Sure enough, within two hours, Virginia came running over in a hurry.
"Levi, the scouts have detected a large number of undead approaching, probably three to four thousand in number!"
Levi, who was practicing the magic permanence technique in the house, couldn't help but temporarily stop what he was doing when he heard this.
He already possessed both the art of flying and the expertise of creating magical artifacts. In fact, he could now try to make some flying brooms or magic carpets.
However, their production must not be disturbed and often takes several hours.
Once you stop halfway, there is a great chance that all your efforts will be wasted.
So he didn't try it now, but planned to concentrate on research after finishing the next things and returning to the Mage Tower.
Just now, he only used the second-level magic - activating weapons - on ordinary swords and guns, and combined it with the magic permanence technique to create some lowest-level puppet creatures, in order to slightly improve his proficiency.
Now it seems that I did the right thing. Otherwise, I would have wasted a lot of time and materials by disturbing him like this.
These undead did not disappoint him, and it was worth his waiting for them for several hours.
After waving his hands and putting away his things, Levi immediately warned his subordinates, and then asked: "How many vampires are there on the other side? Are there any bloodthirsty sky ghosts and other air forces?"
Whether there is an air force is a very critical issue for Donna and her friends, because it will determine how they fight.
"There are about five to six hundred ordinary vampires, followed by more than two thousand grave guards, and several hundred black knights and dark werewolves."
"I haven't found any air force yet, but I'm afraid there are bloodthirsty bat wolves among them."
Virginia responded quickly, with a fear in her voice that she herself hadn't even noticed.
She originally thought that the Undead would not dare to offend the Goddess's temple, but now it seems that she underestimated their boldness. Not only did they dare to come, but they were even likely to break through this place!
Hearing this unfavorable news, Levi frowned slightly. The other party really allocated so many troops. She was indeed a stingy female vampire.
He confirmed again: "Bloodthirsty bat wolves? How many are there?"
Deep inside the heart of every vampire lies the nature of a predator. This nature, coupled with the desire for bloodthirstiness, drives them to drink the blood of their enemies.
This is the price they pay for their power, it is a curse, and it is also a weakness they must overcome.
But if one day, this valve is opened and no longer closed, they begin to be driven by bloodthirsty impulses, sucking blood and devouring flesh without scruples.
Although their strength can be greatly increased in a short period of time, their wisdom and magical abilities will be greatly weakened.
Their appearance will also be transformed into a brutal and huge beast, turning into a monster that crawls on all fours and runs like a wolf - a bloodthirsty bat wolf.
Like the bloodthirsty sky demons, they are also the product of the wrong evolution of vampires.
But sometimes, mistakes do not mean weakness.
The bloodthirsty sky demon is a level 5 troop, while the bloodthirsty bat wolf is simply a level 6, the same level as the bone dragon.
Although their wings did not grow along with their bodies, but instead degenerated to the back of their elbows, making them completely unable to carry them for flying, they still use them to glide or jump quite quickly.
If it is an attack on an ordinary small town, when a bloodthirsty bat wolf jumps onto the city wall, it often means the beginning of a massacre.
Similarly, this also slightly solved some of Levi's previous doubts.
It is very likely that those female vampires did not personally charm all the dark werewolves. They just controlled them in disguise by controlling the bloodthirsty bat wolves.
Those werewolves worship strength, and they worship powerful fellow werewolves even more. Those bloodthirsty bat wolves do look like powerful werewolves, and are usually covered with long hair, except for a pair of mutated small wings on their elbows.
"Rangers found nearly 20 bloodthirsty bat wolves, but there is no ruling out that there are more."
Levi nodded slightly. This number was still acceptable. After all, they were currently occupying an advantageous terrain, and the opponent's most powerful charge ability could not play any role.
But, should we let Donna take off with the Sky Slasher?
After careful consideration, Levi finally gave up the idea.
Just because we haven't discovered the enemy's other air forces doesn't mean they don't exist. And engaging in an air battle with vampires in the dark is really not a good idea.
So while notifying his subordinates to prepare for battle and using various summoning magics, Levi also asked Virginia to continue strengthening illusion magic.
If we win in the end but lose the Sky Slashers, it would still be a huge loss.
Not only are they not cheap, but since each Skyslasher has to be shipped from the High Elves' homeland, the island of Ulthuan, there really aren't many of them.
Of course, he couldn't rely entirely on illusions. The supervisors would also bring some celestial creatures and the tigresses to defend together at the position closest to the Sky Slayer.
Once the illusion fails or some other unexpected situation occurs, they will do their best to defend.
The only advantage is that those platforms are all behind the temple, quite some distance away.
Under normal circumstances, even if the vampires surrounded the entire temple, they would not run that far.
As for Luna and the female hunters who are still hiding in the woods, they should not go out for the time being. When the situation of the war changes, perhaps they can give the other side an unexpected surprise.
Naturally, Virginia agreed without hesitation, because she was still a little afraid that Levi and the others would just run away. With a powerful wizard like him around, this was not completely impossible.
After losing their help, the temple would probably become ruins after tonight. Now of course she had to try her best to meet all his requests.
"Oh, by the way, does the temple have a no-fly barrier?"
Virginia shook her head. "Sorry, no."
The goddess has only two main enemies, the first of which is her powerful and evil sister, the goddess of darkness, Shar.
This goddess always plans before she acts. If she doesn't make a move, it's fine. But once she makes a move, it will be fatal. It makes no difference whether the temple has a no-fly barrier or not.
The second is Mala, who is in serious conflict with the goddess in terms of attitude towards beastmen.
But for some reason, although it is theoretically the lord of all beasts, in reality only the beastmen who walk or run on land choose to worship or believe in it.
Almost none of the harpies soaring in the sky or the branches of the beastmen in the sea would worship him.
In this case, there is naturally no need to decorate the temple.
Levi nodded. Although he felt a little regretful, there was nothing he could do.
If things really come to that, let Bill and the others take action.
Although the Sky Slashers are quite large, if dozens of bear-headed gods work together, they can still successfully teleport them away.
"But we have already sent out an emergency signal for help to our nearby wood elf friends. They will surely come as soon as possible."
This is good news. Although the wood elves are small in number, their average strength has always been relatively strong, especially the tree people, who are perfect cannon fodder.
Then she took out two scrolls from her space ring: "Levi, this is the treasure of our temple's chief priest. To thank you for escorting us all the way, I hope you can accept it."
Levi raised his eyebrows. He could tell at a glance that it was a scroll that recorded magic.
What is this, an apology from Virginia?
But no matter what he thought in his heart, he took it with a smile and expressed his gratitude.
It’s true that these two magic spells are indeed very suitable for the current situation.
One is a level 3 magic - Moonlight Sword. Once used, he will create a sword weapon out of thin air that is completely condensed by moonlight.
It can be a longsword, a short sword, a rapier, etc., and depending on the size, it will consume different amounts of his magic.
It can be granted to others to use, and when attacking, it will be treated as a blue-quality pure energy weapon, thus ignoring most normal armor and being able to attack incorporeal creatures such as ghosts.
The second one is called Moonlight Wall, which has an effect similar to Fire Wall. All evil creatures that try to pass through it will be harmed.
The biggest advantage of both of them is that they can both cause extra damage to undead creatures.
The disadvantage is that it can only be used at night or under the cover of magical moonlight, and its effect on the good camp is minimal.
This is the umpteenth magic Levi has seen that is specifically aimed at the undead.
It can only be said that although the undead have extremely obvious advantages, there are also many things that may restrain them.
Regardless of whether they are from the good or evil camp, almost every god has one or two ways to deal with them.
As a series of alarms echoed inside the temple, everyone soon began to defend the various entrances.
The priests, druids, and the winged serpents summoned by Levi all began to cast various auxiliary magics.
At the same time, magic circles rose up one after another. Under their influence, the casting speed, casting consumption, magic duration, mana recovery speed, etc. of all magic units changed to varying degrees.
For Levi or Cindy, the overall combat effectiveness improvement is actually not high, but for those ordinary priests, the effect is still quite obvious.
Coupled with the passive aura of the Fox Spirit, their endurance will be greatly improved.
Then, no one knew what power the temple used. Anyway, the moon in the sky seemed to pour down a little bit of energy, like a huge, bell-shaped energy shield, covering the entire temple. It was obvious that this could greatly enhance its defense.
Shudun also began to command his subordinates to deploy their troops and prepare for battle.
The two hero-level units behind him began to use rune magic unique to dwarves.
He has also been fighting side by side with Levi for quite some time. Although there have been occasional setbacks along the way, basically every time they have gained a lot with very little loss.
Under such circumstances, his subordinates have also grown rapidly, and there are currently two Rune Blacksmith heroes.
Compared to human or elf magic, the types of dwarven rune magic are very, very few, perhaps only a dozen in total, but they are all extremely practical.
For example, now they mainly cast two types of area magic: the Oath and Steel Rune that can enhance defense, and the Hearth and Home Rune that can greatly enhance resistance to fear.
Many high-level monsters, especially those that are larger or more ferocious in appearance, often have a high chance of spreading fear or other similar skills.
Undead monsters have an even higher chance of this happening, so they just need to prepare in advance.
At this time, the roars of wolves in the distance were getting closer, and at the same time, there was the sound of orderly footsteps, as if thousands of undead were marching in the same rhythm.
Such well-trained people made many priests in the temple change color slightly.
However, the expressions of the wood elves were still grim, and many of the beastmen who had surrendered to the temple seemed quite excited about the upcoming battle.
Levi found this scene very interesting and he began to guess that perhaps these priests had hardly encountered any battles before?
Soon, thousands of undead rushed up the hillside quickly. Thanks to the bright moonlight tonight, Levi could actually see those bloodthirsty bat wolves.
Almost at the same time, he immediately understood why Virginia had that expression just now.
Because these guys are incredibly large, they crawl on all fours like gorillas, with extremely developed forelimbs. Their fists are one meter square, their forearms are more than two meters long, and their height is almost close to three stories high.
They don't even need to jump. They can easily reach Donna and the others just by raising their hands.
In their open mouths, every fang that is pulled out can be used as a dagger.
Such a terrifying beast is a monster born for war and killing.
That is to say, they are now relying on the geographical advantages and magic of the temple, so they still have some confidence.
If the battle was fought on flat ground, Levi seriously doubted that even his own defensive formation would be easily destroyed.
Even with his bonus, the attributes of the Silver Guards are far superior to those of the same level, but it is still difficult to match such an enemy.
Because in many battles, what matters is not only basic attributes such as attack and defense, but also strength, weight, etc.
When the gap between the two sides is large, they may be easily repelled or knocked away, and even if they are full of martial arts, it is difficult for them to truly display them.
Skills such as resisting charge can improve this aspect to a certain extent, but they cannot completely make up for the fundamental gap.
Now it seems that, excluding himself and Cindy and other magic units, the only one who can really fight these big guys effectively in a frontal battle is perhaps Elegy.
She weighs about 100 pounds, and with weapons and armor, as well as the reinforcement of earth element gems, when she is hit back, she is basically equivalent to about two tons.
Coupled with her superb martial arts, she shouldn't be easily knocked away by the opponent.
However, the one who can truly maximize the effect of the unearthed elemental gems should be Bayoru.
As a Hole elephant man, he would probably weigh about 500 to 600 kilograms at his normal size, which means his strength is far inferior to that of Elegy.
The second is Alduin. As a dragon man, he weighs several hundred kilograms.
Unfortunately, due to the limitations of his profession, he can only act as a meat shield most of the time, and his efficiency in killing enemies is far worse than that of Elegy.
When she saw them, even Lucia's expression became a little more cautious: "Levi, I have never heard of the vampires of the Lamia family creating and driving them before."
Levi nodded slightly: "Neither do I. This may be their hidden power."
"It seems that there is something in the deep pit that attracts them so much that they are willing to expose it in order to gain an advantage in the next battle."
Lucia frowned a little. In the past thousands of years, they have always been weak and relied on charming aliens for help.
For a moment, she couldn't figure out what could make the other party willing to pay such a huge price?
But suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, and she remembered where the Silver Blood Army had been before, the mountains called "The Glory of Nagash".
Nagash is considered the true inventor and founder of the Overworld vampires.
Nagash created an elixir of life and gave it to Arkhan the Black, his most loyal lieutenant, counselor, apprentice and subordinate.
Black Arkhan used the so-called "elixir of life" to "save" his dying lover, Neferata, the queen of the Lahmia family, making her the first vampire ancestor.
The queen then continued to transform her husband, younger brother, generals, priests, etc., a total of eight people, who together formed the first generation of vampires.
The ancestors of the four well-known existing vampire clans, the beast-like Strigoi clan, the Blue Blood clan that drifted to the Zhendan Dynasty, and many other clans are actually acquaintances of the queen.
This is also one of the reasons why the vampires of the Lamia family have bewitched many people and caused many disasters, but have not been killed until now.
Besides the fact that she is really good at hiding, she also has a lot of supporters or protectors.
Once you offend her, it means you will be hunted down by almost all the vampires in the main world.
Of course, that was at the beginning.
As the population of mortal races such as humans, elves, and dwarves grew rapidly, and magic and divine arts became increasingly popular, she was forced to disappear.
The power of other families also gradually fell apart, and some ancestors were even killed by humans, so the threat in this regard was greatly reduced.
The Vampire Queen had heard of, seen, and even worked with and fought against Nagash before.
So she would naturally know that when Nagash tried to invade the Sigmar Empire, and was smashed on the head by the then-undeified God of War Sigmar, and then killed by the Egyptian pantheon, he left behind nine mysterious volumes made of human skin and blood.
It is called "Nine Volumes of Nagash".
It records countless knowledge about necromancy and death. They are the supreme classics of vampires, liches, and necromancers, as well as powerful magical tools.
Each volume taken individually is a legendary treasure, and when put together they are comparable to real divine artifacts.
Except for the ninth volume which Black Arkhan clearly obtained, the other eight volumes had long been lost in the dust of history and their whereabouts are unknown.
The vampire queen's intentions seemed to be very clear.
The mountains where the Silver Blood Army had stayed before were exactly where Nagash stayed before his death.
They had driven the Silver Blood Army before, almost certainly intending to find the relics of Nagash, or even the Nine Volumes of Nagash.
The reason why it is said to be a certain death is that as a strong man who created the entire race of vampires and directly caused the rapid weakening of the Egyptian pantheon, he naturally has the ability to resurrect continuously.
Now they are heading to , and are no longer afraid of being discovered by the forces along the way. It is obvious that they have regained enough motivation and confidence.
They probably thought that if this was successful, they would no longer be forced to remain behind the scenes, but would be qualified to stand in front of others.
Apart from Dracula's unreliable plan to be a god, what else could give them this confidence? Of course, it could only be because of the Ninth Volume of Nagash.
"Levi, could it be that?"
Lucia didn't say the other person's name completely, she just made a mouth shape.
Levi nodded slightly, indicating that this was indeed a possibility.
If it were a few days ago, he just had some similar speculations about the many abnormal actions of the Silver Blood Army.
However, after obtaining the divinity of Goddess Lilith and gaining a great deal of knowledge from it, he became more and more suspicious of the other party's reasons for staying in those mountains.
Now that the vampires from the Lamia family have appeared so openly, it directly confirms his guess.
However, he is not sure yet whether there is any conspiracy of Black Arkhan involved.
Since Nagash's last death, he disappeared with the ninth volume, and did not even go to meet the vampire queen.
There are many different opinions in the outside world, but according to the information from Goddess Lilith, although Black Arkhan participated in the creation of the vampire race, not all of the ancestors liked him very much. He was even killed once by the ancestor of the blood dragon.
The reason is that the reason he became the lover of the Vampire Queen was that after he was defeated and captured in a battle, he had an affair with the Queen in prison, and later he teamed up with the Queen to murder her own husband.
Li Wei can only say that your circle is really chaotic.
Therefore, Black Arkhan might be afraid of the undisguised hostility of the Blood Dragon Ancestor towards him and would not go to meet the Vampire Queen.
In addition, Goddess Lilith has two little gossips.
First of all, although Black Arkhan became the lover of the Vampire Queen, he had already become an undead creature - a lich, the kind without a chick.
It seemed that the Vampire Queen only wanted to gain knowledge and power from him. In addition, the huge difference in status between them, one was a queen and the other was a prisoner, seemed to bring a strange stimulation to the Queen, so she eventually developed into a spiritual lover with him.
But no one can be sure how sincere this union, which is born out of interests, is and how long it can last.
The second gossip is that the vampire queen seems to be a lesbian. She has several wives in the Lamia family...
In this situation, if Black Arkhan had any brains, it seemed that he really could not reconcile with her, because the other party might not care about their friendship at all and only wanted to kill people and steal treasures.
But no matter what conspiracy Black Arkhan or the Vampire Queen has, they are all powerful people of legendary level.
In addition, the commotion of the beastmen over there almost certainly involved Malar's involvement. The fight in the pollution pit will escalate further, and he needs to make some preparations in advance...
As the undead gradually approached, when they were several hundred meters away, they finally stopped slowly, and a female voice full of pride rang out.
"Listen, humans and elves in front. Hand over those who dare to provoke us, especially that abominable wizard. Then perhaps in the name of the Lahmia family, we can reluctantly forgive your crime of harboring them."
Levi found it interesting. Even at this point, they still wanted to try to divide their own side?
It is said that the vampires of the Lamia family not only have beautiful appearance, but also extraordinary wisdom, so they can better control men of other races.
But now it seems that it is nothing more than that.
Or, does she simply want to show off her martial arts skills in this way?
But no matter what, they certainly won't waver in the slightest.
Not to mention the conflict between the living and the dead, if Virginia and others retreated when the enemy was at the gates of the city, it would be a disgrace to the goddess she believed in.
So Virginia scolded him without hesitation: "You despicable vampire, you actually dared to offend the temple of our God, you should beg for our forgiveness!"
Li Wei also laughed: "How about you come out first and let us meet?"
He looked around several times but still couldn't find the other person's real location. Obviously, she might have used some special magic to only transmit her voice but hide her location.
The female vampire was obviously not surprised at all, and had no intention of paying any attention to Levi. The combat effectiveness of the undead mostly needed high-level vampires or necromancers to maintain.
If they, as leaders and commanders, were to die first, the actual combat effectiveness of those low- and middle-level undead, most of whom had little intelligence and only hatred and killing instincts towards the living, would be reduced by at least several percentage points. She was not that stupid.
So the two sides had no idea of ​​what was going on, and the Undead immediately launched a massive attack.
More than twenty bloodthirsty bat wolves were the first to roar towards the sky, and then the werewolves chose to follow. For a moment, wisps of moonlight that were almost visible to the naked eye began to fall from the sky and land on them.
Their bodies immediately expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was obvious that their strength had been enhanced.
Whether it is vampires or werewolves, they can use the power of moonlight to strengthen themselves, just like the night elves, or the priests of Sulen. This time the two sides can be said to be evenly matched.
Led by the bloodthirsty bat wolves, a large number of beastly enemies took the lead in launching a charge.
Thousands of graveyard guards followed closely behind, forming into several square formations and marching in unison.
As the opponent's core force, they have a large number of types holding swords and shields, which will be able to restrain Donna's rain of arrows.
In fact, any undead with a little bit of strength will make such a configuration, because they are extremely short of long-range units. When fighting with many enemies, they will be shot by the enemy for several rounds in vain, so they will naturally strengthen their defense in this regard.
So Donna turned to lead the archers and tried to snipe the bloodthirsty bat wolves.
Although they are very powerful, many Avalons have already advanced to Level 5, and their strength should not be underestimated.
Faster than her is Levi's Chain Lightning (Holy Version).
A lightning snake as thick as his wrist flew out of his hand, instantly crossed a distance of hundreds of meters, and hit the first grave guard.
Then a slightly white electric light flashed, and within a few seconds it twisted its body and leaped fifty or sixty meters, affecting dozens of undead people one after another.
This was also the first time that Levi officially used this magic on such a battlefield. How should I put it? He was a little disappointed.
It looks kind of cool, but the actual damage it causes may not be much stronger than two fireballs.
Even though he used holy power to transform it into divine magic that had higher damage to evil reputation, except for the first target who was killed instantly, most of the rest were only injured but not killed.
However, its deterrent power is very strong, because anyone with a little knowledge knows that this is a 6th-level magic, and it has been enhanced in some way.
So the morale of Virginia and the priests in the temple was boosted for a moment.
The priests of the temple also exerted their powers one after another. At once, dozens of walls of moonlight lit up first, blocking the werewolves' charge.
The damage caused was secondary. The light they emitted actually illuminated half of the battlefield, which would be more beneficial to their side in the subsequent battle.
The female vampire in the distance, after seeing him appear, very abnormally did not immediately provoke him, but hid herself among the many vampire swordsmen before speaking again.
"Are you the wizard who dares to offend our Lahmia family? You will regret this, we..."
Before she could finish her words, Donna gave a delicate shout and led Avalon and the Sky Eagle Archer to launch the first wave of deadly arrows.
Two bloodthirsty bat wolves were shot dead on the spot, and dozens of werewolves affected were killed or injured. This was the most favorable response and counterattack against the undead.
The female vampire was suddenly furious, but she didn't dare to say anything for a moment, and just backed away.
Although she is also a hero-level unit, in terms of health and defense alone, she is really not as good as the bloodthirsty bat wolf. She has never been a vampire who is good at frontal combat.
If the other party can kill them instantly, he can naturally kill her as well!