Volume 5: Protracted War Chapter 85: The Battle with the Banshee (1)
Xiaobai and Piaopiao, oh, after the mutual notification when we first met, we learned that the ghost banshee we were about to challenge was given a very "appropriate" name by the system - Piaopiao, and we were following the usual practice to make notifications and negotiations. The ghost banshee was extremely angry that Xiaobai, a ghost wind demon who had just completed his evolution and was obviously insufficient in strength, dared to challenge her authority. She used many words to mock and scold. Although Xiaobai had only recently become a demon, he had the support of my master, the army of undead, and was naturally not a master who would give in. They retorted and said some worthless nonsense to each other. I was too lazy to listen to their verbal disputes, and kept looking around to check the situation in the small valley.
After the initial verbal abuse, the negotiations finally entered the substantive stage. The Ghost Banshee was very dissatisfied with Xiaobai's move to "lead" a large number of "aliens" to participate in the battle for the Ghost Emperor's power. She lodged a strong protest, claiming that there had never been such a precedent in the history of Ghost Emperor challenges , and that it was a serious violation of "collaborating with foreign enemies"; Xiaobai argued that these "aliens" all belonged to the same camp as it, and that the "Ghost Law" did not explicitly prohibit such behavior, so as long as it ensured that the Ghost Banshee's life safety would not be endangered in the challenge, and with just a few words, the Ghost Banshee was blocked. In fact, the ability to do such things is due to the special nature of our necromancer profession. To a large extent, we play the role of "rule breakers", and can ignore some established rules of each undead race, using "soul contract" as a bond to form a new force. Only in this way can necromancers be able to survive and develop in the "dead space". Otherwise, everything will be done according to the rules. Although it will be much safer, it will be impossible to become strong and unable to contend with the inherent powerful existences in the "dead space".
Of course, there must be a limit to the violation of rules. Once it exceeds the scope of the system's tacit approval, it will lead to other troubles, such as the challenge of the Corpse King, the "divine punishment" of the "law enforcer", and even the "divine punishment" of the chief judge, etc., to restrict the behavior of the necromancers, so as to prevent us from developing too rapidly and powerfully, and seriously destroying the balance in the "dead space". However, the difficulty is that we don't know what kind of behavior is against the prohibition and will be punished. Many times, we can only decide the next step based on our own interests. Like me subduing Guben and Hades, digging into Hades, the king of the underworld, and this time I came forward to help Xiaobai, and directly participated in the challenge between the Devouring Ghost Royal Family, etc. "Extraordinary" actions are all driven by interests and have to be done. As for the possible consequences, I can't care too much, so I can only take one step at a time.
The negotiations soon fell apart, and the only way to decide the outcome was through a challenge. Although the Ghost Banshee looked down on Xiaobai, she did not underestimate us "different" helpers, and set the challenge scale to the highest level - one-tenth of the total number of subordinates under her command participated in the challenge, so the number of participants on the Ghost Banshee side reached 50,000, plus 53 Ghost Kings, the strength was indeed strong. In comparison, Xiaobai, a new Ghost Wind Demon of the same level, was far behind, almost a bare royal family, which was really shabby.
I am not worried about not being able to defeat them. Although there are more ghost banshees, the corpse wizard army I brought this time can just restrain the devouring ghosts. With thousands of bullets fired at the same time, it is not so easy for those ordinary devouring ghosts to use Yinfeng attack directly. The only thing to worry about is that I cannot kill the ghost banshees, otherwise Xiaobai will be forcibly expelled from the "Yinfeng Valley" by the system for serious violations.
The invisible ghost banshees were lurking in the air, selecting soldiers and deploying troops. The irrelevant devouring ghosts had returned to their caves. The 50,000 ghost army was dispersed and entered a combat state. I could no longer guess the whereabouts of the ghost banshees and ghost kings. I didn't know when and where they would suddenly attack. Looking at this large group of devouring ghosts, which were basically more than two meters tall, I felt a little distressed. These were all elite soldiers. There would be countless casualties in the battle, especially the 53 ghost kings. If there were too many casualties, it would have a greater impact on my planned "bee harvesting operation".
I don't need to make any more preparations. As soon as I entered the valley, I had already arranged it. The three thousand Terror Knights were in front, attracting some of the Devouring Ghosts to attack. They were good at ground close combat, but they could only play this role. More than two thousand Corpse Witches followed closely behind, acting as the main force of the attack. They were divided into three batches and took turns to use "Death Cloud Bombs" to form a dense attack network to try to prevent the harassment of the Devouring Ghost Yinfeng. And I and the three Corpse Kings, Taotao, Hongxing and other capable subordinates focused on the Ghost Banshee and waited for an opportunity to act. As the saying goes, to capture the thief, you must first capture the king. Only by helping Xiaobai defeat it as soon as possible can we reduce the loss of the Ghost King.
However, I was greatly surprised when the war started. Fighting in the "Yinfeng Valley" was obviously more advantageous to the Devouring Ghosts. I still underestimated the power that tens of thousands of Devouring Ghosts could exert when gathered together. The strength of their individual blows was limited, but tens of thousands of Yinfeng gathered together had a certain multiplying effect, and even attracted some of the naturally generated Yinfeng in the valley, joining in and blowing towards us. The wind was so fierce that it was definitely beyond my imagination.
Perhaps it was a habit, the Devouring Ghosts did not use their advantage of being able to float in the air to rush in, but instead held hands and lined up in front of our army, launching an organized attack. The first to bear the brunt was the Terror Knights, who were already harassed by the small natural winds that occasionally blew through the valley. Now they were even more unstable, and were blown all over the place by the strong winds. The Corpse Witches in the rear were weaker, but because they were not the main target of the attack, they were only affected by the winds, and their formation was only slightly scattered, but generally maintained. It seems that the Devouring Ghost intends to gradually approach in this way, and use the power of nature to slowly blow us down. Come to think of it, if I hadn't been involved, this should have been a fight among the Devouring Ghosts. They all have a strong resistance to the cold wind. If they don't gather enough strength, it is difficult to cause damage to the enemy. They all lack powerful means of attack. It is impossible to win a quick victory. However, they can only follow the steps and adopt this "stupid" way of consumption to decide the outcome.
