Chapter 303: A New Strategy
The situation was urgent, and Kant did not stay at the salt mine posthouse for long.
They continued trekking towards the Oasis Lookout.
It took him two weeks to get back to “Drondheim” Castle, but it was also the last week of the month. Kant did not have much time left, and it was very urgent.
On his return journey from the depths of the Nahrin Desert, he could clearly understand the advance range of the Sky Veil of Death.
He estimated that it would reach the north side of the salt mine in two months.
In four months, it could cover the entire south side of the salt mine posthouse.
In five months, it would be enough to expand to the Oasis Lookout and directly swallow the castle that stood there!
If he did not want to face a catastrophe, he had to make preparations. For example, as the mage apprentices said, one of the methods was to specifically study the sun disk, which could gather positive energy and weaken negative energy.
However, Kant would not place all his hopes on the research of these mages.
There were still three holes for a crafty rabbit.
Not to mention Kant!
He quickly returned to the council hall and did not have time to rest. He waved his hand and ordered, “Summon Firentis to meet me at the council hall immediately. At the same time, send desert bandits to Aaron to inform the seven mages temporarily stationed there to return immediately.”
“Yes!”, the Swadian Knight standing guard at the door immediately nodded. After receiving the order, he immediately went to do it.
Swift and decisive.
Everyone could feel the suppressed emotions in Kant’s heart.
Everyone was afraid to make a mistake at this time.
Very soon, Firentis, who was patrolling the city walls to ensure the city’s defense, returned.
He had originally been urging the construction team to build the urn city. Now that the plan had just been completed and a few foundations had been built, he did not expect Kant to return so quickly. Kant came to the council hall without greeting to him.
It was clear that the results of his investigation this time were not optimistic.
“Lord Kant.”
Firentis lowered his head and bowed with a solemn expression.
“There’s no need to be so polite.”, Kant waved his hand and let Firentis sit down. He asked directly, “During the time I was away, did anything unusual happen in the castle and the posthouse?”
“No.”, Firentis replied.
“That’s good.”, Kant took a deep breath and nodded calmly. “We have to be careful in the future. We are now facing an evil invasion. If we are not careful, we might be destroyed.”
Firentis frowned. “I don’t understand what you mean.”
“Ha.”, Kant chuckled, slightly bitter.
Kant pointed to the north and said, “It’s in the depths of the Nahrin Desert. That’s right. It’s the Devil’s Land that those Jackalans mentioned. In fact, it has really become a Devil’s Land. However, what appears is not the unbearable heat, but the cold, bone-piercing undead!”
“Undead?”, Firentis was even more stunned. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I once read a similar novel. It’s a group of… Undead who rose from the dead?”
“That’s right, it’s this kind of thing.”
Kant nodded and rubbed his temples with his hands. “This is really troublesome.”
Not only was it troublesome.
It was also a big trouble that could kill!
If it was just those undead that did not know how to get tired and only had skeletons left, it would not be enough to attract Kant’s attention. However, with the expanding Sky Veil of Death, it would be even more important!
The Sky Veil of Death was obviously corrosive and viral. It was also a large-scale negative status buff.
The Swadian Royal Knights who had positive energy could ignore it.
However, the Sarion Lion Knights who could use negative energy and had a recovery effect could only barely resist it!
Clearly, this was the source of the trouble.
If it was a normal army without the support of positive energy, when they faced the Sky Veil of Death, which was the negative energy cl.u.s.ter of the undead, would not only weaken their own combat strength significantly, it would also cause the entire battle situation to collapse.
The combat strength of the skeleton warriors was at most comparable to the Swadian Militia, and they still had the advantage of being tireless.
If it was a battle battle.
In other words, if both sides were to fight on the same scale, the Swadian Militia would be able to defeat these undead skeleton warriors who were armed with tattered weapons and wearing rusty armor, and they would obliterate the undead and win.
After all, a body of flesh and blood with muscles and blood was still relatively strong in a short period of time.
However, the undead had the Sky Veil of Death.
They did not know how to tire.
They could completely make use of the dark clouds and fog to attack the human troops tirelessly.
Moreover, the undead had always won in terms of numbers. The sea of skeletons that could fill the mountains and plains was like a never-ending wave that insisted on devouring any creatures that were in their way.
When the two were added together, it was equivalent to having an advantage over each other.
Kant described the information he knew in detail to Firentis.
This made Firentis, a n.o.ble born in an fictional historical world, a little dumbfounded. Fortunately, he quickly came back to his senses and accepted the current setting.
After all, he had even seen the Jackalans, so it was not difficult for the undead to accept it.
“I just feel that it’s a little unbelievable.”
Firentis smiled bitterly.
He reached out and rubbed the s.p.a.ce between his eyebrows, he looked at Kant and said, “According to what you said, as humans, we are in a severely disadvantaged group. If the undead were to attack us, in fact, even if we had the advantage in the city defense, it would mean that we would have no advantage at all. In the end, we would still be defeated?”
“Perhaps, the possibility is very high.”, Kant nodded. This was a conclusion based on the information he had so far, and it was not an alarmist. However, he still sighed and said, “Of course, this is the worst case scenario.”
“It’s really bad.”
Firentis nodded and said hesitantly, “If the undead appear in our salt mine, perhaps even if we send troops over, our troops would not be able to solve the predicament of being pressed by the undead step by step.”
“But without troops, we can only surrender.”, Kant frowned.
“Is there no solution?”, Firentis also frowned.
“Not yet… No, there is a solution.”
Kant was about to deny it, but he thought of what the mage apprentices said and immediately changed his words. “There is a solution. The mage apprentices claimed that they might be able to study the positive energy in the sun disk.”
“Sun disk?”
Firentis was slightly stunned and subconsciously turned his head. “You mean the golden creation placed on the top of the bell tower?”
“That’s right.”, Kant nodded.
The sun disk had always been installed on the top of the bell tower.
The temperature that was absorbed and released every day could balance the temperature of the entire council hall. It gave people a comfortable feeling, just like a central air conditioner that could mediate the difference in temperature.
However, most people did not mind this.
It could only mediate the difference in temperature. In fact, the effect of this sun disk was not as good as other strange objects.
For example, the pages that could summon elements, the flags that could slow down the enemy’s morale, and the horns that could increase the morale of their own side.
These strange objects were more useful.
The elemental gemstones that were obtained every week were an additional source of denar.
When Kant was short of denar, he used the elemental gemstones he obtained from killing the elemental giant to exchange for a lot of denars. He endured many difficult weeks before he obtained more.
The awkward thing was that the current [ Page of fertile soil ] and [ Page of clear spring ] had a lower effect.
Although he could obtain a small amount of soil and fresh water.
But compared to the land and spring vein that the system gave him, it was practically useless.
The land that the system had given him was measured in acres. Moreover, the sand layer underground had also been changed. It was about three meters of soil instead of sand, which was why it was able to form an effective irrigation system.
Even the spring veins were connected to the water elemental plane. Fresh water was constantly flowing out.
Just a few hundred pounds of soil and a few gallons of fresh water were not of much use to Kant at the moment. Even if he had already killed the elemental giant, he was too lazy to recover the soil.
He looked outside the city walls. There was already a thin layer of soil covering the sand layer.
“Wait.”
Kant suddenly froze when he thought of this.
If those mages could study the sun disk, then they could definitely study these two pages of strange objects!
After all, these two pages of strange objects had been salvaged together with the sun disk at the bottom of the well. Moreover, judging from the level of the strange objects, perhaps these two pages of strange objects could not be compared to the sun disk.
After all, the function of the pages was only to summon elemental giants.
If the mages could figure out a deeper function, it might be helpful for the upcoming battle.
It was like the mages’ nature summoning.
Each time, they could summon five golems with iron hammers. If they could increase the number of summoned golems or increase the combat strength of the golems, they could make up for the current predicament Kant was in.
After all, golems were magic creations, not flesh and blood.
That was why the Sky Veil of Death had no effect on them!
This way, if he could not resolve the veil during a war, he could send these golems to the battlefield first. Even if he could not defeat the undead, he could at least slow down the speed of the advance.
Five months seemed to be a long time, but in fact, it was enough to severely injure Kant when he arrived at the salt mine posthouse in the fourth month.
After all, the current table salt trade was Kant’s main source of denar!
As they communicated, Firentis also understood the seriousness of the matter.
This was indeed very serious.
He solemnly reported to Kant, “Manid led the trade caravan to Fangorn Forest and returned. They just arrived at the castle yesterday evening. The members of the trade caravan should have finished their rest by now.”
“Okay, let Manid come over.”, Kant nodded.
Fangorn Forest was the area of the “Lord of the Rings” MOD. It was a magical fantasy world.
A guard went to the third floor to summon Manid.
While Kant waited, he could not help but sigh, “I hope that we can bring some surprises in Fangorn Forest.”
In terms of magic, the “Lord of the Rings MOD” was not a low-magic world. It looked like a low-magic world, but in fact, it belonged to a high-magic world. After all, the high G.o.ds and legendary races were not comparable to the low-magic world.
Even the magic that could create new races and destroy the world existed in the ‘Lord of the Rings MOD’.
For example, the Uruk-hai created by Saruman.
There was also Sauron who could change the terrain. He had the ident.i.ty of a world destroyer.
Soon.
Manid walked out of the room.
His sleepy eyes were still a little loose, but he was full of energy.
“Lord Kant!”, He bowed respectfully and reported happily, “I led the trade caravan to a new world, a world different from the land of miracles and Caradia!”