine thought of machine zero and mixed it in the middle of the undead war fortress, and no one could detect the abnormality.

Plane Zero first cautiously hid in the dense fog, pretended to go around a few times, and fired two shots outside the fortress.

When flying over the fortress, Lord Lorraine even saw the bright and dazzling 'self' on the ground, like a 200-watt light bulb, running back and forth in the fortress.

At the same time, he also saw the 'Rest' on the wall of the fortress, and pieces of spells were issued from his hands, which was very conspicuous.

Lord Lorraine's side muttered, "That old fellow doesn't pretend to be like me at all." ”

Let everyone laugh dumbly.

After drilling into the dense fog, Zero slowly flew northward, leaving the battlefield and breaking through the dense fog in more than ten minutes.

As soon as you get out of the fog zone, you can increase your speed to the highest speed, and gallop all the way north, leaving behind the battlefield full of explosions.

At around four o'clock in the morning, the ground covered with ice and snow appeared under the zero and flew into the ice and snow area.

Even in the dark of night, the white snow and ice on the ground are very striking, the vast white stretches into the distance, and the pure white stretches all the way to the far north, with no end in sight.

In the far north of the wilderness, temperatures are freezing all year round, but there are no lakes or rivers, and there is only occasional pitiful rainfall.

It took thousands of years to form the ice that is tens of meters thick as it is now.

Nature's patience and strength amazed everyone on Zero.

Behind the crowd, a deep voice suddenly said, "We've arrived." ”

Everyone on the zero machine lowered their heads, but they didn't find anything, only a piece of pure ice and snow, and the zero machine began to slowly lower.

The base of the black pyramidal war fortress touched the snow and ice, and then, as if through a layer of water, through the ice that had been frozen for thousands of years, as hard as steel, without encountering any obstacles, slowly sank into the ice.

Little by little, the black figure of the war fortress disappeared into the ice, until finally the top of the sharp tower was swallowed by ice and snow.

The snow and ice on the ground returned to their original state as if they had never moved.

To everyone's astonishment, Zero went straight through the ice and landed down into the dim canyon.

Lester kept his eyes wide open as he watched the war fortress pass through the ice several meters thick, and couldn't help but sigh: "The old boy of the undead high priest, sure enough, has two brushes, and this formation that penetrates the ice alone is not simple. ”

A person next to him nodded, and said: "I actually hid the nest under the ice, what I don't know is that I can't find it for a lifetime." ”

"But we still found him~!" Lorraine pulled the hood of his black robe, pulled out a Thomson submachine gun from the black robe, checked the drum filled with bullets, pulled the bolt to load the bullet with a 'click', and said in a deep voice: "Prepare for battle." ”

Several people behind him took out their weapons from under the black robe at the same time, and after careful inspection, they were hidden in the wide black robe, and there was no abnormality at all from the outside.

The crowd then nodded to Lorraine, indicating that they were ready, and did not say a word the whole time.

Lester raised a handful of black dust and sprinkled it on everyone, isolating the breath of the living on everyone, and at the same time solemnly admonished: "Be careful~!"

Everyone in Zero looked at each other, and they all saw the burning battle intent in each other's eyes.

The war fortress slowly landed in the open space in front of the cave, and several black shadows quickly greeted it, Lester quickly glanced at it, and said, "Be careful, it's a lich~!"

"Hell, aren't they all going to war?"

Several people looked at each other, unexpectedly encountering the lich as soon as they landed, which was beyond their expectations and was likely to lead to unpredictable consequences.

Lord Lorraine glanced out the window and said, "Don't be nervous, there are only four of them, let's go down, listen to my command, if you can't do it, you can kill them and break in."

Now, open the door~!"

The door of Machine Zero slowly opened, and Lorraine stepped out of the war fortress first, his fingers in the black robe already on the trigger of Thomson's submachine gun.

The lich on the other side eagerly asked, "How did it turn out......

Lord Lorraine took a closer look around as he spoke, but the lich was unaware of it, apparently taking them for accomplices.

After dealing with this guy for a few words, Lorraine forced herself to calm down and strode through the middle of the lich, her goal was to directly find the undead high priest and kill him, if the lich found out that there was a battle, it was likely to alarm the hidden undead high priest.

But after walking a few meters, a lich behind him suddenly stopped him and asked, "I don't seem to have seen you, may I ask Your Excellency, who are you?"

Lorraine knew that this guy was already suspicious, and if she stopped to talk to him, it would definitely expose more suspicions.

With a plan in his mind, Lorraine smiled calmly, gestured to the people behind him, turned to look at the lich, and said with a smile: "There are all living beings in the world, it's normal that you haven't seen me......

My name is Lorraine~!"

"Do it, kill them~!" (To be continued.) )