The bright light of the sword parted the rainy night, lifting up a skeleton with its half-broken torso from bottom to top, flying into the air, spinning a few times and falling into the muddy water.
The lion man was tall, and the double-headed sword in his hand swept left and right, drawing a silver light among the skeletons. Make these undead creatures fall down in pieces.
Several bone arrows whizzed in the darkness, but before they could get closer, a golden light shield lit up around Red, with faint mesh patterns flowing, and the bone arrows bounced away. The Paladin looked around, but saw a vast rain curtain, and countless undead were staggering around.
He stood still, raised the double-headed sword with both hands, chanted the name of the heroic lady Marlan, and thrust it into the ground.
The golden light on the magic furnace behind him flourished, and the etheric magic overflowed from the main crystal, like countless golden light spots converging on his sword blade, and poured into the ground with his movements.
A dazzling network of light centered on the tall lion, spreading in all directions along the cracked ground, and then golden flames broke through the soil and rose into the air, forming pillars of light one after another.
In the sea of light, countless undead souls disappeared into ashes. The glow made Red's fiery red mane dazzling, like a bright flame, and the brass ring on the mane exuded a clear light.
After the holy flame technique cleared a clearing, the figure of the elderly knight who fell on the ground finally appeared. At this time, Aitila ducked from behind Red and came to the other side, grabbed his arm and hugged him.
"Be careful, Elf Lady." Rhett warned from behind her. Attila looked up and saw several tall, swaying figures holding spears appearing behind the bushes not far away.
Skeleton warrior.
Different from those undead that are only two or three levels and appear as a large mass of garbage when they appear, Aitila recognized these elite undead that have been further strengthened by the dark negative energy. Their existence indicates that there may be higher-level undead among these undead creatures. exist.
Such as witch figurines.
The skeleton warrior took a step forward and threw a bone spear at Etila. The bone spear made a sharp whistle and came through the air. It was completely different from the soft attacks of the previous skeletons.
However, the elf girl only took a step back and let the bone spear stab at her feet.
About dozens of meters behind her, the platform on the back of the Gray Mountain Negative Hill Beast opened fire again. The bullets passed over her and the lion-man's heads, pouring into the bushes like light rain. At close range, it can be seen that the hit rate of the fortress-style walker is not high, and only one hit is occasionally achieved.
The hit bullet drew a golden arc on the black light breastplate of the skeleton warrior, and was bounced to the side. The skeleton warrior is a seventh-level undead creature. This level of undead has negative energy armor and Fang Plover's flexible structure. It will be difficult to break the defense.
However, the impact is still taking effect, preventing the opponent from launching an attack. Parker fired the explosive crossbow, and the explosion of fire once again blocked the road between the undead and the two people. Taking this opportunity, Red stepped forward to take the knight from Attila's hand, and then led the elf lady to Back away.
Neither of them intends to pursue the victory, because looking at the undead in the forest is like a vast ocean, endless, it is impossible to defeat them by human power.
Not many people in this world know the reason for the formation of the undead tide. It may be related to the rise and fall of negative energy under the abyss. However, the rioting undead creatures often subside before daylight comes, and after the negative energy dissipates, they return to dust.
But it is not without the undead natural disaster that lasts for many years. Once it breaks out, it can turn thousands of miles into scorched earth. Even the army has to pay a high price to quell such a disaster, so adventurers usually choose to avoid the undead when they encounter them.
After Etila and Red brought back the unconscious tribune chief, Fang Plover ordered the beast of burden platform to retreat. Just as they have no good way to deal with these undead, the same is true for the undead. The equipped beast platform can easily kill several people in and out of the sea of undead.
Fang Yu saw them gradually leaving the main battlefield, and then turned back to ask Chris if there were anyone else missing. But the latter couldn't explain why - everyone in the lumber camp fled at the beginning, and they were just one of them.
In fact, his father stayed in the lumber camp, saying he wanted to live and die with the lumber camp.
"My father is very stubborn. Everyone says he is an old man with no brains. He is probably in El Pachin by now." From Chris's description, everyone knew that this young man was a lumberjack. The owner's son. The young man carefully checked the condition of the Lord Protector - the latter was placed on the Papalar's bed by Red. Although it was one size smaller, the big cat insisted on refusing anyone to share the same nest with him - he That's what they call their balled-up bed.
After discovering that the older knight only fell into a coma due to weakness and excessive blood loss, the young man breathed a sigh of relief. This injury was fatal to ordinary people, but for a tenth-level knight, his self-healing ability was enough to cope with it. . "The Lord Protector participated in the Battle of Byrne, and he died in the wolf disaster the year before last. I'm not sure if there is a chance for him to be resurrected. In fact, I should have stayed to break up the family, but it's a pity that I am too useless. ”
Fang Yu could only comfort him with a few gentle words.
Although Aitaria has advanced magic technology, the wilderness is much more dangerous than on Earth. There are many dangers lurking on the floating continent. The undead tide without warning is just one of them. There are also large predatory creatures - such as rock sharks, mountain behemoths, active black-clad hunters, and beast disasters. With cult believers, some mysterious and unpredictable natural disasters remain. Manpower cannot change them and can only migrate.
Most of the population is concentrated around the safer cities, and thanks to the help of the Adventurer's Guild and the Craftsmen's Guild, various mines and forest farms are garrisoned.
The small villages and towns among the mountains and forests are the boundaries of civilization guarded by the believers of Malan, Roman and Aimea.
Fang Plover used the Clockwork Fairy to reconsider the battlefield and confirmed that the number of undead in the west was smaller. The lumberyard workers who had been rescued earlier should also have fled in that direction. After consulting others, he gave the order to turn the Gray Rock westward.
During this period, they encountered several groups of skeletons, but these low-level undead were simply giving away their experience. Even if a few skeleton warriors broke through, they were no match for everyone.
For the first time, Fang Yu saw Sylvide's maid take action. Siesta used a halberd that could fire hook spears as a weapon. The magic furnace was a professional warrior magic furnace, but it seemed to be a customized version. Fang Yu didn't recognize the model number either.
After a few encounters, Fang Plover felt some toothache.
He found that the Fortress II walker was a very powerful and flexible structure, but there was a reason why combat craftsmen didn't like to use it. Using this thing to fight monsters of two or three levels seems to be a bit outweighing the gains, but at higher levels, its attack power cannot be beaten - a blank skeleton, after deducting the level penalty and team division, is not enough to fall on one person's head. More than ten points of experience.
A special magic bullet cost several lisels. Based on half of the ammunition for each encounter, a battle would cost at least more than a thousand yuan. The experience gained is only a few hundred. Even if the experience is bought, it is not that expensive.
Moreover, the magic gun's crystal charge was very troublesome to reinstall and required special tools. He basically didn't need to install that set of tools on a beast of burden. Fang Pliance didn't think much about it when he was preparing, but when he came down after the shooting, he found that less than half of the ammunition he had prepared was used up.
This is the source of his toothache——
Fortunately, before dawn, the frequency of the appearance of the undead decreased significantly and gradually became sporadic. Fang Lu simply took the Type II Walker back to the utility room. Fighting in the rain caused a lot of wear and tear on the construct. He checked and found that the average wear and tear on the four constructs was more than 10%.
Before dawn, the forest was completely silent.
The Negative Qiu Beast walked through the forest for more than ten minutes without encountering another skeleton, and everyone could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. Tianlan was a little curious and couldn't help but ask others, where did those undead go?
The lion man smoothed his mane and told her seriously: "The undead will bury themselves with soil before dawn. Have you seen this fertile forest, little girl, its dark underground is nourished by numerous bones. .”
The lion-man lit a match, reflecting his somewhat gloomy face. He lit the pipe while protecting the flame, and then threw it away.
A ball of sparks drew an arc and disappeared into the darkness.
"...So, the locals call this forest the land of bones. If you listen carefully, you can even hear the wails of the resentful spirits in the wind."
Tianlan imagined the scene of bones under the land she was standing on, and her hair stood up in fear. She hurried to ask Chris how they dared to live in such a horrible place.
Unexpectedly, Chris told him in confusion that the locals called this place the forest of Cape Doriffin, and Cape Doriffin is the long promontory extending from the short bay to the empty sea. As for what the Land of the Dead is, he said he had never heard of it.
Of course, out of respect for the Lion Man - the young man also said that his family has only lived here for more than ten years, and he does not know the history here before. Maybe Mr. Lion Man knows this place better than him, because Mal Lan's knights are always particularly sensitive to the smell of the undead.
But Tianlan was not a fool. She didn't know that she had been tricked, so she angrily went to the Paladin on the spot to argue. As a result, Rhett said that he was not lying. Although he didn't know why there were so many undead in this place, he used the lion's wisdom - that is, the mysterious voice in the dark to tell him the answer.
Tian Lan was stunned for a while and asked: "Is the mysterious voice in the dark the oracle of Lord Marlan?"
Rhett took a puff of cigarette, then puffed it out from his big nose, letting the thick smoke envelope him. He held the pipe in one hand, pointed to his forehead with his paw in the other hand and shook his head slightly, "No, it's here."
"wisdom?"
"No, it's imagination."
"Go to hell, Mr. Big Cat!" Tianlan screamed angrily and kicked him.
"Hahaha." Parker on the side hugged his belly and burst into laughter. Later, he simply fell to the ground and rolled around. Atila, who was taking care of the wounded, expressionlessly picked up the back of his neck and threw the struggling fat man out.
Others were also kicked out, and Fang Plover himself was implicated. He walked out of the house and took a deep breath. It was the darkest moment before dawn outside, and the silent forest was waiting for the first ray of morning light to arrive.
He stretched out his hand, and the rain almost stopped. He turned around and saw a tall young trainee wearing an oilcloth cloak, leaning on the roof to hammer nails.
When Luo Yu saw a few people, he took out the long iron nail in his mouth and greeted them silently: "Good morning, Mr. Reid, Ed."
"What about me?" The Papalar jumped up and down with his hands raised.
"Hello to you, Parker."
"Haha." The little guy was extremely proud.
"You have to cultivate a little more firmly this time," Tian Lan raised her head and did not forget to teach her earnestly. "At least it won't leak anymore. You know, the rain almost flowed onto my bed yesterday. It drove me crazy."
Luo Yu didn't refute, just nodded.
Fang Yu thought more and asked, "Is the loss big?"
Luo Yu shook his head, grabbed a handful of bone arrows and threw them out from the platform. "Fortunately, it's just a few arrows. Just fill up the gaps. The key is the battle two days ago. When the weather clears, I will find a way to repair the suspension bridge. Also, Mr. Huiyan last night It has been turned too many times at high speed, and I am not sure whether it has affected the load-bearing structure of the bracket and Guy Crystal. I still need to wait for confirmation."
"If there is a problem with the bracket or the load-bearing system, do we have to stop?" This was exactly what Fang Plover was concerned about, and he couldn't help but frown. "If it needs to be repaired, how long will it take?"
"It won't be repaired in a week or two," Luo Yu shook his head: "It's best to have a special workshop and a crane to raise the platform for this kind of work, especially if the bracket is broken, so daily inspections are more important. important."
Fang Yu nodded when he heard this. He walked to the front saddle bridge and checked a mechanical box there. This thing is the core of the platform. The pipe below is close to the back of the beast of burden and connects the two Gay crystal buoyancy generating devices at the front and rear. The box contains The main crystal and the dashboard above show the working status of the entire system.
Inspecting this thing used to be one of Luo Yu's daily tasks, but since he arrived, it naturally fell to him, a professional alchemist. Fang Yu looked at the data on the instrument. Most of them were normal. Only the magic meter had some problems. He let the clockwork fairy go under the platform to check the working status of the magic storage crystal there, but found that it was fine.
It looks like there's something wrong with the dashboard itself.
Obviously, the battle the previous night had more or less affected the platform.
This is because the platform has too much weight and the wooden structure is not reliable. If it were not for the Guy crystal device that can act as a buffer, just the bumps of Mr. Gray Rock's daily walking could make it fall apart. Even so, high-load movements will still have a great impact on the precision instruments above.
If only we had the technology of the Tasians.
Fang Yu had a vague idea in his mind, but it couldn't be put on the schedule yet. Thinking of this, he couldn't help scratching his head, as if he had endless things to deal with since the establishment of this adventure group.
After about a few minutes, the sky in the east finally turned pale, and the first ray of morning light penetrated the forest. At this time, Chris on the lookout saw the workers from the logging camp who had escaped earlier. They seemed to have gathered other refugees. When they met Fang Plover and others again, the number was much larger than before.
When these people saw the tall figure of the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast, they all stopped in unison and paid attention in this direction. Of course the workers still remember what happened last night and know that these people saved them.
Seeing this, Fang Yu simply asked Aitila to stop the beast of burden in advance. The crowd gathered one after another. Chris was the first to jump off, and the workers couldn't help but burst out in surprise when they saw him.
When they heard that the Chief Protector was okay, their exclamations turned into cheers. When Fang Pliance went down, he was treated like a hero. A girl from an unknown family ran up to him and kissed him secretly, which made him blush for a long time and caused a burst of laughter.
He turned around, just in time to see Sylvester smiling at him on the platform——
After this small episode, the somewhat uneasy atmosphere among the crowd dissipated a lot. In fact, since most people still have Xinghui, the attack last night actually did not cause much damage. It just caused many people to complain about it. The lumberyard owner is too stubborn. Of course, that was Chris's dad, and the latter didn't mind either - it's just that after a tiring night, the young man looked a little tired sitting among the crowd.
After Fang Plover checked around the perimeter, he turned back to find him. The former still had some doubts about what happened last night, so he asked Chris privately what happened last night.
Of course he is not Tianlan, so he will not listen to Red's exaggerated descriptions. Scholars of Etalia have long since proven that the undead are not living skeletons and corpses, or souls, as long ago believed.
The undead are just the product of the combination of negative emotions and dark ether - negative energy. Bones, decay and decay are just symptoms of death itself. It is not the other side of a person after death, nor does it leave any memory of his life. The undead do not even have a real physical existence. When the negative energy dissipates, they naturally return to dust.
But the negative energy gathered in this forest was beyond Fang Plover's imagination. Judging from what he saw last night, except for the relatively small number of high-level undead, the others were basically enough to meet the threshold of disaster.
Where do so many negative resentments of the dead come from? As Etila said, there are no ancient battlefields nearby.
After hearing Fang Plover's question, Chris rubbed his eyes and asked with some confusion: "Don't you know, sir? These undead should all come from the abandoned town."
"Abandoned town?" Fang Yu was stunned: "Dollifen?"
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