The extraordinary characteristics of the undead path cannot be integrated with humans. Otherwise, weird flesh and blood or weird organs will grow, and even the brain and spirit will be corrupted, and they will become twisted mutant creatures. Therefore, living humans cannot gain power, memory, and knowledge by absorbing the extraordinary properties of undead creatures.
However, the extraordinary characteristics of gluttons can become the main material of precious sealed objects. The special effects are mainly to control undead creatures, attack black magic or improve the holder's defense and life recovery ability.
Amber picked up the extraordinary characteristics that exuded a strange sense of beauty, tossed it and asked Griffith: "Give it to me, this thing is very useful to witchers."
"No problem," the knight-to-be said, "Is there anything else you want?"
"Yes!" Amber's eyes immediately shone, but after thinking about it, she still suppressed her smile and said, "Let's retreat to the center of the town first. According to this situation, there will inevitably be a fierce battle next."
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Griffith led a rapid retreat to the town center in the lower city. The defenses there are being strengthened and people's hearts are stable. After the undead nest in the direction of the cemetery was destroyed, the overall situation became reassuring.
However, contact with the upper city was completely cut off. The city defense troops closed the bridge over the Raven River and refused to let them in or out. They asked them what happened but there was no answer. They only said that it was a strict order from their superiors.
Griffith sent some carrier pigeons and ravens to make contact, and then returned to the conference room to wait for a reply and sort out the situation.
He was deeply impressed by Ghoul Thonoth's dialogue during the battle. He once thought that this undead creature still had human will and was someone with whom he could communicate and cooperate.
What's the point of what Tonos said to me? Why do you do this? Could it be that after being severely damaged, it briefly awakened the human will and wanted to leave some messages to me as a passerby?
I did want to resurrect Elodie, but I lacked enough intelligence and knowledge to dare to act rashly. It would be much safer if there was the help of an intelligent undead creature. But why did Tonos guess my thoughts so quickly? Did it try it before its death? What exactly does indescribable pain, regret, and despair look like?
It's a pity that the memory of the extraordinary characteristics of the undead must be contaminated by evil existence, and even if it is preserved, it cannot be believed. The answers to these questions may be difficult to come by.
Just as Griffith was thinking about it, Amber, who was taking a nap on the sofa, suddenly jumped up. She looked out the window.
A strange little bird was hitting the glass, trying to fly in.
Griffith came to the window and found that it was a strange familiar made of mud and feathers. A faint magical aura enveloped it, and there was a feeling that it would disintegrate at any time.
The soil familiar fell into Griffith's hand and made a familiar voice:
"Griffith, I'm Ophelia and I need help!
“The overwhelming tide of corpses is rushing towards the upper city, killing thousands of residents in nearby towns and villages, and the atmosphere of terror is getting stronger every moment.
"Lordes asked us and various Beyonder teams to defend the western suburbs block outside the city wall and cover the surviving refugees' escape. But I noticed an extremely terrifying aura hidden in the darkness. The battle will definitely turn into four Beyonders. The aftermath of the earth-shattering battle with that terrifying creature will kill us!
"My reconnaissance also found that the zombie tide was beyond imagination. This idiot Midian Maier insisted on holding on to the barrier and buying time for the refugees. Like everyone else, he refused to listen to me no matter how hard I tried to persuade him.
"After the battle breaks out, it won't take long for our defense line to be penetrated. Griffith, you can go to our left wing, which is not covered by the strange black mud. It should be possible to open a passage, bring some horses over and we will Can get away!
"Please help me and I will give you an offer you can't refuse!"
After conveying the message, the clay bird immediately broke into pieces of clay.
There is no reason to refuse. Griffith looked at Amber, stood up and started packing his equipment.
"I'll go with you!" Miss Huntress Trainee said immediately, "You don't need to bring the militia with you this time, just the two of us will do."
Indeed, militias are of little use in mobile warfare. Griffith nodded gratefully and immediately arranged the next work.
The lower city was already functioning normally under the management of the military committee. Griffith and Amber took a few horses to say goodbye and quickly headed to the outskirts of the upper city.
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They did not go from the city. On the one hand, because the bridge over the river had been closed, forcing their way through would cause unnecessary commotion and conflicts; on the other hand, the roads in the upper city, which were attacked by the zombie wave, were definitely crowded with refugees. Even if they could barely pass, they would be hit by a wave of corpses rushing towards them, putting their actions in trouble.
Therefore, they made a circle from the suburbs, followed the river to the western suburbs, and came to a small highland overlooking the western suburbs.
Although Raven belongs to the Eastern Province geographically and administratively, it is still far away from the war-torn front lines. The western suburbs outside the city wall, which used to be beautiful manors and villas, have now been turned into blackened rubble. Farmland and small towns were covered in endless black mud, and hundreds of corpses and skeletons were scattered on the ground in pieces.
"Is there an earthquake?" Amber, who had just climbed onto the low hill, saw the pebbles and gravel on the ground jumping up and down, and tremors came from a distance.
Bursts of rapid and shrill bugles echoed on Raven's walls and watchtowers, as if they had seen an unusual horror and were trying their best to warn the whole city.
From Griffith's vantage point, a hazy mist shrouded the landscape. In the elusive distance, there are some shadowy outlines shaking. Several huge black towers emerged from the mist, and the rotating green crystals on the top of the towers reflected the ominous light.
After the gray-brown tide like an ant colony or a stream gushes out from the distant buildings and woods, it converges on the flat land and becomes a rolling tide approaching, flooding the farms, streets and residential areas, one after another. Wild waves crashed over.
A whistling sound suddenly sounded overhead.
Griffith raised his head and saw red fireballs and flames streaking across the sky, flying towards the gray-brown tide from behind the city wall. These incendiary bombs all come from the heavy trebuchets deployed in the city. They are heavy equipment specially used to suppress enemy siege weapons. They are clumsier and heavier than those used by Griffith before, but their range and power are also surprisingly powerful.
A single volley of fireballs trailed six long red-yellow trails, leaving thick tracks on the dim sky.
Whenever these fireballs fall to the earth, blazing fire storms rise into the sky, and the houses, bridges, and forests wherever they go are reduced to ruins and ashes in the sky-breaking flames. The violent shock wave swept across crazily, and the air waves and ground roar even spread to Griffith's side.
Raven is one of the important towns in the Eastern Province. It has complete port roads and beautiful towns. It has a large number of Beyonders as reinforcements and two brigades of city defense troops are stationed in the city. However, the situation deteriorated to an extremely serious level in a short period of time, and the officials even used heavy firepower against suburban counties without reservation.
Three unrelated irregular positions have been set up in the streets and alleys near the city wall in the western suburbs. The perimeter of the position is dotted with Luzhai and Muzha, and the main intersections are firmly locked by walls and buildings.
The rolling flames dropped by the incendiary bombs were licking the earth, but they could not stop the endless influx of madness.
The first wave of brown tide slapped on the edge of the barrier position in the western suburbs, making a shrill roar like a stormy wave hitting the shore. At the moment of the impact, there were even pieces of gray-brown water splashing like waves.
Amber was shocked by the scene in front of her and took half a step back. Griffith also stared at this scene with a solemn expression.
Countless living corpses formed this terrifying wave, and the splashing waves were broken heads and limbs.
Most of the zombies were yellowish brown or pale white skeletons, and some were highly decomposed walking corpses. Raven's cemetery has been continuously expanded since the city was founded, and it is unknown how many old friends have been buried there. The endless withered bones and rotten corpses didn't know where they got their strength. They struggled out from under the rotten soil covered with black mud, and rushed towards the city with the swaying and broken wreckage.
There are also many relatively complete living corpses mixed among them, which should be victims of the towns and villages that were swallowed up along the way.
Many corpses with teeth and claws running together gathered together, tearing each other's bodies apart, entangled each other with hair and black threads of unknown origin, and mutated into fat and bloated stitched corpse monsters after a flash of green light.
The suture monsters that moved slowly among countless zombies used terrifying strength to grab the beams and stone pillars picked up along the way, and used them as battering rams to smash against the camp guarding the intersection.
Behind and near the ramparts, some soldiers and a large number of residents were fleeing. They screamed and ran away, occasionally looking back at the undead monster that was getting closer and closer.
Amber observed for a while, then took out a telescope for reconnaissance and shook it: "We are in a higher position and can use this to observe the battle situation. When will we join in?"
"Wait a moment," Griffith took over and carefully observed the battlefield, "In this dense tide of corpses, even extraordinary people cannot resist the siege from all directions. We must try to avoid falling into a siege prematurely.
"Although the number of undead creatures is astonishing, they gather from different locations and move at different speeds. There are only a few roads leading to the city gate from the suburbs that are not wide. If you want to form a continuous To attack the city wall, the attack waves must be assembled and deployed in this countryside.
"The extraordinary ones should rely on the terrain to gradually consume the enemy's power. This has just begun. The position can still be supported, and the extraordinary ones have not taken action yet."
In front of the position closest to Griffith and the others, hundreds of soldiers were stabbing the living corpses trying to climb over the deer village barrier with their spears.
Although there is a sense of security at a distance, after the spear penetrates the body of the zombies, most of the time it only penetrates their long-rotted flesh and bones and often gets stuck in the bones and is difficult to pull out.
The city defense troops who launched the thrust had never fought against such an enemy before, and were at a loss for a moment. They saw that the zombies were about to jump over the deer village and rush upwards.
At this time, a figure wearing armor jumped up on the battlefield. He carried a large rectangular shield with three pointed cones on his shoulders and hit the charging skeleton head-on.
Griffith could feel the shock of the impact from a distance. The two skeletons hit by the shoulder shield were shattered into a pile of broken bones on the spot. The invisible shock wave spread in an arc, and all the living corpses in the arc area at a 90-degree angle in front of the shield were vibrated and ejected.
The defense line that was about to be breached was immediately stabilized, but the zombie tide that had just been repulsed immediately surged up again. Faced with the surging tide of corpses, the shield guard advanced forward without retreating, crushing the head of a ghoul that fell to the ground with one kick.
He pulled back his right foot slightly and stood tall like a rock. He held the heavy shield on his left shoulder horizontally and pulled out a single-edged battle ax with his right hand.
The face of this battle ax is very wide, and a red flame flows on the curved ax blade, and a suffocating heat wave spreads out to all sides.
The shield guard waved the flaming battle ax in his hand and faced the black tide of corpses, as if he was facing a pile of dead wood waiting to be cut down. He held up his shield to block the wave of impact, and then swung his ax at the group of corpses coming in front.
The crescent-like flow of fire and wind pressure swept through the group of corpses. The dozens of living corpses clustered in front were instantly broken, and they were shattered from the waist and chest. The low wall was swept away in an instant.
Extraordinary one!
Griffith realized that such skills and equipment must be the elite Beyonders who were ordered to come to support, and the flaming battle ax in their hands was probably a powerful sealed object.
With this extraordinary person taking action, the defense that had just been loosened immediately stabilized. Soon, dozens of soldiers armed with bows and arrows swarmed onto the fortifications, aiming lit arrows at the monsters below.
Not only this position, but also the two nearby positions were filled with archers from the city defense army, projecting flames at the densely packed living corpses. The remaining city defense soldiers also began to use heavy hammers and axes to fight back against the living corpses.
The shield guard showed no sign of fighting. After repelling the group of corpses here, he retreated and turned around to provide support elsewhere. With his ability to move around, the defenders on the barrier can also kill zombies in an orderly manner or throw kerosene bottles, constantly consuming the power of the zombie tide like a meat grinder.
Relying on the blocking of these barriers, many panicked citizens fled towards Raven's city gate like crazy.
As the perspective moved, Griffith discovered that Beacon's apprentice demon hunters Uros, Dylan, and Pella were also fighting in nearby positions.
In addition to a large number of living corpses, the undead creatures that attacked their position also included ghouls and suture monsters that Griffith had seen before. Of these two types of monsters, ghouls move quickly and fiercely, often hiding among the living corpses and striking out to injure people; suture monsters rely on their strong vitality to resist the arrows and javelins projected by the defenders, and forcefully attack the barriers. of fortifications.
A powerful suture monster held a thick iron chain and swung it wildly in the tide of corpses, throwing it towards the shooter on the wall.
There is also a sickle-like iron hook at the top of this iron chain, which whizzes past at an extremely fast speed and is nailed to the shooter's shoulder. The shooter immediately let out a shrill scream, and the comrades around him rushed to help him escape from the iron hook.
At this time, the Stitch Monster Rot spun its fat body and pulled the chain hard. The unlucky archer was torn off the arrow tower, dragged for more than ten meters between the ground and the fortifications, and finally pulled into the tide of corpses. Dismembered body.
Under the threat of these suture monsters, the archers on the position had to be cautious, and the support below them immediately became weak.
