This is a city wrapped in a forest. It is built on a low mountain and covers an area much wider than Sonderborg. After years of expansion, the city has three layers of walls.
The innermost layer is a castle called the Hill Castle and where the temple is located, the second layer is where the nobles are, and the third layer is where the common people live.
Cuisen Mountain City has a much longer history than Sundburg. It was one of the first cities. It is said that there are rich mineral resources under the low mountains and forests, so it attracted many people to settle here in the early days.
The sun is shining brightly, it is a good weather today.
After more than two days, Li Ziyu finally arrived at the outskirts of Cuisen Mountain City, which is closest to Sundberg. At this time, his undead team further expanded. Not only did he have more undead soldiers, he also summoned four ghost giant elephants and two-headed teleporters.
The giant elephant cavalry made the whole team look more and more exaggerated.
Looking from a distance, you can see a large green forest and a spacious road. At the end of the road is the Cuisen Mountain City built in a low mountain. The city walls are continuous and built according to the terrain. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is a fortress.
A city like that.
"Wow, okay... uh..." Elena looked at Cuisen Mountain City in the distance, her eyes sparkling, and she exclaimed, but she suddenly got stuck in the middle of her words, and her poor vocabulary made it impossible for her to describe what she saw in front of her.
"Spectacular." Torento reminded from the side.
"Yes, it's so spectacular!" Elena glanced at Torento gratefully and cheered.
Li Ziyu just glanced at it casually and didn't feel anything. He had seen too many cities, whether it was another world or a previous life.
Cuisen Mountain City can only be regarded as unique, but it is definitely not spectacular here.
After resting here and replenishing some food, they will be on their way again.
In order to retrieve his Castle of the Undead as soon as possible, Li Ziyu decided not to stop as long as possible, and quickly replenished supplies. He traveled during the day and rested at night to do some activities.
Just as the undead team was marching along the road and approaching the edge of the forest, a dull horn horn suddenly sounded.
beep--
The branches and leaves of the trees swayed, birds flew in fright, and groups of people and horses came out of the forest and stopped in front of the undead team.
The weapons and armor of this team are much better than those of Sundberg's soldiers. They all wear brand-new and shiny plate armor and hold long spears made of whole metal in their hands. There are two to three thousand people.
"Huha!"
Amidst the powerful roars, armors collided with each other, making a rattling noise. The spears were pointed at an angle, with the butts of the spears pressed against the ground, forming a mass of resistance, with spearheads pointed at the undead team.
It's coming for me.
Li Ziyu suddenly realized and asked the undead team to stop.
The undead team stopped not far from each other. The soldiers stared at these distinguished visitors. The terrifying appearance of the undead made them swallow their saliva.
Although they were very impressive just now, it didn't mean that they were truly fearless.
They are also human beings. At best, they are a group of people who are more powerful and better equipped. When faced with strange things like the undead, they really don’t dare to slack off at all. They don’t even know why the other party is here and whether they want to attack.
Cuisen Mountain City.
A noble knight wearing fine armor rode a tall horse, separated the crowd from the back and walked to the front, shouting loudly, "Ahead is Cuisen Mountain City, what are you doing here!"
Li Ziyu brought Torento down from the Giant Elephant Fortress, came to the front of the team, and looked at the noble knight.
Li Ziyu is naturally not suitable for this kind of contact, and he doesn't understand the ways of this world, so Toronto naturally has to take charge.
Torento adjusted his noble robes, strode forward, held his head high, and said, "We are coming from Sonderborg. We are going to the royal capital of Budapest and pass through Cuisen Mountain City for supplies. Please let us go."
From Sonderborg?
The noble knight looked at the tall giant elephant and the undead with terrifying faces, and murmured in his heart that he didn't even understand what these were. They were definitely not human beings anyway.
Yesterday, they received news that a group of monsters were coming towards Cuisen Mountain City, numbering in the thousands.
The city lord of Cuisen Mountain City did not dare to neglect, and summoned the nobles in the city for a meeting to discuss, and finally decided to ambush outside the forest, block it, and see what it was before making a decision.
The noble knight who was sent over thought it was something like a blood-sucking monster, but he didn't expect it to be anything like that. Moreover, the other party did not attack, but stopped. He had to step forward and ask, but it turned out that there were still humans in the other party's team.
That surprised him even more.
After a moment of silence, the noble knight asked loudly, "Do you have the certificate given by Sundberg?"
Torento flicked his broad sleeves, took out a roll of animal skin paper, and strode forward holding the animal skin paper roll. The noble knight raised his hand to tell the soldiers not to attack, and waited for Torento to come forward and hand over the animal skin paper roll.
.
Opening the paper, it was indeed a voucher produced by Sundberg. There was also the imprint of the Lord of Sundberg on the bottom, so there was no problem at all.
"Toronto? Hmm, I remember that there seemed to be a shepherd in Sundburg with this name. Do you have the same name?" the noble knight couldn't help but ask as he looked at the name above.
"If I don't have the same name, I am the former Sundeburg Shepherd Toronto." Toronto said quickly.
"Are you Torento?" The noble knight was obviously very surprised and asked strangely, "Did something happen to Sonderburg? Why did you leave Sonderburg and go to the royal capital?"
"Sundborg was attacked by vampire monsters and living zombies some time ago." Torento thought for a while and said.
"Did Sonderborg fall?" The noble knight's eyes widened, and he instantly thought that Toronto had gone to the royal capital to ask for help. It was not a trivial matter for a city to be captured by monsters.
Cities are not built casually. Every city has a temple. Relying on the power of the temple, they can resist monsters.
Without the temple, the city would be easily breached by hordes of monsters, and it would be difficult for the city walls to withstand monster attacks.
The temple is the centerpiece of a city.
The fall of a city meant that they lost a temple, and it would be difficult to build a new city in the future. Therefore, if the city was in danger, they would try their best to take it back.
"No, no, no, Sonderburg is fine. It didn't fall. We blocked those damn monsters and relied on the great holy corpse." Seeing the noble knight's misunderstanding, Torento quickly explained.
"Since it didn't fall, why did you go to the royal capital? Wait, what did you say you relied on to block the monster, the holy corpse? Did your holy corpse in Sundeburg revive?" The noble knight suddenly reacted as he spoke, shocked.
asked.
"There is no resurrection, but aren't they right in front of you?" Torento turned sideways, motioning the noble knight to look at the undead team behind him, and said matter-of-factly.
"What! You mean, this is... the team of the Holy Corpse?!" The noble knight's eyes almost fell out, and he said in stunned silence.
Torento glared at the noble knight and nodded speechlessly.
The noble knight looked at the undead team with a different look. He was still suspicious, but with respect.
Not to mention whether these strange and terrifying guys are the legendary great holy corpses, but just because they saved Sonderberg and helped Sonderburg defeat the monster, they deserve his respect.
The noble knight recalled the appearance of the legendary holy corpse in his mind, trying to match the imaginary image with the undead in front of him.
It is true that the temple belongs to the undead tribe, but the undead in the temple are not necessarily skeletal undead, but may also be ghosts, dead souls, lichs, zombies, etc., so the image is very different.
After thinking for a long time, the noble knight still did not match the image in his imagination with the image of the undead. The image of the undead was really too different. At least the knight did not know that the holy corpse looked like an elephant.
"Toronto Pastor, you have proven your identity, but I can't let you go. I need to report back to the city lord and ask him to make a decision." The noble knight could not make a decision.
There was no way to confirm whether it was a holy corpse, so he couldn't let the undead team pass. This was an army of thousands of people. If the other party had evil intentions, Cuisen Mountain City might not be able to stop it.
However, the noble knight was not like Jonathan, he decided to report it.
"Well, okay, let's wait here." Torento said understandingly.
He had been a pastor and knew the difficulties of the people below. After all, they were not city lords. They could make decisions on small things, but they had to ask for instructions on big things.
The noble knight turned his horse around, returned to the team, and sent a soldier back to deliver the message. The others were still watching the undead team in front of them with vigilance, not daring to relax at all.
Torento returned to the undead team and explained the situation to Li Ziyu.
"It feels like there's some trouble. Otherwise, let's leave directly." Li Ziyu said a little irritably.
He was anxious to find his Castle of the Undead and didn't want to delay on these matters. It was originally a matter of supply. He only came here because supplies were convenient in the city. Now he had to explain and report. It was too time-consuming.
.
If you don't supply supplies in the city, you'll have to hunt in the wilderness. The undead are familiar with this kind of thing and there is no pressure.
"Master, we are all here, you might as well wait a moment." Torento advised.
"We don't have much time, they'd better hurry up." In view of his good impression of Torento, Li Ziyu was willing to give him this face and turned back to the Fortress of the Giant Elephant.
Cuisen Mountain City Lord's Mansion.
"What? He said they were holy corpses? Thousands of holy corpses?!" The mayor of Cuisen Mountain City was a handsome old man with a goatee. At this time, he stood up from his seat with a surprised face and asked repeatedly.
"Yes, that's what Toronto, the Shepherd of Sonderburg, said." The soldier who came to report nodded honestly.
The Lord of Cuisen Mountain City frowned and thought. He couldn't be sure whether it was true or not, but the knight in front had already experienced the opponent's identity and was indeed from Sonderburg.
But thousands of holy corpses, including skeleton elephants, were completely different from the holy corpses he knew.
As an old man, he knows a lot more than others.
Today's young people no longer believe in the existence of the holy corpse, but the old city lord of Cuisen Mountain City knows that the holy corpse is real.
Without him, the old city lord has seen him.
When he was a child, his family often took him to the temple to pray.
As a child, he was always naughty. When he was praying one time, he sneaked away and got lost in the temple. He accidentally entered a secret space, where he saw the holy corpse.
He couldn't describe the appearance of the holy corpse. If he had to say it, it was a luminous transparent body with a human appearance.
If Li Ziyu were here, he would tell him that they are ghosts or dead souls. There are millions of ghosts in his castle of the dead.
From that time on, whenever his family took him to pray, he would sneak to that secret space to see the Holy Corpse. The Holy Corpse seemed to like him very much and told him many things, including that the Holy Corpse had many forms.
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Later, there was a battle, and the holy corpse fell into a deep sleep after that battle, and the secret space was sealed and he could no longer enter it.
His childhood experience was like a dream. He once told his parents in private, but their parents did not believe him and instead thought he was hallucinating.
But he firmly believed that it was not a dream or an illusion, but a choice. The Holy Corpse chose him, so he later became the city lord.
While the young people looked down upon the so-called holy corpse, the old city lord believed deeply in the holy corpse. He firmly believed that one day the holy corpse would wake up again, and he firmly believed that if there was danger in Cuisen Mountain City, the holy corpse would still stand in to protect it.
them.
Now that thousands of holy corpses have appeared outside the city, the old city lord is a little unsure and confused.
"Lord City Lord, what should we do?" The soldier saw that the City Lord was silent for a long time and asked bravely.
"Ah, I understand, you go out first, no, go back and tell him, I will take people there." The old city lord was interrupted in his memory and said to the soldier.
"Yes." The soldier saluted and left in a hurry.
After the soldiers left, the old city lord immediately summoned the nobles and told them what had happened.
The nobles had different opinions, some sneered, some felt that Toronto was a fake, and some expressed that they were sworn in with the monsters. Only a few old nobles were willing to believe that what was coming was the holy corpse.
"Okay, don't argue. I have already made a decision. Let's go meet them and see if they are real or fake. Only when we see them can we know." The old city lord interrupted the quarrel among the nobles and made a decision directly.
Decide.
"No, Lord City Lord, what if it's a trap?"
"Yes, we have all gone. Once the other party seizes the opportunity, Cuisen Mountain City will be in danger."
"It's better to let the soldiers take action!"
The younger nobles immediately started clamoring. They didn't want to risk seeing any holy corpses.
Let’s not talk about whether it is the holy corpse. Even if it is, what does it have to do with the nobles of Cuisen Mountain City? Can it bring them half a gold coin?
"Shut up!" the old city lord shouted angrily.
Everyone suddenly became quiet and looked at the old city lord in surprise.
"What do you want to do? Do you want to rebel? Do you want to abandon your faith?"
"If those are really the holy corpses, we need to open the door and welcome them in!"
"Don't forget what is protecting us!"
The old city lord said seriously to the nobles present.
This time no one spoke, they did not dare to speak.
Even if they don't care about the so-called holy corpse, they still have to be respectful on the surface. After all, the holy corpse exists in the temple, and the temple is the most important place in the city, and its status is still above the city lord's palace. Every time they fight monsters
, all must be protected by the power of the temple.
You can be dismissive in your heart, but respect on the surface must be maintained.
When the old city lord spoke, the others could only hold their noses and acknowledge it.
As for whether you are afraid of meeting monsters, you can't talk nonsense about this matter. The city lord is not afraid and takes the lead. If they say they are afraid, they will lose face.
So the old city lord led a group of nobles, escorted by private soldiers, to leave Cuisen Mountain City and rushed to the border.
From a distance, the old city lord saw the undead. The giant elephants were really outstanding. Their huge figures were not concealed at all. Anyone who was not blind could see them.
The giant elephant could not match the holy corpse in the heart of the old city lord, but the other undead souls, the dense white bones, and the burning soul fire reminded the old city lord of what the holy corpse told him in the temple when he was a child.
These are indeed holy corpses, a kind of holy corpse called skeletal undead!