The attack suffered by the student party while "revisiting their old hometown" was sudden.
Someone has set up a camouflaged psychic barrier here to make the outside look flawless and like an ordinary jungle scene, but this cannot be hidden from the veteran players who have participated in the battle here.
Cheche was the first to notice something was wrong with the terrain, and then everyone spread out to look for clues and broke into the camouflage barrier as a matter of course.
As a result, they were attacked head-on by a rather elite skeleton army.
Different from the weak skeletons wandering in the smuggler's forest that only have decayed bones and holding bone spears and wooden shields, these skeleton soldiers in front of them are all wearing armor and are in neat formation. Although the weapons they use are also decayed, they are decorated with
The vicious aura is accompanied by quite abominable death filth, and if it is poked, it will be infected with the plague poison.
Although these things are also undead, they are completely different from ghouls.
Being attacked on the body of a ghoul will force them to defend and retreat, but skeleton soldiers do not have flesh and blood to get in the way. Even if the body is smashed, they can still continue to attack with their scattered limbs, even if only one head is left.
Use your teeth to bite the living thing in front of you.
Their only drawback is that without the traction of flesh and tendons, the skeletons cannot move very fast, and their single combat power is not as violent as that of the ghouls.
But now this elite skeleton army has made up for this weakness with a neat formation.
There are skeleton shieldmen in the front row to cover the archers in the rear, skeleton cavalry on the flanks running back and forth, and a few skeleton mages commanding from the center to throw out large-scale slowness spells, stinky cloud spells, and fog of war from time to time to interfere with the players' vision and actions.
These guys even throw bone spears and javelins for a covering strike.
They didn't look like mindless wild monsters at all. Instead, they looked like a well-trained army. They completed the encirclement of the student party within a few minutes of engaging in battle.
The damn skeleton mage also summoned a large number of flying crows to block the airspace, so that vampire players would be besieged and forced to land again once they took off.
"Is this the nest of the undead? What the hell is this! Can this place in Transia be more evil? First the ghouls, then the skeletons! What's next?
Lich or Death Knight?"
Kachitonita, who was surrounded in the forest, yelled and got up. He protected his body with a shield and tried to fight back with a musket. However, as soon as he showed his head, he was hit by several bone arrows on the shield. The tinkling sound made him retract his head.
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He cursed.
Several companions beside him also looked helpless.
Their "revisiting the old place" really had no purpose. They just wanted to see the place where they fought before. Who knew they could encounter an ambush of this level here?
"There are at least two hundred skeleton soldiers! And they are all elite."
Niu Niu leaned on his Gnoll Warlord bone shield and looked at the decayed iron spear he had just grabbed. He looked at the pioneering legion military emblem on it and whispered:
"Confirmed, these skeleton troops should be the Plantagenet veterans who died in the hands of the eldest lady that night. What the hell, have they stayed here and never moved?"
"The time is wrong!"
The dump truck next to him was loading bullets into his shotgun and frowned as he said:
"It's only been more than a month since we finished the battle in the Smuggler's Wood. This forest is not a closed environment, and the temperature and humidity are all right. How could the bodies of these soldiers decompose so quickly?
Look at them, they are all turned into white bones, not a single piece of flesh can be seen on their bodies, and their armors and weapons have even been weakly enchanted. This has obviously been 'processed' by others, right? What if they died naturally?
Spirits, they should turn into ghouls!
It's like what happens in the city sewers, that's normal!"
"This proves that the Blood Claw clan and the Jackal Hogg are a guide plot planted by the development team. The purpose is to guide us back to the Smuggler's Wood to discover the changes here, which will lead to subsequent events."
Ah Yu, the "Vampire Ranger" holding two swords, limped over and said with shining eyes:
"I just took the risk of taking off for a reconnaissance. Although I was almost knocked down from the sky by a group of ferocious crows, before I fell, I still saw a small camp where the skeleton soldiers were guarding, and there was fire over there!
This means that there must be someone over there! Maybe he is the mastermind behind this random incident. Damn it, we must be caught and killed when we are in such a mess!
And maybe this time we accidentally encountered a very powerful random event."
"Shua"
While they were discussing, a strong wind blew through the forest, and a huge astral manticore descended from the sky, flapping its wings and raising the wind to disperse the poisonous mist around it.
It made a ferocious attack on a skeleton horseman who was unable to evacuate. It clasped the belt with its claws like an eagle and threw it to the sky. Then it fell hard like a golden eagle throwing a sheep. The skeleton horse that lost its owner then screamed and collapsed on the spot.
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Relying on the support of the manticore, the trapped student party immediately launched a wave of counterattacks to kill the skeleton soldiers gathered around them again. Then they saw the manticore carrying Xiao Fu and the well-lived astral manticore.
It flapped its wings and landed behind the student party's entrenched position.
Mo Youqiong jumped down with a shotgun in hand, and like a soldier who moved quickly, he pulled his good friends over to join him.
"Everyone is outside to support us."
Brother Fu said to these unfortunate people who were besieged:
"Can you still leave? Follow me and rush out. There are too many skeleton soldiers here. There are other skeleton soldiers in the forest rushing to support us. If we don't have the advantage in numbers, we have to move in."
"We had already rushed out if we wanted to break out. Let me tell you that I found something inside."
Ah Yuan told the little rich brother again about the situation he had just investigated. After hearing that the skeleton soldiers were guarding a camp, the little rich brother suddenly raised his eyebrows.
At this moment, the guy next to him suddenly said:
"That must be the control center of this skeleton army! Skeleton soldiers, the lowest level of undead creatures, have no thinking ability. They must be commanded by someone to form such a fierce and powerful cooperation. There must be something in that camp!
If we capture it, we might be able to defeat the skeleton army flooding in the Smuggler's Grove."
"Ah? Is there such a thing?"
As a psionicist, Cheche's eyes widened. He looked up and down and asked:
"Brother, where did you know this?"
"There is an introduction to undead creatures in Madam Trish's Book of Midnight. Unfortunately, I changed my profession and chose a trickster instead of a coffin bearer of the undead type."
Life is going well. He sighed with some regret and said:
"Otherwise, the elite skeletons all over the ground are the best raw materials for undead servants. But I just want to make a suggestion. It is definitely dangerous to charge against these elite skeleton soldiers in this situation. But if we withdraw now, we want to
It will not be so easy to find such an opportunity again.
Now that those guys hiding behind the scenes have been discovered, they will definitely move."
"Then what else is there to say? Just rush, the internet will be disconnected for three days at worst. If any of you guys rush out, remember to pack the equipment of the guy who died and take it away."
Niuniu stood up with his shield in hand.
In fact, he is not afraid of these skeletons at all. His warlord's flail and bone shield set has a [bloodthirsty] and a [life extraction] brutal ritual and attack effect, which are enough for him to transform into a berserker and rush out in desperate situations.
If it weren't for the group of funny guys behind them, Niu Niu would have gone out alone.
After receiving support, he moved the blood wings spread out behind his back and glanced at the gloomy sky in the forest. He said:
"Since we have encountered this random event, if we don't get the key mission props, won't we be laughed at by others? Brother Xiaofu, please make another trip and let the brothers outside rush in to put more pressure on the commander of the Skeleton Army.
, we vampires who can fly go around from behind.
This time we will deal with those misbehaviors properly."
"okay."
Brother Xiaofu didn't mind the extra trip. Anyway, he was flying at high altitude on a manticore. Not to mention the bone arrows of the skeleton soldiers, it was difficult to hit it even with psychic spells.
"Lao Huo, come with me quickly."
You can ride on a manticore and shout to your good friend:
"Your level is too low. It is useless to stay here and it will only drag down the brothers."
"Fart! I'm a trickster, okay? I may not be as good at frontal combat, but I have a lot of skills in saving my life. Don't worry about me anymore."
He was doing well and waved his hand without looking back, signaling the little rich brother not to worry so much.
Then he waved his staff and threw a dark spell on himself. He was not very good at reciting the spell and made several mistakes. However, the effect of the spell was very good, and he quickly integrated with the surrounding shadows, making it difficult for him to be observed and sensed.
arrive.
The student parties also waited patiently and stood firm on the defensive line.
What is quite darkly humorous is that the defensive line they are holding on to is the foxhole and position dug out by Brother Bang when they ambush the transport team. Unexpectedly, this place will be used again.
"We are coming! Get ready to rush!"
After an excruciating ten minutes passed, Xiao Fu's reminder sounded in the private chat channel. The student party members, who had been prepared for a long time, all called for Bleeding Wings. Then they heard bursts of noisy shouts coming from the side.
, as the strong wind brought by the psychic impact blew away the fog of war, the supporters who gathered came over screaming and killing.
At the head are the three girls and the NPCs from the Blood Rat Gang, followed by the young players who are new to the game.
These guys were wearing whiteboard equipment and brandishing retinue weapons. They were all extremely excited as they played in a group for the first time. They just rushed forward without any organization. The sharp-eyed Cuckoo Chicken also saw a group of jackal barbarians mixed in the crowd.
It was a mess without any structure, but the location chosen was quite clever. It was right behind the skeleton army, and rushed into the positions of the archers and skeleton mages, interrupting their blockade of the airspace.
Niuniu, who had the advantage of equipment, was the first to fly out with the peck of the death crow, followed closely by the other student party vampires.
After they flew away, several administrative brothers in the same position were also ready to break out. The full insurance semi-trailer put a shotgun into the hand of his son beside him and gave some instructions to Wu Nijiang,
Then he jumped out of the trench with the four veterans who were protecting him, with the dump truck and shovel following behind him.
Although they are administrative staff, they have also followed Lord Murphy and participated in every hard battle from the establishment of Scarlet Castle to the present. They do not lack combat experience.
Moreover, the total number of guards of these three guys is 12. The veteran protective gear of Yishui makes these NPCs full of combat effectiveness.
Wu Nijiang's legs were shaking while he was holding the shotgun, and he had no idea in his mind. He just rushed forward with his brave father. When he saw the skeleton rushing towards him, he hurriedly fired and changed bullets.
It wasn't until their team and the supporting players reunited that Wu Nijiang discovered that he had been hit by an arrow in his butt. He quickly pulled out the thing while no one was paying attention and threw it aside, pretending that he was unharmed to avoid being hurt.
After people discover it, it becomes their own black history.
Although he had only been in the game for a day, he had listened to other people's "dirty information" a lot when he was a "deep sea mud beast" on the forum.
"Brother, why are your pants red?"
The prodigal son from the border town was carrying a bone knife that he snatched from the skeleton soldier and started to kill with all his might. He suddenly saw that Wu Nijiang's pants were all red and he screamed:
"Your butt hurts?"
"No! This is the enemy's blood, staining my armor red!"
Wu Nijiang replied immediately.
Then he saw the subtle look in the eyes of the prodigal son from the border town and Mr. Ziwei next to him.
Please!
Why don't you make up a decent excuse? We are fighting against skeleton soldiers now! Where does the blood come from?
"Retreat! Retreat!"
Brother Xiaofu’s shouts rang above his head, and he yelled:
"Our mission is completed, the people have been received, and there are many enemies. Don't continue to fight them to the death! Withdraw!"
On the other side, the student party who circled and raided the camp from behind also fought their way out of the encirclement and arrived at the camp where Ah Yu had previously determined the location.
But what is disappointing is that the camp established on a forest highland has been deserted.
There was chaos in the camp.
There were also flying ashes left by the flames burning the letters. It could be seen that the person in charge here left in a hurry and did not have time to take away many things.
Cheche and Electronic Snail rushed up to open the box in the camp, and then grabbed a few bags of coins from it with a smile on their faces. The living being who followed them all the way from the shadows also found one from the unburned letters.
This necromancy codex contains several weapons with good entries in the travel bag at the camp.
But that’s it.
Niu Niu and Ge Bao's expressions were ugly. They thought that the random event they triggered was a complete failure. The feeling of missing something was really uncomfortable, like a punch on cotton.
"The skeleton army is still surrounding me, which means the controller hasn't gone far!"
It was quite nice to be able to look out at the shadowy battlefield in the woods from this high place. He turned back and reminded the student party:
"If I chase him now, I might be able to catch him. Can't you vampires track life? Feel it quickly, and you might be able to catch that guy's tail."
"It doesn't work, I just tried it."
Meow Shark shook his head and said:
"There is no breath of life worth tracking here, and the person in charge is probably not a living person."
"Let's go, retreat."
Pigeon Bao stamped his feet very unconvinced and said:
"Withdraw first and then analyze slowly. Take away everything that can be taken here and see if you can piece together some clues. It was just an accident that it escaped this time! Our beast group will stay here from now on.
Increase the Bloodclaw Gnoll's reputation and continue to search, I don't believe that I can't catch this guy who is pretending to be a ghost!"
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"How difficult it is to deal with! These damn vampires are completely different from the legendary blood vultures. How dare they rush over with ten times the number difference? This is really the courage that those group of vampire rats wandering around at midnight can possess.
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Pooh!
In addition to the blood alliance, do vampires deserve to be associated with the word 'courage'?"
At the edge of the Smuggler's Wood, a mysterious guy covered in a black hood cursed in a low voice. He rode a luxuriously decorated skeleton horse through the forest, heading towards the filthy swamp.
This guy took out a strange-shaped white bone scepter from his arms and said to himself:
"If the Scepter of Command is snatched away by them, you may be able to skin me. Ah, I will be back in the damn swamp again. I hate the rotten smell there that has not seen the light of day."
"Well said! I also hate swamps. The mud there will always find ways to stain my favorite boots. If I could, I would never want to step into a swamp in my life, but unfortunately, fate has not You won’t act according to our wishes.”
A voice came from behind, saying something as if in agreement, and then asked with interest:
"But you are already dead, do you still have this kind of sensory trouble?"
"!!!"
The guy on the skeleton horse was shocked.
But before it could make the next move, scarlet psychic threads gathered from all directions like a tight fishing net, dragging its entire body from the skeleton horse into the air, and was pulled away under unshakable control. The limbs are hanging like on a cross.
The command scepter on his waist fell to the ground and was grabbed by Murphy who jumped out of the silent shadow cloak.
This thing is cold to the bone as soon as you hold it, and the penetrating chill even penetrates into your soul.
Murphy is suspended in the air a few inches above the ground.
He raised his head and looked at the guy in front of him who was caught by him and Tris. The vampire lord casually handed the command staff to Tris, who walked out of the shadows beside him, and looked at the guy in front of him who was very rare in Transia. The "Corpse Witch" asked:
"So, you come from the Filthy Swamp? From what you just said, there are many of your companions in this swamp? Can you tell me what you are planning to do in my territory? And what is your relationship with the 'Source'? ?”
