Chapter 119 Once Joint
The eastern continent where human beings live has been peaceful for nearly a thousand years. Even though the west coast of the mainland will still be attacked by some orc tribes and the dark councils of the western continent, it is strongly resisted by the imperial soldiers guarding the customs. For the people within the empire, they have already accepted the fact that the light shines on the whole continent, so they will be a little unprepared by the sudden darkness.
Because there is no need to worry about foreign attacks, there is no army near all the villages in the border areas of the whole empire. Only some large towns nearby have defenders, and because there is no war, the people live and work in peace, so the empire does not need too many soldiers. Maintain the stability of the country. After several disarmaments, the number of troops has been less than one million in recent years...
In fact, this number is absolutely enough to maintain the stability of the whole continent, but in those remote areas, no troops have been sent to guard them. First of all, environmental factors, because the conditions there are too difficult, and the rules for sending troops and towns require a lot of expenditure on the national treasury. Secondly, whether it is the east, south or northern borders of the imperial capital, the villagers there can survive well on their own without threats from the western continent, so they do not need troops to garrison them. Protection.
This model has always been recognized, and there have been no mistakes, but I didn't expect such an incident to happen this time. Because of its remote location and blocked news, the rescue was not timely. After a large number of zombies had appeared in many border villages, rescue troops arrived.
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"This is the current situation." David's mentor said: "In addition to the rapid spread of disasters caused by the blockage of the news and the lack of attention to this matter in the early stage, the imperial military has now taken extremely effective measures to organize rescue teams to go to the border area and summon the priests and magicians of all nearby temple branches. , clean up and treat the disaster area. A large number of residents have been treated by the power of light and the disaster has been controlled, but now we have only managed to control the situation, but have not caught any of the leaders in this incident.
"Mentor, I have a question to ask." Haigal, one of the three elite students, couldn't help but take a step forward to ask questions.
"Well, Haigal, if you have any questions, just ask." David's tutor nodded.
"I would like to ask, according to the survey and statistics, how many villages have been affected on the four-way border?"
"A total of 36 villages have been attacked by undead magic, and the degree of disaster varies. Some of the villagers who went out have been infected by the plague of undead magic and turned into zombies. In some villages, the whole village has been destroyed by walking corpses, and only a small number of people have escaped. David said in a low voice.
"Well..." Haigal sighed and shook his head and said, "I don't understand why the disaster happened to these ordinary residents?"
"This is the evil of undead magic, which is different from other magic cultivation and spiritual meditation. As a forbidden skill, undead magic has fallen into a road of no return since the beginning of practice. The creatures who practice undead magic not only dedicate their souls to the death of the underworld in exchange for 'immortal', but also need a lot of undead spirits to advance. In the holy war thousands of years ago, the battlefield was an excellent place for those evil undead magicians to hide and practice, and a large number of dead corpse grievances created it. The necromancer of that generation, as well as his evil mages and the undead army. Fortunately, in the end, he sneaked into the mainland and was killed by the Pope, the first dean of our college and the president of the Wizards Association.
"But since then..." David's tutor stopped. After the jihad, the eastern and western continents began to maintain a relatively peaceful state, and the undead magic was not so easy to practice. At that time, the magic of the dead belonged to a relatively powerful branch of the dark council, and it was not listed as today's forbidden. However, in about 300 years of the empire, another terrible undead magician appeared in the dark parliament. In order to cultivate undead magic to a higher level, he sneaked into our eastern continent and began to make a lot of killings.
"That is, to turn ordinary civilians into zombies and take away death and energy from them. Once these zombies bite people and turn more human transmission into walking corpses, the caster can get more undead energy. So he released the undead plague to obtain a higher level. Of course, he failed. The leaders of the three holy places in the world stopped his crazy behavior in time and jointly injured him seriously. Unfortunately, he failed to kill him and escaped back to the western continent with the undead prohibition.
"The undead magician escaped to the dark parliament of the western continent to recover from his wounds, and the members of the plenary at that time were still proud of him. However, the good times did not last long. During the period of his recovery, someone always reported to the meeting that the peripheral members of the dark parliament had disappeared for no reason. Such news did not attract attention at the beginning. But later, there was more and more accumulated news, and it was impossible for the top of the dark parliament to let go.
"And for them, during this period of time, it has become more than just the disappearance of uninsignificant peripheral members, but even several core members of the meeting have begun to disappear for no reason. At that time, the president of the Dark Council finally couldn't stand it and found a place for the undead magician to rest according to the clues of what had happened. When he forcibly broke in, he found that the large secret room where the undead mage was closed was full of zombies! Most of them are members of their dark parliament..."
Hearing this, Haigal couldn't help laughing and said, "Huh, are you so crazy that even the members of your meeting have begun to kill indiscriminately?"
"What you said is not wrong." David's mentor nodded and said, "The people who practice undead magic have long been crazy, and the deeper the cultivation, the more they don't look like human beings... At that time, when the president of the Dark Council rushed into the retreat of the undead mage, he was stunned by the scene full of zombies. The walking corpses wandering indoors began to go crazy when they saw the sudden appearance of fresh flesh and blood at the door and rushed to the dark president to tear him up and swallow him.
"Of course, the dark president, who had already entered the realm of the Holy Land, would not be afraid of ordinary zombies. He just became furious and grabbed the man sitting in the depths of the secret room with undead and ghost fire, trying to capture him and ask him guilty. Unexpectedly, the other party blocked his blow without difficulty. You should know that when the undead magician went out to practice, he was just an existence that had just entered the realm of a great practitioner. In less than half a year, the other party could easily take over the angry blow of the dark president who was a magic mentor. What does it mean?
"Half...half a year..." Hearing David's tutor describe several elite students, they twitched their lips and didn't know what to say at all. How long did it take for the most talented person in the world to get from the realm of the great practitioner to the holy land? It seems that the dean of the original college took eight years, and the Pope of the temple took about seven years. And it took less than half a year for this undead magician to become a holy land magician from the cultivation that has just entered the realm of the great practitioner? Is this still a human?
"You are surprised, that's right! At that time, the dark president was even more surprised. He practiced for many years before he was able to break through to reach the realm of the magic mentor. The other party only went out for half a year and did not practice. He just blindly released the plague and infected a large number of creatures into dead creatures, and had already entered the Holy Land? Such magic made him deeply afraid, but the more terrible thing was still ahead.
"After resisting the attack of the dark president, the dead spirit and ghostly ghost fire on the undead magician were rushed away, revealing his body hidden under these evil spirits. That is no longer a human body... President Dark remembers very clearly that the necromancer was still a middle-aged man before he went to the Eastern Continent, but now, his flesh and blood skin has long disappeared. There has been no hair on the top of the head, no epidermis, nothing, only a skeleton left. And what's more frightening is that the remaining bones in its legs have gradually become unclear, becoming a little transparent and green, as if they have penetrated into a certain time and space. The dark president can feel the breath from his legs, which is the extremely evil and gloomy atmosphere of the underworld... And this incident also contributed to the first cooperation in the history of the Eastern Continent and the Dark Parliament, of course, only once.
"The president of the Dark Council told us the whole story of his dialogue and battle with the necromancer at that time, and there was no reservation in order to work together.
Dark President: You! Have you dedicated all your body and soul to death?
Dead Mage: Chatter... There is nothing wrong, for the power of immortality...
President Dark: You crazy! What immortality! You have been dead for a long time!
Dead Mage: Stupid human beings, you will never understand...
President Dark: You beast, in order to gain such power, you don't hesitate to turn yourself into this inhuman appearance? It also turned a large number of members of the meeting into zombies!?
Undead Mage: If you don't understand, let me turn you into a member of the zombies, so that you can also experience the taste of immortality, chatter..."
David's mentor said this, stopped imitating the scene of the dialogue between the two, and returned to the tone of the onlookers and continued: "As the president of the dark parliament, they are naturally heroic figures. Naturally, he can't stand being insulted to make himself into a zombie. If he doesn't keep it, he no longer intends to expect that the former mainstay of the meeting can come back to his side again, but now he will completely kill this thing that is hundreds of times more evil than himself. However, after the fight, he soon found something that made him unacceptable. He, who had been in the Holy Land for many years, found that he was not the opponent of the undead magician after a few rounds. The other party's extremely evil undead magic is extremely powerful.
"He was shocked to know that if he continued to pester, he might really become a zombie in the hands of this devil. After issuing a loud warning, it attracted a large number of high-level strong men in the meeting. After paying a lot of price, they finally injured the undead magician and forced him away... The dark president, who realized the seriousness of the problem, sent waiters to the eastern continent hoping to work together to eradicate the demon. After discussing with the three holy places, the imperial royal family made a decision to jointly resist the enemy and agreed to the proposal of cooperation of the Dark Parliament. However, soon after the decision was made, we received help from messengers from the orc tribe of the western continent.
"It turns out that during this period of time, the evil undead magician has sneaked into the territory of the orcs to create a plague, causing a large number of orcs to become zombies, and the contemporary beast emperor was seriously injured after finding the undead mage. If it hadn't been for the help of the dark president, he might not have been able to save himself. My own life. Judging from the news, the undead magician's strength is still growing thousands of miles after entering the holy level, which seems to be much stronger than when he was fighting with the dark president in the dark council. The leaders of the three holy places finally decided to take action together and lead the high-level elites in the Holy Land to the Western Continent to kill the undead magicians..."
"It is said that the strength of the undead magician at that time was more powerful than the necromancer who appeared during the jihad, because after all, the necromancer only absorbed the corpse and resentment on the battlefield to practice, and rarely directly turned living people into zombies. However, the undead magician turned a large number of ordinary civilian plagues into walking corpses, and not only that, some powerful practitioners have not been able to escape the fate of being made into undead by him..."
"It is also because of this that the stronger the ability of life turned into an undead, the more benefits he will get. When various forces in the eastern and western continents gathered together to kill him, the undead magician had created dozens of huge blood pools in the depths of the forest where he practiced, which were full of corpses and residues of creatures of various races. Of course, many zombies wandered in the forest. Once they met living things, they would be killed alive. Eat raw... The dense forests and vegetation in the depths of the forest, attacked by the rotten blood dripping from the body and the dead spirit emitted by the zombies, have begun to wither, and the land here no longer shows the fertility, the deep color no longer exists, and the earth begins to crack..."
"When the coalition forces of all ethnic groups arrived there, there was such a scene of life... It was full of huge blood pools of broken limbs and arms, the dense and disgusting corpses wandering around in the forest, the corroded forest and the earth... It was a shocking war, and the creatures of all ethnic groups put down the races. The combination of ideas and contradictions worked together to kill the ubiquitous zombies and those high-level undead creatures hidden in the depths. Of course, it is not too difficult for elites from all races to eliminate and kill these undead creatures. Why do they call this battle a shocking battle? Because at that time, six jihadi strongmen besieged the evil undead magician in the sky.
"The president of the dark parliament and the beast emperor of the western continent; the three holy land leaders of our eastern continent and the elf queen of our alliance. Fortunately, it was not too late for several leaders to come together, because at that time, the undead magician had practiced and almost disappeared. Between the world and reality and illusion, it was a sign that he was about to successfully connect his whole body with the underworld. Fortunately, his head was only one The state of an ordinary skull has not been fully cultivated, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable... After nearly a whole day of war, the six strong men of the Holy Land finally successfully killed them with almost serious injuries, and this undead magic disaster finally came to an end..."
"Since then, undead magic has been listed as forbidden and rejected by any force. And this battle is not specifically recorded in history books, but there will be records in our great holy places, so that the world can completely forget this history. If you meet any people who do whatever it takes to pursue power and learn that there is such a quick magic in the world, they will definitely try their best to find it... I believe that all the deeds and practices of undead magic will be erased in the western continent. However, since what has happened will always leave traces in the world, and we don't know what other secrets or books that record evil undead skills have fallen in a corner of the world, just like this event. Now you also understand why the undead magic chooses to attack the ordinary people on the border.
"Well... got it. With the guide of ordinary villagers, they began their evil cultivation road. If you choose to start from the border area, you don't have to worry about things being discovered prematurely. It's just to be able to attack from a total of 36 small villages on the three borders of the empire at the same time. What is needed is not only the strength of the strong, but also the understanding of the continental pattern. It is hard to imagine that this can be controlled by the dark parliament of the western continent..." Haigal frowned deeply and put forward his views.
"It is not known where the undead magician who invaded the mainland came from, whether it was the western continent or the eastern continent. But after this period of time, the joint search of the three holy places of our empire has found an optimistic fact. That is, although there are 36 villages affected by the three borders of the east and north, the good thing is that most of the villages have not received too serious damage, and according to the tracking of our strong, there should be only two undead magicians that may really exist, and in terms of practical strength, compared with the one 700 years ago It's not the same. It should not have the most complete inheritance of undead magic..."