Chapter 0022 The Boring War

As a mage, Li Xun still enjoyed a lot of preferential treatment. At least he was not assigned to a certain mountain pass or level to patrol and guard like some recruited knights. He only needed to stay in the nearby small town. The knights would be dispatched to solve the problem. Only when there was a big trouble would the knights come to ask for the support of the mage.

Therefore, in the small town of Goodfield, 300 miles away from Valencia, Li Xun and another level 4 mage temporarily stayed in the hotel. They were delicious and enjoyed the best treatment every day, but they really had nothing to do, so they had to devote themselves to the boring spell learning again. Compared to the rapid progress at the beginning, Li Xun now seems to have fallen into some bottlenecks. Many spells cannot be successfully learned, so he had to ask his companion Muse for advice. After all, Li Xun only learned spells with a utilitarian heart, and was only willing to learn easy to master. He always skipped the difficult parts, which led to misunderstandings and missed knowledge systems. When learning low-level spells, he could still deal with them with his cleverness, and could enter the level 2 spell, which was extremely difficult.

The 40-year-old Muse was born a civilian. He was promoted from a mage apprentice to a formal mage at the age of 25, so he was not valued by the Principality. He was assigned to this small town with Li Xun, a rookie who had only been promoted to a mage for half a year. The two of them were sympathetic and got along very well. After all, the basic skills that could be achieved through mage apprenticeship were very solid, but they lacked practical skills. The two complemented each other. Musee pointed out Li Xun's opportunistic points and turned around to explain and analyze the shortcomings for him. Li Xun took out his flexibility in fighting dota, explained the coherent casting of various combination skills, and proposed many unpopular skills to use skills. For a time, the two felt like they had a treasure and were no longer lonely. They gathered in a room every day to exchange their knowledge of interest, until the consul of Goodfield City found them.

A stronghold far away in the Avilli Mountains has lost contact. It was a formal stronghold established by the Principality. There were more than 20 soldiers stationed to prevent the monsters in the Avilli Mountains from attacking the neighboring villages on a large scale. It mainly serves as a warning nature. Large-scale monsters really appear. Goodfield City still needs to send troops to support the clearance. As the war is approaching, the stronghold of more than 20 people has been expanded to 40 people, but the day before yesterday still lost contact. Goodfield City also sent knights to lead 10 soldiers to check, but there is still no return. The consul of Goodfield City found that the situation was serious and had to ask a mage to follow the second team to check the situation of the stronghold.

So an hour later, when Knight Thomas set off with 50 soldiers, the carriage Li Xun was riding in followed the team.

The team that set out early in the morning was approaching the Avilli Mountains at noon, and left the carriage in the nearby village. After inquiring about the village chief, I knew that the team passed by here yesterday and did not return. Since most of the supply of the stronghold was the village responsible for the village, I first discovered that the stronghold was abnormal and the village was also the village. However, after several times of contact, even the knight master in the city never returned. The village is extremely panicked now and they are all shackled in the village wall and dare not go out.

After leaving the village, it was a rugged mountain road, so Li Xun had to sit on the horse and be led by the soldiers. The Knight Thomas was very cautious and ordered all the soldiers to guard the shield in two rows, and slowly walked along the mountain road under the leadership of a villager hunter. After entering the mountain for a mile, although Thomas Knight Thomas strongly dissuaded him, the mage still ran to the jungle outside of sight to solve the physiological problems. Fortunately, nothing bad happened.

Li Xun, who sat back on the horse, pretended to close his eyes and rest, pretending to close his eyes and rest. In fact, his mental power had been transferred to the 16 lickers on the periphery. The soul vision is good, but after all, due to his slow movement, he took advantage of Li Xun's secretly releasing 16 lickers just now and let them become his eyes!

The reinforcements were still moving slowly, and 16 lickers had already flexibly rushed from both sides of the mountain road to the stronghold 30 miles away. This was just the outskirts of the Avilli Mountains. The trees were not tall, but the shrubs were overgrown. The lickers as high as 2 meters high were walking on dead branches and rotten leaves, sneaking silently under the shadow of the trees. When Li Xun's team was still halfway, 16 lickers had already approached the stronghold.

The stronghold is a three-story tower with a stone wall of nearly 1 meter built outside the tower. When the lickers saw this through the bushes, it was already dead silent. Outside the stronghold, there were scattered arrows, swords, spears, and broken shields everywhere. Half of the oak gate, which was half thick at the stronghold, fell down, and the other half disappeared, so gloomy that it could not see the inside inside. There was no way to see the enemy or the former soldiers of the stronghold. 15 lickers whistled outside, and another crawled into the open stronghold gate without hesitation.

This time, when I saw the corpse, it seemed that the battle was very fierce. The corpses of some soldiers' costumes were distributed on the stone steps from the gate to the top of the tower. It was obvious that these soldiers fought to the last moment of their lives. There were strange claw marks and traces of gnawing on their faces. The licker looked through the claws, and his face showed a humanized thought expression. He hesitated for a moment, and continued to run along the stone steps to the upper level of the tower. There were bulky wooden tables and chairs at the entrance of the second floor of the tower. Furniture blocked the way, and several soldiers' bodies were lying on the top of the tower wall. The licker gently crossed the obstacle and entered the second floor. The hall on the second floor was empty and the licker had to continue to step onto the third floor. More than a dozen corpses on the third floor were piled together in the middle of the hall. Most of the corpses were incomplete and exuded a rotten smell. The licker turned around the pile of corpses for a few times, and suddenly rushed down the tower quickly, hid in the dense forest before Li Xun's team arrived.

As soon as he arrived at the stronghold, the team kept screaming, and it was obviously attacked. Thinking of the enemy opposite the principality, all the soldiers breathed heavily! Knight Thomas looked gloomy and looked at the broken weapons in front of the stronghold, and felt heavier. He waved his hand and clicked five soldiers into the tower to search for the survivors, and let the remaining soldiers' combat formations disperse, and began to guard the surroundings. Li Xun had already known the situation in the tower, and did not stop their search without seeing any danger.

Five pale soldiers formed a formation and moved into the gate of the stronghold with their shields. A few short screams came, and then someone loudly reported: "Sir, there are corpses here."

Thomas looked at the mage who walked beside him and asked in a low voice: "Master, do you think this place is safe?"

Li Xun looked around pretending to behave and nodded, "The enemy has left here, I can feel that there is no sign of life here!"

"The third and fourth team stayed to set up defenses, and the first and second team followed me in." The Knight Thomas nodded and ordered loudly, taking the lead and walking into the stronghold.

He patrols the entire tower, cleans up the scene, and transports all the bodies found to the training ground in front of the stronghold. Looking at the rows of incomplete corpses, everyone's faces were not good-looking.

Knight Thomas had accompanied the mage to inspect all the bodies and sought the mage's opinions with great anticipation.

Li Xun said in a deep voice: "Knight Thomas, I have very bad news to tell you that I have found traces of undead magic and undead creatures here. It seems that the guys across the mountain have already reached here. You should have noticed that the number of corpses here is wrong. It seems that they are creating undead creatures. We must report to the consul of Goodfield City to request more support."

Knight Thomas looked at the dim sky and said, "It's getting late. Now I can only walk on the night road when I return. I'm worried that that's more dangerous. Moreover, the consul gave us the task of detecting the enemy. Now I don't even know the number or level of the enemy, so I'm afraid I'll withdraw it..."

Li Xun replied indifferently: "It is OK to stay for one night, be sure to be alert, it may not be too calm tonight. In addition, these corpses must be burned and cannot give the enemy a chance to strengthen themselves."

Thomas nodded heavily and ordered a pit to dig a dirt next to the stronghold, piled up all the bodies and firewood inside, set fire to light, and all the soldiers lined up in front of the pit to salute and see them off.

Li Xun took this opportunity to circle around the stronghold and set up a "magic alarm" at several key locations. When he returned to the stronghold gate, he saw two soldiers, under the instructions of the knight, removed the wooden shield spear, took off half of his body of iron armor, and quietly disappeared on the way he came.

After entering the gate of the stronghold, it had been cleaned and organized. Under the guidance of the soldiers, Li Xun walked into a separate room on the second floor, ate and drank a few things, and then fell on the paved bed to start resting.

Thomas Knight inspected the entire tower again and saw that the door had barely been blocked with the door panel, all windows had been blocked, and the platform on the tower had also been arranged to guard people, so he ate, drank and rested in the room on the second floor.

Li Xun was lying on the bed, not sleeping, but his spirit had already spread to the 16 soul connections around the tower. The 15 lickers were scattered in the dense forest around the tower, and no useful clues were found. The remaining one was already 5 miles away, following the two soldiers who were monitoring the return to report the news.

No one could go back safely to report the news last second time, and this time there would be an exception? Is this place already being monitored by the necromancer? Will they come tonight? Everything is unknown, but nothing is scary! The undead forces are facing the threat of attack from various countries, and it is impossible to send a large number of high-level undeads to cross Mount Aville. At this moment, they themselves are overwhelmed, and they still have the energy to send people to the Principality of Novis to make trouble? Are they here to provoke war or simply intimidate?
Chapter completed!