Chapter 55: Ghosts in the Dark, No One Dances with Them
"To be able to destroy Eric's team silently, the enemy's strength must not be underestimated."
"This is definitely not something that a high-level monster can do. No matter how powerful a high-level monster is, even if all the people in Eric's team died, they would still be able to escort the lucky eagle to send back the information."
"Not to mention, Eric's team has a large number of scent potions and hiding potions to dispel monsters. The one who knows how to kill the lucky eagle to prevent the information from leaking out must be an intelligent creature."
"Could it be the undead? "
Moria sat in the room, bowing his head and thinking: "No, most of the undead are creatures without intelligence."
"Although there is not much recorded information about the undead on the Esk Continent, based on the several historical cases where the undead have appeared, it is clear that the undead do not have the ability to kill the lucky eagle in addition to killing the temple knights."
"It may be that there are other forces involved."
"The only one who has the courage and strength to stop the Temple is the School of Magic."
Moriah's eyes lit up. The more he thought about it, the more it made sense. There was at least a 70% chance of it happening!
In addition, there was news recently from the main city of Thorn Flower that the sinner Alia from the Magic Academy had been rescued. This was most likely a series of counterattacks by the Magic Academy against the forces of the Temple!
The more Moria thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Originally, Archpriest William was in charge of the main city, but due to the news of the prison break of criminals from the Thorn Flower City some time ago, Archpriest William received the news from the Palace Master and took some people to chase and intercept Alia and others.
Just when Archpriest William left the main city without being rescued, Moriah discovered that he had lost contact with Eric and could not contact the vanguard of the Temple Knights in the forest.
"Could it be that the Magic Academy's target is this city? They want to destroy the spread of the Temple's faith in the marginal areas? At the same time, they also want to disrupt the Temple's actions to encircle and suppress the undead?"
"No, this matter is too complicated and involves too many aspects. I can't make the decision on my own."
Moriah was a very cautious person. He was so old, a clergyman in his sixties, and he only had a few more years left in his office.
Moria's attitude towards this mission with the forest undead is not to seek merit, but to avoid mistakes.
There is no high priest in the main city now. Considering the existence of an unknown number of undead in the forest and the existence of an unknown number of enemy forces lurking in the dark magic academy, Moria dare not act rashly.
"We must invite a great priest to take charge here!"
This was Moria's only thought.
While Moria was sitting in the room writing the contents of the holy petition, the undead in the forest had already quietly left the forest.
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"I say, brother, your appetite is a bit big."
A skeleton holding a large bone knife emerged from the jungle, looked towards the main city, and said with a laugh, "You want to complete both hidden missions and world-class missions. This is the first time I've noticed that you're such a crazy person."
"Fortunately, I thought you were a cautious and rational person."
“Is this crazy?”
Xu Ercong was stunned, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then scolded: "No, don't interrupt, where is the invisibility scroll I asked you to redeem!"
"Oh, oh."
Long Aotian sighed. He failed to change the subject. What a failure.
He still wanted to lead the players to directly attack the human main city, so as to save points for exchanging invisibility scrolls and experience the scene of passionate battle firsthand.
"Brother Cong, I think we can just attack the city. Players can be resurrected anyway, and we can just use numbers to overwhelm the NPCs in the city."
"Stop talking nonsense and give me the scroll. Are you reluctant to part with the points?"
"Is my brother Long that kind of person?"
Long Aotian couldn't stand the stimulation, he took out the invisibility scroll and handed it to Xu Ercong, saying proudly: "Money is something outside of the body, how can it be as important as the relationship between me and Congge!"
"That's good."
Xu Ercong nodded with satisfaction: "Everyone, come closer! Get ready for battle!"
Long Aotian's heart was bleeding: "What a pity for my points and my limited title."
"Tear."
Xu Ercong tore open the invisibility scroll, and a black light spread out, covering all the undead players.
[Large Invisibility Scroll]: A one-time consumable magic item. It can be used to make a large number of units in a deep invisible state, which cannot be detected by ordinary means or magic. The invisibility lasts for three hours. Required points: 8,000 points.
In Xu Ercong's words, this large invisibility scroll is simply a magical weapon in war.
Although there are many fighting warriors and magicians in the Esk continent, it is generally a low-magic world, and most of the war behaviors in the low-magic world are still very similar to cold weapon wars.
[Large Invisibility Scroll] This kind of thing is beyond the level of magical knowledge on the Esk Continent. It is a gadget created by Xu Xiaofan using his divine power.
Things created by God can naturally run rampant in the low-magic world.
However, although the [Large Invisibility Scroll] has many advantages, its flaws are also obvious, and the price is too expensive!
Fortunately, the planner Lao Gou allowed players to borrow points, which facilitated Xu Ercong's battle plan. Otherwise, for the current players, no individual player could have thousands of points.
Xu Ercong gathered the points from the three major clubs, and not only exchanged them for many new point items, but also exchanged them for several sets of purple suits, which he gave to the top combat players to form the spearhead team No. 1.
There are a total of seven spearhead teams, all of whom are top players with the strongest strength and are equipped with good equipment.
Except for the level 25 purple suit [Bone of the King] from the equipment points mall for all members of the Sharp Knife Squad No. 1, the remaining players are equipped with the [Light Suit] that has been corrupted and desecrated by the Divine Power NPC. It should now be renamed the [Fallen Knight Suit].
The spearhead squad is the key link in this siege plan!
In the pitch-black night, no one noticed that the air was constantly dispersing with slight waves, like imperceptible ripples on a lake, silently dispersing in the night.
The undead army traveled quickly and soon approached the main human city.
The tall, mottled city wall looks like a sleeping giant under the cover of night, with battlements scattered around the wall. There is no moat, only extremely wide city gates on all four sides.
On the city gate wall facing the forest, countless soldiers and temple knights had already lined up to guard the city.
There were also patrol teams patrolling outside the city, and lucky eagles were constantly circling and flying overhead.
"That's a lot of defensive measures."
After receiving the intelligence from the assassin team, Xu Ercong couldn't help but mutter to himself, "It seems that this NPC guarding the city is very cautious. After knowing that Eric was dead, he didn't dare to attack rashly, but waited for the attack."
Long Aotian nodded in agreement: "This kind of person is really annoying, just like the iron wall in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a born bastard, it's hard to impress him."
"The whole army moves!"
Xu Ercong led the army of undead to avoid the patrol team, carefully bypassed the city wall facing the forest, and came to the area on the other side of the city wall.
The defense here is much weaker, with only ordinary soldiers and more than a dozen temple knights guarding it.
After all, for the temple forces, they would never have thought that the undead in the forest would run out silently, let alone use tactics such as night attacks.
"The Sharp Knife Ghost Team!"
Xu Ercong greeted them and called out a team. He looked at the team leader and asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure you can kill the NPC on the tower and open the city gate?"
All members of the Sharp Knife Ghost Team are Ghost Assassin players, all of them are the highest-level Ghost players at level 25, and they are all masters who specialize in assassin-type games.
"have!"
The captain [the author will kill him if he doesn't update] had a serious expression on his face and said solemnly in the channel: "I am willing to issue a military order! Commander!"
The sound of insects appears and disappears, the wind whistles in the night, and every detail is crystal clear on the cold night.
The tense atmosphere and extremely realistic environment make every player deeply involved.
It was as if they were not playing a game, but fighting in a real battlefield. Every player was nervous and excited.
Even the usually arrogant Long Aotian remained silent and clenched the large blue bone knife in his hand.
"good!"
Xu Ercong nodded and waved his hand: "It's up to you, go ahead!"
"Um."
He nodded, then fell silent, and began to communicate via voice in the game's team channel, a communication that no one else could hear.
More than a dozen ghost players turned invisible, then floated and controlled their bodies to rise, finding the right angle of light and avoiding the moonlight, as if they were shadow geckos climbing on the city wall, twisting their way towards the unsuspecting defenders on the battlements.
Although ghost players only have two seemingly weak undead skills, "Shadow Hide" and "Physical Strength Drain", in the hands of professional assassin players, these two skills are magical skills!
"Number one, number two, number three, take charge of the NPC on the left."
"Number four, number five, number six, take charge of the NPC on the right."
"Number 7, 8, 9, I and I will be in charge of the Temple Knights."
"The rest of you, sneak down directly. Once we have dealt with the NPCs on the tower, you will be ready to open the gate! Be sure to deal with the enemies under the tower at the same time, and don't let the NPCs notice."
The author was very decisive in not updating him, and he was prepared for a successful assassination from the beginning.
As an old assassin, he is qualified to have such confidence and self-confidence.
He can use the Assassin to complete any game without taking any damage, and no one knows the Assassin better than him.
"Okay, Captain."
"I'll make the first move, then you guys make the next move."
The author did not update the story and said hello to him. He took his teammates and hid in a place far away from the Knights Templar. Because the Knights Templar had the power of faith in their bodies, they were more sensitive to the breath of the undead.
He was not in a hurry to take action, but was observing the patterns of the patrol teams on the city wall.
Patience is an essential element for an assassin.
A full half hour passed before he found an opportunity!
Perhaps it was time for the patrol team to take over. Eight Temple Knights went to the bottom of the city wall, leaving only two Temple Knights on the city wall.
This opportunity is so rare!
"Get started!"
The author did not update the cutting him decisively, and he quickly sneaked behind a temple knight.
Even with the dual blessing of invisibility scroll and ghost stealth, it is still impossible to completely escape the detection of the Temple Knights, but the ghost players have already expected this.
"who!"
The Temple Knight was very alert and turned around immediately, only to be greeted by a ball of black light.
"Physical energy absorption!"
The two ghost players directly used their signature skills. The black light penetrated into their bodies, causing the Temple Knight to soften uncontrollably, and his body was out of control for a short period of time.
Although the fighting spirit in his body quickly reacted and was ready to resist and seize control of his body, this short moment was enough.
“Puff!”
The poisoned dagger of the Fallen Knight pierced directly into the neck of the Temple Knight. The author did not chop him or even look at the Temple Knight who died with his eyes wide open, but directly placed his body carefully on the ground.
Working together with the author, there were other ghost players who successfully assassinated another Temple Knight.
"Okay, start taking care of the remaining NPCs. Be quick, we only have one minute!"
He raised his legs and continued to move forward. The only thing in his eyes was the soldier NPC on the city wall.
He was calculating how to assassinate all the NPCs as quickly and efficiently as possible, and then gather the strength of all the ghost players to go downstairs and deal with the other Temple Knights who were about to climb onto the city wall.
Efficiency, rhythm, and the gaps between NPCs.
This is the most important thing in the eyes of assassin players, and everything else is false.
“Puff!”
“Puff!”
“Puff!”
Ordinary soldiers were simply unable to resist the ghosts' assassinations and soon fell to the ground one after another.
Even if there were soldiers who noticed something was wrong in time, they were successfully killed by the ghost players before the soldiers sounded the alarm.
"No one can dance with ghosts in the dark."
The author does not update the chop. He shook off the blood on the dagger in his hand, and sprinkled the points product potion to cover the bloodstains and the smell of blood.
He gathered the ghost players, lurked in the shadows under the city wall, and waited patiently for the other temple knights to go upstairs.
…
"This is a group of monsters, right?"
Xu Xiaofan widened his eyes. He really doubted whether these players would still be so skilled in assassination if they knew that they were not playing a game but were in the real world.
This is not a player at all, he is clearly a professional killer!
When the player enters the game state, he is no longer an ordinary person!
A group of Temple Knights were assassinated by the Ghost Assassin player as easily as if they were fools?
“It’s really crazy.”
Xu Xiaofan shook his head. He felt that he had really underestimated the potential of this group of player believers.
Half an hour later.
“Squeak.”
The city gate opened silently.
Xu Ercong, who had been waiting for a long time, smiled, waved his hand, and ordered in the legion channel: "Everyone! Enter the city quickly! Prepare to start a night attack!!"
"After daybreak, I want this city in front of me to become the main city for the players!"
