The Rise of the Cemetery

One by one, one by one, listed by Te Luo directly made Mage Xingxing pale.

The conditions previously proposed by the Novus Mages Association were more about cooperation than annexation. However, these conditions proposed by the Mage Guild directly obliterated the Mage Association, which had a tradition of hundreds of years, and made the Principality of Novis become a country of mages where the mage group suppressed the local nobles.

Such conditions may be harsh, but most spellcasters in the Mage Association may be able to accept them. But once such a condition is discussed by Pierpont, it will definitely detonate the entire aristocratic class dominated by the Novus royal family.

The Principality of Novis is not a kingdom of mages like Breland. Although the group of mages in Novus still has a relatively detached status and enjoys huge political benefits, they rarely intervene in the local affairs of the nobles.

In this regard, Novis is completely different from the Mage Kingdom!

In Novus, the group of mages participates more in the operation of the national government as assistants, mentors, scholars, and wise men. Unlike the mage Three Kingdoms, the mage is completely and meticulously controlling everything in the kingdom from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom. The local nobles are more like a group of servants, faithfully and flatteringly managing large and small territories for the mages.

This is also why the Three Kingdoms of Mage pays little attention to the construction of the army mainly based on humans, but is keen to build various golem factories, puppet production rooms and construction studios in various places. Mage only likes to rule mortals, but never trusts mortals, so this is how to create a team of mages with activated structures as the main body.

As for the human army active in the local territory, they are only guards for maintaining their superficial rule, and they cannot enter the main sequence of the mage troops built by the mages themselves.

If the mage kingdom is moved to Novus, Katie can guarantee that the local nobles will blow up their nests. Just imagine, which of the rulers of these past countries could bear to become an "inferior person" in an instant, became a personal servant of the special group of mages, and endured the arrogance and arrogance of mages all day long?

Although the Undead Council has become more and more threatening to the Principality of Novus during this period of time, and the signs that have occurred in various parts of Novus have become more and more obvious, but power is power. Once immersed in it, it will be difficult to give up and abandon it. .

The threat of the lich has the nobles of Novus panicked.

A while ago, apart from the Mage Association winking at the outside of the Mage Association, even the aristocratic faction headed by Grand Duke Novus was also secretly hooking up with the church organization. Several important nobles in the local aristocracy frequented the temples of the Justice Church and the Morning Light Church. It was hard to say that there was no instruction from Grand Duke Novus.

If Novus really can no longer retain his independence, then the Mages Association will naturally tend to fall to the Mages Association. After all, they are all in the lineage of mages. Although their status will be reduced a lot if they join the past, and the benefits of exclusive access to a country's resources in the past will no longer exist, but after all, they will not be excluded from the circle of mainstream society.

But the attitude of the local nobles seemed a little hesitant and ambiguous.

In order to counteract the threat of the Undead Lich to Novus, whether it is the introduction of the Mages Guild or the church organization, the good days of Novus nobles have come to an end. No matter which side it is, they will no longer allow the nobles of Novus to act on their own and continue to live a happy life of closing their homes and the country.

However, whether to become the noble stewards and servants of the group of mages, or to become the puppet masters emptied by the church organization, these two are undoubtedly difficult choices for Novus nobles.

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However, at the moment when the mages and noble leaders of Novus were sleeping all night, the old mage Will, who was appointed by the mage guild to negotiate the terms of the transaction, was leaning on the railing and watching.

He was located in the secret room on the top floor of the core magic tower in the middle of Thunder Fortress. From this small platform built at an altitude of 200 meters, he could vaguely see the fortress barrier 3 miles away.

Thunder Fortress is a grand war fortress built on a mountain pass.

On the left and right sides of the Thunder Fortress are towering stone walls that are level with the fortress barriers, so steep and steep that it is impossible for ordinary people to pass through. In order to prevent enemies from sneaking into the fortress from the stone walls on both sides, a series of small battle forts and sentry towers were built on the narrow road less than 100 meters above the stone walls. The figure above was shaking, obviously there were soldiers guarding it.

The construction of the internal facilities of Thunder Fortress is obviously planned according to concentric circles, divided into extremely obvious levels of defense.

As the innermost safe zone, this place is no less than a bustling large city. From the commercial area, the noble area, the military area, and the blacksmith shop where ordinary people are constantly flowing, to the alchemy room and the magic area that belong exclusively to the mage group, the entire inner circle can be said to be the most dynamic area in Thunder Fortress.

And between the inner circle and the outer circle, there is a transition area of ​​nearly half a mile, where there are many military camps and battle forts, and it has become a military control area where outsiders are not allowed to set foot easily. Nearly 100,000 soldiers stationed in Thunder Fortress all year round are stationed in this area.

As for the most dangerous outer circle, there are towering walls and strong defensive barriers, and there are 20,000 principality soldiers patrolling and defending day and night. It is not a super strong fortress that ordinary people can dream of capturing.

But what Thunder Fortress is facing is not ordinary people at all, they are not even "people"!

Even though he was in the far inner circle like Master Will, the strong smell of corpses and the creepy howls of ho ho were still faintly audible. This also shows the urgency and crisis of the situation on the periphery of the fortress at the moment.

Since his current status in Thunder Fortress is just a "guest" outsider, it is not convenient to fly directly to the front line of the fortress to obtain first-hand information, so Will can only cast a spell to summon a "magic eye" instead Own.

Under Will's control, the light cluster formed by the magic eye first touched the defense mechanism of the magic tower before flying 10 meters away.

This is the most heavily guarded magic tower in the core area of ​​Thunder Fortress. Reckless casting of spells here is likely to attract the intervention of the mage on duty. Xu is that the mage on duty today has already been instructed by the higher-ups, and he also gives special preferential treatment to Will, an outsider. The magic eye only collided with the magic tower's defensive circle twice before it was projected smoothly.

The magic eye moved slowly in the high sky, taking a panoramic view of everything on the ground below, and all of this also flowed into Will's mind simultaneously.

The eye that controlled the magic power slowly floated into the distance, to the forefront of the Thunder Fortress, which was 5 miles away.

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The tall city wall stood majestically in front of the eyes, and it had completely merged with the steep mountain peaks stretching hundreds of miles away, and it was no longer possible to distinguish and outline them carefully.

The ten-zhang (more than 30 meters) high and ten-zhang wide city wall is so magnificent that anyone standing at its feet will feel small and insignificant. The top of the city wall is densely covered with countless black patterns.

These black patterns are connected together to form countless mysterious magic circles. Each magic circle is independent, but they are closely connected with each other. The mighty and surging magical energy made the city wall look so indestructible!

Such a tall and steep city wall, not to mention climbing up against the dense rain of arrows, even if the defenders prepared wooden ladders and beat gongs and drums, it would be difficult for ordinary people to climb the city wall smoothly.

But now, all the majesty and precipitousness have become useless decorations in the face of the fearless mass of corpses. Dense crowds of corpses were piled up under the city wall, waving their black and dirty arms, and howling unconsciously. But the traces of popularity floating down from the city wall caused them to be restless. At the foot of the city wall, there was already a terrifying pile of corpses that was more than 20 meters high.

Although the walls of the Thunder Fortress are towering and precipitous, their height is only more than 30 meters. Under the impact of the tide of undead corpses so regardless of damage, the top end of the pile of corpses was almost flush with the city wall.

Whenever it was the most critical moment, there would be continuous explosions of bowstrings on the city wall, and the dense rain of crossbow arrows would shoot down, directly sinking into the horrific pile of wriggling and twisting corpses.

To be honest, such a dense crossbow attack might be useful to ordinary people, but it is useless to deal with this group of mummy who don't have any human perception and only know how to crowd and climb upwards.

At this time, no amount of crossbow bolts can compare to a bursting fireball from the mage.

Any random burst fireball exploded in the middle of the dense pile of corpses, and it would explode with a huge fireball and a strong air wave, enough to overturn this unqualified human ladder. In an instant, the mummy clinging to the city wall fell down like dumplings. That scene, that grandeur, every time elicited cheers from the defenders above the city wall.

And at this time, countless illusory bodies would suddenly float out of the pile of corpses under the city wall. These spirit bodies that had been ambushing in the pile of corpses followed the direction where the mage fired the explosive fireball just now, rushed to the top of the city screaming, and launched a terrible attack on the defenders there.

So the next moment, the heavily armed fortress defenders fought with the ghosts and resentful souls.

The soul-piercing piercing scream is the signature skill of the spirits. The continuous screams of spirit bodies will form a terrible mental oppression, and the defenders of the fortress will face reverse punishment on the battlefield with their morale collapsed and their confidence lost. If it wasn't for the tough-minded people, facing the terrifying ghosts flying all over the sky, I'm afraid that they would lose their helmets and armor and become deserters at the first moment.

And these ghosts and resentful souls also make full use of their innate instincts that can switch between virtual and real, and can emerge from any angle and position to attack human soldiers. In the face of these terrifying spirits that appear at will, even leaning against the stone wall is not a safe enough move. They can suddenly drill out from the ground or walls, and then use their claws that ignore the armor and armor to leave terrible wounds on the human warrior's body.

Every attack of the spirit body is accompanied by a strong negative energy attack. After four or five times, an ordinary human warrior will tremble and fall to the ground, his limbs are stiff, and his lips are bruised and become a frozen corpse. If such a guy does not have divine healing or spell dispelling, it usually only takes half a day to be twisted and transformed into a new undead, and then get up and start attacking his former companions and comrades in arms.