Travels of the Necromancer

The interior of the Skeleton City is much simpler than the city walls, but it looks like ordinary city ruins full of broken walls.The only difference from ordinary ruins is that you can't find a weed, a mouse or an ant here, it's a completely silent city.Because necromancers hate all living creatures, low-level necromancers without the control of necromancers will instinctively kill all creatures they encounter.

Occasionally, we would meet other adventure teams in the city, but they would all leave after a hasty greeting. In addition to being afraid of being attacked by the other party, one of the reasons was to finish the mission before dark.And our group is destined to spend the night in the city.

Originally, the trial mission given by Holy Sword to the tenth team was to eliminate a certain number of undead creatures in the city.To complete this task, you only need to be active on the edge of the city. Even at night, with the strength of the entire team, the danger is not great.But because of that map, the whole team decided to explore the ruins in the depths of the city. Not only could they not go back and forth within a day, but the level of undead creatures there was much higher.It is for this reason that they took the risk to temporarily recruit me into the group to strengthen their strength.

I only now know that that map belongs to Noah.Noah's family produced many paladins, and one of them participated in the Western Expedition that year and returned early due to injuries, so he survived.From this point of view, the credibility of the map is still relatively high.In addition, I think this not very united team can maintain until now, precisely because Noah still holds the map.

Now that I was in the city, I finally saw the true appearance of the map: it was made of high-quality sheepskin, and although it had changed color, there was no damage.Unlike those legendary treasure maps that are vague and full of mysteries, the map in our hands clearly draws the layout of the entire city and the purpose of each building, including our destination—the one full of treasures dedicated to the gods. treasury of wealth.I think Noah's ancestors may have participated in the renovation of the city.

Although our group hurried on the road, when night fell, we were still about half of the distance from our destination, so we had to camp on the spot.Others took materials from the space bag to build tents, and the female mage and I began to arrange the magic barrier to protect the camp.It is quite against the law for a necromancer to arrange the magic circle of the light department, but there is no way, I can't trust that rookie mage at all.

Finally, before the last ray of sunlight disappeared over the horizon, the magic barrier was set up, and a white translucent light curtain enveloped the entire camp.What maintains this barrier is a magic crystal of fairly good quality. When the female magician took it out, it surprised me a little.

If the Skull City during the day can only be described as dead silence, the Skeleton City at night is synonymous with horror and danger.Under the night, the undead creatures woke up from their slumber during the day and began to wander in the city.Most of the members of the trial team saw the real undead creatures for the first time. Although the magic circle can block the spiritual magic of the undead creatures, the pale or pale green skeletons, and the corpses with rotten flesh dangling around The visual impact caused by walking dead is definitely not inferior to spiritual magic.If it wasn't for the scene they saw at the city gate that made them psychologically prepared, many people would have vomited by now.

Undead creatures have also discovered our camp, and their hatred for living things has made them gather here one after another.But when they were more than ten meters away from the magic barrier, they hesitated and stopped advancing.Although they no longer had much intelligence, they instinctively sensed that this magical barrier exuding light was very dangerous, so they hesitated to move forward.

I observed carefully, and found that the ones approaching were all low-level creatures like skeletons, but my companions were still very nervous, and they all drew their weapons and stood ready.

Their actions seemed to stimulate the surrounding skeletons, and the skeletons gradually approached.Finally, a skeleton soldier with a relatively complete skeleton held up a rusty iron sword and bumped into the magic barrier.

Immediately, bright white flames appeared at the place where the "huh" collided, and the flames spread very quickly, and the skeleton soldier was surrounded by the flames all at once.The skeleton soldier frantically swung the iron sword, staggered back, knocked down a group of skeletons behind him, and passed the flames to them.All of a sudden, the dozen or so skeletons closest to the magic barrier were engulfed in flames.

Seeing such a scene, our side should be happy, but the faces of the team members are not very good-looking.Well, although skeletons have no vocal cords and cannot scream, I admit that the sound of bones colliding and breaking, and the crackling of bones under burning are not very pleasant.

Fighting against undead creatures has always been a nightmare for melee fighters.Cut off the arm of a skeleton soldier with a single knife, it can pick it up and put it on itself to continue fighting; when chopping walking corpses, they will splash putrid corpse water, which is not only disgusting, but also corrosive.Not to mention that low-level undead creatures don't feel pain, don't know fear, and are the most obedient soldiers in the world.Therefore, in the past undead wars, the human side was defeated many times due to the collapse of morale.

As a necromancer, of course I am very satisfied with these advantages of necromantic creatures.It's just that the state of my companions in the safe magic barrier now makes me wonder if they can still lift a knife if they come face to face with undead creatures.Perhaps, I should consider leaving these burdens behind.

"Miss Karen, please bless me with magic." Noah seemed to realize that if this continues, even if it is temporarily safe, the morale of the team will collapse due to the fear of undead creatures.

The rookie mage didn't hesitate this time, and immediately blessed Noah with the divine protection technique.I also blessed him with the Gale Technique.

Then, Noah held the sword and walked out of the barrier without any hesitation.

The martial arts of the nobles are generally too gorgeous, and they can be solved directly with a single sword, but they want to draw an arc to draw a sword flower. However, considering that they have more opportunities to conduct "show matches" under the watchful eyes of countless ladies than to actually fight on the battlefield Much more is understandable.And Noah obviously abandoned this noble habit, his martial arts can be summed up in three words: concise, powerful, and practical.

A sword cut off the skeleton soldier's head - together with the hand it raised to block, and then rotated the body around the feet, cutting off the head of another skeleton soldier who was trying to attack from behind.After crushing the two heads, he neatly dismembered the two headless skeletons that were spinning around.

Crush the head, then attack the joints, well, the option Noah chose is very effective.Although the stumps and broken arms were still twitching on the ground, they could no longer cause any damage.In fact, as long as you can overcome your fear and find the right attack method, it is not difficult to eliminate low-level undead creatures like skeleton soldiers.Therefore, if one day it is necessary to lead the undead army to fight against humans, priority should be given to eliminating such an excellent leader as Noah, I made a note in my heart.

"Why, do you want to just stand by and watch?" I raised my eyebrows and asked the other people who were still staying in the magic barrier, and then summoned a small tornado with my hand, rolling up the two skeleton soldiers and smashing them into pieces.At this time, Noah had already dealt with the seventh skeleton soldier.In fact, even the rookie mage performed better than these so-called experienced mercenaries: she blessed Noah with a light shield, and began to prepare the third auxiliary magic.

The mercenaries exchanged glances with each other, and finally rushed out of the magic barrier with their weapons in hand.

After cleaning up all the skeleton soldiers around, the other undead creatures seemed to finally realize that our group is not easy to mess with, so they retreated one after another.Only two people on our side were slightly injured, and under the treatment of the female mage, they recovered quickly.The most important gain is that the mercenaries have basically overcome their fear of undead creatures.

But it is already midnight now, and there is still a day to go before the destination, so the mercenaries didn't have much time to celebrate their first victory, so they all went back to the tent to rest, leaving only the half-orcs who got the vigil during today's lottery and I.

It can be said that the half-orcs were quite unlucky today. First, they were affected by spiritual magic at the city gate, and then they got the lottery for the vigil. Just now, because they were too excited in the battle with the skeleton soldiers, they consumed too much energy, so they soon started to have headaches. Dozed off a little bit.Of course, I am quite happy to see such a scene, and I am very willing to help my companions have a good dream.

The magic mist enveloped the entire camp silently, making the breathing in the tent more stable.I slowly walked through the barrier and walked into the darkness.