0160 Praetorian Guard of the Holy Land
The terrifying thing about the undead lies in their fearless nature, a large number of goblins scream and are knocked down by the skeletons, and then under the "call of the dead" of the summoner of death, they turn into a new white skeleton and stand up to join the army of the undead who hunt the living creatures.
The faster the goblins die, the more bone skeletons will be revived, and the more bone skeletons will be revived, the faster the goblins will die, eventually forming a vicious circle until the goblins die!
Soon, the little goblins with low strength were wiped out under the attack of the skeleton tide, and those powerful gold-level goblins and bear goblin mercenaries, although they were able to rely on brute force to hold on for a while, but under the siege of the skeleton group that surged up like a tide, it was difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, and there were golden skeletons whose strength was not weaker than them were chasing and killing.
When the last bear goblin fell, the battlefield fell silent, and all the skeletons came to a standstill at the same time, as if they had been cast by someone to cast a "time stagnation" spell.
However, when all the skeletons twisted their neck bones and looked at the walls of Doom Fortress with their hollow eyes that shimmered with soul fire, the people who were stunned by the "Skeleton Tide vs. Goblin Sea" finally reacted.
Even the most brave mercenary can't help but feel weak when facing a sea of white flowers and skeletons that covers the entire land!
You must know that among the war goblin legions just now, there are not a small number of gold-level goblins, and the strength of those powerful bear goblins is generally not lower than the silver level. Many of them have been promoted to the gold level.
If it weren't for the high walls of Doom Fortress and the help of dwarven warriors, they would not have been able to withstand the goblins' attacks. However, the huge and powerful goblin legion was wiped out in less than half an hour after the skeletons appeared!
Can they defeat such an enemy?
Everyone involuntarily turned their eyes to the initiator. As everyone knows, at this moment, Jialan's scalp is also numb, and he can't control these skeletons at all!
Although Jialan was in the thoughts passed on from the Death Summoner. Obtained the method of controlling skeletons through whistles, but the arcane energy stored in its own arcane energy fountain is consumed when the dragon whistle is blown, and these skeletons can also be manipulated through whistles.
Besides. Even if you know how to control skeletons through whistles. But it's not something that can be used right away...... If you give a flute to someone who doesn't know how to play a musical instrument, can he play music? If he can play it, even if he has good musical talent, right?
The most important thing is that Jialan, who is a "polymath", although he is good at a variety of crafts and abilities, he has no talent in music, in other words, he is a sound idiot with incomplete tones!
Fortunately. For these relics left behind by the Worship Dragon Sect, Jialan, who has already done some research. It's not that there is no way at all, and he hurriedly turned out the sculpture of the skeleton dragon "Power and Law Phase" belonging to the summoner of death from the dimensional bag, and held it high in his hand!
All the skeletons, after sensing the power of the power and power overflowing, all knelt down, only the "Death Summoner" skeleton mage still stood proudly with the white bone staff.
Indeed, as a previous generation of Death Summoners, although it has lost most of its spell casting ability after death, leaving only the ability to summon the undead, it still retains a trace of pride as a spellcaster in its empty mind.
Especially in the case that the strength of Jialan, the new "Undead Summoner", is so low that it is difficult to make people respect, as a high-level undead of the 7th order, it is already very rare if it does not torture and kill the other party.
However, under the pressure of the not overflowing power of the Death Summoner's "Power and Law Appearance", the skeleton mage, who had been in a stalemate for a while, still had to lower his head and put his bone-chilling palm on his chest as a sign of respect.
Seeing that the skeleton mage was soft, Jialan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and conveyed her order with her mind: Go back!
The skeleton mage waved the bone staff, and the overwhelming bone skeletons began to kill each other.
Unlike when fighting living beings, when fighting goblins, even if the skeleton is broken up, it will quickly reassemble and return to its original state, and the bones will be cut and shattered, and they can also be re-bonded and repaired by soul fire, but it will consume some soul fire.
Unless the "negative energy" of the soul fire is completely exhausted, they will truly "die", but as long as there is only a little "fire" left, as time passes, they will revive again.
However, the skeletons killed by the skeleton will not be able to stand up again, and even the bones will be turned into ashes, because the victor will directly devour the soul fire of the loser to strengthen himself, completely sucking out the last trace of nutrients in their bones.
Jialan keenly observed that the golden skeletons under the skeleton mage did not participate in this cannibalism, and the 100,000 goblin skeletons fought against each other, so that their number decreased sharply, and soon those small goblin skeletons were consumed, and the goblin skeletons were also hunted by the bear goblin skeletons.
The bones left behind after the death of different creatures have different strengths after being revived into undead, for example, the little goblins of the black iron level will only be resurrected after death will only be bronze-level "white bone skeletons".
The bronze-level goblin that is revived after death will be a silver-level "Enhanced Skeleton", and the silver-level bear goblin that is revived after death is naturally a gold-level "Elite Skeleton".
The reason why the strength of the revived undead will rise instead of falling is entirely because of the "undead summoning" of the skeleton mage, which forcibly transforms the "soul" energy of the newly dead creatures into the "soul fire" of the undead.
If it is a corpse or dry bone that has been dead for a long time, it will not have this characteristic, and its strength will drop to about one-third of what it was before it was alive, which is also the reason why most of the undead who are revived naturally in a negative energy environment are "gray skeletons" that are so fragile that they will scatter at the touch of a touch.
The skeletons fought and finally left five or six hundred bear goblin skeletons with the thickest and strongest skeletons, devouring the soul fire of 100,000 goblin skeletons, and all of them were promoted to gold-level elite skeletons and joined the golden skeleton army under the skeleton mage.
Only then did Jialan understand how the so-called "Holy Land Guards" of the Dragon Worship Sect came about.
After completing the act of "co-optation", the mighty Golden Skeleton Legion did not reopen the space and return to the cemetery of the Dragon Worship Temple as Jia Lan imagined, but walked towards the Doom Fortress under the leadership of the Skeleton Mage!
The mercenaries on the city wall couldn't help but panic and put on a posture of preparing for battle again, but everyone knew that if this group of gold-level skeletons numbering thousands planned to attack them, they might not even be able to survive for five minutes!
Fortunately, the skeletons obviously had no intention of attacking Doom Fort, but stopped after walking to the gate of Doom Fort, and the leading skeleton mage looked up and "looked" at Jialan on the city wall, and Jialan only then reacted that they were planning to walk back to the cemetery.
Theoretically, it should be him, the new Death Summoner, who used the dragon whistle to open the door of space and send them back, but Jialan was unable to open the door of the plane again, so they had to walk back slowly on their own.
Jialan hurriedly asked the mercenaries to open the gate of the castle and let the "Holy Land Guards" in, but the head of Kenmet asked with a serious face: "Your Excellency Jialan, do you really plan to do this?" After a moment of confusion, Jialan understood.
Perhaps for spellcasters, "necromancy" is just a school in the arcane realm, like "spells, shapes, prophecies......", etc., and there is no definition of evil and good.
However, both in the past and now, the undead are an extremely dangerous evil existence for ordinary people, and even in the pre-civilization era when arcane laws prevailed, there were only a few areas where necromancers were allowed to appear in densely populated areas.
If Jialan allowed the Golden Skull Legion to enter the Doom Castle so blatantly, it would be better for these mercenaries who abide by their professional ethics and not leak the news to the city.
Those hired workers who were arranged to take refuge in the ruins, once they knew that they were actually living with a group of undead, it was a trivial matter to be scared away, and once the news leaked out, I am afraid that it would bring great trouble to Jialan, and it might even attract attacks from defenders and religious figures!
This gave Jialan a headache for a while, and after thinking about it, she had to let the skeletons hide in the castle near the dungeon first, and then inform the hired workers who had taken refuge in the ruins to return to the surface.
When the ruins are cleared, Jialan can sneak into the ruins with the skeletons, specially open up a vacant hidden hall, lock the golden skeletons inside, and send a mercenary team to guard the gate, not only to prevent the skeletons from running out and hurting people, but also to prevent the hired workers from accidentally discovering the existence of the skeletons.
The busy night finally passed, and Fort Doom could be regarded as having survived this crisis, but the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Regiment suffered heavy casualties in this battle, losing four or five hundred people, including more than two hundred killed in battle, more than three hundred seriously injured, and countless minor injuries.
Fortunately, Fort of Doom was originally the base camp of Collei Elixirs, and there was no shortage of healing potions, especially in Jialan, which provided a large number of high-quality potions prepared by himself to treat the seriously injured mercenaries......, otherwise, the death toll would have more than doubled!