Heart of the Castle

Chapter 356 Situation, speculation, attack (please subscribe, please support)
The voice of the old hag leader Stiba was hoarse and weak, but when she spoke, even the loudest werewolf closed his mouth, "Lord Li Wei, the first sign of undead activity was found in the Two or four days ago." She stretched out four fingers of her right hand, and then gestured for two fingers with her left hand, "A hunting team from the Fish Head Tribe found many sneaky skeletons and zombies. Passing through their territory, they originally wanted to follow up to see what happened, but they were suddenly surrounded, and except for the one sent back to report, all of them were killed."

"The fish head must take revenge!" the leader of the fish head tribe, who rolled over a pair of dead fish eyes, said loudly. "Revenge!" The leader of the snake people hissed, "The snake people died too, a lot of them."

"Yes, since that day, undead creatures have attacked various tribes in the Rotten Swamp. Some small tribes have been uprooted, and large tribes have also suffered heavy losses under the sudden attack of undead creatures." Old hag Stiba Zhang Opening his toothless mouth, he sighed and continued. "We sent envoys to negotiate with the undead creatures, but there was no response. Soon the envoys came back along with the undead creatures, and were transformed into flesh corpse demons."

"You shouldn't have sent envoys to negotiate." Li Wei frowned and said, "The dead hate all life, and the living and the dead can never coexist."

"Some people think that there are people who can negotiate with undead creatures, just like Master Frederick." Stiba explained, "But that guy has now become a part of the flesh-hunting monster, Gala He cut the chief's arm."

"Gala of the Greyscale Tribe also nailed two sharp arrows to his forehead!" the leader of the lizardman with his arm injured shouted in disbelief.

"That's right, but those two arrows are just interesting decorations for the flesh corpse demon." Worf laughed with a mouth full of fangs.

"Is there any point in laughing at each other? Both the Greyscale Tribe and the Sharp Tooth Tribe have been breached by undead creatures, otherwise you wouldn't be here." Stiba said angrily, letting the two tribes who were about to pinch together The leader closed his mouth resentfully.

"When the undead creatures attacked the aboriginal tribes of the Rotten Swamp, didn't the other tribes unite in time, instead waiting to be defeated by them one by one?" Tang Na suddenly asked.

"In the face of unprecedented disasters, the aboriginal tribes did unite together and formed a coalition army to wage a series of vicious battles against undead creatures." Stiba replied, "It was a unity that had never been seen in the Rotten Swamp. Lizardmen and werewolves Fighting side by side, hags and fish-head men flanked each other, big crows danced in the sky, snake men sneaked in the swamp, and elite troop groups riding snakeskin beasts charged, and the sound of hooves shook the jungle and depressions of the rotting swamp. We rushed Entered the enemy group, trampled on the bodies of skeletons and zombies, and killed hundreds of undead creatures." There was an excited expression on Stiba's face, as if he was still recalling the fierce scene of that battle, but soon , the gloom reappeared on the ugly face of the old hag.

"But we still failed in the end... This is only a small part of the undead army. We will get tired, and our weapons and equipment will wear out, but they won't. In the end, the Swamp Alliance Army was overwhelmed by countless skeletons and zombies. At most, only half of the people will come down." The snakeskin beast behind made a "moo" wail, and Stiba's voice fell, "After the defeat, we have no choice but to ask to see the Black Crow Queen, and beg Her Majesty The native tribes of the swamp lead the way.

"Quack, road, road!" The big crow cried excitedly, flapping its wings against Li Wei's head.

"Thanks to Her Majesty the Queen, she made a new prophecy. In the prophecy, there will be a human knight riding a black horse from the north, with black wings flying in front of his horse, and a ferocious bear running behind him. Twister and cunning raccoon, he destroyed the source of evil and saved all the natives of the Rotten Swamp."

This prophecy made Li Wei look dumbfounded, and the "fierce bear" and "cunning raccoon" standing beside him turned red even more, not knowing what to say.

"Now, here you come, on a black horse, with your prophesied companion." Stiba continued. "Lord Li Wei, you are the savior in the Black Crow Queen's prophecy, please help us."

After finishing speaking, Stiba left the snakeskin beast she had been leaning on and bowed her head to Li Wei.

"Lord Li Wei, please help us." Gala, the leader of the Lizardman of the Grayscale Tribe, also made the same move, while Wolf of the Sharp Tooth Tribe hesitated a little, as if he was a little embarrassed, but finally lowered him That hairy head, "That, human boy... Ah, no, Levi boy, help us, fight with Sharp Tooth, and Sharp Tooth will join you."

The leaders of other tribes in the hut also expressed the same request one after another. The lizardmen and werewolves who had fought side by side with Li Wei to the ruins of the tower were more straightforward, while the leaders of the snake tribe seemed less willing. As for the fish The leader of the headman tribe, he stood there awkwardly, motionless, until Worf growled at him.

"Smelly fish, do you dare to question the prophecy of the Black Crow Queen, and also disagree with the unanimous decision of the tribal leaders?"

"We fish-head people never know what bowing their heads is." The fish-head man called Stinky Fish said hoarsely, and then he suddenly fell to the ground with such a big movement that he made a "pop" sound. "Because the fish head man has no neck! Lord Li Wei, please help us!"

The shack was suddenly filled with bursts of laughter. Many werewolves and lizardmen laughed loudly, and finally even Li Wei and the others laughed too. Adding the noisy hoarse cries of the big crow, it was even more noisy.

When the laughter subsided, Li Wei's expression became serious. "I will definitely do my best to help everyone, but first of all, I am not familiar with the situation in the Rotten Swamp. I want to know where you were defeated and how is the situation now?"

"The situation is very bad." Stiba said bluntly, then took out a few stones as signs, and explained to Li Wei. "The largest aboriginal tribe in the Rotten Swamp is the Black Crow Tribe, and the defense facilities are also the most complete, so we chose the battlefield there." Stiba put down a stone to serve as the logo of the Black Crow Tribe. "After the collapse of the coalition forces yesterday, about one-third of the people died on the spot, and the slow-moving hag suffered the most. The remaining people were chased by the undead creatures for a long time, and many people were scattered. Fortunately, they rotted The terrain of the swamp is complicated, so we finally retreated here, the bristly tribe on the edge of the swamp. Many people came back one after another, but by this morning, only about half of them had been recruited."

"What are those undead creatures doing now?" Levi asked thinking.

"They razed the entire Black Crow tribe to the ground, and then used the corpses of the aborigines to build a tower of bones, and performed some evil rituals on it." There was a trace of fear in Stiba's voice, but more It's anger.

"What kind of ceremony are those?" Li Wei frowned, thinking of the prophecy of the Black Crow Queen, he couldn't help but have an ominous premonition.

"I don't know. The big crow scouts we sent wanted to take a closer look, but the undead creatures guarded the tower very tightly. Many big crow scouts died under the attacks of vampires and wraiths." Tibba shook his head and replied.

"The situation is worse than expected." Li Wei smiled wryly, "Chief Stiba, what did you plan to do?"

"We intend to establish a line of defense here." Stiba drew a dark blue cold mark on the ground with her hand, which was her innate magic, and the mark formed a semicircle beside the stone that marked the bristle tribe. "This time we use the terrain to fight defensively. The bristle tribe is surrounded by muddy swamps, and many places are bottomless. No matter how many troops the undead creatures have, they cannot deploy troops here."

Her words aroused the approval of many tribal leaders.

"Yes, this time let them taste the power of the natives of the swamp!"

"The bristle tribe is easy to defend but hard to attack, let those undead break their teeth!"

"The only thing we need to worry about now is air units like vampires and wraiths, but after all, the number is small. There are more than 400 lizardman archers here, enough to shoot those guys into hedgehogs." Stiba continued to introduce their Strategy.

"The Lizardmen will repay the Greyscale tribe's hatred with their bows and arrows." The Gala leader said coldly, stroking his injured arm.

"This strategy is indeed the best way to deal with the army of undead creatures." Li Wei gave a high evaluation, then shook his head and said, "But it's a pity, Chief Stiba, and all the chiefs, we can't Stay here, but must attack immediately!"

This sentence immediately caused many tribal leaders to express disbelief, even the old hag Stiba was no exception. "Lord Li Wei, our current troops are strong enough to defend, but absolutely insufficient to attack." She said in a tone of surprise, "Didn't I tell you just now that we just experienced a disastrous defeat yesterday?"

"I know." Li Wei nodded to confirm her words, "And I saw it when I entered the camp. The morale of the aborigines is very low at present, and it is not the time to launch a counterattack." The young lord sighed, "However, we must not No choice, remember the first prophecy made by the Black Crow Queen?"

"Of course I remember." Chief Stiba replied, and then recited, "When the black moon and the red moon met in the sky, countless stars burning with dark green flames fell from the sky and landed on one-third of the northern rivers. On the source..." Her voice stopped suddenly, her ugly face was beaded with sweat, "You mean to say that what those undead creatures are doing is summoning burning green planetesimals?"

"That's it, so if we choose to stick to it, we are looking for our own death!" Li Wei's voice was sonorous and powerful, and he punched the stone that marked the Black Crow tribe, smashing it to pieces. "We have no choice now but to attack!"

　The great battle of the Rotten Swamp is about to begin, please support the book friends of the Castle Heart, thank you Shen Duxing.

　　
　
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