Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 293: Journey of Destruction
Levi was really stunned this time. Wasn’t he a subordinate of Gost?
That means that the other party probably didn't intend to attack Blood Glory at the beginning?
However, this battle was not in vain, because based on the style of the Undead Mages, once they discovered the existence of Blood Glory, battle was still inevitable.
Whether they are motivated by hatred or are on a journey of destruction, their hostility towards the living will not change.
Just a journey of destruction...
This forced Levi to make more associations. Visharon definitely did not have any relevant priesthood or field. On the contrary, Talos, his benefactor who had once promoted him but became his enemy after they fell out, had destruction among his priesthood.
Now that Visharoon is sending his followers on a journey of destruction, is he trying to snatch the priesthood from the other party?
But before he actually obtains the priesthood, the destruction of his believers will only become the source of the other party's divine power. As an immortal magic god, it is extremely difficult for him to obtain the priesthood of destruction.
No, wait, think about it from another perspective. What if he was not trying to seize the priesthood, but to please Talos?
Levi felt as if he had discovered something. If his guess was true, then Visharon could be said to have the best of both worlds.
First he betrayed Talos, and now he is secretly colluding with Talos. Wouldn't the God of Mages and the Mother of Magic, who were willing to become enemies of Talos in order to protect him, become big enemies?
Levi even had a rough guess as to why this so-called journey of destruction had never been discovered in the surface world but only existed in the underdark.
Because the Mother of Magic is known as the incarnation of the magic web, and the goddess of night, Shar, has set up a so-called shadow magic web, trying to gather evil spellcasters under her command, the two sides have long been at loggerheads.
At the same time, Shar also holds the special priesthood of the Underdark. Velsharoon's followers are carrying out such activities here, and the Mother of Magic probably has no way of knowing about it, which just happens to cover up Velsharoon's actions.
Hmm, it seems that he and Shar may have some special connection? That's why she was willing to cover up for him?
I have to admit that Visharon played this trick quite well, and it was obvious that he had planned it carefully beforehand.
But the only thing he didn't expect was that his believers were so stupid as to directly reveal the so-called "journey of destruction" to an outsider like him!
However, this is just Levi's guess. He still needs to further confirm the specific information before reporting to the two goddesses Yue Gong and Lilith.
The elves have always claimed to be the most powerful race in the main world in terms of magic, and in fact, this is indeed the case. The only ones who can barely compete with them are the guardian magic toads.
But the advantage of the magic toads is that the strong ones among them are very strong. In terms of the popularity of magic, they are far inferior to the elves.
However, because the Mother of Magic was too powerful, humans' progress in magic was astonishing, and the gap between them and the elves was getting smaller and smaller.
Moreover, the elves have never had a true god of magic of their own. They only have a god of wisdom, learning, and arcane who is related to magic - Hoth. However, his godhood is only level 14, which is far inferior to the Mother of Magic, who is known as the strongest among all gods.
But if I were to throw out this information, would the elven gods be able to benefit from it?
The answer is almost certainly yes.
Whether a huge fight breaks out between Talos, Shar, the Mother of Magic and Velsharoon, or they join forces to kill Velsharoon, the two-faced guy, it will definitely be beneficial to the elven pantheon!
Similarly, for Levi, while the gods were eating meat there, he could at least get a chance to drink some soup!
And it was obvious that Visharon did not completely trust the vampires. The most obvious thing was that Levi did not see any vampires among this undead army embarking on a journey of destruction.
This is not difficult to understand. The status of vampires among the undead has always been very special, because even the lowest-level vampires have high intelligence, and they can live well as long as they have enough blood.
This is completely different from most low- and middle-level undead who must rely on the magic of necromancers, or some special terrain, buildings, etc. to maintain their existence for a long time.
So Levi used magic to fight while constantly taunting the necromancers, not only to distract the opponent's attention, but also to further confirm his guess.
"Really? I don't believe it!"
"As we all know, the corpse transporter is a product that Gost is proud of!"
"Hmph, what about Gost? Can he be greater than my Lord Velsharoon?"
He didn't know if it was because he usually only dealt with undead creatures and didn't have many opportunities to communicate, so even though he could see that they were a little cunning, after a few minutes, Levi still managed to get some of the information he needed very smoothly.
According to the necromancers, the manufacturing method of these corpse carts was offered by Gost to Visharoon, and they, the necromancers, also benefited from it.
As for the Journey of Destruction, the followers of Visharoon have been carrying out this activity for more than ten years. Whenever they start this activity, they will attack all races in the Underdark almost indiscriminately.
They experimented with their newly created undead creatures, seized wealth, collected corpses, and destroyed everything in their path, all to show their loyalty to the one they believed in, Velsharoon.
During this destructive journey, they can achieve multiple goals at the same time.
Since the Underdark is full of chaos and strife, their actions will not attract much attention, after all, everyone does this.
The only difference is that other races or forces may not be strong enough, so they cannot wreak havoc on multiple regions at once like they do.
Of course, this group of necromancers was the first time to do this. They had been working hard somewhere to improve their magic, create undead creatures, etc.
According to Levi's understanding, they might have originally been academicians without much combat experience, but now they are like the God-chosen heroes who have just left the Novice Village.
But after this trip, their strength and status will be slightly improved.
In a few months, a new group of necromancers will come and do the same thing. By then, the villages that were massacred by them will probably have new masters.
The good thing about the Underdark is that there are enough races that they can never be killed all, and they can always obtain a large amount of wealth and fresh corpses every time.
Although the necromancers spoke in a condescending manner, and even seemed to be persuading Levi to accept his fate, believing that death is the inevitable end of all mortals, Levi did benefit a lot from this understanding.
Since he couldn't get much useful information out of her, he stopped pretending to be polite and let Donna launch another volley of questions.
During the time they were communicating with each other, Donna had cooperated with the Druid and Suifeng and successfully killed the two special undead creatures, the Boda Corpses and the Demon Soul Corpses, and had sneaked forward a considerable distance, just enough to catch up with them.
Donna naturally responded to his order at the first moment. To be honest, after listening to their conversation, she was really angry. It would be better to kill all these evil creatures who enjoyed slaughter and destruction. Now is the perfect opportunity to vent her anger!
Even though they had been prepared in advance, and in addition to the mage armor, they also had a lot of bone armor, bone shields and other things on their bodies, but this time Donna and the others adopted a concentrated shooting method, so seven or eight undead mages were still shot into sieves.
Sally also laughed and killed two necromancers with a fireball. Then, before the other side launched a counterattack, she cleverly rode the magic carpet and returned directly to the friendly camp.
Ever since she followed Levi, she had either encountered powerful and irresistible enemies or encountered enemies like demons that were not afraid of fire. But today, all the undead were restrained by fire magic, so she had a good fight.
At the same time, Levi also discovered that this girl was really easy to get excited in this state, especially every time she killed a large number of enemies with fireballs, she smiled very proudly, like a big villain.
Necromancer Nigo, who had been talking to Levi, was suddenly shocked and angry: "Damn elf, how dare you play such a trick?"
Looking at the battle situation around them, the other necromancers who had been paying close attention to their conversation also felt something was wrong, because in just a short while, the number of undead troops under their command had been reduced by several percent.
Low-level skeletons and zombies are fine, as long as there are corpses, they can replenish more anytime and anywhere. However, Boda Zombies and Demon Soul Zombies are relatively rare types of soldiers, and they have not had time to test their combat effectiveness!
Levi felt a little innocent: "Is this also a trick? Being distracted by the enemy's words during the battle, shouldn't you look for the problem in yourself?"
"Like, you guys made some stupid moves?"
As soon as these words came out, the necromancers were immediately furious: "Damn elf, you will pay the price for angering me, Nimbas!"
As he roared, a yellow-green cloud appeared again.
Levi originally thought it was the Stinking Cloud Technique, but he soon discovered that the performance of this thing was quite different from the Stinking Cloud Technique.
They were just like living creatures, rolling forward continuously close to the ground. The greenskin and fox girl in the front row were only slightly affected and fell to the ground. They were not killed by the stink, but were killed instantly!
Cai Jin sighed immediately, why is it her again?
Even if she has to temporarily rely on Levi because of her decline, she is not here to be cannon fodder, right?
But she also knew that it was not entirely because of her bad luck, but that the Undead Mages also had some brains. The Silver Guards were famous for their strong resistance to magic, so of course the other side would pick on the weak ones first!
Fortunately, Suifeng and the others used the wind-making magic at the right time and successfully broke the magic, which slightly reduced the losses of Caijin and the others.
And when they were blown away, an unlucky necromancer was also hit. Although he had a lot of auxiliary magic on him, he still fell headfirst and never got up again.
Levi immediately understood. Although it looked somewhat similar, it was not the Stink Cloud Technique at all. It was the 5th level magic - the Death Cloud Technique!
After killing forty or fifty enemies with one move, the necromancer who called himself Nimbas was obviously a little proud. He ridiculed Levi casually, and then began to cast spells together with his companions again.
Along with the glow of magic, dozens of skeleton Nagas appeared. Judging from their size, they were probably Tier 4 soldiers - Naga thugs.
They also seem to have undergone special modifications, with each having four arms and able to hold multiple weapons at the same time.
Levi understood it at a glance. Nimbas and the others were planning to transform them into six-armed snake demons, right?
Although in general, the strength of undead creatures other than liches will be more or less weakened after death, it must be admitted that as their carefully prepared backup, the strength of these four-armed skeleton nagas is still quite good.
The several weapons in his hands can launch continuous attacks alternately, and the thick white bone snake tail is still very powerful. Once you are entangled by it, there is almost no way out.
As soon as they appeared, they easily repelled a considerable number of greenskins and pushed the line forward dozens of meters.
At this time, the Corpse Cart also cast magic on them, and the Undead Mages cast some auxiliary magic on them. After receiving multiple bonuses, their offensive became even more fierce.
Their only shortcoming may be that their defense is not very good, but the Corpse Carts and Necromancers can heal them, so it is not a big problem.
As a result, Cai Jin's face suddenly became a little embarrassed. Although she didn't want the troops to suffer too much casualties, it was unacceptable that the battles in other directions were going well, but she was broken through here.
Not to mention how big the impact will be on the entire war situation, she also has to save her face, okay?
So she prepared to send the most elite black orcs and some advanced catwomen to fight.
But before they could actually launch their attack, Cindy gave a delicate cry and took the lead, personally leading several angels and rangers to launch the attack.
Although this was her first time to command the troops personally, perhaps because she had seen Levi command many times before, and because of her own outstanding talent, she soon became able to do it in a very good manner.
With herself and the angels as the core, they were the first to block the enemy's vanguard. Whether it was the dazzling hammer in her hand or the long swords of the angels, they could leave deep wounds on the enemy's body.
Several psychic hammers flew up and down, hitting the enemies and making them stagger. All her abilities could be more powerful when fighting against evil creatures.
Then the rangers used their own flexible bodies to launch attacks from both sides. Although their own strength was relatively low, with her bonus, they were still able to cause damage to the four-armed skeleton Naga.
Then dozens of ogres also rushed over. Although these big guys were generally only level 3, due to the talents of their own race, their strength attributes were relatively high. After swinging their maces, they could fight on equal terms with the four-armed skeleton Naga in a short period of time.
The Undead Mages suddenly became a little exasperated. While continuing to provide magical assistance to the Four-Armed Skeleton Naga, they tried to attack Cindy.
But Cindy herself has several pieces of equipment that increase magic resistance, and a large amount of auxiliary magic, especially her Faith Barrier skill, which can increase a lot of magic resistance and physical defense based on her perception attribute. Low-level magic is directly ineffective against her.
If it was high-level magic, she wouldn't just stand there stupidly. She, like the angels, could fly!
In addition, the necromancers seemed to have realized that she believed in Sigmar, so she quickly attracted their hatred and even put Levi in a later position for a while.
Levi couldn't help but smile when he saw this. This time he really believed that the other party had been practicing hard somewhere. Although he had the ability, his practical experience was obviously insufficient.
But it’s better this way. The dumber the enemy is, the better it is for me.
How could these withered bones resist Cindy, who had spent a lot of time growing into a hero? Moreover, this was far from her strongest move.
If it weren't for the fact that Cindy's father was too powerful, Cindy could only summon him once. She was a little worried that once she used the opportunity, she might not see him again in a short time. So if she wanted to carefully keep this opportunity, the battle would definitely end sooner.
But it’s not a big problem. Levi also thinks that if an elite unit as high as level 7 is used to deal with some fledgling necromancers, it would be an overreaction, right?
However, after taking another look at the battlefield, Levi felt that it was almost time. The number of enemies had been weakened a lot, and the attention of the necromancers had been attracted to Cindy again. If he launched an attack now, there was a possibility of success!
Thinking of this, Li Wei winked at Cai Jin and Sui Feng, signaling everyone to cooperate with his actions.
Then, seconds later, the Fiery Skull reappeared, once again plowing a charred tunnel through the enemy ranks.
The restraint of fire magic on the undead is still very obvious. Even if the Corpse Cart increases the undead's resistance to fire, it is still not enough to resist this powerful 5th-level magic.
The two combat heroes, Elegy and Alduin, also took advantage of the situation with Xiaotian, the Guardians and other celestial creatures to attack, and rushed straight to the corpse carts through the gap.
Cai Jin also commanded his greenskins and harpies to launch an attack. A harpy, who should be a heroic unit, even activated the Flame Warlord Aura that Levi had given to Cai Jin before, providing fire damage to its companions.
Even though a few necromancers reacted immediately and dispatched some graveyard guards from the nearby area to protect the corpse cart, Suifeng and his men were not to be outdone. A large number of troops rushed over and directly blocked the enemy.
They not only want to destroy these corpse transporters, but also use them as a breakthrough point to gain absolute advantage in one fell swoop!
Although the necromancers tried their best to stop them and various death magics appeared one after another, the biggest weakness of the undead was also revealed at this time, which is that in most cases they emphasized numbers rather than individual strength.
If it were on the surface world, Levi and his companions might still be worried that the other side would send out some terror knights or bone dragons, but in the Underdark, those types of troops would almost never appear!
So it didn't take long for Elegy and Alduin to successfully break through the enemy's blockade. They swung their broadswords and longswords at the same time and destroyed a corpse cart in one blow.
The Corpse Cart is a special auxiliary war machine. Although its health is pretty good, its defense is not worth mentioning to Elegy and the others.
Xiaotian, Jianbing and other celestial creatures followed closely behind. The harpies with flames burning on their claws also pounced over from the other side. With the cooperation of both sides, it took less than two minutes for them to successfully dismantle all the corpse carts.
After losing the assistance of the corpse cart, many undead troops on the front line suddenly became weaker, while Levi's side's morale was greatly boosted.
At the same time, Donna led the shooters forward and once again successfully killed several undead wizards in seconds.
As their strength continued to increase, the damage caused by the volleys also increased. Not to mention these necromancers, even if Levi himself stood still and was hit, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die.
Because the war was too urgent, the necromancers were either busy rescuing the corpse cart or dealing with Cindy. They did not have enough energy to gather the ownerless undead, so their combat effectiveness began to decline rapidly.
For low- and mid-level undead, the difference in combat effectiveness is huge with or without the master's orders and magical support.
As a result, the undead quickly fell into a disadvantage as one side gained strength while the other lost strength. The gap that was originally forced open just to attack the corpse transporter was now rapidly expanding every minute and every second.
Levi naturally took advantage of the situation and launched a new round of fierce attacks. At this point, it seemed that he could deal with the enemy without the arrival of reinforcements from the Sun Knights!
However, he still remained vigilant against Nimbas. The fact that he could use the Death Cloud Technique showed that the opponent was at least a powerful unit of level 10 or tier 5, and it was very likely that he had other cards up his sleeve.
As expected, seeing the change in the battle situation, Nimbas quickly tried to throw out two more Death Cloud spells, and then the black fog spread again, covering where he was. No one knew what trick he was going to play.
Levi became more and more alert, but soon when Suifeng and the others used wind-making magic to blow away the fog, he discovered to his amusing surprise that Nimbas had disappeared.
However, at the same time, some of the most elite undead had already begun to move to the rear, which allowed Levi to immediately judge that the other party must have started to run away.
He thought the opponent would continue to try to counterattack. He overestimated the courage of his opponent this time.
But from a certain perspective, this kind of enemy who knows when to advance and when to retreat may really become a powerful enemy.
After taking a look at the enemy's military strength, Levi finally gave up the idea of pursuit, because unless he sent Cindy over, even if all of Caijin's harpies died, they might not be able to defeat the enemy.
In comparison, the battlefield in front of us is more important. After all, there are thousands of undead here.
Moreover, Nimbas is a nigga. If he doesn't show up on his own initiative, even if Cindy goes there in person, it will be difficult to find his trace in this environment. Now they can only hope that the Sun Knights can intercept him in time.
After losing Nimbas, the backbone, the remaining necromancers were obviously at a loss. They did not seem to have expected that the other party would escape first. No wonder the black fog just now only covered him !
However, they were obviously braver than Nimbas, or more stupid. Even in the face of such difficulties, they did not give up resistance, but kept casting various magic spells to fight back, while using the corpses on the battlefield to replenish their troops.
It turns out that it does have some effect. Their unique death waves are completely ineffective against the undead, but can cause considerable damage to the living within the range. Those skeletons and zombies that are temporarily awakened are enough to be cannon fodder.
Some guys even used the broken claws on the ground as materials to create dozens of giant claws that could crawl like spiders.
The damage they caused was minor, but they did cause a little chaos among the troops.
Because in addition to their poisonous attacks, strange appearance, agility and difficulty in hitting, they also seem to have some kind of fear effect.
However, when Cindy put up the beacon of courage and a mage's paladin also used the aura of courage, the commotion was immediately quelled.
When Sally blasted them all into ashes with a fireball, the courage of the necromancers seemed to disappear.
There was no need to communicate with each other. They all worked together to the best of their ability and began to try to escape.
Some turned into zombies and began to escape while jumping and hopping. Some turned into ghosts and floated on the ground. Some directly turned into a large ball of vague gas and flew dozens of meters away in an instant with the breeze.
Levi immediately exclaimed, "Good guys, you guys don't perform very well in a fight, but you have so many ways to escape!"
What a pity, in this special situation, can you still perform magic so smoothly?
And after losing magic, what do you necromancers rely on?
Under Levi's command, Cindy, Sally and many flying celestial creatures launched a pursuit together. It would be fine if Nimbas got away, but you chickens still want to run away?
Cai Jin was not to be outdone, she even personally brought a few red flame war eagles and big peng to join the battlefield.
So in just one minute, all the undead wizards present were killed easily.
After losing them, the remaining undead were no match for them, not only because they lost their command, but also because without their magical power, the strength of the low and mid-level undead would be weakened to varying degrees.
Even so, there were enough of them that it took Levi and his men a long time to kill them all.
But their gains were also extremely astonishing. Although most of them were cannon fodder skeletons and zombies, the over ten thousand undead still allowed many subordinates to advance, and Cai Jin and several others also upgraded.
Skeleton zombies don't drop anything good, and ordinary ghouls and grave devils basically just drop some poisonous claws, foul-smelling fangs and other materials, but the graveyard guards are all fully armed elite warriors, and they provide a large amount of equipment and warrior expertise.
Those undead wizards also contributed a lot of loot and more than 10 books of magic.
Levi naturally had the right of first choice, but after some consideration, he finally only took a Level 2 Death Ripple.
Because generally speaking, the magic learned by these necromancers is mostly of the kind that has a low threshold, but is not very powerful, and may even have negative effects.
For example, those magics related to bones, not only do they look very evil, but their power is also much weaker than his fireball magic. There is absolutely no need for him to learn them.
Another example is a magic that can transform a body into gas. It can greatly increase the movement speed in a short period of time and can also fly at low altitude.
But the price is that you cannot use any magic, and you will suffer additional high damage when attacked by magic. Compared with the flying technique, it is far worse.
There is also a magic that can take on the form of undead, which can turn the caster into low-level undead creatures such as skeletons, zombies or ghouls, slightly increase their own upper life limit, and temporarily possess the opponent's special abilities, such as poisonous attacks.
But the price is that you can't cast spells. Isn't this just a pure magic to get beaten? What's the point of this for a mage?
Could it be that he wanted to blend in with the zombies and become friends with them? But zombies don't have brains, so there's no way they can become friends with each other!
Levi could only guess that either they were really doing it just for research, or there might be other magic that could be used in conjunction with it to achieve greater effects.
There are many more examples like this.
There was a special magic called the Claws of Visharoon, which slightly interested Levi, because its function was to allow the caster to create the same special undead creature as before - the crawling claws, which was considered to be quite powerful among the low-level undead.
For high-level necromancers, it is even possible to turn them into magical pets, and then they can assist the mages in releasing magic such as touch of ice, touch of mental weakness, touch of paralysis, etc., which originally required the mages to personally touch the target to release magic.
If a few crawling claws crawled up to Levi and gave him a bunch of paralyzing touches, he might really be killed on the spot.
Unfortunately, in addition to expertise in anatomy and necrosis, this thing also requires faith in Visharoon. Even if Levi is crazy, he would not do that.
