At this time, the empire was in troubled times, and the Fairy Temple in the imperial capital suffered heavy losses. Two-fifths of the country's troops had been used to suppress the remaining domestic units of the "Blood Chain God Group" and to send troops overseas to pursue the suppression; and high-end personal combat power was due to the withdrawal of
After hearing the news about the appearance of the undead in the northern part of the empire, adventurers and local garrison troops are being united to build a defensive perimeter.
Coupled with the undercurrent in the imperial capital at this time, for this country, it can be said that it is rainy season when the house is leaking.
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In the evening, in the northern part of the Bajas Empire, Cohen——
Korn is a port city. Since the empire's two expansion wars, the empire's coastline has tripled and the number of port cities has increased by three.
Cohen is the administrative center of the territory named after Yayaka's third section. Although she spends most of her time leaving business and administrative affairs to the officials appointed above and her cronies, she rarely comes to live here. This city
The most important role for Yayaka is to eat seafood and maintain her fleet.
However, the undead "challenge" she recently received forced her to live here for a while.
Now she is sitting in the municipal meeting room, squeezing the former mayor Belushi into the seat next to her and listening to a large group of small nobles and officials arguing.
And it was noisy from afternoon until the sun was about to set.
"The identity of the other party has been confirmed. They are the undead descendants of the 'Thirteen Heroes' who were wiped out by the torrent of the divine war in the last 'Battle of Hundreds of Days and Hundreds of Millions'. Maybe they are here to take revenge. Everyone.
What do you think?" Belushi asked many nobles and officials.
"What countermeasures can be taken? Even if the undead descendants of the 'Thirteen Heroes' have turned into monsters that harm mankind, of course - is there any other option besides killing them?"
"Yes, you are obviously a descendant of a hero but you still take out innocent people like us and don't dare to confront our Lord Cohen Fried for revenge. What kind of hero are you?"
"It's just that it's too cheap to arrest her and send her to the temple for salvation!"
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The nobles all roared with "righteous indignation". The reason was naturally that the undead gathered by the other party forced them to abandon their own territory and flee. Naturally, they fled to this military port with strong defense capabilities to seek refuge, and therefore felt that it was temporary.
Once I feel safe, I start to vent my accumulated pressure.
In response, Mayor Belous, who presided over the meeting, felt a little stomachache.
Why do you all feel as if you have won?
He is the person responsible for running the city in the territory of Yayaka Ty Cohen Freed, and his family knows their own business.
If the earl sitting next to him had the confidence to win, he would have rushed out to kill the opponent long ago instead of uniting the adventurers to build a defensive surveillance network, right?
Moreover, the news that came back from the soldiers who had escaped and the Adventurer's Guild also revealed that the other party was not the kind of undead who just followed the instinct of hating the living and caused disasters.
The earliest recorded sightings were of a domain governed by a baron.
That guy turned all the corpses in the cemetery in the territory into undead, and also took away dozens of undead for workers and peasants. The baron sent dozens of soldiers and hired a pair of gold-level adventurers to deal with it. Only the adventurer team
The guerrilla soldier responsible for breaking the news came back.
The baron was forced to flee with his family, and there was no time to notify the civilians to evacuate - although there was also the dark idea of using the "meatballs" of civilians to buy time, I will not hold the blame here, because the other party did not kill civilians at all.
Give yourself more volume.
After that, many other places suffered similar violations.
At this time, the adventurers had established a surveillance network to observe the opponent's movements. The nobles who had fled and gathered in nearby big cities, with the cooperation of the adventurers, figured out their methods of action and sent out more than a dozen people who could deal with the undead.
An army of hundreds of holy, fire, and necromancers, together with a team of fifty orichalcum-level adventurers, set up an ambush at a suitable place.
A 100-meter-long ghost cruiser, the Great White Shark, with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, was also transferred from the military port to assist in the battle.
Then only the guerrillas who were responsible for reporting the news came back, saying in fear that they had all turned into the opposite party. The most crazy thing is that the holy mage who had become an undead could still continue to use holy magic, and some
The warriors became death cavalry and death knights, and the broken bones that were defeated in the battle formed the bone dragon.
Even the ghost battleship Jaws, which was supposed to provide artillery support a thousand meters away, was snatched away. Even if it was just a light cruiser, it was a battleship with firepower that could easily annihilate thousands of skeletons and zombies. It was not sunk or shot down.
But it was taken away!
Isn't it true that you came to Count Korn Fried's territory to seek refuge because you couldn't defeat him?
Then why did the earl ask to continue monitoring the situation instead of taking action? Can't you think of the reason why you idiots?
"Calm down, everyone. Judging from the other party's behavior, as long as she doesn't take the initiative to provoke her, she will not take the initiative to kill. Maybe she should be praised a little for being an undead transformed by the descendants of the 'Thirteen Heroes'? In this case, can you try to recruit An
What? Is the empire’s history of using the undead still short?” Belushi said helplessly.
"Those are the undead from that war, how can they be recruited?"
"If we are recruited, who will be responsible for the territory and family property we lose?"
"Really, why am I so unlucky that my son will have a headache in two months?"
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There seemed to be some negative voices mixed in, but noble officials spoke out in opposition.
"Do you understand? This is not a simple undead riot, but a war equivalent to a war between gods. We are involved in it, and we are very, very, very likely to die. Do you understand the seriousness!" Belus simply shouted, in his heart
I think being so strict should be enough.
"How is that possible? Are you exaggerating? The undead who appeared out of nowhere are indeed very powerful, but how is it possible to defeat the strongest combat force in the empire?"
"Even if you look through historical books and even myths and legends, the True Ancestor of Vampires is the highest-level race. How can monsters with a shorter history be compared to her?"
"Oh, I understand. After all, you are her staff. Do you want to scare us and drive us away to please her alone? The undead seems to be a peerless beauty. Find a reason to give the earl the exclusive right to train...
Ahem...punishment, punishment?"
Belushi secretly thought that even though everyone in the aristocratic circle knew that Count Korn Fried was "that", could he say this in front of her? He also felt tired for these pig teammates, because they all
Is it because it’s not the meritorious people back then but the people who will inherit and enjoy the success decades later?