(34) Inside the Mysterious Locks (Lillino Nor, II)
"Not too successful?" Lily touched her nose, "Why?"
"Because the wizards' ideal is to create a living body that is cheap, obedient, neat, and smart enough to complete some complex operations. However, what is really achieved is only 'cheap'. After all, making undead only requires the use of existing living organisms.
It saves the time and cost of artificial cultivation." Yuffie spread his hands, "But an imperfect body cannot withstand complex intelligence, and using the original soul is not only inhumane, but also makes the undead full of resentment towards the wizard——
To put it bluntly, those who are obedient are not smart enough, while those who are smart are not obedient at all. As for neatness...not to mention."
"However, precisely because they are essentially assistants to wizards, the undead usually do not have high intelligence and tend to follow the instructions of a certain leader." The pink girl added, "As for those who lead them, they are higher-level.
Undead... or something else, I'm afraid I can only investigate it myself."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Lily clapped her hands, "Let's go, everyone be careful, don't get discovered by those stupid bones or rotten meat!"
She waved her arms and walked at the front of the team. Eskar returned to her goshawk form, alerting all changes ahead from above. The two witches in the team stopped for a moment every time they passed a section of the road. Yuffie stood in the tree.
Leaving her magic mark on the ground or on the ground, Lin carefully took some plant or soil samples, saying that they would be used for analysis later. Fortunately, Amberley and Lin's footsteps were much faster than Roar, but unfortunately
It did not slow down the progress of the entire team.
After walking for about an hour, the scene that Eskar had seen before gradually came into everyone's eyes. The war in front of them seemed to be coming to an end. Judging from the formations of the two sides, the undead side obviously occupied
gained the upper hand, while the other 'army' retreated somewhat haphazardly. However, the battlefield was littered with corpses from both sides - the victor's losses were also heavy, and they only pursued a symbolic pursuit for a moment before stopping.
He stood down and let the other side's army gradually move away.
The female mercenary swept her eyes across the battlefield. The army of the undead seemed to be mainly composed of zombies and skeletons. In addition to humans, they also had nearly an equal number of beasts and birds. In Lily's opinion, the combat effectiveness of those bison or wildebeest zombies was,
I'm afraid it's much stronger than humans who only know how to wield weapons randomly and move slowly.
In addition, there are several knights in the team wearing shabby armor and riding on skeletal mounts. They seem to have self-awareness and are methodically gathering the military strength after the war and directing them to move the people on the ground.
The minced meat, bones and enemy's corpses were collected into large baskets and then carried in another direction.
"What is that?" The female mercenary poked Yuffie with her elbow.
"Guard of the Undead." Yuffie said with a hint of respect in her voice, "To create this kind of special undead, someone must voluntarily sacrifice their body and soul, and make an eternal oath in order to achieve a certain goal.
.They have the memories and experiences of their lives, but they are always bound by their oaths and cannot gain true freedom." She put a hand on her chest, "The oaths do not differentiate between good and evil, but generally speaking, only the determination to protect something
Only when people understand things can they have such awareness.”
"In other words, they are good people?" Alphonse's eyes flashed.
"I don't know - maybe so." Yuffie replied, "It is obviously impossible for the undead guards to arise spontaneously, so there must be someone who created them. As long as we find that person, maybe the reasons for everything will be understood."
Lily hummed, narrowed her eyes, and turned her gaze to another troop that was evacuating. Their number seemed to be much larger than that of the undead, but their individual combat power was actually lower——
The most numerous unit in the army is a strange creature that is no more than half a man tall. They have wrinkled dark red skin and do not have hands and feet in the usual sense. Instead, they have short and thick limbs that are glued to the body.
They look like half-melted, bloated humanoid figures, or tumbling masses of rotten flesh. Their facial features have long been deformed, leaving only two hollow and sunken eyes, and a mouth that takes up half of their face - always
It was open wide, and it was unclear whether it was a moan or an indistinct grunt.
They waved their sticky limbs and squirmed forward. As they moved forward, dark red viscous liquid continued to drip from their bodies, leaving traces on the ground, which were soon covered by the marks of the same kind behind them.
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"This..." Bell covered his mouth with both hands, "This is simply the most...disgusting guy I have ever seen! And there are such a large group...what the hell is this thing!?"
"Lemur." Yuffie pursed her lips. It was rare for Lily to see her so serious. "In the outer plane... one of the lowest creatures in those worlds that tend to be evil." She turned around and faced her.
My friend said, "Try the summoning spell for alien creatures, Lin."
The blond girl did as she was told. She quickly drew a simple silver magic circle on the ground, and then recited the incantation - the magic circle emitted a faint light, but could not summon anything.
"As expected, it still doesn't work." She shook her head, "It seems you guessed it right."
"Well, the star realm is still impassable. In this case, it is impossible to summon creatures from the outer plane here using known means." Yuffie explained to Lily and others, with no trace of emotion in her tone.
The joy of guessing the truth, "The other party must have mastered a long-term effective channel that can continuously send these creatures here. And it's not just lemures-"
She stretched out her hand and pointed to the enemy's ranks. Lily looked along her fingertips and saw a small creature with dark brown bat wings and disgusting green skin, flying over the enemy's ranks; carrying broken things.
There are rusty spears, creatures whose whole body seems to be covered with blood and skin and bones; and creatures who are covered in dirty animal skins, have eye-catching black sheep heads, hold black halberds, and have muscles all over their bodies.
"Quasai Demon, Babu Demon, and Hill Demon." The pink girl called out their names one by one. "They are all relatively low-level existences. However, unlike lemures, who are the dregs of souls, they are genuine Tana."
The Li tribe, or 'demons' - beings from the bottomless abyss."
"That is to say..." Lily took a breath, "The enemy we have to deal with...is an army of demons?"
"That's right." Yuffie put his hands around his shoulders and said calmly, "Besides, this is just the enemy's forward, there may be more advanced guys behind it - how are you, are you scared?"