Chapter 552 Augustine's Decision

Undead can't breathe, so they can't drown.

But the flood is not a swimming pool, and its lethality is more than simply "drowning" other creatures . The strong current carries debris and can tear almost anything that falls into the water.

The water flowing around Fort Trak gathered deeper and deeper. Because the flow was too fast, five or six meters had accumulated in less than half an hour. By this time, the undead creatures summoned by the necromancer had basically been scrapped and drawn into the water, their originally low-strength bodies were quickly torn apart by the undercurrent, so the ones floating the most on the water at this moment were the ones on the skeleton soldiers. "Component".

As for those undead who were "awakened" by the dead, there are still many struggling in the water...

But this kind of struggle is futile. Many undead are clearly only four or five meters away from the shore, but the turbulent undercurrent below the water surface separates them like an invisible wall. They are paddling desperately, but they can't breathe. There was no air in their lungs, and they were all wearing extremely heavy armor with great resistance. No matter how much strength they had, they sank to the bottom without any suspense after thumping for a few minutes.

The silt and countless impurities from the bottom of the flood hit the body with the same intensity as a weapon attack. The exhausted undead were powerless to defend themselves and were gradually buried like this.

The "Sinking Formation" caused the five barrier lakes to pour uncountable amounts of lake water. Although Rody's purpose was to kill the undead, it was obvious that he had no means to accurately calculate how much lake water would be enough. Therefore, after the entire undead army was submerged, the gathered water still seemed to have no signs of slowing down. The water level continued to rise, from four meters to seven meters, and soon flooded the original gate of Telak City...

The people in the castle immediately began to move all kinds of materials from all over to block several city gates, and most of the population in the city began to move to the higher inner city. Later, thousands of people even stood on the ground to avoid the flood. above the inner and outer walls of Trak.

The rising momentum of the water level finally slowed down and stopped after an hour, and thanks to the strength of the wooden gate poured with copper juice, the flood that has been submerging the city gate for more than three meters was built by seven or eight low-level mages and thousands of people. The materials were blocked outside.

Of course, the water leaking into the city was already knee deep.

The gradually falling water level made Kulka and Dasco heave a sigh of relief. However, he took a look at the "lake" that had turned into a vast ocean, and Dasco immediately found hundreds of undead soldiers who managed to escape because they were relatively close to the shore.

These undead were basically exhausted in the flood. After landing, almost all of them lay on the ground staggeringly. The few who could stand looked around blankly: Custer was defeated like a mountain,

He had no intention of fighting and fled to nowhere, so the soldiers who lost their backbone were completely "abandoned".

Dasco didn't let his heart down, and immediately sent a signal to the "Awakened" troops hiding in the distance. His order was only one: kill all surviving undead soldiers!

The "awakened" cavalry who had preserved their combat power immediately began to make up their swords and harvest. With them clearing up the remnants in circles, even the undead crawling out of the bottom of the flood could not escape death.

However, compared to these undead who were hacked to death, those corpses buried forever at the bottom of the lake may not see the light of day until several years later...

In this battle, only 3,200 of the main force of 20,000 undead escaped. The summoned 80,000 undead creatures and more than 16,000 soldiers were all submerged in the flood!

For the surviving humans such as the "awakened" and Kulka, this battle completely reversed their passive situation, and it can even be said to have laid an extremely solid foundation for their future survival in Tasman.

A total of 40,000 undead troops were directly cut in half, not to mention the blow to morale, as long as the nobles in the council have a normal mind, the remaining 20,000 are 99% that they will not send troops to trouble the "rebels".

As for how Tasman's parliament will deal with the "rebels"... I am afraid that the biggest possibility is "appeasement", because Augustine must first settle the condemnation of the noble council, and secondly, he will have to fight with the old bones whether the remaining 20,000 troops will go to Karen …

In summary, this is a big victory that completely changed the Tasman pattern.

Regarding these abyssal results, Kulka, who has no deep political experience, has not yet noticed it at this time, and Dasco, who betrayed his own class, only has vague judgments, but the Dragon Clan, who is used to overlooking the continental pattern, sees it more clearly than anyone else. Therefore, they recognized Rody's next arrangement more and more, and even couldn't wait to return to the village where tiefling was located to start the next preparations.

And Rody smiled happily when he saw that he gained more than three million experience points. Not only did he gain a lot of experience, but all soldiers and mages who participated in the mission shared the improvement brought about by this victory, and the average advanced level jumped directly. Go up to level seven!

In terms of strength, this is a qualitative transformation. If they were to replace their weapons with matching levels, their combat effectiveness would almost double!

And Roddy's [task bar] has also updated the words:

【Judgment of the Throne of Bones】

"You have thwarted Emperor Augustine's plan with an unexpected trick! But this does not mean the end, but the beginning of a real nightmare!"

The task reward column has changed, and the experience value reward of the entire task has suddenly increased from 2.17 million to 4.55 million. This must be related to killing the undead army. However, the task displayed in the "orange" font suddenly changed to up crimson.

This means the task is "difficult to complete".

But Rody doesn't care about the so-called difficulty at all now. The corners of his mouth turned up, he tightened the rainproof cloak, and flew to the village with Merlinsera on the Kodak...

There, he was left with the last task of the trip.

*****

At midnight, in Aldermantheus's study, Augustine, who was in a bad mood, was frowning and thinking hard at his desk.

It has been five days since Yugosa lost contact. Augustine is almost sure that there is something wrong with the other party, but he has no way of judging what exactly happened. As his favorite direct descendant, Yugossa naturally holds a lot of good things in the bottom of the box, and his soul fire has maintained a certain connection with himself: once Ugosa suffers a fatal attack, this connection will provide Augustine with a trace of clue.

But now that Yugesa is not dead, he doesn't even have this clue.

Because the blood of the last "alien species" had been exhausted, the "Great Tracking Technique" used to locate the tiefling could no longer be used a second time, and now he could no longer use it to confirm the tiefling's location. For Augustine, there seems to be no alternative but to wait.

Although he has strong enough knights, powerful mages who specialize in different spells, and resourceful counselors, but this is the only thing that everyone can't participate in...

However, the laboratory was invaded and the experimental notes were reviewed. Augustine realized that his long-time secret experiment might have been leaked. However, the overall experiment has entered the final verification step, and it is only a matter of "finishing the door". Instead of worrying about whether someone will come to the door, Augustine wants to complete the entire experiment as soon as possible and directly achieve his goal.

He didn't want to send his men to look for it anymore, because that would probably lead to the same result as Yugosa. But if you go to find it yourself, let's not mention whether the council will cause trouble for the time being, it is ineffective but the real tieflin can change positions at will, and going by himself is no different from a blind cat killing a mouse.

"Do you want to take a gamble..."

Wanting to reconfirm the tiefling's position, Augustine had only one option left. His gaze involuntarily looked at the black tome placed on the desk...

"The Book of Demons," as Augustine called it.

When the "Avatar" was destroyed, it brought the information that Roddy was a "monster hunter". Because he knew what "witch hunter" meant, Augustine immediately accelerated his research on this book, and it was through deciphering and researching the content of the book that he had the almost completed magic circle.

The content of this book is obscure and profound. Even with Augustine's talent, it is extremely difficult to understand most of it, but his hard research has also allowed him to gradually master the devil's magic system. If the theory is correct, he can cast it forcibly. A detection spell called "Awaken Demon" to find all creatures with demonic blood.

Tiefling is one of them.

But this spell is an unfinished version, and the key has not yet been deciphered. If you want to release it forcefully, even with Augustine's level and strength, you will have to pay a high price, and you may be injured if you fail.

So after hesitating again and again, he finally looked away from the book cover.

"Wait another day."

Augustine said to himself silently, but at this moment, the sudden appearance from the outer court made him frown. Soldiers should not report information at midnight, but it is obvious that there is an emergency at this time. A sense of ominous premonition suddenly flashed in Augustine's heart. He stood up and hurriedly read the letter after the attendant handed it to him...

The next moment, the emperor who had always been rich in the city suddenly threw his fist on the desk beside him!

"Boom!"

Violent magic waves rippled, and the entire desk turned into strands of fiber powder under the shock. All the items in the study shook violently, and the guard kneeling in front of Augustine was blown out on the spot and fell on the ground. unconscious on the ground...

Augustine hadn't been so angry for many years, but the news in the letter made him want to tear down Aldermantheus: 20,000 elite undead, 80,000 undead creatures, only 3,000 escaped!

Are you kidding me?

Agitated by emotions, Augustine did not lose his mind. On the contrary, after quickly weighing the pros and cons of the political situation, he made up his mind. After stepping away from the screen, Augustine picked up the black tome, drew the hexagonal mark belonging to the devil out of thin air with magic power, and started to build the magic circle.

The details were continuously completed. Augustine, who was trying to cast a spell for the first time, went all out, mobilized all his magic power and began to chant the obscure spell. At the same time, he suddenly broke his little finger, making it a sacrifice to maintain the entire spell!

With a buzzing sound, obscure fluctuations suddenly swept out, but one of the details was missing part of the rune structure, causing the spell to collapse on the spot after two seconds of maintenance!

"cough!"

The violent magic backlash caused Augustine to cough and take three steps back. His face seemed to be rapidly aging for more than ten years, but he still supported the backlash with his strong magic power.

This was an unsuccessful spellcasting. Although it failed in the end, the fluctuation that lasted for two seconds had already allowed Augustine to spy on too much information that he did not know.

"It turns out...here."

The Tasman monarch wiped the black and red blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled strangely.