The knight in the abyss

Chapter 857 Corpse Demon
'Wait a moment. Lancelot said to everyone through sound transmission, "there is a situation below. '

Although he couldn't answer, Danx, the leader, responded immediately—he lowered his left wing, raised his right wing, and raised his tail feathers so that the forward direction turned to the left, and at the same time, he could conveniently observe the Case.The few companions who were not very proficient in flying skills let out a series of squawking noises, but finally followed up, circling in a radius of about thirty feet on the spot.

'Everyone pay attention to the north, under the crooked tree that was struck by lightning. Lancelot's voice sounded again, "Maybe you still can't see clearly, but there is a team of undead escorting some suspicious trucks."We'll go ahead and if the right opportunity comes along...you guys know what to do. '

The companions agreed by flapping their wings excitedly, except for Danx - who, despite displaying great courage in his work of spreading the faith of Kelemvor, was after all a commoner, uneasy about the possibility of battle , and Lancelot noticed it immediately.

'Danx, you go ahead and inform Soveris of the situation on our side.But remind him not to act rashly, this may be a trap set by the Lich, the purpose is to lure you out. '

The starling, who was a circle smaller than the raven, let out a cry of relief, patted its wings vigorously, and quickly flew away in another direction.The head bird was replaced by Lancelot, and he gradually lowered his altitude to avoid being detected by the enemy in advance, but his spiritual sense was always locked on the movement of the undead team.

After about a quarter of an hour, the target left the range of the Hagwood, and its complete lineup appeared in the sight of the partners: the core force was four undead knights riding skeleton horses, followed by twelve A corpse with a dangerous aura.Lancelow's heart sank slightly, the enemy was not only superior in number, but also superior in strength, they really couldn't deal with them with their current strength.

If you want to make an analogy, the strength of the skeleton knight is roughly equivalent to that of a glabra. If Lancelot's cultivation base is still at the high level of foundation building, he should barely be able to handle four at the same time if he spends a little money, but now he is sure. No, and there are still twelve wights that can't be dealt with - although they look similar to zombies in appearance, wights are intelligent, and this is what makes them extremely dangerous.

This is a world full of magic and divine power. It is not so rare to come back from the dead. Most true gods will give their priests the ability to do this, and some of them (with the acquiescence of the main god) will even openly sell these priests. A service in exchange for funds to keep the church running, or to fund a secret plan of the gods.

But one thing is clear, the dead cannot bring themselves back to life, at least not without prior arrangements.

Then, when a person with strong obsession dies and no one intends to bring him back to life, he has few options—making a deal with the devil is naturally one of the options, but if it is done after death If contacted by a representative of Hell, it will be in an extremely disadvantageous position in the negotiation, and the contract often includes the clause that the soul is transformed into a low-level Baatezu.If pressed further, the devil will describe the transformation process honestly and completely (at Kelemvor's request), noting that it is 'somewhat' uncomfortable and that there is a 'certain' risk of 'causing' some or all of the 'The memory is lost.

In other words, that means the total destruction of the soul's 'original' personality, and for some, especially those with strong desires or vanity, this is an unacceptable price to pay.

Those people then turn to some other evil being, or even the dark side of the multiverse itself, for reprieve, and (in very rare cases) get an answer.They return to the world as undead, while becoming slaves to the being that brought them back to life.Due to retaining the original memory and self-awareness, the corpse monster's fighting skills have not deteriorated in any way compared to when it was alive, and it also knows how to maintain its own weapons and equipment.

In addition, since the spark of life has been completely extinguished, the body of the wight is piercingly cold and engulfing darkness. Their attacks can not only cause frost damage, but also directly absorb the life energy of the enemy.This kind of life absorption is permanent and cannot be restored by conventional healing spells or potions. It can only be eliminated by the fifth ring's advanced restoration spell or similar spell effects, or a long rest of more than eight hours. The premise is of course The victim is able to survive the wight's attack.

Based on the above reasons, one or two corpse monsters may be fine, but once they have an advantage in numbers, they will become extremely dangerous.Among the people who are not afraid of this monster, except for Lancelot, there is only one little Isa.Even if he tried his best to entangle the four skeleton knights, there were still a dozen wights left who couldn't deal with them, so they could only follow the team from afar and figure out where they were going to complete the mission.

But sometimes, as long as you have a little more patience, there will be variables.

The convoy continued to move towards the border of the kingdom along the main road, and Lancelot was almost certain that they were leaving this demiplane (Payton, as the master of the Demon Realm, did have this power, although he himself could not).Just when he was considering whether to launch a surprise attack, find out what was in the carriage and retreat immediately, someone suddenly launched an ambush against the team.

It was a stretch of road in the woods, and some puddle, much deeper than it looked, had sunk the wheels of the wagon in it, bringing the whole procession to a halt.Lancelot realized what was going to happen next almost immediately, but those undead knights didn't know anything, and sternly urged the walking corpse on the tall skeleton horse to push the truck out.

The wagon seemed very heavy, and the wights' first and second attempts failed.The undead knights had no choice but to dismount and help together, but at this moment, an ambush came suddenly.

First, there was a dense rain of arrows, which caught these unsuspecting undead creatures by surprise.Two wights fell down on the spot, and the others hid behind the truck in time after being hit by a few arrows.The arrows continued to fire, but more than a dozen ambushers jumped out from behind the tree trunks and charged towards the truck, led by a half-elf with white hair and holding a shadow halberd. Companion Tania.

'She needs help! Lancelot immediately began to dive, and said to his companions through voice transmission, "Others go to deal with the wights, Brutal, you and I go to deal with those undead knights!" '

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