The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 895: The Corpse Cave
"Now tell me the details!" Caslo patted Lance's shoulder and asked while comforting him.

"The situation is terrible! We don't even know where the enemy comes from! The Dragon Knights can only conduct aerial reconnaissance and found signs of soil turning, indicating that these things crawled out from underground!" Lance shook his head and sighed.

"We are short of troops, and we don't have the manpower to conduct in-depth reconnaissance. We can't find even one assassin in the entire Pingnan City!" Lance said with a bit of mental collapse. There were skeleton soldiers below who could attack from a distance, and without assassins, the scouts under Lance's command dared not even leave the city!
"...Hiss! Were you beaten like this?" Caslo, who was walking and watching with Lance, was stunned. After all, the tragic scene in front of him did not look like the once elite Torrent Infantry Corps at all!
"The Third Legion's detachment was completely defeated!" Lance said with some shame. The soldiers stationed in Pingnan City were from the Third Legion, and these soldiers had basically lost their combat effectiveness.

"These Rapids Infantrymen have been replaced! If the fighting continues, we'll need women to go to the battlefield!" Lance said a little uncomfortably. As the first batch of residents to develop the city, they are naturally young and strong laborers, and these people are all reserve candidates for Rapids Infantrymen. After the conscription of militia was opened to resist the undead army, basically all the men in the city went to the battlefield. Now most of those who stick to their posts are reserve militiamen, and the real elite Rapids Infantrymen are basically lying down!

"Don't worry! I won't do that here!" Caslo comforted.

"Those damn things will crawl out when night falls! We don't even know where they are hiding! We only know that they can be seen everywhere at night!" Lance's body trembled slightly. He felt extremely frustrated in the battle against the suppressed undead!

"Well, don't worry, I'll go take a look. You continue to command the soldiers to reinforce the city defense, and I'll go to investigate the surroundings!" Kaslo pondered for a moment and decided to investigate by himself. If there really was something that could kill him, he would accept it! It would be better for the sixth-level dragon rider to die if he lived to this extent!

"Be careful, we can't support you too much!" Lavian walked over and sighed.

"Sir Kaslo, can I go with you?" Mogus, covered in dust, walked over with a spear. Last night, he blocked several gaps by himself, killing people so much that thick smoke rose up around him. According to the law of smoke without injury, these undead were useless except for painting his armor!
"No need, you should have a good rest! We may have a tough battle tonight, and we need every bit of strength!" Kaslo shook his head. Although the Rock Hero Mogus was also a sixth-level professional with the ability to fly, that was based on the consumption of fighting spirit. Besides, no matter how fast the hero flew, he could not match the speed of the Dragon Knight!

"Then you be careful!" Mogus looked at Kaslo and finally nodded slowly.

"Yes!" After signaling to everyone, Kaslo summoned his dragon, then mounted the dragon saddle and flew into the sky.

"I hope Kaslo can find the root of all this!" Lance said sincerely.

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"Cardo, have you discovered anything? The intelligence shows that these skeletons have dragon power! I also felt the residual dragon power in those broken skeletons just now! What about you?" After leaving everyone's sight, Kaslo frowned. It was obvious that this situation made him feel tricky, but he couldn't show it in front of everyone just now. Now that he was alone with Cardo, he didn't need to pretend anymore.

"It's dragon power! I've never seen that kind of dragon power before! It's like the dragon power of the ice dragon clan, but it's much colder than the ice dragon!" Cardo hesitated and said uncertainly.

"Magic dragon? Not really!" Kaslo shook his head. After all, there were magic dragons in the kingdom. How could he not understand the source of his apprentice's power? It was obviously different from the dragon power of a magic dragon!
"Sense the dragon power! Let's go find the place where they last stayed and appeared!" Kaslo narrowed his eyes. It seemed that he needed to take the risk and go deeper into the investigation.

... "Here?" Kaslo's eyelids twitched, and he pointed at the dark hole under his feet. Apparently, this hole was a little too deep. Its diameter was almost the same as the hole that Azog had dug with his earth snakes during the Lonely Mountain Battle! And the walls of the hole were covered with claw marks! Those claw marks even polished the walls of the hole! Standing here, Kaslo seemed to feel the countless undead pouring out.

"Yes, that's right, it's here! There should be such caves in other places, and their destinations are most likely the same!" Cardo said seriously.

"Haha! Do you think we are like the dungeons and warriors in knight novels? The only difference is that the warriors go to the dungeons to slay dragons! And I am visiting the dungeons with dragons!" Caslo laughed at himself.

"Slay the dragon..." Cardo looked at Kaslo with complicated eyes and raised his neck to signal. Obviously, he was not angry because Kaslo said the word "slay the dragon", but he really felt that Kaslo might have to slay a dragon on this trip.

"Isn't it possible that I'm so unlucky? Why do all the good things happen to me?" Kaslo thought about how he had walked on thin ice all the way. He had fought against Balrogs, fought against heroes, and killed Ringwraiths. He was not inferior to anyone in his life! Your Majesty! Do you think I can make it to the other side?

"..." Cardo was silent. Guess who gets beaten most of the time when good things happen to you?

"Come on up, let's go down!" Kaslo patted his dragon, and Cardo flashed and turned into a little dragon and coiled around Kaslo's shoulder.

"Be careful! Open your dragon eyes!" Cardo whispered as he folded his wings.

"Hmm!" As Caslo opened his eyes again, his original eyes had turned into bright golden vertical pupils!
"The atmosphere here is so disgusting!" As the dragon's eyes opened, the scene inside the cave was clearly visible to Caslo.

"Let's go!" Kaslo pulled out his sword and inserted it into the cave as a buffer. He jumped down and slid down the sloping cave wall.

"Plop! Crack!" Kaslo landed on the ground easily, but the strange sound under his feet startled him. He lowered his head and saw some bone fragments. As he raised his head and looked deeper...

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"Fuck!" Caslo was so anxious that he started swearing like Roland. The piles of bones on the ground formed a mountain of bones. Judging from the shape of these skeletons, it was basically certain that they were the culprits!
"Something's wrong! Where is their soul fire?" Cardo was stunned. Skeletons without soul fire are called skeletons, while those with soul fire are called undead!
"These are all skeletons! How can they move without the support of soul fire!" Kaslo picked up the bones on the ground in confusion. The dark purple blood stains on his claws showed that this guy was also one of the attackers last night!
"Something's wrong! Why would the undead retreat? Shouldn't these creatures be brave and fearless?" This discovery made Kaslo lose confidence.

"If you ask me, who should I ask? Hiss! Why does it feel so creepy! This is a dwarf! This one looks like an elf! This is a northern human... Why are there skeletons of all kinds of races?" Cardo said with a puzzled exclamation.

"Was this an ancient battlefield? I've never heard of it! Could it be the former heroes of the empire?" Caslo raised his eyebrows.

"Ah? You mean the bodies that have been buried by priests can still be summoned?" Cardo complained.