The Rise of the Cemetery

Something happened to Stratholme!

On February 7, 3rd year of the Kaiyuan calendar, Stratholme was attacked by a legendary spell.

The legendary lich Szastan, who had disappeared for half a year, unexpectedly attacked Stratholme in spite of his face.

It can be seen that the legendary lich is also extremely vigilant towards the cemetery city, and has completely regarded the large cemetery as an opponent of equal strength, and has used all insidious means to deal with it.

When Li Xun came to Stratholme with his entourage, the place was already on high alert, and the visible sky was full of flying sentinels.

Li Xun didn't rush to the city hall to listen to the Skeleton King's injury report, but flew straight into the sky.

At an altitude of 200 meters, under the thick and rolling fog of war in the cemetery, the whole of Stratholme was presented in Li Xun's vision at a glance.

It can be seen that the loss of Stratholme this time is not big, it can only be called a small loss.

The entire core area of ​​Stratholme was unscathed due to the strictest protection of the magic tower. Only half a mile of collapsed buildings and billowing black smoke were seen on the edge of the southeast corner of the city. There are countless small black spots like ants coming in and out, obviously the cleaning and rebuilding work has started.

Li Xun estimated that if the Legendary Lich wanted to do this, it first needed to get within 1 mile of Stratholme. This can be easily done with only invisibility. And if you want to use magic attacks to shake the cemetery city, which is dominated by magic buildings, the effect of ordinary 9th-level spells is not obvious. Therefore, if it wants to cause large-scale damage, legendary spells are its only choice.

However, the release of legendary spells requires at least 2-5 minutes of casting preparation, and this process is often accompanied by extremely strong magic fluctuations and elemental manifestations. With such signs ahead, it was enough for Stratholme to take some targeted and special measures.

This time, the Legendary Lich put down the dignity of the legendary powerhouse, and unexpectedly adopted the hateful method of sneaking in secretly, quickly releasing the legendary spell, turning around and running away, which really disgraced the Legendary Lich.

But don't say it, this is really the best way to deal with the cemetery city.

The current cemetery cities basically maintain a considerable number of garrison troops. Any invasion by foreign enemies will be hit head-on by the garrison troops like stabbing a hornet's nest. But this kind of situation is mainly aimed at large groups of invading enemies, and it does not pose a threat to the single-handed legendary strong man.

Like the attack on Stratholme, the Legendary Lich sneaked close to the edge of the city, and with a little time difference, taking advantage of the time when the city garrison assembled to attack, it successfully released the Legendary spell and escaped. With two legendary items on his body, the buffer time for Sazastan to release legendary spells has been compressed to the extreme. Although this will lose a little magic power, it is not stingy with destroying the world and natural disasters for the cemetery troops below the legend and the magic buildings like lifeless things.

A 200-strong Stratholme garrison (mainly ghost banshees) was also lost in this legendary attack. Most of the cemetery buildings within the range of the legendary spell collapsed and collapsed, and the sporadic loss of soldiers was as high as 300.

This has posed a serious test to the city security of Stratholme.

This was the first attack, and the Legendary Lich didn't know the defense mechanism and strength of the Cemetery City, so he chose to release the Legendary spell outside the city very carefully. If...if it finds out the necessary information, it might sneak into the city next time.

As soon as he thought of a legendary terrifying spell exploding in the core area of ​​Stratholme, that scene... the damage it could cause... Li Xun felt a little headache.

Just as Li Xun was scanning the city below his feet solemnly, the Skeleton King rose into the sky with the help of the flying technique.

Skeleton King Leoric is now one of the three legends of the cemetery, as well as the dual identities of the commander of the cemetery and the lord of the cemetery. Of course, there are also high-level spellcasters recruited around him. So granting him a flying technique is of course a piece of cake.

After clumsily condensing beside Li Xun, the Skeleton King ignored the etiquette and directly expressed his worries: "I'm afraid it will become the norm in Stratholme from now on. Once that legendary lich finds out our Troop distribution and defensive loopholes, the focus of the next attack will be to destroy our garrison or the military buildings in the core area!"

Li Xun remained silent.

Uzel, the dracolich who was accompanying him, interjected, "For the time being, this possibility is unlikely. After all, Stratholme is protected by a magic tower. If it targets the core area as soon as it comes up, then it has a chance of successfully releasing the legendary spell." It will be much less. And the magic tower can completely interfere with its elemental convergence and reduce the power of legendary spells. So it is impossible for it to attack the core area in the short term. But I am more worried about another problem..."

"What's the problem?" Li Xun asked in surprise.

"Luring the enemy to attack, and annihilating them forcibly!" Uzel said solemnly, "Master Leoric, have you formulated corresponding contingency measures, and when the magic tower senses the concentration of magic power around it again, you will take the initiative to lead troops to attack? "

The Skeleton King didn't answer, and there was no expression on the white skull's head, but the condensed aura around him shook abruptly.

"You mean, that legendary lich dared not enter the city, so it is likely to set a trap outside the city, using elemental fluctuations as bait to lure the elite of the cemetery to attack, and then..." Li Xun couldn't help but answer instead. But as he talked, even he himself couldn't continue the conversation.

Fuck, what a sinister legendary lich! Although I don't know if the other party will do this, there is no way that the other party can't think of. Moreover, this method is beneficial and inexpensive, and it is simply not too convenient to use.

Set traps in advance, and use the elemental fluctuations of legendary spells to lure the cemetery garrison to attack. Once successful, it can greatly reduce the vitality of Stratholme. Using this method to deplete Stratholme's troops, leaving a bunch of dead magic buildings, it's not like letting it be slaughtered!

But if Stratholme refuses to send troops out of caution, it can also release the legendary spell smoothly, tossing around the cemetery bit by bit. With the strength of the legendary lich, it is absolutely possible to release 2-3 legendary spells a day without harming itself. As long as it shoots and changes places, it can grind Stratholme through slow grinding.

If a legendary spellcaster puts his face down and uses guerrilla tactics to attack the opponent's peripheral forces, this method is almost impossible to solve.

To deal with the legendary lich, the cemetery needs to gather 1-2 legends of the cemetery to fight against it and successfully expel it. If you want to strangle it completely, you need to lure it into an inescapable Jedi, and then it is possible to get all 3 graveyard legends together!

But looking at the current situation, will Sarzastan, who has become a frightened bird, still act with the baton of the Necropolis? In the past, there was a huge vassal force as a concern, and the whereabouts of this Sazastan can still be traced, and the threat is not great. But now that the other party is alone, the threat to the large cemetery has skyrocketed.

Should it reappear around Stratholme, would the garrison strike or not?

Just as several cemetery executives were thinking hard about this issue, a strong elemental shock suddenly came from another direction in Stratholme.

Fuck, legendary lich!

The location was about half a mile northwest of Stratholme, further forward than the location of the previous attack.

Almost at the same time as the magic wave was sensed, there were already nearly a hundred high-ranking Liches in full armor waiting in the magic hall in the Stratholme Magic Tower. In front of them, a huge teleportation light gate has already revealed its embryonic form, and it will be completely stabilized with just two or three fingers.

Seven or eight Lich Leaders stood at the forefront of the line, their skeleton staffs dropped one after another, and gray or pale green magical halos flickered on their bodies, and they had already fully protected themselves.

Once the temporary portal is opened, a few of them will be the pioneers. They must first rush out of the portal to stabilize the situation and buy time for the subsequent Lich troops to pass through the portal.

But just as the portal was about to open, the Skeleton King used his authority as the city lord in time to stop the continued injection of mana.

So the temporary portal was stuck in a half-formed state.

Those Lich Chiefs were stunned.

As the Skeleton King's subordinates, they can certainly perceive that it is their chief officer who stopped the opening of the portal. But...but this doesn't match the plan we discussed earlier, does it?

The Stratholme Magic Tower has already been activated at this moment, and the colorful halo of elements has adorned the entire tower into a magic light tower that stands upright.

With the continuous infusion of mana from the mana pool, an unprecedentedly large magic mask that could cover the entire Stratholme appeared in the void, forming a bowl shape to hold everything under it.

In the central control hall of the magic tower, dozens of high-ranking corpse witches took their positions. Although they were busy, they did not appear flustered. One after another emergency instructions were sent to the soul fires of each cemetery subordinate in a file and orderly manner.

"The location of the elemental fluctuations has been locked... Peripheral sentries are entering the scene..."

"The energy level is being detected... The energy attribute is initially determined... Strong fire elemental fluctuations have been detected... The target element attribute is an evocation spell attack..."

"Elemental mask begins to form... The energy distribution is stable... All magic circuits are normal... Partial energy strengthening..."

"Elemental mask to transform the situation...strengthen the fire defense..."

"Peripheral sentry died..."

"The eye of magic power has been cast... found strong elemental interference... the eye of magic power is damaged..."

"The 173rd Flying Squad is approaching the target area... remote image projection is in progress... the 173rd Flying Squad is completely destroyed... the remote image projection failed..."

As the lord of the cemetery, Li Xun saw and listened to the series of efforts made by Stratholme Magic Tower. It's a pity that these solid and reliable countermeasures are so powerless when facing a legendary Lich!

Originally, with the conventional means of the magic tower in the cemetery, Stratholme was within its effective control range within a hundred miles. But now, the target is less than half a mile outside the city, and the magic tower can't even do the most basic video projection.

This has fully demonstrated how tightly the Legendary Lich has sealed off this area, which is staggering!

Sure enough, there is fraud!