755 Silent Ambush (1/2)

”When fighting against the undead, especially against the Undead Calamity being led by Undead Lords, you can never follow the so-called ”common sense” in war. The undead can easily ambush you at any unexpected time and location. Seas and rivers are natural camouflage for the undead. Snow mountains that no living person could pass through are no obstacle at all for the undead. Even powerful sandstorms in the desert will only serve to obstruct the undead's enemies. Sigh, all of this is so correct.”

”Which military strategist said such a thing?” Harloys inquired.

”Yep, the amazing military strategist Roland Mist. I was quoting myself from my 300 year old diary.”

We were currently still in human territory. It seemed that not only were our movements exposed, the undead enemy had even prepared a trap for us.

I could hear screaming right next to me. The mages who had taken off their clothes and shoes due to the rain were in a panic. It was understandable that others would be panicking since it obviously wouldn't be good to suddenly be ambushed by the enemy during a torrential downpour.

However, only Harloys and myself continued to idly drink our coffee while chatting with each other. We had no intention of leaving the comfortable horse-drawn carriage.

This wasn't because we were that confident that we could remain completely uninjured during an undead ambush. Rather, it was because we had already managed to determine the enemy's military strength since we were some of the few undead mages here.

No matter how the undead had managed to fool our senses and the scouts, once the undead actually began their ambush, it would be impossible for them to conceal their forces anymore. It would be impossible for any low-level undead to hide from the soul senses of an Undead Emperor. Since high-level undead would be connected to the low-level undead through the soul in order to give commands, it was a basic ability for any Undead Emperor to have the ability to follow the trail and determine the enemy undead forces' overall power level.

An Undead Lord would have to use their soul net to give commands once a battle started. That would instantly reveal their position.

Of course, the Undead Lord could choose to conceal themselves, but that would greatly reduce the undead army's attack power since nobody was controlling it.

”Six Undead Lords in total. Three are in the air, two are following behind, and only one is leading from the front. The undead number less than 20,000. More than 70% of them are skeletons and ghouls who have become undead only recently. Isn't it too obvious that this is only probing?”

The undead's numbers would always be quite scary. Other species would be attacking with everything they had if they could manage an army of 100,000 or 1,000,000. Meanwhile, the undead could easily raise armies of several tens of millions.

However, the tradeoff was that the undead's basic troop types were really weak. A skeleton sea without any mid-level commanders would be nothing more than pure cannon fodder that could only be used for trying to decrease the enemy's stamina and mana. It would take more than 10x the numbers advantage for a skeleton sea to be able to defeat another species' army.

”…The rain's affected your senses after all. There's still one more underground.”

I chuckled to hear Harloys saying this. I had sensed that Undead Lord long ago, but hadn't counted it as an enemy.

”That's probably an undead tunnel spider or something similar. Although burying itself and waiting for someone to come above it for an ambush is a fine strategy, I think this spider's luck wasn't very good…”

Harloys doubtingly continued to sense around the spider when she heard my words. She then gave a subtle sigh.

The undead spider had hidden itself underground not far away from us, at a place where the royal dragon knights had just marched over. The pit that the undead tunnel spider had dug was filled in completely by the soldiers' stomps. Moreover, rain and mud had filled in the pit, followed by the steamroller-like knights' march. The spider Undead Lord was likely completely trapped underground now.

How come we knew all of this?

”Such a cowardly junior. He actually started shouting to save him before the fight even began.”

I could sense his shouting through the undead's special soul communication wavelengths. This Undead Lord tunnel spider was pitifully shouting to be rescued after being compacted into the ground. He probably hadn't expected that digging a pit to hide himself in would result in a steamroller knight formation marching over him. Not only that, he had to wait for his undead allies to surround the humans first, so he could only bear the pain of countless knights marching on top of his head.