Long Live the Call of Heroes

Chapter 284 Haunted Forest
As soon as he saw Mikaela, Li Wei knew that she was in a good mood, and she was indeed worthy of happiness.

She was the supreme commander of the elves in capturing the towns of the Red Cloud Tribe twice in a row. Although gods were involved, no one would ignore her contribution.

It can even be said that her prestige in the eyes of the colony and the god-chosen hero has temporarily surpassed that of the acting lord-Princess Belinda, and the aborigines' rewards for her must be indispensable.

Without too much politeness, after a few words of praise to Li Wei, Mikaela directly took out a black and red cloak, and held it to him with both hands solemnly: "Li Wei, this is the blessing of the gods to you." Please keep the award in a safe place."

Looking at the other party's appearance, Li Wei knew that this cloak must be something special.

As soon as he got it, he understood why the other party had such an attitude, because it was a powerful item in the name of a god!
Skigreet's Dreadcloak (Purple-Epic-Wonderful Item):
Effect 1, immune to fear;
Effect 2, anti-fear barrier (3/3);
Anti-fear enchantment, level 4 magic, improves the ability of all friendly forces within a radius of 5 meters to resist fear.

Effect 3, Fear (3/3);
Fear, level 4 magic, releases energy in a cone-shaped range. If the enemy cannot save it, it will enter a state of fear. The opponent will immediately give up the current action and try to escape from you. The success rate and duration, etc., are based on the level of both parties , magic resistance, intelligence and other comprehensive attributes.

If the opponent successfully saves, 50% of them will still enter the trembling state, and their strength or agility will be randomly reduced by 1-3 points.

Effect 4, magic resistance +5.

(Although the items left by the demigod fearful of the bears and goblins-Schigarrett have been destroyed by powerful forces, the remaining parts still have certain power after being repaired)

After seeing the final system description, Li Wei knew that the fear cloak had probably been broken before, and its power was greatly weakened, so it was his turn.

But even so, he is still satisfied. After all, this is an epic-level wonder, and its attached skills are also very good, especially when facing ogres, vampires and even black dragons, it can play a great role. The effect comes.

The powerhouses of these races almost all have their own fear skills, and the giant dragon even has an enhanced version of the fear technique-Longwei.

This makes it difficult for group fight tactics to be effective against them in most cases, because low-level cannon fodder troops may find it difficult to stand in front of them, let alone fight them.

Originally, he didn't intend to directly participate in the battle with the black dragon, but now that he has this cloak, maybe he can take the most elite subordinates such as Donna and Elegy to join in the fun?
At the same time, he once again lamented the generosity of the gods. Although this cloak may not be important to them, you must know that he has never done anything other than report the possible location of the other party!
Seeing that he was so satisfied, Mikaela also smiled and congratulated him, and at the same time conveyed the expectations of the gods to him. It is nothing more than a good job, and the gods will definitely not treat any meritorious officials badly.

Li Wei naturally nodded again and again, he still believed in this, and the fact that many times had proved to him the generosity of the gods.

After this matter was settled, Mikaela also told him how the colony would deal with the haunted town.

They will demolish most of the useless buildings in the town, reorganize the planning, and then build this place into a small military fortress.

Of course, the elves look down on the barren land nearby, and the haunted town has no special products at all, but since they captured this place, they intend to firmly occupy it.

Since Mikaela still needs to deal with many affairs in the pigherd town, as well as daily communication with Sobek and the crocodile people, it should be no accident that Reiner will be in charge of this place next.

He performed very well in the early stage of the war with the green skins, and later made many military exploits. Now, he can really guard one side.

Li Wei naturally expressed his congratulations. If he does anything around here in the future, it will be easy to have an acquaintance.

Let's talk about the second thing, which is about the haunted forest.

The haunted forest was originally a stronghold of the undead, and the green skins also established a haunted town nearby to suppress them.

Originally, the threat of the undead has gradually disappeared, and a forest has grown on the surface, indicating that the power of the natural system has completely overwhelmed the power of the undead, so the green skins gradually relaxed their vigilance, and even neglected to deal with it. Haunted town defense.

But now the forest has withered, even in the daytime there will be all kinds of ghosts and wolves howling. It is obvious that the undead have regained their strength somehow.

The original green skins were busy fighting with demons, elves, and ratmen, so even if they knew about the abnormality here, they had no time to take care of it for the time being.

Li Wei speculates privately that the reason why the Beast Boiling has gathered so many troops is not only to take over the haunted town by violent means, but also to take advantage of the situation to solve the problem of the haunted forest.

But now that the haunted town has become the territory of the elves, this has naturally become their task.

Similarly, the threat of the demons to the haunted town has become a threat they need to face, so Mikaela will soon need to go north to investigate the specific situation and see how far the demons have developed.

However, she is not particularly worried about this, because the temples of the two goddesses, Moonbow and Lilith, have promoted the purification circle in the colony, and now it can be spread to almost all regular troops.

As long as the purification circle is used to offset the sacrifice ceremony of the demons, although the demons are still quite powerful, they are no longer invincible.

More importantly, as time goes by, they will also welcome one powerful reinforcement after another, and it is not far from the time to completely close the abyss rift!
"Could it be that the undead who were originally lurking in the colony came here to develop?"

After the Battle of Black Castle, the demons were wiped out, and the undead who were dog legs also disappeared. Li Wei had long suspected that they had come here.

Mikaela shook her head: "I'm not sure, but it doesn't make much difference to us."

Li Wei also smiled. Indeed, the undead are almost the enemy of the living. It is always right to kill them when they see them. After all, the number of vampire hunters like Lucia is still too small.

After roughly communicating the existing information, Li Wei decided to leave immediately to avoid long nights and dreams.

Before leaving, he also gave Michaela a mechanical horse and a heroic spirit.

Like Lena, she didn't want to accept it at first, but Li Wei had already had a successful experience, so naturally she would not give the other party a chance to refuse, so Mikaela could only accept it in the end.

Then she reminded Li Wei again, saying that the days before the arrival of the Dragon Prince Imrik and the Archmage Teclis are getting shorter and shorter. If he has any other matters, he had better resolve them as soon as possible a bit.

Li Wei naturally nodded. Although Mikaela didn't say it clearly, he certainly knew that once the two legendary heroes arrived, the first thing they had to do was to close the chasm of the abyss, and the second thing was probably to kill the Underdark. The old black dragon is gone.

If he could return to Maple Leaf Village at the critical time, he might be able to get a chance to participate.

With the current strength of him and his subordinates, it is definitely unrealistic to fight the old black dragon by himself, but the old black dragon is not alone. It has a large number of younger brothers, and someone needs to deal with it, right?
As soon as he left the town, Li Wei saw the Sun Knight staring at some of the ruins of the town in a daze.

Li Wei suddenly laughed a little, and he guessed it, but the aborigines didn't take him to play this time, which hurt his heart severely.

However, judging from the number of his troops, it seems to be a part less than before. Maybe he has encountered some hard nuts?

He simply took the initiative to go over to say hello, and after asking, sure enough, he guessed everything right.

He was indeed sad, and it was true that he had just fought with a strong enemy.

Mikaela sent them to distract the surrounding area, and he didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune, and he bumped into a greenskin led by a shaman hero.

The opponent is proficient in the power of the fire element, and he is relatively restrained by his undead troops. Although he succeeded in defeating the opponent in the end, he also suffered a lot of losses.

Then he received and heard what Illidan said. How could he not understand that he was rejected by the aborigines again?

Once or twice, no matter how enthusiastic he is, the aborigines will not trust him at all, so this time he is completely determined to go to the dark region to develop.

Li Wei comforted the other party casually, and invited him to investigate the haunted forest together. The Sun Knight's troops were not elite, but they were quite large, and it was relatively easy to replenish them. They were still very qualified as cannon fodder.

Naturally, the Sun Knight would not refuse, so they chatted as they moved forward. After walking for less than ten miles, they soon came to a large decaying and corrupt forest.

Even though they had never been here before, they were sure immediately after seeing the appearance of this forest that it must be a haunted forest.

Not to mention anything else, the branches of those trees are all twisted like ghosts, and they are a bit scary to look at, and a large number of branches are entangled, and there is nothing that can be called a road at all.

However, unlike what the previous intelligence had shown, the entire forest was silent at this moment, dead silent, and there was no sound coming out.

But this made Li Wei a little more serious, because ordinary forests don't even have insects and birds singing.

So he ordered the troops to form a formation first, and the cavalry troops went around from both sides to see if there were other entrances, and then summoned some celestial creatures to look over from the sky with the giant eagles.

Li Wei was busy here, and the Sun Knight next to him couldn't help being envious.

Perhaps at the very beginning, due to the weak attributes of mages, the combat effectiveness of mages seemed a bit worrisome, but as the strength continued to improve, the gap between mages and other professions became wider and wider.

Now almost everyone recognizes that priests, warlocks, etc. are the official sons of the game, and professions that can cast spells, such as paladins and druids, are godsons. As for mages, they are the real fathers!

Because the mage was strong in the past, the proportion of newcomers choosing it has risen sharply, far ahead.

It is also because of this that the value of all mage-related equipment, magic, etc. has also risen accordingly. Even if he is a money-capable person, he has not been able to help Li Wei buy any high-value things for a while.

There's no way, it's not that he doesn't want money, it's because many things have prices but no market.

For example, Li Wei's ability to summon celestial creatures, even if he was given three hundred and five hundred gold coins, he probably wouldn't want to share it with others, would he?
Only in the case of monopoly can the benefits be maximized, and no one wants to create a strong competitor for themselves!

Li Wei didn't know that the Sun Knight seemed to be in a daze, but he was actually thinking wildly. He just frowned at the information fed back by his subordinates.

There are no entrances around this haunted forest. Seen from above, the branches of a large number of trees seem to have condensed huge mushroom caps, covering the entire haunted forest.

Even a ray of sunlight may not penetrate, but it is similar to the unique dark sky of the undead, and the giant eagle and the celestial creatures can't see clearly for a while.

Speaking of which, those green skins are really too stupid, the Haunted Forest has become like this, it shows that there are undead people who have been planning some tricks for a long time!

The greenskins couldn't solve it by themselves, and finally left this mess to them. If they want to get in, it seems that they can only forcibly open up a new path.

Not to mention how much time and energy this will consume them, once they are attacked by the undead in the process, it will be difficult for them to respond quickly. After all, there are many incorporeal units such as ghosts among the undead.

Zhou Miyin tried to chop a few more times, and then shook his head at Li Wei vigorously, indicating that this method may not work, because he felt that he was not chopping on wood, but more like chopping on a fired brick wall. , this is definitely not ordinary wood.

Others also tried it twice. Indeed, although these things are not considered arms or buildings, they are surprisingly resistant to beating.

So Li Wei asked Donna and other long-range units to line up on the ground, and then called everyone together to discuss with each other to see if there was any better idea.

In the end, Janet made a seemingly feasible suggestion, that is to find some druids who are good at controlling plants, such as Naer, and maybe they can create a path.

Li Wei thinks it's feasible, but Naer is still staying in Glory of Blood, coming and going, and when she arrives, the sun may have set.

Well, but thinking about it the other way around, the current appearance of the Haunted Forest, will there be druids from the evil camp involved?
At this moment, Sally suddenly said something astonishing: "Master Li Wei, why don't we just use fire magic to burn this forest together with the undead people inside!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone looked sideways, but the Sun Knight laughed loudly: "Li Wei, I like the decisiveness of this beauty!"

Li Wei thought about it carefully and found that this is indeed a good way. Now they can be [-]% sure that there must be undead inside. Since they can't get in, let the other party come out!

However, it is still necessary to determine the details, one is whether they can ignite such a large forest, and the other is that they cannot let the fire spread.

So he ordered again to let his subordinates conduct investigations, and this time he quickly got a satisfactory answer.

Roughly estimated, the entire forest covers an area of ​​ten miles, surrounded by sand or gravel, without any combustible materials, so there is no need to worry about the fire spreading, and it will only burn the undead in the forest.

What else can be considered?Li Wei directly decided to join forces with Sally to cast a spell to burn the forest, and the Sun Knight also ran over to join in the fun, and took out a lot of alchemy products, claiming that they could help the burning.

Li Wei glanced at it, and found that it was a bottle of consumable props-blazing glue, which is more popular among low-level aborigine adventurers and is a special kind of combustion aid.

It is said that this thing can burn for a long time even on the surface of the water. Although the damage is pitifully low when dealing with enemies other than the undead, it is very suitable for this situation.

Sally first released the Fuel Technique many times in succession, and the Sun Knight also threw a circle of blazing glue. Then Li Wei thought about it for a while, and let Sally ignite the fire in succession.

Because if you kill the enemy in this way, you might get quite a lot of experience points, which can help Sally grow faster.

Naturally, Sally wouldn't refuse. Following the fireball technique, flames soared into the sky, covering hundreds of square meters in almost an instant, accompanied by billowing thick smoke, and the sound of wailing that seemed to be nothing.

Now everyone is in high spirits, it's good to have some movement, it proves that they will definitely not come in vain this time!

Because it is a magic flame and strengthened by special props, Sally is still releasing fuel oil spells, and Li Wei is also casting various fire magic, so it didn't take long for the flames to advance hundreds of meters into the forest. Li Wei and the others opened up a path of burning flames.

At this moment, the undead who were hiding inside couldn't bear it any longer, and with a slightly ear-piercing scream, thick gray-black mist spewed out, covering the flames.

Although the mist was burned away from time to time, new mist continued to come in, so after a period of stalemate, because Li Wei and Sally did not continue to cast spells, the large area of ​​flames was finally extinguished.

But Li Wei was not dissatisfied, because he had already seen the enemy he needed to face this time.

I have to say that he was somewhat surprised. In addition to a large number of grave guards and ghosts, there were also some vampires, decaying treants, and standing in the middle of them, someone dressed as a druid, but had no skin. A bloody death elf.

At this moment, she was staring at Li Wei viciously, and the resentment in her eyes seemed to be turned into substance.

"Curse the living, you have disturbed the sleep of the dead!"

Li Wei snorted softly: "The dead should lie in the coffin honestly, instead of trying to form an army of undead!"

After being stunned by Li Wei, the death elf, who was already very angry, couldn't bear it anymore: "Then you all go to die!"

With a wave of her hand, the bones scattered on the ground quickly condensed into several bone beasts with a length of several meters.

Donna frowned immediately when she saw this, because she recognized immediately that the owners of those bones must have been big cats in their lifetime.

Thinking of the dress of the death elf, she couldn't help but have some bad guesses, maybe they were all her animal companions in life, right?

But now she doesn't have the energy to think about it.

Because following the other party's orders, hundreds of ghosts, grave guards, vampires, etc. have rushed out in a swarm, and she is about to enter a fighting state!

Seeing that the opponent took the lead in attacking, Li Wei couldn't help raising his eyebrows. It seems that even if he becomes an undead, the opponent is not particularly stupid. It may not be able to hold on.

However, this is exactly what I want to see. Only in an open area is the most suitable for Donna and the others to play!
As the rain of arrows fell, the number of vampires decreased by dozens in an instant, and Li Wei also added an ice storm in a timely manner to slow down their movement speed.

Vampires should be regarded as the most practical unit among the junior and middle ranks of the undead, because they are basically all-round players, not weak in all aspects, and can fly, so they must be targeted first.

Janet led the druids to deal with the ghosts among the enemies. Even if the soldiers had weapons enchanted with the light system, they were not particularly good at dealing with ghosts, but their lightning magic could basically kill them instantly.

Zhou Miyin naturally led the infantry to the front, and Cindy, Elegy and others also took their positions. Having experienced hundreds of battles, they were already familiar with their respective responsibilities in the team.

But this time the Sun Knight's performance was slightly beyond Li Wei's expectations, mainly because there were many more ogres in his team.

These tall and fat guys, some with sticks, some with double sticks, and some with iron gloves, there are many types, and all of them look like they can fight.

This place is not too far away from the many kingdoms and tribes of the ogre, and the ogre is famous for accepting employment for money and meat. Even if they are with the undead, they don't care too much about the impact on morale. Relatively small, it is reasonable for the Sun Knights to choose to hire them.

Originally, the exit was not wide, and the Sun Knight came to help, so after killing all the vampires and ghosts, a considerable part of the undead who were unable to break through the defense line of the melee troops could only be trapped inside and beaten in vain.

Even if the death elf frequently summoned skeleton soldiers and occasionally transformed a few decayed treants, it still didn't help the matter, and the number of undead races dropped sharply at an extremely fast speed.

The death elf, who dared to speak ill of Li Wei at the beginning, gradually stopped talking, and instead hid far away, as if afraid of attracting their attention.

This made Li Wei feel a little interesting, knowing that he was afraid, and he could still cast spells, which showed that this death elf hadn't been overwhelmed by the desire to kill, and should be able to communicate.

It's just that the power of the undead here is too weak, right?

Not counting the headed death elves, there are not even a few Tier 4 units. Although the number has exceeded a thousand, they are all cannon fodder!

Although the tone was not small, but after the fight, Li Wei found that the death elf was just a fake.

He even began to suspect, is she really the owner of the Haunted Forest?Isn't there a bigger boss behind it?
At this time, the Sun Knight came over: "Li Wei, did you say that you must kill all the undead in this mission?"

Li Wei shook his head. In fact, Mikaela did not have any restrictions on him, but said that if it was convenient for him, he could come and investigate.

The Sun Knight suddenly became a little excited: "Then I will discuss it with you, can I not kill that druid girl first?"

Li Wei raised his eyebrows: "Have you taken a fancy to her? Although her level may not be high, it should not be difficult to recruit normally, but now we are in a state of hostility."

The Sun Knight smiled: "It's okay, I bought a special consumable, you can try to recruit the other party, if it doesn't work, it's not too late for you to kill her."

Saying this, he also showed it to Li Wei.

Diplomatic Token (Special-Consumables): Used for aborigines who are not subordinate to God’s Chosen Heroes. According to the strength, camp, race, popularity, reputation and other factors of both sides, there is a chance to make the other side submit to themselves. The stronger the own side, the stronger the opponent’s strength Weaker, the higher the success rate.

Note 1: If the target is a hero unit, you need to consume 1 hero spirit to recruit successfully.

Note 2, if you give gold coins or other precious items to the target while using the Diplomatic Order, the success rate of recruitment will be increased accordingly.

Good guy, is there such a thing?Isn't this just buying!

Now that the Sun Knights have come up with such things, Li Wei will naturally not lose face. Anyway, the combat effectiveness of these undead is indeed not high, and he can completely control the entire battle situation.

Even if it wasn't for giving his subordinates more opportunities to grow and exercise, if he cast more magic a few times, maybe this battle would have been brought to an end.

After making a decision, Li Wei also slightly adjusted his battle strategy, killing the opponent's troops first, and the death elves wanted to run away when they saw that the situation was not good, but the tiger envoy and other celestial creatures had already surrounded her.

This is the true sense of staring at tigers. Even though the heart has stopped beating, the death elf still can't help but tremble a little. She is not an existence that is good at hand-to-hand combat. If she really fights in this situation, I am afraid it is a The tiger envoy can kill her.

At this time, it was the Sun Knight's turn to play. All the evil spirits, dark blessings, and dark energy of despair were fully activated. These special abilities that were enough to scare ordinary people into the urine were displayed, but the death elves immediately seemed to see their relatives.

In addition, when he waved his hand, it was a diplomatic order, and there were a lot of gold coins. Looking at the surrounding powerful enemies, no matter what the death elf originally had in mind, now she can only accept the gold coins aggrievedly, I have chosen to be a subordinate of the Sun Knight.

The Sun Knight naturally opened her attribute panel at the first time, wanting to see her many abilities. Judging from the corners of his mouth that kept rising, he should be very satisfied with her.

But Levi was concerned with another issue:
Is there really only one undead hero on the other side?Why are these troops so weak?Are there other high-level undead behind it?
Of course, the death elf would not answer Li Wei's question immediately. Although she has now become a subordinate of the Sun Knight, it is undoubtedly true that Li Wei led the troops to kill all her subordinates just now.

But Sun Knight and Li Wei are of one mind, so no matter how unwilling, the death elf can only tell all the information she knows.

There used to be many heroes and thousands of ghost troops in the Haunted Forest, among which there were many powerful units such as Stone Wraiths and Bound Knights.

But they were all taken away a few days ago, saying that this neighborhood is no longer suitable for their undead development, and it is best to go to the human country.

Because for them, the value of the soul of green skins is too low. They were simple-minded in life, and their souls are worthless after death, far less useful than human souls.

"Human souls? Could it be that they followed the road of long teeth to Cathay?"

If that's the case, the other party is purely looking for death. If you encounter some ogre tribe on the way, even a skeleton soldier can grind your bones into powder, and then throw them into the pot to make soup.

The death elf shook his head: "That's not something I can know, because I used to be an elf, I don't take it seriously here."

The undead are not so much an independent race, but more like a special template. Humans, elves, dwarves, etc., all have the possibility to become undead. Naturally, because of the differences in races, it is possible to produce various races. kind of small group.

Now it seems that the death elves in front of them belong to the kind of abandoned ones.

Li Wei nodded. If those undead were not so stupid, then they probably transferred to Maple Leaf Village to the west in a special way.

There is also a human kingdom there, and it is still a loose country composed of multiple city-states. Followers of various evil gods are very active, and even the Old Black Dragon's Snake Cult is having fun there.

It's the way they get there that needs to be considered.

It is basically impossible on the ground. If you go by water, the sea elves, seal spirits, smart dolphins and other kind races have been very active recently, so they should not dare.

So the biggest possibility is to pass through the Underdark Region. It seems that I need to remind many of my subordinates and aboriginal allies to be careful.

I just don't know if these undead are related to Dracula who is trying to apotheosis.

"Okay, the last question, besides the demons, are there any other powerful forces or leaders behind you supporting you?"

"Of course, and there are more than one. We have always maintained friendship with the Silver Blood Army, and our leader, oh no, the former leader, is the legendary necromancer-Herman Gost!"

(End of this chapter)