Chapter 399: Battle of the Undead
The expedition team crossed the zombie nest and walked for about an hour and a half, not far from the coordinates of the plane channel.
This time, it was the third day of the expedition into the undead world.
In three days, the expedition team conducted a detailed investigation of about 3,000 square kilometers of land in the southeast area of the plane channel and marked more than ten undead strongholds.
Because it is impossible to replenish magic power in the undead world, and the monotonous color environment is particularly depressing, it is not suitable for living people to stay for a long time. Richard plans to return to the dawn plane first, rest for a few days and start the next expedition.
As soon as everyone arrived at the plane channel, they heard a shrill cry from a distance, as if penetrating into the human soul.
"No, it's the nine-ring magic death howl. Has the coordinates of the plane channel been discovered by the legendary undead?"
Richard has a deep accumulation of magic knowledge. Even at a long distance, he instantly recognized this iconic undead magic, even though he had seen this undead magic for the first time.
The death howl is a large-scale control magic. Because the distance is relatively far, the magic aftermath is not very lethal, and it is not a threat to the expedition team for the time being.
Richard forced himself to calm down and carefully analyzed whether there were any flaws in this expedition?
"In the past three days, everyone has only taken action once, which was to hunt the three-headed dog of hell. The speed of killing the three-headed dog of hell was very fast and was not noticed by other undead. According to common sense, the coordinates of the plane channel cannot be leaked. It is more likely that a legendary level of undead war broke out nearby."
After three days of investigation, everyone found that the dead world was not peaceful. The conflict between the undead forces was very fierce, and the elimination rate was very high. Wars often broke out between the undead, and the cruelty was far beyond the dawn plane.
Conflicts between legendary undead are also common in the dead world.
After a brief discussion, everyone finally decided to go to the battle site to take a look.
After all, the battle site is not far from the plane gate. If the danger is too high, Richard will also destroy the plane gate, seal the plane channel, and completely solve this trouble.
Everyone walked more than ten kilometers in the direction of the death howl and came to the edge of the battlefield.
Richard looked at the battlefield carefully and found that two skeleton mages were besieging a legendary ghost with four high-level skeleton warriors.
From the battlefield, the skeleton mages should have a greater advantage.
Under the command of the skeleton mages, there are about a thousand soldiers who have surrounded the legendary ghost and cooperated with the six high-level skeletons to fight. On the nearby battlefield, there are many scattered bones, and the soul fire has basically been extinguished.
The legendary ghost is alone, with few soldiers under his command, surrounded by the death fire released by the skeleton mage. If there is no external force, it is almost impossible to escape.
From the process of the battle, the two skeleton mages have high intelligence and can arrange some exquisite tactics, while the legendary ghost relies entirely on instinct and has a very simple thinking mode.
After witnessing the battle between the undead with their own eyes, Richard and others carefully lay on a boulder.
The undead of the skeleton and ghost type have almost no vision, and they can only rely on soul fluctuations to detect the enemy situation. Now they are in the middle of a battle, and they have no time to investigate outside.
Neither the Skeleton Mage nor the Legendary Ghost noticed the expedition team hiding more than a thousand meters away.
A Skeleton Mage pointed his finger and released the Nine-Ring Magic Soul Binding Spell. A magic chain appeared out of thin air, instantly binding the Legendary Ghost tightly, making it unable to move.
Soul Binding Spell is the nemesis of ghost-type creatures. Even Legendary Ghosts are still restrained by this spell.
Skeleton Mage can release Nine-Ring Magic, and he is probably not far from being promoted to Legendary.
The strength of creatures like Skeleton Mage is weaker than that of Undead Mage at the same level. Moreover, the level of magic civilization in the Undead World is not high, and magic communication is very difficult. Skeleton Mage does not master all the necromancy spells.
In the Dawn Plane, Undead Mage often cannot compare with Elemental Mage of the same level because of their single magic, obvious advantages and disadvantages.
Through close reconnaissance, Richard estimated that the nine-ring skeleton mage who made the move was slightly worse than the eight-ring Undine.
Although the legendary ghost was trapped by the soul binding technique, it would not sit and wait for death. It was seen that a blue light came out from its body, and it instantly released the legendary magic death curse. A magic rune was as fast as lightning and hit the chest of the skeleton mage.
The death curse is a legendary magic, and the spell effect is much stronger than the death finger. This magic can be judged by mental power and kill targets with lower mental power than the caster.
If the mental power judgment fails, the spell effect will rebound to the caster. If you don’t know the details of the opponent, releasing this kind of magic is completely risking your life.
For example, Richard’s mental power may be slightly stronger than that of a legendary first-level mage.
Undead creatures such as ghosts are naturally very strong in mental power. The mental power of a legendary first-level ghost may exceed 60 points. Even a perverted magician like Richard would probably die if he was hit by this death curse.
Although the Skeleton Mage's spiritual power was very high, it was still far behind the Legendary Ghost. He was instantly cursed and killed by the Legendary Magic King, and the fire of his soul was extinguished.
Although the Skeleton Mage controlled the Legendary Ghost through the Soul Binding Technique, he forced out the Legendary Ghost's trump card and died in front of the Legendary Ghost. ˜”*°•.˜˜.•°*”˜
As soon as the Skeleton Mage died, the Nine Rings Magic Soul Binding Technique began to dissipate, and the magic chain turned into a puff of green smoke.
Before the Legendary Ghost could breathe a sigh of relief, the four high-level Skeleton Warriors had already taken the lead and released the Arrows of the Dead, almost dispersing the Soul Fire of the Legendary Ghost.
Attacked by four arrows of the dead, the legendary ghost was almost dead. He did not have time to absorb the soul crystals dropped by the skeleton mage, and immediately turned around to escape the encirclement of the skeleton army.
Seeing that the legendary ghost was about to run, another skeleton mage commanded the army and released bursts of death fire in an instant. In order to strengthen the power of the death fire, one skeleton warrior after another rushed forward, releasing soul fire from their skulls and igniting their own soul fire.
In an instant, hundreds of skeleton warriors burned their souls, strengthened the power of the death fire, and burned the legendary ghost to flee everywhere.
Compared with the human army, the army composed of undead has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The undead army is not afraid of death, does not know fatigue, and has a large number of professionals, which are all advantages.
However, the wisdom structure of the undead army is simple, and undead creatures with wisdom are relatively rare. An army with low wisdom will inevitably have many weaknesses.
Seeing that he could not escape the encirclement set by the Skeleton Mage, the Legendary Ghost turned around and released his eight-ring magic death emblem towards the Skeleton Mage.
Although the Legendary Ghost did not have much wisdom, he still knew who was a greater threat to him and aimed his killing target at another Skeleton Mage.
Seeing that the magic rune was coming and he could no longer dodge, the Skeleton Mage immediately released the seven-ring magic substitution spell. In the blink of an eye, a seventh-level skeleton warrior took the blow for him, and the soul fire was extinguished on the spot.
In just over ten minutes, under Richard's witness, the Legendary Ghost successively released the nine-ring magic death howl, the legendary magic death curse, and the eight-ring magic death emblem, consuming more than 400 points of magic power.
According to the strength of the ghost's magic power, these few magics consumed one-third of the Legendary Ghost's magic power.
Before Richard and others arrived, the two sides had already fought fiercely, and the Legendary Ghost had consumed five spells and killed hundreds of Skeleton Warriors.
The battle has continued to this day, and the Legendary Ghost's magic power is less than half.
After dodging the death emblem, the skeleton mage decisively released the seven-ring magic death finger and shot a death ray at the legendary ghost.
The death ray was very fast, with a hint of cold and dead silence.
Sensing the danger, the legendary ghost immediately released the six-ring magic anti-death barrier to help himself block the danger.
Just after blocking the death finger, the high-level skeleton warrior manipulated the death fire to surge up again.
Waves of death fire wrapped around the legendary ghost like a ulcer, burning the legendary ghost's soul in pain, and emitting waves of painful screams.
The communication between undead creatures is not through sound. Except for liches and vampires, the undead such as corpse demons, skeletons, and ghosts no longer have vocal organs.
The communication between the undead mainly relies on soul fluctuations. The Harland Mage Association has studied this soul fluctuation and found that it is actually a special electromagnetic wave.
Mastering this electromagnetic wave can figure out the language of the undead.
In fact, if you want to master the language of the dead, you don't need to go through so much trouble. You can also master the language of the dead by learning the fourth-ring magic spell of listening to the soul.
Harland has the inheritance of the dead mage, and there are many dead spells recorded in the library. The team participating in this expedition has a total of five magicians, all of whom are middle and high-level magicians. They have already mastered listening to the soul and can understand the language of the dead.
Because the legendary ghost has a low IQ, the information transmitted in the soul fluctuation is very messy, and most of them are some meaningless wailing and crying.
Burned by the fire of death, the legendary ghost once again released the seventh-ring magic death cloud spell, releasing a stream of gray-white clouds.
All the skeleton soldiers wrapped in the clouds fell down in a blink of an eye.
A large number of skeleton warriors died, and the remaining three high-level skeleton warriors took action, pulled the bone bow, and shot three arrows of death.
Although the physical resistance of ghost creatures is almost full, it is very restrained against melee professions. However, the skeleton warriors also have certain spell abilities, and the death arrows they shoot carry magic damage.
Seeing three death arrows coming, the legendary ghost was just hit by the death arrows, and the soul fire was almost dispersed. This time, he did not dare to neglect it at all, and hurriedly released a powerful four-ring magic arrow rebound to block the three death arrows.
The skeleton mage also began to organize soldiers, released a large-scale magic death array, and once again controlled the legendary ghost.
The legendary ghost was unwilling to fail, and once again released a large-scale nine-ring magic death howl.
In an instant, a large number of low-level undead fell, and the skeleton warriors not far from the legendary ghost were basically dead.
At this point in the battle, the legendary ghost’s vitality is less than half, and the magic power is only about one-third, which is less than 400 points.
The skeleton side also suffered heavy losses. A nine-ring skeleton mage and a seven-ring skeleton warrior died in battle, and more than 1,600 skeletons The army was nearly half dead or wounded.
Richard and his companions were hiding not far from the battlefield. They felt the power of the Howl of Death at close range, and everyone present was sweating.
In order to avoid being noticed by the fighting undead, Richard and his companions did not use their magic power, and completely relied on magic resistance to block the aftermath of the spell. Fortunately, everyone was a high-level professional, and the weakest Wendy and Eve were also protected inside, so they were not injured by the aftermath.
Relying on the Howl of Death to break the magic circle, the legendary ghost was about to escape the encirclement, and the three high-level skeleton warriors threw out a series of bone chains.
The bone chain was accompanied by black magic fire, which tightly bound the blue phantom transformed by the legendary ghost. The magic temperature was extremely high, burning the blue ghost and emitting white smoke.
The legendary ghost saw that he could not escape, and once again released a nine-ring magic death order, directly killing a high-level skeleton warrior. Then he launched an eight-ring magic soul storm against another high-level skeleton warrior, blowing away the enemy's soul fire in one fell swoop.
After releasing two high-level magics in succession, the legendary ghost had about 200 points of magic power left.
The battle continued until now, and although the skeleton side suffered heavy casualties, victory was just around the corner.
In fact, ghosts are spell units among undead creatures, and are more difficult to deal with than skeletons and zombies. Although the legendary ghost is a little worse than the legendary magician, it is much more powerful than the legendary knight.
The physical resistance of this creature is almost full, and the physical attack methods mastered by the army have almost no way to deal with them. Even a regular legion cannot deal with the legendary ghost. To fight this undead creature with the highest physical resistance, only the mage group can be used.
The reason why the battle was like this was entirely because the Legendary Ghost was not very intelligent and fought completely on instinct, almost treating the symptoms without knowing the cause. The battle process was completely like putting down the gourd and picking up the ladle.
If the opponent was a lich with wisdom, the outcome of this battle would be completely different.
Although all his companions had died, the last high-level skeleton warrior was still pulling the bone chain bravely.
These four skeleton warriors had their intelligence wiped out by the Skeleton Mage and became his combat tools. Their task was to consume the magic power and vitality of the Legendary Ghost. During the battle, their task was completed very successfully.
Seeing that he still couldn't escape, the Legendary Ghost released the Soul Storm again and killed the last high-level skeleton warrior. After releasing the Eight-Ring Magic Soul Storm again, the Legendary Ghost's magic power was about to be exhausted, with only about 120 points left.
Although the Skeleton Mage lost his companions, all the high-level skeleton warriors died, and half of his undead army was lost. But he still had about 700 subordinates, 4 mid-level skeleton mages, and 15 mid-level skeleton warriors, so he had a clear chance of winning.
Without magic power, the legendary ghost became a piece of fish on the chopping board. Under the tentative attack of the skeleton mage, the last 120 points of magic power were quickly completely exhausted.