314.call from the swamp
314.Call from the Swamp (page 1/2)
The attack suffered by the student party when they "revisited their hometown" was sudden.
Someone has set up a camouflaged psychic barrier here to make the outside look flawless and just like an ordinary jungle scene, but this cannot be hidden from the veteran players who have participated in the battle here..
Cheche was the first to notice something was wrong with the terrain, and then everyone spread out to look for clues and broke into the camouflage barrier as a matter of course..
As a result, they were attacked head-on by a rather elite skeleton army..
Different from the weak skeletons wandering in the smuggler's forest that only have decayed bones and holding bone spears and wooden shields, these skeleton soldiers in front of them are all wearing armor and are in neat formation. Although the weapons they use are also decayed, they are decorated with The vicious aura is accompanied by quite abominable death filth. If it is poked, it will be infected with the plague poison..
Although these things are also undead, they are completely different from ghouls..
Being attacked on the body of a ghoul will force them to defend and retreat, but skeleton soldiers do not have flesh and blood to get in the way. Even if the body is smashed, they can still continue to attack with their scattered limbs, even if only one head is left. bite the living thing in front of you with your teeth.
Their only drawback is that without the traction of flesh and tendons, the skeletons cannot move very fast, and their single combat power is not as violent as that of the ghouls..
But now this elite skeleton army makes up for this weakness with neat formations..
There are skeleton shieldmen in the front row covering the archers in the rear, skeleton cavalry on the flanks running back and forth, and a few skeleton mages commanding from the center to throw out large-scale slowness spells, stinky cloud spells, and fog of war from time to time to interfere with the players' vision and actions..
These guys even throw bone spear javelins for a covering strike.
They are not like mindless wild monsters at all, but like a well-trained army. They completed the encirclement of the student party within a few minutes of the battle..
The damn skeleton mage also summoned a large number of flying crows to block the airspace, so that vampire players would be besieged once they took off and had to land again..
“Is this the nest of the undead scourge? What the hell is this! Could Transia be a more evil place? First the ghouls, then the skeletons! what's next？
Lich or death knight？”
Kachitonita, who was surrounded in the forest, yelled and got up. He protected his body with a shield and tried to fight back with a musket. However, as soon as he showed his head, he was hit by several bone arrows on the shield. The tinkling sound made him retract his head..
He cursed.
Several of my companions beside me also looked helpless..
Their "revisiting the old place" really had no purpose. They just wanted to see the place where they fought before. Who knew they could encounter an ambush of this level here?？
“There are at least two hundred skeleton soldiers! And they are all elite.”
Niu Niu leaned on his Gnoll Warlord bone shield and looked at the decayed iron spear he had just grabbed. He looked at the pioneering legion military emblem on it and whispered.：
“Confirmed, these skeleton troops should be the Plantagenet veterans who died in the hands of the eldest lady that night. Damn it, they have been staying here and never moved away.？”
“The time is wrong！”
The dump truck next to him was loading bullets into his shotgun and said with a frown.：
“It's only been more than a month since our battle in the Smuggler's Wood was completed. This forest is not a closed environment, and the temperature and humidity are all right. How could the bodies of these soldiers decompose so quickly?？
Look at them, they are all turned into white bones, not a single piece of flesh can be seen on their bodies, and their armors and weapons have even been weakly enchanted. This has obviously been 'processed' by others, right? If the undead were awakened naturally, they should turn into ghouls.！
Just like what happens in city sewers, that's normal！”
“This proves that the Bloodclaw clan and the Jackal Hogg are a guide plot planted by the development team. The purpose is to guide us back to Smuggler's Wood to discover the changes here, thus leading to subsequent events..”
Ah Yu, the "Vampire Ranger" holding two swords, limped over and said with shining eyes.：
“I just took the risk of taking off for a reconnaissance. Although I was almost killed by a group of ferocious crows from high altitude, before I fell, I still saw a small camp where the skeleton soldiers were guarding, and there was a fire there.！
This means there must be someone over there! Maybe he's the mastermind behind this random incident. Damn it, we have to be caught in this bastard and killed.！
And maybe this time we accidentally encountered a very powerful random event..”
“Swish”
While they were discussing, a strong wind blew through the forest, and a huge astral manticore descended from the sky, flapping its wings, and the wind blew away the poisonous mist around it..
It made a fierce attack on a skeleton cavalry who was unable to evacuate. It clasped the belt with its claws like an eagle and threw it to the sky. Then it slammed it down like a golden eagle throwing a sheep. The skeleton horse that lost its owner then screamed and collapsed on the spot..
Relying on the support of the manticore, the trapped student party immediately launched a wave of counterattacks to kill the skeleton soldiers gathered around them again. Then they saw the manticore carrying Xiao Fu and the healthy astral manticore. Flapping its wings, it landed behind the entrenched position of the student party..
Moyouqiong jumped down with a shotgun, like a soldier who moved quickly, dragging his good friends over to join him..
“Everyone is outside to support you.”
Brother Fu said to these unlucky ones who were besieged.：
“Can you still leave? Follow me and rush out quickly. There are too many skeleton soldiers here. There are other skeleton soldiers in the forest rushing to support us. If we don't have the advantage in numbers, we have to move in..”
“We had already rushed out if we wanted to break out. I told you that I found something inside..”
Ah Yuan told the little rich brother again about the situation he had just investigated. After hearing that the skeleton soldiers were guarding a camp, the little rich brother suddenly raised his eyebrows..
At this moment, the guy next to me suddenly said,：
“That must be the control center of this skeleton army! Skeleton soldiers, the lowest level of undead creatures, have no ability to think. They must be commanded by someone to form such a fierce and powerful cooperation. There must be something in that camp.！
If you take it down, you might be able to defeat the skeleton army that's flooding the Smuggler's Grove..”
“ah? There is also this saying？”
As a psionicist, Cheche's eyes widened. He looked up and down and asked.：
“Brother, where did you know this?？”
“There is an introduction to undead creatures in Mrs. Trish's Book of Midnight. Unfortunately, I changed my profession and chose the Trickster instead of the Necromantic Coffin Bearer..”
Life is going well, he sighed with some regret.：
“Otherwise, the elite skeletons all over the ground are the best raw materials for undead servants, but I just want to make a suggestion. It is definitely dangerous to charge against these elite skeleton soldiers in this situation, but if we withdraw now and want to continue It's not that easy to find such an opportunity..
Now that those guys hiding behind the scenes have been discovered, they will definitely move.”
“What else is there to say? Come on, the internet will be disconnected for three days at most. Brothers, whoever rushes out, remember to pack the equipment of the guy who died and take it away..”
Niuniu stood up with his shield in hand.
In fact, he is not afraid of these skeletons at all. His warlord's flail and bone shield set has a [bloodthirsty] and a [life extraction] brutal ritual and attack effect, which are enough for him to transform into a berserker and rush out in desperate situations..
If it weren't for the group of funny guys behind them, Niu Niu would have gone out alone..
When he received support, he moved the blood wings spread out behind his back and glanced at the gloomy sky in the forest, he said：
“Since we encountered this random event, wouldn't we be laughed at by others if we didn't get the key mission props? Brother Xiaofu, please make another trip and let the brothers outside rush in to put more pressure on the commander of the skeleton army. We vampires who can fly will go around from behind..
In this round, we will deal with those people who are misbehaving..”
“OK.”
Brother Xiaofu didn't mind the extra trip. Anyway, he was flying at high altitude on a manticore. Not to mention the bone arrows of the skeleton soldiers, it was difficult to hit it even with psychic spells..
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