Outside the front lines of the Abyss Passage in the Duchy of Hilank.
A well-equipped army was moving swiftly through the night. The armor and weapons of most of them gleamed with a faint glow, clearly valuable enchanted items.
This was the combined forces of the temple, originally responsible for guarding the abyss passage. After receiving orders from the gods, they packed up all their equipment overnight and prepared to head to the nearest super-large teleportation array to Gale City.
Inside a luxurious magic car in the center.
"Damn it, that old bastard from the Sixth Army actually refused to let us use the teleportation array," the Starfire Temple's high-ranking officials said indignantly.
"Forget it, he's going to die anyway, why get worked up about a dead man?" another person laughed.
“That makes sense. Without our support and large-scale war machines, they probably wouldn’t survive an hour.” The temple’s higher-ups calmed down.
He casually opened the window of the magic transport vehicle and glanced at it.
Yeah, that's pretty fast, we're almost at the border of Ironwall City...
Wait! Ironwall City!
His eyes widened suddenly. How could it be Ironwall City? That was an area ravaged by the undead!
The plan was clearly to go to the massive teleportation array in Dokar City, which would allow them to avoid the direction of the undead.
No one, not even the best-equipped troops, would consider engaging in a skirmish with the undead; that would be tantamount to suicide!
Damn it! Who dared to tamper with the route without permission?!
He angrily raised his head and looked at the people in the car. There were only seven people qualified to command the entire army... Oh no, Starfire God was dead, he was no longer qualified.
Although it's a sad thing, on the bright side, at least his suspicion has been cleared.
The traitor is among the remaining six!
"Whoever has altered the route without authorization! Turn around immediately!"
The laughter and conversation inside the car stopped abruptly. They slowly turned around, and six pairs of eyes looked over at the same time.
"Didn't you understand?" Upon seeing this, the higher-ups of the Starfire Temple felt a chill run down their spines and subconsciously raised their voices: "Why are you heading towards Ironwall City? Are you going to your deaths?"
"Yes, aren't you one of them?"
A strange smile suddenly appeared on the faces of the six men, and they said in unison, "It seems that there is a traitor among us."
"What do you mean!" Seeing his former colleagues surrounding him, the high-ranking officials of the Starfire Temple couldn't help but take two steps back.
"Let us all pledge our allegiance to the great Undead Emperor!"
With strange smiles, the six people ignited all the magic power within their bodies, opened their arms, and embraced the higher-ups of the Starfire Temple.
"No, no...don't come any closer!"
Boom!
With six experts of the same level self-destructing, the higher-ups of the Starfire Temple had no power to resist and were blown to ashes.
Only a final, lingering regret remains—could I really be a traitor?
A brilliant magical spark bloomed in the darkness, turning all life within a radius of hundreds of meters into dust.
At the same time, clusters of eerie green flames suddenly ignited from both sides of the army, and the massive abominations pushed aside the soil and rose from the ground, quickly rushing towards the temple army.
"Enemy attack! It's the dead!"
Before the Temple Army could recover from the shock of losing their leaders, countless undead warriors surged in from all directions, as if they had been lying in ambush.
In an instant, screams echoed through the sky.
However, the Temple Allied Forces were, after all, the most elite force in Hilank, and had been built at great expense.
Even the bishop of the Starfire Temple only dared to embezzle a small portion of the military budget.
Illumination spells rose into the sky, illuminating an area of dozens of miles.
After a brief period of panic, many of the temple's middle-level officials began to organize their warriors to launch a counterattack.
"Templar Knights, step forward and advance the battle line ten meters."
One by one, the tall warriors stepped forward, and the bright silver armor that originally only covered their vital points automatically extended to envelop their entire bodies.
They took the heavy sword from their backs and stuffed several soul crystals into the grooves of the hilt.
Suddenly, a layer of fluorescent light shone on the sword, giving rise to a sense of sharpness and weight.
"drink!"
With a unified roar, the temple knights in front swung their longswords, unleashing sword energy several meters long that could sever the bodies of several skeleton warriors with each strike.
The temple mages behind them also began chanting incantations, and magical elements of various types began to converge.
A raging inferno!
Ice Crystal Storm!
Earth-trapping technique!
In an instant, a vast number of skeletons fell during the magical feast.
A gigantic abomination, its four hands laden with skulls, charged forward, stuffing them into its belly as it defied the attacks.
The fully enhanced Devouring ability and the endless stream of magical attacks were locked in a stalemate. After sacrificing half of its body, it finally arrived in front of the Temple Knights, leaped up, and tried to directly bypass these iron lumps to attack the mages behind it.
But then several cone-shaped objects behind them lit up slightly, spreading out a layer of yellowish-brown light.
Gravity Halo!
The leaping abomination crashed to the ground and was killed by several temple knights.
"Your Majesty, aren't you going to make a move?"
Above the clouds, standing atop the demigod-level venom dragon's head, Sheena asked softly, her slender, grey hands involuntarily reaching for the longbow behind her back.
"I just wanted to see the combat strength of these top elite troops from the principalities." Jiang Yan smiled faintly.
In his previous life, after reaching the god level, he spent most of his time in the real abyss world and didn't really fight against the forces there.
It now seems that those enchanted weapons and high-level mages are indeed quite strong, and it's rather difficult to fight them with only a small number of abominations and basic skeletons.
Although there was a reason for the game being played softly, neither the high-level bone dragon nor the two demigod-level skeletons made an appearance.
However, the enemy also lost seven...six top commanders first due to Sheena's cheat-level skills, and some large war machines did not have time to be deployed.
That's perfect. We can take them in, weapons and all, later. It shouldn't be a problem to guard the abyss passage for a while.
The 4,000 angels who are still leveling up can also come to this abyss passage to gain experience.
During their conversation, the battle situation changed again.
The yellowish-green corrosive gas kept seeping out of the dead abomination's body. Although the wind mage behind him blew it away immediately, a lot of it still adhered to the knights' armor around him.
With the addition of some abominations lurking in the rear, sublimating into a corrosive aura, the enchanted runes on the armor gradually became dim and uncertain due to the double effect.
The elite skeleton archers behind them keenly noticed the flaw.
Some of them have undergone extreme refinement and enhancement.
Double Shot → Triple Shot: Up to three arrows can be fired at a time.
Aiming → Precision: Within a kilometer, every shot hits its mark.
The arrows rained down precisely at the moment the temple knight couldn't retract his sword in time, striking the rotting parts of his armor one after another.
Ding ding ding puff...
A barely perceptible, different sound announced the death of this temple knight.
Before he could even fall, the power of the undead descended in the next second.
The temple knight, who had been fighting the undead, suddenly turned and slashed at his comrade.
Caught off guard, the two were killed on the spot and joined the army of the undead.
In an instant, the situation began to spiral out of control. The seemingly impenetrable defenses began to crumble at a visible speed.
More and more temple knights were slain, becoming undead. Advanced enchanted equipment, in this moment, became a weapon for slaughtering their own comrades.
The commanders and mages in the rear couldn't help but show expressions of fear, gulping down magic potions and casting spells.
But it was no use. A large number of undead and the transformed temple knights bypassed the bombardment of various magic types and mercilessly killed these precious mages, turning them into their companions.
This is what makes the undead truly powerful: no matter how strong you are, if even one person dies, you lose.
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