The Rise of the Cemetery

The dead have really come!

And the first one to lead the team was the blood demon who had lived in Rasmuffel City for a while.

As the main force of this attack, nearly 700 low-level vampires turned into the dark elves' nightmares of death, completely covering up all their investigations and temptations outside the city, and turning all those who dared to sneak out of the city into shriveled corpses .

Using the swift movement ability of the vampires, they not only blocked the entrance to the upper city, but also cut off the entrance to the lower city by detour, completely turning Rasmuffel into an isolated city.

Just two days after the vampire team completed the scheduled task, the follow-up troops from the entire cemetery arrived late.

When a large number of lickers and ghosts swarmed out of the tunnel, the task of covering and monitoring the vampires was handed over to them, and the scattered vampires gathered again to follow behind their leader Gorefiend.

Due to the narrowness of the area, those undead knights who were good at charging in a wide area did not appear, and behind the massive cannon fodder lickers were slow-moving corpses and terrifying undead accompanying them to protect them.

The command center of the cemetery is set up in a corrosion hall 300 meters away from the main city gate of Rasmuffel. The terrain here is open and close to the city gate. As long as some stalagmites, stone pillars, and dripping rocks that are in the way are smashed and removed, it will be a natural camping place.

The host of the meeting is of course Li Xun who is the lord of the cemetery, and those who can attend this high-level pre-war meeting are the veteran cemetery heroes Younv and Gorefiend, and the new dracolich Uzel and Dogo Sous, as well as the representative of the undead mercenaries, Hakar, the bone and skeleton mage, and Karen, the soulbinder.

In addition, Hera, the half-hero of the Blood Mage, Jacob, the high-ranking Lich, the leader of the Undercity Mages, and Dolores, the leader of the banshee, were also able to attend the audition...

At the beginning of the meeting, under the joint spellcasting of ten corpse witches, a lifelike illusion of light and shadow in equal proportions was outlined in the center of the venue, and what appeared in the center of the light and shadow was the three-dimensional structure map of the city of Drow not far away. .

In the past two years, although the Underdark City seems to have remained unchanged, the Shadow Killer scattered in all surrounding areas has explored the shallow surface of the entire Underdark region and drawn a detailed three-dimensional topographical map . Although due to geological changes, in some parts, the entire topographic map cannot completely mark all the dark passages, tunnels, and caves, but the general topographic information is still reliable.

And Rasmuffel City, as the nearest alien gathering place to the Undercity, penetrated and monitored it to the point of pervasiveness.

It can be seen from the overall picture of Rasmurfel City that is presented in front of us, except for the residences of a few drow families and the internal situation of the academy that trains fighters, priests, and mages, almost no other information is available. It can be seen at a glance.

From the distribution of the residences of the top-ranked major families in the city, the hoarding area of ​​drow's main troops, the living area of ​​the enslaved races in the city, to some garrison points, small passes, and the most important points of city defense that may hinder the subsequent massacre of the city. tight area...

The person in charge of the detailed introduction was the new leader of the Undercity Mage Corps—high-ranking Lich Jacob. Every time he introduces an area, this area will be highlighted on the topographic map and displayed in a zoomed-in manner. After listening to his basic description of the outer city defenses of Drow City, the high-level officials of the cemetery present couldn't help but feel dark in their hearts, and they couldn't help but put away their contempt for the dark elves.

If only relying on normal means of offensive and defensive warfare, this small fringe city, which is not ranked among the drow cities, is still a strong fortress that cannot be easily surpassed by foreigners.

As an underground city, the so-called sky does not exist here at all, so the numerous bat demon airriders in the cemetery are purely for decoration. If you want to break into the city, you must use a large amount of cannon fodder to hit the enemy's heavily guarded stone city wall. The most uncomfortable thing is that the underground city is not like the surface city, as long as a city gate is opened, there will be an undefended inner city behind.

The gate passages of the underground city are completely composed of winding tunnels and corridors, and on both sides of these passages, at the corners and tops of stone walls and other places out of sight, there are hidden shooting openings opened by drows everywhere. . The cannon fodder who wanted to attack the city could not charge here, and had to bear the crossbow arrows from unknown sources. Once there were too many deaths, the dead bodies of the enemy became the biggest obstacle for the enemy's next attack.

Drow's city gate is a death passage made up of 5 fine gold gates. All the city defense facilities are carved out of the stone wall, and they are not afraid of fire, smoke, poisonous gas and other means. There is also a fire vent between the gate and the gate, which is completely immune to the enemy's refueling attack. When it is critical, it can also cut off the enemy's attack rhythm and slow down the enemy's attack speed.

But the most troublesome thing for the undead is that the penetration rate of magic weapons in the drow team is too high. In addition to powerful magic equipment, war aids such as magic scrolls, adamantine weapons, enchanted weapons, and alchemy potions are necessary for all staff, which gives them the possibility to kill high-level undead efficiently.

Even necromancers, as high as level 6 cemetery creatures, once trapped in the passage and unable to move forward or retreat, the drow warriors' fine gold crossbows and magic-breaking crossbows alone can wipe it out, not to mention the drow priests and priests who supervised the battle. Possesses the divine art that specializes in defeating the undead.

After listening to Jacques' introduction, the complexions of all the high-level officials in the cemetery became a little ugly.

They gathered here today to participate in a gluttonous feast, not to hit the underground rock formation known to be as hard as steel with their heads, let alone to test the quality of drow weapons with their bodies. As far as the tight defense of Drow city is concerned, I am afraid that they will not be able to open a passage leading to the interior with the power of cannon fodder until their weapons resources are exhausted.

In this way, it is estimated that it will be difficult to support the consumption in the early stage only with the lickers.

So everyone's eyes couldn't help but glanced at Dolores, the leader of Younv and Banshee. As far as the major races in the field are concerned, only the two of them are suitable for small-scale battles in such a narrow and boring terrain.

At this time, the two women had no reason to back down and refuse at all, so they could only stand up and ask for orders to open the way forward for the Cemetery Army.

Li Xun readily agreed.

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Half an hour later, the war started simultaneously at the three city gates of Rasmufer City.

Climbing and jumping like tides, the swarming lickers looked like maggots constantly surging from a distance, occupying the entire area in front of the city gate almost instantly.

Even on the most rugged tunnel rock wall, the licker can jump freely, and the sharp and sharp claws on the limbs rub dazzling sparks on the dark rock wall, with the agility and flexibility that normal creatures cannot possess , interspersed between city defense facilities.

All the narrow shooting openings that were only the size of a fist on the front of the city gate heard the sound of clanging bowstrings, and nearly a hundred golden crossbow arrows rained down on the head. In the first wave of lickers, nearly 40 bodies were shaken immediately, and their bouncing movements were somewhat distorted, but only 17 were killed on the spot by hitting their fragile brains.

Although the drow warriors had excellent shooting skills, their shooting range was limited, and the "ghoul" on the opposite side had a swift figure far beyond the legend, so nearly half of the crossbow arrows missed in the first wave. And those that hit, as long as they are not fatal in one blow, they can hardly have much impact on undead creatures like lickers.

Taking advantage of the short time for the enemy to replace the crossbow bolts, a larger number of lickers rushed up. But to the surprise of the undead commander, Drow's second wave of crossbow arrows burst out again after only 3 fingers.

This time, due to the closer distance, the hit rate quickly reached 70%. Immediately, more than 30 lickers lost control, and pulled a dark bloodstain on the hard stone floor along the way.

There was no hissing, no howling, the only sound in the arena was the sound of the bowstring being ejected and the muffled sound of puffing into the flesh.

The undead creatures are not afraid of death, and they don't care about the impact of morale, which is vividly displayed in this battle.

Those lickers who were lucky enough to break through the blockade and arrived at the fire exit of the city did not know how to get into the labyrinth of tunnels, nor did they try to hit the one-meter-thick steel gate with fine gold plating, but went straight Use your own body to block the shooting ports at various places in the city gate.

Fist-sized gaps simply couldn't allow them to penetrate, so they screamed and touched with their sharp claws, or popped out their long, sharp tongues full of kinetic energy, desperately piercing inside. During the whole process, there was no dodging the continuous crossbow arrows that were continuously fired from inside.

With their cover, the subsequent lickers can pour into the tunnel unimpeded, heading straight for the thick and desperate steel door.

With the continuous "cracking" sounds, the hidden shooting ports in the tunnels were opened one after another, and the crossbow arrows fired at close range could often penetrate the fragile bodies of multiple lickers in succession. And near the gate of the city, there was a murmur of spells chanting from a shooting port on the top wall, and then a fireball burst among the lickers crowded in front of the steel gate.

Compared with the fine gold crossbow, magic is obviously a big killer on the battlefield. Such an extremely simple fireball technique unexpectedly involved 14 lickers into the bursting flames in an instant.

At this time, the drow warriors who were already somewhat unable to hold back took out the spell scrolls they were issued, and used the power of magic to instantly clear the ugly undead near their shooting ports.

For a moment, the entire city gate area was filled with ear-piercing explosions and dazzling red flashes.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, nearly half of the lickers who poured into the city's fire protection range were strangled, and the rest were scarred. Except for a few unlucky ghosts who suffered minor injuries, Drow was almost unscathed.

Such a frustrating situation of not being able to hit the enemy, but only being beaten, if placed on the human army, it must be a demoralization and instability of the army. After all, what inspires an army to fight bravely is the expected victory and reward, not the fearless spirit of going to death.

However, this setback was ineffective against the cemetery army. Almost at the same time that the first batch of lickers suffered extensive damage, the second batch of lickers had already swarmed in. They bounced and leaped flexibly, passed through the blockade of crossbow arrows, passed through the magic flames that had not been extinguished, and rushed into the tunnel of flesh and blood full of strong and pungent aura again.

The battle has just begun!