Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 162: Silent Manor (Part 1)
I don’t know if the monsters around were killed by the three chosen heroes, or if they were conquered by the undead entrenched nearby, but the rest of the journey was relatively peaceful.
If we have to talk about enemies, they would probably be the corpses of some wild animals that occasionally appear on the roadside. Under the influence of evil forces, they become resurrected low-level undead and begin to attack them.
But their strength is very weak, and they can be easily wiped out by just a few people.
But despite this, Levi, Donna and others all looked a little serious, because they were not sure for a moment whether this was due to the power of the undead here, or the influence of the abyss demons and the cracks in the sky.
If it is the former, then it is fine, but if it is the latter, it means that the scope of influence of the devil's power is much wider than they imagined.
Unfortunately, their current strength is still not enough to explore the truth. Not to mention, the nearest one of those abyss rifts is hundreds of meters from the ground. Levi's magic can't reach that far, let alone do something else.
After moving forward for a distance, everyone saw a large and completely unreasonable black cloud hanging high in the sky, covering a large area of land below.
Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "They actually created the Dark Sky Curtain. It seems that these undead can really seize the opportunity."
Low-level undead will become weakened or even die even if they are just exposed to sunlight. This is an important reason why many high elf villages knew that there were undead entrenched here, but only regarded them as a trouble rather than a threat.
Unless it is a cloudy or rainy day when the sun is not out, or it is night, they can only stay in that manor.
But now with the dark sky, their range of activities will suddenly expand countless times.
When he got closer and could really see the situation in Silent Manor, Levi discovered that the information provided by the Lightforged was seriously lagging behind. Not only were the undead here not affected by the demons, but they had made a huge profit from somewhere.
Specifically, they not only built a simple low wall on the periphery of the manor, but also had two arrow towers in the corners on both sides. At first glance, their defense facilities were obviously stronger than those of an ordinary village, and there were some unfinished facilities at the back. It was obvious that the undead entrenched here were trying to develop and expand while the high elves had no time to take care of them.
Unfortunately, because the arrow tower was blocked tightly, Levi didn't know what kind of enemy was inside for a while. After all, according to common sense, the low-level undead, whether skeletons or zombies, did not have enough wisdom and ability to complete a series of complex actions such as drawing a bow and shooting an arrow.
And probably because he had killed the three God-chosen heroes before, the undead here also received an early warning, and a large number of undead were already waiting for them at the gate of the manor.
According to the information from the Lightforger, the enemy would only appear in the dark corners of the manor where the sun could not reach.
But now it seems that just entering this manor is not an easy task.
However, the area of this manor seems to be quite large, and the undead have carried out preliminary construction. If I can completely capture it, is it possible to use it for other purposes?
For example, build a new village here!
After taking a few careful glances, Levi couldn't help but become more cautious. He felt that the next battle might not be particularly smooth.
Because in addition to the several types of undead that have been seen before, the enemies here are not only extremely numerous, with at least three or four hundred skeletons and zombies added up, but also of many types, because they come from different races.
In addition to the most common humans and half-elves in the surrounding area, he even saw two ogres and a minotaur holding a long-handled battle axe.
These four-meter-tall guys were unusually pale or purple in color, and had obviously been undead for a long time. But just by looking at their size and muscles, he knew that even if they were dead, their fighting power must be good.
I don’t know if they were scared by Levi’s magic, but I haven’t seen those undead God-chosen heroes who were killed yet.
When they were still some distance away, Levi ordered his troops to prepare for battle on the spot. He first gave himself a lot of buffs, and then began to summon ice archons to enchant the arrows of the ranged troops. The melee troops began to use holy water, etc. Since they knew that there would be a big battle coming, they naturally had to be fully prepared.
But when they saw their actions, the other party became a little restless.
"Hey, your name is Levi, right? Aren't you famous? Why are you standing there and not daring to attack? Are you scared?"
Levi was not surprised that his identity was guessed, as he was no longer an unknown person in the surrounding area.
He was just amused by the other party's low-level provocation: "From the sound, you are the ghost that I killed just now, right? Why don't you dare to come out and face me?"
The ghost was stuck for a moment. Of course he didn't dare to do that, because he was afraid that once he really stepped out, he would be killed instantly by the opponent again!
But someone nearby couldn't help it, and the vampire immediately walked out from a group of soldiers. Then he shook the black and red cloak behind him, looking quite handsome and cool, but he lost some value as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Why are you bragging? It's just that I was a little luckier!"
Even from a distance, Levi seemed to be able to hear the strong sourness in his tone, which contained envy and jealousy.
The fact that Donna is a heroic unit has long been speculated by some people, and some have even speculated the approximate time when she began to follow Levi. This inevitably made many people jealous beyond recognition, because at that time, most of them didn't even have a level 2 soldier!
But Levi didn't care. He didn't even pay attention to the other party. Instead, he continued to cast the spell. What's wrong with being lucky? If you have the guts, go and repeat this sentence to the goddess of luck and see if she will kill you with a divine punishment. Luck can also be considered a part of strength!
However, these two guys have been trying to encourage me to attack, which obviously shows that they have some conspiracy...
Thinking of this, Levi first asked Cindy to release Entropy Light Armor that had a chance to deflect arrow attacks on himself, Donna and other important subordinates. Then he began to release Mage Armor and Protective Arrows to everyone one by one.
Especially the latter, this magic Levi copied from the old wizard. He had just learned it recently and had not had time to use it yet, so it was a good opportunity to try out its power.
According to the introduction, during the duration of this magic, when encountering long-range projectiles or flying arrows, including but not limited to bows, crossbows, muskets, stones, and even cannons, etc., the magic will first absorb a certain amount of damage, and then calculate the protected person's own defense.
With Levi's current strength, this magic can absorb up to 13 points of damage each time and can withstand up to 10 times, which can be said to be quite good.
If you add in the Mage Armor, Entropy Armor, the defense attached to Levi's own equipment, the Soldier Bee's Guard, Guang Yakong's Anti-Evil Ring, and other enhancement magics such as False Life and Secondary Bear's Endurance, it will be almost impossible for him to be killed instantly by ordinary enemies' concentrated fire.
As for the mage, he is relatively fragile, so he cannot fight an unprepared battle. He should add all the buffs to his body first.
But while he was casting spells leisurely, the enemies on the opposite side couldn't stand it. The flashing lights on their opponents' bodies kept coming one after another, endlessly. If the opponents were really well prepared, the next battle would definitely be more difficult. Could they just watch it?
"Boss, what should we do?"
The skeleton soldiers and ghosts looked at the vampire at the same time. Among the three of them, the opponent was not only the strongest, but also the smartest. The God-chosen hero who disguised himself as a wild monster and ambushed the high elves was his idea.
The vampire gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, he keeps casting magic. Let's get rid of him. Anyway, our military ranks are not low. Now that the boss is not here, it's a good opportunity for us to have fun!"
"Okay, let's do it!"
"Damn it, I must take revenge this time!"
"That's right, smash his head. It would be even better if we can get back everything we lost!"
Soon the three undead chosen heroes reached a complete consensus. Then there was a commotion among the skeletons and zombies, and then a four or five meter long, very bulky-looking war machine was slowly pushed out.
Even though they had never really met before, as soon as he saw the other party's appearance, Levi instantly became serious: "Everyone prepare for defense."
Because he recognized it, it was actually a crossbow. Due to its huge size and the fact that it often has wheels underneath, some people call it a crossbow cart!
The crossbow is a type of war machine that needs to be controlled by a dedicated person to exert its combat effectiveness. Since it is not a type of soldier but just an object, it can also be placed in a space ring. The only difference is that it occupies more grids, basically 5-10 grids are required.
But these guys in front of them used such a cumbersome method to push them out. Either they were too poor to even afford a more advanced space ring, or it was that it didn't actually belong to these guys in essence, and they were just using it temporarily.
Then Levi has to be more careful. Send these guys out to fight first. Is the real owner of this place preparing other conspiracies and tricks?
"Haha, are you scared now?"
As the ghost laughed a little wildly, the crossbow started up suddenly. A tearing shriek was heard in the air, and a giant bone arrow with a diameter of more than an inch and a length of almost a person shot directly towards him.
At the critical moment, Bayoru, the elephant man who had been standing in front of Levi, suddenly took a step forward and tried to block it.
But the attack power of the crossbow was so powerful that with a loud "bang", even the powerful Bayoru couldn't help but groan and took several steps back before he barely stopped.
Although he successfully withstood the attack with a shield in one hand, and adjusted the angle of the shield at the critical moment, causing the crossbow arrow to slightly deviate, thus reducing its attack power to a certain extent, he still lost fifty or sixty points of blood on the spot because of the powerful impact force attached to the crossbow arrow.
Even the metal shield had obvious cracks on it. If it were hit two more times, this green-quality equipment would have to be thrown away directly and would not even be worth recycling.
Even Donna next to her had a cold expression, because even as a hero unit, she would not be able to withstand an attack of this magnitude. Although once she really moved, it would be difficult for the crossbow to hit her.
But if this were done by other relatively fragile arms, it is possible that they would be killed instantly on the spot. This is the real power of war machinery.
However, the undead have never been good at war machinery. Most of the low-level soldiers simply do not have enough ability and wisdom to control war machinery. Capable necromancers and vampires are often almost impossible to engage in such work tasks which they consider to be low-level. Therefore, the enemy's mobilization of war machinery this time was indeed beyond Levi and his companions' expectations.
Could it be that this is also due to the changes brought about by those chosen heroes?
But fortunately, they all knew that although the power of war machines was much greater than that of ordinary archers, their attack speed was also much slower, and it was impossible for them to launch another attack in a short period of time.
Despite this, they could no longer prepare for battle leisurely. The maximum range of war machines far exceeded that of ordinary bows and arrows or magic. Unless they retreated immediately and completely got out of the enemy's range, their best way was to take advantage of the gaps in the opponent's attack and rush forward in one breath.
Of course, if it was not this kind of siege, but a conflict in the plains, there would be more ways to deal with it. Not only is the attack speed of the crossbow extremely slow, but it also cannot predict like experienced archers, so they have almost no way to deal with faster-moving targets or air force units.
But before Levi could give an order, something strange happened again. Gray-black smoke began to spread out from the giant bone arrow that was damaged by the collision, and almost instantly covered an area of more than ten square meters.
Suddenly, a series of coughing sounds were heard, and all the subordinates who inhaled the smoke fell into a state of poisoning and would continue to lose health over a period of time. Although this situation was not particularly serious, it was very disgusting.
Cindy immediately began to cast purification magic. At the same time, Levi and Donna took out some antidote potions that had been prepared long ago and gave them to their subordinates to use.
At this time, several Undead God-chosen heroes in the distance laughed out loud.
"Haha, how about this trick?"
"Let me show you the power of our poisonous ballista!"
Cindy and others were a little angry when they heard this, but Levi was not angry at all . Instead, he seemed to be thinking about something.
He very calmly ordered his subordinates to retreat slightly to avoid the attack of the opponent's poisonous crossbow as much as possible, and then summoned several medium-sized wind elementals and several rat masters, and let them fly towards the directions of several arrow towers respectively.
Before they really got close, a series of "bang bang" sounds were heard. Several wind elements were severely damaged, but the more agile rat users were almost all safe and sound. Levi then realized that the other party had actually deployed some musketeers on the arrow tower!
The expressions and moods of several Undead God-chosen heroes suddenly became unhappy. They thought it would be a killing move, but who knew that the opponent would be so cautious?
But they are powerless to change anything. Although they have been gaining a lot of experience points and merits by ambushing and killing dozens of enemy God's chosen heroes in recent days, their authority here is still extremely limited. They are not qualified to command the musketeers on the arrow tower, and being able to control the crossbow is already their limit!
After looking at each other, they nodded at the same time and released another killer move.
Soon Levi and others saw that another crossbow was slowly pushed out by the other side, and then started shooting.
However, unlike the last poisonous crossbow, the crossbow arrows fired by this crossbow were obviously several times smaller. However, this did not mean that Levi could ignore its threat, because it directly fired five arrows at once!
The subordinates who were attacked, whether they were Yuyong or half-elves, were instantly and severely injured. Although the power of each arrow this time was several times weaker than those that attacked Bayoru before, their defense and health points were also far inferior to Bayoru.
So even though there was no poisonous gas eruption this time, it still kept Cindy, Janet and others busy.
Although he failed to kill anyone, several undead in the distance laughed again when they saw this. However, the corners of Levi's mouth, who was provoked, gradually began to rise. He had seen through the opponent's weakness and vaguely discovered part of the truth behind it.
However, to be on the safe side, he continued to let the wind elements and the rat masters wander around the arrow tower. He even summoned a few monsters to block the crossbow and actively attract their firepower.
This type of crossbow, like the crossbows used by ordinary soldiers, cannot be used for projectiles. Once there are enemies blocking the way ahead, they can only attack in a straight line and cannot get around them at all.
The wind elements also began to use wind blades, and the rat masters launched magic missiles the size of ping-pong balls, trying to further investigate the situation at the arrow tower, and soon made some progress.
There were neither zombies nor skeletons in the arrow tower, but some humans. Although their faces were also very pale, they were indeed not undead creatures, because under the attacks of wind elementals and rat masters, bright red blood flowed from their wounds.
But that’s not all. Levi let the summoned creatures continue to harass under the arrow tower. A few minutes later, when he thoroughly understood the pattern, he repatriated all the summoned creatures that had completed their tasks brilliantly back to their original world.
At this time, it was the turn of the undead gods' chosen heroes to feel depressed.
Although they were not quite clear about Levi's purpose at the beginning, now after a few minutes, even a fool could tell that Levi was obviously testing the attack distance, attack power, attack interval, etc. of his own crossbows and musketeers. He only killed a few of the opponent's summons, but as a result, all his secrets were exposed!
