In the wilderness of the far north, the shadow of death is spreading unbridled across this land.
Countless naked skeleton warriors with ghastly skeletons holding various weapons, some are rusty and dilapidated and some are brand new as if they had just been forged. These have lost all memories of their lives and only retained them. The skeletons of battle memories are like demons returning from hell, demons who only want to kill people. Under the coordination of the death knight as the commander, the skeleton warriors and ghouls as consumables were divided into square formations to attack the scattered defense lines of the Og barbarians from four directions.
The Og barbarians are indeed as brutal and bloodthirsty as described by other races on the continent. They are like a group of locusts that are not afraid of death. No grass grows wherever they go. And no matter how they are killed, they will swarm in without fear. It is terrifying. The numbers overwhelmed all enemies. In the wars between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Og barbarians over the years, some officers and knights who were ordered to go to the Kingdom of Saxony to support and provide military advisory assistance all described without exception that the Og barbarians attacking the city under the city wall were simply... The spreading plaque is just like the plague. In the absence of engineering equipment, they can even climb up the city wall on the corpses of their own people, which makes people feel creepy.
It's just that this time the Og barbarians are facing an enemy who is also not afraid of death. To be precise, the enemy this time is the incarnation of death. There is not even the concept of supplies and morale. As long as it can still move, whether it is a skeleton as a consumable Soldiers and ghouls or the more powerful death knights and abomination trolls will continue to fight until the body is completely torn apart.
On one side of the battlefield, six death knights were commanding the skeleton cavalry to charge. Thanks to the low primitive wisdom of the Og barbarians and the recent heavy snowfall, the Og barbarians trapped in the far north had almost eaten all their food. There are only a few creatures left in the North. So far, the Og barbarians have completely degenerated into infantry, and there are no cavalry units that can keep up with the death knights.
Under the charge of the death knights, the originally chaotic Og barbarian army suddenly seemed to have been struck by a tomahawk, creating a huge gap. Six death knights rushed into it at the lead, with evil weapons inlaid with three runes in their hands like Like a bloodthirsty scythe, it crazily harvests all life, and the death horse under its crotch not only possesses the characteristics of the undead and will not fatigue, but the death horse itself also has a frost halo that can freeze the warm life close to it.
"Charge over and crush them, leaving them trembling under the iron hooves of the Scourge!"
The death knights who bore the brunt of the attack chanted. Although the slogans were meaningless to the undead without self-awareness, these elite knights who were once the Kingdom of Balleka still retained some of their habits after being converted into death knights. Although the Og barbarians They are also resisting desperately, but the weapons of the Og barbarians are too crude, and their arrows are either severely worn or even made of bones. These arrows, which seriously lack penetrating power, cannot penetrate the additional weapons on the death knight. Heavy full-body armor with magic resistance, even if a few pure poison arrows are lucky enough to be shot into the gaps in the armor, these poisons will have no effect on the undead.
While the death knights were tearing apart the Og people's formation back and forth, the undead army on the side launched attacks from both sides in an orderly manner to fill the gaps to prevent their own side from going too deep and being surrounded by the opponent.
Although the hand-to-hand combat was brutal, the unusual thing on the battlefield was that only the Og barbarians had the sound of fighting. The skeleton soldiers on the undead army always kept killing silently. The ghouls occasionally made some teeth-piercing gnawing sounds. The rest is probably the sound of the abominable giant wielding its cleaver and lock hook in the air, but this sound is too insignificant for a cruel war, but the undead's silent fighting method is even more It embodies the terrifying atmosphere of this army of death, which is more frightening than the hysterical shouts of the Og barbarians.
In large-scale battles, an individual's power is extremely limited. Unless they are powerful extraordinary beings at the top of the power pyramid, even some ordinary extraordinary beings cannot change the shape of a war with their personal power. No extraordinary person in the world would think that he is an invincible strong man. For example, the gods in the sky, including the five ancient dragon gods, have not isolated themselves from their tribesmen, compatriots and believers, because they all understand that they are alone. Fighting is the most undesirable thing to do.
And this is even more reflected on this large-scale battlefield!
The Og barbarian magic envoys use the demons in the abyss to spawn violent beasts. During the war with the Kingdom of Saxony, violent beasts are the enemies that soldiers least want to see. To deal with a violent beast, you often have to pay a high price. , but in this war, the violent beasts did not show the overwhelming strength as before. Even if the coalition formed by these Og barbarians had released hundreds of violent beasts, even if the enemies they faced were no longer the same as before. With the cover of city walls and fortifications, even if they faced the same staggering number of undead on the plain where the two armies were facing each other, coupled with the chaotic command system and independent fighting, the violent beasts were as fast as ink being thrown into the river. Just disappear.
"Your Majesty the Lich King, 80% of the violent beasts sent by the Og barbarians have been wiped out, and all the corpses are being transported back." At the base camp of the Scourge, Death Chanter Karthus reported the battle situation like a staff officer.
Just like humans, the base camp of the undead army chose a higher hill. The view here is endless and you can almost overlook the entire battlefield. It is very suitable for the commander to grasp the battle situation at any time and make corresponding deployments. There is also a building next to the Lich King Arthas. A decent-looking tent was set up. In the tent, the native undead from the different worlds of Aesolos Island of the Dead have established a spiritual communication network on the battlefield as guests and collaborators, allowing the death knights to fight intelligently on the battlefield. Being able to receive battle situation and commander information anytime and anywhere allows for more efficient and faster deployment.
Just like the radio communication technology in another world, the establishment of the psychic network makes the tactical deployment of the Scourge Legion more effective. The dark warrior Sanlvard and the death lord Ingham commanded on the front line by relying on real-time grasp of the battlefield situation. All the beasts of the Og barbarians were wiped out with minimal losses.
"The battle went more smoothly than expected. It was almost just a one-sided massacre."
The undead sworn Gurgel Aesolos from the Island of the Dead in Aesolos walked outside the tent and looked at the battlefield that was still fighting not far away. The failure of the Og barbarians has become a settlement. This race is like cockroaches and rats. Although there are many in number, they are divided, surrounded and squeezed into a group by the undead army, and it is impossible to exert their numerical advantage. In terms of individual combat effectiveness, the Og barbarians may be considered very strong and difficult opponents for humans, but in the face of The undead have no advantage, and the most pitiful thing is that the Og barbarians seriously lack means of mass destruction such as magic and magic crystal cannons. Fighting the undead hand-to-hand with some simple weapons is simply asking for death.
Anyone with a normal IQ on the entire continent knows that the undead are least afraid of physical attacks.
On the battlefield, the Og barbarian used the blunt knife in his hand to cut off the right arm of the skeleton soldier holding the weapon, but the skeleton soldier did not stop and pounced on the opponent without stopping, entangled with him, and before the Og barbarian could break free. The skeleton soldiers in front and behind had already swarmed up and stabbed this guy with bloody holes all over his body with their weapons. On the other side, a ghoul pressed an Og barbarian to the ground with his intestines bursting out of his abdomen, biting and devouring him, and several similarly injured ghouls quickly came to join him. This bloody feast.
"Hmm~ Not bad! Being able to obtain so much material at one time is a big gain." Necromancer Gugel was very satisfied.
For the undead, especially the necromancers who specialize in necromancy, the money valued by the living is meaningless. The only two things that are most indispensable are souls and corpses. Although the Island of the Undead in Aesolos is one of the most indispensable things on the mainland, The undead who may rest in peace are like a hometown, but Asolos Island, as the hometown of the dead, does not produce such things as corpses. Except for a few people who come to seek death or fools who have got carried away by reading knightly novels, almost Once all the living discover the Island of the Dead, they are so scared that they can run away as far as they want. For this reason, the only way for the undead to obtain their bodies and souls is to go to the mainland.
In the turbulent war years, the undead could still happily obtain a large amount of materials from a mass grave or the battlefield that had just ended, but now in the peaceful era, except for some regional minor conflicts, there are almost no decent large-scale wars. , when the undead found out the news that a conflict broke out somewhere and hurried over, the conflict might have ended, and the battlefield had already been cleaned up. And even the recent border war between the Kalsemmen Empire and the Kingdom of Creses also involved the intervention of the Holy See, which discouraged the undead on the Island of the Dead in Esolos who were preparing to go there to 'make a profit'. In the absence of materials, the undead's only option is to dig graves at night, and occasionally encounter "comrades". Of course, these colleagues want the deceased's finances, while the undead want the deceased's finances. The most important thing is the dead themselves. Originally, the purposes of the two parties were not conflicting, but because the necromancers on Esolos Island were too accurate recently, these colleagues who also came to dig graves were voluntarily added to the team of the dead.
Over time, the people of various countries on the continent have also come to understand the rules. When the graves of deceased relatives are dug, if the remains are still there but without the burial objects, it means that the tomb has been visited by robbers. If the burial objects are still there but without the remains, it means that they have been visited by necromancers. !
In comparison, it is obvious that losing the remains of a loved one is more infuriating than losing some property. For this reason, the already notorious reputation of the necromancer is ranked second to that of the tomb robber. (~^~)