holy flame

Doro thought well, thinking that it would be safer to lead the horse with Julian, but in fact, the facts were seriously different from what he had imagined.While Samuel and the others were being attacked, another team of undead was also attacking Bahn.When Julian and Doro arrived, a horse had already been torn into pieces by the undead.

In addition to the slight gap in equipment and lack of magical support, the ranger's ability is even stronger than Samuel's in terms of combat experience alone.But rangers are good at attacking on the move, not good at attacking fortified positions, and not good at defending.So he has the ability to break into the encirclement of the undead, but he can't protect Doro all the time.What's more, the groom was scared out of his wits. He didn't dare to follow Julian into the siege. He only wanted to wait for Julian and Barn to meet up and rush out of the siege before saving him.

The bravest men on the battlefield are the first to die, but that doesn't mean all cowards survive.Time was running out, Julian only persuaded a few words, and seeing Doro not moving, he rushed in by himself.And Doro thought that the place where he was hiding was safe, but he didn't know that the undead don't observe the world with their eyes, what they "see" are the fluctuations of the soul and the breath of the living!When Doro realized that he was surrounded, it was impossible for Doro to chase Julian...

After Julian and Barn rushed out of the encirclement, they saw that Doro had been torn off his right arm by the zombie, screaming bloody all over his body.He was calling for help, but all Julian could do was behead him—even if they dragged him out of the zombie pile, he wouldn't be able to make it back to the city, and he would either bleed to death or die from dead bodies. Poisoned by poison and turned into undead.

Letting him die now is a kind of kindness.

Doro's flying head stunned the big Bahn for a moment. If he hadn't reacted in time, he would almost have been bitten on his thigh by a zombie.Although he fought bravely and even kept most of his mounts when his companions did not come, he was a new soldier after all, and it was the first time he realized that the cruelty of war is not just fighting with the enemy, sometimes what kills you may also be yours Companion, and you also have to meet the sword with your companion.

"Turn around! Go into the woods!" Samuel suddenly yelled after relaxing for less than 5 minutes, and turned the horse's head away from the path.

"What's the matter?" In the stumbling forest, the speed of both the horse and Bahn's black bull dropped to the lowest point, and the undead might catch up at any time.

"The front is also blocked, and something is very wrong." Samuel stopped briefly, turned his head and looked at the direction they came from.

"what?"

"Only become a lich and have some special props, otherwise necromancers can only control the undead within their sight. But there is no place to look around, and there are no flying monsters in the sky that can carry people. The undead at both ends of the village and the undead blocking our way must never appear in the same person's sight." I didn't see what it was like to block their undead, but judging from the clues at this stage, there are at least three necromancers? "And what's even more strange is that so many undead are hiding in the woods, how could I not feel it at all?"

Most of the professions serving the holy court have a strange aversion to the breath of darkness and death because they are the purest camp of light.Samuel also has elven blood, even if the blood is not strong, but he has elven eyesight and is also more sensitive to malicious and unnatural auras.It’s really hard to understand why he was so slow-witted about those undead—the hunter being dragged away by the undead behind him had nothing to do with Samuel’s feelings. Silently, if he could still find out, he would have been an official paladin long ago.

Julian was also aware of Samuel's sensitive feeling. After all, when they jointly resisted the Lich, they used Samuel's excellent sense to discover the undead who wanted to sneak attack several times.He had discovered the high-level undead under the command of the Lich, how could these low-level zombies and skeletons not be found?

"Samuel, the most important thing now is to go back to the city. After all, the premise of solving these mysteries is that we can leave alive."

"Indeed." Samuel nodded, through the gap between the leaves, he could see the sun gradually sinking, "The premise is to be alive..."

At night, the bones of the skeletons will become stronger, the speed of the zombies will be accelerated, and the vampires will be able to leave their lairs. Under the shadows, there is a world of undead.

Because of this characteristic of the undead, the bright world in ancient times even classified the undead into the demons for a while, and it was not until later that the demons also hunted and killed the undead that they realized that this world is not a two-part race. Instead of two camps opposing each other, there are three.The only difference between the undead and the demons is that the demons love the night, but they also love the moonlight more. The night of the full moon is their strongest moment.The undead hate all light, including moonlight and starlight, and what they love most is the dark night covered with dark clouds.

Unfortunately, this night was a crescent full of dark clouds, and Samuel and the others were about to face the undead strengthened by the night in the forest.

Julian took out the arrow, and before Bane didn't know what happened, there was a shrill scream, and something fell to the ground in the distance.

"What is that?" No matter how brave they are in the daytime, intelligent creatures have a natural fear of the dark, even the brave barbarian half-breed.The only difference is that fear like Doro becomes cowardice, and that is death.Bahne, on the other hand, was able to ignore his fear, continue to do what he was supposed to do, and continue to fight for his own survival.

"Scavenging crows, or ghost phosphorus birds, they all have black feathers and green eyes, and they can't be distinguished without a close look. But what is certain is that these birds are the eyes and ears of necromancers." Just like the army training of the orcs Falcons, the demon army has gargoyles, and the human army has griffins. Although they have different combat capabilities, they are all flying scouts.

Bahn nodded, although he was still a little ignorant, but he only needed to know that those birds were not good things.

After shooting the first carrion crow, Samuel led the crowd to change their direction.Even if the bird was shot at a distance, they couldn't be sure that the other party really couldn't guess their position.At the same time, Samuel opened the package on the horse's back, which contained some dried meat and hard wheat cakes, and a small bag of salt.

"Paladin's food..." Julian rolled his eyes, rejected the food offered by Samuel, opened the big bag on his own horse's back, and took out a large piece of smoked venison, There is also a leather bag full of red wine, "Do you want to eat?"

Samuel shook his head, he was going to give the food to Bahn, but seeing the big guy staring at Julian's bacon, he simply put the extra back into the bag, gnawing on himself silently The one part—the teachings of the paladins is simplicity. It is recommended in the Holy Court Code that the knights of the Holy Court only eat unspiced white meat and staple food made of coarse wheat, eat a little salt, drink clear water, and only eat vegetables. Cleaned lettuce and a small glass of wine only on the morning of the weekly prayer days.

Of course, from ancient times to the present, as long as the knights of the Holy See leave the training camp and no longer eat the big pot of the Holy See, few can fully comply with this point, but Samuel is obviously one of the special cases.On the one hand, this is because he obeyed it in order to obtain the favor of the so-called gods. On the other hand, to be honest, the so-called delicacies in this world are really hard to eat compared to the delicacies in his previous life, so it is better to eat them directly. What about the original white meat.The same goes for fruits and vegetables, Samuel doesn't think baked apples are very tasty.

Julian shrugged without much persuasion, divided the venison into two pieces and ate it with Barn.

The few people who were eating didn't stop on their way, but what surprised them was that after the carrion crow, no undead jumped out to stop them.Because of doubts and unknowns, they trembled along the way, until they saw the walls of Julian City, they didn't know why the undead no longer chased after them!

"Holy God... It's the first time I've seen undead siege..." Bahn opened his mouth and stammered, sighing - lamenting this kind of thing is very difficult for barbarians, even for barbarians of mixed race. It's a novelty.

"It's not just your first time. Few people on this continent have seen such a scene." Julian nodded. Back then, they fought against the Lich was just a small fortress. How could there be such a spectacular scene now? but……

"Didn't it mean that those undead mages only attacked three or four villages? Where did so many undead come from?"

The densely packed skeletons that almost covered a city wall are the most famous bone sea tactics of the undead clan.

"Skeletons are much easier to find than dead bodies, and the cemetery in Julian City is outside the city." Julian City is only a small town with a population of less than [-], but it is a fortress city on the border after all. , does not mean that the past years have been peaceful.Outside the city, there are family cemeteries of the rich, cemeteries of ordinary civilians, and mass graves where no one knows who is buried.Excluding those corpses that have turned into dust, no one knows how many skeletons there are.

"But, isn't the speed of the undead very slow? How did they run ahead of us... There are more than three undead mages!" Just halfway through speaking, Julian's face has changed, and he has obviously thought of the reason.And it is very likely that the undead mages who attacked them were not waiting there to attack the investigators. It is more likely that these guys who returned to the village were collecting undead, or just happened to meet them after collecting undead.But after that, their troops were still needed on the battlefield, so those necromancers did not continue to chase.

"What now?" Julian and Bahn looked at Samuel at the same time.

"Into the city."