Who says knights can't backstab

Chapter 494

"We generally believe that the consciousness of the undead needs to rely on the accumulation of 'killing', and the essence is 'plundering'. Plundering the lives of creatures, and even plundering each other's power, transforms them into the source of their own consciousness.

This is a very savage and primitive promotion method, and at the same time, it also solidifies a certain class within the undead, but it is undeniable that this savage and primitive method also provides the undead with a large amount of mid-level and high-level combat power. And when the combat power is in short supply, it can quickly 'mass-produce' a batch of backbones-after all, for the undead, skeleton soldiers are just their cheap consumables.

—Abel White, On the Dead. "

As the scholars of Ao San Emma said hundreds of years ago, the way for the undead to advance is to kill and seize the soul power of other creatures or undead to improve themselves.

And its initial "consciousness" is also derived from the accumulation of soul power.

To explain it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, this is roughly similar to the player's hierarchy. Only by killing monsters can you gain experience, and you can break through after killing enough.

The extremely active fire of the soul is a symbol of the undead's transformation from simple walking dead to self-awareness.

However, the problem is that everything that happened in front of me is beyond Cyril's cognition—no, even if Sandro is here, I have to scare my jaw to the ground!
The casually assembled skeleton can move and directly generate self-awareness!
Sandro, can you do it?

The light-headed, three-headed and six-armed white skeleton in front of him was still writhing staggeringly. It was just like a piece of white paper when it just became conscious, waiting at a loss for its creator to instill knowledge into it.

Caroline proudly took the harpoon staff from Cyril's hand and held it high.The skeleton Ah Bai lowered one of his arms under her thoughts, holding Caroline's tall, the fire of souls in the three skulls trembling together, as Caroline stretched out her small hand to stroke their heads, Almost squirted out of the eye socket.

"It's very happy!" Caroline waved her hand and shouted to Cyril, and then said to the skeleton Abai: "This is my brother, you have to listen to him."

While Cyril stared at this skeleton beyond his cognition, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

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The efficient Siliki army only took half a day to gather all the bones of the skeleton to the westernmost stronghold, which was named "Burns" by Cyril.

And Caroline happily moved into Burns from the next day—except for Miss Mia and Alina, no other soldiers of the Siliki Army would come near this city.

This place seems to be Caroline's paradise of bones. At first, Cyril was worried that the little girl would have resistance to such an environment, but he didn't expect that Caroline seemed to be at home, and even Miss Mia was procrastinating when she called for dinner. He refused to go, buried his head in his bones, and fought hard.

Cyril sat on top of the ruined castle with his cheeks resting on his cheeks, looking down at Caroline below.Who would have thought that a few months ago they were still being chased by skeletons in northern Xinjiang, but now they have the ability to compete with a large number of skeletons.

Now that the army is being repaired, and the scouts sent out have not delivered the information yet, he actually feels a bit of leisure in this supposedly busy northern border.

He has never been stingy about "promoting" people around him - Miss Mia needs a teacher, so he will find a suitable mage for Mia; Elena has benefited a lot from him, whether it is travel The knowledge of adventure is swordsmanship, the current Alina probably can beat her in ten months.

As for Caroline, it was originally because he really had no way to do undead magic and couldn't find a good mentor, but now that Caroline has her own method to improve, Cyril simply gave her enough environment to practice and use it. .

This is similar to the concept of production professions in the game. It is only through repeated production that the proficiency can be improved.

Skeleton Abai and Corpse Lady Diana wandered around Burns, wandering to Caroline's side from time to time, letting the little girl reach out and touch them, and then continued wandering contentedly.

As for what Caroline is fighting for... She lay on Cyril's back and whispered into his ear that she wanted to fight a big guy. All Cyril could do was wait and see.

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The sky over the city of Lovisa is cloudy, and the fog of war is like a pair of big hands, trying to squeeze this city standing in the wind and snow into their palms to play with, but they are all blocked by the barrier propped up by Lovisa.

The mages on the tower chanted loudly under the protection of the giant shield soldiers, and the falling snow was divided up by the spell models built by the mages in mid-air.Amidst the white mist, hundreds of hailstones the size of fists fell down in a uniform order.

The unarmored skeletons were stepping on each other and climbing the towering city walls.But the "Frost Storm" that fell on their heads made all their previous efforts in vain.Their skulls were smashed through, their arm bones were broken, and half of the bone ladder that had been built with great difficulty suddenly collapsed.

But immediately, new skeletons rushed forward from behind, and continued to step on the bodies of their colleagues as steps, climbing towards the city wall.

"There is no meaningful exchange."

Jeff Cassel looked at the tireless skeletons below, shook his head, retreated from the mouth of the city wall, and walked to the next inspection point with his hands behind his back.

With the blessing of Eagle Eye, he could see the square formations in the distance, which were also skeleton soldiers, and those behind them were the real combat power of the undead.There are complete armor and excellent weapons, and even have their own duties.

These skeletons that have been meaninglessly attacking the city wall these days are nothing but cannon fodder.They just responded with spells perfunctorily—although even if they were allowed to climb, the bone ladder would have to be piled up for at least three days before it could be piled up on the tall city wall of Lovisa.

Jeff Cassel couldn't help but miss the days when the undead first started attacking them. In those few days, the magic crystal cannons on the city walls hardly stopped. The circling ghosts and bone raptors would take the lives of more than a dozen soldiers on a city wall every time they fell.

During the most dangerous days, he even saw undead siege engines—those siege machines were pushed and pulled forward by huge creatures, and the "warehouse" full of skeletons fell on the ground as a siege engine collapsed. After reaching the city wall, a bloody battle with the skeletons rushing out of the warehouse followed.

If it wasn't for the magic crystal cannon to set fire in time, deal with the undead's city-destroying vehicle and keep the city gate, I am afraid that Lovisa has fallen by now.

Compared with the battles in those days, the undead's offensive today is hardly even considered "perfunctory".

Are they scared?Or is it understaffed?Or is there another conspiracy?
He continued to inspect absent-mindedly. As the inspector of the northern city wall of Lovisa, such a day that could suddenly be described as "calm" made him a little slack.

"General Jeff Cassell."

The sudden voice behind him made him focus again, and he said without turning his head: "Go to Carrie for bow and arrow supplies, she is in charge of this aspect, and she has to take a shift to ask for leave to find Donnie, I don't care about this, dispatch the mage If I don't have permission, you have to contact the Mage Tower..."

"General Jeff Cassell." The voice behind was still calm, and seemed to be smiling, "I hope you will report to me the recent situation of the enemy."

Cassel suddenly realized that something was wrong—the soldiers behind him were usually noisy, why were they so quiet all of a sudden?And the tone of the latter, shouldn't it be...

He turned around stiffly, shuddered suddenly, and almost fell off the city wall with one step——

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

The man standing behind him was staring at him with sharp eyes, with deep eye sockets, high nose bridge, gray-brown hair and beard trembling in the wind and snow, gray hair mixed with white snow, it was hard to tell whether it was hair Still snow.

Kelsen Hermann, King of La Rochelle.

And behind him, Bishop Olier, Commander of the City Defense Army, Corey Yamos, Captain of the Cavalry Guards, Aldrich Wright, Commander of the Dragon Spear Corps... Most of the generals stationed in Lovisa followed Kai Behind Ersen, everyone is watching him with dark eyes at this moment!
"General Jeff Cassell, you are the person in charge of the northern city wall, the officer closest to the undead, I hope to hear your report." Kelsen Herman nodded slightly, without answering his question, " I don't want to ask it a third time."

"Yes, yes..." Jeff Cassel held his heart, took a few deep breaths, and then said tremblingly: "The recent offensive of the undead has obviously weakened, and there are only routine attacks of cannon fodder every day. Their troops are all stationed Beyond the range of our magic-breaking crossbow and magic crystal cannon, it is obvious that they have no intention of engaging us in a direct confrontation."

"Stall." Kelsen nodded and said, "How long has this situation lasted?"

"It's been... three days."

"That's the same situation in Alderney," Kelsen said. "Well done, keep it up."

He continued to walk forward slowly along the city wall with his hands behind his back.Jeff Cassell bowed to the side, covered in cold sweat. Seeing that Kelsen was about to walk past him, he didn't know where the courage came from, and suddenly stood up again and shouted:
"Your Majesty, I think the undead must have other plans now!"

"Oh?" Kelsen's footsteps stopped, and he looked at Cassel with a little interest, "Tell me about it."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Jeff Cassel swallowed a mouthful of saliva and stammered, "According to my observation, at first their troops stationed in the distance were very mixed, including death knights, light armored infantry, and heavy armored infantry. , Ranged troops are all mixed together."

"But in the past few days, the proportion of heavy-armored troops has been increasing, while the number of light-armored troops and death knights within my line of sight has greatly decreased..."

He peeked at the expressions of these senior generals and saw that no one was bored, so he continued:

"I think that the undead are quietly dispatching their light armored legion and death knights, intending to launch a sneak attack on our side...but I can't guess exactly where they will be aiming."

He looked at Kelsen again, only to find that His Majesty's face was clouded at the moment, and then he turned around and said, "Cory, has Alderney noticed this?"

"Alderney did not report this, Your Majesty." The captain of the Xiaoqi Guards bowed and said.

"How did you find out, General Jeff Cassell." Kelsen turned to look at Cassell.

"Your Majesty, I am good at Eagle Eye, and I have been in charge of the northern city wall since the beginning of the war, so I am particularly sensitive to these changes."

Kelsen turned his head again, and whispered a few words to the commander of the Lovisa City Defense Force, and Bishop Olier immediately stepped forward after hearing this, and said to Kassel: "You are doing well, Kassel, turn around I will arrange your reward and continue to be on duty now."

"Yes, sir!" Cassel bowed excitedly, and then bowed to Kelsen Hermann.

It wasn't until the king and his party walked away that his tense body relaxed.Looking at the soldiers who were curiously facing him, he waved his hand, signaling them to continue to keep an eye on the undead.

But what he didn't know was that after Kelsen and others walked down the city wall, they quickly came to the military conference hall in Lovisa, and an emergency military conference was held immediately.

"Have someone ask Alderney immediately. Within half a day, I want to know the situation of Alderney." Kelsen put his hands on the table and stared at the generals beside him with a serious expression, "Tower of the North Wind The deployment of troops has begun as planned, and I do not want to make mistakes because of this omission."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Aldrich, do you have the statistics of the border strongholds?"

"Your Majesty, after verification, most of the cities and towns have been turned into strongholds by the undead. It seems that they want to completely occupy our border."

As soon as he finished speaking, a stack of papers was thrown at him by Kelsen. He didn't dare to move, and let the paper hit his face. At the same time, Kelsen's roar sounded: "Such a humiliating thing You still have the face to say it? Is this what I want to hear?"

"I want to know how many skeletons and ghosts there will be in each undead stronghold, and whether there will be bloody vampires. These are the most important things!"

Aldridge lowered his voice until Kelsen's roar subsided: "But Your Majesty, this is all our sentry can do..."

"According to statistics, only [-]% of the sentinels who went to investigate the undead stronghold came back alive."

The meeting room suddenly fell silent.

On Kelsen's face, the violence just now had disappeared.

He looked at the map hanging on the wall in a daze, and after a while, he slowly raised his hand and gave a military salute.Seeing this, all the generals raised their hands in salute.

After nearly a minute, Kelsen slowly lowered his arms, and then whispered:
"They are the heroes of La Rochelle, everyone, and of course you who are fighting here today."

"But cruelly, we need more heroes to die for us, for La Rochelle."

He closed his eyes for a moment, then spoke again:
"General Aldrich Wright, send more sentries, I need specific information about the undead stronghold."

"Even if you die, you have to enter the undead stronghold and pass their news back."

　One more chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)