rune hunter

Chapter 375 Expulsion of Evil

The square shield made of fine steel struck the pale bones, making a crackling sound like old biscuits.The skeleton warrior who lost the support of his spine waved his hands in vain and fell backwards involuntarily.

The skeleton warriors who can truly be called the undead army must have been qualified warriors during their lifetime. Because of years of training and fighting, the skeletons of these warriors are much thicker than ordinary people.On this basis, the summoner must use spiritism to strengthen the body.

And now these skeleton warriors appearing on the battlefield should not be called warriors in the strict sense-they are not even equipped with a handy weapon, and they are only relying on their overwhelming numbers to launch a defense line against humans. The impact of the waves.

After experiencing the initial panic, the armored shield guards who were the backbone of the defenders suddenly discovered that these enemies were not as terrifying as they imagined.As heavy armored infantry, they don't need to fear the attack of skeleton warriors at all. Instead, they can beat these monsters down with only the iron shield in their hands.

As the first wave of the undead army's offensive was successfully blocked, the morale of the human defenders was gradually recovering.

However, the high-level commanders on the human side are not optimistic about this.

"This is not a skeleton warrior of the regular army, but a bone servant..." As a senior person who has dealt with the undead the most, Ron said in a deep voice after staring at it for a while.

"What's the difference?" Al asked in a low voice.

"The legendary tyrant Eisenlock killed a full 30 slaves before his death. The souls of those buried slaves turned his cemetery into a forbidden place for death, and their bodies after death still have to be tortured. The never-ending drive and torment of a tyrant—this is the origin of the minion of bones."

Ron sighed, and continued: "In the period when human beings just left the barbaric era and began to develop civilization, the most primitive and barbaric slavery system was still prevalent in most human kingdoms. Many princes and nobles regarded the number of buried slaves as The most praiseworthy glory after death. The real skeleton warriors must be summoned from the plane of death, and these bone servants are nothing but cannon fodder released by the sect of the curse when they opened a certain ancient cemetery."

"If it's the kind of large cemetery you mentioned, there shouldn't be only this bit of cannon fodder, right?" El frowned. There are some undead in ancient cemeteries.

According to the elderly nun's description, the undead born in the ancient cemetery are often more terrifying than the regular undead army formed.As long as it is an army, regardless of whether it is dead or alive, the first thing that must be done is coordination and unity, otherwise it will be a group of mobs.In contrast, the individual strength of undead born from ancient cemeteries is stronger, and the direction of evolution is also irregular, and there are often particularly strange situations.

As for how weird it is, the girl didn't go into details. For a strong man who can single-handedly walk in and out of the army of undead like no one else, no matter how weird it is, it doesn't make sense.

It's a pity that El doesn't have the ability to defy the sky yet.

"I haven't encountered bone servants, but I have heard those paladins tell about the characteristics of this monster." Ron thought about it carefully, and said in a low voice: "It can only be conceived in the burial pits of thousands of people in ancient cemeteries." As long as the cemetery still exists, these bone servants will continue to flow, and the death breath accumulated after they were killed can in turn strengthen the connection between this place and the cemetery—in other words , their death will awaken more powerful undead creatures."

"These dead people are really not easy to save fuel. What kind of tricks do you think they will play next?" El asked.

"It's hard to say..." Ron shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The undead will never be impatient. As long as they are not in a hurry, these lowest-level undead creatures can grind us to death little by little. Our only The only thing we can look forward to is the eagerness of the opposing leader."

"Don't be so pessimistic, we're not powerless." El had a noncommittal smile on his face.

The bone servants' attack lasted for nearly two hours, and the human defenders gradually began to show signs of fatigue.No matter how strong one's body is, or how vulnerable the enemy is, after two hours of fighting, there will inevitably be a feeling of fatigue.

According to the siege war in the conventional sense of human beings, the two-hour battle is a serious burden for both sides. At this time, no matter whether the war is stopped or the reserve team is replenished, at least a breathless buffer time is needed .But this doesn't matter at all to the undead who never die.

At this moment, there was a weeping howl in the darkness, and under the light of the fire, strips of bluish-white translucent phantoms slowly appeared from the dark shadows in the distance, mixed among the bone servants and launched an attack on the human front. launched a new offensive.

After waiting for two full hours, Lich Klein finally turned over one of his hole cards.

"It's ghosts! Ordinary physical attacks are hard to have an effect on them!" Ron said loudly with a flash of his eyes.

His reminder was timely, but the human soldiers in the middle of the battle knew nothing about it.They saw those bluish-white translucent phantoms hiding in the gaps in the line of bone servants and rushing towards them. They slashed with their swords, but they didn't touch anything. There was a chill in his body, and he fell to the ground involuntarily.

The moment the Ghost Troops joined the battlefield, the already tired human defenses were shaken immediately.Dozens of soldiers were grabbed by ghosts and dragged outside the line of defense. They were chopped up with knives before they could struggle.There were many large and small gaps in the defense line, and the overwhelming bone servants poured in like water between the fingers.

"Send our priests!" El turned back and ordered.

"Wait a minute! Don't let the priests waste their divine power!" Ron hurriedly stopped him: "Their main force has not moved yet, and they just want to consume the divine power of our priests!"

"If we don't get rid of these ghosts, we will have no future..." El couldn't help curling his lips as he looked at the crumbling defense line.These cowards are prone to confidence collapse when encountering a little setback, so you really can't expect anything from them.

The soft voice of the young girl came from behind, and a golden-red maple leaf pattern flickered in the darkness, and a white "repel evil" enchantment slowly unfolded on the defense line, gradually extending to the surroundings.The body of the bone servant who entered the barrier immediately lost control, and shattered into a pile of dry bones.The ghost shrouded in the barrier screamed in horror, turned around and ran away.

However, the damage caused by the divine power in the barrier is even more effective. Even a little bit of divine power can burn most of their transparent bodies.

One by one, the enchantment of expelling evil was launched one by one on the human defense line, suffocating the offensive of the undead army.From Sword Castle to Bamblore, there are more than [-] priests of the Gods sect gathered by El along the way.Although there are many apprentices or impostors among them, it is not difficult to get them to cast the enchantment of repelling evil.

Exorcism is the most basic type of magic, and exorcising the evil enchantment is also one of the simplest divine arts. For example, the Maple Leaf nun who is good at this can expand this enchantment to a diameter of 50 meters.Its effect is actually not that powerful, but the bone servant is also cannon fodder for death, and the ghost in the spirit state will receive double damage.Released now, it can completely defeat this wave of offensive of the undead army and give the soldiers of one's own side a chance to rest.

Both the enemy and the enemy are very satisfied with this extremely cost-effective approach.

"That young man is just a reckless martial artist..." Seeing the light of the evil enchantment on the human defense line, Klein, the lich hidden in the darkness, showed a smug smile on his face, and turned his head to look at the person beside him. said the black knight.

The black knight guarding him was much stronger than ordinary black knights. Even the skeleton horse under him was tall and mighty, with sharp bone spurs growing on its head.He is Stallon, the commander of the Shadow Legion of the new generation, a black knight lord whose strength has reached the silver level.

As the archbishop of the Damned sect, Klein never thought that he would be assassinated by humans, especially when this shameful scandal happened in front of the two armies.Although he escaped the crisis of life and death under the protection of the phylactery, he also paid the price of his original body for this.

Although the current Klein has resurrected his soul from a dead body, the body of this cursed believer is not as commanding as his own body after all.Due to the limitations of this body, he is now only able to display less than [-]% of his strength.Under the eyes of several silver-rank powerhouses on the other side, this strength is obviously not enough to suppress the situation.

Although for some unexplainable reasons, Klein is quite alienated from this old undead army under his command, but the current situation obviously has no more choices.In order to maintain his own safety and dignity, he could only summon Stallon, the Lord of the Black Knight, to his home.

"Lord Klein, I have some personal opinions on this, I hope you don't mind. That young man is both capable and bold. Since he was able to gather this resistance force in Bamblore, he must have been brave Conspirator." The contempt in Stallon's eyes flashed away, but he still said earnestly on the surface: "It's better to let my knights attack, so that no matter what support the opponent has, it will be exposed." .”

"Don't worry, young man, time and death are on our side, you should learn to be patient." Klein sneered and shook his head: "Since he wants to play, then I will play with him."

(End of this chapter)