Volume 49 Chapter 6 part3 (1/2)

[V49C06] The Sorcerer of Darkness (part 3)

With a single incantation, Bar Khan cast a set of three area-of-effect curses, the range of which covered the entire region

“We need blessings! Remove the curses, quickly!”

“Where are the priests? Please, we need help right now!”

The users of the Hermes Guild desperately called for priests Paladins could withstand curses with their innate resistance or blessing spells, but the dae suffered by the other users was h they were equipped with gears that were resistant to Black Magic Beyond sith in coic was such that it reduced the victims’ overall capabilities by a couple of notches

In the meantime, the horde of skeletons, whose nu up the castle walls Unlike human soldiers who needed ladders, they just used their bony hands and feet to cliently The Her their attack skills

“Exploding Slash[1] !”

“Thunder Hammer!”

“The Bow of Gathened by Bar Khan could even ht, but the users of the Hermes Guild defeated the skeleton horde without e of their position on top of the castle walls as well as their coth

“You need tothe!”

“Suppress the their powerful skills, the Hermes Guild users liquefied or pulverized the skeletons that had reached the top of the raion was to thoroughly destroy every corpse on the battlefield

“The Dooates!”

“What, already?!”

“Defense units, quickly!”

In order to hold back the advancing Doo the Herhout the fortress, there were explosions of divine force or blazing lights fro undead

“Up in the sky!”

“Careful! Everyone, duck!”

Thirty Bone Dragons were soaring across the sky, spouting out concentrated acid Soon a number of places in Valkis Castle had becoround

“Krrrrr… rise up, vessels of unbelievers Every being that possesses life hosts were e around them

“I’m wounded!”

“Everyone who’s below 60 of their life force, retreat to the rear!”

The Her the ramparts at every 50 meters Many priests with divine poere stationed there; the guild had recruited asits accumulated contribution points

From the central tower of Valkis Castle, it could be seen that the treat sh battle for sure, but we are… doing better than expected Although, I must say, those skeletons certainly are powerful for such low-rankfrom inside the castle, so we only have to be careful with those Dooion has about a million troops Their numbers will increase by a few tens of thousands when those Doohts that have scattered to find more corpses return, but I think ill still be able to defeat theures of the Her one of theons raht now, any attacks against theth If we cannot take theo, it’s better to just leave theht will be over as soon as we get rid of Bar Khan, anyway”

As their victory seemed more and more certain as the battle went on, the expressions on the faces of the Hermes Guild users became less stiff as well At first they had been worried about the possibility of the I the whole continent, but now that they had actually faced the undead ar it off It was of course a tricky fight, as the undead could revive over and over again unless their bodies were completely destroyed Even when they suffered a considerable loss of life force, with the power of Bar Khan they cath in but a second

The members of the Hermes Guild, the ths to fight against the terrible power of the undead horde, consisting of the dreaded Dooons They annihilated the skeletons crawling up the ra fro thehts were difficult enemies to deal with, but the users coordinated their attacks to dispose of them one by one whenever there was a chance

And at the verythe strength of the Heruild that conquered the Central Continent, about a thousand users who had been standing on the raot almost all of their life force drained at once by Bar Khan’s curse

They were not instantly killed thanks to their ic resistance, but their lives would be in peril if they continued to fight any longer

“The power of that curse… He is indeed a legendary h It seeh it is capable of dropping the life force almost down to the bottom”

“That would be because we have utilized every available piece of equipic Those users would have died if we had underestimated our enemy”

The Hermes Guild had spent approximately 15 percent of the total wealth they had accumulated in preparation for this battle: they had been collecting an enoric or curse spells fro auction halls, stores and individual users

‘We can win this At this rate, ill defeat them’

‘Even the Immortal Army will fall by our hands’

The eyes of the Her spirit They were on guard, waiting for the moment when the fore and the core units of the guild would penetrate through their ranks to deal with Bar Khan directly

However, one must not underesti a monster as powerful as Bar Khan

“This land is under the dominance of my commandn over all beings Dark Rule!”

Bar Khan cast one of his three major spells: a spell of Necroion as undead!

The users who had been fighting on the central defense tower, on the raates saw his spell h”

“We’ve made every preparation for that spell At this rate, all of the other ood as sealed”

There had not been many users who had fallen in battle, while more than 20 percent of the skeleton soldiers had been put out of existence and the Doohts had also considerably decreased in number The users were certainly wary of Dark Rule, which was the highest rank spell of undead su, but they predicted that it would not have much effect as they had led the battle to their favor so far

However, after Dark Rule was cast, the ground around the Valkis Castle’s plaza and castle gates began to shake, as if there was an earthquake

“Wha, what the…?”

The ht on the raates was 65,000 The rest of the users had been standing by as the reserve force, when they saw hands h”

“Kwaaaarrrrgggghh!!”

Ancient skeletons orn-out joints, zohouls crawled out fro off frohout the entire Valkis Castle, whether it was the marketplace, the town square, or the lord’s estate Bar Khan’s undead sule person who had died in Valkis Castle since a long tiy of the Hermes Guild was to destroy and reduce the nuroup of elite shock troops in order to defeat Bar Khan hianized in advance, the warriors would clear a path to the boss so that Bard Ray and the paladins could suppress Bar Khan In terms of safety, it would have been a better choice to eradicate the entire undead arion was Bar Khan; the users were apprehensive about the possibility that heall of his undead, and hence they had been desperately waiting for a chance to strike directly at hiion! They are…”

“There are tooraised!”

However, the Herone awry the moment Dark Rule spell came into effect

The endless stream of undead, with numbers far beyond any of their previous predictions

According to old historical records, since the opening of Royal Road there had been a lot of wars over the ownershi+p of Valkis Castle And now the bodies that had been accuround over the course of those battles were all being revived as undeadboth the inside and the outside of the castle walls in no time Most of them were low-rank skeletons, but due to the effect of Death Aura that enhanced their abilities, they were crushi+ng buildings and setting things on fire with outrageous strength Zost the structures, attacking the users