This Qing is wrong

Chapter 245 Army of Living Corpses
The living people in Vienna faced the test of life and death. Although Kel'Thuzad was willing to keep the living people, he did not have the compassion that human beings should have, and human lies had no meaning to him.

All craftsmen must demonstrate on the spot!

Those who dare to lie, no matter what the reason is, immediately take it away as the raw material of the zombie army.

In the corner of an empty space in the city of Vienna, a skeleton mage held up his staff and chanted long and complicated spells to the neat and relatively complete corpses piled up on the ground.

This world in the age of doom is very unfriendly to skeleton mages. The resurrection magic of living corpses that can be completed with a wave of hands, in this world not only needs additional "auxiliary materials", but also needs to draw huge formations to reduce the consumption of magic power !
Long and complicated spells are also used to save mana.

All the means that the skeleton mage does are to save magic power, because the source of magic power of this magic is to extract his own magic power...

Although the skeleton mages who followed Kel'Thuzad belonged to the top archmage level, they were no longer limited to extracting ready-made magic power from the space to supplement their own consumption, let alone relying on inefficient and time-consuming meditation to restore their own strength. magic.

Both these skeleton masters and Kel'Thuzad can absorb all kinds of negative emotions emanating from humans and other intelligent creatures before death from killing and death.

In the eyes of the undead, the negative emotions produced by these intelligent creatures before death are the escaping dark attribute soul energy.

Therefore, high-level undead law professionals can absorb it to supplement their own magic power.

It can even be stored ahead of time for use.

Of course, the soul of a mortal is so weak that a small amount of killing and death will not provide much dark attribute soul energy. Only in large-scale wars, thousands of dead will make a lich of Kel'Thuzad's level care.

However, even with this simple and efficient means of replenishing magic, magic power is a difficult source of 'energy' for the current skeleton mages and Kel'Thuzad, so it is natural to use it sparingly...

Without those disgusting auxiliary materials, Hongda's blood-colored formation, and long and complicated spells, just resuscitating hundreds of living corpses can drain the magic power of this skeleton mage and reduce him to a waste wood... …

A skeleton mage without magic power is not even as powerful as an ordinary skeleton musketeer.

This is because resuscitating the living corpse is the spell that consumes the least magic power among the spells mastered by the skeleton mage.

After all, resuscitating the dead is almost equivalent to the innate ability of the necromancer profession, and the consumption is very small, so there are various restrictions in the age of doom.

However, none of Kel'Thuzad and his skeleton mages complained about the terrible environment of the world.

Because they know that in this kind of environment, it is impossible to give birth to tyrannical legal professionals. Even with the professional inheritance of magicians, those legal professionals can only improve their magic level through years of meditation .

This is why almost all the magicians in Europe have a sense of accomplishment with white beards, and they are old enough to be grandpas...

And most of the magics he mastered are auxiliary magic, and there are very few offensive magics.

After all, the consumption of offensive magic is often higher.

This leads to the fact that a single magician's combat effectiveness is often not high, but it often produces miraculous effects when used to play tricks. As long as the ignorant people see a few auxiliary magical magic, they will basically subvert their common sense.

As a result, the church easily gained the faith of the people, and by harvesting secular wealth and cracking down on undisciplined wild magicians, it monopolized the magician profession in this world.

Even legal professionals who do not have the status of priests often need to hang a business license in the court or church.

While receiving some allowances regularly, answer the call of your boss anytime, anywhere.

Later, the secular royal power found that the combat power of magicians was mediocre, far inferior to professional knights who took the route of physical strengthening. Gradually, court magicians became rare creatures. Even if a small number of court magicians were retained, they would No longer responsible for dedicated combat.

In this era, the royal family and nobles who raise court magicians are generally used to arrange faces and perform shows for themselves.

Only churches that are rich and powerful and need to fool the common people all the time will support a large number of legal professionals.

This is why Europe has been in chaos for so long, but the ruling class in those countries cannot produce even a mage group.

And the church that can take out the mage group, seeing that the alien race is so powerful that it is difficult to resist, let alone use its strength to fight, even the troops of the Knights Templar from all over the place have been mobilized back to fully defend the Papal Kingdom!

There may be a small number of legal professionals who are won over by the secular kingship to participate in the war, but that number is almost like cannon fodder on the battlefield, and it will not make any waves at all.

It's like the knight chief who was scattered into the major legions.

It is not that the Holy Roman Empire did not unite knights loyal to the royal family and nobles.

It's just that the Holy Roman Empire is not a centralized country. The nobles and nobles below all count on the knights to protect their families and property transfers, so they are naturally unwilling to take them out and put them on the battlefield.

One or two knights have reached the top.

However, what is the use of such a small number of knights?
Even forming a knight order is not enough!
Even the Habsburg family, the royal family of the Holy Roman Empire, was actually hiding their secrets. Before the fall of Vienna, the traditional knights in the family were tightly covered.

This is why Leopold II was escorted by a large group of family knights when he ran away.

At that time, the situation in the city of Vienna was very chaotic. There were not enough knights to control the scene. How could those routs obediently let out the escape door?

Regardless of the fact that many defenders died in the Battle of Vienna, there are very few corpses that have truly reached the rank of knight.

Even if there were, the corpses were basically smashed to pieces.

The vitality of the knight is more tenacious. If the skeleton musketeer wants to kill the knight, it is difficult to leave an intact corpse.

For the Skeleton Mage, the stronger the corpse was during its lifetime, the less mana it would consume when revived.

Of course, skeleton mages can also create more powerful undead knights, but unfortunately, in the age of doomsday, skeleton mages cannot afford the massive consumption of mana.

Zombies are living corpses, and Kel'Thuzad and Skeleton Mages consider them the cheapest legion cannon fodder.

The resuscitated living corpses are not the kind of slow-moving living targets. Their mobility is no different from that of normal humans. Only the head is the fatal point, and the body will not die no matter what kind of attack it receives.

Of course, the living corpses with their limbs removed basically lost their combat effectiveness.

In addition, the revived zombies can use simple cold weapons.

They are one level below the Skeleton Musketeers in intelligence.

For living corpses who are not afraid of death, cold weapons are enough.

A full hour passed before the corpses on the ground slowly got up. They retained the miserable appearance when they died. Fortunately, from the moment of recovery, the flesh and blood on the living corpses will no longer rot, and they will be maintained by the energy of death. with.

And the way for living corpses to supplement death energy is very simple - eat meat!
It is not necessary to eat human flesh, as long as it is fresh flesh and blood that has not rotted.

Freshness is the key, because in the eyes of living corpses, flesh and blood that have begun to rot have lost the active energy they need to replenish.

Of course, devouring living bodies is the best choice for living corpses.

After resuscitating a batch of living corpses, the burning soul fire in the eye sockets of this skeleton mage became visibly weak to the naked eye.

At this time, those newly revived living corpses obviously didn't get enough 'recovery energy', their bodies looked abnormally rigid, and their movements were slow, just like the weakest zombie in Resident Evil.

However, the skeleton mage had already prepared for it. In the next room, there were a lot of incomplete corpses piled up.

These "lack of nutrition" living corpses staggered into the target room when they were revived, and a group of living corpses surrounded a mountain of corpses and began to feast on them.

They even knew to tear off the clothes on the corpse and eat the flesh and blood inside.

The living corpses that are full of food and drink will stand up and come out on their own initiative. The living corpses that come out can no longer see the slightest slowness. If it is not for the terrifying appearance, the movements are no different from normal living people.

The eyeballs will turn from time to time, scanning the surrounding situation.

Like a bloodthirsty beast.

Without the control of the skeleton mage, the intelligence level of these living corpses is equivalent to that of ordinary carnivores.

Can hunt like a pack of wolves!

After eating, the living corpse went to the place where cold weapons were piled up on the other side, and picked up a cold weapon.

Whether to pick up a spear or a sword depends entirely on the willingness of the living corpse.

Generally speaking, living corpses will choose weapons according to the fighting instinct left in life.

This fighting instinct is not only possessed by soldiers. Among ordinary civilians, some people like to beat people with sticks, and some people like to chase people with a kitchen knife...

A living corpse who was good at using two-handed sticks would naturally choose a spear, and a living corpse who liked to carry things with one hand would most likely choose a sword.

shield?

Do living corpses need that kind of equipment to protect themselves?
Thanks to Vienna's arsenal, there are many spare weapons left over from the Middle Ages. Although most cold weapons lack maintenance and are rusty, living corpses are not picky eaters, and some are fine.

At worst, they can also use their nails and teeth to bite their prey.

Because the body of a living corpse does not have the protection mechanism of a normal living person, its strength is often stronger than that of a living person.

In bare-handed combat, a strong man who has never practiced free combat will definitely not be able to defeat a living corpse.

Moreover, the bites of living corpses often carry death energy. In the dharma-ending environment, the accompanying death energy is rootless water. Naturally, it is impossible to quickly infect living people and turn them into one of the undead.

But it is still easy to increase the bleeding volume of wounds and the probability of common infection.

To put it simply, the bite of a living corpse carries a virus that destroys the healthy immune system of a living person!
Skeleton mages are responsible for the resurrection of the dead, and Kel'Thuzad personally holds the transformation ceremony of the living.

For Kel'Thuzad, the consumption of converting a living person into a living corpse is much lower than resuscitating a dead person.

Fear mixed with dazed 'useless living' was gathered in the square in front of the Vienna Imperial Palace.

The magic circle like ghostly symbols on the ground made them feel uneasy.

Kel'Thuzad did not announce that those who failed the election would be executed, but instead claimed that they would be sent to the battlefield to participate in battle.

Although there is no difference between going to the battlefield and dying for the living who surrendered, at least the high probability of death and certain death will undoubtedly make people feel lucky.

At least, when these unselected living people were escorted to the magic circle, no one dared to resist, and they gathered here obediently following the guidance of the skeleton musketeers.

Afterwards, each of these unselected living people got a bowl of water.

From the audition to the defeat and being escorted here, these people have not had a drop of water, and they have long been thirsty. Most of them can't wait to drink up after getting the water bowl.

The people behind saw that the people in front drank the water without incident, and gradually let go of their guard.

Even so, there are some cautious people who are unwilling to drink water, even if they are extremely thirsty!
The men stand alone separated by the skeleton musketeers.

"These skeleton soldiers just use bayonets if they want to kill us, so they don't poison us in the water.

I heard poison is expensive. "

"Yeah, those few people who don't drink water don't know what they're thinking. At this point, they dare to disobey the orders of the skeleton soldiers, and they are not afraid of being eaten by them..."

The people drinking water were discussing in low voices, telling very simple truths.

They are right, poisons that can kill people in this era are a huge expense for ordinary civilian families!

No matter how rich and powerful a person is, he would not choose to use poison to kill captives on a large scale. Doing so is purely because he thinks he has too much money.

This is why most people choose to drink water.

"Drink water, live.

Do not drink, die! "

After everyone drank, the skeleton musketeer gave a final warning to the few remaining people who did not drink water.

The gleaming bayonet dangled in front of their eyes, and the terrifying face of the skeleton made these people terrified.

Finally, the few remaining people chose to drink water.

They don't drink water because they are afraid of death. Since they will die if they don't drink water, do they have any choice?
After seeing everyone drinking water, Kel'Thuzad nodded in satisfaction, and ordered everyone to gather in the huge magic circle on the square.

Then, an oddly pronounced mantra was uttered.

All of a sudden, all the living people who drank the bowl of water fell limply on the ground clutching their stomachs, wailing feebly.

But the wailing sound didn't last long before it disappeared, and the living people who fell on the ground passed out one by one, and then the skin all over their bodies became pale like a person who had lost too much blood, and even corpse spots appeared!

From the moment the corpse spots emerged, it meant that the person was completely dead.

Next, Kel'Thuzad used the magic circle to directly restrain the soul energy scattered after the death of the living people, using their own soul energy as the source of power to revive the living corpses!

This is why the cost of converting a living person to a living corpse is lower.

(End of this chapter)