Chapter 367: Is Maltis a friendly force?
dawn.
When the first light of dawn appeared, fierce fighting was still going on in Sarleon City.
Countless undead still surrounded Sarleon City, some even clung to the city walls like ants.
These originally slow-moving zombies all became full of energy after the golden light appeared. They were not only extremely powerful, but also seemed to be more agile than living people.
But fortunately, they have no siege equipment, no superb skills, and no decent weapons - these undead were just ordinary civilians buried in the ground when they were alive, and they were not warriors.
The attack launched by these chaotic zombies is disorganized. Sarleon City can definitely be defended.
So far, no undead has been able to successfully climb up the city wall. After all, the warriors in the city are some of the most elite warriors in the entire continent.
The area under the city wall was basically covered with broken limbs and arms.
But there were too many undead, and the soldiers in the city couldn't rush out.
At this time, an unusual army arrived outside the west gate of Sarleon City.
The troop was not large, only about two hundred people, all wearing the same half-helmet, revealing only their snow-white chins.
They all seem to be women.
They all wore cyan armor that looked very old, but still had obvious Snake Cult patterns and delicate engraved marks.
The mark was a poisonous snake stretching its body in the cloud pattern.
"The Legion of Terror... That's Maltis and the Horned Viper Vanguard..."
Ramon, who had seen a lot, whispered.
This guy has very good eyesight and can see clearly from three hundred meters away.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then frowned.
None of them had seen Maltis, but they had all heard of the Legion of Fear. Meeting the Legion of Fear at a time like this was definitely not a good sign...
"Leon! Leon is on her horse!"
Wendy suddenly shouted excitedly.
Her focus is always only on Li Ang.
And Maltis was also looking at Wendy carefully at this moment. Under the half-covered helmet, her eyes were the same rich purple as Wendy's.
After watching for a while, Maltis suddenly laughed silently.
She raised the sword in her hand and pointed it towards Sarleon.
There was a panic on the city wall, and the leaders of each knight order began to nervously deploy their troops.
The Dread Legion is renowned, and it is said that each Horned Viper Vanguard has the combat power of a Twilight Knight. Most importantly, they are probably immortal and must have terrifying power - everyone can realize that they are definitely undead.
Because those chaotic undead outside the city did not attack them...
Those unarmed, miscellaneous undead were not scary, and no matter how many there were, they would not pose much of a threat. But if two hundred super masters of the Twilight Knight level were mixed in among them, it would be a completely different situation...
The terrifying level of Vendatil displayed in Kwen Village is still vivid in people's minds. Imagine two hundred Vendatil appearing on the battlefield at the same time...
Everyone felt uneasy.
"How could it be...they are killing those undead?!"
Wendy suddenly cried out in surprise.
With Lisa Dilan around, Wendy didn't need to arrange the troops. She kept an eye on Maltis - or to be more precise, she kept an eye on Leon.
But she saw that Maltis himself was walking slowly towards Sarleon City, while all the Horned Viper Vanguards rushed into the group of undead and began to hack and kill them wantonly...
"I'm afraid she just wants to kill the zombies that stand in her way..."
Risa Dillan turned his head and glanced.
Sure enough, those undead spirits did not attack Maltis. They were mindless and kept surrounding the Serleon City, making it impossible to get through.
The Horned Viper Vanguards were only arranged in two rows, seemingly just to clear a passage for Maltis to get closer to the Fierce Lion City.
Maltis was slowly approaching Sarleon City, less than two hundred meters away from the city wall.
She kept staring at Wendy, and there seemed to be no one else in her eyes.
Wendy also stood on the city wall, looking down from above. This distance was already within Wendy's shooting range.
Wendy picked up the bow, but was a little hesitant. She didn't know whether she should release the arrow.
She realized that the Maltis had been staring at her, but he didn't seem to have any hostility?
She was the leader of all the archers on the wall, and she did not move, nor did the Noldor Guards and Silvermist Rangers.
"I am the garrison general Martis... What's your name, kid?"
At this moment, Maltis suddenly spoke, and it was obvious that he was talking to Wendy.
The voice was hoarse, but sounded kind and even had a hint of joy.
"My name is Wendy's... Can you let Leon go? How is he now?"
Wendy was a little panicked, but she could feel that Maltis didn't seem to have any ill intentions, so she quickly tried to see if she could rescue Leon.
"Wendy... Is this the Leon you're talking about?"
Martis pointed at Leon lying on the horse's back and said, "He should be considered dead..."
"What?!"
Everyone on the city wall was stunned at the same time.
Although everyone was mentally prepared for this, it was still difficult to accept the result.
A line of tears flowed from Wendy's eyes. She stopped talking, raised the bow in her hand and aimed at Maltis.
"Child, you shouldn't point your bow and arrow at me... As a Sindari, you shouldn't feel sad for tiny humans. You should come with me..."
Maltis completely ignored Wendy's bow and arrow and continued speaking to her gently.
Wendy didn't respond and just shot an arrow.
The Noldor arrows went straight for Maltis's head.
But Maltis just raised his hand casually, and the arrow shot from above was caught by Maltis directly with his hand...
This is a guy more powerful than Aldarian...
Wendy dropped her bow and pulled out a grenade from her waist.
But just as she lit the grenade fuse, she suddenly heard a faint sound.
"Fuck... I feel so dizzy..."
Leon's voice?
Wendy looked up.
Leon was covering his head as he rolled off Martis's horse.
He rolled to the ground, sat up with great difficulty, shook his head, looked around, and looked like he had just woken up.
"Leon!"
Wendy screamed with joy.
"Wendy! Throw it away!"
Lisa Dilan beside him also screamed in fear...
Wendy still held the burning grenade in her hand, the fuse had basically burned out...
Wendy hurriedly threw the thing in her hand off the city wall.
Just one second after the attack, the grenade exploded in mid-air before it even hit the ground.
It just happened to blow down a few undead that were climbing the wall...
"An awakened magician? Hahaha, the Sindari are indeed not destroyed!"
Maltis' voice was even more surprised: "Wendilfu, child... follow me!"
"It's obvious that Wendy can't get out. How can she go with you when there are so many undead blocking the way..."
Li Ang, who was sitting on the ground, seemed to understand the current situation when the grenade exploded and complained in time.
"You woke up so quickly? Who are you?"
Martis looked at Leon with some surprise.
"Let's kill these zombies first..."
Li Ang stood up, covering his head.
He was not very panicked, because the moment he woke up, when he rolled off Martis's horse, he saw water droplets on the bottom edge of Martis's half-helmet.
Those are the water droplets condensed in the helmet by the breath exhaled from the mouth and nose.
Li Ang himself often uses a visor or a half-visor helmet and is very familiar with this situation.
This situation means a very obvious fact - Maltis is neither an undead nor a non-human like a fallen being. She is still alive and needs to breathe!
As long as she is a living person, there is nothing to be afraid of, even if she is a Sindarri elf.
At the same time, he also felt that Martis might be completely out of Kavala's control - she didn't act like she was being driven by anyone just now.
Martis looked at Leon, then at Wendy on the city wall, raised his sword again, and rushed towards the undead under the city.
This time, the horned viper vanguards who were originally arranged in two columns also dispersed to both sides and began the real killing.
Of course, maybe this can't be considered killing - the undead outside the city are corpses that have long been dead, and this can only be considered as cleaning up these unclean things.
Just like mowing the grass, rows of undead had their heads chopped off and fell to the ground.
Outside of the Fierce Lion City, a piece of open space was quickly cleared.
These undead did not attack Maltis and the Horned Viper Vanguard, and did not fight back at all. Even when Maltis chopped off their heads, they did not react at all - it was as if Maltis's troops did not exist at all to them.
Likewise, they did not attack Li Ang, as if Li Ang was one of their kind...
Le Ang has little combat power now, and did not go up to join the battle - there is no need to do so. Maltis is right in front of him, and two teams of horned viper vanguards are on his left and right sides, all hacking and killing frantically. Le Ang, who is protected in the middle, looks like the boss of the Legion of Terror.
Maltis was hacking at the undead outside the city. This seemed a little unbelievable. He had thought they were powerful enemies, but now they had turned into friendly forces?
The soldiers in the city were collectively stunned for a while, until Martis cut out a piece of space near the city gate and Sir Roland shouted "Breakout", everyone reacted.
The city gates were opened, and a large army went out of the city, cooperating with Maltis's horned viper vanguard to start clearing out these zombies.
At this time, more than ten miles north of Sarleon City, Ulric, wearing a suit of golden armor, was slowly moving towards Sarleon City.
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With the help of the Dread Legion, which was immune to the attacks of the Undead, the Undead outside the west gate of Sarleon City were quickly cleared out, and all those clinging to the city walls were stabbed down.
"Leon, are you okay?"
Wendy led the Noldor Guard out of the city, but still kept a cautious distance from Maltis.
But Maltis did not show any hostility, she just didn't want to come into contact with humans - perhaps she really regarded humans as inferior creatures from the bottom of her heart.
However, she maintained some friendliness towards Li Ang.
"I don't know either...but I can be sure that at least I'm alive."
Li Ang was not sure whether he was okay or not. He originally thought he was going to die, but after being in a coma for a night, he miraculously came back to life.
But he could feel that his condition was a little abnormal - or it could be said that he had returned to normal...
It's contradictory, but it's true.
He lost the slow heartbeat of the Noldor elves and returned to his original state... the state when he was a pure human before being saved by Wendy.
Moreover, he lost the powerful perception he gained from the void.
He could no longer sense any movement within two miles...
It was as if everything had returned to the way it was when he had just left the Fog City.
"You died once, and then were resurrected and controlled by someone... just like me..."
Martis looked at Leon and said, "Azi Dahaka's holy light can make the living die, and can also resurrect the dead... and you and I, we have died once, so you and I will return to our original state..."
"Do you know that you were once controlled by Kavala?"
Leon looked at Martis, who had taken off his helmet, revealing his fair face.
The face is delicate and pretty, but has a sharp look to it.
She must be a soldier, and looks a lot like Vendatil—her fighting ability and personality are probably similar, too.
"I know. He was the one who found me and forced me to sign the soul agreement. He wanted to control me completely. He needed my magic... or rather, he needed someone who could cast spells."
Maltis nodded and replied: "I have been controlled by him for three hundred years, and now I am finally free... So I have to thank you, human. I know it was you who brought Azi Dahaka to my side - although you don't know what it is, you did save me in fact..."
Perhaps out of a sense of gratitude to Leon, or perhaps because she wanted Wendy to know some history, Martis told her own story.
Maltis is a high-ranking lord of the Sindari Empire, a great wizard, and the last general of the garrison.
At that time, the civil war among the Sindarin elves had become extremely extreme, with countless elves dying every minute and every second.
After the rebels clearly gained the upper hand, the Sindarin Empire launched a 'Project Light of Revelation'.
The plan was to launch a Jedi counterattack.
They created some ultimate weapons codenamed 'Aziz Dahaka'.
If such a weapon were released, it would kill countless lives, but at the same time, it would also resurrect those who had just died.
Life is also a kind of energy, and any energy is subject to certain conservation laws, and the same is true for magic or divine arts.
Where there is life, there is death. This kind of weapon uses the death of the living to exchange for the resurrection of the dead.
This is a kind of exchange, essentially a reciprocal exchange of energy, which is completely different from ordinary magic. Otherwise, even the Sindarin elves would not be able to create such a weapon.
Since this is a forbidden technique that comes at a huge price, no one has dared to use it before - this thing can only be used by great wizards with powerful magic, but the wizard himself is a living person, and if he uses it he will die, so who dares to try?
Originally, the Imperial Army was prepared to send the general who was already in a doomed situation to the battlefield when facing defeat and their own troops were killed in large numbers by the rebels...
Then, the enemy will die and our own people will live - wouldn't the situation of the battle be completely reversed?
Maltis is one of the generals responsible for implementing the ultimate weapon. Her duty is to be ready to sacrifice for the empire at any time.
But what was unexpected was that this ultimate plan encountered some problems before it was actually implemented.
Before the final decisive battle began, many 'Az Dahaka' were detonated in advance - this thing is unstable and needs the blood of the Noldor to maintain stability. Once the storage environment is not suitable, it is easy to misfire.
The unexpected explosion of this "flammable and explosive item" caused a chain explosion covering the entire continent. As a result, a large number of magicians died instantly, were resurrected instantly, and then died again...
Who could bear this? As a result, the magic power in the bodies of the Sindarri elves was stimulated, and various terrifying magic fluctuations occurred...
As a result, they were all wiped out before the decisive battle between the two sides even started.
The violent surges of magic triggered endless storms that lasted for hundreds of years on the continent of Wengedarian.
The entire continent was completely destroyed.
