After this little episode, the main force continued its march, and Levi temporarily left Khalida, preparing to go to other God-chosen heroes to try to obtain some intelligence.
In fact, this is also his habitual behavior every time he arrives in a new place.
Lilith's divinity does store a great deal of knowledge, but what she knows is often too high-end. Even if it is not about the gods and demon lords, it is basically quite famous.
For example, the legends of various races, or special beings like the Jade Phoenix Mage.
If it was an ordinary monster, she would rarely go into detail.
It's not that she really didn't understand, but she didn't put it all into the divinity that was given to him.
The information on the forum came from a variety of sources, but it was too sparse and often required him to spend a lot of effort to identify and confirm it.
In contrast, asking the local God-chosen hero will often be more credible.
Of course, doing so often requires him to pay a certain price, and the other party will not tell him anything particularly important or secret.
Of course, they will only keep the real good things for themselves.
But this time it was a little different, because Levi had shown off his flying sword before, and many people wanted one, and everyone could see how intimate Khalida was towards him.
There is another very crucial point. Ramses, who was very famous in the city of Lahmia yesterday and had a high military rank, was actually expelled overnight.
Rumor has it that he offended Levi, so not only was he beaten up, he was also kicked out by Khalida.
In addition, someone saw Levi coming back with Khalida yesterday, which inevitably made them think too much.
So wherever Levi went, it was almost as if everyone was welcoming him. They were very generous in telling him the information .
Although most of them were repetitive or useless, they still allowed him to understand a lot about the monsters' classes, strengths and weaknesses, etc. These were all valuable experiences they had gained through many actual combats.
Levi also selectively reported some information as a courtesy, so after this exchange, everyone was quite happy.
Then near the end, Levi received valuable news that a guy wanted to cooperate with him to wipe out a group of vampire pirates.
Vampires and vampire pirates may not sound very different, but in fact their fighting styles are completely different.
Vampires on land are nothing more than a large number of cannon fodder + a few elite troops + a small number of air forces, plus some vampires who use magic.
But vampire pirates are different. Their ships are equipped with muskets and cannons. Some powerful vampire pirates may also let zombie sailors operate these weapons.
Moreover, in naval battles, the fighting is more three-dimensional.
Many vampire pirates have a special method of attack, which is to let some zombies that have been transformed by magic into bombs lurk under the enemy's ship along the sea and directly blow up the enemy's ship.
In addition, vampires can fly and serve as air force, so once a fight breaks out with vampire pirates on the sea, it will be hard to defend against the opponent's many tactics.
Among the many famous pirate forces, only the dark elves can compete with them.
Other Norscan barbarians, snakemen, or Nibon pirates are no match for them.
If Levi were to lead his own troops to fight against them, he would not be interested for the time being, because he and his subordinates had no experience in naval battles at all.
But if you're working with other people, then that's totally fine.
He may not even care about the spoils or anything like that, just treat it as training experience!
So after confirming some relevant details, he readily agreed to the other party.
While he was busy, the main force was also advancing.
The Glory of Nagash, where the Silver Blood Army is entrenched, is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles. Even Khalida, who has fought against them many times, still doesn't know where their base camp is.
So it was destined that when they set out from the city of Lahmia, the journey would not be a short one.
This was probably the reason why she not only dispatched so many troops but also recruited a large number of God-chosen heroes.
She also needs their respective special abilities to help her find her target faster.
As the large army continued to advance, the surrounding scenery began to change. The area under Khalida's rule was basically jungle, nothing much to say.
But once they crossed the border and headed towards their goal, things quickly changed.
The flowers, plants and trees around all looked decayed and dilapidated. It was not because of lack of water or anything, but they were simply affected by the evil magic.
The road was full of jagged gravel, which was extremely unfavorable for the march of cavalry, chariots and other units.
No wonder Khalida brought almost no skeleton cavalry or skeleton chariots. With their weak strength, they would be torn apart after walking for dozens of miles without the enemy launching an attack.
As we continued forward, a large number of hidden and filthy swamps began to appear on the road.
Those swamps are not particularly obvious and are often covered by various phytoplankton, so you can fall into them if you are not careful.
After walking less than ten miles, Levi saw at least forty or fifty times that troops fell into it.
Although they appear to be only a few meters in radius, in fact, no one knows how deep they are. It seems that there is no problem fitting eight or ten skeleton soldiers into one pit.
At the same time, the sewage in the swamp is extremely corrosive. When those skeleton soldiers were fished out, they had basically turned into scattered bones and were all dead.
Even if the cemetery knights riding on the snakes fell in, they would basically end up seriously injured.
They were still lucky. If a dwarf in heavy armor fell in, given their weight, they would probably be corroded and suffocated to death before they could be fished out.
Although the loss of that little bit of troops was just a drop in the bucket compared to their army of tens of thousands, and the natives seemed to be used to it, their morale was not affected at all.
But many of the God-chosen heroes felt very frustrated. This was completely different from what they had expected, where they would have an absolute advantage and kill everyone in their way!
Levi finally understood why, despite having tens of thousands of troops under her command, Khalida had not been able to completely conquer this place and wipe out the Silver Blood Army after so many years.
They had only walked less than one-tenth of the way and it had already become like this. Who knew what traps the Silver Blood Army had prepared behind the scenes?
Unless Khalida finds the enemy's lair, and relies on her legendary strength and her most elite subordinates to implement a decapitation tactic.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for her to completely get rid of the other party.
However, those skeleton soldiers played the role of cannon fodder quite perfectly. With them stepping on the mines in front, none of Levi's subordinates suffered a similar fate.
But he did not take it lightly. He even rarely let Luna take the female hunters out for reconnaissance, but instead let her follow him.
In this way, no matter what accident happens, he will provide rescue as soon as possible.
Just think about it and you will know that how could the Silver Blood Army have no reaction at all to the deployment of tens of thousands of troops?
After giving a few more instructions, Levi approached Khalida, wanting to ask her if she had any other backup plans.
But before he could really get close to the other party, a high-pitched and slightly excited scream rang out: "Enemy attack!"
Upon hearing the noise, many of the God-chosen heroes closest to that direction took action without waiting for Khalida to issue any orders.
They have accumulated a lot of anger along the way, and this is a good opportunity to vent it!
Naturally, Levi also ran over to join in the fun. He wanted to see how the other party would respond.
Then he was very surprised to find that what came were not vampires or undead, but a large number of beastmen.
He was suddenly confused. Why did they appear here and seemed to be acting as the Silver Blood Army's minions?
Generally speaking, Beastmen really don't like dealing with the Undead, because they are bloodthirsty and carnivorous, and killing and destroying is one thing, and satisfying their own appetite is another.
But fighting the undead cannot satisfy them in either of these two aspects.
The corpses of the undead are not ordinary rotten meat, but contain evil magic, and it is really possible to die from eating them.
Similarly, the skeleton soldiers and constructs under Khalida's command could not satisfy them.
And although in Levi's opinion, the beastmen are mostly stupid, they are still born with a little cunning, that is, they know how to avoid the strong and attack the weak.
He had never seen or even heard of a situation like the current one, where less than a thousand low- and middle-level beastmen dared to attack an army of tens of thousands.
But it really happened, no matter whether it was the inferior horned beasts, horned beasts, great horned beasts or minotaurs, or even those mutated war dogs and razor beasts, at this moment they all stared with red eyes and fearlessly charged towards the enemy that was dozens of times their number.
Even though a considerable number of them were killed by long-range attacks such as bows and magic from the many God-chosen heroes along the way, they did not hesitate or retreat at all.
Could it be that these guys are controlled by vampire magic?
With such doubts, Levi casually summoned some shadow elementals, rat masters, inspectors, etc., and asked them to scout around in their own different ways.
But until these beastmen were almost killed, they did not notice any undead around.
Now Levi felt even more puzzled. This didn't make any sense at all?
At this moment, a chosen hero on the right suddenly exclaimed: "Levi, these beastmen are really weird. Although it is normal for beastmen to have mutations, this is the first time I have seen eight-legged foxmen and three-headed boarmen."
Levi raised his eyebrows and immediately drove the griffin around the battlefield. Then he found that there were too many differences among these beastmen.
There are many different opinions about the exact origin of the beastmen, but one thing is certain, except for those who have gods behind them or have converted to the good camp, the remaining evil beastmen will mostly choose to worship the devil, demons or other evil alien beings, and desire to obtain stronger power from them.
To this end, they usually choose the most brutal, direct and most successful method, which is blood sacrifice.
What's more, in this way, many evil beings such as the devil will indeed respond to them.
But to gain power from the devil, blood sacrifice alone is not enough. They often come with various side effects, which may cause great changes in the beast people's body and mind.
It is very common to have multiple heads and legs.
If they do not undergo sacrificial rituals, but instead stay in some evil place polluted by demons or devils for a long time, they may also mutate.
But no matter what, the mutation rate of these beastmen in front of us is too high.
Even some of the trash inferior horned beasts have obvious mutations. Given that their strength is not much stronger than that of the kobolds, where do they get the strength to perform blood sacrifices?
To sacrifice to the goblins? Would there really be a demon willing to accept such a sacrifice?
And I have never heard that this area has ever been defiled by demons.
Could it be that Nagash still has some residual power here?
While he was thinking, he suddenly heard someone muttering below: "Hey? How come these beastmen still have dimensional stones?"
In a flash, Levi felt as if he had touched something, and he went down directly: "Can you show it to me?"
Since he had communicated information with Levi before, they were already half acquaintances, so the other party did not refuse.
After taking a closer look, Levi confirmed that this was not an ordinary fragment of dimensional stone, but a carefully polished special ammunition specifically for slingshot.
Besides kobolds, which other race loves slings the most? The answer is ratmen!
Although using dimensional stone as ammunition is actually very luxurious, it is almost equivalent to humans using silver or even gold to make arrows.
But combined with the Ratman God-chosen hero named Wang Jerry whom he met yesterday and the specially modified Ratman under his command, Levi was almost certain.
It is very likely that the ratmen of the Corruption Clan have a large nest in these mountains, which is specifically used to transform wild beasts and beastmen.
These beastmen in front of us, who appear to have been severely mutated, are most likely their modified experimental subjects.
Now that they have sent out these experimental subjects to carry out harassment, will they have more means in the future?
Of course it is certain, Khalida's attitude towards the rat people has always been killing.
Her massive expedition not only threatened the Silver Blood Army, but also the Corrupted Clan!
Then after asking around a bit, Levi discovered that other people also had gains, not only slings, but also several dimensional gun bullets.
It is estimated that before being released by the rat people, the beast people also took some things.
The Corrupt Clan among the Skaven are good at transforming various monsters, and the Skryre Clan are good at using dimensional stone as material and energy to create various dangerous weapons.
As one of the four major clans, it is very normal for them to share what they have with each other.
Carrying these special ammunition, Levi flew directly towards Khalida, and then he found that a large group of special beings had appeared around her at some point.
Some of them were dressed as generals, while others wore hooded robes and held magic wands. As expected, they were mages.
Although they were still in the form of mummies, their armor, weapons, and various ornaments on their bodies all emitted a faint magical glow from the inside out.
Moreover, the sharp-eyed Levi also noticed that all the generals were carrying the same Ouroboros and Sun Scarab that the caravan leader had given him before.
This means that with these two pieces of equipment alone, they can recover up to 4,000 health points per day.
If the rest of their equipment is of the same level, their overall combat capability should not be underestimated.
There were nearly 20 such fighters present.
Based on their racial characteristics, even if their talents and potential are limited, their levels will probably not be too low after hundreds or thousands of years.
Although he couldn't see the dozen or so wizards nearby because of their hoods, he knew that their identities and status should be at the same level since they were here together.
As we all know, in most cases, the destructive power and killing speed of a mage of the same level are far superior to that of a warrior.
Levi also roughly understood that they might be the real trump card of Khalida's expedition this time.
The others, whether it is the skeleton soldiers, mummies, those rather conspicuous bone giants, or the large number of God-chosen heroes, are probably just a cover.
But he should not be included. By now, the gap between him and the ordinary God-chosen heroes in terms of combat power has already opened up an unknown distance.
Now these mages were gathered together with Khalida, pointing at the many beastman corpses on the ground. It was obvious that they had also discovered something wrong.
Without even turning her head, Kalida just waved her hand, signaling him to come over and take a look.
In fact, she already knew what the other party had done just now, and she also knew that he was coming over now. Otherwise, without her order, the guards outside would not let him in easily.
If she didn't do this, she would have been annoyed to death by those God-chosen heroes in the city.
Then Levi saw an extremely special Chaos War Dog among the crowd.
Apart from a dog's head, the head on the left is that of a gray wolf, and the other one is simply that of a lioness.
No matter how much it mutates, it can't mutate into this appearance. It is a Chaos War Hound, not a Chimera.
"Levi, what do you think?"
To be honest, this was the first time she had encountered such a situation in her long life.
Levi just threw a few warpstone ammunition over: "I think it's a ratman from the Corrupted Clan."
As he said this, he bent down, ignoring the blood and stench, and searched for something in the other's lush hair.
Then, within seconds, he made a discovery.
He casually cast a low-level fire magic to burn all the hair nearby, then showed it to Khalida: "The dimensional stone is the first piece of evidence, and this is the second one."
Khalida subconsciously looked in the direction of his finger, and then she found some very obvious stitches.
The other party seemed to want to artificially create a three-headed dog, but it was obvious that he had done something wrong.
Khalida gnashed her teeth and said, "Damn these despicable ratmen! The disaster that Nagash caused was assisted by the ratmen!"
The generals and mages around were talking about it for a while.
If it weren't for the help of the ratmen, Nagash might not have been able to spread the poison and curse to so many places so quickly, directly leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Although due to the nature of the ratmen, they backstabbed Nagash not long after, it was also a significant contribution to the coalition's defeat of Nagash.
But no one, including Khalida, thought that this matter would really end there.
This time, new and old grudges happened to come together, so they couldn't help but be angry.
Khalida waved her short staff vigorously and said, "Speed ​​up the march. After crossing the mountain twenty miles ahead, each of you will lead a team and search for the hiding places of the vampires and ratmen with all your strength!"
Many generals agreed and left quickly.
Looking at their swift and agile movements, Levi felt that among his side, except for a limited number of women such as Elegy, Cindy, Maltis and Luna, the others, including Sonia and Alduin, were probably far inferior to the other side.
I don’t know how much of this is due to their own strength, and how much is due to the many equipments they carry.
The mages still stayed beside Khalida, seemingly waiting for her orders.
At the same time, Levi also noticed that there was more than one wizard who was secretly looking at him.
Because their eye sockets were all flickering and the light was like candlelight, Levi couldn't tell what their attitude was for a moment, and the scene seemed a little awkward for a while.
But fortunately, Khalida was there to explain, "Levi, these are the priests of the Funeral Cult. They are all very interested in your magic, especially the summoning magic, because they are also good at it."
Levi became slightly more interested: "Oh, I wonder what they are good at summoning?"
Hearing his question, the priests' slightly dry and hoarse voices suddenly rang out.
After a lot of discussion, Levi roughly realized that most of them were good at summoning various monsters and elements, and many of them even mastered advanced summoning monsters that Levi did not yet possess.
When this magic reaches a high level, it is basically inevitable that it will have a deeper connection with the other world.
Many summoned creatures will first look at their camp, race, etc., and then decide whether to respond to the summons.
Due to the particularity of the race of these priests, it is difficult for them to summon good creatures such as angels, and they do not want to summon evil creatures such as demons, so they tend to summon various powerful neutral monsters.
Then they chose dinosaurs, such as Triceratops, Raptorosaur, Ichthyosaur, Giant Tortoise and Plesiosaur.
Hearing this, Levi's heart suddenly moved. He had just told Khalida yesterday that he wanted her to help the high elves in the naval battle. As a result, she specially found these priests who were good at summoning today.
Plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, etc. are obviously good at water battles!
It seems that what I said yesterday really touched her heart.
In addition, due to its faction characteristics, creatures that are more common in the desert, such as giant scorpions, rattlesnakes, vultures, monitor lizards and spiders, are also within its summoning range.
Of course, those who can respond to their call are basically strengthened and mutated species, not ordinary low-level cannon fodder.
Seeing Levi nodding his head repeatedly and looking very interested, Kalida couldn't help but smile: "If you are interested, just copy a copy from them. I don't think they will refuse."
Levi naturally wouldn't refuse. A Triceratops or something like that sounded much stronger than most of his summons.
Moreover, those dinosaurs that are good at water battles will definitely come in handy in the future.
However, before he could exchange summoning experiences with the other party, another alarm sounded.
This time it was the center of the force that was attacked.
When Levi and Khalida arrived, the enemy had been almost wiped out, because there were only some low-level zombies and skeletons crawling out of the swamp.
But after looking at each other, they both felt that things might not be that simple.
As expected, as the army continued to advance, there were more and more unexpected situations on the road. Undead creatures were constantly awakened, and occasionally some beastmen appeared and attacked them.
Although there were only a few hundred of them each time and it was basically impossible to cause them many casualties, the marching speed of the troops was inevitably affected.
Now, without Levi saying anything, anyone could see that the other party was probably trying to delay time.
Although she knew that things would not go smoothly, Kalida was still somewhat annoyed.
She could only give orders that if there was similar enemy harassment next time, only a part of the troops would be left to deal with it, while the other troops would speed up their advance.
Since the Silver Blood Army wants to escape, they naturally have to hurry up!
In this way, the impact was indeed reduced a lot.
But the army's front line was inevitably stretched a lot.
Levi couldn't help but secretly be on his guard and asked his subordinates to be more cautious.
Since the opponent knows how to use this method to delay time, if our side neglects defense because of this, is it possible for them to launch a fierce attack?
As for himself, he and Cindy, along with some summoned creatures, stayed by Kalida's side.
On the one hand, I want to continue to communicate and exchange some experiences with those priests.
On the other hand, if the enemy launches a surprise attack, who will be the primary target? Of course, only Khalida.
Even if the rats are full of hatred for Khalida, they are unlikely to fight to the death, or even if they do, they don't have the money.
More threats may still come from those vampires.
The presence of myself and Cindy meant that there were a large number of celestial beings present, which was perfect for fighting the enemy.
In fact, if it was during her heyday, as a legendary hero, Khalida would not require him to worry too much about this.
But after falling into the trap of the Viper Queen, the magic circle, and losing so much blood, Levi was not sure whether she had recovered to her full strength after a night of rest.
After reaching the legendary level, many injuries no longer seem to be able to be easily cured by ordinary healing spells.
After the Dragon Prince and the Legend of the Dark Elf had a battle, they rested for nearly half a month.
And even if she encounters a surprise attack, she is not in any danger. He can just cast a few small magic spells to assist her, and it can also gain some favor or something, right?
He had nothing to be ashamed of approaching a wealthy woman like Khalida, who had a good personality, strong abilities, a good brain, and, more importantly, was very generous to him.
In order to remain secretive, he even had the angels put on hoods so that they could look like ordinary soldiers.
Khalida did not refuse. Although she claimed that she was very powerful and should not be in any danger, as a queen, it was normal for her to have some guards around her.
At least these celestial creatures looked much better than the mummies under her command.
Especially this little girl named Cindy, she liked her more and more the more she looked at her.
And if she was not mistaken, she also possessed divinity, which came from Sigmar among the human gods.
Adding Levi and Luna's night elf, it seems that the gods who have invested in Levi are more than I imagined...