Chapter 9: Skeletons and Treants
Seeing so many outsiders coming out of the cave, several Atlantean warriors released an ancient monster in their hands at the same time, only to see that the object in their hands quickly flew high in the sky and made a huge explosion sound, and released a large cloud of smoke in the sky, mainly red. Looking at it like this, it should be a kind of representation similar to signaling.
After giving the signal, several Atlanteans threw their spears at the handsome young man and the man on the opposite side, and retreated in unison.
Unfortunately, although a few flying spears were shot quickly with the sound of breaking through the air, when the handsome blonde young man opened one hand, several sharp spears that were full of strength and rapid flight all fell suddenly.
Seeing that several Atlantean warriors were about to escape, Bresta was about to arrange for his subordinates behind him to come forward to chase and kill, only to hear the blonde young man say lightly: "Forget it, Bresta, let's take me and Mr. Chen to the Atlantean city quickly." ”
After hearing the young man's order, Bresta hurriedly said: "Yes, according to the order of the deputy sect leader, just now I have sent Cines to explore the city of the Atlanteans, and we will set off." ”
It turned out that this handsome and arrogant blonde young man was the deputy head of the Dark Church, whose name was "Ogugins", and he belonged to the third person in the Dark Church. Due to the fact that the leader of the Dark Church has been in seclusion all year round, and the whereabouts of the Dark Saintess, the second person, are secretive, so the daily affairs of the Dark Church are all in charge of this Ogugins, who is actually the core manager of the Dark Church.
Under Bresta's arrangement, Siens hurriedly ran out to lead the way, and dozens of people followed behind Ogugins and the mysterious Oriental man "Mr. Chen" towards the city of the Atlanteans.
Shortly after several Atlantean soldiers signaled to the sky, a loud sound of war drums was heard from the direction of Forest City, which was short, rapid, and orderly, presumably one of the ways in which the Atlanteans conveyed some kind of military command.
In the square of Forest City, the Atlantean soldiers of the brigade began to assemble and prepare for war, they equipped themselves with various weapons and protective gear, and launched many various war equipment from the trees under the orders of the various squad leaders.
The big boss and several other leaders have already learned the whereabouts of the Dark Church from the Atlantean scouts who came back to report the news, although they only saw dozens of people coming out of the cave, but because they were worried that the other party would have follow-up support, several leaders unanimously decided to adopt a defensive strategy, after all, the Great Western Continent is the territory of the Atlanteans, they have been operating here for many years, and they have already stocked enough supplies and war items in Forest City to withstand a war of attrition.
"Big Chief, since the other party came out of that cave, it is possible that he used some kind of spatial teleportation device, and no matter what kind of spatial teleportation, it is impossible to exist for a long time, so we only need to stick to the city, so that we can not only avoid the loss of our warriors as much as possible, but also wait for work, and when the other party cannot make progress and is in a dilemma, we will slowly consume it. "One of the leaders offered advice to the big leader.
"As I thought, now we are not sure of the details of the other party, so first take a defensive strategy, you can order your elite reconnaissance fighters to drive small aircraft to carefully reconnoitre, figure out the opponent's movements and location, send insect reconnaissance machines to secretly follow the opponent, and at the same time order the soldiers to open all the traps around the city, so that all the soldiers take turns on duty on the tree fortress on the outskirts of the city, and prepare all long-range and short-range weapons. By the way, tell the 'Golden Warriors' to be ready for battle, and use those ancient weapons if necessary. The big boss gave orders to several of the leaders.
Not long after the big boss arranged the battle instructions, the soldiers who were flying the Maple Leaf Aircraft out of the city to conduct reconnaissance in the air noticed billowing black smoke rising from the west of Forest City. When the scout soldiers flew closer, they found that tens of thousands of white skeletons armed with swords, guns, swords, sticks, and even muskets had emerged from the billowing black smoke!
This group of skeleton warriors mysteriously appeared from the large black smoke and began to line up, looking very similar to the military quality of the cold weapon era, many skeleton soldiers still have some torn armor or iron military caps with horns, and some white bone warriors hold muskets or rifles, and bayonets are hung on the belt around their waists.
It appears that the skeletons are from previous eras, but most of them are medieval skeletons.
Among the large number of skeleton soldiers, there are also some skeleton warriors wearing medieval knight masks riding on skeleton horses and holding extremely long knight spears, commanding and giving orders in the skeleton troops, and seem to be the leaders of the skeleton troops. Their bony horses tread iron hooves, carried old but delicate European-style saddles, and even neighed as they did when they were alive.
The Atlantean scouts in the sky couldn't help but tingle their scalps, and tens of thousands of skeletal troops appeared on the ground, holding various weapons in their hands, and many skeleton archers had already aimed at them with bows and crossbows. Seeing this, an Atlantean scout whistled, and several aircraft flew back to the city after making a sharp turn in the air.
Seeing that the Scouts had flown back to Forest City, Ogugins ordered his Dark Mages to continue to activate the Dark Church's secret treasure, the Necronomicon, to summon more skeletons.
This "Necromancy" is a magic weapon that existed when the Dark Church was founded, and it is said that it was passed down by the Demon God, which can refine the skeletons of dead warriors and turn them into skeleton warriors for their own use.
For thousands of years, whenever the war ended, the Dark Church would send people to the cemeteries or battlefields of the dead soldiers to collect the bones of the dead soldiers, and finally transform into bone warriors after various secret trials, and then send these white bone warriors into the secret space in the Necronomicon.
After refining and absorbing the rich dark energy in the Necronomicon Treasure Book, the older the skeleton warriors, the more powerful the dark energy, so among these tens of thousands of skeletons, the modern skeleton soldiers are not as powerful as the ancient skeleton soldiers, especially in the hardness, speed, and flexibility of the white bones.
The dark mages input their dark energy into the Necronomicon and recite the opening spell of the Necronomicon to summon the skeleton warriors hidden in the Tome as much as possible. For thousands of years, countless skeleton warriors have been preserved in the Necronomicon, but if the summoner does not have enough power, they can only summon some of them.
According to the secret legend of the Dark Church Sect Masters, if the Dark Demon Skill is extremely high, it can even summon the invincible demon in the deepest part of the Necromantic Treasure Book, but unfortunately, for thousands of years, no one can have such cultivation and creation.
At this time, several advanced elders and dark mages around Ogugins had exhausted all their mana and used up the dark energy stored in their wands, and finally summoned fifty or sixty thousand skeleton warriors.
As the vanguard of the stormtroop, the self-confident Augustins believed that the depletion of these meat shields should pose a partial threat to the Atlantean cities. So, Ogugins ordered all the elders to launch the first wave of attacks on the Atlantean forest city from one side, and after saying that, he took out many small black pills from his arms, and ordered several elders and dark mages to take them to replenish mana.
Suddenly, with the concerted efforts of more than a dozen skeleton warriors carrying two huge iron trombones, the two horns emitted a loud and low "woo" sound, which was like crying and crying, miserable and sad, and the sound was slightly hoarse and tactful, which made people sound very heart-wrenching. However, with the muffled sound of the horn like the wailing of a crow, the entire skeleton legion took the steps of war in unison, only listening to the sound of "swish, swish" footsteps like a military parade, the white bone soldiers marched side by side in rows, and the skeletons that made up their bodies still made a crisp "click, click" sound when the joints moved from time to time.
The neat and powerful footsteps of tens of thousands of white bone warriors made a deep "boom, boom" sound in this originally quiet land, alarming all the birds and animals around them to flee farther away. In the rear of the large army, many bone warriors carried siege ladders, movable siege towers, and all kinds of huge and extremely lethal weapons of war.
At this time, the Dark Church and more than a dozen Orientals brought by Mr. Chen rode on the white bone war horses summoned by the dark mage for them to follow behind the White Bone Legion, and when Mr. Chen saw such a magnificent White Bone Legion, he couldn't help but praise Ogugins sincerely: "The Dark Church really lives up to its reputation, and it is really daunting and breathtaking to have such a powerful and neat skeleton army." ”
"Mr. Chen is polite, we are strategic partners, and we have to rely on your cooperation to complete the great cause together, and you and I will be one family in the future, especially at this moment, we must advance and retreat together. "Auggins speaks with maturity and sophistication.
"That's nature, and it's a responsibility. Mr. Chen, who was thanked, was polite.
As the skeleton army marched all the way, it didn't take long for them to come to the city, but along the way, the bone warriors also encountered some small troubles, many underground traps caused a small number of bone warriors to be crushed or pierced by the boulders and spears in the traps, so that the bones were trapped in it and could not move, many bone warriors were injured too badly, and they stopped moving after struggling for a while, seemingly because of the severe damage caused by the dark energy in the bones to dissipate and lose their function.
In the distance, in a tall thick tree on the edge of Forest City, the big boss and other leaders have already seen the white bone army thousands of meters away, because there is an open field outside Forest City, the field of vision is extremely broad, looking at the mighty white bone warriors, the big leader resolutely ordered: "Since the other party uses the white bone puppet as the vanguard, and our side also uses the elemental puppet to fight against it, please give a unified order from all leaders, first invite the tree man warriors to resist the comer!"
With the order of the big boss, the leaders gathered their mages in one place and began to cast spells at the same time, when the runes drawn by the Atlantean mages on the ground and the input elemental energy penetrated into the depths of the ground, the entire forest city began to tremble slightly, and then, countless humanoid warriors with trees more than three meters high broke through the ground from the ground!
Long ago, the Atlanteans were prepared to prevent the invasion of outsiders, and they made thousands of tree warriors rich in wood elemental energy and buried them in the underground of Forest City, which could be used in the future.
The total number of Tree Warriors was about four or five thousand, but judging by the iron-like wood and thick branches, they were far more powerful than the slightly thin Skeleton Warriors. In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of these treemen, the Atlanteans created a batch of large weapons specially tailored for these tall warriors.
As you watch the many Treant warriors stride out from the gaps in the walls of Forest City with giant broadswords and giant trees, it gives people an overwhelming feeling of being invincible. After these treant warriors walked out of the wall, they stood side by side in three rows to protect the entire forest city behind them, and several giant treants with a height of more than twenty meters stood in front of the formation with giant trees and thorns, seemingly the leaders of this group of treant warriors, waiting for the next order of the Atlantean mage.
From afar, I saw that many huge Treant warriors were pouring out of the forest city of the Atlanteans, carrying long knives and giant trees, and the group of the Dark Church on the bone war horses were also amazed.
At this time, the Bone Legion had stopped two kilometers away from Forest City, also waiting for the next order of the dark mage. Seeing that the battle between the two sides was at one touch, the entire battlefield was silent, and the "cluck, cluck" sound made by the slight movement of the joints of individual white bone soldiers could be heard quietly.
"Sure enough, it is a nation that is good at servitude of the elements, dark mages, order skeleton warriors to equip shields and use firearms. "Ogugins' grim decree.
After receiving the order, the bone soldiers in the back row of the skeleton legion, who were responsible for pulling and pushing the war equipment, uncovered the cart with cloth drawn by the bone war, and hundreds of carts were piled up with many kinds of equipment, and these soldiers took off shields of different sizes and styles and passed them to the front row soldiers, and then removed barrels of materials containing various firearms such as diesel, gunpowder, and cotton cloth from the cart.
Seeing that the white bone warriors had been equipped with all kinds of equipment for battle, Ogugins' face did not change, and he said lightly to a dark elder beside him: "Go to war." ”
After two more long and firm trombone drums, the bone warriors of the Skeleton Legion began to move the joints and bones of their bodies in unison, and in an instant, a crisp "creaking" sound of bone activity was heard from the Skeleton Legion.
The sound of "creaking" was crisp and cold, and it reached the ears of the Atlanteans in Forest City from afar, making the hearts of many women, girls and children furious, and also adding a touch of pressure to the strong Atlantean warriors.