44. The Fallen
For the undead, the breath of life is like a lighthouse in the night, and it is impossible to see it.
For those undead who only have biological instincts, once a living person enters the place of death, all the undead will be instantly alarmed, because the breath is too obvious. Therefore, once the breath and momentum of the living change, it is naturally the easiest for the undead to feel.
When the momentum of the defenders of the Savage Fortress changed and they began to truly see death as home, the breath of life that burst out from them was naturally dazzling. This caused the entire undead army to suddenly have a commotion, if it weren't for the pressure of the high-level undead, this seemingly ordinary undead army would be in chaos.
Without him, instinct is to make trouble.
However, the momentum of the defenders has become stronger, and the undead who are the attackers have naturally become extremely manic, and they don't even need to be commanded by the commander, and the undead who follow their instincts will impact more quickly.
However, no matter how fierce and frantic the battle became, there was still a large undead army in the rear of the large array that did not move in the slightest. Even if the defenders became more aggressive and attractive, they only returned to normal after a brief commotion, and did not completely disorganize the entire army.
And in this army, which can truly be called the headquarters of the vanguard army, there are two figures standing.
One of them is full of momentum, no matter how much it is restrained and controlled, but the few wisps of breath that leak out inadvertently still seem terrifying.
The other is the opposite. Not only is there no momentum leaking out of his body, but he doesn't even seem to exist in the entire army of the undead. If it weren't for the other party standing next to the first imposing figure like this, the undead who only relied on the breath to judge rather than the eyes would only treat it as if it didn't exist at all.
"It seems. Your tactics don't work. The ordinary figure spoke, "You can't lure the enemy." ”
It's just a simple, calm sentence. But it made the fierce death next to him feel a burst of horror. However, his horror was restrained, but the expression on his face was gloomy and hideous, and his hand bones were crackling.
And with the change of his mood, its body has undergone a strange change.
It was originally the appearance of a skeleton, but at this moment, there were bursts of phantom shaking, revealing a burly figure more than two meters tall.
The figure was wearing black battle armor, and the black cloak behind it was hunting, but if you looked closely, you would see that the cloak was not black at all. Instead, it was soaked in so much blood that it was completely blackened. The burly figure was not wearing a battle helmet, so it was still possible to see the skull, but the flames burning in the eye sockets were not the faint green of ordinary skeleton cannon fodder, but a bright red that was almost purple.
This kind of soul fire is only possible for the undead who have reached the eleventh order.
Once it turns purple, it is a symbol of the legendary ghost fire, which means that the undead are truly legendary creatures.
It's just a cannon fodder-like army of the undead, how could there be such a strong undead?
"You're trying to spoil me?" The non-existent skeleton spoke, but in such a prosaic manner. But it made the dead next to him, who was already equivalent to the realm of the upper holy realm, feel a chill of his soul being frozen.
"The subordinates don't dare." The undead who had hidden his identity spoke, his tone respectful.
Only subordinates, not subordinates.
This suggests that the undead is not a subordinate of another undead, but rather a subordinate of another army of undead who have an equal and antagonistic relationship with it. It's just because his own identity and rank are lower than the other that he calls himself a subordinate.
Able to make the eleventh-order undead call themselves subordinates, and show such a respectful attitude. The strength of the other person can naturally be imagined.
After saying this. The momentum on this undead spirit was exhausted, and the unstable illusion on his body was finally slightly stabilized. No more constant changes over and over again. But even so, it was difficult to completely suppress the wisps of powerful and suppressive death qi, and there was still a thick death qi permeating the entire ground. It's just that the scale of the army of the undead is relatively large, so there is still a reasonable explanation for the deathless qi that escapes.
Of course, this is also the reason why this army of the undead in the headquarters does not dare to go too far.
With the perception of this undead powerhouse, he naturally knew that there were two legendary powerhouses in the fortress ahead, and they were not ordinary legendary powerhouses, they belonged to the kind with relatively strong combat power, and the breath fluctuations of the power of this law could be felt. However, these two people are not within his scope of response, but are in charge of the real powerhouse by his side, and the real goal of his trip is only one, that is, to capture this fortress.
Except for one woman named by her lord who had to be kept alive, no one else inside the fortress lived or died.
Of course, if he can leave more and more perfect material, then he will naturally be praised. And it is precisely because of this consideration that he will adopt this disguise tactic, which is rare in the army of the undead.
In fact, this undead general is not an undead pulled by Lake from the plane of bones, but a native product created after conquering the southern territory of the Millennium Covenant Empire. He was a powerful and excellent general during his lifetime, he was especially good at the way of war, he was one of the three pillars of the Golden Thirteen Provinces before, and the only undead degenerate who immediately surrendered to Lake after seeing that the general trend was gone.
The fallen are human beings who point to demons, devils, and undead souls, and according to the different goals of faith, there are demonic degenerates, demonic degenerates, and undead degenerates. The essence of these degenerates is still human, so they retain all the instincts and memories that belong to human beings, but because they are limited by depraved beliefs, they will be planted with special means of operation, and their body shape and appearance will change to a certain extent.
The price Aderoszo had to pay was to peel off all his flesh and bones, and become a skeleton of white bones. But because he had endured such intense pain, he had also gained great benefits from his strength--as a human being. It's just the realm of the lower sanctuary, but after becoming a degenerate. His strength has been raised to the upper rank of the Holy Domain, and he is only one last step away from becoming a legendary powerhouse.
The original him. Don't want to become a legend after spending his life, but now he suddenly has the opportunity to become a legendary powerhouse, what is he dissatisfied with? It's just that Aderozzo doesn't know that even if he dies in this life, he will never be able to become a legendary powerhouse, and he will always be just one step away from this - from the moment he becomes a degenerate, he will no longer have the ability to be promoted, so how much his strength can improve in the moment when his flesh and blood are peeled off will only stop at this in the future.
Lake didn't tell him, though. So he didn't know it himself.
"The enemy has stopped shooting." The skeleton standing beside Aderozo looked at the bone staircase in front of him, which had begun to accelerate frantically after losing the rain of arrows, and suddenly said, "The bone staircase is almost complete...... How prepared are your Black Death Army? ”
"Just wait for the Bone Staircase to be built." Aderozzo replied in a deep voice.
The Fallen are the ones who surrender to the creatures of darkness.
However, even if they surrender because of this, for dark creatures, they are "not my race, and their hearts must be different", so they are generally not reused at all. They want to be reused. Then it is necessary to develop the descendant troops by themselves, and then speak with the same military exploits. However, it is only qualified to speak, and the demon kings, lords, and kings who accept their surrender will never let these degenerates rule their own troops.
Because of this, all Fallen have a skill that is similar to their innate ability: Transmutation. This ability is also called demonization and pollution. But no matter what it is called, there is only one essence, and that is to develop army deployment for themselves. Grow your own legion, that's all. Of course. There are also powerful degenerates who do not have the skill of leading troops into battle. Rather, it is a strong man like a lone ranger.
But those demon kings, lords, and kings don't care about those, you can do it alone, or you can lead the troops to fight, anyway, as long as you can complete the task.
And the Black Death Army is the army transformed from Aderozo's pollution, that is, the army standing behind him at the moment.
It was a legion of more than 30,000 skeleton cavalry, plus nearly 100,000 skeletal infantry armed with a variety of weapons.
In fact, this huge army of the undead is the real headquarters of this undead vanguard army, and it is also Aderozo's descendant army. This army of 130,000 people is not a skeleton creature, but a deployment before he became a Fallen, but after he became a Fallen, this army has not escaped doom, all of them have been contaminated by his demonization, and have become a half-human, half-undead army of Fallen.
Of course, the skeleton appearance that looks like it now is just the result of being blessed by illusion like him, and in fact, the combat effectiveness of this army is not inferior to that of the sixth-level army of the Human Empire. Even because it has been completely demonized, its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the ordinary sixth-level army, and it may not have reached the standard of a real seventh-level army, but the difference is not too far, and there must be a quasi-seventh-level army.
This undead vanguard army is indeed a pioneer, but it is not cannon fodder.
Levi didn't know this, but judged by ordinary logic, so it was inexplicable to think that this army of cannon fodder actually brought tens of thousands of skeleton mages.
But it's no wonder that Levi doesn't understand, it's really that the knowledge base he has been in contact with before has not been updated for a long time, and he doesn't know that there is a special existence of the so-called "Fallen" in the realm now, not to mention that he is still a Fallen who is good at military strategy. In such a war situation with completely unequal intelligence, it is not surprising that Lévy did not see through such inferior tactics, and even William did not see anything wrong.
After all, no one would have thought that there would be undead who knew how to disguise, disguise, or even show weakness to the enemy.
The entire 350,000 undead, in addition to the main force of 130,000 and tens of thousands of skeleton mages, the remaining 200,000 or so are real cannon fodder, which can be sacrificed at any time, and are just materials used to build the White Bone Ladder.
However, the Bone Staircase has not been completely built at this moment, so Aderozo is still holding his ground.
He was still waiting, and when the Bone Staircase was completely completed, he immediately led the cavalry troops to launch a charge and raid. As long as he cut a hole, the black dead infantry behind him could take advantage of the situation, and then expand the results and gain a foothold on the city walls - as a former human degenerate, Aderozo certainly knew what the most important point of a siege was and if he couldn't gain a foothold on the walls, he didn't even think about breaking the city.
At this moment, the Savage Fortress, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly had a new means of defense.
Countless millstone-sized boulders were lifted up the walls and hurled straight down the staircase of bones that had been built against the walls.
One or two grinding disc boulders may not be able to smash the white bones under the shield that have been glued to the city wall, but the fall of a large number of grinding disc boulders is enough to cause these white bones to crack. And once there is a crack, the degree of solidity is naturally not as good, and then a few more times, these white bone stairs will naturally produce a lot of collapses. And the threat of these grinding disc boulders is far more than that, after smashing and smashing the bone ladder, the grinding disc boulders that rolled down the stairs naturally caused heavy losses to the skeleton soldiers in the rear.
Before they were completely turned into piles of bones and glued to the city walls or companions, these skeleton soldiers were just first-order undead creatures after all, and they were no better than an adult, so when they were smashed and hit by a boulder, many skeletons were simply shattered. Of course, most of them are not shattered because of this, but it is normal for the body to suddenly lose one or two parts, and after the amount is reduced, it will naturally no longer be able to become a material for building a white bone ladder.
"Dying and throeping." Seeing the new defenses in the fortress, the undead standing in Aderoszo sneered.
This means of defense is indeed a dying struggle in the eyes of the undead, after all, how many grinding disc boulders can a fortress have? Smashing down this piece may be able to slow down the construction of the White Bone Staircase, but it still doesn't help the general trend, they just build a little slower. But there are 200,000 road-building materials in there, and there is really no difference between being faster and being full for the undead.
However, the undead creature whose strength was definitely above the legend obviously didn't want to waste any more time, so he took a big step forward, and the soul fire hidden in his eye sockets suddenly lit up for a moment, and the tens of thousands of skeleton mages in front of him were immediately divided into two columns.
The front line stepped forward in unison, and soon came within full range of the Iron Wing Warbow Troops. But this time, even if they were shot and killed by several soldiers with steel wings, there was no commotion or retreat, but began to urge the magic to run magic, and a large number of skeleton soldiers who died in battle were summoned one after another, and those skeleton soldiers who were missing arms and legs were also repaired by necromancy and quickly regained their integrity.
Not only that, but these skeleton soldiers, whether newly summoned or repaired, even seemed to be blessed with the assistance of some magical power, and ran towards the bone staircase like crazy, and then turned into materials for building roads.
For a time, the construction speed of this staircase was not slow, but fast.
The skeleton mages in the front stepped forward to summon, and the skeleton mages in the back also stood in formation, and a huge amount of magic power quickly condensed in the array of these skeleton mages, and then projected into the sky. Soon, the sky of the entire fortress gathered huge dark clouds, which were condensed by pure magic power, and these dark clouds floated towards the fortress, blocking the golden brilliance emitted by the grunts in the fortress at once, and the entire fortress suddenly became cloudy.
But Cecilia, who was standing on the city wall, felt that a powerful magical power was condensing at this moment, and the entire black dark sky seemed to be brewing some powerful magical attack.
This made Cecilia's face unusually solemn. (To be continued.) )