More than an hour later.
The first floor of the tomb.
Army commander Sergeant Alvin made two preparations.
On the one hand, he requested support from the legionary fortress.
On the other hand, he ordered an attack.
Troops are gathering.
The camp was crowded.
Every soldier about to participate in the battle has a lightning spore on the arm - a mutation that can release forked lightning.
After the soldiers drank an unknown mutagen, bean sprout-like things grew out of their arms. Li Nuo didn't know how this worked.
Staff Sergeant Alvin made temporary changes to the army's personnel arrangements.
Counting Sergeant Alvin himself, there were a total of 1 sergeant, 18 sergeants, and 80 corporals in his army, and the rest were all privates.
The 18 sergeants were originally the captains of each squad or members of the guard.
Now, Alvin took out 12 of the sergeants and put them together with the criminal soldiers to form a special team:
Spiritbinder Cairn Demolition Team.
The captain is Sergeant Mars.
The sergeants were responsible for escorting the criminal soldiers to the cairn, and the criminal soldiers tampered with the undead runes on the cairn under the supervision of the sergeants.
At this point, MI4's secret plan was considered semi-public in Alvin's army.
No matter how much Sergeant Alvin ordered it to be kept secret, it was only a matter of time before the plan was leaked.
Li Nuo didn't care about this. He was just a criminal and there was no need to consider the overall situation.
Now he only thinks about how to modify the undead runes safely.
But some people just don't let him worry...
...
"I don't care where you are from, you have to listen to me clearly..."
The three remaining criminal soldiers in the army stood together, discussing the modification of the commander's rune, occupying a small open space in the camp.
One of the tall criminal soldiers spat on the floor and said viciously:
"If you dare to give me blind instructions when modifying the undead runes and kill me...then I guarantee that I will use you as my back-up before I die."
Li Nuo glanced at the scar on the criminal soldier's brow and looked at him without any fear:
"If you are smart enough, just give me some peace of mind. I can crush you with the "Death Storm" as long as I have a thought. what about you? What else can you do besides shouting? You should be lucky that I still need you to protect me from thunder, otherwise...hehe, it makes no difference to me whether you are alive or dead. "
Who doesn't know how to talk? How do you think I got around in the civilized city of Night City?
To deal with such a bully, you have to silence him, otherwise he will become even more arrogant.
Li Nuo's words are more effective than low-level threats in terms of confidence and logic. Anyone with an IQ higher than a child can understand what he means.
Sure enough, the criminal soldier's eyes trembled slightly, and there was a hint of flinch in his tough attitude.
He twisted his neck, glared at Li Nuo, and looked away:
"Just wait for me, and one day I will take care of you..."
Li Nuo didn't take it seriously and turned to look at the criminal soldier standing on the other side of him.
This is a man who is only slightly stronger than Li Nuo, with very well-proportioned body lines.
When Li Nuo introduced the undead runes, this guy didn't say a word from beginning to end. He just lowered his head and nodded silently.
Compared to the domineering Scar criminal soldiers, this kind of silent criminal soldiers made Li Nuo more afraid. In all likelihood, they were the kind of ruthless people who could capsize people in the gutter.
Li Nuo noticed that this guy didn't have a middle finger. It seemed to have been forcibly cut off. He probably was a caught thief or something...
Wait, it's not necessarily a thief...
Li Nuo narrowed his eyes and had another guess about the identity of the silent criminal soldier.
There is another profession that also cuts off the middle finger, and he does it voluntarily...
Does this kind of profession exist in this world?
Li Nuo is not sure.
...
The army is ready to go.
Everyone put on breathing masks and lined up into the stairwell.
The soldiers responsible for confronting the enemy head-on received the help of lightning spores, while the criminal soldiers who wanted to tamper with the undead runes had a rune stick.
The rune rod is an alchemy tool that allows ordinary people to modify necromancy runes.
Its appearance is an iron-gray metal rod, about the length of a swing stick. Its surface is covered with complex and profound alchemical inscriptions. It is produced in the Golden Federation where alchemy is prevalent.
Its usage is the same as an ordinary pen. As long as you smear and draw on the undead runes on the cairn, you can change the existing undead runes to other ones.
The criminal soldiers don't have lightning spores. After all, this is a relatively powerful mutant weapon.
If a criminal has evil thoughts, he will most likely use lightning spores to create chaos. This is a terrible situation and cannot be allowed to happen.
Therefore, when Li Nuo set foot on the battlefield this time, he only had a hard rune stick in his hand and did not carry any other weapons.
He and two other criminals were held in the center of the team by a group of sergeants.
Sergeant Mars was at the front of the group.
He turned back and cast an encouraging look at Li Nuo, raised his right arm, pointed the lightning spores forward, stepped through the metal gate first, and rushed into the battlefield on the second floor of the tomb.
The moment he followed the team through the door frame, a thrilling battle scene appeared before Li Nuo's eyes.
The second floor of the huge tomb was illuminated by the dim light of hundreds of cairn spirits. A three-story cairn stood in the center of the hall.
In mid-air, the Cairn Binding Spirits flew together in a group, rushing towards the imperial soldiers like locusts, launching rounds of dives with the howling wind.
The soldiers maintained their square formation and gathered around Sergeant Alvin, raising their right arms and releasing large bolts of lightning.
Electric light flashed and electric snakes surged.
Hundreds of lightning spores ejected forked lightning, weaving a large bright blue net above the square array.
As soon as the Cairn Binding Spirit came into contact with the lightning, it burst out with a deafening scream.
The shrillness, terror, and pain make living people tremble with fear.
A cairn spirit was struck between the eyebrows by lightning.
Its body expanded in just one second, and finally exploded like a blown balloon, spreading large amounts of purple mist in all directions.
A grieving illusory human face emerged from the purple mist, and was sucked away by the cairn amid endless wails.
This scene gave the soldiers who witnessed this a spiritual blow.
Some of the privates were suddenly in a daze, their hand movements slowed down by half a minute, and they lost the rhythm of their attacks.
Because of this fatal mistake, they became the food of the cairn spirit.
Taking advantage of the soldiers' stunned state, more than a dozen cairn spirit spirits passed through the loopholes in the lightning network and pounced on the stunned soldiers.
The cairn binding spirit passed through the soldier's body, taking away the soldier's body temperature and life. In an instant, the living soldier lost all color.
They went from being flesh-and-blood human beings to fragile sculptures with gray skin, haggard bodies, and broken pieces at the touch of a touch.
The Cairn Binding Spirit laughed evilly and flew away from the phalanx of soldiers.
This scene of killing his companions instantly made the surrounding soldiers even more frightened.
Fortunately, Sergeant Alvin warned loudly in time, which brought the morale of the army back from the brink of collapse.
"Soldiers! Don't let the evil tricks of the Necronomicon sect break your will! Attack, continue to attack! The flames of the Empire will guide our path! And I, Alvin, will fight with you until the last moment!"
Sergeant Alvin blew his horn.
The soldiers calmed down and fired bursts of lightning together with the commander again.
Li Nuo saw this scene of lightning flashing and spirit bindings screaming, and he deeply admired Sergeant Alvin's calmness in the face of danger.
Sergeant Mars' voice suddenly came from the front of the team:
"Attention! There is an enemy attack at three o'clock! Prepare to fight and keep moving! The time Sergeant Alvin gives us is very limited. We must reach the cairn as soon as possible!"
