"Crack!" Stark stomped on the alchemy item that looked like a flying beholder under his feet. A pool of dark green juice seeped out from under the steel boots. It seemed that this alchemy item was also fused with some biological materials.
"Since the right time and place are not on our side, let's use our strength to crush them openly. If there are only a few hundred low-level undead, even if there are a few necromancers mixed in, they will not be our opponents."
Stark had a ferocious look on his face, and the distress of the two of them made him a little annoyed. After Qin Lun reminded him, the big man realized that there were only six old Fortress members left in the team. If this continues, just like what the youth said, even if the fortress team retains the silver title, it will no longer be the original fortress.
The apostles didn't respond to Stark's words, and their team really didn't have any difficulty dealing with one or two high-level necromancers. Stark can hold one. Although Kelly is not an MT, she can hold one alone. Others, including elves who are good at archery, can focus on killing necromancers in minutes.
Back then in Iron Star Fort, the newt that was comparable to a legendary creature was killed by them in this way. Even if the legendary creatures were like this, one or two high-level necromancers were nothing.
In fact, after the apostles reached a high level, they broke away from the previous team combination mode. For high-level apostles like Kelly, the skill system is fully mature. Except for being unable to provide healing assistance, other team roles can be assumed temporarily.
As for the legendary profession... Although the world of Toril claims that legends are everywhere and that there are as many demigods as dogs, don't forget that this is just a small valley in the remote mountainous area of Amn. If there had been a legendary profession, then the Amn cavalry led by Bonny would have been impossible to escape.
"Let's go, go inside." Kelly patted the dust on her knees calmly, her golden ponytail dangling behind her head, and the sound of clogs under her feet was still crisp in the silent valley. The figure of the female martial artist was not tall, covering everyone behind her like a city wall.
"Philip, pay attention to the alchemy familiar that Angelo shot down just now. It seems to be able to hide from our perception." Robin approached Philip and said softly.
"Well, alchemy items have no biological breath, and are no different from stones in perception. Instead, we magicians can sense the elemental fluctuations in their bodies." Philip nodded, and took two steps quickly, following Kelly and Stark at the front of the line.
The rest of the journey was very peaceful. After the first wave of attacks failed, the enemies in the valley seemed to die down, allowing the apostles to drive straight in without further obstruction.
Everyone encountered some scattered low-level undead along the way, most of them were skeletons or zombies. However, these undead seemed to have no one to direct them, they could only attack living creatures by instinct, and the number was very small, and they were knocked down by Kelly and Stark in front of them.
"Gulu!" A skull whose skeleton had been smashed rolled over. Qin Lun glanced at it, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He picked up the skull and examined it carefully.
"What's the matter?" Ellistine, who was next to her, came over with her head poking around.
"Look, its eyes!" Qin Lun pointed curiously at the skull's eye sockets, which were not empty, and there was a red flame that looked like smoke. Although the skeleton's body had fallen apart, the flame seemed unaffected at all, still burning indistinctly.
"This is the soul fire of the undead, and it is also their core and weakness. The undead are called undead creatures, but in fact, once the soul fire is burned out, they will still die." Mileras' voice came from behind.
"Ah, Mileras, you are becoming more and more like a ghost, you walk without making a sound." Iristen was startled by his abrupt voice, and angrily condemned.
Mileras touched his nose in embarrassment, but made no excuses. Elisine's strength is actually very strong. Regardless of the apostle's legal body, in this team, she is probably second only to Kelly, and she is already close to the category of high-level occupations.
However, the elf druid was not very courageous. After entering the valley of the undead, the lively female elf in the past has been snuggling up to Qin Lun nervously. Although she insisted that she was protecting Qin Lun, in fact, anyone could tell that she was a little scared. Not afraid of those skeletons, but afraid of the lifeless and silent environment of the valley.
"Then is it dead now?" Qin Lun handed the skull with glowing eyes to Mileras.
"Alive! But..." Mileras took out a fine iron long arrow from the quiver on his back, inserted the arrow into the empty eye socket of the skeleton and stirred it a few times, looking at the dissipated soul fire, said, "I'm dead now !"
"What a cute little skull, you are so cruel!" Elistine said dissatisfiedly with her small mouth curled up.
Mileras was speechless for a while. Looking at the back of Elistine walking away, Qin Lun patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, and warned in a low voice: "Who told you to lie to her at the beginning, remember not to deceive the female elf in the future, All female creatures are vindictive!"
Mileras nodded with emotion, and immediately reacted. What do you mean don't deceive the female elf? This is too ambiguous!
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"Something's wrong!" Boni began to frown as everyone went deeper into the valley.
"Perhaps the enemy guessed that they were not our opponents, so they retreated into the depths of the mountains with those undead?" Robin looked at the heavy armored knight with some doubts. It was a bit strange that he had not encountered the second wave of attacks after walking so far.
"Impossible. The previous attack shows that the enemy must still be in the valley, and the terrain of this valley has been recorded by the Amn Guard. There is only one entrance and exit here, which is a gourd-shaped valley. The innermost circle is surrounded by a cliff close to 90 degrees. The enemy can't avoid us." Bonnie said with some anxiety, "Maybe we shouldn't go any further, we just need to block the valley entrance and wait for my two companions to attract the garrison."
"Gourd Valley? So is there a large open space inside the valley?" Robin thought of something, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Knight Bonnie, do you think the enemy might have concentrated low-level undead and planned to fight us head-on in the open space? ?”
"It's possible, but although the interior of the valley is a bit more open, it's also full of rocks, rough and uneven, and it's impossible to carry out group combat without cleaning it up." Boni said with certainty.
Robin breathed a sigh of relief. The heavy armored knights said that they were surrounded by hundreds of undead in the valley, but they did not fully enter the valley, so this number cannot be used as a reference for the total strength of the necromancers.
Roughly calculated based on the range of the valley they entered, the necromancers who have not met may have two to three hundred low-level undead. However, judging from the experience of Boni and others, the necromancer can only command more than a hundred undead to cooperate in combat at most, and other low-level undead act by instinct.
So did the necromancer stay strong when fighting Boni and others? Robin thinks there is no such possibility.
It is not a trivial matter for the undead to appear outside the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range. It is impossible for the necromancer who provoked this incident not to know this, so they will try to cover up their traces in the early stage. If the necromancer could command more undead, Boni and others would not be able to escape, so the siege attack they encountered at that time should be the limit of the necromancer's ability.
Although Robin thought that his judgment should not be wrong, the head of the beauty group still felt uneasy. She couldn't tell where the uneasiness was, it was just an intuition brought about by her long apostolic career.
"Captain Robin, maybe we should follow Boni Knight's advice and retreat to the valley entrance to wait for reinforcements. After all, it only takes them a day to go back and forth." Stark said with a serious face.
In fact, at this time, the apostles who had experienced adventures began to feel uneasy. After Stark communicated with Qin Lun and others cryptically, he changed his original intention and agreed to a more cautious plan.
Of course, this is not the relationship between task rewards. Despite the fact that 10,000 shattered crystals are few, a dozen or so apostles are worth the value of one or two pieces of dark gold equipment, not to mention the speed of world exploration that comes with it.
"Well, let's quit!" Robin was decisive, and immediately accepted everyone's opinions with kindness.
In fact, Boni Knight is worried about the undead in the valley appearing outside, not that the mercenary group must eliminate all the undead now. As long as the Taniguchi is blocked and the undead are not allowed to come out, and when the reinforcements arrive, then they will have fulfilled Boni's commission.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Just as the team turned back, several spherical objects rolled down from the heights of the mountain walls on both sides of the valley, attracting everyone's attention.
"It's the cavalry I arranged at Taniguchi!" Boni stepped forward vigilantly, looked at the spherical objects, and immediately his eyes were red.
They were the heads of several human beings. Although the hair was loose and the blood-stained faces were a bit terrifying, the heavy armored knight still recognized his comrades at a glance.
With the appearance of these heads, dense figures appeared on the mountain walls on both sides of the valley, as well as in front of and behind them.
"Skeletons, zombies, ghosts, and abominations...Damn it, it turns out that they have never appeared, and they want to climb up the mountain wall and go around behind us!" Stark and others were shocked.
"This amount... there are at least a thousand undead!" Robin gritted his teeth, his face pale, "Damn it, this time I'm in trouble!"
The undead slowly surrounded them. Although most of them were low-level undead, the number had already changed qualitatively. Although the valley was still dead silent, the sound of rustling footsteps seemed to press down on everyone like a mountain, and there was an ominous shadow in everyone's heart.
When the undead approached to a certain extent, they stopped in place, as if waiting for some kind of instruction.
Afterwards, the densely packed undead team separated like waves, and three tall knights came out more and more. They held long-handled sabers in their hands, and countless silver runes were engraved on the black armor. Two cold lights shot out from behind the iron face of the helmet, and they stared at everyone emotionlessly.
"Hiss..." The nightmare man under the knight's crotch stood up, and the blazing hellfire on the horse's hoof was reflected on everyone's retinas.
"Death Knight!" Everyone gasped.