Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 284: Legend
Thanks to the Death Elf as an insider, Levi and the Sun Knight's subsequent operation to plunder the spoils became unusually smooth.
Unfortunately, the Haunted Forest had already been abandoned by the Undead, and all the valuables were taken away. The Death Elves themselves were weak and had been ostracized, so they were naturally unable to fight back, which resulted in all that was left were things that the Undead didn't value.
For example, the miscellaneous soldiers that were killed by Levi and the Sun Knight before, and some low-level buildings that can recruit skeleton soldiers, zombies and ghosts.
The Sun Knight originally planned to dismantle them all, and then divide the corresponding resources between the two of them, but Levi felt that there was no need to be so anxious.
The black magic sword in his hand has a special effect. Every 7 days, by consuming resources, he can upgrade a certain number of 0-2 level skeletons, zombies, and ghosts under his command by 1 level.
Skeletons and zombies are fine, and it is difficult for them to have much effect in the hands of non-undead. But if you upgrade the level 2 ghosts to level 3, they can be barely used. After all, they can fly and are special spirit units.
Then a few minutes later, looking at a pile of brand new level 3 ghosts and the Black Magic Sword in his hand, the Sun Knight made a major decision. He must get a treasure precious enough to exchange for the Black Magic Sword with Levi!
After cleaning up the battlefield, demolishing all the buildings, and happily dividing the spoils, since the Sun Knight was bringing the Undead troops with him, he was too lazy to go into the town again. He decided to go back and rest, then head straight to the Underdark to meet up with Thousand Thieves and the others in Blood and Glory.
Levi was waiting for Michaela in the conference room to arrive and report the latest progress to her.
"Herman Gost? The legendary necromancer who controlled the corpses of his brothers to pull his cart?"
Although Michaela's tone was very flat and there was not much expression on her face, Levi could still hear her subtle disdain.
Then he learned that Hermann Gost was originally a stable boy. Unfortunately, he encountered a plague and his entire family died, leaving only him. In order to resurrect his five brothers, he began to study necromancy. It can be said that if you see this, he is still a person worthy of sympathy.
Later, he met a legendary vampire, Manfred von Carstein, by chance, and learned many secrets about necromancy, gradually growing into a legendary necromancer.
Yes, that's right, it's the same surname as the vampires Levi killed before. It is said that this surname is also the real top-notch family among vampires.
Although they are all vampires, just like elves are divided into high elves, wood elves or winged elves, vampires from different families also have their own strengths.
The Strigoi family is the ugliest among vampires. It is said that this is because their clan could only suck the blood of the dead in the cemetery, which greatly changed their appearance and abilities.
Although this makes them despised even among vampires, they still possess beast-like powerful strength that is unmatched by mortals and are typical warrior vampires.
The Blood Dragon Family are military experts, and it is said that they only select the best knights to develop their offspring, so the number is also the smallest.
The Nicholas family are all professional masters of dark magic, and are good at magic cleansing.
The most common vampires in the Lamia family are beautiful young ladies. They are used to lurking in human society, infiltrating, charming, and even manipulating mortals. They are also a vampire family that causes headaches for many gods and temples with a strong sense of justice.
Because other vampires either hide or fight head-on with real guns and weapons, only the Lahmia family likes to stir up internal fights among mortals, and even kill people with borrowed knives.
The von Carstein family is known as the king of humans and the undead. They are not only powerful, but also good at governing internal affairs. In history, there have been many kings who have ruled the human kingdom.
Even now they still occupy the Sylvania region in the eastern part of the Sigmar Empire, and their current head is Manfred, who once taught Gost the power of the undead.
As for Dracula, although he is quite famous, he has no famous descendants.
Gost may have originally wanted to resurrect his brother, but over the long years, Gost's initial warmth has long since disappeared, and now he is just an evil being that the living detest and even hate.
The only thing that was related to his past as a mortal was probably that he loved making various corpse transporters.
It can increase the Undead's resistance to fire and magic in range, improve their attack and defense attributes, and even slowly repair the injuries of all Undead. It can even restore the Undead that have been broken into bones into skeletons, and so on. There are many types of corpse transporters.
Among many legendary necromancers, Gost has never been known for his powerful lethal magic or curses. What he excels at is the cannon fodder tactic.
With the command of the Undead wizards, combined with various evil magics and multi-functional corpse carts, even low-level skeleton soldiers can play a certain role and are very restrained against physical barbarians, such as beastmen, greenskins, or most humans who are not accompanied by priests and mages.
Moreover, when you watch your teammate who was fighting side by side with you a minute ago turn into a bloody corpse in the blink of an eye, waving his weapon to kill you, it has a great impact on morale.
Over time, as Gost's footprints gradually spread to every corner of the main world, his notoriety grew day by day, and he was wanted by many countries, forces, and temples of the good and lawful camps.
So Gost became a target that everyone wanted to hunt. Maybe he decided to travel around the world in order to collect magic that could revive his brothers, but now it may be more for escaping.
There was no way. The legendary necromancer sounded very powerful, but those temples that had stood for thousands of years all had rich heritage. He was on the kill list of at least thirty or forty legends.
However, for the high elves who are very good at magic, this problem is not very big. Even with the additional fire resistance provided by the corpse carts, ordinary skeleton soldiers cannot withstand fireballs or the like.
Perhaps it was because he understood this that Herman Gost had never faced the high elves head-on in the past.
Although it has now been confirmed that the haunted forest is related to the other party, considering that the other party has already fled in advance, Michaela will put this information aside for the time being and report it to Princess Belinda first to see her attitude.
As for the Silver Blood Army, just by looking at the name, we can tell that they are a force led by vampires. Their sphere of influence is roughly located in the northwest of the colony, in a series of mountains called "The Glory of Nagash", with some human towns in between. They usually don't have much interaction with the high elves.
Although some high elves have gods in the evil camp, their race is undoubtedly the representative of order and kindness, while the nearby humans are more inclined towards evil and chaos, so the colonies have always looked down on each other and are too lazy to deal with each other, let alone bypass them to attack the Silver Blood Army.
Moreover, the Silver Blood Army should be regarded as a very low-key and extremely impoverished undead race in the main world.
They basically never set foot out of the mountains, including humans and dwarves and other races, and have no interest in the worthless and barren mountains. It is said that it is much more barren than the land of the greenskins.
In addition, there is a strong aura of the undead in those mountains, which is not suitable for living people to live in. Therefore, even though they have occupied a large territory, they have always been like a law-abiding little transparent person.
But now it seems that they are not at peace either. They are all vampires and may be involved with Dracula.
After listening to this, Levi felt a little bit weird. If the Silver Blood Army never stepped out of their own territory, then they basically had no ability to recruit or convert new troops. When other races were developing at a rapid speed, wouldn't those vampires be sitting there waiting to die?
Could it be that they are taking the elite route?
Or could they actually get reliable troops from somewhere else? For example, the Underdark?
Hearing what Levi said, Michaela's expression changed slightly.
Indeed, if the Silver Blood Army can freely go to the Underdark to carry out hunting activities, then they really don’t need to do anything on the surface world. They are pretending to be so well-behaved, probably because they are preparing for some big move.
This might hinder our next plan...
Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and hurriedly opened the space ring, from which she took out several ancient parchment scrolls that were obviously of a long history.
Levi couldn't help but join in the fun. These things looked very valuable.
However, he soon discovered that it was not a magic book, but some books recording history and poetry. Although he was somewhat disappointed, he still patiently read on to learn more background knowledge, which might come in handy someday.
A few minutes later, Michaela suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, I found it!"
"It is said that among the mountains where the Silver Blood Army is entrenched, there is a fortress left by the legendary wizard Nagash, so the mountains there are called the Glory of Nagash!"
Levi felt that the name sounded familiar: "Nagash? I seem to have heard of him somewhere."
Mikaela sighed softly, "It is because of him that the gods of the Mulhorand pantheon have become so weak, the Tomb Kings have become neither human nor ghost, and their territory has changed from the originally fertile plains to the endless desert it is now."
As the pride of a high elf, she seldom looked down upon other alien races, but the being named Nagash was a powerful being that she could not help but stand in awe of.
With the power of a mortal, he directly changed the fate of the entire country and even the gods. He is even called the most powerful human wizard in history. Although their positions are completely different, his knowledge and power are indeed worthy of awe.
Even though thousands of years have passed since his death, who can guarantee that he doesn't have other hidden tricks?
At this time Levi also remembered the relevant information. The Tomb Kings were originally a powerful country comparable to the Cathay Dynasty, but because of an accident, the land began to dry up and a large number of people died, causing the strength of the Tomb Kings and their gods to plummet.
Even though thousands of years have passed, they have not been able to regain their former glory, and it is foreseeable that they will not have the chance in the future. After all, they have been working hard to recover, while other races or forces are developing at a rapid speed.
The culprit behind all this is Nagash.
Michaela sighed again: "More importantly, there are rumors that Nagash, as a mortal, once tried to create an elixir of immortality and succeeded in disguise, that is, he created a large number of vampires. Some people even believe that he is the true ancestor of vampires in the main world."
Levi suddenly realized that the reason why the Silver Blood Army was willing to stay in the mountains was definitely for Nagash's legacy.
But in this case, it is hard to say whether they are on the same page as Dracula.
If they gained enough power from Nagash's legacy to fight Dracula, who would find themselves a boss for no reason if they had a choice?
Is it even possible that they want to replace it?
But no matter what, there are three forces of the undead alone, and the Underdark has become increasingly lively recently.
But since Michaela was able to find the relevant information, the elves should have known this information a long time ago, right?
They have not taken any action. Are they too lazy to go on an expedition beyond the human kingdom, or is it that even if the other party obtains Nagash's legacy, it is actually of no importance to them?
After all, it was Nagash who contaminated all the water sources in the Nehekhara region occupied by the Tomb Kings with a magical plague, and then awakened the corpses buried underground for thousands of years at once, bringing the once glorious country to the brink of destruction.
But if this trick is used against the elves, the gods will definitely intervene, just like this massive invasion of demons.
The reason why Sobek and other gods failed to react immediately was because they had just fought with the greenskin gods and were in a period of weakness and dormancy after the war, which allowed Nagash to succeed.
But apart from anything else, just look at the wisdom and strategy shown by the two goddesses Lilith and Moonbow . They would never ignore this point. After all, the name of that mountain contains the three words "Nagash".
I don’t know if Michaela thought about this, but she obviously realized the seriousness of the problem, so she first expressed her gratitude to Levi, and then used magic to convey the latest information to the Black Castle as soon as possible.
At the same time, she also told Levi that she would completely destroy the entire haunted forest next, using the same method Levi used, that is, fire.
Levi nodded, and then he asked Michaela about the demon's movements.
Due to the short time, Mikaela did not fly far before she received the information reported by Levi, so she was unable to scout the entire area. But in her opinion, the threat of the demons was not that great, at least not as great as the demons that had originally entrenched in the Black Castle, because the greenskins of the Red Cloud Tribe had also been fighting back hard.
Moreover, the strength of the demons that cross over will be affected to a certain extent. Since the gods have taken action before, the abyss rift will continue to shrink due to the cutting off of energy supply. The strength and number of enemies emerging from it will also be gradually restricted over time.
It can be said that as long as you grit your teeth and get through the most difficult moments in the early stages, the more advantageous it will be for you in the future.
By now, mid- and high-level demons are almost unable to pass through the abyss rifts, and they can only summon strong ones through sacrificial rituals.
If we had not chosen to launch an attack on the Red Cloud Tribe at this time, there would basically be only two outcomes.
Either the demons won battle after battle with the help of the sacrificial rituals, becoming more and more powerful, and finally, like a snowball, quickly occupied the entire Red Cloud Tribe.
By then, with a large number of sacrifices, they might be able to turn the abyss rift above the sky from temporary to permanent, and turn the Red Cloud Tribe into another important stronghold for the demon army to enter the main world.
Either the demons were powerless and struggled hard with the help of a sea of cannon fodder, but were finally successfully counterattacked by the Red Cloud Tribe.
But no matter which of the above two situations occurs, the victorious side will inevitably have a group of relatively powerful hero units emerging, which is not a good thing for the high elves.
Especially the more than 200 God-chosen heroes with boiling blood made the natives, including Michaela, wary. After all, the growth rate of the God-chosen heroes was too fast, and they had such obvious hostility towards them.
Therefore, driven by many factors, they chose to send troops even though their own military strength was insufficient.
Now the demons and greenskins are in a state of mutual destruction, and the threat has been greatly reduced. For our side, this is almost the perfect ending.
After hearing these words, Levi felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge.
He had originally had related speculations and opinions, but they had never been so complete, mainly because of the lack of intelligence and the fact that he had no one with whom he could discuss the issue.
It is indeed enough to let Donna and Elegy kill the enemies or serve as battlefield commanders, but asking them to make suggestions or something like that would be too difficult for them.
Originally Levi thought that with the joining of Sally, the situation might change slightly, after all, she is a wizard who is good at using her brain.
But the image of her killing the bugbears while laughing wildly kept lingering in his mind, and he began to doubt this...
"So, what's the next plan?"
“Try your best to defend the two existing towns, and let the sea elves and other chosen heroes handle the Broken Bay. When Archmage Teclis arrives, everything will change completely!”
After getting such a clear answer, Levi knew what choice he should make. He would go to the front line first to see if he could take advantage of the opportunity to make some money, and then return to Blood and Glory and continue to develop in the Underdark.
If you have spare time, you can go back to Bitao Village, but there shouldn’t be any big problems there.
The witch Tiva is responsible for animal training, Leonidas is responsible for patrolling, and the Red Brotherhood comes to trade regularly. Now everything has been on track, and he just has to wait to collect the money.
Thinking of this, he didn't waste any more time. After replenishing some supplies, he started heading north directly.
However, they did not gain much along the way, because the other chosen heroes were also quick in their actions, especially those who failed to successfully participate in the battle in the haunted town, and they had already launched attacks on many surrounding greenskin villages early on.
At the same time, Levi also confirmed that the defenders of these villages were indeed stronger than usual. They should be the guys who were driven out of the haunted town by the Boiling Beast Blood before.
After advancing for dozens of miles, Levi happened to meet Master and others who were turning back, and they all looked unhappy.
This immediately made him curious. If they had won, they would definitely not have this expression, but if they had lost, why didn't they see any losses in their troops?
When Master heard Levi ask this question, he immediately complained: "Levi, you don't know, the Beast Blood Boiling guys are too mean, they actually voluntarily gave up their village, directly demolished the buildings to exchange for resources, and then ran away with the resources, leaving us with an empty shell!"
If it were for other God-chosen heroes, such an empty shell might have some value for development and construction, but he was planning to go to Zhendan and had no intention of continuing to develop here. What was the point of occupying an empty village?
Such a bare village, located at the forefront of the battle, even a rich man like the Sun Knight would not be willing to buy it!
Even though Levi was calm, he almost couldn't help but exclaim. It had only been a short time since the haunted town fell. Aren't they being too decisive?
No wonder the beast's blood is boiling and he can accomplish such a big thing, he is really courageous!
Moreover, the other party must have a tool similar to the one that monitors the sub-space and can quickly transmit messages, otherwise how could they move so quickly?
Then he suddenly thought of something, and he asked quickly: "Is it like this in all villages? What about the green-skinned villagers?"
"Anyway, this is what we saw. At the forefront of the battle with the demons, all those villages were controlled by people with boiling blood of beasts, and most of the villagers inside followed them and ran away."
Master was indeed very depressed. He rushed over with great enthusiasm, but except for the first two villages that were not cleaned up properly, where they got some advantages, the rest of the trip was in vain.
That was why he chose to turn back, because he speculated that the entire guild must have made the same decision when the blood of beasts was boiling, that is, to run away together, and then let the demons and elves go to war, and then they would reap the benefits and find the right opportunity to make a comeback.
Now he could only pass the information back to the haunted town and see what decision Michaela would make.
Unless necessary, he didn't want to confront the demon army head-on.
Because they are mainly based on golems, with others as auxiliary, they are good at setting up formations and fighting with real swords and guns on flat ground.
But there are quite a lot of flying units in the demon army. If they encounter a situation like the one this morning, with thousands of air force units rushing over at the same time, they probably won't be able to escape even if they want to.
"They took the villagers with them? Did they find a place to settle down?"
Levi became more and more confused. Not all greenskins were capable of fighting. Some ordinary greenskins who served as villagers were not as capable as human militiamen. It would take a lot of effort to take care of them if they were brought into the wild.
Moreover, each village must have at least a few hundred villagers. There are at least a dozen villages to the north of the haunted town. How big a settlement would it have to be to accommodate so many villagers? At least it must be town-level, right?
It is completely impossible to run from here to Broken Bay. Not to mention that there are almost no entrances to the Underdark anywhere near the sea. Just look at the harsh environment of the Underdark. With such a long journey, it would be good if only one in ten villagers could successfully arrive. It is a thankless task.
Could it be that they occupied a town in the Underdark?
But if that was the case, why would they risk a war with the Red Cloud Tribe and seize the haunted town?
Wait, Levi suddenly realized that his thinking seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding. Taking those green-skinned villagers away does not necessarily mean that they have to work somewhere else. Their existence has other meanings.
For example, becoming a soldier of the undead, or sacrificing oneself to the devil!
When defending Lilith's temple, the demon hero, Names, had made a formal invitation to him. As long as he agreed, she could transform him and his subordinates into demons. That had been confirmed by the system.
Judging from the character shown by the boiling blood of the beast, it is not completely impossible for him to turn to the arms of the devil when he is forced to do so.
After all, not everyone is as fully committed to it as Levi is, and sees himself as a part of his own race. Most people simply see it as a game, and naturally do whatever they want!
First it was the bugbears and the snakemen, and now there’s a possibility that they’re in league with the devil, and if that’s really the case, then Beastblood is indeed an incredible figure.
It’s just a pity that he chose the wrong target this time. He really shouldn’t have provoked the high elves!
After listening to Levi's speculation, Master, Suifeng and others were a little dazed. If they were in the other's shoes, Beast Blood Boiling would probably make such a choice.
Master suddenly felt a toothache: "Levi, what should we do now?"
"Beast Blood Boiling has more than 200 God-chosen heroes. Even if they were defeated in the haunted town, they still have some power. If they join forces with the demons..."
I can't say how many more there are. Even if each green belt has 200 troops, that's tens of thousands of troops. Even if some of the pressure is dispersed on the Broken Bay, the remaining troops are beyond the ability of the haunted town's existing strength to resist. Even if Michaela is added, it still can't be resisted, not to mention the demons who will almost certainly take advantage of the fire to rob.
“Don’t be impatient. The beasts are not united inside. It is impossible for everyone to become a demon. Moreover, they may not know that the good days of the demons are coming to an end.”
He knew from Michaela and others that Teclis was about to come and close the Abyss rift, but Beastblood had no idea that the seemingly powerful friendly forces they found would not actually be able to hold on for a few days.
Without the constant supply of reinforcements from the Abyss Rift, the demons' sacrificial rituals, although terrifying, were of little use despite the purification array.
Even though Illidan had just been deified and was at the most vulnerable stage of a god and could not lend a helping hand again, even though Teclis might have to deal with the old black dragon, he had no time to be distracted for the time being.
But with the help of these God-chosen heroes, it is only a matter of time before all those demons are killed.
As soon as Master saw Levi's confident look, he knew that the other party must have learned some secret information through other special channels, and most likely from Michaela.
Thinking about how cold and businesslike Michaela was when she treated him, it was really true that comparing yourself with others can make you angry.
But Levi is a wizard, so his charisma value shouldn’t be high, right?
Does Michaela only look at the face and not the attributes? Does being handsome bring privileges?
"Okay, so in your opinion, what should we do next?"
"Send someone to tell Mikaela first. Then we will split into three groups. Suifeng will go to the Underdark to investigate whether there are any movements of the greenskins. Master, you will go straight to the lair where the blood of the beasts is boiling, and I will go to the front line against the demons."
"There is no need to engage in battle unless it is necessary. We just need to determine the whereabouts of the green-skinned villagers and the attitude of the demons towards the green-skinned people, and then we can roughly understand the whole story."
Although they had to go back again, which was a bit of a waste of time, Master and the others were very excited this time because they had a clear target. No matter what information they got in the end, it would not be a wasted trip.
Levi rested for a while and then considered whether to send a large force or lead the cavalry himself.
The main reason is that there are a lot of flying and ranged troops in the demon army.
For Magog and Gog, Donna can still use her advantage in range to take the lead in killing them, but the two flying types, the Quassemites and the Iron Cavalry Demons, one has a large number and the other is strong, and neither is so easy to deal with.
Moreover, some flying demons called angry demons have appeared on the battlefield recently. They use sharp claws as attack weapons and are violent output type. They have further improved the demon's air force, and the demon army has become more difficult to deal with.
It’s not because the absolute strength of the angry monsters is really that strong. Most of them are only level 2 or 3, and there are almost no level 4.
But the key is that all their attributes are focused on strength and agility. They are extremely fast and have high attack power. Unless you can kill them all in the first place, once the opponent rushes into the long-range position, there will be some casualties regardless of victory or defeat.
The Sky Slasher airship can fly the Harpy kite, but it cannot use the same method to deal with the Angry Demons which are several times faster.
However, before he could really make a decision, Inspector Yakong had already warned him that the demons were coming to his door, and there were quite a few of them, almost one thousand.
Levi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. It seemed that he didn't need to rush to the front line to confirm it personally.
The demons passed through the villages abandoned by the green-skinned God's chosen heroes and headed south all the way here. Their purpose is self-evident!
He immediately ordered his troops to prepare for battle. At the same time, he and Cindy took off into the air, preparing to weaken the enemy's air force first. Otherwise, with the strength of the monitors, they would not be able to hold on for more than a few seconds.
As for Sally, even though she has a flying magic carpet, after experimenting a few times on the road, she found that it was still a little difficult for her to drive it with her current strength.
Its movement speed is comparable to that of an ordinary mount, but it is more difficult for her to perform more complex actions such as ascending and descending, braking or turning. It's not that she can't do it, but it takes a little more time.
It may not seem like much, but compared to the angry monster that is born with wings, this amount of time will be magnified countless times.
What's more, she uses fire magic, so it's better not to make things difficult for yourself in front of the devil.
