Ackley rushed up from behind and helped Anar up. She leaned against him softly, as if all the strength in her body had been drained away. Ackley noticed that her trembling right hand had cracked and blood was dripping from the wounds, but she obviously didn't care. The gleam in her eyes formed a sharp contrast with her tired look. She breathed in pain and grinned, "That's the feeling. I haven't felt this way since I left the capital. Humans are so fragile. It takes half a lifetime to grow into a master, but it only takes one hammer to end a master."
Ackley didn't know how to respond to the woman's sigh. He just looked around vigilantly to see if anyone would rush up to attack them, but he found that the enemies around him were almost all frightened.
Some people looked at this side in shock, even forgetting to fight. Some people fought and retreated to the side, trying to get away from here. Most people didn't understand what was happening at all, and didn't even notice the two people standing at the edge of the forest.
However, when their attention was drawn, they did not notice that their dead companions were getting up from the ground one by one. When they noticed this horrible scene, these ghost warriors had already stood up, controlling their bodies whose blood was still hot, and wielding weapons to attack them.
This time, Glade also released high-level ghost warriors and mages like Demian. The ghosts were much more powerful than when they controlled animals.
The speed at which ghosts controlled corpses was not comparable to that of ordinary necromancers summoning undead. It took only a few seconds for these warriors to get up and attack. Under Glade's command, most of them attacked the enemies with their backs to them. In addition, many enemies were frightened out of their wits by Anar, so they achieved good results right from the start. They gave priority to attacking the Shadow Group, but would not let go of the Duke's guards if they had the chance. The ghost mages took this opportunity to release various negative magic.
In the first wave of raids, a dozen people were killed and many more were injured.
When those newly dead became new ghost warriors again, the number of ghost warriors had exceeded the total number of the Shadow Corps and the Duke's Guards.
Gerardo realized that the real enemy lurking in the darkness had arrived, and he shouted hurriedly: "Don't panic! Form a formation! Form a formation!" But most of their subordinates were entangled in the ghost warriors, not to mention the weakening, slowing down and mental dulling magic released by several ghost mages, which reduced their mobility to the lowest level.
Gerardo finally gathered only four people to form a small formation. At the other end of the convoy, three or four people also formed a small formation to resist the attack of the ghost warriors.
Duke Parsa had gathered five or six of his strongest knights around him. The situation was much better. They found that the Shadow Group was unable to take care of itself, so they hurriedly began to break out to the east.
In front of the neatly-formed warriors, the ghost warriors were still weaker than the human warriors of the same level. Even though the human strength was affected by fatigue and pain, and the negative magic, Gerardo and the warriors he gathered still eliminated several ghost warriors.
But as other lone warriors fell, the situation became increasingly worse, and they soon became part of the ghost army, joining the battle to besiege their colleagues.
Even some warriors who fell down after being hit in the head and injuring their ghost bodies would be injected with new ghosts and continue fighting.
"Gerardo, if this goes on forever we will be exhausted to death." said an assassin from the Shadow Group.
Gerardo knocked down a ghost warrior and dodged a ghost arrow from the ghost wizard, saying, "We will retreat to the periphery while fighting."
"That's useless! It's too slow and we will just be entangled and exhausted to death!" said the previous assassin.
"What shall we do then?"
"Run!" the assassin said as he approached him.
"Once the formation is broken, then..."
"It's no use holding on!"
Gerardo looked at the enemy, whose number had barely dwindled, and felt a deep despair. He gritted his teeth and said, "Retreat! Everyone retreat!"
There were only a dozen people left in the Shadow Group. After receiving the order, they quickly retreated into the forest. However, every time someone escaped, more ghost warriors would chase them.
Most of them were not able to escape too far and were killed one by one by the ghost warriors who chased them. However, Gerardo and others who ran the earliest used the time when the others were entangled with the ghost warriors to break a path.
Despite this, there were only three people left in their team. Gerardo didn't know if Augusto would regret it, but he regretted it very much. Although the strength of the Duke's team was about the same as they expected, they should have been able to defeat them with confidence. However, the hidden enemy was too strange. When they encountered those strange monsters, they should have given up the action. It was Augusto's arrogance that led to their destruction.
Gerardo climbed over a slope and suddenly felt a ball of light coming from a distance in his peripheral vision. He dodged and avoided the path of the ball of light. Unexpectedly, after the ball of light landed, it sent out a mental shock wave that instantly emptied his brain. Although he tried his best to concentrate his scattered will, the one who cast the magic was a master, which made him stunned for five seconds.
When he came to, he saw a two-handed sword coming at him, and the one holding the sword was a fierce-looking woman. Gerardo wanted to raise his sword to block, but he found that he had let go of the sword without realizing it, and it fell to the ground.
When the big sword was close to his neck, the woman turned it, and the sword hit his neck. His head tilted and he fainted.
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Luo Ling brought Kalanda and nearly twenty mages and warriors, and three captives including Gerardo to the carriage team, and saw Ackley and the other two commanding all the ghost warriors to search the nearby forest.
Seeing Luo Ling coming, Anar said unhappily: "It's really abominable. They actually let the biggest fish escape. Fortunately, you came in time and caught these small fish from the Shadow Group, otherwise they would have slipped through the net."
Luo Ling asked: "What happened? Who slipped away?"
Ackley said, "The Duke of Greenwood City! The battle was going smoothly just now, and we were almost able to capture him. But who knew that a wizard beside him activated a random teleportation scroll. He and the Duke were teleported away. We can't detect the direction of the random teleportation. We only know that their landing point should not be far away, so we must send people to search now."