The first thousand five hundred and eighty-six chapters go deep behind the enemy (six thousand, ask for a monthly ticket)
Helmut stood at the entrance of the cave, staring at the white ice above his head in a daze. After a while, he sighed, and then withdrew his gaze.
Helmut is a member of the Lich who stayed behind in the lair of the Eternals, and is also the leader of all those who stayed behind.
Among the four lichs who stayed at the same time, he was the oldest.
Originally, they wanted to join other lichs in participating in this decisive battle that would ultimately determine the fate of the immortals.
But Edwood ordered a few of them to stay, firstly to serve the high priest of the undead who was seriously injured.
The second is to cope with the worst case scenario.
If the lichs do not win against humans and are unable to stop humans from advancing, then they and other lichs will be responsible for covering up this last lair of the immortals, so that even if humans win, they will not be able to find the high priest of the undead.
, leaving the last glimmer of hope.
When the time comes, they will use explosive crystals to blow up the ice above their heads.
Reaching the top of the canyon, tens of thousands of tons of huge ice blocks like roofs will pour down, completely burying the canyon hidden under the ice cap.
In the extremely cold weather of the wilderness, the collapsed ice will freeze as hard as steel within two days. A pickaxe can only knock out a white dot on the ice.
As a result, even if humans find the location of this cave, it will take at least several years to dig it out.
In the past few years, the High Priest of the Undead has been able to recover most of his injuries. Even if he cannot launch a counterattack immediately, he can at least protect himself.
Of course, the result of this is that the few of them left behind will also be frozen in the cave.
However, as an immortal race, they do not need any food supplies, and they have lived alone for hundreds of years. Even if they are frozen for a few more years, it is just a small fragment in their long life.
And oneself.
As long as His Majesty the Divine Throne recovers from his injuries and regains his magic power, the world in the future will definitely be dominated by the Immortal Clan~!
But...but this is the worst plan after all.
Therefore, ever since Edwood led his army on the expedition, Helmut and the remaining liches have been waiting at the entrance of the cave, staring at the ice cap above their heads, looking forward to their triumphant return.
For the cold and selfish lich, this kind of expectation is extremely rare, and has never even happened before. Helmut only vaguely remembers that hundreds of years ago, when he was still a human, he felt a little nervous when dating his lover.
similar.
Time passed minute by minute as they waited anxiously. In the early hours of the morning, the ice cap above their heads was still pale and there was still no movement.
Helmut and the others gradually became heavy-hearted. The longer time passed, the slimmer their hope of victory became.
If no one returns by daybreak, it means they have completely failed.
Helmut's heart was filled with mixed feelings.
Various scenes kept appearing in his mind: one moment, the lichs on the expedition were all annihilated, another moment, thousands of priests and mages rushed into the caves, and another moment, the lichs returned victoriously...
The remaining lichs also had different expressions at this time. Some were silent, and some were sighing. Others were still unwilling to give up, staring at the ice cap above their heads without blinking, hoping.
The next second, the undead war fortress can appear...
Just when Helmut was anticipating various results in his mind, a lich suddenly shouted excitedly: "Someone is back~!"
Helmut suddenly looked up.
I saw a black dot speeding towards me against the white background in the sky.
Then it grew bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a dark pyramid-shaped war fortress~!
It reached the top of the canyon and then slowly descended.
Compared with the deep and long canyon, a lonely war fortress looks very small, but it is very eye-catching.
The remaining lichs nervously watched the landing war fortress, guessing the outcome of the war in their hearts.
Helmut stared at the war fortress and murmured: "It will be good to come back, it will be good to come back..."
When someone comes back, it means they may have won.
The war fortress quickly dropped to a height of only a few dozen meters. At this time, someone asked in a worried voice: "Why is there only one? Where are the others?"
Helmut couldn't help but was shocked and reacted.
He hurriedly raised his head and looked around, but he couldn't find any other war fortresses at all.
Sure enough, this is the only war fortress that fell through the ice cap~!
In the past, when returning from the battle, more than a dozen war fortresses would land one after another at the same time, and huge roars would echo in the canyon, making it extremely lively.
Helmut's mood suddenly sank again: Only one came back, which is not a good sign. Did all the others die in the battle?
At this time, the war fortress flew carefully through the canyon under the ice, and finally landed in the open space in front of the cave.
Helmut narrowed his eyes unwillingly and continued to patrol under the ice cap for another week.
But all the dust around the war fortress fell, but no one saw the war fortress following behind.
After the landed war fortress stopped on the ground, Helmut and the lichs looked at each other, and then they all flew over impatiently.
They eagerly want to know the news of the war. Even if they fail, it is better than waiting dryly like now.
But when they arrived at the war fortress, they saw that the door had not been opened for a long time. A trace of doubt flashed in Helmut's eyes - although he didn't know what happened, it was obviously abnormal.
Just when he couldn't help but want to fly into the war fortress and take a look for himself, the gate of the war fortress made a muffled sound and then slowly opened.
Immediately afterwards, several lichs wrapped in black robes slowly walked down.
Helmut immediately stepped forward to stop them and asked anxiously: "What was the result? Did we win? Why is only one of you back? Where are the others?"
As he spoke, he looked at the other person carefully, and saw that the leader's black-robed man had his hood pulled down very low, completely covering his face, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly.
However, he didn't care about this, basically all lichs had this kind of surname.
The main reason for this is not to pretend to be mysterious, but because there is too much rotten flesh on the face, so they all subconsciously choose to cover their faces - although the lichs don't care too much about appearance, after all, they once
As a human being, we still have some sense of beauty and ugliness deep within our hearts.
The leading man in black robe stopped, was silent for a moment, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes, we have won. To be precise, we will win soon."
The remaining lichs suddenly let out a burst of excited cheers and were extremely excited.
Someone put his hand on his forehead and shouted repeatedly: "I know it, I know it, it is impossible for the immortal to fail."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, fate is still on our side after all."
"..."
Helmut also breathed a long sigh of relief. He had always regretted that he could not participate in the decisive battle. When he suddenly heard the news of victory, Helmut felt that his phylactery was shaking with excitement.
At this moment, he even had the urge to cry. For the lich who had lost his life and feelings, this was simply a miracle.
He suppressed his excitement and said: "Just...are you the only one coming back? The battle was very difficult, wasn't it?"
"No, of course not." The leading man in black robes let out a dry laugh and said, "The others will be back soon. They are cleaning the battlefield. We are back to report the good news to the high priest."
All the lichs couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all saw the disappointed look in each other's eyes.
Helmut immediately cursed these lichs in his heart for being despicable and selfish. As soon as the crisis of the war was lifted here, these bastards started fighting among themselves again, hoping that others would not be left unscathed.
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At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh for a while: It turns out that there are other people alive. Really, if only one came back... uh, no, if they fight the enemy and lose both sides, they all die in the battle.
OK~!
But they did not say these words. Instead, they tried their best to put smiles on their faces and shouted: "Go quickly, His Majesty will be very happy when he hears it. You guys are really lucky. I'm sure
You will be rewarded by His Majesty the Divine Throne."
As they spoke, they moved out of the way.
The leading man in black robe laughed lowly, lowered his head and walked forward slowly.
Helmut looked at the figures of these lichs and sighed, the Eternals finally passed the biggest crisis of their clan in two thousand years.
They won, the future is still theirs, and the dark magic will finally win.
Although their strength was greatly reduced, they lost the Semitic tribe, and lost the service of the Dark Mage, but as long as they are given enough time, under the leadership of the Undead High Priest, the Eternal Ones will surely rule the world again.
The thing that Lichs don't lack most is time. They can wait patiently for the opportunity in hundreds of years.
And human beings, no matter how powerful they are, will eventually grow old. Only when they are powerful enough to reach the realm of demigods can they achieve immortality like the High Priest of the Undead.
The innate advantages of the immortals will never be matched by those lowly races that use their bodies to move around.
Helmut even began to plan the future strategy in his heart. First, they would use the Dra Zerg to clear out the humans on the Island of the Dead, and then spread the Dra Zerg out to contain the power of humans.
After the High Priest of the Undead recovers from his injuries, he can fight back to the Semitic tribe and rebuild the glory of the Eternal Ones.
When the time comes, we must give those wallflowers a hard look and let them know the price of betrayal.
After this battle, Edwood's status as the number one lich will no longer be shaken. Helmut decided to have a good relationship with him. Number two and number three people didn't dare to think about it. He would be satisfied if he could be number six and number seven.
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Helmut watched the few reporting lichs walking toward the cave, feeling secretly envious and thinking to himself: A bunch of lucky bastards, I wonder what God will reward them.
These people must be Edelwood's cronies, right?
Otherwise, this fat guy wouldn't be able to get his turn...
Looking at the backs of these people, Helmut suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He had a strange feeling in his heart. Anyway, it was a bit awkward to look at these lichs.
He carefully recalled the conversation with these lichs, and suddenly remembered something was wrong: they had just spoken of the High Priest of the Undead, not His Majesty, and they did not use honorifics like the lichs, which was very strange.
Thinking of this, Helmut suddenly raised his voice: "Wait a minute."
The dozen or so lichs who were walking towards the cave suddenly stopped. They stood suddenly like stone statues. After several seconds, the leader of the lichs turned around and asked, "Is there anything else you can do?"
Helmut took two steps forward and said in a deep voice: "I don't think I have seen you before. May I ask who you are?"
"Of all the living beings in the world, it's normal for you to have never seen me." The leader of the lich said slowly with an inexplicable smile: "My name is Lorraine~!"
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A few hours ago…
In the early morning, the sound of killing was loud on the battlefield. The undead war fortress swooped down and opened fire in the black night sky, and then pulled away.
The light emitted by the magic cannon poured into the fortress like raindrops, causing water-like ripples on the ground.
On the battlefield covered by thick fog, the war fortress passed over the human fortress. After launching an attack, it quickly plunged into the thick fog and disappeared.
Even lichs must be careful when flying in heavy fog. With their dark vision capabilities, they cannot see dozens of meters away.
Therefore, flying in dense fog was a technical task, and the lich had to reduce their speed and slowly circle around the fortress.
The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the lichs gradually began to feel tired under the high-intensity attack.
Under this situation, no one noticed that an undead war fortress quietly inserted into their ranks from the east.
On this war fortress, a man wrapped in a black robe said in an angry voice: "You promised me that if my Zero Unit is gone, you will accompany me with an identical one."
Next to him, a man also wrapped in a black robe said impatiently: "Don't say one, I'll pay you three.
How about one for driving and playing, one for borrowing from others, and one for collecting?"
"Okay, okay, why do I feel that your tone sounds like you are cursing?"
The person who spoke opened the hood of the black robe, revealing a long fluffy white beard. He stared at his eyes and said displeasedly. He was the Forbidden Curse Magister, the dean of Maple Leaf Danlin Master Academy, and the chairman of the Allied Forces Advisory Committee.
, Rest.
Opposite him was Marshal Lorraine, deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, commander-in-chief of the front line, and Fantino's protector.
Lorraine curled her lips and said, "Tsk, don't pull it down, I'll keep it for myself."
At the same time, I thought to myself, aren't you mages all just otakus? There is no essential difference between you and those otakus who buy three copies of the same CD.
A soft chuckle came from the side, and a man also wrapped in a black robe raised his hand and gave Lorraine a slap, revealing pink-white palms in his sleeves that fell off.
Lester smiled with great satisfaction and said: "This is what you said, don't default on the debt when the time comes."
There were more than a dozen people standing scattered around the two of them, dressed exactly the same as Lorraine, all wrapped up tightly and using hoods to hide their faces.
"Yes, yes." Lord Lorraine agreed helplessly and said, "It's a good thing that we robbed such a war fortress."
Lester patted the cold wall of the war fortress and sighed: "Yeah, I didn't expect to need it again today."
The war fortress that everyone was riding in was Lester's Zero Unit, which Lorraine and Lester snatched back from the Semites.
After returning to Maple Leaf Danlin, the elemental mages used Unit Zero as a template and embarked on the old path of the rise of a traditional industrial country by first copying and then innovating.
It's just that these otaku elemental mages without girlfriends are really powerful. They quickly cracked the magic circle of the undead war fortress and began to study and create mankind's own war fortress.
Humans did not have the primitive technology of war fortresses, but their research on magic circles was not comparable to that of the lich, and they quickly created war fortresses that could fly faster and higher and carry a larger load capacity.
This Unit Zero also fulfilled its merits and became Lester's personal car to show off his achievements.
When the undead war fortress suddenly flew from the north, Lord Lorraine thought of Unit Zero and mixed it in the middle of the undead war fortress so that no one could detect anything unusual.
Unit Zero first carefully hid in the thick fog, pretended to circle a few times, and fired two rounds outside the fortress.
When flying over the fortress, Lord Lorraine even saw the bright and scratchy 'self' on the ground, like a two-hundred-watt light bulb, running back and forth in the fortress.
At the same time, I also saw 'Lester' showing off his power on the fortress wall, with pieces of spells coming out of his hands, which was very conspicuous.
Lester beside Lord Lorraine muttered: "That old guy pretends to be nothing like me."
It made everyone laugh dumbly.
After the No. 0 aircraft got into the thick fog, it slowly flew northward and left the sky above the battlefield. It took more than ten minutes to break through the thick fog.
As soon as he passed through the fog area, he increased his speed to the highest speed and galloped all the way north, leaving the battlefield full of explosions behind him.
At around 4 a.m., ground covered with ice and snow appeared below Plane Zero, and it flew into the ice and snow area.
Even in the dark night, the white ice and snow on the ground is very eye-catching. The vast white extends into the distance, and the pure white extends to the extreme north with no end in sight.
In the extreme north of the wilderness, the temperature is below freezing all year round, but there are no lakes or rivers, and only pitiful rainfall occasionally.
It took thousands of years to form the ice layer that is tens of meters thick now.
The patience and power of nature amazed everyone on Unit Zero.
Behind the crowd, a deep voice suddenly said: "We are here."
Everyone on Unit Zero lowered their heads, but found nothing, only a piece of pure ice and snow, while Unit Zero began to slowly lower.
The base of the black pyramid-shaped war fortress came into contact with the ice and snow, and then, like passing through a layer of water, it passed through the ice layer that had been frozen for thousands of years and was as hard as steel. Without encountering any obstacles, it slowly sank and submerged.
Among the ice.
The black figure of the war fortress disappeared little by little into the ice, until finally the sharp top of the tower was engulfed by ice and snow.
The ice and snow on the ground returned to their original state, as if they had never moved.
Under everyone's surprised gazes, Unit Zero went straight through the ice and descended into the dim canyon.
Lester kept his eyes wide open as he watched the war fortress pass through the ice several meters thick. He couldn't help but sigh: "This old boy, the High Priest of the Undead, really has two brushes. This formation alone can't penetrate the ice."
Simple."
A person next to him nodded and said, "He actually hid his nest under the ice. I didn't know it, but I couldn't find it even if I searched for it all my life."
"But we still found him~!" Lorraine pulled up the hood of her black robe, pulled out a Thompson submachine gun from the black robe, checked the drum filled with bullets, and pulled the bolt 'click'
He loaded the bullet with a sound and said in a deep voice: "Get ready to fight."
Several people behind him took out their weapons from under their black robes at the same time, carefully inspected them, and then put them into their loose black robes and hid them close to their bodies. From the outside, nothing could be seen out of the ordinary.
Everyone then nodded to Lorraine, indicating that they were ready, without saying a word during the whole process.
Lester raised a handful of black dust and sprinkled it on everyone to isolate the breath of living people. At the same time, he solemnly warned: "Be careful~!"
Everyone in Unit Zero looked at each other and saw the burning fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
The war fortress slowly landed in the open space in front of the cave. Several black shadows quickly came up to meet it. Lester took a quick look and said: "Be careful, it's a lich~!"
"Damn it, isn't it time for them to go to war?"
Several people looked at each other, but they didn't expect to encounter a lich as soon as they landed. This was beyond their expectations and might lead to unpredictable consequences.
Lord Lorraine glanced out the window and said: "Don't be nervous, there are only four of them. Let's go down and listen to my command. If it doesn't work, just kill them and break through.
Now, open the door~!"
The door of Unit Zero slowly opened, and Lorraine walked out of the war fortress at the lead, with her finger in the black robe already on the trigger of the Thompson submachine gun.
The Lich opposite asked eagerly: "What's the result..."
While he was speaking, Lord Lorraine carefully observed the surroundings, but the Lich did not notice and apparently regarded them as his accomplices.
After dealing with this guy for a few words, Lorraine forced himself to calm down and walked through the middle of the lich. His purpose was to directly find the high priest of the undead and kill him. If the lich found out and a fight broke out, it would probably alert the hidden undead.
High Priest.
But after walking a few meters, a lich behind him suddenly stopped him and asked: "I don't think I have seen you before. Who are you?"
Lorraine knew that this guy was already suspicious, and if he stopped to talk to him, more suspicions would definitely be revealed.
Having made up his mind, Lorraine smiled calmly, gestured to the people behind him, turned to look at the Lich, and said with a smile: "Of all the living beings in the world, it's normal for you to have never seen me..."