Chapter 1352 Sea of ??Skeletons (asking for a monthly ticket)
ww.x.om Late at night, in Vatican City, the soldiers had fallen into a deep sleep after a day of fighting. However, the headquarters in the Papal Palace was still brightly lit.
Several large lamps illuminate the hall as if it were daytime. In the middle of the hall is a huge sand table that is more than three meters long and wide.
Although the sand table is huge, it is also extremely detailed, clearly marking the city of Fantino and the Semitic camp.
The hall was still noisy, with people constantly coming in and out.
More than a dozen telephones were piled up on the table, with all kinds of wires tangled randomly, making it extremely messy. And those noisy and harsh ringtones kept ringing, so that the officers next to them couldn't even bother to sort them out. They could only
He kept picking up the phones and shouting loudly into them.
At this time, the officers were exhausted and their voices were hoarse, but they still had to shout into the microphone: "Hey, hey. Hey. I can't hear you clearly. Please speak louder~!"
Different from the original product, the telephone used by the military is the second generation product produced by Soaring Eagle Company, and it is also the latest product - a hand-cranked magnet telephone.
Before making a call, everyone had to hold the handle and shake it violently. And because the call quality was not very good, in order to make the person on the other side hear them clearly, they could only shout as loud as they could.
Although the day's battle is over and the soldiers can go to rest, there is still a lot of follow-up work that needs to be completed by the officers.
For example, counting casualties, replenishing ammunition consumption, dividing defense areas, summarizing the day's combat experience, formulating response plans, inspecting sentries, leading patrols... and so on.
As the highest-ranking officer, Lorraine naturally couldn't be lazy. She was always busy with Patlaud, and as a result, even old Mazovia couldn't rest.
During the daytime battle, although the old man did not personally participate in the battle, he was still worried and frightened. He was already exhausted mentally and physically. However, as Fantino's butler, there was no reason for him to go to bed while his guests were busy fighting for him.
Therefore, I can only accompany Sir Lorraine to hold on.
Just when Mazovia was drowsy, there was a sudden sound of rapid footsteps.
Immediately afterwards, a soldier strode in and shouted: "Report, there is a situation~!"
Old Mazovia shivered suddenly in fright, almost falling off the chair, waving his hands and feet and jumping up in panic. He said nervously and loudly: "What's wrong, what's wrong, are the demon bastards coming..."
The officers around him were all startled, then turned their heads and gave him a strange look.
Old Mazovia finally came to his senses and smiled coquettishly.
The soldier came to Lorraine and Patlaud and said loudly: "There is a sudden large-scale mobilization in the enemy camp and they may attack."
Lorraine and Patlaud looked at each other with surprised expressions on each other's faces.
After a day of fighting, both the enemy and ourselves were exhausted to the extreme, and it was impossible to continue fighting.
At this time, it was impossible for the Semites to launch a large-scale attack, unless those Semitic generals wanted to exhaust their soldiers to death.
But Patlaud did not dare to neglect, and ordered without hesitation: "Order all units to take up positions on the third layer of defense."
"Go and take a look." Lorraine pondered for a moment, then grabbed the holster thrown on the table and ran out quickly. All the staff officers in the headquarters did not dare to neglect, and they all followed closely behind.
Sharp and piercing whistles sounded from everywhere in the city. The "beep beep" kept ringing.
Immediately, amid the roars of the officers, large groups of soldiers rushed out from the houses on both sides of the street. They held weapons and ran quickly through the streets in formation.
Lorraine climbed directly to the roof of the Temple of Light and looked westward.
I saw the firelight flashing in the Semitic camp, and many light spots could be seen slowly moving westward, seemingly leaving the camp.
This puzzled everyone: If the enemy was launching an attack, shouldn't they be heading east, towards Fantino?
"What...is going on?" General Patlaud asked in confusion.
Lorraine could only helplessly spread her hands and said, "Just wait, there will be news soon."
Patlaud looked at Lord Lorraine with surprise and doubt. It was so late at night that he couldn't see clearly and he couldn't leave the city. How could he know the enemy's movements?
Patlaud secretly muttered in his heart: "Does this man have an undercover agent in the enemy camp? Impossible, even if there is an undercover agent, there will be no news."
A few minutes later, a young man walked quickly to Lord Lorraine and whispered a few words to Lorraine.
Out of professional habit, Patlaud took a closer look at the man through the light in the distance, but found that the man was quite unfamiliar. He only vaguely remembered that he seemed to be related to Miss Vera.
Patlaud couldn't help but murmured in his heart: These brothers-in-law are really everywhere~!
But then I thought about it, and it seemed that the future emperor of the empire, Second Master Leo Lei, was also one of Lord Luo's brothers-in-law.
If he continues to secretly slander his brother-in-law, then Mr. Lei will naturally have no choice but to take advantage of him.
Therefore, although he could not stand this ugly social phenomenon, as a loyal minister of the empire, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.
At this time, Lorraine was seen having a low conversation with the young man.
Patlaud vaguely heard the words "lich" and "dark mage". Although he didn't hear them very clearly, those few keywords alone were enough to make Patlaud feel an unpleasant feeling in his heart.
premonition.
Finally, after the young man finished speaking, he quickly left and disappeared into the night.
Patlaud glanced at the young man's back and was secretly curious about his identity: This young man was so powerful that he could clearly know the enemy's movements in the dark.
How did he do it?
At this time, Lorraine's face became very serious. After pondering for a moment, he whispered to himself: "If you play this trick at the headquarters of the Holy See, these lichs will burn out their skulls, right?
Then he shook his head and said: "No, if something goes wrong, it must be a monster~!"
Patlaud asked nervously: "Sir, what happened?"
Lorraine pointed to the dark outside of the city and said, "A group of old friends are coming in front?"
"Old friend?"
"Liches and Dark Mages."
Mazovia and Patlaud were stunned for a moment at the same time.
Lorraine patted Mazovia on the shoulder and said: "Old Ma, there are hundreds of lichs and five to six hundred dark mages outside the city. The Semitic army is retreating in a hurry. What can you think of?"
Mazovia said blankly: "What can I think of..."
Suddenly an idea flashed in my mind, and I shouted loudly: "They are planning a dark spell~!"
Then Mazovia gritted his teeth and said viciously: "Let the dark mages be released outside the Holy See because they don't want to die fast enough. I will go and gather people right now.
Fantino doesn’t have many other things, it just has many priests~!”
Mazovia ran down the roof with vigorous steps, shouting loudly as he ran: "Come here, wake up everyone who can cast spells."
If an undead creature dares to step into Fantino, we might as well kill ourselves by wiping our necks."
At this time, all the fatigue on the old man's body had disappeared, and the sound was like a loud bell. Faintly, Lorraine could hear a hint of excitement in his voice. I wonder what made the old man so happy?
Soon, thousands of priests, chief priests, bishops, cardinals, even great cardinals, and ascetics rushed towards the city wall under the protection of the Knights Templar.
Because it was too hasty, many people even rushed out after getting up from the bed, still wearing pajamas and nightcaps.
Just like Mazovia said, letting undead creatures step into Fantino would be a shame for them, the defenders of the Holy See headquarters.
The sacred Fantino cannot be defiled.
Everyone is here to hang out, and they are all very clear about this.
Once Fantino is no longer sacred and the people are no longer as pious as before, it will be much more difficult for everyone to cheat money in the future.
These bald guys have never been peaceful and kind people, they have always been cruel and ruthless. Usually, when dealing with the common people, they are always trying to get rid of them.
Their business, their jobs.
All of them stared with blood-red eyes and howled wildly, just like a bunch of wolf cubs.
Immediately, hundreds of various holy lights illuminated the battlefield outside Fantino City. With the holy magic, even flares were unnecessary.
The entire city wall of Fantino is as bright as if it were glowing. Standing on the top of the Temple of Light and looking over it, it is quite spectacular and dazzling.
"So beautiful~!"
Two sweet calls came from behind Lord Lorraine, and Hilmeria and Vera didn't know when they came behind Lorraine.
The holy light instantly illuminated a few hundred meters outside the city wall.
Lorraine set up a telescope and looked carefully, and saw that in the milky white light, densely packed gray-white skeletons without any gaps were slowly moving towards Fantino.
Countless skeleton soldiers spread out from all sides like a tide, completely surrounding Fantino.
Lorraine handed the binoculars to Patlaud, who immediately took a breath and exclaimed: "Skeleton soldiers, Skeleton Sea tactics~!
How do you fight this?"
The so-called Skeleton Sea tactic is a method commonly used by Liches. They use a large number of undead creatures to drown their opponents. Even if they cannot kill them, they will still be exhausted.
After first consuming a large amount of the opponent's power, the dark mage, dark knight, and demon soldiers swarm in and easily eliminate the enemy. This trick has been tried and tested time and time again.
All the training received by Patlaud and the soldiers of the Eagle Division is to target living people, not undead creatures.
Although everyone knows about the existence of this undead creature, seeing it with your own eyes for the first time will frighten anyone.
It is said that undead creatures are invulnerable and cannot be killed. How effective can the firearms in the hands of Eagle Division soldiers be?
Sir Lorraine suddenly chuckled and said: "If we change the place, the Eagle Master would really have a headache with the Skeleton Sea tactics. As long as the Necromancer still has mana, the skeleton soldiers will never be able to kill them all, and the zombies, if they are not killed,
It would be dangerous to tear it into pieces, but...
This is Fantino~!”
The most indispensable thing is the priests who can deal with undead creatures.
Mazovia quickly ran back out of breath. He first bowed respectfully to Hilmeria and said: "Your Majesty, Sir, the lich is so crazy. There are skeleton soldiers everywhere outside the city, and there are more behind.
There are zombies.
It seems that the enemy is determined to attack the city with undead creatures."
"Can you stop me?" Lord Lorraine asked with concern.
Mazovia showed a confident smile and said firmly: "Of course, your Majesty and Lord, please rest assured."
Since the beginning of the war, the Holy See has been losing the battle. To the point where the Holy See has to rely on His Majesty the Pope to sacrifice his beauty and trick the Governor-General of Naian into a honey trap to protect Vatican.
Although the two have been a couple for a long time, the dignified Fantino has to rely on outsiders for protection, which really makes the Fantino lose face.
When facing Lord Lorraine and the Eagle Masters, I first felt guilty several times.
The people of Maple Leaf Danlin resisted the undead war fortress troops and fought vigorously.
However, Fantino was defeated thousands of miles away and lost hundreds of thousands of troops. Comparing the two sides, what would the people think and how would they view Fantino?
This time they finally got the chance to play their full role, which was very important to rebuild the confidence of the Fantino people.
What's more, for dark magic, holy magic is the relationship between the city guard and the hawker, the natural nemesis, as the saying goes: Don't be too happy when you beat him~!
Facing the dark mage's skull sea tactics, the priests will use their holy magic to prove that they are also the main force of the coalition and an indispensable and important force.
At this moment, there are more than 20,000 clergymen participating in the battle.
There is no need to wait for orders, the priests and bishops on the city wall are doing their best. The top of Vatican City has become a display of the Holy Arts of the Holy See of Light.
Various splendid holy arts even lit up half of the night sky and spread for dozens of miles.
The holy magic protects undead creatures from the extreme range. Undead creatures that step into this range are instantly purified into ashes.
Occasionally, there would be a few gunshots, which were the soldiers of the Eagle Division shooting at the fish that had slipped through the net.
However, since the undead have no consciousness and no life, it takes several shots to kill an undead creature, which is very uneconomical compared to hitting a person.
But skeletons, zombies, and these cheap undead creatures are still coming towards Fantino from the darkness in an endless stream, as if they want to consume the priests on the city wall to death.
Even Mazovia in the city couldn't help but sigh: "What a strong fluctuation of dark mana~!
However, if we continue to use it at this rate, we will be able to fight until dawn."
Lorraine shook his head and said: "You understand the problem, the Lich Council does not understand the problem. There must be a problem.
Put artillery on high alert."
This meaningless battle lasted for more than an hour, and even the priests felt a little impatient.
At this time, a special "rustling" sound suddenly came from the battlefield. Although it was low, it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the city.
The sound sounded like a huge object being dragged across the ground.
Lord Lorraine frowned, secretly wondering, where had he heard this voice before?
She turned to look at Vera. Vera's expression was as confused as Lorraine's, and she nodded at the same time. She seemed to have heard this voice before.
A powerful ascetic shot a huge beam of holy light in the direction of the sound, instantly illuminating the battlefield outside the city.
In the horrified gaze of everyone, an "animal" like a hill was slowly squirming. At first glance, it looked like a maggot magnified countless times.
"What the hell is this?"
"God of light, what is that?"
"..."
The priests on the wall were all stunned for a moment. This was the first time they saw such a disgusting and terrifying undead creature. Many people couldn't help but crawled on the top of the city and vomited.
What's worse is that these monsters are found on all sides of the city, more than one in each direction.
Under the illumination of the light, you can clearly see a large group of crawling undead creatures slowly crawling out of the darkness in the distance. The nearest distance is less than 300 meters from Fantino.
An ascetic monk blasted the powerful holy light on the monster. Under the thick light, pieces of flesh peeled off from the monster's body like melting snow in the sun.
If you look closely, you will see that these pieces of peeling flesh are actually corpses - human corpses.
However, these peeling corpses were quickly grabbed back by the tentacles protruding from the main body and pulled into the main body.
The holy light that could roast the lich into crumbs did not stop the monster's progress.
Immediately, more holy light shone on the monster, but the monster peeled off, reassembled, and squirmed slowly at the same time.
Mazovia's face changed drastically, and she said in panic: "This is..."
"The Corpse Demon," Lorraine exhaled slowly and said, "This is the Corpse Demon, the monster that once destroyed Edin Island."
At the same time, he suddenly understood in his heart and said: "The lich drives the skeleton soldiers to attack the city just to buy time to release the corpse demon, what the hell~!"
I should have known earlier that I should have blasted it with artillery.
Back then, a corpse demon released by a lich destroyed the port of Edin Island. Lorraine and Vera spent a lot of effort to kill it.
Unexpectedly, a dozen of them suddenly appeared here.
This kind of monster was developed by the Lich hundreds of years ago, and was explicitly prohibited from being used by the Semitic people by the High Priest of the Undead.
Fantino didn't know him well. After the battle on Edin Island, the Holy See personnel who went to investigate only saw a pile of undead corpses corroded by dark mages.
"As long as it is driven by mana, this kind of monster can keep devouring corpses or living people, and then become bigger." Lorraine explained in detail: "If you want to kill him completely, you also need to kill the lich that controls the corpse demon.
.If they were allowed to enter Fantino, the entire city would be wiped out."
Fantino's low walls couldn't stop them at all.
The priests on the top of the city also began to fight hard. This kind of monster knew that it was difficult to deal with. Various holy spells were continuously bombarded on them. The speed of the corpse demon group finally slowed down, but it did not disintegrate.
In other words, the Priest just slowed them down.
Suddenly there was a roar at Lorraine's feet, and the artillery fired.
Orange-red flames instantly illuminated the city.
A few seconds later, balls of orange-red flames suddenly exploded near the zombie demon closest to the city.
Two cannons directly hit the corpse demon's body, and the fire shrouded it. It could be seen that most of the corpse demon's body was blown to pieces, and the monster finally fell down.
But before the Fantino people at the top of the city had time to cheer, the half-broken terrifying monster expanded again at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Another burst of artillery fire covered it, but the monster still stubbornly gathered its body again.
At this time, the Fantino people were also ready to fight, using all their strength to attack the approaching corpse demon.
Under the double blow of artillery and holy magic, these monsters dispersed and reunited again, as if it was a tug-of-war.
But there were too many of these monsters, and the Eagle Division's artillery had to fire in all directions, greatly diluting the intensity of the firepower.
The range of holy magic is limited. Most priests and chief priests can only hit them more than a hundred meters at most. At present, only powerful ascetics can attack them.
More than ten corpse demons slowly approached within 200 meters of Fantino. No one knew if there were more such monsters in the darkness behind.
The firepower was dispersed to the twelve zombie monsters, and it gradually became apparent that they were a little powerless. Just after blocking one, another one quickly regrouped, and the artillerymen also felt that they were focusing on one and neglecting the other.
The battle became a competition between the artillery firepower of the Eagle Division, the holy magic and the magic power of the Lich.
Lorraine's face became increasingly ugly, and the battle situation was not optimistic. These monsters were getting closer to Fantino inch by inch.
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