Spring is always short-lived, and with a few short bursts of heavy rain, the weather gradually becomes warmer.
But compared to the Northland, which is still in the severe cold, it is obviously more suitable for human habitation. At least the wood spirits like this kind of climate. It is warm, humid, and sunny, and it seems that plants are growing.
But at this time, the south wind with the rotten smell of corpses blew, and dark clouds followed, but the temperature dropped in vain, as if to imply that the warm summer has not come so soon, at least there is still a terrible cold spring to pass. .
Because the shape of the seeds of the Dream Forest after germination is somewhat similar to that of oak, the evolving new Dream Forest has a nice name—Oak Town, and for his guardians, the undead have not arrived yet. But let them wander in worry and happiness at the same time.
Fortunately, the shadow of the war seems to be expected to last a few days in the evening, and they have more time to prepare for war. The worry is that according to the usual practice, the longer the assembly time, the more amazing the number and quality of the opponents.
The earliest expectation was that the undead should have arrived two days ago, but when it turned out, it has not been seen so far. In the minds of many veterans, they have already made psychological preparations. With such a long preparation time, the opponent may have already With the front-line troops of Rainy Night City gathered, the number of the undead army that is about to attack will be very exaggerated.
"It would be good if it were ten days and a half months in the evening. It is said that many people in the country of mages are interested in justice points. Perhaps, they will also join us."
But judging from the sudden rise of thick smoke from a distance, the reinforcements that may have arrived still haven't caught up, and the ones that should have come are still here. Before the dark clouds covered Oak Town, a Pegasus knight fell first. Proclaim it out loud.
"I'm coming!"
what is coming? In fact, everyone knew, but no one panicked.
"Close the gates!"
"Notify all reconnaissance and hunting teams to return to Oak Town."
"No one notified Mu Ling and the leaders? Go to a messenger."
This is the adventurer, noisy and chaotic, but full of action. After a few minutes, everyone knew that the war was coming and began to get busy.
In fact, there is no need to cover up the military situation. Seasoned soldiers can judge the size of the army and the time of arrival from the height of the dust. The vanguard knights of the undead will arrive in about two hours, and they have been prepared for a long time. The soldiers have been mobilized.
A large number of bows and arrows were placed on the city wall, the archers began to adjust their bowstrings, the treemen rose from the ground, and the slings began to calculate the final ballistics.
In less than an hour and a half, the first group of skeleton cavalry had arrived. The silent white bone knights, with their rotten saddles and lances, circled around the city wall, looking for flaws in the defense. If the opponent showed weakness, They would naturally be the sharp knives of the raid, but in the end, they retreated.
"Are you late?"
The death knight Habourn finally gave up the plan to attack, and looking at the scene in front of him, he questioned the judgment of the great emperors for the first time, whether the Republic underestimated these plant life too much.
The rhizome of the babel tree brings the power of the parent body and gives the new "oak seed" the power to mature, while the gradually sprouted "primitive oak" gives the oak town new power. When the natural cycle is constructed, Although it is still called Oak Town, in the eyes of most people, it is already a fortress-level defense.
The towering city wall, the troop of treemen who patrol back and forth, these are not discussed for the time being, the most incomprehensible is that the extension of this green fortress is already a green, and the trees are growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Pieces of forests have formed on this wasteland, and the former wasteland has become grassland and woodland.
This is a miracle created by the overflowing power of nature, and soon, this forest will become the nourishment for "Oak Town" to continue to grow. Small natural creations are included in the big natural cycle, and each link builds up another link, and finally Achieving self-balance, at that time, just getting close to here, there will be countless hostility and eyes watching you.
Finding that the opponent's defenses were complete, forcibly sieging the city with a cavalry regiment dominated by skeleton cavalry was only a useless loss, the undead forward commander chose to retreat without hesitation, waiting for his main force to arrive.
In a temporary mountain headquarters in Oak Town, the leaders of the adventurers are also discussing the current military situation.
In a sense, the Mu Ling family strictly adheres to the true nature of NPCs. They obviously lack complete trust in adventurers. In addition, the two pursue different mission strategies. Mu Ling hopes that Oak Town can grow up and will not hesitate to sacrifice. The adventurers always pursue their own best interests as the goal. Naturally, there are two sets of leadership teams in Oak Town, but from the current point of view, they still focus on cooperation, and there are not many differences.
There are two sets of leaders, one is the alliance of adventurers, and the other is the decision-making level of the wood spirits. In fact, this may also be the regular cooperation model between the future contract warriors and the local forces. The local forces will always expect themselves. His subordinates obeyed the command completely and completely, and carried out every order without compromise.
From the perspective of employers, from the perspective of making the best use of things, it is best to use temporary comrades bought with money to be the most dangerous cannon fodder. However, the alliance has to think about the people under them. They also want to gain a lot of money without losing their lives.
The positions of the two are different, which naturally brings about differences.
Cooperation, communication, proper trust, and a vague relationship between top and bottom, but not absolute, the two sides always keep a distance, and pursuing the intersection of various interests under the same goal seems to be the best choice at present.
This time, the adventurer's alliance is made up of more than a dozen senior adventurers. The people who speak the words are either high-level leaders of a large mercenary group, or they are highly respected adventurers themselves, representing the interests of scattered adventurers.
"The total number of undead is between 60,000 and 80,000. Judging from the flags, there are probably more than ten undead monarchs, and the leader is Davy of Aesso Revis..."
Unlike the scattered adventurers who only see the skeleton knights in front of them, medium and large mercenary groups have their own means of reconnaissance, some are the early patrols of the air cavalry, some are the reconnaissance spells of the prophetic mages, the main force of the undead army has been At a glance.
And when many reconnaissance methods summed up the intelligence, they naturally came up with a relatively reliable intelligence summary, but the camp was still silent as before, not because the opponent was too strong, but...
"Isn't it right, this number is too small, will it be fraudulent?"
Yes, it was completely different from what was expected. There were far fewer undead than expected. Originally, everyone estimated that all the undead princes of Aesso Reeves were dispatched in full force. The overall strength is likely to exceed one million, but The result was only one tenth.
Double-team? feint? bait? Or simply abandon this place and start the battlefield in another place? Many thoughts are lingering in everyone's mind, because there are too many possibilities, so no one dares to draw conclusions.
Suddenly, a carrier pigeon flew into the tent and fell into the hands of Case who was thinking.
"… It appears that our employer has additional sources of intelligence."
That was the intelligence notification given by Mu Ling, it just means that for some reason, some undead lords refused this call, and some had already gathered undead lords but suddenly left the army, which made the opponent's combat power biased this time. Less, let adventurers prepare for battle with peace of mind.
"For some reason? It seems that employers don't fully trust us?"
As soon as the words fell, some people were obviously dissatisfied. The adventurers fought hard for their employers, but they could not get the trust of the employers. No wonder they were dissatisfied.
A grey-haired old man shook his head helplessly. He was Airo Simu, the former parish bishop of the Mother Earth Goddess, and now he is also a well-known adventurer.
"Oh, to be honest, do we trust our companions completely again? Besides, that incident happened before."
He was obviously talking about the espionage incident a few days ago. Since this incident was revealed, many teams have been much more careful, and no one knows if there are such undead spies in them.
"I also heard that it is said that the wood spirits have specially invited other helpers. It is said that they are the top 30 big figures on the list of goblins?"
"The list of famous generals? It's unlikely. The top 30 are all national treasures of various countries. How can they be hired? If there is a famous general, he would have been given command authority long ago, and it's not that we people don't know the importance."
"...Have you forgotten? The goblins are not only the famous generals of various countries, but also a more authoritative list."
"... The natural disaster list!? The top 30 of the natural disaster list? Are you sure you are here to help us, not kill us together?"
The scene calmed down all of a sudden. The meaning of the natural disaster list is "If you accidentally encounter it, don't think about resistance, let alone counter-kill, just run for your life." God's monster, and the top 30 are basically super troublesome thousand-year-old monsters who can't die.
"Top 30? Willing to be hired? The Plague King or the 'Volcanic Tyrant'? Neither is a good thing!"
The King of Plague is a classical alchemist specializing in pharmacy. At first, the object of his research was the medicine to cure the plague, but due to some reasons, the object of the original hope to be cured was burned alive as the source of the plague. As a doctor, he was sanctuary. The church has been declared a heretic and blasphemous, and has been hunted down.
As a result, he really became a heretic, and in revenge, he released the mutated virus that he had carefully cultivated, turning the entire parish where the enemy was located into a hell on earth. Today, the King of Plague has been wanted by more than 20 countries. But still at large.
And he is also one of the few "mobile natural disasters" who are still active on the mainland and are hired by others. Of course, he is not hired to cure the plague, but to create the plague. Apart from the deep hatred for the Holy Church, as long as he finds an opportunity, he will take revenge. In addition, he is the most harmless of the natural disasters, but he was able to climb to the eleventh place in the natural disasters because it was said that the guy was incapable of fighting chickens, but once he died, if the various mixed viruses stored in his body broke out, The population of the entire continent will be reduced by one-half, and even the Holy Church only dares to verbally want him, but no one dares to do it.
If the plague king is a man-made disaster, the volcanic tyrant is a real natural disaster. He is a giant lava fire scorpion. He feeds on geothermal heat and operates in volcanic areas for a long time. , he does appear with the backdrop of a volcanic eruption every time he appears.
The lava fire scorpion itself has no enemies in this continent. It has high intelligence but longs for flesh and soul as food, so he accepts war employment. Although it only accepts treasures such as sub-artifacts, it is not impossible for the royal family to hire, but Business has not been very good all the time, except that it requires a minimum "appearance fee" of 700 sacrifices, but once it appears on the battlefield, it is the ending that both the enemy and the enemy lose.
After all, the contested fertile fields and lakes have become volcanic areas, and important strategic locations have become lava lakes, which is almost a result of heavy losses.
And it is precisely because of this that there are private covenants between countries, and countries and individuals who hire volcanic tyrants will become public enemies, but there are always desperate people in this world. Although there is not much business, every few decades, it There is always business coming to your door, and you can eat all you can at one time.
The King of Plague is ranked in the top 20 because his life is too "important", and the volcanic tyrant who has caused countless tragedies is only ranked 29. You can see what the top 30 of the natural disaster list is. Now Mu Ling is said to have hired a top 30 natural disaster, and most of them are still before the volcano tyrant, which naturally makes adventurers terrified.
"No, we have to ask Mu Ling about it!"
When the scene was chaotic, Case received a letter from his team member, and there was already news about what he wanted to inquire about.
"... Sure enough, that 'Mu Ling's super cute' team is no longer in the camp?"
On the side of the undead, it was also busy for a while.
In a sense, I have some admiration and sympathy for that undead king named David.
The older you are, the more afraid of death, and the wise undead are not fearless lunatics. When the rising missing list appears, many undead lords who plan to hug their thighs will also think about the future.
"I'm sorry, I have some private matters that need to be dealt with urgently. I wish you all a prosperous martial arts."
Before finding out the reason for the disappearance, I am afraid that there is no undead lord willing to stay in the army. After all, it is not only the low-level undead who are missing, but also the legendary and holy undead lords and monarchs.
But even if Davy asked the Undead Emperor for help, he could not get a response. In this case, unless the reason for the disappearance was found out and eradicated, no one would want to disappear so inexplicably.
In the face of the missing list after another, even David himself was stunned, but he also had a hard time. There is only one chance. If he fails... The emperors don't care for any reason. If you fail, you will fail. There is nothing It's long overdue to go to the garbage dump, and David himself will lose everything he has in his hands, and even bear the wrath of the undead emperors.
And when the news spread that none of the departed suffered from the misfortune of disappearing again, even a fool knew that David was being targeted by something terrifying, and if he didn't want to take risks, how should he choose.
The most important thing is David himself, who has been unable to come up with a policy to stabilize the military's morale... In fact, let alone him, even if I was in that position, I couldn't find anything wrong with the situation.
"War" is still brewing, all reconnaissance spells can't find unborn people, and the "fusion contribution" of the undead is an almost instinctive suicide behavior, perhaps a call, as if wanting to go out for a walk The mood is automatically cut off, such a situation is so strange that it is impossible to guard against.
If Dawei is willing to disband the army and re-investigate the organization, the problem can naturally be solved, but he does not have the spare time at all.
As a result, there were only 50,000 or 60,000 undead troops left in the original, and most of them were direct descendants of Davey himself, who signed a soul contract. Davey wanted them to die. One way to go to the black hardcore" direct line.
But even so, Davy is still full of confidence. He can hear the melodious sound of the violin from his residence every day. It seems that this music-loving undead boss is still in a good mood. He is still holding small concerts every day, but...
"I feel guilty, I deliberately kept the same as before, but in fact it revealed the essence of timidity."
"Indeed, it's already on the battlefield, it's enough to raise the vigilance directly. If you do this, it will make you feel more guilty."
Heloise and I were quite spared watching the excitement, but in fact, I still had some doubts.
After all, the undead emperors are willing to see Dawei unlucky, but the undead emperors may not see the expansion of the wood spirit clan, and the inevitable defeat can completely call back Dawei, and Dawei himself cannot live on the road of inevitable death. One heart goes to the black, it seems that he must have a trump card in his hand to make a comeback.