The Rise of the Cemetery

Chapter 0022 dull war

As a mage, Li Xun still enjoyed a lot of preferential treatment, at least he was not assigned to a certain mountain pass or checkpoint to patrol and guard like some conscripted knights, and only needed to stay in the nearby small town. The knights will be dispatched to solve small troubles, and only when there is a big trouble, the knights will come to ask the mage for support.

Therefore, in Goodfeli, a small town 300 miles away from Valencia, Li Xun and another level 4 mage temporarily stayed in a hotel. Eat and drink every day, enjoy the best treatment, but really have nothing to do, so I have to re-enter the boring spell learning. Compared with the rapid progress at the beginning, Li Xun seems to have fallen into a certain bottleneck now, and he could not successfully learn many spells, so he had to ask his companion, Mage Mu Sai, for advice. After all, Li Xun only learns spells out of utilitarianism. He only wants to learn the ones that are easy to master. He always skips the difficult parts, which leads to mistakes and omissions in the knowledge system. , can enter level 2 spells, it is extremely difficult.

The 40-year-old mage Mu Sai was born as a commoner, and he was promoted from a mage apprentice to a full-fledged mage at the age of 25, so he was not valued by the principality. He was assigned to this small town with Li Xun, a rookie who had only been promoted to a mage for half a year. We get along very well. After all, those who can survive as apprentices of sorcerers have solid basic skills, but lack the skills of practical application. The two complemented each other. Musai pointed out Li Xun's opportunism, and then explained to him to analyze and fill in the shortcomings, while Li Xun brought out his flexibility in fighting DOTA, explained the coherent casting of various combination skills, and Proposed a lot of unpopular use skills of skills. For a while, the two felt like they had found a treasure, and they were no longer lonely. They gathered in a room every day to exchange interesting knowledge with each other, until the governor of Goodfield City found them.

A stronghold far away in the Avery Mountains has lost contact. That is the official stronghold set up by the principality. There are usually more than 20 soldiers stationed there to prevent the monsters in the mountains of Aveli from attacking nearby villages on a large scale. Need to send troops to support the suppression. Due to the approaching war, the usual stronghold of more than 20 people has been expanded to 40 people, but they still lost contact the day before yesterday. Goodfield City also sent knights to lead 10 soldiers to check, but there is still no return. The governor of Goodfield City realized that the situation was serious, so he had no choice but to request a mage to follow the second batch of teams to check the situation of the stronghold.

So an hour later, when Thomas Cavaliers set off with 50 soldiers, Li Xun's carriage followed at the end of the team.

The team that started early in the morning did not approach the Aveli Mountains until noon. They left the carriage in a nearby small village. After asking the village chief, they learned that yesterday's team also passed by here and did not return. Since Xiaocun is responsible for most of the supplies for the stronghold, Xiaocun was the first to discover the anomaly in the stronghold. However, after several contact attempts to no avail, even the master knight in the city never returned. Li dare not go out.

After leaving the small village, there was a rugged mountain road, so Li Xun had no choice but to sit on the horse and walk slowly with the soldiers leading him. Cavalier Thomas was also extremely cautious, ordering all the soldiers to divide into two columns with shield guards, and walk slowly along the mountain road under the leadership of a villager Orion. After entering the mountain for a mile, despite Thomas Knight's strong dissuasion, the mage still ran to the jungle out of sight to solve his physical problems. Fortunately, nothing bad happened.

Li Xun, who sat back on the horse again, sneered faintly, pretending to close his eyes to rest his mind, but in fact, his mental power had been transferred to the 16 lickers on the periphery. Soul vision is good, but after all, he is affected by his own slow movement, just now Li Xun secretly released 16 lickers, let them become his eyes!

The reinforcement team was still moving slowly, and 16 lickers had nimbly pounced on the stronghold 30 miles away from both sides of the mountain road. This is just the periphery of the Aveli Mountains. The trees are not tall, but the bushes and weeds are overgrown. The lickers as high as 2 meters step on the dead branches and rotten leaves, sneaking quietly under the shadow of the trees. When Li Xun's team was still halfway, 16 lickers had already approached the stronghold.

The stronghold is a three-story tower with a low stone wall of nearly 1 meter built outside the tower. When the lickers saw this place through the bushes, it was dead silent. Arrows, swords, broken spears, and broken shields were scattered everywhere outside the stronghold. Half of the half-meter-thick oak gate of the stronghold fell down, and the other half disappeared. The enemy was completely invisible, and the former soldiers of the stronghold could not be seen. Fifteen lickers sentry around the perimeter, and another one entered the open gate of the stronghold without hesitation.

This time I saw the corpses. It seemed that the battle was fierce. The corpses of some soldiers in costumes were distributed on the stone steps from the gate to the top of the tower. Obviously, these soldiers fought to the last moment of their lives. There were strange claw marks and gnawing marks on their faces and bodies. The stone steps ran to the upper level of the tower. At the entrance of the second floor of the tower, there were heavy wooden tables, chairs and furniture blocking the way. Several dead soldiers were lying on it. The lobby on the second floor was empty and there was no other clue, so the licker had no choice but to continue to the third floor. More than a dozen corpses on the third floor were piled together in the middle of the hall. Most of the corpses were mutilated and gave off a rancid smell. The licker walked around the pile of corpses for a few times, then rushed down the tower suddenly, and disappeared into the dense forest before Li Xun's team arrived.

As soon as they arrived at the stronghold, the team kept exclaiming. This place was obviously attacked. Thinking of the enemy on the opposite side of the principality, all the soldiers were breathing heavily! Cavalier Thomas looked gloomy. Looking at the broken weapons in front of the stronghold, his heart became heavier. He waved 5 soldiers into the tower to search for survivors, and let the remaining soldiers disperse in battle formation, and began to guard the surroundings. Li Xun was already aware of the situation in the tower, and he didn't stop their search if he didn't see any danger.

The five pale-faced soldiers formed an formation and moved into the gate of the stronghold with their shields on their shoulders. There were a few short exclamations, and then someone reported loudly: "My lord, there are corpses here."

Thomas looked at the mage walking beside him, and asked in a low voice, "Master, do you think it's safe here?"

Li Xun looked around pretendingly, nodded and said, "The enemy has already left here, I can feel that there is no sign of life here!"

"The 3rd and 4th squads stay on defense, and the 1st and 2nd squads follow me in." Cavalier Thomas nodded and ordered loudly, and walked into the stronghold immediately.

They inspected the entire tower, cleaned up the scene, and moved all the found corpses to the training ground in front of the stronghold. Looking at the rows of mutilated corpses, everyone's expressions were not good.

Cavalier Thomas had accompanied the mage to check all the corpses, and was looking forward to the mage's opinion.

Li Xun said in a deep voice: "Thomas Knight, I have very bad news to tell you, I found traces of undead magic and undead creatures here, it seems that those guys on the other side of the mountain have stretched their claws here. You should have noticed that the number of corpses here is wrong, it seems that they are creating undead creatures, we must report to the governor of Goodfield City immediately and ask for more support."

Cavalier Thomas looked at the already dark sky, wondering why: "It's getting late, now we can only go back at night, I'm afraid that would be more dangerous, and the consul entrusted us with the task of scouting the enemy, now even the number of enemies, If you don't know the level, I'm afraid you can withdraw it..."

Li Xun replied indifferently: "You can stay for one night, but you must pay attention to vigilance. It may not be too peaceful tonight. In addition, these corpses must be burned, and the enemy cannot be given a chance to strengthen itself."

Knight Thomas nodded heavily, and ordered to dig a pit beside the stronghold, pile up all the corpses and firewood in it, set fire to it, and all the soldiers lined up in front of the fire pit to salute and see off.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xun walked around the stronghold and set up "magic alarms" at several key locations. When he returned to the gate of the stronghold, he happened to see two soldiers remove their wooden shields and spears, He dropped half of his armor and quietly disappeared on the way when he came.

Walking into the gate of the stronghold, the inside has been cleaned and tidied up. Under the guidance of the soldiers, Li Xun walked into a separate room on the second floor, ate and drank something, then lay down on the paved bed and began to rest.

Knight Thomas inspected the entire tower again, and saw that the gate was barely blocked with a door panel, all the windows were blocked, and the platform on the tower was guarded, so he ate, drank and rested in the room on the second floor.

Li Xun was lying on the bed, half asleep, but his spirit had been scattered to the 16 soul connections around the tower. The 15 lickers were scattered and hidden in the dense forest around the tower, and found no useful clues. The remaining one was already 5 miles away, following and monitoring the two soldiers who went back to report.

No one was able to safely go back to report the last two times, so this time can be an exception? Is this place already being watched by necromancers, will they come tonight? Everything is unknown, but there is nothing to fear! The forces of the undead are facing the threat of attacks from various countries. It is impossible to send a large number of high-level undead to cross the Mount Aveli. At this moment, they themselves are overwhelmed, and they still have the spare time to send people to the Principality of Novus to make trouble? Are they here to provoke war or simply intimidation?

Ever since joining this war, Li Xun wanted to collide with cemetery creatures and undead creatures, but he was assigned to this remote place to eat and wait to die. Just when he had given up hope, the enemy appeared in front of his eyes Next, since fate is like this, come on, let's see who is bloody in the first collision between the cemetery and the undead? Li Xun, who has the soul mark of no fear of life and death, thought bitterly.