Lord of War

Kozilek swung the incomparably huge heavy sword in his hand. \u0026

Only the sound of howling wind and thunder suddenly sounded, like thunder exploding on the ground. Immediately afterwards, within a fan-shaped range of tens of meters in front of Kozilek, the entire space swayed violently, and there were even faint, spider-like cracks emerging in the air. This was obviously a shock in the space.

However, the effect of this blow is equally obvious.

All the skeletons gathered in the area were all shattered and turned into dust.

In just the blink of an eye, a thick layer of bone meal had already been spread on the ground.

But this fan-shaped area, which was in a vacuum state, only lasted for less than a second before being filled with countless skeletons.

If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that the entire Forest of Sighing has been submerged in a white sea of ​​skeletons. And in this ocean, Cecilia and the others protected by Kozilek and Rina are like a lone boat floating with the waves of the ocean. Even though they were struggling hard and tenaciously, trying to break through the encirclement of this sea of ​​skeletons, but this seemingly endless sea of ​​skeletons forced someone as strong as Kozilek to be unable to easily break through.

It's not that Kozilek couldn't break through and leave, but that he couldn't protect everyone to leave safely, even with the assistance of Rina who was not inferior to the superpowers, the result would be the same. Because it's not just these skeletons that surround Kozilek and the others right now, and even make it difficult for them to move forward. Although these skeletons are not ordinary low-level undead, they are bone warriors up to the fifth level, and there are countless other undead creatures lurking in the dark. .

If Kozilek and Rina want to break through and leave, it's not impossible to leave, but without the protection of these two strong men, even if there are Cecilia and Angel in the team who can't be regarded as ordinary sanctuaries For the strong, the final result of this team still cannot escape the fate of being buried here.

"What the hell is going on!" Angel's face was full of surprise, "How could it suddenly become like this!... We have been trapped here for five days. If this continues, even if we don't have enough energy Then it fell."

It was rare for Cecilia not to quarrel with Angel, but her complexion was not much better either. Especially when she is a magician and a mage who specializes in fire magic, when the entire Forest of Sighing is filled with these undead creatures. She directly expanded the domain and pushed Solomon's seventy-two heavy flames to the extreme. Basically, in the first two days, Cecilia relied on Cecilia alone to tear out a safe road.

After all, flame and holy light have always been hailed as the two strongest killing moves against undead.

only,

Even a magician in the mid-level sanctuary, who has been using magic continuously, will always be exhausted. Cecilia is in such a state at this time, if it is not because of some potions that Sean deliberately collected for Cecilia before, Cecilia would have already suffered from excessive magic and energy. Consumed and passed out.

"It's the tide of death." Tini answered for Cecilia.

originally. As the servant and representative of the gods in the world. It should be able to cause great damage to such undead creatures. However, Tini is not a priest or priest whose main means of combat is magic, but a special profession that focuses on martial arts and supplemented by magic. This also leads to what Tini can do when facing these undead creatures The combat power is extremely limited, and it is not much better than others.

"This is impossible, why did the death tide suddenly erupt!" Angel's face was in disbelief.

As the Millennium Covenant Empire that lives next to the Land of Black Soil, it is no stranger to the outbreak of the Dead Tide, although the specific conditions for its formation are not known. But after so many years, I have mastered some considerable rules. At least the interval between dead tide outbreaks is generally about twenty years, even if there is a sudden incentive to accelerate the formation and outbreak of dead tides. The interval is definitely more than ten years. After all, even undead creatures cannot be born out of thin air, but also need a birth process.

The reason why the Joanton family was able to become the most powerful family in the southern part of the empire was because Purseus Joanton, who had taken over the leadership of the Joanton family, did not act like other southern nobles in a disaster that erupted at the time. Na Nao immediately chose to evacuate when the death tide broke out, but organized an army through his influence, and then successfully resisted the death tide outbreak under his command. As a result, not only did the disaster not expand further, but it preserved the vitality of the army and nobles in the south of the empire, including most of the Joanton family, laying the foundation for the second wave of death after that.

At that time, Purseus was only twenty-five years old.

Through this command operation, Purseus showed amazing military accomplishments, which made him quickly become a powerful nobleman in the south of the empire. And the important battle that made him become the Duke of the Empire was also the second death tide outbreak that occurred less than ten years after the last death tide outbreak. It's just that compared with ten years ago, the scale of the dead tide this time is much smaller, and the power that Perseus can use is much greater, so this time the dead tide disaster has not even had any impact on southern Xinjiang. It's over.

The Land of Black Soil is located in the southeastern part of the Millennium Covenant Empire. In fact, more areas border on the eastern border of the empire. Therefore, when the dead tide erupted in the past, the most affected and severely affected area was naturally the eastern border of the empire, followed by the southern part of the empire. It's just that every time the tide of death breaks out, the entire southeastern part of the empire is almost destroyed, so about every twenty years or so, the Millennium Covenant Empire will bleed heavily, which to a large extent also limits the power of the Millennium Covenant Empire. comprehensive national strength development.

It's just that, this time, the tide of death was blocked by Pu Huosi when it was affected in the south, and it saved a lot of losses for the empire. For this reason, the empire integrated the most prosperous counties of Hamburg, Greater Salem, and Little Salem in the south and the Earl of Hesse in the south into the Dukedom of Hamson, which was given to the Joanton family as a hereditary duchy. Purseus Joanton became the first Duke of Hamson, and at the same time commanded the southern front of the empire.

After that, the then fifty-five-year-old Duke of Hamson, Purseus Joanton, finally ushered in the third death tide outbreak in his life. The tide of death should have erupted once every twenty years or so, but it broke out three times in a short span of thirty years. Although the third dead tide eruption was twenty years after the second one, it can be regarded as a normal eruption with sufficient accumulation.

But in contrast, Purseus Joanton has become the Duke of the Empire, and at the same time he is in charge of all the military forces in the entire southern part of the Empire. So in terms of confrontation, compare it to the one twenty years ago. The cards owned by Purse Joanton are naturally more beautiful.

And this duke. It did not disappoint the empire.

This time, the eruption of the death tide was successfully stopped with only a small impact in the eastern part of the empire. Although almost a quarter of the eastern region of the empire is still occupied, compared to at least half of the regions affected by disasters over the years, it can already be regarded as a brilliant victory. Afterwards, Duke Purseus, who had found quite regularity and experience, also wrote a related investigation report on the Land of Black Soil and the Forest of Sighing, and then every three years. The duke would organize a massive expedition to the Forest of Sighs. Exterminate these undead in large numbers.

As a result, the entire south and east of the empire was directly peaceful for thirty years.

Even the Millennium Covenant Empire believed that the death tide disaster that had plagued the empire for thousands of years had been brought to an end by Purse Joanton.

But Angel did not expect that the death tide that had not erupted for thirty years would actually erupt at this moment! Moreover, both in scale and quality, it far exceeds all records in the history of the Millennium Covenant Empire. As the vanguard of the death tide, the army has always been the lowest level of skeletons, occasionally mixed with skeleton warriors, zombies, etc. . Only after large-scale attacks on villages and towns have accumulated enough materials will more advanced undead creatures be born. And powerful undead creatures like black warriors, bone mages, and black knights. It will only start to be born after an encounter with the army of the Millennium Covenant Empire.

Purseus Joanton paid a huge price when he ended the Death Tide for the first time, but in the next two times when he fought against the Death Tide disaster, he was before the Death Tide formed a huge scale and had sufficient quantity and quality of troops. , will kill all of this completely. And the facts have also proved that Duke Purseus's approach is very correct. Although the statistics of battlefield casualties after the event are bright red and dazzling, they are undoubtedly brilliant in terms of merit.

But this time, those gathered in the Forest of Sighs, who acted as the vanguard of the death tide disaster, were the Skeleton Warriors!

The Skeleton Warrior is a powerful undead unit between the fifth and sixth ranks.

They wear armor, hold shields, and hold a series of heavy weapons that require a certain amount of strength to use, such as heavy swords, machetes, and heavy axes. As far as the occupation of the arms is concerned, the Skeleton Warriors are equivalent to the heavy infantry arms in the human world. They not only have excellent defensive capabilities, but also are unambiguous in terms of attack capabilities. It can be said that this type of arms already has a considerable degree of offensive capabilities. .

Even in the army of the undead, the skeleton warriors are not used as cannon fodder.

But now, the skeletons that Angel can see, which look like skeleton soldiers, are all skeleton warriors, and there are even many skeleton warriors among them. These are standard sixth-order undead creatures, and they have more powerful abilities than skeleton warriors. Combat strength, and also has a certain degree of command ability, can be regarded as the middle-level commander in the undead army who is responsible for commanding skeletons, skeletons and other undead creatures.

According to Angel's understanding of the death tide and related experience, the undead troops gathered in the Forest of Sighs generally act as the vanguard of the death tide disaster. In the history of the Millennium Covenant Empire, the vanguard of the death tide disaster was composed of countless cannon fodder skeletons or walking corpses. Even after capturing a large number of villages and towns and obtaining enough corpses, they may not be able to reach Skeleton Warriors, let alone Skeleton Demons.

Because the highest-level undead creature that appeared in the past was the sixth-level black knight. Although the black knights already had a certain amount of thinking and IQ, they were not good at commanding after all. They were all known for their powerful combat effectiveness, so basically every so-called death tide disaster was just an aimless sabotage operation.

But now, the Skeleton Demon has appeared in the vanguard of the Dead Tide gathered in the Forest of Sighs. No matter how unresponsive people are, they know that its nature is completely different!

An army of undead with a commander in command and an army of undead without a commander in command are two different concepts!

Angel couldn't imagine if the east and south of the Millennium Covenant Empire could still be defended if there had been undead creatures like the Skeleton Demon with powerful combat effectiveness and commanding ability in the tide of death that had erupted in the past few decades! You must know that the destruction and influence caused by the undead army of commanders like this can be called the real dead tide. Those so-called dead tides in the strict sense cannot be called dead tides at all. It can only be said to be a disaster ravaged by the undead.

"This is a real death tide disaster." Cecilia said weakly. She had consumed too much in the past few days. "It hasn't happened in the Miracle Continent for almost a thousand years."

"To be exact, it's been 3,500 years." Angel looked very depressed, as if she knew what it meant, "In the archives of the empire, there are all records about the tide of death. The last time you can The real disaster known as the death tide was 3,500 years ago, when the empire paid a huge price to kill a lich and a large number of necromancers and necromancers. But that time the empire also paid a lot A heavy price...why at this time..."

Cecilia looked at Angel with some sympathy.

Because she knew what Angel meant by "this time".

The last real death tide disaster, the Millennium Covenant Empire was not in civil strife and division, but that Millennium Covenant Empire also paid a very heavy price. But this time, the Millennium Covenant Empire is in the midst of civil strife. Although the civil strife has basically been quelled, the previous internal friction losses still exist, and it is impossible to recover without a few years of recuperation.

And the eruption of a real death tide disaster at such a time is undoubtedly a major blow to the Millennium Covenant Empire.

"Get up, those undead creatures are not ready to attack yet." Rui Na, who had been silent all this time and was only responsible for killing enemies, said suddenly.

"What's the use? With the Skeleton Demons here, they will definitely not let us leave easily." Angel forcibly cheered up, but the despair in her eyes was clearly visible, "If we can't leave here, we won't be able to pass on the message of the Death Tide disaster Get out. So according to the empire's countermeasures, they will only treat it as an ordinary undead rampage, and by the time they find out that something is wrong, it will be too late."

"So, we have to leave here!" Cecilia said in a deep voice.

"You mean..." Angel was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes became firm, "You're right, then... who will break through?"

"Only Kozilek."

Cecilia glanced at Kozilek, this little guy took care of all the undead who approached him with ease, and seemed extremely relaxed. However, after hearing Cecilia's voice, the little guy turned his head to look at Cecilia, with a bit of a blank look in his eyes.

"Kozilek, I have something to ask of you."

Cecilia spoke to Kozilek, her implication was naturally that she hoped that Kozilek would break out immediately and tell the outside world what happened here. Of course, Cecilia didn't forget Kozilek's inability to speak, so she deliberately recorded a piece of information into a magic stone crystal, as long as Kozilek gave this magic stone crystal to someone else, he would be able to immediately know what happened here. Condition.

However, what Cecilia didn't expect was that after hearing this, Kozilek turned his head and continued to compete with these undead, and had no intention of leaving at all.

At this moment, everyone present fell into a moment of silence.

Only Rena sighed helplessly: "When you get up, this little guy won't leave. He should only obey Lord Sean's orders, unless you go with Miss Cecilia." (To be continued.)