I'm not that kind of orc

"You are dead!!"

Vanessa and her clone took out the scythe in unison.

"Daisy!!" I yelled.

"I'm here." Daisy, who had been hiding in the dark, appeared, and I asked her to keep an eye on me in the dark.

"Three spells hit you just now, from different directions, on the clock tower in the west, above the city wall in the northeast corner, and this guy here."

Vanessa reported to me, and finally pointed to a figure lying on the wall in the distance. It seemed to be a female elf with a dagger stuck in her forehead—it was obviously written by Daisy.

Probably this guy happened to be within Daisy's attack range when he shot, so Daisy killed her with a backhand dagger.

"How did you kill her?" I was a little surprised.

"I do less work to capture alive, so I can't handle it properly." Daisy looked indifferent, "Anyway, there are still two people who can be captured alive, right?"

I was a little surprised that there were more than one ghost in the city.

"Okay... can I trouble you to chase after the one on the city wall?" I looked at Daisy.

"Okay." Daisy's figure dissipated instantly.

"Vanessa, can I ask you to bring back the people on the clock tower?" I turned to look at Vanessa.

If Vanessa flew over directly, the spy lurking on the clock tower should have no chance to escape.

"Hmph, I'm going to fix the bastard who dares to disturb me!" Vanessa rushed towards the clock tower with her avatar.

And I went straight to the inner ghost who was dealt with, and looked at her carefully.

It is indeed a female elf, and she looks like an archer in the fortress. Are the spies from Saidian's troops?

Um?This guy seems a bit familiar...

Just as I had this thought, the female elf with a dagger in her head suddenly opened her eyes.

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A strange blue cold light suddenly flashed from the eyes of the female elf who should have died.

Daisy's dagger was still nailed to her forehead, and the blade almost disappeared.Such a fatal injury basically no one can survive, in other words - this guy is simply a dead person.

However, the dead man not only came back to life in front of me, but also stretched out his hand and launched a counterattack at me.A green flame condensed in the palm of her hand, and a phantom of a skull shone in the flame.

Fortunately, my reaction was a bit faster than this guy. Although I was shocked by her resurrection, I still swung my fist horizontally on conditioned reflex, and knocked her out.

It was just that the moment my fist touched the skin of her face, I felt an uncomfortable stiffness and coldness—this is definitely not the feeling a living person should have.

The moment she landed, she got up again, raised her hand and threw the burning skull in her hand towards me.

I immediately summoned the Spear of the Dark Curse and threw it, piercing the skull impartially, and green flames burst out between us.

The move just now is obviously necromancy, I don't think an elf archer will use this attack method.At this moment, I was convinced that the female elf in front of me was a corpse manipulated by a necromancer.

I stared at the dead body in front of me and met her gaze.Suddenly, I remembered where I had seen her before.

It was the archer who fell from the arrow tower yesterday. In that fierce battle, everyone on the arrow tower died, and she was the only one who survived—no, it seemed that she also died at that time.

The mystery has been revealed. The enemy used necromantic techniques to control our dead personnel to sneak into this fortress. Mudar is a lich, and there are many necromancers and liches under his command. .

The lich can inject his soul into the phylactery and manipulate his body from a distance, and Mudar has possessed his consciousness to other bodies before our eyes.

It seems that the black-robed warlock killed by the archers on the arrow tower was a lich. On the arrow tower, he injected his spirit into the corpse, thus pretending to be someone in the fortress—from the attack just now According to the situation, there are more than one spies who have sneaked in this way.

The corpse tried to cast a spell attack again, and raised its hand to summon a bone spear, but I cast spells faster than her - the dark cursed spear summoned by using the black battle ax did not need to cast a spell or raise her hand, after she threw the bone spear over Earlier, I had pierced her right hand with a spear.

The other party seemed to finally understand the gap between her and my spellcasting. After a short thought, she changed her tactics and rushed towards me recklessly.

After only a few steps, she flew towards him, and at the same time, her body swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

I took a deep breath, and then subconsciously made an emergency response - I threw the black battle ax in my hand hard, and it hit her chest.

The battleaxe is light to me, but a heavy weapon for an elf's size.The tomahawk that came out of her hand hit her chest, a powerful and heavy blow, comparable to a cannonball, and flew directly against the corpse in the opposite direction for several meters.

The corpse swelled rapidly in the distance, like a fully inflated skin.The next moment, the corpse exploded like a gunpowder keg, blood and rancid pus scattered around.

I automatically jumped back to avoid being splashed by this disgusting thing.

Corpse Explosion - I've only heard of this disgusting spell in anecdotal stories involving evil necromancers, but I didn't expect it to be true.

After the explosion, the fragments of the corpse immediately rotted and liquefied, exuding a disgusting rancid smell, which is obviously also the effect of necromancy.

Damn it, that tomahawk looks like it needs to be washed several times. It's best to ask Roland for a bottle of disinfectant to soak it.

I held my nose and backed away. From the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the wreckage of a chariot not far away, and cast the shaman's elemental spell to guide the flames towards the rotten pus.

I've heard that necromancers can use corpses to spread corpse poison and plague, and considering the population density of this fortress, this thing must be properly dealt with.

"It stinks, next time I will never do this kind of job again, even if you ask me." Daisy suddenly appeared behind me, holding her nose and frowning.

"Your side..." I turned my head to ask about her situation.

"It's the same as yours. It's also a corpse. I stabbed it a few times before it blew up." Daisy replied before I finished asking, complaining angrily, "If it wasn't for the speed of my old lady, my body would definitely be dead. If it gets a little... remember to remind me to take the dagger to disinfect later."

"I'm sorry, thank you for your hard work." I scratched my head apologetically, "I didn't expect it to be such a dirty job."

"Forget it, it's nothing." Daisy shrugged, "Just treat it as if you owe me once."

I never thought that the "inner ghost" would be a corpse manipulated by the enemy. In this case, it would be impossible to catch him alive.

But it doesn't matter, since the enemy's method of sneaking into the fortress has been found out, our goal has been achieved.

That girl Vanessa should be fine.

I turned my head to look in the direction of the clock tower, just in time to see Vanessa flapping her wings and flying towards this side.

"Fan—" I just wanted to call her, but I suddenly held my breath subconsciously.

"Oh my god! Ugh!" Daisy also covered her mouth and nose in shock.

From Vanessa's side, there was a pungent stench, and a pool of pus could be seen on her wings.

"Woooooooooo... my dear..." Vanessa cried to me aggrievedly, "It stinks..."

"You...can't you use the shadow demon's shield? How could you get caught?" I was quite surprised.

"Wuuu... You said that you wanted to bring him back. I grabbed him with a spider web and prepared to drag him here. Who would have thought that he would explode suddenly." Vanessa complained while sobbing.

It turned out to be my fault...

Vanessa doesn't have much common sense, so she probably doesn't have any defenses against necromancy. She simply carried out my order to capture the target alive, but she accidentally fell for it.

"Yes, I'm sorry, it's my fault." I quickly apologized to her, "Listen to me first, you just need to turn your body into black mist..."

As long as the body is atomized, the things that stick to the body will naturally fall down.

"Wuuu, my dear..." But Vanessa didn't intend to listen at all, and slowly approached me while crying.

Damn, this guy doesn't mean to—

"I won't accompany you anymore, play slowly!" Daisy realized the crisis, and instantly distanced herself from me.

"You, you calm down first..." Feeling my scalp tingle with the next thing, I tried my best to comfort Vanessa.

"Honey!!" Vanessa flew straight into my arms with a begging expression on her face.

"Don't come here ah ah ah ah!!!"

My screams resounded throughout the fortress.

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After figuring out the means by which the enemy's spies sneak in, it becomes easier to deal with and prevent.

A corpse possessed by necromancy itself belongs to the undead race. As long as it is illuminated by the holy light, it will suffer serious damage. However, ordinary people will not only be harmed by the holy light, but they can also be healed. There is no shortage of paladins in the strongholds that the regiment has taken over.

After investigation by the Holy Light, we once again found two spies from the fortress.Because we have learned the lesson of their tenacious resistance before, although these two spies were prepared to use corpse explosions to pull a few people back when they were detected, the paladins who had been prepared for a long time still used the defensive holy light Spells took control of the situation.

I don't know if it was because of the setback of the spy operation, but the enemy did not organize an attack on the city on the second night, and the outside of the city was calm all night.

This is really a great thing for us.

Although the city was successfully defended yesterday, the loss of casualties on our side is not small. In addition, the barrier protecting the fort needs to be maintained at the cost of absorbing the vitality of the soldiers in the city. Most of the wounded cannot recover to full strength within a day. The state of continuing to fight.

On the other side, although the enemy has consumed more troops than us, the cards are still firmly in their hands.If they attack the city no matter the cost, the situation on our side will be very critical.They slow down the pace of the siege, which will undoubtedly give them more breathing time.

More importantly, in the long run, time has always been on our side.

Since the enemy's main sword pointed at the king's capital, Helgia has been constantly gathering reinforcements, not only the troops from various territories in Helgia, but also the neighboring human countries and dwarf countries.Mudar brought back the demon king who once threatened the entire civilized world, which undoubtedly declared war on the entire Confederate Alliance.

Mutafa once revealed to us that the fastest reinforcements will be the Knights of the Iron Fort stationed on the eastern border of Helgia. They will arrive near the capital within two days and enter the fortress with our support.

Things are turning around—I thought it should be.

As a result, in the early hours of the morning, a paladin from the First Knight Order suddenly found me who was resting in the camp, and said that Mutafa had something to look for me.

I simply put on the leather armor and followed him to the command post. When I walked into Mutafa's room, he was standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back facing me, motionless, his broad back looked like a stone carving of.

The paladin who led me closed the door behind without saying a word, leaving the two of us in the room.

Mutafa didn't turn around to greet me right away, and still looked out the window silently, which made me feel a bit dignified, as if he was about to talk or do something big, and even the old guy had a showdown with me the next moment and said that the old man made a decision today Determined to open your head, and then waved to summon a group of knives and axes to chop me, there is no sense of disobedience.

This made me feel a little uncomfortable, so I cautiously broke the silence: "What can you do with me?"

"The reinforcements won't come." Almost as soon as the words fell, he continued.

"Well, I thought..." I breathed a sigh of relief, and then realized something was wrong, "You, what are you talking about?"

"I said there will be no reinforcements for the time being," Mutafa repeated.

He finally turned his face around, and finally let me see the grave expression on his face.

"The Knights of the Iron Castle have all been wiped out." He said the shocking truth quietly, "We won't have any reinforcements within three days."

I was stunned for two seconds before I realized: "No, this...why?"

"The Knights of the Iron Castle who were going to the predetermined location were ambushed by the enemy, and suffered heavy casualties. The survivors arrived here a quarter of an hour ago to bring back the bad news." Mutafa looked at me calmly, "The Knights of the Iron Castle The leader has died in battle, and the kingdom has lost an excellent knight commander. There are only more than 30 knights who survived and escaped to fight, and we have lost a vital reinforcement. Not only that, but according to the surviving According to the knights, the enemy also resurrected the knights who died in battle to supplement their own combat power."

"But... this is not the only army that came to support me!" I couldn't calm down when I heard the bad news.

"You don't want to think about why the enemy knows the support route of the Knights of the Iron Castle?" Mutafa said with a cold face, "That kind of thing should be a military secret!"