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As a strong protector, the Necropolis is obligated to provide security for the Duchy of Novis. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The practical significance of this verbal promise is that the Necropolis will contain and repel the attack of the necromancers in the shortest possible time, and save the people of Novis who are on the verge of life and death to the greatest extent.

As a protected person, the Duchy of Novis must declare the Necropolis to the entire continent as the suzerainty of the Necropolis.

This is tantamount to establishing the relationship between the Necropolis and Novis as suzerainty and vassal states in the name of the legal system.

On this basis, the ruler of a vassal state could not be called emperor; When the old king dies and the new king ascends the throne, he must notify the suzerain, from which he can obtain a document recognizing the new king's accession, otherwise he can only claim to be the son of the family and pay regular tribute (in fact, it is a kind of trade between two countries); If necessary, the overlord may intervene as a mediator in disputes between two subject States or within subject States.

Of course, as the first human kingdom to fall to the Grand Necropolis, Novis enjoys complete autonomy and its domestic politics and military affairs are not affected, but its foreign diplomacy is completely governed by the Grand Necropolis.

Although the Necropolis gave full autonomy to the territory of Novis, in order to ensure its influence, three small territories within 50 miles of the territory of Novis were selected as garrison camps. One is the current Thundering Fortress, one is the stone tower of Dayan Village where Li Xun once lived for more than a year, and the other is located near the northwest coast of Novis.

In this way, the three territories chosen for the Necropolis are located on the only choke point that runs through the Aveli mountains in the east of Novis, the old base of Li Xun in the southwest, and somewhere in the northwest. The finished glyph of the three territories enveloped the territory of Novis within the radius of the combat power of the cemetery garrison, so that some ambitious fellows would not be afraid to make unforgivable mistakes.

As for the army formed by the Duchy of Novis itself, to be honest, it was not taken to heart by the Necropolis at all. The entire Duchy of Novis was a desperate army, and at best it raised an army of 300,000 troops, most of which were infantry regiments. The knights who can really pose a threat to the cemetery are only 20,000 people, and they are destined to be mainly ordinary cavalry, and the knight class who really have a fighting spirit is not even one-tenth.

It may not be a problem to expect such a secular army to deal with other human kingdoms, but compared to large borderless interdimensional forces such as the United Council of the Dead and the Necropolis, the two are not at all on the same order of magnitude.

So when it comes to war, the Necropolis doesn't lack the little combat power of the Novis army, and it's not afraid of any trouble if the principality's army and the mage guild get tangled. If you really want to launch a ruthless attack, the Grand Cemetery can open a portal at any location in Novis at any time and send nearly a million cemetery elites over.

It can be said that as long as there is an area where the cemetery sentinel is located, there is no shortage of soul signs in the cemetery that are required for accurate teleportation. On the contrary, the only shackle that restricts the Necropolis from engaging in this kind of warfare is the number of dead hoards in the cemetery cities. In the future, it can be expected that the Necropolis will inevitably have to cross the Elven Continent to fight against the Zerg, and at this time, the requisition of the Dark City's lifeless gas reserves that lasted for more than 2 years is equivalent to depleting the war potential of the Necropolis in advance.

And the reason why Skeletron must pull the forces of the Duchy of Novis to complete this war against the necromancer is to put a legal cloak on the Necropolis, and from then on whitewash it has become a local force that can compete for dominance of the plane. Otherwise, in the eyes of all the local forces of Klein, the Necropolis will always be a foreign invader, and it can be compared to the Angela Zerg, except that one threat is big and the other is small.

If you want to take root in a main plane, you can only try to integrate yourself into it, instead of always trying to destroy all the natives of this plane like the Angela Zerg and establish a single plane with only the Zerg.

Negotiation and discussion are difficult, and almost every detail and every doubt requires repeated consultation and dispute. But how can there be such ample time in the current situation of Novis? Therefore, Skeletron represented the Necropolis, Katieeni represented the Mage Guild, and Archduke Gard represented the entire Novis nobility, and the three parties confirmed their subordinate relationship with each other, and simply concluded an offensive and defensive alliance agreement, and this epic "collaboration" was determined in the form of a magical contract.

And after getting the paper they wanted, the cemetery heroes, who had already been holding their eyes blue, rushed out of the portal. Carrying banners and leading their own luxurious teams, they poured into the territory of Novis like a tide.

The Knights of the Black Blade, whose banner is a black battle flag with "Frost Sorrow", is led by Arthas and Scarface, and has a membership of 2,000 people, mainly composed of Death Knights and High Undead Knights.

The Order also has an army of 5,000 ghoul minions, led by the Ghoul King Hogus and the elite Predator Red. Their mission is to cooperate with the Knights of the Black Blade, and are responsible for logistics, maintenance, guerrilla and other war auxiliary work. And their banner is a giant ghoul claw.

Federtic's Doomsday Squad is small in number, with only a few hundred people. However, they cooperate tacitly, and there are many means of warfare, and they are also a formidable and terrible team. And their battle flag was a tightly clenched fist.

In addition, there is also the cyan battle flag of the zombie army led by the Corpse King; The skeleton battle banner of the bone law troops led by the Forgotten Mage; The blood-dripping dagger banner of the Dark Thorn troops led by the Shadow Gnome Assassin Oro; The Shadow Demon gathered a group of shadow battle flags carried by high-ranking cemetery mercenaries; the silver shroud battle flag of the ghoul army led by the mummy Blue; The blood-colored battle banner of the Plaguelord legion led by the Butcher is made of iron hooks and guillotines......

A high-spirited cemetery hero, a strong cemetery team, and a blood-colored battle flag fluttering in the wind...... For a time, there were more than 30 cemetery teams active in the entire Duchy of Novis, each with its own characteristics.

Skeletron commanded an army of more than 300,000 in the cemetery, and met the surging sea of the undead from the front. The two sides collided solidly in the northern part of the Flower Language Plain, where Pilbon is located, and one earth-shattering battle after another broke out.

On one side is the sea of the undead composed of more than 3 million undead cannon fodder, and on the other side is a real cemetery army composed of more than 300,000 cemetery elites. The two sides seem to have a huge difference in numbers, but when the war really breaks out, the combat power shown by the cemetery side is enough to make all the people watching the battle tremble.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, the sea of the undead introduced by necromancers into the territory of Novis had skyrocketed from more than 4 million to more than 5 million, and this number was rising wildly every day. However, with such a huge sea of the undead, the Council of the Undead lacked enough core strength to control them. Therefore, a considerable part of the undead cannon fodder has completely run away, and has become a ranger who has no one to control and only knows how to act according to instinct.

So seeing the large cemetery gathering troops coming, the necromancers also hurriedly began to gather their combat strength, but the undead who had just been subdued were so difficult to drive. Therefore, it took 2 days of hard work to barely gather the more than 3 million undead in front of him, and he fought against Mai Mang at the tip of the needle in the cemetery.

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The small town of Joselu.

This is a small remote town surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Located at the foot of the Aveli Mountains, the town is a beautiful place for the wealthy and powerful to spend their vacations, with a meandering river running through the side of the city.

But to this day, it is also besieged by a tide of undead corpses that have flowed over.

When this wave of undead corpses first came, the number was not huge, and it was only more than 2,000 people, compared with the 40,000 residents and more than 700 city guards in José Lu, it did not form an overwhelming numerical advantage. However, there was a middle-level necromancer hidden in this wave of undead corpses, who besieged and killed a militia of more than 4,000 people organized by the lord of Josélu City in a deceitful way on the banks of the river.

From then on, the small city of Josélu was closed with its gates and crossbows, and he never dared to take half a step out of the city.

After killing the living force of the small city, the tide of undead corpses has swelled to 5,000, and finally has the strength to launch a day and night siege on the small city.

In the southwest corner of the town, the surging zombie skeletons crowded together, slowly but surely climbing towards the city in the form of stacking human walls. The small city is not high, but the city wall of eleven or twelve meters cannot withstand the gnawing and digging of the corpse tide, and it only takes less than 2 hours to stack a mountain leading directly to the top of the city wall.

During this period, the defenders at the head of the city never stopped attacking with bows and crossbows, and even many brave warriors desperately stabbed down with spears and spears. Unfortunately, the physiology of the undead means that they are not as afraid of crossbow arrows and sharp weapons as humans do. As long as the soul fire inside the hard skull is not extinguished, even if you shoot a skeleton into a hedgehog, it will continue to climb unconsciously and unconsciously.

Zombies, on the other hand, have a tough and thick layer of rotten flesh protection, and are far more resistant than skeletons by ten times. Therefore, although the human defenders at the head of the city fought hard to attack and destroy, the corpse mountain on the undead side was still built slowly.

For the densely stacked mountain of corpses, the only means of attack on the human side is the frantically thrown oil canisters and torches, and only the raging fire can briefly stop the undead attack. It was by this means that Joselu's defenders barely managed to stop the zombies from entering the city.

However, the reserves of tung oil and vegetable oil in the small city are only a few after all, and after the humans in the small city can no longer find a single bit in the whole city, Roshan, which is full of zombie howls, is finally built on the city wall.

Zombies and ghouls staggering up the city became the biggest nightmare for the city's defenders.