The attack on the student party during its "revisit" was sudden.

Someone has set up a camouflage psionic enchantment here to make the exterior look like a normal jungle scene, but this is not hidden from the veteran players who have participated in the battles here.

Che Che was the first to notice that the terrain was wrong, and then everyone scattered to look for clues and broke into the camouflage barrier as a matter of course.

As a result, they were attacked head-on by a fairly elite skeleton army.

Unlike the frail skeletons that roamed the smuggler's woodlands with only rotten white bones and bone spears and wooden shields, these skeleton soldiers in front of them were all dressed in armor and in a neat formation, and although the weapons they used were also rotten, the vicious aura dotted on them was accompanied by a rather abominable death filth, and if they were poked, they would be infected with the plague poison.

These things are also undead, but they are very different from ghouls.

Attacking a ghoul's body forces them to defend and retreat, but skeletons don't have the flesh to get in the way, and even if they are smashed, they can continue to attack with their scattered limbs, even if only one head is left, and they can bite the living creature in front of them with their teeth.

Their only drawback is that they don't have the traction of flesh and tendons, so the skeletons can't move very fast, and the individual combat power is not as violent as that of ghouls.

But right now, this elite skeleton army has made up for this weakness with a neat formation.

There are skeleton shieldmen in the front row to cover the archers in the rear, skeleton cavalry on the flanks to and flank, and a few skeleton mages in the center to command, from time to time to throw a large area of sluggishness, stinking clouds, and fog of war to distract the player's vision and movement.

These guys will even throw bone spear javelins for covering strikes.

They didn't look like brainless monsters at all, but like a well-trained army, they completed the encirclement of the student party within minutes of engagement.

The damned Skeleton Mage also summoned a large number of scattered Death Crows to block the airspace, leaving vampire players to be besieged and forced to land again once they were in the air.

"Is this a nest of the undead? What the hell is this! Could this place of Transencia be a little more wicked? First the ghouls, then the skeletons! What's next?

Lich or Death Knight? ”

Surrounded in the woods, Khachitoni yelled and got up, shielding himself with his shield and trying to return fire with his musket, but as soon as he showed his head, he was hit by several bone arrows on the shield, and the clanging sound made him retract his head.

He cursed.

Several companions beside him also looked helpless.

Their "revisit" really has no purpose, they just want to see the place where they fought before, who knew that they could encounter an ambush of this level here?

"At least two hundred skeletons! And it's all elite. ”

Niu Niu leaned against his gnoll overseer bone shield and looked at the rotten iron spear he had just snatched in his hand, he looked at the Pioneer Corps emblem on it, and whispered:

"It's confirmed, these skeleton troops should be the Plantagenet veterans who died at the hands of the eldest lady that night, what the hell, have they been staying here without moving their nests?"

"It's not the right time!"

The mud truck next to him was loading the shotgun with a frown and said:

"It's only been a little over a month since our battle in the Smuggler's Woodland, and this forest is not a closed environment, the temperature and humidity are okay, how can the corpses of these soldiers decompose so quickly?

You can see that they are all white bones, not a single piece of flesh can be seen on their bodies, and they have even enchanted their armor and weapons with weak effects, which is obviously 'handled' by others, right? If it's a naturally awakened necromancer, they should become ghouls!

It's like it happened in a city sewer, that's normal! ”

"This proves that the Bloodclaw Clan and the Gnoll Hogg are a guiding plot planted by the development team, with the purpose of guiding us back to the Smuggler's Woodland to discover the changes here, so as to lead to the events that follow."

The "vampire ranger" Ah Ru, who was carrying two knives, limped over, and said with bright eyes:

"I ventured into the air to conduct a reconnaissance, and although I was almost killed by a flock of vicious crows, before I fell, I saw a small camp where the skeletons were guarding, and there was a fire there!

That means there must be someone over there! Maybe it's behind this random event, damn, let's be so embarrassed, we have to catch that bastard and kill him!

And maybe this time we stumbled into a very powerful random event. ”

"Huh"

As they discussed, a strong wind blew through the woods, and a massive astral manticore fell from the sky, flapping its wings and hanging the wind to disperse the poisonous fog around them.

It struck a skeletal cavalry with a ferocious pounce, and the skeletal cavalry caught it with its claws like eagle's talons, and then fell down like a golden eagle throwing a sheep, and the skeleton horse, which had lost its owner, then collapsed in place with a wail.

Relying on the help of the manticore, the trapped student party immediately launched a wave of counter-charge to kill the skeleton soldiers gathered around again, and then saw the astral scorpion lion carrying the little rich brother and the good life flapping their wings and landing behind the position held by the student party.

Touching you jumped down with a shotgun, like a soldier who moved quickly, pulling your good friends over to converge.

"Everybody's out there to answer them."

Brother Fu said to these unlucky people who were besieged:

"Can you still go? Hurry up and rush out with me, there are too many skeleton soldiers here, and there are other skeleton troops in the forest rushing to support, and we have to move in because we don't have the advantage of numbers. ”

"If we want to break through, we would have rushed out a long time ago, and I told you that I found something inside."

Ah Ru told the little rich brother about the situation he had just investigated, and after hearing that the skeleton soldiers were guarding a camp, the little rich brother immediately raised his eyebrows.

At this moment, the person next to him suddenly spoke:

"That must be the control center of this skeleton army! The lowest-level necromantic creatures like skeleton soldiers have no ability to think, they must be commanded by someone to form such a ferocious and fierce cooperation, there must be something in that camp!

Take it down and maybe crush the skeleton army that is flooding the smugglers' woods. ”

"Huh? And this kind of statement? ”

Che Che's eyes widened as he looked up and down to see how well he was doing, and asked:

"Brother, where did you know this?"

"There's an introduction to necromantic creatures in Lady Trissy's Book of Midnight, but unfortunately I chose a trickster instead of a necromantic coffin-bearer."

It's good to live a good life, and he sighed with some regret and said:

"Otherwise, this elite skeleton is a good necromantic servant raw material, but I just want to make a suggestion, it must be dangerous to charge against this elite skeleton in this situation at the moment, but if we withdraw now, it will not be so easy to find such an opportunity again.

Now that the guys who are hiding behind the scenes have been discovered, they will definitely be transferred. ”

"So what else is there to say? Chongbei, it's a big deal to be off the network in three days, brothers who rush out, remember to take away the equipment of the guy who hung up. ”

Niu Niu got up with his shield.

He wasn't afraid of these skeletons at all, and his Overseer's Flails and Bone Shield sets had a [Bloodlust] and a [Life Extraction] savage ritual and attack effects, which were enough for him to rush out as a berserker in a desperate situation.

If it weren't for the group of teases behind this group, Niu Niu would have been killed alone.

This will be supported, so he moved the blood wings that spread behind his back, and looked at the gloomy sky in the woods, and said:

"Since we encountered this random event, wouldn't we be laughed at by others if we didn't get the mission-critical items? Little rich brother, please run again, let the brothers outside rush forward to add some pressure to the commander of the skeleton army, and we flying vampires will make a detour from behind.

This wave is a proper way for those who are doing nonsense. ”

"Okay."

The little rich brother didn't care about running more, anyway, he was flying high in the sky on a scorpion lion, not to mention the bone arrows of the skeleton soldiers, even psionic spells were difficult to hit it.

"Lao Huo, you hurry up and follow me."

Touching you poorly riding on the manticore, he shouted to his good friend:

"Your level is too low, it's useless to stay here, it will only drag down the brothers."

"Fart! I'm a magician, okay? The frontal combat effectiveness may be a little worse, but when it comes to the ability to save your life, there are so many that you don't worry about me anymore. ”

He waved his hand without looking back, signaling the little rich brother not to worry about it.

Then he swung his staff and threw a dark spell on himself, and he was not skilled at chanting the spell several times, but the spell worked very well, allowing him to quickly merge with the shadows around him, and it was difficult to observe and perceive again.

The student party also waited patiently and held the defensive line.

What is quite black humorous is that the defense line they held was the foxhole and position dug by Brother Bang when they ambushed the transport team before, but I didn't expect this place to come in handy again.

"We're coming! Prepare to rush! ”

After the difficult ten minutes passed, the private chat channel sounded the reminder of the little rich brother, and the student party who had been prepared for a long time called out for the blood wings in unison, and then they heard a noisy shout from the side, accompanied by the wind brought by the psionic impact to blow away the fog of war, and the supporters who gathered screamed and killed.

Led by the three girls and the NPCs of the Blood Rat Gang, followed by the new players in the game.

These guys were wearing whiteboard equipment and wielding subordinate weapons, and they were very excited when they were fighting in a group for the first time, and they were unorganized and just buried their heads in the rush, and the sharp-eyed cooing chickens also saw a group of gnolls and brutes mixed in the crowd.

It's a mess of haphazardness, but the location chosen is quite subtle, right behind the skeleton army, rushing into the positions of the archers and skeleton mages to interrupt their blockade of the airspace.

Niu Niu, who had the advantage of equipment, was the first to fly out under the pecking of the dead crow, followed by the other student party vampires.

After they flew away, several administrative brothers in the same position were also ready to break through, and they put a shotgun into the hand of their son next to him, and said a few words to the mud sauce, and then jumped out of the trench with the four veterans who were guarding him, and the mud truck and shovel followed behind him.

Although they are administrators, they are also serious followers of Lord Murphy and have participated in every major battle since the establishment of the Crimson Keep, and they are not short of combat experience.

And the guards of these three guys add up to 12 people, and the veteran armor of Yishui makes these NPCs also full of combat effectiveness.

The legs of the vomit sauce carrying the shotgun were trembling, and there were no ideas in his head, but he just followed the brave father and rushed hard, and when he saw the skeleton pounce, he hurriedly shot and changed the bullets.

It wasn't until the team and the players who responded that they realized that they had been hit by an arrow in the ass. He hurriedly pulled it off and threw it aside while people were not paying attention, pretending that he was unharmed, so as not to be discovered and become his own black history.

Although he has only been in the game for a day, he has not heard much about other people's "black material" when he was a "deep sea mud beast" on the forum.

"Dude, why are your pants red?"

The prodigal son of the border city carried a bone knife snatched from the skeleton soldier and opened it wide to kill, and suddenly saw that his mud sauce pants were red, and suddenly screamed:

"Your ass hurts?"

"Nope! It's the blood of the enemy, staining my armor red! ”

Vomit mud sauce immediately replied.

Then he saw the delicate eyes of the prodigal son of the border city and Mr. Ziwei next to him.

Come on!

You can make up a decent reason, we're fighting against skeleton soldiers now! Where did this blood come from?

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

Little Rich's shout sounded overhead, and he shouted:

"Our mission is complete, the people have been received, the number of enemies is large, don't continue to fight them! Remove! ”

On the other side, the student party who had bypassed the raid camp from the rear also fought their way out of the encirclement and arrived at the camp that had been determined by Ah Ru before.

Disappointingly, the camp on a wooded plateau was empty.

There was chaos in the camp.

There were also ashes flying from the burning of the letters, and it was evident that the person in charge here was in a hurry, and many things had not had time to be taken with them.

The cart and the electronic snail rushed up to open the boxes in the camp, and then with a smile on their faces, they grabbed a few bags of coins from inside, and the living who followed them all the way from the shadows found a code of necromancy spells from the unburned letters, and the camp travel bags contained a few well-worded weapons.

But that's about it.

Niu Niu and Pigeon Bo's expressions were ugly, they thought that the random event they triggered was a complete failure, and this feeling of being in the air was really uncomfortable, like a punch on cotton.

"The skeleton army is still surrounding, which means that the controller has not gone far!"

It was good to look at the shadowy battlefield in the woods from this height, and he turned around and reminded the student party:

"If you can catch up now, you vampires can track lives, can't yours track lives? Feel it, and maybe catch that guy's tail. ”

"It didn't work, I just tried."

The catfish shark shook his head and said:

"There's no breath of life worth tracking down here, and the person in charge shouldn't be a living person."

"Let's go, leave."

Pigeon Stamped his foot very unconvinced, and said:

"Withdraw first and then analyze it slowly, take everything that can be taken here, and see if you can piece together some clues, it was just an accident to let it run this time! Our beast group has been here since then, and while wiping the reputation of the blood-clawed gnoll, we continue to search, and I don't believe that we can't catch this guy who pretends to be a ghost! ”

——

"Whew! These damn vampires are so different from the legendary blood vultures, how dare they rush over with a tenfold difference in numbers? Is this really the courage that the vampire rats that swam in the middle of the night can have?

Bah!

Aside from the Blood Pact, do vampires deserve to be associated with the word 'courage'? ”

At the edge of the smuggler's woodland, a mysterious creature with a black hood all over his body cursed as he rode a luxuriously decorated skeleton horse through the woods in the direction of the filthy swamp.

The fellow took out a strangely shaped bone scepter from his bosom and said to himself:

"If they snatch the Scepter of Command, you'll probably be able to skin me, and ah, I'll be back in the damn swamp again, I hate the smell of decay there."

"Well said! I also hate swamps, where the mud always tries to get my favorite boots dirty, and I don't want to step into them for the rest of my life if I can, but sadly, fate doesn't do what I want. ”

A voice sounded from behind, said as if in agreement, and then asked rhetorically with interest:

"But Your Excellency is already a dead man, can you also have such sensory troubles?"

“！！！”

The guy on the skeletal horse was startled.

But before it could make its next move, the scarlet psionic threads gathered from all directions, dragging it from the skeleton into the air like a tight fishing net, and then being pulled apart by unshakable manipulation, and its limbs were suspended like a cross.

The command staff at his waist slammed to the ground, and was grabbed in his hand by Murphy who jumped out of the silent shadow cloak.

This thing was cold to the bones as soon as you started it, and the chill that penetrated the soul even went straight to the soul.

Murphy was suspended a few inches above the ground.

He raised his head and looked at the guy in front of him who had been caught by him and Tracy, and the vampire lord casually handed the command scepter to Trace, who was strolling out of the shadows, and asked the "corpse witch" in front of him, who was very rare in Transnesia:

"So, Your Excellency is from the filthy swamp? Listen to what you just meant, there are still many of your companions in this swamp? Can you tell me what you're planning to do on my turf? And, what is your relationship with the Source? ”

(End of chapter)