Spring is always short. With a few sudden heavy rains, the weather gradually becomes warmer again.
But compared to the Northland, which is still in the severe cold, this place is obviously more suitable for human habitation. At least the wood spirits like this kind of climate, which is warm, humid and sunny, especially for the growth of plants.
But at this time, the south wind carrying the rotting stench of corpses blew, and dark clouds followed, but the temperature dropped in vain, seeming to imply that the warm summer has not arrived so soon, and at least there is still a fatal late spring cold to survive.
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Because the seeds of the Forest of Dreams are quite similar to oak after they germinate, the new Forest of Dreams that is evolving has a nice name - Oak Town. But for its guardians, the undead have not yet arrived.
, but left them wandering in worry and joy at the same time.
Fortunately, the shadow of war seems to have been expected for a few days, and they have more time to prepare for war. Worryingly, according to practice, the longer the gathering time, the more alarming the number and quality of the opponents.
The earliest expectation was that the undead should have arrived two days ago, but as a result, there has been no trace so far. In the minds of many veterans, they have already made psychological preparations. With such a long preparation time, the opponent may have already arrived.
After gathering the frontline troops of Yuye City, the number of the undead army that is about to attack will be extremely exaggerated.
"It would be better if we stayed for another ten days and a half. It is said that many people in the country of mages are interested in justice points. Perhaps, they will also join us."
But judging from the sudden smoke rising in the distance, the reinforcements that may have arrived have not yet caught up. The ones that should have arrived have arrived. Before the dark clouds covered Oak Town, a Pegasus knight fell first. Before he landed, he
Promote it loudly.
"Coming, coming!"
What's coming? In fact, everyone knew it, but no one panicked.
"Close the city gate!"
"Notify all reconnaissance, the hunting team returns to Oak Town."
"No one notified Mu Ling and the bosses? Hurry and get a messenger."
This is the adventurer, noisy and chaotic, but full of action. After a few minutes, everyone knew that the war was coming, and everyone began to get busy.
In fact, there is no need to conceal the military situation. Experienced warriors can judge the size of the army and the arrival time from the height of the dust. The undead's vanguard knights will arrive in about two hours, and they have been prepared for it.
The soldiers have been mobilized.
A large number of bows and arrows were placed on the city wall, the archers began to adjust their bowstrings, the tree men rose from the ground, and the slings began to calculate the final trajectory.
In less than an hour and a half, the first batch of skeleton cavalry had arrived. The silent skeleton knights carried rotten saddles and lances and circled the city wall, looking for flaws in the defense. If the opponent showed a weakness,
They would naturally become sharp knives in the attack, but in the end, they still retreated.
"Are you late?"
Death Knight Habern finally gave up the plan to attack. Looking at the scene in front of him, he questioned the judgment of the emperors for the first time, whether the Republic underestimated these plant life.
The rhizome of the Babel tree brings the power of the mother body, giving the new "oak seed" the power to mature, while the "original oak" that gradually sprouts gives the oak town new power. When the natural cycle is established,
Although it is still called Oak Town, in most people's eyes, it is already a fortress-level defense.
Let’s not talk about the ever-higher city walls and the patrolling tree people. The most incomprehensible thing is that the outside of the green fortress is already green, and the trees are growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Forest after forest formed on this wasteland, and the former wasteland has turned into grassland and woodland.
This is a miracle created by the overflowing power of nature, and soon, this forest will become the nutrition for the continued growth of "Oak Town". Small natural creations are included in the large natural cycle, building one link after another, and finally
Achieve self-balance. At that time, just by approaching here, there will be countless hostility and eyes watching you.
Discovering that the opponent's defenses were complete, and that a forcible attack on the city by a cavalry regiment dominated by skeleton cavalry would be a useless loss, the undead forward commander chose to retreat without hesitation, waiting for his main force to arrive.
In a temporary mountain headquarters in Oak Town, the leaders of the adventurers were also discussing the current military situation.
In a sense, the Wood Spirit clan strictly adheres to the true nature of NPCs. They obviously lack complete trust in adventurers. In addition, the two have different pursuits of mission strategies. The Wood Spirits hope that Oak Town can grow and do not hesitate to sacrifice.
The adventurers always pursue their own best interests. Naturally, two sets of leadership groups have emerged in Oak Town. But from the current point of view, they still focus on cooperation and do not have many differences.
There are two sets of leaders, one is the alliance of adventurers, and the other is the decision-making level of the wood spirits. In fact, this will probably be the regular cooperation model between the contracted heroes and the local forces in the future. The local forces will always expect themselves to
His subordinates obey orders completely and execute every order to the letter.
From the perspective of the employer, from the perspective of making the best use of everything, it is best for the temporary comrades bought with money to serve as the most dangerous cannon fodder. The direct descendants that they have worked hard to cultivate must be retained, but the adventurers
However, the Alliance must think about the people under their command. They also want to gain large profits without losing a single life.
The two are in different positions, which naturally brings about differences.
Cooperation, communication, appropriate trust, and a vague upper-lower relationship, but not absolute. The two sides always keep a distance and pursue the intersection of various interests under the same goal. It seems to be the best choice at the moment.
This time, the adventurer alliance is composed of more than a dozen senior adventurers. The people who can speak out are either senior leaders of large mercenary groups, or they are respected adventurers themselves, representing the interests of scattered adventurers.
"The total number of undead is probably between 60,000 and 80,000. Judging from the flags, there are about a dozen undead kings, and the leader is David of Esso Reeves..."
Unlike scattered adventurers who only see the skeleton knights in front of them, medium and large mercenary groups have their own investigation methods. Some are early patrols by air cavalry, and some are detection spells by prophecy mages. The main force of the undead army has already
It's clear at a glance.
When the various investigative methods gathered the information, they naturally came up with a relatively reliable summary of the information. However, the camp was still as silent as before, not because the opponent was too powerful, but...
"Isn't it right? This quantity is too small. Is it possible that it is a fraud?"
Yes, it was completely different from what was expected. The number of undead that came was far less than expected. Originally, everyone estimated that all the undead kings of Esso Reeves would be dispatched, and the total force would probably exceed one million. However,
The result was only one tenth.
Double team? Feint attack? Bait? Or simply abandon this place and open the battlefield in another place? Many thoughts are lingering in everyone's mind, because there are too many possibilities, so no one dares to draw conclusions.
Suddenly, a homing pigeon flew into the tent and fell into the hands of Case, who was thinking about it.
"...It appears that our employer has additional sources of intelligence."
That was the intelligence notice given by Mu Ling. It simply meant that due to some reasons, some undead kings refused this call, and some of them had already gathered the undead kings but suddenly left the army, which caused the opponent's combat strength to deviate this time.
Less, so that adventurers can prepare for war with peace of mind.
"For some reason? It seems that the employer does not completely trust us?"
As soon as he finished speaking, some people were obviously dissatisfied. The adventurers fought hard for their employers, but they couldn't get their employers' trust. It's no wonder they were dissatisfied.
A white-haired old man shook his head helplessly. He was the former diocesan bishop of the Earth Mother Sect and is now also a well-known adventurer.
"Oh, to be honest, do we completely trust our companions again? What's more, that incident happened before."
He was obviously talking about the espionage incident a few days ago. Since this incident was revealed, many teams have become more cautious. No one knows if there are such undead spies within their own ranks.
"I've also heard that the wood spirits have specially invited other helpers. It is said that they are the top thirty big names on the goblins' list?"
"List of famous generals? It's impossible. The top thirty are all national treasures of various countries. How can they accept employment? And if there is a famous general, he would have been given the command right long ago. It's not like we don't know the importance."
"...Have you forgotten? Goblins not only rank the famous generals from various countries, but also have a more authoritative list."
"...Natural disaster list!? Top 30 on the natural disaster list? Are you sure you are here to help us, not to kill us all together?"
The scene suddenly calmed down. The meaning of the natural disaster list is "If you accidentally encounter it, don't think about resistance, let alone counterattack, just run for your life." At the bottom of the list are the ancient dragons that crush ordinary people.
Demigod monsters, and those in the top 30 are basically super troublesome thousand-year-old monsters that cannot die no matter what.
"First thirty? Are you willing to be hired? Is it the Plague King or the 'Volcan Tyrant'? No matter which one it is, it's not a good thing!"
The King of Plagues is a classical alchemist who specializes in pharmaceutics. Initially, the object of his research was medicine to cure the plague. However, due to some reasons, the person he originally expected to cure was burned alive as the source of the plague. As a doctor, he was expelled from the Temple.
The church declared heretics and blasphemers and has been hunting them down.
As a result, he really became a heretic. In revenge, he released the mutated virus he carefully cultivated, turning the entire parish where his enemy was located into a hell on earth. Today, the King of Plague is wanted by more than 20 countries.
But he is still at large.
And he is one of the few "mobile natural disasters" who is still active on the mainland and accepts employment from others. Of course, those who hire him are either to cure the plague or to create it. In addition to his deep hatred for the Holy Church, he will take revenge whenever he finds an opportunity.
Besides, he is considered the most harmless among natural disasters.
But he was able to reach the eleventh place in the list of natural disasters because it was said that that guy was incompetent. But once he died and the various mixed viruses stored in his body broke out, the population of the entire continent would be reduced by one-half.
The Holy Church only dared to say that they wanted him, but no one dared to take action.
If the King of Plagues is the King of Plagues, the Volcano Tyrant is a real natural disaster. He is a giant lava fire scorpion that feeds on geothermal heat and has been operating in volcanic areas for a long time. It is said that he has the ability to cause volcanic eruptions at will. In fact,
Indeed, every time he appears there is a volcanic eruption in the background.
The Lava Fire Scorpion itself has no enemies on this continent. It has high intelligence, but it longs for flesh and soul as food, so it accepts war employment. Although it only accepts treasures such as sub-artifacts, the royal families of various countries cannot afford to hire them, but
Business has never been very good, except that it requires a minimum "appearance fee" of 700 sacrifices, and once it appears on the battlefield, both the enemy and us will lose.
After all, the fertile farmland and lakes that were fought over turned into volcanic areas, and important strategic locations turned into lava lakes, which almost resulted in heavy losses.
And it is precisely because of this that there are private covenants between countries, and countries and individuals who hire volcano tyrants will become public enemies. However, there are always people in the world who are desperate and desperate. Although there is not much business, every few decades, it
There is always business coming to your door, and you can have all you can eat at once.
The King of Plagues is ranked in the top twenty because his life is too "important". The Volcano Tyrant, which has caused countless tragedies, is only ranked at twenty-ninth. You can see what the top thirty of the natural disaster list is like.
Now it is said that the Wood Spirit has hired a natural disaster ranked among the top thirty, most of whom are ranked before the Volcano Tyrant, which naturally frightens the adventurers.
"No, we have to ask the wood spirit clearly!"
But when the scene was in chaos, Case received a letter from one of his own members. He already had the news he wanted to inquire about.
"...Sure enough, no one from the 'Kodama Super Cute' team is in the camp anymore?"
But on the undead side, it was also very busy.
In a sense, I have some admiration and sympathy for the undead king named David.
The older you get, the more afraid you are of death. Intelligent undead are not fearless lunatics. When the rising list of missing people appears, many undead lords who want to take over have to think about the future.
"Sorry, I have some personal matters that need to be dealt with urgently. I wish you all good luck in martial arts."
Before the cause of the disappearance is found out, I am afraid that no undead lord is willing to stay in the army. After all, it is not just low-level undead that are missing, there are even legendary and holy undead lords and princes.
But even if Dawei asked the Undead Emperor for help, he got no response. In this case, unless the cause of the disappearance was found out and eradicated, no one would be willing to disappear in such an inexplicable way.
Facing the missing lists one after another, even Dawei himself was confused, but he was also riding a tiger. There was only one chance. If he failed... the emperors would not care about the reasons. If they failed, they would fail. There is no such thing.
The things should have gone to the garbage dump long ago. Dawei himself will lose everything he owns, and even have to bear the wrath of the undead emperors.
And when the news came out that none of the departed people had suffered the fate of missing again, even a fool knew that David was being targeted by something terrible. If he didn't want to take the risk, what would he choose?
The most important thing is that David himself has been unable to come up with policies to stabilize the morale of the military... In fact, let alone him, even in that position, I couldn't find anything wrong with the situation.
The "war" is still gestating, and all detection spells cannot find unborn people, and the "fusion contribution" of the undead is an almost instinctive act of suicide. Perhaps a call is like someone who wants to go for a walk.
The mood automatically stopped. This situation was so weird that it was impossible to prevent it.
If Dawei is willing to disband the army and re-examine the organization, he can naturally solve the problem, but he has no such spare time at all.
As a result, only 50,000 or 60,000 of the original undead army of more than 300,000 people were left, and most of them were direct descendants of Dawei himself, those who had signed a soul contract, and Dawei wanted them to die just for the sake of it.
A road goes to Black's Hardcore's direct line.
But even so, David is still full of confidence, and the melodious sound of the violin can be heard from his residence every day. It seems that this undead man who loves music is still in a good mood, and he still holds small concerts every day, but...
"I feel guilty. I deliberately kept it the same as before, but in fact it revealed my timid nature."
"Indeed, once you're on the battlefield, it's enough to just raise your alertness. Doing so will only make you appear guilty."
Heloise and I were quite free to watch the excitement, but in fact, I still had some doubts.
After all, the undead kings are willing to see Dawei suffer misfortune, but they may not see the expansion of the Kodama clan. The inevitable war can bring back Dawei, and it is impossible for Dawei himself to live a road that is obviously destined to death.
When one's heart goes dark, it seems that he must still have a trump card in his hand to make a comeback. r1152
