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Elzam: "Yes, so I have been thinking about a question, why? The answer is subjective initiative. Although the undead army will not hold each other back, it also loses the explosive power brought by subjective initiative.
If a wizard is devout enough, he can also be a priest. However, this usually happens to low-level wizards, because the stronger the wizard is, the more he knows about the nature of the world, and the more he knows about the world, the weaker his faith.
"How can the undead controlled by me defeat the Crusaders? On the contrary, look at that guy, the Land of Shadows he founded is still doing well."
Then a black shadow appeared in front of Elzam. Blue flames flickered on the edge of the shadow, and it was shrinking rapidly under the erosion of the flames.
"But why should I fight you? I told you, I have been training undead with subjective initiative, and now is the time to test the results!"
The Pope and the two cardinals beside him immediately became alert.
"That chief cardinal has a very flexible mind," it thought.
At this time, the second-in-command said, "But... from the results, our strength is stronger, we have more believers, and we can help more people. The defense of the treasury is strengthened, and other world-destroying sealing items are not easy to be stolen.
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after a while.
"They acted according to my orders. Do you understand? It was me who affected the performance of the undead army. I am just a mage in a laboratory, a priest who can't even swing a meteor hammer, and I can't even wear heavy armor.
The Pope and the Cardinal looked at each other.
The chief cardinal bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't think it through."
Elzam: "That's one of the purposes. In fact, many of you who have the title of Saint have had pleasant conversations with me. I have reason to believe that my existence has inspired your philosophical research."
Suddenly, the Chief Cardinal stopped and said, "Can't find the phylactery? Your Holiness, about what it just said, that it was once Lancelot's priest..."
Elzam: "Yes, you were not born when I entered here last time. Why doesn't the Lancelot Cult recruit followers among the elves? If it was an elf pope, I could chat with him every time I come here."
“In fact, I’ve always found it strange that the elves have their own patrons, the dwarves have their own patrons, and even the gnomes, who have produced so many faithless people, have their own patrons.
Thus a new theory was born: Lancelot is like the sun, shining equally on everyone, good or bad.
At this time, if there were medical technology from some technologically advanced dimension, the Pope might still be able to rescue him.
The Chief Cardinal muttered, "In the end, we still don't know why this lich entered the treasure house."
Pope: “Are you here to confess?”
The old man said: "Although you sound like an acquaintance, I don't know you."
However, since there is a god like Kailin who gives his own herald the ability to turn water into wine, there can naturally be a god who does not like mages.
"Maybe it can even become a bond between the undead and the living. Just think about it, what a wonderful scene that would be, the living and the dead could continue to live together. From now on, there would be no more separation of life and death.
No one knows why this happens.
So the two cardinals could do nothing except call for trainee priests to carry the Pope to the bed.
"I tried to use a special soul to transform the ghost that was not controlled by me, and it collapsed."
No matter which road they took, someone eventually reached the Ninth Ring Road.
Elzam did not answer, but raised his hand: "Now we have no choice but to force our way in. Stop time!"
Elzam: "Why do you think I'm not getting to the point? I thought for a long time before I came up with a way to enter the treasury. Even if I mobilize most of the paladins and priests in the temple, the strongest priest in the world - you, the Pope - will definitely stop me in the end.
Some people even claimed to be Lancelot's chosen people and messengers, but according to official records, Lancelot never performed miracles to confirm the identities of these people.
The Pope finally interrupted Elzam and said, "Your army of the dead has been crushed more than once by the living who were pulling each other's legs."
"Too bad there are too many things preventing him from reviewing the treasures in the treasure house. The clocking in every hundred years is finally over. I am such an evil lich."
Thus, the lich's soul fell into a deep sleep in Lancelot's treasure house, waiting to be awakened next time.
(*) I used this method to explain why the level of a priest or a mage cannot be high if you have too many part-time jobs. How about that, isn't it? Of course, in the game, the upper limit is 20 levels, and if you have too many part-time jobs, the level of a priest or a mage cannot be high.
This nonsense setting can also explain why Elminster is only a third-level priest.
Chapter 265: The Subjective Initiative of Undead Creatures
Back to the floating city, in Kailin's "temple".
The king frowned and looked at the messenger from the church: "Elzam was destroyed? When did it happen? Where did it happen?"
Messenger: "He raided the headquarters of the Lancelot Order in the Holy City and was eliminated by His Holiness the Pope and two cardinals."
Wang frowned. "He made such a big scene, is it really to lure the tiger away from the mountain? But that's not right. The Pope should be the most powerful priest of the Lancelot Order right now? How can it be considered as luring the tiger away from the mountain if he didn't lure the Pope out?"
"I don't know the details." The messenger spread his hands and said, "I'm just a messenger. The city lord can ask the cardinal."
Wang: "Okay, go ahead."
The messenger saluted the king and turned away.
After Elizabeth watched the messenger walk away, she whispered to the king, "What exactly is Elzam going to do?"
Wang: "I don't know, but the Lancelot Cult must have sealed away many terrible magic weapons over the years. Maybe Elzam covets one of them."
As soon as Nini left, Rosalie shouted, "The third corpse!"
Seeing what Gotrek was doing, the king raised his fist and punched another ghoul in the face. The brute force provided by the ogre power gloves directly knocked the ghoul's head off.
The undead creature's head tilted to one side. If it hadn't been dead, it would have died from a broken neck. All the teeth in the ghoul's mouth flew out, and its mouth, which originally had no lips, was now just a hole.
Gotrek pulled back the canvas and ran out, dragging the dwarf with him.
Li Guang put his hands together and said, "Rest in peace, evil creature that goes against the common sense of the world."
The dwarf frowned. "What's that sound? It sounds like the sound of rocks falling from a giant catapult."
The king continued to give orders: "Nini, go to the floating island and see what's going on down there and who's throwing corpses!"
Wang was just about to relax when Nini shouted, "Here comes the second shot! It's not landing near us!"
He turned his head and looked at the ground, ready to see what was throwing corpses onto the island. At this time, Nini jumped from the edge of the island and landed steadily behind him.
The other members of the rescue team also looked up in confusion, and the next moment Nini took action, grabbing Wang and Elizabeth and jumping to the side.
The ghouls mixed in with them tried to climb up the cliff on the side of the floating island with their claws.
Five of the eight zombies fell.
Gao Trik rushed towards the ghoul closest to him, and without drawing his battle axe, he punched the ghoul in the side of the face.
The king looked up, just in time to see new clumps of corpses falling from the sky.
The howling of the ghouls answered Flint's question. Eight ghouls jumped out from the pile of corpses that fell to the ground and rushed towards the people around the temple who had not yet reacted.
Xiaobai turned into a white-headed sea eagle, grabbed Flint and flew towards the still falling corpses.
He took out the dragon head scepter, and the next second he turned into a giant dragon and flew up, directly hitting the corpses with his body.
"Now driving!" The dwarf held up the holy emblem and chanted Cailin's name. Holy light burst out from the holy emblem, covering most of the undead creatures that jumped out of the corpse mass.
At this time, the Crusaders on the ground also seemed to have discovered these colossi.
He picked up the skull that fell at his feet: "He has been dead for many days——"
Rosalie warned loudly: "There is one more!"
Generally, flesh golems are only slightly taller than ordinary humans, but these flesh golems are surprisingly large. The huge corpse mass is like a toy ball in their hands.
The monster looked like a piece of sewn-together flesh, with pus-like substance oozing from many parts of it.
Wang: “Hold on steady!”
Wang: "Flesh Golem? But it's too damn big, isn't it?"
The next moment, a pile of corpses fell to the ground near them with a bang, smashing a corner of the "ceiling" of Kailin's "temple", and the white canvas fell directly onto Flint's face.
But Nini pointed to the ground and shouted, "Look at that!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the zombie's whole body collapsed and exploded into pieces.
However, they lacked air mobility and could not reach these colossi in a short time - the Crusaders' attention was on the necromancers and death knights, so their forces were distributed near the necromancer's nests and death knight barracks, and were not placed at the location of these colossi.
Xiao Bai studied Wang's expression, blinked, and asked, "Then when the crisis reaches a stage where the undead cannot survive, should we still join forces with him?"
He looked up as he spoke.
Gotrek: "Go!"
Flint: "But there are many powerful auxiliary magics in the high-level spells. If you can add them to Gotrek, he will become a fighting machine."
The corpses fell apart in mid-air, and many of them changed their routes and crashed into the middle and lower parts of the floating island.
"Kaelin's horns!" Flint cursed. He was very skilled at making fun of his own god. "Are the undead down there throwing the ghouls and skeletons up in a ball?"
After a brief pause, Wang added: "It is a lich after all. It has demonstrated the true nature of a lich to us with its actions, hasn't it?"
Unlike skeletons, ghouls do not have the ability to continue moving after their body parts are separated. If their heads are blown off, they are "dead".
Wang: "I don't think so. Although we are short of high-level spellcasters, we now have 'Counterspell', so we are not too afraid of the enemy's high-level spellcasters."
Wang flew over and blew away all the zombies with a mouthful of strong acid.
Wang saw: there were several huge monsters on the ground, throwing corpses onto the island.
Flint: "What? A body?"
"What else?" Flint spread his hands.
Seeing this, Xiaobai immediately turned into a bear, grabbed Rosalie and ran away.
As he was speaking, there was a sudden whistling sound from the sky as a large object cut through the air.
Wang: "Are you trying to trick me into upgrading as soon as possible?"
The king looked in the direction of Rosalie's finger, and sure enough, he saw that the third group of corpses was rising, and it was obvious that they were going to take a parabola and fall to the floating city.
The king's expression darkened as he said this. Although he sometimes did not act like a good person, the large-scale massacre carried out by Elzam in Shallow Water City had exceeded his bottom line.
As soon as the words came out, red light flashed in the skull's eyes, and it opened its mouth to bite the dwarf's arm, but with a click, it got stuck on the dwarf's armor.
He decisively ordered: "Xiaobai! Pick up Flint and rush over there! The women and children on the island are not capable of dealing with the undead creatures!"
King: "Flint! Scatter the undead!"
The king - the dragon said to Nini behind him: "Hold on tight, it's up to us to kill these dragons!"
Nini did not answer, but shot several arrows at the eyes of the flesh giant who was about to throw another ball of corpses.
The giant stopped throwing and roared in anger.