Rose Empire

That turned out to be... Cowbell Village!

You called me and I came. This was the only feeling that Legba Dando had in his horror.

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Volume 37: Chapter 34 Chapter Necromancer (IV)

"Front team, charge forward! Don't slow down! Don't fight too long! Charge forward!"

Hermann Green shouted loudly and squeezed the horse's belly hard. The warhorse neighed, raised its front hooves, and fell down heavily, kicking a skeleton that was trying to pull Hermann Green off the horse into pieces.

Although Charlotte was nominally the commander in chief of this battle, her riding and swordsmanship did not allow her to lead a charge, so after the battle began, the real frontline commander became Hermann Green, who had both sufficient combat power and experience.

Charlotte's original two-pronged detour plan was to build a semicircular blockade in the shortest possible time to ensure that the necromancer was trapped in the coastal area centered on Cowbell Village and Bluefish Village.

Now, the two detours have become one detour, which will test the knights' execution speed. They must rush through Cowbell Village and set up the blockade while alerting the zombies.

Hermann Green wanted to lead the front team of Cavaliers as the spearhead, but it turned out that there was someone more courageous than him.

Celine Adkins was like a silver star, and as Herman Green ordered them not to stop and continue charging, she rode into Cowbell Village.

The number of zombies in Cowbell Village was not as few as Charlotte expected. Legba Dando reserved some zombies for the rear, firstly because controlling too many zombies at the same time would cause a great mental burden to the warlock, and secondly, out of a conservative mentality, he wanted to keep some zombies around to protect himself.

As soon as Celine Adkins rushed into Cowbell Village, the zombies instinctively bit her. Celine held the reins tightly with one hand, controlled the warhorse to charge the zombies, and swung the sword with the other hand.

The sword is 1.7 meters long and weighs more than ten kilograms.

Such a sword is useless for chopping or slashing. Even if Celine just picks up the sword and smashes it down, it can break the zombies' bones and tendons.

Moreover, Xilin had mastered martial arts since she was young. The heavy sword in her hand was like a silver-white silk flying freely, or like a winter wind carrying ice and snow, breaking all the grass wherever it went.

The will behind the zombies seemed unwilling to see Celine alone rushing the zombies to pieces. A fierce zombie jumped down from the roof and tried to pounce Celine off her horse. Celine seemed to have eyes behind her. She let go of the reins with her left hand, leaned sideways, and actually grabbed the zombie's belt in mid-air.

However, there has been a wave of unrest.

The zombies jumped down from the roof like a tide, as if they wanted to drown Celine. These zombies all looked like strong adult men when they were alive, and they became even more agile and strong after death, like ferocious beasts.

Celine decisively abandoned her horse and dodged several zombies that rushed towards her. After landing, she raised the zombie in her left hand horizontally, as if she was holding a shield. A brown wing of light appeared behind her, and a tiger-like roar came out from under her silver visor. Then, Celine seemed to have turned into a strong bow that released a huge amount of energy in an instant, and collided head-on with the zombies. In this contest of power without any fancy moves, the party with more numbers actually fell into a disadvantage without any suspense.

Celine pushed several zombies backwards, and finally they were against the adobe wall of the village.

"Drink..."

Another growl.

Celine tensed her muscles and exerted force again on the spot, and the single wing behind her shone even more brightly.

squeak……

A teeth-grinding sound of breaking was heard.

Then, with a loud crash, Celine pushed down the rammed earth wall, and the village house, which originally had few pillars, collapsed. The zombies were buried under the rubble, and Celine nimbly avoided the collapsed wall, climbed on her horse, and continued to charge.

Costa, who was charging behind Celine and witnessed the scene up close, couldn't help but say to Adams beside him: "That little girl seems to be quite motivated today."

Adams looked at the unstoppable silver figure in front of him and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Maybe it's his first time on the battlefield, so he's a little excited."

At the same time, Charlotte was also discussing the topic of Celine with Ed Adkins: "It seems that the swordsman faction of the Royal Griffin Knights is not what Ling Qianjin is practicing."

"Yes. Shilin practices the Kanoba Warlock faction of the tribesmen. I have a friend who once lived in the tribal alliance..."

Ed Adkins started “Friends from Nothing”.

The reality is that Celine showed her outstanding martial arts and extraordinary talent at an early age, and she dreamed of becoming a knight. Ed Adkins couldn't bear to see his daughter's dream go down the drain before it even began, and he couldn't afford to prepare a spirit-awakening ceremony for his daughter, so he came up with a less glorious way - secretly trading with the tribesmen.

One winter, he exchanged salt and food for a spiritual awakening ceremony with a tribe in distress.

This matter is actually very taboo to be put on the surface. After all, after so many years of fighting with the tribesmen, the knights and people of Viscount Lanwan wished that all the tribesmen would starve to death in the mountains. However, Ed Adkins has always been conscientious and dedicated in fighting with the tribesmen, so even if everyone knew the truth, they chose to turn a blind eye.

Ed Adkins secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. This kind of crude lies would probably not be able to deceive Charlotte. He just didn't know how tolerant the new lord would be in dealing with the tribesmen.

"Kanoba..."

Fortunately, Charlotte just nodded and had no intention of pursuing the matter.

Charlotte had also heard of the sorcerer Kanoba.

"Kanoba" is a tribal word, referring to beasts, birds of prey and other carnivorous animals, or used as an adjective to describe bravery, ferocity and fierceness. Like the Royal Griffin Knights Sword Warlock Faction, the Kanoba Warlock Faction also has the ability to strengthen the warlock's body, but unlike the Royal Griffin Knights Faction, the Kanoba Faction's strengthening of the warlock is unstable, and the effect of this strengthening depends largely on the warlock's fighting will.

When a Kanoba warlock shows a strong desire to fight, fearless spirit, and unwavering fighting belief in battle, the faction's enhancement of the warlock will rise sharply. However, when the warlock shows negative mentalities such as shrinking, hesitating, or even cowardly and fearful, this enhancement will shrink rapidly, and may even be almost zero.

In the Orlan Empire, this unstable reinforcement is usually seen as a drawback.

Why is the Royal Griffin Knights Swordsman faction so popular that it has become a "common faction"? It is because it is perfect and stable. If it says it will increase your strength, it will increase your strength. Even if the warlock is scared to death, it will not prevent him from using his ability to become a strongman.

If soldiers become weak when they are afraid, how can they fight on the battlefield? This is what the people of the Oran Empire think.

But the tribesmen seem to have a different understanding...

Charlotte looked in Celine's direction curiously. It was also the first time she saw a Kanoba warlock fighting.

When Celine used her abilities, her speed, strength, explosiveness, and reaction ability all seemed to increase significantly. The tribesmen seemed to have chosen to sacrifice some stability in exchange for more.

This choice will undoubtedly make the strong stronger, but will also make the weak die faster.

It is difficult for Charlotte to judge whether this choice is good or bad. She can only say that it is in line with the survival philosophy of the tribesmen.

Led by the spearhead, Celine, the front team cut through Cowbell Village at the fastest speed. But the knights did not stop, but started to charge the zombies repeatedly. They were not trying to kill as many zombies as possible - these zombies could move normally after being chopped a few times, and it was difficult to kill them all at once - but to make the zombies retreat.

Will the zombies retreat?

Logically speaking, zombies have no emotions, do not know fear, and will not have the desire to escape, so there should be no retreat.

However, the actual situation is not that simple.

When the Necromancer commands the zombie army to fight, he does not directly control every zombie incorporated into the army. Their command system is also pyramid-shaped, divided into several levels from top to bottom. Each level has several nodes, and each node commands several zombies. This can save the Necromancer's brainpower to the greatest extent.

When a zombie serving as a command node is seriously injured or about to be seriously injured in battle, the necromancer will also take the initiative to disconnect the mental connection with the zombie at that node. This is to protect the necromancer's spirit, so as not to leave too many bad memories and affect the warlock's mind.

When the surrounding command nodes are lost, the zombies at the lowest level will actively move towards the higher-level nodes. This design is to fully maintain the combat effectiveness of the zombies on the battlefield, so as to avoid losing a small group of zombies when the Necromancer is killed by a node, and to concentrate forces to protect higher-level nodes. It is also convenient to quickly gather zombies after a battle and put them into the next battlefield.

This is undoubtedly a very good battlefield response mechanism. But Lilith proposed a feasible plan based on this - let the knights keep ramming the zombies. If the necromancer is not experienced enough on the battlefield, he will definitely be timid about the scene of the heavy-armored knights ramming him head-on, and thus temporarily disconnect from some nodes. Next, Charlotte only needs to observe the direction in which the zombies that have lost their nodes gather, and she can roughly guess which direction the necromancer is hiding.

Because, if the necromancer was successfully blocked by Charlotte in the small seaside area between Cowbell Village and Bluefish Village, then the battle would break out around the necromancer. He would definitely not need to establish a multi-layer command system. When the first-layer nodes were temporarily lost, the zombies would most likely move towards the necromancer.

Despite repeated collisions, there were still no obvious signs of the zombies' retreat - apparently the necromancer would quickly restore the connection after each brief break, but Ed Adkins, who was sharp-eyed and experienced on the battlefield, still saw some information.

"They are retreating in that direction!" said Ed Adkins, pointing to a small hill a few hundred meters away.

Charlotte looked over and could not see a single person on the hill, but she waved her hand without hesitation and said, "Go!"

Without warning, the remaining twenty or so knights beside Charlotte charged towards the empty hill.

After the initial shock and panic, Legba Dando gradually calmed down. He ordered the zombies that were attacking the castle to retreat, and methodically controlled the zombies he left behind to fight with these cavalrymen. As long as they could entangle these cavalrymen and wait for the main force to arrive, he could use the sea of ​​corpses to drown those cavalrymen who dared to attack him.

Although the initial charge of these cavalrymen caused some trouble to Legba Dando, he was not in a hurry, because no matter how brave these cavalrymen were, their horses were flesh and blood after all, and they would become exhausted after a few charges. By then, these cavalrymen would not be able to escape even if they wanted to.

The development of the battlefield seemed to be similar to what Legba Dando had expected. After the cavalrymen "aimlessly" charged the zombies several times, their horses ran slower and slower, and gradually sank into the quagmire of the zombies, unable to move.

"I've said it before, I'm a genius at commanding wars. If those idiots in the Council of Elders were willing to appoint me as a general, the war between Fidelity and Delme would have ended with Fidelity's great victory long ago..."

Legba Dando was lying on the reverse slope of a small hill, controlling the battle in the village and muttering with satisfaction.

However, what he failed to notice at first was that a group of knights who had been watching coldly and keeping silent suddenly charged in his direction.

When Legba Dando saw a group of cavalrymen inexplicably moving away from the battlefield from the perspective of a zombie, he couldn't help but feel puzzled. When he saw a small earthen hill in the direction where the cavalrymen were moving away, which made him feel very familiar, Legba Dando suddenly woke up.

At this time, the charging cavalry were almost under their noses.

"Hurry, save me, take me away!"

Next to Legba Dando stood a monster with a human head, four legs and four arms. It picked up Legba Dando and ran down the hillside as fast as a galloping horse.

The purple face of the monster can still be vaguely recognized as the first male owner killed by Legba Dando. This monster is a masterpiece transformed by Legba Dando using his ability to control corpses.

In fact, the corpse controller did not use words to convey orders, but in panic, Legba Dando couldn't help but shout, just like when he was trapped under the slippery stone wall.

When Charlotte and more than 20 knights rushed up the dirt slope, there was no one behind the small dirt hill. Charlotte couldn't help but regret that the heavy cavalry was still a little slow. When starting, they needed to jog at first, then slowly accelerate, and finally sprint at full speed.

Standing on the hill, Charlotte saw the sea in the distance, the cape that extended into the sea, the silent Herring Village on the cape, and...

A strange figure that looked neither human nor human was fleeing into Qingyu Village in panic.

Charlotte smiled faintly, stretched out her right hand and slowly clenched her fist, as if she wanted to crush the figure.

"I got you, you unwelcome guest."

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Volume 38: Chapter Release Remarks

It was an ordinary afternoon. I opened my phone in an ordinary way. I opened several novel apps but couldn’t find any novel that interested me.

"I'm out of books again. If there's no novel to read, I might as well write one myself!"

Thus, this novel was born.

Friends who have joined the book club should know that I have a job that does not pay well but makes me irritable.

This novel was originally a pastime for me after work, until a few friends left messages saying, "Well-written, I like reading it!" I gradually took the fact that I was writing a novel seriously, and worked hard to write this story well.

Well, the above is just idle talk. I don't know how many words I should write for the release of the book, so I will talk about something worth mentioning next.

I believe some friends have noticed that the introduction of this novel uses the famous saying of Genghis Khan, which is almost equivalent to making it clear that the heroine of this book is a ruler similar to Genghis Khan. The desire for exploration, conquest, and possession will prompt her to keep moving forward and expanding. Sometimes she may become the initiator of a war.

It was not for the purpose of spreading democracy and freedom, nor for the purpose of eliminating inequality, but purely for the purpose of conquest and for the sake of ambition.

Therefore, compared to other time-travelling protagonists in other books, the heroine may not be kind enough, nor just enough.

I am not saying this to praise one or criticize the other, I just want to remind some readers who are looking forward to seeing the heroine bring the glory of "democracy, freedom, and equality for all" to an ugly world that you may feel a little regretful.

Now that the book is about to be put on the shelves, I have to make these things clear to prevent readers from wasting their money.

Haha, I am probably the first person who actively discourages readers from buying a book when posting it on the shelves.

In addition, there is another problem. I believe everyone is clear about it. The heroine is a carnivore. She wants to taste a beautiful woman as soon as she sees her. She will steal someone's wife...

Readers who are just starting to read this may mind it, but I think no one who has read this far will mind it, right?

Finally, please move your little fingers to help click on the collection and the first order, thank you everyone.

Volume 39: Chapter 35 Chapter Necromancer (V)

"Damn, these dead people are so disgusting!"

Costa Scamario swung out his javelin again and nailed a zombie to the ground, saying with disgust on his face.

The number of zombies in Niu Ling Village exceeded expectations. For the knights who were at least one wing strong, these zombies were not very strong, but they were difficult to deal with. They did not know pain, fatigue, or fear of death. They did not care about ordinary piercing injuries.

For example, now, the zombie that was pierced in the stomach by Costa's javelin pulled itself off the javelin - the javelin was still nailed to the ground. It must have been dead a few days ago, and the half-rotten internal organs and foul-smelling corpse fluid in the zombie's stomach kept flowing out of the big hole pierced by the javelin. If it were a normal person, such a serious penetrating wound would have killed him half his life, but the zombie was still alive and kicking, and there was even a piece of large intestine hanging out of its stomach.

Costa felt sick again, it was sick in every sense of the word, he never expected that he would have to face this kind of thing the first time on the battlefield in his knight career.

"Don't use javelins, you can hit them on the head with a hammer," Adams kindly reminded.

"I know," Costa waved his long-handled warhammer irritably, "but how can I get those dead people to come over and let me knock their heads off?"

Charlotte had the knights attack the zombies repeatedly, but these zombies had no brains, but the manipulators behind them did. After being attacked and trampled several times, the necromancer learned his lesson. He had the zombies disperse and even jump to high places to avoid the knights' frontal charge.

Not all knights are the type like Celine who can jump up and down with the zombies. In other words, most knights do not have that ability, because they mainly practice the Royal Griffin Knights Swordsman Faction, such as Adams and Costa. The ability they awakened in one wing is a power increase, and there is no improvement in agility at all, not to mention that they are now wearing a bulky armor.

Costa also knew that a war hammer was more useful than a javelin, but his long-handled war hammer could not even reach the corners of the zombies' clothes. The piece of intestine swinging in the wind was simply mocking their clumsiness.

"Go! Don't stop!"

Hermann Green's loud orders were heard again on the battlefield.

"Fuck you!"

Costa muttered something, but the voice was not small, and Adams next to him heard it clearly. Adams smiled, then squeezed his legs on the horse's belly and rushed towards the dense zombie area again.

All his friends were charging, and Costa, who had already stopped wanting to move, had to follow them again. The warhorse was already exhausted from the continuous rush and charging, and this time he couldn't charge fast at all. Costa had already anticipated the scene where the zombies would easily dodge his horse and throw a few stones at him. This feeling of being stuck in a quagmire made him extremely uncomfortable.

Costa raised the long-handled warhammer in his hand irritably and swung it casually, and then... a zombie's head exploded in front of Costa's eyes.

"Eh?"

Costa was stunned. The zombie didn't run away.

Not only did this zombie not run away, but one zombie after another, contrary to their previous ruthless behavior, instead pounced on Costa and besieged him. Costa was not surprised but delighted. He swung his war hammer and aimed at the zombies' crowns to hit them.