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Chapter 178 The Extraordinary One Closest to God

Lordes's lightning swept across the city wall.The electricity hit the death knight and bounced off, weaving a deadly web among the living corpses that continued to climb the walls.It seemed as if it had been hit by a hurricane and thunderstorm, and all the living corpses who climbed the city wall first were swept away.Battlements and towers crumbled to dust in a lash of lightning, and were swept up into the sky by the gale.

Amidst the thunder and lightning, Lordes rushed towards the death knight.He is a spellcaster, yet he fights with such ferocity that all melee-type Extraordinary people look up to.The lightning condensed into a scimitar-like light beam in his hand and tore the death knight's shoulder armor, exploding a large black viscous liquid.Judging from the position of the wound, the death knight has almost no flesh and blood under the heavy armor, and is completely a mass of black and muddy matter.

Unmoved by the horrific injury, the Lord of the Dead raised his bone sword aloft, and the horseman rose to his feet and swung his sword down on the ball lightning.

This sword erupted with a deafening bang, and the blade slashed on the surface of the blazing light shield, cracking a piece of crystal-like crystal fragments.Lordes, who was floating in the air, was even sunk by this sword.

Griffith, who was watching from a distance, broke out in a cold sweat.He watched the two non-human creatures fighting fiercely on the city wall, and his heart was suspended.

Lordes is the core node and commander of the entire defense, a powerful and precise long-range firepower, and an extraordinary tactical maneuver, intelligence and communication assistant.Once he is killed by a sneak attack like Weitzleben, the entire defense line will be hit hard.

The fight between Lordes and the death knight was astonishingly fierce. They were both huge in size. They attacked each other back and forth on the city wall, and there was no room for dodge at all.

Extraordinary reinforcements are coming quickly.As a powerful Sequence 5 transcendent, the death knight will enter the realm of demigods after advancing to one level, and has the possibility of touching the godhood.However, it is still dangerous to be besieged and attacked.It also launched a fierce attack without any scruples, trying to kill the extraordinary wizard here as soon as possible.

The situation of Lordes is also critical.During the Whispering Forest incident, the team he led was disintegrated under the attack of a group of sonic boom bats that would interfere with casting spells. Since then, this scholar must have summed up his experience and made precautions against critical situations where he could not cast spells or had no time to chant Sexual countermeasures are prepared.

The tactics of the enemy and the enemy are basically the same.

Byelan used the mid-level and lower-level Extraordinary and the city defense army to build a barrier to suppress the front, and then waited for an opportunity to use the extraordinary mobility and combat power of the Extraordinary to surprise the commander who killed the undead creatures.For the undead army where most of the living corpses have no intelligence, as long as the high-level undead creatures are eliminated, the tide of corpses is nothing to fear.

The tactics of the Deathrattle Order adopted targeted arrangements.They first used a large number of skeletons to attack, transforming the residents of the suburbs into strong living corpses, and then attacked the front with a huge number advantage and a few high-level undead creatures.In the face of such an attack, if Byelan's side does not want to be consumed slowly, they will definitely concentrate on extraordinary people to implement beheading tactics.

The tactics of Erza and the others were not wrong, the only omission was that no one knew in advance that the sect was actually holding an earth-burrowing insect.After this extraordinary creature was resurrected, it ignored the battle line and terrain and directly cut into the back of Byelan's line of defense. The death knight personally attacked and killed the extraordinary wizard.

This is a gap in intelligence and operational readiness that cannot be prevented by commanders on the ground.

However, the outcome is still undecided.The time a death knight can use to kill an extraordinary wizard is extremely limited.It must kill one before the other transcendents arrive, otherwise it will be surrounded.

Lordes definitely didn't expect the Burrower to appear in advance, but he still took precautions against the possibility of being attacked.

The powerful magic shield and almost elemental form provide amazing defense and resistance.However, Lordes couldn't chant most of the spells during this process, and his movement speed was obviously not high, so he couldn't run away.He was alone against the undead creatures of a higher rank, so he could only fight back with all his strength to buy time.

As long as you procrastinate to ensure that you don't die, the overall situation arranged by the undead will go bankrupt.

The tide of corpses is attacking with all its strength.They come from the fields to the west, or spring up from the ground.They are the tentacles and strength of the Death Knight, a threat even greater than that great bone sword.

Horus, who was retreating, stopped to join the blocking battle.His speed was not fast, and when he rushed to the city wall, he could only collect the corpse in time.Moreover, under the attack of the raging corpse tide, only the Extraordinary and the city defense army's defense line cannot be defended.Therefore, Horus once again led his Beyonders back and forth between camps for support.This time without the mobility brought by the phase prism, they could only fight in groups, and their combat efficiency and control radius were also greatly reduced.

Lordes, who had just been hit hard, condensed lightning in his right hand, forming a sharp blade like a beam of light.The fluctuations of the light beam made a terrifying buzzing sound, as if anyone who approached would be torn apart by a terrifying force.Even Griffith, who was watching from afar, could feel the amazing power of the Light Blade.

Lordes raised the light blade, took a blow from the bone sword, and slashed at the death knight with his backhand.

The black horse neighed violently.The Shining Blade severed the Death Knight's left leg, and knocked down his steed along with it.

The death knight came crashing down like a mountain.However, in the process of kneeling down, it suddenly raised its hand and pointed.

Where it points, a fat Stitched Hugger has just crawled out of the burrow dug by the Earth Burrower.

The swollen monster immediately shook violently, and then quickly melted like a candle.All of its vitality was transpiring like mist, flying towards the direction of the death knight.

At the moment when the mist merged with the death knight, the left leg and horse body that had just been severed flowed to the wound like liquid, shaking and congealing.

The death knight's wounds are recovering rapidly.

This is the devouring and healing that the undead path is best at.During the battle, they will collect and devour the bodies of the same kind without hesitation, so as to supplement their injured bodies, and the recovery speed is extremely fast and the efficiency is astonishing.

Lordes's face surrounded by lightning was blurred, but one can imagine how horrified he was.The death knight and war horse who had just been knocked down stood up again in a blink of an eye, looking down at him with icy eyes.

That evil force appeared above the bone sword.The black horse raised its front hooves and neighed like a dragon.The death knight charged forward on his horse, and slashed down with his sword when it intersected with the ball of light.

The moment the sword edge slashed, the bone-piercing chill and eerie silence suddenly occupied the world.After a while, the roar and strong wind broke out.

This blow dispersed the air and smoke.Under the blessing of fel energy, the sharp and heavy giant sword tore through the light shield again.A phantom of a skull staff suddenly appeared beside Lordes in the form of ball lightning, and sprinkled red dust in a flurry of shaking.

Lordes was repelled by a huge force, and the pure white light shield showed amazing crack marks, and was even stained with scarlet dust, and his action and fighting speed slowed down significantly.That's the case, he doesn't seem to feel pain and suffering in this state, and he doesn't have the consciousness of fear.Even if he was severely injured, he still held both hands, and the electric current gathered into a terrifying vortex, and then a spear of lightning was generated in his left hand, and he stabbed at the death knight.

The power of this shot was far lower than expected, and it could not go deep just by piercing through a piece of armor of the enemy.

The death knight grinned grimly. It gripped the bone sword tightly and tore off a piece of black cloth wrapped around the hilt.At the junction of the hilt and the blade is a skull with horns. The corners of the mouth even show a slight curvature, and the sharp teeth are pale white.Green fel energy is constantly surging and tumbling from the wide open mouth of the skull.

The death knight pointed at Lordes.An invisible long knife appeared in the air, and the brilliant blade slashed towards the extraordinary wizard, making a frightening rumbling and tearing sound.

Lordes froze for a moment while being killed by the phantom of the blade, as if restrained by an invisible force.Immediately afterwards, the death knight's great bone sword slashed with lightning speed.

"boom!"

Lordes' light shield collapsed like quicksilver.Wrapped in the lightning, he even began to show a clear human appearance, and he could no longer maintain the defensive posture just now.

Groups of living corpses flitted across the city wall, heading straight for the extraordinary wizard.The death knight also raised his bone sword again, ready to reap the lives of his prey.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly burst out in the darkness.A dazzling glare flashed across the sky, and then the shock wave spread out.Erza wrapped in lightning flashed across the battlefield like a shooting star.

She jumped over the barrier of living corpses, jumped up from the pile of corpses piled up in steps, and threw a lightning and thunderous blow towards the death knight.

The living corpses like a colony of ants immediately gave up the prey in front of them, and rushed out in a ball, just in time to hit the flying holy spear and be torn to pieces, with fragmented limbs and intestines bursting in groups.

Although they couldn't block the power of the holy spear, this hasty block gave the death knight a chance to dodge, and he blocked it with his sword sideways.The holy spear slammed into the bone sword and slanted, piercing through the horse under its crotch.

The death knight was thrown out.As soon as it stopped its figure, it raised its hand.The blood-red halo spread, spreading fear and abnormal stimulation.

Under the city wall, the place where the dead burrower broke through the ground shook again.A large number of living corpses howled through the underground tunnel and crawled out from the hole.Under the influence of the bloody halo, they didn't hesitate or stagnate at all. They used similar bodies to build a ladder to climb up, and they rushed towards the extraordinary wizard on the city wall in several groups, as fast as a puff of smoke.

"Wizard, back off!" Erza seized the short gap to intercept the death knight's attack, "Call everyone to protect you."

The light surrounding Lordes dissipated immediately, revealing his original human appearance.His black hair was soaked, and his face was full of exhaustion.

Seeing that the smoky living corpse was approaching, Lordes quickly cast a spell of gliding and acceleration on himself, jumped out of the city wall like a bird, and headed towards a roof tens of meters away. fly away.

The death knight confronted Erza with a bone sword and great strength, and raised his finger in the rain of broken limbs that had not yet fallen.The ball of green light between the mud and the flames flew out again and hit Lordes.

Lordes immediately noticed the magic that was rushing towards him, a light blue halo appeared on his robe, and the magic shield had been activated.

He has resisted this group of evil mana many times, but it is not strong in terms of power, and the shield is enough to protect it.

Sure enough, the green evil energy was blocked by the shield again without any real damage.However, the powerful extraordinary wizard screamed while gliding, as miserable as a rabbit thrown into boiling water, and fell directly to the ground.The moment he landed, the magic shield was still flickering.

Fel energy is blocked by shields, but fear seeps through defenses.Lordes, who had previously been blind to fear in his near-elemental state, was mentally traumatized immediately upon his return to human form.

The death knight who succeeded in one blow was suddenly rolled up by the mist.The mist swept over the tide of corpses, city walls and buildings, and rolled to the ground a few meters in front of the wizard.Immediately afterwards, four skeleton horseshoes wrapped in maggots hit the ground heavily.

The skeleton horse body, the heavy black vest, the horse head full of death breath, and the red eyes emerged from the thick fog.The army horse that had just been killed was resurrected again, even showing the shape of a skeleton army horse.The death knight sits atop the horrific skeletal steed, charging straight at the celestial wizard.

Lordes tore a scroll in maddening fear and trembling, and the extremely cold and blade-like sharp wind gushed out from the scroll, hitting the death knight head-on.

Wind cone technique!
The death knight's head was hit by a prefabricated spell, and deep cracks were torn open on the helmet, exposing dead gray flesh and blood.This powerful storm spell lingered even after tearing off the helmet, continuing to tear its flesh.

The death knight seemed to be indifferent to the curse and pain, he raised his bone sword and pointed.The skeleton army horse jumped out like a thunderbolt, and appeared above Lordes' head in an instant.

A group of heavy horseshoes raised high and stepped down towards the prostrate Adept Wizard.

"boom!"

Bricks and stones splashed, and the cobbled streets seemed to be bombed by siege catapults, and a big hole was blown open.

But Lordes was already surrounded by a golden light, which flashed directly to the nearby roof.

The golden light faded away, and the red-haired Erza picked up the trembling extraordinary wizard and threw it to the distance, raised the spear in her hand and pointed at the death knight.

An invisible black hole appeared in the air, and both voice and will seemed to be attracted and bound by this golden spear.

The skeletal army horse immediately uttered a squealing sound, and carried the driver away into the mist.

Just a moment later, a giant shadow with a height of four meters appeared behind Valkyrie.The death knight raised the bone sword in his hand, and slashed at Erza.

"Bah!"

The bone sword struck the golden round shield.The shock wave visible to the naked eye almost crushed the feet and nearby roofs into rubble.

Erza blocked the sword, and immediately turned into a phantom and jumped back.Her skills are extremely vigorous and agile, and she has adjusted her projection posture in the air, pointing the holy spear at the death knight.

"Through it, Valencinus!"

For a time, the wind was fierce.Lightning pierced the dark clouds like the opening of the world, bringing bursts of thunder and rolling.The dreary air that was still like mountains pressing down on the top just now was swept away, and the strange howl that was like crying that filled my ears stopped abruptly.

The death knight immediately sensed that powerful psychic energy was gathering in front of him.This force turned out to be impossible to dodge and get rid of, completely locking his aura.

It held the bone sword and slashed in the direction of the threat.This sword drew an arc-shaped trajectory, rolled up pale sword energy and slashed at the flying holy spear.

"boom!"

The two streams of energy surged in the air, suppressing the fighting and roaring that enveloped the entire city.

The death knight retreated repeatedly under this blow.A phantom suddenly appeared behind it, piercing the back of the death knight's neck with a sharp dagger.

Moreau arrived.Its blow was silent, but pierced the death knight's neck in an instant.Some kind of poison was smeared on his dagger, and the death knight's wound festered like magma, completely curbing vitality and self-healing.

Even a monster with extremely strong self-healing ability like the death knight was severely injured under such an attack.It let out an inhuman roar, turned around and swung its sword.

The sharp and powerful bone sword is like a reflection cut into the water.Moreau's shadow shook for a while and then disappeared.However, his deadly presence was still nearby, waiting in the shadows for the next deadly attack.

Erza retracted her holy spear and raised her shield to block Lordes.

Extraordinary reinforcements have arrived.Death knights are powerful, but in a three-on-one siege, even a superhuman who is one level higher will be in danger.

"Hehehe, hehehehe," the death knight suddenly grinned, "do you feel that you have finally caught up and once again took the initiative, so that you can fight against the fighters of the king of the undead, don't you?
"Shield, energy, flash, concealment, what a ridiculous ability. Is your understanding of mystery only so pathetic?
"Open your eyes and take a good look. Among all the extraordinary sequences, we death knights are the closest existence to the gods."

Its right hand is held empty, as if capturing everyone's soul.

One second, two seconds... just when everyone thought nothing happened.

"Roar—ah!"

An extremely miserable and terrifying howl sounded.On such a terrifying and bloody battlefield, this was an ordinary tragedy.However, this howl appeared on the inside of Raven's city wall.

The roads and roofs in the city have been smeared with large black blood clots, and a mass of crushed internal organs can still be seen from time to time.The city defense army is directing the civilians to carry the black kerosene, put it in wooden barrels and pile it up for later use.

Many militiamen were running around nervously, with disgusted expressions on their faces.

Suddenly, there were waves of horrifying howls inside and outside the city wall, like hoarse voices shouting, mixed with the shrill cries of jackals.

"Roar—ah!"

One after another howls appeared inside the city walls, on the ramparts and among the refugees.

A wounded soldier had just had his wounds roughly wrapped and was carrying supplies with the others.Suddenly, he let out a long and ferocious howl, turned around and rushed towards the people around him.Those civilians who were slightly injured and were hiding in the safe area mutated into terrifying living corpses one after another.Under the horrified eyes of their family members, they opened their terrifying mouths and bit the living creatures.

"Wow--!"

The screams and chaos immediately flooded the entire city, and even the three barriers outside the city were in chaos.The soldiers who were fighting back bravely just now suddenly rushed to the comrades fighting side by side, biting their throats.

The death knight rode his horse with satisfaction and approached slowly. It tapped the scabbard with its hand and let out a mocking laugh:

"This is the real death and plague, this is the power of infection and mutation. I am the agent of death, the embodiment of terror and despair, the strongest under the demigod!"

At this moment, the living corpse seemed to be injected with violent and brutal power, howling and drowning the soldiers and residents who were caught off guard.

These wounded humans had already begun to disintegrate before they even fell down.They roared, struggled and twisted, then fell to the ground and twitched violently, and then stood up one by one, joining the endless tide of corpses.

The infection began to spread unstoppably.

　Combined into one chapter today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)