Chapter 0032 The two armies face each other

At dawn the next day, as soon as the sky was clear, the barracks was already full of people, and the shouting and scolding of the officers, the sound of the assembly order, and the collision of the soldiers arranging their armor and swords became a ring. After a hurried breakfast, the team was assembled and began to wait for the arrival of the mage group.

When the sun rose in the treetops, the mages, accompanied by nobles and knights, rode horses or chariots, and began to march along the mountain road to the depths of the mountain, with 400 men left behind in the village of Russelan to guard them.

2 of the 5 mages who went out to search came back and brought back the location information of the undead army, 2 mages have been confirmed dead, and one mage was seriously injured after trying to fight 2 necromancers, and is recuperating in hiding, and after contacting, he said that he would try to move to the location of a possible decisive battle.

In this way, the number of mages in the team reached 11: 1 high-level mage, 2 middle-level mages, and 8 low-level mages; There were 21 knights, several nobles, and 900 elite soldiers. The enemy has 1 high-level necromancer, 6 low-level mages, and 200-300 undead slaves.

After walking 7 miles along the mountain road, I had to abandon all the carriages and start to burrow into the mountain forest. The supplies of the army were either carried on their shoulders or on horses, and the mages had to clumsily flip on their horses, and the soldiers led the horses. Despite the horses, the mages complained of wobbling, swaying on horseback, and beware of the branches that stretched horizontally, as one of them would be swept off the horse.

After traveling 20 miles through the mountains and forests with difficulty, getting closer and closer to the predetermined location, the team began to divide into more than ten groups of sentinels, and various bamboo whistles indicating safety came and went.

Count Havas was in the middle of the procession, and instead of wearing heavy armor, he rode on horseback in a relatively light chain mail. As the leader of this team, he must lead the team in the encirclement and suppression of the necromancers. He shuddered at the thought of how terrible the necromancer was, but fortunately the strength of the team gave him a little confidence. kept stroking the potion bottle handed to him by Master Jose Tiku in his arms, his heart was uncertain, only a handful of nobles could get this potion, and many of the rest were unaware. The necromancer's curse has long enveloped the entire team, although the mages have the means to remove this threat in wartime, but after all, there will be a lot of damage, and only the potions prepared by these mages in their arms can completely remove the curse.

In order to eliminate the necromancers, the principality mages really did not pity the casualties of the army, and thinking of this, Count Havas was also a little frightened.

A terrible whistle suddenly sounded, and it was right ahead. Count Hawas, who had been in battle for a long time, hurriedly looked around, his team was in a small sparse forest area, barely able to line up the formation, surrounded by mostly undulating hills, unable to reach far, unable to exert the power of bows and arrows. Without the urging of Count Hawass, the knights under his command had already begun to shout loudly to gather their hands, distribute the spears, shields, quivers and other items carried on horseback, and form a defensive line in the middle of the sparse forest area, the shield soldiers were crowded as closely as possible, the spearmen put their spears on the shields, forming a dense jungle, the archers and crossbowmen hid behind the trees in the rear and waited for orders, and the knights dismounted their horses, holding swords and constantly patrolling and shouting behind the defense line, ready to fill in the possible loopholes.

Although it was a sparse forest area, it was still full of trees and shrubs, which caused great trouble to the formation, and the soldiers took their swords and axes together to remove some of the most obstructive shrubs, and then retreated to the rear and shivered to wait for the results of the battle.

Compared to the haste and messiness of the army, the mages are much more orderly. After moving to a hill with a good view behind the side of the battle formation, let the knights who were with them command 300 soldiers with large shields to be scattered around to keep guard. Some of the mages began to chant spells and cast magical eyes to check the movement around them, others began to add buffs to themselves and the soldiers on the front line, and various and colorful energy shields began to appear.

Soon the sentries in front of the reconnaissance ran back with a dense crowd of undead creatures. Most of these undead creatures are low-level skeletons and zombies, and they don't travel very fast, but the huge number still gives people a strong visual impact.

The tide of corpses poured silently and slowly, but unswervingly, down the hillside, colliding with the human defenses, without prompting, without announcement, and the battle began.

Joseticu frowned, this is by no means more than 300 undead creatures, it is very likely that it has reached 700, which means that the enemy is not much different from the side in terms of strength.

A mage with a magical eye screamed, "Spot the enemy, right up the hill ahead!" ”

Joseticu looked up into the distance down the hillside, and among the dense tide of corpses, several black-robed mages wearing hooded cloaks were particularly eye-catching. No skeletons or zombies dared to approach within ten paces, only a few high-level undead were clustered around to protect them, and there were vampires, stitching monsters, ghouls, black warriors, and twenty or thirty ghosts on their heads.

"The enemy has shown up and started to release the purification potion, hurry up!"

With Joseticul's order, 8 low-level mages began to join forces to cast the cloud mist technique, a level 2 spell, for a while, a large cloud of transparent water mist with a diameter of 100 meters appeared above the heads of the mages, and continued to increase humidification, 2 mid-level mages opened a lot of glass bottles one after another, and mixed the potion inside into the water mist above their heads, and when they were ready, they used the wind creation technique to move this water mist to the front line of the battle.

On the front lines of the battle, the undead emitted a rancid stench and moved slowly. As far as the eye can see, the situation of dead bodies all over the mountains is really terrifying. Swords have limited utility against them, and even if they have their hands and feet cut off or even half of their bodies, the undead can continue to fight as long as the soul fire in their heads is not extinguished. And if the arrows can't attack the soul fire, they won't have a big effect, but the heavy axes and maces are more reliable. The undead came one after another, without hesitation, without fear, without fatigue. Every time a companion fell, the undead behind stepped on its remains. Although this offensive is extremely simple, it is extremely difficult. The soldiers on the front line had no respite at all and could only hold out until they were defeated.

The shield soldiers in the front 2 rows squatted down and tried to curl themselves up behind the shield, resisting them with their shoulders, and pushing each other with the constant rush of zombies, the spearmen in the front row used their spears to resist the approach of zombies and skeletons, and the spearmen in the back row only stabbed vigorously, from time to time zombies and skeletons were stabbed and fell in front of the shield, and from time to time human soldiers were pulled out of the defense line and were eaten miserably. As the undead continued to fall, the front line was gradually enveloped by a black gas, and inexplicable black spots gradually began to appear on many human soldiers, and at this moment, the mage's potion mist drifted to the front line.

All the human soldiers shrouded in the water mist could not detect the almost invisible black gas from their nostrils, and they all felt inexplicably relieved, and the plague seeds secretly planted by the necromancer on their bodies had been lifted by the purification potion in the water mist, but their lifespans were inevitably shortened accordingly. But there are a few exceptions, some humans who are parasitized by **cysts like Hans Knight are not only not purified, but like those undead creatures, they wail and hisse in the mist, falling to the ground and rolling, spewing black flames from their mouths and eyes, which slowly transform into dead corpses as the flesh melts.

It wasn't until nearly a hundred undead creatures were wiped out that the mist slowly dissipated under the sunlight, and the fearless zombie hordes pounced again. The battle between the human soldiers and the zombie skeletons continued, and the mages on both sides did not participate too much in the direct battle, but silently prepared the spell with a tacit understanding, and as the high-level mages on both sides flew into the sky, the battle between the mages began.

Nearly 200 meters away, across a battlefield of flesh and blood that was constantly fighting, the various spells of both sides collided and annihilated each other in the air, and the shields flashed with the light of martyrdom, blocking the scattered elemental torrents out of the body. For a moment, the fireballs, acid arrows, strong scorching rays, magic missiles, ice edge arrows, and negative energy rays intertwined with each other, and the fight was in full swing. However, the dual mages now have sufficient mana and complete shields, and there are unlikely to be any casualties in a short period of time, correspondingly, the guards' meat shields are not so lucky. Whether it is a soldier holding a large shield on the human side, or a stitch monster and ghoul with rough skin and thick flesh on the undead side, without the protection of mana shields, they have to try to block some spell attack routes that have slipped through the net to save the shield consumption of mages, but they have suffered heavy casualties and become the group with the highest casualty rate on the battlefield.

Due to the large number of people, the human mage's side obviously has a spell advantage, but the undead side obviously has a meat shield advantage, a 3-meter-tall stitching monster can resist 4 or 5 spells without falling, and a small fireball flying from the human side will fall 2 to 3 people, and the two sides somehow maintain the balance and stalemate of the battle.

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