"Look, master!" he said, pointing to the naturally gray sky.

"Master, feel it carefully. If it is really a normal gloomy weather, there would not be such oppression. I guess the guy who released the undead plague must be a lich with extraordinary strength, otherwise he would not have such strength." Darcy had the urge to return to the abyss quickly. After all, he could not resist the extraordinary strong man.

"Da Vinci, what is a lich?" He had very little exposure to information about the dark side, but Darcy knew much more than he did.

"Master, you can think of liches as undead spirits, but they are different from ordinary undead spirits. They were all powerful magicians when they were alive. Perhaps because they were afraid of death or for other reasons, they transformed themselves into another kind of life."

"They are more difficult and more powerful than the undead. The most important thing is that as soon as they appear, they will bring death to living beings." Darcy said with a frightened look on his face.

"You mean that this gray fog covering the sky was created by the lich?" Lin Xingchen was also a little restless. Just look at the high elf he met in the Misty Mountains to know what the undead are.

"Let's notify Albert quickly, otherwise we will be in trouble!" The news he heard from Darcy gave him a different understanding of the undead. The Justin he met at the beginning might be a lich.

He led a large group of troops to Kurma's military camp. Fortunately, he informed them in time, otherwise it would have been a very uncomfortable feeling to be targeted by hundreds of thousands of archers.

"Greetings, Commander Albert!" It was wartime and they were still in the military camp. Lin Xingchen rushed to greet Albert before him, giving him enough face.

"Greetings, Duke Xingchen, please come in..." Albert was also a knowledgeable and tactful person. He quickly led Lin Xingchen and others into his tent.

"Master, why are you back now? Has your plan been thwarted?" Albert knew the general idea after taking a look at the magicians who came back.

"Yes! We were tricked this time. There was a spy in the legion, which almost caused us to be wiped out. If we hadn't escaped in time, we would have lost a lot of people."

“However, after we found the spy, we used him to set a trap and killed five ninth-level magicians of the empire in one fell swoop. This can be regarded as revenge for our brothers.” Lin Xingchen also sighed.

"Young Master, there will be casualties in war. You know, nearly 50,000 people have been killed in my country in the past month, and at least 100,000 people have been killed on the Empire's side. So there is no need to be sad, young master. Didn't you kill five mages? In the end, we still made a profit!" Albert did the math for Lin Xingchen to comfort him.

"Albert, let's not talk about this! Now you quickly order the entire army to retreat." Lin Xingchen also talked a few nonsense. After all, they were still his own people, but he did not forget the main purpose of his coming here.

"Sir, withdraw the troops? Now is a great opportunity for us. And you may not know, but I have already contacted Duke Hill and Duke Leicester and we will soon complete the encirclement." To be honest, Albert felt uncomfortable. He had spent so much effort and finally seized the opportunity and completed the encirclement. It would only take another five or six days for him to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

"Albert, have you looked at the sky above your head these days?" He knew that it would be difficult to convince Albert with just empty words, and based on the experience and knowledge in his mind, this good opportunity was a rare opportunity for the general.

"Master, is there anything to do with the sky? Although it has been cloudy for the past half month, this does not affect our advantage at all! Master, if you can't come up with an explanation that convinces me, I will not let go of this opportunity. Please forgive me." This time, Albert rarely confronted Lin Xingchen.

“I know Albert, this opportunity is rare and I know you’ve put in a lot of effort, but if Albert doesn’t leave, I’m afraid it will be too late!

The gray fog above our heads was not formed naturally, but was deliberately created by someone, and the one who created this gray fog was at least a lich wizard with extraordinary strength. " Lin Xingchen had no choice but to repeat what Da Vinci said to him.

Albert was still somewhat reluctant, so Lin Xingchen had no choice but to act as deputy prime minister and ordered him to quickly withdraw his troops. In order to prevent everyone from having other opinions, he asked Modie to take his letter to Queen Lydia to ask for an order to retreat.

This back and forth took a full day. Queen Lydia really trusted Lin Xingchen completely. In her letter to Albert, she even rarely reprimanded someone and repeatedly mentioned Duke Xingchen's orders as a reference.

Albert had no choice both publicly and privately, so he gave the order for the Kurma army to break camp and retreat.

Their action made Bartlet very confused, but also relieved. Kurma's enhanced version of the Macedonian phalanx made him very uncomfortable. Using expensive cavalry to fight those infantry was not a bad idea. Even if he was stupid, he knew that too much loss would not be good for him.

Without potions and treatment from priests of the Church of Light, the death rate in the Empire remained high. Albert estimated that at least 100,000 soldiers were killed in the battle. However, as an insider, Bartlet knew this number very well. A full 130,000 people died, and most of them were disabled. Although he had used a large number of auxiliary troops since the second battle, the losses of his elite troops were also huge.

Now that the other side has the hope of victory, why would they retreat? Bartlett couldn't figure it out, but no matter what, Kurma's retreat gave him a chance to catch his breath. The commander on the other side, named Albert, made him very uncomfortable.

Bartlet heaved a sigh of relief and thought that he needed to reorganize his army. However, the other guy didn't think so. He saw that his prey actually started to run away. How could this be acceptable? Although it was a little far from his ideal target, he didn't plan to wait any longer. The longer the night, the more trouble he would cause!

When Kurma was about to retreat, a figure flew into the air from beneath the ground. The magicians who were monitoring from both sides felt a huge fluctuation of magical power at the same time.

Lin Xingchen naturally also felt it. The pressure from that powerful force made him realize that what Darcy said was right. There was indeed a powerful magician waiting in the dark to steal his chicken.

Albert also felt a different kind of threat, and his natural instinct told him that he needed to run quickly. This instinct helped him escape danger more than once.

The Kurma army, which had been preparing for a long time, abandoned all their baggage and began to run for their lives. Someone in the air waved the bone-like staff in his hand, and suddenly countless magical fluctuations appeared under the ground.

Soon, pairs of bony hands dug up the ground and a shiny skull appeared on the surface. Slowly, these bones crawled out of the ground and formed a sea of ​​bones.

Seeing this situation, Albert slapped himself hard. He felt unbelievable and blamed himself for not listening to the young master in time.

But it was not too late because they had prepared early and the skeleton army was more than 20 miles away from them, which gave everyone enough time to escape.

"Master, I really shouldn't have ignored your advice. If I had listened to it earlier, I wouldn't be so passive!" Albert apologized to Lin Xingchen with a pale face.

"Stop talking nonsense, quickly arrange people and escape quickly. It will be troublesome if we get entangled!" Lin Xingchen said loudly angrily. No matter who sees a densely packed crowd of skeletons, they will feel uncomfortable. But these skeletons are moving slowly just like when they were alive.

Some of these skeletons were holding weapons in their hands, some were holding rusty swords, but most of them were just white bones.

It was obvious that the boundless sea of ​​bones was not easy to deal with. Lin Xingchen, who stayed behind to cover the retreat, originally thought that these things were already very scary, but he did not expect that the magician would hold back for a long time and summon out new things again.

A large number of war horse bones actually stood up. Those skeletons who were knights in their previous lives turned over and sat on the skeleton war horses. These funny knights could actually run at a very fast speed.

This was not the worst. What was really bad was that a space gate about three meters high appeared under the magician's feet. After the gate opened, horse-like creatures burning with green flames ran out.

"Master, the creature you see is called the Nightmare Horse. Legend has it that it is a powerful creature from the underworld." Da Vinci introduced the creature to Lin Xingchen.

"Albert, you should quickly retreat with the main force." Lin Xingchen couldn't stand seeing these messy things coming out. Damn, this is simply a skeleton army.

Some specially selected skeletons underwent tremendous changes after riding on the nightmare warhorse mentioned by Darcy. The original bone frames were wrapped by layers of magic power to form flesh-and-blood tissues. If it weren't for the faint blue halo emanating from the two eye sockets, they would be no different from the others when viewed from a distance.

After the formation of flesh and blood, the changes did not stop. A kind of frosty power covered these knights and they were wearing a set of dark silver armor.

Not only were there armors but there were also weapons. Seeing this scene, many people began to tremble unconsciously.

"Master, let your subordinates run away! These Death Knights give me the impression that they are at least level seven in strength." Darcy's words were trembling.

"Is there anything Darcy needs to pay attention to when fighting these things?" He grabbed the demon who wanted to return to the abyss and asked him to tell him everything he knew.

"Master, it is best not to let the living fight with them, because once they are killed by them, the corpses will turn into them and kill their companions in return."