Chapter 3: Ghouls
To the Night's Watch Order, the alien mercenaries are a source of resentment.
One of the reasons is that it is pervasive.
As long as they smell the signs of undead mutations, these foreign mercenaries will flock to them.
No matter how the Night's Watch pulled up the blockade or drove them violently, they always found a way to infiltrate.
However, as a worldwide transcendent organization, the Night's Watch is extremely concerned about its reputation in the outside world, and cannot do the evil act of directly killing these mercenaries.
The second reason is that there is no discipline.
Even if they follow the Night's Watch, they will not listen to the Night's Watch's command.
Shunfeng Zhan rushed forward in a hurry, and when he encountered defeat, he fled faster than anyone else.
Sometimes they would lure the monster to the Night's Watch front, or steal the Night's Watch's equipment or something, which gave the Night's Watch Knights a headache.
The third reason is that the strength is too vegetable.
This is the original sin of everything. If these mercenaries are good enough to fight, the previous shortcomings are not shortcomings.
For these foreign mercenaries, the night watchmen have long had a tacit way to deal with them, that is, let them follow behind and keep each other in their sight, so as not to cause them to run around and attract monsters.
Also, prevent them from entering the Night's Watch Knights' battle line, so that they don't interfere with the Night's Watchmen's battle.
For the foreign mercenaries, it is a little uncomfortable not to be able to run around, but following the night watchmen can pick up some of the loot they left behind after the battle, which is a bit of oil.
Of course, this pattern is like a lion hunting in front and hyenas picking up carrion to eat, so it's no wonder that the Night Watch Knights have a complete contempt for mercenaries.
Soon, the Knights of the Night's Watch were acting on orders from above. The three knights of the Holy Day, the Silver Moon, and the Morning Star all went to eliminate the undead creatures according to their respective demarcated battle areas.
Morningstar, as the weakest part, is assigned to the seaward part of the road to Pyramos, which is infested with ghouls and water ghosts, which is relatively easy to deal with.
Although their claws are sharp and poisonous, the knights are covered in power armor and are naturally not afraid of this threat.
A few hours later, Quasimodo, the chief knight, led six night watchmen of the Morning Star III, were cautiously walking along the seaside road with guns in hand.
Due to the drastic reduction in manpower, the team had to optimize the weight of the equipment. Heavy miniguns and RPGs could not be carried, and the team chose a configuration of 4 laser rifles, 2 shotguns, and 1 flamethrower, taking into account the team's attack frequency, lethality, and endurance.
Seeing that he was about to approach the dangerous area on the map, the knight chief Quasimodo quickly ordered:
"Lorente, Roger, Carris, occupy the high ground in the direction of 1 o'clock. Langri, with heavy weapons, guards the 12-point direction, the pass between the two high grounds. The rest, following me in a V-shaped formation, marched toward the high ground at 11 o'clock. ”
So the knights quickly acted according to the command. Someone suddenly asked:
"Quasimodo, what about the mercenaries in the back? Do you want to command together? ”
"Leave them alone." Quasimodo paused, "Jalevin, you walk at the back of the line and keep an eye on them. If there is any sign of trying to disrupt our formation, once you shoot a warning, and twice you will shoot directly. ”
“ok。” Said the night watchman Jalevin.
At the same time, in the Azure Sword mercenary group behind, Asker also began to deploy tactics:
"Peggy, Mia, occupy the 2 o'clock direction of the hill. There's a big tree there, Mia, you climb to the top of the tree, and then release Mi'er out to help. ”
"Eleanor, Sidlifa, take the arc to avoid the Night's Watch Knights and go down the hill at 2 o'clock to stand by."
"Medea, Sheila, walk in the direction of 1 o'clock and keep your distance from the night watchmen in front of you. When they have taken the high ground over there, you go counterclockwise along the edge of the bottom of the high ground to the front of the high ground. ”
"Nora comes with me, and the rest of us are in radio contact at all times. Got it? ”
"Understood!" The girls replied loudly.
At the sound of an order, the people of the Azure Sword quickly split into four and advanced towards their respective target locations.
Peggy and Mia were the fastest runners, and in a few minutes they were on the hill at 2 o'clock.
The hill is slightly lower than the high ground in front of it, but because of the large tree growing at the top, the top of the hill is the highest point in the area.
Peggy stopped under the tree, and Mia jumped between the shadows of the broken leaves in the shadows, and soon reached the top of the treetops.
At the signal, Mi'er immediately teleported out of the Fire Island, and quickly hugged the branch beside her.
"Come here, Mi'er." Mia beckoned to her, "This branch is the strongest, and it can carry the weight of both of us." ”
So Mi'er jumped over - she was of wood elf blood and was as nimble as an ape in the treetops.
Coming to Mia's side, she tried to shake the branch under her feet.
The firmness is sufficient.
"The treetop group is in place!" On the radio, the two girls said in unison.
"The Hill Group is also in place." A few minutes later, Eleanor and Sidlifa also came to the bottom of the hill and greeted Peggy from above.
"We're the slowest, on the other hand." On the way forward, Medea shrugged her shoulders.
Sila silently stretched out her right hand from her sleeve, and the Mithril circuit on the surface of her skin suddenly lit up.
Lightweight.
Medea immediately felt that the weight of her whole body was gone, and as long as she used a slight force under her feet, her body could jump up immediately.
"Storm I's supernatural abilities?" She asked, looking back.
"It's only 3 minutes." Sheila nodded.
"That's enough." Medea sped up.
"The two Knights of the Night's Watch in front of me have looked back." Sheila reminded her.
"It's fine." Medea said, "Just don't get too close, I'll monitor the other person's mental activity." ”
Sheila knew that she was a mind-reading psychic sequence capable of reading minds, and she could read the other party's vigilance, so she didn't ask much.
Seeing the two knights ascend the high ground, Sheila and Medea walked counterclockwise along the edge at the bottom of the high ground.
As soon as they reached the front of the high ground, they were startled by what they saw.
Below the highlands, on the plains at a distance of about 100 meters, there are at least a hundred or more ghouls.
Their skin was dry and their hair was charred yellow, and their nails protruded long from their fingers, like the sharp claws of beasts.
Most of the ghouls crawl on all fours, and some walk on their hind feet, like wild men in the mountains, the corners of their mouths grinning to an exaggerated arc, and a fishy green saliva flowing outward.
"What a disgusting monster." Sheila couldn't help but say in disgust.
Medea was fine. The atmosphere of the Seljuk mystical world is relatively open, blasphemy and playing with corpses, hooking up with demons or devils abound, and she has seen many more disgusting ghouls than this, so she only said cautiously on the radio:
"Asker, the front team is in place."
"Honey, what's the view from the top of the tree? Can you see Medea and Sheila? Asker took Nora and walked slowly to the hill at 2 o'clock to meet Peggy, and shouted to the tree.
"Vision is OK." Miel set up her sniper rifle and replied, "Medea and Sheila are in sight, confirmed." ”
"Okay." Asker finally said, "All ready, listen to me!" ”
On the other side, the Knights of the Night's Watch are already in place.
Quasimodo, the chief knight, led four knights to the high ground to the left of the pass. He glanced back, and saw that the people of the Azure Sword Mercenary Group had all hid on a small hill far away.
"A hyena who is greedy for life and afraid of death." He thought contemptuously in his heart.
On the plain in the distance, many ghouls had noticed the figure on the high ground and couldn't help but stand upright in confusion.
Due to the distance and the upwind position of the ghouls, they are only in a state of alert at the moment, and they do not immediately run in this direction.
"Asker......" Seeing a number of ghouls standing up and looking at this side, Sheila and Medea couldn't help but be a little frightened, and asked on the radio, "Should we stay away?" This distance...... It's not very safe, is it? ”
"No, your mission is to attract monsters, and if you are too far away, it will be useless." Asker replied.
Strange attraction? The two girls' faces turned pale in an instant.
God is going to let our two non-melee classes attract monsters!
In an instant, Sheila even felt that she had made a big mistake - she shouldn't have joined this Blue Sword mercenary group in the first place!
"Asker, you bastard! Is there a mistake? Medea was already roaring in the Psychic Channel, "We, an arcane mage, a psychic warlock, are not professions that are good at hand-to-hand combat, how can we go to the front line to attract monsters!" You're responsible for what happened! ”
"I'm in charge." Asker replied.
"Are you responsible?" Medea almost went crazy.
"I'm the captain, I'm not responsible, who is responsible?" Aske smiled and said, "You can at least give me a little trust, right?" ”
"Trust?" Medea was almost speechless, "Have you done anything worthy of my trust?" ”
"Yes, you forgot about the conspiracy formula?" Asker said with a smile.
Conspiracy Recipe ...... Medea suddenly remembered Asker's commotion operation, and was stunned to use the conspiracy sequence to sense the extraordinary characteristics of malice, and completed a classic remote negotiation (qiao) judgment (zha).
If you recall carefully, every time you have a conflict with this guy, it seems that the end result is a brutal slap in the face.
For example, when they first met, he was forced to sign a soul contract, and he pretended to write on his sleeve, but he immediately recognized and ridiculed him, and in the end he could only honestly sign the deed of sale to him.
For example, at the first team meeting, when exchanging secret knowledge with each other, he questioned whether he had mastered the knowledge of the Bloodline Path, and as a result, he casually reported a long list of potion combination information, making him look like a fool.
Another example is that in the process of capturing Hearthfire Island, he questioned whether he could successfully cause a rampage, because the moment his body was touched by a man, a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees would rise.
As a result, his backhand was a slap in the face, which triggered his own rampage unharmed...... Although it is the kind that is not insulting and malicious, now think about the real Nima pain!
Well, this guy is really good, it's almost a last resort, and every plan achieves the desired effect.
But it's really angry, why didn't you burn this guy to death in the first place? Medea decided to learn from Nora and bought a small notebook to keep a grudge against Asker and write down all the things that Asker had bullied her.
"Can you cast that light spell again?" Medea said bitterly.
"Yes." Sheila stammered in reply.
"I've got to move my legs and feet." Medea began to warm up, constantly alternating leg presses and ankle movements, "Otherwise, if you break your foot or fall when you run for your life, you will be dead." ”
"Don't say that kind of unlucky thing!" Sheila hurriedly said, "I'm ...... I'll come too. ”
At the top of the high ground on the right, three night watchmen with laser rifles and shotguns are waiting for orders from the chief knight, Quasimodo.
"What are they doing?" Roger looked at the two girls who were jumping and jumping to stretch their muscles under the high ground, and wondered, "It seems to be dancing?" ”
"Leave these minxes alone." Lorente stared at the group of ghouls in the distance and reminded, "Don't add entities unless you don't have to." ”
So the knight Roger also silently recited the razor's rule, removing these irrelevant distractions from his attention.
Finally, Quasimodo's order came:
"All laser rifles, free fire!"
In an instant, the sound of an arc piercing the air rang out, and four crimson, slender laser beams shot out, hitting the densest place of the ghoul swarm.
It was like a spear stabbed into a hornet's nest, and the whole swarm of ghouls exploded.
Countless ghouls rushed madly towards the high ground. On all fours, they ran wildly across the ground with the agility of a cheetah, their jaws full of sharp teeth skewed open, revealing their snake-like slender tongues and saliva that flicked like whips as they ran at high speed.
"Medea listens up!" Asker said on the channel, "Use your desire ability to manipulate the hunting desires of these ghouls and attract their targets. ”
"Asker!" Medea almost didn't kneel for him on the spot. Even if you stand here to attract monsters, you still have to use your desire ability to attract monsters? Is it because he didn't die fast enough?
"Their speed is at least ten meters per second, right? The two of us can't escape at all! ”
"Sheila's use of light body techniques can speed up your escape." Asker said calmly, "We'll also support from a distance, so we won't let you really be caught up by ghouls." ”
"Are you really sure?" Medea burst into tears.
"Yes." Miel replied.
"That's good!" Since the two members of the team said so, Medea no longer hesitated, and said directly, "Sheila, give me a light body technique!" ”
Transcendent power flowed along the Mithril circuit, and the two of them felt their body weight disappear in an instant.
At the same time, Medea spread the five fingers of her right hand and made a grasping gesture towards the group of ghouls in front of her.
The mind of the undead is incomplete, and the main component is the self that lurks in the decaying corpse.
Medea's desire ability directly acts on the id, so it has an effect on the spot.
All the ghouls swerved wildly as they charged, charging straight for Medea and Sheila.