Doom Knights and Death Knights clattered as they rose from the pile of savage corpses. The Lich Balkan had summoned more than 100 Doom Knights over level 300!
“This land is ruled by my law of darkness. It will be dominated by an eternal, immortal strength. Dark Rule!”
The skull wand Balkan had been holding was stabbed into the ground. The earth turned dark red around that area. Then, the remaining corpses also slowly rose.
Each flash of thunder and lightning lit up a shocking scene.
There was a legion of zombies and ghouls. Countless Dullahans and Skeleton Soldiers!
“The Undead are rising. Run away!”
The few remaining savages scattered and tried to flee, but Balkan did not permit them to. He pointed a bone finger at the savages.
Then the Undead army began to slaughter the barbarians. The dead savages automatically rose as Skeletons or Dullahans.
The horrifying strength of the Dark Rule spell.
Weed, who had the Necromancer Magic Book written by Balkan himself, recognized the spell, “That's one of Balkan's three spells.”
It was a spell that could only be used by a Necromancer of the highest tier, a special spell which dominated the entirety of hell with magic power and raised unlimited Undead.
The savages were completely hunted down by the Doom Knights, Death Knights, and Ghouls. Raising 10 thousand Undead did not even take 10 minutes.
It was the birth of an Undead Legion strong enough to put Weed's worries about the holy sword piercing Balkan's chest to shame.
“Balkan's aura. It's probably Death Aura.”
It was indeed a spell only a Necromancer of the highest tier could use. It was a spell that strengthened the Undead Legion, improving Strength, Intelligence, Defense, Resistance, and Magic Power. Undead wrapt in the black aura became much stronger than a Skeleton Knight or an Archer. They probably weren't up to par with the high-ranking, monster-lined Immortal Legion, but it was a tremendous force indeed.
The black aura also had other truly terrifying points.
It did have the effect of strengthening commanded Undead, but the Health they captured while fighting was also absorbed by the Lich. In addition, it weakened divine power attacks and was the magic that acted as the source of a Lich's unlimited Mana and Health.
After slaughtering the savages, Balkan's gaze turned towards the Embinyu Church's fortress. The robe-wearing skeleton magician Lich's gaze overflowed with charisma!
Weed inwardly nursed great worries. 'He won't get scared and run, right?'
Though he was the leader of the Immortal Legion, Weed needed to confirm his true worth. If Balkan refused to fight because there was no reason to do so, nothing could be done.
'It's still an Immortal Legion in name, so… he won't leave after just saying hi. He won't. Yeah.'
Balkan Demoph willingly met his expectations. This time he pointed his bony finger at the fortress.
“Kua.”
“KUUUEEEEEEL!”
The Undead rushed towards the fortress.
A fearless advance of Skeletons, Dullahans, Death Knights, Spectres, and Doom Knights! Tangling and trampling, they tumultuously went forward.
For the Undead, Balkan was a father-like figure. As soon as Balkan gave the command, the Undead advanced towards the fortress.
The Doom Knights yelled, “It's the supreme sovereign Balkan-nim's command! Do not leave a single stone of that fortress' foundation undestroyed!”
Balkan's great Necromantic army declared war on the Embinyu Church.
CRAAASH!
The Skeleton Mages shook their gathered arms. Green, blue, and white streaks of magic struck the fortress' wall!
The Skeleton Mages' magic didn't even have half the force of the trebuchets Weed had made. However, the magic of thousands of Skeleton Mages was more than enough to shake the wall. Pieces of broken rocks rained down.
There was finally a response from the Embinyu Church's fortress. The Embinyu Church was extremely arrogant and tried to dominate all the races and monsters in the world. The Priests and Dark Knights did not tolerate anyone who challenged them.
“The likes of the Undead dare to defile the Embinyu's land, fire!”
At the Dark Knight's command, the church's Soldiers loaded their bows. The arrows were fired from the walls and thickly covered the sky.
They struck the Undead Legion covered in black aura!
The advancing Undead fell to the ground as they were pierced by arrows. However, they weren't living soldiers so they didn't receive much damage from a normal arrow attack.
“KUO!”
Skeleton Soldiers pulled out the arrows penetrating the Death Knights.
It was a very emotional sight.
The skeletons bit the metal arrowheads with their yellow teeth.
CRUUNCH!
The skeletons didn't falter despite the shock of their teeth cracking. Though they were silver-plated arrows, they couldn't kill the skeletons who weren't hit smack-dab.
“Occupy the fortress.”
“If we capture that fortress, we can increase our minions.”
“Follow Balkan-nim's command!”
While their armor and shields were peppered with arrows, the Death Knights went forward. Doom Knights swung their greatswords and cut down arrows in midair.
“Keep firing!”
Countless points appeared from the fortress walls and flew in as arrows.
“Holy Buster!”
“Divine Strike!”
The offensive spells of Magicians and Priests materialized. Attacks with divine power.
For the Undead, divine magic was their natural enemy.
With each blow, scores of Undead were annihilated or lost their strength and collapsed to the ground. But even as they took damage, the Undead steadily went forward and soon reached the vicinity of the wall.
The Priests became desperate, “Let us sing. Let's sing a hymn!”
— The Embinyu God is he who lets us enjoy freedom and gives us strength.
The hymn sung by the Priests! It was a song that added Strength to the Dark Knights, Soldiers, and Priests.
Their bodies tangled together, the skeletons crawled up the wall.
“Cl-cla-clack.”
“Go up. Go up.”
The Ghouls rammed the wall with their bodies.
After the annihilation of the savages, an Undead Legion of over 10 thousand had been made. They swarmed thickly at the base of the wall and waged siege warfare.
On the wall, Archers shot directly downwards, and divine magic poured down.
Weed laughed heartily. “Nothing less from Balkan.”
Just one Necromancer was able to present such a terrifying display of power.
“He have to be at this level to say he has the right to lead the Immortal Legion.”
There was nothing more electrifying than simply looking at the fight, hidden behind the rocky mountain.
Moooooooooooo!
Yellowy bellowed his happiness as he raised his head and extended his tongue. The pure and simple Korean cow was, to some degree, in the process of taking after Weed's wickedness.
“Walls. Take over the walls.”
“Get up and fight. It's Balkan-nim's command.”
A skeleton who fell while climbing the wall soon applied itself again despite its broken bones. Even though it was pierced with hundreds of arrows and fell, the Ghoul also rose again.
“Kuuaaaah.” It plucked out the arrows embedded in its body, stomped on the shafts, and pounded the wall.
The Embinyu Church Priests worked hard to use divine power. “O Emibnyu God, punish these who know not thy mercy.”
Flames of divine power flared to life at the base of the wall. Purification by blue flames! The flames swept over the Dullahans, Skeletons, and Ghouls, melting scores of Undead. They were completely destroyed, unable to revive again.
The divine power of the Priests of the Church of Freya was also great, but the offensive power of the Embinyu Church Priests was enough to see them as upper-tier Magicians.