A baby dragon has built a nest outside the Novice Village

Chapter 78 Fear
The undead are advancing slowly.

The Death Knight could feel that every time he advanced a certain distance, several tombs would come into the range affected by his characteristics.

Although most of the corpses in these tombs can only become the lowest level of undead, even a farmer with the courage to pick up a pitchfork can kill several of them.

But too many humans have died in the past thousand years.

"Sure enough, now is the age of humans. In the dynasty era, in the same span of time, the number of corpses that could be accumulated was only a quarter of what it is now? No, less than a fifth."

The Death Knight sensed the number of undead that emerged from the ground under his influence.

This number exceeded his most optimistic estimate, and the defenses of the Crusaders now had little impact on his plans.

After all, that line of defense could not prevent the Death Knight's own characteristics from taking effect. Behind the line of defense, many undead had already broken out of the ground.

He did not let these undeads attack the defense line composed of the Crusaders, Shadow Crow Mercenaries and Goblins from behind.

Although from a military perspective, this is the most effective way to achieve victory, the Death Knight is not so eager to win on the battlefield right now.

Lemming has already sent people to sprinkle holy water on all known tombs within the control area. In the future, tombs need to be sprinkled with holy water every three months, which will become part of the new rules and regulations for gravekeepers.

What's more, the Death Knight has gathered more and more troops, and it seems that after a while, they will be able to break through the defenses of the Crusaders with their numbers.

This possibility is too human. From all previous records, the Undead are more accustomed to destroying the enemy directly with numbers, and never use these "little tricks" that only humans would use.

"Perhaps, their purpose is to spread fear and confusion and disrupt our rear?"

Laming and Lannia looked at the map in front of them. For the time being, the influence of the undead was still far away from the core area under their control. Only a few new immigrant settlements closer to the city of Sagat were attacked.

"They deliberately left these survivors behind. What was their purpose?"

Lemming and Lania had read the reports of those attacks. There were survivors in each attack, hiding in haystacks or cellars, and they saw the horrors of the undead attacks.

Under his command, the undead scattered and began to spread fear and chaos behind the defense line.

"Hopefully those teams can delay this time. Allow us to wait for reinforcements."

Lania hesitated for a moment and carefully answered Laming's question.

"The heavily armored undead looked over here. I could feel his gaze. He must have spotted me."

"And the strange thing is that these undead didn't kill everyone after their attack."

The undead just left these survivors behind and left.

The holy water was, of course, reimbursed by the church.

This is the confession of a survivor.

"The goblin caravans we encountered were one of them."

And that goblin caravan was heading towards one of the settlements.

Obviously, the undead will not let these living people go out of temporary mercy. In their hearts that have long stopped beating, the emotion of mercy probably does not exist at all.

The only good thing is that the Death Knight's power is not unlimited. He cannot awaken thousands of undead spirits in an instant.
This gave Laming and the others some time to process the situation.

This is definitely not because these survivors hid well and were able to avoid being discovered by the undead.

But humans have settled in this area long enough that a large number of tombs have been forgotten by history and people.

As for these tombs, they can only be discovered when the dead leave their coffins and reappear on the earth.

He could only hope that the teams he sent out could find enough tombs and sprinkle holy water on them after dealing with the corpses that had been revived under the influence of the Death Knight. Reinhardt's team was one of them.

"worn out."

Ella almost collapsed to the ground, with hundreds of corpses lying around them.

These corpses were fighting with them not long ago, but now they can't stand up.

The power of the holy water is spreading in this tomb. Under the protection of the gods, these dead people will continue to die peacefully.

"How many is this, the eighth or the ninth?"

Reinhardt asked a little tiredly. They had been running around all this time, discovering the newly revived undead, finding the tombs where they were born, and destroying the tombs.

It's the same process every time, except that the strength of the undead in each tomb will be slightly different.

According to the news occasionally brought by messengers, many teams entered tombs that they could not handle.

"That's twelve already."

Krigo spoke, the power of the dragon blood gave him more endurance than Reinhardt and the others. Although he looked exhausted, he at least had the energy to count.

"Rest for half an hour, then go find the next grave. The new immigrants are all terrified."

Reinhardt followed the traces of the undead and encountered many new immigrant settlements that had been attacked.

The attacks of the undead were completely disorganized, and even a dozen skeletons dared to attack a settlement of forty or fifty households.

Apart from killing a few civilians, these attacks had little effect.

But Reinhardt could feel the fear and anxiety in the eyes of the new immigrants.

The attacks appear to have been designed to spread fear and insecurity among the new immigrants.

The Death Knight paused.

The legions he had gathered were enough to attack the current defense line, and within a few days, they would be able to successfully break through it.

But what he has to do now is not such a simple and pure thing.

Even if they controlled the entire city of Sagat, or even the entire Kingdom of Valandi, it would not help the revival of their civilization.

Now is the era of mankind. No matter how fierce their counterattack is, they will eventually be destroyed under the siege of the surrounding human kingdoms and churches.

The changes of the times are unstoppable, and this story will become another footnote of human civilization.

“More power is needed.”

The Death Knight muttered to himself, waiting for more undead to join his legion.

He needed to crush and defeat these enemies in one fell swoop and cross this line of defense. Only in this way could he make the enemy feel terrified.

Then, his undead hordes will move on, destroying everything before them, unleashing a true catastrophe and carving a trail of fear across these human realms.

High Priest Leming guessed correctly that the Death Knight's purpose was indeed to create panic and chaos.

In these panics and chaos, new legends and stories would emerge and gradually spread through word of mouth.

If he succeeds, these horrific legends about the undead will accompany the entire human civilization.

(End of this chapter)