On the way forward, Rhodes observed the dark clouds around him. These black clouds covered a very wide area. Due to poor visibility, Rhodes didn't know whether the black clouds covered the entire town, but along the way Rhodes walked, these black clouds were above his head.
Rhodes realized that this kind of black cloud must be created by some kind of treasure, and was just an imitation of the real dark sky.
The real dark sky will not suppress the Necromancer's perception. Instead, it will improve it, helping the Necromancer to perceive more distant scenes. Instead of suppressing most of Rhodes' perception like now.
Rhodes walked all the way. As he walked, the sky was filled with black clouds, making the surrounding environment extremely dark. As Rhodes got closer and closer to the mayor's mansion, Rhodes also discovered something unusual. The mansion was almost surrounded by such black clouds.
Previously, Rhodes could still see things clearly through the tiny light around him, but now he can no longer see anything clearly, not even the road under his feet.
Fortunately, Rhodes' perception of undead creatures still exists. Although this perception is somewhat suppressed by the black clouds in the sky, it still plays a major role for Rhodes, allowing Rhodes to feel through the concentration of death energy. The approximate location of the mayor's mansion.
Perhaps due to his limited vision, it was difficult for Rhodes to observe the things next to him through his eyes as the surroundings were pitch black. Therefore, Rhodes could only focus all his attention on perception. Under this concentrated perception, Rhodes' perception was more accurate than usual.
In Rhode's perception, the original location of the mayor's mansion was now shrouded in a large amount of death energy. This death energy was not gentle, but was generating violent fluctuations all the time.
Rhodes realized that there was also a battle going on over at the mayor's mansion.
Previously, because he was far away from the mayor's mansion, Rhodes could still find the direction to move forward. Now, although he could sense the death energy not far away, because the surroundings were pitch black, even with the Eagle Eye Technique, Rhodes could not move forward. He couldn't see anything around him clearly either.
Rhodes stretched out his hand, and a flame appeared in his hand, lighting up the surrounding road. Since maintaining the existence of the flame requires continuous consumption of mana, Rhodes is certainly not willing to do this.
The flames illuminated the surroundings. With the light of the fire, Rhodes searched around and found a wooden bar. Rhodes lit one end of it with the flame, held the other end, and made a simple torch.
Holding the torch, Rhodes walked towards the mayor's mansion not far away.
After walking a certain distance, Rhodes saw some firelight appearing in front of him. The firelight seemed so obvious when the surroundings were dark. As if he realized something, Rhodes quickly walked towards the location where the fire came from.
As the distance got closer, Rhodes saw that a large number of undead creatures were surrounding the former mayor's courtyard.
These undead creatures were standing outside the mayor's mansion, in the courtyard that Rhodes had seen before. Many of them were holding torches and were trying to get close to the mayor's mansion and set it on fire. They were obviously necromancers. Control.
Ordinary undead creatures only have the instinct to fight. Even if it is a vampire, if Rhodes does not give it orders, the vampire will not light up the surroundings with torches like these undead creatures in front of it.
Under the control of the necromancer, undead creatures can exert greater power, and there will be an overall improvement. Just like how Rhodes controlled the walking corpses to deal with vampires in the tomb, there is a necromancer lurking around, controlling These undead creatures holding torches.
In addition to these undead creatures, Rhodes also discovered undead creatures controlled by the mayor.
The skeleton warriors controlled by the mayor also came to the periphery of the mansion and stood in a formation to fight against the undead creatures holding torches around them.
Rhodes noticed that the undead creatures controlled by the mayor were obviously more than what was originally shown in the mansion. Most of the undead creatures protecting the mansion are skeleton warriors, and only a small part are walking corpses.
The offensive side is different. Among the attacking undead creatures, in addition to a large number of walking corpses, there were also many ghosts, including several of the ghosts that Rhodes had seen before.
Seeing these undead creatures, Rhodes seemed to realize something. For a necromancer, a large part of the undead creatures he controls can reflect the way he improves his strength.
Generally speaking, after a necromancer destroys a village, he will transform all the people in it into undead creatures. Unless the recently deceased corpse is specially processed, it is difficult to be made into a skeleton-like creature and can only be made. Become a walking corpse.
This is why, when Rhodes first woke up in the tomb, he was surrounded by a large number of zombies waiting to be transformed, but almost no skeleton creatures.
Rhodes looked at the two sides fighting in the field. The undead creatures on the mayor's side were almost all skeleton warriors and a small number of skeleton soldiers, while on the other side there were a large number of walking corpses.
This means that if someone has been using the residents of the town to create undead creatures, it is not the mayor, but the necromancer on this side.
This discovery made Rhodes realize something. Before Rhodes could continue to observe the situation in the field, the surrounding undead creatures had already discovered Rhodes. The reason was that the torch held in Rhodes' hand was completely dark around him. Under the circumstances, the fire ignited by the torch is extremely obvious.
As if under the control of the necromancer, a ghost screamed but did not move. The undead creatures that were originally besieging the mayor split off and began to attack Rhodes.
Seeing other undead creatures surrounding him, Rhodes took out the weapon from the space ring and alerted the surroundings, letting the vampires face the undead creatures ahead.
These undead creatures were obviously no match for vampires, so Rhodes did not take action and focused on observing the situation around the mansion.
Among the undead creatures fighting vampires, there are only some walking corpses and a few ghosts. The ghosts that Rhodes had seen before were still fighting the mayor's skeleton warriors in front.
The vampires fought with these undead creatures and quickly killed the surrounding undead creatures. Since the number of these undead creatures was extremely small, Rhodes made no other moves and continued to observe the situation around the mansion.
In Rhode's view, due to the problem of the number of undead creatures, the number of undead creatures of the party attacking the mayor's mansion far exceeds the number of undead creatures owned by the mayor. The mayor's support for resistance is obviously these skeleton warriors in front. .
In terms of rank, the Skeleton Warrior is a first-order creature, but in terms of actual combat capabilities, whether it is basic attributes or equipment, the Skeleton Warrior exceeds ordinary first-order creatures.
Although the attackers had many ghosts and a large number of zombies suffering damage in front, they still could not kill the skeleton warriors in front of them in a short time.
Rhodes looked carefully and saw that on the battlefield, the skeleton warriors had a special position. They did not fight individually and kill one by one, but cooperated with each other. Whenever a skeleton warrior was attacked, several other skeleton warriors beside it A skeleton warrior immediately stepped forward to attack the enemy.
These skeleton warriors blocked the main road in front of the mansion, blocking the attacks of surrounding undead creatures. Although the walking corpses were holding torches, it was difficult to approach the mansion.
Rhodes focused his attention on the location of the ghosts on the battlefield. If ordinary undead creatures would have difficulty killing the skeleton warriors due to the cooperation between the skeleton warriors, the ghosts were different.
As the ghosts of third-level creatures, to deal with these skeleton warriors, as long as the necromancer controlling the rear has good fighting awareness, he can easily kill the skeleton warriors.
Rhodes saw that there were three ghosts on the field, and one of them was at the back of the battlefield. He had been paying attention to his position with the vampire. It was precisely because he had been paying attention here that he could spot him as soon as he arrived.
The other two were currently fighting the skeleton warriors ahead.
Yinhun stretched out his claws, and a skeleton warrior directly in front of him immediately waved his shield to greet him. Yinhun's sharp claws hit the shield, and a dark light suddenly flashed across his body.
Another ghost took the opportunity to attack, but the skeleton warrior did not pursue the attack. Instead, he continued to raise his shield, preparing to face the next attack of the ghost. At the same time, other skeleton warriors nearby also stepped forward to resist, preventing the ghost from hitting them.
Due to the characteristics of the Yin Soul, the Skeleton Warrior failed to cause much damage to the Yin Soul, but similarly, when the Skeleton Warrior blindly resisted, the Yin Soul was also dragged here by the Skeleton Warrior, unable to take advantage of its third-level creature.
At this time, the vampire had killed all the undead creatures that came here, and while the vampire was fighting the other undead creatures, another ghost kept looking in this direction.
If the attacker's necromancer lets all the undead creatures attack the mayor's mansion, they can rely on these three ghosts and the number of other undead creatures to break through the mayor's mansion.
Even if all the skeleton warriors cannot be killed, they can still take advantage of their numerical advantage to set fire to the mayor's mansion. But since a part of the undead creatures have to be separated to guard Rhodes, obviously they will not do this.
The vampire had already cleared away the undead creatures surrounding him. Rhodes did not let it take any other actions, but continued to check the situation in the field.
Rhodes also realized that things in the town were not as simple as he thought, so he did not act rashly.
Looking at the undead creatures fighting on the field, Rhodes knew that this was actually just the beginning of the battle between the necromancers. The necromancers on both sides did not take action, but relied on these undead creatures to attack each other, leaving magic until the critical moment. Use at all times.
Since the attacker has a numerical advantage and has some high-level creatures, it wants to consume the mayor's undead creatures as much as possible in this way.
As for the mayor, he is extremely confident in the defense of these skeleton warriors. He also did not release spells, but hid in the mansion to control the undead creatures. Relying on these skeleton warriors, he formed a special battle formation to resist the attacking undead creatures.
In a battle between necromancers, if other necromancers cannot be quickly eliminated, they can only waste their troops. In addition to competing with each other on the quantity and quality of undead creatures, they also have to compete on both sides' ability to control undead creatures.
Low-level undead creatures have extremely poor combat consciousness. Without the control of the necromancer, their strength can only be ranked last among the creatures of the same level. Once controlled by the necromancer, the strength of these undead creatures will have a greater impact. promote.
The necromancer controls the undead creatures. If you want the undead creatures to move exactly according to your own ideas, it is extremely energy-consuming. Generally, the necromancers just give an order to the undead creatures, and then let the undead creatures move on their own.
For example, in many of Rhode's previous battles, he only gave a suggested order to the vampire. Things like fighting forward and using bat transformation skills were just general orders, rather than controlling the vampire. Let him know when to attack and how to raise his hand to attack.
Only when it was necessary to restrain Master Lan Ran's dagger, Rhodes accurately controlled the vampire and let it restrain Master Lan Run's dagger in his body. If the vampire alone would not do this, he would definitely not do this.
Like ordinary battles, vampires rely more on their own fighting consciousness. This is one of the reasons why high-level undead creatures are stronger than low-level undead creatures.
Rhodes looked at the situation on the field. The battle formation formed by the skeleton warriors, including their response to the battle at this time, was obviously not achieved by their own strength, but was controlled by the mayor.
To achieve this level of control, in addition to having extremely strong spiritual attributes, a high-level spiritual imprint is also essential.
Although spiritual imprints are considered ordinary skills, skills like this cannot be improved by experience points alone. They must have prerequisite knowledge content before they can be improved.
While Rhodes was watching, new changes took place on the battlefield.
In order to defend against Rhodes, a high-level ghost cannot deal with the enemies around him, and he has to be distracted by the situation on Rhodes' side during the battle. This also results in the undead creatures on the attacking side being unable to suppress the situation. Under the defense of the skeleton warrior formation here, great results have been achieved.
The attackers are also aware of this. Although they were aware of the existence of this enemy when the undead creatures were initially attacked, they had no good countermeasures. Although the situation was unknown, he still chose to attack the mansion. At this time, he finally realized the uncertainty caused by doing so.
Knowing that it would be difficult to capture the mansion immediately, and coupled with the threat of enemies with unknown intentions from behind, the attacking undead creatures gradually retreated, and the skeleton warriors did not pursue them, but stayed in front of the mansion.
Due to the existence of three ghosts, even though the mayor could use spells to prevent these undead creatures from retreating safely, the mayor obviously did not do so, but thought of other aspects.
At this time, Rhodes, who had been silent, took action.
(End of chapter)