I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

The arrows condensed from the black mist and the hammers of the molten iron puppet warriors hit her heels by a hair's breadth.

"Ah! Damn it!" Rukatiye rolled over on the ground and threw herself forward desperately. Her left leg was grazed by the huge hammer and shattered on the spot. With only one good leg left, Rukatiye could no longer move quickly in the ash field.

Sun Yang immediately threw several fast-moving smoke grenades around Rukatiye to block Xu Kai's vision. Then he threw a lightning spear, which blew off the calf of the Molten Iron Puppet Warrior that was chasing him closely, forcing it to kneel on the ground.

This puppet was incredibly heavy, carrying such a massive weapon. The metal on its body was so thick that even a machine gun couldn't penetrate it. As the active structure that carried the weight, the legs had to bear a considerable load.

Sun Yang also rushed over and released a huge piece of building material in the direction of the tower. The black mist arrows immediately impaled on it. These arrows could even penetrate it, and the tip of the arrow smashed through it, but after all, they failed to shatter the building material, and the people inside were safe and sound.

"Repair! Repair!" Sun Yang cast repair magic on Rukatiye's power suit, and Rukatiye quickly drank two sips of element bottles, and his broken left leg was growing back together.

"I need weapons! Do you have any more missiles? There are too many arrows shooting overhead!" Rukatiye shouted while lying on the ground.

"Here you go! Go take out the remaining big guys! The dust they kick up can protect us from being shot out! After we kill them, we'll go into the tower from below! Find a campfire!"

Sun Yang then handed Rukatiye a brand new Stinger M7 missile launcher and its accompanying ammunition. He then launched several smoke bombs towards the damaged building materials, filling the entire base of the Black Mist Tower with smoke.

As expected, after losing their visual guidance, the frequency of shooting by those virtual armors dropped significantly, and they tentatively fired randomly at the surrounding building materials.

Rukatiye stamped her feet in the smoke, confirming her left leg had fully healed. She carried the Stinger missile launcher and ran over a hundred meters through the dust. The advanced launcher easily located the Molten Iron Golem warriors wandering through the smoke. With a click of a lock, the destructive warheads struck the last group of Golems holding out at the foot of the tower.

Sun Yang immediately launched a large number of drones. The existence of these virtual armors was too deadly, so he let the drones fight against them.

Drones equipped with grenades, precision rifles and machine guns flew around the Black Mist Tower. The Void Armors did not miss these drones. Their bows gathered new arrows and they shot at the agile drones in the air.

These drones immediately retaliated with their weapons. The armor of the Void Armors was shattered by the roar of gunfire, but even after a number of them were shattered, many more rose from the ashes and rushed out of the Black Mist Tower in formation.

There were brief clattering sounds coming from several drones, leaving a fire vacuum period of several seconds.

The cabin was refilled with 3D-printed ammunition, and the machine guns under the drone took turns firing at the exposed virtual armor and coal warriors, leaving these strange creations no chance to fight back.

While the virtual armor and the drone were facing each other head-on, Sun Yang and Rukatiye quickly ran to the motorcycle, started it and began to drive around the Black Mist Tower.

Sun Yang had to find a hole to enter before all the drones were shot down and the ammunition was used up.

"Sun Yang! Can you find the entrance?" Rukatiye put the missile launcher aside and flew above the ashes.

"Found it, found it. Drive in this direction," Sun Yang transferred the entrance navigation route found by the drone to the motorcycle, "Just follow it."

Sun Yang took over the camera of a drone and suddenly noticed something that caught his attention.

Behind these phantom armors, a strange statue deep within the tower began to move. It resembled a stone statue protected by a movable wrist.

At first, the stone statue did not move at all, but when the battle became tense, the arms of the statue began to move strangely, and were stained with strange red light and flames.

When the flames lit up, the surrounding armor suddenly became stronger. The armor that had previously been easily shattered by machine gun fire could now withstand the machine gun bullets and attempt to counterattack.

Sun Yang ordered the drone to bombard the statue relentlessly. It took a full round of ammunition to completely shatter it. As the statue shattered, the surrounding armor instantly turned gray and white, then turned to dust and scattered on the ground.

This thing, I think it's a fragment of the Coal Bride's soul? Oops, the plot here is a bit complicated, I need to sort it out.

Sun Yang withdrew his gaze. Rukatiye, who was sitting in front of him, was rushing towards the bottom entrance of the Black Mist Tower at full speed. As a place for smelting metals, even if many areas were buried in ash, there would still be several entrances and exits.

Sun Yang waved his hand, calling back the drone he had sent out. Rukatiye parked the car at the entrance and got out, carrying the transmitter.

"I really hope to see a campfire soon. I can't bear to go back to this place again," Rukatiye spat on the ground. "Damn it, my mouth is full of dust now. Disgusting."

"Why do I feel that this Black Mist Tower is much more difficult to defeat than the Molten Iron City? Shouldn't they belong to the same country? No matter how we divide them into different levels of importance, the gap in combat power is too great." Rukatiye entered the Black Mist Tower through a half-destroyed door, and couldn't help but say after making sure he was temporarily safe.

"I think this situation is probably caused by something that happened in the past..." Sun Yang and Rukatiye found a hidden room at the bottom of the Black Mist Tower. He blocked the door with building materials and took out a light bulb and placed it in the middle of the room.

Regardless, they needed to rest before continuing. Fatigue after battle would slowly accumulate on the undead, and no matter how strong their bodies were, they needed time to recover.

Those virtual armors temporarily gave up the plan of chasing Sun Yang and Rukatiye.

Rukatiye didn't know the extent of this magic. After all, she was just a knight from Miller, and she hadn't even learned miracles like protective magic.

Perhaps there are people in this world who know how it works, but Sun Yang is very sure that no one he knows knows it.

Even though Strider knew a lot, he had experienced a long hiatus, and it would take at least several decades to research these untraceable magical powers.

The Black Mist Tower is also a tower with a very complex terrain. In fact, the Black Mist Tower does not refer to a single tower here, but several tall stone towers connected by iron chains and connecting passages.

As far as Sun Yang was concerned, the combined volume of these towers might be as large as the damn Avernus, the lair of Paradis in the Girls' Frontline world, which was built in the black zone.

The thought of Avernus made Sun Yang's blood pressure rise unconsciously. He quickly dismissed these thoughts and focused his attention.

"I'm not surprised by the difference in combat power. Rukatiye, haven't you heard about Dolan Gureg in the country you were in before? Haven't you traveled all over this continent?" Sun Yang asked.

"What a strange question. I am indeed from Miller, but after I was expelled from the country, I took a boat from the southern city to Dolan Gureg. The terrain to the west from Miller is difficult to pass through, and it is impossible to get through. Sun Yang, you never told me where you are from. A face like yours is really rare." Rukatiye also wanted to take a break, so he started chatting with Sun Yang.

"To be honest, I can't remember it anymore. Do you know? There is a large One-Line Sky Forest near Rumi, where there are houses where a group of elderly firefighters live. My first memory of setting foot on this land was seeing the old firefighters in the One-Line Sky Forest." Sun Yang actually cared a little about the origin of his body.

However, he didn't have time to worry about these issues at the beginning. After the humanoids contacted him and gained the ability to travel to other worlds to fight, he became busy.

Anyway, this body looked the same as before, and its performance was far superior to before. Sun Yang had been unintentionally ignoring this problem. He just thought of it as the charlatan M4 rubbing a wandering soul body with his bare hands and stuffing it back into him.

"I think I might be a priest of Linde, because when I regained consciousness, I was wearing the clothes of Linde Ancient Dragon Academy, and I had a hammer spear and a holy bell in my hands." Sun Yang explained.

"Linde? You mean Lindlud, right? I know Linde. That guy was hired by the people of Dolan Gureg for a huge sum of money. Humph, what a spineless thing. So you are a native of Dolan Gureg?" Rukatiye asked after complaining.

"I can't really say. I have a pretty clear idea of ​​how the Iron City became what it is now, but I don't have many memories of the religious nation of Lindlud. I only know that they seem to have split off from Dolan Gureg. Why don't you tell me the story of your hometown first, and then I'll tell you the story I know?"

Sun Yang scratched his head. But this was no problem. Rukatie came in from outside Dolan Gureg, and she didn't know what was going on here.

"Are you sure? This could be a long conversation." Rukatiye felt it was not a good idea to chat for such a long time during the battle.

249 Past History

"Then let's keep it brief. I'm quite interested in Rukatiye's hometown. And I think it's better to wait a little longer. We've caused such a big commotion, and there's no telling how long the locals will intensively search. Let's wait until the alert level is lower before continuing our exploration."

"Hmm~Okay. I also think we made a bit too much noise. Compared to Miller, our fighting style just now was more like the fallen country of Froza."

"Froza was destroyed?" Sun Yang tried to recall, but he couldn't quite remember the details. It seemed like Wenger would bring it up.

"Then let me explain it to you from a geographical perspective. The easternmost part of Dolan Gureg is a mountainous area with treacherous terrain. While some communication is convenient, sending troops back and forth or conducting large-scale trade overland is very troublesome."

Rukatiye drew a few simple lines on the ash-covered sand, roughly describing the geographical locations of these places.

"We are in Miller, with the sea to the south, Froza to the north, and Uger to the east. There is a country called Kasas further away, but I don't know much about it. These are powerful countries, and there are many messy small countries that have been attacked repeatedly. Their names change very quickly, and I can't remember them." Rukatiye talked to Sun Yang.

According to Rukatiye's description, his homeland often clashed with Froza and Ug, and there were wars for years, and everyone was generally more warlike.

The Knights of the Miller Kingdom place great emphasis on honor and swordsmanship, with strict discipline within their ranks and a systematic priesthood system. As a member of the glorious Miller Knights, Rukatiye constantly battles with the surrounding defecting small nations and bandits.

However, although Rukatiye's swordsmanship is very strong, due to issues such as seniority, he cannot learn his country's miracles and magic.

In her country, the Knights used miracles only as a means of dealing with sneak attacks, so they only taught miracles such as spell protection.

As for magic, it primarily consisted of two types: slow fall and silence. These were learned by underground knights who specialized in doing dirty work. Other than these, there were no other widely known spells.

"By the way, Sun Yang, you seem to be very good at using the power of miracles to fight? That's great, I also want to learn this powerful miracle. I heard from others that Lindlud has a professor's thunder spear, and many recovery miracles passed down since ancient times. But your thunder spear seems to be much more powerful than those descriptions." Rukatiye said with some envy.

"That's why I guess I'm from Lindlud. But I no longer care which country I was from in the past. I wouldn't want to go back and play for them now." Sun Yang shrugged, and Rukatiye continued.

"And then there's Kyle, the guy who spends all day in Rumi's room looking at maps and has been to so many places. Kyle is also from Miller and was originally supposed to be a light infantryman. But he's become quite zombie-like, and it's hard to tell why he's looking at maps." Sun Yang didn't react when Rukatiye mentioned Kyle, but he immediately caught on when he mentioned looking at a map. As for Map Guy, he's mainly responsible for the assassination side quests, which makes him a bit of a hassle.

"But he's been to a lot of places, so I often ask him for directions and locations. Otherwise, I would definitely get lost in the Giant Forest."

Rukatiye spoke of it like a treasured item. She then began to complain about the famous craftsman named Linde from her own country.

"I get angry when I talk about Lind. Look at my sword. It's a good weapon made of Gulan steel. It was originally used only by our people." Rukatiye pulled out the beautiful big sword behind him and showed it to Sun Yang.

It was indeed a beautifully crafted, well-balanced greatsword. Small words were engraved on the blade, likely the words of agreement between Rukatiye and her brother.

"As a result, this guy directly gave away the technology of Gulang steel. Fortunately, this alloy is difficult to make, otherwise I would have a nightmare if I met anyone holding such a good weapon when I went out." After Rukatiye finished telling the story of his own country intermittently, he turned to talk about the hostile country.

For Rukatiye, the country of Froza represents strength, disaster, and honor. This country is located to the north of Miller.

While both nations are highly militaristic, unlike Miller, which has a strict hierarchy and a more orderly style of direct combat, Froza's combat is brutally brutal, and every warrior who emerges from Froza is a reckless and fierce warrior. Individual combat abilities are exceptional, and they employ no magic, becoming pure frontal warriors.

As far as Rukatiye knew, the Knights of Froza worshipped the god of war, Farhan, who was said to be a heavy-armored warrior expert with two swords. The warriors of Froza were proud of their god.

Just the one Lukatiye knew of was "Luo Xiang without a Shield," who wielded an axe imbued with the power of thunder and lightning, wore a stone ring and a giant ring, and was always victorious on the battlefield.

This powerful warrior, Luo Xiang, once inflicted heavy losses on the Miller Knights, but he vanished after a battle. It's said he grew tired of fighting humans, so he embarked on a journey to slay the legendary dragon.

There was also a powerful man named Wenger. The old leader of Rukatiye had described his physique.

Wenger was clearly several times larger than the others. He wore a beast-like helmet, heavy crimson armor, and wielded two massive, heavy, rusty curved swords. He was as formidable as a legendary berserker, unstoppable.

However, as far as Rukatiye knew, he was hired by Dolan Gureg to fight a brutal battle. To this day, with Froza's kingdom destroyed, he has not appeared again.

"In short, the country of Froza is history to me. The only ones who can still bear the name Froza are a group of subhuman lions armed with powerful weapons, and gangs of fierce bandits. The capable knights have become mercenaries, and the people have become bandits. Froza has become a lawless land. I mainly fight against those powerful bandits and tough mercenaries."

The last country Rukatiye mentioned was Ug, a country east of Mir, surrounded by desert.

"The people in Ug are quite polite, provided you can understand the meaning of their etiquette. For those people, throwing bottles of strong acid to corrode the opponent's equipment and body in battle is an honor, and using all means to defeat the opponent is the greatest respect for the enemy. I don't see where the respect is in this. My first piece of armor was burned by them." Rukatiye complained.

"Ug? I think I've seen someone from Ug? Was he called Ug Vanholt? A warrior carrying a pale blue sword?"

"So you've seen one? Then you know what most warriors in this country are like. That guy is so focused on practicing his own martial arts and fighting that he doesn't care about anything else. Many people in Wuge are like that. Oh, and you also saw the sexy-dressed sorcerer at the earthen tower, right?"

"I've seen quite a few. They are all very powerful." Sun Yang nodded. Their fire resistance is also very high.

"I don't understand how they dress. They have to wear masks, are almost topless, and their skirts are cut like that. They look like prostitutes. But there are quite a few men in our group who are quite attracted to them... I think they were hired by the people who built the earth tower. If Dolan Gureg hadn't destroyed the country, they would have recruited all the troops through hiring."

Rukatiye was very open about his disgust at Shafa's clothes.

"As for other food customs... they're pretty chaotic in Eastern countries right now, so it's hard to say what good food there is. It's not as good as what you gave me, anyway. That's pretty much the history I understand. Do you find it interesting?"

"I have always been interested in history. Well, I think it is necessary to explain to you the situation here in the Black Mist Tower..." Sun Yang moved his body and explained to Rukatiye, who didn't know the history of this place.

After all, the Coal Bride in the Black Mist Tower is no pushover. This is the location of the DLC, the enemy is the Fallen of Darkness, and Sun Yang and Rukatiye are just two unknown undead. They must exchange intelligence to improve combat efficiency.

250 This is an abusive title, I can’t accept it!

"Let's first clarify one thing. This place is quite dangerous." Sun Yang said seriously.

"Isn't this something I need to emphasize?" Rukatiye looked at Sun Yang with the same eyes as if he were a zombie. So being chased and beaten by a bunch of powerful creatures wasn't dangerous?

"No, no, it's not what you understand. Furthermore, once we enter the tower, the enemy won't be able to deploy a large formation, which is an advantage for us. More importantly, have you noticed the black mist that drives the phantom armor?"

"Xuankai? You mean the ones that shoot arrows? You're really quick at naming them. No, I don't have the time to check if they have black fog. It's hard enough for me to survive." Rukatiye said bluntly.

"If I understand correctly, the black mist is the soul fragments of the Fallen of Darkness..." Sun Yang was about to tell Rukatiye a story.

"Wait, I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying. What the hell is the Fallen Child of Darkness? Sun Yang, I'm just a knight from a Miller family, not a magician or a priest. I don't have the basis to understand the stories you are telling me." Rukatiye interrupted Sun Yang's words directly.

"Starting from such an ancient place? Well, then I'll explain it to you from another direction." Sun Yang scratched his head.

In short, there is not only one country on this continent, and it is normal for dynasties to change over hundreds of years.

Before Dolan Gureg dominated this land, its rival was the Iron Kingdom, which possessed immense wealth and power thanks to its vast iron reserves. This was the land that Sun Yang and Rukatiye were standing on. Of course, it had now become the Ancient Iron Kingdom.

At the time, both sides were engaged in an arms race. Dolan Gureg recruited blacksmiths from Lind, trained paladins and dragoons, and possessed the miracles of Lindrud. He likely also employed a number of mercenaries from Ugg and Froza.

In contrast, the Iron Nation possesses the technology to refine metals and use souls to drive puppets. Those heavy iron soldier puppets are their work.

At the same time, the Iron King also recruited a warrior from far away to train the army. The upper limit of the Iron Kingdom's combat power is determined by the production and smelting level of the Black Mist Tower's iron.

Although Dolan Gureg's heavy armored paladins are superior in quality to those of the Iron Kingdom, using soul power to drive heavy iron soldiers is more cost-effective than paladins that require a lot of resources and time to train.

"But at this time, Dolan Gureg invaded an underground country called Salva, the Holy Wall City. That country believed in the power of dragons and also developed many dragon-related technologies."

"Doran Gureg plundered considerable technology from that country. The giant metal golem you saw in Hyde was forged by Doran Gureg using the dragon power of Salva. And the dragon cavalry guarding Hyde were the result of Doran Gureg mastering the technology used to create earth dragons."

"The dragoons riding on earth dragons are both defensive and mobile, and have become the strongest fighting force on the continent. The technological advantage of the Iron Kingdom has been wiped out. Speaking of which, the shells of ancient knights from the technological exchange between the Iron Kingdom and Salva should still be preserved here, but they cannot be activated due to the lack of core technology." Sun Yang talked freely.

"How did you learn all this knowledge? Even if you were a clergyman of Lindlud, you know too much..." Rukatiye was shocked by Sun Yang's ability to explain history in detail.

"Because Lindlud was originally a group of clergy who followed Dolan Gureg and took advantage of the situation. They joined forces with the remnants of Salva to split from Dolan Gureg and established a clerical nation. I remember that I was wearing the clothes of the Lindlud Ancient Dragon Academy. The Ancient Dragon Academy records the history of Lindlud's founding, which I think also includes the details of breaking away from Dolan Gureg and becoming independent."

"What about Lindlud..." Rukatiye was about to continue asking when he was stopped by Sun Yang.

"What we want to talk about is the mess in the Iron Country. Don't think too much." Sun Yang said.

After the Iron Nation's technological advantage was broken, the Iron King, perhaps realizing he could no longer win, opted to give in. But then, a sorcerer named Aegir arrived. He brought sorcery techniques closer to those of the Ancient Chaos.

The flames of ancient chaos power imbued the heavy iron blocks forged by the Iron King with the flame of his will. The breakthrough in puppet technology gave the Iron King new hope.

Original puppet technology could only power heavy iron soldiers and puppets of human size. However, puppets powered by Chaos spells—just look at those molten iron puppet warriors out there beating us to death—are products of this technology.

However, the Ancient King of Iron was ultimately created, and for unknown reasons, a giant iron dragon went berserk and devoured him. The Ancient King's soul was absorbed, and the rampaging dragon destroyed much of Molten Iron City. Thus, the Iron Kingdom fell.

Dolan Gureg looted all the high-quality metals here, leaving behind the remaining soldiers. However, Dolan Gureg has not been able to capture the Black Mist Tower to this day.