Obtaining corpses in peacetime is a very troublesome thing. Even if you are facing the curses of countless living people that they have no sex to have children, and the increasingly severe attacks from the Holy See, digging graves and stealing corpses is only treating the symptoms but not the root cause. After all, the chance of accidental death of ordinary people in peacetime has been reduced a lot, and the corpses of normal aging people can only become low-level cannon fodder even if they are transformed into undead. Considering the bone porosis caused by old age and the return of the soul to the soul, Due to problems such as the sea, these lowest-level undead are usually not as effective as cannon fodder.
The most tragic thing is that the undead cannot even buy slaves like ordinary people. Let alone the issue of money, it is the slave merchants in the free city who claim that they don’t even care about making deals with demons as long as they can make money. They dare to deal with them. The devil makes deals but dare not make deals with death.
The living have a natural taboo and fear of the dead. For slave traders, even if they can make a lot of money, they still have to spend their lives. Who knows whether the other party will turn themselves into one of the corpses when trading with the undead. member. In addition to the slave merchants who do not have the courage, some countries and forces that have secret transactions with Aisolos do not dare to blatantly provide slaves to Aisoros Island. After all, human slaves are boycotted at the same time in the east and west of the mainland. Once it was discovered that there was an official human slave trade and faced the pressure from the two major religious forces, not even the king could bear it, let alone the ordinary nobles.
For slaves of foreign races, the cost is too high for both the undead and the secular kingdom. Privately, some countries only use death row prisoners as a trade. Although the frenzied and brutal souls of death row prisoners are very popular with necromancers, after all, Too little quantity is still a drop in the bucket.
Precisely because corpses are getting harder and harder to obtain, some necromancers have begun to take desperate measures to kill people, and then seize souls and plunder corpses. Although Aesolos Island of the Dead is a lawless place, necromancers usually only busy themselves. His research rarely meddles with other business, but recently more and more necromancers have begun to go to the mainland to look for materials, and some of the lunatic have not done a good job of covering up, causing Aesolos Island to attract more and more attention, although for As for the undead, their reputation has long been stinky and they don't care if the living fear them more. However, the undead don't want to be overly concerned and lead to crusade. For this reason, the current leader of the Island of the Dead in Aesolos is the 'Soul Guide'. 'Beersmore Aesolos has already gathered everyone to formulate some restrictive rules to prevent the actions of some necromancers from bringing disaster to the Island of the Dead.
But it doesn't matter now!
Gugel looked with satisfaction at the corpses of the Og barbarians that were being brought back in a steady stream. They were all freshly killed, and even the souls had not yet completely returned to the sea of souls. It seemed that he chose to stay and observe. It is the right choice to use the combat power of the Scourge Legion instead of hurriedly continuing to move west to find the Star Children. It's just that these corpses brought back were all killed by the undead warriors on Esolos Island. If they were killed by the Scourge Legion, the dead Og barbarians would quickly transform into undead and join the battle.
Lich King Arthas has the special ability to quickly transform any living person into the dead. This ability has always fascinated Gugel. This is also an important reason why the Og barbarians are defeated by the natural disaster army. If one person is killed in battle, the other side will have one more enemy. The result of continuing to fight like this is that there will be fewer and fewer enemies and more and more enemies. In addition, the undead are tireless and do not need food supplies and morale. The undead army has unique advantages in war.
Although not all the bodies of the Og barbarians were obtained, these were enough to be shared by the undead who followed.
In an open space behind the base camp, a slaughterhouse filled with the smell of blood that would scare any living person into fainting was operating at full speed. Acolytes in dark robes from the Scourge were rapidly processing large quantities of The fragmented corpses, whether they were the newly killed Og barbarians or the previous human corpses, were quickly divided and sorted. Then the acolytes skillfully stitched the different corpse pieces together again, injected them with the undead plague, and applied necromancy spells. Soon, the ugly and deformed abominable monsters stood up and walked towards the battlefield with heavy steps and endless malice towards the living.
On the other side, the undead in Esolos are busy dealing with the corpses of the Og barbarians they have just obtained. Of course, there are also some Og barbarians who are still breathing their last breath, but for the necromancer, It doesn't matter whether they are alive or dead, they are just materials anyway. For this reason, these necromancers who cannot be said to be ruthless but just emotionally lacking do not care about the embalming of the living and corpses of the Og barbarians. As for those harsh wails and screams, they were ignored by the necromancers. Compared with the screams caused by physical pain, the screams that really chill people's hearts are when the Og barbarians' souls are stripped of their bodies and bound, and the pain of never resting is the most torturous.
Anyway, when the Og barbarians once raged on the continent, they were more cruel than the undead because of their habit of eating raw. Whenever they invaded a town, the men would be killed for food, while the women would be toyed with and then killed for food. , today it was tit for tat.
The eyes of the several undead dark warriors behind him also had a red glare, as if the bloody atmosphere of the battlefield had touched the bloodthirsty and warlike obsession deep in their souls. If these warriors hadn't been ordered to stick to the base camp, , maybe they could no longer bear it and rushed to the battlefield to fight happily.
After all, they who were once warriors have not completely forgotten some of their unforgettable memories even after death. Not to mention that there are some who deliberately transformed themselves into undead during their lifetime in order to gain powerful power, or to continue to satisfy themselves. Warlike desires within.
"Be at ease, souls eager to fight. Although I know that you are eager to fight like Lord Ingham, but this time we are guests and need to obey the master's arrangements. There will be opportunities for you to show your talents in the future. This war is not The last battle." Feeling the desire in the hearts of the compatriots around him, Gugel comforted him with a dark smile.
"Yes, this is not the last battle, it is just the first step for His Majesty the Great Lich King to conquer this miserable and barbaric race." Deathsinger Karthus floated over with his staff in hand.
Seeing the arrival of this important minister around the Lich King, Gugel also bowed slightly to show respect. After all, even if he became an undead, the belief that strength represents status in this world is still deeply rooted in people's hearts. Although Gugel is a A necromancer who has specialized in necromancy for many years, but has not yet broken away from the shackles of the body and become a lich. In front of him, Karsus is an out-and-out invisible lich. On the island of Aesolos, he can only wrap up the current leader. Including Bellsmore, there were no more than five necromancers who successfully turned themselves into lichs.
"I have to say that the Scourge Legion is more powerful than imagined, but the Og barbarians seem to have noticed the situation. According to the detection of the scouts, a large number of Og barbarians have begun to gather abnormally. Their number is conservatively estimated to be in the millions. On." Praise goes to praise, business goes to business, and Gugel also raised some situations that he will face next.
Karsus laughed gloomily and seemed not to care: "It's useless~ No matter how much you come, it's useless! Death will swallow everything. These Og barbarians swarming up will only make the Scourge Legion add more soldiers." ”
"If it were just Og barbarians, I believe the Scourge could do it."
Powerful death knights, terrifying abomination trolls, meat grinders used to attack cities, and endless new undead magic! Gugel believed that Karsus and his powerful Lich King could indeed do this. After entering the extreme northern wilderness, the undead army chose to infiltrate secretly in order to avoid a direct decisive battle with the Og barbarians. Until now, The Scourge Legion, which has destroyed several Og barbarian tribes so far, has devoured the lives of nearly 700,000 Og barbarians, and each time there is a new leap in both quantity and quality, more and more hateful trolls appear. Replacing the slow zombies in the army, the equipment of the skeleton soldiers is almost as good as a piece of equipment, regardless of whether it is good or bad. The violent beasts of the Og barbarians have become the new force of the army, and the magic envoys have served as necromancers. and the duties of an acolyte.
Gugel still doesn’t understand that after being transformed into undead, those barbaric sorcerers learned the basic undead spells of the Scourge Legion almost like masters, and they went from being ignorant to being experienced. The mages and acolytes created more war machines for the Scourge. How did the Lich King Arthas do it? What kind of spells could save these barbaric creatures from the intermediate learning process? It was almost a complete process. The one who ascended to the sky became a unique existence!
Under this crazy devouring expansion, except for the most powerful death knight, there has been no substantial increase in the Scourge Legion. The rest of the troops have become more and more numerous and powerful as time goes by. Now the Og barbarians finally discovered After he was attacked, he hurriedly gathered the army, but now the undead army has grown enough to fight with it. If the next Og barbarian army can be defeated, then this northern wilderness will be destroyed. The land will completely become a hunting ground for the undead!
"But I think... we are almost reaching our limit."
"What!?"
A smile that was more embarrassing than crying appeared on Gugel's dry face: "Devil ~ Your Excellency Karsus!"
"Devil!? What devil~" Karsus obviously still didn't understand what this sentence meant.
"Legend has it that a long time ago, the Og barbarians were selected by the demons from hell to be the vanguard army that wreaked havoc on the main material plane. The technology of creating violent beasts mastered by their magic envoys is also said to be a gift from the demons, and we are now The negative emotions around the Og barbarians who have killed too many are already very strong. I think it won’t be long before the master behind this barbaric race appears.”
Karsus said disdainfully: "It would be great if that's true. Last time, there was a miserable demon who made such nonsense in front of His Majesty. Do you know what happened to him?"
"How on earth..."
Before Gugel could finish his question, a black flame shot up into the sky from the center of the Og barbarian army. (~^~)