After a few minutes, I notice no change inside the ramparts. Those bloody priests are efficient; I have to give that to them. And with the local environnt, I guess the most basic blessing will be able to save a life already at death's door. But thinking you can get away unscathed? All you will receive is painful after burns. I order my skeleton magicians to fire the first volley of the spell. The humans are clearly shocked by that since a lot of them are touched by the spells. My army is clearly coordinating with each other, since not a single skeleton fire on the sa location as sobody else. That ans, more victims and a bigger area burning.
Seeing the archers currently retreating from the edge of the ramparts, it is ti to use my Chosen for the charge. I fire at least seven orbs before managing to form a hole big enough to let them pass. I can see from that hole the terrified faces of the piken behind the door. Unfortunately for them, there is no magician to rally them in front of my Chosen after they will breach the door. And like the scene of a very famous movie, the brave and proud soldiers are getting quickly overrun by armored giants.
I can see number two lead the charge and pierce the wall, swinging his axe left and right. Each ti he does that, a few soldiers lose their lives, cut in half by the sharp weapon. No matter what it is, their steel armors, their iron shields, their helts, their chest plates. All is destroyed in one hit by my Chosen. Causing chaos among the guards, and beginning to paint the streets red. Exactly what I was expecting from my most recent creation. Leaving the crossbown under the fire of my magicians, I approach the door.
The fifty n that were guarding the gate are now all dead, dispatched in a little more than 20 seconds. The hole ford by my acid has been enlarged, letting at least two of my normal skeletons pass at the sa ti. I can see so of the Chosen take cover under the wall while the rest is hacking the remaining wooden door in pieces. They can't allow their axes to be broken by doing the sa on the iron grid, but for the wooden door, it will not be a problem.
Right now, my Chosen have only taken so minor damages, and are protected from the crossbown. There is a blind spot just under the gate, where only people on the streets can target and my skeletons. But, all the humans that are present in that street are dead, their blood flowing even to the gate. Seeing that, I do what everybody will do. I crouch a little and absorb all the blood near . Seeing my mana being replenished, I begin to smile. Just a small part of everything spilled on the ground, and I can already create a new magician. But, it is not enough, I need sothing that can create a diversion.
I decide to create so zombies, and since there is a lot of corpses nearby, I want to try sothing else. Since all of my creations were based on my imagination and my mana, what happens when I try to use [Raise Undead] on a body? Will it cost less mana? That would be great. I search for a few seconds and see a corpse that only has a hole in his chest. His heart is missing, and a part of his lungs was removed. I guess one of my Chosen literally grabbed his heart, well, they have the strength to do this.
I surround myself with a huge cloud of darkness, to prevent anyone from targeting while I try my new experint. I put my two hands on the body, and think of a zombie, the sa zombie that I created, one that is resistant to magic, strong but a little slow. After a short mont, I see my creation, it is the very body that I used, with all his equipnt. But after looking at my MP, I notice that it is the sa cost. Damn, that was a failure, except the face of the zombie and his appearance that are a little cleaner, nothing changed. Well, I had to try that one day, because if that worked, that would spare a lot of mana.
After searching for every single drop of blood, I manage to create ten zombies, capable of taking the hit for my Chosen. I order all of them to split in two groups and begin to climb the stairs leading to the ramparts. That way, I and the Chosen stay safe, my skeleton magicians keep firing at the soldiers visible on the ramparts, and a horde of zombies will, in a very short ti, join the party. And it doesn't matter how many fireballs touch them, they will be able to survive the hit and only have one order, kill every human they see.
(Ok, so we have a small problem with your brilliant plan. The stairs are blocked by so soldiers with spears, they have managed to plant the head of the spears inside the flesh of the leading zombie. On each side, so, the two groups are blocked, they can't progress.)
Fine, so I have to take command of the problem. Number, number? Zombie in front! I receive their answers, aning I am in contact with the two undead that are skewered on the pikes. That's great, I ask them how and where they are pierced by the human weapons. Shortly after, I understand that they are completely stuck, there are at least ten spears incrusted in their flesh. And since it is so stairs, the rest of the group is pushing on the leading zombie, preventing him from backing off. They can't climb above him either.
I guess the intelligence of those zombies is clearly lacking compared to that of a single skeleton. Otherwise, they would have retreated, grab their immobilized fellows and then charge again, and making sure that the sa situation won't happen again. But no, they keep rushing toward the closest human and at the sa ti, prevent everyone from doing so. Now I understand why they are cheaper than the skeleton warriors. Because they are dumb!
Let's keep calm, I ask every zombie to step back a little and the closest to the pierced undead to grab him. After receiving the confirmation that everyone is out of the spears, I ask only two zombies in each group to walk toward the guards. I order them to grab any spears that are in range. Shortly after, I hear so screams coming from the stairs, I guess they succeed. I tell them to keep doing that, while the other zombies are in charge of killing any humans that have felt. The stairs on my left are cleared a lot faster and they begin to charge on the ramparts. That ti, I let them do whatever they want, only to kill a maximum of guards.
As for the right stairs, I have lost the connection. I keep asking ntally a report, but nothing arrived. What happened?
(The priests were located on that side after the failed plague attack. So, seeing the zombies grabbing the nearby guards, they have sung a strange lody, and after that, all the undead were burning. That should be a spell really efficient against undead, and that's only the beginning. Like I said, it is so priests from a local church, not the n from the Church. They will arrive with holy water, blessings, countless blessings, and so equipnt that will tear apart your zombies. As for the Chosen, they will have a hard ti surviving, but there is a still a chance. Anything else will be destroyed.)
Well, I guess I only have to take the stairs to my left and let the right side stay alive a little longer. I climb toward the ramparts, with my group of Chosen following . At my arrival, I can see nurous dead bodies, most of them are bleeding. There are so burned corpses, probably the doing of my skeleton magicians. But the majority was still alive, and killed by my zombie. I see that three of them are running after the fleeing guards, in front of . As for the other two, I turn to the other side. Only to find two rows of crossbown and so priests looking at .
The faces of all the guards are terrified. They are looking at my three shadows and my Chosen, with big open eyes. I guess they were not expecting us to get here so quickly. In front of them, the bodies of my two zombies, totally black. The burning part was true. But, as I look in the eyes of the priests, I don't see fervor and bravery. What I see is sheer terror and despair. Sothing is telling that they are absolutely not confident about facing or my Chosen. Well, that's really a sha, because you won't be able to slay anymore of my zombies.
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