Initially, it didnt take much effort for us to farm these mindless replicating skeletons. However, after another ten minutes or so, the level of the risen skeletons increased once more. We now had to face an unending horde of skeletons consisting mostly of one-stars and a sizeable number of two-stars who ford an elite corp of sorts.
The arrival of these two-stars undoubtedly made our job significantly harder as, unlike their one-star brethren, their direct combat strength wasnt that inferior though they still werent a match for the lizardn and my guardsn. However, these skeletons gave off that ominous feeling of being endless which ,I had to say, was a major psychological stress factor.
Just from a quick glance alone, I could see that stress being turned into physical fatigue that, in turn, made so of my troops lose focus as well. Given how they had been fighting at full throttle for over twenty minutes, I couldnt bla them for tiring out either. Thus, for the first ti since this battle started, we were starting to show signs of faltering.
Why wont these damned skeletons stay dead Exclaid Weslin, voice exasperated and slightly ragged from the fatigue as well. This four-star lizardwoman was one of the first few to leap into battle and revel in that ensuing carnage. Yet at the sa ti, that ant she expanded a great deal of stamina and while her four-star status afforded her greater stamina than most, even she was beginning to tire out.
While this amount of fatigue was still manageable for her, the almost sisyphean nature of this battle was beginning to grate on her nerves and threatened to throw her into the depths of despair. What truly concerned her was how long more would this battle last. Did they really have to maintain such a ferocity for the entire day?
On the other hand, Manasha was noticeably more collected in her response. She seed to have had experience with such battles before judging from how she calmly commanded her dusas. After suppressing the enemy, she had her troops split into two and set up a rotation where one stood guard while the other rested.
So she already made the determination that this was going to be a battle of attrition?
Noticing Weslins panicked state, Manasha imdiately reminded the lizard: Keep it together, its going to be over soon. Before we entered the cavern, soone activated the defensive magical array of the Door of the Dead. That person mustve sacrificed a huge amount of souls as well, thats why the potency of this array seed to have been magnified several tis. After every ten minutes, the undead will advance by a level but under normal circumstances, it should stop at three-stars.
The two-star skeletons were noticeably stronger than the one-stars but thankfully, they made up less than half of the army, roughly a thousand or so. Yet, those one thousand two-stars were enough to give us a run for our money.
In light of that, our forces had to put forth their best in order to counter the undead. As for , I decided that it was finally ti for to do so as well.
However, just as I was about to toss my conjured fireball, Weslin inexplicably led her troops in a charge towards the skeleton army. They violently dove into the skeleton horde and scattered their bony foes. All around them, the skeletons that stood in their way basically exploded in a shower of broken bones. Yet, they didnt stop there. She continued leading her lizards forward as if she was looking for sothing.
Weslin? What do you think you are doing? Dont break away from the main force! Unfortunately, my commands fell on deaf ears as she continued charging forward without even turning around once. Her reckless charge continued until, finally, they ca to a stop in front of the valley of rat corpses that was more a blood pool by now.
Seeing that, I beca even more confused. No matter how I racked my brains, I just couldnt understand her actions. Just what was she up to?
Then, a re second laterthere was no longer a need for to rack my brains because she gave the answer herself. Weslin violently swept aside the skeletons approaching her and with one claw extended forward, reached for one of the rat corpses in the blood pools. Fangs bared for all to see, she viciously bit down Was she hungry or sothing?
It wasnt just Weslin, the other lizardn who followed her all charged to the blood pool as well and began wolfing down the corpses. While so wolfed down the corpses at breakneck speeds, so of them just swallowed the corpses whole, bones and all.
The way you guys are behaving right nowexactly how many years has it been since you all ate? That cant be right, can it? As the saying goes, the emperor doesnt lack hungry soldiers, I know this logic well enough. I fed them well before we assaulted the cave and I even prepared a surplus of at just in case so Im absolutely sure that they already had their fill of at.
You potato lizard, if you dont get back here this instant, Im never letting you et Habona ever again in your lifeti! I snapped, clearly displeased that my previous command was so thoroughly ignored.
Though Im not sure what this lesbian had in mind when she decided to fall in love with Habona, her love for that shewolf should be genuine. Even though she probably knew that Habona would never love her, she still chose to hold onto this one-sided romance. Against such a lovestricken lizard, the threat of not seeing Habona was definitely a serious one. At least that was what I thoughteven after throwing out the na [Habona], Weslin still didnt react to my words.
Dont tell that food held a greater position in your heart than Habona? That doesnt make any sense, its too strange. How could Weslin ignore the word Habona like that?!
Is there sothing wrong with her brains? Asked Violet Snow. Like , she knew how much Weslin liked Habona as well. The fact that she would ignore the word Habona like that, struck her as strange. There was clearly more to this situation than ets the eye.
Theres definitely sothing wrong with her brains and theres probably so special reason for it. Even though I still couldnt figure out what was wrong with Weslin, I wasnt willing to give up on her either. Her position in my army was a delicate one so whether it was out of principle or out of deference to Westleys feelings, I couldnt disregard her safety.
What made matters worse was that those skeletons had begun to notice the fact that a small portion of my army had broken off to feast on the blood pool. While they were still brainless as before, they at least had the intelligence to perform the almost instinctual task of picking on the weak.
Soon, the skeletons separated a portion of their troops to surround the feasting lizardn. Of these, the majority were one-stars while the rest were basically two-stars except for that one three-star thrown into the mix. Thats right, the array was beginning to summon three-stars now.
Unlike their two-star brethren, they were noticeably better equipped both in terms of armor and weapons. Each of them wore a bone jerkin and the majority of them wielded a longsword and shield. There were so that wielded a pair of long spears and so that wielded a long shaft hamr. Fortunately, there were still no signs of them having long range capabilities.
By now, the nearest skeletons had begun to attack the feasting lizardn but shockingly, they still didnt proactively attack the skeletons even after receiving their strikes. All they did was hunker down and swat at the offending skeletons should their actions directly interfere with their feasting. From ti to ti, they would flick their lizard tails at the annoying skeletons in order to shove them aside.
For now, they seed to be holding up well. However, such a situation wasnt tenable. While their defenses werent low, they werent that high that they could allow the skeletons to freely attack them either.
It wasnt long before the first death appeared. It was a two-star lizardman who died under the spear thrust of a three-star skeleton. Damn it, these skeletons act fastI need to find out the reason for their feeding frenzy as soon as possible.
Its not like she was a Mo Xixidi, her desire for food shouldnt be at that level where even the heavens shook and the earth wept, so why wasnt she striking back even after the being hitits so unnatural!
This situationI think Ive seen it before sowhere Muttered Manasha. I had to hand it to this dusa sotis, her abilities were truly astounding. Even in the midst of this heated battle, she still had the presence of mind to observe her surroundings.
The mont she noticed Weslins strangeness, her eyebrows jumped as if she just thought of sothing: Weslin looks like she is under the control of so mysterious forcecontrolIve got it, its an evil eye!
Evil eye? That na seems to ring a bell.
Before I could recall where I had heard of it before, Manasha suddenly yelled, finger pointing above our heads as she did so: Quick, look up there! Its up there!
Whats up there? As that thought crossed my mind, I raised my head and received the shock of my life.
Floating right above us was a giant atball. In the center of that atball was a giant eyeball that at least took up half of its bodyand that atball was dangling upside down from the ceiling at this very mont
The atball was fairly rounded and had several feeler-like appendages that helped secure itself to the bony ceiling. Its giant eyeball was currently focused in the direction of Weslin and as it did so, an indescribably frightening red light flickered in its pupils. It was precisely this light that allowed us to spot this strange ball hanging above us otherwise we would have never been able to notice it thanks to its beige coloring, a color that blended very well with the ceiling.
Thats an evil eye? Shouldnt it be a beholder?
Ah! I rember now, arent evil eyes those monsters from the legends that can control your mind!? I still rember that ti when I employed such a unit in so war chess ga, its main skill was to control the opponents units and it looked exactly like that atball dangling above us. However, shouldnt it be called a beholder?
Beholders are the next step in their evolution tree. Her eyes fell on as she said that. In the anti, the snakes atop her hair reared their heads back and took aim. Mouths wide open, they fired their toxic payload at the dangling atball.
Countless thread-like streams of toxins flew into the air and precisely landed on the evil eye who was still focused on controlling Weslin. As they did so, this cavernous section of the Prison reverberated with the jarring hisses of lting flesh. All around the atball, we could clearly see a mass of greyish smoke rise from the areas the venom struck.
Having been caught off guard by this attack, its paper thin defenses promptly crumbled and the evil eye imdiately lost control of its body after which it fell off the ceiling. However, while a height of 15 ters might seem high, it wasnt actually so for creatures with a certain degree of power. At most, such a height would only cause so minor bruises.
As it fell, the evil eye hurriedly wrapped its feelers around its aty body just in ti to protect itself from the fall. A second later, it crash landed and like a rubber ball, it actually bounced several tis off the ground
The evil eyes feelers were probably around one and a half ter long while its ball, in other words its head section, was a ter long in diater. It had no mouth, ears, nose or facial features to speak of, all it had was a giant eyeball. Truly, a strange looking creature.
However, that wasnt the only unusual thing about it. As it landed on the ground, its exterior began to change color, taking on a aty hue at the end of its transformation. At the top of its giant noggin were nurous patches of scorched flesh, those were clearly the handiwork of Manashas venom, though their toxicity had basically run out now.
Even so, it wasnt the sheer power of her venom that shocked the most, rather, it was the fact that this atball could disguise itself! Like a chaleon, it was able to change its skin color to suit its surroundings.
I dont rember beholders having such a convenient feature back when I played that ga! Werent they just supposed to be long ranged units with an innate ability to hypnotize others and float? They also had horrid defenses and speed but that was about all I knew about them from the ga.
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