The Rise of the Cemetery

Chapter 0027 discovery

Rutherland Village, 700 miles southeast of Valencia City, is also a small village close to the Avery Mountains, with a total of more than 30 households and less than 100 people, but now it has become a small military camp, with more than 1,200 people each. People's troops were stationed outside the village, and Earl Hawass established a command post in the village as a military chief.

The arrival of the mages was warmly welcomed by Earl Havass, and a simple welcome banquet was held in the village council hall. Steak roasts sprinkling with fine spices, stewed pork and potatoes, fine pepper sausages, bacon pies and bread just out of the oven, scattered in silver basins on the humble low wooden table. The taste of creamy mushroom soup, with precious saffron and thyme in it, sweet honey wine in the large wooden barrel by the table, wine as sweet as water, or shochu that tastes like a flame.

In short, all kinds of delicacies not only take care of the master knight who likes to eat and eat, but also the master mage who likes elegance and delicacy. Which knight can clink glasses with the mage and chat. Although Li Xun also wanted to gnaw on the grilled steak and let the delicious gravy flow freely, after all, he could only imagine that he could only follow the mage around him, picking some plain food such as bread, pies, mushrooms, etc. from the dinner plate. , Alcohol Occasionally drink some wine, which makes the 17-year-old young man pretend to be a noble and elegant mage master, and play tricks everywhere, which is really a kind of torture. Fortunately, Li Xun secretly hid a piece of grilled steak in his dimensional bag while no one was paying attention, and was going to enjoy it slowly in his room.

Since he couldn't indulge in delicious food, Li Xun began to slowly look at everyone in the hall. Sitting in the middle of the hall, the high-ranking mage José Tiku was talking to Earl Havas in a low voice. The mages were also discussing something in groups of three or two. The knights were very enthusiastic, either drinking or talking loudly. Laughing, the busy waiters shuttled through it, and the scene was very hot. Out of boredom, Li Xun suddenly turned on the soul vision, wanting to see what a high-level mage looks like in the soul vision. In the soul vision, Jose Tiku is dark green, and Earl Havas next to him is light green. Sweeping across the audience, the light of the soul is unobstructed. The colors are different shades, which correspond to the strength. Suddenly, that spot of bright red in the knight camp came into view, and Li Xun was startled, red?

After using the soul vision for so long, Li Xun has also figured out some rules. The strength of the light of the soul can be seen from the depth of the color, and the law of color change is: those who are hostile to themselves appear red; those who are kind to themselves appear red. Green; nothing to do with itself appears blue. I just arrived here today, and I don't know anyone among the knights, so why would there be a red that is hostile to me? Judging from the concentration of red, he should be a mid-level knight. Did he offend someone unintentionally?

Surprised, Li Xun pretended not to care and looked at the knight. Due to attending the banquet, the other party did not wear full body armor, but light armor of soft cowhide. It can be seen that this middle-aged knight is very burly and strong, and his face is not familiar. On the back of the cloak is a clenched iron fist badge. Judging from the attitude of the knights around him towards him, the status should not be low, but I really haven't seen this person before, why is he hostile to me?

While Li Xun was meditating, the banquet had already been going on for two hours. Earl Havas clapped his hands lightly, and the busy waiters in the hall immediately bowed and retreated, and closed the door. Earl Hawass glanced at everyone in the hall, raised his wine glass and said loudly: "God bless Novus!"

Everyone in the hall raised their glasses at the same time and said: "God bless Novus!"

After drinking the wine, the hall fell silent. Earl Havass continued: "Thank you, all respected mages, for fighting alongside us! Your arrival has brought hope to our soldiers. On behalf of the Fioran family, I welcome you! you!"

The knights clapped and saluted one after another, clasped their chests and bowed to salute, while the mages put their hands on their foreheads and bowed in return. The scene was very harmonious for a while.

The leader of the mages, the high-level mage Jose Tiku, added with a smile: "As a member of the Principality of Novis, when the Principality is invaded by evil, we mages are willing to contribute our strength and obey the command of the Earl."

Earl Hawass nodded in satisfaction and said: "The evil necromancers have brought great trouble to our soldiers. The undead creatures raging in the mountains and forests are difficult to clean up. We urgently need the support of all mages. All mages have just arrived here. I don’t know much about the situation here, so I will briefly introduce it here.”

"Since we were attacked for the first time two months ago, more than 300 people have been killed. We only recovered more than 40 corpses, and the rest fell into the hands of the damned necromancers and became their servants." Those necromancers attacked the villages everywhere and made them into undead creatures. It is these living corpses that we fight every day. It is a disaster for our soldiers to do something to these living corpses that used to be our own!"

"Don't you have any information about the necromancers? Where are they hiding? How many people are there? What is their strength?" A mage asked with a frown.

"There are 7-9 necromancers in the preliminary judgment. One of them seems to be high-level, and the others seem to be low-level." Earl Hawass hesitated for a moment, and his tone was very weak.

"How to judge that there are high-level necromancers among them?"

"In order to expel these damned undead, we sent 11 knights and 1,000 elite soldiers to fight with them in the jungle for many days and wiped out some of their undead men, but we also lost 3 knights in one battle, It turned out that they were refined into black warriors in the next battle, and the necromancer who can refine black warriors in such a short period of time should be a high-level one!"

Many mages nodded in unison, agreeing with this judgment. It seems that there is indeed a high-level necromancer among the enemies.

"They are very cunning. We have a large group of soldiers searching, and they can't hide; once they disperse, they will use high-level undead to attack and ambush us. We are very passive, and the morale of the soldiers is low, so we have to retreat here to rest. Hans Knight just led the team to fight After retreating from the sneak attack of these undead, let him talk about the specific situation at that time!"

Following Earl Hawass' voice, the middle-aged knight who was suspected by Li Xun walked out of the crowd, clasped his chest and saluted, and said loudly: "I am ordered by the Earl to lead 100 soldiers with Knight Mook to carry out the search mission in front of the large army. It was only 10 miles away from the main force. While camping for a rest at night, they were attacked by the enemy. The main force of the enemy was 17 vampires, and 30 ghosts were the assistants. Our soldiers could not deal with these undead. The team soon fell into chaos, and Mu Knight Ke was captured by the vampire, and I rushed into the jungle with my men but failed to rescue him, so I had to lead the soldiers to stand firm until dawn before withdrawing to the main camp. The necromancer was not seen in the whole battle."

Li Xun narrowed his eyes and thought of a possibility. This Hans knight has dealt directly with the undead, could he have been controlled by the necromancer, only in this way can he explain why his soul is hostile red.

Is there mind control in necromancy? I still need to not be easily noticed by other mages. It seems that I will have to read the "Book of the Dead" later!

The most important thing in combat is how to find the enemy. Due to the existence of necromancers and high-level undead, the scouts in the army go out to investigate and send materials to the enemy. It seems that we have to invite the mage to appear.

So Li Xun and several low-level mages who aspired to become battle mages offered to go out to investigate and provide information for the large army. José Tiku happily took out the communication crystals and distributed them to the mages who signed up. He agreed to some personal requests from these mages and promised to report to the principality for a reward after killing the undead.