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He just ran all the way and disappeared into the shantytown around the embassy.
**
Even the Catalan general Tullius was stunned. Can you believe that the team of paladins who risked their lives to attack drove away the lich?
He stroked his chin and said, "Could it be that this lich is not actually very strong? But judging from the speed at which the dead are transformed, it seems like an old lich that has lived for a long time. An old lich can usually slaughter five paladins at will."
After all, the paladins of the legion are not as strong as those of the church's knights. At least in Tullius's opinion, these five paladins are even afraid of the pus bursting out of the zombies.
However, the lich still ran away, and in response, more undead creatures surrounded the paladins.
The paladins who rashly went deep into the undead formation were directly surrounded, and Tullius could soon only see the faint light among the undead group - that should be the spiritual light of the paladins.
Suddenly a leg was thrown into the sky. Judging from the blood gushing out of the broken leg, it should be the leg of a living person.
The paladin's aura began to dim.
The undead ultimately outnumbered the paladins.
Tullius did not hesitate any longer and shouted, "Herald! Sound the retreat signal immediately!"
The Catalan Legion is well-trained and has even undergone sufficient practice in retreat. As the horn sounds, they will quickly retreat in batches to the pre-determined retreat points.
The retreat point this time is naturally the portal.
The adjutant shouted, "General! How are we going to explain this to the Emperor and the Imperial Master?"
Tullius: "How do we explain? We don't know where the Master and the Agent are. Isn't it enough to just report it like this? Or do you know where the Agent and the Master are?"
The adjutant was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "I don't know."
Tullius: "The cults have their own systems, so let the local cult members worry about such matters. The Catalan Imperial Legion is only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor."
Tullius deliberately avoided mentioning the fact that the agent was the Catalan princess.
The adjutant looked enlightened. "I see. We just need to report that the undead creatures' sudden attack interrupted the process. Then we can just shirk responsibility and say we didn't know."
Tullius: "They can even turn the tables and say that the Cult knew about the situation but didn't report it, which led to the Legion's heavy losses. Look, the Sphinx troops that went to seize the floating city haven't returned yet, and they've probably been destroyed. This must be because the intelligence provided by the Cult was wrong.
"The main force of the Legion was originally planning to seize the port, seize ships and attack the floating city, but suddenly an army of undead appeared and pushed the main force of the Legion back. Is this our fault? This is clearly the fault of the Cult's poor intelligence collection."
The adjutant was overjoyed and shouted, "General, you are brilliant! And according to the information released by the Savior Squad, the apocalypse crisis is divided into several stages. In one stage, the undead creatures are the allies of the Savior Squad. The Cult actually failed to collect intelligence on the undead creatures. What a dereliction of duty!"
At this time, a centurion appeared at the door of the temporary command post and reported loudly: "General! The heads of the Grand Duke, Grand Duchess and Regents of the Principality of Frank have been brought here!"
Tullius was delighted: "Very good! Now we have an opportunity to return to the capital!"
**
At this time, the cult's former regional boss, regional general manager Odolf and the rebellious captain of the operations department Oga were staring at each other in the hall where the portal was located.
Princess Kadia was originally planning to let the two of them go against the Savior Team, but then she changed her mind and thought that Odolf was only at the seventh ring, and the seven-ring cult members that the Savior Team had killed were enough to start a game of bridge.
So the princess decided to go there herself and the master, while Odolf and Oga stayed here.
Now the princess and the master have been gone for such a long time without any news. Then the situation outside suddenly changes and a large number of undead creatures emerge.
Although there is no evidence to prove that the appearance of the undead creatures is related to the princess and her friends, most people would suspect: With such a big change, not even a single piece of news has been sent back. Could it be that the princess and the master have fallen out?
Now the sounds of fierce battles between the legion and the undead creatures outside kept drifting in. The warriors of the cult's field branch who stayed in the hall looked at each other, some of them had the idea of running away written on their faces, and more people chose to pray to Ragnola.
Ragnola's power also includes the ability to expel the undead. In theory, its cult should also be good at dealing with the undead.
In fact, the cult warriors all have a special kind of smoke bomb, which is said to be effective against undead creatures.
However, no one has actually used this anti-undead smoke bomb.
After all, in the past, people used either holy emblems or holy water and holy fire to fight against the undead, and this was the first time I heard of holy smoke being used to fight against the undead.
At this moment, the legion's horn suddenly sounded from outside.
Oga frowned. "The retreat horn? What's going on? The Legion is not going to run away, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened and General Tullius and his adjutant of the Catalan Legion strode in.
Oga stepped forward to block the two men, while Odolf silently walked to a position where he could close the portal at any time - the main reason for leaving him, a seventh-ring mage, behind was for this: if the situation was not right, it could prevent the enemy from counterattacking Catalonia through the portal.
Oga: "General Tullius, what do you mean? His Majesty and the Imperial Master want to seize the floating city at all costs. Why are you going back before you even set foot on the land of the floating city?"
General Tullius sneered, "How dare you say that your intelligence was wrong and the Imperial Army's advance was blocked by the undead! Did the intelligence you provided mention the undead at all?"
Oga: "They are just some low-level skeleton soldiers, zombies and ghouls. We didn't even see any medium-level undead creatures like ghosts, let alone high-level undead creatures like black knights. Can the Imperial Legion defeat them?"
Tullius: "If it were just ordinary undead creatures, it would be easy to destroy them, but according to intelligence, the lich himself has arrived at the scene and killed the team of paladins who went to fight him!
"This place is obviously about to become a kingdom of the dead controlled by the lich. It should be the mission of the knights of various gods to defeat him. The Catalan Legion has already gloriously completed part of the mission and obtained the heads of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of the Principality of Frank and the regents!
"Now the legion should return to the dynasty! Play the song of victory!"
Odolf sneered, "What a triumphant song! His Majesty's order is to seize the floating city at all costs! Where is the floating city?"
Tullius: "We dispatched the Sphinx Troops according to the orders of the Order, and lost our only air cover. As for our failure to capture the Necropolis, it is of course the fault of the Order Master who made the decision to dispatch the Sphinx Troops."
Tullius never mentioned the fact that the cult's agent was the emperor's daughter.
Your sect should bear any blame.
Oga: "You guys want to escape from the battlefield and put the blame on the cult. I cannot accept this. Die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the cult's field troops drew their weapons. After a sound of unsheathing, the shining swords reflected the light coming through the glass sky.
Tullius just raised his hand, and the soldiers behind him drew their knives in unison, and the crossbowmen among the swordsmen also raised their crossbows.
Just then, a new flag appeared from the portal.
That was the flag of another Catalan legion.
Tullius exclaimed, "Second Legion! His Majesty is determined to capture the floating city this time!"
**
Elzam suddenly said, “Something is wrong.”
Since there were no living people around at this time, Wang asked, "What happened?"
"These undead creatures are affiliated with me. I can call upon their vision, you know? Through their vision, I discovered that the number of people in the Legion has suddenly increased?"
Wang frowned and said, "Then take a look at the armor of these people. Are they different from the original legion soldiers? Maybe this is another legion."
"Ah? You can figure that out from this? That makes sense. Are you really smart?"
No, no, no, it's strange that you haven't thought of this before, right?
Elzam: "It is indeed another legion. I see different flags."
Wang: "Isn't it possible that Catalai is here for the floating city? Is he going to make a desperate attempt?"
Elzam: "It can only be a floating city. After all, I don't think this country called the Principality of Frank is worth so much investment from a downstream big country. Unless Catalonia is planning to use the Principality of Frank as a springboard to invade Monrovia."
Wang shook his head. "It's unlikely. Catalai is too far from Monrovia, and it's upstream. River transport is slow and logistics are inconvenient. They should be here just for the floating city."
Elzam: "You've got a very difficult situation. What should we do? With two legions, it will be difficult to advance with the undead. Most importantly, we don't know if a third legion will join us."
Wang added: "Although Catalai now seems to be the lair of the sect, it was originally a formal church with a true God and a cardinal in charge."
Elzam: “This is difficult…”
Wang: "It doesn't matter how many of them come, just close the portal. Once the portal is closed, the rest will be captives."
Elzam: "But now my undead army probably can't close the door."
"Don't be afraid," Wang said, "I have a plan."
Chapter 207 "Death from the Sky"
Elzam: What do you think?
Wang: "Use the floating city to crush the embassy, legion, and portal directly from the sky, and then the rescue team will kill the lich in a cool way."
Elzam was silent for a second, then replied, “It’s feasible.”
Wang pulled a skeleton over from the side and put his "helmet" on the skeleton's head, so the skull on the "helmet" overlapped with the skull's own skull, making it look like a high-level undead creature.
Then he took off his robe and put it on the skeleton head, then picked up the two skeleton arms that he had put down when he took off his clothes and handed them to the skeleton: "Then you play by yourself, I will go back and arrange everything. The floating city will take time to float over, you first let your undead army trap the Catalans.
"If the offense is not good, will the defense be okay?"
Elzam: "I have been a lich for so many years, and planned so many undead army advances. This is the first time I have commanded the undead army to fight a defensive battle."
The king raised his eyebrows. The lich spoke telepathically, so he could also sense some emotions from the lich's words. For example, he felt that Elzam was eager to try.
He didn't care too much and took out the voice stone to contact Rosalie.
As soon as he took it out, Rosalie responded. It was obvious that Rosalie had been holding the sound stone, waiting for it to vibrate: "King?"
Wang: “Are you done over there?”
Rosalie: "It's done. The casualties have not been counted yet, but the enemy has been eliminated."
Wang: "Let Xiaobai come pick me up. I want to go back to the floating city directly."
Rosalie didn't ask why: "Got it."
**
An hour later, Xiao Bai carried Wang back to the floating city. After landing, she immediately changed back and shouted, "I can't stand it! I really have become an errand boy!"
Wang: "Go eat some meat and have a good rest. There shouldn't be anything for you to do next."
"Don't talk like the meat was a reward from you. I saved it myself!" Xiaobai complained.
Wang: "Be good, there is only one last section of the journey, take me to the control room on the third underground floor."
Xiao Bai pouted: "You just asked me to eat meat?"
"My my, run."
Xiaobai carried Wang on his back and started running. At this time, there were many sailors from merchant ships on the floating island. The scene of Wang riding on the little girl with a wolf's tail was too outrageous, attracting many people to watch, while the "old residents" of the floating island were already used to it.
Rosalie was directing everyone in front of the defense unit in the center of the island, which was also the statue. When she saw Wang coming over, she asked from a distance, "What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry to come back?"
Wang: “Immortality…”
He looked around and suddenly changed his tone.
King: "An undead army has appeared in Catalonia! The situation is extremely critical. We must use the floating island to suppress the lich!"