Chapter 177: First Encounter with the Undead

Ten days after the Church Coalition was temporarily absorbed by the Frontier Vanguard of the Western Front, Lance and his party had already arrived in the outermost part of the battlefield on the Western Front.

As far as the eye can see, the entire battlefield on the Western Front stretches for thousands of miles, crisscrossing valleys and rivers, and the terrain is complex, like a huge evil dragon that stretches across the continent of Kostana, all the way to the edge of the Winter Springs Wilderness.

As early as thousands of years ago, the Southern Kingdom drove the barbaric and bloodthirsty western tribesmen to the northwest region of the mainland.

It's just that due to the poor soil, lack of resources, sparse population, and rampant demonic beasts in the northwest region, the western tribesmen have been spying on the western territory of the Southern Kingdom for a long time.

This is where the border guards of the Western Front exist.

However, because the defense line in the western battlefield is too long, there are also many holes in the defense.

Although these loopholes are only some fringe areas of little strategic significance, after the outbreak of this war, those local residents who did not have time to retreat were killed by the undead who took advantage of the situation and converted into a living force on the battlefield of the undead.

At this time, Lance and his party were lurking outside a small village full of the smell of death and corruption.

This also happens to be a defensive hole on the Western Front.

Although dozens of households once lived here, without the protection of the Kingdom Army or the Church Alliance, these poor and unfortunate residents have been transformed into the lowest level of undead cannon fodder of the undead clan - zombies long ago.

Originally, the route of Lance's group was not here, but before setting off from the mercenary fortress, they carefully studied the route.

If you want to avoid the conflict zone on the Western Front, then it will take at least five more days to go to the battalion of the Frontier Vanguard of the Western Front, which is safe, but it is meaningless.

So Lance made an arbitrary decision to separate from the other hired teams and fight their way through the conflict zone between humans and the undead.

Of course, if you can fight, you can fight, and if you can't, you can flee quickly.

However, the hundred and ten undead creatures in the small village more than a hundred meters away in front of him were obviously within the range of being able to fight.

Lance and Quiles are lurking in the downwind of the village, so as to ensure that the smell of the living on their bodies will not be smelled by the zombies in the village, and as long as they do not make a sound, they will not be discovered by these monsters who have no intelligence at all.

"Lilith, in addition to these low-level cannon fodder, can you still feel the existence of other more powerful undead creatures. ”

Lance whispered into Lilith's ear.

Along the way, the advantages of Lilith's special abilities have finally been reflected.

Due to Lilith's special sense of death and evil aura, she is like a mobile detector that everyone carries at all times, and can accurately warn any undead creatures that appear within a few hundred meters in advance.

Although I don't know why Lilith's ability has improved so quickly, it has also provided a lot of help to Lance and others on the Western Front.

"Yes, there are three low-level ghouls, but they don't pose much of a threat to us, but there are more than a hundred zombies in this village, and if we want to get rid of them all, it will probably take some time. ”

Just as Lilith spoke, a seemingly lazy ghoul coincidentally appeared in everyone's sight.

However, it didn't find Lance and the other living people, as if they were watching the movements of the zombies in the village, and they didn't know why they stayed here instead of going to the battlefield on the Western Front.

This ghoul is different from the ghoul that Lance saw in Cohima.

Its back has been bent and deformed, and its body cannot walk upright at all, and its thick and slender arms hang down to the ground, becoming forelimbs for walking, but the position that should be the palm of the hand has become a pair of huge claws covered with hard bone armor, and the lethality of these claws cannot be underestimated just by looking at them.

The ghoul's body was also covered with a strange layer of dark red slippery slime, which looked disgusting when it walked.

On the head the size of a calf, the sharp canine teeth were staggered with salivation, and there seemed to be some hunger in the greedy eyes.

At this moment, the ghoul, who originally looked lazy, walked up to a zombie with dull eyes and slow movements, stretched out his claws and slapped the zombie to the ground, and then opened his bloody mouth, pounced on it, and ate it with a click.

The zombie that the ghoul used to satisfy its hunger did not resist at all, not even make any sound, and just let the ghoul gnaw on its body.

In a short time, the ghoul was only half of its body, but it was not dead, it was still squirming and crawling on the ground, as if it was born to be food for these ghouls.

Looking at the scene that took place more than a hundred meters away, Lance sighed softly.

In the world of undead creatures, low-level undead creatures are always food for high-level undead creatures, and most of these low-level undead are products caused by humans or some wild beasts infected with the special virus of the undead.

"The strength of this ghoul is estimated to be up and down in the middle of the primary realm, it is not difficult for us to kill it, but we have to be careful of the undead virus contained in its body, but as Lilith said, it is indeed a bit troublesome to clean up these hundred or so zombies, and if we are surrounded by them, we will also be in danger. ”

Lance frowned and whispered.

He had no experience dealing with these huge zombies, but he did have some understanding.

This kind of zombie who has no pain, no thinking, and acts entirely on instinct must have his head cut off or his spine broken, otherwise it will make no sense at all if he breaks his limbs and pierces his chest.

Just when Lance felt a little troubled, Dilancer smiled and whispered to Lance: " Dealing with these low-level zombies, in fact, it is not difficult, just now I looked around, this is a radius of a thousand meters, only there are zombies in this village are active, you later, Lilith, Luca and Brother Quels, find a way to kill the most threatening ghouls, those zombies I and the dumb man lead away, and then kill them one by one, although this is very time-consuming, but since these zombies let us meet, there is no reason for them to continue to exist. ”

Listening to Di Lancel's opinion, Lance patted his head and suddenly realized.

He just thought that there were a lot of zombies, but he ignored that they were very slow, and they didn't have any intelligence, and they relied on instinct.

As long as someone lures them away, as long as they take out the ghouls with great speed and attack power, then the rest is a matter of time.

Thinking of this, Lance nodded to Dilanthel and continued: "Your plan is feasible, but to be on the safe side, Lilith does not participate in the battle, her ability is special, and she needs to be vigilant about the surrounding situation for us, otherwise it will not be fun to suddenly appear more zombies and surround us." ”

After the opinions are unified, do what you say.

After seeing Dilancer and the mute sneaking up on the other side of the village, Lance pulled out an ordinary longsword from his waist.

During his time in the Mercenary Fortress, Lance found that every time he summoned the Sword of Sohana, it would cause a certain amount of energy to fluctuate in the air.

If you face some necromancers who are very sensitive to energy fluctuations, then it is easy to expose your whereabouts.

Shortly after the preparations were made, a shrill whistling sound was heard from the other side of the village.

This was the signal they had agreed with Dilansel in advance.

Hearing the noise, Lance was the first to rush from hiding to the freshly fed ghoul.

This was followed by Luka and Quiles.

Each of the three of them is tasked with dealing with a ghoul.

Lilith, on the other hand, lurks in place, keeping an eye on her surroundings.

At the moment when Lance appeared, the ghoul had already spotted Lance, roared on the spot, and quickly met Lance.

The ghouls' strange screams also made the other two ghouls, as well as the hundreds of zombies in the village, notice the situation here, and they rushed towards Lance and the others as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Due to the fact that the speed of the ghouls and the zombies is not equal, the three ghouls soon break away from the zombies' team and fight against Lance, Luca, and Quiles.

At the same time, at the other end of the village, two explosions of oil cans rang out.

Dilansel and the mute were not far from the zombies, shouting loudly.

At the same time, Dilanthel also kept shooting arrows at the nearest zombies, almost one arrow at a time, but before a few arrows were fired, most of the zombies were led towards the other end of the village by the "arrogant" Dilanthel and the mute.

Just as the freshly fed ghoul greeted Lance, Lance also made a quick move.

He didn't want to go head-to-head with this disgusting ghoul, and just when there were still dozens of meters away from one person and one ghost, the long sword in Lance's hand shook rapidly, and several wind blades shot at the ghoul at a faster speed.

The ghoul, who had no sense of fear, leaped forward, waved his sharp claws in the air, and slapped directly at several wind blades.

Lance's wind blade was scattered in an instant, and Lance also took advantage of the moment when the ghoul was stunned, his footsteps flashed, and he quickly came to the ghoul's side, raised his long sword and slashed directly at the ghoul's forelimbs.

But Lance's sword did not have the effect of the sword breaking in his imagination.

The long sword, which had not been infused with battle energy, slid across the skin covered with wet bone slime, and the sharp edge of the sword deflected as if it had slashed into the tough, glued-stained leather, without causing any substantial damage to the ghoul's forelimbs.