Chapter 455: The City of the Dead is Destroyed, Ryza's Technological Improvements

Rand is concerned about the City of the Dead.

However, the relationship between the Kingdom of Bolun, the Kingdom of Lensa and the Kingdom of Frost Moon is not very good.

The relationship with Rand, the Grand Duke of the Moon Phase, is even worse.

Although the two sides are theoretically on the same side in dealing with the undead, Grand Duke Rand also sent troops to help prevent the undead on the first line of defense of the Kingdom of Boren from building the Obsidian Tower, making a great contribution.

But times have changed.

If the Obsidian Tower of the First Line of Defense had not been dealt with, the Dukedom of Rand's Moon Phase would have been directly threatened by the undead.

But it's different now.

Now the undead are extremely weak and are driven back to the City of the Dead.

Then, considering only political interests, it would be most appropriate to keep the City of the Dead to contain the Kingdom of Lensa and the Kingdom of Borun.

That way the benefits are maximized.

Of course, the premise of this is that some plan for the City of the Dead was made up by Rand.

If the City of the Dead really has some evil plan to destroy itself and the whole city, then the best solution is obviously for everyone to work together to destroy the undead forces first.

However, the Kingdoms of Bolun and Lensa did not quite believe it, and because the situation was different now, they were wary of it.

What if Rand just tricked them into fighting the undead, and then took the opportunity to launch an attack and occupy their land? Therefore, before setting off this time, the Kingdom of Lunsa only applied for assistance from the Torch Church's Novice Sect, and did not contact Rand.

Now the headquarters of the Torchlight Church's newborn faction is in the Frostmoon Kingdom, but everyone still believes in these stubborn people. In the fight against evil, the Torchlight Church's newborn faction should not do anything weird.

Rand is not necessarily the case.

The Kingdom of Bollen and the Kingdom of Rensa were both well aware of Rand's cunning, shamelessness and greed.

In short, no one wants Rand to interfere in this war to exterminate the undead.

But in fact, Rand still intervened.

It’s just that the outside countries don’t know about the cooperation between the Torch Church’s Novice Faction and Rand.

In their impression, the Torch Church's newborn faction was just a renamed beginner faction, or a diehard faction? In any case, it was clear that there had been no major changes.

…

The army dispatched by the Kingdom of Lensa was not large.

There were only 20,000 people, including about 2,000 knights.

The rest are mercenaries or other types of soldiers.

However, apart from some laborers and labourers, there were no untrained soldiers.

That means there are no conscripts.

The nobles were indeed more accustomed to using levies to deplete the enemy's weapons and energy.

But the undead have nothing of the kind.

The death power generated by excessive casualties can also cause the undead to become stronger.

So after discussion, it was decided that no conscripts would be included in this army.

However, this made the commanders very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the Kingdom of Lensa has an excellent military expert—the Countess of Snow Fox.

Therefore, changing combat habits did not cause any trouble.

"What do you think the Blue King wants to do by participating in the extermination of the undead this time?" The Snow Fox Countess rode on a horse, surrounded by the military nobles of the Kingdom of Lensa.

These military nobles are all skilled soldiers in military affairs. Although they may not be particularly intelligent, they are still very useful in assisting the Snow Fox Countess in commanding the army.

"The Blue King is very mysterious, but every time he appears, he has a purpose. Maybe there is something he needs in the City of the Dead." Someone among the military nobles said.

What this means is that it is obviously impossible for the Azure King to assist in attacking the Undead out of justice or humanism.

There must be some purpose.

The Snow Fox Countess thought so too.

But it doesn’t matter what the Blue King wants. She is just a general, and all she needs to do is to win the victory smoothly.

The City of the Dead is weak now, but given its size, we still need to be cautious.

Soon, they were approaching the City of the Dead.

Under the dark sky, the human army gathered outside the City of the Dead. The air was filled with the smell of death and decay, and the walls of the City of the Dead were mixed with many corpses, so it looked extremely scary.

The City of the Dead stands on the dead land, like a tomb abandoned by time. Surrounded by thick fog, the gloomy sky always covers this dark land, the city walls are tall and old, and the bricks and stones look dilapidated.

The Scourge, when they built the City of the Dead, obviously did not expect it to be besieged. Since its decline, they have probably tried to repair and reinforce it, but it seems that the time was not enough and it still does not seem very solid.

If you look up, you can see the majestic obsidian tower in the center of the City of the Dead.

It has been several years since the undead began to wreak havoc, and now everyone knows that the tall tower is the core building of the undead.

The effect should be to prevent the undead from naturally decaying.

"Rest for a night and attack the city tomorrow morning." The Snow Fox Countess ordered.

The Snow Fox Countess's order was quickly issued.

The next morning.

It's time to attack the city.

First of all, in order to break the eternal dark sky of the City of the Dead, the believers of the Torch Church gathered together, and after the ceremony was completed, the fire dispersed the black clouds in the sky.

The sound of trumpets tore through the sky.

The attack begins.

On the battlements of the City of the Dead, the breath of death was so thick that it almost condensed into substance. The moment the human army launched a charge, the counterattack of the Undead also came like a storm.

Ranged attacks are mostly carried out by Skeleton Archers and Scourge Mages.

Skeleton archers are tireless skeletons that mechanically repeat the actions of drawing the bow, aiming, and shooting. Some of their arrows are made from the bones of the dead, while others are regular metal arrows that are soaked in corpse poison and flash with a green light.

These bone arrows flew at extremely high speeds, making a humming sound as they flew through the air. Some high-level skeleton archers' arrows were also cursed, and once they hit, they would not only cause wounds, but also corrode flesh and blood.

As for the Scourge mages, some of them were undead and some were living, shriveled Scourge believers. As they chanted spells, dark green mist filled around them and then transformed into dark green lightning, shooting towards the human army.

The soldiers who were hit would instantly lose their vitality and turn into mummies. Some Scourge mages would summon undead hands that stretched out from the ground, grabbed the ankles of human soldiers, and dragged them underground.

However, these violent counterattacks not only did not force the human army to retreat, but instead gave humans some encouragement.

The resistance was much lighter than expected.

Imagine mountains full of skeletons and zombies, unpredictable ghosts and huge mountains of flesh, powerful death knights, and possible appearances of corpse giants and corpse dragons.

Before setting off, I was mentally prepared to face all of this.

Now I finally feel a little relieved.

Facing the rain of arrows from the undead, the human soldiers formed a dense shield wall. The front row soldiers held up their heavy shields to form a steel barrier to resist the attacks of arrows and magic. The back row soldiers held spears and stabbed through the gaps in their shields to attack the skeletons, zombies, or death knights who came to obstruct them.

Under the cover of the shield wall, a huge battering ram was pushed to the front of the city gate.

Pushed by dozens of soldiers, the battering ram hit the city gate again and again.

The Snow Fox Countess was looking at the battlefield. She had several reserve corps at her disposal, ready to join the battle at any time, but it seemed that they were of no use now.

It's not that the undead didn't resist.

There have also been surprise attacks by Death Knight corps, and the Undead have some hidden treasures in their arsenal of corpse giants.

But this time, humans have an extra super combat force.

Rommel, the Blue King.

This blue-haired, young-looking man has a true king-level combat capability. I don’t know how he compares to the White King and the Crimson King, but he is definitely far superior to the top professionals.

The flashing thunder left scars on the earth.

In fact, even without Rommel, these human armies would be able to defeat the corpse giants.

Of course, there are many magicians accompanying this time.

After repeated attacks by the battering ram, the black iron gate of the City of the Dead was finally knocked open.

There is no such thing as morale among the undead, and most of the Scourge cultists are lunatics who are not afraid of death. However, their resistance is gradually becoming powerless due to the increasingly high morale of the human army.

Break through the city gates, rob the city walls, break through the inner city, streets, palaces, and obsidian towers.

Everything has a sense of destruction.

Finally, the Blue King Rommel stood before the Obsidian Tower.

Thunder shattered the gate, and then the paladins and high-level warriors entered with the Azure King.

Of course, there were a few paladins who, while completing their work, also paid attention to listening and watching in all directions.

Grand Duke Rand of the Moon Phase asked them to pay attention to the movements of the Blue King.

The Paladins stick to their own ideals, but commissions to investigate intelligence do not violate their ideals.

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So a group of paladins who seem to be following the Azure King to destroy evil spirits are actually staring at the Azure King.

The undead in the tower were quickly slaughtered.

Finally, the Blue King Rommel shook off the Paladin for a while and seemed to have gone to a room to take something.

Then, the Obsidian Tower collapsed under the thunder and magic of the wizards.

The Scourge, which had ravaged this land for a long time, broke through the defense line of King Boren and built the City of the Dead, seemed to have been destroyed.

After that, the Scourge Cult will return to being the target of public outcry.

Perhaps they will be completely wiped out by the human overlords' vigorous crackdown.

After the City of the Dead was breached and the Obsidian Tower was destroyed, the Azure King left the human army.

The military nobles of the Kingdom of Lensa had no objection to this.

It's just a matter of each taking what they need.

As for what the Blue King took away, it doesn't matter.

The Blue King at least helped the Kingdom of Rensa reduce a lot of the cost of siege.

This was won by the Azure King.

But the Azure King was not in a good mood.

Because two pieces are missing.

The reason why the Scourge Cult can launch the Scourge of Undead is obvious.

They tried a divine descent.

But since it is only to this extent, it is obvious that God's descent was not successful, at least it was definitely not completely successful.

But it was definitely not a complete failure.

The power of the Scourge Apostle provides the undead with a constant supply of the power of death. Such a huge power prevents the undead from naturally decaying.

Allow the terrifying monster to be resurrected.

Then the principle of the Obsidian Tower is very simple. It is the carrier of the power of the Scourge Apostle, which is also the body that attempted the descent of God in the beginning.

The Azure King obtained most of it after plundering the city.

Piecing together half a human skeleton.

However, two pieces were missing, one for the left hand and one for the right hand.

So what is going on? Does the City of the Dead have another plan? But without two pieces, his plan cannot be completed.

Now we can only pay more attention.

…

Half a month later, Rand also received the news in Crescent Moon Territory.

"It's too easy." The top leaders of the hideout were all here at this time, including Bishop Kahn and Karin, and the one who was speaking was Ellie.

Everyone agreed with Ellie's point of view.

I believe that the nobles of the Kingdom of Lensa, the nobles of the Kingdom of Pollun, and King Marcus would all think this is somewhat abnormal.

If everyone were in the situation of the City of the Dead, they would definitely not sit there and wait for death. Even if they really defended the City of the Dead, they would not be so fragile.

"Make some preparations. Although it is possible that the City of the Dead will come to an end, we should remain vigilant." Since there was nothing to discuss, Rand made a direct conclusion.

Rand looked at Bishop Kahn and Karin. "Whether the City of the Dead wants to do anything or not, we must strengthen our defenses. I'll trouble you two from now on."

Karin and Bishop Kahn both nodded.

"Elsa will be in charge of the defense of the core territory as usual." Rand continued to assign tasks. "Ellie will handle government affairs, Olenna will assist me, and Lysa will assist in scientific research and investigate potential risks."

No one had any objection.

"Then adjourn the meeting," Rand said.

Simple style as always.

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After the meeting, Rand sat in the lord's chair to analyze the intelligence.

The destruction of the City of the Dead is not only about the Undead, but also about the Blue King.

The Azure King might not be an enemy, but since he came out of his lair, he was obviously going to do something.

When such a powerful king leaves his lair, he will inevitably attract attention from all parties.

The same is true for Rand.

Now Rand can only hope that what the Blue King wants to do has nothing to do with the Dukedom of the Moon.

I just don't know what the Blue King took away from the City of the Dead.

It is obviously impossible to monitor a king.

Just as Rand was thinking about things.

Lysa appeared before Rand.

"What's the matter?" Rand asked.

Lysa shook her head, indicating that it was not official business.

"you say."

In front of Rand and Olenna, Lysa took out the fox ears and tail.

"I recently made an upgrade to this suit," said Lysa.

"What upgrade?" Rand asked, covering his face.

"Now the functional system is installed on the ears, and it cannot be used without wearing it." Lisa explained with a calm and beautiful face.

Rand glanced at Olenna, who still had a gentle expression.

Olenna had known for a long time that Rand would play some strange things, but she herself would not participate.

But it won't stop Rand.

"Ahem, I understand." Rand said.

It seems that Lisa has already known that Karin will not wear ears, I wonder how she knew it.

And it seems that Lisa is still upset about Karin's reluctance to admit that she is a pervert.

(End of this chapter)