Heart of the Castle

Chapter 220 The Frozen Tower
Li Wei and Wilpus held their swords horizontally in front of them, and walked towards the group of black shadows cautiously.The setting sun has mostly sunk into the horizon, but the afterglow is still very bright, and white snow has appeared near the ruins of the high tower, setting off the outline of the group of black shadows more clearly.

"Master Levi, be careful, it looks like a group of armed soldiers." Wilps said softly, then he looked forward and added, "...or zombies."

Those black shadows really didn't look like living people. Ever since Li Wei saw them, they had stood motionless in place, and even the slightest posture hadn't changed.After Li Wei and Wilps realized this, they clenched the long sword in their hands more tightly, and their hearts beat faster.

"Who are you!" Li Wei suddenly raised his voice and shouted loudly, hitting the surrounding mountain walls, making a buzzing echo.Even the deaf people should be able to hear the group of black shadows, but they still stood there motionless.

Wilps went up to take a look, his expression was dull for a moment, then he turned around stiffly, and said hoarsely: "Master Li Wei, there is no danger, these are people who died of freezing...

"There are so many." Li Wei also felt a chill in his heart. He gestured to the back for peace, and then walked over to carefully look at these unfortunate dead.

It can be seen that these people are not civilians, but well-trained and well-equipped elite soldiers.They wore thick leather armor painted black, half-covered iron helmets on their heads, long swords or battle axes hanging from their waists, and wooden shields covered with iron sheets were tied to their left arms. The badge of the mountain fortress on the surface is particularly eye-catching.

"Benevolent Father God, please have mercy..." Seeing this miserable scene, Priest Faron who had just come from behind yelled in a sad voice, then closed his eyes and prayed, and the Storm Priests followed Their chiefs prayed together, muffled prayers echoing all around.

"This badge is the logo of our North Aola Guard." Captain Els explained with a very ugly expression, and then he approached the dead, carefully identifying their faces.Those frozen black faces looked somewhat similar, with messy beards and expressions distorted by struggle.

Li Wei followed Captain Els and looked over. A tall soldier stood there bent over and stiff, as if trying to pick something out of the snow; behind him, a man holding a long The spear soldiers stood up straight, still protecting the backs of the tall warriors; behind them was a group of dead people of various shapes, some were lying on the ground, as if they were asleep, and some were huddled together, Covering their ears with their hands, some people didn't give up at the last moment, fighting against the severe cold until the moment of life's end.

This is simply a group of statues of victims. Li Wei felt that his breathing was not smooth. Walking among these stiff corpses, it seemed that they could still hear their screams before they died.

"A total of 48 people." Captain Els counted the number of the dead, and then said in a low voice: "The last time the elite soldiers were dispatched was 50 people, and now except for two people, all of them died here."

"Those two should have died in the swamp of decay. I still have a little impression of the equipment of these people." The old hag Stiba interjected.

Captain Els glared at Stiba angrily, the light in his eyes could kill people, but the old hag seemed calm and slapped the snakeskin beast's cow's head one after another.

"Captain Ayers, are there any corpses of knights and priests among these people?" Pastor Fallon, who had finished reading the prayer, noticed that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, and hurried over to change the subject.

"No, I'm sure." Ayers shook his head, "These people don't have the blue cloak of the storm priest, nor the gray cloak of the knights of the North Aura Guard. Besides, the knights have fighting spirit body protection, and the priest They also have magic spells to deal with severe cold, they are not so easy to be frozen to death."

"Let's move on. The corpses of these soldiers are trying to collect them when we come back," Wilps suggested.

"Okay, let's take advantage of the accuser in the tower ruins not expecting us to come so fast, and catch him by surprise!" Pastor Faron hammered his palm heavily, and said in an excited tone.

Li Wei smiled wryly and shook his head, "I'm afraid the accusers here have discovered us long ago. Do you still remember the thunderous voice before the group of undead hags attacked?"

Pastor Fallon was silent, and then everyone made the final preparations silently. Levi and Wilps tied the horses here, but the hag leader Stiba insisted on refusing to leave his snakeskin beast mount, and finally I had no choice but to agree that it rode this monster that looked like a bull with scales all over its body.

Less than 2000 meters ahead from the frozen warriors, a tall tower built of gray boulders stood on a low rocky hill.According to the information in the North Orla library, this mage tower should be a five-story building when it was first built, and the top floor was designed as a structure that can be opened, so that the mages in the tower can pour down attack magic.Now this high tower has been abandoned for many years, and the fifth floor that can be opened has long been dilapidated under the attack of wind and snow. Fortunately, the main structure of the tower body made of rock is very strong, and it still stands upright despite the wind and snow.

However, a huge black-blue ice block now sealed the upper part of the entire tower, and even the entire tower began to tilt to one side under the pressure of the heavy ice block.Some skinny skeletons were busy around the tower, as if they were carrying out some huge project, and the sound of clanging and clanging reached everyone's ears from a long distance away.

"Skeleton soldiers, as expected, the place has been occupied by the deceased." Pastor Faron's voice was a little shaky.

"Get ready to attack, everyone." Li Wei whispered.

"That's not bad, a lot of bones, leave these to our Sharp Tooth Tribe." Wolf, the leader of the werewolf, replied while sucking his saliva.

"Okay, the Sharp Tooth Tribe is responsible for cleaning up the skeleton soldiers. Attention everyone else, let's not get entangled with any enemies, and rush directly into the tower!" Wilps said, with a layer of fiery red fighting spirit glowing on his body.

"Go forward! God of the sky bless you!"

"He who is in charge of the thunder, cast out your wrath!" Priests of the storm chanted in unison, shaking the earth, but a louder voice came from Li Wei's raised right hand, which seemed to be the sound of countless battle horns mixed together, loud and high-pitched, People can't help but get excited.

Immediately afterwards, the golden light spread out from the center of Li Wei. After being enveloped by this light, the storm priest, werewolf and others all felt an indescribable courage rising in their chests, and they exhaled forcefully. Sullen, they all let out loud shouts, and rushed towards the abandoned tower with an unstoppable momentum!
　It's a little late, so let's send the last update tonight, fellow book friends, good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)