The bright light of a sword parted the rainy night, lifting a skeleton with its half-broken torso from bottom to top, flying into the air, spinning several 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, causing these undead creatures to fall down in pieces.
Several bone arrows flew in the darkness, but before they could get close, a golden light shield lit up next to Rhett, and a faint mesh flowed, flicking the bone arrows away. The Paladin looked around, but saw a curtain of rain.
, countless undead souls are slowly surrounding them.
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 spell 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.
stand up.
"Be careful, Elf Lady." Red warned from behind her. Attila looked up and saw several tall, staggering 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 tens 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. It can be seen from a close distance.
The hit rate of the fortress-style walker is not high, and only one shot hits occasionally.
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 through the defense.
However, the impact was still taking effect, preventing the other party from attacking. Parker fired the explosive crossbow, and the explosion of fire once again blocked the path between the undead and the two. Taking this opportunity, Red stepped forward to pick him up.
He passed the knight in Etila's hands, and then retreated with the elf lady.
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, which 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’s not that there are undead natural disasters that last for many years. Once they break out, they can turn thousands of miles into scorched earth. Even the army has to pay a high price to quell such disasters, so adventurers usually choose to choose when they encounter the undead.
It's avoidance.
After Etila and Red brought back the unconscious tribune chief, Fang Plover ordered the beast of burden platform to retreat. Just as they had no good way to deal with these undead, the same was true for the undead, carrying armed beasts of burden.
The platform can easily kill 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 lumberyard fled at the beginning, and they were just
It's just one of the batch.
In fact, his father stayed in the logging camp, saying that he wanted to live and die with the logging 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 realized that this young man was a lumberjack.
The young man, the son of the owner of the farm, carefully checked the condition of the chief guardian. The latter was placed on the Papallar's bed by Red. Although it was one size smaller, the big cat insisted on refusing anyone to share the same nest with him.
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 any chance for him to be resurrected. In fact, I should have stayed here to break up the family, but it's a pity that I'm so useless."
Already."
Fang Yu could only comfort him with a few gentle words.
Although Etalria has advanced magic technology, the wilderness is much more dangerous than on Earth. There are many dangers lurking on the floating continent, such as the undead tide that comes without warning, which is just one of them, and there are also large predatory creatures.
For example, rock sharks, mountain behemoths, active hunters in black, animal disasters and cult followers, ruins and some mysterious natural disasters cannot be changed by human power and can only be migrated.
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 followers of Marlan, Roman and Aimea.
Fang Plover used the Clockwork Fairy to re-confirm the battlefield and confirmed that the number of undead in the west was smaller. The lumberyard workers he had rescued earlier should have fled in that direction. After soliciting the opinions of others, he issued the order to let
The limestone turns westward.
During this period, we 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 would not be a match for everyone.
Fang Yu saw Sylvide's maid take action for the first time. 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 Plover didn't recognize the model number either.
After a few encounters, Fang Plover felt some toothache.
He found that the fortress-type walker is a very powerful and flexible structure, but there is a reason why combat craftsmen don't like to use this thing. Using this thing to fight monsters of two or three levels seems to be a bit outweighing the gains, but the higher the level, the better.
The attack power of a skeleton cannot be beaten by a blank slate. After deducting the level penalty and team division, it only costs more than ten points of experience to fall on the head of an individual.
A special magic bullet costs several lisels. Based on half of the ammunition for each encounter, a battle would cost at least more than a thousand yuan. And the experience gained is only a few hundred, even if
You have to buy experience, and it’s not that expensive.
Moreover, it is very troublesome to reinstall the magic gun's crystal charge and requires special tools. With that set of tools, he basically doesn't need to install it on a beast of burden. Fang Plover didn't think so much about it when he was preparing it, but when he finished it, he found that he had prepared it.
Less than half of the ammunition was used.
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 Plover simply took the walker back to the utility room. Fighting in the rain had caused considerable damage to the construct. He checked it.
The average wear degree of the four structures is more than 10%.
Before dawn, the forest was completely silent.
The negative hill beast walked through the forest for more than ten minutes, but no one encountered a skeleton again. Everyone could not help but breathed 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."
Tian Lan imagined the scene of bones under the land she was standing on, and her hair stood up in fear. She hurriedly ran to ask Chris, asking how they dared to live in such a terrifying place.
Unexpectedly, Chris told him in confusion that the locals called this place Doliphon Point Forest. Doriphon Point 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.
Pass.
Of course, out of respect for the Lion Man, the young man also said that his family had lived here for only more than ten years, and he didn't know what the history was here before. Maybe Mr. Lion Man knew this place better than him, because Malan's
Knights always have a particularly keen sense of smell of the undead.
But Tianlan was not a fool. She didn't know that she had been tricked, and angrily went to the Paladin on the spot to argue. As a result, Red said that he was not lying, although he didn't know why there were so many undead in this place, but
He used the lion's wisdom, that is, the mysterious voice in the underworld, to tell him the answer.
Tianlan was stunned for a while and asked: "Is the mysterious voice in the dark the oracle of Lord Marlan?"
Rhett took a puff of the cigarette, then puffed it out from his big nose, letting the dense smoke envelope him. He held the pipe in one hand, pointed to his forehead with his paw with the other 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 laughed so hard that he fell to the ground and rolled around. Aitila, who was taking care of the wounded, picked up the back of his neck expressionlessly and pulled the struggling little boy.
The fat man was thrown 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, lying on the roof hammering nails.
When Luo Yu saw a few people, he took out the long iron nail from his mouth and greeted them in silence: "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 very proud.
"You have to repair it more firmly this time," Tian Lan raised her head and did not forget to teach her earnestly. "At least it can't leak anymore. You know, the rain almost flowed onto my bed yesterday. I was going crazy.
"
Luo Yu didn't refute, just nodded.
Fang Yu thought more and asked: "Is the loss big?"
Luo Yu shook his head. He grabbed a handful of bone arrows and threw them out from the platform. "Fortunately, I just hit a few arrows. Just fill up the gaps. The key is the battle two days ago."
, I will find a way to repair the suspension bridge when the weather clears up. Also, Mr. Huiyan turned too many times at high speed last night. It is not yet sure whether it has affected the load-bearing structure of the bracket and Guy Crystal. I still need to wait for confirmation.
one time."
"If there is a problem with the bracket or the load-bearing system, do we have to stop?" This is what Fang Piao is concerned about, and he can'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 the words. 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 front and rear Guy crystals.
The buoyancy generating device contains the main crystal inside the box, and the dashboard above shows the working status of the entire system.
Checking this thing used to be one of Luo Yu's daily tasks, but since he came, it has naturally fallen to him, a professional alchemist. Fang Yu looked at the data on the instrument. Most of them were normal, except for
There was something wrong with the magic meter. He let the clockwork goblin go under the platform to check the working condition of the magic storage crystal there, but found that it was fine.
It seems that there is something wrong with the dashboard itself.
Obviously, the battle the night before had some impact on 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, the bumps of Mr. Gray Rock’s daily walking alone could make it fall apart. Even so, high-load exercise
It will still have a great impact on the precision instruments above.
It would be great if 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 white, 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, and they seemed to have gathered other workers.
When the refugees 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 saluted in this direction. Of course, the workers still remembered the situation last night and knew that these people saved them.
Seeing this, Fang Yu simply asked Aitila to stop the beast of burden in advance, and 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 Lord 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 secretly kissed him, making him blush.
It lasted for a long time, causing a burst of laughter.
He turned around and saw 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 owner of the lumberyard was too stubborn. Of course, he was Chris's father, and the latter didn't mind. It was just that after a tiring night, the young man looked a little tired sitting among the crowd.
After Fang Yu 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.
Naturally, he is not Tianlan, and will not listen to Red's exaggerated descriptions. Scholars in Etalia have long proven that the undead are not the skeletons and corpses, or souls, that people thought a long time ago.
The undead are just the product of the combination of negative emotions and the negative energy of the dark ether. The bones, decay and withering 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 does not even have the true meaning of death.
Entities exist, and 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 did the negative resentment of so many dead people 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?"