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"Start harvesting the living! Kill without mercy!" After saying this, he slammed his palms together.
The eyes of the undead army gathered around him glowed red, a fierce light that would make people shudder even in broad daylight.
All the undead creatures that could howl, including ghouls, ghosts, and death knights, all roared!
The wave of undead creatures swept towards the survivors in the rubble.
**
Nini loudly reported what she saw: "The undead army has begun to harvest the survivors!"
The king's voice came from the sound stone: "What? Elzam wouldn't do this... Damn it, he was going to sacrifice the entire city of Minos last time! This guy! Is there any organized resistance among the living down there?"
"Yes!" Nini reported, "At the dock! The dock area is still resisting, and it looks like the damage there is relatively minor!"
The king's voice continued to come from the sound transmission stone: "Okay! Xiaobai, take Nini down and tell the people at the dock to gather at the water's edge. The floating island will fall into the water, let them get on the island! Rosalie, organize people to put rope nets around the floating island to prevent the mud on the ground from being washed away, so we won't fall completely into the water."
**
At this time, old lady Hasher felt that her previous life was so ordinary.
Apart from anything else, there has never been an earthquake in Shallow Water City since it was built. There is even no record of an earthquake in this area, and yet there is an earthquake now.
And Shallow Water City has never been invaded by the undead army led by the lich.
Not to mention that this undead army was quite polite at first, but suddenly became violent after the earthquake.
Hashir could only sigh: "My old bones are almost drowned, and you are doing this to me."
"Grandma! What should we do?" One of the cadres of the Pelican Gang asked loudly, and even started calling Hashil "Grandma" in a hurry.
Hasher: "What else can we do? We are not a knight order of the Order. How can we possibly fight against the mad undead army? Get on the boat and run! Organize people to transfer the women, children, and the elderly hiding in the church to the boat first."
Officer: "But most of the ships were shaken by the earthquake just now..."
"That's called an earthquake!" said the knowledgeable Hasher.
"Oh, they were stranded by the earthquake, and the remaining ships are also damaged to some extent. Now we need to check to see which ship can be used!"
"Who cares!" Hasher waved his hand, "As long as it can float on the water, it's fine. Move quickly!"
After saying that, Hasher raised her head, because she knew that there was still a place where she could save the Pelican Gang.
Then she saw a griffin coming down with an elf.
Elf: "The floating island will land on the water. Move to it quickly! Hurry!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the huge island in the sky that caused the earthquake began to slowly fall.
Hasher was still a little hesitant: "Is it really okay? We are just a bunch of rough guys, and although the Pelican Gang seems to be loyal and righteous, we actually do bad things. Except for the Moon Gang, which is more restrained, we have done a lot of bad things."
Elf: "I am just conveying the city lord's order. When you get up there, tell the city lord about this!"
Hasher was shocked: "Okay! Guys, you all heard it, get on the island!"
Chapter 211 Home is behind you, and the world is in front of you
Most of the Pelican Gang members, as dock workers, can swim, so the retreat process is much simpler than everyone thought.
After the dock workers sent the few people who could not swim or had difficulty swimming onto the relatively intact boats, they all jumped into the water and swam towards the landed floating island.
Not only did the dock workers do this, but a large number of survivors in the slum area that had become a ruin also went into the water and swam towards the floating island.
Because there was no need to operate the floating island for the time being, Wang led the entire rescue team to the surface of the floating island to greet the frightened fleeing crowd.
The refugees didn't notice the rescue team at first until a member of the vigilante group saluted them.
Then the refugees suddenly surrounded the team members.
A young woman rushed over with her three-year-old child, and knelt down in front of Wang to kiss his feet. Wang was shocked and dodged while shouting: "What are you doing? You can't do that!"
"I cannot repay your kindness in any way!" The woman burst into tears. "My husband, my parents-in-law, were all killed by the ghosts. Only half of my husband's body was left, and he was still holding on to the ghost, so I ran away with my children. Several neighbors ran with us, but we were the only ones who made it to the water!"
Another refugee kneeling on the ground shouted, "The undead don't dare to go into the water, they must be afraid of the reputation of the Savior Team! As long as we go into the water, we will be safe!"
"Yes! The earthquake before opened up the streets, making it easier for us to run!"
"Nonsense, the earthquake must be to destroy the undead! Think about it, in the stories of the bards in the tavern, all the living people turned into undead at once. It must be the earthquake that destroyed the evil ritual of the undead, so we can survive!"
These words made Wang's expression even more complicated.
Elizabeth patted his shoulder silently.
The "village chief" Rosalie stood a little further away, watching the scene.
The refugees who survived the disaster rushed to express their gratitude to the rescue team and the king. All these gratitudes came together and finally formed a "conclusion":
"You are the savior of Shallow Water City!"
"It's a saint, it's our saint!"
Wang pursed his lips and did not refute anyone. He just raised his hands and made a downward gesture. Generally, during a speech, the speaker will use this gesture to suppress everyone's applause or cheers.
The whole scene suddenly became quiet, and countless pairs of eyes were focused on Wang.
Wang: "I... am not that great. Actually..."
He originally wanted to tell everything, saying that the lich was still an ally yesterday and that the earthquake was caused by his own mistake. However, just before he opened his mouth, he met Rosalie's eyes.
"Reputation is also a resource" "We need reputation to achieve the goal of saving the world"
Rosalie's words rang in his ears again.
After a brief silence, the king took a deep breath, and then said to everyone with a sad face: "I'm sorry, we still failed. The lich's intention to summon the undead army was still successful. We were deceived by the lich."
Immediately someone shouted, "It's not your fault! It's the evil lich's fault!"
"How kind! Even the lich wants to believe it!"
"When I grow up I want to go kill liches with the Savior Squad!"
As Wang listened to these words, his expression gradually became firm.
He said: "I will go and confront this lich right now! If it is possible, I mean, if it is possible..."
"You actually want to fight against such a terrifying undead army with only a team of less than ten people?" Someone exclaimed, "Too dangerous!"
"Let's wait for the knights of the Orthodox Churches in various countries to take action!" someone else shouted.
King: "I... killed this lich once before. This time I thought he had turned over a new leaf, so I let my guard down. I just thought that he might still have a bit of kindness left in him, so I wanted to awaken his conscience."
"It slaughtered my whole family, what good is there?"
"Our whole street was killed!"
"It's already hell on earth on the shore!"
Wang did not explain to the terrified survivors, but directly called Xiaobai's name.
Xiaobai turned into a griffin and called out to the king.
The king jumped onto the saddle and kicked Little White in the belly with his heel, and the griffin soared into the sky.
**
At this time, in the center of the undead army, there was an open space cleared from the ruins, and the lich himself was sitting in front of a tattered table.
The table was just dug out from the ruins. It looked dirty and there was blood on the corners.
This did not prevent the lich from concentrating on making the scroll.
When the sound of griffins flapping their wings came from the sky, Elzam raised his hand and made a gesture to order the black knights and corpse wizards who were on alert to retreat.
In fact, even this gesture is not necessary. Even the advanced undead with independent consciousness, the lich as the core of the army can be commanded with thought.
After all, the reason this army exists is because the Lich is here.
The undead all retreated, leaving a circle with a radius of ten meters around the lich, enough for an adult griffin to land.
After the griffin landed, the king jumped off its back and teased, "Aren't you afraid that Xiaobai will pounce on it directly?"
Elzam smiled and said, "Now that the power of death is so strong, I cannot be defeated by a mere druid. You should know that I am not lying, because you have enough knowledge to know how much the power of a lich will increase when a short period of death reaches a threshold.
"I estimate that the aura of death brought by the killings will take about half a year to dissipate. In this half year, I can even challenge the United Crusaders formed by the Orthodox Church in this place."
Wang was about to answer when Elzam spread his hands again and said, "But the final result should be that I am defeated by the Crusaders again, and the paladins and priests will grind me to dust. Or, I will be found and killed by an elite team that gathered from nowhere.
"Considering that Shallow Water City is located right on a major trade route that runs across the continent, I estimate that I will be destroyed even faster."
Xiao Bai turned back into human form and complained: "You are really experienced."
"Of course, over the past few hundred years, I have always been eliminated in various ways."
Wang: "So why? If you behave yourself and don't cause any trouble..."
"I am a lich." Elzam interrupted the king. "There is a druid here. You might as well ask her if it is evil for a weasel to kill a hen and destroy its chicks."
Xiaobai: "Of course not."
Elzam: "Then why should I be condemned for harvesting lives myself? My mission is to harvest lives and play with souls. To me it is like a human eating a meal and a weasel eating a chicken."
Wang: “Did you think so when you were transforming?”
Elzam: "No. When I transformed, I simply wanted to have more time to do research, and for the first hundred years after my transformation, I was indeed a kind lich."
Wang: "Why has it become like this now?"
Elzam spread his hands and said, "If it was a literary work written by a great writer, there would probably be a sad story in which I would be betrayed by the kind-hearted and realize that those so-called kind people were all evil villains! And then I would embrace death.
"But that's not the case. Of course there are bad bishops, but most of the bishops and paladins I met were good people. There was even more than one person who could accept a skeleton like me.
"Perhaps it's because they sensed the remaining human part of me. Just like you now, you all tried to pull me back and make me the kindest lich ever.
"Don't waste your energy. Liches are evil, and death is the essence of liches, and it is part of the natural cycle. I realized this during my fifth resurrection. That time I went to the place where the undead army was rampaging in the last resurrection.
“I was surprised to find that after my army was destroyed, the dead trees sprouted new buds, the withered earth regained vitality, and the trees and green grass were more lush than when I set off the Undead Wave.
"I have personally witnessed the life that was born from the death I sowed. Do you understand? Death is the prelude to rebirth, just as the deepest night must precede the dawn.
"I have never suppressed my nature since then."
The king frowned. "Wait a minute, you said that you stopped suppressing your nature from the fifth time onwards. So you tried your best to be a kind lich in the first four times, didn't you? What happened? Why did you summon the undead army the fourth time?"
Elzam: "It's better not to talk about this old story. It can't change the fact that I am now a pure lich. You know, in Minos, I was going to sacrifice the entire city and the orcs, summon an invincible undead army, and turn the entire Monrovia into a kingdom of death.
"This time I just did what I wanted to do in Monrovia."