105 Traitor
If this besiege of Connibar, Connieba, brought something to the Baron's team, it was that a large number of wounded people were added to the team.
The original refugee team is now even more bleak.
After the team had a lot of drags on it, the discipline became even more dispersed. When Zhang Cheng returned to the team, he found that no one cared about his departure and no one cared about his return.
Alexey is the luckiest of all the unlucky guys, because he was not hurt except by Zhang Cheng fainting. You should know that there are several unlucky guys who eat too fast and too quickly and choke to death. Others have been affected for too long and are mentally and physically damaged. This kind of damage is not an illusion, not as if Connibar had left, but will really have a significant impact on the human digestive system. Not to mention that many people have eaten a lot of soil.
Night has come, and the refugee team is camping in a small depression that sheltered from the wind.
It is possible to clearly feel that all refugees are feeling very depressed.
But this is understandable. The matter of the Viper Pass is not a secret. A little well-informed person, for example, people like Alexey know the situation of the Viper Pass. In the past, everyone had some luck, but now they will not have the mentality of luck.
In order to siege Connibar, the refugees suffered heavy losses. The Archbishop selected the strongest soldiers as cannon fodder, but the result was that although most of these cannon fodders were not dead, they were unable to fight for the time being.
As for the Archbishop himself, he patted his butt and ran away.
It can even be said that Zhang Cheng and Alexey are the only two lucky ones. They can still say that they are fine after they come back, but considering that they are musketeers, this is normal. Musketeers are the weapon with the lowest requirements for physical strength and physical condition.
Although people in this world already have muskets, they have not yet realized the advanced nature of muskets. The common practice at present is to throw them into musketeers and use them to other types of soldiers.
A group of musketeers were silently facing the fire by the bonfire. Because of their depression and confusion about the future, no one wanted to speak.
"Tomorrow's Viper Pass," said Captain Alexey. "We Musketeers may be ahead."
If it were normal, it would probably cause a wave of fluctuations, but everyone knows that the archers team suffered heavy losses this time, and only a few musketeers were left to use long-range shooters.
Although everyone is actually reluctant, it must be said that there is no other choice in this case.
"I don't want to say more. Everyone must remember clearly. Keep your eyes open. At the same time, no shooting is allowed without my orders!"
After saying this, Alexey looked up and looked into the distance. The Viper Pass in the distance could not be seen in the night sky. The Viper Pass was not a steep place. But he could imagine that this was simply an insurmountable natural danger for the current refugee team.
The breath of the undead rose into the sky, so strong that it made people shudder.
The Archbishop and his group were at the Viper Pass at this moment, feeling the strong aura of the undead in the distance.
They all have mounts, and their speed is no match for the staggering refugee team. So they have reached this pass at this time.
When they came here two days ago, they had stopped here for a short time. The undead aura in this place was not strong at that time. But in just a few days, the aura had simply skyrocketed.
If there is no danger in this place, there will be ghosts! The Archbishop observed the situation here and guessed that there was a powerful immortal lord in this place. He was no longer the kind of small-scale undead nest that could be dealt with with ordinary adventurers or small-scale troops.
Today they have few people, and the undead are not so sensitive. But tomorrow the entire refugee team will come, so things are hard to say.
It seems that after returning, it must report this news to the person... Of course, from another perspective, this is also a good thing. Because he believes that the refugee team may not be able to arrive in Lulian City alive.
The undead with a ruler is two different things than the wild undead without a ruler. The difference is so great that it is comparable to the difference between a wise race and a wild beast.
"Master Archbishop...this situation..." a subordinate asked carefully. "Should we notify our superiors immediately? Recruiting an army is appropriate... Undead creatures are enemies of everyone."
"No, there is no need." The Archbishop pondered for a moment. "The beginning of the era of turmoil, all our peripheral territories will shrink to defend better. Since that's the case, these undead will leave the spiders in the chaotic forest for headaches! In addition, Baron Nomdan... has made me suffer this time!"
When he thought of this, his face turned blue and his forehead was full of blue veins. "His son is obviously such an excellent summoner, but he deliberately made that arrangement! Let him treat me perfunctorily at the beginning... If he summoned a powerful creature at the beginning, even if it was just an elemental prince, then this time the hunt for Connibar would not be... like this."
He consumed his most precious artifact, lost two loyal and reliable subordinates, and was also seriously injured. Not to mention that he owed a precious favor from the elves for this. If the elves use this favor as a bargaining chip to ask him to do something, it will be difficult for him to refuse.
What is the final result of such a price? Nothing is obtained!
But after thinking about it, if the summoned creature appears in advance, the entire battle situation will be completely different. He can even take down the opponent without consuming the artifact.
You said that the summoning ceremony would not be completed sooner or later, and it would be completed when the Baron's own daughter was in danger. Who would believe it? Moreover, it was summoned with powerful creatures of super specifications, and they used something completely different from the standard universal summoning array. They had already completed the summoning ceremony, but they pretended to let the summoned creatures not appear for the first time.
You don’t need to ask the reason behind it, it’s Baron Normdan who is doing it behind the scenes!
As for why... this reason is easy to guess.
"I'm afraid I'm planning to cheat me. I guess he has noticed the plan in Lulian City." The Archbishop said.
"But..." said a subordinate. "Master, I still think it's better for you to make peace with the Baron, and you have to consider the future. Otherwise, those refugees may not be able to pass here."
Such a small team of people is not afraid of the undead. After all, they have mounts and are fast and can even leave if they can't beat them. But if they are refugees in a brigade, it will be very sad.
"What future can Baron Normdan have?" The Archbishop scoffed. "If you say he can break through the hero rank and enter the legend... How is it possible at that age?"
"But he has a son and a daughter. His daughter is already in the heroic rank at a young age and has great hope in the future. Even if the identity of a woman is of great value, no lord will refuse such a marriage. As for the son... don't you think that Kim is extremely powerful? If the Baron's team suffered a major loss here, this hatred might have been formed. Baron Normdan was like this, but his daughter was in this turmoil era, and the future was unlimited."
"Ha... this is simple!" A trace of cruelty flashed in the Archbishop's eyes. "Isn't it enough for them to die here? Taking advantage of the fact that the undead is not moving now, we destroy all the natural gathering points of magic power suitable for setting up summoning magic arrays around us... No, it's not destroying, but blaspheming. You mean that when they summoned the day, they summoned a half-dead creature, which would look good! Dismount, the natural gathering points of magic power in this place should be there!"
The surge of magic tides forms the basis of the supernatural powers of this world. However, the magic tides are not uniform, and the material world will produce some natural gathering points for various reasons. For example, churches in cities, or magic towers, etc., will basically choose to build them on these gathering points. If they really don’t work, they can still ask for the grace of God and turn the church into a gathering point.
Summoning spells will also be naturally set in such places—and there will be many benefits.
They are all clergymen, know how to purify and of course know how to blaspheme. This kind of thing is not often done, but it is actually not difficult to do.
In about half an hour, they found the biggest gathering point. If the young summoner named Kim wants to arrange a summoning array at this position tomorrow... unless he does an experiment first, the consequence is that it is very likely that it will be to directly summon a dead creature.
It is not impossible to summon undead creatures, but when the opposite side is the undead lord, it is almost the same as suicide.
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After doing what he should have done, the Archbishop felt much more relaxed, and even the pain on his body was relieved.
As long as this undead lord is more powerful, the Baron and his group will most likely be wiped out here tomorrow. Today he noticed that the Baron's daughter had a very inappropriate idea, and she also had plans to protect the weak when fighting against monsters like Connibar. Tomorrow, she would probably fight to the death to protect the refugees. If she did not retreat, she would basically implicate the Baron and the Baron would not retreat, and it would be difficult for the young summoner to retreat.
"It's all here to die!" He cursed angrily.
Just as a group of people were trying to turn around to find a mount, suddenly a sound in the forest was heard. A group of birds flew up from the woods.
"It seems that the dead have noticed us." A priest said.
"Normal, we've been here for too long." The companion replied. "Go away quickly!"
They returned to the horses, and the servants who stayed behind were waiting there with their horses. The Archbishop took the reins from his servants, "Slave, get on the horse quickly!"
His feet were about to step on the stirrups, but he turned around and saw the stupid servant standing there motionless.
"Go on the horse quickly, there will be danger if you get late! The undead creatures in the forest are moving! If you don't leave, I will let you feed the undead!" he scolded. But he couldn't hold back the idiot, motionless like a puppet.
"Hurry up!" The angry Archbishop was almost waving the whip in his hand, but the servant raised one hand tremblingly and pointed it at the rear of the Archbishop.
"Big...big...big...major...that," he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty. "They... are here!"
The Archbishop turned around in horror, but saw a figure blocking the front.
Under the moonlight, the whole forest seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. In the clearing in front, a figure was already standing there at some time.
The figure was wearing a black cloak, and his whole body was hidden inside the cloak, and his face was hidden under the hood, like a shadow. Of course, he could never be a shadow. The Archbishop was not an ordinary person. He could clearly feel the strong aura of undead creatures emitted around this guy. A little further away, there were ghosts. Although he couldn't see clearly, he could recognize that it was the unique staggering pace of undead creatures walking.
"Who are you?" cried the Archbishop. "The Earl of Gellert in Lulian should have an agreement with you!"
"Earl?" The undead creature raised his head slightly. Under the hood was a terrifying white bone face, and the soul fire in his eyes was burning. But it was obviously a fleshless skeleton with no throat or vocal cords, but I didn't know why he could speak. "It's so interesting, I'm also a Fang Bo."
Unfortunately, the Archbishop didn't understand, so he could only know that this guy was hostile. However, before he took any measures, a skeleton dragon had already emerged from the forest inside the slanting thorn. The whole body was filled with black mist, obviously, it was just awakened, and even could not control the aura of his own deceased spirit.
The Archbishop could see at a glance that this skeleton dragon was just a good example. It should have been awakened and its combat power was not very strong. But he could see that others might not have seen it. In addition to people, there were also horses. The herd of horses was rushed by the aura of the skeleton dragon and jumped around and was unable to control it for a moment.
Although the skeleton dragon is a very powerful undead creature, such a person who has just been awakened is not in the eyes of the archbishop. He has a chance of winning in a fight. But why did he fight?
"Silly Undead! Get out of the way!" He jumped on his horse, waved his staff, threw out a magic beam, and hit one of the legs of the skeleton dragon. The newborn and fragile skeleton dragon's leg immediately burst out - this blow effect proved that the skeleton dragon was indeed awakened. Maybe it will become very strong in just a few days, but it is not yet.
The Archbishop didn't care about anything else and rushed forward. He knew that the most powerful thing about the undead creatures was the number. There were at least a few thousand undead spirits in this place, and breaking through as soon as possible was the right choice. The bone dragon broke its leg and staggered for a while and could no longer catch up. The immortal lord in front of him seemed to have no tricks... If there were any tricks, he would have released it when he should have met.
Judging from the posture, you can tell that this undead lord is not a mediocre type. If you knock him down and rush away, the matter will be almost solved. Those low-level undead are very slow and cannot catch up with the horse.
However, the undead lord's hand just waved in the air, and a large blue flame appeared out of thin air. In an instant, another giant skeleton dragon rushed out of the flames. The aura of this skeleton dragon was solid, not comparable to that of the newborn undead creature just now.
The matter was too sudden, and the Archbishop had no time to stop the pace of the mount, so the skeleton dragon hit him directly.
The entire team, including the Archbishop and everyone who rushed forward with the Archbishop, was knocked away by the giant skeleton beast.
The Archbishop was thrown into great difficulty. When he finally recovered a little and planned to get up, he felt a strong force coming up.
The skeleton dragon stepped on one claw on him.
The terrifying fangs were so close that the undead's negative energy flowed out of its mouth, like saliva flowing out of the gluttonous beast.
The Archbishop stopped moving immediately.
He turned around and looked at his subordinates. A group of ghouls that appeared at some unknown time had already restrained all his subordinates.
Because they were hit by the bone dragon, everyone fell down with people and horses. Everyone was confused and could not resist effectively.
"You are a spellcaster. You should say that you are all spellcasters." The immortal lord walked up and saw the flashing intelligence and sensibility through the soul fire in his eyes. "Very good, very good, I happen to have many questions to ask you..."
Just like last night, in the middle of the night, Zhang Cheng found an opportunity to come to the Viper Pass. Anyway, Uncle Gong didn't need to rest.
This time it takes less time than last time, and it took half a day to fly the last time. This time you only need to use "dimensional crack (damage)".
As soon as Zhang Cheng came, he saw a row of people lying on the ground. He still knew all of these people, and they were the Archbishop and his party.
They are all in a coma now. Although Zhang Cheng basically cannot cast spells, his vision is still there, so he knows that these people may be in danger. If you want to treat them, don’t think about ordinary “treatment of serious injuries”, you can only use “recovery techniques”. Even “rehabilitation techniques” cannot be used.
"Uncle Gong...you this time..." Fortunately, Zhang Cheng didn't like the Archbishop very much. This group of birds was a bird. There were so many new wounded people, and the birds ran away without even asking about it.
"Oh, Mr. Zhang Cheng, I happened to meet them making trouble around me, so I caught them." Uncle Gong didn't know any archbishop.
"Damn it? What the hell are they doing?"
"They are expanding the energy of the nest... In short, they must have bad intentions." Although Gong Bo is an undead creature, he always remembers that he was once a human, at least Zhang Cheng was a human. "I happened to use them for an experiment. It has answered many very important questions from me."
"Expand the energy of the nest?" Zhang Cheng at least understood that this was a dead nest. But the Archbishop and his group were humans... He hesitated and wanted to ask, but if he asked, he needed to cure the Archbishop and others. But even for Zhang Cheng, "recovery technique" is also a precious resource, and he couldn't bear to use it.
"Young Master wants to know their plan, so you can use the brain-eating evil spirit." Gong Bo suggested that he had seen Zhang Cheng use the brain-eating evil spirit.
Zhang Cheng took out the card and summoned the monster.
The evil spirit of brain-eating began to read the Archbishop's brain, and at the same time passed the read information to Zhang Cheng through the spiritual link. Zhang Cheng's face changed almost immediately... Madan, this guy... This guy...
I see!
Chapter completed!