There was a series of loud noises in the originally quiet forest, which was caused by the bone vine guards flying through the forest.
As the bone vine guards moved deeper into the cliff, the surrounding scenery changed drastically.
The location of the cliff is a little far from the border. Compared to Rhodes, the cliff was closer to where the centaur leader was.
The surrounding trees have risen sharply. At the border, the Bone Vine Guards may be at the same height as the surrounding trees, but under the current situation, the height of the trees far exceeds the Bone Vine Guards.
Under the cover of layers of branches and leaves, it is difficult to confirm the figure of the bone vine guard from above. We can only get a glimpse of it from the violent noises and the birds that are constantly flying in the forest.
In this case, Rhodes' feeling of being spied on did not diminish at all.
Rhodes knew that even under the protection of darkness and losing the light, the elves behind him could still accurately identify his position.
Therefore, all Rhodes can rely on now is that the speed of the Bone Vine Guards can surpass the pursuers behind, allowing him to take the lead and reach the cliff.
Through the spiritual imprint, Rhodes learned that the centaur leader had arrived at the cliff and discovered an anomaly. Through the message conveyed by the centaur leader, Rhodes confirmed that this was exactly the location he needed to find.
While the Bone Vine Guard was running forward, a dark green barrier appeared directly in front of the Bone Vine Guard.
Since the barrier appeared closer to the Bone Vine Guard, the Bone Vine Guard, who was running at full speed, did not notice this. Although Rhodes sensed the abnormality through mana fluctuations, he was too late to stop the bone vine guards.
The bone vine guard maintained his running speed and hit the barrier directly.
Under the impact of the bone vine guards, the barrier instantly shattered. But the bone vine guard was also affected by the barrier properties. Under the impact of the impact, the bone vine guard's figure became unstable and fell to the side.
Rhodes reacted in time. The moment the Bone Vine Guard was about to fall to the ground, Rhodes jumped out from the Bone Vine Guard and rolled to the side to avoid it.
Although there were some scratches on Rhodes' body, he was obviously much better than the broken bone vine guard beside him.
The bat landed on Rhodes again, and the vampire was apparently not affected by the bone vine guard's fall.
Recalling the barrier that originally appeared in front of the Bone Vine Guards, Rhodes instantly realized the identity of the pursuers behind him.
Rhodes recalled that when he wanted to kill the hero Ivor in the dwarf village, such a magic appeared and saved Ivor.
Rhodes knew that those who were chasing him were probably the court mages mentioned by the elves, and it was probably the palace mages who originally led the Eli creatures to attack the camp.
Rhodes didn't know why the court mage insisted on chasing him, but now was obviously not the time to think about it.
Rhodes looked at the bone vine guard on the ground. Due to the fall while running at high speed and the weight of the Bone Vine Guard, the Bone Vine Guard suffered multiple damages at this time.
The most seriously injured part was undoubtedly the bone vine guard's leg. At this time, the Bone Vine Guard's legs had been completely broken and could no longer be used.
The Bone Vine Guard was stretching out a large number of vines, trying to break the surrounding trees to repair his body. Since the surrounding trees were extremely tall, it took the Bone Vine Guard a long time to break one of them.
Seeing this situation, Rhodes felt a little anxious.
At this time, Rhodes seemed to have thought of something, and released death energy at the bone vine guards according to the method recorded in spiritualism.
Under the influence of legendary spiritualism, each point of Rhodes' mana can be converted into a large amount of death energy, which means that with his own mana alone, Rhodes can increase the level of the surrounding undead creatures.
Even if he transformed the bone vine, Rhodes only spent 10 mana points. But in this situation, Rhodes planned to release the death energy on the body of the bone vine guard with all his strength.
With the emergence of death energy, Rhodes' mana dropped rapidly.
Around the Bone Vine Guards, violent death energy was generated. Rhodes could even see that under the influence of the death energy, the wood blocks wrapped in the vines extended by the Bone Vine Guards became charred black. At the same time, the texture also changed. The originally hard wood now became extremely soft.
The body of the Bone Vine Guard has undergone another change.
The original Bone Vine Guard was just that the Bone Vine controlled the Deadwood Guard's body from the inside under the influence of spiritualism.
Although Bone Vine wanted to assimilate the body of the Deadwood Guard, he couldn't do it in a short time. The body of the Deadwood Guard can only be used as the body of the bone vine and cannot be counted as an entire undead creature. It was even corrupted by the Cloud of Death before.
But under the current situation, the Bone Vine Guard's body has obviously undergone fundamental changes.
Rhodes saw that under the stimulation of strong death energy, the body that originally belonged to the dead wood guard was forming another combination with the bone vine inside it.
At this time, the bat on Rhodes seemed to feel something and rushed towards the bone vine guard. As the black mist flashed, the vampire's true form appeared.
As soon as it appears, the vampire quickly absorbs the surrounding death energy.
With the effect of the death energy, the vampire gradually recovered from the injuries caused in the previous battle, and many changes occurred overall.
Although the vampire had been promoted to the fourth level before, the overall improvement was not strong due to the lack of the most critical step of absorbing a large amount of death energy. At this time, under the influence of a large amount of death energy, the vampire's strength was improved again. .
Seeing the changes in the bone vine guards and vampires, Rhodes knew that this was the effect that legendary spiritualism could produce.
Rhodes recalled that when the senior necromancer transformed the fourth-level resentful soul, the level of spiritualism he displayed was only around the grandmaster level. And Rhodes' legendary spiritualism is two levels higher than the master level.
As the death energy gathered, Rhodes' mana dropped repeatedly. Finally, when it reached 30 points, Rhodes stopped releasing mana.
At this time, the death energy here has become extremely rich, even exceeding the effect of the general death cloud. If an ordinary person enters it, the flesh and blood on the body will be immediately affected by the surrounding death energy.
Since Rhodes has not mastered the spell to release the Death Cloud, even if Rhodes can release a large amount of death energy, the utilization of mana is still not as good as directly casting the Death Cloud.
Just as Rhodes was raising his undead creatures, the sound of horse hooves came from the forest.
(End of chapter)