Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 424: Undead Army
Noshil looked down at his feet. He did not forget that there was a huge hidden space under the tower.

In the years when Catheric had not been resurrected by Melkor, the Moonrise Tower had not been completely abandoned. Perhaps it was due to coincidence, or perhaps it was due to other reasons. In short, after the Mind Flayers drove their Nautilus warships from the Outer Astral Plane to the land of Faerun, they took a fancy to this tower.

From then on, the mind flayers established their own community under this tower. They recuperated and multiplied in the darkness. If nothing unexpected happened, as long as this group of mind flayers developed for a period of time, they would rely on the psychic technology left over from the era of the Mind Flayer Empire, that is, a dozen Nautilus shell ships, to dominate the entire North in one fell swoop.

But unfortunately, these guys were unlucky enough to run into Catheric, who had resurrected and wanted to retake his base. The disputes and battles between the Undead and the Mind Flayers dragged down the development of both sides. It was not until Evil Thoughts arrived with the Crown of Karsus some time ago and put the crown on the head of the Mastermind that Catheric truly became the lord of the Moonrise Tower again.

"The power of the Mind Flayer should not be underestimated. However, both sides had a great battle some time ago. In that battle, both sides must have consumed a lot of power. At least the Mind Flayer must have suffered losses. After all, they were the loser. Even their main brain was controlled by Kesrick and his gang. This is a very dangerous signal."

"Given the loyalty of ordinary mind flayers to the Mastermind, if the war is lost to the point where even the Mastermind is threatened, there will probably be very few ordinary mind flayers left. It is possible that the ten mind flayers that the master and his team encountered before were all re-cultivated by them during this period."

'As for the losses on Kesrick's side... well, after a closer look, it seems that many of the undead on both sides of the hall have limbs that are not coordinated. These undead must have suffered serious injuries before. Maybe the undead I see now are the combination of undead that were put together by Balthazar after the war.'

This possibility is very high, but for Noshil, this is not a good thing. After all, the advantage of the undead is that they increase in number the more they fight, and it is also very easy to replenish them after the battle.

Noshir was certain that these undead had been destroyed more than once during the process when Kesrick and Evil Thought joined forces to deal with the Mind Flayer, but now looking at them, as long as these skeletons were not broken to the point where they could not be put together again, it would not be considered a loss at all.

As long as you clean up the battlefield after the battle, and then use undead spells to fight together, you can instantly create a large group of new living fighting forces.

'So, if you want to deal with the army of undead, the most important thing is to kill their leader first. Balthazar is the chief necromancer under Keseric, so killing him is the highest priority. Although Keseric is the chosen one of Melkor and has the power to revive the undead, he is not competent as the chosen one of the god of the dead.'

He is not a professional necromancer. Even resurrecting ordinary undead requires him to consume the divine power given to him by Melkor. There is no doubt that this is a very wasteful act. As long as the Undead Legion participates in the war, both the enemy and himself will suffer heavy losses. If every battle requires him to personally expend his strength to restore the undead, he will be dragged down by himself before long.

After all, before Keseric fell, he was a general. His duty was to command the entire army, not to manage logistics. Keseric would hand over these tasks to Balthazar, who specialized in necromancy. But if Balthazar died...

"I remember that guy's laboratory was upstairs, but now this tower is more than 2000 feet high, and his location has become uncertain. It is unlikely to find his laboratory in a short time. In this case, let's search the ground floor first." Noshir flapped his wings and flew up. There was plenty of space in the hall on the first floor. The interval between the floors was more than ten meters high. Such a large space was enough for Noshir to fly. He bypassed the dense skeletons in the hall and flew over the first half of the hall on the first floor.

Yes, there were clearly thousands of undead blocking the way here, but they only filled the front half of the hall on the first floor of the Moonrise Tower. In the middle of the hall, a stone wall blocked the way of the undead. On the left and right sides of the stone wall, there was a door frame that was seven meters high and five meters wide.

Relying on the shadowing ability of the shadow demon on his belt, Noshier got in from the door frame on the right, and saw the majestic throne made of stone at a glance. But at this moment, there was no trace of Catheric on the throne. The chosen one of the God of the Dead was not here.

So Noshil looked around again. On both sides behind the throne, there was a spiral stone staircase. Those two stairs were also the only way leading to the upper level. However, Noshil didn't want to go up directly for the time being.

He shifted his gaze to the left and right. The hall in the back half of the Moonrise Tower looked much narrower than the front half, but this was because the designer had divided the back into three independent spaces. In addition to the place in the middle where the throne was placed, there was an empty room on each side.

Noshil remembered that in the game, if he walked to the right, he could find a staircase leading directly to the underground cell, and on the left he could meet a drow pharmacist. In the game, that pharmacist could provide several very good potions, but in this timeline, that pharmacist was definitely not here, so Noshil planned to explore the area on the right first.

Just as Noshir was approaching the room on the right, he suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from that room.

First there was a series of high-pitched giggles, then the roars and whimpers of wild animals, and the sound of something being knocked over and something heavy falling to the ground.

"...It's a gnoll."

That's right, it was definitely a gnoll. That laughter and noise were the most recognizable things about the gnoll. Noshir had encountered this kind of monster in the wilderness before, and his voices were very familiar to him.

"Gnolls... Ordinary gnolls cannot survive in the Moonrise Tower, but I remember that Xie Nian likes these bloodthirsty beasts very much and even thinks they have a unique beauty... Tsk, I really believe in Baal. These gnolls must be Xie Nian's pets, which means..."

(End of this chapter)