Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 296: The Snipe and the Clam Fight
So in the next two days, the situation in the Underdark became more and more chaotic and complicated. In addition to some small evil forces, Levi and his men also needed to fight against the three undead forces: the Silver Blood Army, Herman Gost's subordinates, and Visharoon's believers .
And it wasn't a melee. Although these undead must have certain differences among themselves, when facing the living people like Levi, they were united against the outside world.
In other words, they were obviously still restrained by the old black dragon, dwarves, and drow elves, so they did not put in all their energy. Otherwise, Levi and his men might not be able to hold on. After all, it was very clear that there was a legendary necromancer, Gost, among the opponents.
The true strength of the vampire Dracula is not certain at present, but if you think about it, you will know that he, who is trying to become a god, is likely to be a legend stronger than Gost.
However, under such circumstances, Levi and his team were able to learn more information about the Underdark.
In addition to the drow elves in Ostak City and the dwarves of the Helhein clan in the Gray Mountain, the old black dragon is entrenched in a very large area of the Black Swamp. In addition to the dragon beasts and dragonmen in the black dragon's lair, there is also a huge Black Knoll tribe loyal to him.
The terrain there is somewhat similar to that of Swineherd Town. Levi feels that if necessary, the big crocodile Sobek and his clan may also have a chance to appear.
And further away, there is an absolutely neutral and good camp, a clan of shield dwarves who also have a grudge against the drow elves, an evil and chaotic tribe of kuo-toa murlocs, a lawful evil gray dwarf town, and some other alien races such as the dark naga.
Their overall strength is relatively weaker, and there seems to be no well-known strong men. They are also far away from Levi and the others, but they cannot be completely ignored.
Mainly the shield dwarves among them, Levi is trying to get in touch with them.
Although these guys usually have a nonchalant and indifferent personality, if they can beat up the drow elves without any worries, I think they will not refuse.
But at present, the main focus is to deal with the three undead tribes. The first two forces are temporarily left to the Sun Knights to deal with, while Levi concentrates on fighting against the believers of Visharoon.
Although Nimbas's companions had all been killed before, Velsharoon certainly had more than just a few dozen believers in the Underdark.
Their journey of destruction had just begun when it was forcibly destroyed by Levi and his men. This was absolutely intolerable to them.
So he quickly gathered more companions, wanting to take revenge on Levi and the others first, and then start his journey of destruction again.
But the necromancers he summoned this time were probably novices who had not yet graduated, so the number and quality of magic they mastered and the undead they could control were somewhat worse than last time.
Even if they are followers of Velsharoon, they cannot create undead out of thin air.
In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of the undead are equally obvious, and Levi and his men are more numerous and powerful this time, so of course they will not be afraid of anything.
The two sides fought many battles within two days, and each one ended with Nimbas's complete defeat.
Even during this process, Levi and his team had more than one chance to kill the opponent, but they did not do so in the end, because they all wanted to keep the opponent and let him continue to call for more reinforcements, and then all of them would become food for Levi and his team to become stronger.
If you are prepared, apart from being careful about the Boda Corpses and Demon Soul Corpses, as well as Nimbas's Death Cloud, the threats posed by other necromancers and undead are actually minimal.
During this process, the strength of many subordinates has been improved, especially the two mages Sally and Lily, who performed particularly well. Needless to say, the high damage of fire magic is natural, and Lily's light magic is the natural nemesis of the undead.
And when the two of them got together, Sally seemed to have some desire to compete and worked even harder.
Because of her outstanding performance, she successfully advanced to level 5 and learned the level 4 magic fire wall. During the duration, any enemy that approaches or attempts to cross the fire wall will suffer damage.
Although the instantaneous burst of damage is far less than that of Fireball, its greatest function is to restrict the enemy's movement, which is still very meaningful strategically.
Especially when dealing with the undead, they were so stupid that they didn't know how to dodge, which further increased Sally's speed in gaining experience points.
For example, now, Levi and his men are fighting with Nimbas again. Before the battle is over, Sally has killed nearly a hundred low-level undead.
However, after several battles, the quantity and quality of reinforcements that Nimbas could find were rapidly decreasing at the speed of high diving.
At the beginning, he could find thirty or forty necromancers to command nearly ten thousand undead. To be on the safe side, Levi would also call on Shudun and others to join in the righteous beating.
But this time he only found a few cats and dogs, and the total number of undead creatures was less than two thousand. There was not a single skeleton naga or boda corpse. The strongest ones were just some tomb evil spirits and grave guards.
Because the number of enemies was too small and there were not enough for them to share, Shudun and others turned to fight other enemies.
Although for the sake of confidentiality, Levi did not reveal any information about the fragments of the old black dragon's divinity, he also indirectly indicated from other aspects that they would definitely participate in many major battles in the future, and now weakening the undead and other forces as much as possible would also be beneficial to their next actions.
As the number of battles continued to increase, Levi also discovered more advantages and weaknesses of the opponent.
Generally speaking, Necromancers control a large number of undead creatures, but they themselves are often still living people. After all, for them as magic units, unless they are transformed into liches, turning into undead creatures such as zombies or ghouls will do more harm than good.
But in the continuous battles, Levi discovered that even if these guys were not undead themselves, they all possessed certain undead characteristics.
These necromancers are very resistant to the Stinking Cloud. It is unlikely that their physical fitness is high enough to ignore it, and their magic is definitely not enough to resist it. The most likely possibility is that they have some undead characteristics.
Although the Stink Cloud spell is a magic, it still needs to be inhaled by the enemy to take effect. However, many necromancers have rotten noses, so the Stink Cloud spell naturally cannot take effect.
And it was even more obvious that Lily's light magic could cause more damage to them.
With the addition of Sally's fire magic, Levi even felt that even without him in command, Donna, Cindy and others could defeat them easily by joining forces.
This made him sigh. It seemed that the days of leisurely gaining experience points were almost over. This useless Nimbas was no longer of any use.
However, this guy still has one advantage, that is, he is stubborn enough. Even though he has been beaten to a pulp several times, he still has the courage to come back for revenge every time.
At this moment, Levi's face suddenly brightened up because he had just received the latest news from Cai Jin.
After careful planning, Cai Jin and her team have successfully led the vampire and undead army of the Silver Blood Army to the magical mercury god-given building occupied by the drow elves.
In addition, Silent Shadow, who was a ghost, disguised himself as a member of the Silver Blood Army. With the cooperation of both sides, they successfully provoked disputes between the two sides at the cost of less than two hundred low-level soldiers. Now the Silver Blood Army has fought with the drow elves from the city of Ostak.
And the results were unexpectedly good. The total number of the Silver Blood Army and the Drow Elves' troops exceeded 3,000. Once the fight broke out, no matter which side won in the end, the other side would definitely hold a grudge.
Even if Dracula, who has friendships with both parties, wants to mediate, it is definitely not an easy task.
In any case, they no longer have time to waste here. While the snipe and the clam are fighting, it is now his turn to benefit as the fisherman!
Thinking of this, Levi directly ordered everyone to launch a general attack.
Cindy, who had given the opportunity to others because her opponent was too weak, immediately responded first and took off into the air with the angels.
Levi also ordered the celestial creatures to attack. After Xiaotian and Jianbing became heroic units, the celestial creatures brought him a lot of benefits. If they could have more advancements, it would obviously be a greater help to him.
Especially the summoning angel given to him by the Angel of Dawn - Zhiyang, which can only summon angels of courage of level 3 and 4 at present. Compared with the Gaiding Celestial Clan and the Yakongs, it is a bit too monotonous. He still looks forward to their more performances.
Sally blocked Nimbas's retreat with a wall of fire, and Lily also used a flash blast in tacit understanding, which not only caused some damage to Nimbas, but also fortunately blinded and stunned him at the same time.
Although there was some competition between the two sides secretly, after many battles, they had developed good cooperation.
Due to his many successful escapes, Nimbas was somewhat careless and was not overly vigilant. So it took him several seconds to finally return to normal. Then he saw several angels approaching.
His heart suddenly skipped a beat, knowing that the enemy might be serious this time, but he did not fall into despair. Instead, he used the same trick again and summoned a black mist. In many previous battles, he had escaped with this trick.
When seeing this scene, Levi immediately laughed. He just wanted to make the opponent's successful escape more reasonable, not that he really had no way to deal with his move!
He raised his hand slightly, and a howling wind blew violently. The Level 2 Wind Creation Technique was already effective, blowing away the black mist directly. Caught off guard, Nimbas was stunned for a moment, as if he had been stripped of his clothes.
But Cindy and the angels would not stop there. They swung their hammers and swords shining with holy light at the same time, instantly breaking through the mage armor, bone shield and other multiple defenses on Nimbas' body, and creating multiple fresh wounds on his dark and thin body.
Nimbas finally felt scared. He tried to retreat in a panic, but he did not forget to threaten Levi: "Damn elf, how dare you hurt the great Visharon's followers!"
Levi snorted lightly and didn't respond to the other party at all.
The number of Visharoon's followers who died at their hands in the past few days must be over a hundred, right?
What's the point of still saying this kind of nonsense now? It only shows your stupidity!
And it won’t be long before your Lich God will be in trouble too.
Although probably for the sake of confidentiality, the Moon Bow Goddess did not give him any further instructions for the time being, but the few times he passed by, the temple priests looked at him with increasingly friendly eyes, and would even run over from a distance to greet him.
Especially after seeing that Luna's mount was still an ordinary little black panther, she specially asked other elves to find her a big black lion named Lion King Xuma, with a very domineering appearance, to serve as Luna's mount.
That was a Tier 4 elite unit. Not only Luna was very happy about it, but Donna, Janet and others also liked it very much.
As an extension of God's will, her attitude speaks for itself.
And according to her, they are mobilizing more night elves to go to the Underdark, and they will definitely prepare some recruitment spots for Levi at that time.
At the same time, Goddess Lilith had already sent out priests and some loyal believers this morning to begin building her temple in Blood Glory. This was an obvious signal.
The temple is not only a place to promote the faith of the gods, the statues in it can also extend their power. After the temple is built, if necessary, Goddess Lilith will be able to do more...
There was no movement from Michaela and Tigris for the time being, but it was easy to tell that they must be preparing for this.
Even according to his previous intelligence, the Dragon Prince and his dragon had almost recovered and could arrive at any time.
Teclis is a legend, Mikael is a scholar of fire elemental who masters the art of sunfire, the Dragon Prince is a legend who specializes in hunting dragons, and even his mount, Minatnir, is known as a "legendary dragon", which is obviously very different from ordinary dragons.
In addition, there is Princess Belinda and her followers, the shepherd god Pan, and Illidan who has just been re-deified...
As long as the Spider Queen Rose and other true gods do not leave, the power of the high elves is still sufficient. I am afraid that they will not be at all inferior to fighting the old black dragon and Dracula at the same time. What they lack now is just the best opportunity.
So in less than 10 seconds, Nimbas, a necromancer who was at least level 10, became a ghost under the sword of a certain guardian angel. Without his command, the remaining undead were no match for them and were quickly killed by them.
Many subordinates advanced as a result, and the guardian angel who successfully killed Nimbas was also promoted to level 6 and mastered two passive skills.
The first is the Angel Guardian Aura that can enhance the physical defense and magic resistance of all friendly forces in a small range. The second is the Angel's Advent, which has some illusory light and shadows around her body that can reduce the enemy's attack hit rate.
Overall, she has become more resilient.
However, due to her increased strength, Cindy can no longer use the secondary alien alliance to summon her. They need to sign a new contract and occupy a place in the alien alliance.
But this is not a bad thing for Cindy, because with her current strength, the Alien Alliance can have two places, her father and this sixth-level guardian angel.
The secondary alien alliance can have 4 places at the same time. She only needs to find a new angel, and she can bring 5 angels to fight at the same time in the next battle. Coupled with her psychic hammer, she is now a very outstanding summoner.
Although it is possible for ordinary priests to learn the secondary alien alliance, there may not be one priest like her who can summon multiple high-level angels at the same time for a long time and stably among thousands of people. The preference of Lord Sigmar for her is too obvious.
In addition to the fragments of the Hero's Spirit, Nimbas also provided Levi with several trophies, including a blue book of darkness, which not only increased the magic recovery speed and magic limit, but also came with tier 2 attack magic - Black Claw and Ghoul's Touch.
The former is an offensive magic that has a chance to slow down the enemy after causing damage, while the latter has a higher chance of paralyzing the enemy and causing it to emit a foul odor like that of a ghoul.
Unfortunately, both of these spells require close contact to be effective, which makes them completely useless to Levi, but they should be worth some money.
Next is a tier 2 magic - See Through Invisibility, which has an effect almost identical to the ability of the same name of the Crazy Horsemen, and is very practical.
1 special magic ritual - Ghoul Rune Barrier, which needs to be arranged in advance and consumes materials such as Ghoul Fangs and dark elemental crystals. Once it takes effect, it can paralyze weaker enemies who break into the barrier for a short period of time.
Some indigenous people may use it as a means of protection, but for Levi, who is accompanied by a large army wherever he goes, it is of little significance and is still just a commodity to be sold.
1 level 3 magic - Enhanced Dark Vision. The effect is just as its name suggests. It allows the recipient to have 60-meter dark vision, which is very useful in the underdark.
Although Levi's most anticipated 5th-level magic - Death Cloud - did not drop, this result is now acceptable.
After simply packing up the spoils, Levi led his men directly towards their destination. On the way, they met the dwarf troops led by Stump and Rune Blacksmith Hans, as well as reinforcements from the Moon Singer.
The dwarves were fine, there were about four to five hundred of them in total, and except for a few shirtless butchers, almost all of them were wearing heavy armor and looked very resistant to attacks.
And this is not their entire strength. They also left several hundred people to guard the village. It seems that after driving away the ratmen of Clan Eshin, their military strength is really much more abundant.
However, the Moon Singer's reinforcements were much weaker in strength, with only three teams of dozens of people in total, and all of them were fragile creatures such as thieves, assassins, rangers, and archers. It was obvious that they were there to play supporting roles.
However, this was not because they were intentionally negligent. Instead, ever since Nar and the others discovered the magic mercury refining room two days ago, the evil drow elves in Ostak City immediately began to encircle and suppress the Moon Singers. It was obvious that they had misunderstood something.
Therefore, Pamela, the highest leader of the Moon Singers in the nearby area, has been working very hard to resist the enemy, running around with her subordinates and is really unable to cope with everything.
Levi also expressed his understanding of this. In the confrontation between the good and evil drow elves, the believers of Eilistraee have always been at an absolute disadvantage. Until now, they don't even seem to have an open, fixed town. It is conceivable how miserable they are.
If it weren't for this, they might not have been so proactive in coming to Levi to seek cooperation.
However, Levi was very interested in the weapon in the hands of the level 5 sword dancer who was leading the reinforcements.
It was a silver sword that looked somewhat gorgeous. Since it was unsheathed, it had been constantly making pleasant singing sounds. Although Levi could not tell for the time being whether it was using some special language or just humming, it was indeed very pleasant to hear.
Furthermore, multiple friendly forces within a certain range of it will be encouraged by its singing, and thus have additional resistance to a series of magic that may affect the mind, such as fear and charm, for a short period of time. This is basically equivalent to carrying a bard who can boost morale with you.
After asking, he soon learned that this special weapon magic called "Sword of Song" was usually the preferred weapon of Eilistraee priests and high-level sword dancers.
If other kind races want to use it, it is not completely impossible, but it requires special customization in advance, which requires money and time.
After a few polite words, Levi asked directly about the price. The other party quoted 35 gold and at least 5 days.
Levi felt that it was completely acceptable. The Sword of Song was at least a blue-quality weapon. Coupled with its gorgeous appearance and special singing voice, the price was really not expensive at all.
Even if his subordinates cannot use it , they can sell it to the Sun Knight and Cai Jin and others. Or if worst comes to worst, they can trade it with Lotus and the Red Brotherhood. This is also a specialty of the Underdark.
So he simply ordered 30 swords first, and after the next battle was over, he would pay a part of the deposit.
At the same time, he secretly instructed Janet to let her priests and druids take care of the opponent in the next battle, so that she would not die and Levi would have to spend more time explaining to other drow.
After running for dozens of miles and getting closer to his destination, he failed to successfully meet up with the Sun Knight.
He suddenly felt something strange. The Sun Knight was definitely not someone who didn't keep his promises. Moreover, he didn't go out to fight today. He was just waiting for Cai Jin's action.
But now he has broken his promise, which can only mean one thing, he must have been entangled by other enemies!
As expected, Cai Jin soon arrived with harpies, greenskins and bugbears, saying that the undead under Gost were going crazy for some reason and some of them had just tried to raid the village of Sun Knight and Thousand Thieves.
Although the Sun Knights had the advantage of terrain and had a lot of experience after many days of fighting, making it almost impossible for them to break through, the enemy still had a lot of troops.
Although zombies have close to zero output except for corpse poison, they are still relatively tough among low-level soldiers with the bonus of the Necromancer, and can be considered excellent meat shields. Therefore, the Sun Knights might not be able to arrive to join the battle as scheduled.
Levi frowned a little. He hated it most when things got out of control, but there was nothing he could do. Opportunity would not come again. Cai Jin had finally succeeded in getting the two sides to fight, and it was almost certain that the other party would not be fooled a second time. They absolutely could not miss this opportunity!
