After noticing Rhode's appearance, the first ones to react and respond quickly were the higher-ranked fighting dwarves.
Before entering the underground, the existence of these fighting dwarves is the important guardian of the dwarf village. When the enemy appears, they will be at the forefront of the dwarves.
Rhodes noticed that most of the fighting dwarves in the village have around fifth-level strength, and a few have even reached sixth-level. For dwarves whose growth potential is not high, becoming a sixth-level creature is extremely rare.
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According to the information provided by Fiat, this dwarf village had a certain reputation in the former Eri. It is not impossible for such a rare high-level fighting dwarf to appear.
Compared with other dwarves, the equipment on these high-level dwarves is completely different. The thick armor forged from fine iron tightly covers every inch of the body, making these dwarves look even smaller. If replaced by other dwarves,
If a creature is not of sufficient rank, it may not even be able to move normally after wearing this kind of armor.
In the hands of these high-level dwarves, they hold larger-sized war hammers, which can easily destroy conventional armor defenses and smash the enemy's body.
The existence of these high-level dwarves is exactly what the dwarf village in front of them relies on to dare to move underground when the necromancers launch an invasion. Faced with these well-equipped dwarves who also have anti-magic abilities, the ordinary necromancers in the past will naturally
There is no way to defeat it.
However, the emergence of the artifact has completely changed all of this. All previous tactics will hardly have the desired effect in the face of the artifact. Even if the dwarves are determined to resist the enemy in front of them, and even give up their own lives for it, they will not be able to defeat the enemy.
It is difficult to achieve the desired results.
Facing the dwarves rushing here, Rhodes was not afraid at all. He looked at the enemies in front of him indifferently, but did not take any action. It seemed that he had no intention of resisting at all.
At the same time, bursts of dull footsteps came from behind Rhodes. Along with the footsteps came extremely rich death energy and an aura that made ordinary creatures feel disgusted. A crisis undoubtedly shrouded all the dwarves.
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The sudden change shocked Fiat. He looked towards the back and saw a group of corpse witches of various shapes pouring out from behind the passage. They were not at all like the common humanoid corpse witches he remembered.
They are composed of various animal bones, and even among these corpse witches, there are significant differences in size.
As soon as these corpse witches appeared, they attracted the attention of all creatures. Even the fighting dwarves couldn't help but become cautious after feeling the death energy contained in the corpse witches. The fighting dwarves had never seen such extremely powerful undead creatures before.
Saw it.
The corpse witches who appeared here are naturally inseparable from Rhodes. During the time when Rhodes entered the passage, the corpse witch king who had arrived with Rhodes completed the task of these corpse witches.
Conversion.
The corpse materials used for transformation, in addition to the creatures in the forest, are also mostly animal carcasses left behind by the dwarves in the village after hunting.
These animal carcasses were buried beneath the original site of the village, and the death energy they emitted had already attracted Rhodes' attention. Under Rhodes' instructions, the Corpse Witch King prioritized the transformation of these creature carcasses.
After completing the transformation, through the signal from the Ghost King's cloak, these transformed Corpse Witches walked all the way to Rhodes' location through the passage at the crack, followed by the Corpse Witch King behind them.
Because it was in an underground space, the dwarves did not expect the enemy to discover this place, and the defenses were not fully prepared. Apart from the fighting dwarves in front of them, in Rhode's opinion, there was nothing worth paying attention to among these dwarves. Seeing that the dwarf didn't know how to deal with the Corpse Witch in front of him, Rhodes naturally would not miss this opportunity. At his signal, the Corpse Witch behind him immediately released the Cloud of Death.
The object eroded by the Death Cloud was not the fighting dwarves confronting Rhodes in front of him, but the room where the dwarves lived in the underground space.
The spreading cloud of death can only be described as pervasive. For a time, the cloud of death rapidly penetrated into the room, absorbing the death energy released when the creature died. The cloud of death became more dense and had no tendency to dissipate.
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The door of the room infiltrated by the cloud of death will soon open, but the ones who walk out are not the original dwarves, but a slightly shorter corpse witch.
Compared with the released cloud of death, what really scares the dwarves is the explosive increase in the number of corpse witches. The companions who once lived together have become frightening undead creatures in such a short period of time.
Taking away the lives of other dwarves and turning other dwarves into the form of corpse witches, at this moment, ordinary dwarves can no longer maintain their original sanity.
The surge in corpse witches easily broke through the dwarves' defense line and continued to spread toward the depths of the underground space. It won't be long before all the dwarves here will be turned into mindless corpse witches.
As for the original fighting dwarves, they also tried to charge at Rhodes. Their basic attributes could even ignore the death cloud released by ordinary corpse witches. Unless a large number of corpse witches were released at the same time, the superimposed effect of the death cloud would have an impact on them.
Erosion.
However, the dwarves' resistance to spells was nothing compared to the death cloud released by Rhodes. Rhodes just secretly added his own death cloud to the death cloud released by the Corpse Witch, and those fighting dwarves were
No more movement can be made.
Under Rhodes' order, as death continued to spread deep underground, the ghost dragon above the ground had already risen into the air and was patrolling the area, not letting go of any fish that slipped through the net.
The dwarves left below the ground will undoubtedly be completely swallowed by the cloud of death, and the space above the ground is guarded by ghost dragons. Apart from space spells, Rhodes can't think of any other way for these dwarves to survive.
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Facing Rhodes at this time, these dwarves were completely unable to make any effective resistance and were easily transformed into undead creatures.
Just as Rhodes was counting the number of new corpse witches, Fiat on the side made a certain discovery, so he gestured to Rhodes, and then followed the corpse witches around him and quickly moved towards the depths of the underground.
After noticing Fiat's actions, Rhodes seemed to have noticed something, and had no intention of stopping him. He used the artifact to order the Corpse Witch not to attack the elf lord, and at the same time, not to block any of his actions, and allowed Fiat to move towards the depths of the underground.