When the scene in front of him was no longer the boring yellow sand, but a decaying Populus euphratica forest, Roy knew that he had reached the edge of the Death Desert.
Sure enough, not far after crossing the Populus euphratica forest, a touch of green began to appear on the horizon, and towering mountain peaks appeared further ahead. The terrain was different from the desert landscape, which made Roy look very relaxed and happy.
Although they only had night time to travel, Roy and the others still traveled very quickly through the Desert of Death. They covered thousands of kilometers in just over ten days.
The number of undead troops controlled by Cassandra has increased slightly. The reason is that on the way, they found two more tombs of ancient warriors and gathered some skeleton soldiers and ghosts. The number could have been larger, but it was very difficult.
Unfortunately, while traveling at night, some low-level undead accidentally fell into the quicksand and could no longer get out.
What appears in front of Roy and the others now is a huge mountain range with a fairly high altitude. You can see some white snow marks on the top of the mountain in the distance. Vampire Count Giovanni pointed to this mountain range and said to Roy:
"Your Excellency Osiris, after crossing this mountain range, you can enter the territory of Iofur. Earthquakes occur frequently on the territory of Iofre, and there are many active volcanoes. The demons who come to the surface detonate these volcanoes, and
A city was built on the volcano. There were originally some humans and other races living in Iofu, but when the demons came to rule here, the indigenous residents either fled or became demon cultists and joined the demons. So to
Don't be surprised if you see humans on the land of Iofer."
Roy nodded and didn't find it strange. In fact, he had already come into contact with these so-called demon cultists. It can be said that these people who worship demons are often the first way for demons to enter other worlds. If they hadn't tried to summon demons
, it is impossible for demons to discover their world...
"Another thing to note is that we may encounter outposts and fortresses of other races along the way!" Giovanni continued: "Four years ago, during the sudden lunar eclipse, Shergo's demon army came out in full force, almost
The world was destroyed, so after temporarily repelling the demons, all races on the continent were very wary of the demons in the land of Iover. They built strong fortresses on their respective borders close to Iover, firstly for surveillance.
The movements of demons, to guard against the sudden invasion of demons, and secondly, to provide assistance for possible counterattacks in the future..."
"In other words, there are a large number of troops hoarded in these fortresses?" Roy asked.
"Yes!" Giovanni nodded solemnly: "Except for the dark elves in the dungeon and our necromancers from Hellas, the rest of the races have been established in almost all directions on the Iofer border.
The dark elves came to the fortress because they formed an alliance with the demons, and we Helaish because the demons have no interest in us undead!"
Having said this, Giovanni shrugged, his expression... it's really hard to describe.
In fact, the undead have always been disliked by all races in this world. For many races, death is sacred, but the necromancers resurrect the dead to stand up again. This is a kind of blasphemy in their eyes.
The necromancers of Laish Kingdom actually do not want to build fortresses on the border to monitor demons, but the problem is that other races simply do not allow them to do so and have been suppressing and ostracizing them.
This is where Giovanni disagrees with Alandiel's ideas. He is not a fanatical believer of Asha, so he can't figure out why Alandiel clings to the undead if they are so unpopular.
, how to "please" other races by destroying demons? Demons are not interested in the undead, so wouldn't the Kingdom of Hellas just sit back and watch other races fight with demons?
Julie, who had been listening to Giovanni's story, interrupted at this time: "You mean, we may encounter fortresses of other races along the way?"
"It's not possible, but certain!" Giovanni said: "Because each fortress will regularly send out patrols to strictly check every passage to prevent the demons from escaping. The lineup of these patrol teams is very neat, not only there are ground troops,
There are also air troops, so it’s impossible to get past them.”
"If you can't get through it, then just fight it!" Roy said calmly: "Do you think I brought these undead troops just to be a bastard?"
Giovanni was stunned for a moment, not getting the gist of Roy's words, but he still understood, so he nodded, took out a rolled-up map from his waist, opened it, looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "
From the map, if we go all the way in the direction we are going, the first thing we will encounter is the fortress of the Kingdom of Bradaka. If we go a little west, then we will encounter the fortress of the Elf tribe.
Relying on the desert of death, supplies are not easy to come by, so the two fortresses of these two races have always been there to help each other, and there are still trade exchanges between them."
Roy also took a look at the map and found that the two fortress cities on the map were actually separated by hundreds of kilometers. In other words, Roy could completely knock down these fortresses one by one, but since
The two fortresses watch and help each other. Roy guessed that their cities may have set up space portals for each other. Once attacked, troops from the other city can quickly arrive through the portal and then resist the attack together.
Therefore, if you really want to attack the city, you should control the portal in the city as soon as possible.
But the location of the portal definitely needs to be investigated. Roy turned around and looked at the people around him, but found that there was no good candidate. Needless to say, Roy himself was a devil. Once he appeared, he would probably be far away.
They will be discovered and sound the alarm. Julie is a fallen angel, and the black flame wings on her back can be seen at a glance. She cannot pretend to be an angel and sneak in. As for Giovanni, a local native, maybe he can, but...
The nearest fortress is the Kingdom of Bradaka, and the mages are as wary of the undead as they are of the demons.
After thinking about it, Roy raised his hand and turned it over, and saw many big eyes with little devil wings appearing in his hand!
"Go!" Roy waved his hand, and the demon eyes he created immediately flapped their wings and spread out like a swarm of bats, and gradually became invisible during the flight, and then headed in the direction of the fortress.
go.
After releasing the devil's eyes for reconnaissance, Roy waved his hand and said: "Let's go, keep moving forward!"
The next step is to cross mountains and ridges all the way. The undead troops controlled by Cassandra have this advantage. They have no morale at all and they will not be tired. They will not be delayed at all when marching in the mountains.
When they climbed over the top of the mountain and were about to go down, Giovanni saw a large forest appearing at the foot of the mountain below, so he reminded: "Lord Osiris, be careful! There may be many animals and plants in the forest.
It is the spy spread by the elves, and this kind of forest is often the favorite place for those long-eared elf rangers to patrol. I am sure that there are definitely elves in this forest, because those weak mages are very annoying.
Traveling through mountains and rivers, they prefer to let the elf rangers patrol these forests on their behalf. If they are discovered on the way through the forest, the elf rangers will soon pass on the news, and the fortress will be on guard by then, and maybe
They will send troops to attack us first..."
"But we can't avoid it..." Julie looked at the area of the forest below and said, "Unless we take a detour of hundreds of kilometers!"
Indeed, the area of the forest is so large that you can't even see the edge from a distance. Not only can there be sounds of various insects and birds in the forest, but also several large flying creatures can be vaguely seen in the sky above the forest.
It might be a young green dragon, Pegasus, or flamingo, these are common creatures that live in the elves' territory.
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome!" Roy grinned and said, "Once you get out of the desert, you can use some methods!"
After leading the troops all the way down, Roy stopped when he was still one or two kilometers away from the edge of the forest.
Giovanni looked at Roy in confusion, not knowing what he was planning to do, but at this moment, Roy took out Frostmourne, then pierced the tip of the sword into the ground, and half-knelt down holding the hilt.
Come down.
Seeing his posture, Julie immediately understood what he was going to do, so she quickly called to Fat Tiger and Cassandra to ask them to retreat.
Although Giovanni didn't quite understand what was going on, he retreated a little out of vigilance.
Roy half-knelt on the ground, surging magic power poured into Frostmourne, the runes on the sword began to gradually light up, and the skull eye at the sword's jaw gradually emitted a blue light, a powerful force
A cold airflow began to gradually form, with Roy's body as the center of the circle, and continued to spread out.
Where Roy was, a large black frost appeared on the ground, and the covered ground was condensed into a smooth ice surface. However, the ice surface did not spread too far, only within a few hundred meters near Roy.
That's all.
Giovanni, who was watching this scene from a distance, was horrified. He raised his head and looked into the air, because he could feel the cold air radiating from Roy's body being continuously injected into the sky!
After the powerful cold air entered the high altitude, it immediately caused a huge change in the climate above the forest. Affected by the cold air, countless water molecules began to condense, gradually forming large and thick clouds. The coverage area of these clouds was
It is so huge that it almost encompasses the entire forest.
With the help of Frostmourne's magic amplification effect, Roy didn't even need to let the temperature drop too low, it was enough to affect the climate within hundreds of square kilometers, and this climate change was soon affected by the forest.
The animals noticed...
At this moment, there are three patrol teams of Elf Rangers in this forest. Each of their teams is small in number, but they are quick in action. When they were sitting on routine patrol in the forest, they discovered that the forest
The animals among them suddenly panicked, and one by one they either ran away or hid. Even the emotions conveyed by the plants were full of uneasiness.
"What happened?"
The patrols carrying longbows on their backs all looked up with bewildered expressions and saw the dark, low-hanging clouds above.
"It seems... it's going to snow?" an elf ranger said uncertainly.
"Are you kidding? It's snowing!?" Another elf ranger next to him said in disbelief: "It's still summer!"
"But these clouds are like clouds when it snows!" someone replied.
However, as if to confirm their guess, a black, crystal clear snowflake fell from the sky first. An elf ranger subconsciously stretched out his hand and caught the snowflake. Under the influence of the temperature in his hand, this snowflake fell down from the sky.
The snowflake melted quickly and turned into a drop of black dew.
"Damn it! It's really snowing!" Seeing the black snowflakes falling one after another, the Elf Rangers shivered.
This kind of black snowflakes revealed something strange everywhere. When the snowflakes fell, the green plants and grasses withered quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The Elf Rangers also realized that something was wrong, because no matter what they were, they withered.
From every aspect, this is not a normal climate phenomenon!
"We are under attack, flee here immediately!" A ranger captain said decisively: "Go back to the fortress of Bradaka and report the situation here to them!"
However, it was too late at this time. The elves couldn't even tell where the attack came from, let alone who the attacker was. And no matter how agile and fast they moved, they couldn't escape the entire forest in a short time.
range to go.
The black snow fell harder and harder. After only five minutes, a thin layer of snow had gathered on the top of the forest, and the rest fell to the ground through the gaps between the trees, making the forest also full of snow.
Messy dark spots appeared!
The rangers running in the forest kept moving forward in the heavy black snow, but they became less and less energetic as they ran. The black snowflakes on their bodies gradually made their bodies feel itchy and painful.
If you can't help but stretch out your hand and scratch it, you will probably scratch your skin until it is dripping with blood.
Under the influence of the desolation virus, the skin of the Elf Rangers began to ulcerate, they began to vomit non-stop, and were no longer able to run.
"Where is the enemy...?" An Elf Ranger fell down in despair, and before closing his eyes and dying, he shouted these words unwillingly.
…………
More than twenty minutes later, Roy pulled out Frostmourne and stood up, but what was displayed in front of everyone was just a withered forest covered in black ice and snow...
