The ground began to tremble violently. It was the sound of thousands of horses running wildly, and countless Tukan cavalry swarmed over.
They have thick bodies, black hair, yellow skin, relatively flat faces, short legs, and thick arms like dwarves. They wear different kinds of armor, including leather armor, animal armor, scale armor, chain armor, and There are a small number of people wearing dragon scale full body armor with a very different shape from the craftsmanship of the Faerun continent. Eighty percent of these were plundered from the Far Eastern Empire of the Karata continent.
The only thing they have in common is that they all carry riding bows on their backs and have prairie scimitars on their waists. Before charging forward, the riding bows are already in their hands and bent to the extreme. All they need to do is give an order from the majestic General Tukan at the front. Then thousands of arrows will be fired.
"stop!"
When he was just a stone's throw away from the senior scholar, General Batu Mih clenched his fist, and the entire Tukan Vanguard Army seemed to have been pressed on the pause button and came to an abrupt stop, fully explaining what is meant by orders and prohibitions.
This pioneer general of Tukan is a standard Tukan, but he is half a size larger in all aspects. He is incredibly majestic. The carefully selected prairie horse under his crotch is stronger than ordinary horses. He was much taller, but when compared to him, he turned into a little mule.
Carrying him on his back, he walked out of Tukan's vanguard army with a squeak, and stopped when he was half an arrow away from the old scholar. Just from this distance, it was not difficult to see that he was A strong man who has experienced hundreds of battles.
This distance happens to be outside the attack range of most attack spells.
The old scholar was the first to speak: "Let Yamen Khan come to see me."
His voice was soft and had a unique vibrato, but the will revealed in it was undeniable.
Not only did General Bartumih not get angry, but he respectfully accompanied Xin and asked, "I haven't asked you how to address him yet? So that our Khan can know who is inviting him to talk."
To be able to become the vanguard general of a huge army and command tens of thousands of troops, he possesses not only bravery, but also good wisdom and knows how to assess the situation.
Those monsters can feel that this person is unusual, why can't General Bartumih feel it?
In his eyes, there was no gentle old man in front of him. All he had was a skeleton with skinny bones. The pale skin seemed to have dried and clung to the bones. Not only was the top of his head bald, but there were no eyebrows or eyelashes. , only the chin has short black sideburns, as sparse as an old goat's beard, and the hands have withered into claw-like shapes.
There was a glimmer of light in his eyes, and when he looked into it, he felt a stinging pain like a needle pricking him. There was a huge shadow following him behind him, as if there were countless monsters dormant inside, ready to rush out in the next second.
This is simply a lich, a terrifying existence that can kill hundreds of people with just a few moves.
Never make him angry unless necessary.
General Batumih didn't know whether the other party could destroy the entire Tukan Vanguard Army by himself, but the other party definitely had the ability to pull him out from under the heavy protection of the Vanguard Army and kill him.
"I am Sazastam, the chief mage of the necromancy system in the Kingdom of Seer." The disguised lich replied concisely.
General Bartumih thought so, and his expression became more respectful, "Please wait a moment, chief."
Then he rode back to the main formation.
If the other party had appeared on the battlefield three days ago and reported this name, he would never know who the other party was.
But if he doesn't know it now, it would be remiss of him.
As the general of Tukan's vanguard army, the most important task is not how many cities to attack or how many lands to plunder, but to collect intelligence along the way, test the enemy's strength, and lock down the plunder target for Tukan's main army to achieve a single blow. Deadly effect.
If you just rush forward blindly and bring your main force into a desperate situation, no matter how brilliant your achievements are, you are still guilty, and a hundred heads are not enough to chop off.
General Bartumih has already gained a general understanding of the surrounding situation from the prisoners captured in the past two days, among which Sazastam is the most frequently mentioned name.
The red-robed mage who rules Serre is the chief system. They are divided into eight major departments according to the magic department. Each department is ruled by the most powerful red-robed mage who specializes in this department, named the chief.
That is to say, there are eight chiefs in Serre, who jointly rule Serre, and all major decisions are made by them.
However, these eight major mage lines are also divided into strengths and weaknesses. The first one is naturally the first mage line, and their chief is called the first chief.
Now the necromantic system is the first mage system in Sayre, and the lich named Sazath*tam is the first chief in Sayre.
The only thing that is slightly different is that it was not that the Necromancer system was strong enough in Ser that made Sazas become the first chief of Ser. The department was brought up from Sel and became the first mage department.
He is known as the most powerful red-robed mage in the history of the Red-robed Mage Association, one of the most powerful lichs in Faerun, and a terrifying existence that ranks among the top ten mortals in combat prowess.
I really don't have the qualifications to talk to him, only their Wang Yamen Khan can.
Sazas just stood there quietly, not worried at all that General Batumikh would let his doves go. The tens of thousands of Tukan vanguard elites here were his hostages.
He did not wait long. Soon, a powerful magical teleportation aura came from the Tukan vanguard army, and then the Tukan people burst into shocking cheers, "Great Khan, Great Khan, Great Khan!"
Then there was a rumble of horse hooves, and a group of Tukan heavy cavalry wearing golden dragon scale armor rushed out from the vanguard. A powerful aura came from them. This was a quasi-legendary escort. .
After the nearly 100 golden heavy cavalry formed a formation, the three cavalrymen walked out unhurriedly. Their expression was very similar to that of Sazas when he walked out of the Sasha Pass, exuding the name of confidence. breath.
Even the golden heavy cavalry composed of nearly a hundred legendaries could not cover up the power displayed by the three people and the three cavalry.
Slightly half a horse behind on the left side is General Batumih, the general of Tukan's vanguard army.
The man riding side by side with him was two heads shorter than General Bartumih, but two laps wider, especially his belly, which directly burst his bright red monk's robe, sticking out, with a big head and a bare head. He has no hair, but has a pair of snow-white eyebrows, which are long and thick, making him look kind-hearted and always smiling.
This person exudes a unique force field, which makes people have the urge to bow before him.
Compared with the two people with different shapes after standing up, the one in front of them looks much more ordinary. Whether it is figure or appearance, among the Tukan people, there are a lot of people who dare not say that there is really no one worthy of being noticed. s things.
If you insist on looking for it, it is the aura exuding from his body, which is filled with a fishy and sweet smell. In front of him, all the war horses can't help but lower their heads, and all the monsters are fighting, lest this aura will blow away. When he turned his head, it turned into a sharp long knife and struck him.
This was the aura of killing. In front of him, those executioners whose profession was to behead people, the aura of killing on their bodies was like a drop in the ocean.
There is only one way to obtain this kind of aura, and that is to kill - not necessarily direct killings, but also those indirect killings caused by his death.
This murderous aura was so terrifying. It moved with the movement of the master, overwhelming the sky. The distance between the two sides was still fifty meters. The disguise on Sazas was directly shattered by the impact, revealing the Lich himself and the undead gathering behind him. The army bore the brunt and involuntarily took a few steps back. Several ghosts howled miserably and exploded on the spot, turning into the purest negative energy, which was directly sucked away by the terrifying killing aura.
I have heard of people being scared to death, and the undead being scared to death. This is the first time I have seen it.
Sazas's shimmering eyes shrank extremely and became as big as the tips of needles, which represented his inner shock.
Kill the Son of God.
This Yamen Khan actually possessed fragments of the godhead of Baal, the God of Slaughter, and became a pawn in his resurrection from the mortal world.
It is not a secret that Baal, the King of Slaughter, has left some tricks in the mortal world and wants to make a comeback. If any evil god fails to save two tricks, it is called a god's failure.
It's a bit weird to just leave your last resort on a foreigner.
But when I think about it carefully, I can't help but marvel at the layout of the God of Murder. This is a typical off-site move. Although it may not be hidden from the eyes of the gods of Faerun, mortals will be fooled by it.
The most important thing is that these predatory wilderness peoples are in perfect harmony with the god of killing. Their process of plundering is the process of killing.
The Endless Wilderness is extremely huge. Just their internal unification war can allow Yamen Khan to accumulate an astonishing amount of killing power, not to mention that they can invade the Xianglong Empire of Karatu Continent southward, which is famous for its population. A dense city with a population of millions.
The terrifying killing power now shrouded in Yamen Khan is proof. If millions of people had not died because of him, he would never have reached the point where the fierce flames are now. This is a typical power of using a mortal body to control gods. This You are playing with fire. If you are not careful, you will burn yourself to death.
This time he led the Tukan army to march westward. He was probably forced to do so. The killing power in him was close to the limit that the human body could control. He could either obtain more fragments of the killing godhead and drink poison to quench his thirst to delay the backlash of the killing power. , or find a way to regain the priesthood of killing and become the new god of killing.
Since the killing power is inherited from Baal, he cannot become a god on the Karatu continent and must return to the original place of power, the Faerun continent, because many things belonging to the former killing god Baal are here, including enemy.
Yamen Khan's biggest enemy this time is not the good forces and people, but the god of conspiracy, Cyric.
Before the Year of Troubles, Baal, the God of Murder, Melkor, Lord of the Dead, and Bane, the God of Tyranny, were revered as the Three Gods of Death or the Three Dark Gods. They controlled a series of dark priesthoods in Faerûn (murder, violence, death). , strife, tyranny, etc.).
In the year of turmoil, under the divine will of the god Io, Baal was also forced to return to the continent of Faerûn in the form of an incarnation.
After his killing power was weakened to the point where he could only occupy a mortal body, Baal began an unprecedented carnival of destruction and killing.
When Lord Bane sought to challenge the power of the Patron God Torm, he slew all the assassins in the Realms who were loyal followers of the Lord of Murder, further weakening Baal's divine power.
After Bane, the Lord of Strife, failed in his challenge and was destroyed, Baal formed an alliance with Melkor.
The two searched for the Stone of Destiny and returned it to Io, so that they could break away from the shackles of their mortal bodies and return to their own divine kingdom.
After a hunt across the entire continent of Faerûn, Baal kidnapped Midnight, the current goddess of magic, who was still in mortal form, and seized a tablet of destiny. However, he was immediately attacked by Cyric in the form of Max, the god of thieves. Sword murder.
The winding river not far north of Baldur's Gate is said to have absorbed the remaining essence of the murder god Baal, poisoning the river from Boska Bridge to Troll's Claw Bank.
Followers of Baal believe that fragments of the Murder God's personality were left behind in the dark, fetid waters of the Winding River, just as Melkor's essence survived in the Crown of Horns, and fragments of Bane's personality remained in his manservant Ben. Well, the lich.
Most of the priesthoods of the three gods of death have been absorbed by Cyric, the god of conspiracy. He is the last person who wants Baal, the god of killing, to resurrect from the dead.
However, Cyric's current situation is very embarrassing. Before Yamen Khan officially tried to become a god, he was limited by the divine laws and could not take action against a mortal.
And Yamen Khan did not come alone, there were hundreds of thousands of Tukan troops willing to charge for him.
If he really breaks into the continent of Faerûn, the believers of the God of Conspiracy will definitely be the first to be unlucky and the first to bleed into rivers.
The sacred laws of faith have undergone subtle changes, and secular faith accounts for an increasingly important proportion in the power of the gods. If all the believers of the God of Conspiracy in Faerûn are eradicated, no one will dare to call Cyric anymore. name, then even if he does not die, his divine power will decline greatly.
At that time, it was the moment when Baal came back from the dead in the body of Yamen Khan and regained his glory and priesthood.
No, to be more precise, the greedy Lord of Murder will never be satisfied with his former priesthood. He may even get involved in all the priesthoods that Cyric now has - murder, strife, lies, conspiracy, fraud, illusion, and death. and the dead.
It is even possible to get involved in other clergy, such as war, plunder, and destruction.
Because wherever Tukan's army passes, it will inevitably bring war, plunder, destruction and death.
Even though Sazas, who had been transformed into a lich for many years, had long lost his emotions, he still felt his soul beating uncontrollably. If his guess was correct, this war would no longer be a simple plundering war. It is a continuation of the divine war in the turbulent years.
Only this time, it is no longer a head-to-head confrontation between the incarnations of gods and saints, but a game with mortal creatures as chess pieces, and the prize is to become a new god.
And they, Ser, unfortunately became the first obstacle in front of Tukan's army.
Yamen Khan looked down at the Lich who was filled with the power of death, and said calmly: "Chief Sazaz, I believe you already know why I came. Do you choose to join us? Or are you planning to become my sacrifice? Flag’s first victim?”
Although his words were extremely arrogant, Yamen Khan could not underestimate the lich in front of him at all.
The divine power in his body allows him to see many things that mortals cannot see. The person standing in front of him is not one person, but countless people.
This lich seems to have been perfectly integrated with the entire kingdom behind him. He is just a spokesperson.
If he went to war with him, Yamen Khan wouldn't have much chance of winning, even if he had collected the terrifying divine nature and divine power of killing.
When a mortal has strong enough power, he has the ability to challenge gods (incarnations of gods). Especially those rulers of kingdoms, those rulers who are recognized and respected by the people, can be blessed by the national destiny and the power of national beliefs. They are the most powerful force in the world, and the gods have to be courteous to them.
This reached an extreme in the Xianglong Empire of Karatu Continent. Their king claimed to be the Human Emperor and had absolute secular ruling rights. Even the gods had to step aside. They actually relied on human power to cut off all the people. The connection between gods and mortals forced Kunlun Heavenly Palace to live in seclusion, and Xitian Lingshan was sealed off.
Don't think that without the protection of the gods, the Xianglong Empire will be easy to deal with. If that were the case, why would he lead Tukan's army thousands of miles away to fight in Faerûn? Just break through the Xianglong Great Wall and go all the way south.
It is very common for mortals to control divine power over there.
Those generals who were canonized by the Emperor usually have the ability to bring the power of the army to themselves, which is like the incarnation of a god descending to earth.
Except for himself, no one in Tukan's army can hold it back.
The reason why they were able to successfully raid south was not because of how powerful they were, but because there was something wrong within the Xianglong Empire. Because of the position of the Human Emperor, the two princes fought hard and had no time to pay attention to them.
The other party has now freed up its hands. If it goes south again and attracts the Emperor's personal conquest, it will not be as simple as being defeated. It is not uncommon for the Tukan people in the entire endless wilderness to be driven by them to become horse herders.
If they were driven westward, it would be of a different nature.
The power of death behind Sashas surged crazily, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a shadow skeleton visible to the naked eye. It was as huge as a mountain. Even Sasha Pass was covered, and it seemed that it could swallow the entire Tukan Vanguard Army in one bite. .
The first chief mage of Seer said tit for tat: "If you want to take our Seer sacrificial flag, you must have this ability."
(End of chapter)
