After slashing at the zombie with his sword, Wayne did not stop using the two-handed sword and chopped off the heads of two more zombies in succession.
Then he discovered that the zombie that he had cut in half first had not stopped moving. Its upper body was still holding the weapon, and it was crawling, as if it wanted to chase him from behind.
However, the two who were beheaded had lost all signs of movement and turned back into corpses.
After discovering this phenomenon, Wayne shouted to Reso and others behind him:
"Pay attention. Piercing attacks will not work. Their heads must be separated from their bodies."
At this time, the benefits of having him as a pioneer immediately became apparent. With his strength and insights, he was able to easily understand the enemy's basic characteristics at the first contact, thus avoiding unexpected dangers due to cognitive errors.
After all four demon hunters rushed to the front and used their superb swordsmanship to resist the enemy's advance speed.
Margarita and Keira, who were standing behind the two men, had also completed their preparations for casting spells and were ready to perform the magic that they were good at.
The headmistress had a relatively calm personality. She used a large-scale fire magic directly at the rear of the zombie group, directly covering most of the zombie group, wanting to use the scorching flames to test the fire resistance of these corpses.
However, Keira is not good at using offensive magic directly. She chooses to use dispelling magic, which is commonly used to fight against undead creatures and ghosts.
This kind of magic can utilize chaos magic to dispel the enemy's soul power from its body. However, this kind of magic has little effect on living beings. It is a magic that warlocks have specially researched to deal with undead creatures.
When the two spells fell into the group of zombies one after another, the effects were quite different.
The fire magic directly ignited the clothes on the corpses, singed their hair and skin, and turned them into burning torches, but it did not have much impact on their movements.
However, Wayne estimated that after the burning of fire magic and the evaporation of moisture, their bodies would no longer be as hard as at the beginning, which would reduce their defense.
The effect of dispelling magic was immediate. After being hit by the white light ball emitted by Keira, the zombie fell to the ground instantly as if its soul had been extracted, losing the ability to move.
Obviously, it was not their bodies that controlled them in battle, but their souls that were influenced by the power of hell.
Unfortunately, dispel magic can only be used one-on-one, and warlocks have not yet developed group dispel magic, so Keira's casting speed is not fast, and is even slower than that of demon hunters who use swordsmanship.
After meeting Master Wayne, all the equipment of Reso and others were updated. Although they were not magical weapons, they were definitely high-quality weapons. With the power of several demon hunters, they could easily chop off the heads of these zombies.
After the battle had lasted for a few minutes and the number of zombies had been reduced by a quarter, the Fallen Demons hiding in the zombies could no longer sit still and came out from the gaps between the zombies. Some of them rushed towards Wayne and other demon hunters, but did not attack them at close range. Instead, they held throwing weapons such as stones, daggers, and hatchets in their hands, and interfered with their movements from the outside.
The other group wanted to take the opportunity to bypass the witchers in the front line and attack the two sorceresses standing behind them.
Wayne suddenly had an idea and said to the other three Viper School demon hunters:
"You guys go deal with those little monsters, leave these undead monsters to me. I have a good idea."
Upon hearing this, Reso and others did not doubt him and immediately withdrew from the battlefield in front and returned to the two female sorcerers. It was obvious that they were very confident in Wayne's strength.
Wayne used his superpowers, took out three North Wind bombs from his waist bag, and threw them into the group of zombies in three directions.
Bang! Bang! Bang! A burst of cold air swept across, and ice chips flew everywhere.
Just as he expected, the zombies, whose bodies were originally stiff like frozen corpses, were immediately enveloped by the cold air. A layer of frost formed on the surface of their bodies. Their movements became slower and slower, and finally they were all frozen in place.
The effect of ice is obviously more useful than that of fire, and the North Wind Bomb is still as useful as ever.
Reso and the others were also very fast. Their swordsmanship was limited when dealing with thick-skinned zombies, but it was very effective against the petite and agile Fallen Demons. Almost every sword could hit the enemy's vital points, and all the rushing Fallen Demons were killed around the sorceress.
After several North Wind bombs were thrown down in succession, about twenty zombies were all frozen. Wayne did not continue throwing bombs, but condensed magic power in his left hand and cast an Alder Seal. The powerful impact force directly beat the frozen zombies into pieces of meat. The effect was very obvious, almost the same as the Chilling Alder in the game.
With Wayne's demonstration, Margarita immediately changed her method. She waved her hands and chanted a difficult spell. A large amount of chaotic magic power began to condense under her mobilization.
Dozens of conical ice blocks like ice spears suddenly formed out of thin air above the heads of the zombies behind them. Then these ice spears shot out from the sky with extremely strong coldness and hit the zombies behind the group of zombies, freezing them in place.
When the battle reached this point, the subsequent work became simple. Before the zombies regained their mobility, the demon hunters either used the Alder Sign to directly break the frozen corpses into pieces of meat, or simply used the steel swords in their hands to chop off the heads of the zombies.
It took about twenty minutes, and this wave of monsters, totaling about one hundred and forty to fifty, were wiped out by Wayne and his men.
But unfortunately, after spending several Northern Bombs and consuming a lot of magic power, there was no loot on these corpses except some coins left behind before they died.
This made Wayne feel like he had lost money.
It’s not that he cares about that little bit of money, but it also makes him realize that his idea of getting equipment and artifacts by killing monsters in the world of Diablo is basically impossible to achieve.
In reality, it is impossible for monsters to carry various potions and equipment with them.
As for the coins or other valuables stained with blood and rotten flesh on the corpses, neither the sorceress nor Master Wayne had the energy to search them. Even Reso and others who wanted to search the corpses were stopped by Wayne.
Master Wayne was very clear and directly promised several people that after the commission was completed, he would reward them two thousand orens each. This generosity of spending money stunned the three Viper School demon hunters who had just escaped poverty.
You have to know that in the original book, Geralt risked his life to help King Foltest save his daughter, and only received a reward of three thousand orens. And Wayne now lives in a mansion in the wealthy area of Vizima, which is only worth a few thousand orens. This reward must be far beyond the actual amount that should be given.
After dealing with the first batch of monsters, Wayne and others did not stop. After a short rest, they continued their journey.
However, what they didn't know was that only four or five minutes after they left, several monsters that had been hiding not far away quickly returned to the place where they were fighting.
These monsters look similar to regular Fallen, but are larger, more muscular, and wear rather ornate robes, with more prominent demon horns on their heads.
Compared with ordinary Fallen Demons, these Fallen Demons all hold a skeleton staff made of unknown material in their hands, and they can communicate in a strange language while walking.
After these special fallen demons came to the corpses, they picked and chose among the corpses and came to those that were still relatively intact. They began to wave the skeleton staffs in their hands and chant spells in the language of another world.
Soon, under the influence of their spells and magic, those relatively intact corpses began to gather together, pieced together, stood up again, and turned back into the previous zombies.
And all the small fallen demons that were killed were resurrected without exception.
Only the traces of twisting and bonding on the bodies of these monsters showed that they were monsters that were killed and then resurrected.
These Fallen Demons with special body shapes and holding magic staffs are actually elite members of the Fallen Demon clan. They are Fallen Magicians who are able to skillfully use the power of hell.
After these hell wizards completed their resurrection ceremony, the group of monsters that were originally wiped out by Wayne and others recovered to a size of nearly a hundred people, and under the command of these wizards, they began to continue wandering in the fog.
This is because many zombies were blasted into pieces by Wayne's Alder Seal. Otherwise, if it were the mercenaries who used swords to kill zombies, these fallen magicians could even resurrect all of their own members, plus other killed mercenaries, to make their team more and more expanded.
It is precisely because of the existence of these fallen magicians who have mastered the magic of hell that the number of monsters in the fog has increased compared to the past few months, and the erosion of the power of hell has become more and more serious.
Even if Wayne was lucky enough to discover and kill this group of fallen magicians hiding far away from the zombie group, as long as the fallen magicians in the fog were not extinct and the bodies of these monsters still existed, they would still be able to find a chance to resurrect their companions.
(End of this chapter)