A few days later┉┉
The Scourge accelerated their siege of the city, or to be precise, the speed of plundering the population. The Death Knights were divided into five teams and continuously attacked towns in several nearby territories. The undead did not need any food or money to attack the living. The pleas were indifferent, but soon the Scourge finally had to stop after plundering more than 30,000 people. The population of towns with low defenses had all been evacuated. Although a cure for the plague had not yet been found, the spread of the plague through rivers The natural disaster plague was also completely cut off by the Holy City and the Kingdom of Ballayka. Not only that, the Holy City also mobilized a large number of clergy to establish an isolation zone. Several large-scale plagues had occurred in the western part of the continent before. The Holy City, which has experience in handling this, The operation was very fast, so the Scourge could not take advantage of the loopholes after the initial raid was successful.
Now facing the Kingdom of Ballayka, which has completely shrunk its defense lines and territory, the Scourge Legion has basically made it impossible to carry out any sneak attack except for actively launching a frontal attack on the king.
In the following period, the Scourge Legion also tried to spread the plague directly on the battlefield in the same way as before. However, this time King Baleka learned the previous lessons and a large number of mages arranged large barriers. All natural disasters and plagues were blocked. During the attack, the priests of the Holy City cooperated and blessed each soldier with divine magic to resist this unknown plague.
Without the means of sneak attacks, the Scourge Legion, which relied solely on low-level undead creatures or even violent beasts, won the battle with minimal losses after the battle with the Balaigu Kingdom. The mages' large-scale killing magic can destroy the undead rushing up in large swaths. Thunder, fireballs, and hail are like raindrops, bombarding the battlefield into a mess. Even a small number of undead who were able to break through the fire blockade were quickly crushed by the well-arranged heavy infantry. The battle was completely one-sided.
Alsace, who was observing the battle situation from a distance, was not surprised by the result. Anyway, a small force of natural disasters was originally used as cannon fodder to test the opponent. I have to say that compared to fighting the Og barbarians, the organized human army is indeed much more difficult to deal with than those strong, brutal but low-intelligence savage creatures.
"Let's go, the Scourge is still unable to compete with them head-on." Arthas said to the lich beside him, then he turned his horse's head and left slowly surrounded by several death knights.
"This is just temporary Your Majesty┉┉"
Akalsath smiled sinisterly and took one last look at the battlefield situation shown in the spell projection. The living had only achieved a trivial victory, which could not change anything.
The main force of the huge Scourge Legion temporarily retreated to the ancient battlefield in the swamp, where there were still a large number of dead bodies that needed to be transformed, and a large number of facilities that needed to be built. This time the Scourge Legion collected a lot of fresh 'materials'. Some blood elf acolytes in the swamp have made preparations to create stitch monsters. The new generation of natural disasters and plagues are also rapidly improving.
However, before retreating, Alsace also left several death knights and led the corpse cavalry to harass the Kingdom of Balleka. Alsace even authorized them to carry the natural disaster plague across the border to neighboring countries for release. Simply put, it was to make this land free of Pause and maintain a certain amount of mayhem and carnage. Let the demons hiding in the abyss take care of the rest.
After the natural disaster army evacuated. King Balleka has already begun to sweep the battlefield. The undead do not know fear. Even if the battle situation has collapsed, these willless skeletons will still hold up their weapons and charge at each other until the soul fire in their bodies is completely extinguished. This characteristic made the encirclement and suppression of King Baleka pay some price, but the advantage is that there is no need to worry about any fish slipping through the net.
"Be careful. Don't get close until you are sure that the undead are completely dead." The captain wearing armor ordered his men to cut off one corpse after another with a spear.
On a battlefield full of corpses, soldiers in groups of three carefully inspected the remains of every fallen undead. Once they found an undead whose soul fire had not yet been completely extinguished, the soldiers would quickly add a blow to it. Let these miserable souls get a true rest from the torture of the necromancer. Of course, from time to time, some undead "playing dead" will suddenly get up and attack with broken swords when the soldiers approach.
Suddenly, a group of soldiers found a skeleton standing up staggeringly not far away with half of its body broken. The fire of the soul in its pupils seemed to be extinguished, but the skeleton was still wearing armor that was almost in pieces. Walking towards them holding the broken axe. The soldiers immediately raised their spears and prepared to pierce his head. It had been clearly proven on the battlefield that breaking their heads was the best way to kill these undead. Just as the soldiers were about to take action, a voice suddenly came.
"Stop it first and leave this undead spirit behind."
In the blink of an eye, a middle-aged man in a blue robe appeared in front of the soldiers. Several soldiers looked at each other and did not even notice when the other party appeared. However, after the other party showed a emblem, the soldiers quickly saluted and retreated. Arrived aside. That emblem represents the Holy City, an existence in the western part of the continent that even the king must treat with courtesy.
The man exuded a powerful aura that was different from the mage who accompanied King Balekar. When the undead approached, the mage just waved his hand and blocked all the movements of the undead with an invisible force. The skeleton soldier still kept his arms raised. The posture of the weapon made a clicking sound all over the body but it stayed motionless in place. Regardless of the terrifying posture of the undead, the male mage directly grabbed the skeleton's revelation, and even pinched his fingers into the pair of eye holes that exuded the blue soul fire. Suddenly, a look of surprise flashed in the mage's eyes, as if I wasn't too sure, so I closed my eyes and concentrated on sensing it.
A strange situation that has never been seen before. The soul memory of the undead has completely dissipated, leaving no memory at all. However, it is very inexplicable that the undead itself has retained part of the previous fighting methods, as if someone had deliberately Eliminating unnecessary souls simply created a machine that only knows how to fight and kill.
"I'm looking for a few remaining undead. Don't rush to eliminate them now. I want to do further research." The male mage gave the order while maintaining the restraint on the undead in front of him.
The soldiers who received the order quickly found several more undead whose soul fire had not been completely extinguished. At this moment, the more the male mage checked, the more surprised he felt in his heart. Every undead was almost in the same situation, and the soul memory was completely erased and only retained. The fighting instinct came down. Looking at the thousands of undead corpses on this battlefield, the male mage took a deep breath and was filled with confusion.
Once a life dies, the soul will be inspired by the Sea of Souls. As time goes by, the tough soul will gradually break and eventually return to the Sea of Souls. Theoretically, most of the undead resurrected by the Necromancer will lose some of their life qualities. Memory, which naturally includes combat skills. Sometimes the awakened undead will not blindly obey the orders of the necromancer. After all, these undead also have residual obsessions from their lifetimes. Some undead souls will try to return home to see their relatives, some undead souls are driven by hatred to avenge their enemies in life, and some are just like lost children lingering in their former residence┉┉
Sometimes, in order to ensure that the awakened undead do not betray themselves, the necromancer will deliberately delete the memories of the undead and only let them retain the memories that are useful to them. However, it is very troublesome and time-consuming to eliminate the memories of the undead. Most of the time, necromancers will choose some high-level undead that have relatively complete memories and can be awakened to become stronger undead to use this method. After all, low-level cannon fodder is a dispensable existence and there is no need to deliberately waste time. However, these low-level undead in front of the male mage have all had their memories removed, leaving only the instinct to fight. You don't need to guess to know that all the tens of thousands of low-level undead that have fallen here must be in this situation.
What a joke! Creating so many undead souls whose memories have been deleted requires at least hundreds of necromancers to spend decades to complete the huge work. Then there may be such idle necromancers doing such boring work, for Tens of thousands of low-level undead souls were removed.
The male mage was silent for a moment and then checked the souls of the undead in front of him again. Finally, the mage came to the conclusion that he should be right. Would there really be a group of necromancers doing such boring things? Or is it that the necromancers on the Isle of the Dead in Aesolos have found a new way to eliminate souls in large quantities.
"Capture these undead and I need to conduct further research on them."
The male mage's request put the soldiers in a bit of trouble. After all, no one wanted to touch these filthy dead people. However, after the commander of the team learned about the situation, he did not complain or be dissatisfied at all, and immediately ordered the execution of the male mage's order. The soldiers had no choice but to find carts and ropes and struggled to tie the remains of the still-living undead onto the cart. The male mage was not idle either. He waved his hand and tied one of the undead with the strongest soul fire. Put it in a magic cage, and quickly flew back to the nearest city with the cage mage.
Soon the news of King Ballyka's victory over the undead army was quickly spread throughout the western continent. At this time, both the Kingdom of Ballyka and the Holy Capital, which were invaded by the undead, needed exciting news to relieve themselves. The situation is just that in the Holy Capital, Saint Flora is looking at a document angrily. Moon Priest Grant is also sitting aside at the moment. However, compared to the angry Flora, Moon Priest looks calm and composed. He looked like he was drinking black tea poured by the next Saint Fenalia herself.
After a long time, Flora put down the letter and took a few deep breaths before she finally calmed down. Finalia hurriedly helped her elderly adoptive mother sit down.
At this time, Moon Priest Grant shook his head helplessly and said to Flora: "It's time for Her Majesty the Saint to make a decision. The current situation has proven that conventional methods cannot treat these cancers. It's time to eliminate them in one fell swoop. ”
Flora looked at Grant with very complicated emotions, but looking at the contents of the letter, Flora felt that Moon Priest Grant might be right┉┉(To be continued...)